Bijan is live at the LA Blockchain Invest Summit bringing us fresh ideas on how to connect end users to crypto. ODB coin in tribute to the Wu Tang legend will grant you an insider's access to unique merchandise and experience. Bitcoin Energy drink will let you mine for bitcoin on the bottom of their cans. Monarch wallet offers regulatory compliance in a mobile wallet, and Abra wants usability and integration with banks to lead your mobile wallet experience.
Nov 09, 2018•41 min
In Episode 11 of The Bull Pen Podcast, The Crypto Bully steps into the Bull Pen with Ian Worrall, the founder and CEO of MyBit. MyBit in an Ethereum powered blockchain that enables the rapid building, testing, and deployment of wealth management applications. They currently have 4 applications live and available for use including MyBit Mobile and MyBit Trust and plans for at least 9 other MyBit powered dApps such as Fork, MyDAX and MyBit Payroll just to name a few. During his conversation with T...
Nov 06, 2018•36 min
This week it's just Dee and Cello and they get into the weeds about Devcon4 some more, and whether or not this community is heading in the right direction. In addition, the only way something can be wrong is if it can be proven, in which case, it is no longer an opinion, but an objective issue or a fact. Or is it? Lastly, Cello argues that in stressing the force of history on an organization, he argues that the behavior of individuals is determined primarily by past events and experiences, rathe...
Nov 04, 2018•54 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: -Coinbase wants all of the money! -Janet Yellen owns Bitcoin...and she oheenoit. -Binance and Uganda start a mutual relationship. -Wayn...
Nov 03, 2018•1 hr 46 min
Another year, another Devcon. This time, we got to roam the streets of Prague, Czech Republic for a week. Who lived up to expectations and who disappointed…and most importantly, which announcements were game changing. Finally, there were also some hints for other improvements to the Ethereum platform that might be coming in the future. We anticipate hearing much more about these in the coming days at Devcon4. Listen now, and wait until the end of the conference for part 2. Like DMX, we gon’ give...
Oct 31, 2018•33 min
In Episode 10 of The Bull Pen Podcast, The Crypto Bully steps into the Bull Pen with Preston Junger. This individual has an impressive corporate background that includes working with Fortune 500 companies such as Yahoo, Apple and worked as the VP of Brand Partnerships for Yelp. Preston talks about his transition into blockchain/crypto and life post Yelp, about his team “the blockchain squad,” what projects his company Miles Square Labs looks to work with and a few thoughts on community based cry...
Oct 30, 2018•54 min
As Chair of the Advisory Board and Co-founder of iDisclose, Georgia Quinn assists entrepreneurs and small and startup businesses access capital and other resources they need in order to grow and prosper. She also is on the General Counsel at Coinlist, which is building the platform where the best digital asset companies run their token sales. Their customers are at the center of the digital asset and blockchain ecosystem. Georgia, and Amy Wan discuss recent securities law updates and more.
Oct 29, 2018•31 min
It has been YEARS since we last spoke to these two and we thought it was time for an update from the Equibit Group. Blockchain technology holds incredible promise for the financial industry. For the first time it’s now possible to create real-time, highly robust transfer and settlement systems that current services simply cannot compete with. The securities industry is, like the banking industry, filled with centralized intermediaries that clear and settle transactions, handle shareholder commun...
Oct 28, 2018•1 hr 26 min
So you have a decentralize app you want to use... how do you know its smart contracts are safe? That's where Panvala comes in! Using their system you can certify the security and authenticity of your smart contracts and obtain a mark in proof of this certification. On this episode we talk with its co-founder, Niran Babalola, about their smart contract registry and certification system. We learn of its process, development, and larger implications. We learn what it takes to get from zero to one i...
Oct 25, 2018•59 min
In Episode 9 of The Bull Pen Podcast, The Crypto Bully steps into the Bull Pen with Preston Junger. This individual has an impressive corporate background that includes working with Fortune 500 companies such as Yahoo, Apple and worked as the VP of Brand Partnerships for Yelp. Preston talks about his transition into blockchain/crypto and life post Yelp, about his team “the blockchain squad,” what projects his company Miles Square Labs looks to work with and a few thoughts on community based cryp...
