Digital Cash Network

Monero's former lead maintainer, Riccardo Spagni a.k.a. FluffyPony, was arrested recently on fraud and theft charges stemming from a former workplace over 10 years ago. But this could mean a lot more, especially in light of the recently-discovered security and privacy vulnerabilities in MyMonero, the infamous web wallet and infrastructure for the Monero ecosystem. Could this expose previous thefts...

Chief Experience Officer of Flote, Chuck Williams, comes on the Digital Cash Rundown to rant about all the crazy stuff going on in the crypto world today, including Venezuela issuing another central bank digital currency (CBDC), including cutting off six zeroes from the supply. But we spend most of the time talking about the new US infrastructure bill, and the proposed regulations on cryptocurrenc...

Crypto pioneer and ShapeShift founder Erik Voorhees comes on the podcast to talk about his most radical decision to date: decentralizing ShapeShift fully into a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). We talk the company's history, and how regulatory issues caused significant issues, and how new decentralized exchange architecture allowed for a shift to something more sustainable. We also tal...

Samuel Westrich, a.k.a. QuantumExplorer, the new CTO of Dash Core Group, comes on the Dash Podcast to talk his agenda as CTO, and all the new things we can expect. We cover a diverse series of topics from Evolution (now Platform) delays year after year, communication on updates, trustless masternode shares, APIs and SDKs for community (notably Dash Incubator) developers to use, BLS signatures for...

Eric Olson comes on the Digital Cash Rundown to talk about the state of the crypto world today, including institutions gobbling up Bitcoin and other cryptos faster than small players can get at them, and what implications that has for the future and decentralization of the space. We also mention Binance being banned by Malaysia, and where the cryptospace giant goes from here after so many legal an...

Spencer Kuzara comes back on the Rundown to talk the latest happenings, including of course the high-profile THORChain exploits/hacks resulting in the loss of millions of dollars, and their path forward with the "Chaosnet" approach to mainnet testing and the associated risks. We also go over Twitter's plan to include Bitcoin tipping on the platform, and the technical means by which that may be ach...

LBRY and Odysee CEO Jeremy Kauffman comes back on the podcast to talk about the recent progress both have had, but also to address some concerns as to the future, particularly in the age of the SEC's lawsuit against LBRY, which Kauffman believes may be looking shakier by the day. We talk about Odysee's move to facilitate credit card payments on the platform without using the native token, as well...

The incomparable Mark Mason comes on the Dash Podcast to talk, for once, about everything wrong with, and holding back, Dash. At the risk of controversy, we cover all the issues with leadership, missed opportunities, and more, that have affected the project over the years. And finally, we turn towards solutions: the Dash Incubator, which funds decentralized development, the Incubator model, and th...

The great Eléonore Blanc comes on the Digital Cash Rundown to rant about all kinds of awesome things, foremost among them being THORchain, what it means for the future of decentralized finance, and (unfortunately) the recent exploits that cost millions of dollars and what that means for the "Chaosnet" approach the project is taking. We also talk about Dogecoin's co-founder and his current cynicism...

Paul Puey, CEO of Edge Wallet, comes on the Rundown to talk all things crypto, including the SEC's ongoing Bitconnect settlement where years later some of cryptocurrency's biggest scammers are finally paying fines, and what that means for the rest of the space. We also covered CBDCs, central bank digital currencies, and what they offer vs. other traditional currencies and cryptocurrencies. Finally...

Dash Core Group's new head of marketing Arden Goldstein joins the Dash Podcast for a grand intro into the community. She details her background on Dash, and her quest to define the role and marketing opportunities now. We cover the marketing deficiencies of Dash in the past and the challenges of the future, including website SEO issues, and reaching new users, including regular non-technical peopl...

Developer and Bitcoin Cash advocate Chris Pacia comes on the podcast to mostly rant about Bitcoin maximalism. We rant about the Lightning network, and the difficulties in onboarding hundreds of thousands of people, as well as Chris and his early days with Mike Hearn criticizing the abilities of Lightning to solve on-chain scaling. We also go over PorcFest, and the Bitcoin maximalist debates and th...

On this special episode of the Digital Cash Rundown, Hilawe and Eric join us live from PorcFest, the Porcupine Freedom Festival, an annual gathering of thousands of liberty lovers from around the world. We cover what makes this festival and movement so special to the cryptocurrency world, from its humble beginnings to now the place of legend. We of course also cover the actual commercial scene whe...

