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Our Predictions for 2014 from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.402726

In our first episode of Epicenter Bitcoin, we make our predictions for 2014. From security to regulation to mainstream adoption, we discus 9 areas where bitcoin could face the most change.

Dogecoin Sleds to the Olympics from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.394319

Topics covered in this episode:

• The arrest of Charlie Shrem – BitInstant CEO and ex-Vice Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation
• The guy who’s taking on the US government to get...
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The One-Man Protest from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.391517

Topics covered in this episode:

• Apple banning Blockchain.info’s iPhone app
• The breakdown and looming death of MtGox
• Auroracoin: A new and innovative Icelandic cryp...
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Mt. Gox’s Lukewarm Wallet from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.383288

On today’s show we’ll talk about the Mt. Gox situation, covering : the history of recent events, the Crisis Strategy Document and what it means, theories on what really could have happened as we...

Hans Henrik H. Heming, Jaron Lukasiewicz, Johann Barbie&Tamás Blummer: Inside Bitcoins Berlin 2014 – Conference Floor Interviews II from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.380506

This episode is part of our coverage of the Inside Bitcoins conference which took place in Berlin February 12 and 13, 2014.

In this episode, we bring you feature interviews we did with fi...

Jaron Lukasiewicz: Coinsetter from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.368439

Brian’s away on vacation this week so joining us as a guest host is Jaron Lukasiewicz, CEO of Coinsetter. We talk about IRS guidelines and what impact they may have on everyday Bitcoin use, Chin...

Meinhard Benn: Dark Wallet, Bitcoins for MIT, Bitcoin’s Limitations and Mining from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.360183

For episode 18, Meinhard Benn was on as our guest host, while Sebastien was enjoying a few days off. Meinhard is the lead software developer for Bitcoin Brothers, a Bitcoin mining startup based ...

Wendell Davis: Hive Wallet, Humint, DISH, Bitex.la from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.350203

On episode 22 we had Wendell Davis on, who is CEO of two Bitcoin startups. The first one is Hive, a popular and user-friendly Bitcoin wallet targeted at Mac Users (and Android). His second start...

Bobby Lee, Charlie Lee, Filip Roose&Philippe Rodriguez: Bitcoin 2014 Amsterdam from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.347258

This episode is part of our coverage of the Bitcoin 2014 Conference which took place in Amsterdam from May 15 to 17, 2014.

Topics covered in this episode:

• Bobby Lee, CEO of B...
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Eddy Travia: Seedcoin, Apple App Guidelines, Startups, Virtual Incubation, VC’s from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.344164

On today’s show, we have Eddy Travia who joins us from Hong Kong. Eddy is co-founder and Chief Startup Officer at Seedcoin, a seed-stage virtual incubator for Bitcoin startups. He is also the fo...

Tatiana Moroz&Wendell Davis: Tatiana Coin, EBA warning, Counterparty, User Created Assets from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.291972

Today we’re joined by two guests. Tatiana Moroz is a singer-songwriter, anti-war activist and a very active bitcoin enthusiast and evangelist. Recently, Tatiana created Tatiana Coin, the very fi...

Jonathan Levin&Peter Todd: CoinSummit London – Interviews from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.275160

CoinSummit London Conference Series – July 10 and 11, 2014

Our second CoinSummit Episode is out! In it we have two fantastic interviews. In the first one we discussed transaction...

Gavin Wood: Ethereum&Ether Sale from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.271159

Gavin Wood joins us for an episode that is all about Ethereum. The uniquely ambitious Ethereum project with its turing-complete programming language is building a platform on which the next gene...

Adam Vaziri, Frank Schuil, Mark Lamb&Peter Smith: CoinSummit London – Panel: The Challenges of Operating a Bitcoin Business in Europe from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.266966

CoinSummit London Conference Series – July 10 and 11, 2014

This episode features a panel discussion called “The challenges of operating a Bitcoin business in Europe”. Peter Smith...

Siân Jones&Thomas Spaas: Is Bitcoin Subject to VAT? (European Consumer Goods Tax) from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.249383

Thomas Spaas, director of the Belgian Bitcoin Association and an international tax lawyer in Antwerp, and our regulatory affairs correspondent Siân Jones, join us to discuss a Swedish court case...

Flavien Charlon: Coinprism – Colored Coins, Open Assets Protocol&Crypto Equity from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.245230

Flavien Charlon is the founder of coloured coin wallet Coinprism. Colored coins allow people and organizations to securely issue and trade real-world assets like commodities, stocks and bonds on...

Archie Watt, Micky Swindale, Paul Davis, Peter Greenhill&Siân Jones: Is the Isle of Man Building a Haven for Bitcoin Businesses? from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.232703

The Isle of Man has been an area of interest for many Bitcoin companies as of late. The local government of this small British Crown Dependency, located in the middle of the Irish Sea, wants to ...

David A. Johnston: DApps Fund, DApps Whitepaper&Best Practices, MSC Protocol Foundation from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.186759

David A. Johnston is a very active member of the Bitcoin community. Aside from speaking at about every Bitcoin conference there is, David is the Managing Director of the DApps Fund, a board memb...

Daniel Gallancy: SolidX – Bridging the Gap Between Bitcoin and Institutional Investors from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.176615

SolidX Partners CEO Daniel Gallancy joined us for a discussion of Bitcoin, institutional investors and how his company is working on creating a bridge between the two. While there is no question...

Daniel Krawisz: Nakamoto Institute – Bitcoin, Libertarianism and the Problem with Appcoins from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.173089

We are joined by Daniel Krawisz, the Director of Research at the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute. Daniel co-founded that organization last year with Michael Goldstein and Pierre Rochard to educate th...

Robert Sams: Bitcoin, Volatility and the Search for a Stable Cryptocurrency from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.163006

That the bitcoin price is highly volatile is no secret. Opinions differ on whether that is just an inevitable roadblock to be passed on the way to world domination or whether it represents a fun...

Adam B. Levine: Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network, LTBCoin, Monetizing Content&Crowdfunding from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.155064

Adam B. Levine, the “Spiritual Grandfather” of Epicenter Bitcoin and Editor-in-Chief of Let’s Talk Bitcoin, joins us to share is “crazy” passion for information and cryptocurrency. Never shy whe...

Adam Back&Greg Maxwell: Sidechains Unchained from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.151432

Backbone to the financial system? Powering decentralized technology? The first true world currency? There is probably who hasn’t dreamt of a world ten years from now when Bitcoin would be all th...

Kamikaze Attack – Block Halving and the Perils of Proof-of-Work from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.142629

Is Bitcoin secure from attacks that could destroy the currency? To a large part, this is determined by how expensive it is to carry out an attack and by the potential profits the attacker could ...

Thomas Voegtlin: Electrum, SPV Wallets and Bitcoin Aliases from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.139599

Powering an estimated 5-10% of all Bitcoin transactions, Electrum is one of the leaders of the Bitcoin wallet space. The open-source walled was started in 2011 and played a key role in the devel...

Dan O’Prey&Daniel Feichtinger: Hyperledger Decentralized Ledger Platform from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.096332

The cryptocurrency ecosystem is increasingly divided into different camps. There are those betting and working on the eventual mainstream success of Bitcoin. And there are those who take element...

Andreas Antonopoulos: Mastering Bitcoin from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.088365

Few question that educating people about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies is one of the most important and challenging tasks to achieve mass adoption. And perhaps even fewer disagree that there is n...

Nathaniel Popper: Digital Gold – The Inside Story of Bitcoin from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.079887

From the mysterious creation story, to the early development among a small group of cypherpunks, to the emergence of the Silk Road, the collapse of MtGox, to the entry of a tidal wave of VC mone...

Mike Hearn: Blocksize Debate at the Breaking Point from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.076620

Whether the block size should be increased to 20MB has created more controversy than any other question in Bitcoin’s recent history. For some, it is an urgent and necessary step in Bitcoin’s evo...

William Mougayar: The Business of Decentralization from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.066331

Peter Thiel argued in his book ‘Zero to One’ that the way to build a great and highly profitable company is to build a monopoly. But with decentralized technologies, there is a real question whe...

Dave Hudson: Insights from the Data Mine and Other Adventures Around the Block from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.055969

Bitcoin mining and the intricate game theory that surround it is a topic that we’ve visited many times. Difficult to grasp in its complexity, it is these dynamics that determine the security of ...

Adam Back: Why Bitcoin Needs a Measured Approach to Scaling from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.045

As the debate about forks, the blocksize and decision making in Bitcoin continues, we are joined by Adam Back. Adam is best known for his invention hash-cash which became one of the fundamental ...

Esteban Ordano&Manuel Aráoz: Streamium – Pay-Per-Second Video Streaming for Indie Producers from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.035231

One of the key innovations of Bitcoin is the ability to easily implement payment channels. A number of use cases have been discussed or demonstrated, among which is the idea of pay-per-use. This...

Emin Gün Sirer&Ittay Eyal: Bitcoin-NG – Scientists Versus the Church from 2023-12-13T18:20:57.002541

One of the concerns confronting the Bitcoin community is that of scaling the transaction throughput rate: How do we go from the current rate of approx. 5 transactions per second to a thousand ti...

Giyom Lebleu: The Gyft of the Blockchain and Improving Prepaid Cards from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.999029

Businesses with the alleged potential to become the next Google are plentiful in Bitcoin-land, but finding actual commercial success is a lot harder. The best example of a commercial success is ...

The Big Chain Powwow from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.990313

The Bitcoin and blockchain industry has been through a lot this year. While the Bitcoin price has experienced relative stability, perhaps indicating slow growth, the space has grown into a rich ...

Casey Kuhlman: Permissioned Blockchains and Disrupting Industrial Application Design from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.981926

Permissionable blockchains have gained much attention from enterprise this past year, and specifically, the traditional fiance and FinTech sectors. As new protocols emerge and the technology is ...

Eli Ben-Sasson: Zero Knowledge Proofs from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.973358

Zero Knowledge Proofs are methods of providing cryptographic proofs to another party while keeping some information secret. The simple concept of ZKP offer tantalizing possibilities: Banks could...

Eric Lombrozo: Upgrading Bitcoin with Segregated Witness from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.970573

In the midst of the heated blocksize debate one could be forgiven to think that there is very little Bitcoin developers are able to agree on. Yet, when core developer and Blockstream co-founder ...

Jeremy Stephen&Winston Moore: Barbados, Bitcoin and Central Banking from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.964276

For orthodox Bitcoiners central banks are often seen as the incarnation of evil. But , alas, in the case of two Carribean central banking economists the feeling of reprehension wasn’t reciprocat...

Florian Glatz: Defining a Legal Framework for Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.956887

The relatively new concept of a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), is often praised as a new type of organizational structure that has no identifiable owner or owners, and whose action...

The Far Future in Front of Us from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.949606

As the blockchain field continues evolving rapidly, Sebastien, Meher and Brian take some time to discuss the current environment and the longer term implications of blockchains. We discussed how...

Erik Voorhees: Fooling the Fox – The Story of the Shapeshift Hack from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.946061

In the short history of the Bitcoin industry, there has been an impressive amount of high profile hacks, ranging from a few hundred thousand to many millions of dollars. In all of these, custome...

Emin Gün Sirer&Vlad Zamfir: On a Rocky DAO from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.936876

Raising $150m+ through its toke sale, ‘The DAO’ has become the most notable decentralized application to date. The ambitious goal of the project is to form an decentralized organizations that ef...

Sergio Lerner: How RSK Will Bring Smart Contracts to Bitcoin from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.915089

Security researcher and RSK co-founder Sergio Lerner joined us to discuss RSK (also Rootstock), the project to launch a turing-complete smart contract sidechain to Bitcoin. We talked about how h...

Claire Warren&Scott Farrell: DnA Contracts – Bringing Human Discretion to Smart Contracts from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.908019

Blockchain smart contracts are self-executing contracts composed of computer code. These programs, which are executed by the entirety of the network, enforce the rules described within the code....

Joey Krug: Augur – A Decentralized Crowdsourced Prediction Market Built on Ethereum from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.904773

Prediction markets are fascinating financial instruments which have proven to be accurate at making predictions on things like the outcome of elections, geopolitical events and sporting events. ...

Sarah Meiklejohn: Anonymity, Central Bank Cryptocurrencies and the Academic View on Bitcoin from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.897951

With academic research on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies still in its infancy, Sarah Meiklejohn’s track record of publications in the area stands out. The UCL computer science professor has explor...

Ian Grigg: Ricardian Contracts and Digital Assets Prehistory from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.891310

Before 2013 few people paid attention to Bitcoin and blockchain, yet even back in the 1990s a vibrant group of prioneers pursued the vision of financial cryptography and digital cash. One of the...

Leanne Kemp: Everledger – Detecting Diamond Fraud and Theft from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.882035

As is the case with most luxury goods, the diamond industry is faced with the issues of theft, fraud, and counterfeiting. Illegal activity is present at every level of the supply chain, which co...

Brian Behlendorf: How Hyperledger is Developing Foundational Blockchain Technology from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.874259

As a lead developer of the Apache webserver and founder of the Apache Software Foundation, Brian Behlendorf has played a central role in building internet architecture. Recently, he became Execu...

Ari Juels: Authenticated Data Feeds and Criminal Smart Contracts from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.865124

Ari Juels, a Professor at Cornell Tech (Jacobs Institute) and former Chief Scientist of RSA, joins us to discuss his work two of his blockchain-related research topics: Authenticated Data Feeds ...

Wrapping Up The Year and Looking Ahead at What’s to Come from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.861919

It’s been an eventful year in the blockchain space, for the Epicenter podcast, and its hosts. Brian, Meher and Sebastien look back on 2016 and provide a few personal updates, give their thoughts...

Silvio Micali: Algorand – A New Scalable and Secure Approach to Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.850814

There is no doubt that proof of work, introduced in the Bitcoin white paper, has stood the test of time as a robust and resilient Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus mechanism. However, many issu...

Olaf Carlson-Wee: Polychain Capital – The Rise of Protocol Tokens from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.841883

Writing his college thesis on Bitcoin in 2012 and becoming Coinbase’s first employee in 2013, Olaf Carlson-Wee has been at the forefront of cryptocurrency for many years. Recently, he left Coinb...

Christian Reitwiessner&Jason Teutsch: TrueBit – Scalable Off-Chain Computations for Ethereum from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.816273

Bitcoin and Ethereum miners collectively make up what is perhaps the most powerful computational resource in the world. However, mobile phones from the early 2000’s could arguably run more compl...

Carl Bennetts&Jarrad Hope: Status – The Mobile Ethereum Client from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.795495

The road to mainstream adoption of blockchain technologies is a long one. Although the user experience of wallets has greatly improved since the dark days of command-line only interfaces, decent...

Peter Van Valkenburgh: Towards Sound Bitcoin Policy from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.792888

Coin Center is a non-profit in Washington DC that focuses on research and advocacy issues facing public blockchain networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Their aim is to protect users and foster in...

Siân Jones: An Enlightened Approach to Blockchain Regulation in Gibraltar from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.785702

Our regulatory expert Siân Jones joined us to discuss her work on a regulatory framework for distributed ledger technology (DLT) for Gibraltar. We discuss how the framework differs from other ef...

Erik Voorhees: Prism – The World’s First Portfolio Market Platform from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.777121

Shapeshift CEO Erik Voorhees joined us to discuss his journey in the industry, the evolution of the decentralized exchange Shapeshift and their latest project Prism. We spent most time diving in...

Eyal Hertzog: Bancor and the Rise of User-Generated Currencies from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.764894

Bancor is a simple, but hard-to-understand protocol that enables price discovery and liquidity even for assets that aren’t actively traded. Co-Founder Eyal Hertzog joined us to explain how the B...

Loi Luu: KyberNetwork – Towards Truly Decentralized Crypto-Asset Exchanges from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.762448

We’re joined by Loi Luu, Co-founder of KyberNetwork. This new decentralized exchange protocol, built on Ethereum, aims to match buyers with reserve operators, who create liquidity for crypto-ass...

Peter Czaban: Polkadot – The Internet of Blockchain Networks from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.755919

Scalability and interoperability are two of the main issues facing blockchain protocols today. In a future in which entire industries and economies rely on distributed technologies, it is unclea...

Fredrik Voss: Nasdaq – How Blockchain Technologies Will Transform Capital Markets from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.748894

Nasdaq is one of the largest and most well known financial institutions in the World. As the second-largest stock market by market capitalization, Nasdaq is also one of the leading software comp...

Micah Winkelspecht: Gem – The Enterprise Platform That Powers Data-Driven Applications from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.742533

We are joined by Micah Winkelspecht, CEO and Founder of Gem. What started as a Bitcoin API in 2014 has evolved into a leading provider of blockchain solutions for enterprise. Gem addresses the p...

Adam Perlow&Asher Manning: Zen Protocol – A Decentralized Financial System from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.696737

We were joined by Founder Adam Perlow and Developer Asher Manning of Zen, a public blockchain project focused on building a decentralized financial system. The core premise of Zen is that none o...

Brian Platz&Flip Filipowski: FlureeDB – A Scalable Blockchain-Based Graph Database from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.688356

Blockchain technologies are changing the way we think about data archival and storage. For instance, most database systems can only capture the current state of a data set. This means we must re...

Manuel Aráoz: Zeppelin and the Evolution of Smart Contract Development from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.680543

Zeppelin Co-Founder and CTO Manuel Araoz joined us to discuss his journey from building one of the first non-financial Bitcoin applications in 2012 to improving development and security practice...

Greg Meredith&Nash Foster: RChain – The Scalable, Concurrent and Performant Blockchain from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.677167

We’re joined by Greg Meredith and Nash Foster of the RChain Cooperative. A fundamentally new kind of blockchain platform, RChain is rooted in a formal model of concurrent and decentralized compu...

Anson Zeall: Blockchain in Singapore and South East Asia from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.669464

We were joined by Anson Zeall, who is one of the leaders of Singapore’s blockchain and FinTech community. We discussed how the Singapore ecosystem evolved, why it became a popular place to locat...

Ryan John King: FOAM – A Geospatial Proof of Location Protocol for Blockchains and Dapps from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.661651

In just over ten years, geospatial tracking has gone from being a niche technology used by the military and outdoor enthusiasts to mass adoption, available to just about every connected device i...

Humayun Sheikh&Toby Simpson: Fetch.ai – an intelligent learning blockchain network from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.651345

We are joined by Humayun Sheikh and Toby Simpson, founders of the Fetch.ai project. Humayun Sheikh is well known as the first investor in DeepMind, one of the leading AI companies in the world. ...

Charles Hoskinson: Cardano – A Third Generation Smart Contract Blockchain from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.647777

We are joined by Charles Hoskinson, who played an early role in developing Ethereum and BitShares, and is currently the CEO of IOHK. IOHK is an engineering company that undertakes cryptocurrency...

Amrit Kumar&Dr.Ilya Sergey: Scilla – A Formal Verification Oriented Contract Language from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.633002

With the rise of smart contract technology, we’ve become acutely aware of the need for smart contract code to accurately reflect the intentions of its author; and for the code to have certain (s...

