The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba

In this indaba Dr Celia Schunter ( https://www.celiaschunter.com , @celiaschunter), a Molecular Ecologist, takes us through her research into the effects of increased CO2 prevalence in fish. Dr Schunter elaborates on her ways of reverse engineering the genome, transcriptome, proteome - finding that needle in the haystack. We dip into strategies and approach changes that would better harmonize our...

Professor Ming Ming Chiu is the Director of Assessment Research Centre  (ARC) and the Chair Professor of the Department of Special Education and  Counselling (SEC) at the Education University of Hong Kong. We explore  his 7 step Hong Kong Truth and Reconciliation Commission inspired by  South Africa's T&RC back in the mid 90ies. We talk markets, comp sci  and catching...

Mike Brownnutt a post doc of Rainer Blatt has started up his own  endeavour out here in Hong Kong focusing on the intersection between  Science and Religion. This conversation goes into the "is" vs "aught".  Where Science is typically strong in answering "is" questions, it  waivers on "aught" questions. Should scientists be building nuclear  bombs or injecting poison into...

Torbjørn aka Thor, a Danish traveler known for the Once Upon A Saga project ( http://www.onceuponasaga.dk ) has traveled to 194 countries without flying. A global pandemic stopped Thor in his tracks and he's been biding his time ever since, waiting for a window to break free and complete 9 outstanding countries. In this conversation we hear of his adventures around the world and how the Red Cross...

Riccardo Spagni (@fluffypony) is the ex-lead maintainer of the privacy  preserving cryptoasset Monero. In this conversation we go into Monero,  Tari, contributor contracts, lightning networks and chastise data  dissemination monopolies. Enjoy!   Music: "Welding The Steel Frame" by Wintergatan This track can be downloaded for free at www.wintergatan.net Free license to use...

Anonymous computer programmer, going by the handle "Nix Bitcoin Dev", and I have a chat about the nix-bitcoin project. A project that makes it easy for a semi-technical person to run a full Bitcoin node and/or a lightning node.  Our conversation revolves around how the open source approach is ideal for this project, as the approach captures cumulative good security practices and distills it i...

Max Hillebrand (@HillebrandMax) of towardsliberty.com is an Austrian economist, libertarian and a crypto-anarchist advocating for privacy preserving technology such as the Wasabi bitcoin wallet ( https://wasabiwallet.io ) that has built-in coinjoin functionality.  Music: "Welding The Steel Frame" by Wintergatan This track can be downloaded for free at www.wintergatan.net Free license to use t...

Caleb James DeLisle is the author of CJDNS a VPN over IPv6. A  programmer, a cypherpunk and overall badass, Caleb shared his insights  into the work he's done on CJDNS, PKT and networking on the whole.  Music: "Welding The Steel Frame" by Wintergatan This track can be downloaded for free at www.wintergatan.net Free license to use this track in your video can be downloaded at  w...

Eric is an ex-topgun pilot, libbitcoin maintainer, author of cryptoeconomics and a motorcyclist.     Music: "Welding The Steel Frame" by Wintergatan This track can be downloaded for free at www.wintergatan.net Free license to use this track in your video can be downloaded at www.wintergatan.net

Seth is in information security researcher and privacy advocate. He runs  a blog over at sethsimmons.me detailing how to maintain privacy in your  financial life.    Music: "Welding The Steel Frame" by Wintergatan This track can be downloaded for free at www.wintergatan.net Free license to use this track in your video can be downloaded at  www.wintergatan.net

Paul Sztorc (@Truthcoin) discusses the implications of Bitcoin  Improvement Proposal 300 (BIP-300) (drivechain.info). Essentially  sidechains for Bitcoin. To me this technology is pivotal in solving one  of Bitcoin's major issues: Fungibility.   Join the telegram announcement list: https://t.me/the_stewart_mackenzie_in daba Music: "Welding The Steel Frame" by Wintergatan This t...

Dr Robin Hanson (@robinhanson) is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University, an author, a blogger and inventor of market scoring rules such as LMSR and prediction markets.  Join the telegram announcement list: https://t.me/the_stewart_mackenzie_in daba Music: "Welding The Steel Frame" by Wintergatan This track can be downloaded for free at www.wintergatan.net Free license...

@cloudhead is focused on distributed computing. He's currently building a  decentralized code sharing competitor to github/gitlab. he also the  author of nakamoto a privacy preserving, light weight bitcoin SPV  library.      Music: "Welding The Steel Frame" by Wintergatan This track can be downloaded for free at www.wintergatan.net Free license to use this track...

Moonsettler (@4moonsettler) has been in bitcoin for a good few years and  is looking to get into bitcoin development. We discuss what happened  and is happening in the Bitcoin space.    Music: "Welding The Steel Frame" by Wintergatan This track can be downloaded for free at www.wintergatan.net Free license to use this track in your video can be downloaded at  www.wint...

Peter Van Roy (@PeterLodewijk) is co-author of a foundational book in computer science; Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming. He's a professor at Université catholique de Louvain. In this talk we discuss the intersection between distributed systems and programming, IoT, foundational physics, science of alien technology and a splash of politics at the end. Music: "Welding The St...