The Bitcoin Podcast

This week we chat a bit about the Bitcoin 'Breakthrough' which claims block size increase is possible without hard fork. Some dub it a "breakthrough," others call it a "network attack." In addition we chat about the Czech Republic (Prague) being at the top in the world with the number of (CryptoATM's per Inhabitants). Oh, and SOulja Boy's new bitcoin song. Spoiler alert: It's garbage! For our guest, we are incredibly excited to welcome Alena Vranova back to the show as Head of Strategy and Business Development for Casa. Alena is best known as the co-founder of SatoshiLabs and Trezor. She served as CEO of SatoshiLabs for 4 years, where they brought the first widely successful bitcoin hardware wallet to market. She is, quite frankly, a legend in the crypto space and we couldn’t be happier to learn from her this episode.

In this episode of Creating a Humanist Blockchain Future, Rhys interview Daniel Schmachtenberger, the co-founder of Neurohacker Collective. They chat about meta existential risk. Enjoy!

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, 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: -Pepe Silvia strikes again. -Venezuela makes the Petro a national currency. -Private keys in DNA...not a terrible idea...not at all. -Jessie wants a lightning round. Enjoy! Crypto Headline Database: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XDslU2J4ipR9BawjfEAihqTusr4NZqjq4S5ALY8sMJw/edit?usp=sharing

Today we have the pleasure of interviewing Iuri Matias of Embark Framework. Embark is a decentralized application framework that abstracts away the implementation details of specific technologies, allowing dapp developers to focus on what really matters, the experience. We talk about the features of Embark, the design decisions of the framework, and how Embark will integrate new technologies into their systems as they develop. Links: - embark.status.im - twitter.com/iurimatias

Thanks for joining Bijan and Lucian for another episode of Dose of Ether. This week we discuss Cartesi with its Truebit style off chain computation Solid from Tim Berners Lee, and Metamask with Ledger and EIP 712. Show Links: https://www.umlivroaberto.org/frozen/techpaper.pdf https://solid.mit.edu/ https://medium.com/metamask/metamask-now-supports-ledger-hardware-wallets-847f4d51546 https://medium.com/metamask/eip712-is-coming-what-to-expect-and-how-to-use-it-bb92fd1a7a26

Cryptocurrency wallet Samourai Wallet has released an update which removes fiat currency balances in a move it says stops users using Bitcoin with a “crutch.” The boys talk about that, among other things and invite Brock Pierce back on the show! It's been a good three years since we joins us for a conversation and we play catch up as we ask him various questions about his stance in this crypto space, and his humanitarian efforts - post Maria. Hurricane Maria was one of the worst natural disasters in US history, devastating the island of Puerto Rico and destroying the entire power grid. Cryptocurrency entrepreneurs have been storming in, promising they have the technology to rebuild. Brock is leading the charge and we get the scoop!

Today Amy has on Howard Marks. Howard Marks is the current CEO and co-founder of StartEngine Crowdfunding. He is also previously the CEO and founder of Acclaim games, and after that the Chairman of Blizzard Entertainment. Howard sets the tone for what the security token industry is looking like today, where it could be going, and what to look for as tokenization of securities becomes commonplace.

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, essentially at random, 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. These Week's topics: -Coinbase has a new listing Framework? -Dee has favorite actors and actresses. -Bitmain is going private. -Broke does a terrible job curating the headlines. Enjoy! Crypto Headline Database: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XDslU2J4ipR9BawjfEAihqTusr4NZqjq4S5ALY8sMJw/edit?usp=sharing

Bijan and Lucian talk about the design of Grid+'s Lattice hardware device, Tezos main net and running "baking" nodes, Loom's NFC token drop and PlasmaChain validators, multi-collateral Dai, and an EIP for storage rental costs.

Anonymity is dead... or so you thought. Marrying the technologies behind onion routing and Monero, the Loki network enables a private cryptocurrency and messaging service that hides information down to the network layer. This fascinating approach scales its privacy mechanism in the same way that Tor does and incentives those who run Loki service nodes through their Proof of Service mechanism. Tools like this keep your transactions and traffic private from any spying eyes and makes it increasingly difficult to leverage your network data as a means to track your activity.