Neha Narula: MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative – A Research-Driven Approach to Blockchain from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.607466

When the Bitcoin Foundation fell apart and funding for Bitcoin core development was needed, the MIT founded the Digital Currency Initiative to step in. In the years since, the DCI has evolved in...

Guy Zyskind: Enigma – Providing Scalable Privacy-Preservation to Smart Contacts from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.592188

Privacy and scalability are arguably the most challenging issues blockchains face. Scalable privacy-preserving state machines are inherently difficult. While cryptocurrencies like Zcash have pro...

Ryan Selkis: Messari – Bringing Transparency and Self-Regulation to the Blockchain Industry from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.586018

Since he started blogging as Two Bit Idiot in 2013, Ryan Selkis has been both industry insider and industry critic. Consistently calling out excesses and abuses, but also maintaining his sights ...

Glen Weyl: Radical Markets – Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.568634

The rise of populism and increasing inequality have led to widespread questioning of democracy and capitalism. Glen Weyl, a political economist and Principal Researcher at Microsoft, along with ...

Arthur Breitman&Kathleen Breitman: Tezos – The Long Road Towards A Digital Commonwealth from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.552294

The Tezos whitepaper, published in 2014, anticipated several areas that would become major issues for blockchain networks. Especially around governance and smart contract security, Tezos propose...

Devcon4 Recap – From HODL to BUIDL from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.533605

It’s that time of year again, Devcon time! Just as the conference was wrapping up, we sat down at the Prague Congress Center for a Devcon4 recap. Join Brian, Friederike, Sebastien, and a surpris...

Nick Sullivan: Cloudflare – The Internet’s (De)centralized Security Blanket from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.515383

We enter dozens of trust relationships ever time we interact with the Web. Browsers, ISPs, DNS providers, cloud hosting companies, all the way down to the handful of people who control certifica...

Andy Bromberg: CoinList – Capital Formation for the Crypto Industry from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.502117

When token sales and ICOs took off in 2017, most projects chose to push ahead despite large regulatory risks. One of the few that went the other direction and put compliance first was CoinList. ...

Joseph Lubin: ConsenSys – The Distributed Incubator which Jumpstarted the Ethereum Ecosystem from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.496554

We’re joined by Joseph Lubin, Founder and CEO of ConsenSys. Joseph founded ConsenSys as an Ethereum development studio on the heels of the Ethereum crowd sale in 2014. The company has since grow...

Christian Decker: Lightning Network – The Road to Scaling Bitcoin from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.476931

When the Lightning Network (LN) was conceived in 2015, it was quickly embraced by the Bitcoin community as the way to dramatically scale Bitcoin’s capacity. There was an expectation of LN being ...

Amaury Séchet: Bitcoin Cash – Part 2 from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.454408

Amaury Séchet is the lead developer of Bitcoin ABC, the largest client for the Bitcoin Cash blockchain. Amaury first got started with Bitcoin in 2010 and closely followed the Bitcoin block size ...

Ethan Buchman&Sunny Aggarwal: Cosmos – Launching the Internet of Blockchains from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.434897

The shipping container brought standardization to the way we move goods around the world. Similarly, TCP/IP packets normalized how information transits over computer networks. Today, blockchains...

Mark Miller: Agoric and the Decades-Long Quest for Secure Smart Contracts from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.398456

We were joined by Mark S. Miller, Chief Scientist at Agoric. Mark is a computer scientist who has done ground-breaking work on many topics relevant to blockchain and smart contracts going back d...

Dominic Tarr: Secure Scuttlebutt – The “Localized” but Distributed Social Network from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.383846

We’re joined by Dominic Tarr, a sailor, and the Founder of Secure Scuttlebutt. This curiously named project has a fascinating approach to creating a truly distributed social network. One might e...

Rob Dawson: PegaSys – Enterprise-Grade Ethereum Protocol Engineering from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.357168

We're joined by Rob Dawson, Head of Product at PegaSys. PegaSys is the protocol engineering spoke of ConsenSys, and the team building Pantheon, a Java implementation of the Ethereum client. The ...

Robert Leshner: Compound – An Automated Money Market for Ethereum Tokens from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.351717

In this episode, we caught up with Robert Leshner, founder of the Compound protocol. Compound is a fascinating smart contract protocol, running atop Ethereum, that allows users to lend and borro...

Igor Barinov: POA Network – Enabling Scaling Through Trust in Public Notaries from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.332105

We're joined by Igor Barinov, the tech lead of the POA Network. The POA Network achieves a reduction in transaction costs by many orders of magnitude by having a set of trusted validators. All v...

Ayo Akinyele: Bolt Labs – Zcash on Lightning from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.317691

We're joined by Ayo Akinyele, CEO of Bolt Labs. Bolt is building a new privacy-focused layer-2 payment channel network design. Initially designed by Matt Green and Ian Meyers, Bolt is being comm...

DappCon 2019 – Look at My Flashy Colors 
And Rounded Corners! from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.301704

As we take some time to record new interviews, we're releasing content from DappCon which took place in Berlin in August. This week, you'll hear a panel moderated by Sebastien on usability and u...

Jim Bianco: Deep Insights Into the Global Economic Crisis from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.092234

We've heard it over and over again, Covid-19 has plunged us into a crisis like none other we’ve experienced in our lifetime. Although it is primarily a public health issue, it is also having a m...

Dieter Fishbein&Joe Petrowski: Polkadot – Claiming Digital Sovereignty on Blockchain from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.078848

Polkadot is a unique protocol connecting multiple purpose-built blockchains into one scalable network. It's using blockchain technology to make way for new markets and future decentralized econo...

Evan Kuo: AMPL - the Controversial Digital Currency With an Elastic Supply from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.067449

Ampleforth is a cryptocurrency attempting to become an essential building block to an alternative financial ecosystem. The protocol’s native token, AMPL, is a non collateralized cryptocurrency, ...

Marek Olszewski&Rene Reinsberg: Celo – Towards Prosperity for Everyone from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.056084

Celo has a clear mission - to build a financial system that creates the conditions for prosperity, for everyone. The Celo Foundation is a non-profit organization that supports the growth and dev...

Tarun Chitra: Gauntlet – The Simulation Platform for Blockchain Protocols from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.049650

Gauntlet is a simulation platform for building financial models of blockchain protocols and applications. Their platform uses machine learning methods to simulate different environments with var...

Demetri Kofinas: Uncovering the Hidden Forces of Today's Society from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.038448

Hidden Forces is a podcast devoted to exploring the underlying forces driving the most powerful changes we see in the world. Demetri Kofinas, host of the show, holds conversations with some of t...

Ido Sadeh Man: Sögur – The Digital Coin Changing Global Currency for the Better (sponsored) from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.034246

Sögur, formerly known as Saga, aims to provide a global digital currency that acts as a store of value, a unit of account, and a medium of exchange. It is not impacted by any single nation state...

Alchemy – A Powerful Developer Platform and API for Ethereum Apps from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.013669

Alchemy is a powerful blockchain developer platform providing a suite of developer tools. Developers building apps which interact with Ethereum can use Alchemy's powerful APIs to supercharge the...

Juan Benet: Protocol Labs – IPFS, Filecoin and the Vision for a Decentralized Web (Part 2 of 2) from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.005293

Filecoin is a peer-to-peer network data storage network, with built-in economic incentives for storage providers. It facilitates open-markets for storing and retrieving data, in which anyone can...

Sandeep Nailwal: Matic – A Scalable Layer-2 Dapp Platform for Ethereum from 2023-12-13T18:20:56.001715

Matic Network is a Layer-2 scaling solution that provides instant, low cost, and secure transactions on Ethereum. Built on an adapted implementation of Plasma and a decentralized network of Proo...

Eric Wall: Arcane Assets – The Future of Digital Investments from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.992075

Eric Wall is the Chief Investment Officer at Arcane Assets, but you may already know him from his writing and his presence on Twitter where he offers valuable insights on crypto markets. He join...

Harsh Rajat: Ethereum Push Notification Service – The Decentralized Notification Protocol from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.984363

Ethereum Push Notification Service (EPNS) emerged from the Indian startup scene in 2020. It's a decentralized notification protocol that enables DApps to send push notifications to Ethereum wall...

Julien Bouteloup: Stake Capital/Rekt – Uncovering the Dark Side of DeFi from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.976187

Julien Bouteloup is a serial entrepreneur, Ethereum developer and addict of crazy innovative ideas. He started his entrepreneurial career building websites and selling hardware technologies at a...

Zubin Koticha: Opyn – The Release of V2 from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.967162

Zubin Koticha, CEO & Co-founder of Opyn, joined us again on the show to give us an update on Opyn v2.

Opyn v1 was focused on insurance. It's successor, Opyn v2, offers a more traditional o...

Sergej Kunz: 1inch – The DEX Aggregator from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.963006

1inch Exchange is a DEX aggregator routing cryptocurrency purchases through different DEXs to reduce slippage and get a better conversion rate for the user compared with just using a single DEX....

Tim Roughgarden: EIP-1559 – Tackling the Gas Fee Problem on Ethereum from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.953202

Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP)-1559 is a proposal to make several tightly coupled additions to Ethereum’s transaction fee mechanism. Central to the design is a base fee, which plays the rol...

Alex Masmej: Showtime – Building the Open Social Graph With NFTs from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.940645

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are tokens that we can use to represent ownership of unique items. They let us tokenize things like art, collectibles, even real estate. They can only have one officia...

Roman Semenov: Tornado Cash – Keeping Your Ethereum Transactions Private from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.936638

By default, all transactions made on Ethereum are public. Tornado Cash is a decentralized privacy preserving solution built on Ethereum which adds privacy through obfuscation. Users can place Et...

Felix Leupold: CowSwap – Tackling the Shortcomings of AMMs from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.904141

Originally started with a focus on prediction markets, Gnosis has done innovative work around automated market makers (AMMs) and decentralized exchanges for years. The latest protocol launched b...

Paul Kohlhaas&Tyler Golato: VitaDAO – The Collective Funding Longevity Research from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.896430

VitaDAO is a decentralized collective funding early stage longevity research. Their mission is to extend human lifespan by researching, financing, and commercializing longevity therapeutics in a...

Mounir Benchemled: ParaSwap – Solving Liquidity for DeFi from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.885695

ParaSwap is a DEX aggregator that aims to provide the best prices over multiple DEXes on the Ethereum blockchain. Users are able to scan dozens of exchanges for the best possible crypto price po...

Vasiliy Shapovalov: Lido – The Liquid Staking Solution for Ethereum 2.0 from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.877173

Lido is a DAO that provides a liquid staking solution for Ethreum 2.0. It lets users stake their Ether, without locking assets or needing to maintain infrastructure, whilst participating in on-c...

Jérôme de Tychey: Cometh – The Blockchain Game at the Intersection of NFTs and DeFi from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.866591

Cometh is a game on Ethereum that lets users own yield-generating NFTs, integrating both DeFi and NFT features into a single, fun gaming experience. As a player, you control spaceships (also cal...

Guy Zyskind: Secret Network – Bringing Privacy to Blockchain from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.845785

Formerly Enigma, Secret Network is a blockchain-based, open-source protocol built using the Cosmos SDK. It uses Trusted Execution Environments on nodes to marry privacy-by-default with smart con...

Dean Tribble: Agoric – The Secure JavaScript Smart Contracts Platform from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.838403

Agoric is an Proof-of-Stake blockchain built on the Cosmos-SDK that allows developers to create secure smart contracts written in JavaScript. It offers developers safe, reusable DeFi components ...

Kevin Owocki: Gitcoin – Building and Funding the Open Web from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.834649

Gitcoin is a platform which funds software developers for work in open source ecosystems. Open source creates value without capturing it: Gitcoin creates funding mechanism to correct the asymmet...

Sergey Gorbunov: Axelar – The Blockchain Interoperability Network from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.793609

Axelar is a highly scalable, decentralized blockchain that aims to connect all existing blockchains. The proof of stake network, built on the Cosmos-SDK, allows application developers to choose ...

Amir Haleem: Helium – The People's Wireless Network from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.789333

Helium is a global, distributed network of long-range wireless coverage hotspots for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, powered by the Helium blockchain. Community run hotspots create 'The People...

Adrian Brink&Christopher Goes: Anoma – The Blockchain'Undefining Money' from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.781453

Anoma is a set of protocols that puts privacy front and center. It aims to facilitate “Self-Sovereign Communities” by providing tools that grant increased control to individuals and communities ...

Dan Finlay: MetaMask – The ETH Based Wallet for Swaps and dApps from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.763423

MetaMask is the de-facto standard self-custodial wallet for Ethereum. It started off as a web browser extension on chromium. More recently, it also launched a mobile app. MetaMask allows you to ...

Arjun Bhuptani: Connext – Speeding Up Secure Bridges Between Chains from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.760235

Connext is a crosschain liquidity network that speeds up fully-noncustodial transfers between EVM-compatible crosschains (xapps) and L2 systems. Connext works in tandem with nomad bridge technol...

Tim Beiko: Ethereum Foundation – The Ethereum Merge from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.750101

The hotly anticipated Ethereum merge due later this year, will see the joining of the existing execution layer of Ethereum (the Mainnet we use today) with its new proof-of-stake consensus layer,...

Stephane Gosselin&Vasiliy Shapovalov: MEV-Boost – Preparing for the Merge from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.740893

Flashbots has pioneered the work around MEV which has become one of the most important topics in crypto today. MEV-Boost is an implementation of proposer-builder separation (PBS) built by Flashb...

Preethi Kasireddy: DappCamp – Becoming a Web3 Developer from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.696128

DappCamp is a 21-day cohort-based course for Web2 developers making the shift to Web3. It offers hands-on experience on how to architect, develop, and scale a Web 3.0 app on Ethereum. Participan...

Ameen Soleimani: RAI – A Low Volatility Trust-Minimized Stablecoin from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.692346

Decentralized stablecoins have long been regarded as a fundamental building block for the decentralized web. The first ground-breaking project in this area is Maker with their stablecoin DAI. Mu...

Cryptocito: Cosmoverse – Where Cosmonauts Unite from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.684327

We caught up with Cosmoverse co-founder and YouTuber Cryptocito, for a chat from this year's event in Medellin. We look back on the 2nd edition of the conference and how the ecosystem has grown ...

Dev Bharel: Wormhole – The Cross Chain Messaging Protocol from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.674186

Wormhole is a decentralized cross chain messaging protocol powering the transfer of value and information across high value chains. A network of Guardian nodes secure the protocol by observing a...

Epicenter Hosts – The Bear Is Back: Recollections From 2022 from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.664784

This year has been quite a rollercoaster for the crypto industry. From the long-awaited success of the Ethereum Merge to the spectacular collapse of FTX, this year has been full of lessons, resi...

Anna Rose&Kobi Gurkan: Zero Knowledge Proofs – State of the ZK Ecosystem - Part 2 from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.655740

While Part 1 (#476) focused more on the general landscape of the ZK ecosystem, covering team updates and developments, in this episode, we take a closer look at specific use cases for ZK proofs ...

Trent McConaghy: Ocean Protocol – AI&the Data NFT Marketplace (V4) from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.645809

From technological breakthrough to philosophical defiance, the topic of AI has always sparked intense debates ever since Alan Turing & John McCarthy advanced this branch of computer science. One...

Jesse Pollak: Base – The Optimistic Gateway to Crypto Adoption from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.599945

Layer 2 scaling solutions are widely regarded as the next step forward in the mainstream adoption of crypto as they enable higher throughput and lower transaction fees. Coinbase’s recent announc...

Ryan Zurrer: Dialectic AG - A Decade of Crypto Ventures: From BTC mining to P2E gaming from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.588248

Considering the abundance of cryto projects launching constantly, making sound investment decisions requires both ample experience in the space, as well as a reliable network. Predicting future ...

Ali Yahya: Andreessen Horowitz – A16z Crypto Investment Thesis from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.576614

When it comes to top-tier VCs, very few equal Andreessen Horowitz' (a16z) impressive portfolio, which stretches over both Web2 and Web3. Their crypto venture arm includes investments in most ind...

Fig: Squid Router – Sub-20 Second Cross-Chain Swaps. Axelar-Powered Interoperability from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.566157

As crypto evolves, it becomes clearer that the future will be multi-chain. Presently, moving funds between different blockchains is frustrating...to say the least. The current bridging solutions...

Zac Williamson&Joe Andrews: Aztec - Privacy-preserving, hybrid ZK rollup from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.562878

In order to achieve true transaction privacy, it is not enough to encrypt or build ZK proofs for transaction bundles, as long as the underlying blockchain uses an account-based model. Aztec is b...

Sveinn Valfells: Monerium – Regulated On-Chain Euro (EURe) from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.548908

Stablecoins represent the backbone of DeFi, allowing complex financial applications to be protected from external volatility. From fiat-backed to algorithmic, there are multiple approaches to is...

Alex Gluchowski: zkSync - A new Era for EVM-compatible zk rollups from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.531219

Ethereum scaling solutions often resort to tradeoffs, sacrificing security or decentralisation in favour of scalability. However, zk rollups hold the potential of increasing throughput, while al...

Stephane Gosselin: Frontier Research - Solving Ethereum's MEV Problem from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.520850

The maximal extractable value (MEV) problem, if left unchecked, could represent an existential threat to Ethereum’s core values. One might argue that it is a natural result of solving market ine...

Stani Kulechov: Lens Protocol – Decentralised Social Media Primitive from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.516169

Social media revolves around content creation, and while the content itself could be tokenised through NFTs, SocialFi aims to take it a step further. The recently released friend.tech app went t...

Niklas Kunkel: Chronicle – Ethereum's First-Ever Oracle from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.505529

Back in 2017, there was no DeFi as we know it today, yet MakerDAO were already envisioning and building towards what they thought to be a certainty. The backbone of DeFi is represented by stable...

Nick Johnson: ENS - Multichain ENS Domains and Decentralised Identities from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.492339

The very nature of Ethereum addresses, expressed as random hexadecimal character strings, represents a big hurdle for mass adoption, as they are not human-readable. ENS domains were envisioned t...

Marek Olszewski&Rene Reinsberg: Celo – The Mobile-First High-Throughput Blockchain from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.473407

With an average block time of 5 seconds and sub-cent transaction gas fees, Celo focuses on scalability and ease of access in order to bring DeFi to those that need it the most. Celo’s vision of ...

Yat Siu: Animoca Brands – From NFTs&Blockchain Gaming to the Open Metaverse from 2023-12-13T18:20:55.469099

When it comes to NFTs and blockchain gaming, very few companies can rival with Animoca Brands’ early conviction, investment thesis and time horizon. They understood early on that community build...

Rand Hindi: Zama - Fully Homomorphic Encryption in Blockchain Applications&Privacy from 2023-11-24T12:15:25

Homo- (Greek prefix meaning ‘same’); -morphic (Greek suffix meaning ‘having a specific shape/form’)
Intuitively, one could deduct that homomorphic encryption indicates that the initial data...

Ye Zhang: Scroll - EVM-compatible ZK rollup from 2023-11-18T10:20:15

"The advancements of zero knowledge proving technology, hardware acceleration and proof recursion have significantly increased the efficiency of EVM-compatible zk provers. As a result, the forme...

