Today Amy has on Howard Marks. Howard Marks is the current CEO and co-founder of StartEngine Crowdfunding. He is also previously the CEO and founder of Acclaim games, and after that the Chairman of Blizzard Entertainment. Howard sets the tone for what the security token industry is looking like today, where it could be going, and what to look for as tokenization of securities becomes commonplace.
Sep 29, 2018•24 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. These Week's topics: -Coinbase has a new listing Framework? -Dee has favorite actors and actresses. -Bitmain is going priva...
Sep 28, 2018•1 hr 19 min
Bijan and Lucian talk about the design of Grid+'s Lattice hardware device, Tezos main net and running "baking" nodes, Loom's NFC token drop and PlasmaChain validators, multi-collateral Dai, and an EIP for storage rental costs.
Sep 27, 2018•47 min
Anonymity is dead... or so you thought. Marrying the technologies behind onion routing and Monero, the Loki network enables a private cryptocurrency and messaging service that hides information down to the network layer. This fascinating approach scales its privacy mechanism in the same way that Tor does and incentives those who run Loki service nodes through their Proof of Service mechanism. Tools like this keep your transactions and traffic private from any spying eyes and makes it increasingl...
Sep 26, 2018•1 hr 8 min
In Episode 6 of The Bull Pen Podcast, The Crypto Bully steps into the Bull Pen with Warren Whitlock who comes with over 35 years of social media marketing and digital business development experience and is co-author of the bestselling book Profitable Social Media Business Results without Playing Games. Listen to Warren share his views on whether technology is the problem or the person using it, his thoughts on the importance of AI and nanotechnology and the impact social media has had on cryptoc...
Sep 25, 2018•1 hr 3 min
Scott Purcell from Prime Trust, joins host Amy Wan to explain the security token hype and how blockchain will make capital markets and the securities industry more efficient. Debut episode!
Sep 24, 2018•19 min
Altcoin Ripple (XRP), which has seen an explosive amount of growth over the past week, has overtaken Ethereum (ETH) to be ranked number two by total market capitalization on CoinMarketCap. Of course, it has since went back to #3 but we of course, talk about this and more and invite Ray [REDACTED] into the studio. He is a technologist for a global provider of connectivity and cyber security solutions with over 20 years of expertise in application solution design, next-generation network architect...
Sep 23, 2018•1 hr 33 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 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: -Coinbase is proprietary trading?! -Binance is going to take over the world. -On-chain governance...oh my -Jessie ...
Sep 22, 2018•1 hr 23 min
Thanks for joining Bijan and Lucian on another episode of "Dose of Ether". Today we cover a new model for VCs called mining 2.0, Cloudflare now integrates with IPFS, Institutionalization as the 4th era of crypto, and Gemini launches a stable coin. Show Links: https://www.tokendaily.co/blog/a-primer-on-mining-2-0 https://www.slideshare.net/DCGCo/how-to-not-be-a-shitcoin-what-ive-learned-about-markets-psychology-and-value-creation https://blog.cloudflare.com/distributed-web-gateway/ https://twitte...
Sep 21, 2018•46 min
Revolutionary! On this episode we have the brilliant Dr. Gün Sirer to whet our appetites for Avalanche, a new category of consensus protocol. He distinguishes Avalanche from Paxos/RAFT systems, blockchain, and traditional gossip networks to show how this new algorithm prevents double spends while allowing for high throughput (early tests supporting over 1200 tx/s). We learn about his new coin, Ava, which will test the limits of Avalanche's public consensus on a global scale! The future is exciti...
Sep 19, 2018•1 hr 30 min
Rhys interviews soona amhaz, the co-founder and CEO of Token Daily. We chat about how Soona (and her team) curate awesome content given so much crypto noise. Enjoy!
Sep 18, 2018•46 min
In Episode 5 of The Bull Pen Podcast, The Crypto Bully steps into the Bull Pen with blockchain and cryptocurrency influencer Shill Nye. This masked man is no noob to the crypto scene, is a known trader and speaks on where he’s had the most success in trading crypto and the strategies he likes to use. He also discusses why he decides to cover his face to conceal his identity, his opinions on the crypto Twitter world and what he looks forward to the most within crypto. Shill Nye also shares about ...
Sep 18, 2018•26 min
We are back for another week of the show. Corey is back from ETHBerlin, so he gives us a quick recap and we dive into eSports, blockchain, Loom Network and chat with Zvika Landau, Co-CEO of SIRIN LABS. We are antsy to get our hands on this $1,000 blockchain phone that is set to be unveiled in November with a December release date. Lots of dApp talk, hi level buffoonery, and video game talk this week as the boys unwind after a stressful week filled with hackathons and conversation.
Sep 16, 2018•1 hr 17 min
Thanks for joining Bijan and Lucian on another episode of "Dose of Ether." Lucian is back from Berlin with stories about the city and the people who make the EthGlobal events special, like the guys at NewCypher who implemented Fully Homeomorphic Encryption in a smart contract for the first time during the hackathon! Also hear about WebAssembly aka WASM and the future of the EVM, Connexhub and Spankchain implement the first non-custodial payment channel, and the 0x protocol v2 goes live with NTF ...
Sep 14, 2018•46 min
We got a big one for you today! Danny Ryan from Ethereum comes on to speak with us about the Casper Sharding v2.1 specification. Casper Sharding is a combined effort between the migration to Proof of Stake and Sharding for ethereum. We go over the motivations behind the new specification, the research efforts underway, the architecture and design, and even how Ethereum can maintain liveness during a major world catastrophic event. There's so much information to cover, and we only scratched the s...
