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What Bitcoin Did #43 Dan Held on Bitcoin's Immaculate Conception
November 1st, 2018 by
DSholla **“I think the world becomes a better place when we stop asking for permission and start building.”** **— Dan Held** Interview location: Skype Interview date: Thursday 25th October Company: Picks & Shovels Role: Co-founder and Director of BD It is 10 years since Satoshi Nakamoto released the Bitcoin whitepaper, and in that time the protocol has survived so much: state-level bans, the Mt. Gox collapse, the closing of the Silk Road and civil war to name a few. Bitcoin h... Read More -
#259 Gavin Wood: Substrate, Polkadot and the Case for On-Chain Governance
October 31st, 2018 by
epicenterbitcoin Former Ethereum CTO and Parity Founder Gavin Wood joined us to discuss the early days of Ethereum, how Parity came about, their new blockchain framework Substrate and the case for on-chain governance. Read More -
SAFE Crossroads #45, Approaches to Alpha 3, with Nikita Baksalyar
October 30th, 2018 by
fergish In this episode we catch up on some of the things that have been going on in SAFE Network development, where it's been and what's coming down the line now, including the roll out of public testing of the automated peer-to-peer connection library, Crust (standing for "Connected" "Rust"). How do you ensure all the nodes of an ever-morphing P2P network get and stay connected, even past firewalls and routers? How do you do it when most nodes are being run by non-technical people using their spare... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #42 Crypto Custody With Jeremy Welch & Alena Vranova
October 30th, 2018 by DSholla **“Bitcoin does form the dominant position, it has the most hash power, it is the currency in terms of design, decentralisation, or ability for governments or corporate actors to control it, it is the strongest, therefor everything relies on Bitcoin’s survival.”** **— Jeremy Welch** Interview location: Skype Interview date: Saturday 27th October Company: Casa Role: Founder (Jeremy Welch), Strategy (Alena Vranova) As the value of Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies increase... Read More -
Distributed Dialogues EP #8 - The Great Firewall
October 29th, 2018 by DSholla **"We have to learn from history and we want people to understand to not forget about history, what lessons we have to learn, and to make a new impact on society."** **—Fang Zheng** **"If the hope for Google in 2010 was, if we pull out of this market, maybe it'll encourage them [China] to reform. If that was the hope, that has definitely not come to pass and if anything the opposite has happened."** **—Megha Rajagopalan** **"If the Chinese government comes to me and says 'hand me over a user's data and everything you have on them', I have nothing on them because Graphite doesn't have any servers, doesn't have a database and the user stores all of the data himself and is encrypted. So even if I could point a government to where the data is located, it would be encrypted and the user is literally the only person that can decrypt it."** **—Justin Hunter** Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #41 Bitmain's IPO With Samson Mow & Katherine Wu
October 27th, 2018 by DSholla **“I think that they don’t want to IPO right now, but they have no choice because they raised with the expectation that they would IPO, so they had to file and it had to look good, or as good as they could make it look.”** **— Samson Mow** Interview location: Skype Interview date: Thursday 18th October Company: Blockstream (Samson Mow), Messari (Katherine Wu) Role: Chief Strategy Office (Samson Mow), Director of Business Development (Katherine Wu) The Bitmain IPO wa... Read More -
The Third Web #10 - Jack du Rose, Colony & Coase
October 27th, 2018 by
Legendface66 In 2015 I interviewed Jack du Rose about Colony - his autonomous platform that could track contribution to a common enterprse and reward tokens representing stake in said enterprise. Three years and two private betas on, we hear from Jack about his experience building a system to revolutionize the way we work together.
Part of what makes Colony facinating is to see the enormity of the events that have taken place in the years since it’s conception and how in spite of these events, the proce...