Charles d'Haussy: dYdX V4 - Decentralised Perpetual Exchange on a Cosmos Appchain from 2023-11-10T17:16:09

Leading decentralised perpetual exchange, dYdX V4 recently migrated to Cosmos to build its own sovereign appchain, in order to provide its users a much better trading experience, while continuin...

Simon Harman: Chainflip - Native cross-chain AMM from 2023-10-27T22:21:15

While competition fosters innovation, the proliferation of different blockchains has resulted in the fragmentation and isolation of liquidity within each ecosystem. Early attempts to address thi...

Guy Young: Ethena - USDe Synthetic Dollar via Delta-Neutral Staked Ethereum Hedging from 2023-10-20T19:16:59

Stablecoins represent a safe haven against crypto’s volatility, allowing participants to remain in the market, without off-ramping to fiat. While the major stablecoins are centrally issued (e.g....

Evgeny Yurtaev: Zerion - Web3 Wallet UX 2.0 from 2023-10-13T19:44:38

One of the best known memes in crypto is: 'Not your keys, not your coins'. This usually resurfaces whenever a (custodial) centralised exchange is hacked or goes bust altogether. Although Web3 pr...

Elias Simos: Rated Network - Reputation for Machines = Transparent Blockchain Infrastructure from 2023-09-28T08:48:34

Data immutability and transparency are key features that define a blockchain’s public ledger. However, while transactions are indeed transparent, information surrounding the blockchain’s infrast...

Misha Komarov: =nil; Foundation – The Marketplace for ZK Proof Generation from 2023-09-22T12:12:34

Zero knowledge proof systems have found tremendous cryptographic utility in scaling blockchains, due to their ability to prove computational integrity, succinctly. However, despite recent advanc...

Robbie Ferguson: Immutable - The Web3 Gaming one-stop-shop from 2023-09-16T02:14:56

Apart from its numerous financial applications, blockchain technology could also disrupt the gaming industry, causing a paradigm shift towards true digital ownership, one that would create new i...

Marko Baricevic: Cosmos SDK - The Internet of Appchains from 2023-08-25T22:35:12

From the very beginning, Cosmos set out to provide an alternative to the monolithic blockchain architecture proposed by Ethereum. Cosmos SDK was the cornerstone of this vision, as it allowed dev...

Sandeep Nailwal: Polygon 2.0 - The New Value Layer of the Internet? from 2023-08-18T15:12:03

What started out as Matic Network, in 2017, and later rebranded to Polygon, in 2021, it is now facing another major milestone: Polygon 2.0. Apart from a tokenomics update, their plans include bu...

Stephen Young&Storm: NFTFi – P2P NFT Lending Protocol: From PFPs&Art to RWA from 2023-08-11T15:56:52

After a 2021 frothy bull market, NFTs are currently experiencing the depression phase of the market cycle. However, despite the fact that only NFT art has truly found its product-market fit, NFT...

Patrick O'Grady: Avalanche – Building High Performance VMs With HyperSDK from 2023-07-28T11:10:44

The recent history of L2s has shown that there doesn’t need to be ‘one chain to rule them all’ or an ‘ETH killer’. Instead, a healthier approach would be to find the best solution for a specific...

Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum - MEV, Staking Derivatives and Privacy (EthCC 6) from 2023-07-22T10:20:15

We couldn’t miss EthCC 6 and we got to sit down with Vitalik Buterin to discuss hot topics from the Ethereum ecosystem: MEV, staking derivatives, privacy, decentralisation and future interoperab...

Avril Dutheil: Neutron – Interchain Smart Contracts on Cosmos from 2023-07-14T17:00

Blockchains are secured through the economic incentives offered to their validators/miners. The more robust the network effect among validators, the more difficult it is for that blockchain to b...

Eli Ben-Sasson: Starknet - zk-STARKs and Cairo 1.0 upgrade from 2023-06-30T18:55:12

Layer 2 zero knowledge roll-ups have initially been used for achieving private transactions on blockchains. However, past simple transfers, interacting with a public smart contract posed a serio...

Luka Müller: Sygnum Bank&MME Legal – Crypto Regulations&Institutional Investors from 2023-06-23T13:48:31

As institutional money set their eyes on crypto, some degree of centralisation and regulation was inevitable. However, the key aspect is to limit it to access gateways and not affect protocols’ ...

Epicenter – Looking Back on 10 Years of Crypto. AI Doom&Gloom? SPECIAL from 2023-06-16T12:29:54

As Epicenter hits the 500 episode milestone, our hosts look back on almost 10 years of crypto developments, analysing the good, the bad and the ugly. What projects & narratives have surprised ou...

Collin Myers&Oisín Kyne: Obol Network - Distributed Validator Technology (DVT) from 2023-05-27T14:33:37

Ethereum's merge and transition to a proof-of-stake consensus implied switching from proof-of-work mining to transactions being validated by entities that have an economic stake in the network. ...

Ben DiFrancesco: Umbra – Privacy Preserving Token Transfers from 2023-05-19T14:51:57

Public transaction history in blockchains represents one of their key features which, alongside immutability, aim to provide an alternative to CeFi. However, this transparency comes at a price: ...

Emin Gün Sirer: Avalanche – The Future of Crypto: From Gaming to LLM-Powered Smart Contracts from 2023-05-11T16:17:38

As the second Avalanche summit drew to a close, Sebastien Couture and Sunny Aggarwal sat down with Emin Gün Sirer for a fascinating conversation exploring future innovation narratives in crypto....

Jose Macedo: Mars Protocol – Red Bank'Credit on Cosmos via Osmosis from 2023-04-28T11:13:05

The end of 2022 and beginning of 2023 were marked by centralised institutions failing: from CEXes to CeFi itself, contagion spread quickly in over-leveraged and opaque entities. Amidst this chao...

John Letey: KYVE – Decentralised and Accessible Data Storage from 2023-04-21T11:52:16

We often take data storage for granted, but the rise of centralised storing facilities (i.e. AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.) hangs over like Damocles’ sword. When it comes to blockchains, full nodes stor...

Tim Galebach: Uqbar – Smart Contracts on Urbit from 2023-04-14T11:02:15

Building a truly decentralised, peer-to-peer network, based on a built-in identity system, limits the ecosystem’s interoperability with the outside world. Onboarding developers and users to Urbi...

Barry: Dymension – Modular Blockchains and RollApps from 2023-03-31T16:16:19

When it comes to scaling blockchains, there are 2 main types of off-chain solutions: sidechains and L2s (i.e. rollups, state channels). These are all intended to scale monolithic L1 blockchains....

Laurence Ion&Vincent Weisser: Vita DAO – From DeSci to Longevity Research from 2023-03-24T14:29:14

Scientific research & publishing are gruelling tasks that extend outside the scope of science itself. Centralised publications abound in archaic practices that span from submitting a paper to ge...

David Schwartz&Jordi Baylina: Polygon zkEVM – From Mainnet to Mass Adoption - Part 2 from 2023-03-17T16:42:48

While Part 1 (#486) focused on the technological advancements that allowed proofs to be generated in a practical manner, lowering both the time and the hardware requirements, in this episode, we...

David Schwartz&Jordi Baylina: Polygon zkEVM – From Circuits to Mainnet - Part 1 from 2023-03-10T17:17:28

With the upcoming launch of Polygon's zkEVM mainnet, L2s are undoubtedly a huge narrative that is unfolding in 2023. It is time to take a step back and recognise the incredible amount of effort ...

Rebecca Liao: Saga – Bootstrapping Chainlets in the Multiverse from 2023-02-24T13:51:08

Building a blockchain from the ground-up is a daunting task in itself, one that should not be a concern when designing an end-user application. Moreover, as Web3 aims to move away from centraliz...

Luis Schliesske&Hilmar Orth: Gelato Network - Web3 Backend Automation&Relay from 2023-02-17T16:37:50

Web3 has always been criticised for its not so friendly user experience. While one might argue that it requires a mere learning curve, similar to that of e-mail services when first introduced, W...

Paul Frambot: Morpho Labs – Peer-to-Peer DeFi Lending Protocol from 2023-01-25T19:00

DeFi lending protocols operate accordingly to their smart contracts and are perfect examples of ‘Code is law’, even if some recent exploits have not quite abided to this harsh truth. From well e...

Antonio Juliano: dYdX – Decentralized Perpetual Exchanges from 2023-01-20T18:36

2022 has proven time after time that centralised entities are prone to multiple points of failure, intentional or not. Decentralised finance (DeFi) addresses these, but the user experience has o...

Carl Beekhuizen&Trent van Epps: Ethereum Foundation – EIP-4844&KZG Ceremony from 2023-01-12T14:53:57

The recent advancements of layer 2 scaling solutions, especially zero-knowledge rollups, led to a complete redesign of Ethereum’s scalability roadmap. As a result, the initial concept of shardin...

Anna Rose&Kobi Gurkan: Zero Knowledge Proofs – State of the ZK Ecosystem - Part 1 from 2022-12-30T20:45:50

Blockchains are immutable record keepers, storing information about every transaction ever recorded. However, this attribute comes at a cost: as more and more transactions occur, so does the siz...

Ted Blackman&Gary Lieberman: Urbit - Decentralized Computing Platforms from 2022-12-21T23:00

When discussing the widespread adoption of true, peer-to-peer decentralization, one could easily identify various social and political obstacles. However, there is also an often overlooked techn...

Nick Dodson: Fuel Labs – Modular Execution Blockchains from 2022-12-17T00:20:36

As crypto adoption increases, so does the pressing need for blockchain scalability. Monolithic blockchains provide data availability, consensus and execution on a single, base layer, which makes...

Fredrik Haga: Dune Analytics – The Open Data Platform from 2022-11-30T09:50:22

Dune Analytics is a platform aggregating blockchain data, making data easier to query and understand for the larger public. Over the past years, Dune has become the go-to tool for blockchain ana...

Ben Fielding&Harry Grieve: Gensyn – The Deep Learning Compute Protocol from 2022-11-25T17:04:09

Artificial Intelligence is a fascinating field that has made tremendous development over the past few years. From GPT-3 to Dall-e and Stable Diffusion, the vastness of the scope of applications ...

Sreeram Kannan: EigenLayer – The Ethereum Restaking Protocol from 2022-11-17T14:50:49

EigenLayer is a 'programmable slashing' layer2 protocol built on Ethereum which leverages security through the method of restaking. This is a bootstrapping mechanism which allows existing Eth2 s...

Anastasiya Belyaeva&Luis Cuende: Nation3 – Creating a Sovereign Cloud Nation from 2022-11-10T15:44:40

For centuries, we have been led to believe that nation states are the only way to organize humankind at scale. But governments all around the world are failing to react swiftly to the severe des...

Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum – State of Affairs After the Merge from 2022-10-26T08:46:52

With the long awaited Ethereum Merge successfully executed last month, we caught up with Vitalik at DevCon in Bogota to talk shop: How does he see the state of the network, does he think looming...

Ethan Buchman&Zaki Manian: ATOM 2.0 – Deep Dive from 2022-10-24T05:25:26

Since its announcement a few weeks ago at Cosmoverse in Medellin, Atom 2.0 has sparked intense debate in the Cosmos community and throughout the blockchain ecosystem. It proposes three pillars f...

Anett Rolikova, David Hoffmann, Joseph Schweitzer&Nick Johnson: Devcon 6 Recap – Live From Bogota from 2022-10-22T16:15:57

After a 2 year hiatus, Devcon was back for its 6th and best year so far, this time in Bogota, Colombia. As things wrapped up we grabbed a few of the Ethereum community's most prominent names for...

Devcon Panel – Censorship Resistance and Credible Neutrality from 2022-10-14T15:04:30

Bonus Episode: At a side event at Devcon in Bogota Colombia, Friederike moderated a panel discussion on censorship resistance and credible neutrality with Phil from Flashbots, Patrick from Infur...

Sebastian Bürgel: HOPR – The Peer to Peer Network Changing Data Privacy from 2022-09-28T11:15:16

HOPR is a decentralized and incentivized peer-to-peer mixnet open to anyone who wants to join and run a node. The network allows people, companies, and devices to exchange information online wit...

Hyung Lee: Crescent Network – The Hybrid AMM/Orderbook Decentralized Exchange from 2022-09-23T08:52:57

Crescent is an AMM/Orderbook Hybrid Decentralized Exchange that allows trading inter-chain assets in a cost-efficient manner. Crescent is a sovereign Cosmos chain that was created after migratin...

Dappcon – Roundtable: The Ethereum Merge from 2022-09-14T21:11:26

In the countdown to the merge, Sebastien and Friederike teamed up with Eduardo Antuña, Co-founder of DappNode, at this year's Dappcon which is back after a 2 year hiatus. Hear as they chat about...

Peter Van Valkenburgh: Coin Center – The Sanction on Tornado Cash from 2022-08-24T12:22:32

On August 8, 2022, the US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Tornado Cash, citing allegations it helped North Korea's Lazarus hacker group launder mi...

Ethan Frey: CosmWasm – The Smart Contracting Platform for Cosmos from 2022-08-19T11:31:42

CosmWasm is a smart contracting platform built for the Cosmos ecosystem. It's the Cosmos (Cosm) way of using WebAssembly (Wasm). CosmWasm is written as a module that can plug into the Cosmos SDK...

Brett Scott: Cloudmoney – The Future of Cash from 2022-08-12T07:31:45

A cashless society - one where paper and coin currency is no longer used and instead replaced with electronic transactions. Many countries are already moving in this direction with benefits note...

Epicenter Hosts – Is the Ethereum Roadmap the Right Path for Eth Holders? from 2022-07-29T14:23:22

An interesting question that has sparked debate in the Twittersphere and amongst our hosts. Hear as Meher, Friederike and Brian discuss scaling visions currently in the ecosystem, with particula...

Bettina Boon Falleur, Griff Green&Jerome de Tychey: EthCC 5 – A Recap of This Year's Event from 2022-07-22T13:10:31

EthCC is over for another year and what a week it was! 6 stages, 2,000 attendees, over 200 speakers, 40 hours of talks and content, 40 sponsors, and 130 side events (and parties) all over Paris....

Mona El Isa: Enzyme – The Future of Asset Management from 2022-07-14T16:42

Enzyme Finance, previously named Melon, is a decentralized protocol built on Ethereum (ETH) that allows users to create, manage and invest in custom crypto asset management vehicles onchain. Usi...

Josh Lehman: Urbit – The Peer-to-Peer Network Re-Decentralizing the Internet from 2022-06-29T11:32:38

Urbit is an exciting new operating system and peer-to-peer network that’s simple by design, built to last forever, and 100% owned by its users. Under the hood it's a from-scratch software stack ...

Jamal Raees&Yanni Giannaros: Wyre – Using Blockchain for Cross-Border Payments from 2022-06-23T16:03:20

Wyre is a leading fiat-to-cryptocurrency and payment infrastructure company for the cryptocurrency ecosystem. In blockchain time, Wyre has been around forever -- it was founded in 2013. Wyre lev...

Ed Felten: Arbitrum – The Layer 2 Scaling Solution Increasing Speed and Reducing Fees from 2022-06-17T07:10:16

Arbitrum is a Layer 2 scaling solution for the Ethereum blockchain which helps reduce high transaction gas fees. Arbitrum uses a multi-round optimistic rollup that regularly checks in with Ether...

Nick Johnson: ENS – An Update on the Global Naming System for Ethereum from 2022-05-25T08:11:11

The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) allows users to register .eth domain names, which can be used natively in some browsers and all Ethereum wallets. It provides a solution to long crypto addresses ...

Stani Kulechov: Aave – 3.0 from 2022-05-18T00:38:25

Aave is an open-source moneymarket protocol. An Ethereum native, it's deployed on Avalanche and Polygon, with more than $1 billion deposited on each. V3 is now live on seven different blockchain...

Chun Wang: stakefish – From Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake from 2022-05-13T08:38:52

Chun Wang started mining Bitcoin in 2011 and later created F2Pool, one of the leading Proof-of-Work mining pools. Despite his deep involvement in Proof-of-Work, Chun also recognized the transfor...

Kyle Samani&Tushar Jain: Multicoin Capital – An Update From the Thesis-Driven Investment Firm from 2022-04-29T09:50

Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in the crypto space. They manage a hedge fund and a venture fund, investing across both public and private markets. Since their ...

Gregory Landua: Regen Network – The Blockchain for Planetary Regeneration from 2022-04-22T15:29:27

Regen Network is a blockchain focused on ecological regeneration and reversing climate change. Their aim is to reinvent the economics of agriculture so that farmers are seen not only as food pro...

Felix Lutsch: Chorus One – On Proof-of-Stake, Interoperability&Crypto Markets from 2022-04-15T13:22:34

Brian was joined by Felix Lutsch, CCO of Chorus One, for a discussion of what is going on in crypto today. The discussion included the evolving Proof-of-Stake landscape, the role of and trends a...

Federico Kunze Küllmer: Evmos – The Ethereum Virtual Machine on Cosmos from 2022-03-30T16:30:35

Leveraging the Cosmos SDK, Evmos is the first IBC-compatible EVM-based blockchain, bringing composability, interoperability, and fast finality to Ethereum. While much of the Cosmos ecosystem has...

Laura Shin: The Cryptopians – Uncovering the Secrets of Early Ethereum from 2022-03-23T11:46:57

After more than three years in the making, Laura Shin has just released her first book, The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze. In it she di...

Alex Blania: Worldcoin – The Eye Catching Crypto Coin from 2022-03-16T12:10:53

Worldcoin is a start-up trying to engineer widespread adoption for its cryptocurrency by giving away tokens. Sound too good to be true? Depends how you look at it (literally). Participants must ...

Gabriel Shipton&Stellar Magnet: AssangeDAO – The NFT Funding the Julian Assange Case from 2022-02-23T11:21:49

It's been just short of 2 years since we had Julian Assange's father John, and Harry Halpin, on the show to chat about his imprisonment and the impact it could have on the crypto community. At t...

DappCon 2019 – Tales of Governance: DAOs, Swarms and Anarchic Systems from 2022-02-21T12:43:58.659264

This week, you'll hear a panel moderated by Sunny on DAO governance. The panelists where Ameen Soleimani of MolochDAO, Stephanie Hurder of Prysm Group, Jorge Izquierdo of Aragon One, and Sebastian ...

Anatoly Yakovenko: Solana - Reaching for the Limits of Blockchain Performance from 2022-02-21T12:43:58.655748

Solana is building a hyper-scalable blockchain capable of 50,000 tps without sharding. We were joined by Solana CEO Anatoly Yakovenko to discuss their unique technological breakthroughs and approac...

Dr. Luka Müller: MME – The Law Firm Behind the Rise of Switzerland’s CryptoValley from 2022-02-21T12:43:58.652382

Luka Muller joins us to discuss Syngum: a crypto-asset bank created to fill a crucial missing component between the old world of finance, and the emerging world of distributed protocols.

Charlie Shrem: The Untold Story of a Bitcoin Pioneer and Renegade from 2022-02-21T12:43:58.648160

Charlie Shrem learned of Bitcoin in an IRC chat in 2011 and quickly became one of the industry’s first builders and evangelists that helped the world understand and use cryptocurrency.

