The Bitcoin Podcast

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dee have a conversation on the history of creating a P2P bitcoin merchant exchange with Chris Maurice. He’s been boots on the group helping to establish bitcoin dominance in Africa with his firm YellowCard. He breaks down what it takes to build a crypto business in Africa as a humble man from Alabama, his thoughts on growing Handshake in Africa, and how his firm helps to aid in crypto adoption. **Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.**

Support Evan's Week in Ethereum News on GitCoin: https://gitcoin.co/grants/237/week-in-ethereum-news Lucian and Evan Van Ness discuss the new round of GitCoin Grants, their incentive structure and how they deal with sybil attacks. We admire the development effort that has allowed Geth to reduce bandwidth consumption by 75%. Aztec implemented a rollup. Eth 2 phase 0 spec got a security audit. You can now run a Eth node on a Pi4!

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty have a nice long discussion on the future of humanity with Vinay Gupta, CEO and Co-Founder of Mattereum. His firm (after having successfully assisting in launching Ethereum) is building a way to merge legal, real-world contracts, with on-chain smart contracts on Ethereum. His belief is that the digitization of tangible resources will be pivotal in solving some of humanity’s hardest problems — especially those in relation to climate change and resource scarcity. This one is a tad longer than usual, but we couldn’t just tell Vinay to stop talking, his words were too important. It’s a very educational episode — grab a coffee. **Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.**

Dee and Corey talk about the potential of a digital dollar coming to everyone in our very near future courtesy of the US Govt. Then Dee carries over a conversation from last week about Smart Contracts and can Ethereum ever "BE" the stable asset that people need in the finical world. We have a very impressive Guests on this Ep from the Wasabi project, the very best Desktop Wallet for Bitcoin Right Now.

Handshake is a decentralized, permissionless naming protocol where every peer is validating and in charge of managing the root DNS naming zone with the goal of creating an alternative to existing Certificate Authorities and naming systems. Names on the internet (top level domains, social networking handles, etc.) ultimately rely upon centralized actors with full control over a system which are relied upon to be honest, as they are vulnerable to hacking, censorship, and corruption. Handshake aims to experiment with new ways the internet can be more secure, resilient, and socially useful with a peer-to-peer system validated by the network's participants.

Lucian and Evan breath a collective sign of relief as Maker auctions happen uneventfully to re-estabilish the collateralization ratio. Dai is back and hopefully more resilient. Nexus Mutual decides, almost unanimously, that the Maker smart contract functioned as designed, therefore they are not paying out any claims. And Vitalik gives us his version of a roadmap for rolling out Eth 2 features.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Petty sit down with Petty’s fellow co-worker, Dean Eigenmann, from Status. He’s working on building an improved messaging protocol for Status, and is also working on the side on a Swift implementation of the ETH 2.0 Beacon chain. We learn more about Dean, as we go in deep to understand the mind of a real thot leader.

Corey, Dee, and Guest Host Taylor Monahan are here to give you tips needed to Work From Home. Taylor gives insight on the Ethereum ecosystem and particular what is happening in the Eth mining market. Taylor and Dee go over how Proof-of-Stake is working now and how it may or may notwork in the future. Corey breaks down how the technical aspects of DeFi.

Lucian and Evan join you from their respective isolated locations to discuss the current most pressing matter (in Ethereum), Maker DAO's recent near $0 ETH liquidation auctions which reduced collateral by $8 million. We discuss what happened, what has changed since then, and why we are hopeful that things are going to play out well in the end.

On today's episode, Corey and Collin talk with Truman Esmond, VP of Solutions and Partnerships at the American Association of Insurance Services (AAIS). Why are we talking to insurance folks, you ask? Because they've partnered with IBM to launch the openIDL platform to help aggregate company data while maintaining privacy and compliance. We ask how it works, why they used Hyperledger, and many more details, enjoy!