This episode features Jay and Ken from Cypher Core. Cypher Core offers a staking as a service platform for Proof of Stake protocols. Primarily focused on Cosmos network, we talk with them about their experience implementing their system, incentive models involved with staking services, and the overall Cosmos community. Links: – decentralization blog – cyphercore.io – Ken’s Twitter… Continue reading Hashing It Out #65 – Cypher Core – Jay Jie and Ken Trueba
Author: Corey Petty
Dose of Ether #32: DevCon 5 Talk Recommendations
Evan Van Ness and Lucian provide recommendations for talks to listen to from DevCon. There was a lot of content to sort through so we try to help you find talks that would interest you. Links: List of Talks Danny Ryan – Eth 2.0 tldr Péter Szilágyi – Monitoring an Ethereum infrastructure Barry Whitehat –… Continue reading Dose of Ether #32: DevCon 5 Talk Recommendations
HIO Panels #2 – Scaling Ethereum – Nick Johnson and Kevin Sekniqi
On the second episode of Hashing It Out Panels, Corey moderates a discussion between Nick Johnson (lead developer of ENS) and Kevin Sekniqi (co-founder of AVA Labs) on the top of scaling Ethereum. We attempt to lay out the landscape of what that term even means, what the current bottleneck fo scaling is in decentralized systems, and how Athereum potentially affects… Continue reading HIO Panels #2 – Scaling Ethereum – Nick Johnson and Kevin Sekniqi
The Bitcoin Podcast #279 – Cory Doctorow – Journalist and Author
This episode is all about the interview. It was a phenomenal one! Cory Doctorow is a journalist, author, and technologist. Know for his advocating and the freedom of expression on the internet; he is part of the EFF. Author of the book Down and out in the Magic Kingdom. A story know for the use… Continue reading The Bitcoin Podcast #279 – Cory Doctorow – Journalist and Author
Hashing It Out #64 – Plasma – Kelvin Fichter
If you know the show, you know we are very keen to see Plasma implemented as a technology. To discuss the progress in the past year, we have the great pleasure of bringing on Kelvin Fichter, former Plasma researcher with OmiseGo and the Plasma Group. We talk about the advancements made, and how the specification… Continue reading Hashing It Out #64 – Plasma – Kelvin Fichter
Hashing It Out #63 – Nano – Colin LeMahieu
Nano is providing a new approach to fee-less pure payments networks. We are privileged to speak with Colin LeMahieu, CEO of Nano to discuss their DAG voting-based consensus protocol, their accounts-blockchain model, and their NanoPoW for memory-hard PoW to replace fees in a network. Interesting stuff, and definitely a great conversation. Links https://nano.org/ https://twitter.com/nano https://github.com/nanocurrency… Continue reading Hashing It Out #63 – Nano – Colin LeMahieu
The Bitcoin Podcast #277 – Nicolas Dorier – BTCPay Server
In this episode Dee and Dr. Petty discuss the merits of using cryptocurrency as a payment system. This naturally leads to a discussion about scaling the Bitcoin Blockchain. Can crypto scale? That is the question. Also, Tim Cook doesn’t like blockchains too much, let alone cryptocurrency. Well, Dee has some news for Mr. Cook… Continue reading The Bitcoin Podcast #277 – Nicolas Dorier – BTCPay Server
Hashing It Out #62 – Bolt Labs – Ayo Akinyele
This episode, Corey interviews Ayo Akinyele, a former security researcher turned CEO of Bolt Labs. Bolt Labs is a privacy solution for the Lightning Network which allows for an asymmetry of knowledge in the channel. While this is quite useful and interesting, we instead turn our focus on things such as attribute-based encryption, a security… Continue reading Hashing It Out #62 – Bolt Labs – Ayo Akinyele
HIO Panels #1 – Ethereum’s Serenity (ETH2.0) Developer Experience
Today we announce the start of Hashing It Out Panels, a show where we bring on multiple domain experts to discuss a given topic. Today we dive into what the developer experience will be like for Ethereum’s Serenity (also called ETH2.0). We talk about the roadmap, current state, available tooling, security and more! Corey Petty… Continue reading HIO Panels #1 – Ethereum’s Serenity (ETH2.0) Developer Experience
The Bitcoin Podcast #276 – Alex Bosworth and the Lightning Loop
In this week’s episode Corey goes on a spirit hike to elevate his mind body and soul leaving Dee to tag in Wayne (Yes2Crypto) as the Co-Host. The Lightning Network raises the same concerns for Dee that he has had for years. Since 2016 he has worried about the evolution of the middle man and… Continue reading The Bitcoin Podcast #276 – Alex Bosworth and the Lightning Loop