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Africoin Report: 'How Bitcoin Will Help Africa,' by Madiou Bah
January 14th, 2016 by
Madiou Bah The continent of Africa makes up 6% of the earth’s land surface, with 30 islands. Its area covers 415,873 square kilometers (258,411 miles). With over 1.1 billion inhabitants in 2014, the 55 countries of Africa represented 16% of the world’s population.
Africa's population is the youngest in the world. In 2012, the median age was 19.7, compared to a worldwide median of 30.4. According to the World Bank, the youth represent 60% of the country's unemployed. Here's how Bitcoin can help.
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The Crypto Show with Evan Duffield of Dash, and Debating Bitcoin with Bart Simpson
January 14th, 2016 by
TheCryptoShow First Hour:
We talk with Evan Duffield about Dash Evolution, the Dash budget proposal, master nodes, X-11, and the new interface with Lamassu Bitcoin ATMs.
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We are somehow thrown into a debate with Bart Simpson (doh) about the validity of Bitcoin. It's like playing cards with your brother's kids. (That's a Lampoon Vacation reference.) Bart makes buzzword attacks on Bitcoin. The cartoon Bart and this Bart have the overuse of buzzwords very much in common.
Zasha, a local bitcoiner with a more rational skepticism, brings sanity to the conversation.
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Episode #75 BTC Media Now in Nashville!
January 12th, 2016 by
John Barrett On today's show I am thrilled to welcome to the studio the CEO of BTC Media, Mr. David Bailey. I also welcome John Riggins of BTC Media who will be heading up BTC Media's new office opening soon in Shanghai, China. In this episode we have a great conversation about how BTC Media aims to change the digital landscape here in the South with many exciting developments coming this year!
BTC Media recently moved to Nashville and is now the world's preeminent Bitcoin media group, reaching millions o...
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EB113 - Jae Kwon, Dustin Byington & Ethan Buchman: Tendermint - Private Modularized Blockchains
January 11th, 2016 by
Epicenter As blockchain technologies mature, new protocol specifications are emerging, which take unique approaches to software design and how consensus is achieved. We have talked about Multchain and OpenChain in the past, but Tendermint promises to be a viable solution for many permissioned blockchain use cases. It’s design is modular, meaning that the application layer (smart contract) and the consensus laye...
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The Crypto Show with Doug Casey and Two Local Bitcoiners
January 11th, 2016 by TheCryptoShow In the first forty minutes, we discuss Bitcoin with two local bitcoiners, Jered Reyes and Chris Guida.
Then Doug Casey joins us for the remainder of the show to talk gold, markets, and expatriation.
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The Tatiana Show with guest Luis Molina of Fermat
January 10th, 2016 by
Tatiana Moroz Tatiana and co-host, Joshua Scigala, welcome Luis Molina, founder of Fermat and CEO of BitDubai. Fermat is a P2P financial-application framework that allows stand-alone crypto wallets to evolve into any kind of trust-less financial application, and BitDubai is a network of developers, designers, and academics building the first implementation of Fermat.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #277 Separating Signatures with Segregated Witness
January 9th, 2016 by
Adam B. Levine On Episode 277...
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Format Changes to LTB 2016 announced, effective immediately!
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The Ether Review #11: Free My Vunk!
January 8th, 2016 by
Arthur S. Falls Free My Vunk is a movement to port game items and assets into the blockchain. The goal is to give control of hard-won, in-game rewards entirely to the players themselves. On the surface, this seems like a simple, maybe even mundane use case, but the significance a gamer may attach to a specific achievement can be a real source of economic value. We see this in phenomena like World of Warcraft gold mining and character sale.
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The Africoin Report: The Financial Consequence of Centralisation
January 8th, 2016 by
Goefells South Africa is infamous for being one of the longest-running modern-day governments to legalise racial separation, called apartheid, in many facets of everyday life. Only in 1994 were black South Africans able to vote for the first time to change the leadership of the country. The African National Congress (ANC) party overwhelmingly won the election in 1994, and became the first democratically elected government South Africa had ever seen. The saddening realisation is that it has seemingly followed every other African liberation movement — it's the only post-apartheid government South Africa has ever had, and the political rot is bringing the country into ruin.
