crypto gossip

Peter, Dale and Scott are in the studio for this ep, extending the 'grown up' theme with a new decentralised bitcoin/crypto exchanged called BitSquare. They read thru the whitepaper and discuss how this exchange differs from existing centralised crypto currency exchanges.

And other centralised projects like the one that Peter Todd discovered was intending to force miners into collecting personal data, quite sneaky we thought. We also looked at how AI is joining the battle with the blockchain in a Skry manner. These types of projects aim to not only de-anonymize, but to effectively censor bitcoin transactions.

Julian Smith our legendary guru of all matters technical and generally incomprehensible briefed us on his latest project *blockFreight*. Now this is a game changer and we'll be updating the progress as this business unfolds.

In closing off we covered a few things happening at the newly scrubbed up and looking damned cool Technology Center for melbourne's knowledge week. Although a 'celebrity' hasn't quite firmed up his skype in, we're ready for him to feature on the event space wall :)

Put in your earplugs, relax and enjoy the chat!

MUSIC:

Shoemaker, Do the Right Thing https://allihoopa.com/s/UaNkNSAO

JimmyY, Amazing https://allihoopa.com/s/vNNppiX6

Mocean, Berlin Blade 99 https://allihoopa.com/s/lwQ5NU4t

Mocean, MJ - Phunk 99 https://allihoopa.com/s/2IzQdO3A

Shoemaker, Lions Den https://allihoopa.com/s/RDkIZjjv

LINKS:

https://petertodd.org/2016/mit-chainanchor-bribing-miners-to-regulate-bitcoin

https://bitsquare.io/bitsquare.pdf

https://skry.tech/

http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/arts-and-culture/events-partnerships/melbourne-knowledge-week/whats-on/Pages/whats-on.aspx

Voteflux: http://www.meetup.com/FluxSydney/events/230138091/

ethereum workshops: http://www.meetup.com/mbtcenter/events/230482561/

Talk and Trade (Informal, all things bitcoin and crypto): http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinMelbourne/events/qllcclyvhbgb/

In the Blockchain Imaginarium, Dale and Scott discuss and imagine the future of #blockchain technologies.

In this, our third episode, we chat with @LovelyCorrine about whether the sex industry has parallels with the blockchain, it is after all a decentralised network based on trust - and agreements. Can the blockchain learn from this age old industry, or will the this tech provide the sex industry with more than just automated sex robots??

Shove your earbuds in to hear salacious discussion filled with fetishes... and politics.

Music:

allihoopa.com/s/YSKp3HJT Nofane by autoban

allihoopa.com/s/E9voh2Bu Brainwave by Djorkaeff

allihoopa.com/s/4FD1mm45 Experimental by jacobckessler

allihoopa.com/s/cXyw3Az1 001 unrabel by twbeatz

allihoopa.com/s/H7tyl5sR 8 bit rain by vargrstorm

Intro/Outro:

allihoopa.com/s/xrTkE8tS Mowo! Electro Swing Builder 2 by mocean99

Know any Melbourne musicians who would like a bit of exposure to a new audience? We're looking for music to use in the show. Hit us up on twitter @cryptogoss, @drsplot or @MADinMelbourne or all three if you're really keen :)

Warwick, Peter and Dale do their due diligence and get down and dirty with the scams rocking Australia's media this week.

iGot got their name (deservedly) smeared by ABC, Australia's national broadcaster affectionately known as Aunty. Of course the message got messed up and some people were left thinking that there is indeed somebody who "runs bitcoin". Mainstream just don't get it, so Cryptogoss set them straight! Well, as straight

as we could with another acronym wielding usurper claiming to represent the industry and lead bitcoin down Australia's regulatory path. Who is ADCCA anyway??

There are rumours that Craig Wright is proving himself true to his

surname with yet another lead that he *could* be outing himself as Satoshi in London. Gavin and Co have stringent tests for him to pass, will he pass the test, and what will it mean for Bitcoin?

This episode boils down to many people are making up stories and running with headlines. Information is a gamble - who can you trust anymore in this proof-less world? Oh, and we touch on those panama papers too... they could be the hack of the year :)

Music

124BPM-Deep by Willscore https://allihoopa.com/s/ACcTz8IH

RipSquad by Sliipii https://allihoopa.com/s/FOhV5qaU

BoxingBears is my business by BrewmeisterBean https://allihoopa.com/s/YNgnTY0M

LA to Des Moines The Wellpennies https://allihoopa.com/s/M7GFR1nF

Sadroid by Sliipii https://allihoopa.com/s/hwruhA4G

Jugu Pyta by Sliipii https://allihoopa.com/s/YKaMfr64

Links

Craig Wright the big reveal

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/03/31/2158024/craig-wrights-upcoming-big-reveal/

iGot robbed http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2015/s4441330.htm

