The Bitcoin Podcast

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty sit down with Zak Cole, CEO and blockchain-literate extraordinaire of WhiteBlock. They’re working on the testing and implementation of cryptographically assured blockchain-based protocols; all built with their in-house designed open source testing suite. Their tools allow blockchain architects and developers the means to test their public chains in a more stringent real-world like environment so you they can quantify the fault tolerance, latency, and stability of p2p blockchain systems more easily. This allows for improved sustainable data availability for public chains, and a more mature methodology for testing chains at scale. We also have some discussions around ETH 2.0, and Zak’s experiences building in a chain agnostic manner.

In this episode, Corey and Dee go sans guest. Dee approaches the ever-interesting topic of mass adoption. He feels the news coming out of Germany that banks can be custodians of crypto is a positive step. Corey doesn’t think so. Also, Virgil goes to North Korea, now Virgil gonna go to jail. Opinions fly from Corey and Dee.

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In this episode, Dee and Dr. Corey Petty cover the concept of micro-communities and how blockchain can help develop a micro-economy to incentives these micro-communities. Then they end the round table discussion with their bi-monthly debate on Bitcoin scaling and what will that scaling even look like for Bitcoin. The interview is with Julien Genestoux of Unlock Protocol, a new crypto-company seeking to address the economic problems of the publishing world with blockchain technology.

Layer 2 scaling solutions have gone through a lot of iterations and disappointing conclusions in the past few years. There is a newer solution, which is boasting some positive (and safe) results: Optimistic Rollups. John Adler, Blockchain Researcher at ConsenSys, speaks on the history of Layer 2 solutions and describes Optimistic Rollups and how they may help with blockchain scaling.

Demetrick and Corey's Round Table discussion catches everyone up on their personal life, what a future market is, and what a "seed phrase" is. The back-end discussion covers what's coming up in Maker's multicollateral DAI transition. The interview is with Daniel Luca, a smart contract auditor at ConsenSys Diligence. The boys task him to answering these hard hitting questions: What does a smart contract auditor do? How cool is it having a bot tool name "Karl" from Die Hard?

Evan Van Ness and Lucian discuss the consequences of Ethereum being the primary way to hold and trade Tether. Listen to find out why you can't stake your ETH yet. Learn more on the current state of standardization for BLS signatures. The episode wraps up with a highlight of articles released this week.

Our Host Demetrick and Dr. Corey Petty talk about universal usage of the dollar on this planet and monetary policy in fictional universes like Star Wars and Star Trek. The interview is with Max Keidun CEO and Evangelists for Hodl Hodl, who began his life as a journalist and is now in the Bitcoin Ecosystem.

Thomas Jay Rush of Trueblocks comes on to speak with us about blockchain accounting.

Guest-Host Taylor Monahan joins the round table, and once again, mass adoption is brought up, but taking a more psychological approach to the issue. The discussion covers the gamut of problems with mass adoption who is in the space, custodial companies, quantitative easement, age of empires, the humanities, and how far down the rabbit hole should people go. The Interview is with Eric Fulton of Keybase.

This episode features Jay and Ken from Cypher Core. Cypher Core offers a staking as a service platform for Proof of Stake protocols. Primarily focused on Cosmos network, we talk with them about their experience implementing their system, incentive models involved with staking services, and the overall Cosmos community.