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Understanding ICP Staking and Neurons in Simple English w/ John & Diego from 2022-01-20T17:04:44
Principal Engineer, John Wiegley joins Diego Pratts in this episode to reduce the practice of staking ICP to common English.
We discuss ICP economics, burning & staking, the importance of...
The Third Web #18 - Concordium from 2022-01-14T19:51:33
Concordium is a "compliant by design" open proof of stake blockchain that has achieved fame among Rust developers as a friendly place to develop.
Community representative Beni Issembert Jo...
What Does it mean to be "Web Speed" with Manu & Diego from 2021-12-03T10:58:10
"Web" can be used as a performance descriptor to represent the expectations of contemporary users. Does the IC achieve this? Where does it hit and where does it miss. In this episode, we explore th...
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ICDevs & the Drive Toward Community Developed Infrastructure from 2021-11-17T11:33:38
The Internet Computer requires a large amount of tooling to support web & enterprise developers. Austin Fatheree believes that should be developed by the community. Grants are already active for ...
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Today New York, Tomorrow, the World from 2021-11-17T11:31:11
Andrew and Evan of The Internet Computer Report join to discuss the state of the community, events in New York, and global opportunities for IC-based products.
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OpenChat Deep Dive from 2021-11-17T11:25:58
From the early days of entrepreneurship to the deep inner workings of the Internet Computer, Matt Grogan discusses his history working with Dominic Williams. We then deep dive on OpenChat, applica...
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Decentralised Frontends, Upgrading Canisters, & the Mysteries of Boundary Nodes from 2021-10-20T21:14:11
Community Manager Moritz Fuller explains his decision to build a Liquity front end on the Internet Computer. From here we discuss the challenges of hosting DeFi products on the IC, upgrading canist...
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The No Code Revolution Comes to the IC with ICME from 2021-10-11T22:52:10
The Internet Computer native website builder, ICME, is the brainchild of Houman Shadab & Wyatt Benno, a lawyer/no code enthusiast and startup builder respectively. The website builder is the first ...
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Toniq Labs NFT Art Deep Dive from 2021-09-14T02:51:02
Bob Bodily, Chief Product Officer of Toniq Labs dives deep on NFTs and Toniq Labs' plans to expand their offerings.
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Knowledge Blast: Inter-Subnet Communication, the DKG, and Chainkey from 2021-09-07T03:34:21
Manu Drijvers drops a knowledge bomb in this session, answering your questions about the inner workings of the IC.
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Norton Wang & the cycle_dao from 2021-08-26T23:37:11
Norton Wang discusses the future of governance on the IC. The Axon neuron manager, cycle_dao, ICRocks, combine to form a Voltronic image of application & IC governance and code verification.
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IC Games, the Metaverse, an NFT Marketplace: Toniq Labs Has it All from 2021-08-26T23:36:35
Building an Internet Computer-hosted board game has led the team at Toniq Labs toward a complete metaverse infrastructure. Following the runaway success of their NFT marketplace which sold $350,000...
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InfinitySwap: The IC's Uniswap from 2021-08-26T23:35:48
InfinitySwap aims to provide an AMM to establish liquidity pools for DeFi products and fundraising on the IC.
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Origyn & the Emergence of Pan Industry Platforms from 2021-08-26T23:35:21
From a background in traditional systems to the forefront of decentralisation in traditional industry, Mike Shwartz has seen a lot. His project, Origyn, is an effort to make robust NTFs, or digital...
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The First of the Accelerators: DeFiStarter from 2021-08-26T23:34:03
Singapore-based decentralised finance-oriented accelerator, DeFiStarter, is gunning for the Internet Computer financial ecosystem.
By onboarding Ethereum-based teams and mirroring their ap...
Token Standards On the Internet Computer from 2021-08-26T23:33:06
Hazel is back to discuss token standards on the IC. We dive deep on the HZLD token, canister upgradability, NFTs and Micropayments. After this interview was recorded, Hazel launched an NFT experime...
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Experiments In Tokens and a Decentralised Patreon from 2021-07-05T02:44:25
To those who saw the HZLD token experiment on Twitter, Hazel will be a familiar figure. HZLD was actually a component in a much larger experiment: Hazels decentralised Patreon challenger Bunchd.<...
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From Linkedup to Distrikt - Professional Social Networking on the Internet Computer from 2021-06-29T20:24:28
Distrikt is a decentralised professional social media platform that began its life inside the DFINITY Foundation as Linkedup. Co-founder Andra Georgescu describes Distrikt's ambitions and her visio...
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Misconceptions & Open Questions with Jordan Last from 2021-06-17T22:38:58
Between the Internet Identity System and application scaling, there are a large number of subjects that the Internet Computer community is still coming to understand. Especially in the context of ...
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DSCVR the Decentralised Reddit from 2021-06-16T08:35:07
DSCVR is in essence a decentralised Reddit - or news aggregator - hosted on the Internet Computer. Rick Porter, formerly BCG, began building DSCVR in 2020 on a hunch that a decentralised news aggre...
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Jordan Last & The GraphQL Odyssey Mixdown from 2021-06-10T18:10:06
Longtime DFINITY Community member, Jordan Last takes us on a journey from his love of technology as a youth to his discovery of the Internet Computer. We discuss Pseudograph, Jordan's open-source ...
