File storage has long been known as a centralized solution. Storj seeks to change this with their decentralized file storage and retrieval architecture. We'll go over their design, engineering goals, and challenges. We dive deep into how erasure codes can be used to mitigate replication requirements, how trust is managed on their decentralized platform, and how one can be incentivized to donate their storage space and bandwidth to the world through their network. Links https://storj.io/ https://...
Dec 19, 2018•1 hr 17 min
Ronnie Moas, the founder of Standpoint Research, a top-ranking stock and crypto picker, comes on our show to talk about the $DIG fiasco that has been frustrating him lately and wants to set the record straight. However, unlike the other guys (we ain't naming names!), you know we give people a platform to speak but we also know a lot of concerned followers of his have questions that need answered. Ronnie Moas admits here that he did no due diligence, did not analyze anything about Arbitrade or DI...
Dec 16, 2018•1 hr 19 min
Plasma is one of the strongest candidates for Layer 2 scaling solutions. Since the Plasma whitepaper was released in August 2017, there's been a multitude of Plasma implementations experimenting with the idea. On this episode we feature Georgios Kosntantoploulos, Lead Researcher at Loom Network, to talk about Plasma, the different variations, and the future of scaling through Layer 2 solutions. https://github.com/loomnetwork/plasma-paper https://www.gakonst.com/
Dec 15, 2018•1 hr 11 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: -Basis coin, a new stable coin, crumbles. -Finland narcs on their traders...taxes gonna get paid. -ASICs aren't all...
Dec 15, 2018•59 min
We are back with our regular format where this week Bijan and Lucian talk about scaling Ethereum and the different directions that can be taken. We cover if sharding is necessary, and how close we are to some promising ideas like using STARKS or Random Beacons. Lastly, we debate if the Ethereum Foundation should change due to the massive increase in the size of the community.
Dec 14, 2018•52 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 adds ZEC. -Intel wins a patent for cheap PoW mining. -Binance launches institutional accounts. -Jessie wants to dive deeper.....
Dec 10, 2018•1 hr 19 min
We dive deep this week as we discuss Zcash Vs Ethereum Classic Comparison, crypto mining hardware ASICs in late 2018 and take calls again LIVE on air. This time our pal Wayne joins us and we chat and talk about our new book a bit '10 Words of Less'. In addition, Max & Cam swing by to chat about Cent. The income-generating social network, enabling anyone to earn money by sharing their wisdom and creativity. Built on Ethereum. Stacked episode! Let's get to it.
Dec 09, 2018•2 hr 16 min
Grid+ is one of the most legitimate and exciting products utilizing blockchain in the space, so we're very excited to present Alex Miller (CTO) and Karl Kreder (VP Hardware) on our program. We discuss their line of blockchain appliances, how they're built, their design philosophies, and the challenges in building hardware for blockchains. We get to hear some of their thoughts on the future of blockchain and consensus protocols, and where they see the world moving into the future as decentralizat...
Dec 07, 2018•1 hr 14 min
Bijan is live at the LA Blockchain Invest Summit talking to entrepreneurs who are providing services to the ecosystem. Abstract Tokenization is lowering the bar to real-estate investing. Expert Dojo is an accelerator looking to offer seed funding individuals who have a strong person brands. Rootmont provides data science reports for crypto traders. Marketing Maven will help your company look good in front of your investors and customers. Token IQ is a security token built on Stellar.
Dec 05, 2018•1 hr 11 min
In Episode 14 of The Bull Pen Podcast, The Crypto Bully steps into the Bull Pen with Harish D. Gupta who has a background in financial economics and has worked for the well-known financial institutions Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan and Barclays. As the Co-Founder and CEO of a multi-asset global exchange platform, Harish and Lyndon go into detail on what exactly Polybird is aiming to accomplish once launched and many of its innerworkings. With its described features such as Chinese Walls, “Global i...
