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Allen Day: Google’s Mission to Provide Open Datasets for Public Blockchains
Episode 254
Public blockchains produce enormous amounts of data. In theory, anyone can access the raw contents of transaction and blocks. In practice, however, q…
7 years, 3 months ago
Angela C. Walch: The Case for Treating Developers as Fiduciaries in Public Blockchains
Episode 253
The expectation has become widespread that blockchains will end up underpinning major societal infrastructures. The narrative in the blockchain space…
7 years, 3 months ago
Ralph Merkle: Revolutionizing Democracy Using DAOs (rebroadcast)
Episode 252
Legendary scientist and cryptography pioneer Ralph Merkle joined us to discuss his recent paper on DAOs. Merkle examined how the voting mechanisms in…
7 years, 3 months ago
Glen Weyl: Radical Markets – Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
Episode 251
The rise of populism and increasing inequality have led to widespread questioning of democracy and capitalism. Glen Weyl, a political economist and P…
7 years, 4 months ago
Clement Lessage & Federico Ast: Kleros – Crowdsourced Arbitration for Blockchain Applications
Episode 250
Dispute resolution is the process by which contracting parties settle disagreements. Whether in the form of litigation, arbitration, or other means o…
7 years, 4 months ago
Ryan Zurrer: Polychain – A Crypto Hedge Fund Success Story
Episode 249
We are joined by Ryan Zurrer, Principal and Venture partner, at Polychain capital. Polychain capital is a breakout crypto hedge fund with over $100 m…
7 years, 4 months ago
Uri Klarman: bloXroute – Layer-0 Scaling with the Blockchain Distribution Network
Episode 248
Until now, proposals to improve blockchain scalability have addressed the problem in one of two ways. One seeks to increase efficiency by optimizing …
7 years, 4 months ago
Ryan Selkis: Messari – Bringing Transparency and Self-Regulation to the Blockchain Industry
Episode 247
Since he started blogging as Two Bit Idiot in 2013, Ryan Selkis has been both industry insider and industry critic. Consistently calling out excesses…
7 years, 5 months ago
Guy Zyskind: Enigma – Providing Scalable Privacy-Preservation to Smart Contacts
Episode 246
Privacy and scalability are arguably the most challenging issues blockchains face. Scalable privacy-preserving state machines are inherently difficul…
7 years, 5 months ago
Martin Becze: Primea – The Next-Generation Blockchain Operating System
Episode 245
Martin Becze is a researcher at Dfinity working on a next-generation “Blockchain Operating System” called Primea – a continuation of his work on the …
7 years, 5 months ago