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Simon Dixon: How Bank to the Future is Rethinking Finance
Episode 93
Ever since the financial system collapsed in 2007, the call for alternatives has grown louder. Bitcoin itself can be seen as such an alternative. Simon Dixon’s search for a way to put capitalism on a…
Published on 10 years, 4 months ago
Stefan Thomas: Understanding Ripple
Episode 92
In a long-overdue episode, we finally had the chance to dive into one of the most known but poorly understood cryptocurrency/blockchain project: Ripple. Reviled by many in the Bitcoin space, we put a…
Published on 10 years, 4 months ago
Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum Frontier Launch, Scalability and the Road Ahead
Episode 91
Close to two years after the initial whitepaper, the revolutionary Ethereum network has finally launched. The decentralized smart contract platform is, without a doubt, the most exciting cryptocurren…
Published on 10 years, 4 months ago
Dave Hudson: Insights from the Data Mine and Other Adventures Around the Block
Episode 90
Bitcoin mining and the intricate game theory that surround it is a topic that we’ve visited many times. Difficult to grasp in its complexity, it is these dynamics that determine the security of Bitco…
Published on 10 years, 4 months ago
Greg Slepak: The Turtle Crawl Towards Internet Decentralization
Episode 89
Amidst all the discussion of alternative uses of blockchains, it is often forgotten that the very first fork of Bitcoin, Namecoin, pursued a daring vision for a decentralized, censorship-resistant in…
Published on 10 years, 5 months ago
Siân Jones: Bitlicense and the Regulatory Straitjacket
Episode 88
In this episode, we revisited the perennial topic of digital currency regulation with Siân Jones, our regulatory correspondent and founder of the regulation-focused virtual currency consultancy COINS…
Published on 10 years, 5 months ago
John McDonnell: How Bitcoin Will Win Online Payments
Episode 87
Solving the pain points of online payments was the applications that garnered the most attention in Bitcoin’s early days. In recent times, as consumer adoption of Bitcoin payments has been underwhelm…
Published on 10 years, 5 months ago
William Mougayar: The Business of Decentralization
Episode 86
Peter Thiel argued in his book ‘Zero to One’ that the way to build a great and highly profitable company is to build a monopoly. But with decentralized technologies, there is a real question whether …
Published on 10 years, 5 months ago
Adam Draper: Accelerating 100 Bitcoin Startups with Boost VC
Episode 85
Revolutionary progress doesn’t happen without lots of work and in the case of Bitcoin that requires many different startups building technology. Few have contributed to this as much as Silicon Valley…
Published on 10 years, 6 months ago
Tim Swanson: Permissioned Ledgers and the Case for Blockchains Without Bitcoin
Episode 84
One topic that is guaranteed to cause heated discussion among cryptocurrency enthusiasts is the idea that blockchains can be controlled by known validators and function without an underlying cryptocu…
Published on 10 years, 6 months ago