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Bitcoin Ecosystem with Andr...

08.16.2019

Andreas M. Antonopoulos is the author of several books about cryptocurrency engineering, including Mastering Bitcoin and Mastering Ethereum. In these books, Andreas lays out the systems of economics and computer science that underpin the two most mature decentralized monetary systems. ...

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08.16.2019 Bitcoin Ecosystem with Andreas M. Antonopoulos Andreas M. Antonopoulos is the author of several books about cryptocurrency engineering, including Mastering Bitcoin and Mastering Ethereum. In these books, Andreas lays out the systems of economics and computer science that underpin the two most mature decentralized monetary systems. ...
04.03.2019 Stablecoins with Rune Christensen Upcoming events: A Conversation with Haseeb Qureshi at Cloudflare on April 3, 2019 FindCollabs Hackathon at App Academy on April 6, 2019 A currency can fulfill numerous financial use cases. One use case is store of value: currency holders can ...
03.13.2019 Cryptojacking: Bitcoin Malware with Estaban Vargas Malware is malicious software that makes money for the creator of that software. Malware can appear onto a user’s computer if that user visits a malicious website or installs malicious software by accident. There are many types of malware. Spyware ...
03.05.2019 Ethereum Usability with Sean Li Cryptocurrencies enable a large number of applications. Trustless reputation systems, decentralized identity tools, micropayments, non-fungible Internet items, borderless currencies, just to name a few. But cryptocurrencies have not yet impacted daily life, for most of us. Why is that? One ...
02.15.2019 Ethsimple: Ethereum Tools with Brian Soule Ethereum allows developers to run decentralized applications. But the tooling for building and managing those decentralized applications is immature. Experienced software engineers have difficulty getting started with writing Ethereum applications because the stack of tools is so unfamiliar and different ...
12.05.2018 Bitcoin Payment Channels with Alex Bosworth The Bitcoin main chain is a large distributed ledger of transactions. Bitcoin is useful for maintaining a trusted record of payments, but is not practical for small day-to-day payments. Bitcoin payment channels allow users to issue small payments to each ...
11.26.2018 Parity: Blockchain Infrastructure with Gavin Wood Parity is a company that builds blockchain infrastructure. Parity has built several open source projects and works with enterprises to put blockchain technology in production. Gavin Wood is the founder of Parity, and he joins the show to talk about ...
10.26.2018 Blockchain Distribution Network with Aleksandar Kuzmanovic Cryptocurrencies are not very usable today. The main use cases for cryptocurrencies today are store of value (somewhat like gold) and speculation. One reason that the use cases are so narrow is the problem of scalability. Cryptocurrencies have several scalability ...
08.15.2018 Casa: Crypto Wallet Security with Jameson Lopp Cryptocurrency security is a concern to anyone who has a significant amount of money in the form of Bitcoin, Ethereum, or other crypto assets. Most Bitcoin is held in either a Bitcoin wallet or a Bitcoin bank. Your Bitcoin holdings ...
08.02.2018 Token Types with Felipe Pereira A token is a unit of virtual currency. Most tokens are built on a blockchain-based cryptocurrency platform, such as Ethereum. Building on top of a platform like Ethereum allows these tokens to form their own financial ecosystem while leveraging the ...
06.11.2018 Bitcoin Lightning Network with Jameson Lopp Big blocks or small blocks: this is the fundamental question of Bitcoin scalability. The argument for big blocks is also known as “on-chain scalability.” Under this strategy, each block in the append-only chain of Bitcoin transaction blocks would grow in ...
06.01.2018 Scaling Ethereum with Raul Jordan and Preston Van Loon Cryptocurrency infrastructure is a new form of software. Thousands of developers are submitting transactions to Bitcoin and Ethereum, and this transaction volume tests the scalability of current blockchain implementations. The bottlenecks in scalability lead to slow transaction times and high ...
04.30.2018 Epicenter Cryptocurrencies with Brian Fabian Crain Podcasting about cryptocurrencies is a strange occupation. You get emails all the time from companies doing a token sale that you would never want to be affiliated with. You get angry tweets from anonymous Twitter accounts that are on one ...
04.20.2018 Bitcoin Debates with Roger Ver Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash are two cryptocurrencies with similar properties. But the supporters of each of these Bitcoin versions have strongly divergent opinions on the direction of the Bitcoin project. At the center of this debate is the subject of ...
04.17.2018 Talking Bitcoin with Adam B. Levine Let’s Talk Bitcoin is one of the most popular podcasts about cryptocurrencies. Adam B. Levine started it after three other podcasts he started did not get the traction he had hoped for. Adam parlayed the success of Let’s Talk Bitcoin ...
04.06.2018 IPFS Design with David Dias The Interplanetary File System (IPFS) is a decentralized global, peer-to-peer file system. IPFS combines ideas from BitTorrent, Git, and Bitcoin, creating a new way to store and access objects across the Internet. When you access an object on almost any ...
