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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #264 - Understanding Credits and Private Blockchains
November 17th, 2015 by
Adam B. Levine On Today's Show
- Matthew Zipkin speaks with Nick Williamson of the Private/Public Blockchain Platform known as Credits
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EB105 – Vlad Zamfir: Bringing Ethereum Towards Proof-Of-Stake With Casper
November 16th, 2015 by
Epicenter With Proof-of-Stake (PoS) a blockchain is secured not by spending an external resource such as electricity but by using value internal to the chain itself. The promise of higher security at a lower cost is what also drives Ethereum to plan a move away from Proof-of-Work to PoS in the future.
Ethereum researcher Vlad Zamfir, who leads their effort in the complex search for the optimal PoS consensus system joined us for an in-depth discussion of the challenges of PoS, the approach Casper is tak...
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The Crypto Show: From the Silk Road to Islam via Paris
November 16th, 2015 by
TheCryptoShow In the first part of the show, co-hosted by Julia Tourianski of Brave the World, we talk with actor Alex Winter at a screening of Deep Web.
In the second part, we part we talk with Hesham El-Meligy of Muslims4Liberty about the attacks in Paris and Lebanon, as well as media deception and Islamophobia. We hope the general public will consider this perspective before the one of "mob rules."
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XCP Update 11/15: Art and Tokens
November 15th, 2015 by
Robert Ross This show is not intended for investment advice.
Episode 22
In the original release of the podcast I announced a Counterparty Development contest. This is still proposed at this point and I apologize for announcing early. More information will be available as soon as its ready.
Counterparty News
- Counterparty released a [community update](http://counterparty.io/news/counterparty-community-update-nov-7/?utm_content=buffer19c9a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_ca...
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #263 - Bubble Boy and the Sewer Rat
November 14th, 2015 by Adam B. Levine On Episode 263...
We listen in on Andreas's recent Devcore talk on how exposure can and should harden security, colorfully titled Bubble Boy and the Sewer Rat. Andreas speaks for about twenty five minutes then answers questions Q&A style for about twenty minutes.
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The Ether Review #5: Colony and Jack du Rose
November 14th, 2015 by
Arthur S. Falls Today Jack Du Rose explains his social collaboration platform colony and his old job designing the most expensive work of art ever sold.
Credits
- Content: Jack Du Rose, Arthur Falls
- Production: Arthur Falls
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The Bitcoin Biographies: Rob Mitchell of the Bitcoin Game
November 13th, 2015 by
Cheryl Hulseapple When Rob Mitchell mentioned that he had recorded an introduction about himself for his podcast The Bitcoin Game several times, but he hadn’t yet created one he wanted to use, I jumped at the chance to interview him.
Mitchell started his podcast a little more than a year ago. He has since published 29 biweekly episodes, including memorable ones such as interviews with Johoe, the white hat hacker, Jake Benson of LibraTax — which I remember because I didn’t want to listen, but when I did, it was very helpful — and two of his latest with John Barrett of Bitcoins and Gravy, and writer Brian Cohen. He also created the Bitcoin keychains that appear in images all over the Internet.
I asked him to tell me more about everything he's been doing "in Bitcoinland."
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The Crypto Show: Jamie Redman, Tone Vays, James Perloff, and False Flags
November 12th, 2015 by TheCryptoShow First we talk to Jamie Redman, graphic artist and editorial writer for a number of bitcoin news sites, most notably Bitcoin.com.
Next it's author James Perloff, who wrote multiple books such as Truth Is a Lonely Warrior, The Shadows of Power, The Case Against Darwin, and Tornado in a Junk Yard.
To wrap it up, Tone Vays of BraveNewCoin.com gives his take on the Bitcoin price swings.
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SAFE Crossroads Podcast #24 SAFE School, Class VII, No 3rd Party Needed
November 11th, 2015 by
John Ferguson In this Episode
Class VII of the School of the SAFE Network takes us to the realm of Self-Authentication, something else new to the world which will first appear with the SAFE Network, but will certainly become a standard for those who wish to have true control over their data and electronic relationships.
It is all about you and the network. That's all. No "trusted" authority or administrator required. No fine print user agreements, wherein you agree to give the service provider ...
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SovereignBTC #76 Cooperation vs. Competition w/ Paul Puey of AirBitz and Dimitry of Mycelium
November 10th, 2015 by
SovereignBTC In this episode of SovereignBTC, John Bush shares what it's been like operating a retail store for the past several months and how greater bitcoin integration would benefit his operation.
Later, we hear an interview John captured while at Liberty Fest 2015 in NYC with Paul Puey of Airbitz and Dimitri of Mycelium. The group talks about wallet innovation, trends and forecasts, and the importance of cooperation amongst companies in the bitcoin space.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #262 - Classic Episode: Tree Chains with Peter Todd
November 10th, 2015 by Adam B. Levine On Episode 262...
