Lucian and Evan talk about the tokenization of NBA guard Spencer Dinwiddie's contract that would have been a lot cooler if it wasn't stripped of potential upside like performance bonuses and extra payouts due to a 3rd season trade. StarkWare boasts of hitting 9000 tps. Viper has a new compiler implementation. And Slock.it has a new IoT light client.
What if one day you woke up and realized the social impact project you worked on is now a tool for oppression? How about if that innocuous gamified app you've been using happens to also be a surveillance tool for hackers? Where do we draw the line between "ethical" and "poor" design? Find out more from Cade Diehm, the founder of the New Design Congress, who discusses the role of technology as an accelerant of social, political, and environmental problems and how design can be weaponised to harm ...
On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty become journalists, for just this one time, as we interview a journalist from the industry who’s quickly made a name for herself, Leigh Cuen. Leigh is a reporter from Coindesk and with a colorful past as a journalist with a broad range of focuses. She walks us through her process on how she seeks to provide objective truth and value into her reporting; as well as sharing valuable insights into how you should frame your perspective with crypto ...
In this episode of The Bitcoin Podcast Dee, Corey, and Lucian discuss the likelihood that cryptocurrency stands to spur adoption of green or more efficient energy. Also, Lucian gives an unscripted history perspective on why Russia is the way it is and why they may be eager to adopt the POW mining community. Corey also begins to defend his stance that blockchain networks are social networks.
Akash is a cloud for serverless computing. Using the incentivization schemes enabled by the Cosmos Network, Akash empowers architects and builders of the internet with the ability to utilize un-utilized computing resources. Conversely, those with excess computing power can open their systems for auction, enabling them to recuperate value from those resources. Corey and I have the pleasure of speaking with CEO Greg Osuri about their engineering effort and how they built this service.
Aqeel and Sarah Mills the Head of Design @ Consensys sit down to do a deep-dive on the nuances of approaching design & creative for decentralized technologies while working with a distributed team. The Web3 / Blockchain eco-system is leading the way for the adoption and acceptance of remote-first work environments, facing new challenges and opportunities for disruption in how we view the role of design. The episode covers a breadth of topics ranging from role of design, design related hiring...
Lucian and Evan cover highlights from Ethereum related news and inadvertently created a list of the top projects of 2019. We cover GitCoin Matching Grants program, Tornado Cash, and MolochDAO. Then we talk about the recent FileCoin testnet launch and we dwell on the system requirements, which are unreasonably high, and how that will impact decentralization by excluding potential participants like us.
Corey and Dee bring back the classic drunken show format for the end of the year 2019 recap. This recap included discussions about Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang, Digital Signatures, a 2019 Prediction coming true, Jamie Bartlett of The Missing Crypto Queen, and more .......
On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Dr. Petty join the founders Cameron Robertson (CEO) and Paul Gerhardt (CTO) to discuss what we believe is an innovation in bridging digital money with physical, secure digital hardware. They present us Kong, their digital cash equivalent: possessing the ability to act as a fungible representation of digital money, with a secure element and programmatic expiry which enables extraction of the funds at a future date. It’s a very futuristic idea, and w...
In this episode of The Bitcoin Podcast, Corey and Dee interview Jamie Bartlett. Bartlett presented the tragic story of Onecoin. A ponzi scheme that took advantage of millions of people and resulted in billions of dollars being fraudulently removed from their owners. Dr Ruja Ignatova persuaded millions to join her financial revolution. Then she disappeared. Why? Jamie Bartlett presents a story of greed, deceit and herd madness.
On this Roundtable discussion, Dee and Corey cover the topics of tribalism in crypto space, how the pseudonymity of the internet has broken down communication between people, and the need for the crypto space to develop social immunity. The interview we have is with author and futurists Karl Schroeder of Stealing Worlds.
Lucian and Evan discuss Parity's pivot away from maintaining their Ethereum client. While saddened to see a great team of developers change focus to work on Polkadot, we also are optimistic that the wider blockchain community won't respond to Parity founder's 'call to arms' to initiate 'blockchain wars.' After the 40 min mark we also discuss Saga, a stable coin mirroring a standard IMF basket of currencies. We end on a discussion on EIP1559 which locks ETH in as part of the protocol and eliminat...
This episode Corey and Collin Bring on Lucas Geiger and Zaki Manian to talk about OpenLibra. OpenLibra is a technology platform and currency for financial inclusion, and it is definitely not run by Facebook. We want to figure out what their goals are and how they plan to achieve them. As always we dive in and have an interesting conversation, enjoy!
This Roundtable, Dee, Dr. Corey Petty, Dr. Andy Boyan from the Slack (please join) discuss decentralization vs. centralization and big banks vs. small banks. The most crucial topic discuss can communities' successfully opt-out of the existing financial system. The Interview is with Isabela Bagueros, Executive Director of the Tor Project.