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Jordan Last & The Sudograph Odyssey from 2021-06-10T18:10:06
Longtime DFINITY Community member, Jordan Last takes us on a journey from his love of technology as a youth to his discovery of the Internet Computer. We discuss Sudograph, Jordan's open-source im...
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Harrison Hines On Infrastructure And IC DAOs Mixdown from 2021-06-07T20:35:43
Harrison Hines is back with an insightful discussion into the future of infrastructure funding and an examination of DAOs as infrastructure builders
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The Internet Computer Weekly - Decentralised Web On Fleek from 2021-06-01T22:55:02
Harrison Hines of Fleek discusses the challenges faced by the current generation of decentralised applications. Namely, the lack of decentralised frontend hosting. Enter the decentralised web, also...
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The Internet Computer Weekly - Chain Keys and Ethereum Interoperation with Dominic Williams from 2021-05-27T01:18:20
In this session, Dominic Williams, Founder of DFINITY, creator of the Internet Computer, and all-round good dude explains how the internet computer interoperates with Ethereum.
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The Internet Computer Weekly #2 - Tacen from 2021-05-25T21:15:45
This episode of the Internet Computer Weekly features hybrid decentralised exchange Tacen, which enables users to settle trades atomically, matching trades using a centralised service but storing t...
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The Internet Computer Weekly #1 - Capsule from 2021-05-19T22:00:33
Nadim Kobeissi of the Capsule decentralised social media project describes the need for an alternative to the existing big-tech offerings and the reason the Internet Computer was chosen as a hostin...
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Understanding Urbit #7 - Tlon Operations Community from 2020-04-13T20:47:24
Tlon COO Erik Newton and Community Manager Kenny Rowe join this session to provide some additional background to Tlon and the Urbit Community.
Erik Newton begins by explaining the relatio...
Understanding Urbit #6 - Built to Last from 2020-04-13T20:44:21
The recurrent theme of calm computing is explored more deeply in this discussion with Logan Allen whose focus is infrastructure and product at Tlon.
Logan sees the attention economy, with ...
Understanding Urbit #5 - Urbit & Bitcoin from 2020-04-13T20:41:35
Christian Langalis is the resident bitcoin ambassador to the Urbit team. His motto is sound money requires sound computing and this well describes his role is to develop Bitcoin infrastructure for ...
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Understanding Urbit #4 - Urbit ID & the Network from 2020-04-13T20:35:36
As Ted indicated in episode 2, The Urbit ID public key infrastructure and the Urbit network are core to the way individual Urbits communicate and maintain self-sovereignty. In this episode we hear ...
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Understanding Urbit #3 - Technology & Freedom from 2020-04-13T20:30:26
The effect technology has on individual freedom is a recurring theme in lunchtime discussions in the Tlon office. Chief Product Officer, Anthony Arroyo has a background in linguistics and the philo...
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Understanding Urbit #2 - Under the Hood of the Urbit OS from 2020-04-13T20:22:53
Engineer Ted Blackman works on the Urbit OS kernel. Like many Tlon employees, Ted initially came to the project as an open source contributor. In this discussion Ted breaks the operating system dow...
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Understanding Urbit #1 - Introducing the Personal Server from 2020-04-13T20:17:48
Few software projects today share either the contemporary relevance or fringe mystique of the Urbit Operating and Identity System. As a highly secure personal server, Urbit aims to deliver on many ...
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The Third Web #17 - Arthur Brock, Holochain from 2019-05-09T23:17:28
Holochain has been a project simminging in the background of the blockchain space for several years now. The promise has been a panaceaic solution to the performance and scalability issues facing d...
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The Third Web #16 - Urbit, Your New Server from 2019-03-18T01:13:16
The range of third-web platforms in development today is greater than ever. From data-centric blockchain based approaches to agent-centric designs like Secure Scuttlebut, the potential futures of t...
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The Third Web #15 - Edgeware & Parity, Infrastructure on Top of Infrastructure from 2019-03-03T22:29
What is Edgeware
Edgeware being developed by an entity called Commonwealth Labs
Built on Parity’s Substrate
Grandpa finality tool
On-chain governance
Scripting built in.
Usi...
The Third Web #14 - Dawn Of An Ecosystem: Substrate & Polkadot from 2019-01-30T18:00:25
Care of DFINITY I was privileged to attend the Web 3 Summit in Berlin last year. While there I interviewed Aeron Buchanan, the Executive Vice President of the Web 3 Foundation and Gavin Wood, Found...
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The Third Web #13 - Consensus Primer with Aparna Krishnan from 2018-12-20T09:00:49
Aparna Krishnan is head of education at Blockchain at Berkeley and co-founder of Mechanism Labs, an open source blockchain research lab. Earlier this year, Aparna was awarded a scholarship by the D...
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The Third Web #12 - The Actor Model from 2018-12-12T15:00:06
Subodh Sharma is a professor of computer science at IIT Delhi, one of the most prestigious universities in India. While he’s not teaching, Subodh conducts research into the formal verification of d...
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The Third Web #11 - Scuttlebutt & Cypherspace from 2018-11-20T15:54:21
Dominic Tarr is a hacker who resides on a sailboat, usually found in New Zealand's beautiful Hauraki Gulf. In recent years he has risen to fame as the creator of the Secure Scuttlebutt protocol, Sc...
