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#258 Monica Quaintance: Kadena - Public and Permissioned Blockchains that Scale
October 23rd, 2018 by
epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Monica Quaintance, Head of Engineering and Adoption at Kadena. The company is building a scalable platform and simplified smart contract language designed for business. Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #40 An Interview with Jameson Lopp
October 23rd, 2018 by
DSholla **“If you want to protect yourself from this over arching legal system then you will want to hide as much of your activity as possible.”** **— Jameson Lopp** Interview location: Skype Interview date: Thursday 18th October In his book, Nineteen Eighty-Four, published in 1949, George Orwell wrote about a dystopian future where the government subjects the population to omnipresent surveillance. That day is here, but the surveillance isn’t just that it's operated by the gover... Read More -
The Tatiana Show: Naomi Brockwell & Kevin Mckernan
October 23rd, 2018 by
TatianaMoroz Highlights include: • Sequencing the cannabis genome • The process of submitting a project for funding from the Dash DAO • The banking crisis in the cannabis industry • Medical marijuana and CBD oil • Obstacles posed to the cannabis industry by the US government • Will the Trump administration legalize cannabis? • How blockchain can become part of popular culture • Reclaiming the mainstream narrative of bitcoin and blockchain technology • T... Read More -
Distributed Dialogues EP #7 - Cambodia and the Fall of its Free Press
October 22nd, 2018 by DSholla **"I think you need to keep alive some sort of a citizen journalist concept, so that eventually, if there is some kind of a civil-society movement, there’s something to hold it together, a glue that will hold it together."** **—David Andelman** Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #379 Tether, ICOs and STOs
October 21st, 2018 by
adam ##On Todays Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin... Andreas Antonopoulos, Stephanie Murphy and Jonathan Mohan join Adam B. Levine for an update on the shifting "Stablecoin" equilibrium, followed by an in-depth conversation about the past, present and future of Initial Coin Offerings and "Securitized Token Offerings" Read More -
The Crypto Show: Marco Peereboom Of Decred, Ladar Levison Lavabit And Joseph Akintolayo From Yourex.io
October 20th, 2018 by
TheCryptoShow We kick it off with Marco from Decred talking about the latest news the history of the first atomic swap that was generated by Litecoin and Decred. Plus the details of the Decred track as Platinum Sponsor of the Texas Bitcoin Conference in Austin Texas October 27th & 28th. Then Ladar Levison creator of Lavabit who bared the brunt of the governments wrath for being Edward Snowdens email provider, talks about Lavabit's rebirth powered by what Ladar touts as DarkMail. Finally Joseph Akintolayo cr... Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #39 An Interview with Giacomo Zucco
October 19th, 2018 by DSholla **“Ethereum itself is not an experiment in something new, because they tried to implement any bad idea that was already discussed with Bitcoin in 2013.”** **— Giacomo Zucco** Interview location: Skype Interview date: Tuesday 16th October 2018 Giacomo Zucco is a proud Bitcoin Maximalist, and his presentation on the subject at the Honey Badger conference in Riga led to mixed reactions. Some called out the stupidity of Bitcoin Maximalism specifically concerning his slide: The ... Read More -
#257 Kevin Owocki: Gitcoin - Aligning Incentives in Open-Source Development
October 17th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Kevin Owocki, the Founder of Gitcoin, an Ethereum-based marketplace that leverages the open source community to incentivize and monetize development work. Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #38 An Interview with Nic Carter
October 12th, 2018 by DSholla **“Money might be the only case where you desperately need to radically decentralise the set of people who can create and have influence over the creation schedule.”** **— Nic Carter** Interview location: Skype Interview date: Wednesday 10th October 2018 Union Square Ventures posted a blog post this week titled The Myth of the Infrastructure Phase, shining a light on the imbalance between infrastructure work in crypto and DApp usage. There is an abundance of blockchain scal... Read More -
The Crypto Show: Space-X Co-founder Jim Cantrell & David Johnston Of Factom
October 12th, 2018 by TheCryptoShow On today's show we're very honored to have Jim Cantrell Co-founder of Space-X and Vector Space. Jim's son is Colin Cantrell creator of Nexus Earth which is where Jim draws his interest in crypto. Jim gives his account of the private space industry and where crypto fit's in. Jim also shares some personal anecdotes about Elon Musk and how it was almost a Maserati in space instead of a Tesla. Then David Johnson joins in to discuss not only Factom but Cointext a new method of sending crypto t... Read More -
#256 Aleksandr Bulkin & Jake Brukhman: CoinFund - Crypto-Investing by Community Building
October 11th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We are joined by Jake Brukhman, CEO, and Alexander Bulkin, Chief Alchemist, to discuss the latest thoughts on investing in the cryptocurrency space. Read More -
Bitcoins and Gravy EP #104: The Crimes of Christopher Columbus Exposed!
