From the Front Page - Interviews
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#240 Pamela Morgan: Cryptoasset Inheritance Planning
June 21st, 2018 by
epicenterbitcoin Lawyer Pamela Morgan joined us to discuss her new book “Cryptoasset Inheritance Planning”, a simple guide for cryptoasset owners to pass their holdings to their loved ones. Read More -
#239 Grigore Rosu: The K framework - a framework to formally define all programming languages
June 12th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We are joined by Grigore Rosu, Prof. of computer science at UIUC [University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign] for a deep dive into the K framework. The K framework is mathematic logic and language that enables language developers to formally define all programming languages; such as C, Solidity and JavaScript. This technology has massive implications for smart contract programming language development, and formal verification efforts in the blockchain space. Read More -
#238 Dr. Amrit Kumar & Dr. Ilya Sergey: Scilla - A Formal Verification Oriented Contract Language
June 5th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We are joined by Dr. Amrit Kumar and Dr. Ilya Sergey to discuss Scilla, the smart contract language of the upcoming Zilliqa blockchain. In a previous episode, we've already covered the vision and technical approach of Zilliqa to solve the transaction scalability problem of permissionless blockchains. This episode focuses specifically on their smart contract language development efforts. Read More -
#237 Matan Field: DAOstack - An Operating System for Collective Intelligence
May 31st, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Matan Field, CEO of DAOstack, a new platform that aims to become the operating system for collective intelligence. DAOstack is building a toolset to allow decentralized governance and building self-organizing collectives at scale. Read More -
#236 Luis Cuende: Aragon - Decentralized Governance and the Fight for Freedom
May 24th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin Luis Cuende joined us to discuss Aragon's work on building decentralized governance tools and the crucial role they play in the fight for freedom. Read More -
#235 Changpeng Zhao: The Meteoric Rise of Crypto Exchange Binance
May 15th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao joined us to discuss how Binance grew to become the world's largest crypto exchange in less than a year. We covered its journey, values and plans for the future. Read More -
#234 Charles Hoskinson: Cardano - A Third Generation Smart Contract Blockchain
May 8th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We are joined by Charles Hoskinson, the CEO of IOHK, who walked us through the plans and motivations for Cardano, a third generation blockchain system with an internal cryptocurrency called Ada. We talked extensively about the decentralized governance challenges of blockchains and how Cardano seeks to address them. We also covered Ouroboros, Cardano's Proof of Stake algorithm, as well as the plans to apply the K framework in smart contract execution. Read More -
#233 Humayun Sheikh & Toby Simpson: Fetch.ai - an intelligent learning blockchain network
May 2nd, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We are joined by Humayun Sheikh and Toby Simpson, founders of the Fetch.ai project. This ambitious project seeks to create a self-learning blockchain network that fosters economic activity/combinations between off-chain AI agents. The fetch blockchain network will allow an AI agent, such as a delivery robot, to autonomously discover economic partners that would find its services and data valuable. Read More -
#232 Karl Floersch: Plasma Cash and the Ethereum Roadmap
April 24th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin Ethereum Researcher Karl Floersch joined us to discuss Plasma Cash and the wider Ethereum roadmap. Read More -
#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
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