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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
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The Crypto Show with Dave Mitchell, The Arclight Foundation & More on Danny's Crypto Cannabis Tour
May 26th, 2017 by
TheCryptoShow Tonight, Danny visits Lake Havasu Az and meets up with Dave Mitchell, founder and CEO of secretluxurybunkers.com. We briefly review the mission and services provided by Dave’s company for listeners who may have missed his recent previous appearance on our show, and then we discuss Dave’s and Secret Luxury Bunker’s involvement in TheArcLightFoundation.org a charity for victims of human trafficking. Finally, in the last segment, Tom of Defense Distributed and Chris chat it up.
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The Tatiana Show - Parneet Pal & Cecily Sommers
May 24th, 2017 by
Tatiana Moroz Tatiana interviews Parneet Pal & Cecily Sommers. Topics Include: --"Can We Live Forever?" --"Living in the Present" --"Meditation and Tips for Young Entrepreneurs" --"The Nature of AI" About the Guests: -Parneet Pal, M.B.B.S., M.S. is a Harvard- and Columbia-trained physician on a mission to scale the ideas that make wellbeing easy and accessible to all using evidence-based medicine and innovative behavior change models. She made a... Read More -
State Change #42 The Use of Knowledge in Society, Jeffrey Tucker, Kirk Dameron, Stephen Macaskill
May 24th, 2017 by Arthur S. Falls While today decentralization seems like a revelation, one thinker more than any other stands as its chief proponent. In 1945 Friedrich Hayek bucked the post war fashion of command-control thinking and announced the futility of central economic or societal planning. His essay, The Use of Knowledge in Society, is a concise and accurate argument for the organizing principles of the internet, horizontal organizations, and blockchain networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Guests: Jeffrey Tucker: CLO...
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184 - Fred Ehrsam & Trent McConaghy: IPDB – The Interplanetary Database and its Applications in AI
May 23rd, 2017 by
Epicenter We're joined by Trent McConaghy, CTO and Co-founder of BigchainDB and Ascribe, and Fred Ehrsam, former Co-founder at Coinbase. We have a fascinating discussion about the intersection of AI and blockchain technologies. We also discuss the public implementation of BigchainDB, the Interplanetary Database (IPDB), and the applications for a public big data storage network accessible to all of humanity.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #331 Incentives and Illusions
May 21st, 2017 by
Adam B. Levine On Today's Episode
Stephanie, Andreas and Adam are joined by Jonathan Mohan for a discussion of perverse incentives and illusory power.
This episode was edited by Matthew Zipkin and featured content from Andreas Antonopoulos, Jonathan Mohan, Stephanie Murphy and Adam B. Levine
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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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183 - Alex Van de Sande & Nick Johnson: ENS – A Global Naming System for Ethereum
May 17th, 2017 by Epicenter We're joined by Alex Van de Sande and Nick Johnson to discuss their approach to creating an open, secure and decentralized naming system for the Ethereum Network. The Ethereum Naming System allows users to register .eth domain names, and map those names to any Ethereum address.
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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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The Crypto Show with John Cassereto, John Ferguson & Danny Somthin
May 14th, 2017 by TheCryptoShow Tonight’s episode has John Ferguson of “Technology and Choice” podcast sitting in as co-host for Danny who is on the road in his “Crypto Cannabis Tour” to bring the General Bytes Dash and Bitcoin ATMs and the Alt36 Dash point-of-sale systems to cannabis dispensaries and other establishments in states where marijuana is legal. In short, to “bank the unbanked.” Danny describes his success so far in installing an ATM at a computer shop in the heart of the cannabis district in Denver, ...
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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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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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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #330 - Full Box!
May 14th, 2017 by Adam B. Levine On Today's Episode
Stephanie and Adam are joined by Jonathan Mohan for a wide ranging discussion as the bitcoin and cryptocurrency networks continue into
A Few Highlight Topics:
High Transaction Fees
Lightning, Factom and other layer 2 solutions
Ethereum and the Remittance Story...
And more!
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The Tatiana Show - John Barrett of Bitcoins and Gravy & Sean Malone of FEE
May 11th, 2017 by Tatiana Moroz Tatiana interviews John Barrett of Bitcoins and Gravy & Sean Malone of FEE. Topics Include: "The Importance of Meda in Liberty Outreach" "How To Reach New People To Liberty" "The Modern Music Scene" "Bitcoin and Music" About the Guests: -As the host of Bitcoins and Gravy, John Barrett draws upon a lifetime of experience. With a BA in Communications and Public Address, a background in radio broadcasting, years of live performance ex... Read More -
The Crypto Show: Ken Ramirez Of Alt36 A POS For The Cannabis Industry
May 10th, 2017 by TheCryptoShow Tonight we talk with Ken Ramirez CEO and co-founder of Alt36 about their new product that will bring a General Bytes ATM and point of sale for Dash in to Cannabis dispensaries. Dispensaries have a serious problem of less than desirable access to traditional banking. Dash and Alt36 aim to solve that problem with digital currency.
Sponsored by: Dash, CryptoCompare Bitmain and [Defense Distributed](http://defdis...
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Technology and Choice #20 Decentralization and Biochemistry
May 10th, 2017 by
John Ferguson In this fourth installment of The Hemp Corner, we set out to better understand the amazing biochemical relationship between the human species and the cannabis plant. To get very far we have to break out some understanding of biochemical interactions in general and how they influence the human experience.
Our guest, Dr. Jim Laurenzano, is a medical doctor who not only has a deep technical knowledge, but his 35 years of striving to engage his patient's understanding and full participation in t...
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182 - Peter Van Valkenburgh: Towards Sound Bitcoin Policy
May 10th, 2017 by Epicenter Coin Center Director of Research Peter Van Valkenburgh joined us to discuss the most important policy issues facing Bitcoin and other open blockchain networks.
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The Tatiana Show - Jeffrey Tucker Of Liberty.me
May 8th, 2017 by Tatiana Moroz Tatiana and Josh interview Jeffrey Tucker of Liberty.me. Topics Include: "The Catholic Church and Libertarianism" "Trump's New Tax Proposal" "What To Do About Trump" "Prohibition" About the Guest: -Jeffrey Tucker is director of content for the Foundation for Economic Education, CLO of Liberty.me, research fellow at the Acton Institute, policy adviser of the Heartland Institute, founder of the CryptoCurrency Conference, member of t... Read More -
The Crypto Show with Anthem & Cindy Blanchard, Andrew Yashchuk and John Ferguson
May 7th, 2017 by TheCryptoShow Tonight we sit down with Anthem & Cindy Blanchard, Andrew Yashchuk and John Ferguson. Anthem, Cindy and Andrew join us to discuss their new venture, Anthem Gold (AnthemGold.com) which is a Gold pegged crypto set to be released in short order. ( bnktothefuture.com/pitches/anthemgold/landing ) Andrew is part of the project as well as a key member of the Factom team. Andrew also discusses Factom Harmony a new Blockchain tool for the Mortgage Industry. Our good friend John Ferguson of the "Technolog...
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The Tatiana Show - Tom Woods
May 4th, 2017 by Tatiana Moroz Tatiana interviews ever-informative Tom Woods. Topics Include: --"Liberty Classroom" --"The Trump Enigma" --"The Importance of History" --"The Consequences of Voting" About the Guest: -Thomas E. Woods, Jr., is a senior fellow of the Mises Institute and host of The Tom Woods Show, which releases a new episode every weekday. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Harvard and his master’s, M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Columbi... Read More
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