04.05.2018 Ethereum Governance with Hudson Jameson The Ethereum community started as a small group of dedicated engineers. It has ballooned to thousands of engineers, entrepreneurs and investors, all of whom have a stake in the direction of Ethereum. Ethereum is an open source project, and the ...
04.04.2018 PubSub Infrastructure with Stephen Blum The pubsub pattern allows a developer to create channels, which messages can be written to and read from. Pubsub messaging is useful for multicast messaging–when you want to publish messages from a producer, and have multiple consumers who are subscribed ...
04.03.2018 Gitcoin: Open Source Bounties with Kevin Owocki Most technology companies rely on open source software projects. But open source software projects are often maintained by a group of people that is not affiliated with any particular company. When an open source project develops too much technical debt, ...
04.02.2018 Zcash Design with Sean Bowe Zcash is a payment and consensus system that allows users to transfer money to each other with strong guarantees of privacy. Zcash implements the same core features of Bitcoin, with the added functionality of shielded payments. Shielded payments are private, ...
03.30.2018 ShapeShift with Erik Voorhees “The Federal Reserve System is fraudulent. Whatever its stated purpose, its effective purpose is to create a mechanism of deficit spending by politicians, through the insidious invisible taxation of monetary debasement (aka inflation).” These are the words of Erik Voorhees, ...
03.29.2018 Enterprise Smart Contracts with Marley Gray We sign many different types of contracts throughout our lives. We sign a mortgage to get a loan for a house. When we go to the hospital, we sign a piece of paper that defines how our medical data can ...
03.28.2018 Plasma: Smart Contract Scalability with Christian Reitwiessner Ethereum is a system for running decentralized smart contracts. In the current implementation of Ethereum, every smart contract gets deployed to every full node. Whenever a user wants to call a smart contract, that smart contract gets executed on each ...
03.27.2018 Cryptocurrency Networking with Soumya Basu Soumya Basu is a PhD student at Cornell, where he studies distributed systems problems associated with cryptocurrencies. Soumya is advised by Emin Gun Sirer, a Cornell professor who previously appeared on the show to discuss smart contract security. Soumya joins ...
03.26.2018 Consensus Systems with Ethan Buchman Consensus protocols are used to allow computers to work together. A consensus protocol lets different servers agree on the state of a system. For decades, these protocols have been used to establish consensus among database nodes, application servers, and other ...
03.23.2018 DAO Reflections and Slock.it with Christoph Jentzsch The DAO was a system of smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain that investors put millions of dollars into. Back in May 2016, it was the largest crowdfunding event in history, and we discussed it in detail in a previous ...
03.22.2018 Streamr: Data Streaming Marketplace with Henri Pihkala Data streams about the weather can be used to predict how soybean futures are going to change in price. Satellite data streams can take pictures of the number of cars on the road, and judge how traffic patterns are changing. ...
03.21.2018 Status.im: Ethereum Mobile Browser with Jarrad Hope and Oskar Thoren To use a web application, you probably open a web browser or a mobile app. To access an Ethereum application, many people use an Ethereum browser. In previous episodes, we explored Metamask and Mist, which are Ethereum browsers for the ...
03.20.2018 The Business of Decentralization with Anthony Diiorio Anthony Diiorio was involved with Ethereum since the earliest days. He was one of the first people to see the Ethereum ideas presented by Vitalik Buterin, and he invested deeply in Ethereum–both financially and by helping to establish the early ...
03.19.2018 ShapeShift Operations with Jon ShapeShift A financial exchange is an operationally intensive business. You have customers making a high volume of transactions, your service has to be low latency and highly available, and you are dealing with a lot of money. A cryptocurrency exchange has ...
03.16.2018 Crypto Pump and Dumps with Bruno Skvorc Cryptocurrency speculation has pulled in a large population of people who do not know what they are investing in. If you hear about an investment of $1000 turning into $1M, it’s tempting to get sucked in yourself. For most of ...
03.15.2018 Crypto Bloomberg with Valentin Mihov In the finance industry, many people have a computer on their desk called a Bloomberg terminal. A Bloomberg terminal contains news, stock prices, communication tools, and other features that make it worth a high subscription price. And people in finance ...
03.14.2018 Web3 with Fabian Vogelsteller Most applications today run on a cloud provider like AWS. They are built with a framework like Ruby on Rails. They use a set of APIs like Stripe and Twilio for middleware services. This is the era of “web 2.0.” ...
