From the Front Page - Interviews
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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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175 - Miguel Vias: XRP's Future for Cross-Border Payments
March 21st, 2017 by Epicenter For a long time the native asset of the Ripple network XRP was the cryptocurrency with the second biggest market cap. But with much of the supply controlled by Ripple, it remained surrounded by controversy. Still, XRP remains an interesting asset to enable cross-border payments in the future. Miguel Vias recently joined Ripple after a long career on Wall Street to develop XRP as a liquid and widely accepted asset.
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174 - Carsten Stöcker: How Blockchains Will Power the Energy Grids of Tomorrow
March 14th, 2017 by Epicenter Carsten Stöcker, Senior Manager Machine Economy & Blockchain at Innogy, shares his vision for how blockchains will serve as the transactional fabric for tomorrow's smart grids. In this new paradigm, energy is locally produced and blockchains provide the rails on which radically different local energy markets can be built. The German utility has been conducting blockchain experiments for several years and is soon releasing the Mobility Transaction Platform moveX. The Ethereum-powered platform will serve an ecosystem of electric vehicles with transaction layer needed for charging, car sharing and mobility as a service.
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173 - Olaf Carlson-Wee: Polychain Capital and the Rise of Protocol Tokens
March 7th, 2017 by Epicenter Polychain Founder and CEO Olaf Carlson-Wee joined us to talk about Polychain Capital, a new hedge fund focused solely on investing in cryptocurrencies and protocol tokens.
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172 - Peter Rizun: A Bitcoin Fee Market Without A Blocksize Limit
February 28th, 2017 by Epicenter Dr. Peter Rizun joined us to discuss why a fee market in Bitcoin would exist even without a blocksize limit and his argument for Bitcoin Unlimited.
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171 - Vitalik Buterin: DAO Lessons, Casper and Blockchain Interoperability
February 21st, 2017 by Epicenter Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin joined us once again to discuss the state of Ethereum and the efforts to innovate the protocol. We covered the takeaways from the DAO fork, switching to the proof-of-stake system Casper and how to think about blockchain interoperability.
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170 - Jae Kwon: Cosmos - The Internet of Blockchains
February 14th, 2017 by Epicenter We're joined by Jae Kwon, CEO and Founder of Tendermint, the team which will soon launch the Cosmos Network. Cosmos aims to build the internet of blockchains: A global network of blockchains, connected through hubs that allow trustless token transfer. Jae joined us to discuss the Cosmos vision, the underlying Tendermint consensus algorithm and upcoming fundraiser.
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169 - Prof. Silvio Micali: A New Scalable and Secure Approach to Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus
February 7th, 2017 by Epicenter We're pleased to be joined by Professor Silvio Micali, a computer scientist at MIT, who is known for his work in many of the technologies blockchains rely on today. Prof. Micali describes the concept of Algorand, an alternative approach to proof of work which offers high security guarantees while allowing the network to scale with demand. Relying only on a trivial amount of computation to validate transactions, Algorand also reduces the probability of network forks to near-zero. It uses novel mechanisms to select validators for blocks and enabling them to come to consensus on them.
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168 - Rick Dudley: The Future of Ethreum as a Strongly Typed Proof-of-Stake Blockchain Network
January 31st, 2017 by Epicenter We're joined by Rick Dudley, an opinionated and passionate blockchain developer who is actively involved in multiple projects. He works as a DevOps at Monax, works closely with Vlad Zamfir on implementing Casper in Ethereum, is a leading member of the Coala organization and is Founder and CEO of the startup Vulcanize. Rick gives us insider insights on Ethereum and on how the project may evolve, in particular, once Casper is implemented and when more robust, strongly typed language VMs are made available to the protocol.
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