ADCCA who? http://adcca.org.au/

http://www.coindesk.com/trade-groups-unite-to-launch-blockchain-forum/

Ethereum: http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinMelbourne/events/229407753/

Talk and Trade http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinMelbourne/events/230361904/

VoteFlux http://www.meetup.com/FluxSydney/events/230138091/

Melbourne Knowledge Week

http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/news-and-media/Pages/melbourne-knowledge-week-program-released.aspx

http://www.meetup.com/Third-Place/events/229803113/

In the Blockchain Imaginarium, Dale and Scott discuss and imagine the future of #blockchain technologies.

In this, our second episode, we discuss the Panama Papers, Flux (voteflux.org), Tesla Model 3 and electric vehicle charging using smart contracts, ZeroNet (for open, free and uncensorable websites, using Bitcoin cryptography and BitTorrent network) and the decentralised Ebay competitor that has just been launched, OpenBazaar.

For those playing at home, this is what a trillion dollars looks like in $100 notes:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nKG1HvaIfNE/VS28KMkp_tI/AAAAAAAABNc/lmLbCWJ8H-c/s1600/one%2Btrillion.gif

And this is $15 trillion ... so about double this amount is socked away in accounts related to the Panama Papers:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pFfq-UtZstY/T_o2Ii4AE9I/AAAAAAAAAlA/V8cFd0Vig_o/s1600/15+trillion+dollars+in+100s.jpg

... enough to fill a good sized skyscraper with paper money.

music:

https://soundcloud.com/djleo/dragnetbounce Dragnetbounce - djleo

https://allihoopa.com/s/JtewkOS2 Block-Rockin' Bling - Pendagram

https://allihoopa.com/s/Vp8XlWIm Get It! -djphatjive remix- djphatjive with figurefreak

https://allihoopa.com/s/7sMqfeET Celestial Drifter rmx - autoban

Intro/Outro:

https://allihoopa.com/s/xrTkE8tS Mowo! Electro Swing Builder 2 - mocean99

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/04/06/3766982/next-apple-tesla-model-3-presales/ Tesla3

https://voteflux.org/ Voteflux

http://www.meetup.com/FluxSydney/events/230138091/ come to the Melbourne event (via their Sydney page)

Peter and Dale introduce Scott Philips aka Dr. Splot in this episode to give you more of an idea of who he is and why he's another important asset in MBTC's space.

Julian Smith also joins us with BitPay's adaptive solution to the block debate. He provides evidence for why he thinks this approach makes sense - we're leaving it for you to do your homework and decide for yourself.

Our headlines cover some very basics, RichardBranson has declared Bitcoin is working... and Blythe the Masters of our wonderful GFC has also added her 2c into this equation so we thought we better make mention of these 'facts'. We are way more excited that one of Australia's Big4 banks has come to their senses and written a decent article on why Bitcoin IS important.

There is a hack of the week this time round, we discuss why crooks socially engineering corruption are giving Bitcoin a bad reputation.

Enjoy!

music:

Opening with the Shoemaker:

https://allihoopa.com/s/SjrtDNxc Even more please

https://allihoopa.com/s/Fnht0S76 Mystique

https://allihoopa.com/s/itBmdW6S Catwoman

and, from Figurefreak:

https://allihoopa.com/s/JZnZFXpa Artistic License

https://allihoopa.com/s/iTOgfKWo Here I will get you started

https://allihoopa.com/s/CrfGSTFZ SK Landing

Links:

Australia is Ideal Testing Ground for Blockchain-Based Trading, Says Blythe Masters

http://www.coinspeaker.com/2016/03/22/australia-is-ideal-testing-ground-for-blockchain-based-trading-says-blythe-masters/

Counterparty's Chris DeRose Calls Ethereum "100% Hype and No Substance"

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/chris-derose-ethereum-hype-no-substance/

Drag and Drop smart contract scripting for Ethereum:

http://etherscripter.com/

"Banks need to integrate with Bitcoin, now". (Yes, WE AGREE) Max Tannahill, ANZ's Business Change and Implementation Manager, blogs about BITCOIN rather than the BLOCKCHAIN.

http://linkis.com/bluenotes.anz.com/po/S8fA3

The whole point of this imaginarium is for me, Dale, and Dr Splott of Melbourne's Bitcoin Technology Center (mbtc) to discuss and imagine the future of #blockchain technologies. We'll be talking about existing projects and then stretching those ideas out to the universe and back with probabilities that we imagine will rock the world, from Melbourne the supernode of all things crypto.

