The Bitcoin Podcast

Lucian and Collin Cusce discuss the latest release of Geth, the Go implementation of Ethereum and its cool new features. Performance, reduced footprint, GraphQL, hardware wallet integration, and more. Thanks to everyone who put in the hard work to implement these improvements!

In this episode, the three Amigos of Crypto bring back Bitcoin Zay to discuss his new book, "Bitcoin and Black America." They also take a stroll down memory lane and recall some past trading stories from Dee. Again, Libra is a topic of discussion as it is currently unavoidable. Also, a special 4th host this week, Jessie "The Man" Broke, swings by the show to offer up some of his opinions and what he gleans from the crypto ecosystem.

We read Cryptocurrency headlines. It used to be kind of serious...but only kind of. Now, we mainly try to take the news seriously because it is kind of redundant and have fun in that attempt. Welcome to the best crypto show you're going to hear for the rest of your life. You're welcome.

Dan Guido, CEO of Trail of Bits, comes on the air with us to talk about how tooling is evolving in smart contract security, the landscape of security auditing today, and we have the opportunity to congratulate him on being named a leader in Forrester Research's Midsize Cybersecurity Consulting Services, Q2 2019 report. We go over advancements in fuzzing, static analysis, formal verification, and some interesting and unexpected problems found in smart contracts.

Lucian and Dr. Corey Petty are joined today by Alex Miller and Dr. Karl Kreder from Grid+. We discuss a new layer 2 solution that is unlike anything else that has been attempted, a p2p digital cash equivalent that derives its security from the physical properties of smart cards. This network doesn't need a third party relayer to keep track of state and the only transactions that go on chain are the deposit and the withdraw with privacy for all intermediate transactions.

In this episode the Three Amigos of Crypto have a roundtable discussion about the viral Trump tweets about Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency. Wayne joins us as we open up the phone lines and Cello discusses Trumps take on Bitcoin and Libra. Also, Dee has a message for the half-assed crypto enthusiast. Dr. Corey Petty also gives everyone the results of a Twitter poll that was designed to separate the knows and the know-nots when it comes to the subtlety of how this blockchain technology works.

We read Cryptocurrency headlines. It used to be kind of serious...but only kind of. Now, we mainly try to take the news seriously because it is kind of redundant and have fun in that attempt. Welcome to the best crypto show you're going to hear for the rest of your life. You're welcome.

Blockstack is releasing their decentralized computing platform next year, and we have Aaron Blankstein on to talk about their whitepaper and what it means for decentralized applications in the future. Using their identity management system, Blockstack ID, their file storage system, Gaia, and their formally verifiable and non-Turing Complete smart contract language, Clarity, Blockstack will make it easier to build dapps on the Bitcoin network.

This week Lucian and Collin discuss various news worthy topics in the Ethereum space. Since DeFi applications are dependent on one another, can their interactions lead to contagion? Hopper is a zero knowledge mixer, we look at some other attempts at bringing privacy to Ethereum and how they compare. Grid+ released a layer 2 solution using their 'SafeCards.'

We read Cyrptocurrency headlines. It used to be kind of serious...but only kind of. Now, we mainly try to take the news seriously because it is kind of redundant and have fun in that attempt. Welcome to the best crypto show you're going to hear for the rest of your life. You're welcome.