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Chain Reaction - IDEX’s Alex Wearn: Scaling A Decentralized Exchange Through Optimized Optimistic Rollups
December 26th, 2019 by
BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by Alex Wearn, the co-founder and CEO of IDEX, a decentralized exchange built on Ethereum, to discuss the next version of the exchange and using optimized optimistic rollups to scale the exchange. Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #73: Tim Pastoor, P2P Identity
December 26th, 2019 by
Rob Welcome to episode 73 of *The Bitcoin Game*, sponsored by eToro. When I started paying attention to Bitcoin Twitter in 2013, I noticed a guy named Tim Pastoor, who seemed pretty well-respected by the Bitcoin Twitter community. He and I eventually became good friends on Twitter, so much so that we hung out for a long afternoon when I visited Amsterdam a few years ago. Tim has been focused on peer-to-peer identity and reputation systems for the past five years, supporting Martti Malmi's work in t... Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine: Trace Mayer on Monetary Sovereignty and Proof of Keys
December 26th, 2019 by BTCMedia In this episode, Bitcoin Magazine's Vlad Costea interviews long-time Bitcoiner Trace Mayer. They discuss how some cryptocurrency businesses tend to restrict the concept of sovereignty that the technology was meant to protect, and Mayer's response to the phenomenon, the [Proof of Keys [Jan/3➞₿]](https://www.proofofkeys.com/) event, held every year on January 3. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Andreas M. Antonopoulos: Money as a System of Control, Decentralization vs Centralization, Base Layer and Lightning Tech
December 25th, 2019 by BTCMedia In this episode Andreas and I talk about the early PC and Internet era and why it is often analogized to bitcoin’s evolution, we talk about how money has become coopted by governments drunk of Keynesian ideology, how money is used as a system of control and how bitcoin fixes this. In the second half of the discussion we talk tech - first base layer tech and then Lightning. We finish up with Andreas’ vision of a bitcoin future. Read More -
TTS Ep. 237 Year End Wrap Up
December 24th, 2019 by
TatianaMoroz On a special holiday episode of #TheTatianaShow, Tatiana and Josh look back on 2019 and also forward to the new year. There are some exciting opportunities for 2020! What To Listen For: Tatiana gives some details into the upcoming events in the Bahamas she’s planning called Crypto-Cares. What started out as a casual idea has become a week long event in January 2020 with a live acoustic album taping and a larger conference in the spring. The two recap their recent trip ... Read More -
Quadriga: What Happened to Gerald Cotten with Nathaniel Rich - WBD177
December 24th, 2019 by BTCMedia In December 2018 Gerald Cotten, the CEO of Canadian crypto exchange Quadriga, was on his honeymoon in India with his new wife. While there Gerald fell sick and a few days later died from complications related to his Crohn's disease. Gerald was the only person who held the private keys to Quadriga's cold storage wallet, leaving an estimated CA$250m ($190 US) of customer deposits unrecoverable. In January 2019 QuadrigaCX, Canada's largest cryptocurrency exchange shut down for business, filing for bankruptcy in April. Read More -
POV Crypto - Fight Night XI: BTC V ETH V DCR with Checkmate
December 23rd, 2019 by BTCMedia Prolific crypto analyst and Decred bull, Checkmate comes on to POV Crypto for a three-way fight night episode. This is an extremely well balanced episode with compares and contrasts bull and bear case for all three assets. We discuss the following topics Read More -
The Cryptoconomy - Does Bitcoin Need Accounts? - By Aaron Van Wirdum (audio article)
December 23rd, 2019 by BTCMedia "Another clever & censorship resistant system for identity within the Bitcoin system is being proposed. Called "Easypaysy," developer Jose Femenias Canuelo has created a system to safely & independently create a static on-chain account system, that would solve the need both of having to reuse Bitcoin addresses, & having to constantly generate new ones for every payment. Today we read the Bitcoin Magazine article by none other than Aaron Van Wirdum, breaking down exactly what it is, how it works, and what it might mean for the future of interfacing with the Bitcoin system. Read More -
4 Minute Crypto - BitGo Wallet to Stop Bitcoin SV Support
December 23rd, 2019 by BTCMedia The BitGo wallet has warned it will not support the Genesis hard fork for Bitcoin SV, as it will not be able to receive funds. BitGo explained that the reason for the discrepancy is the decision of Bitcoin SV to take up a new consensus protocol. Read More -
TTS Ep. 236 Rob Viglione Horizen
December 21st, 2019 by TatianaMoroz On this episode of The Tatiana Show, our friend from the crypto space Rob Viglione stops by. Rob is the co-founder of the Horizen project formerly known as Zencash. Launched in May 2017, Horizen is a cutting-edge technology platform that allows real life use beyond its Zen cryptocurrency. It includes the ability to implement sidechains and integrate third party technologies by using a hub and spoke type architecture. Rob shares with Josh and Tatiana the recent breakthroughs in sid... Read More -
