John Barrett
I haven't listened to this episode yet. I was sucked in by the quote at the top. To me, the words of Dr. Alan Pitt, subtly imply that our Healthcare system is not broken. "Get everybody comfortable" may well be the new slogan for the healthcare indus...
LucSr
"How many hashes did this take to produce" is not sufficient to the security unless with the additional knowledge "how much energy a mining rig need to consume to calculate one hash" which is a public knowledge but not well-known outside of bitcoiner...
waqar alam
bitcoin upcoming very powerful currency all over the world all are accepted few one no accepted after few year all country are accepted and portable 370z heritage edition black
Lomach
)))helo
Panos
Did he actually say BTC is shit at 11.16?
MM
Agreeing w/Jonathan. Privacy, for bad or worse, will be banned from polite conversation on CC. Still important to add all the bells & whistles (ho ho ho!), as it will raise the cost for 2 chip criminals to abuse the system and its users. MimbleWi...
epicenterbitcoin The relatively new concept of a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), is often praised as a new type of organizational structure that has no identifiable owner or owners, and whose actions are automated and determined solely by a pre-defined set of rules. Views on DAOs differ widely. On one hand, members of the Bitcoin/blockchain space often portrayal them as AI-like swarm organisms, free from the shackles of nation-states, and that can act at will regardless of laws or regulation. On...
Read More epicenterbitcoin The challenges Bitcoin's wild volatility represents for achieving mass adoption have made the necessity for stable cryptocurrencies apparent long ago. With Ethereum applications, the problem is even more apparent as many use cases from predcition markets to insurance are impractical using the even more volatile ether. Maker DAO is an ambitious attempt to solve the problem by building a bank-like system to issue a value-stable currency on Ethereum.
Rune Christensen joined us to discuss the nee...
Read More epicenterbitcoin We're joined by Brock Pierce, Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, investor and all around emblematic figure of the Bitcoin ecosystem. Brock tells his story, from his early beginning a entrepreneur in his teens, to the massively successfull video game industry businesses he built in the early 2000s.
As Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, he gives us his perspective on how the Foundation's role has evolved over time and its areas of focus going forward. Brock also weighs in the recent debat...
Read More epicenterbitcoin For Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn, part of the cypherpunk movement since the early 1990s, the vision of a decentralized financial system that has both openness and privacy has existed since long before Bitcoin. After many failed attempts, Bitcoin proved that that vision could be achievable. But Bitcoin also failed to deliver on the privacy features as blockchain analysis allows tracing movements and deanonymizing many users.
Zooko joined us to discuss his project Zcash, a fully anonymous cryptoc...
Read More epicenterbitcoin For orthodox Bitcoiners central banks are often seen as the incarnation of evil. But , alas, in the case of two Carribean central banking economists the feeling of reprehension wasn't reciprocated. Winston Moore and Jeremy Stephen were formerly associated with the Central Bank of Barados and fascinated by the potential of cryptocurrencies, they explored the consequences of their central bank holding Bitcoin as part of their international reserves. They joined us for a discussion of central b...
Read More epicenterbitcoin The problem around content monetization is one which content producers are constantly trying to solve. At the core of this problem is a mismatch between supply and demand. Content, which is increasingly abundant, is captured by human attention, which is in limited supply. The volume of content being produced is growing at staggering rates while total human attention remains flat.
Our guest, Maciej Olpinski, argues that the current content monetization model is outdated, broken and is in n...
Read More epicenterbitcoin A pioneering feature of Bitcoin is verifiability of transactions: It is designed to enable low-power devices and high end computers alike to be able to verify occurrences on the blockchain.
This observation led our guest, Adam Gibson, to wonder why webpages aren't so easily verifiable as a Bitcoin transaction? Can I prove to you that I have certain bank account balance over the internet? Why do we submit photocopies of passports rather than furnishing a cryptographically verifiable proof ...
Read More epicenterbitcoin A typical online transaction today isn't very different from how it was done 25 years ago at the dawn of the Internet. In fact, online payments haven't changed much at all. When we want to pay for something online, we copy very sensitive credit card information into a form on a website and trust that website to capture it securely and make proper use of it. If this seems like an old and antiquated way to pay, that's because it is, and it costs billions of dollars per year in security and fra...
Read More epicenterbitcoin In the midst of the heated blocksize debate one could be forgiven to think that there is very little Bitcoin developers are able to agree on. Yet, when core developer and Blockstream co-founder Pieter Wuille introduced the concept of segregated witness at the Scaling Bitcoin conference in Hong Kong most of the Bitcoin community quickly rallied behind the proposal.
Eric Lombrozo, CEO of wallet company Ciphrex and responsible for running the segregated witness testnet, joined us to discuss...
Read More epicenterbitcoin Zero Knowledge Proofs are methods of providing cryptographic proofs to another party while keeping some information secret. The simple concept of ZKP offer tantalizing possibilities: Banks could prove solvency without revealing depositors. Governments could prove the fairness of an election without compromising privacy.
Computer science professor Eli Ben-Sasson joined us to discuss where blockchains and cryptocurrencies intersect with Zero Knowledge Proofs and related technologies such as...
Read MoreJohn Barrett
I haven't listened to this episode yet. I was sucked in by the quote at the top. To me, the words of Dr. Alan Pitt, subtly imply that our Healthcare system is not broken. "Get everybody comfortable" may well be the new slogan for the healthcare indus...
LucSr
"How many hashes did this take to produce" is not sufficient to the security unless with the additional knowledge "how much energy a mining rig need to consume to calculate one hash" which is a public knowledge but not well-known outside of bitcoiner...
waqar alam
bitcoin upcoming very powerful currency all over the world all are accepted few one no accepted after few year all country are accepted and portable 370z heritage edition black
Lomach
)))helo
Panos
Did he actually say BTC is shit at 11.16?
MM
Agreeing w/Jonathan. Privacy, for bad or worse, will be banned from polite conversation on CC. Still important to add all the bells & whistles (ho ho ho!), as it will raise the cost for 2 chip criminals to abuse the system and its users. MimbleWi...
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