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Olaf Carlson-Wee: Polychain Capital – The Rise of Protocol Tokens
Episode 173
Writing his college thesis on Bitcoin in 2012 and becoming Coinbase’s first employee in 2013, Olaf Carlson-Wee has been at the forefront of cryptocurrency for many years. Recently, he left Coinbase t…
Published on 8 years, 9 months ago
Peter Rizun: A Bitcoin Fee Market Without A Blocksize Limit
Episode 172
With both the Bitcoin Unlimited and Segregated Witness efforts far from reaching majority support and exploding transaction fees, the debate around how to scale Bitcoin continues on. One of the key a…
Published on 8 years, 10 months ago
Vitalik Buterin: DAO Lessons, Casper and Blockchain Interoperability
Episode 171
Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin joined us once again to discuss the state of Ethereum and the efforts to innovate the protocol. We covered the takeaways from the DAO fork, switching to the proof-of-…
Published on 8 years, 10 months ago
Jae Kwon: Cosmos – The Internet of Blockchains
Episode 170
One of the key issues with blockchain networks is the lack of interoperability. In the early days of Bitcoin, blockchain interoperability was far from people’s minds. However, as new networks continu…
Published on 8 years, 10 months ago
Silvio Micali: Algorand – A New Scalable and Secure Approach to Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus
Episode 169
There is no doubt that proof of work, introduced in the Bitcoin white paper, has stood the test of time as a robust and resilient Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus mechanism. However, many issues ma…
Published on 8 years, 10 months ago
Rick Dudley: The Future of Ethreum as a Strongly Typed Proof-of-Stake Blockchain Network
Episode 164
In the last year, blockchain protocols have matured at an exciting pace. Open source projects like Ethereum, the Eris stack and Tendermint are behind much of the experimentation being conducted at le…
Published on 8 years, 11 months ago
Peter Harris: Democratizing the Music Industry with the Streaming Music Cooperative Resonate
Episode 167
After the successful Ethereum crowdfunding campaign, musician and web developer Peter Harris saw a path to creating a fair, decentralized music streaming platform. Out of that Resonate was born. Pete…
Published on 8 years, 11 months ago
Andrew Clifford & G. Andrew Stone: Bitcoin Unlimited
Episode 166
Years into the controversy around how to scale Bitcoin, there have been many challengers to Bitcoin core’s dominance. After XT, Classic and others have faded, Bitcoin Unlimited has been gaining tract…
Published on 8 years, 11 months ago
Wrapping Up The Year and Looking Ahead at What’s to Come
Episode 165
It’s been an eventful year in the blockchain space, for the Epicenter podcast, and its hosts. Brian, Meher and Sebastien look back on 2016 and provide a few personal updates, give their thoughts and …
Published on 8 years, 11 months ago
Ari Juels: Authenticated Data Feeds and Criminal Smart Contracts
Episode 164
Ari Juels, a Professor at Cornell Tech (Jacobs Institute) and former Chief Scientist of RSA, joins us to discuss his work two of his blockchain-related research topics: Authenticated Data Feeds for S…
Published on 9 years ago