This episode is all about the interview. It was a phenomenal one! Cory Doctorow is a journalist, author, and technologist. Know for his advocating and the freedom of expression on the internet; he is part of the EFF. Author of the book, "Down and out in the Magic Kingdom." A story know for the use of a digital currency called whuffies. Cory very eloquently illustrates the cases for cryptocurrency, as well as the current state of crypto, which leaves much to be longed for. Cryptocurrency is not p...
Oct 21, 2019•1 hr 24 min
Evan Van Ness co-hosts with Lucian this week to discuss DevCon in Osaka, Japan. We talk about our experiences, joys, and frustrations with what has grown to be the premier event for people working and building in the blockchain ecosystem.
Oct 18, 2019•57 min
If you know the show, you know we are very keen to see Plasma implemented as a technology. To discuss the progress in the past year, we have the great pleasure of bringing on Kelvin Fichter, former Plasma researcher with OmiseGo and the Plasma Group. We talk about the advancements made, and how the specification is gradually coalescing into a singular vision. We also get into some more heady topics such as the nature of trust in society and the role language in trusting someone.
Oct 17, 2019•1 hr 7 min
Blockchain and gaming...it should be a combination as powerful as peanut butter and jelly, or cheese and prosciutto, or hot sauce and popcorn...but it has been a slow take off for the melding of these industries. Corey and Demetrick discuss what some of the perks of the NFTs can offer up to the gaming industry and some scenarios in which cyrpto can be great for the gaming industry. Also, Corey interviews Benny Giang of Cheeze Wizards. Cheese Wizard blockchain battle royal game on Ethereum create...
Oct 17, 2019•1 hr 6 min
We read Cryptocurrency headlines. It used to be kind of serious...but only kind of. Now, we mainly try to take the news seriously because it is kind of redundant and have fun in that attempt. Welcome to the best crypto show you're going to hear for the rest of your life. You're welcome.
Oct 12, 2019•1 hr 3 min
Nano is providing a new approach to fee-less pure payments networks. We are privileged to speak with Colin LeMahieu, CEO of Nano to discuss their DAG voting-based consensus protocol, their accounts-blockchain model, and their NanoPoW for memory-hard PoW to replace fees in a network. Interesting stuff, and definitely a great conversation.
Oct 11, 2019•53 min
In this episode Dee and Dr. Petty discuss the merits of using cryptocurrency as a payment system. This naturally leads to a discussion about scaling the Bitcoin Blockchain. Can crypto scale? That is the question. Also, Tim Cook doesn't like blockchains too much, let alone cryptocurrency. Well, Dee has some news for Mr. Cook about how the ole Federal Reserve functions. This week's interview is Nicolas Dorier. Nicolas has been a Bitcoin developer on Bitcoin Core and is the CEO of a BTCPay Server. ...
Oct 10, 2019•1 hr 37 min
We read Cryptocurrency headlines. It used to be kind of serious...but only kind of. Now, we mainly try to take the news seriously because it is kind of redundant and have fun in that attempt. Welcome to the best crypto show you're going to hear for the rest of your life. You're welcome!
Oct 08, 2019•1 hr 14 min
This episode, Corey interviews Ayo Akinyele, a former security researcher turned CEO of Bolt Labs. Bolt Labs is a privacy solution for the Lightning Network which allows for an asymmetry of knowledge in the channel. While this is quite useful and interesting, we instead turn our focus on things such as attribute-based encryption, a security researcher's view of blockchain systems, and much more. Join us for an awesome conversation of where we are as a community, and where we're going!
Oct 04, 2019•51 min
Today we announce the start of Hashing It Out Panels, a show where we bring on multiple domain experts to discuss a given topic. Today we dive into what the developer experience will be like for Ethereum's Serenity (also called ETH2.0). We talk about the roadmap, current state, available tooling, security and more!
