The Bitcoin Podcast

Aqeel and Sarah Mills the Head of Design @ Consensys sit down to do a deep-dive on the nuances of approaching design & creative for decentralized technologies while working with a distributed team. The Web3 / Blockchain eco-system is leading the way for the adoption and acceptance of remote-first work environments, facing new challenges and opportunities for disruption in how we view the role of design. The episode covers a breadth of topics ranging from role of design, design related hiring decisions, education, collaboration tools, challenges in decentralized organizations, managing opportunities, business of design, ROI, team retreats, conflict resolution, and burn-out.

Lucian and Evan cover highlights from Ethereum related news and inadvertently created a list of the top projects of 2019. We cover GitCoin Matching Grants program, Tornado Cash, and MolochDAO. Then we talk about the recent FileCoin testnet launch and we dwell on the system requirements, which are unreasonably high, and how that will impact decentralization by excluding potential participants like us.

Corey and Dee bring back the classic drunken show format for the end of the year 2019 recap. This recap included discussions about Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang, Digital Signatures, a 2019 Prediction coming true, Jamie Bartlett of The Missing Crypto Queen, and more .......

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Dr. Petty join the founders Cameron Robertson (CEO) and Paul Gerhardt (CTO) to discuss what we believe is an innovation in bridging digital money with physical, secure digital hardware. They present us Kong, their digital cash equivalent: possessing the ability to act as a fungible representation of digital money, with a secure element and programmatic expiry which enables extraction of the funds at a future date. It’s a very futuristic idea, and we’re here for it. Come have a listen.

In this episode of The Bitcoin Podcast, Corey and Dee interview Jamie Bartlett. Bartlett presented the tragic story of Onecoin. A ponzi scheme that took advantage of millions of people and resulted in billions of dollars being fraudulently removed from their owners. Dr Ruja Ignatova persuaded millions to join her financial revolution. Then she disappeared. Why? Jamie Bartlett presents a story of greed, deceit and herd madness.

On this Roundtable discussion, Dee and Corey cover the topics of tribalism in crypto space, how the pseudonymity of the internet has broken down communication between people, and the need for the crypto space to develop social immunity. The interview we have is with author and futurists Karl Schroeder of Stealing Worlds.

Lucian and Evan discuss Parity's pivot away from maintaining their Ethereum client. While saddened to see a great team of developers change focus to work on Polkadot, we also are optimistic that the wider blockchain community won't respond to Parity founder's 'call to arms' to initiate 'blockchain wars.' After the 40 min mark we also discuss Saga, a stable coin mirroring a standard IMF basket of currencies. We end on a discussion on EIP1559 which locks ETH in as part of the protocol and eliminates the possibility of economic abstraction, i.e. miners getting paid in other ERC 20 tokens.

This episode Corey and Collin Bring on Lucas Geiger and Zaki Manian to talk about OpenLibra. OpenLibra is a technology platform and currency for financial inclusion, and it is definitely not run by Facebook. We want to figure out what their goals are and how they plan to achieve them. As always we dive in and have an interesting conversation, enjoy!

This Roundtable, Dee, Dr. Corey Petty, Dr. Andy Boyan from the Slack (please join) discuss decentralization vs. centralization and big banks vs. small banks. The most crucial topic discuss can communities' successfully opt-out of the existing financial system. The Interview is with Isabela Bagueros, Executive Director of the Tor Project.

Today's episode we return from a holiday break to discuss an instant messaging proof of concept on the Lightning Network called Whatsat with Sergi Delgado from PISA Research. We talk about how it works, its limitations, what could be built from it. This then leads into specifics about the lightning network itself, and then issues with the broader ecosystem. Enjoy!