October, 2016 Archives
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155 - Richard Brown & Mike Hearn: Corda - A Distributed Ledger For Financial Services
October 31st, 2016 by
Epicenter 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 system, they first conducted experiments testing blockchain platforms for their member and last year began developing their own distributed ledger platform: Corda.
The effort to build Corda was lead by R3 CTO Richard Brown and the former Bitcoin developer and R3 lead architect Mike Hearn. In a wide-ran...
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The Crypto Show with The StashCrypto Team launching the Stash Node Pro
October 30th, 2016 by
TheCryptoShow Tonight we talk with the StashCrypto team Chris Odom, Cliff (Batman) Baltzley and Justus Ranvier about the "Stash Node Pro" an exciting new innovation in not only Crypo Software but Crypto Hardware as well. "It's a Bank in a Box". This is not just your run of the mill wallet. It hosts a full Bitcoin node with large block capabilities, as well as multiple other functions, including end to end encrypted messaging hosted on your own personal server via the Tor network.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #313 - Does It Matter How We Scale?
October 30th, 2016 by
Adam B. Levine On Todays Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin...
Stephanie and Adam continue the conversation about Scaling Bitcoin/Lightning Network/Sidechains. The question is, does it matter how we scale?
Note: New Let's Talk Bitcoin! episodes will be released on Sundays instead of Saturdays!
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The Crypto Show with Will Pangman, Jason King and Lisa Klatt
October 26th, 2016 by TheCryptoShow The first hour we talked with Will Pangman about Airbitz Edge Login and the new funding rounds from WeFunder and Bnk To The Future. An LTB listener from Kentucky, Tim Totten drops by and sits in on the show.
Any LTB listener who is passing through Austin is more than welcome to drop by and sit in. Just email us hit us up on FB or Twitter, smoke signals what ever you got.
The second hour we talk with Jason King and Lisa Klatt from Unsung.org about a really cool event this Saturday Octo...
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154 - Greg Meredith: Rebuilding The Attention Economy From The Ground Up With Synereo
October 23rd, 2016 by Epicenter 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 context, large (social) media companies understand that attention is a scarce commodity, and, as has been demonstrated, those who control attention wield enormous power over our society.
We're joined by Greg Meredith, CTO of Synereo, to talk about how this new Blockchain platform rebuild the attention ec...
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #312 The Buffet of Possibilities
October 23rd, 2016 by Adam B. Levine On Todays Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin...
Andreas and Adam discuss the ongoing Antonopoulos World Tour, then dig into the Scaling Bitcoin/Lightning Network / Sidechains conversation from episode 309 with John Ratcliff and Stephanie Murphy.
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Dash Across America: The Bitcoin.com Bus Does Southern California
October 22nd, 2016 by
SovereignBTC In this Dash Across America Update, John recaps their experience in Southern California which includes an interview with the owner of Rossi's Pizza, which has accepted bitcoin for years, and Paul Puey, CEO of AirBitz wallet. Paul and John talk about AirBitz's new focus on providing third parties with secure and private digital logins.
John also recounts the third law enforcement encounter the Blush's had on the trip and it was definitely a close call.
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The Ether Review #43 - BHP, Tracking the Most Valuable Rock on Earth
October 21st, 2016 by
Arthur S. Falls 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 and Ethereum.
Not only is this an interesting use case, but it is also the first time we have seen a production deployment of both IPFS and Ethereum.
If you would like to contact Tyler, please email me at the address mentioned in the podcast.
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The Tatiana Show - Darryl W. Perry of Free Talk Live & cryptograffiti
October 20th, 2016 by
Tatiana Moroz Tatiana and Josh interview Darryl W. Perry of Free Talk Live & cryptograffiti. Topics include: --"Election 2016" --"The Nature of Voting" --"Microtipping and Art" --"Spreading Crypto Through Art" About the Guests: -Darryl W. Perry has spent most of his adult life as an advocate & activist for peace and liberty. Darryl is an award winning author, publisher & radio/TV host. He is a regular contributor to ... Read More -
The Crypto Show with Sunny Ray of UnoCoin
October 19th, 2016 by TheCryptoShow Tonight we talk with Sunny Ray of UnoCoin about success they're having in India, the recent funding rounds and where they're going from here. The second hour we have a little fun with the debates. Original air date 10/19/16 on LogosRadioNetwork Sponsored by: Anarchapulco.com & CryptoCompare.com
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153 - Alex Wearn: Decentralized Capital And Government Currencies On Ethereum
October 18th, 2016 by Epicenter 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 Ether, he or she is in fact entering into to speculations: one being the outcome of the actual prediction, the other being the price of Ether when the prediction resolves. Projects like Maker DAO try to solve the problem by developing complex systems to ensure that a blockchain token keeps its value in ...
