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EB130 - Erik Voorhees: Fooling The Fox - The Story Of The Shapeshift Hack
May 9th, 2016 by
Epicenter In the short history of the Bitcoin industry, there has been an impressive amount of high profile hacks, ranging from a few hundred thousand to many millions of dollars. In all of these, customers, Bitcoin users, where robbed of their funds because poor security policies, negligence, incompetence, or plain old scamming. Recently, the cryptocurrency conversion service ShapeShift fell victim to a hack in which over $200,000 of company funds were stolen, initially by an employee, and then by a ...
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The Crypto Show: Roger Ver, Cody Wilson, Chris Odom, Christopher David, Brian Deery and Cliff Baltzley
May 8th, 2016 by
TheCryptoShow It's a jam packed show we talk with Roger Ver about Concensys as well as Cody Wilson, Chris Odom, Christopher David, Brian Deery and Cliff Baltzley about ride sharing in Austin and the ridiculous Austin city council draconian 1984 style of forcing Uber and Lyfts hand. Christopher David explains Arcade City and it's plans to fill the void of Uber and Lyft. Excuse my awkward pauses I'm winging it without Chris the lead host. Original air date 5/8/16 on LogosRadioNetwork.
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The Tatiana Show - Judd Weiss Of The McAfee Presidential Campaign
May 8th, 2016 by
Tatiana Moroz Tatiana and Josh interview Judd Weiss of the McAfee presidential campaign. Topics of discussion include Satoshi Nakamoto, the Libertarian Party, John McAfee and his presidential campaign. Judd Weiss is John McAfee’s Vice Presidential running mate pick in the race for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination. Bringing together Judd’s notable background in high value sales, his focus on improved imaging and messaging, and his extensive network within the liberty movement. ... Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #292 Infrastructure Inversion and the Emancipated Taxi
May 7th, 2016 by
Adam B. Levine On Episode 291...
On today's episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin, we join Andreas in Zurich, Switzerland on his most recent world tour for a talk that sheds a little historical context on the world in which we find ourselves today. After the break we'll rejoin Andreas for an extended Q&A.
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The Crypto Show with Justus Ranvier on BIP 47 in Samourai, Hashing out Craig Wright/Satoshi
May 4th, 2016 by TheCryptoShow Justus explains Payment Codes aka BIP 47. BIP 47 has been implemented into the Alpha test version of Samourai wallet. And it works quite well. BIP 47 allows you to have a single public key that sends a different address every transaction. Then the second hour we dive into the whole Craig Wright fiasco. Justus brings up some interesting points to think about in regards as to whether or not Craig Wright is Satoshi or just Jesus's brother. Original air date 5/4/16 on LogosRadioNetwork
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Technology and Choice #05, Scam Tech 101
May 3rd, 2016 by
John Ferguson In this Episode
Finally, Robert and John get to really start exploring scams. What is a scam? Why is it so important to understand the mechanics that make something a scam, or not? What does this all have to do with technology and choice?
We dig in on a scam that Robert himself got snared by, and what he did about it. The image of throwing a ragdoll to a puppy is invoked. Listen to see how it came out.
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EB129 - The Far Future In Front Of Us
May 2nd, 2016 by Epicenter As the blockchain field continues evolving rapidly, Sebastien, Meher and Brian take some time to discuss the current environment and the longer term implications of blockchains. We discussed how smart contracts could affect the pace of innovation and the competitiveness of industries. We also talked about the role DAOs will play and what we can take away from the current DAO crowdsale and its connection with Slock.it.
Topics covered included:
- How companies running on smart contracts co...
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The Crypto Show with Adam B. Levine on Tokenly's launch.
May 1st, 2016 by TheCryptoShow Adam joins the show to explain tokenly, how virtually anyone can use it to distribute their digital content and how you can get involved in the online equity sharing pitch. There are 3 spaces open for developers at tokenly so if you're interested contact [email protected] Original air date 5 / 1/ 16 on LogosRadioNetwork
Sponsored by Bitcoin.com & CryptoCompare.com
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The Tatiana Show - Pamela Morgan Of Empowered Law and Third Key Solutions
May 1st, 2016 by Tatiana Moroz Tatiana and Josh interview Pamela Morgan of Empowered Law. Topics of discussion include estate planning with bitcoin, smart contracts, multisig technology, and the right to privacy in the digital age. http://bravenewcoin.com/news/gone-forever-bitcoin-altcoins-assettokens-and-death/ Pamela Morgan is an attorney, educator, entrepreneur, and public speaker. She has spent almost her entire career working in and advising small businesses. She is a widely respected authority on multi-signatur... Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #291 Early Days at OpenBazaar
May 1st, 2016 by Adam B. Levine On Episode 291...
On Today's Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin! We're joined by Brian Hoffman, one of the founders of OpenBazaar and the company leading it's development OB1.
Adam and Stephanie pick Brian's brain at length about the early days of the just-released distributed commerce platform and what comes next.
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The Africoin Report: Shopping Online with Bitcoin Gets Better
April 30th, 2016 by
ahmadmanga Last October, I wrote an article about "Why Bitcoin Is Perfect for Libya." Nothing has changed since then. My country doesn't offer much support when it comes to online payments. We don't have Paypal (legally at least) and getting credit cards is hard, banking Is nightmare, etc.