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The Tatiana Show with Guests Jonathan Chester of Bitwage and Dave Ripley of Glidera
January 8th, 2016 by Tatiana Moroz Tatiana Moroz and her handsome co-host, Joshua Scigala of Vaultoro, talk to Jonathan Chester of Bitwage and Dave Ripley of Glidera. Chester is the founder of Bitwage, a payroll payment processor, and Ripley is the CEO of Glidera, which provides a safe and easy way to obtain Bitcoin and have it sent to any wallet.
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The Crypto Show with Guests Joshua Scigala of Vaultoro and Trace Mayer
January 7th, 2016 by TheCryptoShow First Hour
We talk with Joshua Scigala of Vaultoro about how "the bitcoin gold exchange" works and where it's going, as well as gold markets and the "Microsoft vacuum cleaner," their only product that doesn't suck.
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Trace Mayer joins us to offer insight on wallet security and world markets.
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SAFE Crossroads Podcast #29 SAFE School Class X, Graduation Review -- All Invited
January 6th, 2016 by
John Ferguson In this Episode
Come one, come all, to the last planned class of the SAFE Network School.
We do a high-level overview of what we know about the SAFE Network in a way that even parents, friends and family of the proud graduates will be warmed with what they learn, and be proud of those who have worked so hard to get closer to the bare metal of this elegant technology.
Graduates will be reminded of all that they have learned by noting the intricate details that have been artfully...
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EB112 - Casey Kuhlman: Permissioned Blockchain And Disrupting Industrial Application Design
January 6th, 2016 by Epicenter Permissionable blockchains have gained much attention from enterprise this past year, and specifically, the traditional fiance and FinTech sectors. As new protocols emerge and the technology is matures, it is becoming apparent they are simply a new class of database, one which integrates business logic (smart contracts) and a consensus layer (PoS, PoW, etc).
Casey Kuhlman is the CEO of Eris Industries, a company which specializes in building permissioned blockchain systems for enterprise...
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The Tatiana Show with guest Kingsley Edwards of the Michael Edwards Freedom Fund
January 6th, 2016 by Tatiana Moroz Tatiana and co-host, Joshua Scigala, welcome Kingsley Edwards. Kingsley is well-known for his work with Leet, but today he’s coming on to talk about something more personal: his father’s imprisonment as a nonviolent offender in the drug war.
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SovereignBTC # 80 Dr. Robert Murphy on Austrian Economics and Bitcoin as a Measure of Value
January 5th, 2016 by
SovereignBTC In this episode of SovereignBTC, John Bush interviews Dr. Robert Murphy on the basics of Austrian Economics, Business Cycle Theory, problems facing the U.S. Dollar, and what it would take for bitcoin to become a global reserve currency.
Coming in at over one hour and forty five minutes, this is the longest interview John Bush has conducted with any guest. While the subject matter is complex, Dr. Murphy and John condense difficult economic theories in to a consumable and fun context.
Enj...
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The Tatiana Show with Guest Liz Reitzig of Nourishing Liberty
January 5th, 2016 by Tatiana Moroz Tatiana and her co-host, Josh Scigala of Vaultoro, welcome Liz Reitzig — the Farm Food Freedom Media Spokesperson and the founder of Nourishing Liberty. Join Tatiana, Josh, and Liz as they talk about the importance of real food in the pursuit of liberty, including raw milk, and the possibility of cryptocurrency helping fund small farmers.
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The Crypto Show: Dimitry 'Rassah' Murashchik of Mycelium
January 4th, 2016 by TheCryptoShow Dimtry 'Rassah' Murashchik at Mycelium joins the show to talk about their Gear payment processor, the Card network, Entropy cold storage, and more. Plus a leak of upcoming technology that has not been shared yet. Rassah also shares interesting information on Ukrainian history.
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The Tatiana Show with Guest Rodolfo Andragnes of Bitcoin Argentina and LaBitConf
January 3rd, 2016 by Tatiana Moroz Tatiana and co-host Joshua Scigala of Vaultoro welcome Rodolfo Andragnes of Bitcoin Argentina to discuss the LaBITconf, the original Latin American Bitcoin conference, which took place in Mexico City on December 4 and 5, 2015.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #276 - The Time Is Now...
January 2nd, 2016 by Adam B. Levine -
'How to Save (or Destroy) the Bitcoin Foundation,' by Charles Hoskinson
January 1st, 2016 by
Charles Hoskinson I've been thinking about the Bitcoin Foundation over the last few months. After I left as the first chairman of the education committee in late 2013, I dismissed the Foundation as a mostly inept attempt by some business interests in the community to gain an edge over their competitors.
So why my sudden interest, after my self-imposed exile?
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