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Distributed Dialogues EP #16 - Amazon, Nashville and the Future of Healthcare
February 8th, 2019 by
DSholla **"I think, more likely, you're going to see, let's say, an Amazon come in and maybe partner with an HCA and figure out how to streamline some things." - Blake Farmer** Nashville has long been the center of the healthcare industry and with Amazon's announcement to establish a 5000 job branch there, it's no secret that they could potentially expand their already dominant services into the healthcare sector. Such a move would not only create more jobs but also stimulate local and state econ... Read More -
The Tatiana Show Ep. 169 Andy Steig
February 8th, 2019 by
TatianaMoroz Andy Steig and I have done a lot of fun content together in the time we have known each other. It first started out with an appearance on his show “The Layman” in the Bitcoin episode. It’s quite funny and linked, so please check it out. Then I came on his Coin Boys podcast, which is a very cool show. Finally, we have come full circle to him coming on the Tatiana Show. Have a listen, and hear about how his content is being made in a funny way, that ... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #72 Truth, Lies and Blockchains with JW Weatherman
February 8th, 2019 by DSholla **“I think we underestimate how many people are getting paid to be scammers in this space.” — JW Weatherman** **Interview location:** Skype **Interview date:** Sunday 3rd Feb, 2019 What is a scam in crypto? Is it the explicit decision to defraud investors by raising funds for a project you have no intention to build? Does it include projects where the founders make claims to be developing technology which they are not sure they can create? Should it include altcoins which are ... Read More -
#273 Christian Decker: Lightning Network - The Road to Scaling Bitcoin
February 7th, 2019 by
epicenterbitcoin We were joined by Blockstream core engineer Christian Decker to speak about the vision of the Lightning Network, how the project progressed in the last years and remaining obstacles to scaling Bitcoin. Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #71 - Update on the Political Crisis in Venezuela
February 6th, 2019 by DSholla **“Just the idea of getting paid in something you need to immediately need to get rid off is a huge problem.” — Mauricio Bartolomeo** Interview location: Skype Interview date: Wednesday 6th Feb, 2019 Following the January 3rd protests in Venezuela and Juan Guaido declaring himself as the interim president, I invited three Venezuelan nationals to discuss the current political crisis: Alejandro Machado - [Caracas Chronicles](https://www.caracaschronicles.com/author/alejandro-... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #70 Privacy and Zcash with Zooko Wilcox
February 5th, 2019 by DSholla **“If you have sufficiently weak privacy, then that causes centralisation.” — Zooko Wilcox** **Interview location:** Skype **Interview date:** Tuesday 22nd Jan, 2019 **Company:** Zcash **Role:** Founder and CEO One of the significant failings of Digicash, the David Chaum pre-Bitcoin digital currency was centralisation. Decentralisation has become one of the core components of what has made Bitcoin work and a success; shutting it down is only possible under extreme circu... Read More -
SAFE Crossroads #52, SAFE Network Fundamentals, Part 2, with David Irvine and Viv Rajkumar
February 5th, 2019 by
fergish This is part 2 of a wide ranging discussion about the SAFE Network, with the two people most familiar with all aspects of it, MaidSAFE's Founder and CEO, David Irvine and CTO, Viv Rajkumar. To guide our discussion we focused on the 21 Fundamentals of the SAFE Network as linked below. Amongst many other great insights, in this section David goes briefly over each fundamental and summarizes where each stands -- i.e., what's done and what is yet to be done. ####Music *Safe Crossroads Beta*... Read More -
The Crypto Show: Jeff Berwick With John Galton & Lily, 2 Days Before John's Death, Is Acapulco Safe?
February 4th, 2019 by
TheCryptoShow Jeff Berwick joins Danny to address the recent murder of John Galton in Acapulco and what that means for festival goers of the famed event, Anarchapulco. Tragically and ironic 2 days before John's death we interviewed him and Lily about their event AnarchaForko, an off-shoot event. This event is one of many that celebrate what Anarchapulco has brought to Acapulco. In this episode we air a section of the interview of John and Lily, about their thoughts on the safety of Acapulco. Stay tuned for... Read More -
The Blockcrunch - Crypto Governance: Where Are We Now? - Gregory Rocco (ConsenSys)
February 4th, 2019 by DSholla Losing track of the million things happening in crypto governance? This is the episode you don't want to miss. Gregory Rocco (@Obstropolos) from ConsenSys gives us a quick recap and his take on the different experiments out there today. We touch on: - Do governance tokens work? - Should we have subjectivity in governance? - The major types of governance models today - On-chain vs. off-chain - pros and cons Not finance advice. Rate and subscribe! Host: Jason Choi (@MrJas... Read More -
Distributed Dialogues EP #15 - Bitcoin, Psychedelics and the Fight Against PTSD
February 2nd, 2019 by DSholla **"I think a lot of the people that have been interested in moving away from the current systems and to developing new, innovative systems are interested in psychedelics and in crypto."** **- Rick Doblin** On this episode of Distributed Dialogues Dave, Grahm and Rick explore a non-traditional approach to treating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: psychedelic drugs. Traditional methods of treating PTSD have left much to be desired, not only by those who suffer from it, but from their love... Read More -
