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What Bitcoin Did #38 An Interview with Nic Carter
October 12th, 2018 by
DSholla **“Money might be the only case where you desperately need to radically decentralise the set of people who can create and have influence over the creation schedule.”** **— Nic Carter** Interview location: Skype Interview date: Wednesday 10th October 2018 Union Square Ventures posted a blog post this week titled The Myth of the Infrastructure Phase, shining a light on the imbalance between infrastructure work in crypto and DApp usage. There is an abundance of blockchain scal... Read More -
The Crypto Show: Space-X Co-founder Jim Cantrell & David Johnston Of Factom
October 12th, 2018 by
TheCryptoShow On today's show we're very honored to have Jim Cantrell Co-founder of Space-X and Vector Space. Jim's son is Colin Cantrell creator of Nexus Earth which is where Jim draws his interest in crypto. Jim gives his account of the private space industry and where crypto fit's in. Jim also shares some personal anecdotes about Elon Musk and how it was almost a Maserati in space instead of a Tesla. Then David Johnson joins in to discuss not only Factom but Cointext a new method of sending crypto t... Read More -
#256 Aleksandr Bulkin & Jake Brukhman: CoinFund - Crypto-Investing by Community Building
October 11th, 2018 by
epicenterbitcoin We are joined by Jake Brukhman, CEO, and Alexander Bulkin, Chief Alchemist, to discuss the latest thoughts on investing in the cryptocurrency space. Read More -
Bitcoins and Gravy EP #104: The Crimes of Christopher Columbus Exposed!
October 8th, 2018 by
johnbarrett In this episode, in celebration of Columbus Day, I reveal the true Christopher Columbus - the world famous mariner, explorer, murderer, rapist and slave master. We'll dig a bit deeper than our public school history books to find out the truth about how the early Spanish were some of the true early terrorists in the Americas. For more detailed information about the Genocide committed by Christopher Columbus and his gang, go here: https://owlcation.com/humanities/Christopher-Columbus Read More -
The Tatiana Show: Matt Asher & Bill Ottman
October 8th, 2018 by
TatianaMoroz Topics include: -- Social Media Platforms -- Online Identity Management -- Decentralized Publishing -- Free Speech -- Censorship -- Privacy -- Hate Speech and Internet Trolls -- Technical Features of Blockchain-Based Projects As a musician and an activist, I’ve used social media to varying degrees of success. But we have entered an era in which we are facing a lot of simple obstacles to reaching audiences on our social media platforms, as well as outright censorship and bannin... Read More -
LTB #378 - The Petro inside Venezuela & Schnorr Signatures
October 7th, 2018 by
adam ##On Todays Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin... **Christian Garcia** is back with his latest correspondent from within hyperinflating Venezuela. This time he looks into controversial government "cryptocurrency": the Petro. See the full shownotes for his tipping information, the articles and links referenced during his report. After the break, **Stephanie Murphy**, **Andreas Antonopoulos** and **Adam B. Levine** talk Schnorr Signatures, a seemingly non-controversial coming upgrade which will introduce major blockchain performance optimizations and enhanced privacy features. Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #37 An Interview with Jimmy Song
October 5th, 2018 by DSholla **“This is why proof of work needs to be expensive, if it is cheap you can roll back things easily. You want it to be very difficult to change history. The only way to make it difficult to change history is to make the process of writing the current history very expensive.”** **— Jimmy Song** Interview location: Skype Interview date: Monday 1st October 2018 The recent Bitcoin protocol bug, CVE-2018-1744, received considerable amounts of alarmist press, “For less than $80,... Read More -
#255 Kathleen Breitman & Arthur Breitman: Tezos - The Long Road Towards A Digital Commonwealth
October 5th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We were joined by Tezos co-founders Arthur and Kathleen Breitman to discuss the Tezos vision, history and where the project is heading next. Read More -
The Crypto Show Pegging Gold & Merchant Adoption With Joshua Scigala & Joel Valenzuela
October 2nd, 2018 by TheCryptoShow Today Josh Scigala of Vaultoro joins in to talk about the idea of gold and crypto joining forces to create a more portable and more easily divisible method of gold bugging. Then Joel Valenzuela of Dash Force News joins in to discuss merchant adoption for crypto and why the Dash team in Venezuela is so successful in that regard. Sponsored by: [Dash](http://dash.org), [Stamp.com](http://stamps.com), [Texas Bitcoin Conference](http://texasbitcoinconference.com) [WorldCryptoCon](http://WorldCrypt... Read More -
The Tatiana Show- Frederick Steinmann, Lyn Ulbricht, Chris Eley & Rafael Hauxley
