In this episode of Creating a Humanist Blockchain Future, Rhys interviews Ethan Zuckerman, the director for MIT’s Center for Civic Media. We chat about his skepticism of crypto social networks and the historical co-evolution of information and governance. Enjoy!
Welcome to our flashback series where we give you access to archived shows on our feed that are so outdated you can't find it on our feed anymore. With crypto being so unpredictable, we thought it would be fun for our new listeners to check out episodes of our older content. It's like opening up a time capsule! Originally aired in July 2015, Episode 7 is about the human struggle for the separation of money and state, and about Bitcoin as the instrument by which it will happen. In addition, seria...
Fr8 Protocol is a startup which is creating a standard communication layer to facilitate supply chain logistics using blockhcain as the truth mechanism. This early-stage startup has designed their protocol for improved track and trace, trustless exchange, and network resiliency and is partnering to integrate their protocol into IoT devices. We discuss with their team about the challenges in the space and what they hope their protocol will provide to the world, as well as how such a protocol can ...
Today we talk with Maurice Hararay of Fluzcoin. Fluzcoin is a retail protocol specifically designed to solve the most salient problems within cryptocurrency: speed, cost, compliance, and excess volatility. Fluzcoin, is a participatory and independent retail coin with its foundation based governance, is simultaneously solving the four primary issues nowadays associated with cryptocurrencies: transaction speed, transaction cost, KYC compliance and excess volatility. Fluzcoin thereby creates a true...
Lots of news this week! Litecoin Foundation Acquires 9.9% of Bank in Payments Partnership and Coinbase is adding alts. Which exactly? Well, they are exploring Cardano, Basic Attention Token, Stellar Lumens, Zcash, and 0x. If you’re holding any of those bags, this is probably a swell week for you. In addition, Clay Collins, who is one of the long time internet marketers, joins us this week in the studio. His new startup Nomics.com is aiming to be the Yahoo! Finance for crypto, so we invited him o...
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 smart phones with native bitcoin wallets, the lightning network inner-workings, and Jessie claims Dee...
Today we talk with Joe Markham of Block66. Block66 is developing a new breed of mortgage lending platform that leverages blockchain technology to increase transparency, streamline the deployment of capital and overcome geographical lending restrictions. Mortgages are now a rich persons' product, the technology in the market is archaic, and many creditworthy people have been left high and dry by risk-averse institutions. By harnessing the power of blockchain technology, Block66 lowers barriers to...
We discuss with Ryan and Kristoffer from FOAM about their protocol which verifies location in a blockchain. Their innovative protocol uses LoRa, blockchain consensus, and a triangulation mechanism called Proof of Location to verify an agents location at a certain point in time. Using their proposed Crypto Spatial Standard, entities can report their location to the blockchain which agent devices known as "anchors" verify for use in consensus applications. Truly amazing technology with massive imp...
Today we talk with Jame and Robbie Ferguson. Fuel Games is a blockchain game production company that is bringing you Etherbots and Gods Unchained. Strategy games built on the Etheruem Blockchain. The world is getting increasingly awesome every day. After raising 2.4 million dollars in a seed round Fuel Games is now going into a token offering for their newest game, Gods Unchained. Enjoy! Link: https://godsunchained.com/
Cello and Dee talk about Devcon4 nonsense, how tickets sell out too quick in 'waves' and other technical oddities. In addition, we chat with Alex Bosworth about Submarine Swaps and the Lightening Network. New papers are being published on a method for applying blind signatures to Bitcoin to achieve highly private transactions. Even though LN is getting a ton of coverage, there are many paths for scalable private transactions that can be developed on their own and even benefit from each other. Al...
In this episode of Creating a Humanist Blockchain Future (Soundcloud, Youtube, iTunes) I interview Cheryl Yeoh from #MovingForward and Wendy Xiao Schadeck from NorthzoneVC. We chat about intentionality and diversity in crypto. Dialectics between identity and power, yay! Enjoy! If you’re a crypto hedge fund or VC, you should join #MovingForward! Check it out here: http://venturemovingforward.org/
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...
On this compelling broadcast, we interview Thaer Khawaja, creator of Masari protocol. Masari is an early-stage cryptocurrency which derives its ideas from Monero to provide transaction privacy. Masari has the additional goal of scalability and is developing its own method of partitioning a blockchain called the block tree, which hopes to enable dynamic scaling on the chain. We go over the idea of block tree, some of the challenges it hopes to address, the challenges to be faced on the Masari roa...
Today we talk with Jon Fox and Sloane Brakeville. The Fr8 Network is helping solve the final mile. Using lean startup methods like robust hypothesis testing and establishing clear KPIs, Fr8 Network is testing the protocol using the Ethereum platform for final mile shipments. The Fr8 Network team began by analyzing common final mile data and discovering common requirements for arrival windows, acceptance of delivery requirements, transfer of legal ownership of goods, and payment requirements, etc...