Kain Warwick: Synthetix – Bringing the World’s Assets Into DeFi from 2022-02-21T12:43:58.644539

Synthetix is a company creating synthetic assets for DeFi, enabling exposure to fiat currencies, commodities (gold and silver), cryptocurrencies, and, eventually, traditional equities.

Joe Lallouz: Bison Trails – Building a Better Proof of Stake Ecosystem for Everyone from 2022-02-21T12:43:58.640418

Bison Trails is a company which provides staking infrastructure for a variety of PoS blockchains. We are joined by CEO Joe Lallouz and he shares their vision to build a better proof of stake ecosys...

James Dyer & Jason Goldberg: Pepo & Decrypt – New Token Models for Media Engagement from 2022-02-21T12:43:58.634772

In another of our bonus episodes recorded at EthCC in Paris, we caught up with Jason Goldberg, CEO and Founder of Pepo and Ost, and James Dyer, Co-founder and Head of Product at Decrypt. We chatted...

Ryan Sean Adams: Mythos Capital – On Becoming Bankless from 2022-02-21T12:43:58.633575

Ryan Sean Adams is the Founder of Mythos Capital and the author of the popular DeFi newsletter, Bankless. He also hosts a podcast by the same name with David Hoffman.

Marco Streng: Genesis Mining – Taking Bitcoin Mining to the Cloud from 2022-02-21T12:43:58.600535

Genesis Mining is a leading hash power provider offering cloud cryptocurrency mining as a service. Co-founder & CEO Marco Streng shares how he built his company from the ground up, and is now expan...

Alex Skidanov&Illia Polosukhin: NEAR Protocol – Scaling Blockchain to a Billion Users from 2022-02-19T23:07:45

NEAR Protocol is a leading smart contract platform that aims for simplicity, security and scalability. NEAR was one of the first sharded blockchains and allows deploying smart contracts using We...

Zeus: Olympus DAO – The Decentralized Reserve Currency from 2022-01-25T13:07:54

Olympus is a hotly debated project in the DeFi space. It posits to be a decentralized reserve currency protocol. Each OHM token is partially backed by the Olympus treasury, but how large the tre...

Auryn Macmillan&Kei Kreutler: Zodiac – The Expansion Pack for DAOs from 2022-01-20T07:09:41

Zodiac is a collection of tools built according to an open standard which proposes a composable design philosophy for DAOs. Built by the Gnosis Guild team, this extension pack for DAOs enables c...

Harry Halpin&Jaya Klara Brekke: Nym – The Next Generation of Global Privacy from 2022-01-14T13:29:30

The current lack of privacy on the internet exposes billions of people to mass surveillance and data breaches, undermining trust in digital services and stifling innovation. Nym is a mixnet and ...

Amir Taaki, Ivan Jelincic&Rose O'Leary: DarkFi – Let There Be Dark (Part 2 of 2) from 2021-12-29T14:17:59

The DarkFi squad return for the second part of this 2 part episode. We chat about the FreeAssange DAO, totalitarianism in crypto, and hear about Amir's early involvement in many projects includi...

Amir Taaki, Ivan Jelincic&Rachel-Rose O'Leary: DarkFi – Let There Be Dark (Part 1 of 2) from 2021-12-23T21:55:04

DarkFi is a new DeFi platform that prioritizes privacy. As a base layer for anonymous applications and smart contracts, it's a multichain interoperable, and open source product that anyone can b...

Joey Santoro: Fei Protocol – Introducing Fei v2 from 2021-12-16T20:48:47

Fei Protocol is a decentralized, liquid, and scalable stablecoin platform, based on a new concept called Protocol Controlled Value (PCV). After a rocky start, Fei is now back on the road to grow...

Epicenter – The Hosts Look Back on 2021 from 2021-12-10T08:51:02

2021 was an exciting year for the crypto space. We've seen all time market highs, dramatic regulatory shifts, and some use cases hit the main stream. 4 of our hosts got together to dissect the s...

Nicolas Julia: Sorare – Marrying Fantasy Sports and NFTs from 2021-11-30T22:59:36

Sorare is a blockchain sports game which bridges fantasy football and NFT collectibles. A player collects a team of players in the form of NFTs and based on the performance of the players in the...

Emin Gün Sirer: Avalanche from 2021-11-24T16:23:49

Avalanche is an open, scalable, and secure smart contracts platform. It targets three broad use cases; building application-specific blockchains, building and launching highly scalable decentral...

Anatoly Yakovenko: Solana – at Breakpoint from 2021-11-17T08:13:42

Solana has pursued the vision of a single, fast and scalable blockchain from the start. Today, it has become one of the fastest growing ecosystems in crypto with hundreds of projects spanning De...

Jerry Brito&Peter Van Valkenburgh: Coin Center – The Current US Regulatory Landscape for Crypto from 2021-11-10T06:35:45

Coin Center is an independant not-profit research and advocacy organisation focused on the public policy issues that affect cryptocurrencies and open permisionless blockchain networks. Their mis...

Ariah Klages-Mundt&Lewis Gudgeon: Gyroscope – The All-Weather Stablecoin from 2021-10-27T13:05:12

Gyroscope is an "all-weather stablecoin" that is backed by a reserve portfolio that tries to diversify across many risk factors. By maintaining a reserve of many decorrelated assets, it makes Gy...

Alessio Delmonti: PieDAO – The Asset Manager for Tokenized Portfolios from 2021-10-19T18:01:28

PieDAO is is a decentralized asset manager for tokenized portfolios and enables anyone to create allocations for both crypto and traditional assets. PIES are non-custodial pools available to any...

Jeff Wu&Teddy Woodward: Notional Finance – The Fixed-Rate Lending Protocol from 2021-10-12T14:07:01

Notional is a protocol on Ethereum that facilitates fixed-rate, fixed-term crypto asset lending and borrowing. The core concept of Notional is fCash, a zero-compound bond defined by a currency t...

Nevin Freeman: Reserve – Stable Currency as a Human Right from 2021-09-28T18:06:41

The Reserve project is on a mission to provide every person in the world access to stable currency. They are working to rebuild financial services in countries such as Argentina and Venezuela, t...

Jordi Baylina: Hermez – ZK Technology for Scaling Ethereum from 2021-09-21T11:54:49

Hermez is an open-source ZK-Rollup optimised for secure, low-cost and usable token transfers on the wings of Ethereum. The Hermez network team is currently developing the next version of the dec...

Erik Voorhees: ShapeShift – Decentralizing a Fox from 2021-09-14T18:51:13

Erik Voorhees, CEO & Founder of ShapeShift, joins us for his 4th appearance on the show. ShapeShift recently announced they are decentralizing the company and its products, which would see the c...

Mike Novogratz: Galaxy Digital – Bridging Crypto and Institutional Worlds from 2021-08-31T19:06:32

Mike Novogratz is the CEO of Galaxy Digital, an investment bank targeting institutional investors, which he also founded. He was formerly a Partner and President of Fortress Investment Group LLC...

Dominic Williams: DFINITY – Smart Contracts and the Internet Computer from 2021-08-24T17:21:33

The DFINITY Foundation is a not-for-profit scientific research organization with a mission to build, promote, and maintain the Internet Computer. The IC is a layer 1 smart contract enabled block...

Joe Andrews&Zac Williamson: Aztec Protocol – Bringing Scalable Privacy to DeFi from 2021-08-17T17:47:17

Aztec Protocol enables private transactions on Ethereum. It uses a zero-knowledge proof system, allowing users to effectively create shielded representations of tokens, which can then be sent an...

Chris Spadafora: BadgerDAO – Bridging Bitcoin and DeFi from 2021-08-10T12:04:01

Badger is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) with a single purpose: To build the products and infrastructure necessary to accelerate Bitcoin as collateral across other blockchains. Ba...

Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum - Can It Go Beyond DeFi? from 2021-07-29T08:24:51

Vitalik Buterin joins us for an in-depth conversation at EthCC 4 in Paris. During his keynote presentation, he expressed his hope for Ethereum to go beyond DeFi as he wishes to see more non-fina...

Ambre Soubiran, Jerome de Tychey&Mounir Benchemled: EthCC 4 – Liberté, Égalité, Décentralisé from 2021-07-24T23:08:46

EthCC is back and stronger than ever! Despite the pandemic, ongoing travel restrictions and sanitary passes, the Ethereum France team hosted the fourth edition of the Ethereum Community Conferen...

Sunny Aggarwal: Osmosis – The AMM Protocol Built for Liquidity Providers from 2021-07-16T20:37:33

Recently launched Osmosis is a Cosmos based and IBC enabled AMM protocol that allows for a high level of customization by liquidity providers. As the main dex on the Cosmos network, Osmosis prov...

Cassidy Daly&Lucas Vogelsang: Centrifuge – Introducing Real-World DeFi from 2021-06-30T11:55:09

Centrifuge is an open and permissionless protocol built on Polkadot and Ethereum that unlocks collateral for DeFi. Centrifuge allows for the tokenization of real world assets such as invoices, r...

Dankrad Feist: Ethereum Foundation – An Eth2 Progress Update #2 from 2021-06-22T13:37:29

Ethereum 2.0 is an upgrade to the Ethereum network that aims to improve the network's security and scalability. Recently, we chatted to Danny Ryan Listen

Alex Gluchowski: zkSync – The First EVM-Compatible zkRollup Protocol from 2021-06-15T12:25:36

zkSync is a trustless protocol for scalable low-cost transactions on Ethereum. It's also the only zkRollup protocol which supports EVM smart contracts.

Alex Gluchowski is co-founder of Mat...

Danny Ryan: Ethereum Foundation – An Eth2 Progress Update from 2021-05-27T02:17:28

Ethereum will switch from Proof of Work (PoW) to Proof of Stake (PoS) likely already later this year in a much anticipated upgrade to Ethereum 2. The switch to PoS aims to make Ethereum both mor...

Scoopy Trooples: Alchemix – Financial Alchemy Through Self-Repaying Loans from 2021-05-21T12:31:22

We were joined by Alchemix co-founder Scoopy Trooples, who gave us a deep look into how the protocol works, alUSD and the ALCX token, and what is coming out soon with V2.

Michael Egorov: Curve Finance – The Stablecoin Exchange Protocol from 2021-05-13T00:24:29

Curve is an Automated Market Maker (AMM) that lets users and other decentralized protocols exchange stablecoins (DAI to USDC for example) with low fees and low slippage. Unlike exchanges that ma...

Phil Daian&Stephane Gosselin: Flashbots – The Good, Bad and the Ugly of MEV from 2021-04-28T08:59:31

Flashbots is a research and development company focussed on Miner Extractable Value (MEV). MEV is the profit a miner can make through their ability to arbitrarily include, exclude, or re-order t...

Trevor McFedries: Brud – Using AI to Bridge Real and Virtual Worlds from 2021-04-22T12:32:21

Trevor McFedries joined us for a fascinating chat about his background in the football and music industries, and how this led him into crypto. Trevor is the cofounder of Brud, a technology start...

Trevor McFedries: Brud – Using AI to Bridge Real and Virtual Worlds from 2021-04-22T12:32:21

Trevor McFedries joined us for a fascinating chat about his background in the football and music industries, and how this led him into crypto. Trevor is the cofounder of Brud, a technology start...

Adrian Eidelman: RSK – The Bitcoin-Based Smart Contract Platform from 2021-04-19T12:40:53

Bitcoin just got smarter. This episode is brought to you by RSK, the Bitcoin-based smart contract platform leading the DeFi for Bitcoin revolution. Be part of the future while building your pers...

Matt Luongo: tBTC – Bringing Trustless Bitcoin to Ethereum from 2021-04-14T11:00

The ability to move Bitcoin on other chains isn't a new idea, and many are trying to overcome the technical limitations which make this a technically challenging feat. The latest representation ...

Kolten Bergeron&Robert Lauko: Liquity – The Decentralized Borrowing Protocol from 2021-03-26T15:11:24

Liquity is a decentralized borrowing protocol that allows you to draw interest-free loans against Ether used as collateral. In addition to the collateral, the loans are secured by a Stability Po...

Joey Zacherl: KeeperDAO – The On-Chain Liquidity Underwriter from 2021-03-19T13:43:17

KeeperDao is an on-chain liquidity underwriter for DeFi that combines yield farming and profits single-block arbitrage. The mining pool for Keepers incentivizes a game theory optimal strategy fo...

Alex Salnikov: Rarible – The NFT Transformation from 2021-03-11T16:36:08

Alex Salnikov, Head of Product & Co-founder of Rarible, joined us to discuss the different NFT use cases and how NFTs can scale and function in a multi-chain world.

Tieshun Roquerre: Namebase – Decentralizing DNS and Certificate Authorities from 2021-02-23T18:00:37

Namebase is a top-level domain (TLD) name registrar that operates on the Handshake blockchain. It creates an ecosystem of TLDs that may be bought and sold using an on-chain auction mechanism. It...

Muneeb Ali: Stacks – Building Decentralized Apps and Smart Contracts on Bitcoin from 2021-02-16T23:00

Stacks is an open-source network of decentralized apps and smart contracts. It is a Layer-1 blockchain that connects to Bitcoin. Stacks uses a Proof of Transfer mining mechanism with bidding and...

Alexis Sellier&Eleftherios Diakomichalis: Radicle – The Decentralized Platform for Code Collaboration from 2021-02-10T16:00

Radicle is a decentralized platform for code collaboration. It's built on Git and is an open-source decentralized alternative to platforms like GitHub. Tools like Radicle are an essential compon...

Aaron Wright: The LAO – DAOs From a Legal Perspective from 2021-01-26T17:33:42

Aaron Wright is a professor at Cardozo Law School and Co-founder of OpenLaw. Before this he was a successful entrepreneur, having sold his first company to Wikia - the for-profit version of Wiki...

Trent Elmore: YAM Finance 🍠– The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of the OG Foodcoin from 2021-01-19T18:49:26

During the DeFi Summer of 2020, YAM Finance launched with a bang, and had its share of ups and downs within its first couple of days. It started out as an experiment to bring together some of th...

The Great Epicenter Host Extravaganza 2021 from 2021-01-12T16:53:46

The new year has brought with it a new bull run. This is great news for crypto holders, but at what cost? Will this bring with it a number of negative implications such as regulatory push back a...

The Path to Digital Democracy from 2020-12-29T13:56:16

In this digital age, counting ballots by hand, as recently seen in the US Presidential Election, is very analogue and behind the times. Although the US constitution is over two centuries old and...

Rethinking the Justice System: A Digital Jurisdiction for Decentralized Organisations from 2020-12-22T15:01:58

In today's world, life and business is moving more into to a virtual space and this has of course been accelerated as a result of the Covid pandemic. Now more than ever it is important to rethin...

Leonard Tan&Yong Zhen Yu: The Decentralized Key Management and Login System for Web3 from 2020-12-18T16:06:01

Torus is an open-source and universal key management system for the Web3 ecosystem. It's simple, secure and non-custodial, and suitable for anyone to manage their keys. Torus runs a Distributed ...

Hasu&Kain Warwick: Diving Deep Into Liquidity Mining from 2020-12-16T16:29:01

Crypto is largely reliant on incentive mechanisms, and liquidity mining is one of the more recent cryptoeconomic incentive models to emerge. When decentralized exchanges need liquidity, they can...

IPFS, Filecoin and The Vision for a Decentralized Web (Part 1 of 2) from 2020-11-26T16:01:13

IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) is a fully decentralized distributed system for storing and accessing files, websites, applications, and data. Released just over 5 years ago by Protocol Labs, ...

Trent McConaghy: Ocean Protocol – The Platform Making Waves in the Data Industry from 2020-11-19T15:27:05

Data is a huge industry, worth about $500 billion in Europe alone. And currently there's a fundamental misalignment between those creating data and those consuming it. There's a one direction va...

Martin Köppelmann: Circles – Creating Universal Basic Income Economies for Everyone from 2020-11-10T14:00

Circles UBI is a blockchain-based Universal Basic Income created to promote local economy within communities. It was recently launched on Ethereum’s POA network.

The idea is to create a p...

Sam Bankman-Fried:FTX&Project Serum – The World's First Decentralized Derivatives Exchange from 2020-10-27T15:00

Alameda Research is a quant trading fund founded in 2017. Today it manages over $100 million in digital assets and trades $600 million to $1.5 billion per day across thousands of products: all m...

Simon Polrot: Adan – Unraveling MiCA and the New Regulations Threatening Crypto in Europe from 2020-10-20T17:28:33

Adan (Association for the Development of Digital Assets), is an organization which helps promote the development of the crypto industry in France, and more broadly in Europe. Its President, Simo...

Kyle Samani: Multicoin Capital – The Thesis-Driven Cryptoasset Investment Firm from 2020-10-13T14:38:58

Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain companies. They manage a hedge fund and a venture fund, investing across both public...

The Layer-1 Data Availability and Consensus Solution from 2020-09-29T16:15:28

NB: Since the recording of this podcast LazyLedger changed their name to Celestia.

Celestia is a scalable general-purpose data availability layer for decentralized apps and trust-minimized...

Camila Russo: The Defiant – Laying Bare the Story of Ethereum from 2020-09-22T14:49:50

Camila Russo is a financial journalist, starting her career writing for Chile's largest national newspaper. She then spent 8 years at Bloomberg covering the Argentine market from Buenos Aires, t...

MacLane Wilkison: NuCypher – Proxy Re-Encryption for Distributed Systems from 2020-09-15T06:19:37

NuCypher is a decentralized threshold cryptography network offering interfaces and runtimes for secrets management and dynamic access control. It provides cryptographic infrastructure for privac...

Cory Doctorow: Reviving the Cypherpunk in All of Us from 2020-08-25T14:21:36

Republic is an investment platform that allows anyone pretty much anywhere in the world, of any income and net worth, to invest in some of the best private equity startups. It allows regular peo...

Ken Nguyen: Republic – Bridging the Gap Between Investing and Startups from 2020-08-18T22:01:26

Republic is an investment platform that allows anyone pretty much anywhere in the world, of any income and net worth, to invest in some of the best private equity startups. It allows regular peo...

Jack O'Holleran: SKALE Labs – An Ethereum Scaling Solution Using App Specific Blockchains from 2020-08-11T13:54:35

SKALE Network's modular protocol is one of the first of its kind to allow developers to build application specific blockchains. These are interoperable and compatible with the Ethereum mainchain...

Fernando Martinelli: Balancer – The Automated Market Maker Protocol for Programmable Liquidity from 2020-07-28T15:02:36

Balancer is a generalized automated market maker (AMM) protocol built on Ethereum. It allows anyone to create or add liquidity to customizable pools and earn trading fees. On one side there are ...

Allison Lu: UMA – The Open Financial Platform for Building Synthetic Assets from 2020-07-21T13:02:17

UMA, or Universal Market Access, is an open source financial contracts protocol for building synthetic assets. It allows any two counterparties to design and create their own financial contracts...