October 8th, 2018 by
johnbarrett In this episode, in celebration of Columbus Day, I reveal the true Christopher Columbus - the world famous mariner, explorer, murderer, rapist and slave master. We'll dig a bit deeper than our public school history books to find out the truth about how the early Spanish were some of the true early terrorists in the Americas. For more detailed information about the Genocide committed by Christopher Columbus and his gang, go here: https://owlcation.com/humanities/Christopher-Columbus Read More -
The Tatiana Show: Matt Asher & Bill Ottman
October 8th, 2018 by TatianaMoroz Topics include: -- Social Media Platforms -- Online Identity Management -- Decentralized Publishing -- Free Speech -- Censorship -- Privacy -- Hate Speech and Internet Trolls -- Technical Features of Blockchain-Based Projects As a musician and an activist, I’ve used social media to varying degrees of success. But we have entered an era in which we are facing a lot of simple obstacles to reaching audiences on our social media platforms, as well as outright censorship and bannin... Read More -
LTB #378 - The Petro inside Venezuela & Schnorr Signatures
October 7th, 2018 by adam ##On Todays Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin... **Christian Garcia** is back with his latest correspondent from within hyperinflating Venezuela. This time he looks into controversial government "cryptocurrency": the Petro. See the full shownotes for his tipping information, the articles and links referenced during his report. After the break, **Stephanie Murphy**, **Andreas Antonopoulos** and **Adam B. Levine** talk Schnorr Signatures, a seemingly non-controversial coming upgrade which will introduce major blockchain performance optimizations and enhanced privacy features. Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #37 An Interview with Jimmy Song
October 5th, 2018 by DSholla **“This is why proof of work needs to be expensive, if it is cheap you can roll back things easily. You want it to be very difficult to change history. The only way to make it difficult to change history is to make the process of writing the current history very expensive.”** **— Jimmy Song** Interview location: Skype Interview date: Monday 1st October 2018 The recent Bitcoin protocol bug, CVE-2018-1744, received considerable amounts of alarmist press, “For less than $80,... Read More -
#255 Kathleen Breitman & Arthur Breitman: Tezos - The Long Road Towards A Digital Commonwealth
October 5th, 2018 by epicenterbitcoin We were joined by Tezos co-founders Arthur and Kathleen Breitman to discuss the Tezos vision, history and where the project is heading next. Read More -
The Crypto Show Pegging Gold & Merchant Adoption With Joshua Scigala & Joel Valenzuela
October 2nd, 2018 by TheCryptoShow Today Josh Scigala of Vaultoro joins in to talk about the idea of gold and crypto joining forces to create a more portable and more easily divisible method of gold bugging. Then Joel Valenzuela of Dash Force News joins in to discuss merchant adoption for crypto and why the Dash team in Venezuela is so successful in that regard. Sponsored by: [Dash](http://dash.org), [Stamp.com](http://stamps.com), [Texas Bitcoin Conference](http://texasbitcoinconference.com) [WorldCryptoCon](http://WorldCrypt... Read More -
The Tatiana Show- Frederick Steinmann, Lyn Ulbricht, Chris Eley & Rafael Hauxley
October 1st, 2018 by TatianaMoroz This week we had a lot of action, a lot of fun, and a lot of guests spanning a variety of topics. Special thanks to our sponsor Stamps.com. Use the code ”Moroz” to get the promo from the show. We had our friend Lyn Ulbricht back on to give us the latest update on Ross. We remind everyone to sign the petition to help him get clemency for his double life sentence for all non-violent charges, which you can find here. Frederick, who is a relatively new,... Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #377 Sidechains, Drivechains and the Apple Store
September 30th, 2018 by adam ##On Todays Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin... Adam B. Levine, Stephanie Murphy and Jonathan Mohan are joined by returning guest [Paul Sztorc](https://twitter.com/truthcoin) for a look at the past, present and future of Sidechains and the now-on-testnet "[Drivechain](http://drivechain.info)" token recovery mechanism. Read more for links mentioned during today show, plus the full replay of LTB episode 99 with Dr. Adam Back and Austin Hill on "Sidechain Innovations" Read More -
What Bitcoin Did #36 An Interview with Caitlin Long & Saifedean Ammous
September 28th, 2018 by DSholla **“Negative interest rates are purely a construct of the artificiality of the monetary system. There is going to a major bond crash - the challenge is that this could be years if not decades away, or it could be tomorrow.”** **— Caitlin Long** Read More
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