From the Front Page - Let's Talk Bitcoin!
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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 -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #258 Liquidity and Malleability
October 24th, 2015 by adam ##On Episode 258... [**Stephanie**](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/profile/user/stephanie), [**Andreas**](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/profile/user/andreas) and [**Adam**](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/profile/user/adam), talk about [the first Sidechain](http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/10/13/bitbeat-blockstream-releases-first-so-called-sidechain-liquid/), called 'Liquid' coming early next year from the Blockstream team that aims to prevent future gox-like events by creating an almost voting-pools like multi-sig protected, bitcoin escrow'ing structure tying together different exchanges for liquidity and stability purposes. Then they get into the recent [Bitcoin Malleability issue](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0062.mediawiki) that first had headlines in the aftermath of the MtGox calamity and has recent re-emerged on the network in force. Adam explains his mis-understanding of the issue and how he's dealing with it at Tokenly and Andreas corrects his misconceptions and puts things into perspective. Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #257 Coming Apart at the Seams
October 20th, 2015 by adam ##On Todays Show * [**Adam**](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/profile/user/adam), [**Stephanie**](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/profile/user/stephanie) and [**Andreas**](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/profile/user/andreas) talk about a recent story out of Greece, where if at all Bitcoin can provide solutions and the malaise of modern reality. Source Article: [Keep Talking Greece](www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2015/10/12/greece-is-shock-permanent-stricter-capital-controls-for-public-servants-and-pensioners/) Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #256 Keep it Simple, Stupid!
October 17th, 2015 by adam ##On Today's Show We're zooming in on two projects that are keeping things simple with the idea that once you've solved the basic problems you can do all of the fun stuff. As technology enthusiasts we love the fun stuff, but even more we love projects actually getting to the people who can prove their value (or not!). * Adam speaks with the founder of [Joystream.co](https://joystream.co), a Bittorrent Client with a built-in bitcoin wallet that uses Payment Channels to let Downloaders pay Uploaders using market-based pricing. * Matthew digs into the [Bitmarkets](https://voluntary.net) project with founder Steve for an in-depth look at the choices they've made and why they make sense. This is a great interview. I'm very interested in this project and its ethos after hearing this interview. Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #255 Controlling Bitcoins in Time
October 13th, 2015 by adam ##On Todays Show * [**Adam**](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/profile/user/adam), [**Stephanie**](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/profile/user/stephanie) and [**Andreas**](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/profile/user/andreas) sit down for an hour of discussion on the recent government supported launch of Monetas in Tunisian Post Offices. * They talk about how Bitpay continues to knock down the reasons why you wouldn't use bitcoin in a brick-and-mortar retail situation * Andreas explains the new dimension of programmability coming to the Bitcoin Blockchain with [BIP65 (OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY)](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0065.mediawiki) and [BIP112 (CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY)](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0112.mediawiki) Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #254 State of the Art
October 10th, 2015 by adam ##On Today's Show We're at the recent "Scaling Bitcoin" conference for another one. This time we'll catch up on the day 2 roundtables covering Payment Channels, Collaboration, The challenges of China, Non-Currency Applications and more. ###Subscribe to the [**LTBN All Podcasts feed**](http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheDailyBitcoinShow) or the [**Let's Talk Bitcoin! show only feed**](http://feeds.feedburner.com/ltb/ltb) and never miss an episode again --- #Sponsors: #**[Tokenly.com... Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #253 Under a Microscope (Scaling Bitcoin)
October 6th, 2015 by adam ##On Today's Show We're at the recent "Scaling Bitcoin" conference where we sit in on two sessions of interest. * First, it's a fireside chat with open source communities Anthropologist Gabriella Coleman who shares her take on debian, apache, anonymous and of course Bitcoin. * Then, we listen in as each conference working group checks in at the end of day one with their findings, successes and not-yet successes. * Stay tuned for a chance to win one of the first limited edition LTB collectable cards, usable in the Spells of Genesis game! Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #252 New Ideas in Cryptocurrency
October 3rd, 2015 by adam ##On Today's Show * [Adam](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/profile/user/adam) catches up with Chris and Peter, founders of the peer reviewed, academic, cryptocurrency focused [Ledger Journal](http://ledgerjournal.org) which is now accepting submissions and aims to publish its first issue in Spring 2016 Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #251 Distant Lands
September 29th, 2015 by adam ##On Today's Show * [Adam](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/profile/user/adam) sits down with Chris Odom aka Fellow Traveler, founder of the long-in-development [OpenTransactions](https://opentransactions.org) project and until recently an active founder at [Monetas](https://monetas.net). Most recently, Chris has founded a company called [Stash](http://stashcrypto.com) --- ###Subscribe to the [**LTBN All Podcasts feed**](http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheDailyBitcoinShow) or the [**Let's Talk... Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #250 If You Don't Know Where You're Going, You Might Wind Up Someplace Else
September 26th, 2015 by adam ##On Today's Show We sit in on the Q&A panel from Blockstack Summit NYC 2015, a one-day technical event at NYU for developers of decentralized applications. The panel was moderated by Princeton Professor JP Singh, featuring Albert Wenger, partner at USV; Jalak Jobanputra, founder of Future/Perfect Ventures; Naval Ravikant, co-founder of AngelList; and William Mougayar, founder of Startup Management. This recording was provided by John Light --- ###Subscribe to the [**LTBN Al... Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin #249 You Can Observe A Lot By Just Watching
September 22nd, 2015 by adam ##On Todays Show * [**Adam**](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/profile/user/adam) sits down with Ryan and Muneeb of [Onename.com](http://onename.com) to talk about their part in a [recent bitcoin blockchain mystery](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3k8dnq/someone_has_got_cash_to_burn_40_btc_sent_to/) * [**Adam**](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/profile/user/adam) reads a recent, brief article which appeared in the [New York Times on 9/21/2015](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/business/deal... Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin #248 It Ain't the Heat, It's the Humility
September 19th, 2015 by adam ##On Todays Show * [**Adam**](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/profile/user/adam) sits down with [Eli Dourado](https://twitter.com/elidourado) to talk about Forks, Governance and what Our Future might hold. --- ###Subscribe to the [**LTBn All Podcasts feed**](http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheDailyBitcoinShow) or the [**Let's Talk Bitcoin! show only feed**](http://feeds.feedburner.com/ltb/ltb) and never miss an episode again. --- #Sponsors: #**Tokenly** ---- ##Credits for Episod... Read More
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