The Bitcoin Podcast

Dee and Corey talk about quarantine life, and it is treating them each this week. Then Dee makes the most fabulous heel turn in Cryptocurrency history, and Corey not quite filling his role as hype-man for Dee. Henry Bitmod is a Crypto-Enthusiast and Evangelist in Nigeria.

Alex is part of MetaCartel, a group of developers seeking to make Dapps decentralize as possible, beginning with their developers. Alex is also part of Rocket NFT, a company that aims to create Defi loans using NTFs as collateral.

Dee and Corey have a discussion that goes deep into the DeFi ecosystem and how decentralizing of all the  things is a bit of a lie. Our guest Camila Russo who is the creator of The Defiant, a DeFi newsletter and  is also a freelance Journalist in the tech industry. Camila has written a book on Ethereum coming out July 2020- The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-Hackers Is Building the Next I...

Certora provides security analysis tools for Smart Contracts. Certora has unique technology called Certora Prover capable of checking at compile-time that all executions of a Smart Contract fulfill a set of security rules.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee, and Dr. Petty have a well-rounded chat with Ayo Akinyele of Bolt Labs. His firm is pioneering greater privacy for layer 2 technology (think Lightning) but with a support for multiple different public chains. He imagines an interoperable future of interconnectivity, with a privacy first mindset. We go in-depth on his background and how he got here, and h...

On this Host-only episode, Dee and Corey each share a story of their interactions with the cryptocurrency community this week. Dee's story leads into a lengthy discussion on the four pillars of money and which parts of these pillars best relates to bitcoin. Corey's story is about his insight on the attempt to enact a US Digital Dollar in the recent Stimulus Act.

Sunny, Brent, and Chjango of Tendermint breakdown the components of the Cosmos Network from the IBC, Cosmos SDK, and the Cosmos Hub. Sunny covers what the future of Cosmos will be within the coming year. Chjango talks about Cosmos test network named Game of Zones which launches May 1 2020.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dee have a conversation on the history of creating a P2P bitcoin merchant exchange with Chris Maurice. He’s been boots on the group helping to establish bitcoin dominance in Africa with his firm YellowCard. He breaks down what it takes to build a crypto business in Africa as a humble man from Alabama, his thoughts on growing Handshake in Africa, and how h...

Support Evan's Week in Ethereum News on GitCoin: https://gitcoin.co/grants/237/week-in-ethereum-news Lucian and Evan Van Ness discuss the new round of GitCoin Grants, their incentive structure and how they deal with sybil attacks. We admire the development effort that has allowed Geth to reduce bandwidth consumption by 75%. Aztec implemented a rollup. Eth 2 phase 0 spec got a security audit. You c...

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty have a nice long discussion on the future of humanity with Vinay Gupta, CEO and Co-Founder of Mattereum. His firm (after having successfully assisting in launching Ethereum) is building a way to merge legal, real-world contracts, with on-chain smart contracts on Ethereum. His belief is that the digitization of tangible resources will be pivotal...

Dee and Corey talk about the potential of a digital dollar coming to everyone in our very near future courtesy of the US Govt. Then Dee carries over a conversation from last week about Smart Contracts and can Ethereum ever "BE" the stable asset that people need in the finical world. We have a very impressive Guests on this Ep from the Wasabi project, the very best Desktop Wallet for Bitcoin Right...

Handshake is a decentralized, permissionless naming protocol where every peer is validating and in charge of managing the root DNS naming zone with the goal of creating an alternative to existing Certificate Authorities and naming systems. Names on the internet (top level domains, social networking handles, etc.) ultimately rely upon centralized actors with full control over a system which are rel...

