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The Ether Review #34 - Vinay Gupta on Rethinking Blockchain Use Cases
July 8th, 2016 by
Arthur S. Falls The threat of Ethereum regulation as a result of the DAO fiasco raises the question: At its core, is blockchain a financial technology? The Crypto project is viewed by many to be an effort to safeguard mankind's future. Vinay Gupta says it’s time to realign the crypto project with human survival rather than human greed.
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Will Ethereum become regulated and merge with Fintech? Is this a bad thing?
In the event of a global financial collapse, have we built an infrastru...
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The Ether Review # 33 - Blockchain on Wall St & CPU Cycles for Rent
July 1st, 2016 by Arthur S. Falls Julian Zawistowski, of Project Golem explains the distributed computing platform he and his team at Imapp are producing. The first alpha, Brass Golem will be released in weeks. The Imapp organisation itself is an interesting organization worth having a look at. Before we get to Golem however, Wall Street veteran Caitlin Long explains what blockchain can offer to financial institutions, regulators, and the Wall St as a whole.
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The Ether Review #32 - Peter Van Valkenburgh, The DAO & Regulation
July 1st, 2016 by Arthur S. Falls Peter Van Valkenburgh, Director of Research at Coin Center explains the regulatory considerations that may bear on DAO tokens. This episode was recorded before the hack but is still an excellent guide for those interested in understanding the importance of due legal diligence in advance of a crowd sale.
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Content: Arthur Falls, Peter Van Valkenburgh
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The Ether Review #30 - Vinay Gupta - All Roads lead to the Singularity
July 1st, 2016 by Arthur S. Falls This episode features a somewhat undirected discussion with critical thinker Vinay Gupta. Starting with the technological components of Bitcoin and Ethereum, we find that all roads lead to the singularity. Thank you to cryptocompare.com for the support etherreview.info Vinay's site twitter.com/leashless twitter.com/arthurfalls Content: Vinay Gupta, Arthur Falls Editing: Connor O'Day Read More -
The Ether Review #31 - Aftermath, Discussing the DAO Hack
June 22nd, 2016 by Arthur S. Falls So the DAO was hacked. Karl Floersch and myself discuss the state of play. What happened? Was it the fault of the DAO developers or a bug in the Solidity language? What does this mean for the ecosystem? How should we respond as a community? What is certain is that this event will drive the maturity of Ethereum forward. Hackingdistributed.com blog.ethereum.org/ Understanding The DAO Hack for Journalists - goo.gl/JIFgNJ Karl.tech Thank you to cryptocompare.com Content: Karl Floe... Read More -
The Ether Review #29 – Gavin and Ken of Ethcore, Parity and Web 3
June 20th, 2016 by Arthur S. Falls Today we have Ethereum founder and Ethcore CEO, Gavin Wood and head of business development at Ethcore, Ken Kappler. We take a look at their Parity client and the Web 3 concept. We look at the future of Bitcoin - Ethereum interoperation, Geth security flaws, Whisper, Swarm, the DAO and even the possibility of sidechains on Ethereum. There was additional content cut into this episode so it’s a bit choppy but altogether this episode offers a fresh glimpse into the ever changing future of Ethereu...
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The Ether Review #28 - Dapp Structure and the New Decentralized Exchange, Bitsquare
June 20th, 2016 by Arthur S. Falls This episode features two interviews. First, Karl Floersch discusses the underlying structures which shape distributed applications. Karl’s ability to explain the deeper mechanics of software running in the Ethereum environment is unique and discussions with him are always fun, insightful, and visionary. Then we have Manfred Karrer, the creator of Bitsquare. For the uninitiated, Bitsquare is a decentralized fiat to crypto exchange. While it is completely self contained and doesn’t us... Read More -
The Ether Review #27 - Blockchain Revolution
May 13th, 2016 by Arthur S. Falls Blockchain Revolution, the acclaimed book by Alex and Don Tapscott has been stirring interest in elite tech circles in advance of its launch. Steve Wozniac called it “mindblowing in its expansiveness and profundity.” There are other great quotes on the dust jacket but I think an endorsement like that indicates that Blockchain Revolution is bound to be the bestseller that brings an awareness of blockchain technology to the masses. Today, Alex Tapscott speaks about the work.
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The Ether Review #26 - The DAO is Here!
May 7th, 2016 by Arthur S. Falls In the few days between this episodes interview and the recording of this introduction, the DAO has raised over ten million dollars, bringing its total cash reserves to twenty three million. Such investor enthusiasm is unprecedented in the cryptocurrency world. But is such enthusiasm justified? What is the DAO anyway? Where does Slockit fit into the picture? Will the investor control of the DAO result in overly optimistic capital management? Do these investors realize the highly speculative natu...
