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Devcon4 Recap – From HODL to BUIDL
Episode 260
It’s that time of year again, Devcon time! Just as the conference was wrapping up, we sat down at the Prague Congress Center for a Devcon4 recap. Joi…
7 years, 4 months ago
Gavin Wood: Substrate, Polkadot and the Case for On-Chain Governance
Episode 259
From one of the main Ethereum clients, to Polkadot to Substrate; Parity has become exceptional at developing successful open-source blockchain projec…
7 years, 4 months ago
Monica Quaintance: Kadena – Public and Permissioned Blockchains that Scale
Episode 258
We’re joined by Monica Quaintance, Head of Engineering and Adoption at Kadena. While most companies providing enterprise solutions focus primarily on…
7 years, 4 months ago
Kevin Owocki: Gitcoin – Aligning Incentives in Open-Source Development
Episode 257
Building open source software is a collaborative process which relies on good faith and willingness of volunteers. While most of the software we use …
7 years, 4 months ago
Aleksandr Bulkin & Jake Brukhman: CoinFund – Crypto-Investing by Community Building
Episode 256
CoinFund is one of the earliest crypto-funds to have taken shape, forming in early 2016. The fund is well known for running an active Community Slack…
7 years, 4 months ago
Arthur Breitman & Kathleen Breitman: Tezos – The Long Road Towards A Digital Commonwealth
Episode 255
The Tezos whitepaper, published in 2014, anticipated several areas that would become major issues for blockchain networks. Especially around governan…
7 years, 5 months ago
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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 6 months ago