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The Ether Review #68 — Numerai, The Last Hedge Fund
July 6th, 2017 by
Arthur S. Falls Xander Dunn and Richard Craib discuss Numerai, a new kind of hedge fund built by a network of data scientists. The Numerai platform crowdsources machine learning by releasing encrypted data sets to data scientists, incentivising them to develop machine learning algorithms to analyse the data. Scientists then bid their predictions to the hedge fund by staking funds, and are paid returns in Numeraire, the platform’s native cryptocurrency.
By abstracting its financial data to be only machine-...
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Ether Review #69 — IOTA & the Post-Blockchain Era
July 18th, 2017 by Arthur S. Falls David Sønstebø, co-founder of IOTA, discusses this next-generation post-blockchain platform designed to serve as the backbone for the Internet-of-Things (IoT).
IOTA is a groundbreaking new open-source distributed ledger that does not use a blockchain. Its innovative new quantum-proof protocol, known as the Tangle, gives rise to unique new features like zero fees, infinite scalability, fast transactions, secure data transfer and many others.
Because the Tangle uses a Directed Acyclic Grap...
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The Ether Review #70 - CoinList Battens down the Hatches with Watertight Token Launch Compliance
July 21st, 2017 by Arthur S. Falls Juan Benet and Jesse Clayburgh of Protocol Labs, and Ryan Zurrer of Polychain Capital, discuss CoinList, a platform for token-backed networks to raise money through pre-launch token sales.
While planning the Filecoin token sale, the team at Protocol Labs developed a method of accreditation for US investors in order to comply with securities law. Realising the importance of such a system for the whole ecosystem, they partnered with AngelList to develop this into a platform on which other proje...
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Ether Review Legal #4 - MME, the Beating Heart of Crypto Valley
August 6th, 2017 by Arthur S. Falls Luka Müller and Dianne Schepers of MME — the Swiss law firm famous for running the Ethereum crowdsale — discuss jurisdictional constraints, Crypto Valley, novel crypto-asset classes and the “second wave” of tokenization.
With 25 previous “token generating events” and 60 pending projects, MME is a clear leader in the crypto law realm. The firm is now welcoming a “second wave” of clients; companies from the legacy economy which are seeking ways to enter the blockchain w...
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State Change #44 — A New Approach to Ending Slavery
June 30th, 2017 by Arthur S. Falls Today, we look at the problem of modern slavery and how it intersects with wildlife conservation. This subject is brought to the fore by growing interest in using blockchain technologies to illuminate the business processes which conceal the presence of slavery. Our guests are Brian Iselin, founder of SlaveFreeTrade.org, and Bubba Cook, Western and Central Pacific Tuna Programme Manager for the World Wildlife Fund.
This episode was co-hosted and edited by Alexis Kenyon. Inevitably, some of th...
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Ether Review Legal Discussion #2 The Legality of Raising Money Using Tokens
June 28th, 2017 by Arthur S. Falls In today’s discussion we look at the legality of raising money through token launches, the potential risks involved, and approaches to improving the safety of these new bearer assets. We also examine the term ICO in depth and find that terminology, while relevant is second to the nature of the offer and state of the project involved. Following the discussion is an interview With Peter Van Vaulkenburg recorded at Devcon 2, applying the Howy test to TheDAO.
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Ether Review #71 - David Bailey on Po.et & the MtGox/BTC-e Connection
August 12th, 2017 by Arthur S. Falls David Bailey, CEO of BTC Media, discusses the recent shutdown of BTC-e and its mysterious connection to the MtGox hack which led to the exchange’s demise in 2014. He also introduces Po.et, a revolutionary proof-of-existence blockchain platform. The arrest of Alexander Vinnik and seizure of the BTC-e website by the FBI in late July shed some long-awaited light on the cold case of the 650,000 bitcoins which went missing from MtGox over several years from 2011 to 2013. Upon his arrest, WizSec re...
