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Alex Van de Sande & Nick Johnson: ENS – A Global Naming System for Ethereum
Episode 183
Naming systems are an important component of any networked information system. It’s difficult to imagine how the Internet could have been adopted by the masses had it not been for the Domain Name Sys…
Published on 8 years, 7 months ago
Peter Van Valkenburgh: Towards Sound Bitcoin Policy
Episode 182
Coin Center is a non-profit in Washington DC that focuses on research and advocacy issues facing public blockchain networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Their aim is to protect users and foster innovat…
Published on 8 years, 7 months ago
Carl Bennetts & Jarrad Hope: Status – The Mobile Ethereum Client
Episode 181
The road to mainstream adoption of blockchain technologies is a long one. Although the user experience of wallets has greatly improved since the dark days of command-line only interfaces, decentraliz…
Published on 8 years, 8 months ago
Mano Thanabalan: Otonomos – Simplifying Incorporation and Automating Corporate Governance
Episode 180
Anyone who has ever started a company knows just how tedious that process that can be. Whether it’s establishing a shareholder’s agreement, defining the company’s constitutional structure, raising fu…
Published on 8 years, 8 months ago
Thomas Voegtlin: Blocksize, Bitcoin Unlimited, ASICBoost and Activating SegWit
Episode 179
Years into the great Bitcoin scaling debate no solution is in reach. Neither bigger blocks nor Segregated Witness have anywhere near consensus support. With the conflict escalating, a Bitcoin fork ha…
Published on 8 years, 8 months ago
Gilles Fedak: iExec – Blockchain-Based Fully Distributed Cloud Computing Infrastructure
Episode 178
For decades, science and academia have leveraged distributed computing to solve massive computational problems. Distributed grid computing schemes allow donors to volunteer their desktop computer’s i…
Published on 8 years, 8 months ago
Christian Reitwiessner & Jason Teutsch: TrueBit – Scalable Off-Chain Computations for Ethereum
Episode 177
Bitcoin and Ethereum miners collectively make up what is perhaps the most powerful computational resource in the world. However, mobile phones from the early 2000’s could arguably run more complex op…
Published on 8 years, 9 months ago
Adam B. Levine: Building a Blockchain Podcast Network
Episode 176
In the world of Bitcoin podcast, there is one show which definitely stands out as the longest running, Let’s Talk Bitcoin! In its 4-year history, the show has produced over 320 episodes and expanded …
Published on 8 years, 9 months ago
Miguel Vias: XRP’s Future for Cross-Border Payments
Episode 175
For a long time the native asset of the Ripple network XRP was the cryptocurrency with the second biggest market cap. But with much of the supply controlled by Ripple, it remained surrounded by contr…
Published on 8 years, 9 months ago
Carsten Stöcker: How Blockchains Will Power the Energy Grids of Tomorrow
Episode 174
In the footsteps of the finance industry, the energy sector has been caught by the blockchain fever. Conceived over a century ago, increased usage and an explosion of devices have made energy grids o…
Published on 8 years, 9 months ago