Podcast Episodes

Brock Pierce: From Digital Goods to Digital Currency

Episode 123

We’re joined by , Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, investor and all around emblematic figure of the Bitcoin ecosystem. Brock tells his story, from his early beginning a entrepreneur in his teens, …

Published on 9 years, 9 months ago

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn: Zcash – An Open Financial System with Privacy

Episode 122

For Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn, part of the cypherpunk movement since the early 1990s, the vision of a decentralized financial system that has both openness and privacy has existed since long before Bitcoi…

Published on 9 years, 9 months ago

Jeremy Stephen & Winston Moore: Barbados, Bitcoin and Central Banking

Episode 121

For orthodox Bitcoiners central banks are often seen as the incarnation of evil. But , alas, in the case of two Carribean central banking economists the feeling of reprehension wasn’t reciprocated. W…

Published on 9 years, 9 months ago

Maciej Olpinski: Solving the Economic Mismatch Between Content and Attention

Episode 120

The problem around content monetization is one which content producers are constantly trying to solve. At the core of this problem is a mismatch between supply and demand. Content, which is increasin…

Published on 9 years, 10 months ago

Adam Gibson: A New Kind of Auditing – Cryptographic Proof of Online Accounts

Episode 119

A pioneering feature of Bitcoin is verifiability of transactions: It is designed to enable low-power devices and high end computers alike to be able to verify occurrences on the blockchain.

This obse…

Published on 9 years, 10 months ago

Manu Sporney: W3C – Making Payments a Web Standard

Episode 118

A typical online transaction today isn’t very different from how it was done 25 years ago at the dawn of the Internet. In fact, online payments haven’t changed much at all. When we want to pay for so…

Published on 9 years, 10 months ago

Eric Lombrozo: Upgrading Bitcoin with Segregated Witness

Episode 117

In the midst of the heated blocksize debate one could be forgiven to think that there is very little Bitcoin developers are able to agree on. Yet, when core developer and Blockstream co-founder Piete…

Published on 9 years, 10 months ago

Eli Ben-Sasson: Zero Knowledge Proofs

Episode 116

Zero Knowledge Proofs are methods of providing cryptographic proofs to another party while keeping some information secret. The simple concept of ZKP offer tantalizing possibilities: Banks could prov…

Published on 9 years, 11 months ago

Backfeed – The Social Operating System for Decentralized Organizations

The idea that in the future tokens will play a crucial role in networks and organizations to incentivize decentralized collaboration and reward contribution is not new. It’s the original decentralize…

Published on 9 years, 11 months ago

Vinay Gupta: From Lawyer Capitalism to Programmer Capitalism

Episode 114

Vinay Gupta has been a programmer, 1990s cypherpunk, ‘resilience guru’, Ethereum release coordinator and currently collaborates with Consensys to mainstream smart contract technology. He also invente…

Published on 9 years, 11 months ago