Swan is an application that allows you to buy bitcoin through your bank account in small amounts and create a Bitcoin Savings Account automatically. The boys bring on Brady Swenson, Chief Education Officer of Swan to discuss how this works and why someone would want to use this. During the roundtable, Dee and Corey discuss… Continue reading The Bitcoin Podcast #311 – Swan – Brady Swensen
Author: Corey Petty
Blocked by Design #3 – Weaponized Design
What if one day you woke up and realized the social impact project you worked on is now a tool for oppression? How about if that innocuous gamified app you’ve been using happens to also be a surveillance tool for hackers? Where do we draw the line between “ethical” and “poor” design? Find out more… Continue reading Blocked by Design #3 – Weaponized Design
Blocked by Design #2 – Distributed Design – Sarah Mills
Aqeel and Sarah Mills the Head of Design @ Consensys sit down to do a deep-dive on the nuances of approaching design & creative for decentralized technologies while working with a distributed team. The Web3 / Blockchain eco-system is leading the way for the adoption and acceptance of remote-first work environments, facing new challenges and… Continue reading Blocked by Design #2 – Distributed Design – Sarah Mills
BlockChannel #66 – Cameron Robertson & Paul Gerhardt – Kong Cash
On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Dr. Petty join the founders Cameron Robertson (CEO) and Paul Gerhardt (CTO) to discuss what we believe is an innovation in bridging digital money with physical, secure digital hardware. They present us Kong, their digital cash equivalent: possessing the ability to act as a fungible representation of… Continue reading BlockChannel #66 – Cameron Robertson & Paul Gerhardt – Kong Cash
Hashing It Out #68 – Sergi Delgado – Whatsat and Lightning
Today’s episode we return from a holiday break to discuss an instant messaging proof of concept on the Lightning Network called Whatsat with Sergi Delgado from PISA Research. We talk about how it works, its limitations, what could be built from it. This then leads into specifics about the lightning network itself, and then issues… Continue reading Hashing It Out #68 – Sergi Delgado – Whatsat and Lightning
BlockChannel #65 – Crypto Product Engineers, with Austin Griffith
On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty have a friendly chat with your favorite neighborhood developer, Austin Griffith. Creator of the burner wallet, Austin is one of the leading developers focused on usability and creating the “aha!” moments necessary to bridge traditional software developers and consumers, over into the bright and bountiful world… Continue reading BlockChannel #65 – Crypto Product Engineers, with Austin Griffith
BlockChannel #64 – Scrubbing Blocks Clean, with WhiteBlock
On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty sit down with Zak Cole, CEO and blockchain-literate extraordinaire of WhiteBlock. They’re working on the testing and implementation of cryptographically assured blockchain-based protocols; all built with their in-house designed open source testing suite. Their tools allow blockchain architects and developers the means to test their public… Continue reading BlockChannel #64 – Scrubbing Blocks Clean, with WhiteBlock
Hashing It Out #67 – Optimistic Rollups – John Adler
Layer 2 scaling solutions have gone through a lot of iterations and disappointing conclusions in the past few years. There is a newer solution, which is boasting some positive (and safe) results: Optimistic Rollups. John Adler, Blockchain Researcher at Consensys, speaks on the history of Layer 2 solutions and describes Optimistic Rollups and how they… Continue reading Hashing It Out #67 – Optimistic Rollups – John Adler
Hashing It Out #66 – TrueBlocks – Thomas Jay Rush
The Ethereum ecosystem is very attractive to creators and data analysts, attracting tops engineers with its novel set of problems. Thomas Jay Rush, CEO of TrueBlocks.io is one such mind. He saw a problem with Ethereum’s accounting and built a suite of tools to enable highly-details and lightning fast dives into the data of Ethereum,… Continue reading Hashing It Out #66 – TrueBlocks – Thomas Jay Rush
The Bitcoin Podcast #281: Eric Fulton of Keybase
Guest-Host Taylor Monahan joins the round table, and once again, mass adoption is brought up but taking a more psychological approach to the issue. The discussion covers the gamut of problems with mass adoption who is in the space, custodial companies, quantitative easement, age of empires, the humanities, and how far down the rabbit hole… Continue reading The Bitcoin Podcast #281: Eric Fulton of Keybase