Zero Knowledge

In this episode, we sit down with John Palmer and Marcus Molchany to discuss their new project Pragma, a tool designed to make deploying smart contracts much easier for developers who are new to the space. We also delve into programming languages and the role of testnets and talk about the challenges of staying agile and testing assumptions when you're dealing with immutable technology. Check out withpragma.com

In this episode, we will be talking with Liz Steininger, the CEO and MD of Least Authority - a Berlin based company focused on building an affordable, ethical, usable, and lasting data storage solution. They are dedicated to Free and Open Source software, end-to-end cryptography, user-friendly interfaces, and a sustainable economic model. We sat down to discuss her experience with decentralised communities, the challenges of open source technology and how the blockchain dev community will likely develop over the next few years.

In this episode, we invite André, a Parity dev, to join us in a review of the latest activity in Parity and the general blockchain space. We cover bootnode infrastructure, database issues, the updated yellowpaper and more.

Part 2 in our series on decentralized storage: Solutions. In this episode, we look at the problems decentralised storage are trying to solve, interesting projects trying to tackle these problems and some of the implications. We also have a look at what properties you should keep an eye out for when looking at decentralized storage solutions and what you may want to consider before jumping into mining. Links to some of the things we talk about in this episode: Storj IPFS Filecoin MaidSafe Sia Bluzelle BigchainDB

Part 1 in our series on decentralized storage: Looking back. Fredrik and Anna talk about some history and memories of peer-to-peer technology, file sharing and decentralized storage. We dig into our own history and involvement with p2p technology, file sharing, how it rose to fame and then disappeared into the cold P2P winter.

In this episode, Anna and Fredrik have a look back at 2017 and the changing blockchain ecosystem with ex-Ethereum Foundation and current-Parity core dev, Marek Kotewicz. We also share our predictions about what we can expect to see next year in crypto land. FYI: opinions are our own, and we definitely won't be giving financial advice :P Blocksize research: https://www.bitcoinunlimited.info/resources/1txn.pdf ParityDB: https://github.com/paritytech/paritydb

In this episode, Anna and Fredrik are joined by 3 fellow Parity employees to talk about what first got them interested in blockchain and the whole decentralised scene, how the greater community has evolved over the last few years, and what we can expect for the coming year. Our guests: Afri, Community Manager, Support and all around contributor Maciej, Core Developer Fabian, Business Development

We talk about what we've been working on for the past week and what's been going on in the community and our lives.

We go over what Hard Forks are, what they mean and what this particular one, Byzantium, brought to Ethereum.

Wherein we talk about Proof of Work, what it is and how it has developed and why we want or might not want Proof of Stake instead.

Jack, Anna and Fredrik talk about their experience at RustFest 2017 in Zürich. Parity Technologies was one of the main sponsors and so we went there with a crew and had a booth. Many interesting conversations were had, along with great talks.