Richard Craib: Numerai – The Crowdsourced Predictive Model Hedge Fund from 2020-07-14T13:00:13

Numerai, the "hardest data science tournament on the planet". It's a hedge fund with its own distributed research platform designed specifically for AIs. It's the first of its kind and takes a r...

Dan Guido: Trail of Bits – The Evolution of Smart Contract Security from 2020-06-30T13:38:52

Just like all software, smart contracts on the blockchain are subject to serious security vulnerabilities and coding errors. The fact however that smart contracts are often directly in charge of...

Hugh Karp: Nexus Mutual – The Decentralized Insurance for Ethereum from 2020-06-23T14:05:31

Nexus Mutual provides an alternative decentralized insurance solution for Ethereum. The protocol is built on the public chain and operates under a discretionary mutual structure meaning it is ow...

Zubin Koticha: Opyn – The Insurance Platform Which Protects Your DeFi Deposits from 2020-06-17T13:57:54

Opyn is a smart contract-based insurance platform built on a generalized (supports both put and call) options protocol called Convexity. It is intended as a platform to protect DeFi users agains...

Gabriel Jiménez: Petro – The Crypto Project That Tried to Free Venezuela from 2020-06-10T10:48:18

In late 2017, Gabriel Jimenez was approached by the Venezuelan presidency and asked to create a national digital currency, the Petro. Although very much against the regime, Gabriel saw this as a...

Sam Williams: Arweave – Bringing Permanence to the Web from 2020-05-26T12:00:08

Arweave is a new data storage protocol that enables economically sustainable permanence for the first time. Sam Williams, of Arweave, talks about the technical solution they have built, the economi...

David Vorick: On Skynet and Trusted Setups from 2020-05-22T12:05:10

Sia CEO David Vorick is back on the podcast to talk about a new product recently released by their team: Skynet.

Daniel Wang: Loopring – A Scalable DEX Protocol Using ZK-Rollups from 2020-05-19T15:08:41

Loopring is a non-custodial DEX protocol that achieves high-throughput trading by leveraging ZK-Rollups. Daniel Wang, Founder & CEO, talks about why they decided to focus on DEXes and their plans b...

Harry Halpin & John Shipton: What Julian Assange Represents to the Crypto Movement from 2020-05-12T12:37:06

Julian Assange, creator of WikiLeaks, is currently in prison in London facing extradition to the US for violating the Espionage Act. John Shipton, Julian's father, is seeking support from the crypt...

Marc Zeller & Stani Kulechov: Aave – Unlocking Access to Capital With Flash Loans from 2020-04-28T12:32:30

Aave is building a suite of non-custodial DeFi tools that allow users to earn interest on their deposits and borrow assets. Stani Kulechov and Marc Zeller explain their vision for the Aave protocol...

Jinglan Wang & Karl Floersch: Optimism – The Optimistic Approach to Ethereum Scaling from 2020-04-21T12:00:05

Optimism is a new Public Benefit Corporation that builds on the lessons of the Plasma research and is implementing Optimistic Rollups. Jinglan Wang and Karl Floersch, co-founders of Optimism, expla...

Tom Pocock & Zac Williamson: AZTEC Protocol – Bringing Zero-Knowledge Transactions to Ethereum from 2020-04-14T16:56:16

AZTEC Protocol is a protocol that enables private transactions on Ethereum. CEO and CTO, Tom Pocock and Zac Williamson have plans to build AZTEC into a fully functional DeFi application with which ...

Joseph Lubin: What's Next for ConsenSys and Ethereum from 2020-03-26T20:01:25

We caught up with Joseph Lubin, Founder of ConsenSys, at this year's EthCC. It has been over a year since he last came on the show, and we wanted to get his take on what has been happening in the e...

David Hoffman: Eth Is Money? from 2020-03-24T20:55:18

We are joined by David Hoffman, Chief of Operations at RealT, a company which tokenizes realestate assets into security tokens. He is also well known for numerous pieces he has written on Ethereum ...

Ryan Selkis: “Too Many Variables” – Understanding the Lasting Effects of COVID19 from 2020-03-17T18:00:11

This week we have a special episode on the Corona Virus. We are joined by guest Ryan Selkis, CEO of Messari. Ryan was one of the first people in the space to start talking about Covid19 and has bee...

EthCC 3 – Flash Loans and Elbow Bumps from 2020-03-13T13:00:01

This episode was recorded at the Ethereum Community Conference in Paris last week. We were joined by Gonçalo Sá of ConsenSys Diligence, Jérôme de Tychey of Ethereum France, and Cassidy Daly of Cent...

Jacob Arluck: TQ Tezos – Meet the Independent Driving Force Behind the Growth of Tezos from 2020-03-10T17:32:03

We are joined by founder of TQ Tezos, Jacob Arluck. TQ Tezos is a company that works to advance the Tezos ecosystem by creating open source software and other public goods. We hear about how TQ is ...

Clinton Donnelly: Bitcoin & Crypto Taxes – What Every US Taxpayer Needs to Know (sponsored) from 2020-02-28T18:03:38

With the influx of crypto investors in the space since 2017, it’s no wonder the IRS is looking at gains on Bitcoin and Ether as a way to fill their quotas for audits. The complexity of crypto makes...

Gabriel Shapiro: ZeroLaw – A Philosophy of Securities Laws for Tokenized Networks from 2020-02-25T21:14:25

Gabriel Shapiro discusses US Securities Law and shares his philosophy for how Tokenized Networks should be regulated. He also suggests how the recent “safe harbor” framework could be improved to be...

Itamar Lesuisse: Argent – The Self-Custody Crypto Bank from 2020-02-18T18:00:04

Itamar Lesuisse, Co-founder and CEO of Argent, is building products that enable intuitive, secure, and permissionless access to Decentralized Finance (DeFi) for the masses.

Kevin Wang: Nervos – Scaling Smart Contact Blockchains With Proof of Work and Generalized UTXO from 2020-02-11T17:53:33

To enable greater flexibility for applications, Nervos created a Common Knowledge Base to focus on the security of assets, while a complementary layer of Virtual Machines facilitates computation.

Yaya Fanusie: Bitcoin and Terrorism – How Compliance Will Shape Cryptocurrencies from 2020-01-28T14:15:58

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) attempts to apply the same rules and regulations required of traditional finance to the world of virtual currencies.

Silvio Micali & Steven Kokinos: Algorand – In Pursuit of the Blockchain Trilemma from 2020-01-21T15:17:51

As the industry is focused on Layer 2 solutions to scale transaction capacity of public blockchains, Algorand believes the blockchain trilemma is a result of current technological limitations.

Dillon Chen: Edgeware – Coordinating Distributed Communities With On-Chain Governance from 2020-01-15T13:54:24

Blockchain protocols are notorious for mitigating centralized control. As the ecosystem grows and communities want to help a distributed protocol advance, governance is a challenge worth pursuing.

Monetary Systems in an International Context from 2019-12-31T17:46:44

Monetary policy in a globally connected world means policymaking in a single country has far-reaching ramifications. We discuss some of the nuances of monetary policy from a global perspective.

Increasing Wallet Usability to Decrease the Anxiety of Self-Custody from 2019-12-24T16:31:24

Interacting with crypto-assets is an anxiety-inducing experience for many people. A panel of industry leaders discuss usability, design, and how they believe cryptocurrency wallets will evolve.

David Vorick: Sia – Creating a P2P Marketplace for Data Storage to Disrupt the Cloud Industry from 2019-12-17T22:20:03

David Vorick discusses Sia and his mission to disrupt centralized cloud storage companies like Amazon Web Services with distributed technologies that use cryptocurrencies to enable a P2P marketplace.

Taylor Monahan: From Side Project to Center Stage – The Story of MyEtherWallet & MyCrypto from 2019-12-10T19:51:52

Taylor Monahan, CEO of MyCrypto, discusses her history in the crypto-space, why she created MyEtherWallet, and what life was like running one of the most popular tools for cryptocurrency in 2017.

Viktor Radchenko: Trust Wallet – Building and Growing the Official Binance Wallet from 2019-11-26T20:07:41

Viktor Radchenko speaks about how he became interested in the cryptocurrency space, and why he built Trust Wallet, a noncustodial wallet solution that's now apart of Binance.

Nishant Sharma: Bitmain – Rising to Mining Dominance from 2019-11-19T17:20:21

Nishant Sharma, Head of Community Relations at Bitmain joins us to discuss the story of the company and its growth into becoming the largest ASIC manufacturer in the world.

Jesse Powell: How Kraken Accelerates Cryptocurrency Adoption from 2019-11-13T05:14:01

Kraken CEO and Founder Jesse Powell joins us to discuss the history and values of Kraken, one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges.

Rhys Lindmark: MIT's Digital Currency Initiative – Why We Need Blockchain Ethics from 2019-10-29T15:29:58

We’re joined by Rhys Lindmark, Head of Community and Long-Term Societal Impact at the MIT Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative.

Eli Ben-Sasson: StarkWare – Productizing zk-STARKs to Provide Blockchain Scalability and Privacy from 2019-10-22T19:43:55

We're joined by Eli Ben Sasson, Co-founder and Cheif Scientist in the East at Starkware. His company is developing a full proof-stack which leverages STARKs as a blockchain scalability solution.

Yoni Assia: eToro – The Social Trading Platform from 2019-10-15T17:19:02

We’re joined by Yoni Assia, Founder and CEO of eToro. The concept behind this world-leading social trading platform is users invest smarter by automatically copying the top traders in the community.

Omer Shlomovits & Ouriel Ohayon: ZenGo – The ‘Keyless’ Crypto Wallet from 2019-09-24T20:41:49

We’re joined by Omer Shlomovits and Ouriel Ohayon, Co-founders of ZenGo. Their product is a ‘keyless’ crypto wallet, which means users never need to generate or store a key which gives them access ...

Sharon Goldberg: Arwen – Centralized Exchange Trading Without Counterparty Risk from 2019-09-18T07:30:13

We're joined by Sharon Goldberg, CEO of Arwen, a protocol solution for non-custodial trading. From communications engineering...

David Chaum: The Forefather of Cryptocurrencies and the Cypherpunk Movement from 2019-09-10T23:44:32

We’re pleased to be joined by the legendary cryptographer and computer scientist, David Chaum. From his early beginnings at B...

Anthony Sassano&Eric Conner: EthHub – Ethereum Education and the Quest for Ether Dominance from 2019-08-27T18:25:16

We’re joined by Eric Conner and Anthony Sassano, founders of EthHub. Started in January of 2019, EthHub’s goal is to provide a trusted, objective source of information for the Ethereum ecosystem...

Dan Shin: Terra – The Stable Currency Tackling the Ecommerce Payments Market from 2019-08-20T18:58:02

This week we're joined by Daniel Shin. He is the Co-Founder of Terra Money and previous CEO and Co-Founder of TMON, one of Korea's largest players e-commerce platforms. Today he talks about his ...

Erik Voorhees: ShapeShift – There's a New Fox in Town from 2019-08-13T14:00:03

We’re joined by Erik Voorhees, Founder & CEO of Shapeshift. His third appearance on the podcast is timed nicely as July marked ShapeShift’s fifth anniversary. From its early days as the “Goo...

Rune Christensen: Maker DAO – The Central Bank of Web 3.0 from 2019-07-30T17:49:22

We're joined by Rune Christensen, CEO and Co-Founder of MakerDAO to discuss the rise of DAI as the first successful algorithmically backed stable token as well as the challenges ahead.

Ameen Soleimani: Moloch DAO – A Simple Yet Unforgiving DAO to Fund Ethereum Development from 2019-07-24T18:55:37

We’re joined by Ameen Soleimani, Co-founder and CEO of SpankChan. Recently, Ameen headed a project called Moloch DAO, a decentralized autonomous organization with the goal to fund Ethereum 2.0 deve...

Jerry Brito: The Case for Electronic Cash in an Open and Free Society from 2019-07-16T20:16:43

We’re joined by Jerry Brito, Executive Director of Coin Center. Having discovered Bitcoin in 2011, Jerry was among the first lawyers to talk about crypto in the U.S. capital. In 2014, he founded...

Stephen Palley: The Regulatory Landscape for Cryptocurrencies and the SEC's Case Against Kik from 2019-06-25T22:25:25

The complex and evolving regulatory landscape for cryptocurrencies has been a topic for many years. After a long period of waiting, the SEC started pursuing fraud causes in the last 1-2 years. B...

Bonus 2/2: Cosmos Validator Panel and Governance Debates – Interchain Conversations Berlin from 2019-06-21T07:26:09

This is part two of a two part bonus series. These sessions were recorded at the first Interchain Conversations conference which took place in Berlin on June 13th and 14th, 2019.

Bonus 1/2: “Epicenter Live” and a Chat with Jae Kwon of Cosmos – Interchain Conversations Berlin from 2019-06-21T07:25:57

This is part one of a two-part bonus series. These sessions were recorded at the first Interchain Conversations conference which took place in Berlin on June 13th and 14th, 2019.

The firs...

Bonus 1/2: “Epicenter Live” and a Chat with Jae Kwon of Cosmos – Interchain Conversations Berlin from 2019-06-21T07:25:57

This is part one of a two-part bonus series. These sessions were recorded at the first Interchain Conversations conference which took place in Berlin on June 13th and 14th, 2019.

The firs...

Bonus 1/2: “Epicenter Live” and a Chat with Jae Kwon of Cosmos – Interchain Conversations Berlin from 2019-06-21T07:25:57

This is part one of a two-part bonus series. These sessions were recorded at the first Interchain Conversations conference which took place in Berlin on June 13th and 14th, 2019.

Hayden Adams: Uniswap – An Automated Decentralized Exchange for Ethereum from 2019-06-18T18:36:10

The concept of a decentralized exchange has been a holy grail in the cryptocurrency space for many years. Many attempts have been made, but most decentralized exchanges suffered from central poi...

Tal Moran: Spacemesh – The Space-Time Consensus Blockchain from 2019-06-11T16:56:52

We're joined by Tal Moran, Chief Scientist at Spacemesh. This new consensus protocol is designed to run on home desktop PCs, filling free space on users' hard drives to create a Proof of Space-T...

Dan Robinson: Rainbow Network – Off-Chain Synthetics Exchange or “Multicolored Lightning” from 2019-05-28T16:51:23

We’re joined by Dan Robinson, a research partner at Paradigm, and the author the “Rainbow Network” paper. The paper describes an off-chain decentralized synthetics exchange which leverages payme...

Jill Carlson: Open Money Initiative – Free Access to Finance as a Human Right from 2019-05-22T17:39:13

A common meme in the cryptocurrency space is that it has the potential to help people in countries where only the rich and powerful access to global financial markets. But ten years after the Bi...

Aya Miyaguchi: The Role and Challenges of the Ethereum Foundation from 2019-05-16T17:09:40

The Ethereum Foundation has played a crucial role in the evolution of the blockchain ecosystem. They pioneered the Swiss foundation structure and ran one of the first token sales. They played a ...

Mike Pieciak: NASAA – A “To The Moon” Approach to Regulating Crypto from 2019-04-30T18:06:17

We're joined by Mike Pieciak, President of the NASAA. Not to be confused with the space agency, the North American Securities Administrators Association brings together state, provincial, and fe...

Griff Green: Giveth – Creating the New Economic Model of Giving from 2019-04-23T18:37:38

We're joined by Griff Green, one of the founders at Giveth. The organization, which emerged out of the ashes of the DAO, aims to create a better model for charitable work. Operating as a Dapp, G...

Yaniv Tal: The Graph – A Marketplace for Web3 Data Indexes Based on GraphQL from 2019-04-16T15:11:48

At the core of the Web 2.0 stack lies the REST API. It's the fiber which allows frontend applications to communicate with their backend counterparts, as well as the services on which they depend...

Simon de la Rouviere: Bonding Curves, Curation Markets, Token Curated Registries… and Art from 2019-04-10T12:05

Human beings have a penchant for creating lists. We make lists for things like the top music artists at any given time, the best restaurants in the world, companies which people can trust, and t...

Jackson Palmer: Dogecoin – wow! so meme. such community. very charity. much story. from 2019-03-27T07:52:54

Dogecoin was born from the association of two browser tabs: one was an article about the popularity of the doge meme, and the other, CoinMarketCap. The idea quickly gained traction on Twitter, a...

Brian Hoffman&Washington Sanchez: OpenBazaar – Growing a Permissionless Marketplace from 2019-03-19T18:29

In the early days of Bitcoin, much of the community’s focus was around payment and getting merchants to adopt cryptocurrencies. Although the technology and narratives have evolved, some projects...

Daniel Lehnberg&Michael Cordner: Grin – Cypherpunk Mimblewimble from 2019-03-12T20:41:03

Three years ago, a mysterious txt file signed by a pseudonymous Tom Elvis Jedusor was dropped in the Bitcoin-Wizards IRC channel outlining a proposal called Mimblewimble. It proposed a novel way...

Amaury Séchet: Bitcoin Cash from 2019-02-28T16:09:15

Amaury Séchet is the lead developer of Bitcoin ABC, the largest client for the Bitcoin Cash blockchain. Amaury first got started with Bitcoin in 2010 and closely followed the Bitcoin block size ...

Ben Goertzel: SingularityNET – The Global AI Network and Marketplace from 2019-02-20T11:10:23

Artificial Intelligence is often misunderstood. And much like blockchain, those who fiercely stand by the technology believe it will change the world for the better. Others fear the negative rep...

Alexey Akhunov: Ethereum 1.x – BUIDLing Things One Step at a Time from 2019-02-13T12:22:30

We’re joined by Alexey Akhunov, an independent Ethereum researcher. Alexey has been working on an ambitious project called TurboGeth. As the name implies, it is a version of Geth which features ...

Jameson Lopp: On Being a Professional Cypherpunk from 2019-01-30T00:19:25

We’re joined by Jameson Lopp. Jameson is the CTO of Casa, a company providing key storage solutions. Previously, he was an early engineer at BitGo. However, to most people, he is perhaps known f...

Martin Köppelmann&Matan Field: How the dxDAO could become the world’s largest organization from 2019-01-24T22:00

The concept of DAOs has been captivating to many in the crypto space for years. When “The DAO” was created in 2016, in the few weeks of its existence and despite obvious flaws, it gather tremend...

Looking Back on 5 Years of Epicenter from 2019-01-15T19:28:57

Epicenter turned 5 years old this month – that’s a long time in the blockchain space! When the podcast began in January 2014, the entire ecosystem was made up of only Bitcoin and a handful of al...

Nadav Hollander: Dharma – A protocol for tokenized debt from 2018-12-25T18:38:37

Lending is one core pillar of the economy, enabling one person or company to be entrepreneurial with someone else’s capital. However, in the traditional banking system processes in lending are o...

David Andolfatto: The Impact of Central Bank Digital Currencies on the Banking Sector from 2018-12-18T14:33:22

Since the rise of digital currencies and cryptocurrencies, central banks are considering the role these new forms of money may play in our evolving digital economy. One of the ideas studied is t...

James Prestwich: Summa One – Cross-chain Financial Instruments and Contracts from 2018-12-12T17:17:13

While trustless interactions on Ethereum are native to the protocol, trustless interactions between the Ethereum blockchain and other blockchains are difficult to implement. Interoperability pro...

