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Yoni Assia: eToro – The Social Trading Platform
October 15th, 2019 by
epicenterbitcoin We’re joined by Yoni Assia, Founder and CEO of eToro. The concept behind this world-leading social trading platform is users invest smarter by automatically copying the top traders in the community. Read More -
DappCon 2019 – Tales of Governance: DAOs, Swarms and Anarchic Systems
October 8th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin This week, you'll hear a panel moderated by Sunny on DAO governance. The panelists where Ameen Soleimani of MolochDAO, Stephanie Hurder of Prysm Group, Jorge Izquierdo of Aragon One, and Sebastian Gajek of ditCraf. Read More -
Omer Shlomovits & Ouriel Ohayon: ZenGo – The Keyless Crypto Wallet
September 24th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We’re joined by Omer Shlomovits and Ouriel Ohayon, Co-founders of ZenGo. Their product is a ‘keyless’ crypto wallet, which means users never need to generate or store a key which gives them access to their funds. Read More -
DappCon 2019 – Look at My Flashy Colors And Rounded Corners!
October 2nd, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin As we take some time to record new interviews, we're releasing content from DappCon which took place in Berlin in August. This week, you'll hear a panel moderated by Sebastien on usability and user experience in blockchain-based apps and products. The panelists where Chriss Sugg of AirSwap, Alex Van de Sande of the Ethereum Foundation, Itamar Lesuisse or Argent and Pedro Gomez of Wallet Connect. Topics discussed in this episode: - The state of usability in the blockchain space - How ev... Read More -
Sharon Goldberg: Arwen – Centralized Exchange Trading Without Counterparty Risk
September 18th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin From a career in communications engineering, listen as Sharon Goldberg, CEO of Arwen, shares her journey into cryptography. From its beginnings with a whitepaper on eclipse attacks, Arwen has grown into a platform enabling atomic swaps on centralized exchanges. Read More -
Erik Voorhees: ShapeShift – There's a New Fox in Town
August 13th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We’re joined by Erik Voorhees, Founder & CEO of Shapeshift. who talks about the learning curves over the past 5 years and the launch of ShapeShift’s brand new V2 platform, which includes many new features. Read More -
Ameen Soleimani: Moloch DAO – A Simple Yet Unforgiving DAO to Fund Ethereum Development
July 24th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We’re joined by Ameen Soleimani, Co-founder and CEO of SpankChan. Recently, Ameen headed a project called Moloch DAO, a decentralized autonomous organization with the goal to fund Ethereum 2.0 development. Read More -
Rune Christensen: Maker DAO – The Central Bank of Web 3.0
July 30th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Rune Christensen, CEO and Co-Founder of MakerDAO to discuss the rise of DAI as the first successful algorithmically backed stable token as well as the challenges ahead. Read More -
David Chaum: The Forefather of Cryptocurrencies and the Cypherpunk Movement
September 10th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We’re pleased to be joined by the legendary cryptographer and computer scientist, David Chaum. From his early beginnings at Berkley, David pioneered many of the cryptographic techniques used in secure systems and cryptocurrencies today. Read More -
Dan Shin: Terra – The Stable Currency Tackling the Ecommerce Payments Market
August 20th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin This week we're joined by Daniel Shin. He is the Co-Founder of Terra, an algorithmic stablecoin which is already seeing success for e-commerce transactions in Korea just weeks after launching. Read More -
Yaniv Tal: The Graph – A Marketplace for Web3 Data Indexes Based on GraphQL
April 16th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Yaniv Tal, Project Lead at The Graph. The project aims to create a scalable marketplace for high-availability blockchain data indexes. Read More -
#265 James Prestwich: Summa One - Cross-chain Financial Instruments and Contracts
December 12th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We’re joined by James Prestwich, co-founder and CEO at Summa. Summa designs and implements cross-chain financial contracts and recently executed the first dutch auction in which participants bought ethereum based NFTs trustlessly with bitcoin. Read More -
#267 Nadav Hollander: Dharma -- A protocol for tokenized debt
December 25th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Nadav Hollander, co-founder and president of Dharma, a decentralized protocol for bringing tokenized lending contracts to the ethereum blockchain. Read More -
#230 Loong Wang & Taiyang Zhang: Republic Protocol - A Decentralized & Trustless Crypto Dark Pool
April 11th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Taiyang Zhang and Loong Wang, who are respectively CEO and CTO of Republic Protocol. Republic operates as a decentralized dark pool for cryptocurrency trading pairs such as Ether, ERC20 tokens, and Bitcoin. Buy and sell orders remain confidential in a hidden order book until matched without any of the parties having access to the underlying details. Trades are settled using cross-chain atomic swaps without the intervention of a trusted third party. Read More -
#266 David Andolfatto: The Impact of Central Bank Digital Currencies on the Banking Sector
December 18th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by David Andolfatto, VP of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. In a recent paper, he explores the impact central bank digital currencies on the monopolistic banking sector. Read More -
#231 Ajay Prakash & Gavin Brennen: Qubit Protocol - Quantum Computing & The Coming Threat to Crypto
April 17th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We’re joined by Ajay Prakash and Gavin Brennen, founders of the Qubit Protocol, a decentralized blockchain-enabled governance protocol that is meant to select and fund the best startups in the quantum world. We discuss a recent paper which describes the primary threats that quantum computing poses on Bitcoin. Read More -
EB115 - Matan Field: Backfeed and the Social Operating System for Decentralized Organizations
January 25th, 2016 by epicenterbitcoin The idea that in the future tokens will play a crucial role in networks and organizations to incentivize decentralized collaboration and reward contribution is not new. It's the original decentralized autonomous organization idea that has informed many projects that have been on the podcast (Swarm, Ethereum, Factom, Storj, etc). For Matan, the vision originally led to found decentralized ride-sharing application LaZooz. One year ago, he left LaZooz to found Backfeed, which is building the to... Read More -
Ayo Akinyele: Bolt Labs – Zcash on Lightning
September 3rd, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Ayo Akinyele, CEO of Bolt Labs. Bolt is building a new privacy-focused layer-2 payment channel network design, initially built on Zcash. Read More -
#277 Amaury Sechet: Bitcoin Cash - Part 2
March 5th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin Amaury Séchet is the lead developer of Bitcoin ABC and one of the masterminds behind Bitcoin Cash, a fork of Bitcoin focused on on-chain scalability through enabling increased block sizes. Read More -
EB91 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum Frontier Launch, Scalability And The Road Ahead
August 10th, 2015 by epicenterbitcoin Close to two years after the initial whitepaper, the revolutionary Ethereum network has finally launched. The decentralized smart contract platform is, without a doubt, the most exciting cryptocurrency project since Bitcoin. The versatile platform with its turing-complete scripting language aspires to power the distributed applications of the future. Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin joined us for the second time to discuss the Frontier Launch, future plans for scalability, governance and ... Read More
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