From the Front Page - Interviews
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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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#187 Alex Leverington & Julian Zawistowski: Golem - The Worldwide Decentralized Supercomputer
June 14th, 2017 by Epicenter With most of the world's computing power concentrated in Internet companies' data centers, the Internet has become a very centralized place. We're joined by Julian Zawistowski and Alex Leverington, CEO and P2P engineer at Golem. We discuss how Golem hopes to create a more balanced distribution of computing power for the Internet.
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#186 Sian Jones: An Enlightened Approach to Blockchain Regulation in Gibraltar
June 7th, 2017 by Epicenter Our regulatory expert Siân Jones joined us to discuss her work on a regulatory framework for distributed ledger technology (DLT) for Gibraltar. We discuss how the framework differs from other efforts and aims to attract rather than curtail blockchain businesses. We also covered why the rapid changes require the flexibility of a principle-based approach to regulation. Finally, we discussed current trends around ICOs and how they could be impacted by regulation.
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184 - Fred Ehrsam & Trent McConaghy: IPDB – The Interplanetary Database and its Applications in AI
May 23rd, 2017 by Epicenter We're joined by Trent McConaghy, CTO and Co-founder of BigchainDB and Ascribe, and Fred Ehrsam, former Co-founder at Coinbase. We have a fascinating discussion about the intersection of AI and blockchain technologies. We also discuss the public implementation of BigchainDB, the Interplanetary Database (IPDB), and the applications for a public big data storage network accessible to all of humanity.
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183 - Alex Van de Sande & Nick Johnson: ENS – A Global Naming System for Ethereum
May 17th, 2017 by Epicenter We're joined by Alex Van de Sande and Nick Johnson to discuss their approach to creating an open, secure and decentralized naming system for the Ethereum Network. The Ethereum Naming System allows users to register .eth domain names, and map those names to any Ethereum address.
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182 - Peter Van Valkenburgh: Towards Sound Bitcoin Policy
May 10th, 2017 by Epicenter Coin Center Director of Research Peter Van Valkenburgh joined us to discuss the most important policy issues facing Bitcoin and other open blockchain networks.
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181 - Jarrad Hope & Carl Bennetts: Status - The Mobile Ethereum Client
May 2nd, 2017 by Epicenter Jarred Hope and Carl Bennetts, join us to discuss Status, a mobile Ethereum client which aims to turn the standard wallet experience on its head. Through its familiar messaging interface and elegant design, users can chat and send Ether directly in the app, and use popular Dapps like uPort and Gnosis.
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180 - Mano Thanabalan: Simplifying Incorporation & Automating Corporate Governance with Otonomos
April 25th, 2017 by Epicenter Manu Thanabalan, CTO of Otonomos, joins us to discuss how his company is leveraging smart contracts to accelerate incorporation and automate corporate governance. By leveraging blockchain technologies, day-to-day governance mechanisms and standard procedures such as voting and share transfers are automated through a smart contact, which complies with local jurisdictional regulation.
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179 - Thomas Voegtlin: Blocksize, Bitcoin Unlimited, ASICBoost and Activating SegWit
April 18th, 2017 by Epicenter Electrum Developer Thomas Voegtlin joined us to discuss the state of the Bitcoin scaling debate. We discussed Bitcoin Unlimited, ASICBoost, SegWit activation without miner support and how a Bitcoin fork could play out.
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178 - Gilles Fedak: iExec, Blockchain-Based Fully Distributed Cloud Computing Infrastructure
April 11th, 2017 by Epicenter Gilles Fedak, a researcher Inria, joins us to discuss iExec, a new project which aims to build a high-performance distributed cloud infrastructure marketplace. iExec utilizes Ethreum to organize a peer-to-peer marketplace of computing resources, allowing anyone to rent their idle resources to grid networks.
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177 - Jason Teutsch & Christian Reitwiessner: TrueBit, Scalable Off-Chain Computations for Ethereum
April 4th, 2017 by Epicenter We're joined by Jason Teutsch and Christian Reitwiessner, the co-authors of a visionary whitepaper which describes Truebit. This protocol would allow complex computations to be executed on off-chain systems while being validated by Ethereum miners. The results of these computations would consequently be available to on-chain smart contracts.
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176 - Adam B. Levine: Building a Blockchain Podcast Network
March 28th, 2017 by Epicenter We're joined by Adam B. Levine the founder and host of Let's Talk Bitcoin! Adam reflects on his signature show and the network he created in 2014. He discusses the future of the network and makes an announcement live on the show, which even takes us by surprise.
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