Oct 23, 2018•53 min
Thanks for joining Bijan and Lucian for another episode of Dose of Ether. We discuss Embark as an alternative to Truffle, courses to improve your Solidity skills, the Mastering Ethereum book, Peepeth subsidizing txs for its users, Parity Signer 2.0, and we think over why Bitcoin isn't banned everywhere.
Oct 22, 2018•47 min
This week, Rene Pickhardt stops by to chat some high-level topics with us. He is a data science consultant, hacker, and a bitcoin & lightning network admirer. In addition, a friend of the podcast, Joe Blau, joins us on the roundtable to talk about counterintuitive marketing insights concerning crypto, the tech behind it, and mass adoption.
Oct 21, 2018•1 hr 40 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 adds ZRX token! -Bill Gates + Ripple = Freedom? -Ethereum Foundation is giving out treats and not tricks...
Oct 19, 2018•1 hr 8 min
oday we talk with Toby Simpson from Fetch. Fetch is a decentralised digital representation of the world in which autonomous software agents perform useful economic work. This means that they can perform tasks, such as delivering data or providing services, and are rewarded with a digital currency for their efforts — the Fetch Token. These agents can be thought of as digital entities: life-forms that are able to make decisions on their own behalf as well as on behalf of their stakeholders (indivi...
Oct 19, 2018•38 min
Blockchain hipsters, we have a treat: Dr. Weyl, co-author of Radical Markets. His book quickly became a popular with us in decentralization. The book proposes new ways to create marketplaces to provide better opportunities for optimal redistribution of resources. This has especially strong implications for those designing decentralized systems and applications. We talk with him about his book, the motivations behind radical markets, and potential futures involving his schemes. Links http://radic...
Oct 18, 2018•1 hr 3 min
In this exclusive episode of The Bull Pen Podcast, The Crypto Bully steps into the Bull Pen with Nick aka GeoCold. The 18-year-old ethical hacker that livestreamed his 51% attack on Bitcoin Private (BTCP) on October 13, 2018 just before getting shut down due to censorship by both Twitch and Stream.me. GeoCold talks with The Crypto Bully about the thoughts going through his mind when he successfully mined the first BTCP block, whether his 51% attack was illegal, Jackson Palmer tweeting about him ...
Oct 18, 2018•40 min
In Episode 8 of The Bull Pen Podcast, The Crypto Bully steps into the Bull Pen with Tyler Sanford, former major league baseball player for the Los Angeles Angels turned ICO, blockchain and marketing management consultant. Even though this is Tyler’s first podcast appearance, this episode is full of dropped gems with all the experience he brings to the table from the ICO world. Listen to Tyler speak on how he chooses projects to work with, the top three things projects should be focused on, his b...
Oct 16, 2018•1 hr 36 min
Taylor Monahan, CEO of MyCrypto, one of the leading blockchain interfaces, fills in for Marcello as they dive into current events. Our interview this week is the all-powerful Samson, who is a classically trained anthropologist, entrepreneur and finance expert whose specialties include: fintech, digital transformation, crowdfunding, blockchain use cases, cryptocurrency regulations, initial coin offerings and explaining all the above, in plain English to investors, government officials, small chil...
Oct 14, 2018•1 hr 39 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 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: -Coinbase adds ZRX -The big four accounting firms throw out psychobabble -Binance wants to heal the world -Jessie is going to out IndieGoGo an IndieGoGo...
Oct 12, 2018•1 hr 12 min
Thanks for joining Bijan and Lucian for another episode of Dose of Ether. This week we discuss the need to specify what we mean by decentralized, POA's open source block explorer, a Universal LogIn demo, and IPFS Live Streaming. Show Links: https://www.coursera.org/learn/crypto https://www.tonysheng.com/decentralized-definition https://github.com/poanetwork/blockscout https://medium.com/@avsa/universal-logins-first-demo-1dc8b17a8de7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYm7cexgSpY&feature=youtu.b...
