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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 -
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 -
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 -
Igor Barinov: POA Network – Enabling Scaling Through Trust in Public Notaries
August 6th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Igor Barinov, the tech lead of the POA network. The POA Network achieves a reduction in transaction costs by many orders of magnitude by having a set of trusted validators. Read More -
Jerry Brito: The Case for Electronic Cash in an Open and Free Society
July 16th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We’re joined by Jerry Brito, Executive Director of Coin Center. In 2014, he founded Coin Center, a leading research and advocacy center focussing on cryptocurrencies. Read More -
Robert Leshner: Compound – An Automated Money Market for Ethereum Tokens
July 9th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin In this episode, we caught up with Robert Leshner, founder of the Compound protocol. Compound is one of the first examples of a well-functioning lending market built using smart contracts, built on Ethereum. Read More -
Rob Dawson: PegaSys – Enterprise-Grade Ethereum Protocol Engineering
July 4th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Rob Dawson, Head of Product at PegaSys. PegaSys is the protocol engineering spoke of ConsenSys, and the team building Pantheon, a Java implementation of the Ethereum client. 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 -
Stephen Palley: The Regulatory Landscape for Cryptocurrencies and the SEC's Case Against Kik
June 25th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin Lawyer Stephen Palley joined us to discuss the SEC case against Kik, the evolving US regulatory landscape for cryptocurrencies and the recent announcement of the Libra cryptocurrency. Read More -
Hayden Adams: Uniswap – An Automated Decentralized Exchange for Ethereum
June 18th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We were joined by Hayden Adams to discuss the decentralized exchange Uniswap. We covered their automated system, the economic incentives powering Uniswap and the importance of decentralized exchanges. 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 -
Aya Miyaguchi: The Role and Challenges of the Ethereum Foundation
May 16th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin Ethereum Foundation Executive Director Aya Miyaguchi joined us to discuss the role of the Ethereum Foundation, their grant program, governance approach and criticisms of the Ethereum Foundation. 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 -
#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 -
#279 Brian Hoffman & Washington Sanchez: OpenBazaar - Growing a Permissionless Marketplace
March 19th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Brian Hoffman and Washington Sanchez of OpenBazaar. The project has grown to become a mature decentralized marketplace where people come together to buy and sell products and services anonymously with crypto. Read More -
Dan Robinson: Rainbow Network – Off-Chain Synthetics Exchange or “Multicolored Lightning”
May 28th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We’re joined by Dan Robinson, a research partner at Paradigm, and the author the “Rainbow Network” paper. The paper describes an off-chain decentralized synthetics exchange which leverages payment channels. Read More -
#272 Jameson Lopp: On Being a Professional Cypherpunk
January 29th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Jameson Lopp. Jameson is known for his Twitter presence and his excellent writing. Over the years, He has written extensively about Bitcoin development, cryptocurrencies, and personal operational security. 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 -
#275 Ben Goertzel: SingularityNET - The Global AI Network and Marketplace
February 20th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Ben Goertzel, CEO of SingularityNET, a company building a marketplace for Artificial Intelligence which leverages blockchain. Read More
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