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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 t…
10 years, 6 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 v…
10 years, 7 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 reg…
10 years, 7 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 consume…
10 years, 7 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 decentraliz…
10 years, 7 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 …
10 years, 8 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 vali…
10 years, 8 months ago
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 c…
10 years, 8 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 …
10 years, 8 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 M…
10 years, 9 months ago