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156 - Leanne Kemp: Detecting Diamond Fraud And Theft With Everledger
November 7th, 2016 by
Epicenter As is the case with most luxury goods, the diamond industry is faced with the issues of theft, fraud, and counterfeiting. Illegal activity is present at every level of the supply chain, which collectively costs the industry and its insurers hundreds of millions of dollars each year. In recent years, international treaties and regulation have been put in place in an attempt to combat illegal activity, but criminals are most often a step ahead.
Leanne Kemp, CEO of Everledger, joins us to ex...
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The Ether Review #46 - Curtis Yarvin & Galen Wolfe-Pauly on Urbit
November 7th, 2016 by
Arthur S. Falls Sometimes the urge to layer in-jokes into a podcast title is impossible to resist. . . and then 24hrs later you change it.
The effort to understand the significance of type based and functional programming languages led me to the Urbit project. This attempt to re-design the internet is one of a number of technologies that have evolved alongside blockchain and address some of the same problems. The Urbit developer's focus on mechanical perfection is a sensibility worth observing.
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The Crypto Show High on PotCoin with Shawn Peretz & David I
November 6th, 2016 by
TheCryptoShow Tonight we talked with the Potcoin team about the recent price spike due to marijuana referendums on the ballot. Marijuana legalization is possible in 5 states with the current election cycle. Potcoin has also added a QT wallet and an Android wallet with plans for ios in the works.
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Original air date 11/6/16 on LogosRadioNetwork
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The Ether Review #45 - Australia - Agricultural Finance, Financial Assets, & Antipiracy
November 3rd, 2016 by Arthur S. Falls In many ways still a frontier nation, Australia's style of innovation is practical and direct. Three of the startups covered in todays interviews come from industries outside of tech, each looking to blockchain to solve a problem unique to their industries. Finhaus Labs, a research and consulting team offers supporting services and friendly advice to these, and the rest of the local blockchain business community.
Interviews: Nick Addison, Finhaus Labs Connor Svendsen, independent
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The Crypto Show with John McAfee and Yoshi Goto of BitmainWarranty.com on the collaboration of the S9 Antminer with MGT
November 2nd, 2016 by TheCryptoShow Tonight we talk with John McAfee and Yoshi Goto about the collaboration of MGT and the Bitmain S9 Antminer in hopes of being the largest US Bitcoin mining operation. We also touch on several other security issues in the cryptosphere.
A couple of LTB listeners also drop in to sit in on the show. Nich and Jacob. Shout out to you guy's for dropping in. Any LTB listener passing through Austin is welcome to join us on Wednesday or Sunday nights 8pm to 10pm cst.
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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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