November, 2015 Archives
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EB107 - Gideon Greenspan: The Blockchain Is A New Database Paradigm
November 30th, 2015 by
Epicenter 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 popular question of what's the point of a private blockchain, we covered his earlier colored coins implementation as well as his view that blockchains are best understood as a novel database paradigm.
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Tipping Point: Using Bitcoin to Aid Victims of Tropical Floods
November 30th, 2015 by
Shankar Narayanan SGS It's the usual tropical season here in Chennai, India, but this year is not like any other. Rain brought floods and chaos, causing the city to float. The continuous rain for the past month has surpassed all the odds and brought a halt to the usual life. Too much rain, too little space The state of Tamil Nadu has received 485 mm of rain so far. The amount already exceeded the seasonal average of 438 mm. Through ChangeCup India and ChangeTip, Bitcoin comes to the aid of victims.
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The Crypto Show: Thomas Hunt and Syrian Girl
November 30th, 2015 by
TheCryptoShow We interview Thomas Hunt of Mad Bitcoins and cover several topics about Bitcoin.
In the second part of the show, we speak with Syrian Girl and get her take on Syria and the Middle East, including recent claims that ISIS used Bitcoin to fund the Paris attacks.
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SAFE Crossroads Podcast #26, Free Trade for Real, The Safe Exchange
November 28th, 2015 by
John Ferguson In this Episode
History in the making. Exaggeration? You be the judge. This last week Daniel DaBek announced the release of the whitepaper on the new Safe Exchange. More than just a protocol, it is the core tool kit necessary to establish a decentralized contract marketplace, via which anyone will be capable of exchanging with anyone, anywhere, according to prearranged contractual conditions.
We discuss the current crowdsale, designed to raise the modest capital needed to finish d...
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #268 - Reality and The Beautiful Dream
November 28th, 2015 by
Adam B. Levine On Episode 268...
Earlier this month I put on a suit and headed to San Francisco for the Future of Digital Currency and Blockchain conference. Today i'm pleased to bring you the first two talks from that event.
If you've educated yourself about Bitcoin on the internet, chances are good you've run across James D'Angelo and his long running series of educational videos. We end todays episode with his talk Bitcoin Governance: The Decentralization Myth.
But first, Economist Garrick Hileman sits down with Brian Forde for a wide ranging talk on cryptocurrency trends, where we've been and where we're going.
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The Ether Review #6 - Devcon 1 Debrief
November 27th, 2015 by
Arthur S. Falls On today's show we have a panel of Devcon attendees. Alex Amsel, Hudson Jameson and Jack du Rose. We discuss the Ethereum community, the development state of the consensus process, storage solutions, Free My Vunk, Slock, Oraclize and much more.
[Note: This episode does not contain a magic word.]
Alex Amsel: newretro.org
Hudson Jameson: hudsonjameson
Jack du Rose: colony.io
Production and Editing...
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The Crypto Show: John Kiriakou, CIA Whistleblower, and Evan Duffield of Dash
November 26th, 2015 by TheCryptoShow We start the show off with an interview of Evan Duffield of Dash formerly known as DarkCoin.
Then we're joined by John Kiriakou, the former CIA agent charged with espionage for his role in exposing torture by the CIA. Water boarding, secret prisons and FBI frame jobs, creating terrorists who were never there before the FBI created them.
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The StartUp #5: Walter Cole talks Music, Fashion, and Marketing
November 26th, 2015 by
Michael Pair The StartUp Show Notes
Walter Cole of Stella Monro' and The Aural Tree talks about the services of each of his companies. We have a pretty extensive discussion about marketing on social media and how to be effective. He shares insights that will help other entrepreneurs.
Credits for The StartUp #5
The first musical selection was entitled 'The Green Eye Theory'. The Latin tune 'We Should Do This Again Sometime' was played during the magic word segment. Walter Cole compose...
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Tipping Point: Making the Holidays Happier for Needy Children
November 25th, 2015 by
Daniel Modell The leading non-profit organization, Children of Bellevue, devotes its efforts to providing companionship, support, and smiles to the pediatric patients of New York City’s Bellevue Hospital. The founders of Tipping Point will donate gifts to children from the ages of 6 months to 17 years. Tipping Point invites you to help make the holidays happier for needy children in the hospital.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! Classic #267 - Virtual Worlds, Real Money
November 24th, 2015 by Adam B. Levine Let's Talk Bitcoin! Classic #267
Originally aired in February 2014.
Shownotes for Let's Talk Bitcoin #86 - Virtual Worlds, Real Money
Adam sits down with Richard Garriott about money, games, cryptocurrency, the intersection between games developers and national governments, Valve's publish-as-a-protocol.
This is the full length version of the interview and includes a discussion of LTBcoin.
