Joining me today is Stephen Tual is a one time member of the Ethereum team and one of the founders of Slock.it, a project that aims to be Ethereum’s bridge to the internet of things. Their Devcon 1 presentation was lauded as one of the most stark illustrations of the power of Ethereum. Well worth looking up on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49wHQoJxYPo [Note: This episode does not contain a magic word.] Stephan Tual: @stephantual @slockitproject slock.it Josh Stern: @joshuastern http:/...
Jan 16, 2016•40 min
Free My Vunk is a movement to port game items and assets into the blockchain. The goal is to give control of these hard won in game rewards entirely to the players themselves. On the surface this seems like a simple, maybe even mundane use case but the significance a gamer may attach to a specific achievement can be a real source of economic value. We see this in phenomena like world of warcraft gold mining and character sale. This is an especially interesting project due to the numerous collabo...
Jan 07, 2016•50 min
Today is our second episode covering the ether.camp hackathon. Familiar voice Hudson Jameson returns with Jaden Hess to explain their milestone reward Dapp kit “Motivate”. Then Roman Mandeleil wraps things up for us. Mea culpa next week due to the holidays. Content: Tjaden Hess, Hudson Jameson, Roman Mandeleil, Arthur Falls Production and Editing: Arthur Falls Info Jaden Hess: https://github.com/tjade273 Hudson Jameson: http://hudsonjameson.com/ Roman Mandeleil: https://twitter.com/mandeleil : h...
Dec 25, 2015•54 min
On the first of this month Roman Mandeleil and the ether camp team kicked off the first decentralised ethereum based hackathon. It was a tremendous opportunity to see the developer community showcase the ideas that were simmering away behind the scenes. There were a ton of solid entries and hundreds of people active in the ether camp slack. All tolled the event was a roaring success and showed that the grass roots development community is vibrant and active. As a spectator, it felt like we’d wat...
Dec 17, 2015•41 min
DiGix is a digital asset issuance and tracking platform built on Ethereum. It is designed to minimise KYC intrusion and offer physical asset shadowing while offering the protection from loss of funds customers expect of contemporary financial products. Digix appears to be on track to providing the most comprehensive and customer oriented digital asset platform around. Initially they will be offering gold backed tokens using a powerful Proof Of Asset Certificate. http://www.digix.io/ Content: Kai...
Dec 08, 2015•41 min
Aron Von Ammers is a business developer who covered Devcon 1 as it was in session for coin telegraph. His two major ventures in the space, blockstars and outlier ventures aim to rapidly develop and launch blockchain oriented startups. Today we discuss Devcon, business on the blockchain and the altcon space. Content: Arthur Falls and Aron Von Ammers Production and Editing: Arthur Falls
Nov 29, 2015•38 min
Today we have a panel of Devcon attendees. Alex Amsel, Hudson Jameson and Jack du Rose.We discuss the Ethereum community, the development state of the consensus process, storage solutions, Free My Vunk, Slock, Oraclize and much more. Alex Amsel: http://newretro.org/ Hudson Jameson: http://hudsonjameson.com/ Jack du Rose: http://colony.io/ Production and Editing: Arthur Falls
Nov 26, 2015•42 min
Today Jack Du Rose explains his social collaboration platform colony and his old job designing the most expensive work of art ever sold.
Nov 13, 2015•38 min
The Ether Review #4 - Augur by Arthur Falls
Nov 06, 2015•54 min
Roman Mandeleil, builder of the Ethercamp blockchain explorer and the java implimentation of Ethereum discusses among other things, what it is like to be a longtime developer in the Ethereum community.
Oct 30, 2015•27 min
The Ether Review #2 - Vlad Zamfir by Arthur Falls
Oct 22, 2015•30 min
Arthur speaks with Joseph Lubin, one of the founders of the Ethereum project and also Consensys, a constellation of Ethereum focused companies. This is the first episode of a weekly show featuring interviews with the people building the Ethereum ecosystem. Content: Joseph Lubin, Arthur Falls Additional assistance: Rob Mitchell of The Bitcoin Game and Jarrad Hope. Twitter: @etherreview
Oct 14, 2015•38 min
todays episode is my favourite of all, not to diminish all of the wonderful interviews and guests I've been lucky enough to have on the show. Sorry Adam, I forgot to thank you for getting me into this. The mark of a great catalyst is that he's taken for granted :-) Enjoy. I know I sure did. http://www.blockstream.com/ http://hyperledger.com richard brown - http://gendal.me/ david birch - http://www.dgwbirch.com/ https://onename.com/ http://www.ofnumbers.com/2014/05/29/will-colored-coin-extensibi...
Feb 19, 2015•2 hr 7 min
All about Darkcoin. Having sworn my allegiance to the 2.0 space long ago I was blown away to see how deeply innovative a single token tracking platform could be. Darkcoin is a project I will watch closely following this fascinating discussion.Thanks to Fernando for introducing me to Evan and organising this interview. darkcoin.io https://bitsquare.io/crowdfunding/ http://podcast-mastering.com/ Content: Fernando Gutierez, Evan Duffield, Arthur Falls Music: CSUS Mixing and Mastering: Richard Toth ...
Feb 05, 2015•1 hr 1 min
Chris Mountford is a developer at Atlassian, a software company based in Australia and has been interested in digital currency for over twenty years. In this episode we discuss reputation and personal information management systems. Chris' ability to identify the issues and dangers of various approaches make him an excellent commentator. http://blockzombie.com/ http://wiki.bitshares.org/index.php/.p2p_(BitShares_DNS) bitsquare.io http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chriskorte/artic...
