From the Front Page - Interviews
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#274 Alexey Akhunov: Ethereum 1.x - BUIDLing Things One Step at a Time
February 13th, 2019 by
epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Alexey Akhunov, an independent Ethereum researcher. Alexey leads TurboGeth and the state rent working group for the Ethereum 1.x project. Read More -
#273 Christian Decker: Lightning Network - The Road to Scaling Bitcoin
February 7th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We were joined by Blockstream core engineer Christian Decker to speak about the vision of the Lightning Network, how the project progressed in the last years and remaining obstacles to scaling Bitcoin. Read More -
Code as Scripture & Monastic Coordination Technologies
February 5th, 2019 by
Legendface66 Code as Scripture & Monastic Coordination Technologies Ben Vickers Spent most of teenage years playing ultima online Ran a gold farm aged 15 – 16, made considerable amount of money Involved in unspecified fringe groups Does not align with Libertarianism Interested in the potential of Bitcoin to disrupt institutions Hosted Bitcoin meetups in 2010 / 2011 for radical left, academics and Artists, non-technical CTO of Serpentine Galleries What is your primary interest in blockchain t... Read More -
Dominic Williams: The First Commercial Bank Startup
February 3rd, 2019 by Legendface66 The First Commercial Bank Startup “The big challenge is to get people using this on mass, deliver them something useful & a reason for doing it in the first place, and them keeping them using it . . . and I think this takes different technology and different tactics.” Could you please explain the PHI protocol? The narrative we’ve been told is that traditional fiat money isn’t backed by anything and it’s all gone to hell since we went off the gold standard Bitcoin on the oth... Read More -
Amir Taaki: Using Technology to Reconstruct the Social Moral Fabric
February 1st, 2019 by Legendface66 https://amirtaaki.org/ https://twitter.com/Narodism Amir Taaki Developed the first alternative bitcoin implementation First UK Bitcoin exchange Worked on Dark Wallet & Dark Market projects leading to open bazaar Join the YPG in Syria Is now Based in Barcelona Is there a central problem that drives your actions? The main issue in society today is a social problem not an economic one. There is a fundamental lack of meaning in life We are participants in a giant machine ... Read More -
#272 Jameson Lopp: On Being a Professional Cypherpunk
January 29th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Jameson Lopp. Jameson is known for his Twitter presence and his excellent writing. Over the years, He has written extensively about Bitcoin development, cryptocurrencies, and personal operational security. Read More -
Joseph Lubin: Money and Rebuilding the World’s Systems
January 29th, 2019 by Legendface66 Visit The Third Web for more What are your views on centralized control of monetary systems? It can be viable in many situations for a time. Debt based systems require more debt to be created to pay its own interest. Over time this leads to collapse, especially in the presence of overspending by politicians. Ie. raising budget ceiling year after year. – creating more debt that there is money to pay it off. Fiscally responsible people could keep it running forever. We may be in an... Read More -
The Blockcrunch - How Should We Govern Blockchains? - Ryan Zurrer (Web3 Foundation)
January 29th, 2019 by
DSholla Ryan Zurrer, Director of the Web3 Foundation and former Principal at Polychain Capital, joins us in discussing one of the most important questions in crypto: how should we govern blockchains? We touch on: How should blockchains be governed? What are the different models of governance? How do we prevent plutocracies? How does Polkadot further the governance debate? ****** Show links: - [Libsyn](http://www.blockcrunch.libsyn.com/) - [Apple Podcast](https://itunes.a... Read More -
#271 Martin Koppelmann & Matan Field: How the dxDAO could become the world’s largest organization
January 24th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We were joined by Martin Köppelmann, Founder of Gnosis, and Matan Field, Founder of DAOstack. We talked about the dxDAO, a DAO, which will manage the decentralized exchange protocol DutchX and could be the first DAO to get escape velocity. Read More -
The Blockcrunch - $52M Later, Where is Kyber Network Today?
