The Bitcoin Game 26 - Jeff Garzik The Future of Bitcoin

Hello, welcome to episode 26 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. Back some months ago, Los Angeles had its first Bitcoin conference called The State Of Digital Money. Jeff Garzik (Bitcoin Core Developer for BitPay and CEO of Dunvegan Space Systems) was the featured speaker, and he gave a presentation called The Future of Bitcoin. I originally believed the presentation needed the accompanying visual slides, but after giving the audio of Jeff's presentation a fresh listen, I realized the audio is really good on its own. I even found it refreshing to hear a core developer speak on a variety of Bitcoin topics, without having to weigh in on the current contentious block size debate. So relax and enjoy this presentation by Jeff Garzik. Jeff's The Future of Bitcoin slides http://www.slideshare.net/jgarzik/the-future-of-bitcoin-state-of-digital-money-2015-conference TWITTER GIVEAWAY Follow me on twitter at theBTCgame, because I’ll be asking questions related to this episode. The first person to tweet the correct answer wins their choice of either a classic Bitcoin keychain or a Bitcoin Fork Pen. I just ask that you follow me, and if you win, you’re not allowed to enter another giveaway for 90 days. For more information about the Bitcoin Fork Pen, go to BitcoinForks.com For more information about the classic Bitcoin Keychain, go to Bkeychain.com Note: I will send a Bitcoin Fork Pen to Core Devs upon request. Offer valid while supplies last. MAGIC WORD Listen for the magic word, and submit it to your LetsTalkBitcoin.com account to claim a share of this week's distribution of LTBcoin. Listeners now have a full week from the release date to claim a magic word. The magic word for this episode must be submitted by 2am Pacific Time on October 1, 2015. SHOW LINKS Dunvegan Space Systems http://www.dunveganspace.com BitPay https://bitpay.com State Of Digital Money http://www.cureativ.com/sodm/#digitalmoney Linux projects by Jeff Garzik http://linux.yyz.us/projects.html Headers First Synchronization https://bitcoin.org/en/glossary/headers-first-sync Pay to script hash (P2SH) https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Pay_to_script_hash Payment Channels in BitcoinJ https://bitcoinj.github.io/working-with-micropayments Lightning Network (implementation of Payment Channels) https://lightning.network Impulse Protocol (implementation of Payment Channels) http://impulse.is BIP 65 - CheckLockTimeVerify https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0065.mediawiki Mike Hearn - Turing Festival 2013 - Tradenet (YouTube) https://youtu.be/Pu4PAMFPo5Y BitPay's ChainDB whitepaper https://bitpay.com/chaindb.pdf Sidechains whitepaper https://blockstream.com/sidechains.pdf Rusty Russell on Lightning Network http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=450 Here's the link to the YouTube video of Jeff's presentation at The State Of Digital Money 2015: https://youtu.be/oRG0nzSUpSU The videographer who captured this content works relentlessly on the front lines, recording cryptocurrency and P2P content from all over the country. Check out all his videos at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxfh-2aOR5hZUjxJLQ2CIHw/feed?activity_view=3. MUSIC All the music in this episode of The Bitcoin Game was created by me, with some funky vocal noises on one clip by Michael Coleman. STAY IN TOUCH https://Twitter.com/TheBTCGame http://TheBitcoinGame.com Email me at Rob at TheBitcoinGame.com Thanks for listening! Bitcoin tip address: 1G8HDg5EsPQpamKYS2bDya9Riv9xv1nVo5 The Bitcoin Game box artwork created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.