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Why Even Steve Jobs Didn't Launch Platforms.

O'Reilly's Ben Lorica chats with Sarah Meiklejohn about analytic applications for blockchain and cryptocurrency technology.

Clustering Bitcoin Accounts Using Heuristics

Chris Clark discusses the blockchain's potential to disrupt the financial industry, from contracts to mortgages to government taxation.

Blockchain and decentralization hold big implications for society

Conrad Barski on the bitcoin and blockchain landscape and how the technology will evolve over the next 10 years.

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Bitcoin's road to democratization lies in decentralization

Jenn Webb chats with Tim Swanson about the future of bitcoin and blockchain, and the potential for the technology beyond currency.

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Bitcoin and blockchain use cases won't be sexy, but will be essential

O'Reilly's Jenn Webb chats with Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin about the disruptive potential of the bitcoin and blockchain technologies, some of the problems he's trying to solve with Ethereum, and how the use cases of money are going to change over the next 10 to 20 years. Also, Three Questions with Mac Slocum and Elizabeth Stark.

Better Currency Through Programming

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Revolutionary progress doesn't happen without lots of work and in the case of Bitcoin that requires many different startups building technology. Few have contributed to this as much as Silicon Valley based startup accelerator Boost VC, which has been focusing on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency startups since 2013. Focusing exclusively on Bitcoin for an extended time, they've invested in companies such as Blockcypher, Coinprism, Coinjar, Mirror, Snapcard, Zapchain and many others.

Boost VC Founder Adam Draper joined us to discuss running an accelerator, their investment thesis and why they've chosen to add Virtual / Augmented Reality startups to the program.

NOTE: Applications to join the next tribe of Boost startups can be submitted until Wednesday July 1. If you're interested in applying go here: http://bit.ly/1IG49MQ

Topics covered included:
- The qualities they look for in companies (8:50)
- What the overarching Boost VC investement thesis is (14:40)
- His view on the BitLicense rules and how they affect cryptocurrency startups (38:14)
- How regulatory concerns have risen among their startups (41:40)
- Why they chose to add Virtual / Augmented Reality to the program (47:50)


Links mentioned in this episode:

- Boost VC http://bit.ly/1dsqWD1
- Adam Draper: New York's BitLicense Will Hurt Startup Incubators http://bit.ly/1g1YIB5
- William H. Draper III: The Startup Game http://amzn.to/1LxS1m8
- But with bitcoins... http://bit.ly/1Kkkc7f
- AB 129 California Cryptocurrency Law http://bit.ly/1GKO48h

Sponsors:

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EB85 – Adam Draper: Accelerating 100 Bitcoin Startups With Boost VC

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Close to two years after the initial whitepaper, the revolutionary Ethereum network has finally launched. The decentralized smart contract platform is, without a doubt, the most exciting cryptocurrency project since Bitcoin. The versatile platform with its turing-complete scripting language aspires to power the distributed applications of the future.

Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin joined us for the second time to discuss the Frontier Launch, future plans for scalability, governance and the road ahead for the organization and the protocol.

Topics covered included:
- Ethereum's frontier launch and the upcoming development stages
- The plans for how to create a scalable blockchain architecture
- The thinking around transitioning to proof-of-stake
- The state and new board of the Ethereum Foundation
- How Ethereum's development will be funded in the longer term
- His thoughts on the governance of Ethereum and Bitcoin
- When private blockchains make sense and if Ethereum
- What mistakes were made during the development of Ethereum

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EB91 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum Frontier Launch, Scalability And The Road Ahead

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In a long-overdue episode, we finally had the chance to dive into one of the most known but poorly understood cryptocurrency/blockchain project: Ripple. Reviled by many in the Bitcoin space, we put aside any prejudices and sat down for a fascinating conversation with Ripple Labs CTO Stefan Thomas.

We talked about his early days in the Bitcoin space, how Ripple came about, what the Ripple network looks like today and how its consensus protocol works.

