The Bitcoin Podcast Network

On the second episode of Hashing It Out Panels, Corey moderates a discussion between Nick Johnson (lead developer of ENS) and Kevin Sekniqi (co-founder of AVA Labs) on the top of scaling Ethereum. We attempt to lay out the landscape of what that term even means, what the current bottleneck fo scaling is in decentralized systems, and how Athereum potentially affects these issues. There's quite a bit of back and forth, and plenty of subtlety for argumentation! Enjoy the listen and then chime in with your thoughts!

This episode is all about the interview. It was a phenomenal one! Cory Doctorow is a journalist, author, and technologist. Know for his advocating and the freedom of expression on the internet; he is part of the EFF. Author of the book, "Down and out in the Magic Kingdom." A story know for the use of a digital currency called whuffies. Cory very eloquently illustrates the cases for cryptocurrency, as well as the current state of crypto, which leaves much to be longed for. Cryptocurrency is not painting the best picture as a community for who uses these cryptocurrencies. And, from an outsider looking in, that is a large barrier to entry. Cory is a longtime advocate for Open Sources Software, Privacy, and Internet freedom in general. Hates DRM(Digital Rights Management) all his books on his site for both audio and digital are DRM Free.   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 co

Evan Van Ness co-hosts with Lucian this week to discuss DevCon in Osaka, Japan. We talk about our experiences, joys, and frustrations with what has grown to be the premier event for people working and building in the blockchain ecosystem.

If you know the show, you know we are very keen to see Plasma implemented as a technology. To discuss the progress in the past year, we have the great pleasure of bringing on Kelvin Fichter, former Plasma researcher with OmiseGo and the Plasma Group. We talk about the advancements made, and how the specification is gradually coalescing into a singular vision. We also get into some more heady topics such as the nature of trust in society and the role language in trusting someone.

Blockchain and gaming...it should be a combination as powerful as peanut butter and jelly, or cheese and prosciutto, or hot sauce and popcorn...but it has been a slow take off for the melding of these industries. Corey and Demetrick discuss what some of the perks of the NFTs can offer up to the gaming industry and some scenarios in which cyrpto can be great for the gaming industry. Also, Corey interviews Benny Giang of Cheeze Wizards. Cheese Wizard blockchain battle royal game on Ethereum created by the same company Dapper Labs that created Cryptokitties in 2017 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. 

We read Cryptocurrency headlines. It used to be kind of serious...but only kind of. Now, we mainly try to take the news seriously because it is kind of redundant and have fun in that attempt. Welcome to the best crypto show you're going to hear for the rest of your life. You're welcome.

Nano is providing a new approach to fee-less pure payments networks. We are privileged to speak with Colin LeMahieu, CEO of Nano to discuss their DAG voting-based consensus protocol, their accounts-blockchain model, and their NanoPoW for memory-hard PoW to replace fees in a network. Interesting stuff, and definitely a great conversation.

In this episode Dee and Dr. Petty discuss the merits of using cryptocurrency as a payment system. This naturally leads to a discussion about scaling the Bitcoin Blockchain. Can crypto scale? That is the question. Also, Tim Cook doesn't like blockchains too much, let alone cryptocurrency. Well, Dee has some news for Mr. Cook about how the ole Federal Reserve functions. This week's interview is Nicolas Dorier. Nicolas has been a Bitcoin developer on Bitcoin Core and is the CEO of a BTCPay Server. BTCPay Server is an open-source payment processor to challenge BitPay in the Bitcoin payment market.

We read Cryptocurrency headlines. It used to be kind of serious...but only kind of. Now, we mainly try to take the news seriously because it is kind of redundant and have fun in that attempt. Welcome to the best crypto show you're going to hear for the rest of your life. You're welcome!