Dec 04, 2018•1 hr 1 min
Music producer DJ Khaled and boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. were charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with promoting investments in initial cryptocurrency coin offerings without revealing that they'd been paid. Cello explains why this is important to focus on for a second. Then Trent McConaghy swing by to chat about how data scientists will be key users of Ocean Protocol. What is that? Well, Ocean Protocol is kickstarting a Data Economy by breaking down data silos and equalizing access ...
Dec 02, 2018•1 hr 29 min
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 February 2016, Episode 38 focused on the question of “how to store your bitcoins” which leads to one of the most important decisions for a Bitcoin user to make. But li...
Dec 01, 2018•1 hr 10 min
This is a weekly headline show where Dee and Jessie Broke do their best to highlight bits of nonce-sense from Crypto News. Topics: - Coinbase Pros gets fully torqued for ZEC! - Miners are having to turn off the switches. - Decentralized exchanges get a centralized investment. - Jessie likes Korean fried chicken.
Nov 30, 2018•1 hr 15 min
On this episode, Amy interviews David Silver, an investment fraud lawyer and founder of the Silver Miller law firm. He is suing cryptocurrency companies such as Coinbase, Kraken, Nano, and others in an attempt to protect investors from fraud. Recently he has opened suits against ATT, Sprint, and T-Mobile for their alleged involvement with the crypto-jacking and SIM swapping.
Nov 30, 2018•29 min
Bijan is live at the LA Blockchain Invest Summit talking to entrepreneurs who want to use crypto payment in ways we've never heard of before. CryptoFuse allows for safe transfer of digital assets in areas with inconsistent internet access, Please.com allows for peer to peer payments for curated travel experiences, and GuruMd provides emergency telemedicine for tokens.
Nov 29, 2018•30 min
This episode features Michael O'Rourke (CEO) and Luis C. de Leon (CTO) of Pocket. Pocket is a chain-agnostic decentralized AWS for blockchain full nodes. In a world where full nodes become more expensive to run, Pokt aims to have people host their nodes in their network by registering it with their Proof of Stake blockchain. Using Pokt tokens, someone can rent usage of the full node, using the node's stake as a guarantee of availability, removing the concern of maintaining one's own hardware (vi...
Nov 28, 2018•1 hr 2 min
The winter is real. Low hanging fruit is we talk about the price and what that means for the community, but more importantly we evaluate what it means for developers and the interest as a whole. In addition, Vinny Lingham the OG internet entrepreneur who is the co-founder & CEO of Civic - an identity protection and management startup - joins us in the studio. He was also previously the founder and CEO of Gyft & Yola, Inc. and of course we chat about his bearish attitude on ETH, the corre...
Nov 25, 2018•1 hr 17 min
Amy and Justin Newton discuss the state of anti-money launder (AML) and know-your-customer (KYC) laws as it pertains to blockchain technology and crypto. Justin Newton is an early internet pioneer and technology startup veteran. His last four companies (BlackLine, Demand Media, NetZero and Above Net) all exited with +$1 Billion IPOs. He was responsible for architecting each company’s platform for global scale and preparing their data systems for regulatory compliance. Justin also founded the Int...
Nov 22, 2018•24 min
In this bonus episode of The Bull Pen Podcast, The Crypto Bully and DJsNeverEndingStory team up to chat about the possibility of Bitcoin hitting $169 dollars by 2020. DJ is the host of Crypto Until Infinity Podcast, also on The Bitcoin Podcast Network, has experience as a successful music producer and audio engineer and is the 15+ year friend responsible for getting Lyndon interested and active into blockchain and cryptocurrency. Even though many important topics were discussed including the U.S...
Nov 21, 2018•1 hr 53 min
On this episode, we have the extreme pleasure of interviewing Michael Yuan, Chief Scientist at CyberMiles. CyberMiles is building a blockchain platform targeted for e-commerce with those concerns in mind. Using a fork of Ethereum and the Ethereum toolsets, CyberMiles has an upgraded EVM with support for extended and extensible opcodes and a dPoS consensus system for validators to stake into the network. Their research is pushing the limits of what the existing technology can do, and they have so...