Oct 03, 2019•1 hr 3 min
In this week's episode Corey goes on a spirit hike to elevate his mind body and soul leaving Dee to tag in Wayne (Yes2Crypto) as the Co-Host. The Lightning Network raises the same concerns for Dee that he has had for years. Since 2016 he has worried about the evolution of the middle man and Wayne comes through to ease his mindset. It's all about time. We are still very early. This week's interview is Alex Bosworth. Alex is one of the main engineers on the lightning network infrastructure and co-...
Oct 02, 2019•1 hr 34 min
Evan Van Ness co-hosts with Lucian this week to discuss GitCoin matching donations and sustaining open source contributions which leads to comments on Parity and their commitment to their Eth 1 client (a sensitive but seemingly unavoidable topic). The SEC has made some decisions on Kik, Sia, and Block.One, the consequences of which could reverberate to other projects. Connext v2 is out and y'all better start using it!
Oct 02, 2019•54 min
We read Cryptocurrency headlines. It used to be kind of serious...but only kind of. Now, we mainly try to take the news seriously because it is kind of redundant and have fun in that attempt. Welcome to the best crypto show you're going to hear for the rest of your life. You're welcome.
Sep 28, 2019•1 hr 24 min
We read Cryptocurrency headlines. It used to be kind of serious...but only kind of. Now, we mainly try to take the news seriously because it is kind of redundant and have fun in that attempt. Welcome to the best crypto show you're going to hear for the rest of your life. You're welcome.
Sep 28, 2019•34 min
We read Cryptocurrency headlines. It used to be kind of serious...but only kind of. Now, we mainly try to take the news seriously because it is kind of redundant and have fun in that attempt. Welcome to the best crypto show you're going to hear for the rest of your life. You're welcome.
Sep 28, 2019•48 min
Evan Van Ness is joining Lucian as co-host this week to discuss the bounty on his head, Eth2 interoperability between 7 client implementations, and zero knowledge (zk) mixers. They digress into how zk is being used for privacy and scaling in new ways that are already making it onto main net.
Sep 27, 2019•52 min
In today's episode, Corey and Collin talk with Anatoly Yakovenko, the Co-Founder and CEO of Solana. Solana is a blockchain platform attempting to scale transactions without the need of sharding and we want to know how they plan to do it. Join us as we dive into their strategy, their current progress, and where they plan to go. We ask the right questions to get you to the right answers on how this technology works, so come listen and enjoy!
Sep 26, 2019•56 min
In this episode Dee and Dr. Petty bring up the conversation of hardware wallets and personal security. We discuss the pros and cons of hardware wallets and why you should or should not buy one. Are hardware wallets even the final form of paramount crypto security? There is also an interview with an Industrial Engineer, Rick V. He is making building a node and hardware wallet security a thing anyone can do. With very neat, secure, and interesting 3D printed accessories for these two sectors of th...
Sep 24, 2019•1 hr 7 min
In this episode, Corey and Dee get a dose of ether from the host of Dose of Ether, Mr. Lucian. What transpires is a sicussion about the dos and don'ts, ins and outs, and pros and cons of DAOs. It has been a mightly long time since The DAO, and the Decentralized Autonomous Organization is on the road to the comeback tour! Celsius Network, MakerDAO, and other organizations are trying their hand in launching this programmatic organization. A business built on code, living on code, or dying by code....
Sep 19, 2019•1 hr 12 min
This episode Corey and Collin bring on the academics Arthur Gervais and Dominik Harz from Imperial College London. They discuss a new protocol that attempts to reduce the required financial deposits for various mechanisms in a way that does not reduce security. In other words, it is an attempt to help with over-collateralization, which could save investors a lot of money! As always, we get into the weeds to try and figure out exactly how it works, and where it is best used. Come listen and enjoy...
