Latest Blog Posts
-
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #350 - Such Great Heights
December 17th, 2017 by
adam ##On Todays Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin Andreas Antonopoulos rejoins Stephanie Murphy, Jonathan Mohan and Adam B. Levine to dissect the cryptocurrency bubble. Later, the discussion turns to troubled Venezuela's bi-polar approach to Bitcoin Mining while launching it's own Altcoin. And what is Crypto-Fiat anyways? Read More -
The Crypto Show: Rafa Jimenez Of ALibre.io & Daniel Krawisz
December 16th, 2017 by
TheCryptoShow On tonight's episode of "The Crypto Show," Rafa Jimenez of Ahorro Libre joins us to discuss how his company will revolutionize, but not replace, traditional non-banking financial systems in the third world, and its relationship with the huge convenience store chain, OXXO. Daniel Krawisz sits in with us the whole show, and in the second hour we discuss Bitcoin in the news, whether it's a bubble, its long-term viability, and more. **Sponsored by:** [Dash](http://Dash.org), [CryptoCompare]... Read More -
The Crypto Show: Tricia Martinez Of Wala & Doug Scribner With Vaultlogic
December 13th, 2017 by TheCryptoShow On tonight's episode of "The Crypto Show," our first guest is Tricia Martinez, a behavioral economist educated at the University of Chicago, who is the founder and CEO of Wala, a financial services platform for the unbanked and underbanked and those who rely on microtransactions, including microloans, in the third world. Our second guest is Doug Scribner, the founder of Watch My Bit. He comes on to talk about VaultLogic, which is a cash storage and transfer service that can be integrated into ... Read More -
#213 Tim Swanson: Busting the Great Wall of Hype
December 13th, 2017 by
epicenterbitcoin In the blockchain world, few people are as brave as Tim Swanson when it comes to busting hype. Tim's unbiased, honest, and sometimes controversial opinions provide a refreshingly realistic view of blockchain adoption and applications of this technology by people and businesses. Cutting through the hype, the over-sold press releases ad the blind optimism of a completely decentralized economy, Tim's insights provide a sobering look at the state of the blockchain. Read More -
The Crypto Show: Rob Viglione, Rocelo Lopes, Arley Lozano And Andres Fleischer
December 11th, 2017 by TheCryptoShow For the second and final episode from the Latin American Bitcoin Conference in Bogota Columbia. I sit down with ZenCash co-founder Rob Viglione to discuss his role with ZenCash and what inspired him to get involved in crypto after his service in Afghanistan. I also had the pleasure of talking with members of 3 separate Bitcoin exchanges in Latin America. Rocelo Lopes of CoinBR in Brazil. Arley Lozano of Panda exchange serving Columbia and Venezuela. Andres Fleischer of Ripio and a member of th... Read More -
The Third Web Micro - Economies #2 - SpankChain
December 10th, 2017 by
Legendface66 In today’s episode we look at spank chain, an adult industry cryptocurrency payment system built using Ethereum. Currently, financial intermediaries in the adult entertainment industry exploiting their position to impose arbitrary rules on content by refusing to serve participants who produce content a specific payment processor finds objectionable. The effect of this is to persecute already marginalized groups like trans men and women and as well as severing the income of both individuals ... Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #349 - A Little Diversion
December 10th, 2017 by adam ##On Today's Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin.... Stephanie Murphy, Jonathan Mohan and Adam B. Levine catch up with Arthur Falls to discuss the current state and future prospects for Ethereum, and much more. Read More -
The Crypto Show: LaBitConf Brock Pierce, Griff Green Giveth.io, Alex Casas Shelpin.com And Anthony Conrad HolaLuka
December 7th, 2017 by TheCryptoShow While visiting the LaBitConf in Bogota Colombia I got to sit down some pretty interesting folks in the Bitcoin space. After talking with Brock I decided to follow up with the same altruistic theme and talk to some of the nominee's of the "Blockchain 4 Humanity Award" that was the closing ceremony of the Latin American Bitcoin Conference. Definitely check out Griff Green's project Giveth.io , Alex Casas with Shelpin.com and Anthony Conrad at @HolaLuka **Sponsored by:** [Dash](http://Dash.or... Read More -
#212 Adam Perlow & Asher Manning: Zen Protocol - A Decentralized Financial System
December 6th, 2017 by epicenterbitcoin Adam Perlow and Asher Manning of Zen Protocol joined us to discuss how Zen aims to build a decentralized financial system combining smart contracts with a Bitcoin-like UTXO architecture. Read More -
The Crypto Show At LaBitConf In Bogota With Dash Caracas, Brazil, Colombia And Acapulco On Board
December 3rd, 2017 by TheCryptoShow On tonight's episode of "The Crypto Show," Danny is attending the Latin American Bitcoin Conference and brings us Dash enthusiasts from various countries in Latin America. This episode host five different Dash proposal owners I'd say that's a first. Our first guest is Eugenia, who hails from Venezuela. She tells us about the economic conditions in her country and how Dash and Bitcoin are already helping people who are suffering from the grip of their State's destructive socialist policies. We al... Read More -
The Crypto Show Live From Mexico City With Jose Rodriguez Of Bitso