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Ether Review Legal #3 - The Simple Agreement for Future Tokens
July 25th, 2017 by Arthur S. Falls Juan Benet and Jesse Clayburgh of Protocol Labs, and Ryan Zurrer of Polychain Capital, discuss the Simple Agreement for Future Tokens (SAFT). Inspired by Y Combinator’s “Simple Agreement for Future Equity”, the SAFT standardizes the legal framework surrounding token issuance and governs the nature of the transactions involved (i.e. the deployment of capital and distribution of tokens).
The complex legal environment surrounding tokens, especially in the US, has led many entrepreneurs to ...
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State Change #43 - The Battle for your attention, Meher Roy, Simon de la Rouviere
June 6th, 2017 by Arthur S. Falls Recalling State Change #40 Weaponized AI propaganda machine, we discussed at length the value of attention. Today we take this subject to it’s maximum extend. Software engineer Simon de la Rouviere and biochemical engineer Meher Roy shed light on how the battle for our attention is the basis for the online economy. We see it in the business models of two of the biggest companies on earth — Facebook and Google. That ever present question of how blockchain will affect these dynamics hangs...
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The Ether Review #67 — Celebrating Erik Voorhees Week with Erik Voorhees!
June 11th, 2017 by Arthur S. Falls In this, the sixty seventh episode of The Ether Review, we set out to understand Prism, Shapeshift’s new non-custodial synthetic asset built on the Ethereum network. In reviewing this episode I feel I was unsuccessful in achieving this. However, the peripheral conversation about Erik’s view of the space is extremely enlightening, especially writ large in his positioning of Shapeshift. The Bitcoin scaling debate, the future of digital assets, the financial world’s response — it’s al...
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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 #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.
Twitter: @[etherreview](https://twitter.com/etherr...
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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
- Production: Arthur Falls
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The Ether Review #66 - Gnosis, Martin Köppelmann
May 28th, 2017 by Arthur S. Falls After a stunning token launch Gnosis has become a classic example of the hope for greater and more powerful decentralized applications. Founder Martin Köppelmann walks us through the project's genesis, growth, and road to success
https://twitter.com/koeppelmann itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-ethe…id899090462?mt=2
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The Ether Review #6 - Devcon 1 Debrief
November 27th, 2015 by Arthur S. Falls On today's show we have a panel of Devcon attendees. Alex Amsel, Hudson Jameson and Jack du Rose. We discuss the Ethereum community, the development state of the consensus process, storage solutions, Free My Vunk, Slock, Oraclize and much more.
[Note: This episode does not contain a magic word.]
Alex Amsel: newretro.org
Hudson Jameson: hudsonjameson
Jack du Rose: colony.io
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The Ether Review #7: Aron van Ammers and Devcon 1
December 3rd, 2015 by Arthur S. Falls Aron van Ammers is a business developer who covered Devcon 1 for CoinTelegraph as it was in session. His two major ventures in the space, Blockstars and Outlier Ventures, aim to rapidly develop and launch blockchain-oriented startups. Today, we discuss Devcon, business on the blockchain, and the altcoin space.
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The Ether Review #8: Digix
December 11th, 2015 by Arthur S. Falls Digix is a digital asset issuance and tracking platform built on Ethereum. It is designed to minimise KYC intrusion and offer physical asset shadowing, while offering the protection from loss of funds that customers expect of contemporary financial products. Digix appears to be on track to provide the most comprehensive and customer-oriented digital asset platform around. Initially, they will be offering gold-backed tokens using a powerful Proof Of Asset Certificate.
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The Ether Review #9: Hack.ether.camp, Session 1
December 18th, 2015 by Arthur S. Falls On the first of this month, Roman Mandeleil and the Ether Camp team kicked off the first decentralised Ethereum-based hackathon. It offered a tremendous opportunity to see the developer community showcase the ideas that were simmering away behind the scenes. There were a ton of solid entries and hundreds of people active in the Ether Camp slack. All told, the event was a roaring success and showed that the grass roots development community is vibrant and active.
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