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The Third Web #10 - An Emerging India from 2018-11-06T15:04:47
Recently I visited India representing the DFINITY Foundation. The trip was supported by upstart venture production and consulting group, Dunya Labs, and advocacy group, InCrypt. Those ten days alte...
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The Third Web #9 - Jack du Rose, Colony & Coase from 2018-10-27T12:30:30
In 2015 I interviewed Jack du Rose about Colony - his autonomous platform that could track contribution to a common enterprse and reward tokens representing stake in said enterprise. Three years an...
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The Third Web #8 - Zilliqa & Singapore from 2018-08-24T00:00
Zilliqa is a Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance based, public, programmable blockchain platform that uses Proof of Work as a syble resistance mechanism. Combining PBFT and PoW is a brilliant trick...
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The Third Web #7 - Brian Behlendorf from 2018-04-06T14:11:18
On this episode of Web 3.0, we hear from Brian Behlendorf, the head of the Hyperledger project at the Linux Foundation, and leading figure in the open-source software movement.
Brian began...
The Third Web #6 - DFINITY Consensus from 2018-01-24T01:38:21
"The DFINITY project was formed to research ways of enabling public decentralized networks to host a virtual computer of unlimited capacity. This rests upon a new blockchain computer that is simila...
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The Third Web #5 - SingularityNet from 2018-01-18T23:55:02
Artificial Intelligence Researcher Ben Goertzal and Blockchain Solution Architect, Simone Vulpem discuss the SingularityNet artificial intelligence marketplace. Currently, the market for artificial...
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The Third Web #4 - SpankChain from 2017-12-11T01:51:23
In today’s episode we look at spank chain, an adult industry cryptocurrency payment system built using Ethereum. Currently, financial intermediaries in the adult entertainment industry exploiting ...
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The Third Web #3 - Quantifying Gaze from 2017-11-21T01:24:14
Today we are taking a quick look at a range of problems and their solutions through the lens of a little known project known as Gazecoin. Under the gaze coin banner are a range of projects, among t...
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The Third Web #2 - The Props Project by YouNow from 2017-11-13T05:17:55
Video, mobile first, open APIs, an existing two-sided market, and a userbase already transacting digitally. The YouNow live video platform is an ideal candidate for a monetary network-based busines...
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The Third Web #1 - Re - Examining The Legality Of ICOs from 2017-11-07T16:53:20
Joshua Ashley Klayman, co-founded the blockchain and smart contracts working group at the law firm Morrison and Foerster and the WSBA’s Legal Working Group. We caught up in person at a Cafe in Cent...
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The Third Web #0 - The Ether Review Final Episode from 2017-10-30T15:05:04
Welcome to the Third Web. A podcast about the technologies powering the next generation of human civilisation. I’m your host, Arthur Falls.
This podcast is targeted at industry observers ...
The Ether Review #76 — Attores & Indorse, Smart Contracts as a Service from 2017-10-17T18:38:59
The founders of Attores, Gorang Torvekar and David Moskowitz discuss their notion of “smart contracts as a service”.
The platform is currently being piloted by nanyang polytechnic in Singapor...
The Ether Review #75 — Streamr, Completing the Data Services Trifecta from 2017-10-11T19:18:10
Current solutions for decentralized data processing like Golem or Truebit provide part of a data services solution. Storj, Filecoin, Sia, and others offer storage solutions.
Streamer tokenizes...
The Ether Review #74 —An Emerging Capital Market from 2017-10-09T22:25:55
Element Group is a full service investment bank for the crypto-token markets.
Stan Miroshnik has a background in traditional finance. After watching the crypto-markets form, Stan and his collea...
The Ether Review #73 — Kik, Establishing a Micro-economy from 2017-10-04T02:26:51
Today we hear from Ted Livingston, who founded Kik interactive in 2009 to address the problem of chat between blackberry, android and iPhone. Since then their chat app, Kik, has exploded in popular...
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The Ether Review #72 — Nick Dodson and Governx from 2017-09-21T20:36:58
Between re-constructing TheDAO and building his own governance platform Governex (once Boardroom), ConsenSys developer Nick Dodson is building a portfolio of powerful Ethereum based tools.
Disa...
Ether Review Legal #6 — Playing in a Sandbox from 2017-09-14T19:58:10
In today's long overdue, landmark episode we are joined by an international panel of leaders in fin-tech and blockchain law:
Claire Wivell, Hannah Glass (Australia), Alex Simms (New Zealand), P...
Ether Review Legal #5 - BernsWeiss Stops the IRS in its Tracks from 2017-08-23T00:00
Lee Weiss of the US law firm BernsWeiss discusses the Coinbase/IRS dispute. The dispute began in November 2016, when the IRS summoned Coinbase to hand over data about all users who were active on t...
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Ether Review #71 - David Bailey on Po.et & the MtGox/BTC-e Connection from 2017-08-10T03:47:55
David Bailey, CEO of BTC Media, discusses the recent shutdown of BTC-e and its mysterious connection to the MtGox hack which led to the exchange’s demise in 2014. He also introduces Po.et, a revolu...