03.13.2018 Metamask with Dan Finlay Decentralized applications can be built on the Ethereum blockchain. Just as the Bitcoin blockchain is a distributed, append-only ledger of financial transaction history, Ethereum is a distributed, append-only ledger of computational transaction history. New kinds of applications can be built ...
03.12.2018 Monopolies and Proof of Stake with Karl Floersh Decentralized applications might someday offer alternatives to modern monopolies. Uber, Airbnb, Facebook, Amazon—all of these services could be recreated on a decentralized stack of technologies like Ethereum, IPFS, and Golem. Fully decentralized services could be more transparent, cheaper, and more ...
03.09.2018 Proof of Stake with Subhan Nadeem For a decade, Bitcoin’s proof-of-work system has run without disruption. In a proof-of-work scheme, Bitcoin miners compete to solve a cryptographic puzzle associated with a block of transactions. Every ten minutes, all the Bitcoin miner nodes race to be the ...
03.08.2018 How Aragon Manages DAOs with Luis Cuende Humans organize into groups. There are lots of group types: religions, corporations, national governments, state governments, citizenries, clubs, musical bands. Every group has governance. Governance defines the rules, and the ways that rules change. The United States requires citizens to ...
03.07.2018 Smart Contracts with Raine Revere Smart contracts are programs that run on the Ethereum blockchain. A smart contract developer pays Ether to deploy the contract. When a contract is deployed, every full node on the Ethereum blockchain has a copy of the contract code in ...
03.06.2018 Bitcoin’s Future with Joseph Bonneau Joseph Bonneau is co-author of Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies, a popular textbook. At NYU, he works as an assistant professor exploring cryptography and security. His YouTube lessons teaching Bitcoin have hundreds of thousands of views. His material offers clear explanations ...
03.02.2018 Dogecoin with Jackson Palmer Dogecoin was started in 2013 as a joke. Jackson Palmer forked Bitcoin and created his cryptocurrency as a play off the “doge” meme. The currency became popular as a means of reddit users “tipping” each other. If I made a ...
03.01.2018 Blockchain Scalability with Peter Ullrich There are two factors that limit the rate at which transactions are accepted into the Bitcoin blockchain: block time and block size. Block time defines how often a new block is appended onto the blockchain. Block size defines how many ...
02.28.2018 Bitcoin Transactions with Daniel Van Flymen Bitcoin is an immutable, append-only blockchain ledger that reaches consensus through proof-of-work. The contents of the ledger are financial transactions–people sending and receiving Bitcoin currency to each other. Since Bitcoin, there have been other cryptocurrencies that have similar properties–like Ethereum ...
02.07.2018 Tether, Ripple, and Blockchain Reporting with Matt Leising Your friends from college are asking you how to buy Bitcoin. Your mom is emailing you articles about the benefits of decentralized peer-to-peer networks. Your shoe shiner is telling you to buy XRP. It is 2018, and cryptocurrencies have become ...
11.08.2017 OpenBazaar with Brian Hoffman Cryptocurrencies give us a decentralized financial system. OpenBazaar is a decentralized commerce system. A merchant can log onto OpenBazaar and post a listing for an item–for example, a t-shirt that I want to sell for $15. My item listing will ...
10.28.2017 Cryptoeconomics with Vlad Zamfir A cryptocurrency has a distributed ledger called a blockchain. The blockchain keeps track of every transaction that occurs across the cryptocurrency. This blockchain must stay up-to-date and verified–which requires someone in the network to do that validation. Bitcoin and Ethereum ...
10.20.2017 Smart Contract Security with Emin Gün Sirer A smart contract is a program that allows for financial transactions. Smart contracts are usually associated with the Ethereum platform, which has a language called Solidity that makes it easy to program smart contracts. Someday, we will have smart contracts ...
10.12.2017 Blockchain Building with Daniel van Flymen A blockchain is a data structure that provides decentralized, peer-to-peer data distribution. Bitcoin is the most well-known blockchain, but in the next decade we will see many more blockchains. Most listeners probably know that you could just fork the code ...
10.11.2017 Ethereum Platform with Preethi Kasireddy Ethereum is a decentralized transaction-based state machine. Ethereum was designed to make smart contracts more usable for developers. Smart contracts are decentralized programs that usually allow for some a transaction between the owner of the contract and anyone who would ...
10.10.2017 Bitcoin Segwit with Jordan Clifford Visa processes 1,600 transactions per second. PayPal processes 193 transactions per second. Bitcoin processes only 3-4 transactions per second. In order to fulfill the dreams of financial programming–in order to get decentralized, peer-to-peer micropayments–Bitcoin needs a much higher transaction throughput. ...
09.11.2017 DAO Hack with Matt Leising The Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) was a digital form of venture capital. It was an ambitious idea–to provide a new decentralized business model for organizing corporations on top of the Ethereum blockchain. Few people in the crypto community were opposed ...

