Guests: Conor Colwell One of the biggest challenges if we want to secure the Internet of Things centers on identity. Specifically: how will we go about getting billions or hundreds of billions of intelligent devices to connect and communicate with each other securely? It’s not just about Tesla knowing that the device on the other […]
Guests: JJ & Steven McKie BCoin is a fullnode bitcoin client which implements all the latest BIPs (BIP 150, 151, and more) and includes support for SegWit. Since bcoin is a fullnode it can process the entire blockchain just like bitcoincore and btcd. BCoin is implemented in pure javascript, and is browserify-able (this means compiling […]
Guests: Ryan X. Charles It is hard to think it’s been eight months since Ryan X Charles came onto our show, as we are in dire need of an update on what he was been working on. There are a lot of great content creators on the internet, but most of them aren’t earning any […]
Guests: Collin Thompson It’s no secret that tech has a diversity problem. Women are largely underrepresented, and Blacks and Latinos are almost invisible. We also suffer from an innovation gap when education only hits one segment of our population. When this happens, startups just cater to “first world” problems. We talk about these race issues […]
Guests: Matej Michalko The number-one corporate objective, when crossing the chasm, is to secure a distribution channel into the mainstream market, one with which the pragmatist customer will be comfortable. This objective comes before revenues, before profits, before press, even before customer satisfaction. All these other factors can be fixed later – but only if the […]
Guests: Christopher David When a ballot proposal that would have replaced the city ordinance failed, Uber and Lyft left Austin, TX as promised. Since May 9, there have been no ride-sharing services available in this city of almost a million people. So it’s no surprise that tech-savvy Austinites, like this episodes special guest, Christopher David, […]
Guests: Olaoluwa Osuntokun + Bitcoin Justice League We (up ’til now) haven’t talked to much about the Lightning Network. In order to understand the Lightning Network, one must first have a basic understanding of bitcoin. Duplex micropayment channels solve a multitude of problems. For one they enable near-infinite scalability for digital payments based on Bitcoin. Bitcoin transactions […]
Guests: Anthony Di Iorio The “vibe” around Bitcoin has been neutral to negative for two years now and plenty of bitcoiners are tiring of the politics around the block size limit. Ethereum is young and exciting but not like anything else in the crypto space. It’s in a league of it’s own. A recurring theme […]
Guests: Mariana Dahan Our guest today is Mariana Dahan who not only holds a PhD degree from ESCP Europe Business School and Paris II University in France, but she is the Senior Operations Officer in the Office of the World Bank catalyzing progress towards identification systems using 21st century technology solutions. With the recent Bitfinex hack and […]
Guests: Max Kordek Part II of the Steven McKie character piece wraps up and in addition, this episode we are talking with Max Kordek, the founder of a new decentralized platform called Lisk. Lisk had an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) early 2016 and collected 14,000 Bitcoin. You do the math on that. That’s Arab money […]