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Ether Review Legal #4 - MME, the Beating Heart of Crypto Valley from 2017-08-04T03:48:06
Luka Müller and Dianne Schepers of MME - the Swiss law firm famous for running the Ethereum crowdsale - discuss jurisdictional constraints, Crypto Valley, novel crypto-asset classes and the “second...
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Ether Review Legal #3 - The Simple Agreement for Future Tokens from 2017-07-24T00:00
Juan Benet and Jesse Clayburgh of Protocol Labs, and Ryan Zurrer of Polychain Capital, discuss the Simple Agreement for Future Tokens (SAFT). Inspired by Y Combinator’s “Simple Agreement for Future...
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The Ether Review #70 - CoinList Battens down the Hatches with Watertight Token Launch Compliance from 2017-07-21T00:00
Juan Benet and Jesse Clayburgh of Protocol Labs, and Ryan Zurrer of Polychain Capital, discuss CoinList, a platform for token-backed networks to raise money through pre-launch token sales.
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Ether Review #69 - IOTA & the Post-Blockchain Era from 2017-07-18T00:00
David Sønstebø, co-founder of IOTA, discusses this next-generation post-blockchain platform designed to serve as the backbone for the Internet-of-Things (IoT).
IOTA is a groundbreaking new...
The Ether Review #68 - Numerai, The Last Hedge Fund from 2017-07-06T23:16:45
Xander Dunn and Richard Craib discuss Numerai, a new kind of hedge fund built by a network of data scientists.
The Numerai platform crowdsources machine learning by releasing encrypted dat...
Ether Review Legal Discussion #2 The Legality of Raising Money Using Tokens from 2017-06-24T11:11:38
In today’s discussion we look at the legality of raising money through token launches, the potential risks involved, and approaches to improving the safety of these new bearer assets. We also exami...
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The Ether Review #67 — Celebrating Erik Voorhees Week with Erik Voorhees! from 2017-06-12T02:37:47
What?! Another Erik Voorhees podcast?!!!
In this, the sixty seventh episode of The Ether Review, we set out to understand Prism, Shapeshift’s new non-custodial synthetic asset built on the...
The Ether Review #66 - Gnosis, Martin Köppelmann from 2017-05-22T00:00
After a stunning token launch Gnosis has become a classic example of the hope for greater and more powerful decentralized applications. Founder Martin Köppelmann walks us through the projects genes...
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Ether Review Legal Discussion #1 — Challenges in Blockchain Law from 2017-05-14T00:00
In Brief: A walkthrough of the pressing legal issues in blockchain today.
Over the last few months a varying group of legal professionals from New Zealand, Australia, and the USA have been mee...
The Ether Review #64 - Conversations with the Swarm from 2017-05-01T00:00
In Brief: Swarm City, once Arcade City, is one of the most ambitious, and controversial projects in the Ethereum ecosystem. Having shed their founder, the remaining team have made considerable deve...
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The Ether Review #63 — Meet DAD, the Digital Aussie Dollar from 2017-04-26T00:00
In Brief: Tokenizing fiat currency in a way that is compatible with our existing financial infrastructure and legislation is no easy feat. The consequences however reach across the entirety of indu...
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The Ether Review #62—The Biggest City in Blockchain Pt 2 from 2017-04-16T00:00
Matt Hale of Divvi is the first speaker in the second half of the conversation we began last week. Divvi is a Sydney based decentralized energy market startup. The huge scale of residential solar d...
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The Ether Review #61 - The Biggest City in Blockchain Part 1 from 2017-04-12T00:00
Last week I was honoured with the privilege of representing New Zealand at the inaugural ISO/TC-307 Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies standards committee meeting. The event was hosted ...
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The Ether Review #60 — MeDAOs & Crypto Branding from 2017-03-28T00:00
Today we hear first from Joe Reed who won the Seattle IPFS / Ethereum Hackathon in February. His entry Matriarch expands on the ERC20 compliant Minime token, using it as a basis for crowdfunded MeD...
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The Ether Review #59 — Money Talks, Polychain Capital from 2017-03-20T00:00
By now word of the Andreessen-Horowitz/Union Square Ventures investment in the digital asset hedge fund Polychain Capital was reached far and wide across the cryptoverse. Among other things, this i...
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The Ether Review #58 — “Status” Conquers Mobile from 2017-03-13T00:00
Ever wished for a final login, a final app? The last user name you would ever need, the last thing you would ever need to download?
The Ethereum mobile client Status promises just that and it’s...
The Ether Review #57 — The First Compliant-by Design Blockchain Asset from 2017-03-03T21:33:59
Charlie Shrem and Jason Granger explain the Mainstreet investment fund. A limited partnership which distributes it’s revenues to addresses associated with self verified token holders. A separate co...
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The Ether Review #56 - Serfs in the Attention Economy from 2017-02-22T18:11:02
In Brief: On today’s episode Kenny Rowe joins to discuss:
Maker DAO Governance
The decision making around forks
DAOs in relation to stable value tokens
The double token model of sta...
The Ether Review #55 — DAOs with Wings from 2017-02-10T00:00
In Brief: Stas Oskin, Wings founder, explains how DAOs can be packaged for use by startups outside the blockchain space.
Learning from others mistakes, the team at Wings are building a pla...
