On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Petty sit down with the Founder and CEO of Spankchain, Ameen Soleimani. Spankchain is a platform for monetized webcam streaming; utilizing what are called Ethereum “state channels” to facilitate realtime payments over live-streaming adult video content. Spankchain also plans to debut the first ever “state-channel ICO” which… Continue reading BlockChannel Episode 32: Greasing the Blockchain, with Spankchain
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BlockChannel Episode 30: To Bee or Not to Bee
On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Corey Petty, and Dee sit down with Jonathan Chou from Bee Token. Jon is working with a word-class team of Silicon Valley engineers and designers on a AirBnB-esque service for the Ethereum public blockchain; complete with its own token, of course! We discuss his background, vision for the platform,… Continue reading BlockChannel Episode 30: To Bee or Not to Bee
BlockChannel Episode 29: Making Sense of Cent.co
On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Petty sit down with the founders of Cent.co, Max Brody and Cameron Hejazi. Cent, presently, is a Quora-like Q&A platform built on the Ethereum blockchain. Their service allows you to post questions with monetary bounties via Ethereum smart-contracts. By being a member of Cent, you can then answer… Continue reading BlockChannel Episode 29: Making Sense of Cent.co
BlockChannel Episode 26: Off the Grid, with Grid+
On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie & Petty enter a mental handicap cage match in our first ever triple-header with some of the team behind Grid+. Their project aims to create P2P decentralized markets for sharing and selling energy using Ethereum-based smart contracts. Their project seeks to tap into the sustainability movement as a way… Continue reading BlockChannel Episode 26: Off the Grid, with Grid+
BlockChannel Episode 25: Building Digital Communities, with District0x
On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Petty sit down with Joe Urgo and Matus Lestan of the District0x team. What originally started as a few Ethereum-based token contracts for creating a service for freelancing, has now evolved into an upcoming system for creating and managing digital communities and decentralized markets called “Districts”, many… Continue reading BlockChannel Episode 25: Building Digital Communities, with District0x
BlockChannel Episode 23: Unmasking the Future, with Metamask
On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee, and Dr. Petty are joined by Dan Finlay from the Metamask team. Metamask is a chrome extension that enables you to access a variety of different ethereum related tokens in order to transact and interact with the web — with the additional capabilities of interfacing with the Ethereum public chain.… Continue reading BlockChannel Episode 23: Unmasking the Future, with Metamask
BlockChannel Episode 20: Building Across the Globe, with ConsenSys
On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Dr. Petty are joined by John Lilic of ConsenSys. John’s role has been busy working to proliferate their vision for Ethereum everywhere, all over the globe across various enterprise sectors. They’ve been very successful thus far (have you seen the price of ETH? lol jk); so John… Continue reading BlockChannel Episode 20: Building Across the Globe, with ConsenSys
BlockChannel Episode 19: Virtual Land in the Clouds, with Urbit
On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Dr. Petty put on their hella skeptical caps, and sit down with Galen and Curtis from the Urbit project. Urbit claims/seeks to be a “virtual land in the clouds” that will enable siloed, encapsulated computing environments for users. They believe in a new type of digital freedom… Continue reading BlockChannel Episode 19: Virtual Land in the Clouds, with Urbit
BlockChannel Episode 18: Where You At? What’s Your Status.im?
On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Dr. Petty finally get a chance to have a chat with Jarrad Hope and Carl Bennetts of Status. After many reschedules due to their non-stop hustling the past few months since the announcement of their project — we got the scoop. We get an inside look into how Jarrad… Continue reading BlockChannel Episode 18: Where You At? What’s Your Status.im?
BlockChannel Episode 17: Putting the Fun in Coin, with CoinFund
On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dee & Dr. Petty are joined by Jake Brukhman of Coinfund. Jake is a crypto nerd (an honorable title) with a mission to bring sound investment practices to interested investors/technologists/tech junkies like yourself. He walks us through his credentials, then breaks down his plans for CoinFund going forward… Continue reading BlockChannel Episode 17: Putting the Fun in Coin, with CoinFund