From the Front Page - Epicenter Bitcoin
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#248 Uri Klarman: bloXroute - Layer-0 Scaling with the Blockchain Distribution Network
August 15th, 2018 by
epicenterbitcoin Founded by a team of researchers and systems designers from Northwestern and Cornel University, bloXroute is a layer-0 scaling solution which allows practically every blockchain network to “scale today.” Read More -
#247 Ryan Selkis: Messari - Bringing Transparency and Self-Regulation to the Blockchain Industry
August 9th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin Messari CEO Ryan Selkis joined us to discuss how creating an open, distributed crypto data library will bring transparency to the industry. Read More -
#246 Guy Zyskind: Enigma - Providing Scalable Privacy-Preservation to Smart Contacts
August 1st, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin Enigma is a platform for scalable decentralized apps which preserves privacy. The Enigma network treats Ethereum smart contracts as “secret contracts” and can perform computations on encrypted data. Read More -
#245 Martin Becze: Primea - The Next-Generation Blockchain Operating System
July 24th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin Martin Becze is a researcher at Dfinity working on a next-generation “Blockchain Operating System” called Primea - a continuation of his work on the eWASM project from his time at the Ethereum Foundation. Primea is an actor based IPC layer intended for use with WebAssembly programs. Read More -
#244 Anthony Lusardi: Ethereum Classic Cooperative - Accelerating the Growth of ETC
July 17th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Anthony Lusardi, Director of the Ethereum Classic Cooperative, an organization who's goal is to promote the development and growth of the Ethereum Classic Network. Read More -
#242 Neha Narula: MIT's Digital Currency Initiative - A Research-Driven Approach to Blockchain
July 4th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin Neha Narula, Director of the MIT's Digital Currency Initiative, joined us to discuss the evolution of the DCI, their most important research items and the recent controversy around IOTA. Read More -
#243 Izaak Meckler & Evan Shapiro: Coda - A Succinct Blockchain
July 12th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin O(1) labs is a pioneering company that uses zkSNARK technology in order to construct a cryptocurrency blockchain, called Coda, that solves the blockchain size scalability bottleneck. Read More -
#241 Eric Larchevêque: Ledger - How to Build an Industry-Leading Cryptocurrency Security Company
June 27th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin Eric Larchevêque joins us to discuss the meteoric rise of Ledger from a ten person team to now nearly 150 people on three continents. This fascinating discussion is a master class in product development, scaling at lightning speed, and staying true to your vision when everyone is pushing you to change course. Read More -
#237 Matan Field: DAOstack - An Operating System for Collective Intelligence
May 31st, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Matan Field, CEO of DAOstack, a new platform that aims to become the operating system for collective intelligence. DAOstack is building a toolset to allow decentralized governance and building self-organizing collectives at scale. Read More -
#240 Pamela Morgan: Cryptoasset Inheritance Planning
June 21st, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin Lawyer Pamela Morgan joined us to discuss her new book “Cryptoasset Inheritance Planning”, a simple guide for cryptoasset owners to pass their holdings to their loved ones. 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 -
#238 Dr. Amrit Kumar & Dr. Ilya Sergey: Scilla - A Formal Verification Oriented Contract Language
June 5th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We are joined by Dr. Amrit Kumar and Dr. Ilya Sergey to discuss Scilla, the smart contract language of the upcoming Zilliqa blockchain. In a previous episode, we've already covered the vision and technical approach of Zilliqa to solve the transaction scalability problem of permissionless blockchains. This episode focuses specifically on their smart contract language development efforts. Read More -
#239 Grigore Rosu: The K framework - a framework to formally define all programming languages
June 12th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We are joined by Grigore Rosu, Prof. of computer science at UIUC [University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign] for a deep dive into the K framework. The K framework is mathematic logic and language that enables language developers to formally define all programming languages; such as C, Solidity and JavaScript. This technology has massive implications for smart contract programming language development, and formal verification efforts in the blockchain space. 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 -
#233 Humayun Sheikh & Toby Simpson: Fetch.ai - an intelligent learning blockchain network
May 2nd, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We are joined by Humayun Sheikh and Toby Simpson, founders of the Fetch.ai project. This ambitious project seeks to create a self-learning blockchain network that fosters economic activity/combinations between off-chain AI agents. The fetch blockchain network will allow an AI agent, such as a delivery robot, to autonomously discover economic partners that would find its services and data valuable. Read More -
#232 Karl Floersch: Plasma Cash and the Ethereum Roadmap
April 24th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin Ethereum Researcher Karl Floersch joined us to discuss Plasma Cash and the wider Ethereum roadmap. Read More -
#236 Luis Cuende: Aragon - Decentralized Governance and the Fight for Freedom
May 24th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin Luis Cuende joined us to discuss Aragon's work on building decentralized governance tools and the crucial role they play in the fight for freedom. Read More -
#234 Charles Hoskinson: Cardano - A Third Generation Smart Contract Blockchain
May 8th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We are joined by Charles Hoskinson, the CEO of IOHK, who walked us through the plans and motivations for Cardano, a third generation blockchain system with an internal cryptocurrency called Ada. We talked extensively about the decentralized governance challenges of blockchains and how Cardano seeks to address them. We also covered Ouroboros, Cardano's Proof of Stake algorithm, as well as the plans to apply the K framework in smart contract execution. Read More -
#229 Ryan John King: FOAM - A Geospatial Proof of Location Protocol for Blockchains and Dapps
April 4th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Ryan John King, CEO of FOAM, a blockchain protocol which aims to offer secure location services independent of external centralized sources such as GPS. FOAM introduces a Proof of Location Protocol, which leverages long-range low-power radio networks, and incentive mechanisms, allowing network participants to arrive at consensus on whether an event or agent is verifiably at a particular point in time and space. Read More -
#224 Jeff Garzik: Metronome - Of Bitcoin Satellites and Built-to-Last Chain-Hopping Tokens
February 27th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin Metronome is cryptocurrency that sits on top of existing blockchains and aims to allow tokens to easily move from one network to the other. A series of standard blockchain contracts allow for daily descending price auctions to occur automatically, and for users to buy and sell the tokens using a Bancor-like system with built-in liquidity. Read More
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