January 22nd, 2019 by DSholla Decentralized exchanges have a problem with liquidity. Kyber Network, a Singaporean based on-chain liquidity project, raised ~$50M in their ICO to tackle this with a unique model. Where are they today? Are people using them? I caught up with Anton Buenavista, senior developer at Kyber, to find out: Kyber's unique approach to managing liquidity How Kyber compares to 0x and other dex projects Where value accrues at the dex layer What is on Kyber's roadmap Not finance advi... Read More -
Distributed Dialogues EP #14 - A Quiet Crisis
January 21st, 2019 by DSholla **"Let's imagine that it was a war and those bodies were coming home in flag draped coffins at the Dover Air Force Base, we'd tear down the walls of Congress to get something done, right? Instead we allow people to die quietly in their bedrooms, in their basements, in cars, or in parking lots."** **— Tori Adams** On average, 130 people die every day from an opioid overdose. How did it get this bad? In this episode, the guys break down the opioid epidemic and what role blockchain tech... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #65 Why Altcoins Are a Bad Investment With Tone Vays
January 18th, 2019 by DSholla **“If you are intending to be around for the next 5 or 10 years, you need to really think about what you are going to say.”** **— Tone Vays** Interview location: Skype Interview date: Friday 11th Jan, 2018 Role: Bitcoin/Blockchain Researcher, Consultant Content Creator & Derivatives Trader Trading is hard, and crypto trading is even harder. There are significant disagreements around the value of all cryptocurrencies, especially altcoins. While maximalists believe that Bi... Read More -
The Blockcrunch - Tokenizing the World with Blockchain featuring Anthony
January 16th, 2019 by DSholla We chat with Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano, Founder & Partner at Morgan Creek Digital Assets, a blockchain-centric subsidiary of investment firm Morgan Creek Capital. Follow host Jason Choi on Twitter *@MrJasonChoi* ****** Show links: [Libsyn](bit.ly/blockcrunch_libsyn) [Apple Podcast](bit.ly/blockcrunch_apple) [Stitcher](bit.ly/blockcrunch_stitcher) [Spotify](bit.ly/blockcrunch_spotify) ****** Intro music by Phortissimo: https://soundcloud.com/phortissimo Sound eng... Read More -
#270 : Looking Back on 5 Years of Epicenter
January 15th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin This week, we look back on the early days of Epicenter and how the podcast has evolved over the years. We also answer your questions in our first ever AMA. Read More -
#269 Joseph Lubin: Consensys - The Distributed Incubator which Jumpstarted the Ethereum Ecosystem
January 8th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Joseph Lubin, Founder and CEO of ConsenSys. Since founding ConsenSys in 2014, the company has since grown to a distributed organization of over 1,000 people. Read More -
#268 Andy Bromberg: CoinList - Capital Formation for the Crypto Industry
January 1st, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin CoinList President and Co-founder Andy Bromberg joined us to discuss the history of CoinList, the state of token sales, the regulatory environment around token sales and the potential of security tokens. Read More -
#267 Nadav Hollander: Dharma -- A protocol for tokenized debt
December 25th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Nadav Hollander, co-founder and president of Dharma, a decentralized protocol for bringing tokenized lending contracts to the ethereum blockchain. Read More -
#266 David Andolfatto: The Impact of Central Bank Digital Currencies on the Banking Sector
December 18th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by David Andolfatto, VP of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. In a recent paper, he explores the impact central bank digital currencies on the monopolistic banking sector. Read More -
#265 James Prestwich: Summa One - Cross-chain Financial Instruments and Contracts
December 12th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We’re joined by James Prestwich, co-founder and CEO at Summa. Summa designs and implements cross-chain financial contracts and recently executed the first dutch auction in which participants bought ethereum based NFTs trustlessly with bitcoin. Read More -
#264 Nick Sullivan: Cloudflare - The Internet's (De)centralized Security Blanket
December 4th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Nick Sullivan, Chief Cryptographer at Cloudflare. They recently launched an IPFS gateway and features which allow users to have strong guarantees as to the integrity of the content. Read More
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