This is a weekly headline show where Dee and Jessie Broke do their best to highlight bits of nonce-sense from Crypto News. We only choose three articles for each day from the litany of blockchain news that is syndicated throughout a week. If you are interested in all the news articles that we horde in a week, please visit the link below to look at our collection. This week's topics: -A Crypto Beach in South Korea -Lithuania offers Crypto Regulatory Guidelines -Credit Card sized hardware wallets ...
Jun 15, 2018•1 hr 47 min
In this episode, we dive into NuCypher. NuCypher is an encryption library for managing key access on decentralized networks. We talk about proxy re-encryption, how access is granted, and the creation of their node network. We also discuss the topic of fully homomorphic encryption and the role of privacy in future decentralized applications.
Jun 14, 2018•1 hr 8 min
The gang is back! Corey talks about the Ellicott City flooding and the charity he has set up for it in our name. Please visit https://t.co/4mnjrMdJ4c and donate! Crypto accepted, of course! In addition, we chat about the current state of adoption and Taylor Pearson stops by to chat with us in the studio. He is an author, essayist, and entrepreneur who researches and writes about innovation, productivity and the blockchain.
Jun 10, 2018•1 hr 34 min
This is a weekly headline show where Dee and Jessie Broke do their best to highlight bits of nonce-sense from Crypto News. We only choose three articles, essentially at random, from the litany of blockchain news that is syndicated throughout a week. If you are interested in all the news articles that we horde in a week, please visit the link below to look at our collection. This week we touch on tax havens, philosophy of governance, the fairness of the current tax codes and reparations?!?! Enjoy...
Jun 08, 2018•1 hr 45 min
TrueBit is one of the more impressive decentralized projects, and we're really excited to have had the chance to interview Harley Swick, core developer on the project. We talk to him about TrueBit, how it works, it's significance, how it differentiates itself from other off-chain computation projects. We go over some of the many, many applications of decentralized off-chain computation projects and how they can improve world resource utilization. Amazing and really exciting stuff! https://truebi...
Jun 07, 2018•51 min
If you work in payments fraud, you get an appreciation for the weaknesses of our financial infrastructure. Really, it’s kind of a mess. As an engineer, when you see a system full of technical debt and bad design choices, there’s only one conclusion you can reach: this thing is due for a rewrite. That, in large part, is what made our guest, Haseeb Qureshi, catch the crypto bug. In June 2017, he decided the blockchain space was too interesting to sit on the sidelines. He said goodbye to Airbnb so ...
Jun 06, 2018•1 hr 35 min
In this episode of Creating a Humanist Blockchain Future, Rhys interviews Taylor Pearson, the author of EndOfJobs and an editor-at-large for Ribbon Farm. They chat about a wide variety of subjects including the Blockchain Individual and how crypto allows us to no longer see like a state. Enjoy!
Jun 04, 2018•53 min
This is a weekly headline show where Dee and Jessie Broke do their best to highlight bits of nonce-sense from Crypto News. We only choose three articles, essentially at random, from the littany of blockchain news that is syndicated throughout a week. If you are interested in all the news articles that we horde in a week, please visit the link below to look at our collection. Enjoy! Crypto Headline Database: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XDslU2J4ipR9BawjfEAihqTusr4NZqjq4S5ALY8sMJw/edit?...
Jun 03, 2018•59 min
A nice breezy mid week for you guys as we wrap up the month of May. Ethereum, the world’s second largest cryptocurrency, endured a significant downtrend in the past week – falling nearly 25% in price. With the EOS mainnet launch only days away, questionable sell-offs of ETH suggest the competing smart contract platform may be the price crash culprit. We caht about this and more. The Crypto Dog joins us in the studio to talk humble beginnings. For those of you unfamiliar with the Dog Pound and wa...
May 31, 2018•1 hr 9 min
Today we talk with Ronsu Salovaara of Token Market. Token Market is a curated database of tokens and cryptocurrencies that provides an ICO calendar of on-going and upcoming ICOs. Token Market has also advised 20+ ICOs and helps businesses that have a well defined utility token with the ICO process. Ransu came onto the show to discuss teh current state of the token economy and how ICOs could change moving forward.
May 30, 2018•37 min
The prodigious Rick Dudley talks with us about his work as a consensus subject matter expert. He lends us his experience and wisdom in consulting for the creation of Byzantine Fault Tolerant systems. We also delve into what it takes to build a completely decentralized public data storage system and why it's such a difficult problem.
