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State Change #41 Unpacking Digital Identity - Christian Lundkvist, Stephen Wilson
May 19th, 2017 by
Arthur S. Falls Today we compare in-depth the self-sovereign and federated models of identity. Why is our means of proving who we are important? Well, for one thing, relying on an authority which doesn’t have our best interests at heart to manage our identity is one of the many problems exploited by the decentralized propaganda machine described last episode.
Our guests today are Christian Lundkvist, senior technologist at ConsenSys and Chief Architect and Researcher of the uPort self sovereign identity pl...
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State Change #40 Weaponized AI propaganda machine, Amanda Gutterman, Berit Anderson, Brett Horvath
May 17th, 2017 by Arthur S. Falls The surprising outcome of the last US Presidential election brought attention to the effect fake news and social media manipulation can have on public thought. Today we are going to take a deep look at what exactly took place, while considering possible solutions to the problems we uncover. Berit Anderson and Brett Horvath, Co-founders of Scout.ai, join us to discuss their investigative piece, The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine, while media and marketing guru Amanda Gutterman of Co...
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Ether Review Legal Discussion #1 — Challenges in Blockchain Law
May 14th, 2017 by Arthur S. Falls In Brief: A walkthrough of the pressing legal issues in blockchain today. Over the last few months a varying group of legal professionals from New Zealand, Australia, and the USA have been meeting to discuss current events, challenges, and peculiarities in the interaction between blockchain and law. As facilitator I suggested we might record the sessions. This is the first to be published. Attendees: Arthur Falls: Host of The Ether Review, State Change, Director of Media, ConsenSys Alex Sims...
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State Change #39 Technologies of Social Organization — Vinay Gupta, Joseph Lubin
May 14th, 2017 by Arthur S. Falls Technology enables new forms of social organisation. That statement is itself a truism, but as we see technological development accelerate, our means of organising ourselves is constantly changing.
Our guests today are Joseph Lubin and Vinay Gupta. Joe is the Founder of ConsenSys and co-founder of Ethereum. He has a background in robotics, software engineering, and wealth management. He also had a short stint as CEO of a Jamaican record label. Vinay Gupta is the inventor of the Hexayurt emerg...
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The Ether Review #64 — Conversations with the Swarm
May 1st, 2017 by Arthur S. Falls In Brief: Swarm City, once Arcade City, is one of the most ambitious, and controversial projects in the Ethereum ecosystem. Having shed their founder, the remaining team have made considerable development progress. More than just a would be ride sharing DApp, Swarm City aims to provide an exchange infrastructure for any two sided market place.
Swarm City Mayor Bernd Lapp and Architect Michael Thuy discuss the deeper intricacies of 2 sided market transactional infrastructure in a social settin...
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The Ether Review #63 — Meet DAD, the Digital Aussie Dollar
April 26th, 2017 by Arthur S. Falls In Brief: Tokenizing fiat currency in a way that is compatible with our existing financial infrastructure and legislation is no easy feat. The consequences however reach across the entirety of industry, the economy, and society.
Nick Addison is the CTO of AgriDigital, an agricultural finance company first covered in episode 45 of TER. As part of his work at AgriDigital, Nick is researching ways to port the existing financial infrastructure into the blockchain age. It’s not easy, but as the ...
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The Ether Review #61 - The Biggest City in Blockchain Part 1
April 11th, 2017 by Arthur S. Falls Last week I was honoured with the privilege of representing New Zealand at the inaugural ISO/TC-307 Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies standards committee meeting. The event was hosted by the secretariat, Standards Australia. 18 nations attended. The event itself will be the subject of a blog post when I get around to writing it.
While at the meeting, blockchain legend Nick Addison wrangled together a who’s who of blockchain entrepreneurs for a round table discussion. We convene...
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The Ether Review #62 — The Biggest City in Blockchain Pt 2
April 16th, 2017 by Arthur S. Falls Matt Hale of Divvi is the first speaker in the second half of the conversation we began last week. Divvi is a Sydney based decentralized energy market startup. The huge scale of residential solar deployment makes Australia a uniquely appropriate environment for this kind of solution. We also look at the challenges of breaking into the highly regulated and cartel run infrastructure space. Secondly Luke Anderson, describes the dilemma of selecting blockchain as an appropriate solution to a problem...
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The Ether Review #55 — DAOs with Wings
February 10th, 2017 by Arthur S. Falls In Brief: Stas Oskin, Wings founder, explains how DAOs can be packaged for use by startups outside the blockchain space.
Learning from others mistakes, the team at Wings are building a platform with the ability to vet, fund and launch DAOs based on input from its community. The idea of decentralized due diligence is powerful and if the mechanisms perform as expected, we may see a more refined crop or projects emerging as a result. Especially interesting is Wings’ aspiration to use the ambi...