The Ether Review #54 — Demian Brenner of Open Zeppelin from 2017-02-03T00:00
In Brief: If there is one thing we learned in 2016 it’s that building a secure, stable, decentralized application is difficult. One of the responses to the problem has been the Open Zeppelin smart ...
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The Ether Review #53 - Dan Boneh, Master Cryptographer from 2017-01-13T00:00
In Brief: From better signature schemes for blockchains, to quantum preparedness, to novel cryptography like zero knowledge proofs and threshold signatures, Dan Boneh takes us on a tour of cryptogr...
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The Ether Review #52 — Arcade City is Back on the Road from 2017-01-08T00:00
In Brief: In spite of the tumultuous public life of it’s founder, the sharing economy project is evolving and moving forward rapidly. We’ve just seen the end of a successful token launch and an all...
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The Ether Review #51 — Hack Ether Camp: There Can be Only One from 2016-12-20T00:00
In Brief: Round 2 of the biggest hackathon in blockchain is nearing it's apex. On the 22nd of December a winner will be announced. Today the man behind the hack.ether.camp virtual accelerator, Roma...
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The Ether Review #50 - Tezos, Forkless Protocol Upgrades from 2016-12-10T00:00
In Brief: Tezos is a blockchain based smart contract platform that incorporates protocol level governance, modular design, and a functional scripting language. Pretty much the shopping list of feat...
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The Ether Review #49 - Digital Markets and Steemfest from 2016-12-01T00:00
In today's episode we compare two books by William Mougayar: Opening Digital Markets (1997), and The Business Blockchain(2016). We also discuss the Steemfest conference which took place in Amsterda...
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The Ether Review <5:00 - Polkadot & Melonport from 2016-11-24T00:00
In Brief: Melon is a protocol and asset management software suite for setting up and managing portfolios containing cryptocurrencies. It achieves this through the use of the Polkadot blockchain ne...
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The Ether Review #48 - Tracking A Hacker from 2016-11-16T17:01:22
In Brief: The DAO hacker and Geth attacker have left a trail of evidence that can provide high quality identifying information about their persons.
Bok Khoo is an actuary in the finance in...
The Ether Review #47 - Epic Infrastructure in China from 2016-11-07T18:59:07
**In Brief:**
Chinese multinational, Wanxiang Group, has purchased over 700 hectares of land on which to build a smart city where it plans to experiment with blockchain based systems.
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The Ether Review #46 - Curtis Yarvin & Galen Wolfe-Pauly on Urbit from 2016-10-24T20:30:49
Sometimes the urge to layer in-jokes into a podcast title is impossible to resist. . . and then 24hrs later you change it.
The effort to understand the significance of type based and func...
The Ether Review #45 - Australia - Agricultural Finance, Financial Assets, & Antipiracy from 2016-10-17T23:05:20
In many ways still a frontier nation, Australia's style of innovation is practical and direct. Three of the startups covered in todays interviews come from industries outside of tech, each looking ...
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The Ether Review #43 - BHP, Tracking the Most Valuable Rock on Earth from 2016-09-28T00:00
Core samples from oil wells can be worth more than gold. BHP Billiton, one of the largest mining companies in the world, is piloting a program to track their custodianship and provenance using IPFS...
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The Ether Review #42 - Dominic Williams, Dfinity and Infinite Scaling from 2016-09-14T00:00
Dominic Williams is a cryptographic researcher focussed on scaling and the representation of real world assets in digital form. Dfinity, Dominic’s infinitely scalable virtual machine, is simple, a...
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The Ether Review #41 - Martin Lundfall, Rage Against the Machine from 2016-09-07T00:00
What is the Ethereum Virtual Machine, what design trends and decisions influence its operation and what does that mean for Ethereum the platform?
Today we dive deep. There is a debate arou...
The Ether Review #40 - Perianne, Don & Alex discuss The Muskoka Group from 2016-09-01T00:00
Between August 24th-26th, a group of leaders in blockchain thought, business, and advocacy met at the Tapscott’s lodge in Muskoka, Canada. The goal of the meeting was to discuss strategies of stew...
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The Ether Review #39 - Zooko Wilcox, Zcash and Cryptography in the 1990s from 2016-08-29T00:00
In Brief
Zooko Wilcox has more than 20 years of experience in open, decentralized systems, cryptography and information security, and startups. He is recognized for his work on DigiCash, Mojo N...
The Ether Review #38 - Pelle Braendgaard, Prehistory from 2016-08-12T00:00
In Brief
Blockchain is a recent innovation, cryptocurrency is not. From the mid 80s to the end of the Dot Com Boom in the late 90s, cryptographers and developers tackled many of the problems we...
The Ether Review #37 - Jaan Tallinn, Threats to Human Life on Earth from 2016-08-03T00:00
Jaan Talinn is the founder of Skype and Kazaa and long time angel investor. More recently, Jaan has concerned himself with preventing the destruction of humanity. Strong Artificial intelligence is ...
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The Ether Review #36 - Emin Gün Sirer, Wrapping it all up from 2016-07-24T00:00
Crypto guru Emin Gün Sirer wraps up the DAO hack and hard fork. While the entire episode is over for the main Ethereum chain, some questions remain unanswered. After speaking with Emin, the intrigu...
