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CoinSummit London Conference Series – July 10 and 11, 2014 Our second CoinSummit Episode is out! In it we have two fantastic interviews. In the first one we discussed transaction fees, the economics of Bitcoin and the coming relaunch of Coinometrics with Jonathan Levin. Jonathan is a co-founder of Coinometrics and just finished his Master’s thesis on Bitcoin at Oxford University. In the second int...

Radko Albrecht joins us to discuss his startup, the Bitcoin-based peer-to-peer lending platform, BitBond . We dove deeply into why Bitcoin-based peer-to-peer lending is such a compelling proposal. We also talked about a lot of the intricacies such as volatility, reputation and loans pegged to fiat currencies. The final part we discussed raising venture capital for European Bitcoin startups and how...

CoinSummit London Conference Series – July 10 and 11, 2014 We start our coverage of CoinSummit with Garrick Hileman, CoinDesk contributor & Economic Historian at LSE, who delivers the opening “State of Bitcoin” keynote, a data-driven assessment of how the Bitcoin Ecosystem is developing. The second part of the episode features a panel discussion called Will Bitcoin Last the Distance where Jeff...

Steven Morell and Gabriel Mirón join us to discuss the recent New York Department of Financial Services BitLicense proposal. Our regulatory affairs correspondent Siân Jones also joins us briefly to give a general overview of this proposed legislation. We also take the opportunity to talk about Bitcoin’s development in Latin America, notably as a means to disrupt the remittance market, a multi-bill...

This episode is part of our coverage of the Bitcoin 2014 Conference which took place in Amsterdam from May 15 to 17, 2014. These interviews were conducted by Siân Jones and focus on the area of regulation. Topics covered in this episode: Patrick Murck, General council of the Bitcoin Foundation Preston Byrne, Securitisation lawyer at Norton Rose Fulbright in London This episode is hosted by Siân Jo...

The recent publication of a European Banking Authority opinion on “virtual currencies” has caused great concern among actors of the Bitcoin ecosystem. Siân Jones joins us to dissect this 46-page document and the 70+ risks it identifies. Siân also helps us better understand the EBA, its role and the extent of its influence in the European Union. We also briefly recap the Coinsummit conference which...

This episode is part of our coverage of the Bitcoin 2014 Conference which took place in Amsterdam from May 15 to 17, 2014. These interviews were conducted by Siân Jones and focus on the area of regulation. Topics covered in this episode: Bryan Skarlatos, Partner at Kostelanetz & Fink Estaban van Goor, Indirect Tax Lawyer at PwC Jerry Brito, research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Maso...

Today we’re joined by two guests. Tatiana Moroz is a singer-songwriter, anti-war activist and a very active bitcoin enthusiast and evangelist. Recently, Tatiana created Tatiana Coin, the very first musical artist coin on the Counterparty Protocol. She also recently joined Bitcoin Magazine as their sales director and joins us from New York. Wendell Davis is also with us again from Thailand. He’s th...

Topics covered in this episode: Anthony di Iorio (Founder Decentral, Founder Ethereum, Toronto Bitcoin Meetup, Executive Director Bitcoin Alliance of Canada) Arthur Corry (Managing Director Decentral Accelerate) Ethan Wilding (Resident Philosopher and Ethereum) Michael Perklin (Bitcoinsultants, Director Bitcoin Alliance Canada, Founder Crypto Currency Certification Consortium) Episode links: Decen...

This episode is part of our coverage of the Bitcoin 2014 Conference which took place in Amsterdam from May 15 to 17, 2014. Topics covered in this episode: Adam Ludwin, Devon Gundry & Eric Rykwalder of Chain.com Rodolfo Novak, CEO of Coinkite Roop Gill, videographer for Coindesk David Bailey, Founder and Editor-in-Chief yBitcoin magazine Nic Cary, CEO of Blockchain This episode is hosted by Bri...

Today out guest is Mike Hearn who many of you are familiar with. He’s one of the first Bitcoin users and the developer of bitcoinj, a Java library used by a number of popular Bitcoin wallets such as the Andoid wallet, Multibit and Hive. Until recently he was working at Google and is now working full-time on Bitcoin, including an interesting crowd-funding platform called Lighthouse. Episode links:...

This episode is part of our coverage of the Bitcoin 2014 Conference which took place in Amsterdam from May 15 to 17, 2014. Topics covered in this episode: Adam Cleary, founder of Bullion Bitcoin and Tamás Blummer of Bits of Proof Frédéric Martin and Nicolas Baca of Prismcide Patrick Melton of the Coinsider This Podcast Marco Peereboom, CEO of Coinvoice This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain...