Justin Drake: Ethereum’s Audacious Roadmap to Build a True World Computer from 2018-11-27T14:00:41

The Ethereum vision has always been to create a world computer. But its scalability and performance limitations have meant that it has fallen far short of that vision. Yet, work on scaling Ether...

Brian Behlendorf: Hyperledger – From Blockchain Hype to Production Networks from 2018-11-20T22:09:44

Most observers of the ecosystem will probably agree that 2015-2017 were the years of the enterprise blockchain. It was during that time that many startups catering to enterprise were founded and...

Ben Sharafian&Stefan Thomas: Coil – A New Business Model for the Web from 2018-11-13T20:20:53

The difficulties of compensating content creators for their work has been a driving force of the web for decades. It gave rise to advertising-driven tech giants like Google and Facebook and cont...

Gavin Wood: Substrate, Polkadot and the Case for On-Chain Governance from 2018-10-31T09:49:53

From one of the main Ethereum clients, to Polkadot to Substrate; Parity has become exceptional at developing successful open-source blockchain projects. Their latest effort Substrate provides a ...

Monica Quaintance: Kadena – Public and Permissioned Blockchains that Scale from 2018-10-23T22:21:13

We’re joined by Monica Quaintance, Head of Engineering and Adoption at Kadena. While most companies providing enterprise solutions focus primarily on permissioned systems, Kadena is building bot...

Kevin Owocki: Gitcoin – Aligning Incentives in Open-Source Development from 2018-10-17T19:19:51

Building open source software is a collaborative process which relies on good faith and willingness of volunteers. While most of the software we use daily relies heavily on open-source libraries...

Aleksandr Bulkin&Jake Brukhman: CoinFund – Crypto-Investing by Community Building from 2018-10-11T13:00:20

CoinFund is one of the earliest crypto-funds to have taken shape, forming in early 2016. The fund is well known for running an active Community Slack, conducting great podcast interviews with cr...

Allen Day: Google’s Mission to Provide Open Datasets for Public Blockchains from 2018-09-26T13:11:29

Public blockchains produce enormous amounts of data. In theory, anyone can access the raw contents of transaction and blocks. In practice, however, querying blockchains can prove to be a dauntin...

Angela C. Walch: The Case for Treating Developers as Fiduciaries in Public Blockchains from 2018-09-19T11:37:18

The expectation has become widespread that blockchains will end up underpinning major societal infrastructures. The narrative in the blockchain space is that networks are decentralized and trust...

Ralph Merkle: Revolutionizing Democracy Using DAOs (rebroadcast) from 2018-09-12T21:38:39

Legendary scientist and cryptography pioneer Ralph Merkle joined us to discuss his recent paper on DAOs. Merkle examined how the voting mechanisms in today’s democracies are flawed and how a dec...

Clement Lessage&Federico Ast: Kleros – Crowdsourced Arbitration for Blockchain Applications from 2018-08-30T19:46:43

Dispute resolution is the process by which contracting parties settle disagreements. Whether in the form of litigation, arbitration, or other means of mediation, every contract defines a dispute...

Ryan Zurrer: Polychain – A Crypto Hedge Fund Success Story from 2018-08-22T14:03:40

We are joined by Ryan Zurrer, Principal and Venture partner, at Polychain capital. Polychain capital is a breakout crypto hedge fund with over $100 million in assets under management, and large ...

Uri Klarman: bloXroute – Layer-0 Scaling with the Blockchain Distribution Network from 2018-08-15T18:22:39

Until now, proposals to improve blockchain scalability have addressed the problem in one of two ways. One seeks to increase efficiency by optimizing the blockchain or improving the consensus alg...

Martin Becze: Primea – The Next-Generation Blockchain Operating System from 2018-07-24T19:04:40

Martin Becze is a researcher at Dfinity working on a next-generation “Blockchain Operating System” called Primea – a continuation of his work on the eWASM project from his time at the Ethereum F...

Anthony Lusardi: Ethereum Classic Cooperative – Accelerating the Growth of ETC from 2018-07-17T09:28:12

The 2016 Ethereum hard fork left us with two distinct Ethereum chains. While the main Ethereum chain dwarfs Ethereum Classic in terms of market cap, ETC has sustained its position as a significa...

Evan Shapiro&Izaak Meckler: Coda – A Succinct Blockchain from 2018-07-12T09:32:19

One of the key scalability challenges with public cryptocurrency blockchains is that their size grows linearly with the number of transactions. Mature blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum co...

Eric Larchevêque: Ledger – How to Build an Industry-Leading Cryptocurrency Security Company from 2018-06-27T20:28:39

Before founding what is now one of the most successful companies in the cryptocurrency industry, Eric Larchevêque and his co-founder opened La Maison du Bitcoin, a Bitcoin education center and c...

Pamela Morgan: Cryptoasset Inheritance Planning from 2018-06-21T19:46:31

While many cryptocurrency holders have thought about how to secure their assets, how to pass on cryptoassets in case of one’s death is rarely on people’s mind. Lawyer Pamela Morgan has been help...

Grigore Rosu: The K Framework – A Framework to Formally Define All Programming Languages from 2018-06-12T19:35:36

In the past few years, we witnessed the development of multiple smart contract languages – Solidity, Viper, Michelson, Scilla etc. These languages need to enable developers to write correct, pre...

Matan Field: DAOstack – An Operating System for Collective Intelligence from 2018-05-31T19:27:34

As a society, we have organized as tribes, hierarchies, and markets to accomplish the most impressive of achievements. Human cooperation and collective organization are present at nearly every s...

Luis Cuende: Aragon – Decentralized Governance and the Fight for Freedom from 2018-05-24T16:36:44

Aragon Founder Luis Cuende joined us to discuss their work on building tools for decentralized governance. We covered the origins of his deep drive, why this is a crucial fight for humanity and ...

Changpeng Zhao: The Meteoric Rise of Crypto Exchange Binance from 2018-05-16T08:17:02

The rise of Binance is one of the most astonishing stories in the blockchain space. Within less than a year of its launch, Binance has become the most popular crypto exchange trading over $2bn p...

Karl Floersch: Plasma Cash and the Ethereum Roadmap from 2018-04-24T21:18:33

Ethereum Foundation researcher Karl Floersch joined us to discuss the main projects to upgrade Ethereum: Casper, Sharding and Plasma. Karl has been playing a key role in creating a new and simpl...

Ajay Prakash&Gavin Brennen: Qubit Protocol – Quantum Computing&The Coming Threat to Crypto from 2018-04-17T20:32:06

With the advent of mature quantum technologies, many of the critical cryptographic protocols which secure the Internet, financial transactions and even military secrets may become susceptible to...

Loong Wang&Taiyang Zhang: Republic Protocol – A Decentralized&Trustless Crypto Dark Pool from 2018-04-11T23:00:53

Dark pools have existed for as long as there have been financial markets. Over-the-counter, or OTC markets, are sometimes also referred to as ‘upstairs trading,’ evoking the era when firms and h...

Corey Todaro&John Bass: Hashed Health – Rebooting The Healthcare Industry from 2018-03-29T18:49:13

The healthcare industry is paradoxical. On the one hand, treatment technologies represent some of the most advanced science known to humankind, while some administrative tasks are still performe...

Peter Van Valkenburgh: Where US Cryptocurrency Regulation is Heading from 2018-03-21T17:24:49

Over the past year, as cryptocurrencies and ICOs started to go mainstream, we have seen a huge surge in regulatory activities. In the US, many different regulatory bodies including SEC, CFTC and...

Bob Summerwill: Sweetbridge – Rewriting the Operating System for the World Economy from 2018-03-18T00:34:22

According to the World Bank, universal financial access is vital to reducing poverty, and lack of access to credit plays a significant role in widening inequalities between developed and develop...

Jeff Garzik: Metronome – Of Bitcoin Satellites and Built-to-Last Chain-Hopping Tokens from 2018-02-27T21:55:22

We’re joined by Jeff Garzik, who was among the very first developers to work with Satoshi in the early days of Bitcoin. Later, he was a core developer at Bitpay and even tried to put a Bitcoin n...

Kyle Samani&Tushar Jain: Multicoin – Emerging Frameworks for Cryptoasset Investing from 2018-02-21T14:02:11

That decentralized networks represent a massive investment opportunity is no longer a controversial view. In the last year alone, over 200 funds dedicated to investing in cryptoassets have been ...

Amir Bandeali&Will Warren: 0x Protocol and the Decentralized Exchange Frontier from 2018-02-16T11:56:12

Decentralized exchanges have been a holy grail in the cryptocurrency space, since at least the MtGox hack. They promise to derisk the act of exchanging cryptocurrency by leaving custody of funds...

Mance Harmon: Hashgraph – A Radically Novel Consensus Algorithm from 2018-01-25T18:25:45

Hashgraph is a new consensus algorithm that radically differs from proof-of-work as well as proof-of-stake consensus algorithms. While work on Hashgraph begun in 2012, it’s design is radically d...

Chris Burniske&Jack Tatar: Cryptoassets – The Rise of a New Asset Class from 2018-01-17T21:54:03

Over the past year, cryptoassets have exploded in popularity. From a mere $18bn at the start of 2017, the aggregate market cap of all cryptoassets recently reached $820bn as interest in Bitcoin ...

Andrew Trask: OpenMined – A Decentralised Artificial Intelligence Platform from 2018-01-11T10:56:46

A significant part of the modern digital economy, is underpinned by machine learning models that are trained to perform tasks such as facial recognition, content curation, health diagnostics etc...

Elizabeth Rossiello: BitPesa – Building Financial Platforms for Frontier Markets from 2017-12-27T18:51:21

The prospect of providing digital cross-border payments for the world’s unbanked and underbanked population has always been one of the key use cases for Bitcoin. Cryptocurrencies can be seen as ...

Christopher Fabian&Shaun Conway: Unicef&Ixo: Towards More Transparent Humanitarian Projects from 2017-12-19T21:06:46

We’re joined by Christopher Fabian, Co-founder of Unicef’s Innovation Unit. We discuss how the global non-profit institution leverages innovative technology to solve real-world problems in human...

Tim Swanson: Busting the Great Wall of Hype from 2017-12-13T20:25:36

In the blockchain world, few people are as brave as Tim Swanson when it comes to busting hype. Tim’s unbiased, honest, and sometimes controversial opinions provide a refreshingly realistic view ...

Zoe Adamovicz: Neufund and the Case for Selling Equity on the Blockchain from 2017-11-28T20:11:34

Neufund CEO Zoe Adamovicz joined us to discuss how Neufund is creating a platform to allow companies to sell tokens backed by actual company equity.

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Alex Morcos: Chaincode Labs and Why Bitcoin is Our One Shot at Creating Digital Gold from 2017-11-21T20:01:05

Chaincode Labs Founder Alex Morcos joined us to discuss his journey, the role of the company in Bitcoin’s development and the views that drive his work.

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Amrit Kumar&Xinshu Dong: Zilliqa – A Scalable Sharded Public Blockchain from 2017-11-14T18:15:02

Scaling public blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum is a long standing technical challenge. In this episode, we cover Zilliqa which has pioneered a design to scale public blockchain throughp...

Post DevCon3 Roundtable: State of Ethereum, Cosmos Retreat and Parity Hack from 2017-11-10T12:56:26

For the very first time, all three Epicenter hosts found themselves in the same location. After attending Ethereum’s DevCon 3 in Cancun, we were at a Cosmos Retreat and discussed the conference,...

Karl Kreder: Grid+ – Unlocking Direct Access to Wholesale Energy Markets from 2017-10-24T18:03:50

Energy markets form a complex ecosystem of actors. Wholesale energy producers create energy through various means, grid operators transport electricity over long distances and deliver it to home...

Galen Wolfe-Pauly: Urbit – A Digital Republic Reinventing the Internet from 2017-10-18T07:44:23

Galen Wolfe-Pauly, CEO of Tlon, the company behind Urbit, joined us to discuss one of the most radical and curious projects to come on the podcast. In development for 15 years already, Urbit aim...

Ben Bollen&Jason Goldberg: Simple Token – Bringing Tokens to Mainstream Consumer Applications from 2017-10-11T12:48:30

As the ICO boom continues to drive funding and interest in cryptocurrencies, mainstream consumer applications are increasingly looking towards tokenization. One of these was social network Pepo,...

Ari Paul: BlockTower Capital and the Cryptocurrency Opportunity from 2017-09-26T18:53:58

For many years, Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies were regarded as little more than a nerdy curiosity by the financial world. But with the rise of Bitcoin and Ethereum, the process of cryptocurrencie...

Matt Kerner: Microsoft’s Coco Framework – The Holy Grail for Enterprise from 2017-09-19T18:45:33

Enterprise consortium blockchains have gained a lot of interest in recent months. And although we can see many applications for this particular type of network deployment, many questions remain ...

Ciaran O'Leary: BlueYard – The Disruption of Venture Capital from 2017-09-13T08:34:19

In the past year, the first killer application of blockchain technology has emerged: venture funding. As blockchain-facilitated crowdfunding is disrupting venture capital at blistering speed, we...

Nick Morgan: The DAO, the SEC and the ICO Boom from 2017-08-29T13:12:09

Nick Morgan, a former attorney at the SEC, joined us to discuss their recent report on the DAO and what it means for the ICO boom.

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Dan Larimer: EOS – The Decentralized Operating System from 2017-08-23T08:37:28

After Bitshares and Steemit, Dan Larimer’s latest project EOS has also gathered lots of attention. Their record-setting crowdsale has already raised $300m and is continuing for another year. Dan...

Arthur Falls: From Lobster Fishing to Blockchain Podcasting from 2017-08-17T09:19:10

Prior to hosting his ground breaking podcasts Beyond Bitcoin and The Ether Review, Arthur Falls had left his home country of New Zealand to fish lobster off the coast of Maine. Like many people ...

Dave Collins&Jake Yocom-Piatt:: Decred – A Hybrid Approach to Blockchain Governance from 2017-07-26T15:36:41

Dave Collins and Jake Yocom-Piatt join us to talk about Decred, a cryptocurrency which introduces an innovative system of community-based governance into its blockchain. Decred implements a hybr...

Aviv Zohar&Yonatan Sompolinsky: Of Spectre&Ghosts – Radical Ideas to Scale Blockchain Tech from 2017-07-19T12:24:24

Hebrew University academics Aviv Zohar and Yonatan Sompolinski joined us to discuss their research at the forefront of blockchain technology. We talked about their early proposals for scaling Bi...

Richard Craib: Numerai – A Revolutionary Hedge Fund Built on Blockchain and AI from 2017-07-11T20:35:20

Numerai Founder Richard Craib joined us to discuss his radical project to build a hedge fund with network effects. Numerai manages its portfolio by giving its data in encrypted form to data scie...

Jimmy Song: A Fork in the Road for Bitcoin? from 2017-06-27T22:14:25

After years of what has seemed like an endless debate, bitcoin may be at a crucial turning point in its relatively short lifetime. The question network scalability has divided the community into...

William Mougayar: Unpacking Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) and Token Sales from 2017-06-20T18:29:20

Token sales, often called Initial Coin Offerings (ICO), are exploding in popularity. Seemingly each week a new record is hit with huge sums being raised by alpha-stage projects in almost no time...

Alex Leverington&Julian Zawistowski: Golem – The Worldwide Decentralized Supercomputer from 2017-06-14T07:58:14

With most of the world’s computing power concentrated in Internet companies’ data centers, the Internet has become a very centralized place. The Golem project aims to build the sharing economy o...

Brendan Eich: Brave – Reinventing the Monetization of Content and Attention from 2017-05-30T22:37:11

The saying goes: if you’re not paying for it, it’s likely that you’re the product. And with the rise of targeted ads, user behavior tracking, and alike, more and more users are turning to ad blo...

Fred Ehrsam&Trent McConaghy: IPDB – The Interplanetary Database and its Applications in AI from 2017-05-23T10:48:16

Data is the new oil, and those who control massive amounts of it have a major competitive advantage. That advantage becomes exponential when that data is used to teach artificial intelligence. C...

Alex Van de Sande&Nick Johnson: ENS – A Global Naming System for Ethereum from 2017-05-16T10:39:20

Naming systems are an important component of any networked information system. It’s difficult to imagine how the Internet could have been adopted by the masses had it not been for the Domain Nam...

Mano Thanabalan: Otonomos – Simplifying Incorporation and Automating Corporate Governance from 2017-04-25T19:05:53

Anyone who has ever started a company knows just how tedious that process that can be. Whether it’s establishing a shareholder’s agreement, defining the company’s constitutional structure, raisi...

Thomas Voegtlin: Blocksize, Bitcoin Unlimited, ASICBoost and Activating SegWit from 2017-04-18T12:54:26

Years into the great Bitcoin scaling debate no solution is in reach. Neither bigger blocks nor Segregated Witness have anywhere near consensus support. With the conflict escalating, a Bitcoin fo...

Gilles Fedak: iExec – Blockchain-Based Fully Distributed Cloud Computing Infrastructure from 2017-04-11T20:22:41

For decades, science and academia have leveraged distributed computing to solve massive computational problems. Distributed grid computing schemes allow donors to volunteer their desktop compute...

Adam B. Levine: Building a Blockchain Podcast Network from 2017-03-28T15:46:20

In the world of Bitcoin podcast, there is one show which definitely stands out as the longest running, Let’s Talk Bitcoin! In its 4-year history, the show has produced over 320 episodes and expa...

Miguel Vias: XRP’s Future for Cross-Border Payments from 2017-03-21T20:31:20

For a long time the native asset of the Ripple network XRP was the cryptocurrency with the second biggest market cap. But with much of the supply controlled by Ripple, it remained surrounded by ...

Carsten Stöcker: How Blockchains Will Power the Energy Grids of Tomorrow from 2017-03-14T22:10:21

In the footsteps of the finance industry, the energy sector has been caught by the blockchain fever. Conceived over a century ago, increased usage and an explosion of devices have made energy gr...

Peter Rizun: A Bitcoin Fee Market Without A Blocksize Limit from 2017-02-28T17:50:30

With both the Bitcoin Unlimited and Segregated Witness efforts far from reaching majority support and exploding transaction fees, the debate around how to scale Bitcoin continues on. One of the ...

Vitalik Buterin: DAO Lessons, Casper and Blockchain Interoperability from 2017-02-21T19:15:37

Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin joined us once again to discuss the state of Ethereum and the efforts to innovate the protocol. We covered the takeaways from the DAO fork, switching to the proo...

Jae Kwon: Cosmos – The Internet of Blockchains from 2017-02-14T09:28:36

One of the key issues with blockchain networks is the lack of interoperability. In the early days of Bitcoin, blockchain interoperability was far from people’s minds. However, as new networks co...

Rick Dudley: The Future of Ethreum as a Strongly Typed Proof-of-Stake Blockchain Network from 2017-01-31T20:57:42

In the last year, blockchain protocols have matured at an exciting pace. Open source projects like Ethereum, the Eris stack and Tendermint are behind much of the experimentation being conducted ...