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The Ether Review #54 — Demian Brenner of Open Zeppelin
February 3rd, 2017 by Arthur S. Falls In Brief: If there is one thing we learned in 2016 it’s that building a secure, stable, decentralized application is difficult. One of the responses to the problem has been the Open Zeppelin smart contract framework.
Open Zeppelin is really a community of developers 300 strong. Collectively they have built the framework over time in a similar fashion to Truffle or Dapple. In addition to maintaining the Open Zeppelin framework, the community audits smart contract deployments like the Golem, ...
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The Ether Review #52 — Arcade City is Back on the Road
January 7th, 2017 by Arthur S. Falls In Brief: In spite of the tumultuous public life of it’s founder, the sharing economy project is evolving and moving forward rapidly. We’ve just seen the end of a successful token launch and an all star advisory board informing new leadership fronting a strong dev team. Arcade City is back on the road.
Three members of the post-Chris David team: Bernd Lapp, Michael Thuy, and Stephan Ponnet discuss the status and future roadmap of Arcade City. What was once thought of only as a ride sharin...
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The Ether Review #51 — Hack Ether Camp: There Can be Only One
December 20th, 2016 by Arthur S. Falls In Brief: Round 2 of the biggest hackathon in blockchain is nearing it's apex. On the 22nd of December a winner will be announced. Today the man behind the hack.ether.camp virtual accelerator, Roman Mandeleil looks back over the last two months of competition and explains how the platform operates. Then we hear from some of the leading contestants:
Once artchain has been established, the art market can be securitized, which has heretofore been an impossibility. This is the Blockchain Revoluti...
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The Ether Review #53 — Dan Boneh, Master Cryptographer
January 14th, 2017 by Arthur S. Falls In Brief: From better signature schemes for blockchains, to quantum preparedness, to novel cryptography like zero knowledge proofs and threshold signatures, Dan Boneh takes us on a tour of cryptography in our age.
Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, Dan Boneh, has been working in the field of cryptography for over 25 years. During which time he has co-developed a signature scheme known as BLS Signatures. This was an opportunity to have some real questions answered, or more a...
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The Ether Review #60 — MeDAOs & Crypto Branding
March 27th, 2017 by Arthur S. Falls Today we hear first from Joe Reed who won the Seattle IPFS / Ethereum Hackathon in February. His entry Matriarch expands on the ERC20 compliant MiniMe token, using it as a basis for crowdfunded MeDAOs. It’s an avant-garde idea and compliments his decentralized reddit project, Community.
Then Gabriel Mitchell of ethereumclothing.com raises the subject of branding in cryptocurrency. These interviews have been buried in my content bank for months now and it’s fun to sometimes unearth gems. S...
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The Ether Review #1: Joseph Lubin
October 17th, 2015 by Arthur S. Falls Arthur speaks with Joseph Lubin, one of the founders of the Ethereum project and also Consensys, a constellation of Ethereum focused companies.
This is the first episode of a weekly show featuring interviews with the people building the Ethereum ecosystem.
[Note: This episode does not contain a magic word.]
Production: Arthur Falls
Content: Joseph Lubin, Arthur Falls
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The Ether Review #4: Augur
November 7th, 2015 by Arthur S. Falls Tony Sakich and Joey Krug of the Augur project join Jarad and Arthur to discus the decentralized prediction market and the challenges of marketing in the Dapp sphere.
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The Ether Review #59 — Money Talks, Polychain Capital
March 21st, 2017 by Arthur S. Falls By now word of the Andreessen-Horowitz/Union Square Ventures investment in the digital asset hedge fund Polychain Capital was reached far and wide across the cryptoverse. Among other things, this interview with founders Olaf Carlson-Wee and Ryan Zurrer explores the questions that must be asked while establishing a long term crypto portfolio. Much of the discussion is especially pertinent in light of the recent ETH jump and fork concerns with Bitcoin.
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The Ether Review #3: Roman Mandeleil
October 31st, 2015 by Arthur S. Falls Roman Mandeleil, builder of the Ethercamp blockchain explorer and the java implimentation of Ethereum, discusses (among other things) what it is like to be a longtime developer in the Ethereum community.
[Note: This episode does not contain a magic word.]
Content: Roman Mandeleil, Arthur Falls
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The Ether Review #2 - Vlad Zamfir
October 23rd, 2015 by Arthur S. Falls Jarrad and Arthur speak with Vlad Zamfir, a software engineer developing the proof-of stake consensus system that will replace proof-of-work in Ethereum.
This is a weekly show featuring interviews with the people building the Ethereum ecosystem.
[Note: This episode does not contain a magic word.]
Production: Arthur Falls
Content: Vlad Zamfir, Jarrad Hope, Arthur Falls
Additional assistance: Rob Mitchell of The Bitcoin Game.
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The Ether Review #5: Colony and Jack du Rose
November 14th, 2015 by Arthur S. Falls Today Jack Du Rose explains his social collaboration platform colony and his old job designing the most expensive work of art ever sold.
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- Content: Jack Du Rose, Arthur Falls
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