November 30th, 2017 by TheCryptoShow On tonight's episode of "The Crypto Show," Danny has finally made it to Mexico City, although sans his RV because of bureaucratic issues. He and Jose Rodriguez of Bitso join us from Danny's hotel room to talk about the earthquake relief efforts that are planned, including visiting orphanages to help out children, who are often the worst-affected by such natural disasters. We also talk about the ongoing Bitso saga of finding a new office since their building was destroyed in the earthquake. In be... Read More -
#211 Zoe Adamovicz: Neufund and the Case for Selling Equity on the Blockchain
November 28th, 2017 by epicenterbitcoin With the meteoric rise of ICOs, the questionable incentives and regulatory pitfalls of such offerings are becoming abundantly obvious. Yet, raising money from a global crowd by selling tokens is here to stay. Neufund CEO Zoe Adamovicz joined us to explain their approach to blockchain crowdfunding. By putting tokens backed by actual equity on a blockchain, they allow sales that protect investors and are accessible to non-token-based projects. Read More -
The Crypto Show: Aaron Lasher, Bread Wallet & Gabriel Kurman Of RSK On LaBitConf 2017
November 26th, 2017 by TheCryptoShow On tonight's episode of "The Crypto Show," we talk with our first guest, Aaron Lasher, Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Bread (formerly "Bread Wallet"). We the famed usability of their popular Bitcoin wallet, as well as their upcoming ICO, addition of Bitcoin Cash and Ether, implementation of exchange features, and their goal to become the go-to for ERC20 token trading and ICOs. We also talk about how they uniquely allowed those who held Bitcoin in their wallet prior to the fork to spli... Read More -
The Crypto Show: Juan Galt Defending Bitcoin Vs Bitcoin Cash
November 22nd, 2017 by TheCryptoShow On tonight's episode of "The Crypto Show," we talk to Juan Galt, who gives us a counterpoint to Roger Ver's defense and promotion of Bitcoin Cash by defending Bitcoin Core. We discuss the various issues related to that debate, as well as Dash and other cryptos, Komodo, and Anarchapulco. He gives some very good analysis in support of his contrary position to Roger's, making it even harder to determine what to think (so just hold on to both coins). **Sponsored by:** [Dash](http://Dash.org), [... Read More -
#210 Alex Morcos: Chaincode Labs and Why Bitcoin is Our One Shot at Creating Digital Gold
November 21st, 2017 by epicenterbitcoin In the last few years, Chaincode Labs played one of the most active roles in the development of Bitcoin core. Its founder Alex Morcos joined us to talk about his own journey from high frequency trading to discovering Bitcoin and starting Chaincode. We talked about what drives him, what the essential characteristics of Bitcoin are and how to think about recent event like the SegWit2x controversy. Read More -
The Crypto Show: Roger Ver On The Rise Of Bitcoin Cash
November 19th, 2017 by TheCryptoShow On tonight's episode of "The Crypto Show," we talk with Roger Ver for the first half of the show. We discuss Bitcoin Cash, the prospects for the demise and success of Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Cash, respectively, and how quickly Bitcoin Cash may be a crypto game-changer. We ask Roger his opinion as to the failure of Segwit2x, as well as the possible motivations behind the failure of Bitcoin Core to remedy Bitcoin's technical issues. We discuss Bitcoin.com's mining pool and its impressive built-in... Read More -
The Crypto Show: Csilla Brimer Blockchain Drone Dancing & Dr Russell O'Connor Turing Complete Vs Incomplete
November 17th, 2017 by TheCryptoShow On this episode of "The Crypto Show," we interview Csilla Brimer of Drone Dance Show about her company's performance drones for aerial shows. She explains the technology and the origin of the concept and is proud to announce that they have major orders booked for next year already. We also discuss their upcoming ICO. Our second interview is with Canadian Dr. Russell O' Connor, who has a Ph.d. in mathematics. He discusses the important difference between a Turing complete and Turing incomplet... Read More -
Technology & Choice #24, People and Projects at the Texas Bitcoin Conference (part 2)
November 16th, 2017 by
fergish Some more interesting folks at the recent Texas Bitcoin Conference shared some more very interesting projects and activities. This episode we explore: **Spectiv** -- Nick Ravanbakhsh **Grid +** -- Karl Kreder **Cryptoart** -- Troy Ferno **Cryptopods** -- Eric Hoffenbach **Decred** -- Marco Peereboom Once again, huge thanks to Paul and Linda Snow, and all who made the Texas Bitcoin Conference possible. #### Music Bumper music: *Rocket Power* by Kevin MacLeod. ###... Read More -
#209 Amrit Kumar & Xinshu Dong: Zilliqa - A Scalable Sharded Public Blockchain
November 14th, 2017 by epicenterbitcoin Our guests, Xinshu Dong and Amrit Kumar, walk us through the objectives, protocol design and fundraising structure of Zilliqua, a new public blockchain which achieves scalability through sharding. Read More -
The Crypto Show: Jon Vaage & Hiro White On Stash Multiple Wallet Functionality
November 14th, 2017 by TheCryptoShow On tonight's episode of "The Crypto Show," Hiro White and Jon Vaage of Stash, makers of the Stash Node Pro and new beta version of the Android Stash Wallet app, come on to discuss the many innovative features of the Stash Wallet, including the messaging application, pay codes and pay channels, Diffy-Hellman transaction privacy, multiple-currency support, invoicing, smart contracts, and how the Open Transactions software runs not only on the Stash Node but on the Stash Wallet as well. We also do ... Read More
Pages:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85
18,924 views