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#187 Alex Leverington & Julian Zawistowski: Golem - The Worldwide Decentralized Supercomputer
June 14th, 2017 by
Epicenter With most of the world's computing power concentrated in Internet companies' data centers, the Internet has become a very centralized place. We're joined by Julian Zawistowski and Alex Leverington, CEO and P2P engineer at Golem. We discuss how Golem hopes to create a more balanced distribution of computing power for the Internet.
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#186 Sian Jones: An Enlightened Approach to Blockchain Regulation in Gibraltar
June 7th, 2017 by Epicenter 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 efforts and aims to attract rather than curtail blockchain businesses. We also covered why the rapid changes require the flexibility of a principle-based approach to regulation. Finally, we discussed current trends around ICOs and how they could be impacted by regulation.
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185 - Brendan Eich: Brave - Reinventing the Monetization of Content and Attention
May 30th, 2017 by Epicenter Support the show, consider donating:
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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 blocking software to protect their privacy and improve their browsing experience. In the last 25 years, the content moneti...
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184 - Fred Ehrsam & Trent McConaghy: IPDB – The Interplanetary Database and its Applications in AI
May 23rd, 2017 by Epicenter We're joined by Trent McConaghy, CTO and Co-founder of BigchainDB and Ascribe, and Fred Ehrsam, former Co-founder at Coinbase. We have a fascinating discussion about the intersection of AI and blockchain technologies. We also discuss the public implementation of BigchainDB, the Interplanetary Database (IPDB), and the applications for a public big data storage network accessible to all of humanity.
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183 - Alex Van de Sande & Nick Johnson: ENS – A Global Naming System for Ethereum
May 17th, 2017 by Epicenter We're joined by Alex Van de Sande and Nick Johnson to discuss their approach to creating an open, secure and decentralized naming system for the Ethereum Network. The Ethereum Naming System allows users to register .eth domain names, and map those names to any Ethereum address.
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182 - Peter Van Valkenburgh: Towards Sound Bitcoin Policy
May 10th, 2017 by Epicenter Coin Center Director of Research Peter Van Valkenburgh joined us to discuss the most important policy issues facing Bitcoin and other open blockchain networks.
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181 - Jarrad Hope & Carl Bennetts: Status - The Mobile Ethereum Client
May 2nd, 2017 by Epicenter Jarred Hope and Carl Bennetts, join us to discuss Status, a mobile Ethereum client which aims to turn the standard wallet experience on its head. Through its familiar messaging interface and elegant design, users can chat and send Ether directly in the app, and use popular Dapps like uPort and Gnosis.
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180 - Mano Thanabalan: Simplifying Incorporation & Automating Corporate Governance with Otonomos
April 25th, 2017 by Epicenter Manu Thanabalan, CTO of Otonomos, joins us to discuss how his company is leveraging smart contracts to accelerate incorporation and automate corporate governance. By leveraging blockchain technologies, day-to-day governance mechanisms and standard procedures such as voting and share transfers are automated through a smart contact, which complies with local jurisdictional regulation.
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179 - Thomas Voegtlin: Blocksize, Bitcoin Unlimited, ASICBoost and Activating SegWit
April 18th, 2017 by Epicenter Electrum Developer Thomas Voegtlin joined us to discuss the state of the Bitcoin scaling debate. We discussed Bitcoin Unlimited, ASICBoost, SegWit activation without miner support and how a Bitcoin fork could play out.
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178 - Gilles Fedak: iExec, Blockchain-Based Fully Distributed Cloud Computing Infrastructure
April 11th, 2017 by Epicenter Gilles Fedak, a researcher Inria, joins us to discuss iExec, a new project which aims to build a high-performance distributed cloud infrastructure marketplace. iExec utilizes Ethreum to organize a peer-to-peer marketplace of computing resources, allowing anyone to rent their idle resources to grid networks.
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177 - Jason Teutsch & Christian Reitwiessner: TrueBit, Scalable Off-Chain Computations for Ethereum
April 4th, 2017 by Epicenter We're joined by Jason Teutsch and Christian Reitwiessner, the co-authors of a visionary whitepaper which describes Truebit. This protocol would allow complex computations to be executed on off-chain systems while being validated by Ethereum miners. The results of these computations would consequently be available to on-chain smart contracts.
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176 - Adam B. Levine: Building a Blockchain Podcast Network
March 28th, 2017 by Epicenter We're joined by Adam B. Levine the founder and host of Let's Talk Bitcoin! Adam reflects on his signature show and the network he created in 2014. He discusses the future of the network and makes an announcement live on the show, which even takes us by surprise.
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BTC Media Acquires The LTB Network, Plans Relaunch
March 24th, 2017 by
Adam B. Levine BTC Media, a leading information provider in the distributed ledger space, announced today that it has acquired The LTB Network.