Today's episode we return from a holiday break to discuss an instant messaging proof of concept on the Lightning Network called Whatsat with Sergi Delgado from PISA Research. We talk about how it works, its limitations, what could be built from it. This then leads into specifics about the lightning network itself, and then issues with the broader ecosystem. Enjoy!
On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty have a friendly chat with your favorite neighborhood developer, Austin Griffith. Creator of the burner wallet, Austin is one of the leading developers focused on usability and creating the “aha!” moments necessary to bridge traditional software developers and consumers, over into the bright and bountiful world of crypto. This is of course a technical, and a human-oriented task, and Austin has the chops to speak to developers/users in fun and e...
Dee and Dr. Corey Petty cover the reason why you should buy whiskey, networking within the construction industry, Christmas enable ethereum tree, and the egalitarian principals of different blockchains. Our interview is with Morgen Rochard, a financial planner who does not shy away from working within the cryptocurrency space.
On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty sit down with Zak Cole, CEO and blockchain-literate extraordinaire of WhiteBlock. They’re working on the testing and implementation of cryptographically assured blockchain-based protocols; all built with their in-house designed open source testing suite. Their tools allow blockchain architects and developers the means to test their public chains in a more stringent real-world like environment so you they can quantify the fault tolerance, laten...
In this episode, Corey and Dee go sans guest. Dee approaches the ever-interesting topic of mass adoption. He feels the news coming out of Germany that banks can be custodians of crypto is a positive step. Corey doesn’t think so. Also, Virgil goes to North Korea, now Virgil gonna go to jail. Opinions fly from Corey and Dee. Enjoy!
In this episode, Dee and Dr. Corey Petty cover the concept of micro-communities and how blockchain can help develop a micro-economy to incentives these micro-communities. Then they end the round table discussion with their bi-monthly debate on Bitcoin scaling and what will that scaling even look like for Bitcoin. The interview is with Julien Genestoux of Unlock Protocol, a new crypto-company seeking to address the economic problems of the publishing world with blockchain technology.
Layer 2 scaling solutions have gone through a lot of iterations and disappointing conclusions in the past few years. There is a newer solution, which is boasting some positive (and safe) results: Optimistic Rollups. John Adler, Blockchain Researcher at ConsenSys, speaks on the history of Layer 2 solutions and describes Optimistic Rollups and how they may help with blockchain scaling.
Demetrick and Corey's Round Table discussion catches everyone up on their personal life, what a future market is, and what a "seed phrase" is. The back-end discussion covers what's coming up in Maker's multicollateral DAI transition. The interview is with Daniel Luca, a smart contract auditor at ConsenSys Diligence. The boys task him to answering these hard hitting questions: What does a smart contract auditor do? How cool is it having a bot tool name "Karl" from Die Hard?
Evan Van Ness and Lucian discuss the consequences of Ethereum being the primary way to hold and trade Tether. Listen to find out why you can't stake your ETH yet. Learn more on the current state of standardization for BLS signatures. The episode wraps up with a highlight of articles released this week.
Our Host Demetrick and Dr. Corey Petty talk about universal usage of the dollar on this planet and monetary policy in fictional universes like Star Wars and Star Trek. The interview is with Max Keidun CEO and Evangelists for Hodl Hodl, who began his life as a journalist and is now in the Bitcoin Ecosystem.
Thomas Jay Rush of Trueblocks comes on to speak with us about blockchain accounting.
Guest-Host Taylor Monahan joins the round table, and once again, mass adoption is brought up, but taking a more psychological approach to the issue. The discussion covers the gamut of problems with mass adoption who is in the space, custodial companies, quantitative easement, age of empires, the humanities, and how far down the rabbit hole should people go. The Interview is with Eric Fulton of Keybase.
This episode features Jay and Ken from Cypher Core. Cypher Core offers a staking as a service platform for Proof of Stake protocols. Primarily focused on Cosmos network, we talk with them about their experience implementing their system, incentive models involved with staking services, and the overall Cosmos community.
Evan Van Ness and Lucian provide recommendations for talks to listen to from DevCon. We've picked the can't-miss content from Devcon 5 to get you up to speed
A free-for-all that enter roundtable session between the patrons of The Bitcoin Podcast Network and Lord of the GPPs, Dee. It became a little controversial this episode as the roundtable attendees were stirring the conversation toward other issues in crypto, but for some reason Dee was centered on the conversation staying in the lane of "can Bitcoin go to $0?" Norm M CEO Lightning In a Box is teaming up with Rick V of Crypto Cloaks for Build-a-node project. Lightning in a Box (LIAB) is quickly b...
On the second episode of Hashing It Out Panels, Corey moderates a discussion between Nick Johnson (lead developer of ENS) and Kevin Sekniqi (co-founder of AVA Labs) on the top of scaling Ethereum. We attempt to lay out the landscape of what that term even means, what the current bottleneck fo scaling is in decentralized systems, and how Athereum potentially affects these issues. There's quite a bit of back and forth, and plenty of subtlety for argumentation! Enjoy the listen and then chime in wi...
