From the Front Page - Interviews
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POV Crypto - Ethereum 2.0 Progress with Alex Stokes
August 22nd, 2019 by
BTCMedia Alex Stokes (@ralexstokes) comes to PoV to discuss progress in ETH 2 developments, mechanisms and tradeoffs for its design choices. Read More -
Dan Shin: Terra – The Stable Currency Tackling the Ecommerce Payments Market
August 20th, 2019 by
epicenterbitcoin This week we're joined by Daniel Shin. He is the Co-Founder of Terra, an algorithmic stablecoin which is already seeing success for e-commerce transactions in Korea just weeks after launching. Read More -
Hassan Khoshtaghaza on Operating a UK Bitcoin ATM - WBD139
August 17th, 2019 by
DSholla SatoshiPoint is the UK’s largest Bitcoin ATM business, starting out in London in 2014 and initially struggling to find locations for the ATMs SatoshiPoint has since gone on to thrive and now operates in over 40 locations across the UK. Read More -
Bitcoin ATM Regulations with Bill Repasky - WBD138
August 16th, 2019 by DSholla Regulations are have always been in front of mind for the Bitcoin industry. Ever-increasing surveillance has accompanied the evolution of technology, primarily financial surveillance. Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine Podcast - Coffee, Crypto and the Hodling Merchant's Perspective
August 14th, 2019 by DSholla Sure, bitcoin is a store of value and a hedge against global debt and inflation. But what is it actually like for a merchant to transact with it day to day — to pay taxes, to cover exchange rates and properly manage multiple wallets? Read More -
Karel Kyovsky on Manufacturing Bitcoin ATMs - WBD136
August 14th, 2019 by DSholla Since the first Bitcoin ATMs started appearing in 2013, the market has grown at a significant rate, seemingly unaffected by Bitcoin’s volatility. With a fast-paced market and strong competition, manufacturers have to keep up with a growing demand for machines and new feature requests. Read More -
Erik Voorhees: ShapeShift – There's a New Fox in Town
August 13th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We’re joined by Erik Voorhees, Founder & CEO of Shapeshift. who talks about the learning curves over the past 5 years and the launch of ShapeShift’s brand new V2 platform, which includes many new features. Read More -
Igor Barinov: POA Network – Enabling Scaling Through Trust in Public Notaries
August 6th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Igor Barinov, the tech lead of the POA network. The POA Network achieves a reduction in transaction costs by many orders of magnitude by having a set of trusted validators. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Ryan Zurrer: Response To Tom's Polkadot Report, Web3 and Lessons Learned In China
August 5th, 2019 by DSholla This was an awesome episode where we discuss everything from how the Web3 foundation is ushering in the decentralized web where users control their data to Polkadot, a high profile interoperability project. I recently wrote a post on Polkadot exploring my concerns, so it was great to discuss them with Ryan. The post is linked in the show notes below. Read More -
Silvergate's Alan Lane on Banking the Corporate Unbanked - WBD131
August 2nd, 2019 by DSholla Since Satoshi’s left the message, "Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks" in the genesis block, Bitcoin has been the antithesis of banks. “Be your own bank”, perhaps an overused phrase from Bitcoin proponents certainly comes under question for companies building Bitcoin-based businesses. Businesses need Fiat for operating costs: rent, wages etc. and for now, at least that is a gap that Bitcoin can't fill. Read More -
POV Crypto - The Bargain of Block Reward Funding with Andrew Yang
August 2nd, 2019 by DSholla Andrew Yang (not the presidential candidate) comes to POV Crypto to discuss the faustian bargain that is block-reward funding. WIth EIP 2025 in the rear-view mirror, and Zooko of Z-Cash proposing a second dev-fund, POV Crypto goes through the pros and cons of on-chain funding. Read More -
The Blockcrunch - Why Democracy Doesn't Work in Blockchain Governance - Arthur Breitman (Tezos)
August 1st, 2019 by DSholla Arthur Breitman of Tezos joins us in breaking down the common critiques for on-chain governance in this deeply insightful and provocative episode. Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine Podcast - Lolli's Alex Adelman on Earning Bitcoin and Democratizing Commerce
July 31st, 2019 by DSholla In this episode, Lolli CEO and co-founder Alex Adelman joins the Bitcoin Magazine podcast to discuss Lolli's rapid growth, democratizing commerce, driving bitcoin adoption and the future of video games. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Kadena's Founder and CEO Will Martino: A Hybrid Blockchain Built For Scale
July 31st, 2019 by DSholla Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by Kadena's Founder and CEO Will Martino. Kadena is described as offering the fastest, safest and most scalable hybrid blockchain technology stack for entrepreneurs. Read More -
Bitcoin is More Than a Financial System with Zac Prince & Jeremy Welch - WBD130
July 31st, 2019 by DSholla In this interview, I speak with Casa Founder Jeremy Welch and BlockFi Founder Zac Prince, we discuss Bitcoin utility, non-financial and sometimes unexpected applications and why Bitcoin is more than a financial system. Read More -
Rune Christensen: Maker DAO – The Central Bank of Web 3.0
July 30th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Rune Christensen, CEO and Co-Founder of MakerDAO to discuss the rise of DAI as the first successful algorithmically backed stable token as well as the challenges ahead. Read More -
Nicholas Percoco on Defending the Crypto Honeypot - WBD129
July 26th, 2019 by DSholla Exchange hacks have been a constant thorn in the side of the industry. Where a physical bank robbery of $millions will make headline news, a +$100m exchange hack will barely break out of the crypto news media. Exchange hacks are now so commonplace that a recent report from Ledger’s CEO Eric Larcheveque found that the equivalent of $2.7 million a day was stolen from exchanges last year. Read More -
POV Crypto - Ether: The Triple-Point Asset with Ryan Sean Adams
July 25th, 2019 by DSholla There are 3 asset superclasses, as defined by Robert Greer in his 1997 paper “What is an Asset Class, Anyway?”. Ether fills nicely into all 3 asset superclasses, and is the only asset to ever do this. Ryan Sean Adams comes to POV to walk through each category, and talk about how Ether’s value proposition fits each one. Read More -
Ameen Soleimani: Moloch DAO – A Simple Yet Unforgiving DAO to Fund Ethereum Development
July 24th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We’re joined by Ameen Soleimani, Co-founder and CEO of SpankChan. Recently, Ameen headed a project called Moloch DAO, a decentralized autonomous organization with the goal to fund Ethereum 2.0 development. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Gregory Rocco and Jacob Arluck: Tezos' Social Contract
July 24th, 2019 by DSholla Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by Gregory Rocco from ConsenSys Alpine Group and Jacob Arluck from TQ Group, a group with the goal of advancing the Tezos Ecosystem, on for an episode to discuss Rocco’s recent post on Tezos’ social contract and for recent updates on Tezos. Read More
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