Jan 27, 2015•1 hr 23 min
In this, the second to last episode of Beyond Bitcoin We Look at Nubits, the value controlled digital currency that has emerged from the Peercoin/Peershares team. discus.nubits.com nubits.com docs.nubits.com The Internet of Money, Meher Roychoudhury: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r2ulmzif92lbdh3/An%20architecture%20for%20the%20Internet%20of%20Money.pdf?dl=0 Content: Ben Rossi Music: Csus Contact: beyondbitcoinshow@gmail.com
Jan 07, 2015•1 hr 9 min
Jeffrey Tucker joins for this episode! "Could you please compare Menger and Mises views on the origin of value in money and explain how their views relate to bitcoin?" fee.org liberty.me mises.org CSUS: Music BIP38wallets.com: Sponsorship Jeffrey Tucker: Content beyondbitcoinshow@gmail.com
Dec 17, 2014•39 min
Austrian economics is one of these impenetrable black boxes that you hear referenced occasionally but that has little meaning for many people. Recently I was perusing Cameron Harwick's blog, Thrica where I periodically go to soak up some free market goodness, and I found myself re-reading a post entitled Hayek vs. Rothbard on Free-Market Money. The article and the comments illucidate many interesting and relevant ideas that can not only help us understand cryptocurrency but also show that the pr...
Dec 04, 2014•56 min
Jae Kwon joins to discuss his consensus algorithm Tendermint. Following from there we cover sideshains, quantifiable security, stealth coins, and much more. Today's episode was sponsored by bip38wallets.com. bip38wallets.com https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=129317.0 http://tendermint.com/ http://groups.csail.mit.edu/tds/papers/Lynch/jacm88.pdf ofnumbers.com beyondbitcoinshow@gmail.com
Nov 20, 2014•56 min
Stephen Thomas and Evan Schwartz discuss Ripple Labs open source smart contract system Codius! Codius.org Thanks to CSUS for the music beyondbitcoinshow@gmail.com
Nov 04, 2014•49 min
A technical writer known on the forums as "Cassius" chats about jl777's SuperNET and related subjects. jl777.org thesupernet.org forum.thesupernet.org Csus provided the music beyondbitcoinshow@gmail.com
Oct 29, 2014•51 min
Cryptonite is a currency built on the mini-blockchain scheme. It features tons of features not present in any other coins as well as some limitations. Music: Csus Cryptonite.info arthur.falls@gmail.com
Oct 15, 2014•44 min
Today Robby Dermody of Counterparty, also known on the forums as Xnova joins to discuss the platform's recent Armory implementation, two factor authentication, asset development, Dogeparty, a potential Counterparty foundation in the works and more. counterparty.io Music: Csus Contact: beyondbitcoinshow@gmail.com
Oct 08, 2014•55 min
Today Justus Ranvier returns to discuss Monetas, a start up he is involved with which is building on the Open Transactions protocol. We also dig into cryptoequities, reputation, arbitration and the informal economy as well as the current price fluctuations. As usual, no investment advice. beyondbitcoinshow@gmail.com http://monetas.net/ http://bitcoinism.liberty.me/ Music: Csus
Sep 29, 2014•40 min
This time we're checking out culture on the block chain with Alex co Author of the Bitcoin graphic novel which is at this moment awating a name. We talk making money interesting, working with the guys at Swarm, funding models, the Bitcoin ethos and the power of the graphic novel medium. Alex Preukschat (content) Csus (music) https://www.swarm.co/comiccoin.html#/comiccoin beyondbitcoinshow@gmail.com
Sep 22, 2014•38 min
Dan O'Prey, Daniel Feichtinger and Tim Swanson discuss Hyperledger. hyperledger.com www.ofnumbers.com/author/timswanson/ Credits: Content - Dan O'Prey, Daniel Feichtinger, Tim Swanson and Arthur Falls Music - Csus Contact: beyondbitcoinshow@gmail.com
Sep 16, 2014•47 min
In this episode Justus Ranvier joins for a discussion about Open Transactions and the future of smart contract platforms. Then a few words from international man of mystery jl777 on the SuperNET and the life of an anonymous coding machine. http://bitcoinism.liberty.me/ https://nxtforum.org/nxtservices-releases/darkpaper-for-teleport/ www.jl777.org http://thesupernet.org/ Credits: Content - Justus Ranvier and jl777 Music - Csus Contact - beyondbitcoinshow@gmail.com
Sep 07, 2014•54 min
After an involuntary hiatus BB is back with a very late interview with Shaun Wilkinson and . . . a magic word!
Aug 28, 2014•1 hr 13 min
This episode Bas Wisselink, an NXT community organiser joins me again to discuss what's going on in the next ecosystem. From a little grand theft crypto to a new altcoin adapter for the next asset exchange, there is a ton of interesting stuff going on and Bas is always great value. Thanks to Csus for the tune Multigateway: http://multigateway.com/
Jul 31, 2014•1 hr 1 min
Brian Hoffman and Washington Sanchez join me to discuss Open Bazaar, a marketplace built from Amir Taaki's Toronto Hackathon winning "Dark Market". A great exposition of a broad range of new ideas. CREDITS Audio production by Kerry Guy. Music provided by Csus. Check them out on Soundcloud. Content provided by Washington Sanchez and Brian Hoffman Any questions or comments? Email beyondbitcoinshow@gmail.com. Check out beyondbitcoin.fm for more material and recordings of developer hangouts
Jul 23, 2014•1 hr 11 min
