January, 2016 Archives
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #280 - Observing the Inevitable
January 30th, 2016 by
Adam B. Levine On Episode 280...
Andreas, Stephanie and Adam discuss bitcoin and its varied performance over the last few years as the only real outlier in a world competitively devaluing currencies. Then, we dig into a recently released report from the RAND corporation on "Virtual Currency" and specifically, the possibility of non-state organizations creating their own.
Relevant Links...
Bitcoin was the best performing currency of 2015
Bitcoin as a hedge against Azerbajian's Devaluation
Bitcoin Magazine coverage of Security Implications of Virtual Currencies
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'The State of Bitcoin from a Stateless Point of View,' by Jamie Redman
January 29th, 2016 by
JamieCrypto A couple days ago, I watched a video of Amir Taaki rise to the top of the Bitcoin subreddit. Many people said they missed the kind of spirit that Taaki brought to the table, along with others like him. Whether we like to admit it or not, we think Bitcoin is going through an identity crisis.
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The Crypto Show with Travis Boyd of DaoWISP.io
January 28th, 2016 by
TheCryptoShow We talk with Travis Boyd, creator of DaoWISP, about his vision of wireless ISPs and what role Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies can play in that model. DAOWISP is short for Decentralized Autonomous Organization of Wireless ISPs. Travis has envisioned a network that automatically rewards participants with crypto for the amount of work contributed.
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The Tatiana Show with guest John Light of Bitseed
January 26th, 2016 by
Tatiana Moroz This week, Tatiana and Josh welcome John Light. John is a co-founder of Bitseed, author of Bitcoin: Be Your Own Bank, writer at the okTurtles Foundation, and advisor to cryptocurrency startups and investors. We discuss his projects, IP, and the importance of securing the network.
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Tokens and Open Source Hardware Manufacturing, Distribution and Sales
January 26th, 2016 by Adam B. Levine Open Source Hardware is a popular and growing movement. An organization (sometimes charity, usually a non-profit) develops hardware designs and specifications and publishes them to the open source without the desire or potentially the ability to produce the physical products exclusively themselves.
The Raspberry Pi project is a perfect example of this with two official stocking manufacturers who share back some of their revenue in compensation for their official status. This money supports further development. By adding three types of tokens to the ecosystem, what is a game for only the biggest of players can become a vibrant environment of efficient, decentralized and distributed reselling. Now distribution can start to take place.
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EB115 - Matan Field: Backfeed and the Social Operating System for Decentralized Organizations
January 25th, 2016 by
Epicenter 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 decentralized autonomous organization idea that has informed many projects that have been on the podcast (Swarm, Ethereum, Factom, Storj, etc). For Matan, the vision originally led to found decentralized ride-sharing application LaZooz. One year ago, he left LaZooz to found Backfeed, which is building the to...
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The Crypto Show: Bitcoin Classic with Jon Rumion and Dustin Trammell; Anarchapulco 2016 Speakers
January 25th, 2016 by TheCryptoShow In the first half hour, we talk with Jonathan Rumion and Dustin Trammell about Bitcoin Classic.
Dustin is thought to be the second person to use the Bitcoin network, and he finishes out the last 30 minutes of the show solo, discussing an upcoming event in Austin called bodyhacking.The Crypto Show goes on air during one of three Austin Bitcoin meetups, providing access to several interesting people in Bitcoin.
Later, Jeff Berwick joins the show, followed by Nathan Freeman, Adam Kokesh, and Anam Paiseanta, all of whom will be speaking or presenting at the upcoming Anarchapulco conference on February 17–22.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #279 Understanding Bitcoin Unlimited
January 23rd, 2016 by Adam B. Levine On Todays Show
Matthew Zipkin sits down with Andrew Stone to dig into Bitcoin Unlimited, one of several recent projects to emerge as efforts outside of Bitcoin Core to address bitcoin scalability problems.
You don't need to be technical to understand this episode and even if you hate the idea of a block size increase, Andrew presents a very interesting perspective on how the bitcoin network does, and could decide things that have more than one right answer.
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The Ether Review #13: Alex Van de Sande, the Wallet, Contracts, and Mist
January 23rd, 2016 by
Arthur S. Falls Alex Van de Sande is the lead designer for the Ethereum Foundation and Eth Dev. Originally working on the Mist browser, Alex more recently has been focused on developing the Ethereum wallet. The exercise tutorials he published on the official Ethereum Blog were a blast to work through, and examining them makes up much of the content of this episode.