Blockcrunch - Crypto Is Not for Mass Adoption: A Debate - Jill Carlson vs. Yaniv Tal
December 21st, 2019 by BTCMedia To close out 2019, Open Money Initiative's Jill Carlson (@jillruthcarlson) and The Graph's Yaniv Tal (@yanivgraph) join us to debate one of the most important topics in crypto. They discuss: Read More -
Chain Reaction - Zaki Manian and Dean Tribble: No Blockchain Is An Island
December 21st, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by Zaki Manian, the Director of Research at Tendermint Inc and Dean Tribble, the CEO of Agoric. On this episode we dive into into how IBC (inter-blockchain communication) will connect blockchains to enable new use cases. On this episode we discussed a lot of philosophical questions around a multi-chain vs few chain world, chain sovereignty, Agoric's targeting the world's 20M javascript developers for its smart contract platform, the use cases IBC enables across chains, the status of IBC and so much more. The discussion involves how Cosmos plays into IBC, and how eventually IBC will be a part of Cosmos' SDK. Read More -
Trace Mayer on Proof of Keys - WBD176
December 20th, 2019 by BTCMedia In this interview, I talk to Trace about his Proof of Keys campaign, exchange hackings, claiming your monetary sovereignty and stress testing custodians. Read More -
4 Minute Crypto - John McAfee Swears Off Crypto Promotions
December 20th, 2019 by BTCMedia John McAfee known for causing explosive rallies in some of the coins he promotes has announced he is breaking away with his persona of crypto presenter. He will not be promoting coins, tokens, or startups in 2020, or lending his brand and image to crypto companies. Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Austin E. Alexander: Bitcoin Is a Complete, Total Game Changer. It’s an Opt-Out.
December 19th, 2019 by BTCMedia Austin E. Alexander is working for the office of the CEO at Kraken. He joined Kraken at the end of 2013. Back then, Kraken had only 20 to 30 employees. Today it is one of the biggest and most respected crypto exchanges in the world. I met Austin at several bitcoin conferences and at the Baltic Honeybadger in Riga in October, we finally sat down to chat about his career and the developments in the bitcoin space since 2011. In 2013 he was co-founding the Bitcoin Center New York with Nick Spanos. He talks about how enthusiastically they have built the center and about the problems they ran into in the dawn of the Bit License. We also discuss his learnings in 2019 while visiting Uganda, Somalia, South Africa and Zimbabwe and much more. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Lucho Poletti: Bitcoin Art, Renaissance, Memes, Lightning, Finance
December 19th, 2019 by BTCMedia Lucho Poletti is a bitcoin artist with an incredibly unique and beautiful style. Lucho has an interesting background in business and finance before he followed his passion into a career in art which eventually merged with another of his passions: bitcoin. In this episode Lucho and I discuss his that background story, delve into our economic situation and the state of global finance, we then move into his art career, his process and how it has evolved, we discuss a couple of his recent works and Lucho speculates about how a bitcoin future might unfold. Read More -
POV Crypto - Exploring Binance USA, with Catherine Coley
December 19th, 2019 by BTCMedia Catherine Coley is the CEO of Binance USA! Catherine comes on to POV to discuss Binances venture in to the states, and how Binance fits with the other american exchanges! Read More -
Chain Reaction Podcast: NEAR’s Alex and Illia: Since 2018 Everything Has Changed
December 18th, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by NEAR Protocol's co-founders Alex and Illia to discuss the project. We previously had Alex and Illia on in November of 2018 when the podcast was first starting out so on this episode we discuss what has changed since then, the progress the project has made and much more. Specifically we dive into how NEAR plans to attract developers across three key areas, smart contract wars between layer-1's, governance for NEAR, and what to expect from the protocol's coming Mainnet launch. Read More -
Weekly Bits #9: The Open-Source Mission of BTCPay Server
December 18th, 2019 by BTCMedia The best of Bitcoin tends to come from projects that leave wealth accumulation and personal agendas aside to focus on building on behalf of the community. For an example, look no further than open-source payment portal BTCPay Server. In this episode of the Weekly Bits podcast, Colin Harper joins Peter Chawaga to discuss his latest cover story on the project, the developers behind it and its status as Bitcoin's open-source unicorn. Read More -
4 Minute Crypto - 2 More Crypto Firms Shut Down Due to Upcoming EU Rules
December 18th, 2019 by BTCMedia On Mondays show I reported that the Bitcoin App BottlePay was shutting down, and now 2 more European crypto firms have shut down because of the upcoming Anti Money Laundering rules in the European Union. Read More
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