BlockChannel

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Dr. Petty are joined by John Lilic of ConsenSys. John's role has been busy working to proliferate their vision for Ethereum everywhere, all over the globe across various enterprise sectors. They've been very successful thus far (have you seen the price of ETH? lol jk); so John fills us in our their vision for ensuring as the Ethereum ecosystem matures, no one is left behind. Very eye opening discussion on just how far ConsenSys is going to embed Ethereum, everywhere.

Show Links(s):

ConsenSys: http://consensys.com

Intro/Outro Music "Coffee" by Masego/Medasin: https://soundcloud.com/officialmedasin/coffee-ft-masego

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On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Dr. Petty put on their hella skeptical caps, and sit down with Galen and Curtis from the Urbit project. Urbit claims/seeks to be a “virtual land in the clouds” that will enable siloed, encapsulated computing environments for users. They believe in a new type of digital freedom; and even the mere mention of freedom gets our American blood boiling with excitement, so of course had to chat and get an in-depth breakdown into crazy new adventure they’re embarking on. Confused? We were, but we’re onboard now. Hopefully you will be too.

Show Links:

Urbit Website: https://www.urbit.org/

Urbit Blog: https://www.urbit.org/blog/

Ethereum: http://ethereum.org

Intro/Outro Music "The Feeling" by Aaron London & Boadi: https://soundcloud.com/boadimusic/the-feeling-prod-by-aaron-london-boadi-1

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Gnosis Prediction Market: http://gnosis.pm

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Dr. Petty finally get a chance to have a chat with Jarrad Hope and Carl Bennetts of Status. After many reschedules due to their non-stop hustling the past few months since the announcement of their project -- we got the scoop. We get an inside look into how Jarrad and Carl met, insights on the projects, and their vision for the platform in the future. Messaging applications are all the rage lately, and by embedding decentralization applications (DApps) into the heart of the experience, you get whole new type of platform -- and we think that's going to game changing for Ethereum.

Show Links:

Status.im: https://status.im

Status Blog: https://blog.status.im/

Status Slack: http://slack.status.im/

Into/Outro Music "You Really Helped Me" by Faruhdey: https://soundcloud.com/faruhdey/you-really-helped-me?in=faruhdey/sets/shirley

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Gnosis Prediction Market: http://gnosis.pm

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dee & Dr. Petty are joined by Jake Brukhman of Coinfund. Jake is a crypto nerd (an honorable title) with a mission to bring sound investment practices to interested investors/technologists/tech junkies like yourself. He walks us through his credentials, then breaks down his plans for CoinFund going forward; as well as his personal perspectives for the future of the crypto space.

Show Links:

CoinFund Website: http://coinfund.io

CoinFund Blog: https://blog.coinfund.io/coinfund-2016-year-in-review-3a24f8ec43de

Intro/Outro Music “Have to Go” by Faruhdey: https://soundcloud.com/faruhdey/have-to-go?in=faruhdey/sets/shirley

Show Sponsor(s):

Gnosis: http://gnosis.pm

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Dr. Petty sit down with Shawn Wilkinson of Storj. Storj is a decentralized cloud storage provider that was created back in 2014. Since its inception, Storj has been hard at work on creating "cloud farms" of user submitted disk storage, where individuals who "rent' out their additional disk space can receive monetary incentives for supporting the network. Originally built on XCP (Counterparty), Storj now plans to make a migration away from the now abandoned project (XCP is platform created originally on the bitcoin blockchain), and move their token and service over to Ethereum, to leverage its smart contracting capabilities, and reduced fees.

Show Link(s):

Storj: http://storj.io

Ethereum: http://ethereum.org

CounterParty: http://counterparty.io/

Swarm: http://swarm-gateways.net/bzz:/theswarm.eth/

Intro/Outro Music "Wait Luther by Faruhdey: https://soundcloud.com/faruhdey/wait-luther-outro?in=faruhdey/sets/shirley

Show Sponsor(s):

Gnosis PM: http://gnosis.pm

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Dr. Petty are joined by Richard Craib. Richard is the mind behind “Numerai”; an AI-based hedge fund that feeds off of data science and machine-learning modeling. Models that are used on Numerai for algorithmic trading are submitted by users (Data Scientists) on the platform, where they are rewarded “Numeraire” tokens for successful modeling. Numeraire is not a currency in itself; the tokens are used for Data Scientists to essentially “bet” on their own machine learning models and how well they’d actually perform on a live market with real money. This form of “staking” allows the scientist to essentially receive a dividend of sorts for their successful modeling. As the success of Numerai grows, so will the overall proportion off funds being paid of to data scientists.