This episode, Corey interviews Ayo Akinyele, a former security researcher turned CEO of Bolt Labs. Bolt Labs is a privacy solution for the Lightning Network which allows for an asymmetry of knowledge in the channel. While this is quite useful and interesting, we instead turn our focus on things such as attribute-based encryption, a security researcher's view of blockchain systems, and much more. Join us for an awesome conversation of where we are as a community, and where we're going!

Today we announce the start of Hashing It Out Panels, a show where we bring on multiple domain experts to discuss a given topic. Today we dive into what the developer experience will be like for Ethereum's Serenity (also called ETH2.0). We talk about the roadmap, current state, available tooling, security and more!

In this week's episode Corey goes on a spirit hike to elevate his mind body and soul leaving Dee to tag in Wayne (Yes2Crypto) as the Co-Host. The Lightning Network raises the same concerns for Dee that he has had for years. Since 2016 he has worried about the evolution of the middle man and Wayne comes through to ease his mindset. It's all about time. We are still very early. This week's interview is Alex Bosworth. Alex is one of the main engineers on the lightning network infrastructure and co-author of the recent Lightning Loop implementation with Bryan Wu. Lightning Loop seeks to address the liquidity issues with lightning channels. Alex is also a CEO of Yall, a site in which users can be paid using the lightning network.

Evan Van Ness co-hosts with Lucian this week to discuss GitCoin matching donations and sustaining open source contributions which leads to comments on Parity and their commitment to their Eth 1 client (a sensitive but seemingly unavoidable topic). The SEC has made some decisions on Kik, Sia, and Block.One, the consequences of which could reverberate to other projects. Connext v2 is out and y'all better start using it!

We read Cryptocurrency headlines. It used to be kind of serious...but only kind of. Now, we mainly try to take the news seriously because it is kind of redundant and have fun in that attempt. Welcome to the best crypto show you're going to hear for the rest of your life. You're welcome.

We read Cryptocurrency headlines. It used to be kind of serious...but only kind of. Now, we mainly try to take the news seriously because it is kind of redundant and have fun in that attempt. Welcome to the best crypto show you're going to hear for the rest of your life. You're welcome.

We read Cryptocurrency headlines. It used to be kind of serious...but only kind of. Now, we mainly try to take the news seriously because it is kind of redundant and have fun in that attempt. Welcome to the best crypto show you're going to hear for the rest of your life. You're welcome.

Evan Van Ness is joining Lucian as co-host this week to discuss the bounty on his head, Eth2 interoperability between 7 client implementations, and zero knowledge (zk) mixers. They digress into how zk is being used for privacy and scaling in new ways that are already making it onto main net.

In today's episode, Corey and Collin talk with Anatoly Yakovenko, the Co-Founder and CEO of Solana. Solana is a blockchain platform attempting to scale transactions without the need of sharding and we want to know how they plan to do it. Join us as we dive into their strategy, their current progress, and where they plan to go. We ask the right questions to get you to the right answers on how this technology works, so come listen and enjoy!

In this episode Dee and Dr. Petty bring up the conversation of hardware wallets and personal security. We discuss the pros and cons of hardware wallets and why you should or should not buy one. Are hardware wallets even the final form of paramount crypto security? There is also an interview with an Industrial Engineer, Rick V. He is making building a node and hardware wallet security a thing anyone can do. With very neat, secure, and interesting 3D printed accessories for these two sectors of the Bitcoin space. More people are coming on board and securing their Bitcoin with hardware devices.

In this episode, Corey and Dee get a dose of ether from the host of Dose of Ether, Mr. Lucian. What transpires is a sicussion about the dos and don'ts, ins and outs, and pros and cons of DAOs. It has been a mightly long time since The DAO, and the Decentralized Autonomous Organization is on the road to the comeback tour! Celsius Network, MakerDAO, and other organizations are trying their hand in launching this programmatic organization. A business built on code, living on code, or dying by code.Enjoy!A link:DAO blog - https://kronosapiens.github.io/blog/2019/06/16/aragon-daostack-colony-moloch.html 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.