The Crypto Show With Mark Edge, Free Talk Live & Jim Blasko of BitcoinTalkRadio.Com
February 1st, 2019 by TheCryptoShow This was a very fun episode at The North American Bitcoin Conference with a couple of other radio folks just sharing some origin stories. Free Talk Live's Mark Edge the self proclaimed King of radio. In the "Freedom Movements" genre of radio I'd have to agree. Jim Blasko one of the top developers in the Blockchain space and creator of one of our favorite host networks of The Crypto Show, BitcoinTalkRadio.com sit down for an awesome chat. Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #69 The History of Cryptography With Whitfield Diffie
February 1st, 2019 by DSholla **“It is rare for first implementations of such broad concepts to do as well as that did, Bitcoin is still here 10 years after it started out.”** **— Whitfield Diffie** Interview location: Palo Alto Interview date: Thursday 31st Jan, 2018 Company: Cryptomathic Role: Cryptographer and Security Expert A number of pioneers developed the cryptographic and technical foundations for which Bitcoin is built upon. Nick Szabo highlighted a number of these people in his [Tweet](... Read More -
SAFE Crossroads #51, SAFE Network Fundamentals, Part 1, with David Irvine and Viv Rajkumar
January 31st, 2019 by fergish I had the honor of a 2+ hour conversation with the two people most familiar with all aspects of the SAFE Network, MaidSAFE's Founder and CEO, David Irvine and CTO, Viv Rajkumar. To guide our discussion we focused on the 21 Fundamentals of the SAFE Network as linked below. We had a very far-ranging discussion from high to medium altitude, touching on all aspects of the whats and whys that make this project so unique and far-reaching. ####Music *Safe Crossroads Beta*, an original piec... Read More -
The Third Web #14 - Dawn of an Ecosystem: Substrate & Polkadot
January 31st, 2019 by
Legendface66 Care of DFINITY I was privileged to attend the Web 3 Summit in Berlin last year. While there I interviewed Aeron Buchanan, the Executive Vice President of the Web 3 Foundation and Gavin Wood, Founder of Ethereum, Parity, and the Web 3 Foundation. These guys are two of the individuals that launched the programmable blockchain revolution and these interviews plot a course from the founding of Ethereum to their vision of the decentralized web and give us a trajectory beyond. A quick production not... Read More -
Thw Tatiana Show- Kyle Stalzer
January 30th, 2019 by TatianaMoroz Wandering around at the Blockland Cleveland event, I came upon this little startup. I am always eager to think of easy ways to onboard crypto people into Bitcoin in a secure way. The guys at Coin Ninja made a wallet that’s called Drop Bit. SUPER EASY! I loved it, and all I needed to give them is my phone number. It seems pretty secure too, so listen to the interview and see for yourself! I like the company story, and it worked really well when I tried it. I am... Read More -
#272 Jameson Lopp: On Being a Professional Cypherpunk
January 29th, 2019 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Jameson Lopp. Jameson is known for his Twitter presence and his excellent writing. Over the years, He has written extensively about Bitcoin development, cryptocurrencies, and personal operational security. Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #68 The Essence of Bitcoin With Peter Todd
January 29th, 2019 by DSholla **“Anyone who understands economics and finance and how markets work will be a maximalist because it is more efficient to have one currency than a bunch of ones.”** **— Peter Todd** **Interview location:** Las Vegas **Interview date:** Saturday 26th Jan, 2018 **Company:** Freelance **Role:** Applied Cryptography Consultant There were many attempts at creating a digital currency before Bitcoin, all failing for different reasons. Bitcoin brought together a number of ide... Read More -
The Blockcrunch - How Should We Govern Blockchains? - Ryan Zurrer (Web3 Foundation)
January 29th, 2019 by DSholla Ryan Zurrer, Director of the Web3 Foundation and former Principal at Polychain Capital, joins us in discussing one of the most important questions in crypto: how should we govern blockchains? We touch on: How should blockchains be governed? What are the different models of governance? How do we prevent plutocracies? How does Polkadot further the governance debate? ****** Show links: - [Libsyn](http://www.blockcrunch.libsyn.com/) - [Apple Podcast](https://itunes.a... Read More -
The Crypto Show At TNABC 2nd Hr Greg Magershak, Jason Page, Josh Sigurdson, Wendy-O, Jeff Veir, Charlie Urdman And Paul Puey
January 28th, 2019 by TheCryptoShow This is the 2nd hr of our live radio broadcast in Miami from The North American Bitcoin Conference. We have a whole herd of guest's cycle through the show starting with Greg Magershak and Jason Page of Intercoin talking about their project. Then Josh Sigurdson of World Alternative Media and WendyO of I guess WendyO take the mics to discuss independent media. Third segment Jeffrey Veir and Charlie Urdman from Ideas By Nature share the latest with their project. Finally we close with our favorite ... Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #386 Decentralized Identity and Pairwise Identifiers
January 27th, 2019 by
adam ##On Todays Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin... Andreas M. Antonopolous, Jonathan Mohan and Adam B. Levine are joined by Daniel Buchner for a wide ranging conversation on granular, distributed identifiers, how you'll use them and why they might matter more than you'd think. Read More
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