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SovereignBTC #77 Joe Withrow How to Survive the Great Reset
November 23rd, 2015 by
SovereignBTC In this episode of the SovereignBTC Podcast, John Bush interviews Joe Withrow, author of The Individual is Rising, on the dark history of the US Dollar, the impending "Great Reset", and how you and yours can weather the financial storm.
Buy the book on Brave New Books' online store here: The Individual is Rising
MAGIC WORD - thanks for listening
***Get 15% off all products on [BraveNewBookstore.com](http://br...
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EB106 - Christian Decker: Scaling Bitcoin With Duplex Micropayment Channels
November 23rd, 2015 by Epicenter 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 community since 2009 and just recently turned off his last miner after 6.5 years!
We talked about the current scalability debate and what his research indicated what blocksize could reasonably be handled today. We also discussed his proposal for Duplex Micropayment Channels. Like the Lightning Network, ...
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The Crypto Show: Scott Horton of AntiWar.com and John Clore, Creator of D-Vasive
November 23rd, 2015 by TheCryptoShow The first hour and fifteen minutes, we spend with Scott Horton, who really breaks down current mess with ISIS, Paris, the refugees, and who's at fault. Scott is a contributor to Antiwar.com, AntiwarRadio, and ScottHorton.org.
The last half of the show we talk with John Clore, the creator of DVasive pro app, a John McAfee product. This app shuts down spyware from trying to access your phone or PC functions, camera, mic, etc. It also has a feature to block Stingray and Kingfish, the government data grabs we hear so much about.
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'Real Big Data: How to Leverage Bitcoin Blockchains for Unlimited Storage,' by Shankar Narayanan
November 22nd, 2015 by Shankar Narayanan SGS Bitcoin has evolved so much as a currency, considering its volatile nature. Amazon, Target, Namecheap, and Dell accept Bitcoins as payment. Bitcoin is evolving beyond its value as an e-currency and its ability for instant transfer. The technology and mathematical concepts around it make it an interesting application for common everyday problems such as storing big data.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #265 Classic Episode: Exploring Bitcoin with Amir Taaki
November 21st, 2015 by Adam B. Levine On Episode 265...
Original Aired June 2014
Shownotes for Let’s Talk Bitcoin Episode 106 – Exploring Bitcoin with Amir Taaki
Today's episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin! finds hosts Adam B. Levine, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, and Stephanie Murphy sitting around the table with Amir Taaki in Toronto, Canada. Amir is a core bitcoin developer, lead developer of libbitcoin, a core collaborator at DarkWallet, CoinJoin, and many other leading open source initiatives.
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EverdreamSoft Could Be the King of Crypto Gaming
November 21st, 2015 by
Martin As a crypto enthusiast and amateur investor, I spend a lot of time wondering what factors will drive adoption of various cryptocurrencies and assets. A recent news article caught my attention. Game developer, King, was recently purchased by Activision Blizzard, Inc. for a tidy sum of US$5.9 billion! Could it be a matter of time for EverdreamSoft?
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Tipping Point: Using Bitcoin to Aid Charity in India
November 20th, 2015 by Shankar Narayanan SGS Bitcoin can be a boon towards charity and causes, especially for a growing country like India. I've had the opportunity to extend the ChangeCup movement and bring it from New York City into India, in a vision to create a unified solution for noble causes.
This is the first article in the new column Tipping Point, devoted to exploring the positive impact of micro-donations on humanitarian and charitable causes around the world.
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The Crypto Show: Angela Keaton of AntiWar.com and Blake Anderson of the Bitcoin Group
November 19th, 2015 by TheCryptoShow Angela Keaton of AntiWar.com talks about the Haiku contest in which you could win 0.5 BTC for writing an anti-war haiku using the hashtag #WhyImAntiWar.
We cover a few other issues with Angela before turning to Blake Anderson about the Bitcoin price and the Blockchain Alliance. We also get into the Syria issue a little bit.
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Strange Democracy, by Andy Tudhope
November 19th, 2015 by
Andy Tudhope I recently had a conversation with a friend who runs a leadership programme for high school kids. Suffering from generational dissonance, this friend asked me what my thoughts on leadership for the modern age were and what the most important things to teach leaders of the future might be.
How could they instill, he asked, ideas like integrity, ethics, and a strong sense of community when the examples we youngsters have before us are almost to a man corrupt, inefficient, and out of touch with ...
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The Bitcoin Game #30: The Biggest Blockchain Company You've Never Heard Of
November 19th, 2015 by
Rob Hello, welcome to episode 30 of The Bitcoin Game. I'm Rob Mitchell.
What’s the oldest blockchain company you can think of? What if I told you a Blockchain company in Estonia called Guardtime was founded before the Bitcoin white paper was released? And what if I told you they are now a highly profitable company, doing large amounts of business with government, the world’s largest defense contractor, and a multinational communication technology company?
I only found out about Guardtime...
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