Blockchain – Software Engineering Daily

Blockchain – Software Engineering Daily episodes:

• 11.10.2021

  #FREEZUCK | ?masked…?… !(DOCTORS)!!

  Software Engineering Daily invites Owen Frank Davis, Paul Davis, Kyle Davis, and Robbie Davis for a joint interview on the subject of reproduction and teething, as well as Lisch fascitis. Aledade and Kubernetes are both inconsiderate ideas for navigation. They...

  
• 08.24.2021

  Cloud Blockchains: The Google of Blockchain with Nader Dabit

  Google uses automated programs called spiders, or crawlers, to index and rank web pages. Then, when a user searches for something, it uses a special algorithm to determine the order of results to display (howstuffworks). This process, of course, applies...

  
• 08.18.2021

  Unstoppable Domains: Blockchain Domains with Matthew Gould

  Domain names are the address of your website that people type into the browser URL bar. Once purchased, a domain name is stored on your behalf by custodians like Google domains. Blockchain domains, on the other hand, are similar to...

  
• 08.03.2021

  Hedera Hashgraph: Proof-of-Stake Public Networks with Leemon Baird

  Blockchain protocols like Bitcoin and Ethereum have changed the cyber world dramatically in the last decade. They’ve created communities of like-minded developers, generated new financial markets, and popularized “decentralization” in computer networks. However, they require large resources to operate which...

  
• 06.21.2021

  Dark Forest: Transparency on Blockchains with Zero-Knowledge Proofs with Brian Gu

  Complete information games are games where every player has information about the game sequence, strategies, and payoffs throughout gameplay. Playing chess, for example, relies on knowing the location of every piece everywhere on the board. In an incomplete information game...

  
• 06.18.2021

  Spacemesh: A New Consensus Protocol Anton Learner

  Proof of Work cryptocurrency mining, as used on the Ethereum and Bitcoin blockchains, requires huge amounts of energy to validate transactions and generate new tokens. The alternative, Proof of Stake, needs large deposits of assets to be staked up front...

  
• 06.14.2021

  Coinbase React Native: Building the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem with Brent Walter and Jacob Thornton

  Coinbase is a very popular and well trusted cryptocurrency platform for buying and selling digital assets like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many more. With Coinbase you can manage your portfolio of cryptocurrencies in 1 place like you would for other investments....

  
• 06.02.2021

  Polygon: Connecting Ethereum Compatible Blockchain Networks with Denis Ermolin

  Platforms like Ethereum have billions of dollars of market cap and large developer communities. However, it is still a challenge to build widely adopted DApps on it because of current limitations. Blockchain Proof of Work transactions are typically slow, and...

  
• 05.18.2021

  Skynet Labs: Decentralized Internet with Matthew Sevey

  The company Skynet Labs provides an open protocol for hosting data and web applications on the decentralized web. Skynet allows for decentralized, censorship-resistant, highly redundant storage and applications that are available around the globe. Developers don’t pay for their application’s...

  
• 04.21.2021

  Uniswap: Creating Liquidity in DeFi with Noah Zinsmeister

  A liquid market enables individuals or groups to quickly buy and sell assets. Decentralized platforms can struggle to execute trades when their platform does not have much liquidity for a specific token. Newer tokens or tokens with limited supply are...

  
• 04.20.2021

  Showtime: Crypto Art and NFTs with Alex Masmejean

  Non-fungible tokens are proofs of authenticity that are stored on a blockchain. Unlike fungible tokens, such as cryptocurrencies which are interchangeable, non-fungible tokens aren’t inherently equivalent to any other token. Because they are unique, they can be used to represent...

  
• 04.19.2021

  Synthetix: Derivatives Trading in DeFi with Justin Moses

  Volatility is the degree of fluctuation of something’s price. Highly volatile assets may see rapid and large price changes, while less volatile assets will maintain a steady price. This concept is important in decentralized finance because cryptocurrencies tend to be...

  
• 04.17.2021

  1inch Exchange: Decentralized Exchange Aggregation with Anton Bukov

  A decentralized exchange, usually referred to as a DEX, is a platform for exchanging cryptocurrencies. Depending on trading volume for different coins, some DEXs are more liquid than others. On the one hand you can freely swap unlisted tokens and...

  
• 04.14.2021

  Compound: Cryptocurrency Interest Rates with Jared Flatow

  Decentralized applications, termed “dApps,” are applications that feel like normal apps but are actually deployed (mostly) on the Ethereum blockchain. This means dApps can’t be taken down, can’t be censored or blocked, typically use Ethereum accounts as identity, and would...

  
• 04.09.2021

  OPYN: DeFi Options Trading with Aparna Krishnan

  A ‘token’ can represent almost anything in Ethereum, according to Ethereum.org: Lottery tickets, points in an online platform, fiat currency, and much more. These tokens must follow a standard called ECR-20 to have the same type and value of any...

  
• 04.08.2021

  AAVE: Liquidity Protocol with Ernesto Boado

  In decentralized finance (DeFi) a liquidity pool is a collection of cryptocurrency funds created from the deposits of many users and usually multiple different currencies. There are 2 main types of pools: custodial and non-custodial. Custodial pools are controlled by...

  
• 04.07.2021

  Chainlink: Connecting Smart Contracts to External Data with Sergey Nazarov

  A smart contract contains the “terms” of a blockchain transaction between a buyer and a seller as well as the capabilities to execute those terms. In order for smart contracts to include outside data from the world, such as stock...

  
• 04.01.2021

  dYdX: Crypto Trading with Antonio Juliano

  Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Dogecoin are electronic currencies with a complete transaction history stored on a blockchain. A cryptocurrency blockchain is a linear record of all the transactions between users for a given currency. This record is public and distributed...

  
• 02.18.2021

  Augur: Ethereum Prediction Markets with Joey Krug

  Prediction Markets provide an exchange for trading based on the outcome of events. Most prediction markets are centralized- they operate like a casino, where betting takes place under the supervision of one central governing organization. This makes the market less...

  
• 02.10.2021

  Reach: DApp Programming Gateway with Chris Swenor and Jay McCarthy

  Blockchain technology has a wide variety of potential applications. Fields such as finance, supply chain management, and even voting have seen innovations driven by the development of distributed applications built on blockchains, called DApps. However, developing a DApp on a...

  
• 02.25.2020

  Decentralized Finance with Tom Schmidt

  Cryptocurrencies today serve two purposes: store of value and speculation.  The application infrastructure that has been built around cryptocurrency is mostly to support these use cases. At some point in the future, perhaps cryptocurrencies can be used as a global...

  
• 01.22.2020

  DFINITY: The Internet Computer with Dominic Williams

  If the Internet was reimagined with the software and hardware infrastructure we have today, what would it look like? That is the question that DFINITY is working on answering. DFINITY’s goal is to build a decentralized, secure Internet computer. DFINITY...

  
• 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. When...

  
• 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...