The Bitcoin Podcast Network

In this episode of The Bitcoin Podcast, Corey and Dee interview Jamie Bartlett. Bartlett presented the tragic story of Onecoin. A ponzi scheme that took advantage of millions of people and resulted in billions of dollars being fraudulently removed from their owners. Dr Ruja Ignatova persuaded millions to join her financial revolution. Then she disappeared. Why? Jamie Bartlett presents a story of greed, deceit and herd madness.

On this Roundtable discussion, Dee and Corey cover the topics of tribalism in crypto space, how the pseudonymity of the internet has broken down communication between people, and the need for the crypto space to develop social immunity. The interview we have is with author and futurists Karl Schroeder of Stealing Worlds.

Lucian and Evan discuss Parity's pivot away from maintaining their Ethereum client. While saddened to see a great team of developers change focus to work on Polkadot, we also are optimistic that the wider blockchain community won't respond to Parity founder's 'call to arms' to initiate 'blockchain wars.' After the 40 min mark we also discuss Saga, a stable coin mirroring a standard IMF basket of currencies. We end on a discussion on EIP1559 which locks ETH in as part of the protocol and eliminates the possibility of economic abstraction, i.e. miners getting paid in other ERC 20 tokens.

This episode Corey and Collin Bring on Lucas Geiger and Zaki Manian to talk about OpenLibra. OpenLibra is a technology platform and currency for financial inclusion, and it is definitely not run by Facebook. We want to figure out what their goals are and how they plan to achieve them. As always we dive in and have an interesting conversation, enjoy!

This Roundtable, Dee, Dr. Corey Petty, Dr. Andy Boyan from the Slack (please join) discuss decentralization vs. centralization and big banks vs. small banks. The most crucial topic discuss can communities' successfully opt-out of the existing financial system. The Interview is with Isabela Bagueros, Executive Director of the Tor Project.

Today's episode we return from a holiday break to discuss an instant messaging proof of concept on the Lightning Network called Whatsat with Sergi Delgado from PISA Research. We talk about how it works, its limitations, what could be built from it. This then leads into specifics about the lightning network itself, and then issues with the broader ecosystem. Enjoy!

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty have a friendly chat with your favorite neighborhood developer, Austin Griffith. Creator of the burner wallet, Austin is one of the leading developers focused on usability and creating the “aha!” moments necessary to bridge traditional software developers and consumers, over into the bright and bountiful world of crypto. This is of course a technical, and a human-oriented task, and Austin has the chops to speak to developers/users in fun and exciting ways — and his passion for Ethereum is contagious. Come learn what it takes to create new product engineers, as we discuss how Austin plans to tackle that problem on the journey to a million+ Ethereum developers.

Dee and Dr. Corey Petty cover the reason why you should buy whiskey, networking within the construction industry, Christmas enable ethereum tree, and the egalitarian principals of different blockchains. Our interview is with Morgen Rochard, a financial planner who does not shy away from working within the cryptocurrency space.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty sit down with Zak Cole, CEO and blockchain-literate extraordinaire of WhiteBlock. They’re working on the testing and implementation of cryptographically assured blockchain-based protocols; all built with their in-house designed open source testing suite. Their tools allow blockchain architects and developers the means to test their public chains in a more stringent real-world like environment so you they can quantify the fault tolerance, latency, and stability of p2p blockchain systems more easily. This allows for improved sustainable data availability for public chains, and a more mature methodology for testing chains at scale. We also have some discussions around ETH 2.0, and Zak’s experiences building in a chain agnostic manner.

In this episode, Corey and Dee go sans guest. Dee approaches the ever-interesting topic of mass adoption. He feels the news coming out of Germany that banks can be custodians of crypto is a positive step. Corey doesn’t think so. Also, Virgil goes to North Korea, now Virgil gonna go to jail. Opinions fly from Corey and Dee. Enjoy!

In this episode, Dee and Dr. Corey Petty cover the concept of micro-communities and how blockchain can help develop a micro-economy to incentives these micro-communities. Then they end the round table discussion with their bi-monthly debate on Bitcoin scaling and what will that scaling even look like for Bitcoin. The interview is with Julien Genestoux of Unlock Protocol, a new crypto-company seeking to address the economic problems of the publishing world with blockchain technology.

Layer 2 scaling solutions have gone through a lot of iterations and disappointing conclusions in the past few years. There is a newer solution, which is boasting some positive (and safe) results: Optimistic Rollups. John Adler, Blockchain Researcher at ConsenSys, speaks on the history of Layer 2 solutions and describes Optimistic Rollups and how they may help with blockchain scaling.

Demetrick and Corey's Round Table discussion catches everyone up on their personal life, what a future market is, and what a "seed phrase" is. The back-end discussion covers what's coming up in Maker's multicollateral DAI transition. The interview is with Daniel Luca, a smart contract auditor at ConsenSys Diligence. The boys task him to answering these hard hitting questions: What does a smart contract auditor do? How cool is it having a bot tool name "Karl" from Die Hard?

Evan Van Ness and Lucian discuss the consequences of Ethereum being the primary way to hold and trade Tether. Listen to find out why you can't stake your ETH yet. Learn more on the current state of standardization for BLS signatures. The episode wraps up with a highlight of articles released this week.

Our Host Demetrick and Dr. Corey Petty talk about universal usage of the dollar on this planet and monetary policy in fictional universes like Star Wars and Star Trek. The interview is with Max Keidun CEO and Evangelists for Hodl Hodl, who began his life as a journalist and is now in the Bitcoin Ecosystem.

Thomas Jay Rush of Trueblocks comes on to speak with us about blockchain accounting.

Guest-Host Taylor Monahan joins the round table, and once again, mass adoption is brought up, but taking a more psychological approach to the issue. The discussion covers the gamut of problems with mass adoption who is in the space, custodial companies, quantitative easement, age of empires, the humanities, and how far down the rabbit hole should people go. The Interview is with Eric Fulton of Keybase.

This episode features Jay and Ken from Cypher Core. Cypher Core offers a staking as a service platform for Proof of Stake protocols. Primarily focused on Cosmos network, we talk with them about their experience implementing their system, incentive models involved with staking services, and the overall Cosmos community.

Evan Van Ness and Lucian provide recommendations for talks to listen to from DevCon. We've picked the can't-miss content from Devcon 5 to get you up to speed

A free-for-all that enter roundtable session between the patrons of The Bitcoin Podcast Network and Lord of the GPPs, Dee. It became a little controversial this episode as the roundtable attendees were stirring the conversation toward other issues in crypto, but for some reason Dee was centered on the conversation staying in the lane of "can Bitcoin go to $0?" Norm M CEO Lightning In a Box is teaming up with Rick V of Crypto Cloaks for Build-a-node project. Lightning in a Box (LIAB) is quickly becoming the go to place for  plug n play bitcoin and lightning nodes.   Enjoy! Logos Press Engine includes Logos Podcast and Hashing It Out. Hashing it Out dives into the mechanisms and hardware of the technology that aid in making sovereign communities.