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The Ether Review #35 - Coinfund & Synereo from 2016-07-18T20:56:39
Lucius Gregory Meredith, chief technology officer at Synereo is a mathematician and cryptocurrency expert. The Synereo platform began as a decentralized social network but out of a need for smart c...
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The Ether Review #34 - Vinay Gupta on Rethinking Blockchain Use Cases from 2016-07-07T00:00
The threat of Ethereum regulation as a result of the DAO fiasco raises the question: At its core, is blockchain a financial technology?
The Crypto project is viewed by many to be an effort to ...
The Ether Review # 33 - Blockchain on Wall St & CPU Cycles for Rent from 2016-07-01T00:00
Julian Zawistowski, of Project Golem explains the distributed computing platform he and his team at Imapp are producing. The first alpha, Brass Golem will be released in weeks. The Imapp organisati...
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The Ether Review #32 - Peter Van Valkenburgh, The DAO & Regulation from 2016-06-22T00:00
Peter Van Valkenburgh, Director of Research at Coin Center explains the regulatory considerations that may bear on DAO tokens. This episode was recorded before the hack but is still an excellent gu...
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The Ether Review #31 - Aftermath, Discussing the DAO Hack from 2016-06-20T00:00
So the DAO was hacked. Karl Floersch and myself discuss the state of play. What happened? Was it the fault of the DAO developers or a bug in the Solidity language? What does this mean for the ecos...
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The Ether Review #30 - Vinay Gupta - All Roads lead to the Singularity from 2016-06-12T21:04:32
This episode features a somewhat undirected discussion with critical thinker Vinay Gupta. Starting with the technological components of Bitcoin and Ethereum, we find that all roads lead to the sing...
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The Ether Review #29 - Gavin and Ken of Ethcore, Parity and Web 3 from 2016-06-02T00:00
Today we have Ethereum founder and Ethcore CEO, Gavin Wood and head of business development at Ethcore, Ken Kappler. We take a look at their Parity client and the Web 3 concept. We look at the futu...
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The Ether Review #28 - Dapp Structure and the New Decentralized Exchange, Bitsquare from 2016-05-23T18:11:26
This episode features two interviews. First, Karl Floersch discusses the underlying structures which shape distributed applications. Karl’s ability to explain the deeper mechanics of software runni...
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The Ether Review #27 - Blockchain Revolution from 2016-05-13T18:28:21
Blockchain Revolution, the acclaimed book by Alex and Don Tapscott has been stirring interest in elite tech circles in advance of it's launch. Steve Wozniac called it "Mindblowing in its expansiven...
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The Ether Review #26 - The DAO is Here! from 2016-05-06T00:00
In the few days between this episodes interview and the recording of this introduction, the DAO has raised over ten million dollars, bringing its total cash reserves to twenty three million. Such i...
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The Ether Review #25 - Bob Summerwill of the C++ Team from 2016-04-28T00:00
Bob Summerwill has been developing the C++ Ethereum client since July last year. His background is primarily in game development but he spent a short time in finance as a “Solutions Architect” givi...
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The Ether Review #24 - Christoph Jentzsch, Slockit and the DAO from 2016-04-22T00:00
Christoph Jentzsch is a theoretical physicist and high performance computing expert. The road
to co-founding Slockit lead Christoph through the world of mining to testing the Ethereum codebase...
The Ether Review #23 - Aaron Davis, Dan Finlay, MetaMask from 2016-04-18T00:00
MetaMask is a Chrome browser extension that will enable trustless interaction with DApps. Developers Aaron Davis and Dan Finlay discuss self sovereign identity, leaving Apple to develop on Ethereum...
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The Ether Review #22 - John Lilic, The Transactive Grid from 2016-04-09T13:46:06
John Lilic discusses the Transactive Grid project which aims to localize energy production through the creation of micro grids. John’s idea of using a pure incentive system to solve and infrastruct...
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The Ether Review #21 - Roman Mandeleil, Ethereum Full Transparency from 2016-03-31T00:00
Ethereum Full Transparency is a feature that has recently been added to the live.ether.camp blockchain explorer. It now allows the user to explore the operations of a smart contract in both interpr...
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The Ether Review #20 - Maker, the Stable Currency Platform from 2016-03-21T00:00
The stable token platform Maker is the focus of today’s episode. It’s a mature design that builds on both the academic and technological legacy of Bitshares. It’s live right now and has been for mo...
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The Ether Review #19 - Arcade City from 2016-03-17T00:00
Christopher David, founder of the transportation network Arcade City came on the show today to discuss the project. Arcade City aims ultimately to be owned by the drivers themselves using a suite o...
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The Ether Review #18 - DevUpdate, Digix DAO Crowdsale from 2016-03-10T00:00
Taylor Gerring brings us an Ethereum Development update. Then we’re taking another look at Digix, a gold backed token issuance and exchange platform. The platform featured in episode 8 but given th...
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The Ether Review Dev Update 2-19-16 from 2016-02-24T00:00
This is a special episode of The Ether Review. Today Taylor Gerring, the director of technology at the Ethereum Foundation joins to offer a quick development update and answer a few listener quest...
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The Ether Review #16 - Dominic Williams, Synthetic Assets from 2016-02-16T00:00
Today we have one of my favourite thinkers in the cryptocurrency space. Dominic Williams featured briefly in the last episode of Beyond Bitcoin discussing Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerant consens...