The move adds the company to BTC Media’s other publication holdings, including Distributed, Bitcoin Magazine, yBitcoin and Gongshitan, among others. As part of the acquisition, The LTB Network will undergo a relaunch in the second half of 2017 which will include an extensive rebranding.
“We are thrilled to add The LTB Network to our list of industry-leading information services,” said BTC Media CEO David Bailey. “This strengthens our ability to help audiences stay ahead of trends in the digital currency space and implement best practices for their assets.”
The LTB Network’s Founder and Editor-in-Chief Adam B. Levine will remain host of the flagship “Let’s Talk Bitcoin!” show and serve on the network’s editorial board.
“Our goal has always been to showcase the disruptive ideas, people and projects that are leading innovation in digital currency,” Levine said. “This is a new opportunity to grow our audience and better serve our podcasters and writers by focusing more of our time on creating better content, not selling ads.”
Founded in 2011, BTC Media is the world’s largest provider of multimedia, educational, conferences and other high-value informational resources focused on the digital currency and blockchain industries.
Founded in 2014, The LTB Network has for years been the home to a distributed group of independent broadcasters and journalists working toward better understanding, exploring and explaining the phenomenon of digital currency.
“This change marks a vitally important mechanism for BTC media to engage audiences worldwide,” Bailey said. “We are excited to expand the number of podcasts and place new focus on production value. We look forward to building on the foundation that Adam has established and taking it to the next level.”
The LTB Network has been a testbed of innovation with a proprietary content management system, token controlled-access forums and more. It was the first to launch a rewards program using a digital currency, LTBCoin, which was awarded to content creators and audience members according to their “Proof of Participation” score.
Following the acquisition, LTBCoin holders will be given the chance to participate in a new, “Proof of Existence 2.0” project, with details to be released later this year. It shares The LTB Network’s spirit of exploration into disruptive technology. Details and updates can be found at po.et.
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175 - Miguel Vias: XRP's Future for Cross-Border Payments
March 21st, 2017 by Epicenter 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 controversy. Still, XRP remains an interesting asset to enable cross-border payments in the future. Miguel Vias recently joined Ripple after a long career on Wall Street to develop XRP as a liquid and widely accepted asset.
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174 - Carsten Stöcker: How Blockchains Will Power the Energy Grids of Tomorrow
March 14th, 2017 by Epicenter Carsten Stöcker, Senior Manager Machine Economy & Blockchain at Innogy, shares his vision for how blockchains will serve as the transactional fabric for tomorrow's smart grids. In this new paradigm, energy is locally produced and blockchains provide the rails on which radically different local energy markets can be built. The German utility has been conducting blockchain experiments for several years and is soon releasing the Mobility Transaction Platform moveX. The Ethereum-powered platform will serve an ecosystem of electric vehicles with transaction layer needed for charging, car sharing and mobility as a service.
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Ten Ways Governments Threaten Bitcoin
March 13th, 2017 by
John Light Governments are strange beasts. Not quite market, not quite commons, governments occupy a unique space in the economy where societies permit (or tacitly tolerate) territorially-bound corporations that have fiat monopolies on important social functions and institutions. Governments use these exceptional permissions to create and enforce laws and regulations that inhibit the free flow of goods, services, and ideas within their jurisdictions, simultaneously creating and limiting opportunities for e... Read More -
173 - Olaf Carlson-Wee: Polychain Capital and the Rise of Protocol Tokens
March 7th, 2017 by Epicenter Polychain Founder and CEO Olaf Carlson-Wee joined us to talk about Polychain Capital, a new hedge fund focused solely on investing in cryptocurrencies and protocol tokens.
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How to Decentralize Uber
March 6th, 2017 by John Light It has been an oft-cited example that Ethereum can be used to create a “decentralized Uber,” and there have been several (as-yet unsuccessful) attempts to do just that. But what does creating a decentralized Uber actually entail? In this post, I propose that a) Ethereum is overkill for the task at hand, and b) decentralized Uber is not as sexy as it sounds, and may or may not actually make sense in the real world. What Uber Is Today Uber ... Read More -
172 - Peter Rizun: A Bitcoin Fee Market Without A Blocksize Limit
February 28th, 2017 by Epicenter Dr. Peter Rizun joined us to discuss why a fee market in Bitcoin would exist even without a blocksize limit and his argument for Bitcoin Unlimited.
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The Key Decision-Makers in Bitcoin
February 27th, 2017 by John Light Over the past year, there have been intense debates about the future of the Bitcoin network. These discussions have mostly revolved around the topic of scaling Bitcoin, and several proposals have been put forward to address the question of how the Bitcoin network will scale to be used by the billions of people and machines we have on this planet. These scaling proposals are not all mutually exclusive, but nearly all of them involve a fundamental change to the Bitcoin protocol that would require ... Read More
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