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4 Minute Crypto - Was Benjamin Franklin The Bitcoin Miner Of His Day?
July 11th, 2019 by
DSholla Benjamin Franklin started printing paper money in 1726, making him arguably, the Bitcoin miner of his time. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Harmony's Nick White: Mainnet Launch Is The First Step Towards Full Proof-of-Stake and Sharding
July 11th, 2019 by DSholla Harmony is described as a fast and secure blockchain and it leverages a lot of newer tech such as Proof of Stake, Sharding and cross shard communications, granted not all of this tech is fully launched yet. Read More -
The Blockcrunch - Blocknet vs. Polkadot: How Its Cross Chain Dex Works with Arlyn Culwick
July 11th, 2019 by DSholla I speak with Blocknet's co-founder Arlyn Culwick on how their cross-chain protocol works, and why Blocknet takes a Layer 2 approach (instead of Polkadot/Cosmos' Layer 1) to interoperability. We discuss: * Arlyn's concerns with Polkadot and Cosmos * Why Blocknet focuses on L2 for inteoperability instead of L1 * How Blocknet connects Bitcoin and Ethereum Read More -
The Tatiana Show Ep. 205 Thomas Hunt of Mad Bitcoins
July 9th, 2019 by
TatianaMoroz Josh and I sat down with our good friend Thomas Hunt, the one man show responsible for the Mad Bitcoins videos we all love. Our conversation was covered from all over the globe, with me in San Francisco, Josh in Berlin, and Thomas in beautiful Barcelona. The main topic was Facebook Libra, the social media giant's new cryptocurrency. Is it really a look into the future or just another attempt to monopolize a good idea for their own greedy benefit. We also cover censorship... Read More -
Tadge Dryja on Scaling Bitcoin With Utreexo - WBD123
July 9th, 2019 by DSholla Scaling has been a constant thorn in the side of Bitcoin. Solutions for scaling has led to a civil war, multiple forks and is the centre of many arguments on Reddit and Twitter. The Bitcoin blockchain is currently around 230GB and syncing the blockchain can take multiple days. This is just one of the barriers which may put people off running the software, but what if you could run it on your phone? That is exactly what Tadge is trying to achieve with Utreexo. By not worrying about the full history of the blockchain and only concentrating on data that is relevant to you this may be the solution for the ever increasing size of the data. Read More -
Robert Leshner: Compound – An Automated Money Market for Ethereum Tokens
July 9th, 2019 by
epicenterbitcoin In this episode, we caught up with Robert Leshner, founder of the Compound protocol. Compound is one of the first examples of a well-functioning lending market built using smart contracts, built on Ethereum. Read More -
POV Crypto: Fight Night V - Price and Confusion
July 8th, 2019 by DSholla In this episode of Fight Night, David and Christian discuss: - The BTC/USD Chart - The ETH/BTC and ETH/USD Chart - Why someone would want to store value in BTC - What is next for ETH Read More -
Proof of Love Episode 22 The Freakout
July 5th, 2019 by TatianaMoroz This was an episode we weren’t sure to release. It’s more personal but hopefully worthwhile to getting you to dig deeper. New relationships can be rocky to start, but sometimes it’s worth it. Is the freak out a red flag? Quite possibly, but is it also a way to break through? Do you have a burning question, or a show idea for us? Please email us at [email protected]roofoflovecast.com! Thank you to our sponsor Vaultoro & Blocktap.io Remember, this is a ... Read More -
FATF Guidelines and What They Get Wrong About Bitcoin feat. Simon Lelieveldt
July 5th, 2019 by DSholla In this episode, Dave discusses the new Financial Action Task Force (FATF) guidelines with Amsterdam-based regulatory consultant Simon Lelieveldt, who argues that these guidelines have gone way too far and are disproportionate, technically unsound and uneconomic. At the crux of this topic is the difference between how Facebook's Libra will accept regulation versus advocacy for online privacy by many in the Bitcoin community. **Resources:** **News:** [Despite Industry Pushback, G20 M... Read More -
Brad Stephens & Spencer Bogart on How Venture Capital Thinks About Bitcoin Investing - WBD122
July 5th, 2019 by DSholla “If Libra takes off we get a billion new crypto users that will eventually migrate somewhat into Bitcoin and grow the whole ecosystem. If Libra gets shut down… boom! Now we know why Bitcoin is so powerful as a global reserve currency.” — Brad Stephens Read More -
