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Dustin Byington, Ethan Buchman & Jae Kwon: Tendermint – Private Modularized Blockchains
Episode 113
As blockchain technologies mature, new protocol specifications are emerging, which take unique approaches to software design and how consensus is achieved. We have talked about Multchain and OpenChai…
Published on 9 years, 11 months ago
Casey Kuhlman: Permissioned Blockchains and Disrupting Industrial Application Design
Episode 112
Permissionable blockchains have gained much attention from enterprise this past year, and specifically, the traditional fiance and FinTech sectors. As new protocols emerge and the technology is matur…
Published on 9 years, 11 months ago
Andrew Miller: The Gas Model and Ethereum’s Economics
Episode 111
Andrew Miller is a computer science PhD student at the University of Maryland who focuses on cryptocurrency. Having gotten involved in Bitcoin in 2011 and focused on cryptocurrencies early in his res…
Published on 10 years ago
James D'Angelo: Satoshi’s Big Mistake and the Centralization of Bitcoin
Episode 110
With over 600,000 views, James D’Angelo’s educational videos at the World Bitcoin Network are among the most popular resources on Bitcoin. Besides his excellent technical explanation, he has also bee…
Published on 10 years ago
Tim Pastoor: Identifi – Rethinking Identity as a Decentralized Web of Trust
Episode 109
Identity is probably one of the most important constructs in our society. In our modern world, protecting one’s identity has become complex, as we no longer rely solely on governments to prove who we…
Published on 10 years ago
The Big Chain Powwow
Episode 108
The Bitcoin and blockchain industry has been through a lot this year. While the Bitcoin price has experienced relative stability, perhaps indicating slow growth, the space has grown into a rich and d…
Published on 10 years ago
Gideon Greenspan: MultiBit – The Blockchain is a New Database Paradigm
Episode 107
Gideon Greenspan, a computer scientist and CEO/Founder of the Israeli startup Coin Sciences, joined us for a discussion of their private blockchain platform MultiChain. Besides diving into the popula…
Published on 10 years, 1 month ago
Christian Decker: Scaling Bitcoin with Duplex Micropayment Channels
Episode 106
Christian Decker is a PhD student at ETH Zurich, where he is currently finishing up the world’s first PhD thesis entirely about Bitcoin. The computer scientist has been part of the Bitcoin community …
Published on 10 years, 1 month ago
Vlad Zamfir: Bringing Ethereum Towards Proof-of-Stake with Casper
Episode 105
With Proof-of-Stake (PoS) a blockchain is secured not by spending an external resource such as electricity but by using value internal to the chain itself. The promise of higher security at a lower c…
Published on 10 years, 1 month ago
Giyom Lebleu: The Gyft of the Blockchain and Improving Prepaid Cards
Episode 104
Businesses with the alleged potential to become the next Google are plentiful in Bitcoin-land, but finding actual commercial success is a lot harder. The best example of a commercial success is gift …
Published on 10 years, 1 month ago