This project is made possible my utilizing the Ethereum public chain; we believe it’s a ground-breaking concept, one that hopefully is replicated across other hard sciences. Dive in and keep an open-mind!

Show Links:

Numerai:https://numer.ai/about

Numeraire Token Info:

https://numer.ai/whitepaper.pdf

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/ai-hedge-fund-created-new-currency-make-wall-street-work-like-open-source/

Augur:https://augur.net

Intro/Outro Music “Comeback” by Umai: https://soundcloud.com/thebaygerian/comeback-1?in=thebaygerian/sets/next-day-heir

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Cryptodex: https://www.cryptodex.io

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee, and Dr. Petty sit down with Vlad Zamfir in their studio (not really, but if ETH keeps going up, maybe). The topic of the show revolves around Vlad Zamfir, his background, brief history -- and discussions around his research for the Ethereum Foundation for Proof of Stake. Vlad also shares his thoughts on the current scaling debate occurring in Bitcoin, and his opinions on PoW (spoilers: he doesn't like).

Show Links:

Ethereum Foundation: https://www.ethereum.org/foundation

Vlad's Blog: https://medium.com/@Vlad_Zamfir

Vlad's Twitter:https://twitter.com/VladZamfir

Intro/Outro Music "C'est La Via" by Umai: https://soundcloud.com/thebaygerian/cest-la-vie

Show Sponsor(s):

CryptoDex: https://www.cryptodex.io/

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Petty interview Ryan Shea, Co-Founder of Blockstack. Blockstack is a decentralized web browsing experience brought to you by the power of blockchain technology. Ryan and his other Co-Founder, Muneeb Ali, both share a vision of a decentralized web; one where individuals control the data that encapsulates their private identities. Learn how they plan to create this system with Blockstack, and how they grew to begin this great venture.

Show Links:

Blockstack: http://blockstack.org

Blockstack Slack: http://chat.blockstack.org/

Ethereum Name Service (ENS): http://ens.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html

Intro/Outro Music by Umai: https://soundcloud.com/thebaygerian/002-chief-umeh-x-typicalshit

Show Sponsor(s):

Cryptodex: http://cryptodex.io

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee, and Petty speak with George Li and Patrick Long of WeTrust.io in this jam packed double-header. George and Patrick fill us in on their impressive educational backgrounds, where their idea for WeTrust originated from, their upcoming token launch, P2P lending, and much more. If you're curious how P2P technologies like Ethereum can enable next generation low-cost financial services, this is the episode for you. And, if it's not, it should be.

Show Links:

WeTrust: http://WeTrust.io

WeTrust ROSCA Product Demo: https://rosca.wetrust.io/

Colu: https://www.colu.com/

MetaMask: https://metamask.io/

Intro/Outro Music "Forecast" by Umai: https://soundcloud.com/thebaygerian/forecast-prod-by-ayok-kids?in=thebaygerian/sets/trill-oasis

Show Sponsor(s):

Cryptodex: http://cryptodex.io

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dee sit down with Vaughn McKenzie of Jaak.io. Jaak is an upcoming content and media rights management platform built on top of various Ethereum technologies. Vaughn believes technology to more adeptly get creators paid for the digital works is a major need for the entertainment industry. Listen as he tells us his first ventures in entrepreneurship, his vision for smart content, and Jaak.io in the future.

Show Links:

Jaak.io Newsletter: http://jaak.io

Swarm: https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/12/15/swarm-alpha-public-pilot-basics-swarm/

Jaak META: https://cointelegraph.com/news/jaak-announces-meta-decentralized-network-backed-by-ethereum-and-swarm

Colony: https://colony.io/

Intro/Outro Music "Be" by UMAI: https://soundcloud.com/thebaygerian/chief-umeh-be-prod-tc8to

Show Sponsor(s):

CryptoDex: https://www.cryptodex.io/