Intro to zkSNARKs with Howard Wu
In this episode, we sit down with Howard Wu to explore zkSNARKs, the challenges in the application of this awesome technology, the new ideas emerging for how to scale them and his latest work on DIZK....
15 Aug 201855min
Sharding Update With Prysmatic Labs
In this episode, we sit down with Raul & Preston from Prysmatic Labs to discuss sharding, the evolution of the spec, Ethereum 2.0, what happens to a side chain during a hard fork, and whats coming up ...
8 Aug 201855min
Eric Tang of Livepeer talks off-chain computation
In this episode, we speak with Eric Tang from Livepeer about the need for off-chain computation, what scenarios make sense for off-chain and which can work on-chain, how Livepeer sees its role in the ...
1 Aug 201850min
Testnets with Ethan from Tendermint
In this episode, we sit down with Ethan (Bucky) Buchman, co-founder & CTO of Tendermint, to talk about testnets. We look into what they are, what purpose they serve and cover examples from Bitcoin, Et...
25 Jul 201847min
Blockchain 101: What are smart contracts?
In this episode, we dig into what the term smart contract means with our guest James Prestwich. First introduced in 1994 by Nick Szabo, smart contracts have inspired whole ecosystems of companies and ...
18 Jul 201843min
Open Source Incentivization and Sustainability with OSCoin
In this episode we sit down with Ele and Alexis from OSCoin to talk about what they are building and the general problem of open source incentivization. We dig into the incentivization and governance ...
11 Jul 20181h 5min
Zero Knowledge at Zcon0!
In this week's episode, we cover the Zcon0 conference in Montreal. In our interviews with some of the participants, we explore the zcash community, projects actually implementing zero knowledge proofs...
4 Jul 20181h 13min
Blockchain 101: Blocks & Block Headers
In this introductory episode, we discuss what makes up blocks and block headers. We also cover a bit about state vs history, what exactly makes up a transaction and do a quick intro to a Merkle Tree. ...
27 Jun 201836min
