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In Brief: Swarm City, once Arcade City, is one of the most ambitious, and controversial projects in the Ethereum ecosystem. Having shed their founder, the remaining team have made considerable development progress. More than just a would be ride sharing DApp, Swarm City aims to provide an exchange infrastructure for any two sided market.

Swarm City Mayor Bernd Lapp and Architect Michael Thuy discuss the deeper intricacies of 2 sided market transactional infrastructure in a social setting. We also look at Swarm City’s stage of development and the rollout practices of the Swarm City team.
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The Ether Review #64 - Conversations with the Swarm

Now that ethereum has a market cap of more than $18 billion, the network is facing immense technical challenges. Can it scale to serve millions of users? To discuss, we spoke with Michael Freedman, a professor of computer science at Princeton who, starting in the late '90s, worked on an earlier wave of peer-to-peer computing technologies. In 2011, Freedman co-authored a paper about a technique called "sharding" that ethereum developers are currently working to integrate into their network. Today, he's the co-founder and chief technology officer of the database company TimeScale. He's also serves an advisor to the decentralized computing platform Blockstack, which we discuss in the interview

Can Ethereum Overcome Its Immense Technical Problems?

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Energy markets form a complex ecosystem of actors. Wholesale energy producers create energy through various means, grid operators transport electricity over long distances and deliver it to homes and businesses, who buy it from local utility companies. The utilities act as resellers in this scheme and take on much of the financial risk associated with selling a commodity which is consumed long before payment settlement from consumers. However, utilities have high operation and marketing costs and charge a high markup on the electricity they buy from wholesalers. 

Karl Kreder, Co-founder of Grid+, a Consensys project, joins us to talk about how blockchain technology can help disintermediate utilities and allow consumers buy electricity directly from producers. The Grid+ Agent is a hardware device which sits in your home, is connected to your energy meter and can interact with the power grid. The Agent has built-in logic allowing it to respond to your energy needs and predict usage. It is also equipped with a Trusted Execution Environment and a wallet which keeps private keys secure and can make near real-time payments to the network. 

Topics discussed in this episode:
- Karl's background and how he became part of Consensys Energy
- A high-level overview of the energy market and the different players in this ecosystem
- Where lie the inefficiencies and how they can be improved
- The challenges facing the energy market today
- The Grid+ Agent and its functionality
- How the Grid+ Agent works and how it interacts with the grid
- Other potential applications for the Grid+ Agent
- The economics of the Grid+ smart contract and how it handles risk
- The Grid+ token sale

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- Grid+: https://gridplus.io/
- Grid+ Whitepaper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz90riPGRHquNDVXVE81RmppaUk/view
- What is Grid+? - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwkjAXom_6U

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#206 Karl Kreder: Grid+ – Unlocking Direct Access to Wholesale Energy Markets

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@patmillertime: What do you find more likely as instigator of hyperbitcoinization, individuals that want hard money, or central banks that need a gold like hedge to price target their fiat? I basically see a few schools of thought forming (Saifedean -> individuals organically flee to hard-money  vs. Jal/Juice central banks switch to Bitcoin reserves vs. the payments->adoption premise).


@btcbanksy Is inflation meant to be a control mechanism, and what are the effects of replacing this mechanism with strict deflation?

The Ethics of Money Production | Jörg Guido Hülsmann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zYg4E4zbPo


@adampaulmoore What asset allocation percentage is appropriate for BTC?

@iwearahoodie If you had to choose between receiving your salary in ETH or USD which would you choose?

@theflamcake What is the Most effective elevator pitch you’ve used to persuade a new hodler?

@Kokotheapechild Effect of MS purchase of github on bitcoin.

What’s your favorite organ meat?

@ShillBillyMcBTC Would BTC still hold a SoV competitive advantage over USD if it is inflated at the same supply halvening schedule post 2020? Could USD monetary policy be brought in line with BTC supply schedule to minimize effects of hyperbitcoinization?

@Seen41210259 What bitcoin movement effects the price?  Online exchange, P2P like Localbitcoin, or P2P on the street, or all three?

Dave Harding / @hrdng What do you think advocates of the segregated witness soft fork could’ve done better when they were initially communicating about it in late 2015 and early 2016?  Or, more practically, what items related to communication do you think should be on a checklist for advocates of the next major soft fork (if there ever is another major soft fork)?

[bitcoin-dev] MAST/Schnorr related soft-forks https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-May/015951.html

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Can Ethereum Overcome Its Immense Technical Problems?

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