The Bitcoin Podcast

MakerDAO has built a token that is reasonably stable with the USD. We have the great pleasure of interviewing Nik Kunkel, Head of Backend Services at Maker. In this Part 1 of 2 on Maker, we talk about the cryptoeconomics behind creating a stable token pegged to the USD. It's essential to understand this before getting into the technicals found in Part 2 of 2 (next episode, #48). This is compelling work, and truly amazing how well it's standing against the throes of the fluctuating markets.

The 3 Amigos of Crypto dive into more of the depth that you're used to with them. They go into discuss some scaling issues and what potential affects they can have on cyrptocurrency in general. Also...Coinstar is expanding, is this a sign that adoption to non-crypto GPPs is starting to take hold. Fergulati gets on his high horse about the failure to launch approach to trying to make a blockchain that can do "all the things". Ray Redacted swings by to discuss a perfect opportunity to HODL+, a 120% gain on the BTC price on a 90-day roll! Enjoy!

Lucian covers Avalanche, Homomorphic Hashing, the steps in Eth 2.0, and Parity's work with light clients.

We read Cyrptocurrency headlines. It used to be kind of serious...but only kind of. Now, we mainly try to take the news seriously because it is kind of redundant and have fun in that attempt. Welcome to the best crypto show you're going to hear for the rest of your life. You're welcome.

In this Episode, Dee on-ramps Terra. Terra works as an apprentice at a theater. She was curious about bitcoin and different cryptocurrencies and had some questions that needed answering. Where does bitcoin come from? What makes it a currency? What gives it value?

In Episode 37 of The Bull Pen Podcast, The Crypto Bully steps back into the Bull Pen with Bitcoin Ben. Back at it again, Lyndon and Ben can’t help but let the good times roll with a conversation full of jokes, laughter and cryptocurrency. This go around Ben shares his opinions on Craig Wright claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the current market and where he believes it’s headed in the future and what you might find him doing 25 years from now. And of course, they couldn’t go a full episode without mentioning Litecoin.

This week Facebook's GlobalCoin is brought into the conversation. The boys discuss the current state of authentication on the internet and how blockchain technology stands to change the process. A caller chimes in to oppose. Another amazing discussion.

We read Cyrptocurrency headlines. It used to be kind of serious...but only kind of. Now, we mainly try to take the news seriously because it is kind of redundant and have fun in that attempt. Welcome to the best crypto show you're going to hear for the rest of your life. You're welcome.

We have CTO of Ren, Loong Wang, on to educate us on their token transfer protocol. Ren is building a system that allows a user to transfer a token from one change to another, without the drawbacks found in techniques like atomic swaps. They have a network of "dark nodes" which run on their virtual machine, RenVM, to computer across the transactions and share data over the network. Interesting technology with many use cases!

In Episode 36 of The Bull Pen Podcast, The Crypto Bully steps back into the Bull Pen with Peter Saddington. During Lyndon and Peter’s first chat, in episode 3, Peter shared his viewpoints on regulation, where he thinks crypto will be 5 years from now and all the awesome projects/resources that he and his brother John have and are working on developing. This time around Peter is bringing everyone an official update on how his project Yen.io is doing and everything that is in the works for this awesome platform. Could you imagine similar functionalities from some of your favorite social platforms all rolled into and crypto is thrown into the mix also? Well, this is exactly what Peter and Yen.io are working towards achieving.