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Dave Collins & Jake Yocom-Piatt:: Decred – A Hybrid Approach to Blockchain Governance
Episode 193
Dave Collins and Jake Yocom-Piatt join us to talk about Decred, a cryptocurrency which introduces an innovative system of community-based governance into its blockchain. Decred implements a hybrid Pr…
Published on 8 years, 5 months ago
Aviv Zohar & Yonatan Sompolinsky: Of Spectre & Ghosts – Radical Ideas to Scale Blockchain Tech
Episode 192
Hebrew University academics Aviv Zohar and Yonatan Sompolinski joined us to discuss their research at the forefront of blockchain technology. We talked about their early proposals for scaling Bitcoin…
Published on 8 years, 5 months ago
Richard Craib: Numerai – A Revolutionary Hedge Fund Built on Blockchain and AI
Episode 191
Numerai Founder Richard Craib joined us to discuss his radical project to build a hedge fund with network effects. Numerai manages its portfolio by giving its data in encrypted form to data scientist…
Published on 8 years, 5 months ago
Erik Voorhees: Prism – The World’s First Portfolio Market Platform
Episode 190
Shapeshift CEO Erik Voorhees joined us to discuss his journey in the industry, the evolution of the decentralized exchange Shapeshift and their latest project Prism. We spent most time diving into th…
Published on 8 years, 6 months ago
Jimmy Song: A Fork in the Road for Bitcoin?
Episode 189
After years of what has seemed like an endless debate, bitcoin may be at a crucial turning point in its relatively short lifetime. The question network scalability has divided the community into seve…
Published on 8 years, 6 months ago
William Mougayar: Unpacking Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) and Token Sales
Episode 188
Token sales, often called Initial Coin Offerings (ICO), are exploding in popularity. Seemingly each week a new record is hit with huge sums being raised by alpha-stage projects in almost no time. Wil…
Published on 8 years, 6 months ago
Alex Leverington & Julian Zawistowski: Golem – The Worldwide Decentralized Supercomputer
Episode 187
With most of the world’s computing power concentrated in Internet companies’ data centers, the Internet has become a very centralized place. The Golem project aims to build the sharing economy of com…
Published on 8 years, 6 months ago
Siân Jones: An Enlightened Approach to Blockchain Regulation in Gibraltar
Episode 186
Our regulatory expert Siân Jones joined us to discuss her work on a regulatory framework for distributed ledger technology (DLT) for Gibraltar. We discuss how the framework differs from other efforts…
Published on 8 years, 6 months ago
Brendan Eich: Brave – Reinventing the Monetization of Content and Attention
Episode 185
The saying goes: if you’re not paying for it, it’s likely that you’re the product. And with the rise of targeted ads, user behavior tracking, and alike, more and more users are turning to ad blocking…
Published on 8 years, 7 months ago
Fred Ehrsam & Trent McConaghy: IPDB – The Interplanetary Database and its Applications in AI
Episode 184
Data is the new oil, and those who control massive amounts of it have a major competitive advantage. That advantage becomes exponential when that data is used to teach artificial intelligence. Compan…
Published on 8 years, 7 months ago