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#219 Mance Harmon: Hashgraph - A Radically Novel Consensus Algorithm
January 25th, 2018 by
epicenterbitcoin Mance Harmon, CEO of the company behind Hashgraph, joined us to discuss the radically new consensus algorithm and how it compares to existing approaches. Read More -
The Crypto Show Ben Swann Returns With A Crypto Powered Reality Check
January 25th, 2018 by
TheCryptoShow On tonight's episode of "The Crypto Show," our first guest is the great Ben Swann, who returns from a media hiatus to jumpstart some new media projects. We talk about how Ben got into crypto and Dash in the first place, and then Ben fills us in on the plans for using the funds from his successful Dash proposal to reignite his career of making the same kind of thought-provoking media content that has been disrupting and challenging mainstream media for years. We also talk about his speaking engag... Read More -
Technology & Choice #26, Reconnection - Ken Schwenker and the One Love Festival
January 25th, 2018 by
fergish Modern technology has enabled us to do so many things that were never possible in history. People move more, farther and faster than ever in history. The internet has allowed us to communicate and form relationships with others from almost anywhere. But the impulse for in-person connection with others, the forming of personal bonds, is strong and too often unfulfilled. Festivals of all sorts are exploding in popularity all around the world. These events take many forms, for many reaso... Read More -
The Crypto Show Juan Galt Defends Lightning Network And Refutes Dr. Craig Wright.
January 24th, 2018 by TheCryptoShow On tonight's episode of "The Crypto Show," we interview Juan S. Galt about our recent interview with Craig Wright. We also discuss the differences between Bitcoin Core and Cash, and Juan's opinion on both. We also talk about the Latin American Bitcoin Conference and the upcoming Anarchapulco Conference. We have two surprise guests, Joe from cryptohwwallet.com and Dash enthusiast Bill Kline, the former of whom updates us on the production and availability status of hardware wallets, and the latte... Read More -
The Crypto Show Dr. Craig Wright Shares His Thoughts On Lightning Networks And Bitcoin Core
January 23rd, 2018 by TheCryptoShow On tonight's episode of "The Crypto Show," we interview none other than Craig Wright! Brian Deery from Factom joins us as a cohost to ask the tough technical questions (and not so tough personal and inside-joke questions). We discuss scalability, lightning network, sidechains, segwit, the future of Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Cash, economics and banking, the existing precedent for many of Bitcoin's supposed innovations, the necessity for commercialization and profit-driven technologies and networks... Read More -
The Third Web #4 - DFINITY Consensus
January 23rd, 2018 by
Legendface66 "The DFINITY project was formed to research ways of enabling public decentralized networks to host a virtual computer of unlimited capacity. This rests upon a new blockchain computer that is similar in concept to Ethereum but has vastly improved performance and, ultimately, unlimited capacity. The starting requirement was that the systems developed should be useful in joining 1 million or more mining clients." Huge claims, but the DFINITY project is indeed one of the most interesting infrastr... Read More -
Third Web #3 - SingularityNet
January 23rd, 2018 by Legendface66 Artificial Intelligence Researcher Ben Goertzal and Blockchain Solution Architect, Simone Vulpem discuss the SingularityNet artificial intelligence marketplace. Currently, the market for artificial intelligence is dominated by industry giants with huge monolithic offerings with features far beyond the often niche applications may businesses have a need for. Smaller organisations provide bespoke solutions but these can be expensive and configuration heavy. SingularityNet gives independent d... Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #352 - Lightning in Real Life
January 21st, 2018 by
adam ##On Today's Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin... Stephanie Murphy, Jonathan Mohan, Andreas Antonopoulos and Adam B. Levine kick off 2018 with a wide ranging conversation about what it's like using the lightning network in real life, lessons from the recently failed BitConnect scheme and a study exploring how decentralized Bitcoin and Ethereum really are. Full shownotes and links after the jump. Read More -
#218 Chris Burniske & Jack Tatar: Cryptoassets - The Rise of a New Asset Class
January 17th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar joined us to discuss their book 'Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond Read More -
Technology & Choice #25, Exploring Value and Exchange with Adam B. Levine, or “Proof Of WHAT?”
