While most altcoins are getting slaughtered, LTC shines propelled higher by Litepay and a new fork. Bitcoin continues its gains as well but stopped short of a new rally. Bitcoin Higher but Stops Short of New Rally Bitcoin prices traded even higher si...
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P2P Connects Us - Episode 5
October 29th, 2014 by
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On today's show we're going to be talking about Uber's image problem, the use of sidechains to upgrade Bitcoin, digital identity and the Windhover Principles, and last but certainly not least, Tantiana Moroz joins the show to tell us all about TatianaCoin.
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P2P Connects Us - Episode 4
October 17th, 2014 by
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On today's episode we're going to be talking about San Francisco's new home sharing law, Firechat's new Verified Names feature, Syncthing joins the Indie ecosystem, Wall Street Journal promotes a decentralized internet, and last but certainly not least, Greg Slepak of DNSchain and Okturtles joins the show to talk about P2P identity technology.P2P Connects Us “PCUSPONSOR” token auction
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The Yin and Yang of Cryptocurrency
October 15th, 2014 by
John Light In the fall of 2008, a credit crunch led to a deep recession following the bankruptcies of several large financial institutions. There are many perspectives on the causes of these events, but the effects are clear: multi-trillion dollar bailouts for the large investment banks which held “toxic” sub-prime mortgage-backed securities, housing foreclosures for the sub-prime borrowers, and widespread un- or under-employment ... Read More -
Trust-Controlled Access
October 11th, 2014 by
John Light Following on the same ideas Adam B. Levine discussed on P2P Connects Us around Token Controlled Access/Viewpoint, I got an idea for using Ripple's "trust line" feature to offer a similar, but different, model of access control.
What Is A Trust Line?
In Ripple, users can explicitly express "trust" to other users using a trust line. These trust lines are denominated with an amount and a 3-letter currency code. The purpose is to ensure that users never get stuck with a currency they don't trust (e.g. GoxBTC), or an amount of currency that is more t... Read More
P2P Connects Us - Episode 3
October 9th, 2014 by
John Light Today we’re going to be talking about the spread of 3D printing technology, Stellar’s network outage post-mortem, the UK government’s review of the P2P economy, sharing economy snitches sing praises about their victims, and last but certainly not least, Bryan Vu joins the show to tell us all about the Coinshuffle protocol.
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Shapeways announces 20,000 online shops
P2P Connects Us - Episode 2
September 28th, 2014 by
John Light On today’s episode, we’re going to be talking about Uber’s new political strategy, California Public Utilities Commission’s ire with Transportation Network Companies, BitTorrent opens Bleep Alpha to the public, the Ripple vs Stellar debate, and last but certainly not least, sharepreneur Chelsea Rustrum joins the show to tell us about life in the sharing economy.
P.S. The magic word is tricky in this one, you'll have to read between the lines to find it!Read More
P2P Connects Us - Episode 1
September 26th, 2014 by
John Light On today’s episode, we’re going to be talking about Uber’s explosive growth, Coinbase’s expansion into Europe and exciting partner announcement, the Bank of England embraces cryptocurrency, and last but certainly not least, David Schwartz of Ripple Labs joins the show to tell us about consensus and the Ripple Protocol.
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P2P Connects Us - The Pilot Episode
September 5th, 2014 by
John Light Welcome to the pilot episode of the P2P Connects Us podcast. I'm your host, John Light, and today we're going to be talking about life in the sharing economy, Lyft and Uber face off with, or I should say bend over for the California State legislature, Airbnb squatter vacates peacefully, OpenBazaar enters the beta stage, and last but certainly not least, Adam B Levine joins the show to tell us about LTBcoin.
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Life in the sharing economy
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July 10th, 2014 by
John Light On the Viability of Altcoins
May 28th, 2014 by
John Light In a recent Twitter exchange, several people I follow made various arguments as to why “appcoins,” a variation of altcoins, are “economically unsustainable,” “fraudulent investments,” and, my personal favorite, “anti-currencies.”
Ad-hominems aside, before we get too far off into the woods addressing the arguments against altcoins, it's worth defining our terms. In his post “The Coming Demise of Altcoins,”Read More




















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