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The Ether Review #42 - Dominic Williams, Dfinity and Infinite Scaling
October 18th, 2016 by Arthur S. Falls 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, and extremely powerful.
This is the third time I’ve interviewed Dominic. The first was for the final episode of Beyond Bitcoin. Dominic enters at the 1hr 32min mark to explain Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance. The second was in February 2016 on The Ether Review to discuss his work on synthetic ...
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EP #86: The Distributed Health Conference in Nashville!!
October 17th, 2016 by
John Barrett On today's show I get to share with the world my great experience at Nashville’s very own Distributed Health Blockchain conference that was held on Monday October 3rd in the heart of downtown Music City USA.
In addition to some amazing panel discussions and presentations by some brilliant women and men, I was also able to slip away from time to time to get some face to face interviews with some of the charming, intelligent and friendly attendees. In this episode I include some of those in...
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The Crypto Show with Gary Le of Zcoin, Lyn Ulbricht and Tatiana Moroz
October 16th, 2016 by TheCryptoShow Tonight Gary Le of Zcoin explains why the Zcoin team felt so compelled to step up and commit to 100 Zcoin per month for 4 years to the Ross Ulbricht defense fund. Currently Zcoin is priced at about $5 USD which makes this donation about $25,000 in value. Lyn Ulbricht also joins in to thank Gary and the latest on the appeal for Ross. Tatiana Moroz also joins in with her take on the appeal hearing as well as an upcoming event called Rossathon.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #311 Anti-Fragility and Evolving Expectations
October 15th, 2016 by Adam B. Levine On Todays Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin...
Andreas and Adam discuss the recent batch of Ethereum network attacks, then Stephanie joins Adam in the aftermath of the recent episode with John Ratcliff to discuss how the experiance so far and how our expectations have changed over time.
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The Ether Review #41 - Martin Lundfall, Rage Against the Machine
October 13th, 2016 by Arthur S. Falls 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 around whether the flexibility of the imperative paradigm of programming language design or the verifiability of the functional paradigm are more appropriate for the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Martin is in the functional camp which he believes can make Ethereum a more robust and powerful platform. The EVM itself ...
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The Crypto Show with the exclusive release of Cody Wilson's new book
October 12th, 2016 by TheCryptoShow Tonight our good friend Cody Wilson joins the show to present his new book "Come and Take It". It's a history and philosophy of the Ghost Gunnner and the Liberator, not to mention Cody himself. Very interesting stuff, look for " Come and Take It" by Cody Wilson on Amazon. If you want to go through the trouble of sending us round trip postage we will gladly have Cody sign your book for you and send it back. Offer only good to The Crypto Show listeners. The Facebook live video with all of th...
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The Tatiana Show - Lyn Ulbricht After The Free Ross Appeal Oral Arguments
October 11th, 2016 by Tatiana Moroz More than a year has passed since a federal judge sentenced Ross Ulbricht to life in prison without parole after he was convicted of creating and running the dark web marketplace known as Silk Road. On October 6th, 2016, Ulbricht returned to court to face a panel of judges to appeal his conviction, along with the issue of his receiving a life sentence. In oral arguments in a Manhattan courtroom Thursday morning, Ulbricht’s defense lawyer sparred with federal prosecutors over a range of iss... Read More -
152 - Tuur Demeester: Investing In Bitcoin
October 10th, 2016 by Epicenter 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 discuss his thesis for investing in Bitcoin and how it has evolved over time. We also talked about the road ahead and how other cryptocurrencies and Ethereum compare as investment opportunities.
Topics covered included:
- How Tuur discovered Bitcoin in Argentina in 2011
- The case for investing ...
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The Crypto Show with Kim DotCom, Simon Dixon and Cody Wilson
October 9th, 2016 by TheCryptoShow Once again we had a network error but our secondary backup took care of that. Kim Dotcom joins us for an unedited version of his unforgettable history. Often what you hear of Kim, the best parts are on the cutting room floor of "60 minutes" or what ever other lamestream media has interviewed him. Kim spends a good deal of time expounding on the parts that normally get left out. Then we get into Megaupload 2.0 and Bitcache as well as Kim's vision to bring Bitcoin mainstream. Kim says that's ...
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