Sep 13, 2019•1 hr 2 min
Would you put Bitcoin in your 401k? Most likely if you are listening to this show. Corey and Demetrick discuss a litany of topics this episode with an OG, ExiledSurfer: what does crypto look like when the remaining 50% of the population joins the craze, what makes ethereum more of a draw than bitcoin, how can governance take place in cryptoanarchy, and why does Exiled Surfer roll his cigarettes directly into the microphone. Also, there was a bird orgy outside of Corey's house...those birds were ...
Sep 12, 2019•1 hr 14 min
In this episode the roundtable is open. Ray Redacted, Jessie "The Man" Broke, Harry D and Taylor from MyCrypto all swing by to discuss security, why it is not sexy and what it needs to do to be sexy. Corey invents a new acronym, "SIS." Everyone in the roundtable agrees that it should be a new standard way of thinking. Also, Taylor reminds everyone in the crypto community that the worst user experience is the one where the user loses their money. Nobody wants that. Oh...and for good measure, if y...
Sep 08, 2019•1 hr 17 min
We're happy to welcome back Truebit Protocol to the podcast! This time we're speaking with Jason Teutsch, mathematican, computer scientist, and founder of the protocol. Truebit is an incentivization scheme for the compute and validation of off-chain code execution with on-chain commitment and validation. We talk about the protocol, but also about their two-token model for producing value in the network and encouraging participation. Truebit is a very interesting protocol, listen and then check i...
Sep 05, 2019•1 hr 4 min
We read Cryptocurrency headlines. It used to be kind of serious...but only kind of. Now, we mainly try to take the news seriously because it is kind of redundant and have fun in that attempt. Welcome to the best crypto show you're going to hear for the rest of your life. You're welcome.
Sep 04, 2019•58 min
We read Cryptocurrency headlines. It used to be kind of serious...but only kind of. Now, we mainly try to take the news seriously because it is kind of redundant and have fun in that attempt. Welcome to the best crypto show you're going to hear for the rest of your life. You're welcome.
Sep 03, 2019•56 min
International payments is not an easy challenge to tackle, and Stellar is working diligently to upend the current aging and fee-ridden systems for a more democratized method of international asset transfer. In this episode we have Nikhil Saraf, Principal Software Engineer at Stellar Development Foundation, to educate us on the core features of Stellar, how it achieves consensus, and the practicals of how Stellar can be integrated into regular business and consumer applications.
Aug 29, 2019•1 hr 9 min
Andy Boyan is friend of the network who is a long time listener and active slack member. This week he joins Lucian to talk about memes and the power of their narratives. As a PhD in Communication who studied technology adoption and mechanics, he drops some wisdom on how Ethereum can come to terms with its narrative, own its identity, and stay weird.
Aug 29, 2019•59 min
In this week's episode of The Bitcoin Podcast, Ray Redacted swings by to correct and address some of the lingering drama centered around the Bit Block Book conference. We also spent some time discussing Dan Larimer and what it takes to to create something that people will actually use. Again, Corey and Dee debate the merits of HODL vs using. Dee seems to think that there should not be one chain to rule them all. Maybe there is room for a counsel in crypto that can serve to guide this budding ind...
Aug 28, 2019•1 hr 8 min
You want $150k? Have an idea? Is it Web 3.0? Check out Tachyon. Gabriel Anderson come on today to discuss the accelerator program by Consensys Labs, what it's like to transition from engineer to entrepreneur, the common features investors look for in an early stage startup, and the avoidable roadblocks and pitfalls that startups encounter. Check out Tachyon here: https://labs.consensys.net/tachyon/ and submit your application!
Aug 22, 2019•1 hr
We all saw the warning signs of the ICO craze in 2017 but it still hit us like a ton of bricks. Many have been burnt while others profited at the expense of new loyal users in the crypto-space. Now that the dust has settled and the cringing thought of another ICO is history, there has been a surge in Decentralized Autonomous Organisations (DAO) popping up everywhere you go. Is a DAO bubble looming in the horizon? Through Dynamics Design, Beth McCarthy shows us how to avoid mistakes of yesteryear...
Aug 22, 2019•33 min
