From the Front Page - Interviews
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#224 Jeff Garzik: Metronome - Of Bitcoin Satellites and Built-to-Last Chain-Hopping Tokens
February 27th, 2018 by
Epicenter Metronome is cryptocurrency that sits on top of existing blockchains and aims to allow tokens to easily move from one network to the other. A series of standard blockchain contracts allow for daily descending price auctions to occur automatically, and for users to buy and sell the tokens using a Bancor-like system with built-in liquidity.
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#223 Kyle Samani & Tushar Jain: Multicoin - Emerging Frameworks for Cryptoasset Investing
February 21st, 2018 by Epicenter Multicoin Capital Founders Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain joined us to discuss the theses driving their investments in the land of tokens.
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#222 Amir Bandeali & Will Warren: 0x Protocol and the Decentralized Exchange Frontier
February 16th, 2018 by Epicenter 0x Co-founders Will Warren and Amir Bandeali joined us to discuss the decentralized exchange protocol 0x.
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#221 Greg Meredith & Nash Foster: RChain - The Scalable, Concurrent and Performant Blockchain
February 8th, 2018 by Epicenter A fundamentally kind of new blockchain platform, RChain is rooted in a formal model of concurrent and decentralized computation.
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#220 Manuel Araoz: Zeppelin and the Evolution of Smart Contract Development
February 1st, 2018 by Epicenter Zeppelin CTO Manuel Araoz joined us to discuss smart contract security, the OpenZeppelin framework and their new project zeppelin_os.
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#219 Mance Harmon: Hashgraph - A Radically Novel Consensus Algorithm
January 25th, 2018 by Epicenter Mance Harmon, CEO of the company behind Hashgraph, joined us to discuss the radically new consensus algorithm and how it compares to existing approaches.
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#218 Chris Burniske & Jack Tatar: Cryptoassets - The Rise of a New Asset Class
January 17th, 2018 by Epicenter Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar joined us to discuss their book 'Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond
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#217 Andrew Trask: OpenMined - A Decentralised Artificial Intelligence Platform
January 11th, 2018 by Epicenter Our guest, Andrew Trask, is building OpenMined - a platform that merges cryptographic techniques such as homomorphic encryption and multi-party computation and blockchain technology to create the ability to train ML models with private user data. OpenMined will allow AI companies of the future to develop models, have them trained on user data without compromising user privacy, and incentivise users to train their model. We walk through the OpenMined vision and its potential impact on AI business models and AI safety
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#216 Brian Platz & Flip Filipowski: FlureeDB - A Scalable Blockchain-Based Graph Database
January 3rd, 2018 by Epicenter FlureeDB is a scalable graph database which provides the benefits of blockchain technologies, such as immutability, replayability and fault tolerance. Currently, in development, the goal for FlureeDB is to support various consensus rules based on the network configuration: private systems, federated (or consortium) clusters, and fully decentralized public networks.
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#215 Elizabeth Rossiello: BitPesa - Building Financial Platforms for Frontier Markets
December 27th, 2017 by Epicenter We're pleased to be joined by Elizabeth Rossiello, CEO and Founder of BitPesa. BitPesa provides companies in frontier markets with the financial infrastructure to facilitate commerce and payments, where traditional financial markets are known to be fractured and expensive
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#214 Christopher Fabian & Shaun Conway: Unicef & Ixo: Towards More Transparent Humanitarian Projects
December 19th, 2017 by Epicenter We're joined by Christopher Fabian, Co-founder of Unicef's Innovation Unit. We discuss how the global non-profit institution leverages innovative technology to solve real-world problems in humanitarian work. We explore the different applications of blockchain in the UN and Unicef, as well as the challenges we can anticipate when deploying these technologies in the developing world. Shaun Conway, Founder of Ixo Foundation, also joins the discussion as a startup working Unicef and talks about the value of a global reputation network for humanitarian projects.
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#213 Tim Swanson: Busting the Great Wall of Hype
December 13th, 2017 by Epicenter In the blockchain world, few people are as brave as Tim Swanson when it comes to busting hype. Tim's unbiased, honest, and sometimes controversial opinions provide a refreshingly realistic view of blockchain adoption and applications of this technology by people and businesses. Cutting through the hype, the over-sold press releases ad the blind optimism of a completely decentralized economy, Tim's insights provide a sobering look at the state of the blockchain.
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#212 Adam Perlow & Asher Manning: Zen Protocol - A Decentralized Financial System
December 6th, 2017 by Epicenter Adam Perlow and Asher Manning of Zen Protocol joined us to discuss how Zen aims to build a decentralized financial system combining smart contracts with a Bitcoin-like UTXO architecture.
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#211 Zoe Adamovicz: Neufund and the Case for Selling Equity on the Blockchain
November 28th, 2017 by Epicenter With the meteoric rise of ICOs, the questionable incentives and regulatory pitfalls of such offerings are becoming abundantly obvious. Yet, raising money from a global crowd by selling tokens is here to stay.
Neufund CEO Zoe Adamovicz joined us to explain their approach to blockchain crowdfunding. By putting tokens backed by actual equity on a blockchain, they allow sales that protect investors and are accessible to non-token-based projects.
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#210 Alex Morcos: Chaincode Labs and Why Bitcoin is Our One Shot at Creating Digital Gold
November 21st, 2017 by Epicenter In the last few years, Chaincode Labs played one of the most active roles in the development of Bitcoin core. Its founder Alex Morcos joined us to talk about his own journey from high frequency trading to discovering Bitcoin and starting Chaincode. We talked about what drives him, what the essential characteristics of Bitcoin are and how to think about recent event like the SegWit2x controversy.
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#209 Amrit Kumar & Xinshu Dong: Zilliqa - A Scalable Sharded Public Blockchain
November 14th, 2017 by Epicenter Our guests, Xinshu Dong and Amrit Kumar, walk us through the objectives, protocol design and fundraising structure of Zilliqua, a new public blockchain which achieves scalability through sharding.
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#208 : Post DevCon3 Roundtable: State of Ethereum, Cosmos Retreat and Parity Hack
November 10th, 2017 by Epicenter The three Epicenter hosts discuss the Ethereum Developer conference, state of Ethereum ecosystem, Cosmos retreat and the Parity hack.
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#207 Micah Winkelspecht: Gem - The Enterprise Platform That Powers Data-Driven Applications
November 1st, 2017 by Epicenter Micah Winkelspecht, CEO and Founder of Gem, joins us to talk about GemOS, a full-stack blockchain middleware platform that allows companies to build applications on top of blockchains protocols like Ethereum or Hyperledger Fabric.
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#206 Karl Kreder: Grid+ - Unlocking Direct Access to Wholesale Energy Markets
October 24th, 2017 by Epicenter Karl Kreder, Co-founder of Grid+, a Consensys project, joins us to talk about how blockchain technology can help disintermediate utilities and allow consumers buy electricity directly from producers. The Grid+ Agent is a hardware device which sits in your home, is connected to your energy meter and can interact with the power grid.
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#205 Galen Wolfe-Pauly: Urbit - A Digital Republic Reinventing the Internet
October 18th, 2017 by Epicenter Galen Wolfe-Pauly joined us to discuss Urbit, a radical project that aims to disrupt the clould computing paradigm and create a user-driven internet.
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