May 30, 2018•1 hr 7 min
Sir Michael Rocks and Chuck Inglish (known collectively as 'The Cool Kids') have been busy in the booth as a duo again. As a big fan of their music, we've known them to drop lines about crypto in their songs from time to time. After a half decade hiatus they've returned with their new album Special Edition Grand Master Deluxe and have graced us with their time for a little Q&A. Their new song titled “Ripple” is out today, and it’s the ultimate cryptocurrency anthem for partying hard. “They t...
May 27, 2018•1 hr 25 min
This is a weekly headline show where Dee and Jessie Broke do their best to highlight bits of nonce-sense from Crypto News. We only choose three articles, essentially at random, from the litany of blockchain news that is syndicated throughout a week. If you are interested in all the news articles that we horde in a week, please visit the link below to look at our collection. Enjoy! Crypto Headline Database: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XDslU2J4ipR9BawjfEAihqTusr4NZqjq4S5ALY8sMJw/edit?u...
May 25, 2018•1 hr 27 min
In this episode of Creating a Humanist Blockchain Future Rhys interviews Yaneer Bar-Yam, a complexity scientist and the founding president of the New England Complex Systems Institute. They chat about frameworks for understanding complexity and then using those frameworks on crypto. Enjoy! FWIW, NECSI is hosting a conference from July 22–27th in Boston!
May 24, 2018•49 min
Dee and Jessie Broke do their best to highlight bits of nonce-sense from Crypto News. We only choose three articles, essentially at random, from the littany of blockchain news that is syndicated throughout a week. If you are interested in all the news articles that we horde in a week, please visit the link below to look at our collection. Enjoy! Crypto Headline Database: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XDslU2J4ipR9BawjfEAihqTusr4NZqjq4S5ALY8sMJw/edit?usp=sharing
May 22, 2018•1 hr 14 min
We talk with Mahnush Movahedi of DFINITY to explain the fundamental innovation behind DFINITY's consensus system. She explains how threshold relay works, how groups are determined in consensus, and how cryptographic deterministic randomness drive consensus as a fast and light-weight substitute for Proof of Work. We learn about how this impacts the architecture for state and network protocol design. This episode really shows why Mahnush, a PhD Yale postdoctoral computer scientist with a focus on ...
May 22, 2018•1 hr 8 min
Real Diversity in Blockchain - What does it takes and does it matter? This is a simple episode to cover a discussion to show female visibility and community in a field that’s known for combining the worst aspects of the finance and tech industries into a bro-y culture of shallow greed, sexism, pump-and-dump schemes, and crime. The main takeaway is that blockchain is a fundamental enabling technology which may be harnessed for any number of goals.
May 20, 2018•1 hr 29 min
It's smack-dab in the middle of Consensus 2018 and we give our thoughts. Snoop Dogg and Lambos. And I thought crypto was about building open protocols and stuff. Ah well. Our man Kenn Bosak exposes a scammer on the conference floor and gets kicked out! Also, we chat about Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey reaffirming his bullish stance on Bitcoin and crypto as global payment. We tell him to put his money where his mouth is. In addition, for millions of people around the world, having what many of us consi...
May 17, 2018•1 hr 31 min
On this stupendous episode of Hashing It Out, we touch base with Hunter Prendergast and Forrest Marshall of MIMIR Blockchain Solutions about the technology behind their multi-chain blockchain service provider system. They discuss some of the economics behind developing their staking mechanism for ensuring trust in their network. We get into some of the challenges their system is tackling and it's unique approach which sets it apart from Layer 2 scaling solutions that exist.
May 15, 2018•1 hr 7 min
In this episode of Creating a Humanist Blockchain Future, Rhys interviews Ryan John King, the CEO and co-founder of the FOAM protocol. They chat about a variety of fascinating subjects including their new crypto-spatial coordinate standard, multi-dimensional block reward functions, and using objective TCRs as a 1D oracle for points of interest. Enjoy!
May 14, 2018•1 hr 1 min
It's true, we don't talk much about Bitcoin Cash on this podcast. But, one thing is for sure, if you’re familiar with the cryptocurrency space at all, you’ve probably heard of Roger Ver. He was an early proponent of digital currencies who loudly espoused the virtues of Bitcoin back when each unit cost just a few dollars. Sure, Roger Ver is, without doubt, one of the most controversial people within the Crypto community. But his insight is valuable and since his appearance on our podcast back in ...