The boys zero in on security and talk a bit about the price bouncing back in the market. In addition, Bitcoin (BTC) developer Jimmy Song stops by again so we can get an update on his Bitcoin thoughts, his definition of sound money, and he talks about how he finds new companies to invest in if he believes Bitcoin is already the winner. In February of this year, Song announced an initiative designed to educate and compensate Bitcoin developers.
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 Marco Soriano from Airstayz. AIRSTAYZ™ Travel Connected is an existing platform pioneering the block...
This is a weekly headline show (06/29/2018) 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. Topics: - Top 5 mining countries - Federal Reserve of Saint Louis using the Coinbase Index - Would Facebook bu...
Today we talk with Matthew Herrick from Deedcoin. Deedcoin is easy to understand. With Deedcoin, you save 80% or more on real estate commissions, thats about 5% of the total price of ANY property. Users don’t need many Deedcoin per home because Deedcoin is not used to pay for homes. Deedcoin is used to reduce the commission on the purchase or sale of a property down to 1%. Just imagine you are selling your first million dollar home. Standard commission would be 6%, thats $60,000 taken from your ...
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 Pu Shi from OneGame. OneGame is a decentralized virtual world built on top of blockchain technology....
In this episode of Creating a Humanist Blockchain Future, Rhys interviews Eric Meltzer, a Partner at INBlockchain — China’s largest blockchain focused fund, and the curator of Proof of Work, a newsletter that highlights the progress of top projects. They chat about the Asian crypto scene, investing as a crypto VC, and his newsletter Proof-of-Work. Enjoy!
Today we talk with Markus Leven from the XYO Network. The XYO Network, The World’s First Location-based Decentralized Oracle. Since its founding in 2012, the company behind the XYO Network (XY OracleNetwork) has been steadily building a location network. The XYO Network makes it possible for smart contracts to plug into the real world by calling XY's network of devices to determine if an object is at a specific XY-coordinate at a given time. If the object’s location is confirmed, the smart contr...
Hey, it's another episode. This week Cello gets fired up about the #Buidl hashtag and questions why price is a 'distraction'. Corey and Dee think the price IS a distraction, so we bunt heads. Or is it butt heads? I just Googled it, and it turns out the proper term is head bunting. Which most of us have been mistakenly referring to as head butting, is a way for cats to exchange scents so that everyone in their environment—their colony—smells the same. Interesting. Special guest all the way from B...
Today Corey and Collin talk with Logan Brutsche, the creator of ToastyCoin, about the concept of "cryptoeconomic primitives." He is setting up an academy to walk people through what those are, and how to start making them in a collaborative manner to push the blockchain community forward in a secure and safe manner. Come listen and learn, then join his academy and learn more.
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. Intermission Music is Boba Beach! https://soundcloud.com/sodaisland/grynpyret-boba-beach Enjoy! Crypto Headline Database: ...
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 Kenneth Colon from Izzy Care. Izzy Care aims to be the uber of concierge medical services. With ambi...
Today we talk with Shibin Li from ContentBox. ContentBox is empowering a decentralized digital content ecosystem. For over a decade we have witnessed explosive growth of the digital content industry led by a variety of web and mobile content platforms such as Reddit, Youtube and Spotify. It has become an indispensable part of our modern daily life, with audio and video streaming constituting 70% of Internet data traffic. However, the success and fairness of the industry is impeded by several lon...
Welcome to our flashback series where we give you access to archived shows on our feed that are so outdated you can't find it on our feed anymore. With crypto beign so unpredictable, we thought it would be fun for our new listeners to check out episodes of our older content. It's like opening up a time capsule! Originally aired in October 2015, Brock Pierce joined us in the studio. In addition to that we chat about the film DOPE. Does it hurt or help bitcoin? Is it even a good movie?! Also, Deme...
A set of notes were just released for a revised version of the Casper protocol which merges its goals with sharding research. It uses a beacon chain to behave as a source of randomness with the RANDAO being central to that chain. This enables a commitee of validators to be selected for validating individual shards rather than the entire chain and sign it using BLS signatures. Corey Petty and Collin Cusce discuss these notes and try to suss out what this means for Ethereum if it were implemented....
Back for the third time, Emin stops by to drop some knowledge bombs on us! He is an associate professor of computer science at Cornell University, and is the Co-Director of the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts (IC3) . His research interests span distributed systems, cryptocurrencies, and software infrastructure for large scale services. In addition, the boys chat about EOS mainnet experiencing a ‘Freeze’ two days after launch!
Today we talk with Tayo Dada from Uncloak. Uncloak is the world's first blockchain powered cyber threat solution putting businesses one step ahead of hackers. Uncloak™ is a unique and fully scalable blockchain powered technology that enables businesses to monitor, protect themselves against and eliminate cyber threats, staying one step ahead of the hacker. Uncloak will build its own threat detection database by using advanced AI technology to crawl the public and private internet looking for the...
