From the Front Page - Interviews
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#204 Ben Bollen & Jason Goldberg: Simple Token - Bringing Tokens to Mainstream Consumer Applications
October 11th, 2017 by
Epicenter Simple Token CEO Jason Goldberg and Chief Technology Strategist Ben Bollen joined us to discuss Simple Token and bridging mainstream consumer applications with cryptocurrencies.
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#203 Fredrik Voss: Nasdaq - How Blockchain Technologies Will Transform Capital Markets
October 4th, 2017 by Epicenter Fredrik Voss, VP of Blockchain Innovation at Nasdaq, joins us to discuss how Nasdaq is leveraging blockchain technologies to propel itself into the future. Having invested in Chain and Stratumn, Nasdaq is taking a very hands-on approach, building products which it integrates into the various software solutions they sell.
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#202 Ari Paul: BlockTower Capital and the Cryptocurrency Opportunity
September 26th, 2017 by Epicenter Ari Paul, CIO of cryptocurrency hedge fund BlockTower Capital, joined us to discuss the cryptocurrency investment opportunity and how cryptocurrencies are on the cusp of becoming a recognized asset class.
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#201 Matt Kerner: Microsoft's Coco Framework - The Holy Grail for Enterprise
September 20th, 2017 by Epicenter Matt Kerner, Partner GM for Blockchains at Azure, joins us to discuss Coco Framework. Coco is an open-source system which promises to enable high scalability and offer confidentiality for enterprise blockchain consortiums. This novel framework leverages Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) to deliver blockchain networks with throughput comparable to database speeds.
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#200 Ciaran O'Leary: BlueYard - The Disruption of Venture Capital
September 13th, 2017 by Epicenter Ciaran O'Leary, General Partner of VC fund BlueYard, joined us to discuss BlueYard's approach for investing in the blockchain economy and the current disruption of the VC industry.
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#199 Peter Czaban: Polkadot - The Internet of Blockchain Networks
September 5th, 2017 by Epicenter Peter Czaban, co-founder of Polkadot, joins us as we dive deep into the Polkadot Network. Polkadot is a heterogeneous multi-chain network, consisting of many connected chains (or parachains), all of which have their own set of features and characteristics.
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#198 Nick Morgan: The DAO, the SEC and the ICO Boom
August 29th, 2017 by Epicenter In the current ICO boom, few things cause as much concern as the uncertain regulatory environment. Many do expect that at least some token sales will be considered unlicensed sales of securities and that action by the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) will be forthcoming. Nick Morgan, a former attorney in the SEC's enforcement division, joined us to discuss the recent report by the SEC on the DAO, how the SEC chooses what kind of cases to prosecute and what their likely next steps will be.
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#197 Dan Larimer: EOS - The Decentralized Operating System
August 23rd, 2017 by Epicenter Dan Larimer joined us to discuss his latest project EOS, which aims to create a decentralized operating system and solve the scalability problems of current blockchain technology.
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#196 Arthur Falls: From Lobser Fishing to Blockchain Podcasting
August 17th, 2017 by Epicenter Prior to hosting his ground breaking podcasts Beyond Bitcoin and The Ether Review, Arthur Falls had left his home country of New Zealand to fish lobster off the coast of Maine. Like many people in the blockchain space, his unlikely journey into the world of decentralized technologies is a fascinating one, and he shares it with us in this episode.
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#195 Loi Luu: KyberNetwork - Towards Truly Decentralized Crypto-Asset Exchanges
August 8th, 2017 by Epicenter We're joined by Loi Luu, Co-founder of KyberNetwork. This new decentralized exchange protocol, built on Ethereum, aims to match buyers with reserve operators, who create liquidity for crypto-asset pairs. Trades occur instantaneously and without the need for a trusted third party exchange operator.
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#194 Eyal Hertzog: Bancor and the Rise of User-Generated Currencies
August 4th, 2017 by Epicenter Bancor Co-Founder Eyal Hertzog joined us to explain how Bancor makes trading the long tail of assets more efficient and how this will enable user-generated currencies at scale.
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#193 Dave Collins & Jake Yocom-Piatt: Decred - A Hybrid Approach to Blockchain Governance
July 26th, 2017 by Epicenter Dave Collins and Jake Yocom-Piatt join us to talk about Decred, a cryptocurrency which introduces an innovative system of community-based governance into its blockchain.
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#192 Aviv Zohar & Yonatan Sompolinsky: Of Spectre & Ghosts - Radical Ideas to Scale Blockchain Tech
July 19th, 2017 by Epicenter Hebrew University academics Aviv Zohar and Yonatan Sompolinski joined us to discuss their radical proposals for how to scale blockchain technology.
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#191 Richard Craib: Numerai - A Revolutionary Hedge Fund Built on Blockchain and AI
July 11th, 2017 by Epicenter Numerai Founder Richard Craib joined us to discuss how Numerai combines AI and blockchain to build a hedge fund that crowdsources its portfolio management and thus creates network effects.
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#190 Erik Voorhees: Prism - The World's First Portfolio Market Platform
July 4th, 2017 by Epicenter Shapeshift CEO Erik Vorhees joined us to discuss their new platform Prism. Prism allows users to create a collateralized portfolio of digital assets purely using Ethereum smart contracts.
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#189 Jimmy Song: A Fork in the Road for Bitcoin?
June 27th, 2017 by Epicenter Bitcoin Developer and Principal Architect at Paxos, Jimmy Song, joins us to discuss the different scalability proposals for which miners are currently signaling their support. Will one of these proposals gain majority support, allowing for the network to upgrade with relative ease, or will we enter a situation where one proposal is backed by a strong minority of users, potentially forking the network into two?
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#188 William Mougayar: Unpacking Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) and Token Sales
June 20th, 2017 by Epicenter Investor and Author William Mougayar joined us to unpack token sales / ICOs and understand what is driving the current explosion of interest.
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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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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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