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David Andolfatto: Fedcoin – The Implications of Cryptocurrencies Issued by Central Banks
Episode 83
Many people think of Bitcoin as the ultimate contender against the power of central banks, most importantly the Federal Reserve System. But that is certainly not the only way that cryptocurrencies an…
Published on 10 years, 6 months ago
Mike Hearn: Blocksize Debate at the Breaking Point
Episode 82
Whether the block size should be increased to 20MB has created more controversy than any other question in Bitcoin’s recent history. For some, it is an urgent and necessary step in Bitcoin’s evolutio…
Published on 10 years, 6 months ago
Nathaniel Popper: Digital Gold – The Inside Story of Bitcoin
Episode 81
From the mysterious creation story, to the early development among a small group of cypherpunks, to the emergence of the Silk Road, the collapse of MtGox, to the entry of a tidal wave of VC money and…
Published on 10 years, 7 months ago
Joseph Poon & Tadge Dryja: Scalability and the Lightning Network
Episode 80
Since Gavin Andresen’s proposal to increase the Bitcoin block size, how Bitcoin can scale to accommodate higher transaction volumes has been heatedly debated among developers. One of the most promisi…
Published on 10 years, 7 months ago
Rodolfo Novak: Coinkite and the Feature Factory
Episode 79
Started in May 2013, Coinkite has by now almost advanced to senior citizen status in the short-lived Bitcoin startup space. CEO Rodolfo Novak joined us for a discussion about what drove their initial…
Published on 10 years, 7 months ago
Trent McConaghy: Ascribe – The Internet of Ownership
Episode 78
The idea of using the Bitcoin blockchain to represent and track the ownership of off-chain assets is almost as old as Bitcoin itself. One of the startups that is pursuing this vision is Berlin-based …
Published on 10 years, 7 months ago
Andreas Antonopoulos: Mastering Bitcoin
Episode 77
Few question that educating people about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies is one of the most important and challenging tasks to achieve mass adoption. And perhaps even fewer disagree that there is no one…
Published on 10 years, 7 months ago
Emin Gün Sirer & Ittay Eyal: From Selfish Miners to The Miner’s Dilemma
Episode 76
Bitcoin’s approach to solving the double spending problem is to make a collusion and attack on the network prohibitively expensive. One of the main factors that will determine Bitcoin’s chance of sur…
Published on 10 years, 8 months ago
Paul Brody: Internet of Things and the Democracy of Devices
Episode 75
As the cost of computing continues to plummet, the number of connected devices is increasing dramatically. In the future powerful computing capacity will be in billions of devices ranging from the li…
Published on 10 years, 8 months ago
Robby Dermody: Counterparty – Assets, Dividends and Decentralized Exchange
Episode 74
In the crowded race to become the leading ‘Bitcoin 2.0’ platform, Counterparty has stood out by avoiding fancy crowdsales and instead building a platform that works. The protocol, which sits on top o…
Published on 10 years, 8 months ago