The Bitcoin Podcast

Welcome to Announcements with Host No. 2, Demetrick Ferguson, a show that provides you details on current events, upcoming projects in the blockchain space, and token offering details. We are attempting to provide you with details and information from the people who are creating projects, and we are not giving advice. Please do proper due diligence when considering investments. Today we talk with Kenneth Colon from Izzy Care. Izzy Care aims to be the uber of concierge medical services. With ambitions to dramatically reduce the cost for for concierge medical services, Izzy Care is leveraging the cost reductions possible with blockchain technology and returning those in the form of services that help more people gain access to low-cost medical care. The Izzy Care App: Everything you need, from getting in contact with your care team to viewing your health records, is right at your fingertips in the Izzy Care App. Izzy, their built-in A.I. assistant, handles all the back office stuff so your care team can focus on what they do best -- caring for you. Izzy can also help you gain further insight into your health via personalized questionnaires and assessments. Your Personal Care Team: Unlimited consultations with your care team, comprised of a board-certified Family Medicine physician, a licensed psychotherapist, and nutrition & wellness coach via encrypted, HIPAA compliant messaging and live video. If need be, your care team can also arrange any necessary 3rd party services such as labs, medications, or specialist care local to you. Whether or not you have insurance, we will work with you to find options that maximize quality and affordability. Enjoy! Link: www.izzycare.org

Today we talk with Shibin Li from ContentBox. ContentBox is empowering a decentralized digital content ecosystem. For over a decade we have witnessed explosive growth of the digital content industry led by a variety of web and mobile content platforms such as Reddit, Youtube and Spotify. It has become an indispensable part of our modern daily life, with audio and video streaming constituting 70% of Internet data traffic. However, the success and fairness of the industry is impeded by several long standing challenges facing creators, consumers, advertisers, and distributors of digital content. ContentBox offers an option for content creators to make more and the centralized digital content platforms to make less. Enjoy! Link: https://contentbox.one/

Welcome to our flashback series where we give you access to archived shows on our feed that are so outdated you can't find it on our feed anymore. With crypto beign so unpredictable, we thought it would be fun for our new listeners to check out episodes of our older content. It's like opening up a time capsule! Originally aired in October 2015, Brock Pierce joined us in the studio. In addition to that we chat about the film DOPE. Does it hurt or help bitcoin? Is it even a good movie?! Also, Demetrick impersonates black celebrities endorsing bitcoin. It’s OK, he’s black too. He can do dat! Holla! OH YEAAAAHHH COMING IN WITH THE ELBOW SMASH!

A set of notes were just released for a revised version of the Casper protocol which merges its goals with sharding research. It uses a beacon chain to behave as a source of randomness with the RANDAO being central to that chain. This enables a commitee of validators to be selected for validating individual shards rather than the entire chain and sign it using BLS signatures. Corey Petty and Collin Cusce discuss these notes and try to suss out what this means for Ethereum if it were implemented. https://notes.ethereum.org/SCIg8AH5SA-O4C1G1LYZHQ?view#Beacon-chain-state-transition-function https://github.com/randao/randao https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.09437.pdf

Back for the third time, Emin stops by to drop some knowledge bombs on us! He is an associate professor of computer science at Cornell University, and is the Co-Director of the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts (IC3) . His research interests span distributed systems, cryptocurrencies, and software infrastructure for large scale services. In addition, the boys chat about EOS mainnet experiencing a ‘Freeze’ two days after launch!

Today we talk with Tayo Dada from Uncloak. Uncloak is the world's first blockchain powered cyber threat solution putting businesses one step ahead of hackers. Uncloak™ is a unique and fully scalable blockchain powered technology that enables businesses to monitor, protect themselves against and eliminate cyber threats, staying one step ahead of the hacker. Uncloak will build its own threat detection database by using advanced AI technology to crawl the public and private internet looking for the latest cyber security threats, which are converted into security signatures and added to the Uncloak threat detection system to check if the vulnerabilities exist across the subscribed client base networks and infrastructure. Where vulnerabilities exist, the end user will be notified immediately so that corrective action can be taken. Enjoy! Link: https://uncloak.io/

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: -A Crypto Beach in South Korea -Lithuania offers Crypto Regulatory Guidelines -Credit Card sized hardware wallets that Jessie hates, and more! Enjoy! Crypto Headline Database: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XDslU2J4ipR9BawjfEAihqTusr4NZqjq4S5ALY8sMJw/edit?usp=sharing

In this episode, we dive into NuCypher. NuCypher is an encryption library for managing key access on decentralized networks. We talk about proxy re-encryption, how access is granted, and the creation of their node network. We also discuss the topic of fully homomorphic encryption and the role of privacy in future decentralized applications.

The gang is back! Corey talks about the Ellicott City flooding and the charity he has set up for it in our name. Please visit https://t.co/4mnjrMdJ4c and donate! Crypto accepted, of course! In addition, we chat about the current state of adoption and Taylor Pearson stops by to chat with us in the studio. He is an author, essayist, and entrepreneur who researches and writes about innovation, productivity and the blockchain.

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 tax havens, philosophy of governance, the fairness of the current tax codes and reparations?!?! Enjoy! Crypto Headline Database: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XDslU2J4ipR9BawjfEAihqTusr4NZqjq4S5ALY8sMJw/edit?usp=sharing