Glenn Austin, CFO of Dash Core Group, comes on the Dash Podcast to discuss all things finance and regulation surrounding Dash. We go into deep discussion into DCG's budgetary considerations, including their long-term sustainability over not only the bull market but the coming bear market, and their perceived ability to finishing hiring outstanding positions and maintain them for the foreseeable fu...

El Salvador recently recognized Bitcoin as legal tender, which is huge news for global cryptocurrency adoption! Some of the details of what the law entails, however, may make it a tricky proposition for merchants seeking to become compliant with the new law and accept Bitcoin. Here I break downt he various challenges facing the onboarding of an entire nation to the Lightning Network. Donate - Spon...

Eléonore comes back on the Digital Cash Rundown for a particularly long and comprehensive episode where we go into the the adoption and regulatory issues facing cryptocurrency today, including of course the Salvadoran adoption experiment, where Bitcoin has been declared legal tender by the government, potentially moving the cryptospace forward but posing some interesting and daunting onboarding pr...

Mike Lewis, Dash Investment Foundation supervisor, comes on the podcast to talk about the DIF in-depth and answer some questions. We go over the mission of the world's first decentralized hedge fund, and how it plans to both help the Dash ecosystem and obtain a return on investment. We talk about the types of investments that are pursued, including legal agreements with companies, something that w...

Lorenzo Rey comes on the Digital Cash Rundown to talk about the latest cray happenings in crypto, including of course the big Bitcoin conference in Miami and all the scaling problems and maximalism it displayed. We also talked about Elon Musk's influence over the crypto prices, and the ongoing Dogecoin saga. We also spent quite a bit talking about the major Bitcoin forks, Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin...

Both Dogecoin and Bitcoin Cash have had interesting years during the bull market and have each captured their own sort of attention. But despite this, daily transactions for both have actually gone down recently! Why is this? Two very different reasons. I break down what the data actually says and the possible reasons for this. Hopefully you learn something from this! Donate - Sponsors Thank you s...

The one and only Chuck Williams comes back on the podcast to talk the latest crypto happenings! In this installment we go deep into regulation, not just the SEC seeking to regulate crypto exchanges, but on the long-term game plan of regulators as they face a world which is slowly slipping from their fingers. We go into Elon Musk and the Bitcoin energy expenditure conundrum, as well as its origins...

Chad Barraford, technical lead for THORchain, comes on the podcast to discuss the project from start-to-finish: what THORchain is, how it manages to enable cross-chain decentralized exchange trading without custodial solutions or requiring the end user to interact directly with the RUNE token. We go into detail on how the system works, how one goes about running a THOR node, how one provides liqui...

Dash Core developer Pasta comes on the Dash Podcast immediately following the version 0.17 release to explain everything that's in it, and a whole lot more. We cover some of the basic improvements, as well as the rebranding of the mixing function to CoinJoin, and the numerous Bitcoin backports. We go deep into BLS signatures and compare them to Schnorr, and go into the various signature schemes an...

Scott Cunningham comes back on the Rundown to talk about the current state of the crypto markets, including the epic crypto crash, which may or may not have ended the bull run. We talk the effects of China FUD about new crypto bans coming on the markets, but mostly we talk about Elon Musk and the energy issues highlighted on Bitcoin, and whether or not it's an issue for proof-of-work cryptocurrenc...

Bitcoin perma-bull Anthony Pompliano, a.k.a. Pomp, recently came out with a new pizza company, Bitcoin Pizza, to sell junk food and raise some money for Bitcoin protocol development while he's at it. But the company, in a bizarre twist of fate, doesn't even take Bitcoin! Why is this? Here's my thoughts. Donate - Sponsors Thank you so much for listening! Please leave a tip if you enjoy the content,...

Kurt Wuckert Jr. comes on the Digital Cash Rundown once again to talk the latest crypto happenings, mostly about Bitcoin and Elon Musk, of course. We discuss Musk's Bitcoin-manipulating antics, which of course launches a discussion into the energy efficienty of proof-of-work mining, and comparisons to proof-of-stake. We also talk Dogecoin, and whether or not there will ever be any significant deve...