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The Ether Review #15 - Thomas Bertani, Oraclize from 2016-02-11T00:00
Oraclize is a project developing tools to provide trustable data feeds to smart contacts and prediction markets. Founder Thomas Bertani joins me today to explain oracles, oracle networks, TLS Notar...
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The Ether Review #14 - Juan Benet, IPFS from 2016-02-04T00:00
Juan Bennet is the founder and CEO of Protocol Labs. The chief project under development over there is IPFS or the Interplanetary Storage Network. I keep hearing IPFS mentioned in the same sentenc...
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The Ether Review #13 - Alex Van de Sande, Wallet, Contracts, Mist from 2016-01-22T00:00
Alex Van de Sande is the lead designer for the Ethereum Foundation and Eth Dev. Originally working on the Mist browser, more recently Alex has been focussed on the developing the Ethereum wallet. ...
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The Ether Review #12 - Stephan Tual, Slock.it from 2016-01-16T00:00
Joining me today is Stephen Tual is a one time member of the Ethereum team and one of the founders of Slock.it, a project that aims to be Ethereum’s bridge to the internet of things. Their Devcon 1...
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The Ether Review #11 - Free My Vunk! from 2016-01-07T00:00
Free My Vunk is a movement to port game items and assets into the blockchain. The goal is to give control of these hard won in game rewards entirely to the players themselves. On the surface this s...
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The Ether Review #10 - hack.ether.camp Session 2 from 2015-12-25T00:00
Today is our second episode covering the ether.camp hackathon. Familiar voice Hudson Jameson returns with Jaden Hess to explain their milestone reward Dapp kit “Motivate”. Then Roman Mandeleil wrap...
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The Ether Review #9 - hack.ether.camp Session 1 from 2015-12-17T00:00
On the first of this month Roman Mandeleil and the ether camp team kicked off the first decentralised ethereum based hackathon. It was a tremendous opportunity to see the developer community showca...
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The Ether Review #8 - Digix from 2015-12-08T00:00
DiGix is a digital asset issuance and tracking platform built on Ethereum. It is designed to minimise KYC intrusion and offer physical asset shadowing while offering the protection from loss of fun...
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The Ether Review #7 - Aron Von Ammers, Devcon 1 from 2015-11-29T00:00
Aron Von Ammers is a business developer who covered Devcon 1 as it was in session for coin telegraph. His two major ventures in the space, blockstars and outlier ventures aim to rapidly develop and...
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The Ether Review #6 - Devcon 1 Debrief from 2015-11-26T00:00
Today we have a panel of Devcon attendees. Alex Amsel, Hudson Jameson and Jack du Rose.We discuss the Ethereum community, the development state of the consensus process, storage solutions, Free My ...
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The Ether Review #5 - Colony, Jack Du Rose from 2015-11-13T00:00
Today Jack Du Rose explains his social collaboration platform colony and his old job designing the most expensive work of art ever sold.
The Ether Review #4 - Augur from 2015-11-06T00:00
The Ether Review #4 - Augur by Arthur Falls
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The Ether Review #3 - Roman Mandeleil from 2015-10-30T00:00
Roman Mandeleil, builder of the Ethercamp blockchain explorer and the java implimentation of Ethereum discusses among other things, what it is like to be a longtime developer in the Ethereum commun...
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The Ether Review #2 - Vlad Zamfir from 2015-10-22T00:00
The Ether Review #2 - Vlad Zamfir by Arthur Falls
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The Ether Review #1 - Joseph Lubin from 2015-10-14T00:00
Arthur speaks with Joseph Lubin, one of the founders of the Ethereum project and also Consensys, a constellation of Ethereum focused companies.
This is the first episode of a weekly show f...
Beyond Bitcoin - 27th And Final - An Architecture For The Internet Of Money from 2015-02-19T04:02:12
todays episode is my favourite of all, not to diminish all of the wonderful interviews and guests I've been lucky enough to have on the show.
Sorry Adam, I forgot to thank you for getting me i...
Beyond Bitcoin - 26 - Darkcoin from 2015-02-05T07:52:34
All about Darkcoin. Having sworn my allegiance to the 2.0 space long ago I was blown away to see how deeply innovative a single token tracking platform could be. Darkcoin is a project I will watch ...
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Beyond Bitcoin - 25 - Considering Identity Systems With Chris Mountford from 2015-01-27T06:47:14
Chris Mountford is a developer at Atlassian, a software company based in Australia and has been interested in digital currency for over twenty years. In this episode we discuss reputation and perso...
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Beyond Bitcoin - 24 - The Second To Last - A Nu Approach from 2015-01-07T10:43:42
In this, the second to last episode of Beyond Bitcoin We Look at Nubits, the value controlled digital currency that has emerged from the Peercoin/Peershares team.
discus.nubits.com
nu...
Beyond Bitcoin - 23 - Menger, Mises And Bitcoin from 2014-12-17T18:00:51
Jeffrey Tucker joins for this episode!
"Could you please compare Menger and Mises views on the origin of value in money and explain how their views relate to bitcoin?"
fee.org
libe...
Beyond Bitcoin - 22 - BitAssets and the Austrians from 2014-12-04T08:49:31
Austrian economics is one of these impenetrable black boxes that you hear referenced occasionally but that has little meaning for many people.
