The Bitcoin Podcast

Lots of news this week! Litecoin Foundation Acquires 9.9% of Bank in Payments Partnership and Coinbase is adding alts. Which exactly? Well, they are exploring Cardano, Basic Attention Token, Stellar Lumens, Zcash, and 0x. If you’re holding any of those bags, this is probably a swell week for you. In addition, Clay Collins, who is one of the long time internet marketers, joins us this week in the studio. His new startup Nomics.com is aiming to be the Yahoo! Finance for crypto, so we invited him on to geek out. Also, he has his own podcast. Published Every Thursday, Flippening Gives You… Conversations with top analysts and technicians, news roundtables with preeminent crypto journalists and deep dives with fund managers.

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. This week we touch on smart phones with native bitcoin wallets, the lightning network inner-workings, and Jessie claims Dee is racially charged. Enjoy! Crypto Headline Database: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XDslU2J4ipR9BawjfEAihqTusr4NZqjq4S5ALY8sMJw/edit?usp=sharing

Today we talk with Joe Markham of Block66. Block66 is developing a new breed of mortgage lending platform that leverages blockchain technology to increase transparency, streamline the deployment of capital and overcome geographical lending restrictions. Mortgages are now a rich persons' product, the technology in the market is archaic, and many creditworthy people have been left high and dry by risk-averse institutions. By harnessing the power of blockchain technology, Block66 lowers barriers to entry for small-flexible lenders, streamlines origination, and creates new opportunities for borrowers. Enjoy! Link: https://block66.io/

We discuss with Ryan and Kristoffer from FOAM about their protocol which verifies location in a blockchain. Their innovative protocol uses LoRa, blockchain consensus, and a triangulation mechanism called Proof of Location to verify an agents location at a certain point in time. Using their proposed Crypto Spatial Standard, entities can report their location to the blockchain which agent devices known as "anchors" verify for use in consensus applications. Truly amazing technology with massive implications!

Today we talk with Jame and Robbie Ferguson. Fuel Games is a blockchain game production company that is bringing you Etherbots and Gods Unchained. Strategy games built on the Etheruem Blockchain. The world is getting increasingly awesome every day. After raising 2.4 million dollars in a seed round Fuel Games is now going into a token offering for their newest game, Gods Unchained. Enjoy! Link: https://godsunchained.com/

Cello and Dee talk about Devcon4 nonsense, how tickets sell out too quick in 'waves' and other technical oddities. In addition, we chat with Alex Bosworth about Submarine Swaps and the Lightening Network. New papers are being published on a method for applying blind signatures to Bitcoin to achieve highly private transactions. Even though LN is getting a ton of coverage, there are many paths for scalable private transactions that can be developed on their own and even benefit from each other. All this and more!

In this episode of Creating a Humanist Blockchain Future (Soundcloud, Youtube, iTunes) I interview Cheryl Yeoh from #MovingForward and Wendy Xiao Schadeck from NorthzoneVC. We chat about intentionality and diversity in crypto. Dialectics between identity and power, yay! Enjoy! If you’re a crypto hedge fund or VC, you should join #MovingForward! Check it out here: http://venturemovingforward.org/

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. Enjoy! Crypto Headline Database: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XDslU2J4ipR9BawjfEAihqTusr4NZqjq4S5ALY8sMJw/edit?usp=sharing

On this compelling broadcast, we interview Thaer Khawaja, creator of Masari protocol. Masari is an early-stage cryptocurrency which derives its ideas from Monero to provide transaction privacy. Masari has the additional goal of scalability and is developing its own method of partitioning a blockchain called the block tree, which hopes to enable dynamic scaling on the chain. We go over the idea of block tree, some of the challenges it hopes to address, the challenges to be faced on the Masari roadmap, and the motivations behind developing a new coin. https://getmasari.org/ https://github.com/masari-project https://twitter.com/masaricurrency

Today we talk with Jon Fox and Sloane Brakeville. The Fr8 Network is helping solve the final mile. Using lean startup methods like robust hypothesis testing and establishing clear KPIs, Fr8 Network is testing the protocol using the Ethereum platform for final mile shipments. The Fr8 Network team began by analyzing common final mile data and discovering common requirements for arrival windows, acceptance of delivery requirements, transfer of legal ownership of goods, and payment requirements, etc. The team also tracked regulatory requirements when shipping items such as medicine and perishable goods. This ensured the highest cybersecurity was built into transaction processors. The analysis leads to the first instance of the Fr8 Protocol, specifically defined to service the challenges of the final mile. Once the standards were documented, the Fr8 Coordination Platform was built. The first version of the Fr8 Coordination Platform will consist of the Fr8 Board, the Fr8 Cockpit, the Fr8 Browser Extension, the Fr8 Carrier App, and ancillary services. The applications serve as critical tools to complete a reference use case of helping the final mile trucking delivery challenges. Enjoy! Link: https://fr8.network/