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In this episode, we sit down with Taylor Monahan of MyCrypto, to discuss how the project got started and share some customer support horror stories. We also reflect on the challenge of building UX that works for people while maintaining the spirit of decentralization, and finally, where she sees the space developing. Links:Taylor on TwitterMyCryptoSolidity HoneypotsYou can also find the Slither blog post from this week's sponsor Trail of Bits HERE

In this episode, we sit down with Richard Craib from Numerai to talk about crowdsourcing the role of a quant, how Numerai developed and where it is going, Dapp adoption in Ethereum and what it's like to build a hedge fund fulled by a crypto token. He also shares the new project Erasure - a decentralized data marketplace for financial predictions. Follow Richard on TwitterLearn more about Numerai

We finally sit down with Gavin to go through a bit of what Parity has been working on with Polkadot and Substrate. We talk about Polkadot early history and who was involved and where the idea spawned, up to coding practices and where Substrate became a thing.If you want to know more, links below.Meta-link of Polkadot ResourcesSubstrate In A NutshellVitalik Tweet-storm about Sharding History

In this week's episode, we sit down with Henri Pihkala from Streamr to talk p2p messaging and what it means. We cover topics like pubsub, compare it to whisper, talk about the needs of different messaging systems as well as dig into why one would want to decentralize something like this. Finally we take a look at the data marketplace idea that streamr is trying out and what potential use-cases that could have.

In this episode, we are joined by Tomasz Drwięga, a Core Developer at Parity Technologies, to discuss the lifecycle of a transaction on the Ethereum network and how the mempool works. We will be covering the following topics: What a mempool/transaction queue/transaction pool is.How a transaction reaches a mempool and what the mempool does with it. Looking at what causes the CPU increase and delays in the network. What happens when a transaction gets stuck.Gossip.The security properties of the mempool.What a network attack could look like.Here are some additional links and ressources if you want to dig deeper. https://medium.com/blockchannel/life-cycle-of-an-ethereum-transaction-e5c66bae0f6ehttps://blog.infura.io/when-there-are-too-many-pending-transactions-8ec1a88bc87ehttps://etherscan.io/txsPendinghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip_protocolhttps://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Ethereum-Wire-Protocol

In this episode, we chat with Hudson Jameson of the Ethereum Foundation about how he got involved in the space, the EIP process, and the challenges of decision making in the decentralised space.In decentralised communities, decision making and information gathering can be a uniquely difficult endeavor. Using some of the ideas from other open source communities as well as some new concepts emerging specifically for decentralised spaces, the Ethereum core devs are developing new tools to make these decisions more effectively. Follow Hudson on Twitter -> @hudsonjamesonHere was the giant Core Dev Call -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CZ1uO_WxVk

In this episode, we sit down with Mitch Kosowski, director of product at ETHPrize and Andrew Cravenho, project leader at POA Network. We cover ETHPrize's inception and activity, the way that pain points in the community are identified, and the open source block explorer project that POA Network is building with an ETHPrize bounty. ETHPrize developed out of a series of interviews with devs in the community. Unlike traditional grants, ETHPrize aims to use bounties, sub-communities and working groups to tackle specific problems emerging in the ecosystem. ETHPrize is funded by 0x, Status, ECF, CoinbaseWallet and Ethereum Foundation and initialised by Robbie Bent and inspired by the findings in the ETHReport Read more about the open source block explorer - https://medium.com/poa-network/introducing-blockscout-the-ethereum-explorer-86b4ddd9e8a4Here are some additional links:ETHPrize websiteMitch's Twitter contact Andrew's Twitter contactPOA Network website

Jacob Eberhardt, a contributor to the Zokrates project and the Zero Knowledge Proof Toolkit, discusses off-chaining in blockchains, the implementation of Zokrates, benefits of Wasm blockchains and Rust, and different approaches to off-chain computation. They also touch on the adoption of theory into practice and the naming of academic concepts.

Benedikt Bünz, author of Bulletproofs, discusses bulletproofs and verifiable delay functions. Topics covered include the application of bulletproofs in cryptocurrencies, the differences between bulletproofs, SNARKs, and Starks, the importance of privacy in transactions, and the potential use of verifiable delay functions in preventing attacks in blockchains.

In this episode, we speak with Matthew Di Ferrante of the smart contract auditing firm Zero Knowledge Labs about security in the blockchain. Specifically we discuss how he first got interested in security and blockchain technology, some of the cases that have happened in the last few years and how the Ethereum security team responds to a security event. If you want to learn more from Matt you can follow him hereThis week's episode went long, so we are including this link to a bonus piece on governance