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XCP Weekly Update #7 - WOODSHARES and Wallet Genie
July 13th, 2015 by
Robert Ross This weeks episode is sponsored by Tokenly – an open source company building tools to make tokens more useful and usable to everyone
Weekly Update #6:
Robert Ross is a Counterparty Foundation Community Director and the Director of FoldingCoin Inc. Each week Robert and various guests will bring you the news of what has been going on in the Counterparty communities and also touching base on the other Bitcoin 2.0 communities. You can find a compl...
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SovereignBTC #70 Bitcoin Merchants Share their Stories
July 11th, 2015 by
SovereignBTC This episode of SovereignBTC, the first edition taped LIVE in front of a studio audience as part of the Brave New Variety Show, features a panel discussion with Harlan Dietrich of Brave New Books, Michael Cargill of Central Texas Gun Works, and Danny Sessoms of Hill Country Home Improvements. All three entrepreneurs were the first in their industry to start accepting bitcoin. The small business owners share their stories and advice on bitcoin merchant adoption.
[Brave New Books](http://br...
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #229 Experimenting with Streamium and Decentraland
July 11th, 2015 by
Adam B. Levine On Todays Show
Stephanie, Adam and Andreas speak with Manuel and Esteban - Two of the founders at Streamium, an innovative first use of payment channels to enable pay-per-second streaming p2p video and Decentraland, a first step towards blockchains designed to guard the sanctity of virtual ...
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SAFE Crossroads Podcast #7 A Different Perspective
July 8th, 2015 by
John Ferguson In this Episode
In March of this year, an unexpected type of post appeared on the SAFE Network community forum. It was from a teacher with a very unique take on what is being undertaken in Project SAFE, and the effect it was having on a lot of students. This is a very refreshing look to the future, and a shining example of a teacher who knows how to make a difference.
Magic Word
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #228 - Sidechains with Adam Back and Andreas Antonopoulos
July 7th, 2015 by Adam B. Levine On Todays Show
Andreas sits down once again with Father-of-Hashcash Adam Back, this time to deep dive into Sidechain Elements, what it is, how it works and what it means.
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EB86 – William Mougayar: The Business Of Decentralization
July 6th, 2015 by
Epicenter Peter Thiel argued in his book 'Zero to One' that the way to build a great and highly profitable company is to build a monopoly. But with decentralized technologies, there is a real question whether these monopolies can be built or whether the monopolies will end up being publicly owned goods (like Bitcoin) that can't be monetized directly.
William Mougayar, who is an experienced tech executive and angel investor, has been writing extensively about these issues and was one of the investo...
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Bitcoins and Gravy #71 The Bitcoin Trader - Venzen speaks!
July 5th, 2015 by
John Barrett On today's show I travel to the remote coastal village of Krabi in Thailand to speak with Bitcoin Trader Venzen Khaosan. Venzen is a market analyst and trader with over 6 years of experience in stocks, forex and commodities trading. After completing school, he studied anthropology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa and became interested in the pre-14th century Indian Ocean trade routes that connected Southern African Gold supply with South East Asian porcelain and bead industries. This...
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The Tatiana Show with guest Alex Heid: The World of Hackers
July 5th, 2015 by
Tatiana Moroz On The Tatiana Show, host Tatiana Moroz has in in-depth conversation about the fascinating world of hackers with expert guest, Alex Heid.
They cover topics like white hat vs black hat hackers, the role of the hackathon in developing secure and robust systems, and the vulnerabilities of the Tor network and the so-called Dark Web. Alex also discusses the role of the state in "policing" the internet and the implications of the prosecution of Silk Road's Ross Ulbricht.
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XCP Weekly Update #6 - TOPCOIN and Tokenly
July 5th, 2015 by Robert Ross Robert Ross is a Counterparty Foundation Community Director and the Director of FoldingCoin Inc. Each week Robert and various guests will bring you the news of what has been going on in the Counterparty communities and also touching base on the other Bitcoin 2.0 communities. You can find a complete breakdown of everything discussed on this show by going to this XCPassets.org news blog or read the notes below.
I am happy to announ...
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #227 Trezor and More!
July 4th, 2015 by Adam B. Levine On Todays Show
- Matthew Zipkin speaks with Alena Vranova Co-founder at Satoshi Labs about their Trezor Hardware Wallet as well as other innovative projects being created under the umbrella of Satoshi Labs.
