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EB115 - Matan Field: Backfeed and the Social Operating System for Decentralized Organizations
January 25th, 2016 by
Epicenter The idea that in the future tokens will play a crucial role in networks and organizations to incentivize decentralized collaboration and reward contribution is not new. It's the original decentralized autonomous organization idea that has informed many projects that have been on the podcast (Swarm, Ethereum, Factom, Storj, etc). For Matan, the vision originally led to found decentralized ride-sharing application LaZooz. One year ago, he left LaZooz to found Backfeed, which is building the to...
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The Crypto Show: Bitcoin Classic with Jon Rumion and Dustin Trammell; Anarchapulco 2016 Speakers
January 25th, 2016 by
TheCryptoShow In the first half hour, we talk with Jonathan Rumion and Dustin Trammell about Bitcoin Classic.
Dustin is thought to be the second person to use the Bitcoin network, and he finishes out the last 30 minutes of the show solo, discussing an upcoming event in Austin called bodyhacking.The Crypto Show goes on air during one of three Austin Bitcoin meetups, providing access to several interesting people in Bitcoin.
Later, Jeff Berwick joins the show, followed by Nathan Freeman, Adam Kokesh, and Anam Paiseanta, all of whom will be speaking or presenting at the upcoming Anarchapulco conference on February 17–22.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #279 Understanding Bitcoin Unlimited
January 23rd, 2016 by
Adam B. Levine On Todays Show
Matthew Zipkin sits down with Andrew Stone to dig into Bitcoin Unlimited, one of several recent projects to emerge as efforts outside of Bitcoin Core to address bitcoin scalability problems.
You don't need to be technical to understand this episode and even if you hate the idea of a block size increase, Andrew presents a very interesting perspective on how the bitcoin network does, and could decide things that have more than one right answer.
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The Ether Review #13: Alex Van de Sande, the Wallet, Contracts, and Mist
January 23rd, 2016 by
Arthur S. Falls Alex Van de Sande is the lead designer for the Ethereum Foundation and Eth Dev. Originally working on the Mist browser, Alex more recently has been focused on developing the Ethereum wallet. The exercise tutorials he published on the official Ethereum Blog were a blast to work through, and examining them makes up much of the content of this episode.
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The Tatiana Show with guest Jordan Page
January 22nd, 2016 by
Tatiana Moroz Crypto-musician Tatiana Moroz is joined by bitcoin entrepreneur Joshua Scigala, co-founder of Vaultoro, and musician Jordan Page in this special recorded-live event. Jordan and Tatiana have performed together across the United States with a message of freedom in their music. The three discuss the importance of art in activism, the impact of cryptocurrencies, and what challenges face us in 2016.
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The Crypto Show Revisits Anarchapulco 2015 in Anticipation of Next Month's Conference
January 21st, 2016 by TheCryptoShow In this episode, in anticipation of Anarchapulco 2016 coming up next month, we revisit a show from the 2015 conference, where we were privileged to have Mark Edge guest host.
- Roger Ver gave a rundown of the conference.
- Then Jose Rodriguez, who is currently with Bitso but was with Unisend at that time, broke down all of the opportunities for Bitcoin in Mexico and Latin America.
- Finally, Rob Hustle talked about his video "Call the Cops" and we played two of his songs.
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SovereignBTC #81 Doug Scribner of WatchMyBit.com and John Rants on Bitcoin's Death and Ulbricht's Appeal
January 19th, 2016 by
SovereignBTC In this episode of SovereignBTC, we hear a segment from the brand new Be Brave Radio Show where John Bush and his fellow co-hosts interview Doug Scribner or WatchMyBit.com, a cutting edge pay per view video service demonstrating bitcoin's utility as a micro-payment platform.
Before the interview, John relays his view on the "death of bitcoin" and the consensus process currently underway to upgrade Bitcoin C...
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EB114 - Vinay Gupta: From Lawyer Capitalism To Programmer Capitalism
January 18th, 2016 by Epicenter Vinay Gupta has been a programmer, 1990s cypherpunk, 'resilience guru', Ethereum release coordinator and currently collaborates with Consensys to mainstream smart contract technology. He also invented the Hexayurt, a cheap and resilient architectural structure for disaster-stricken communities.
Recently, Vinay has become a thought leader in the cryptocurrency space. He is famed for his eloquence and ability to distill the crypto-finance technological paradigm into easy big-picture visual...
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The Crypto Show with Tuur Demeester and Factom's Brian Deery
January 18th, 2016 by TheCryptoShow First Hour:
Tuur Demeester joins the show to talk economics, Bitcoin, the Mike Hearn drama, and proposed fixes.
Second Hour:
Brian Deery, "chief scientologist" at Factom, gives his take on the same subjects.
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The Tatiana Show with guest Simon Dixon of Bnk to the Future
January 17th, 2016 by Tatiana Moroz This week’s guest is Simon Dixon, co-founder and CEO of Bnk To The Future, a global online investment platform that allows qualifying investors to support financial innovation, including FinTech companies, funds, and other new and alternative financial products. Simon is also the author of the book Bank to the Future. He regularly speaks on the future of finance to governments, businesses, investors, and financial institutions. More info: www.TatianaMoroz.com www.C... Read More -
'Goodbye Mike and Some Thoughts About Bitcoin,' by Charles Hoskinson
January 16th, 2016 by
Charles Hoskinson After reading Mike Hearn's farewell letter to the community, I've decided to finally draft my thoughts on the block size debate, but first a few things about Mike.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #278 - Doublespends and BitcoinXT
January 16th, 2016 by Adam B. Levine On Episode 278...
Andreas, Stephanie and Adam discuss...
...Peter Todd's Recent double spend attack on Coinbase
...The Future of BitcoinXT and Mike Hearn's exodus from Bitcoin
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The Africoin Report: 'Appreciation to the Bitcoin Community,' by Rashid Osei
January 16th, 2016 by
DBFGhana The team at Dream Bitcoin Foundation (DBF) is grateful to everyone who donated to the Dream Bitcoin Holiday Fund. In the month of December 2015, the DBF team set out to feed the poor and homeless during the holidays. We set up a fund to receive donations for our planned project. We are happy to inform the community that we received quite a number of donations, which we used to distribute food in Kumasi.
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The Ether Review #12: Stephan Tual, Slock.it
January 16th, 2016 by Arthur S. Falls Joining me today is Stephen Tual, a one-time member of the Ethereum team and one of the founders of Slock.it, a project that aims to be Ethereum’s bridge to the Internet of Things. Their Devcon 1 presentation was lauded as one of the most stark illustrations of the power of Ethereum.
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The Bitcoin Game #32: Brock Pierce
January 15th, 2016 by
Rob Hello, welcome to episode 32 of The Bitcoin Game. I'm Rob Mitchell.
Today's interview is with Brock Pierce, chairman of the board of The Bitcoin Foundation, and a highly-accomplished VC in digital currency. Brock got involved in digital token entrepreneurship at a very young age, with a focus on gaming, an activity he excelled at. As he reached his mid-twenties, Brock's companies were doing $100,000,000 in business. By the time Bitcoin was released, Brock had become a veteran in the busines...
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'Ross Ulbricht: A 170-Page Appeal for Justice,' by Jamie Redman
January 15th, 2016 by
JamieCrypto It's been close to a year since a federal jury sentenced 31-year-old Ross Ulbricht to two life prison convictions for running the Silk Road website under the name Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR). This week, the Ulbricht family attorneys have filed with higher courts to appeal all seven charges against him, submitting 170 pages of arguments.
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