May 13, 2018•1 hr 36 min
Welcome to Announcements with Host No. 2, Demetrick Ferguson, a show that provides you details on current events, upcoming projects in the blockchain space, and token offering details. We are attempting to provide you with details and information from the people who are creating projects, and we are not giving advice. Please do proper due diligence when considering investments. Today we talk with Sam Williams of Arweave.org. A new data storage blockchain protocol based on a novel proof of access...
May 11, 2018•34 min
This is a weekly headline show where Dee and Jessie Broke do their best to highlight bits of nonce-sense from Crypto News. We only choose three articles, essentially at random, from the littany of blockchain news that is syndicated throughout a week. If you are interested in all the news articles that we horde in a week, please visit the link below to look at our collection. Enjoy! Crypto Headline Database: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XDslU2J4ipR9BawjfEAihqTusr4NZqjq4S5ALY8sMJw/edit?...
May 11, 2018•1 hr 28 min
Hey! Just because we are 'Just 3 Guys', doesn't mean we don't believe that women’s access, participation, and leadership are critical in the global emergence of blockchain technology in our 21st century. But at the same time we don't like focusing in one just one sub-group of this space. The perfect guest to swing by is Kelcey who has built a platform dedicated to building the world’s largest community of blockchain professionals and are the creators and organizers of the inaugural ICOnference. ...
May 10, 2018•57 min
This week's episode features Stuart Popejoy, founder of the Kadena, creator of the Pact smart contract language, and engineer/designer of the Chainweb blockchain protocol. We go in-depth on design decisions for Pact, how language simplicity impacts the security and adoption of second generation blockchains, how formal verification can be used to improve certainty in smart contracts, and the over-emphasis of Turing completeness for a very domain-specific language such as smart contracts. We go in...
May 08, 2018•1 hr 22 min
We celebrate episode 200! Kenn Bosak gets a tattoo of our logo! WHAT?! Holy shit! Also, Taylor from MyCrypto swings by to let us know about the Desktop App (Alpha), which is NOW AVAILABLE! Recent events have underlined the importance of using downloadable builds, and we believe this early version of their Desktop application is a step in the right direction. Get it now: https://download.mycrypto.com. Also Keni Styles, former pornographic actor, swings by to give us part 2 of his story, that stem...
May 06, 2018•1 hr 32 min
This is a weekly headline show where Dee and Jessie Broke do their best to highlight bits of nonce-sense from Crypto News. We only choose three articles, essentially at random, from the littany of blockchain news that is syndicated throughout a week. If you are interested in all the news articles that we horde in a week, please visit the link below to look at our collection. Enjoy! Crypto Headline Database: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XDslU2J4ipR9BawjfEAihqTusr4NZqjq4S5ALY8sMJw/edit?...
May 04, 2018•1 hr 19 min
Welcome to Announcements with Host No. 2, Demetrick Ferguson, a show that provides you details on current events, upcoming projects in the blockchain space, and token offering details. We are attempting to provide you with details and information from the people who are creating projects, and we are not giving advice. Please do proper due diligence when considering investments. This is an Announcement - for the STARTUP SOCIETIES SUMMIT. This one-of-a-kind consortium will feature the brightest mi...
May 02, 2018•1 hr 10 min
Our bro Kenn Bosak joins in the studio and we just have a fireside chat about all this going on in crypto this week. In addition, Kenn is getting our podcast logo tattooed on him to celebrate our upcoming 200th episode. Holy Shit! Guess now is a good time to rebrand the show. Kidding. We love you Kenn. Thanks for the loyalty. Really laid back episode this week as we prepare for a kick-ass month of May. Holla at yo bois! RSVP NOW-(click here) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0aalUvFZXs … LIVE STR...
Apr 29, 2018•50 min
This is a weekly headline show where Dee and Jessie Broke do their best to highlight bits of nonce-sense from Crypto News...Enjoy! Weekend Links: https://www.coindesk.com/icos-eat-delawares-lunch/ https://cointelegraph.com/news/third-co-founder-of-centra-tech-charged-with-25-mln-securities-fraud https://cointelegraph.com/news/blockchain-start-up-to-help-public-own-and-monetize-their-data Monday Links: https://www.coindesk.com/monex-ceo-closer-crypto-exchange-oversight-common-sense/ https://coint...
Apr 28, 2018•1 hr 22 min
