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Joey Krug: Augur – A Decentralized Crowdsourced Prediction Market Built on Ethereum
Episode 143
Prediction markets are fascinating financial instruments which have proven to be accurate at making predictions on things like the outcome of elections, geopolitical events and sporting events. But i…
Published on 9 years, 4 months ago
Claire Warren & Scott Farrell: DnA Contracts – Bringing Human Discretion to Smart Contracts
Episode 142
Blockchain smart contracts are self-executing contracts composed of computer code. These programs, which are executed by the entirety of the network, enforce the rules described within the code. Effe…
Published on 9 years, 5 months ago
Ralph Merkle: Revolutionizing Democracy Using DAOs
Episode 141
Legendary scientist and cryptography pioneer Ralph Merkle joined us to discuss his recent paper on DAOs. Merkle examined how the voting mechanisms in today’s democracies are flawed and how a decentra…
Published on 9 years, 5 months ago
Manfred Karrer: Bitsquare – The Decentralized Open-Soure Cryptocurrency-Fiat Exchange
Episode 140
Exchanges are often criticized as a central point of failure of the cryptocurrency space. This isn’t without justification as, in recent years, we have seen a number of exchanges get hacked, robbed, …
Published on 9 years, 5 months ago
Martin Köppelmann: Gnosis – The Ethereum Prediction Market
Episode 139
Few things arouse among free market believers and enthusiasts of decentralization as prediction markets do. By allowing people to bet on any range of outcomes they promise more efficient markets and …
Published on 9 years, 5 months ago
Sergio Lerner: How RSK Will Bring Smart Contracts to Bitcoin
Episode 138
Security researcher and RSK co-founder Sergio Lerner joined us to discuss RSK (also Rootstock), the project to launch a turing-complete smart contract sidechain to Bitcoin. We talked about how he got…
Published on 9 years, 5 months ago
Siân Jones: Regulatory Update – The Brexit, the EU and the DAO
Episode 137
With recent news surrounding The DOA and the Brexit vote causing a stir in the blockchain world and beyond, it seems like a regulatory update is due. So we called up our favorite regulatory affairs s…
Published on 9 years, 6 months ago
Arthur Breitman: Tezos – A Self-Amending Crypto-Ledger
Episode 136
The lack of an explicit governance mechanism has created deep problems for Bitcoin. Ethereum, with the DAO-related soft/hard-fork discussions, may face similar challenges ahead. Yet, already in 2014 …
Published on 9 years, 6 months ago
Stephen Palley: Lawmodynamics – How to Sue a DAO
Episode 135
For many the promise of decentralized applications and DAOs is to be beyond the limitations and rigidity of the existing legal system. There is no question that where DAOs can roam freely, innovation…
Published on 9 years, 6 months ago
Emin Gün Sirer & Vlad Zamfir: On a Rocky DAO
Episode 134
Raising $150m+ through its toke sale, ‘The DAO’ has become the most notable decentralized application to date. The ambitious goal of the project is to form an decentralized organizations that efficie…
Published on 9 years, 6 months ago