January 16th, 2018 by fergish It was an absolute pleasure to have a long talk with Adam B. Levine about the concept of Value, its core meaning, how we exchange with each other with Value in mind, and how new tools of cryptocurrencies and cryptographic tokens give us options that have never existed before--and, of course, some speculation on the possibilities! There's a lot here, folks. Enjoy! #### Music Bumper music: *Rocket Power* by Kevin MacLeod. #### Links [Soundcloud feed for Technology & Choice and S... Read More -
Participate in the LTBCOIN -> POET Swap
January 14th, 2018 by adam Normal episodes of LTB will resume next week. Today, Adam reminds early listeners and content creators about the LTBCOIN to Poet swap and answer some common questions. You can swap your LTBCOIN at letstalkbitcoin.com/ltbcoin-to-poe-exchange _Note: If you swapped your LTBCOIN more recently than September 2017, and you haven't yet received your tokens. Your POET will be included in the distribution at the end of the month._ Read More -
The Crypto Show: Marco Peereboom Decred Addresses Bitcoin Drama Through Governance
January 11th, 2018 by TheCryptoShow On tonight's episode of "The Crypto Show," we interview Marco Peereboom, CTO and Cofounder of the cryptocurrency "Decred." Marco gives us a quick breakdown of just what Decred is and its features, and then he, Danny, and I discuss the many ways in which Decred is an improvement upon Bitcoin, in fact a "Bitcoin without the drama." We discuss the lightning network, Segwit, the decred governance structure, the Politeia proposal system, the upcoming DAE (Decentralized Autonomous Entity) to which w... Read More -
#217 Andrew Trask: OpenMined - A Decentralised Artificial Intelligence Platform
January 11th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin Our guest, Andrew Trask, is building OpenMined - a platform that merges cryptographic techniques such as homomorphic encryption and multi-party computation and blockchain technology to create the ability to train ML models with private user data. OpenMined will allow AI companies of the future to develop models, have them trained on user data without compromising user privacy, and incentivise users to train their model. We walk through the OpenMined vision and its potential impact on AI business models and AI safety Read More -
The Crypto Show With Jonathan Mohan When To Fork The Pope
January 8th, 2018 by TheCryptoShow On tonight's episode of "The Crypto Show," we talk with Jonathan Mohan about the subject matter of an article-in-progress that he is writing. Jonathan compares the crypto-world to Catholicism vs. denominationalism, about those who believe that Bitcoin and other cryptos should be run by a benevolent dictator and those who believe they should be decentralized. He asserts that differences and debates within crypto don't boil down to questions of fact, but to fundamental philosophical issues that ... Read More -
The Crypto Show: Jun Dam & Breaking Ground In Mexico
January 4th, 2018 by TheCryptoShow On tonight's episode of "The Crypto Show," we interview Jun Dam, founder and CEO of BitCash, host of the 100x Blockchain Investment Summit, and organizer of the upcoming World Crypto Economic Forum. We talk about Jun's background that makes him well suited to be the organizer of such a conference, and then we discuss the unique format and topics that attendees can expect at the conference, including the part of the conference involving ICOs and tokenization and the educational approach that the ... Read More -
#216 Brian Platz & Flip Filipowski: FlureeDB - A Scalable Blockchain-Based Graph Database
January 3rd, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin FlureeDB is a scalable graph database which provides the benefits of blockchain technologies, such as immutability, replayability and fault tolerance. Currently, in development, the goal for FlureeDB is to support various consensus rules based on the network configuration: private systems, federated (or consortium) clusters, and fully decentralized public networks. Read More -
The Crypto Show: Jeff Berwick & Danny From Acapulco
December 29th, 2017 by TheCryptoShow On tonight's episode of "The Crypto Show," Danny joins us from Jeff Berwick's house in Acapulco. Jeff gives us the rundown on the upcoming fourth annual Anarchapulco Conference in Acapulco, including some of the speaker highlights, first and foremost among them, Ron Paul. We talk about some of the topics and themes for this year's conference, the workshops and extracurricular activities, and some of the other things that attendees can expect this year. We also discuss the future of Bitcoin and w... Read More -
The Crypto Show Mike And Danny Christmas Eve In Acapulco
December 29th, 2017 by TheCryptoShow A special Christmas Eve edition from Acapulco Mexico. Danny talks with Mike Nimitz about their plans to bring Christmas to a local orphanage in Acapulco "Marsh Children's Home" all funded with Dash. Hind site to this it was an awesome day for us. **Sponsored by:** [Dash](http://Dash.org), [CryptoCompare](http://pcryptocompare.com) and [Defense Distributed](http://defdist.org) **Links** [LogosRadioNetwork](https://LogosRadioNetwork.com) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1119365597/ref=cm_s... Read More -
#215 Elizabeth Rossiello: BitPesa - Building Financial Platforms for Frontier Markets
December 27th, 2017 by epicenterbitcoin We're pleased to be joined by Elizabeth Rossiello, CEO and Founder of BitPesa. BitPesa provides companies in frontier markets with the financial infrastructure to facilitate commerce and payments, where traditional financial markets are known to be fractured and expensive Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #351 - Today and Tomorrow
December 24th, 2017 by adam ##On Todays Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin, Stephanie, Andreas, Jonathan and Adam sit down for our last conversation of 2017. In this wide ranging discussion we talk about the current state of bitcoin usability, how best to handle the current environment and more. Read More
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