Nov 21, 2018•1 hr 11 min
In Episode 13 of The Bull Pen Podcast, The Crypto Bully steps into the Bull Pen with Dr. Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, Doctor of Philosophy and the current CIO (Chief Information Officer) of Everipedia. During this chat Dr. Sanger gives a back story on his past leading up to Wikipedia, his involvement in Wikipedia’s creation, his decision to walk away from Wikipedia in 2002 and what he believes Everipedia is doing right that could completely evolve the way online encyclopedias are creat...
Nov 20, 2018•45 min
Today we talk with Patrick Camuso, the founder of Camuso CPA who set out to design a firm that transcends the standard industry client service models by taking an entrepreneurial approach to deliver clients the level of service and attention they require in an increasingly complex and rapidly developing business landscape. Camuso CPA takes a proactive approach to save you money, time, and piece of mind. If you’re looking for a CPA in Charlotte or anywhere else in the USA, you could stand to gain...
Nov 19, 2018•28 min
Another week, another episode! Taylor Monahan - Founder & CEO of MyCrypto joins us as we talk about lightning network, hash rates, and getting LIT. Also, for the first time we invite a fellow podcaster on. In fact, he started listening to us years ago before he started his own. Matthew Aaron of Crypto101 fame swings by to cross pollinate the airwaves before we appear on his show next week. Also, brrr this winter is cold. Damn price!
Nov 18, 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 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: -Belarus is the new crypto safehouse! -EOS was always centralized? -Bitmain tells Jihan to kick rocks! -Jessie tri...
Nov 17, 2018•1 hr 28 min
Bijan is live at the LA Blockchain Invest Summit talking to cryptopreneurs who are changing the way we save money. These are more than your grandpa's security tokens. Vaultoro is providing a way to trade bitcoin for ownership rights to gold. BitIRA lets you use retirement savings vehicals to own crypto, and Blackmoon created a hedgefund equity token.
Nov 15, 2018•1 hr 10 min
Alex va de Sande is a UX designer and developer for the Ethereum foundation who has come up with a new, clean way to provide universal login capability to any decentralized application. Using a combination of standards such as ERC725 identity contracts and his proposed ERC1077 and ERC1078, he has created a way to login across any application using a single login mechanism. We go over his system, his views on the challenges behind adoption that UX can solve, and the future of DApps as they begin ...
Nov 14, 2018•1 hr 14 min
In Episode 12 of The Bull Pen Podcast, The Crypto Bully steps into the Bull Pen with Alex Saunders. Ever wonder what the blockchain and cryptocurrency scene was like in Australia? Well in this week’s episode Alex sheds some light on just that. Alex comes to the show with a wealth of knowledge since discovering Bitcoin in 2012 and trading in his job as a head pharmacist for his leading education platform and YouTube channel Nugget’s News. Alex is a trusted voice in the Australian crypto community...
Nov 13, 2018•53 min
Amy and Ken Moyle discuss the impact of blockchain on the e-signature industry and document authentication, generally. Ken Moyle was DocuSign’s Chief Legal & Policy Officer and is Chair of the Public Policy Committee of the Electronic Signature and Records Association. Currently, Ken is President & Chief Legal Officer of K6 Partners, where he provides legal and consulting services to medium and large-sized businesses in their “digital transformation efforts".
Nov 12, 2018•19 min
Corey is back from Prague to give us recap part II of Devcon4. In addition, we invite "Shark Tank" participant Dmitri Love, who successfully pitched his company Bundil, a mobile app for investing in cryptocurrencies to the sharks - landing a $100K investment and a 50/50 business partnership with Kevin O'Leary, AKA "Mr. Wonderful". The concept behind the app works by automatically investing a users spare change into the cryptocurrency market. If you spent $9.50 somewhere, the app will automatical...
Nov 11, 2018•1 hr 20 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: -Lightning Devs camp out on Wall Street -Off the Chain Podcast gets the boot from Apple, then it's back! -Chinese s...
Nov 11, 2018•1 hr 18 min
