The Bitcoin Podcast Network

Handshake is a decentralized, permissionless naming protocol where every peer is validating and in charge of managing the root DNS naming zone with the goal of creating an alternative to existing Certificate Authorities and naming systems. Names on the internet (top level domains, social networking handles, etc.) ultimately rely upon centralized actors with full control over a system which are relied upon to be honest, as they are vulnerable to hacking, censorship, and corruption. Handshake aims to experiment with new ways the internet can be more secure, resilient, and socially useful with a peer-to-peer system validated by the network's participants.

Lucian and Evan breath a collective sign of relief as Maker auctions happen uneventfully to re-estabilish the collateralization ratio. Dai is back and hopefully more resilient. Nexus Mutual decides, almost unanimously, that the Maker smart contract functioned as designed, therefore they are not paying out any claims. And Vitalik gives us his version of a roadmap for rolling out Eth 2 features.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Petty sit down with Petty’s fellow co-worker, Dean Eigenmann, from Status. He’s working on building an improved messaging protocol for Status, and is also working on the side on a Swift implementation of the ETH 2.0 Beacon chain. We learn more about Dean, as we go in deep to understand the mind of a real thot leader.

Corey, Dee, and Guest Host Taylor Monahan are here to give you tips needed to Work From Home. Taylor gives insight on the Ethereum ecosystem and particular what is happening in the Eth mining market. Taylor and Dee go over how Proof-of-Stake is working now and how it may or may notwork in the future. Corey breaks down how the technical aspects of DeFi.

Lucian and Evan join you from their respective isolated locations to discuss the current most pressing matter (in Ethereum), Maker DAO's recent near $0 ETH liquidation auctions which reduced collateral by $8 million. We discuss what happened, what has changed since then, and why we are hopeful that things are going to play out well in the end.

On today's episode, Corey and Collin talk with Truman Esmond, VP of Solutions and Partnerships at the American Association of Insurance Services (AAIS). Why are we talking to insurance folks, you ask? Because they've partnered with IBM to launch the openIDL platform to help aggregate company data while maintaining privacy and compliance. We ask how it works, why they used Hyperledger, and many more details, enjoy!

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dee have a chat with Pedro Gomez, the Founder and developer behind WalletConnect. As Ethereum based accounts and wallets proliferate, standards surrounding how they’re accessed, and extended interoperably becomes ever more important. Pedro’s effort are to simplify this process for developers of Ethereum wallet’s and services, in order to improve the UX across dApps in the ecosystem. **Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.**

Dee and Corey on this Roundtable discussion are not drunk and have a serious conversation about Coronavirus-19. Corey goes in-depth about the fundamentals of Cryptocurrency principals we have all adhere to for the last ten years and questions if they hold up in this time of crisis. Then Dee and Corey Thank Everyone for being on this journey with them for 300 Episodes. Take Coronavirus-19 Seriously and Wash Your Hands.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dr. Petty and Dee finally may have found someone who can bring crypto + music & audio to the masses. We’re joined by Roneil Rumburg, CEO of Audius, and an all around incredibly nice guy. He’s sharp: he understands Ethereum; he built on Bitcoin back in the day; and is familiar with the music industry. His team realizes the barriers that stand between Audius, and mass adoption — and we think he just might. We discuss the platform, his vision for the future, and have some laughs along the way. Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

Lucian and Evan Van Ness catch up after Evan has traveled to Denver, London and Paris for Ethereum conferences. We discuss the trends among some of the submissions to the hackathon as well as some updates including two new zk-rollup projects that have landed on test nets already.

Guest Host Ray Redacted joins Dee and Corey on this Roundtable discussion. Corey fills everyone in on his time at the Ethereum Community Conference 3 in Paris and why physical conferences are so crucial for building networks within the cryptocurrency community. Dee has some words for Mark Cuban. Ray Redacted fills everyone in on how the Coronavirus-19 is just having all kinds of fun times with many different aspects of the world economy. Wash Your Hands.

Aqeel and Amy examine the current opportunity and role of UX Audits in the web3, open-source, and blockchain design space. Learn about the purpose UX audits serve, how they were implemented at Devcon for the past 2 years, and the challenges faced in making them more integral to the service offerings in the ecosystem. Also, dive into how does design collaboration and cross-pollination look like in the open-source design community and how can we move these efforts forward together.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty sit down with the crypto twitter famous, Ari Paul. Ari is the head honcho at BlockTower capital, and comes from a background of endowment management at the University of Chicago; Ari is a traditional finance nerd turned crypto nerds. We have a solid discussion on some of his perspectives on investing, and Petty and McKie pick his brain for some new insights you might not have heard elsewhere. **Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.**

Dee and Guest Host Dr. Andy Boyan cover the topic of the Coronavirus Virus vs. Wall Street Money, which of these, if any, is affecting the Cryptocurrency Market. Then Dr. Andy Boyan shares with us how  much building is still going on in the Cryptocurrency Space and how you can find a job in this space.

SKALE Labs is seeking to change the world through decentralized cloud solutions. Using EVM-powered blockchains as their primary compute and storage mechanism, they seek to capture the market long-dominated by AWS, Azure, and other centralized solutions. We have Stan Kladko, CTO of SKALE on to discuss how this is supposed to work and explain their vision of a blockchain-driven future.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dr. Petty and Dee are back with a new season, with fresh new faces and guests. To start off this season, we spoke to Paul Berg, CEO and Co-Founder of Sablier Finance. Many have sought to scale Ethereum transactions off-chain, with the use of Roll-ups/Plasma/State Channels, but Paul's team took a different approach. They're building an on-chain protocol for real-time payments; one that's lean, extendable, and a great PoC into how the future of real-time finance will work going forward. Join this enlightening discussion into his design decisions, and why he thinks Sablier is going to revolutionize payments by allowing you to stream digitized value of any form. **Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.**

DAIHard uses Ethereum smart contracts to create burnable deposits as a means to gamify exchange of goods and services. In a burnable deposit, both parties put up collateral and in the event the servicing party delivers, they recieve their deposit plus their compensation. Failure and both parties may lose their deposits. We have Logan Brutsche back on the program to discuss the platform build around this concept, DAIHard, and how it seeks to fill the niche market of fiat currency exchange via crypto.

Dee and Corey talk about Corey's time at the NFT.NYC and what he learned from the different talks and events at the conference. Corey and Dee then have a long discussion on what the future of the NFT markets is going to look like in the cryptospace.

Dee and Corey go straight into the Interview with Cedric Dahl, an OG of the Bitcoin space, to talk about Bitcoin's dominant (and growing) use on the darknet markets. Cedric runs a think tank called 'The 1000x Group', which monitors crypto adoption to look for early signals of long term value creation. The group studies history's most successful tech investors and applies their learnings to crypto.

For the final episode of our User Research in Web 3 series. Aqeel is joined by Hester Bruikman the self-proclaimed "Product people translator" at Status. We examine how boots on the ground field research methodologies provide the necessary context required to develop products for Crypto and Web3 technologies. Learn about how in-person local research provides opportunities for serendipitous connections and allows you to follow the trail of information to get to the core of the problem space.