Oct 12, 2018•41 min
CoolbitX CEO Michael Ou comes back on the show to discuss more about the revolutionary mobile cold storage hardware wallet for your Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Bitcoin Cash, and ERC20 Tokens, CoolWallet S! Custody over your cryptocurrency investment has never been more protected or convenient to use. Quickly store and send your coins at any time, any location, and with anyone you want. The best part about it? You have total end-to-end, secure control over your cryptocurrency.
Oct 12, 2018•30 min
Great Caesar's Ghost! NuCypher has demo'd a practical fully-homomorphic encryption (FHE) scheme that leverages an Ethereum smart contract for a proof mechanism. We get to go over FHE: what it is, how it works, how it commits to the blockchain, scaling issues, and the future of encrypted computation. This will enable new privacy mechanisms on layer 2 solutions which interface with the blockchain cheaply and efficiently. Very big stuff for anyone trying to use blockchain as a resolution mechanism ...
Oct 10, 2018•59 min
In Episode 7 of The Bull Pen Podcast, The Crypto Bully steps into the Bull Pen with Blake Miles, a former member of Team McAfee and Special Forces Green Beret Veteran of the Unites States Army. It's nothing short of interesting on how Blake's military past with unconventional warfare shows some parallel with his blockchain and cryptocurrency influenced present and future as he speaks on in this episode. He also sheds some light on his contributions to The Declaration of Currency Independence, hi...
Oct 09, 2018•1 hr 2 min
On this episode Amy sits down with Ragnar Lifthrasir. Whose sole purpose is to reboot the real estate industry with Bitcoin / Blockchain. Amy and Ragnar define the process of tokenizing real estate. Taking paper deeds and turning them into digital deeds! Enjoy!
Oct 08, 2018•40 min
This week we chat a bit about the Bitcoin 'Breakthrough' which claims block size increase is possible without hard fork. Some dub it a "breakthrough," others call it a "network attack." In addition we chat about the Czech Republic (Prague) being at the top in the world with the number of (CryptoATM's per Inhabitants). Oh, and SOulja Boy's new bitcoin song. Spoiler alert: It's garbage! For our guest, we are incredibly excited to welcome Alena Vranova back to the show as Head of Strategy and Busin...
Oct 07, 2018•1 hr 19 min
In this episode of Creating a Humanist Blockchain Future, Rhys interview Daniel Schmachtenberger, the co-founder of Neurohacker Collective. They chat about meta existential risk. Enjoy!
Oct 06, 2018•1 hr 8 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: -Pepe Silvia strikes again. -Venezuela makes the Petro a national currency. -Private keys in DNA...not a terrible idea...not at all. -J...
Oct 05, 2018•59 min
Today we have the pleasure of interviewing Iuri Matias of Embark Framework. Embark is a decentralized application framework that abstracts away the implementation details of specific technologies, allowing dapp developers to focus on what really matters, the experience. We talk about the features of Embark, the design decisions of the framework, and how Embark will integrate new technologies into their systems as they develop. Links: - embark.status.im - twitter.com/iurimatias
Oct 04, 2018•1 hr 8 min
Thanks for joining Bijan and Lucian for another episode of Dose of Ether. This week we discuss Cartesi with its Truebit style off chain computation Solid from Tim Berners Lee, and Metamask with Ledger and EIP 712. Show Links: https://www.umlivroaberto.org/frozen/techpaper.pdf https://solid.mit.edu/ https://medium.com/metamask/metamask-now-supports-ledger-hardware-wallets-847f4d51546 https://medium.com/metamask/eip712-is-coming-what-to-expect-and-how-to-use-it-bb92fd1a7a26
Oct 03, 2018•43 min
Cryptocurrency wallet Samourai Wallet has released an update which removes fiat currency balances in a move it says stops users using Bitcoin with a “crutch.” The boys talk about that, among other things and invite Brock Pierce back on the show! It's been a good three years since we joins us for a conversation and we play catch up as we ask him various questions about his stance in this crypto space, and his humanitarian efforts - post Maria. Hurricane Maria was one of the worst natural disaster...
Sep 30, 2018•1 hr 15 min