Peter Harris: Democratizing the Music Industry with the Streaming Music Cooperative Resonate from 2017-01-24T19:35:33

After the successful Ethereum crowdfunding campaign, musician and web developer Peter Harris saw a path to creating a fair, decentralized music streaming platform. Out of that Resonate was born....

Andrew Clifford&G. Andrew Stone: Bitcoin Unlimited from 2017-01-17T07:06:08

Years into the controversy around how to scale Bitcoin, there have been many challengers to Bitcoin core’s dominance. After XT, Classic and others have faded, Bitcoin Unlimited has been gaining ...

Roger Ver: Bitcoin, Liberty and the Scalability Roadblock from 2016-12-28T00:22:25

Roger Ver is one of the earliest Bitcoin investors and through his tireless evangelizing of the cryptocurrency became known as ‘Bitcoin Jesus’. Roger joined us to discuss Bitcoin’s incredible po...

Ned Scott: Steem – The Blockchain-Based Social Media Platform from 2016-12-21T12:37:18

Few crypto projects have gotten as much attention and caused as much controversy as Steem. The blockchain-based social media platform launched early this year and managed to gain real user tract...

Marley Gray: Project Bletchley – Microsoft’s Blockchain 3.0 Architecture from 2016-12-13T20:17:47

In their relatively short lifespan, blockchain technologies have already undergone significant milestones. Bitcoin’s blockchain, often referred to as Blockchain 1.0, features a simple database l...

Anuj Das Gupta&Richard Caetano: How Stratumn Secures Processes from 2016-11-29T13:02:56

Stratumn CEO Richard Caetano and Head of Research Anuj das Gupta joined us to discuss their work to bring security and integrity to processes. We covered the philosophy behind the company and wh...

Mona El Isa&Reto Trinkler: The Polkadot Protocol – One Blockchain to Connect Them All from 2016-11-22T19:21:37

System scalability and extensibility of system features are two central problems around which research in the cryptocurrency / blockchain industry has centered. For example, the Blockstream side...

Dominic Williams&Tom Ding: DFINITY – The Quest for a Decentralized Cloud from 2016-11-14T09:25:42

String Labs founders Tom Ding and Dominic Williams joined us to discuss their project DFINITY, a next-generation blockchain network. Through leveraging technological advances, DFINITY aims to de...

Mike Hearn&Richard Gendal Brown: Corda – A Distributed Ledger for Financial Services from 2016-10-31T22:53:31

Attracting over 70 of the world’s biggest financial institutions to its consortium in just over a year, R3 has accomplished a formidable task. Aiming to rethink the fabric of the financial syste...

Greg Meredith: Synereo – Rebuilding the Attention Economy from the Ground Up from 2016-10-25T23:23:43

As content becomes more and more abundant and immediately available at our fingertips, our limited attention is a barrier for those whose business it is to attract and harness it. In this contex...

Alex Wearn: Decentralized Capital and Government Currencies on Ethereum from 2016-10-17T21:47:44

A topic which is often discussed is the limited use of Ethereum applications without stable cryptocurrencies. Prediction markets are a prime example of this. When one makes a prediction using Et...

Tuur Demeester: Investing in Bitcoin from 2016-10-10T22:03:03

In 2012, a year after discovering Bitcoin in Argentina, Dutch economist Tuur Demeester became one of the first people to advocate investing in Bitcoin to a mainstream audience. Tuur joined us to...

Devcon 2 and the State of Ethereum from 2016-09-26T08:09:22

Last week the biggest blockchain-focused developer conference took place in Shanghai, China: Ethereum’s DevCon 2. Epicenter show host Meher Roy was at the conference and brought back his impress...

Lukas Abegg: Smart Contracts and the Law from 2016-09-19T22:59:41

That blockchains represents a fundamental technological revolution has become widely accepted. What is still more nebulous, but could turn out just as disruptive is how smart contracts while tra...

Kyle Torpey: Diving Into Bitcoin – The Debates, the Issues and What’s to Come from 2016-09-12T10:33:54

We’re joined by Kyle Torpey, a freelance writer, and journalist who writes for a number of publications in the blockchain space including Bitcoin Magazine, Coin Journal, and others. Know for his...

Ryan X. Charles: Allowing Content Creators to Own and Monetize Content with Yours from 2016-08-29T19:16:16

In the last 20 years, content publishing platforms have proliferated to an almost insane number. There are countless places where people and companies can post articles, blogs, videos, photos, l...

Russell McLernon&Stephen King: RexMLS – Disrupting Real Estate with a Decentralized MLS from 2016-08-22T19:14:59

One of the sectors which is ripe for disruption is the real estate industry. In the US for instance, a handful of historic and very powerful players operate what is known as MLS, or Multiple Lis...

Alex Chepurnoy&Charles Hoskinson: IOHK, Scorex and the Case for Ethereum Classic from 2016-08-15T19:13:20

From BitShares to his central role during the inception of Ethereum Charles Hoskinson has continually influenced key projects in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. After departing the Ethe...

Ralph Merkle: Revolutionizing Democracy Using DAOs from 2016-07-25T19:08:20

Legendary scientist and cryptography pioneer Ralph Merkle joined us to discuss his recent paper on DAOs. Merkle examined how the voting mechanisms in today’s democracies are flawed and how a dec...

Manfred Karrer: Bitsquare – The Decentralized Open-Soure Cryptocurrency-Fiat Exchange from 2016-07-19T19:06:55

Exchanges are often criticized as a central point of failure of the cryptocurrency space. This isn’t without justification as, in recent years, we have seen a number of exchanges get hacked, rob...

Martin Köppelmann: Gnosis – The Ethereum Prediction Market from 2016-07-11T19:05:36

Few things arouse among free market believers and enthusiasts of decentralization as prediction markets do. By allowing people to bet on any range of outcomes they promise more efficient markets...

Siân Jones: Regulatory Update – The Brexit, the EU and the DAO from 2016-06-27T19:01:33

With recent news surrounding The DOA and the Brexit vote causing a stir in the blockchain world and beyond, it seems like a regulatory update is due. So we called up our favorite regulatory affa...

Arthur Breitman: Tezos – A Self-Amending Crypto-Ledger from 2016-06-20T19:00:06

The lack of an explicit governance mechanism has created deep problems for Bitcoin. Ethereum, with the DAO-related soft/hard-fork discussions, may face similar challenges ahead. Yet, already in ...

Stephen Palley: Lawmodynamics – How to Sue a DAO from 2016-06-13T00:03:16

For many the promise of decentralized applications and DAOs is to be beyond the limitations and rigidity of the existing legal system. There is no question that where DAOs can roam freely, innov...

Julien Hamonic&Pascal Hamonic: Applying the Mechanisms of Thermoregulation to Cryptocurrencies from 2016-05-30T23:54:20

One of the problems often cited when talking about cryptocurrencies is their level of volatility compared to traditional fiat currencies. This makes most cryptocurrencies a poor instrument for s...

Stephan Tual: Building a Universal Sharing Network on Ethereum and a $150M DAO from 2016-05-23T23:49:25

In this episode we welcome back Stephan Tual, the COO of Slock.It, a German startup working at the intersection of the Internet of Things and the Ethereum blockchain. Slock.It’s small team also ...

Evan Schwartz&Stefan Thomas: Building the Internet of Payments with Interledger from 2016-05-16T23:45:44

One of the foundational problems in payment networks is that they are mostly uninteroperable. This problem exists at all levels, from consumer payment solutions like PayPal, to national and mult...

Jed Mccaleb: Stellar and the Vision of an Open Financial System from 2016-04-25T23:34:36

When Jed McCaleb discovered Bitcoin, there didn’t even exist an online marketplace to trade the cryptocurrency yet. The experienced founder who had earlier started file sharing site eDonkey, act...

Anthony di Iorio: Jaxx – Ethereum and Why Community Matters from 2016-04-18T23:31:16

We were joined by repeat guest Anthony di Iorio, a definite contender for having (co-)founded the most projects in the blockchain space including Ethereum, Kryptokit, Decentral and Jaxx. We got ...

Trent McConaghy: BigchainDB – Scalable Public Distributed Databases from 2016-04-11T23:26:48

One of the major drawbacks of Bitcoin is its low transaction throughput. Maxing out only a handful of operations per second, there have been many proposals to scale it up so that it can compete ...

Rune Christensen: Maker DAO Ethereum’s Decentralized Central Bank from 2016-03-28T23:20:37

The challenges Bitcoin’s wild volatility represents for achieving mass adoption have made the necessity for stable cryptocurrencies apparent long ago. With Ethereum applications, the problem is ...

Brock Pierce: From Digital Goods to Digital Currency from 2016-03-21T23:16:41

We’re joined by , Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, investor and all around emblematic figure of the Bitcoin ecosystem. Brock tells his story, from his early beginning a entrepreneur in his te...

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn: Zcash – An Open Financial System with Privacy from 2016-03-14T23:12:18

For Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn, part of the cypherpunk movement since the early 1990s, the vision of a decentralized financial system that has both openness and privacy has existed since long before B...

Maciej Olpinski: Solving the Economic Mismatch Between Content and Attention from 2016-02-29T23:01:29

The problem around content monetization is one which content producers are constantly trying to solve. At the core of this problem is a mismatch between supply and demand. Content, which is incr...

Adam Gibson: A New Kind of Auditing – Cryptographic Proof of Online Accounts from 2016-02-22T22:58:51

A pioneering feature of Bitcoin is verifiability of transactions: It is designed to enable low-power devices and high end computers alike to be able to verify occurrences on the blockchain.

Manu Sporney: W3C – Making Payments a Web Standard from 2016-02-15T22:54:36

A typical online transaction today isn’t very different from how it was done 25 years ago at the dawn of the Internet. In fact, online payments haven’t changed much at all. When we want to pay f...

Matan Field: Backfeed – The Social Operating System for Decentralized Organizations from 2016-01-24T23:07

The idea that in the future tokens will play a crucial role in networks and organizations to incentivize decentralized collaboration and reward contribution is not new. It’s the original decentr...

Vinay Gupta: From Lawyer Capitalism to Programmer Capitalism from 2016-01-18T22:02:45

Vinay Gupta has been a programmer, 1990s cypherpunk, ‘resilience guru’, Ethereum release coordinator and currently collaborates with Consensys to mainstream smart contract technology. He also in...

Dustin Byington, Ethan Buchman&Jae Kwon: Tendermint – Private Modularized Blockchains from 2016-01-11T21:58:43

As blockchain technologies mature, new protocol specifications are emerging, which take unique approaches to software design and how consensus is achieved. We have talked about Multchain and Ope...

Andrew Miller: The Gas Model and Ethereum’s Economics from 2015-12-28T19:03:42

Andrew Miller is a computer science PhD student at the University of Maryland who focuses on cryptocurrency. Having gotten involved in Bitcoin in 2011 and focused on cryptocurrencies early in hi...

James D'Angelo: Satoshi’s Big Mistake and the Centralization of Bitcoin from 2015-12-21T20:11:22

With over 600,000 views, James D’Angelo’s educational videos at the World Bitcoin Network are among the most popular resources on Bitcoin. Besides his excellent technical explanation, he has als...

Tim Pastoor: Identifi – Rethinking Identity as a Decentralized Web of Trust from 2015-12-14T17:26:26

Identity is probably one of the most important constructs in our society. In our modern world, protecting one’s identity has become complex, as we no longer rely solely on governments to prove w...

Gideon Greenspan: MultiBit – The Blockchain is a New Database Paradigm from 2015-11-30T22:35:20

Gideon Greenspan, a computer scientist and CEO/Founder of the Israeli startup Coin Sciences, joined us for a discussion of their private blockchain platform MultiChain. Besides diving into the p...

Christian Decker: Scaling Bitcoin with Duplex Micropayment Channels from 2015-11-23T20:43:55

Christian Decker is a PhD student at ETH Zurich, where he is currently finishing up the world’s first PhD thesis entirely about Bitcoin. The computer scientist has been part of the Bitcoin commu...

Vlad Zamfir: Bringing Ethereum Towards Proof-of-Stake with Casper from 2015-11-16T20:25:01

With Proof-of-Stake (PoS) a blockchain is secured not by spending an external resource such as electricity but by using value internal to the chain itself. The promise of higher security at a lo...

Flavien Charlon: Openchain – Centralized Digital Assets Without Blockchains or Consensus from 2015-10-26T21:47:23

Among the dividing themes in the Bitcoin space is the idea of public versus private blockchains. While some argue that private and permissioned blockchains can offer better scalability and lower...

Muneeb Ali&Ryan Shea: Onename – Bringing Decentralization to Identity with Blockchain ID from 2015-10-19T17:36:15

A brilliant fact about crypto-economic blockchains is that they enable the construction of naming systems that transcend limits imposed by Zooko’s triangle. Traditional naming systems such as hu...

Juan Benet: IPFS – Decentralizing the Web with the Inter-Planetary File System from 2015-10-12T23:10:46

We’ve made it to episode 100! Our guest for our celebratory episode is Juan Benet, inventor of the Inter-Planetary File System and founder of Protocol Labs. IPFS is a distributed file system tha...

Robin Hanson: Futarchy – Prediction Markets and the Challenge of Disruptive Technology from 2015-09-28T16:34:24

When invented the concept of prediction markets almost thirty years ago, he felt he had stumbled on a concept with huge implications. By allowing people to bet on the likelihood of future events...

Paul Sztorc: Truthcoin&Prediction Markets – From Information-Overload to Crowd Intelligence from 2015-09-21T17:15:49

Prediction markets are considered one of the most promising applications of blockchain technology. Although the concept and some early implementations have existed for years, decentralized predi...

John Clippinger: Developing a Social Ecosystem of Trusted, Self-Healing Digital Institutions from 2015-09-14T17:53:29

It is often said that technology is neutral. It’s certainly commonplace for Bitcoin to be thought of as such. In reality, technologies may be characterized as an embodiment of human intention, a...

Gavin Andresen: On the Blocksize and Bitcoin’s Governance from 2015-08-31T16:09:26

As the debate about the blocksize continues to roar through the Bitcoin community, Gavin Andresen joins us to take a step back and ask the big questions: How should these decisions be made in th...

Simon Dixon: How Bank to the Future is Rethinking Finance from 2015-08-24T17:49:02

Ever since the financial system collapsed in 2007, the call for alternatives has grown louder. Bitcoin itself can be seen as such an alternative. Simon Dixon’s search for a way to put capitalism...

Stefan Thomas: Understanding Ripple from 2015-08-17T15:44:21

In a long-overdue episode, we finally had the chance to dive into one of the most known but poorly understood cryptocurrency/blockchain project: Ripple. Reviled by many in the Bitcoin space, we ...

Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum Frontier Launch, Scalability and the Road Ahead from 2015-08-10T15:22:46

Close to two years after the initial whitepaper, the revolutionary Ethereum network has finally launched. The decentralized smart contract platform is, without a doubt, the most exciting cryptoc...

Greg Slepak: The Turtle Crawl Towards Internet Decentralization from 2015-07-27T11:48:24

Amidst all the discussion of alternative uses of blockchains, it is often forgotten that the very first fork of Bitcoin, Namecoin, pursued a daring vision for a decentralized, censorship-resista...

Siân Jones: Bitlicense and the Regulatory Straitjacket from 2015-07-20T16:29:11

In this episode, we revisited the perennial topic of digital currency regulation with Siân Jones, our regulatory correspondent and founder of the regulation-focused virtual currency consultancy ...

John McDonnell: How Bitcoin Will Win Online Payments from 2015-07-13T19:09:53

Solving the pain points of online payments was the applications that garnered the most attention in Bitcoin’s early days. In recent times, as consumer adoption of Bitcoin payments has been under...

Adam Draper: Accelerating 100 Bitcoin Startups with Boost VC from 2015-06-29T17:57:52

Revolutionary progress doesn’t happen without lots of work and in the case of Bitcoin that requires many different startups building technology. Few have contributed to this as much as Silicon V...

Tim Swanson: Permissioned Ledgers and the Case for Blockchains Without Bitcoin from 2015-06-22T15:04:34

One topic that is guaranteed to cause heated discussion among cryptocurrency enthusiasts is the idea that blockchains can be controlled by known validators and function without an underlying cry...

David Andolfatto: Fedcoin – The Implications of Cryptocurrencies Issued by Central Banks from 2015-06-15T14:36:50

Many people think of Bitcoin as the ultimate contender against the power of central banks, most importantly the Federal Reserve System. But that is certainly not the only way that cryptocurrenci...

Joseph Poon&Tadge Dryja: Scalability and the Lightning Network from 2015-05-25T19:22:52

Since Gavin Andresen’s proposal to increase the Bitcoin block size, how Bitcoin can scale to accommodate higher transaction volumes has been heatedly debated among developers. One of the most pr...

Rodolfo Novak: Coinkite and the Feature Factory from 2015-05-18T15:52:21

Started in May 2013, Coinkite has by now almost advanced to senior citizen status in the short-lived Bitcoin startup space. CEO Rodolfo Novak joined us for a discussion about what drove their in...

Trent McConaghy: Ascribe – The Internet of Ownership from 2015-05-11T17:05:32

The idea of using the Bitcoin blockchain to represent and track the ownership of off-chain assets is almost as old as Bitcoin itself. One of the startups that is pursuing this vision is Berlin-b...

Emin Gün Sirer&Ittay Eyal: From Selfish Miners to The Miner’s Dilemma from 2015-04-27T20:26:02

Bitcoin’s approach to solving the double spending problem is to make a collusion and attack on the network prohibitively expensive. One of the main factors that will determine Bitcoin’s chance o...

Paul Brody: Internet of Things and the Democracy of Devices from 2015-04-20T14:47:29

As the cost of computing continues to plummet, the number of connected devices is increasing dramatically. In the future powerful computing capacity will be in billions of devices ranging from t...

Robby Dermody: Counterparty – Assets, Dividends and Decentralized Exchange from 2015-04-13T19:14:34

In the crowded race to become the leading ‘Bitcoin 2.0’ platform, Counterparty has stood out by avoiding fancy crowdsales and instead building a platform that works. The protocol, which sits on ...

Siân Jones: Cryptocurrency Regulation Update – UK, Isle of Man, California, Bitlicense from 2015-03-30T19:04

When one is busy driving a technological and societal revolution forward, complying with complicated regulatory requirements is rarely a top priority. Yet, the reality is that at this stage the ...

Lisa Cheng: Token Sales and Crowdfunding in the Cryptocurrency Space from 2015-03-23T21:02:25

Creating a new token and selling it to fund the development of software has become a preferred way of fundraising for cryptocurrency entrepreneurs. It’s a tempting tool, allowing startups to avo...

Michael Gronager: Chainalysis – Surveillance and the Path to Mass Panic from 2015-03-17T00:19:51

When spinning up a few hundred data-gathering Bitcoin nodes prevented some breadwallet users from transmitting bitcoin transaction, a minor panic quickly erupted about the Bitcoin compliance sta...

Brian Hoffman: OpenBazaar – Peer-To-Peer Commerce, Third-Party Arbitration, Ricardian Contracts from 2015-02-23T21:21:36

What Bitcoin did for money, OpenBazaar is trying to achieve for commerce. Born as a fork of the Dark Market project, OpenBazaar aims to facilitate online trade by removing unneeded middlemen. Bu...

