The Bitcoin Podcast Network

Dee and Corey speak upon predictions they have had on the show about the cryptocurrency space and how many of these predictions have come true. One of these predictions is mining and we now have nuclear power plants mining cryptocurrency. Dee also ponders - Are we in The End Game of Bitcoin becoming the standard for the financial framework of the world?

For part 3 of the 4 part User Research series Reem and Aqeel had the great pleasure of speaking with Georgia Rakusen about the skills and expertise required to create a high impact User Research strategy. We dive deep into the role of cognitive biases at the intersection of psychology and technology. Examining the process behind leveraging Quantitative and Qualitative methodologies to make informed product and business decisions. It is important to ensure that the data and method of collection is not impaired by an ignorance of cognitive biases to provide meaningful value to end customers.

Lucian and Evan Van Ness start off by justifying their caffeine addiction and shilling Yerba Mate. Evan and Josh Stark wrote a detailed update on developments that spanned the Ethereum ecosystem, we pick out some datapoint highlights for our listeners. For example they demonstrated, with data, how multiple individual DApps on Ethereum have produced more in fees than every other base chain outside of Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Dee and Corey get in-depth with Bitcoin Historian Richard Mcdaniel, aka NghtRppr, aka LordofWar, aka OGoftheOGs #369 on BitcoinTalk forum on his early experience with Bitcoin. Richard shares what believes the future holds for Bitcoin and how the legality of Bitcoin will shake out.

Althea is a system that lets routers pay each other for bandwidth. This allows people to set up decentralized ISPs in their communities. In an Althea network, instead of one ISP at the top collecting monthly payments, many different people can earn money by expanding and strengthening the network.

For the second part in our 4 part User Research series Aqeel and Reem speak with Omna to learn more about how the design teams in Web3 eco-system approach Quantitative and Qualitative research methodologies to better understand the end users and what the actual value proposition is for their service offering. Learn about the challenges and solutions when it comes to user recruitment, privacy, open source products, and synthesizing insights.

Evan put out a new Year in Ethereum, which is a comprehensive update on how much can get done in this space in just 365 days. Gavin Andresen layout the next logical step for tornado cash, wallet integration. Coffee futures tokenized. Plasma group + VC $$ = Optimism. Starkware provides data showing that cutting gas costs (and increasing block sizes) wouldn't increase uncle rate and proposes a 4x increase. LivePeer introduces Streamflow, with probabilistic micropayments.

Corey and Dee talk about what is mass-adoption for Bitcoin? How we as community view what mass-adoption looks like throughout the years of Bitcoin existences. Does Bitcoin need governments to intervene to obtain adoption, or can we as a community grow with the Auntie measure?

Michael Cordner / Yeastplume, long time Grin contributor and part of the core team, and David Burkett, long time member of the Grin community, creator of the C++ standalone implementation of Grin, proposer of the soon to be released TOR transaction building method, and lead on Litecoin's Mimblewimble Extension block project. They've both agreed to come on the show.

What is User Research? And why is it so important? In the debut of our 4 part series, Xuan Yue guides us through her unique journey getting involved with User research from community involvement with Livepeer in an opensource design environment. The remaining episodes will dive deeper into the UX research process when it comes to utilizing qualitative and quantitative research, the cognitive biases we need to be mindful of, and how to gain in person context for real world feedback.

Dee and Corey are joined by guest host Jon T to talk about futures trading,derivative products,Defi, and what it means for the Cryptospace. The Guest is Hong Kim of Bitwise Investment.

Lucian and Evan talk about the tokenization of NBA guard Spencer Dinwiddie's contract that would have been a lot cooler if it wasn't stripped of potential upside like performance bonuses and extra payouts due to a 3rd season trade. StarkWare boasts of hitting 9000 tps. Viper has a new compiler implementation. And Slock.it has a new IoT light client.

What if one day you woke up and realized the social impact project you worked on is now a tool for oppression? How about if that innocuous gamified app you've been using happens to also be a surveillance tool for hackers? Where do we draw the line between "ethical" and "poor" design? Find out more from Cade Diehm, the founder of the New Design Congress, who discusses the role of technology as an accelerant of social, political, and environmental problems and how design can be weaponised to harm users

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty become journalists, for just this one time, as we interview a journalist from the industry who’s quickly made a name for herself, Leigh Cuen. Leigh is a reporter from Coindesk and with a colorful past as a journalist with a broad range of focuses. She walks us through her process on how she seeks to provide objective truth and value into her reporting; as well as sharing valuable insights into how you should frame your perspective with crypto media. Sit down and enjoy this one, you’ll definitely appreciate the struggles of objective media by the end of it. **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.**

In this episode of The Bitcoin Podcast Dee, Corey, and Lucian discuss the likelihood that cryptocurrency stands to spur adoption of green or more efficient energy. Also, Lucian gives an unscripted history perspective on why Russia is the way it is and why they may be eager to adopt the POW mining community. Corey also begins to defend his stance that blockchain networks are social networks.

Akash is a cloud for serverless computing. Using the incentivization schemes enabled by the Cosmos Network, Akash empowers architects and builders of the internet with the ability to utilize un-utilized computing resources. Conversely, those with excess computing power can open their systems for auction, enabling them to recuperate value from those resources. Corey and I have the pleasure of speaking with CEO Greg Osuri about their engineering effort and how they built this service.

Aqeel and Sarah Mills the Head of Design @ Consensys sit down to do a deep-dive on the nuances of approaching design & creative for decentralized technologies while working with a distributed team. The Web3 / Blockchain eco-system is leading the way for the adoption and acceptance of remote-first work environments, facing new challenges and opportunities for disruption in how we view the role of design. The episode covers a breadth of topics ranging from role of design, design related hiring decisions, education, collaboration tools, challenges in decentralized organizations, managing opportunities, business of design, ROI, team retreats, conflict resolution, and burn-out.

Lucian and Evan cover highlights from Ethereum related news and inadvertently created a list of the top projects of 2019. We cover GitCoin Matching Grants program, Tornado Cash, and MolochDAO. Then we talk about the recent FileCoin testnet launch and we dwell on the system requirements, which are unreasonably high, and how that will impact decentralization by excluding potential participants like us.

Corey and Dee bring back the classic drunken show format for the end of the year 2019 recap. This recap included discussions about Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang, Digital Signatures, a 2019 Prediction coming true, Jamie Bartlett of The Missing Crypto Queen, and more .......

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Dr. Petty join the founders Cameron Robertson (CEO) and Paul Gerhardt (CTO) to discuss what we believe is an innovation in bridging digital money with physical, secure digital hardware. They present us Kong, their digital cash equivalent: possessing the ability to act as a fungible representation of digital money, with a secure element and programmatic expiry which enables extraction of the funds at a future date. It’s a very futuristic idea, and we’re here for it. Come have a listen.