Sep 13, 2018•1 hr 43 min
In Episode 4 of The Bull Pen Podcast, The Crypto Bully steps into the Bull Pen with “Your Favorite Truckdriver” Benjamin Semchee a.k.a. Bitcoin Ben. He goes into detail about how he ended up becoming a huge Litecoin supporter and hodler, speaks on what the HODLit app is and how he believes it will disrupt the market and what he thinks is the next big move for crypto. Oh, and figure out exactly what Bitcoin Ben said he would do for a $20 Bitcoin. Listener discretion is advised! Lol Timestamps 00:...
Sep 12, 2018•55 min
There is increasing talk of Blockchain as a possible alternative for the current Domain Name System, to counter censure and cache poisoning. But what is blockchain and can it really replace DNS? The Domain Name System has been in operation for decades and is the infrastructure that handles billions of queries over the internet. As a user, you rely on your operating system and browser to help navigate the internet. However, whats humming quietly is the back-end infrastructure that helps your devi...
Sep 09, 2018•1 hr 2 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, 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: -The crew tries to find Pepe Silvia -A Crypto bond has been issued -Coinbase is jumping in the ETF reace -Jessie compares tacos to rela...
Sep 07, 2018•1 hr 3 min
In this episode of Creating a Humanist Blockchain Future Rhys interviews Jeremy Heimans, the author of the book New Power and the founder/CEO of Purpose. They chat about how crowds and memes are changing society. Enjoy!
Sep 07, 2018•39 min
Thanks for joining Bijan and Lucian on another episode of "Dose of Ether." We talk about the false dichotomy of scaling layer 1 versus layer 2, and why both should be explored without favoritism (for now). Will ETH go to zero? No, and I am willing to put money on it. Coinbase lays out a vision of a user controlled internet, and Aragon shows us how a personal DAO can help you manage this new control.
Sep 06, 2018•43 min
Today we talk with Eric Jiang of FansTime. Time Exchange- As the number of users increasing and the depth of user engagement enhancing,there will be a huge amount of demand for individual IPs. So FansTime will launch an equivalent object as Exclusive Token in order to simplify the process of issuing and auditing. Time,the equivalent object,provides a more flexible assetization channel which can attract much more Individual IPs with potentials. Time Exchange will work with Exclusive Token Exchang...
Sep 06, 2018•39 min
The famous Bernhard Mueller joined us today to talk about the fantastic work being done to beef up his already amazing tool, Mythril. The new Mythril platform beefs up the symbolic analyzer as well as adding static analysis tools and linters (Maru), a dynamic analyzer and input fuzzer (Harvey) and an API for easy integration into a developer's processes. We dive into what brought Bernhard to write Mythril and how it's taken off as a premier auditing tool. We also get into the future of security ...
Sep 05, 2018•1 hr 10 min
Today we talk with Abhinav Ramesh from WandX. WandX seeks to establish an infrastructure for decentralized creation and trade of ERC20 Tokens built on the Ethereum blockchain. The pilot application allows users to create combinations of ERC20 Tokens (known as a Basket of Tokens) and trade the Basket by way of a single transaction. Enjoy! Link: https://www.wandx.co/
Sep 05, 2018•32 min
In Episode 3 of The Bull Pen Podcast, The Crypto Bully steps into the Bull Pen with Peter Saddington. Listen to this scientist, developer and host of the popular crypto news YouTube channel Decentralized TV share his view points on regulation, where he thinks crypto will be 5 years from now and all the awesome projects/resources that he and his brother John have and are working on developing. Peter also talks about his early entrepreneurial successes that afforded him to buy a Lamborghini with B...
Sep 04, 2018•55 min
Today we talk with Tom Anderson of Devvio. Blockchain technology has grown over the past decade by providing trustless and highly robust solutions for maintaining distributed ledgers. However, in spite of the many different blockchain approaches that currently exist, there are a number of challenges that have not been solved in a single solution. Various approaches provide parts of the solution, but a single protocol that addresses all of these major challenges is still needed. The Devv Protocol...
Sep 03, 2018•50 min
Investing in cryptocurrencies is now a hobby for thousands of people around the world. For some, the blockchain is more than that.We dive into more conversations about mass adoption and technology while inviting Nathaniel Whittemore to the studio this week to offer up some commentary on the culture perspective in crypto, some expansive thinking, if you will. Like any emergent phenomena, crypto is a battle ground for narratives and we spend the better part of 30 or so minutes diving into those. I...
Sep 02, 2018•1 hr 27 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. Topics: - Governments don't like cryptocurrency but they love Blockchain...sigh - Mining is booming! Sell the pickaxe! - Ya...
Sep 01, 2018•1 hr 29 min
Welcome to the first episode of “Dose of Ether.' This episode Bijan and Lucian discuss the newest release of Truffle v5.0.0 and the state of developer tools in Ethereum, a new DevP2P protocol dissector, and our user experience on DApps like Peepeth, and Augur. Hardware solutions are on the rise among DApp developers trying to improve security and the Loom Network pushing into new fronts with a Plasma Cash implementation.
Aug 29, 2018•45 min
In this episode, we interview Kacper Bak, Research Engineer at Quanstamp. Quantstamp has created a system for auditing smart contracts automatically, testing for known exploits. They verify the more common attack vectors, and provide a report to the user about the potential threat. We go into how their product is built, the future of their product, and how it can benefit and drive future innovation.
Aug 29, 2018•56 min
In Episode 2 of The Bull Pen Podcast, The Crypto Bully steps into the Bull Pen with Sam Ball who brings a wealth of knowledge with him from his successes in traditional investment markets such as the stock market. Listen to Sam talk about his intro in the blockchain and cryptocurrency world, as well as discuss whether cryptocurrency should be considered a currency or asset, the BTC vs BCH complex and the strange occurrence that takes place during the interview that has Lyndon wondering if someon...
Aug 28, 2018•43 min