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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #279 Understanding Bitcoin Unlimited
January 23rd, 2016 by
adam ##On Todays Show [Matthew Zipkin](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/profile/user/pinheadmz) sits down with Andrew Stone to dig into [Bitcoin Unlimited](http://bitcoinunlimited.info), one of several recent projects to emerge as efforts outside of Bitcoin Core to address bitcoin scalability problems. You don't need to be technical to understand this episode and even if you hate the idea of a block size increase, Andrew presents a very interesting perspective on how the bitcoin network does, and could decide things that have more than one right answer. Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #278 - Doublespends and BitcoinXT
January 16th, 2016 by adam ##On Episode 278... Andreas, Stephanie and Adam discuss... ###...Peter Todd's Recent double spend attack on Coinbase ###...The Future of BitcoinXT and Mike Hearn's exodus from Bitcoin Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #277 Separating Signatures with Segregated Witness
January 9th, 2016 by adam ##On Episode 277... * Format Changes to LTB 2016 announced, effective immediately! * Andreas explains the upcoming Bitcoin Improvement Proposal called Segregated Witness, which allows among other things the separating of cryptographic signatures from their underlying transaction and by doing so, solve a bunch of problems. This episode is Technical but Andreas does a good job unpacking it and the other hosts are there to ask the obvious questions. Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #276 - The Time Is Now...
January 2nd, 2016 by adam #On Episode 276... ####"How Digital Currency has Saved Online Commerce," by **John McDonnell,** Co-Founder & CEO of [Bitnet](https://bitnet.io) ####"The New Token Economy: An Introduction," by **Adam B. Levine,** Co-Founder & CEO of [Tokenly](https://tokenly.com) Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #275 World Domination and What Bitcoin Should Learn from the Success of Linux
December 26th, 2015 by adam ##On Episode 275 ... This time, we're sitting in on a talk from open-source developer [Warren Togami](https://twitter.com/wtogami), one informed by his earlier and extensive work in the open-source Linux ecosystem. This talk is called "World Domination: What Bitcoin Must Learn from Linux's Success." Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #274 Starting Fires
December 19th, 2015 by adam ##On Episode 274 ... Today we're talking about two exciting projects building more functionality on top of the Bitcoin protocol. We end todays show with Ryan Shea, one of the leads at the open source [OneName.io](http://onename.io) project as he talks about the power of identity. But first, capacity is one of the biggest challenges ahead of Bitcoin, [The Lightning Network](http://lightning.network) concept is one of the more promising approaches, and this probably isn't the first time you've heard about it. We kick things off with Tadge Drydja, one of the founders behind the startup implementation of lightning network for an inside look at the possibilities and an update on their progress. Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #273 Improving User Experience in Cryptocurrency Systems
December 15th, 2015 by adam ##On Episode 273 ... Last month, I put on a suit and headed to San Francisco for the Future of Digital Currency and Blockchain conference. Today I'm pleased to share with you the second panel I moderated at the event entitled "Improving UX In Cryptosystems" This panel features... * Melanie Shapiro [of Case Wallet](https://choosecase.com/) * Samo Drole [of Coinbase](https://twitter.com/samodrole?lang=en) * Brennen Byrne [of Clef](http://brennenbyrne.com/) * Nicola Bacca of [Ledger Wallet](https://www.ledgerwallet.com/) Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #272 - Exciting Possibilities
December 12th, 2015 by adam ##On Episode 272 ... Last month, I put on a suit and headed to San Francisco for the Future of Digital Currency and Blockchain conference. This time we'll hear from... * [Eric Lombrozo](https://twitter.com/ciphrex) talks about the current reality behind Bitcoin Full nodes and some of his ideas for improving the situation in a talk called "**Incentives for Full Nodes**" * [Peter Todd](https://twitter.com/petertoddbtc) talks about the motivations and rationale behind Proof of Work in a talk called "**The Good, Bad and Ugly of Proof of Work**" Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #271 The Blockchain as a Platform
December 8th, 2015 by adam ##On Episode 271 ... Last month, I put on a suit and headed to San Francisco for the Future of Digital Currency and Blockchain conference. Today, I'm pleased to bring you the first panel discussion I moderated at the event. "Blockchain as a Platform" features [James D'Angelo](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgo7FCCPuylVk4luP3JAgVw), [Patrick](https://www.linkedin.com/in/strateman), [Charley Hine](https://twitter.com/charley?lang=en), and [Elizabeth Stark](http://bigthink.com/experts/elizabeth-stark), moderated by Adam B. Levine. Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #270 The Regulatory State of Blockchain Technologies
December 5th, 2015 by adam ##On Episode 270 ... Last month, I put on a suit and headed to San Francisco for the Future of Digital Currency and Blockchain conference. Today, I'm pleased to bring you the first panel discussion from that event. "The Regulatory State of Blockchain Technologies" features [Aaron Wright](http://www.cardozo.yu.edu/directory/aaron-wright), [Sarah Hody](http://hodyesq.com/), and [Adam Ettinger](http://www.sheppardmullin.com/aettinger), moderated by [Elizabeth Stark](http://bigthink.com/experts/elizabeth-stark). Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #269 - What Excites VCs on the Blockchain