Additional Links
- Trezor Hardware Wallet (Use Discount Code LetsTalkBitcoin.com to save & support LTB!)
- Documentation ...
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Leading Equity: Collective Intelligence in the Age of Collaboration
July 3rd, 2015 by
Andy Tudhope Leadership in the Age of Distributed Collaborative Organisations (DCOs). Your idea needs to be tangible, credible, inclusive, and epic.
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The Bitcoin Game # 20 - Transforming to Digital Currency
July 2nd, 2015 by
Rob Hello, welcome to episode 20 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell.
On April 18th, 2015, Los Angeles Bitcoiners were treated to our city’s first Bitcoin conference, called The State Of Digital Money 2015 (or SODM15). I recorded a lot of great content at this conference, and in today’s episode, I bring you the first of these recordings.
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SAFE Crossroads Podcast #6 OFFICIAL UPDATE from MaidSafe
July 1st, 2015 by John Ferguson In this Episode
We're excited to share an interview and update from Nick Lambert, Chief Operating Officer of MaidSafe. A whole lot has been happening at MaidSafe in the last few months, and it's the kind of news a lot of people have been waiting to hear. This is the first "official update" from the MaidSafe team in a long while. Read the full text of the official update at The Ants Are Coming!
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The SAFE Crossroads is now live on Twitter at @S...
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SovereignBTC #69 Derrick Broze on Agorism, Technology, and Bitcoin
June 30th, 2015 by SovereignBTC This episode of the SovereignBTC podcast starts out with John Bush giving his take on the current Greece crisis and why it's important to prepare for a potential collapse. John Bush then interviews Derrick Broze, author and activist, about agorism (revolutionary market anarchism), the state and technology, and how bitcoin enables Derrick to live a more free life.
Check out Derrick's work here:
[Derrick's Contently](http://bit.ly/1Jxv...
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #226 The Unicorn is Exempt
June 30th, 2015 by Adam B. Levine On Todays Show
Stephanie, Adam and Andreas discuss the recently released New York Bitlicense as well as some better definitions from CoinCenter that they might have been a...
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EB85 – Adam Draper: Accelerating 100 Bitcoin Startups With Boost VC
June 29th, 2015 by Epicenter Revolutionary progress doesn't happen without lots of work and in the case of Bitcoin that requires many different startups building technology. Few have contributed to this as much as Silicon Valley based startup accelerator Boost VC, which has been focusing on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency startups since 2013. Focusing exclusively on Bitcoin for an extended time, they've invested in companies such as Blockcypher, Coinprism, Coinjar, Mirror, Snapcard, Zapchain and many others.
Boost VC Foun...
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What Tokens Do & Don't Do (And Why You'd Want One!)
June 29th, 2015 by Adam B. Levine Thinking with Tokens
I’ve been fascinated with the concept of tokens for some time now. Tokens are easy to create application specific cryptocurrencies that borrow the infrastructure of a larger blockchain like Bitcoin, and give many of the same broad, powerful and inexpensive features to purposes that might not warrant its own blockchain, miners, etc.
In order to send a token, you not only need that token but a very small amount of bitcoins. You can think of the bitcoins as a...
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XCP Weekly Update #5 with Robert Ross
June 28th, 2015 by Robert Ross Robert Ross is a Counterparty Foundation Community Director and the Director of FoldingCoin Inc. Each week Robert and various guests will bring you the news of what has been going on in the Counterparty communities and also touching base on the other Bitcoin 2.0 communities. You can find a complete breakdown of everything discussed on this show by going to this XCPassets.org news blog or read the notes below.
Thank you to Daniel...
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New Bitcoin Documentary: 'Ulterior States'
June 28th, 2015 by
Tomer Kantor Producer Tomer "IamSatoshi" Kantor released his new Bitcoin documentary, Ulterior States, on June 27. He writes on his website:
Read MoreUlterior States, an IamSatoshi production, is an argumentative documentary project. The participatory development, production and post ‘guerilla-film-making-methods’, bounced between (non-academic) literature research, video interviews and studio sessions. This investigative process allowed having real-life conversations with with some thought leaders within the Bitcoin ecosystem.
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The Pseudonymous Life #3 — 'Show Me Your Wallet'
June 28th, 2015 by
Disengage
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