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Blockchain – Software Engineering Daily episodes:

Bitcoin Ecosystem with Andreas M. Antonopoulos

Stablecoins with Rune Christensen

Cryptojacking: Bitcoin Malware with Estaban Vargas

Ethereum Usability with Sean Li

Ethsimple: Ethereum Tools with Brian Soule

Bitcoin Payment Channels with Alex Bosworth

Parity: Blockchain Infrastructure with Gavin Wood

Blockchain Distribution Network with Aleksandar Kuzmanovic

Casa: Crypto Wallet Security with Jameson Lopp

Token Types with Felipe Pereira

Bitcoin Lightning Network with Jameson Lopp

Scaling Ethereum with Raul Jordan and Preston Van Loon

Epicenter Cryptocurrencies with Brian Fabian Crain

Bitcoin Debates with Roger Ver

Talking Bitcoin with Adam B. Levine

IPFS Design with David Dias

Ethereum Governance with Hudson Jameson

PubSub Infrastructure with Stephen Blum

Gitcoin: Open Source Bounties with Kevin Owocki

Zcash Design with Sean Bowe

ShapeShift with Erik Voorhees

Enterprise Smart Contracts with Marley Gray

Plasma: Smart Contract Scalability with Christian Reitwiessner

Cryptocurrency Networking with Soumya Basu

Consensus Systems with Ethan Buchman

DAO Reflections and Slock.it with Christoph Jentzsch

Streamr: Data Streaming Marketplace with Henri Pihkala

Status.im: Ethereum Mobile Browser with Jarrad Hope and Oskar Thoren

The Business of Decentralization with Anthony Diiorio

ShapeShift Operations with Jon ShapeShift

Crypto Pump and Dumps with Bruno Skvorc

Crypto Bloomberg with Valentin Mihov

Web3 with Fabian Vogelsteller

Metamask with Dan Finlay

Monopolies and Proof of Stake with Karl Floersh

Proof of Stake with Subhan Nadeem

How Aragon Manages DAOs with Luis Cuende

Smart Contracts with Raine Revere

Bitcoin’s Future with Joseph Bonneau

Dogecoin with Jackson Palmer

Blockchain Scalability with Peter Ullrich

Bitcoin Transactions with Daniel Van Flymen

Tether, Ripple, and Blockchain Reporting with Matt Leising

OpenBazaar with Brian Hoffman

Cryptoeconomics with Vlad Zamfir

Smart Contract Security with Emin Gün Sirer

Blockchain Building with Daniel van Flymen

Ethereum Platform with Preethi Kasireddy

Bitcoin Segwit with Jordan Clifford

DAO Hack with Matt Leising

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