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Emin Gün Sirer & Ittay Eyal: Bitcoin-NG – Scientists Versus the Church
Episode 103
One of the concerns confronting the Bitcoin community is that of scaling the transaction throughput rate: How do we go from the current rate of approx. 5 transactions per second to a thousand times t…
Published on 10 years, 1 month ago
Flavien Charlon: Openchain – Centralized Digital Assets Without Blockchains or Consensus
Episode 102
Among the dividing themes in the Bitcoin space is the idea of public versus private blockchains. While some argue that private and permissioned blockchains can offer better scalability and lower late…
Published on 10 years, 2 months ago
Muneeb Ali & Ryan Shea: Onename – Bringing Decentralization to Identity with Blockchain ID
Episode 101
A brilliant fact about crypto-economic blockchains is that they enable the construction of naming systems that transcend limits imposed by Zooko’s triangle. Traditional naming systems such as human n…
Published on 10 years, 2 months ago
Juan Benet: IPFS – Decentralizing the Web with the Inter-Planetary File System
Episode 100
We’ve made it to episode 100! Our guest for our celebratory episode is Juan Benet, inventor of the Inter-Planetary File System and founder of Protocol Labs. IPFS is a distributed file system that see…
Published on 10 years, 2 months ago
Esteban Ordano & Manuel Aráoz: Streamium – Pay-Per-Second Video Streaming for Indie Producers
Episode 99
One of the key innovations of Bitcoin is the ability to easily implement payment channels. A number of use cases have been discussed or demonstrated, among which is the idea of pay-per-use. This is p…
Published on 10 years, 2 months ago
Robin Hanson: Futarchy – Prediction Markets and the Challenge of Disruptive Technology
Episode 98
When invented the concept of prediction markets almost thirty years ago, he felt he had stumbled on a concept with huge implications. By allowing people to bet on the likelihood of future events, pre…
Published on 10 years, 3 months ago
Paul Sztorc: Truthcoin & Prediction Markets – From Information-Overload to Crowd Intelligence
Episode 97
Prediction markets are considered one of the most promising applications of blockchain technology. Although the concept and some early implementations have existed for years, decentralized prediction…
Published on 10 years, 3 months ago
John Clippinger: Developing a Social Ecosystem of Trusted, Self-Healing Digital Institutions
Episode 96
It is often said that technology is neutral. It’s certainly commonplace for Bitcoin to be thought of as such. In reality, technologies may be characterized as an embodiment of human intention, and th…
Published on 10 years, 3 months ago
Adam Back: Why Bitcoin Needs a Measured Approach to Scaling
Episode 95
As the debate about forks, the blocksize and decision making in Bitcoin continues, we are joined by Adam Back. Adam is best known for his invention hash-cash which became one of the fundamental build…
Published on 10 years, 3 months ago
Gavin Andresen: On the Blocksize and Bitcoin’s Governance
Episode 94
As the debate about the blocksize continues to roar through the Bitcoin community, Gavin Andresen joins us to take a step back and ask the big questions: How should these decisions be made in the fir…
Published on 10 years, 4 months ago