In this first episode we cover the very basics - what is the blockchain, how does it work? What does #ProofOfWork mean? Why is it a trustless system? How does ethereum fit in? Why is it secure? Can this technology be hacked?

We didn't really get to imagine very much at all in the first episode, or talk any of the projects that are already causing headlines (even though Dale tried numerous times to #SlockIt into the conversation).. DrSplot is adamant people comprehend the very very basics, so that we did.

Next ep we'll s t r e t c h the imagination, we promise :)

Links we spoke about:

Ethereum Workshop at MBTC: http://www.meetup.com/mbtcenter/events/229405065/

ANZ Article: https://bluenotes.anz.com/posts/2016/03/the-case-for-bitcoin/

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

Cell411: http://safearx.com/

The Robots Are Coming: www.the-robots-are-coming.com

Thanks to our fabulous musicians:

mocean99: https://allihoopa.com/s/xrTkE8tS

DJBasqo: https://allihoopa.com/s/A4fQiMUe

sliipii: https://allihoopa.com/s/pF2Zuqzt

theshoemaker: https://allihoopa.com/s/Vey2bJh8

figurefreak: https://allihoopa.com/s/iXjRVwza

Katherine Noall (mbtc’s favourite RMIT University lecturer) dropped into the studio to catch Peter, Dale and Warwick up on her European bitcoin blockchain tour. A rich conversation with many questions, we talked about why bitcoin vending machines (BTMs) are disappearing, and touched on some of the projects taking their place. It sounds like letting go of the machines has allowed for some ingenuity to shine through.

Stepping into negative interest rates is a first for the world and we discussed some of the implications and why major corporations would still trust banks with holding their hard earned untransparent digital cash.

Is that glee you hear when she shares her disappointment with London’s blockchain conference? Listen in and decide for yourself :)

We touched on a few major headlines to conclude this episode, and agreed that the safenetwork, openbazaar and augur are humming along quite nicely with their new releases.

THANK YOU to these musicians for contributing your creations and making us sound rather funky:

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/mY83zGWT

I Got RhythMowo! fargiy

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/zVk0IBVz

Sockerchock allihooper

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/6WR42cqU

Gradiaoa housemanscost

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/ziGPAC9W

Imagination lordondrums

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/rtC2ALC4

Jojysu by sliipii

LINKS

The chairman of the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) has encouraged regulators around the world to embrace blockchain innovation, the technology that underpins bitcoin. https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/asic-chairman-to-regulators-worldwide-dont-be-afraid-of-blockchain-innovation/

MAIDSAFE and the Safenetwork

http://maidsafe.net/

Safenetwork Beta Code Download and Discussion

https://forum.safenetwork.io/t/safe-network-client-testing-commences/7373

Open Bazaar

https://openbazaar.org/

Auger Prediction Market

http://augur.strikingly.com/

London Blockchain Conference

https://blockchainlondon.com/

The Safenetwork is up for testing and Peter’s clearly excited he was given the chance to add cryptogoss to their network. We talked about the implications of working from an encrypted decentralised network, one that gives us the choice to keep matters private, how does a platform that provides security affect how we relate to each other?

Peter uncovered an encrypted coin in a mailbox leaflet and reads out claims that lead him to think it’s a scam - ‘insert claims here’ watch for an s coin in your letterbox.

We discussed some of the events happening at Melbourne’s Bitcoin Technology center, it’s buzzing with activity :)

Ethereum workshop 10 March 7pm

Talk and Trade each Wednesday night from 6.30pm - a casual conversation over a glass of wine.

RMIT students joining us from Wednesday 2 March - there will be regular updates on their progress and we’ll interview them at the end of their semester.

MUSIC:

https://allihoopa.com/s/UQhCc1Sh

Firilahu 1.081 contracota108

https://allihoopa.com/s/95c3cCXe

Leviathan42 Epic journey

https://allihoopa.com/s/HUm0h2cz

Four letters MrFunk106

https://allihoopa.com/s/cl3qhKv4

Expiditing The Inevitable by brewmeisterbean

https://allihoopa.com/s/IBSYlx00

Celestial drifter by brewmeisterbean

https://allihoopa.com/s/IBSYlx00

Numavu - autoban

https://allihoopa.com/s/lFxdvWT6

The Pranqster by Brewmeisterbean

LINKS:

Apple’s open letter re iPhone back door demand from US Gov

https://www.apple.com/customer-letter/

Article from ZeroHedge states they’re capitalising on the publicity, have previously decrypted 70 phones.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-18/it-all-just-publicity-stunt-apple-unlocked-iphones-feds-70-times

Donald Trump tweets for an Apple boycott - from his iPhone! Doh!

