Libra's Dante Disparte on Why We Should Trust a Financial System Designed by Facebook - Ep.078
Dante Disparte, head of policy and communications for the Libra Association, describes the roles of the various entities that make up the Libra ecosystem and how he came to be in this position. He add...
21 Juni 201932min
Edgeware's Unusual Lockdrop: Get Tokens Even With Frozen Funds - Ep.077
Dillon Chen, CEO of Edgeware, talks about how the network is distributing its tokens via a "lockdrop" in which people can lock up ether for certain time periods in order to obtain Edgeware tokens, why...
14 Juni 201924min
LocalBitcoins on How Bitcoin Trading Compares Across the World - Ep.076
In this conversation, conducted at the Oslo Freedom Forum, Vera Xavier, LocalBitcoins' Community Manager and Elena Tonoyan, Chief Customer Success Officer, describe what the Helsinki-based company doe...
7 Juni 201923min
Ethereal 2019: DeFi and Paths to Everyday Usage - Ep.075
At Ethereal, I spoke with Austin Griffiths, director of research at Gitcoin and founder of Burner Wallet, and Arjun Bhuptani, cofounder of Connext Network, about how they think about getting everyday ...
31 Maj 201930min
To the Moon and Back With Polychain's Olaf Carlson-Wee - Ep.074
How Polychain is faring during the crypto winter, where we are in the tech cycle, whether he thinks Ethereum 2.0 will deliver and how he views the competition in the smart contract space. We discuss t...
24 Maj 201935min
Why HTC's Exodus 1s Will Have a Full Bitcoin Node - Ep.073
Phil Chen, decentralized chief officer of HTC, discusses the upcoming model of the Exodus, why it will feature a full Bitcoin node, what's in it for the user, whether or not it will affect the perform...
17 Maj 201927min
Binance Hack: Should the Threat of Reorgs Be Used to Deter Hackers? - Ep.072
Tushar Jain of Multicoin Capital discusses how hackers likely obtained $40 million worth of Bitcoin in a hack on Binance, how the leading crypto exchange could have incentivized miners to reorganize t...
10 Maj 201930min
What Happened to Bitfinex/Tether's $850 Million - Ep.071
Robert-Jan Den Haan, a contributor to the Block who has been researching the Bitfinex/Tether situation for over a year, talks about how Bitfinex found itself without access to $850 million of its own ...
3 Maj 201928min
