{"id":1250,"date":"2016-08-21T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2016-08-21T13:38:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T13:38:14","slug":"episode-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/episode-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode #81: Redefining Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/4606217\/height\/90\/width\/640\/theme\/custom\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/autoplay\/no\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/no-cache\/true\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/ffaa00\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"one-half column\">Episode 81<\/div><div class=\"one-half column last\">August 21, 2016 \u2014 80 mins<\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div> <strong>Guests: Mariana Dahan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our guest today is Mariana Dahan who not only\u00a0holds a PhD degree from ESCP Europe Business School and Paris II University in France, but she\u00a0is the Senior Operations Officer in the Office of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">World Bank<\/a> catalyzing progress towards identification systems using 21st century technology solutions.<\/p>\n<p>With the recent Bitfinex hack and even going back to the 2008 crisis \u2013 best viewed as a breakdown in public trust in the banks\u2019 role as ledger-keepers, the entire notion of centralized trust is being questioned. With Google Trends data showing that searches for the word \u201c<em>blockchain<\/em>\u201d have exponentially increased, we may be entering the peak of the hype cycle for blockchain and distributed ledger technology.\u00a0But here\u2019s the thing: the blockchain is a major breakthrough. That\u2019s because its decentralized approach to verifying changes in important information addresses the centuries-old problem of trust, a social resource that is all too often in short supply, especially amid the current era\u2019s rampant concerns over the security of valuable data.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1247\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.worldbank.org\/ic4d\/files\/ic4d\/blockchain.jpg\" alt=\"78headerarthur2\" width=\"800\" height=\"478\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Financial transactions: trust bearing and encapsulating of the value of money throughout history<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition, a listener from the show, James, based in London, joins us for the roundtable! He initially began BitcoinMinersUK to sell just mining hardware, now he has become a lot more interested in Bitcoin and is looking into providing advice on mining for people who use renewable energy and building exchange, marketplace and other services.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Outro:<\/strong>\u00a0https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/alexanderjlewis\/afternoon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guests: Mariana Dahan Our guest today is Mariana Dahan who not only\u00a0holds a PhD degree from ESCP Europe Business School and Paris II University in France, but she\u00a0is 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","unlock_protocol_post_locks":"","publish_to_discourse":"","publish_post_category":"","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"","discourse_permalink":"","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}