October 1st, 2018 by TatianaMoroz This week we had a lot of action, a lot of fun, and a lot of guests spanning a variety of topics. Special thanks to our sponsor Stamps.com. Use the code ”Moroz” to get the promo from the show. We had our friend Lyn Ulbricht back on to give us the latest update on Ross. We remind everyone to sign the petition to help him get clemency for his double life sentence for all non-violent charges, which you can find here. Frederick, who is a relatively new,... Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #377 Sidechains, Drivechains and the Apple Store
September 30th, 2018 by adam ##On Todays Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin... Adam B. Levine, Stephanie Murphy and Jonathan Mohan are joined by returning guest [Paul Sztorc](https://twitter.com/truthcoin) for a look at the past, present and future of Sidechains and the now-on-testnet "[Drivechain](http://drivechain.info)" token recovery mechanism. Read more for links mentioned during today show, plus the full replay of LTB episode 99 with Dr. Adam Back and Austin Hill on "Sidechain Innovations" Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #36 An Interview with Caitlin Long & Saifedean Ammous
September 28th, 2018 by DSholla **“Negative interest rates are purely a construct of the artificiality of the monetary system. There is going to a major bond crash - the challenge is that this could be years if not decades away, or it could be tomorrow.”** **— Caitlin Long** Read More -
The Third Web #5 - Zilliqa & Singapore
September 26th, 2018 by
Legendface66 Zilliqa is a Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance based, public, programmable blockchain platform that uses Proof of Work as a syble resistance mechanism. Combining PBFT and PoW is a brilliant trick to bring the state finality required for scaling through network and state sharding. Amrit Kumar, Head of Research, and Xinshu Dong, CEO, offer an overview of the project. At the same time, we learn from two of Singapore's innovation magnates of innovation about the advantage provided by both the ... Read More -
#254 Allen Day: Google's Mission to Provide Open Datasets for Public Blockchains
September 26th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Allen Day, Science Advocate at Google. Earlier this year, he and his team released both Bitcoin and Ethereum as public datasets in Big Query, Google big data IaaS offering. Read More -
The Crypto Show With Erik Voorhees, Jeff Garzik, Steve Beauregard And Caleb Slade
September 25th, 2018 by TheCryptoShow This week we're honored to catch up with some great guests at 2 fantastic crypto events. At Denver Startup Week we caught up with Erik Voorhees of Shapeshift, Keepkey and a long list of other key projects that helped get crypto off the ground. Also at Denver Startup Caleb Slade Co-Founder of Salt Lending shares what's on the horizon for Salt and Denver in the Blockchain space. In Phoenix at the Nexus Earth Conference 2 great guests' in Jeff Garzik and Steve Beauregard both of whom are part of BL... Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #376 Stablecoins (and the Irresistible Urge to Peg)
September 23rd, 2018 by adam ##On Todays Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin... Join Stephanie Murphy, Andreas Antonopoulos and Adam B. Levine for an in-depth conversation on pegged, "Stablecoins". We discuss the two approaches that have been tried so far and what's different about this latest generation for better or worse. Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #35 An Interview with Jake Chervinsky
September 21st, 2018 by DSholla **“I am skeptical about this concept of doing a securities issuance and then trying to escape liability by converting the token you used for that issuance into something else, this is not how liability works. If you violate the securities law you are liable no matter what you do afterwards.”** **— Jake Chervinsky** Read More -
#253 Angela C. Walch: The Case for Treating Developers as Fiduciaries in Public Blockchains
September 19th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We were joined by law professor Angela Walch to discuss her controversial ideas surrounding the role of trust in blockchain networks and why regulators should consider treating software developers as fiduciaries. Read More -
The Crypto Show With Ryan Taylor, Bob Carroll, Ken Hodler, John? & DJ Scribs
September 18th, 2018 by TheCryptoShow Today we have Ryan Taylor CEO and Bob Carroll CTO of Dash Core Group. This interview was part of the inaugural Denver Dash meetup and was recorded in front of a live audience. Then 2 previously recorded interviews from the Wyohackathon at UW in Wyoming. Ken Hodler and John part of the KeepKey team sit down to give us the latest on KeepKey. Then Doug Scribner AKA DJ Scribs fills us in on the latest with Vault Logic. Sponsored by: [Dash](http://dash.org), [Stamp.com](http://stamps.com), [T... Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #375 Blockchains are Forever (Mostly)
September 16th, 2018 by adam ###On Todays Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin... Stephanie, Jonathan, Andreas and Adam are back for a wide ranging conversation covering the now-defunct Bitcoin Alert system, the smart contracts arms race and a lot more. Look out on this episode for a bonus interview on the value of forever-tokens for projects other than money, with Joe Looney, one of the minds behind the Rare Pepe wallet. Read More
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