Lucian and Evan breath a collective sign of relief as Maker auctions happen uneventfully to re-estabilish the collateralization ratio. Dai is back and hopefully more resilient. Nexus Mutual decides, almost unanimously, that the Maker smart contract functioned as designed, therefore they are not paying out any claims. And Vitalik gives us his version of a roadmap for rolling out Eth 2 features.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Petty sit down with Petty’s fellow co-worker, Dean Eigenmann, from Status. He’s working on building an improved messaging protocol for Status, and is also working on the side on a Swift implementation of the ETH 2.0 Beacon chain. We learn more about Dean, as we go in deep to understand the mind of a real thot leader.

Corey, Dee, and Guest Host Taylor Monahan are here to give you tips needed to Work From Home. Taylor gives insight on the Ethereum ecosystem and particular what is happening in the Eth mining market. Taylor and Dee go over how Proof-of-Stake is working now and how it may or may notwork in the future. Corey breaks down how the technical aspects of DeFi.

Lucian and Evan join you from their respective isolated locations to discuss the current most pressing matter (in Ethereum), Maker DAO's recent near $0 ETH liquidation auctions which reduced collateral by $8 million. We discuss what happened, what has changed since then, and why we are hopeful that things are going to play out well in the end.

On today's episode, Corey and Collin talk with Truman Esmond, VP of Solutions and Partnerships at the American Association of Insurance Services (AAIS). Why are we talking to insurance folks, you ask? Because they've partnered with IBM to launch the openIDL platform to help aggregate company data while maintaining privacy and compliance. We ask how it works, why they used Hyperledger, and many mor...

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dee have a chat with Pedro Gomez, the Founder and developer behind WalletConnect. As Ethereum based accounts and wallets proliferate, standards surrounding how they’re accessed, and extended interoperably becomes ever more important. Pedro’s effort are to simplify this process for developers of Ethereum wallet’s and services, in order to improve the UX ac...

Dee and Corey on this Roundtable discussion are not drunk and have a serious conversation about Coronavirus-19. Corey goes in-depth about the fundamentals of Cryptocurrency principals we have all adhere to for the last ten years and questions if they hold up in this time of crisis. Then Dee and Corey Thank Everyone for being on this journey with them for 300 Episodes. Take Coronavirus-19 Seriously...

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dr. Petty and Dee finally may have found someone who can bring crypto + music & audio to the masses. We’re joined by Roneil Rumburg, CEO of Audius, and an all around incredibly nice guy. He’s sharp: he understands Ethereum; he built on Bitcoin back in the day; and is familiar with the music industry. His team realizes the barriers that stand between Audius,...

Lucian and Evan Van Ness catch up after Evan has traveled to Denver, London and Paris for Ethereum conferences. We discuss the trends among some of the submissions to the hackathon as well as some updates including two new zk-rollup projects that have landed on test nets already.

Guest Host Ray Redacted joins Dee and Corey on this Roundtable discussion. Corey fills everyone in on his time at the Ethereum Community Conference 3 in Paris and why physical conferences are so crucial for building networks within the cryptocurrency community. Dee has some words for Mark Cuban. Ray Redacted fills everyone in on how the Coronavirus-19 is just having all kinds of fun times with man...

Aqeel and Amy examine the current opportunity and role of UX Audits in the web3, open-source, and blockchain design space. Learn about the purpose UX audits serve, how they were implemented at Devcon for the past 2 years, and the challenges faced in making them more integral to the service offerings in the ecosystem. Also, dive into how does design collaboration and cross-pollination look like in...

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty sit down with the crypto twitter famous, Ari Paul. Ari is the head honcho at BlockTower capital, and comes from a background of endowment management at the University of Chicago; Ari is a traditional finance nerd turned crypto nerds. We have a solid discussion on some of his perspectives on investing, and Petty and McKie pick his brain for some...

Dee and Guest Host Dr. Andy Boyan cover the topic of the Coronavirus Virus vs. Wall Street Money, which of these, if any, is affecting the Cryptocurrency Market. Then Dr. Andy Boyan shares with us how  much building is still going on in the Cryptocurrency Space and how you can find a job in this space.