December 1st, 2015 by adam ##On Episode 269... Last month, I put on a suit and headed to San Francisco for the Future of Digital Currency and Blockchain conference. Today, I'm pleased to bring you the first panel discussion from that event. "What Excites VC's on the Blockchain" features Economist Garrick Hileman as moderator with Dan Morehead, CEO of [Pantera Capital](https://panteracapital.com/) and P Bart Stephens of [Blockchain Capital](http://blockchain.capital/). Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #268 - Reality and The Beautiful Dream
November 28th, 2015 by adam ##On Episode 268... Earlier this month I put on a suit and headed to San Francisco for the Future of Digital Currency and Blockchain conference. Today i'm pleased to bring you the first two talks from that event. If you've educated yourself about Bitcoin on the internet, chances are good you've run across [James D'Angelo](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgo7FCCPuylVk4luP3JAgVw) and his long running series of educational videos. We end todays episode with his talk Bitcoin Governance: The Decentralization Myth. But first, Economist [Garrick Hileman](http://www.garrickhileman.com/) sits down with [Brian Forde](https://twitter.com/BrianForde) for a wide ranging talk on cryptocurrency trends, where we've been and where we're going. Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! Classic #267 - Virtual Worlds, Real Money
November 24th, 2015 by adam Let's Talk Bitcoin! Classic #267 ####Originally aired in February 2014. Shownotes for Let's Talk Bitcoin #86 - Virtual Worlds, Real Money Adam sits down with Richard Garriott about money, games, cryptocurrency, the intersection between games developers and national governments, Valve's publish-as-a-protocol. This is the full length version of the interview and includes a discussion of LTBcoin. Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #265 Classic Episode: Exploring Bitcoin with Amir Taaki
November 21st, 2015 by adam ##On Episode 265... ####Original Aired June 2014 Shownotes for Let’s Talk Bitcoin Episode 106 – Exploring Bitcoin with Amir Taaki Today's episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin! finds hosts Adam B. Levine, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, and Stephanie Murphy sitting around the table with Amir Taaki in Toronto, Canada. Amir is a core bitcoin developer, lead developer of libbitcoin, a core collaborator at DarkWallet, CoinJoin, and many other leading open source initiatives. Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #264 - Understanding Credits and Private Blockchains
November 17th, 2015 by adam ##On Today's Show * [Matthew Zipkin](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/profile/user/pinheadmz) speaks with Nick Williamson of the Private/Public Blockchain Platform known as [Credits](http://www.credits.vision/) Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #263 - Bubble Boy and the Sewer Rat
November 14th, 2015 by adam ##On Episode 263... We listen in on Andreas's recent Devcore talk on how exposure can and should harden security, colorfully titled Bubble Boy and the Sewer Rat. Andreas speaks for about twenty five minutes then answers questions Q&A style for about twenty minutes. Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #262 - Classic Episode: Tree Chains with Peter Todd
November 10th, 2015 by adam ##On Episode 262... Hey folks, i'm still working on those conference episodes so on today's episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin, we're going back in time for a classic episode and one of my all time favorites. We'll spend most of today's show with Andreas, Stephanie and Peter Todd during one of our rare in-person recordings, talking about Peter's revolutionary Tree Chains concept: What it is, why solo mining is worth saving and how it could change how Bitcoin works for the better. This is also the episode where I explained Tokens from the ground up for the first time. six months before Tokenly was founded I was focused on helping projects like MyPowers and Swarm deliver token solutions to the world of crowdfunding. Eighteen months later, Tokenly is now fixated on providing token solutions to Crowdfunding platforms except this time instead of building a new crowdfunding platform, we're able to provide all of the possibilities to campaigns and platforms wherever they are. This episode is the original 2014 edit. Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #261 Understanding Tauchains
November 7th, 2015 by adam ##On Todays Show **[Matthew Zipkin](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/profile/user/pinheadmz) digs into the limits of possibility with Ohad Asor, Founder of Tau Chain** Tauchain home page http://www.idni.org/ >Writing a script that outputs the integers 1 through 10: > >1 log:outputString 1. > >{ ?x log:outputString ?x. (1 ?x) math:sum ?y. ?y math:lessThan 11 } => { ?y log:outputString ?y }. ...and that is discussed more thoroughly on the bitcointalk thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=950309.msg12260764#msg12260764 Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #260 New Growth
October 31st, 2015 by adam ##On Episode 260... Adam sits down with Daniel Larimer, leader of the Bitshares project. They talk about the new release, the lessons learned over the last nearly three years and what comes next. **Relevant Links** >[Download Bitshares 2 Lite Client](https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-2/releases) > >[Download Muse Lite Client](https://github.com/peertracksinc/muse/releases) > >[Migrating as an existing user to Bitshares 2.0 guide](http://blog.smartcoin.pw/2015/09/bitshares-how-to-prepare-your-wallet.html) > >[Bitshares 0.9.3c download](https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-0.x/releases) --- Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #259 Perspectives on Turbulence
October 27th, 2015 by adam ##On Episode 259... First, [Bruce Fenton](http://brucefenton.com) shares his concerns about the newly announced Blockchain Alliance project. Then we're joined by Jason Weinstein of the [Blockchain Alliance](https://coincenter.org/2015/10/announcing-the-blockchain-alliance/) who addresses some of Bruce's questions and introduces the organization and effort. For the second half of the show, we listen in as [Josh Cincinatti of Blockcypher](http://blockcypher.com) talks about the cause, impact,... Read More
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