Levin Keller: Coyno – Bitcoin Bookkeeping, Filing Taxes, Building a Bitcoin Startup in Europe from 2015-02-16T19:21:19

Levin Keller is known to many in Berlin as the man who warned everyone about the dark scenario where buying Bitcoins in Europe would be subject to VAT. As with the VAT issue, Levin was also conc...

Tim Swanson: The Bitcoin Hype Buster from 2015-01-26T13:00:26

When it comes to Bitcoin, Tim Swanson is known to many as the man who sees the glass half empty. Whether or not that’s true, it’s fair to say that Tim has critical opinions about Bitcoin and que...

Preston Byrne&Siân Jones: Eris Industries – The Distributed Application Software Stack from 2015-01-19T13:00:25

Eris Industries spawned when three people got together to come up with a solution to Olivier Janssens’ £100K bounty to replace the Bitcoin Foundation with software. Their proposal, initially cal...

Garrick Hileman: CoinDesk’s State of Bitcoin 2015 – Ecosystem Grows Despite Price Decline from 2015-01-12T21:28:41

Every quarter, CoinDesk releases its excellent State of Bitcoin Report proving an accurate benchmark of where the Bitcoin ecosystem stands. We were very fortunate to be joined by the man who com...

Fireside Chat – A Fascinating Year in Retrospect and Exciting Times Ahead from 2014-12-29T13:00:16

As we wrap up 2014, Brian and Sebastien have a fireside chat and look back on some of the areas of Bitcoin they thought were the most defining. They also look out to 2015 and give their thoughts...

Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Proof-of-Stake, The Future of Bitcoin from 2014-12-22T21:53:05

At just 20-years young, Vitalik Buterin is one of the most brilliant minds in the cryptocurrency space. Previously, a co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine, he has conceptualized Ethereum, the most rad...

Allen Scott&Ian DeMartino: CoinTelegraph and the Rise of Crypto-Powered Independent Media from 2014-12-16T00:21:57

CoinTelegraph Chief Editor, Allen Scott, and writer, Ian DeMartino join Sebastien (Brian is away) for a conversation about the independent Bitcoin media. Cryptocurrencies enable new business mod...

Daniel Peled&Tom Kysar: Gems – The Social Messaging App That Pays You for Your Attention from 2014-11-24T17:58:33

Daniel Peled, CEO of Gems, and Tom Kysar, Marketing Lead at Koinify, join us to talk about a project that aims to revolutionize social messaging.

As one of the first decentralized social ...

Arianna Simpson: BitGo – Security and Usability with Multi-Signature HD Wallets from 2014-11-17T20:11:58

Keeping Bitcoins safe from theft is probably one of the things Bitcoin holders worry the most about. Historically, there have been a number of recommended best practices like paper wallets, BIP ...

Paul Snow&Peter Kirby: Factom – Proof of Existance, Proof of Process, Proof of Audit from 2014-11-10T11:28:49

Today’s episode is all about Factom, an open source project which aims to solve three core problems which apply to all Bitcoin 2.0 applications: Speed, Cost, and Bloat. Rather than writing every...

Nicolas Courtois: BTC2B Conference – Potential Security Vulnerabilities in Bitcoin ECDSA from 2014-10-30T15:43:14

Nicolas Courtois is a cryptographer and senior lecturer at University College London. He has been studying cryptocurrencies for some time and has written a number of papers on bitcoin. His talk ...

Meni Rosenfeld: Mining Pool Reward Systems, Bitcoin Economics, Bitcoin in Israel from 2014-10-27T21:01:29

Meni Rosenfeld is Founder of Bitcoil and Chairman of the Israeli Bitcoin Association. Having organized several meetups and conferences in Israel, he is a very active member of the Israeli Bitcoi...

Jeremy Garder&Richard Caetano: BTC2B Conference – Bitcoin Marketing Panel from 2014-10-23T13:33:38

BTC2B Brussels conference on October 16 & 17, 2014

This episode features two parts of a session on Bitcoin marketing. First, Richard Caetano, founder of Handshake and btcRepo...

Dean Masley&Jacob Sears: College Crypto – Jacob Sears and Dean Masley Talk About Bitcoin Education from 2014-10-20T17:52:27

The College Cryptocurrency Network is a non-profit organization which aims to provide students, academics, and faculty with the guidance and resources required to start independent Bitcoin clubs...

Shawn Wilkinson: Storj – The Decentralization of the Cloud from 2014-10-15T07:02:13

Shawn Wilkinson, founder and lead developer of Storj, joins us for our first deep dive into a decentralized application. Storj’s particular domain is the decentralization of cloud storage. Their...

State of Bitcoin Q3 2014 – The Quiet Building Phase from 2014-10-15T06:56:17

Every quarter CoinDesk puts out its excellent State of Bitcoin Report providing a snapshot of where the Bitcoin ecosystem is at. We took this opportunity to go back to our original formation and...

Elie Chevignard&Mehdi Medjaoui: Oauth.io – Digital Identity in the Blockchain from 2014-10-15T06:50:53

Mehdi Medjaoui (Co-founder and COO) & Elie Chevignard (CMO) are the two guys behind Oauth.io, a service which aims to provide a simple and standardized way for developers to implement Oath. ...

Tom Ding: Koinify – Decentralized Autonomous Organizations&Corporations from 2014-09-29T15:20:06

Tom Ding is the CEO and Founder of Koinify, a platform for funding decentralized applications. Think of Koinify as a sort of Angel List to bootstrap and fund a new decentralized economy, specifi...

Amor Sexton&Marco Santori: Siân Jones Interviews Inside Bitcoins London from 2014-09-25T16:27:26

Siân Jones was recently in London for the Insid...

Eric Larchevêque, Nicolas Baca&Thomas France: La Maison du Bitcoin in Paris from 2014-09-22T13:00:27

La maison du Bitcoin is a dedicated Bitcoin center located in the heart of ”Silicon Sentier”, which is situated in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris. Founded by entrepreneurs Eric Larchevêque and ...

Bastian Brand: The Intelligent Cryptoinvestor, Bitcoin Investment Whitepaper from 2014-09-15T19:44:07

Dr. Bastian Brand is an investment manager at Pathfinder Capital. Pathfinder Capital is a London-based Venture Capital firm that focuses on frontier markets and cryptocurrencies. He is also the ...

Dave Carlson, Jez San, Marc Aafjes, Naveed Sherwani&Timo Hanke: CoinSummit London – Pannel: The Ever Changing Landscape of Bitcoin Mining from 2014-08-28T16:44:31

Today’s panel discussion is called “The ever changing landscape of Bitcoin mining” where moderator Jez San is joined by some of the most prominent figures in the mining industry, Marc Aafjes of ...

George Samman: BTC.sx, Bitcoin Derivatives, Recent Price Movements, Wall St and Regulation from 2014-08-25T17:46:35

George Samman is co-founder and COO of the Bitcoin derivatives exchange, BTC.sx. George helps us get a broad understanding of derivatives as a financial product, and we explore their uses in the...

Flavien Charlon, Gavin Wood, Richard Gendal Brown&Ron Gross: CoinSummit London – Panel: Decentralized Applications and Appcoins from 2014-08-21T22:25:11

This episode features a panel discussion called “Decentralized Applications and Appcoins.” Flavien Charlon, founder of Coinprism, Ron Gross of the Mastercoin Foundation and Gavin Wood of Ethereu...

Edmund Edgar: Reality Keys – A Certificate Authority for Facts from 2014-08-18T06:56:57

Edmund Edgar is the founder of Reality Keys. His startup won the Startup Challenge award at the Bitcoin 2014 Conference in Amsterdam. They are providing cryptographic data feeds on real-life eve...

Andrew Turner, Michael Jackson&Olivier Janssens: CoinSummit London – Interviews from 2014-08-14T16:21:31

CoinSummit London Conference Series – July 10 and 11, 2014

In this episode we talk to Olivier Janssens, a Bitcoin early adopter and investor, and his associate Andrew Turner. We ...

Freya Stevens&Ira Miller: Coinapult – Locks and Letting the Bit Drop from 2014-08-11T12:00:15

Coinapult’s CEO Ira Miller and marketing specialist Freya Stevens join us for a discussion about their company and plans for the future. We particularly dove into their new Locks feature, which ...

Radko Albrecht: BitBond, Bitcoin Lending and the Changing World of Finance from 2014-07-28T18:47:05

Radko Albrecht joins us to discuss his startup, the Bitcoin-based peer-to-peer lending platform, BitBond. We dove deeply into why Bitcoin-based peer-to-pee...

Emin Gün Sirer, Garrick Hileman, Jeff Garzik, Jez San&Peter Todd: CoinSummit London – State of Bitcoin Keynote&“Will Bitcoin Last the Distance” Panel on Mining from 2014-07-24T13:21:17

CoinSummit London Conference Series – July 10 and 11, 2014

We start our coverage of CoinSummit with Garrick Hileman, CoinDesk contributor & Economic Historian at LSE, who del...

Gabriel Mirón&Steven Morell: Steven Morell&Gabriel Mirón: NYDFS BitLicense Proposal, MEXBT, Moneero, Latin America from 2014-07-21T12:00:21

Steven Morell and Gabriel Mirón join us to discuss the recent New York Department of Financial Services BitLicense proposal. Our regulatory affairs correspondent Siân Jones also joins us briefly...

Patrick Murck&Preston Byrne: Regulation Series by Siân Jones from 2014-07-17T17:44:12

This episode is part of our coverage of the Bitcoin 2014 Conference which took place in Amsterdam from May 15 to 17, 2014. These interviews were conducted by Siân Jones and focus on the area of ...

Siân Jones: European Banking Authority Opinion, Regulation, Coinsummit London, COINsult from 2014-07-14T12:00:33

The recent publication of a European Banking Authority opinion on “virtual currencies” has caused great concern among actors of the Bitcoin ecosystem. Siân Jones joins us to dissect this 46-page...

Bryan Skarlatos, Estaban van Goor, Jerry Brito&Luis Cuende: Regulation Series by Siân Jones from 2014-07-12T12:00:34

This episode is part of our coverage of the Bitcoin 2014 Conference which took place in Amsterdam from May 15 to 17, 2014. These interviews were conducted by Siân Jones and focus on the area of ...

Anthony di Iorio, Arthur Corry, Ethan Wilding&Michael Perklin: Bitcoin Decentral Toronto from 2014-06-30T12:00:33

Topics covered in this episode:

• Anthony di Iorio (Founder Decentral, Founder Ethereum, Toronto Bitcoin Meetup, Executive Director Bitcoin Alliance of Canada)
• Arthur Corry (...
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Mike Hearn: Lighthouse, Assurance Contracts, bitcoinj, Transaction Fees&Core Dev Team from 2014-06-21T12:00:52

Today out guest is Mike Hearn who many of you are familiar with. He’s one of the first Bitcoin users and the developer of bitcoinj, a Java library used by a number of popular Bitcoin wallets suc...

Adam Cleary, Frédéric Martin, Marco Peereboom, Nicolas Baca, Patrick Melton&Tamás Blummer: Bitcoin 2014 Amsterdam from 2014-06-19T12:00:12

This episode is part of our coverage of the Bitcoin 2014 Conference which took place in Amsterdam from May 15 to 17, 2014.

Topics covered in this episode:

• Adam Cleary, founde...
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Adam Cleary, Frédéric Martin, Marco Peereboom, Nicolas Baca, Patrick Melton&Tamás Blummer: Bitcoin 2014 Amsterdam from 2014-06-19T12:00:12

This episode is part of our coverage of the Bitcoin 2014 Conference which took place in Amsterdam from May 15 to 17, 2014.

Topics covered in this episode:

• Adam Cleary, founde...
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Joel Dietz: Swarm – Crypto-Fundraising, Silk Road Sale, Google&Yahoo Track BTC from 2014-06-16T12:00:05

Guest Joel Dietz talks about his new company Swarm, a very exciting cryptocurrency-based fundraising platform. Their idea is to provide a more efficient, decentralized and versatile version of K...

David Schwartz, Edward Karatov, Eiso Vaandrager, Jon Peters, Matt Tuzzolo&Richard Caetano: Bitcoin 2014 Amsterdam from 2014-06-12T12:00:37

This episode is part of our coverage of the Bitcoin 2014 Conference which took place in Amsterdam from May 15 to 17, 2014.

Topics covered in this episode:

• David Schwartz, Chi...
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Brian Armstrong, JF Gallas, Jon Matonis, Marc Barach&Radko Albrecht: Bitcoin 2014 Amsterdam from 2014-05-30T12:00:05

This episode is part of our coverage of the Bitcoin 2014 Conference which took place in Amsterdam from May 15 to 17, 2014.

Topics covered in this episode:

• Jon Matonis, Execut...
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Asher Tan&Levin Keller: CoinJar, Circle, German Bitcoin Sales Tax from 2014-05-27T12:00:38

For episode 21 we had Asher Tan on CEO of CoinJar, a very successful Australian Bitcoin startup that offers similar services to Coinbase. We talked about the plans with CoinJar, what we think of...

Patrick Byrne: Bitcoin 2014 Amsterdam – Keynote by Patrick Byrne CEO of Overstock.com from 2014-05-22T12:00:51

This episode is part of our coverage of the Bitcoin 2014 Conference which took place in Amsterdam from May 15 to 17, 2014.

To start off our coverage of the event, we have the keynote pres...

Jorge Timon&Mark Friedenbach: Bitcoin 2014, Freicoin, Freimarkets&Sidechains from 2014-05-19T12:00:23

We recorded episode 20 in Amsterdam the morning after the Bitcoin 2014 conference organized by the Bitcoin Foundation.

Our two guests for the post-conference sit-down were Jorge Timon (tw...

David El Achkar: Bitcoin in the Middle East from 2014-05-12T12:00:43

For episode 19, we had David El Achkar on as our guest host. He is a Bitcoin entrepreneur in Beirut and the founder of the Bitcoin Lebanon group. We talked about the broken state of payments in ...

Spin-Offs, Bitcoin Debit Card, BIP38-Cold Storage and Bitcoin Undone? from 2014-04-28T12:00:25

After having guests on for our last few episodes, it was back to the original cast of Brian and Sebastien for an episode.

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Max Kaye&Stephan Tual: Ethereum and Decentralized Applications from 2014-04-21T12:00:58

We had two excellent guests on. Stephan Tual is the Chief Communications Officer for the Ethereum project, founder of the London Ethereum meetup and has played a crucial role in building out the...

Joel Hampton: Spendr, Neo&Bee, Sidechains, Square from 2014-04-14T12:00:14

This week, we have Joel Hampton on as a guest host, a rather nomadic entrepreneur, currently based in Sydney. His startup Spendr.io is building a site to help people find high-quality, bitcoin-a...

Siân Jones: All About Regulation, IRS Guidance, UK Statements, Isle of Man&More from 2014-03-31T12:00:46

On today’s show we have Sian Jones as a guest host. Sian is a consultant at Coinsult and specialized in cryptocurrency regulation. She helps us get to the bottom of recent rulings and guidances ...

Bitcoin Version 0.9, China Rumors, and Much More from 2014-03-25T12:00:56

Topics covered in this episode:

• The new update of the core Bitcoin client to version 0.9
• Strange rumors about a Bitcoin ban in China
• OKCoin and Bitstamp raising $1...
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Jaron Lukasiewicz&Nir Halutzy: Inside Bitcoins Berlin 2014 – Opportunities and Challenges of Bitcoin Exchanges from 2014-03-20T14:00:13

This episode is part of our coverage of the Inside Bitcoins conference which took place in Berlin February 12 and 13, 2014.

This episodes features two talks with different perspectives on...

Jonathan Levin: MtGox, Future of Bitcoin Exchanges, Xapo, Altcoin Inflation from 2014-03-17T13:00:34

On today’s show we have Jonathan Levin on as a guest host. He’s an economist at Oxford University and co-founder of Coinometrics.

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• Our meetups ...
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Marcia Hoffman&Oliver Flaskaemper: Inside Bitcoins Berlin 2014 – Bitcoin and its Potential as a Tool for Change from 2014-03-12T14:00:41

This episode is part of our coverage of the Inside Bitcoins conference which took place in Berlin February 12 and 13, 2014.

This episode features two inspiring talks on Bitcoin its potent...

Hiding in Plain Sight from 2014-03-10T12:00:06

Topics covered in this episode:

• The curious story of Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto
• Recent transactions indicating MtGox may still possess large amounts of bitcoin
• Mark K...
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Alan Meckler, Andreas Schildbach, Elie Chevignard, Hubert Gertis, Josh Zerlan, Moe Adham, Philippe Rodriguez, Rafael Rodriguez, Stanislav Wolf, Thomas Hessler&Tuur Demeester: Inside Bitcoins Berlin 2014 – Conference Floor Interviews from 2014-02-26T14:00:36

This episode is part of our coverage of the Inside Bitcoins conference which took place in Berlin February 12 and 13, 2014.

This episode features a first set of interviews we did over the...

The Bitcoin ATM Wave Reaches US Shores from 2014-02-24T12:00:06

On today’s show we talk about:

Topics covered in this episode:

• Last weekend’s ‘Berlin, Texas Bitcoin Hackathon’ here in Berlin.
• The continued MtGox-journey of disast...
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Bastian Brand, David Bailey, Eric Benz, Felix Weis, Gary Ubsdell, Joerg Platzer, Johnathan Brown, Matt Roszak, Max Gotzler, Onyx Ashanti&Tatiana Moroz: Inside Bitcoins Berlin 2014 – Live from Room 77 from 2014-02-20T14:00:07

This episode is part of our coverage of the Inside Bitcoins conference which took place in Berlin February 12 and 13, 2014.

The night before the conference, we were at Room 77, the world’...

Johann Barbie: The Bitcoin Barbie from 2014-02-17T12:00:32

On today’s show, we’re joined by Johann Barbie, founder of 37Coins, an SMS based wallet solution. Johann weighs in on the recent transaction malleability fiasco and helps us better understand wh...

The Tiger’s Bit Of Cologne from 2014-01-26T15:00:51

Topics covered in this episode:

• TigerDirect becoming the largest retailer to accept bitcoin
• The prospects of the mighty Google accepting bitcoin
• Marc Andreessen’s ...
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Tom Cruise Fights to Protect the Blockchain from 2014-01-19T13:00:36

Topics covered in this episode:

• A host of new businesses start accepting Bitcoin
• Coinye Coin gets shut down
• The FBI may sell Bitcoins seized from Silk Road
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Half-Man-Half-Fish Wearing Sunglasses from 2014-01-12T13:00:02

Topics covered in this episode:

• Bitcoin ATMs as they pop up around the world
• Zynga starts accepting Bitcoin in some of its games
• A new service that allows you to e...
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Regulation and the Future of Bitcoin from 2013-12-20T14:00:35

In our pilot episode, we talk about the latest news in regulation. Specifically, we talk about the recent regulatory stories out of France, Switzerland and China.

This episode is hosted b...