The Bitcoin Podcast

SKALE Labs is seeking to change the world through decentralized cloud solutions. Using EVM-powered blockchains as their primary compute and storage mechanism, they seek to capture the market long-dominated by AWS, Azure, and other centralized solutions. We have Stan Kladko, CTO of SKALE on to discuss how this is supposed to work and explain their vision of a blockchain-driven future.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dr. Petty and Dee are back with a new season, with fresh new faces and guests. To start off this season, we spoke to Paul Berg, CEO and Co-Founder of Sablier Finance. Many have sought to scale Ethereum transactions off-chain, with the use of Roll-ups/Plasma/State Channels, but Paul's team took a different approach. They're building an on-chain protocol for r...

DAIHard uses Ethereum smart contracts to create burnable deposits as a means to gamify exchange of goods and services. In a burnable deposit, both parties put up collateral and in the event the servicing party delivers, they recieve their deposit plus their compensation. Failure and both parties may lose their deposits. We have Logan Brutsche back on the program to discuss the platform build aroun...

Dee and Corey talk about Corey's time at the NFT.NYC and what he learned from the different talks and events at the conference. Corey and Dee then have a long discussion on what the future of the NFT markets is going to look like in the cryptospace.

Dee and Corey go straight into the Interview with Cedric Dahl, an OG of the Bitcoin space, to talk about Bitcoin's dominant (and growing) use on the darknet markets. Cedric runs a think tank called 'The 1000x Group', which monitors crypto adoption to look for early signals of long term value creation. The group studies history's most successful tech investors and applies their learnings to crypto.

For the final episode of our User Research in Web 3 series. Aqeel is joined by Hester Bruikman the self-proclaimed "Product people translator" at Status. We examine how boots on the ground field research methodologies provide the necessary context required to develop products for Crypto and Web3 technologies. Learn about how in-person local research provides opportunities for serendipitous connect...

Dee and Corey speak upon predictions they have had on the show about the cryptocurrency space and how many of these predictions have come true. One of these predictions is mining and we now have nuclear power plants mining cryptocurrency. Dee also ponders - Are we in The End Game of Bitcoin becoming the standard for the financial framework of the world?

For part 3 of the 4 part User Research series Reem and Aqeel had the great pleasure of speaking with Georgia Rakusen about the skills and expertise required to create a high impact User Research strategy. We dive deep into the role of cognitive biases at the intersection of psychology and technology. Examining the process behind leveraging Quantitative and Qualitative methodologies to make informe...

Lucian and Evan Van Ness start off by justifying their caffeine addiction and shilling Yerba Mate. Evan and Josh Stark wrote a detailed update on developments that spanned the Ethereum ecosystem, we pick out some datapoint highlights for our listeners. For example they demonstrated, with data, how multiple individual DApps on Ethereum have produced more in fees than every other base chain outside...

Dee and Corey get in-depth with Bitcoin Historian Richard Mcdaniel, aka NghtRppr, aka LordofWar, aka OGoftheOGs #369 on BitcoinTalk forum on his early experience with Bitcoin. Richard shares what believes the future holds for Bitcoin and how the legality of Bitcoin will shake out.

Althea is a system that lets routers pay each other for bandwidth. This allows people to set up decentralized ISPs in their communities. In an Althea network, instead of one ISP at the top collecting monthly payments, many different people can earn money by expanding and strengthening the network.

For the second part in our 4 part User Research series Aqeel and Reem speak with Omna to learn more about how the design teams in Web3 eco-system approach Quantitative and Qualitative research methodologies to better understand the end users and what the actual value proposition is for their service offering. Learn about the challenges and solutions when it comes to user recruitment, privacy, open...

Evan put out a new Year in Ethereum, which is a comprehensive update on how much can get done in this space in just 365 days. Gavin Andresen layout the next logical step for tornado cash, wallet integration. Coffee futures tokenized. Plasma group + VC $$ = Optimism. Starkware provides data showing that cutting gas costs (and increasing block sizes) wouldn't increase uncle rate and proposes a 4x in...

Corey and Dee talk about what is mass-adoption for Bitcoin? How we as community view what mass-adoption looks like throughout the years of Bitcoin existences. Does Bitcoin need governments to intervene to obtain adoption, or can we as a community grow with the Auntie measure?

Michael Cordner / Yeastplume, long time Grin contributor and part of the core team, and David Burkett, long time member of the Grin community, creator of the C++ standalone implementation of Grin, proposer of the soon to be released TOR transaction building method, and lead on Litecoin's Mimblewimble Extension block project. They've both agreed to come on the show.

What is User Research? And why is it so important? In the debut of our 4 part series, Xuan Yue guides us through her unique journey getting involved with User research from community involvement with Livepeer in an opensource design environment. The remaining episodes will dive deeper into the UX research process when it comes to utilizing qualitative and quantitative research, the cognitive biase...

Dee and Corey are joined by guest host Jon T to talk about futures trading,derivative products,Defi, and what it means for the Cryptospace. The Guest is Hong Kim of Bitwise Investment.

Lucian and Evan talk about the tokenization of NBA guard Spencer Dinwiddie's contract that would have been a lot cooler if it wasn't stripped of potential upside like performance bonuses and extra payouts due to a 3rd season trade. StarkWare boasts of hitting 9000 tps. Viper has a new compiler implementation. And Slock.it has a new IoT light client.

What if one day you woke up and realized the social impact project you worked on is now a tool for oppression? How about if that innocuous gamified app you've been using happens to also be a surveillance tool for hackers? Where do we draw the line between "ethical" and "poor" design? Find out more from Cade Diehm, the founder of the New Design Congress, who discusses the role of technology as an a...

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty become journalists, for just this one time, as we interview a journalist from the industry who’s quickly made a name for herself, Leigh Cuen. Leigh is a reporter from Coindesk and with a colorful past as a journalist with a broad range of focuses. She walks us through her process on how she seeks to provide objective truth and value into her rep...

In this episode of The Bitcoin Podcast Dee, Corey, and Lucian discuss the likelihood that cryptocurrency stands to spur adoption of green or more efficient energy. Also, Lucian gives an unscripted history perspective on why Russia is the way it is and why they may be eager to adopt the POW mining community. Corey also begins to defend his stance that blockchain networks are social networks.

Akash is a cloud for serverless computing. Using the incentivization schemes enabled by the Cosmos Network, Akash empowers architects and builders of the internet with the ability to utilize un-utilized computing resources. Conversely, those with excess computing power can open their systems for auction, enabling them to recuperate value from those resources. Corey and I have the pleasure of speak...

Aqeel and Sarah Mills the Head of Design @ Consensys sit down to do a deep-dive on the nuances of approaching design & creative for decentralized technologies while working with a distributed team. The Web3 / Blockchain eco-system is leading the way for the adoption and acceptance of remote-first work environments, facing new challenges and opportunities for disruption in how we view the role of d...

Lucian and Evan cover highlights from Ethereum related news and inadvertently created a list of the top projects of 2019. We cover GitCoin Matching Grants program, Tornado Cash, and MolochDAO. Then we talk about the recent FileCoin testnet launch and we dwell on the system requirements, which are unreasonably high, and how that will impact decentralization by excluding potential participants like...

Corey and Dee bring back the classic drunken show format for the end of the year 2019 recap. This recap included discussions about Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang, Digital Signatures, a 2019 Prediction coming true, Jamie Bartlett of The Missing Crypto Queen, and more .......