Lucian and Evan breath a collective sign of relief as Maker auctions happen uneventfully to re-estabilish the collateralization ratio. Dai is back and hopefully more resilient. Nexus Mutual decides, almost unanimously, that the Maker smart contract functioned as designed, therefore they are not paying out any claims. And Vitalik gives us his version of a roadmap for rolling out Eth 2 features.
On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Petty sit down with Petty’s fellow co-worker, Dean Eigenmann, from Status. He’s working on building an improved messaging protocol for Status, and is also working on the side on a Swift implementation of the ETH 2.0 Beacon chain. We learn more about Dean, as we go in deep to understand the mind of a real thot leader.
Corey, Dee, and Guest Host Taylor Monahan are here to give you tips needed to Work From Home. Taylor gives insight on the Ethereum ecosystem and particular what is happening in the Eth mining market. Taylor and Dee go over how Proof-of-Stake is working now and how it may or may notwork in the future. Corey breaks down how the technical aspects of DeFi.
Lucian and Evan join you from their respective isolated locations to discuss the current most pressing matter (in Ethereum), Maker DAO's recent near $0 ETH liquidation auctions which reduced collateral by $8 million. We discuss what happened, what has changed since then, and why we are hopeful that things are going to play out well in the end.
On today's episode, Corey and Collin talk with Truman Esmond, VP of Solutions and Partnerships at the American Association of Insurance Services (AAIS). Why are we talking to insurance folks, you ask? Because they've partnered with IBM to launch the openIDL platform to help aggregate company data while maintaining privacy and compliance. We ask how it works, why they used Hyperledger, and many more details, enjoy!
On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dee have a chat with Pedro Gomez, the Founder and developer behind WalletConnect. As Ethereum based accounts and wallets proliferate, standards surrounding how they’re accessed, and extended interoperably becomes ever more important. Pedro’s effort are to simplify this process for developers of Ethereum wallet’s and services, in order to improve the UX across dApps in the ecosystem. **Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussio...
Dee and Corey on this Roundtable discussion are not drunk and have a serious conversation about Coronavirus-19. Corey goes in-depth about the fundamentals of Cryptocurrency principals we have all adhere to for the last ten years and questions if they hold up in this time of crisis. Then Dee and Corey Thank Everyone for being on this journey with them for 300 Episodes. Take Coronavirus-19 Seriously and Wash Your Hands.
On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dr. Petty and Dee finally may have found someone who can bring crypto + music & audio to the masses. We’re joined by Roneil Rumburg, CEO of Audius, and an all around incredibly nice guy. He’s sharp: he understands Ethereum; he built on Bitcoin back in the day; and is familiar with the music industry. His team realizes the barriers that stand between Audius, and mass adoption — and we think he just might. We discuss the platform, his vision for the futu...
Lucian and Evan Van Ness catch up after Evan has traveled to Denver, London and Paris for Ethereum conferences. We discuss the trends among some of the submissions to the hackathon as well as some updates including two new zk-rollup projects that have landed on test nets already.
Guest Host Ray Redacted joins Dee and Corey on this Roundtable discussion. Corey fills everyone in on his time at the Ethereum Community Conference 3 in Paris and why physical conferences are so crucial for building networks within the cryptocurrency community. Dee has some words for Mark Cuban. Ray Redacted fills everyone in on how the Coronavirus-19 is just having all kinds of fun times with many different aspects of the world economy. Wash Your Hands.
Aqeel and Amy examine the current opportunity and role of UX Audits in the web3, open-source, and blockchain design space. Learn about the purpose UX audits serve, how they were implemented at Devcon for the past 2 years, and the challenges faced in making them more integral to the service offerings in the ecosystem. Also, dive into how does design collaboration and cross-pollination look like in the open-source design community and how can we move these efforts forward together.
On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty sit down with the crypto twitter famous, Ari Paul. Ari is the head honcho at BlockTower capital, and comes from a background of endowment management at the University of Chicago; Ari is a traditional finance nerd turned crypto nerds. We have a solid discussion on some of his perspectives on investing, and Petty and McKie pick his brain for some new insights you might not have heard elsewhere. **Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is ...
Dee and Guest Host Dr. Andy Boyan cover the topic of the Coronavirus Virus vs. Wall Street Money, which of these, if any, is affecting the Cryptocurrency Market. Then Dr. Andy Boyan shares with us how much building is still going on in the Cryptocurrency Space and how you can find a job in this space.
SKALE Labs is seeking to change the world through decentralized cloud solutions. Using EVM-powered blockchains as their primary compute and storage mechanism, they seek to capture the market long-dominated by AWS, Azure, and other centralized solutions. We have Stan Kladko, CTO of SKALE on to discuss how this is supposed to work and explain their vision of a blockchain-driven future.
