Part 1 in our series on decentralized storage: Looking back. Fredrik and Anna talk about some history and memories of peer-to-peer technology, file sharing and decentralized storage.

We dig into our own history and involvement with p2p technology, file sharing, how it rose to fame and then disappeared into the cold P2P winter.

In this episode, Anna and Fredrik have a look back at 2017 and the changing blockchain ecosystem with ex-Ethereum Foundation and current-Parity core dev, Marek Kotewicz. We also share our predictions about what we can expect to see next year in crypto land.

FYI: opinions are our own, and we definitely won't be giving financial advice :P

• Blocksize research: https://www.bitcoinunlimited.info/resources/1txn.pdf
• ParityDB: https://github.com/paritytech/paritydb

In this episode, Anna and Fredrik are joined by 3 fellow Parity employees to talk about what first got them interested in blockchain and the whole decentralised scene, how the greater community has evolved over the last few years, and what we can expect for the coming year.

Our guests:

• Afri, Community Manager, Support and all around contributor
• Maciej, Core Developer
• Fabian, Business Development

We talk about what we've been working on for the past week and what's been going on in the community and our lives.

We go over what Hard Forks are, what they mean and what this particular one, Byzantium, brought to Ethereum.

Wherein we talk about Proof of Work, what it is and how it has developed and why we want or might not want Proof of Stake instead.

Jack, Anna and Fredrik talk about their experience at RustFest 2017 in Zürich.

Parity Technologies was one of the main sponsors and so we went there with a crew and had a booth. Many interesting conversations were had, along with great talks.