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-19/it-just-occurred-me-trump-proposes-boycott-apple

#HackOfTheWeek http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/us-hospital-pays-24k-ransom-after-cyber-attack-locks-medical-records-20160218-gmy4ww.html

BitHalo

https://bithalo.org/

Dale and Peter alone in the studio discuss headlines, starting with ACCC's decision regarding banks colluding with #Bitcoin, the Bitcoin Association of Australia knows a new strategy is needed. Dale thinks Australia's VoteFlux is that strategy, she thinks politicians are going to get with this program one way or another, it might have to be that our voting system is the way. (She also gave incorrect information on VFlux they're working from the Bitcoin blockchain with Ethereum as a backup.)

Peter is not quite sure about uproov, even though he now knows how to pronounce it, the patent pending message is a little disconcerting - what is a patent troll anyway?

The subject of BitNation came up again, it's getting a lot more press lately, especially now that the NASDAQ has involved itself in Estonia's stockmarket. What better place to practice than Estonia - where is it??

There's a strong call for transparency with corporations, where is the point of too much information?? They talk about the way that Koinify and Cryptsy handled recent controversy.

uproov: https://uproov.com/

Bitnation and related topics:

Commonwealth and the blockchain: http://bit.ly/1QQ0nVe

econotimes on Bitnation: http://bit.ly/1SGKpmc

UNICEF on child poverty: http://bit.ly/1otWhev

NASDAQ and Bitnation: http://bit.ly/1RdAX6B

Storj.io: http://bit.ly/24gIbOg

If you're in Melbourne and would like to come to an ethereum meetup, connect with us here: bit.ly/1otYTJ6

maidsafe: http://maidsafe.net/

gems: http://getgems.org/

koinify: http://bit.ly/21fxDfQ

cryptsy: http://bit.ly/1KtHOJm

minds: https://www.minds.com

Estonia where is it?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia

node counter: http://bit.ly/24gHDI8

IPFS https://ipfs.io/

filecoin http://filecoin.io/

robotcoingame: http://bit.ly/1XDp3Fu

music:

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/mY83zGWT Mocoean99 - I’ve got rythMowo

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/ZoeeEyd7 shoemaker - House of the rising sun

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/NT3DNG3w Figurefreak - would you care to dance?

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/BboxtMY5 Figurefreak - chope

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/mwNAWZbB The shoemaker - from mars

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/mwNAWZbB JimmyY - Sydney Road HardStep

BONUS material at the end, some outtakes. The wikiBEing that Dale's talking about is being created on minds.com together with @LeeTravis, @StoneArcher and a few other interested people. Meet Dale there, she's @TheWildCard :)

Kieran Nolan from Wooranna Park Primary School dropped in to the bitcoin center today to chat with us about some of the many projects his school is involved in. He focuses on fun ways to include students in relevant technologies like cryptocurrencies, his school has a spaceship, and the students are involved in global minecraft projects.

Together with Paul Ayling we chatted about potential uses for the blockchain in education and the difference it's already making in Australia's education system.

Music credits (in order of appearance)

1, 2 and 8: mocean99 Mowo! Electro Swing Loop- Mocean Worker - Song-AM

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/GbgbnOks

3: FigureFreak Boiled Peanuts

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/0GkoOeXu

4: Jimmy Y Mr Bitcoin

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/7nS8FXCZ

5: Jimmy Y Bitcoin Island

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/BBfQlB1M

6: mocean99 Funk and Clavé

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/V2gbw3NO

7: Jimmy Y Clifton Hill Medicine Man

https://www.propellerheads.se/s/uYFwZZCA

Links:

justice4assange.com

https://justice4assange.com/

Facebook's FreeBasics controversy in India

http://theconversation.com/facebook-is-no-charity-and-the-free-in-free-basics-comes-at-a-price-52839

https://medium.com/backchannel/how-india-pierced-facebook-s-free-internet-program-6ae3f9ffd1b4#.3jjka421f

meetup events:

Blockchain meetup Monday 29 Feb

http://www.meetup.com/Blockchain-Developers/events/228519896/

CoderDojo Wooranna Park

http://www.woorannaparkps.com.au/#!coderdojo/cee5

find one near you

https://coderdojo.com/

Minecraft

https://minecraft.net/

Stimulating Learning platforms

http://www.bobpearlman.org/Learning21/enigma_portal.htm

Hacks:

Lincolnshire county council:

http://www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/Cyber-hack-cripples-libraries-bus-services-fourth/story-28631569-detail/story.html

Melbourne Hospital:

http://theconversation.com/hack-attack-on-a-hospital-it-system-highlights-the-risk-of-still-running-windows-xp-53431

Berwick High School:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-03/nossal-high-school-investigated-threatening-school-hoax-calls/7135746