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Technology and Choice #15 Ryan X. Charles, Working to Give You Yours
March 14th, 2017 by
John Ferguson In this Episode
The hope of Bitcoin enabling fast, frictionless micropayments is one of the promises of the technology that has excited us all. But it's been a long time coming and, especially in Bitcoin, it has seemed a long way off.
Enter Ryan X. Charles and "Yours." Yours is a social media platform that will enable true micropayments that can get everyone that contributes value to the platform to get paid, proportional to the value given. Not a new idea, but Yours is about to prov...
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Technology and Choice #14 LBRY
March 6th, 2017 by
John Ferguson In this Episode
Recently caught up to Jeremy Kauffman, Founder and CEO of LBRY, a protocol and platform for sharing digital content, with incentives for all.
The first part of the show is a replay of an earlier interview form July 2016, because it's hard to improve on for a clear idea of how LBRY is supposed to work.
The last part is the recent interview, where we catch up on how things are going, some of the bumps in the road since July, and projections for the future.
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Technology and Choice #13 The Tech of Hemp, Our Estranged Intimate
February 14th, 2017 by
John Ferguson An "Intimate" is someone or something that is not quite Self, but does not have the feel of Other.
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We're very, very jazzed to be introducing a new series within the Technology and Choice podcast, dedicated to the technology and choices of Cannabis, a plant species which encompasses so very much more than just its psychoactive variety, marijuana.
Co-Host Michael Bright of The Hemp Connoisseur Magazine joins John for this periodic series, to assist in exposing the in...
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SAFE Crossroads Podcast #35, Viv Rajkumar, CTO MaidSafe
February 2nd, 2017 by
John Ferguson In This Episode
Viv Rajkumar is CTO of MaidSafe in Troon, Scotland.
We go into depth about the development process in general, the development experience at MaidSafe, and then catch up on what's been going on with the forward motion of SAFE Network development.
There's quite a lot here, but very accessible.
One thing discussed is the new test net in which community members are back to testing vaults at home, as well as user side experiment. This test network went live between t...
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Technology and Choice #12, Influence Says It All
January 16th, 2017 by
John Ferguson In this Episode
What is the most basic action in the universe? Influence.
Technology is all about better directing influence, whether it be influence on the environment, the materials at hand, electronics, software, or people. And there is a lot of technology on the nature of influence and persuasion amongst people.
In this episode, we look at how influence is the most fundamental action of life, and why it's a good idea to not be ignorant of the technologies of personal and socia...
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Technology and Choice #11, Storj, Shawn Wilkinson
December 7th, 2016 by
John Ferguson In this Episode
Great talk with Shawn Wilkinson, CEO/CTO of Storj Labs, about the Storj network which is about to go live in a very big way in headon competition with Amazon Web Services and the like. Hey, AWS, et al, you will be absorbed. Resistance is futile. App developers, as well as anyone who has some spare hard drive space they'd like to make some money with, should find this an entertaining and informative listen.
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Technology and Choice #10, Value Choice
November 17th, 2016 by
John Ferguson In this Episode
While visiting my friend and associate, Travis Remington, in his home in Utah, we recorded this conversation to give some background on where we are going with our specific business idea, but more broadly, we wanted to open-source our ideas (at least partially for now) on expanding the implementations of cryptocurrency-related tech into the broader environment. In a short phrase? "Tie it all together."
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SAFE Crossroads Podcast #34, What's to Profit? with Nick Lambert
September 26th, 2016 by
John Ferguson In this Episode
Today we have an in-depth visit with Nick Lambert, COO of MaidSafe, covering a lot about where MaidSafe has been, where it's gotten to and where it's going. With the Bank to the Future equity crowd funding pitch in play, we dig in to find out how MaidSafe, as an open source, very altruistically oriented company, is likely to be profitable enough to invest in. This is a very well rounded, very informative coverage of MaidSafe and the SAFE Network, accessible to most anyone ...
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SAFE Crossroads Podcast #33, Alpha Release
August 16th, 2016 by
John Ferguson In this Episode
We have a chat with Francis Brunelle, a returning guest, about the recent Alpha Release of the MaidSafe Client, and a lot more about the state and progress of the SAFE Network project.
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Technology and Choice #09, Ernest Hancock
July 12th, 2016 by
John Ferguson In this Episode
When I was at The Porcupine Freedom Festive in New Hampshire, I had the chance to sit down with Ernest Hancock of Freedom's Phoenix, along with the hosts of another podcast, Liberty Cafe. We had fun. Hope you enjoy it.
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