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The Tatiana Show with guest Jordan Page
January 22nd, 2016 by Tatiana Moroz Crypto-musician Tatiana Moroz is joined by bitcoin entrepreneur Joshua Scigala, co-founder of Vaultoro, and musician Jordan Page in this special recorded-live event. Jordan and Tatiana have performed together across the United States with a message of freedom in their music. The three discuss the importance of art in activism, the impact of cryptocurrencies, and what challenges face us in 2016.
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The Crypto Show Revisits Anarchapulco 2015 in Anticipation of Next Month's Conference
January 21st, 2016 by TheCryptoShow In this episode, in anticipation of Anarchapulco 2016 coming up next month, we revisit a show from the 2015 conference, where we were privileged to have Mark Edge guest host.
- Roger Ver gave a rundown of the conference.
- Then Jose Rodriguez, who is currently with Bitso but was with Unisend at that time, broke down all of the opportunities for Bitcoin in Mexico and Latin America.
- Finally, Rob Hustle talked about his video "Call the Cops" and we played two of his songs.
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The New Token Economy: An Introduction (Video & Transcript)
January 20th, 2016 by Adam B. Levine Read More for Slides & Transcript
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Tokens, Trains and Right-of-Way
January 20th, 2016 by Adam B. Levine This week instead of talking about a current Tokenly project, I wanted to get a little hypothetical and talk about one of the non-monetary uses of Tokens that I sometimes think about.
Tokens, Trains and Right-of-Way
Some time ago I was spoke with Birdie Jaworski, editor of Very Much Wow magazine about tokens and train intersections. Right now train systems have lots of dumb infrastructure (Tracks, switches, etc) carrying smart (automated) trains from smart station to smart station.
So trains and stations need to talk to each other in order to keep an accurate picture of where the various moving parts are. When those moving parts find themselves in the same place at the same time you get a news-worthy catastrophe.
Imagine for a moment we have unlimited funds and manpower to fix this problem. The simplest way would be to station a traffic controller at every single junction with a powerful two way radio, a brain and the ability to communicate with nearby trains.
The procedure would be that whenever a train is approaching a specific intersection, track switch or anything where only one, or some limited number of trains can pass through safely at one time, the conductor radios ahead to that switches traffic controller. If the coast is clear, you know you’re safe to pass because he will tell any other trains that request after you do, but before you’ve safely passed by that the switch is busy and they’ll need to wait.
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SovereignBTC #81 Doug Scribner of WatchMyBit.com and John Rants on Bitcoin's Death and Ulbricht's Appeal
January 19th, 2016 by
SovereignBTC In this episode of SovereignBTC, we hear a segment from the brand new Be Brave Radio Show where John Bush and his fellow co-hosts interview Doug Scribner or WatchMyBit.com, a cutting edge pay per view video service demonstrating bitcoin's utility as a micro-payment platform.
Before the interview, John relays his view on the "death of bitcoin" and the consensus process currently underway to upgrade Bitcoin C...
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EB114 - Vinay Gupta: From Lawyer Capitalism To Programmer Capitalism
January 18th, 2016 by Epicenter 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 invented the Hexayurt, a cheap and resilient architectural structure for disaster-stricken communities.
Recently, Vinay has become a thought leader in the cryptocurrency space. He is famed for his eloquence and ability to distill the crypto-finance technological paradigm into easy big-picture visual...
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The Crypto Show with Tuur Demeester and Factom's Brian Deery
January 18th, 2016 by TheCryptoShow First Hour:
Tuur Demeester joins the show to talk economics, Bitcoin, the Mike Hearn drama, and proposed fixes.
Second Hour:
Brian Deery, "chief scientologist" at Factom, gives his take on the same subjects.
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The Tatiana Show with guest Simon Dixon of Bnk to the Future
January 17th, 2016 by Tatiana Moroz This week’s guest is Simon Dixon, co-founder and CEO of Bnk To The Future, a global online investment platform that allows qualifying investors to support financial innovation, including FinTech companies, funds, and other new and alternative financial products. Simon is also the author of the book Bank to the Future. He regularly speaks on the future of finance to governments, businesses, investors, and financial institutions. More info: www.TatianaMoroz.com www.C... Read More
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