Recently I was perusing Cameron Harwick's blog, Th...
Beyond Bitcoin - 21 - Consensus Without Mining from 2014-11-20T09:43:23
Jae Kwon joins to discuss his consensus algorithm Tendermint. Following from there we cover sideshains, quantifiable security, stealth coins, and much more.
Today's episode was sponsored b...
Beyond Bitcoin - 20 - Codius from 2014-11-04T08:29:34
Stephen Thomas and Evan Schwartz discuss Ripple Labs open source smart contract system Codius!
Codius.org
Thanks to CSUS for the music
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Beyond Bitcoin - 19 - SuperNET from 2014-10-29T07:34:24
A technical writer known on the forums as "Cassius" chats about jl777's SuperNET and related subjects.
jl777.org
thesupernet.org
forum.thesupernet.org
Csus provided the mu...
Beyond Bitcoin - 18 - Cryptonite from 2014-10-15T09:46:53
Cryptonite is a currency built on the mini-blockchain scheme. It features tons of features not present in any other coins as well as some limitations.
Music: Csus
Cryptonite.info
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Beyond Bitcoin - 17 - Counterpartying With Robby Dermody from 2014-10-08T04:33:09
Today Robby Dermody of Counterparty, also known on the forums as Xnova joins to discuss the platform's recent Armory implementation, two factor authentication, asset development, Dogeparty, a poten...
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Beyond Bitcoin - 16 - The Future Is Not Mad Max from 2014-09-29T08:55:54
Today Justus Ranvier returns to discuss Monetas, a start up he is involved with which is building on the Open Transactions protocol. We also dig into cryptoequities, reputation, arbitration and the...
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Beyond Bitcoin - 15 - Culture On The Blockchain from 2014-09-22T11:14:36
This time we're checking out culture on the block chain with Alex co Author of the Bitcoin graphic novel which is at this moment awating a name. We talk making money interesting, working with the g...
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Beyond Bitcoin - 14 - Hyperledger from 2014-09-16T18:22:17
Dan O'Prey, Daniel Feichtinger and Tim Swanson discuss Hyperledger.
hyperledger.com
www.ofnumbers.com/author/timswanson/
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Beyond Bitcoin - 13 - One To Rule Them All from 2014-09-07T10:06:24
In this episode Justus Ranvier joins for a discussion about Open Transactions and the future of smart contract platforms.
Then a few words from international man of mystery jl777 on the SuperNE...
Beyond Bitcoin - 12 - The Future Of Storj from 2014-08-28T10:08:16
After an involuntary hiatus BB is back with a very late interview with Shaun Wilkinson and . . . a magic word!
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Beyond Bitcoin - 11 - The NXT Economy from 2014-07-31T10:56:01
This episode Bas Wisselink, an NXT community organiser joins me again to discuss what's going on in the next ecosystem.
From a little grand theft crypto to a new altcoin adapter for the next a...
Beyond Bitcoin - 10 - Exploring The Open Bazaar... from 2014-07-23T07:00:36
Brian Hoffman and Washington Sanchez join me to discuss Open Bazaar, a marketplace built from Amir Taaki's Toronto Hackathon winning "Dark Market". A great exposition of a broad range of new ideas....
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Beyond Bitcoin - 9 - A New Breed of Exchange from 2014-07-16T08:43:31
Alex joins to discuss his platform for betting on binary feeds in Counterparty and the basics of BIP32 wallet recovery.
https://xcpfeeds.info
Then Manfred Karrer explains the operation of t...
Beyond Bitcoin - 8 - Crowdsales, Carbon & Asset Machines from 2014-07-09T10:38:38
Today we’re, focusing on higher level deployments of the counterparty protocol. Joel Dietz joins me again with Ben Ingram. Also with us Is Jeremy Lam of Vennd We look at XBTC, bringing Altcoins ont...
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Beyond Bitcoin - 7 - Trivial Issuance Of A Useful Asset from 2014-07-02T09:43:26
Adan Krellenstein, Counterparty co-founder and developer discusses OP_RETURN, proof of burn, other distribution methods, asset issuance, improvements to Bitcoin and the importance of the first move...
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Beyond Bitcoin - 6 - A New Direction For Bitcoin? from 2014-06-25T10:40:08
In this hangout session, Stephen Reed presents his proposed reengineering of Bitcoin, Cooperative Proof Of Stake. Dan Larimer and others join the conversation to have their questions answered. CPOS...
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Beyond Bitcoin - 5 - Delegates & Forgers from 2014-06-20T09:07
This weeks episode features Dan Larimer of Invictus Innovations discussing the shift from Proof Of Work to Delegated Proof Of Stake and the thought process behind the change. We go on to discuss pr...
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Beyond Bitcoin - 4 - Money Memes & The Coming Swarm from 2014-06-10T09:18:55
Great guests this week!
First is a brief talk with Joel Deitz of Swarm. Swarm is a crowd funding platform with some checks in place to protect both project creators and investors. This, a...
Beyond Bitcoin - 3 - Research and Fluidity from 2014-06-04T10:10:16
Nikos Bentenitis and Panos Skourtis discuss the difficulties of educating in cryptocurrency, the efficacy of technical analysis in understanding price movements and scientific peer review enhanced ...
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