020: Bitcoin is at $10,000 – Here’s a Brief History with Professor Emin Gün Sirer
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
Release Date: 12/04/2017
046: Ethereum 2.0 – with Lane Rettig
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
Lane Retting works at the Ethereum Foundation. He is a hacker and polyglot with an affinity for East Asian languages.
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045: Your Biggest Challenge with Blockchain (part 4/4)
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
I sent a survey to about 1,500 people and asked them what their biggest challenges were, when it comes to learning about blockchain and cryptocurrency.
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044: Your Biggest Challenge with Blockchain (part 3/4)
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
I sent a survey to about 1,500 people and asked them what their biggest challenges were, when it comes to learning about blockchain and cryptocurrency.
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043: Your Biggest Challenge with Blockchain (part 2/4)
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
I sent a survey to about 1,500 people and asked them what their biggest challenges were, when it comes to learning about blockchain and cryptocurrency.
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042: Your Biggest Challenge with Blockchain (part 1/4)
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
I sent a survey to about 1,500 people and asked them what their biggest challenges were, when it comes to learning about blockchain and cryptocurrency.
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041: Decentralization-as-a-Service – with Blockdaemon’s Konstantin Richter
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
Konstantin Richter is the Co-Founder & CEO of Blockdaemon. He is a serial software entrepreneur and has also held senior-level positions at prominent firms such as Nokia and Deutsche Telekom.
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040: The New Blockchain Business Model – with Nodesmith’s Brendan Lee
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
Brendan Lee is the CEO & Co-Founder of Nodesmith. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science, and has spent much of his career building developer platforms.
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039: The Bunz App Takes Canada by Storm – with Sascha Mojtahedi
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
Sascha Mojtahedi is the CEO of Bunz. The Bunz App uses its BTZ token to facilitate peer-to-peer bartering and purchases, while also compensating users for interacting with partner brands.
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038: ICOs are Dead. Introducing STOs – with Swarm’s Philipp Pieper
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
Philipp Pieper is the CEO & Co-Founder of Swarm. He discovered decentralized technologies and Blockchain after an encounter with the founder of BitTorrent.
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037: The Ultimate Cryptocurrency Tax Solution – with TaxToken’s Michael Foland
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
Michael Foland is the President and Co-Founder of TaxToken. His mission is to make TaxToken, “the ultimate cryptocurrency tax solution.”
info_outlineEmin Gün Sirer is a Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and Co-director of IC3 (Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts)
He has made numerous contributions to both Bitcoin & Ethereum. His research spans, networking, distributed systems, and operating systems.
Professor Sirer created Karma – the first cryptocurrency to use a distributed mint-based proof-of-work – 6 years before Bitcoin existed.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Emin’s invention – Karma – the first decentralized cryptocurrency pre-dating Bitcoin
- The pros and cons of Segwit2x (which has now been abandoned)
- Little-known aspects of Bitcoin’s architecture and history such as the Bitcoin Relay, Falcon, and Fiber networks, selfish mining, the lightning network, sidechains, and much more
- We also discuss some of the relatively unknown academics who contributed the theoretical foundations to what we now know as Bitcoin