Now I found a better option for shopping online with bitcoin.
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The Crypto Show with Jodi James of FLCAN, Tatiana Moroz and Mycelium's Dimitry Murshik
April 27th, 2016 by TheCryptoShow The first hour is spent talking with Jodi James of the Florida Cannibis Action Network.
The Magic word will be found in the second hour. Then we talk with Tatiana Moroz about her joint venture with Zhou Tonged on May 2 in NYC as an after party during consensus. Then Dimitry of Mycelium gives us the latest updates on the wallet. Original air date on LogosRadioNetworkSponsored by Bitcoin.com & CryptoCompare.com
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Episode #80 Bitsquare Founder Manfred Karrer
April 27th, 2016 by
John Barrett On today's show I take a trip to Barcelona, Spain to spend some time with Manfred Karrer, the founder of Bitsquare. Bitsquare is an open source peer-to-peer application that allows anyone to trade bitcoin for national currencies or cryptocurrencies. Bitsquare requires no registration or verification process and does not hold a users data or funds. Welcome to the future of trading here at the dawn of the age of cryptocurrencies!
I'd like to thank our sponsor [Cryptocompare.com](http://Cryptoco...
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EB128 - Jed Mccaleb: Stellar And The Vision Of An Open Financial System
April 26th, 2016 by Epicenter When Jed McCaleb discovered Bitcoin, there didn't even exist an online marketplace to trade the cryptocurrency yet. The experienced founder who had earlier started file sharing site eDonkey, acted fast and started the first Bitcoin exchange MtGox which he later sold to now-infamous Mark Karpeles. Jed later founded the pioneering Ripple project before leaving to start Stellar.
We discussed his journey through the industry and the ambitious plans Stellar has to create an open financial syst...
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Technology and Choice #04, A Talk with Paul Rosenburg
April 26th, 2016 by John Ferguson In this Episode
John and Robert have a great time with Paul Rosenburg, a true renaissance man and scholar, about technology and choice--past, present and future. Should we be optimistic, pessimistic, or simply mystic? You get to choose.
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Listen for the magic word, and submit it to your LetsTalkBitcoin.com account to claim a share of this week's listener award distribution of LTBcoin. Listeners now have a full week from the release date to submit a magic word. The ...
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SovereignBTC #86 Blockchain Voting with Nick Spanos
April 25th, 2016 by
SovereignBTC In this edition of the SovereignBTC podcast, Bush talks about the first habit in Stephen Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, being proactive. He relates the habit to entrepreneurship and more effectively accomplishging your goals in a manner that is consistent with your values.
Next, John talks with Nick Spanos of Blockchain Technologies Corp about their role in securing the elections at the Texas Libertarian Party using blockchain technology. This interview was recorded as part of Be Brave Radio's live remote at the LP Texas Convention in San Antonio, TX.
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The Crypto Show: Peter Todd on Chain Anchors, Manfred Karrer, Zhou Tonged and Brian Deery
April 24th, 2016 by TheCryptoShow We talk with Manfred Karrer of Bitsquare.io the first 45 minutes. Bit square is the first decentralized crypto currency exchange. The exchange goes live April 27th in beta. Then we talk with Zhou Tonged about his Blockchain Party with Tatiana Moroz on May 2 2016 8pm to 1am at 266w 47th st in NYC. This takes place during Consensus2016 in NYC. The second hr we talk with Peter Todd and Brian Deery about Peter's recent blog post about Chain Anchors. Original air date 4/24/16 on LogosRadioNetwor...
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #290 - The Ultimate Bitcoin Business Guide
April 23rd, 2016 by Adam B. Levine On Episode 290...
On Today's Episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin, we're joined by Kirk Phillips, author of the Ultimate Bitcoin Business Guide. After the interview we'll listen to chapter 9 of the just-released Audiobook version on Credit Card Chaos narrated by Stephanie Murphy.
This episode also features an update on the successful Tokenly campaign and the new roles on the Tokenly team we're looking to fill immediately.
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The Tatiana Show - Blake Miles Of The Green Beret Foundation And Adam House
April 23rd, 2016 by Tatiana Moroz Tatiana and Josh interview Blake Miles of The Green Beret Foundation and Adam House. Topics include paying taxes, Green Beret operations, social engineering within Bitcoin, war veterans with PTSD, and foreign policy. Blake Miles is a former Army Special Forces soldier who spent time at 1st Special Forces Group and 20th Special Forces Group between 2004 and 2008. He is currently the Director of Communications and Social Media for the Green Beret Foundation, a non-profit charity focused on s... Read More -
The Crypto Show with Cody Wilson, Drew Phillips of Bitcoin Not Bombs and Jonathan Mohan
April 20th, 2016 by TheCryptoShow We talk with Cody Wilson and Drew Phillips about Open Bazar and the American Black Cross as well as Jonathan Mohan about Peter Todd's take on Chain Anchors announced on Reddit. Original air date 4/20/16 on LogosRadioNetwork
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