From the Front Page - Interviews
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#231 Ajay Prakash & Gavin Brennen: Qubit Protocol - Quantum Computing & The Coming Threat to Crypto
April 17th, 2018 by
epicenterbitcoin We’re joined by Ajay Prakash and Gavin Brennen, founders of the Qubit Protocol, a decentralized blockchain-enabled governance protocol that is meant to select and fund the best startups in the quantum world. We discuss a recent paper which describes the primary threats that quantum computing poses on Bitcoin. 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 -
#229 Ryan John King: FOAM - A Geospatial Proof of Location Protocol for Blockchains and Dapps
April 4th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Ryan John King, CEO of FOAM, a blockchain protocol which aims to offer secure location services independent of external centralized sources such as GPS. FOAM introduces a Proof of Location Protocol, which leverages long-range low-power radio networks, and incentive mechanisms, allowing network participants to arrive at consensus on whether an event or agent is verifiably at a particular point in time and space. Read More -
#228 Corey Todaro & John Bass: Hashed Health - Rebooting The Healthcare Industry
March 29th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We are joined by John Bass and Corey Todaro, who are respectively CEO and CPO of Hashed Health, an innovation firm focused on accelerating the meaningful development of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies for the industry. Hashed Health works to build solutions which leverage blockchain to solve some of the most important challenges facing this sector. Read More -
#227 Peter Van Valkenburgh: Where US Cryptocurrency Regulation is Heading
March 21st, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin CoinCenter Director of Research Peter van Valkenburgh joined us to discuss the state of cryptocurrency regulation in the US and recent actions by SEC, CFTC, FinCEN and others. Read More -
#226 Bob Summerwill: Sweetbridge - Rewriting the Operating System for the World Economy
March 17th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Bob Summerwill, Community Ambassador at Sweetbridge, an ambitious project that aims to change the way global business operates at a fundamental level. While supply chains account for about two-thirds of the World's GDP, value is trapped in non-liquid assets sitting in warehouses, on store shelves, or in the form of outstanding invoices. Sweetbridge acts as a sort of OSI model for global business. In the Sweetbridge economy, working capital is freed up by enabling individuals and organizations to borrow from themselves interest-free. Read More -
#225 Anson Zeall: Blockchain in Singapore and South East Asia
March 8th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We were joined by Anson Zeall, who is one of the leaders of Singapore's blockchain and FinTech community. We discussed how the Singapore ecosystem evolved, why it became a popular place to locate cryptocurrency project, its current regulatory framework. We also dove into some of the projects he is currently involved in including one involving tokenizing cows! Read More -
#224 Jeff Garzik: Metronome - Of Bitcoin Satellites and Built-to-Last Chain-Hopping Tokens
February 27th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin Metronome is cryptocurrency that sits on top of existing blockchains and aims to allow tokens to easily move from one network to the other. A series of standard blockchain contracts allow for daily descending price auctions to occur automatically, and for users to buy and sell the tokens using a Bancor-like system with built-in liquidity. Read More -
#223 Kyle Samani & Tushar Jain: Multicoin - Emerging Frameworks for Cryptoasset Investing
February 21st, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin Multicoin Capital Founders Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain joined us to discuss the theses driving their investments in the land of tokens. Read More -
#222 Amir Bandeali & Will Warren: 0x Protocol and the Decentralized Exchange Frontier
February 16th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin 0x Co-founders Will Warren and Amir Bandeali joined us to discuss the decentralized exchange protocol 0x. Read More -
#221 Greg Meredith & Nash Foster: RChain - The Scalable, Concurrent and Performant Blockchain
February 8th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin A fundamentally kind of new blockchain platform, RChain is rooted in a formal model of concurrent and decentralized computation. Read More -
#220 Manuel Araoz: Zeppelin and the Evolution of Smart Contract Development
February 1st, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin Zeppelin CTO Manuel Araoz joined us to discuss smart contract security, the OpenZeppelin framework and their new project zeppelin_os. Read More -
#219 Mance Harmon: Hashgraph - A Radically Novel Consensus Algorithm
January 25th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin Mance Harmon, CEO of the company behind Hashgraph, joined us to discuss the radically new consensus algorithm and how it compares to existing approaches. Read More -
#218 Chris Burniske & Jack Tatar: Cryptoassets - The Rise of a New Asset Class
January 17th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar joined us to discuss their book 'Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond Read More -
#217 Andrew Trask: OpenMined - A Decentralised Artificial Intelligence Platform
January 11th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin Our guest, Andrew Trask, is building OpenMined - a platform that merges cryptographic techniques such as homomorphic encryption and multi-party computation and blockchain technology to create the ability to train ML models with private user data. OpenMined will allow AI companies of the future to develop models, have them trained on user data without compromising user privacy, and incentivise users to train their model. We walk through the OpenMined vision and its potential impact on AI business models and AI safety Read More -
#216 Brian Platz & Flip Filipowski: FlureeDB - A Scalable Blockchain-Based Graph Database
January 3rd, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin FlureeDB is a scalable graph database which provides the benefits of blockchain technologies, such as immutability, replayability and fault tolerance. Currently, in development, the goal for FlureeDB is to support various consensus rules based on the network configuration: private systems, federated (or consortium) clusters, and fully decentralized public networks. Read More -
#215 Elizabeth Rossiello: BitPesa - Building Financial Platforms for Frontier Markets
December 27th, 2017 by epicenterbitcoin We're pleased to be joined by Elizabeth Rossiello, CEO and Founder of BitPesa. BitPesa provides companies in frontier markets with the financial infrastructure to facilitate commerce and payments, where traditional financial markets are known to be fractured and expensive Read More -
#214 Christopher Fabian & Shaun Conway: Unicef & Ixo: Towards More Transparent Humanitarian Projects
December 19th, 2017 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Christopher Fabian, Co-founder of Unicef's Innovation Unit. We discuss how the global non-profit institution leverages innovative technology to solve real-world problems in humanitarian work. We explore the different applications of blockchain in the UN and Unicef, as well as the challenges we can anticipate when deploying these technologies in the developing world. Shaun Conway, Founder of Ixo Foundation, also joins the discussion as a startup working Unicef and talks about the value of a global reputation network for humanitarian projects. Read More -
#213 Tim Swanson: Busting the Great Wall of Hype
December 13th, 2017 by epicenterbitcoin In the blockchain world, few people are as brave as Tim Swanson when it comes to busting hype. Tim's unbiased, honest, and sometimes controversial opinions provide a refreshingly realistic view of blockchain adoption and applications of this technology by people and businesses. Cutting through the hype, the over-sold press releases ad the blind optimism of a completely decentralized economy, Tim's insights provide a sobering look at the state of the blockchain. Read More -
#212 Adam Perlow & Asher Manning: Zen Protocol - A Decentralized Financial System
December 6th, 2017 by epicenterbitcoin Adam Perlow and Asher Manning of Zen Protocol joined us to discuss how Zen aims to build a decentralized financial system combining smart contracts with a Bitcoin-like UTXO architecture. Read More
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