On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dr. Petty and Dee are back with a new season, with fresh new faces and guests. To start off this season, we spoke to Paul Berg, CEO and Co-Founder of Sablier Finance. Many have sought to scale Ethereum transactions off-chain, with the use of Roll-ups/Plasma/State Channels, but Paul's team took a different approach. They're building an on-chain protocol for real-time payments; one that's lean, extendable, and a great PoC into how the future of real-time fin...
DAIHard uses Ethereum smart contracts to create burnable deposits as a means to gamify exchange of goods and services. In a burnable deposit, both parties put up collateral and in the event the servicing party delivers, they recieve their deposit plus their compensation. Failure and both parties may lose their deposits. We have Logan Brutsche back on the program to discuss the platform build around this concept, DAIHard, and how it seeks to fill the niche market of fiat currency exchange via cry...
Dee and Corey talk about Corey's time at the NFT.NYC and what he learned from the different talks and events at the conference. Corey and Dee then have a long discussion on what the future of the NFT markets is going to look like in the cryptospace.
Dee and Corey go straight into the Interview with Cedric Dahl, an OG of the Bitcoin space, to talk about Bitcoin's dominant (and growing) use on the darknet markets. Cedric runs a think tank called 'The 1000x Group', which monitors crypto adoption to look for early signals of long term value creation. The group studies history's most successful tech investors and applies their learnings to crypto.
For the final episode of our User Research in Web 3 series. Aqeel is joined by Hester Bruikman the self-proclaimed "Product people translator" at Status. We examine how boots on the ground field research methodologies provide the necessary context required to develop products for Crypto and Web3 technologies. Learn about how in-person local research provides opportunities for serendipitous connections and allows you to follow the trail of information to get to the core of the problem space.
Dee and Corey speak upon predictions they have had on the show about the cryptocurrency space and how many of these predictions have come true. One of these predictions is mining and we now have nuclear power plants mining cryptocurrency. Dee also ponders - Are we in The End Game of Bitcoin becoming the standard for the financial framework of the world?
For part 3 of the 4 part User Research series Reem and Aqeel had the great pleasure of speaking with Georgia Rakusen about the skills and expertise required to create a high impact User Research strategy. We dive deep into the role of cognitive biases at the intersection of psychology and technology. Examining the process behind leveraging Quantitative and Qualitative methodologies to make informed product and business decisions. It is important to ensure that the data and method of collection i...
Lucian and Evan Van Ness start off by justifying their caffeine addiction and shilling Yerba Mate. Evan and Josh Stark wrote a detailed update on developments that spanned the Ethereum ecosystem, we pick out some datapoint highlights for our listeners. For example they demonstrated, with data, how multiple individual DApps on Ethereum have produced more in fees than every other base chain outside of Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Dee and Corey get in-depth with Bitcoin Historian Richard Mcdaniel, aka NghtRppr, aka LordofWar, aka OGoftheOGs #369 on BitcoinTalk forum on his early experience with Bitcoin. Richard shares what believes the future holds for Bitcoin and how the legality of Bitcoin will shake out.
Althea is a system that lets routers pay each other for bandwidth. This allows people to set up decentralized ISPs in their communities. In an Althea network, instead of one ISP at the top collecting monthly payments, many different people can earn money by expanding and strengthening the network.
For the second part in our 4 part User Research series Aqeel and Reem speak with Omna to learn more about how the design teams in Web3 eco-system approach Quantitative and Qualitative research methodologies to better understand the end users and what the actual value proposition is for their service offering. Learn about the challenges and solutions when it comes to user recruitment, privacy, open source products, and synthesizing insights.
Evan put out a new Year in Ethereum, which is a comprehensive update on how much can get done in this space in just 365 days. Gavin Andresen layout the next logical step for tornado cash, wallet integration. Coffee futures tokenized. Plasma group + VC $$ = Optimism. Starkware provides data showing that cutting gas costs (and increasing block sizes) wouldn't increase uncle rate and proposes a 4x increase. LivePeer introduces Streamflow, with probabilistic micropayments.
Corey and Dee talk about what is mass-adoption for Bitcoin? How we as community view what mass-adoption looks like throughout the years of Bitcoin existences. Does Bitcoin need governments to intervene to obtain adoption, or can we as a community grow with the Auntie measure?
Michael Cordner / Yeastplume, long time Grin contributor and part of the core team, and David Burkett, long time member of the Grin community, creator of the C++ standalone implementation of Grin, proposer of the soon to be released TOR transaction building method, and lead on Litecoin's Mimblewimble Extension block project. They've both agreed to come on the show.
What is User Research? And why is it so important? In the debut of our 4 part series, Xuan Yue guides us through her unique journey getting involved with User research from community involvement with Livepeer in an opensource design environment. The remaining episodes will dive deeper into the UX research process when it comes to utilizing qualitative and quantitative research, the cognitive biases we need to be mindful of, and how to gain in person context for real world feedback.
Dee and Corey are joined by guest host Jon T to talk about futures trading,derivative products,Defi, and what it means for the Cryptospace. The Guest is Hong Kim of Bitwise Investment.
