{"id":4053,"date":"2018-05-22T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/?p=4053"},"modified":"2018-05-22T02:54:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T02:54:47","slug":"hashing-it-out-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/hashing-it-out-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Hashing It Out #8: Mahnush Movahedi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/6620540\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"one-half column\">Episode 07<\/div><div class=\"one-half column last\">May 22, 2018 \u2014 68 mins<\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div> <strong>Guests: Mahnush Movahedi<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We talk with Mahnush Movahedi of DFINITY to explain the fundamental innovation behind DFINITY&#8217;s consensus system. She explains how threshold relay works, how groups are determined in consensus, and how cryptographic deterministic randomness drive consensus as a fast and light-weight substitute for Proof of Work. We learn about how this impacts the architecture for state and network protocol design. This episode really shows why Mahnush, a PhD Yale postdoctoral computer scientist with a focus on multiparty computation, would choose DFINITY as the project to join to innovate on consensus protocols.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dfinity.org\/scholarships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/dfinity.org\/scholarships<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; DFINITY Scholarship Program<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1805.04548\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1805.04548<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; DFINITY Consensus System<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guests: Mahnush Movahedi We talk with Mahnush Movahedi of DFINITY to explain the fundamental innovation behind DFINITY&#8217;s consensus system. She explains how threshold relay works, how groups are determined in consensus, and how cryptographic deterministic randomness drive consensus as a fast and light-weight substitute for Proof of Work. We learn about how this impacts the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4054,"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":[99],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053"}],"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=4053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4058,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053\/revisions\/4058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebitcoinpodcast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}