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The Ether Review #25 - Bob Summerwill of the C++ Team
May 3rd, 2016 by Arthur S. Falls Bob Summerwill has been developing the C++ Ethereum client since July last year. His background is primarily in game development but he spent a short time in finance as a “Solutions Architect” giving him a unique insight into development and culture across these fields. There are some interesting posts we speak about in this episode on his company website DoubleThink. Today we look primarily at the importance of C++ but I took the chance to ask Bob a few questions that had been accumulating ...
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The Ether Review #24 - Christoph Jentzsch, Slockit and the DAO
April 23rd, 2016 by Arthur S. Falls Christoph Jentzsch is a theoretical physicist and high performance computing expert. The road to co-founding Slockit lead Christoph through the world of mining to testing the Ethereum codebase to developing the DAO concept to it’s most advanced state. In this episode we cover not only the internet of things but also the challenges of creating a new model for online community entrepreneurship.
Content: Christoph Jentzsch, Arthur Falls
Editing: Richard Toth
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The Ether Review #23 - Aaron Davis, Dan Finlay, MetaMask
April 18th, 2016 by Arthur S. Falls MetaMask is a Chrome browser extension that will enable trustless interaction with DApps. Developers Aaron Davis and Dan Finlay discuss self sovereign identity, leaving Apple to develop on Ethereum and developing decentralized web services. We also talk about the Web 3 experience.
Content: Aaron Davis, Dan Finlay, Arthur Falls Editing: Richard Toth podcast-editing.com
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The Ether Review #22 - John Lilic, The Transactive Grid
April 11th, 2016 by Arthur S. Falls John Lilic discusses the Transactive Grid project which aims to localize energy production through the creation of micro grids. John’s idea of using a pure incentive system to solve and infrastructure problem is inspired. We also touch on early days of ConsenSys and the Total Return Swap Content: @johnlilic, @arthurfalls @etherreview etherreview.info Read More -
The Ether Review #21 - Roman Mandeleil, Ethereum Full Transparency
April 1st, 2016 by Arthur S. Falls Ethereum Full Transparency is a feature that has recently been added to the live.ether.camp blockchain explorer. It now allows the user to explore the operations of a smart contract in both interpreted and raw form. It's the most interesting exposition of the inner workings of Ethereum to date and definitely something everyone should take a look at.
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The Ether Review #19 - Arcade City
March 26th, 2016 by Arthur S. Falls Christopher David, founder of the transportation network Arcade City came on the show today to discuss the project. Arcade City aims ultimately to be owned by the drivers themselves using a suite of technologies built on our favorite platform.
It was interesting to hear the complaints many drivers had about incumbent Uber and how this has turned into grass roots support for Arcade City. This is an interesting episode, not to be missed.
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The Ether Review #20 - Maker, the Stable Currency Platform
March 24th, 2016 by Arthur S. Falls The stable token platform Maker is the focus of today’s episode. It’s a mature design that builds on both the academic and technological legacy of Bitshares. It’s live right now and has been for months. This is a great follow on to episode 16 with Dominic Williams.
Content: Rune Christianson, Kenny Rowe, Arthur Falls
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The Ether Review #18 - DevUpdate, Digix DAO Crowdsale
March 19th, 2016 by Arthur S. Falls Taylor Gerring brings us an Ethereum Development update. Then we’re taking another look at Digix, a gold backed token issuance and exchange platform.
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The Ether Review 17 - Matt Liston On Media, Music And Cannabis
March 4th, 2016 by Arthur S. Falls Matt Liston is a entrepreneur and thinker developing practical applications of smart contracts and derivative technologies. His story of entering the space is an interesting one and his ability to identify pain points where new innovations can be applied is excellent. Right now he is developing solutions for the text media, music and cannabis industries.
Due to technical difficulties this was a choppy interview but well worth publishing none the less.
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The Ether Review Dev Update 2-19-16
February 27th, 2016 by Arthur S. Falls This is a special episode of The Ether Review. Today Taylor Gerring, the director of technology at the Ethereum Foundation joins to offer a quick development update and answer a few listener questions.
If you’re interested in finding out more or would like to participate, head over to ethereum.org. Questions should be sent here.
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The Ether Review #16 - Dominic Williams, Synthetic Assets
February 20th, 2016 by Arthur S. Falls Today we have one of my favourite thinkers in the cryptocurrency space. Dominic Williams featured briefly in the last episode of Beyond Bitcoin discussing Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus processes. Today we talk about Synthetic Assets: Colored Coins, Dynamically Collateralized Coins, Hedged Dao Assets, and Smart Market Instruments. This is really significant stuff and this conversation significantly deepened my understanding of the challenges of creating value pegged tokens.
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