The Bitcoin Podcast

Another year, another Devcon. This time, we got to roam the streets of Prague, Czech Republic for a week. Who lived up to expectations and who disappointed…and most importantly, which announcements were game changing. Finally, there were also some hints for other improvements to the Ethereum platform that might be coming in the future. We anticipate hearing much more about these in the coming days at Devcon4. Listen now, and wait until the end of the conference for part 2. Like DMX, we gon’ give it to ya.

In Episode 10 of The Bull Pen Podcast, The Crypto Bully steps into the Bull Pen with Preston Junger. This individual has an impressive corporate background that includes working with Fortune 500 companies such as Yahoo, Apple and worked as the VP of Brand Partnerships for Yelp. Preston talks about his transition into blockchain/crypto and life post Yelp, about his team “the blockchain squad,” what projects his company Miles Square Labs looks to work with and a few thoughts on community based crypto projects.

As Chair of the Advisory Board and Co-founder of iDisclose, Georgia Quinn assists entrepreneurs and small and startup businesses access capital and other resources they need in order to grow and prosper. She also is on the General Counsel at Coinlist, which is building the platform where the best digital asset companies run their token sales. Their customers are at the center of the digital asset and blockchain ecosystem. Georgia, and Amy Wan discuss recent securities law updates and more.

It has been YEARS since we last spoke to these two and we thought it was time for an update from the Equibit Group. Blockchain technology holds incredible promise for the financial industry. For the first time it’s now possible to create real-time, highly robust transfer and settlement systems that current services simply cannot compete with. The securities industry is, like the banking industry, filled with centralized intermediaries that clear and settle transactions, handle shareholder communications, and other labor-intensive work. These expensive tasks can now be replaced with peer-to-peer technologies that bring the costs of performing this work down dramatically. That's right, people! Issuing companies, dealers, and investors will all benefit significantly from cutting away this part of their overhead. We dive into all this and more!

So you have a decentralize app you want to use... how do you know its smart contracts are safe? That's where Panvala comes in! Using their system you can certify the security and authenticity of your smart contracts and obtain a mark in proof of this certification. On this episode we talk with its co-founder, Niran Babalola, about their smart contract registry and certification system. We learn of its process, development, and larger implications. We learn what it takes to get from zero to one in a project that requires community participation to improve the certification process. Links https://www.panvala.com/ https://twitter.com/niran

In Episode 9 of The Bull Pen Podcast, The Crypto Bully steps into the Bull Pen with Preston Junger. This individual has an impressive corporate background that includes working with Fortune 500 companies such as Yahoo, Apple and worked as the VP of Brand Partnerships for Yelp. Preston talks about his transition into blockchain/crypto and life post Yelp, about his team “the blockchain squad,” what projects his company Miles Square Labs looks to work with and a few thoughts on community based crypto projects.

Thanks for joining Bijan and Lucian for another episode of Dose of Ether. We discuss Embark as an alternative to Truffle, courses to improve your Solidity skills, the Mastering Ethereum book, Peepeth subsidizing txs for its users, Parity Signer 2.0, and we think over why Bitcoin isn't banned everywhere.

This week, Rene Pickhardt stops by to chat some high-level topics with us. He is a data science consultant, hacker, and a bitcoin & lightning network admirer. In addition, a friend of the podcast, Joe Blau, joins us on the roundtable to talk about counterintuitive marketing insights concerning crypto, the tech behind it, and mass adoption.

This is a weekly headline show where Dee and Jessie Broke do their best to highlight bits of nonce-sense from Crypto News. We only choose three articles for each day from the litany of blockchain news that is syndicated throughout a week. If you are interested in all the news articles that we horde in a week, please visit the link below to look at our collection. This week's topics: -Coinbase adds ZRX token! -Bill Gates + Ripple = Freedom? -Ethereum Foundation is giving out treats and not tricks -Jessie mans the live stream! Enjoy!

oday we talk with Toby Simpson from Fetch. Fetch is a decentralised digital representation of the world in which autonomous software agents perform useful economic work. This means that they can perform tasks, such as delivering data or providing services, and are rewarded with a digital currency for their efforts — the Fetch Token. These agents can be thought of as digital entities: life-forms that are able to make decisions on their own behalf as well as on behalf of their stakeholders (individuals, private enterprises and governments for example). Fetch's digital world is exposed to agents via its Open Economic Framework (OEF) and is underpinned by unique smart ledger technology to deliver high performance, low cost transactions. The ledger delivers useful proof-of-work that builds market intelligence and trust over time — growing the value of the network as it is used. Fetch can be neatly interfaced to existing systems with minimal effort, allowing it to take advantage of the old economy whilst building the new: plug existing data in to Fetch and watch markets spontaneously form from the bottom up. Enjoy! Link: https://fetch.ai/