Guest Joel Dietz talks about his new company Swarm, a very exciting cryptocurrency-based fundraising platform. Their idea is to provide a more efficient, decentralized and versatile version of Kickstarter. In the future, they also hope to allow companies to sell shares or share-like coins to raise funding. Our conversation took place just a day before the start of the commencement of their own coi...

This episode is part of our coverage of the Bitcoin 2014 Conference which took place in Amsterdam from May 15 to 17, 2014. Topics covered in this episode: David Schwartz, Chief Cryptographer at Ripple Labs Jon Peters, CEO of Cambrian Edward Karatov, responsible for business development at Cryptonit.net Eiso Vaandrager, VC with Green Gateway Fund Richard Caetano & Matt Tuzzolo developers of BTC...

On today’s show, we have Eddy Travia who joins us from Hong Kong. Eddy is co-founder and Chief Startup Officer at Seedcoin, a seed-stage virtual incubator for Bitcoin startups. He is also the founder of the Bitcoin Institute, a platform to facilitate research into different aspects of cryptocurrencies such as trading, market making, and entrepreneurship. Eddy along with Seedcoin also organised the...

This episode is part of our coverage of the Bitcoin 2014 Conference which took place in Amsterdam from May 15 to 17, 2014. Topics covered in this episode: Bobby Lee, CEO of BTC China (@btcchina) Charlie Lee, creator of Litecoin and software engineer at Coinbase (@litecoin) Philippe Rodriguez, President of Bitcoin France (@philrod) Filip Roose, co-founder of Orillia and co-founder of the Belgian Bi...

On episode 22 we had Wendell Davis on, who is CEO of two Bitcoin startups. The first one is Hive, a popular and user-friendly Bitcoin wallet targeted at Mac Users (and Android). His second startup, Humint, aims to help companies and brands issue their own cryptocurrencies – think loyalty points. Our discussion of Hive covered wallet business models, usability and the payment protocol. After we tal...

This episode is part of our coverage of the Bitcoin 2014 Conference which took place in Amsterdam from May 15 to 17, 2014. Topics covered in this episode: Jon Matonis, Executive Director and board member of the Bitcoin Foundation (@jonmatonis) Marc Barach, CMO of Jumio (@MarcBarach) Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase (@brian_armstrong) Radoslav Albrecht, Founder of Bitbond (@RadkoAlbrecht) JF Gallas...

For episode 21 we had Asher Tan on CEO of CoinJar, a very successful Australian Bitcoin startup that offers similar services to Coinbase. We talked about the plans with CoinJar, what we think of Circle’s new product and the recent price increase. Levin Keller, who is a board member of the German Bitcoin foundation, joined us to talk about a recent statement by the German Finance ministry on Bitcoi...

This episode is part of our coverage of the Bitcoin 2014 Conference which took place in Amsterdam from May 15 to 17, 2014. To start off our coverage of the event, we have the keynote presentation by Patrick Byrne (@OverstockCEO), CEO of Overstock.com. Mr Byrne talked about the history of liberalism and the upcoming crypto revolution. This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain and Sébastien Coutu...

We recorded episode 20 in Amsterdam the morning after the Bitcoin 2014 conference organized by the Bitcoin Foundation. Our two guests for the post-conference sit-down were Jorge Timon (twitter.com/timoncc) and Mark Friedenbach (twitter.com/MarkFriedenbach). Jorge is the founder of Freicoin, which is, from an economic perspective, one of the most innovative altcoins. They are also the creators of F...

For episode 19, we had David El Achkar on as our guest host. He is a Bitcoin entrepreneur in Beirut and the founder of the Bitcoin Lebanon group. We talked about the broken state of payments in the Middle East and David’s startup, Yellow Pay. Episode links: Yellow Pay Shu Bitcoin Dark Wallet Moolah Moolah Publishes Dogecoin Customer Funds Audit Amid USD Deposit Freeze (Coindesk) Proof that Moolah....

For episode 18, Meinhard Benn was on as our guest host, while Sebastien was enjoying a few days off. Meinhard is the lead software developer for Bitcoin Brothers, a Bitcoin mining startup based in Berlin. Topics covered in this episode: Dark Wallet: Features, privacy and is this good or bad for Bitcoin? Every MIT undergrad will receive $100 in BTC Can Bitcoin scale? Blocksize, bandwidth, etc. Bitc...

After having guests on for our last few episodes, it was back to the original cast of Brian and Sebastien for an episode. Episode links: Spin-offs on Bitcoin Talk Forum BitUndo Xapo debit card Bit-Card This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain and Sébastien Couture. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/017

We had two excellent guests on. Stephan Tual is the Chief Communications Officer for the Ethereum project, founder of the London Ethereum meetup and has played a crucial role in building out the Ethereum community. Max Kaye is a Australia-based developer focused on decentralized applications and the developer of Cryptonet, a library to build arbitrary blockchain-based structures. Episode links: Et...