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Jun 20, 2018 • 51min

Episode 30: Open Organizations & Governance with Colony

In this episode, we speak with Jack du Rose and Aron Fischer from Colony about governance and open organizations. Colony is building an infrastructure based on the Ethereum blockchain that aims to revamp the way projects and organizations collaborate, promising to make HR and project management more open, fair and efficient. We discuss different ways in which the ideas around colony could be used to created shared and open organisations, how reputation is built as well as discuss their thougths around the general ideas of governance and some of the biggest challenges this creates. For more about Colony - have a look at their site or follow them on twitter!
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Jun 13, 2018 • 52min

Episode 29: The DAO, the white hat hacker group & Giveth with Griff

In this episode, Griff Green shares his experience of working through The DAO hack, the white hat hacker group & Giveth. Through his telling of this story, we are given a front row seat to one of the most exciting events in ethereum and general blockchain history. These events also set the stage for a lot of the decisions, attitudes, rifts and relationships that have since taken hold - from the emergence of the white hat hacker group, the currency split, to the attitude towards governance and immutibility and the community's attitude towards the very concept of a DAO. The story leads us to Griff's latest project Giveth, an ethereum-based project that aims to bring back some of the most inspiring ideas from the era of the DAO, and applies them towards charitable giving. To get involved with Giveth check out their Riot Channel To hear a bit more about Griff's work check out this video or follow him on twitter HERE
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Jun 6, 2018 • 46min

Episode 28: ETHBuenosAires in review

In this week's episode, we share our interviews from ETHBuenosAires, the 3rd instalment of the ETHGlobal Hackathon series. Through these conversations with the participants, sponsors and organizers, we found out more about the Buenos Aires Blockchain scene, captured the spirit of the ETHGlobal series and learned about some amazing new ideas and hackathon projects This was recorded during the event, but you can watch the winners presenting HERE More links: EthBuenosAires Website & Twitter Kimono Crypto Against Humanity Denode Token Toilet Other projects that were mentioned: http://www.thegraph.com/ All Submissions can be seen here Follow the peeps we interviewed on twitter: https://twitter.com/cryptowanderer https://twitter.com/ethstatus https://twitter.com/licuende https://twitter.com/AragonProject https://twitter.com/MakerDAO https://twitter.com/komodoman https://twitter.com/liamihorne https://twitter.com/nanexcool https://twitter.com/gomox_ar https://twitter.com/crypt0glitter https://twitter.com/pfletcherhill https://twitter.com/eordano
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May 30, 2018 • 48min

Episode 27: Zeppelin and a chat about upgradability

Coming to you from Buenos Aires, we sit down with Demi and Facu from Zeppelin Solutions to talk developer experience, upgradability and how they aim to make running software on blockchains simple, fast and error free. We discuss their products - OpenZeppelin, a framework of reusable smart contracts, and ZeppelinOS, an operating system designed specifically for smart contracts - and how these projects have emerged from their work as auditors on some of the most important projects in the space. They introduce their proposal for upgradability, a method for making some alterations to existing smart contracts without impeding immutability. Here are a few links to find out more: https://zeppelin.solutions/ https://openzeppelin.org/ https://zeppelinos.org/ https://ethernaut.zeppelin.solutions/
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May 23, 2018 • 49min

Episode 26: What and why of eWasm with Lane and Alex

In this episode, we sit down with Lane Rettig and Alex Beregszaszi from the eWasm team at the Ethereum Foundation to talk about WebAssembly (Wasm). We explore why Wasm was chosen as the instruction set of the future for Ethereum, what it means to switch instructions sets and why you would want to go with one over another. We also dig into Wasm specifics and tooling. If you want to learn more about Wasm, check out some of the links below: Official Wasm website eWasm design repo where there are documents discussing the different VMs as well as goals, motivations and design specs of eWasm. K Framework description
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May 16, 2018 • 48min

Episode 25: Storage rent with Phil Daian

In this episode, we catch up with Phil Daian once again to dig deeper into the idea of cryptocommodities and storage rent. Cryptocommodities are defined as the resources used for blockchain transactions - for example blockchain memory or computation (such as Ethereum's gas) - and storage rent is the idea of issuing a payment for use of these resources per unit of time instead of as a one-time fee. We discuss how the storage rent idea is becoming increasingly relevant as blockchain technology becomes more widely adopted, and the challenges in implementing this into existing systems. Phil is a researcher with IC3 and PhD student at Cornell Tech as well as the creator of GasToken and member of Project Chicago. Some links: Phil's site IC3 Cornell Tech Project chicago Gas Token
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May 11, 2018 • 47min

Episode 24: Blockchain UX and the UXUnConf

In this special episode, we share a number of short interviews we did with the participants of the Web3 UX Unconference which followed Edcon last week in Toronto. Featuring Dan Finlay from Metamask, Alex van de Sande from the Ethereum Foundation, Ric Burton from Balance, Philippe Castonguay, Jonny Howle from Uport, Dan Tsui and Bryant Eisenbach, we explore the topic of UX in the blockchain space. Thanks to guest co-host Maciej Hirsz! Find & follow the guests on Twitter: www.twitter.com/danfinlay www.twitter.com/metamask www.twitter.com/avsa www.twitter.com/ethereum www.twitter.com/ricburton www.twitter.com/Balance_io www.twitter.com/PhABCD www.twitter.com/JonnyAustinTX www.twitter.com/uport www.twitter.com/fubuloubu Thanks to @derek_sys & @sdtsui for organising!
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May 3, 2018 • 42min

Episode 23: Blockchain 101: get your full node running!

In this episode, we share an introduction to full nodes. Speaking with the Parity community support lead, Thibaut Sardan, we walk through what it means to set up the Parity Ethereum client, explore what the difference is between this and a light client, help define some of the commonly used language and answer some frequently asked questions. Big thank you to 1kx for inviting us to the Full Node co-working space to record this episode! Links: Parity FAQ Parity UI and Light Wallets
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Apr 26, 2018 • 53min

Episode 22: Developer Education in Blockchain

In this weeks episode, Fredrik and Anna speak with Elias Haase and Rob Hitchens from B9Lab about how a curriculum can be developed to introduce developers to the concepts and languages in the blockchain space. We discuss some of their process, the unique qualities of teaching in this space and how important it is that the people building core infrastructure consider the impact of their decisions on society in the future. Links: B9Lab on Twitter B9Lab Be sure to follow us on twitter @zeroknowedgefm
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Apr 19, 2018 • 42min

Episode 21: Introduction to Zero Knowledge Proofs

In this episode, we kick off the Zero Knowledge Proof series with our very own 'Intro to Zero Knowledge' in which we go through a couple examples that describe the underlying concept of this important field of research. Basically, the Zero Knowledge hosts are talking about Zero Knowledge Proofs on the Zero Knowledge Podcast. It promises to get meta. Links: Where's Waldo example Str4d presenting the Billiard Balls example at ZK0x01 Sudoku ZKP example Eli Ben Sasson presenting STARKs

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