Topics covered included:
- Stefan Thomas' early experiences in the Bitcoin space
- How Ripple was created
- The problem Ripple is trying to solve
- How the Ripple consensus algorithm works
- Whether Ripple is decentralized or not
- What the correspondent banking system is and how Ripple wants to disrupt it
- The recent FinCen fine and what it means for Ripple

Links mentioned in this episode: 

- Ripple http://bit.ly/1hgMTaV
- Ripple Labs http://bit.ly/1Msvnfe
- Ripple Labs Fined $700,000 by FinCen http://bit.ly/1WwHyMx
- Richard Gendal Brown:  The Deep Insight at Ripple's Cores http://bit.ly/1UMG7YC
- Peter Todd Ripple Protocol Consensus Algorithm Review http://bit.ly/1hgN0U0
- Ripple Consensus Protocol Whitepaper http://bit.ly/1HQ4202

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EB92 – Stefan Thomas: Understanding Ripple

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A brilliant fact about crypto-economic blockchains is that they enable the construction of naming systems that transcend limits imposed by Zooko's triangle. Traditional naming systems such as human names, Domain Name System (DNS) and Facebook profile names are subject to Zooko's triangle and cannot be secure, human memorable and decentralised at once. For instance human names such as Meher Roy are human-memorable and decentralised but not secure (nothing prevents hundreds of people being called Meher Roy). Domain Names like https://epicenterbitcoin.com are secure and human-memorable but require a central authority to hand out names.

OneName leverages Bitcoin to build a Global Identification system called blockchain ID. Blockchain IDs for users can be associated with real world identity data such as social media profiles, government issued papers etc. In this episode we converse with Ryan Shea and Muneeb Ali, co-founders and leaders of OneName, Blockstore and BlockStack. They explain the rationale and vision behind their push for a Global Decentralised Identification and Verification system.

Topics covered include:

- Zooko's triangle and how Bitcoin breaks the triangle
- The general idea behind blockchain ID, how it works and its component transactions
- Why OneName migrated their blockchain ID system from the Namecoin to the Bitcoin blockchain
- Technical design of Blockstore and how it enables decentralised storage and association of large datasets to blockchain IDs
- Vision and use cases for Decentralised Identity, authentication and identity verification.
- The notion of Probabilistic Identity

Links mentioned in this episode: 

- Intentional Naming System: http://bit.ly/1MxxtXP
- Zooko's triangle: http://bit.ly/1khi2wg
- Why Onename is Migrating to the Bitcoin Blockchain: http://bit.ly/1Lw8Zy5
- Blockchain ID: http://bit.ly/1Nj9OgC
- Organization of Schemas: http://bit.ly/1y6szdQ
- Blockstack: http://bit.ly/1LiRfsf
- BlockStore: http://bit.ly/1Mxxx9V

Sponsors: 

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EB101 – Ryan Shea & Muneeb Ali: Bringing Decentralization to Identity with Blockchain ID and Onename

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The idea that in the future tokens will play a crucial role in networks and organizations to incentivize decentralized collaboration and reward contribution is not new. It's the original decentralized autonomous organization idea that has informed many projects that have been on the podcast (Swarm, Ethereum, Factom, Storj, etc). For Matan, the vision originally led to found decentralized ride-sharing application LaZooz. One year ago, he left LaZooz to found Backfeed, which is building the tools that so far have been missing to make mass collaboration without a central party possible. 

Topics covered included:
- How he became interested in blockchains and started the ridesharing application LaZooz
- Backfeed's vision for a social operating system for decentralized organizations
- The role of reputation, proof-of-value and tokens in Backfeed
- The applications Backfeed is currently building
- The business of model of Backfeed

Links mentioned in this episode: 

- Backfeed website http://bit.ly/1TkgZJw
- Backfeed: An Introduction for Mere Mortals http://bit.ly/1nuzS0B
- Matan Field DevCon Talk about Backfeed http://bit.ly/1UmNogV

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