The Unhashed Podcast

On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast, we chat with special guest Alex Gladstein. Alex tells us about the efforts going on at the Human Rights Foundation where he works as Chief Strategy Officer. We get into bitcoin and other technology as a tool to free people from tyranny, the question of misplaced focus by many other human rights activist groups, and much more.

On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast, Mario interviews Alejandro de la Torre of Poolin. We cover his time at btc.com, seeing the 2017 civil war from his insider perspective, and Poolin’s split away from Bitmain. We also dig into taproot signalling - the efforts to bridge communication gaps across cultures and industries, the firmware and node challenges for signalling, the unfortunate overlap of signalling and Chinese holidays, and what we as a community can do to encourage taproot activation in the coming weeks.

On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast, we talk taproot signalling, theft on BSC DeFi platforms, and Charlie Munger surprising everyone with a perfectly nuanced take on bitcoin. We finish off trying to determine whether or not we should get rid of everyone's pets to save the environment. Probably, right?

On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast, learn about Blockstream’s mining security token, Tesla taking bitcoin profits, chaos in the Turkish bitcoin scene, Iran’s state adoption of BTC, the mysterious Monsieur Personne forging NFTs, and some game theory analysis of how you stop an environmentalist attacker from…erm…paying miners too much money?

On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast, the whole gang is together again to talk about “China unbans bitcoin!”, the weekend flash crash, Coinbase execs selling into the IPO, Signal’s MobileCoin, Xinjiang power blackout affecting mining, and when it is and is not OK to tickle people.

On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast, it's tabloid time! To help detox from Ruben and Eric Wall's technical deep dive last week, we take things easy by chatting about the latest cryptocurrency news from Snoop Dog, Paris Hilton, and John McAfee. We do get back to bitcoin again to talk tainted coins, the sale of bitcoindotcom, what constitutes a double-spend, the future relevancy of "not your keys, not your coins", and details about hash rate and mining.

This week we're airing an epic two-hour conversation on L2 scaling between Somsen and Eric Wall. They cover the philosophical difference between Ethereum and Bitcoin, tBTC, zkrollups, the definition of sidechains, the role of SNARKs in blockchains, drivechains, statechains, spacechains, softchains, and whether burned bitcoins can act as collateral.

On this (tangent-heavy) episode of the Unhashed Podcast, Colin and Mario talk Aker's dive into bitcoin, Filecoin's not-a-double-spend hack on Binance, Morgan Stanley gatekeeping its upcoming bitcoin support, and which of the Nic(k) Carters has the better Cardano take. Also, is it OK to buy a circle of land around someone's property and charge them exorbitant prices to leave?

This week we're airing an episode of the Block Digest where Somsen talks about his new 2-way peg proposal called softchains, as well as interesting use cases for spacechains, how Ripple Pay (or 'hawala') could be enabled for Lightning, and a new method to split up a 24-word seed.

On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast we welcome Lawrence Nahum, founder of GreenAddress and Chief Architect at Blockstream, to do a deep dive on Blockstream Jade and Blockstream Green. We cover hardware security including secure elements and their alternatives, open-source supply chains, the nuances of airgappedness, and Blockstream's recent anti-exfil security mechanism. Digging into Blockstream Green, we go over the nature of deterministic wallets, private keys & recovery, 'instant confirmation' transactions, and the recent 'encrypted blob' for enhanced user privacy.