4 Minute Crypto - Bitcoin and Blockchain Featured on Jeopardy
July 5th, 2019 by DSholla Jeopardy host Alex Trebek offered the answer “Bitcoin uses this technology as its transaction record.” The correct response, of course, was blockchain, the distributed ledger technology most cryptos are built on and was created by Satoshi Nakamoto alongside Bitcoin. Read More -
Rob Dawson: PegaSys – Enterprise-Grade Ethereum Protocol Engineering
July 4th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Rob Dawson, Head of Product at PegaSys. PegaSys is the protocol engineering spoke of ConsenSys, and the team building Pantheon, a Java implementation of the Ethereum client. Read More -
Being John McAfee
July 3rd, 2019 by DSholla On today's episode, Dave and Grahm chat with the one and only John McAfee, currently living in exile in Cuba. They talk about freedom, Bitcoin, McAfee's 2020 Presidential run, the McAfee movie starring Michael Keaton, death threats and more! Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #66: Jeremy Rubin
July 2nd, 2019 by
Rob Welcome to episode 66 of *The Bitcoin Game*, I'm Rob Mitchell. My second interview at the recent Bitcoin 2019 conference in San Francisco was with Jeremy Rubin, a fascinating guy who has contributed a ton to Bitcoin. We review Jeremy's background, discuss his current project (a BIP intended to aid with scaling pressures), and we revisit his controversial idea of a Bitcoin reorg in the wake of the recent Binance hack. And a lot more! Jeremy provides some pretty compelling content; I bet you'll en... Read More -
The Tatiana Show Ep. 204 Kat Murti
July 2nd, 2019 by TatianaMoroz In today's episode of The Tatiana Show, I have a 1-on-1 discussion about abortion with Kat Murti of the Feminists for Liberty. Is it really a question of Pro Life vs. Pro Choice or simply another reason for the government to control our lives? About the Guests: Kat Murti is a libertarian feminist and activist, working to make the world a better, freer place, one day at a time. She is executive director and co-founder of Feminists for Liberty, an anti-statist and anti-se... Read More -
Charlie Shrem's Untold Prison Stories - WBD121
July 2nd, 2019 by DSholla Bitcoin has a rich history, and there are many stories about the space first developed and who the key people were pulling the strings. One of those characters is Charlie Shrem, one of the founders of BitInstant and who also had a close relationship with the Winklevoss twins when they first entered the space. Charlie Shrem’s story is well known, from being a founder of BitInstant to his arrest, subsequent conviction and imprisonment. I spent a couple of days with Charlie and his wife Courtney to discuss his story and how his imprisonment affected both of them. Read More -
The Blockcrunch - Ren Protocol: What are Decentralized Dark Pools with Loong Wang
July 2nd, 2019 by DSholla What are "dark pools"? Listen to this deep dive into financial privacy, dark pools, and interoperability with Singapore based project, Ren Protocol. CTO Loong Wang and I touch on: - How do dark pools work - Why decentralize them? - How would regulators react to privacy enhanced DeFi? - How does interoperability work in Ren compared to Polkadot and Cosmos? Read More -
Chain Reaction - IDEX's Alex Wearn: A Sleeping Giant's Plan To Dominate Every Centralized Crypto Exchange
July 1st, 2019 by DSholla Host Tom Shaughnessy of [Delphi Digital](/fiftyonepercent/episode/update/id/DelphiDigital.io) is joined by Alex Wearn, the Co-Founder & CEO of IDEX. This is a very interesting episode as we discuss how IDEX, a sleeping giant, grew to become the largest decentralized exchange and smart contract on Ethereum. We discuss competition with other DEXs, centralized exchanges like Binance and Coinbase and hybrid competition. Read More -
4 Minute Crypto - What is Bitcoin Oil?
July 1st, 2019 by DSholla It seems someone has decided to create a new fork of Bitcoin, which makes very little to no sense at all. Bitcoin Oil is the name of the new fork, and it appears to be a proof of stake currency. Read More -
POV Crypto: Fight Night IV - BTC on Ethereum
July 1st, 2019 by DSholla In this episode of Fight Night, David, Christian, and guest Michael Taiberg discuss: the Bitcoin 2019 conference, types of talks at the conference, Bitcoin lack of 2nd layer programming solutions, Ethereum has all the Defi apps that Bitcoin needs, Ethereum will scale Bitcoin, all BTC will migrate to Ethereum, and security in blockchains. Read More
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