BlockChannel

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dee have a chat with Pedro Gomez, the Founder and developer behind WalletConnect. As Ethereum based accounts and wallets proliferate, standards surrounding how they're accessed, and extended interoperability becomes ever more important. Pedro's effort are to simplify this process for developers of Ethereum wallet's and services, in order to improve the UX across dApps in the ecosystem. 

Show Links:

WalletConnect: https://walletconnect.org

WalletConnect Github: https://github.com/WalletConnect

Intro/Outro Music "SonShine" by Phay: https://soundcloud.com/phayweather/sonshine

Show Sponsor(s):

Amentum: http://amentum.org

Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty sit down with the crypto twitter famous, Ari Paul. Ari is the head honcho at BlockTower capital, and comes from a background of endowment management at the University of Chicago; Ari is a traditional finance nerd turned crypto nerds. We have a solid discussion on some of his perspectives on investing, and Petty and McKie pick his brain for some new insights you might not have heard elsewhere.

Show Links:

BlockTower Site: https://www.blocktower.com

Intro/Outro Music "Learnt Some Jazz Today" by Tesselated: https://soundcloud.com/tessellated/jazz

Show Sponsor(s):

Amentum: http://amentum.org

Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dr. Petty and Dee sit down with Aidan Hyman and Gregory Markou, the CEO and VP of Engineering from Chainsafe. Chainsafe builds tooling, implementations, and infrastructure to help maintain and interoperate major public blockchains. They aim to, overtime, make it much easier to build and deploy DApps on a variety of chains and services, in order to greatly lower the barrier to entry for new developers in crypto. Chainsafe considers themselves a chain agnostic developer tooling house (that loves TypeScript and Go) that's doing their part to ignore developer tribalism, and build robust tooling that aids in scaling the ecosystem (such as ETH 2.0). A must listen for crypto-related developers who also consider themselves chain-agnostic.

Show Links:

Chainsafe Site: https://chainsafe.io

Chainsafe Github: https://github.com/ChainSafe

Intro/Outro Music "Better" by Kelechi: https://soundcloud.com/oddwin/as-long-as-we-are-1

Show Sponsor(s):

Amentum: http://amentum.org

Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty sit down with Kyle Thomas, the CEO from Provide. Provide builds client libraries and APIs to simplify the management of deploying blockchain-based nodes to be used in production and for development. Their firm also has a new arm, called Provide Payments, where they are working on low-cost settlement using Ethereum and state channels. We discuss building for enterprises and gaining their adoption, and what it'll take for us to get there.

Show Links:

Provide Services: http://provide.services

Provide Payments: http://providepayments.com

Intro/Outro Music "As Long As We Are" by Oddwin: https://soundcloud.com/oddwin/as-long-as-we-are-1

Show Sponsor(s):

Amentum: http://amentum.org

Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Dr. Petty are on a mission to get their heads wrapped around what ProgPow is attempting to accomplish as Kristy Minehan assists us in understanding her teams motivations and goals to retrofit Ethereum's hashing algorithm to deter the usage of ASICs, in an attempt to make mining more egalitarian and less reliant on large scale purpose-built hardware. This is a complex subject, and its important we didn't shy away from the hard details. Hopefully this balanced discussion serves as a means to educate the community on any ulterior motives or conflicts of interest to reduce any social contention in the greater community. The audio was left mostly unedited for full transparency.

Show Links:

Ethereum ProgPow EIP: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-1057.md

Intro/Outro Music "Garden" by Grady: https://soundcloud.com/whoinvitedgrady/garden

Show Sponsor(s):

Amentum: http://amentum.org

Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Dr. Petty get to talk to Marcus Martin, CEO of Anchor Digital. His firm is focused keenly on compliance; having worked for a bulk of his career in investment banking, he's seeking to get crypto up to code for regulators and adoption. His platform makes it easy to track your portfolio, exchange trades, tax obligations, and puts it front and center in their Compass dashboard. He breaks down what his vision is, and what they're planning to release following their fundraising. A very insightful look into the regulatory side of things.

Show Links:

Anchor Digital: http://anchordigital.io

Intro/Outro Music "Only One" by Grady: https://soundcloud.com/thisisgrady/only-one-prod-by-whethan-roget-chahayed-3

Show Sponsor(s):

Amentum: http://amentum.org

Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty get to talk to speak to a member of the original Handshake team, Hans Schoenburg. Hans is currently the one managing and building the Handshake faucet that will distribute HNS coins to the open source developers that applied on the platform; he also helped manage and research some of the important topics that pertain to the launch of Handshake's mainnet. We talk about some of the challenges Handshake dealt with, what he learned along the way, the vision for Handshake going forward, and much more. If you've been following the story of Handshake, this is a chapter you don't want to skip!

Show Link(s):

Handshake: http://handshake.org

Intro/Outro Music "Super God Mode" by Angelo Mota: https://soundcloud.com/immaculate-taste/super-god-mode-prod-angelo-mota-1

Show Sponsor(s):

Amentum: http://amentum.org

Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, Mckie and Dr. Petty sit down with Brian Soule, the CEO of HNSimple (ENSToolkit). His team got their start by building tools to make building atop of ENS (the "Ethereum Name Service"), and now with the looming launch of the Handshake mainnet, his team has changed focuses for a bit to help prepare for the launch by building a native mobile client. Come relax with us and get another valuable peek into the mind of another developer building on Handshake, there's much to learn.

Show Link(s):

HNSimple: http://ENSToolkit.org

Intro/Outro Music "Don't Fuck It Up" by Kelechi: https://soundcloud.com/kelechief/dont-fuck-it-up

Show Sponsor(s):

Amentum: http://amentum.org

Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, Mckie and Dee sit down with Sean Kilgarriff, the CEO of Urkel.io. With the impending launch of the Handshake public blockchain, Sean's team has been building the essential tooling and infrastructure the HNS community and developers will need at launch. After launching a block explorer, and the HNS Alliance, they'll soon add API services, desktop wallets, and other open source tools; they're poised to help Handshake get the jumpstart it needs. Come learn how his team plans to position itself to be a huge value add to the HNS community.

Show Link(s):

Urkel: http://Urkel.io

HNS Alliance: http://HNSAlliance.org

Intro/Outro Music "Long Distance" by Alec King: https://soundcloud.com/alecking13/longdistance

Show Sponsor(s):

Amentum: http://amentum.org

Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, Mckie, Dee and Dr. Petty finally get a chance to sit down with Preethi Kasireddy. Preethi, a crypto-native and CEO and Founder of TruStory (and former Coinbase/a16Z employee), sits down to fill us in on her storied background while watching crypto mature over the years. She also breaks down her technical and architectural decisions as to why she opted to build atop of Cosmos; come enjoy while we listen to her wax poetic on her next big project in the opener of Season Freedom.

Show Link(s):

TruStory: http://trustory.io

Intro/Outro Music "Keep it Real" by Alec King: https://soundcloud.com/alecking13/keepitreal

Show Sponsor(s):

Amentum: http://amentum.org

Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.