{"id":3148,"date":"2017-11-30T14:08:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T14:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/?p=3148"},"modified":"2017-11-30T14:08:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T14:08:44","slug":"an-ethereum-podcast-episode-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/an-ethereum-podcast-episode-6\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ethereum Podcast: Episode #6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/5995449\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/00dda8\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"one-half column\">Episode 6<\/div><div class=\"one-half column last\">November 30, 2017 \u2014 41 mins<\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div> <strong>Guests: David Rugendyke, founder of RocketPool<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>RocketPool is a mining pool for proof-of-stake Casper.<\/p>\n<p>While none of the parameters of Casper are final, a minimum of 1000 ETH has been discussed as a requirement for staking. RocketPool makes staking accessible to non-whales.<\/p>\n<p>David and I discuss how he\u2019s architected RocketPool for security of funds and also the devops behind making sure that your node is constantly online. RocketPool will use nodes around the world \u2014 but what happens if the data center catches fire where your Ether is staked?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m also excited that RocketPool is doing a proportional refund cap for their ongoing token sale. I\u2019ve tried to convince more than few sales to do a proportional refund cap, but essentially RocketPool is the first to do a proportional refund cap.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to ConsenSys for making this podcast possible.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more visit <a href=\"\u201chttp:\/\/www.rocketpool.net\">RocketPool<\/a> and join their Slack channel.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow me on Twitter at @evanvanness_van_ness or find me at <a href=\"\u201chttp:\/\/www.evanvanness.com\u201d\">EvanVanNess.com<\/a>. Check out <a href=\"\u201chttp:\/\/www.weekinethereum.com\u201d\">Week in Ethereum News<\/a> and <a href=\"\u201chttp:\/\/www.tokensalecalendar.com\u201d\">Token Sale Calendar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guests: David Rugendyke, founder of RocketPool RocketPool is a mining pool for proof-of-stake Casper. While none of the parameters of Casper are final, a minimum of 1000 ETH has been discussed as a requirement for staking. RocketPool makes staking accessible to non-whales. David and I discuss how he\u2019s architected RocketPool for security of funds and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2710,"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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148"}],"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=3148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3149,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions\/3149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}