Hey folks, i'm still working on those conference episodes so on today's episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin, we're going back in time for a classic episode and one of my all time favorites. We'll spend most of today's show with Andreas, Stephanie and Peter Todd during one of our rare in-person recordings, talking about Peter's revolutionary Tree Chains concept: What it is, why solo mining is worth saving and how it could change how Bitcoin works for the better.
This is also the episode where I explained Tokens from the ground up for the first time. six months before Tokenly was founded I was focused on helping projects like MyPowers and Swarm deliver token solutions to the world of crowdfunding. Eighteen months later, Tokenly is now fixated on providing token solutions to Crowdfunding platforms except this time instead of building a new crowdfunding platform, we're able to provide all of the possibilities to campaigns and platforms wherever they are. This episode is the original 2014 edit.
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Mike Ward on 'Internet in Chains'
November 10th, 2015 by
mike ward Seems like quite a bit of controversy was stirred up by the recent Economist article, "The great chain of being sure about things," which they say "has implications far beyond the cryptocurrency." Their point seems to be spot-on in my view.
Bitcoin is a substrate for token-based systems of many sorts. But is it the most appropriate choice for all use cases? Aren't we likely to see MILLIONS of blockchains in the future?
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EB104 - The Gyft Of The Blockchain And Improving Prepaid Cards
November 9th, 2015 by Epicenter Businesses with the alleged potential to become the next Google are plentiful in Bitcoin-land, but finding actual commercial success is a lot harder. The best example of a commercial success is gift card company Gyft that became known as the first place to give access to a wide range of merchants for bitcoin holders and later achieved the largest exit so far in the crypto space in an acquisition by payments company First Data.
Gyft CTO Giyom Lebleu joined us to talk about how he got invol...
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The Crypto Show: Bitso, Viva la Bitcoin in Mexico, and 'Reaching the Finish Line' with Kallen Diggs
November 9th, 2015 by TheCryptoShow Jose Rodriguez, VP of payments at Bitso, fills us in on the plan to integrate with BitPay in Mexico and what to expect at the Latin American Bitcoin Conference in December and Anarchapulco 2016.
Kallen Diggs talks about his bestseller Reaching the Finish Line and his recent article in The Huffington Post, and also offers valuable tips regarding student loan debt.
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #261 Understanding Tauchains
November 7th, 2015 by Adam B. Levine On Todays Show
Matthew Zipkin digs into the limits of possibility with Ohad Asor, Founder of Tau Chain
Tauchain home page http://www.idni.org/
Writing a script that outputs the integers 1 through 10:
1 log:outputString 1.
{ ?x log:outputString ?x. (1 ?x) math:sum ?y. ?y math:lessThan 11 } => { ?y log:outputString ?y }.
...and that is discussed more thoroughly on the bitcointalk thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=950309.msg12260764#msg12260764
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The Ether Review #4: Augur
November 7th, 2015 by Arthur S. Falls Tony Sakich and Joey Krug of the Augur project join Jarad and Arthur to discus the decentralized prediction market and the challenges of marketing in the Dapp sphere.
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The Crypto Show: Karaokonomist Bob Murphy, and Roger Stone, Author of 'The Clintons' War on Women'
November 6th, 2015 by TheCryptoShow Dr. Robert Murphy discusses Austrian economics and the recent flux in Bitcoin price, as well as his new book Choice. Then we talk to Roger Stone and Robert Morrow, the authors of the book The Clintons' War on Women.
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The Bitcoin Game #29: Bitcoin Journalist Brian Cohen
November 5th, 2015 by
Rob Hello, welcome to episode 29 of The Bitcoin Game. I'm Rob Mitchell.
I first became acquainted with Bitcoin journalist Brian Cohen in mid-2014, as we were both active on the then-new Let’s Talk Bitcoin platform. I saw he was doing some fairly serious Bitcoin journalism. Soon after I launched this podcast, I reached out to Brian for an interview. It took a year for us to finally connect, but I finally spoke to the man who digs up a lot of...
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SAFE Crossroads Podcast #23 SAFE School, Class VI, Autonomous, Really?
November 4th, 2015 by John Ferguson In this Episode
In Class VI of SAFE Network School, we round out a deeper view of the remaining component factors necessary to establishing and maintaining the SAFE Network as an autonomous entity.
We've come far pilgrims, and through the heaviest going--hopefully--but there is more to come. So take time to really let everything we've covered so far sink in. Put in some time going over it all a time or two more, if you can. It will help as you go forward.
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EB103 - Emin Gün Sirer & Ittay Eyal: Bitcoin-NG, Scientists Versus The Church
November 2nd, 2015 by Epicenter One of the concerns confronting the Bitcoin community is that of scaling the transaction throughput rate: How do we go from the current rate of approx. 5 transactions per second to a thousand times that?
In this episode, we talk to Emin Gun Sirer and Ittay Eyal from Cornell University regarding Bitcoin NG; a next generation Bitcoin blockchain design that addresses some protocol based limitations preventing Bitcoin from increasing transaction throughput.
Their proposal also enables fast (in...
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