On Episode 259...

First, Bruce Fenton shares his concerns about the newly announced Blockchain Alliance project. Then we're joined by Jason Weinstein of the Blockchain Alliance who addresses some of Bruce's questions and introduces the organization and effort. For the second half of the show, we listen in as Josh Cincinatti of Blockcypher talks about the cause, impact,...

On Episode 258...

Stephanie, Andreas and Adam, talk about the first Sidechain, called 'Liquid' coming early next year from the Blockstream team that aims to prevent future gox-like events by creating an almost voting-pools like multi-sig protected, bitcoin escrow'ing structure tying together different exchanges for liquidity and stability purposes.

Then they get into the recent Bitcoin Malleability issue that first had headlines in the aftermath of the MtGox calamity and has recent re-emerged on the network in force. Adam explains his mis-understanding of the issue and how he's dealing with it at Tokenly and Andreas corrects his misconceptions and puts things into perspective.

On Todays Show

• Adam, Stephanie and Andreas talk about a recent story out of Greece, where if at all Bitcoin can provide solutions and the malaise of modern reality.

Source Article: Keep Talking Greece

On Today's Show

We're zooming in on two projects that are keeping things simple with the idea that once you've solved the basic problems you can do all of the fun stuff. As technology enthusiasts we love the fun stuff, but even more we love projects actually getting to the people who can prove their value (or not!).

• Adam speaks with the founder of Joystream.co, a Bittorrent Client with a built-in bitcoin wallet that uses Payment Channels to let Downloaders pay Uploaders using market-based pricing.
• Matthew digs into the Bitmarkets project with founder Steve for an in-depth look at the choices they've made and why they make sense. This is a great interview. I'm very interested in this project and its ethos after hearing this interview.

On Todays Show

• Adam, Stephanie and Andreas sit down for an hour of discussion on the recent government supported launch of Monetas in Tunisian Post Offices.

• They talk about how Bitpay continues to knock down the reasons why you wouldn't use bitcoin in a brick-and-mortar retail situation

• Andreas explains the new dimension of programmability coming to the Bitcoin Blockchain with BIP65 (OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY) and BIP112 (CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY)

On Today's Show

We're at the recent "Scaling Bitcoin" conference for another one. This time we'll catch up on the day 2 roundtables covering Payment Channels, Collaboration, The challenges of China, Non-Currency Applications and more.

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On Today's Show

We're at the recent "Scaling Bitcoin" conference where we sit in on two sessions of interest.

• First, it's a fireside chat with open source communities Anthropologist Gabriella Coleman who shares her take on debian, apache, anonymous and of course Bitcoin.
• Then, we listen in as each conference working group checks in at the end of day one with their findings, successes and not-yet successes.
• Stay tuned for a chance to win one of the first limited edition LTB collectable cards, usable in the Spells of Genesis game!

On Today's Show

• Adam catches up with Chris and Peter, founders of the peer reviewed, academic, cryptocurrency focused Ledger Journal which is now accepting submissions and aims to publish its first issue in Spring 2016

On Today's Show

• Adam sits down with Chris Odom aka Fellow Traveler, founder of the long-in-development OpenTransactions project and until recently an active founder at Monetas. Most recently, Chris has founded a company called Stash

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On Today's Show

We sit in on the Q&A panel from Blockstack Summit NYC 2015, a one-day technical event at NYU for developers of decentralized applications.

The panel was moderated by Princeton Professor JP Singh, featuring Albert Wenger, partner at USV; Jalak Jobanputra, founder of Future/Perfect Ventures; Naval Ravikant, co-founder of AngelList; and William Mougayar, founder of Startup Management.

This recording was provided by John Light

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