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The Bitcoin Game #59: Dr. Adam Back
October 25th, 2018 by
Rob Welcome to episode 59 of *The Bitcoin Game*, I'm Rob Mitchell. I'm happy to bring to you part one of an interview with Cypherpunk and CEO of Blockstream, Dr. Adam Back. Dr. Back talks about topics such as his first computers, his early privacy-oriented work, Hashcash vs. other proof-of-work, various early electronic money systems, and his work on Bitcoin Confidential Transactions. Get ready to soak in some history from one of the people whose "work" became an integral part of Bitcoin. **** ... Read More -
The Crypto Show Money2020 Meets CommieCon, Sterlin Lujan , Christina Tobin & Kenn Boask Plus Omar Syed Of Shardus.com
October 24th, 2018 by
TheCryptoShow Today we round up our guests from 2 different conferences, Money 2020 and Politicon to talk about Money and Politics. Our guests are Sterlin Lujan and Christina Tobin from Politicon and Kenn Bosak at Money2020. We also have an additional interview from Omar Saed from Shardus Sponsored by: [Dash](http://dash.org), [Stamp.com](http://stamps.com), [Texas Bitcoin Conference](http://texasbitcoinconference.com) [WorldCryptoCon](http://WorldCryptoCon.com) [Anarchapulco](http://Anarchapulco.com) ... Read More -
Technology & Choice #37, What is the Semantic Web? with Jonas Smedegaard
October 24th, 2018 by fergish Semantics has to do with meaning. What if we could tie information together on the web by meaning, rather than by webpage? In this conversation we find out a bit about how this is beginning to be achieved, and how it is creating vast new horizons for how the internet will soon be used. #### Links [Solidbox site](https://solidbox.org/) [Prior episode with Jonas](https://technologyandchoice.com/podcasts/2018/06/episode-35-open-source-debian-and-freedombox-with-jonas-smedegaard/) ... Read More -
#258 Monica Quaintance: Kadena - Public and Permissioned Blockchains that Scale
October 23rd, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Monica Quaintance, Head of Engineering and Adoption at Kadena. The company is building a scalable platform and simplified smart contract language designed for business. Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #40 An Interview with Jameson Lopp
October 23rd, 2018 by DSholla **“If you want to protect yourself from this over arching legal system then you will want to hide as much of your activity as possible.”** **— Jameson Lopp** Interview location: Skype Interview date: Thursday 18th October In his book, Nineteen Eighty-Four, published in 1949, George Orwell wrote about a dystopian future where the government subjects the population to omnipresent surveillance. That day is here, but the surveillance isn’t just that it's operated by the gover... Read More -
The Tatiana Show: Naomi Brockwell & Kevin Mckernan
October 23rd, 2018 by
TatianaMoroz Highlights include: • Sequencing the cannabis genome • The process of submitting a project for funding from the Dash DAO • The banking crisis in the cannabis industry • Medical marijuana and CBD oil • Obstacles posed to the cannabis industry by the US government • Will the Trump administration legalize cannabis? • How blockchain can become part of popular culture • Reclaiming the mainstream narrative of bitcoin and blockchain technology • T... Read More -
Distributed Dialogues EP #7 - Cambodia and the Fall of its Free Press
October 22nd, 2018 by DSholla **"I think you need to keep alive some sort of a citizen journalist concept, so that eventually, if there is some kind of a civil-society movement, there’s something to hold it together, a glue that will hold it together."** **—David Andelman** Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #379 Tether, ICOs and STOs
October 21st, 2018 by
adam ##On Todays Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin... Andreas Antonopoulos, Stephanie Murphy and Jonathan Mohan join Adam B. Levine for an update on the shifting "Stablecoin" equilibrium, followed by an in-depth conversation about the past, present and future of Initial Coin Offerings and "Securitized Token Offerings" Read More -
The Crypto Show: Marco Peereboom Of Decred, Ladar Levison Lavabit And Joseph Akintolayo From Yourex.io
October 20th, 2018 by TheCryptoShow We kick it off with Marco from Decred talking about the latest news the history of the first atomic swap that was generated by Litecoin and Decred. Plus the details of the Decred track as Platinum Sponsor of the Texas Bitcoin Conference in Austin Texas October 27th & 28th. Then Ladar Levison creator of Lavabit who bared the brunt of the governments wrath for being Edward Snowdens email provider, talks about Lavabit's rebirth powered by what Ladar touts as DarkMail. Finally Joseph Akintolayo cr... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #39 An Interview with Giacomo Zucco
October 19th, 2018 by DSholla **“Ethereum itself is not an experiment in something new, because they tried to implement any bad idea that was already discussed with Bitcoin in 2013.”** **— Giacomo Zucco** Interview location: Skype Interview date: Tuesday 16th October 2018 Giacomo Zucco is a proud Bitcoin Maximalist, and his presentation on the subject at the Honey Badger conference in Riga led to mixed reactions. Some called out the stupidity of Bitcoin Maximalism specifically concerning his slide: The ... Read More -
#257 Kevin Owocki: Gitcoin - Aligning Incentives in Open-Source Development
October 17th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Kevin Owocki, the Founder of Gitcoin, an Ethereum-based marketplace that leverages the open source community to incentivize and monetize development work. Read More -
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
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