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Goobit AB develops IT solutions on top of blockchain technology. Christian Ander is CEO of Goobit AB. Questions How is BTCX, Goobit’s bitcoin exchange, implemented? How did transaction volume change with the recent Ethereum trading volume? What are the steps to processing a bitcoin transaction? How does the minutiae of dealing with banks compare with that of running an engineering company? Will everyone have personal currencies in the future? LinksContinue reading...

Bitcoin’s cultural implications inform the engineering opportunities and constraints. Andreas Antonopoulos is a bitcoin researcher, journalist, and evangelist. Questions What are the taboo topics within the bitcoin community? What do you think of when people say “we know bitcoin is the first real cryptocurrency, but the big question is whether it will be the last”? Were grey markets previously underserved before bitcoin? What is at the intersection of big dataContinue reading...

Ripple is a real-time settlement system, currency exchange, and remittance network by Ripple Labs. Greg Kidd is an advisor to Ripple Labs and Chief Risk Officer at Shift Payments. Questions What is a distributed payments protocol? How does Ripple’s consensus work? How does Ripple process transactions asynchronously? How does Ripple maintain correctness, agreement, and utility? What is a “last closed ledger? What is Ripple Labs? How are banks integrating withContinue reading...

Blockchains are the distributed ledger technology underlying bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. More broadly, a blockchain is a mechanism for updating truth states in distributed network computing, producing consensus trust and serving as a new form of general computational substrate. Melanie Swan is a science and technology innovator and philosopher at the MS Futures Group. She founded the Institute for Blockchain Studies, and is the author of Blockchain: Blueprint for aContinue reading...

In Episode 0 of SE Daily, Yad and Jeff give a prologue to many of the topics that will be covered in JavaScript Week. Are we beyond the era of monolithic apps and frameworks? What is the switching cost if you want to move from one JavaScript templating language to another? Why does Uber use both MongoDB and MySQL? Why does Quora only use MySQL? What does the Node.js event loopContinue reading...