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#200 Ciaran O'Leary: BlueYard - The Disruption of Venture Capital
September 13th, 2017 by
Epicenter Ciaran O'Leary, General Partner of VC fund BlueYard, joined us to discuss BlueYard's approach for investing in the blockchain economy and the current disruption of the VC industry.
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#191 Richard Craib: Numerai - A Revolutionary Hedge Fund Built on Blockchain and AI
July 11th, 2017 by Epicenter Numerai Founder Richard Craib joined us to discuss how Numerai combines AI and blockchain to build a hedge fund that crowdsources its portfolio management and thus creates network effects.
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#190 Erik Voorhees: Prism - The World's First Portfolio Market Platform
July 4th, 2017 by Epicenter Shapeshift CEO Erik Vorhees joined us to discuss their new platform Prism. Prism allows users to create a collateralized portfolio of digital assets purely using Ethereum smart contracts.
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#192 Aviv Zohar & Yonatan Sompolinsky: Of Spectre & Ghosts - Radical Ideas to Scale Blockchain Tech
July 19th, 2017 by Epicenter Hebrew University academics Aviv Zohar and Yonatan Sompolinski joined us to discuss their radical proposals for how to scale blockchain technology.
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#199 Peter Czaban: Polkadot - The Internet of Blockchain Networks
September 5th, 2017 by Epicenter Peter Czaban, co-founder of Polkadot, joins us as we dive deep into the Polkadot Network. Polkadot is a heterogeneous multi-chain network, consisting of many connected chains (or parachains), all of which have their own set of features and characteristics.
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#198 Nick Morgan: The DAO, the SEC and the ICO Boom
August 29th, 2017 by Epicenter In the current ICO boom, few things cause as much concern as the uncertain regulatory environment. Many do expect that at least some token sales will be considered unlicensed sales of securities and that action by the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) will be forthcoming. Nick Morgan, a former attorney in the SEC's enforcement division, joined us to discuss the recent report by the SEC on the DAO, how the SEC chooses what kind of cases to prosecute and what their likely next steps will be.
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#189 Jimmy Song: A Fork in the Road for Bitcoin?
June 27th, 2017 by Epicenter Bitcoin Developer and Principal Architect at Paxos, Jimmy Song, joins us to discuss the different scalability proposals for which miners are currently signaling their support. Will one of these proposals gain majority support, allowing for the network to upgrade with relative ease, or will we enter a situation where one proposal is backed by a strong minority of users, potentially forking the network into two?
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#197 Dan Larimer: EOS - The Decentralized Operating System
August 23rd, 2017 by Epicenter Dan Larimer joined us to discuss his latest project EOS, which aims to create a decentralized operating system and solve the scalability problems of current blockchain technology.
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#196 Arthur Falls: From Lobser Fishing to Blockchain Podcasting
August 17th, 2017 by Epicenter Prior to hosting his ground breaking podcasts Beyond Bitcoin and The Ether Review, Arthur Falls had left his home country of New Zealand to fish lobster off the coast of Maine. Like many people in the blockchain space, his unlikely journey into the world of decentralized technologies is a fascinating one, and he shares it with us in this episode.
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#194 Eyal Hertzog: Bancor and the Rise of User-Generated Currencies
August 4th, 2017 by Epicenter Bancor Co-Founder Eyal Hertzog joined us to explain how Bancor makes trading the long tail of assets more efficient and how this will enable user-generated currencies at scale.
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#195 Loi Luu: KyberNetwork - Towards Truly Decentralized Crypto-Asset Exchanges
August 8th, 2017 by Epicenter We're joined by Loi Luu, Co-founder of KyberNetwork. This new decentralized exchange protocol, built on Ethereum, aims to match buyers with reserve operators, who create liquidity for crypto-asset pairs. Trades occur instantaneously and without the need for a trusted third party exchange operator.
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#193 Dave Collins & Jake Yocom-Piatt: Decred - A Hybrid Approach to Blockchain Governance
July 26th, 2017 by Epicenter Dave Collins and Jake Yocom-Piatt join us to talk about Decred, a cryptocurrency which introduces an innovative system of community-based governance into its blockchain.
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#188 William Mougayar: Unpacking Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) and Token Sales
June 20th, 2017 by Epicenter Investor and Author William Mougayar joined us to unpack token sales / ICOs and understand what is driving the current explosion of interest.
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EB115 - Matan Field: Backfeed and the Social Operating System for Decentralized Organizations
January 25th, 2016 by Epicenter 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...
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EB91 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum Frontier Launch, Scalability And The Road Ahead
August 10th, 2015 by Epicenter 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 ...
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EB93 – Simon Dixon: How Bank To The Future Is Rethinking Finance
August 24th, 2015 by Epicenter Ever since the financial system collapsed in 2007, the call for alternatives has grown louder. Bitcoin itself can be seen as such an alternative. Simon Dixon's search for a way to put capitalism on a sounder financial footing began before Bitcoin with a focus on equity crowdfunding. Since then he has built Bank to the Future into an innovative crowdfunding business that takes an aggressive contrarian stance. He has also launched an investment fund focused on cryptocurrencies together with Max Ke...
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EB94 – Gavin Andresen: On The Blocksize And Bitcoin's Governance
August 31st, 2015 by Epicenter As the debate about the blocksize continues to roar through the Bitcoin community, Gavin Andresen joins us to take a step back and ask the big questions: How should these decisions be made in the first place? What does the governance of Bitcoin look like now and what do we want it to look like in the future?
In a challenging time for Bitcoin, it's a critical discussion to have with the Chief Scientist of the Bitcoin Foundation and successor of Satoshi. We cover everything from the current...
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EB92 – Stefan Thomas: Understanding Ripple
August 17th, 2015 by Epicenter In a long-overdue episode, we finally had the chance to dive into one of the most known but poorly understood cryptocurrency/blockchain project: Ripple. Reviled by many in the Bitcoin space, we put aside any prejudices and sat down for a fascinating conversation with Ripple Labs CTO Stefan Thomas.
We talked about his early days in the Bitcoin space, how Ripple came about, what the Ripple network looks like today and how its consensus protocol works.
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EB95 – Adam Back: Why Bitcoin Needs A Measured Approach To Scaling
September 7th, 2015 by Epicenter As the debate about forks, the blocksize and decision making in Bitcoin continues, we are joined by Adam Back. Adam is best known for his invention hash-cash which became one of the fundamental building blocks of Bitcoin. He is also the inventor of the sidechains concept and founder and president of Blockstream, the single biggest employer of Bitcoin core developers.
With Adam we talked about the different blocksize proposals and how a decentralized cryptocurrency should be governed in ge...
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EB90 – Dave Hudson: Insights From The Data Mine And Other Adventures Around The Block
August 3rd, 2015 by Epicenter Bitcoin mining and the intricate game theory that surround it is a topic that we've visited many times. Difficult to grasp in its complexity, it is these dynamics that determine the security of Bitcoin in the short and in the longer term. This time we were joined by none other than Dave Hudson. He is the author of the leading mining blog hashingit.com, VP of Software at PeerNova and had a long career in chip manufacturing including at Qualcomm.
We talked about dynamics in the mining marke...
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