Hedera Hashgraph - Gossip About Gossip Podcast

Hedera co-founders, Mance Harmon and Dr. Leemon Baird answer questions directly from the community in our first Community Town Hall. Topics range from the current COVID-19 climate, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC), Testnet communications, future network usage, comparing Stardate as Star Trek's measure of time and corporate goals but also include some fun personal questions. What video games are Leemon playing? What is Mance's favorite hobby? Listen to find out!

Chinese government has made blockchain a key focus, moving the industry beyond the “trough of disillusionment” and into real use cases. Join Hedera’s Cooper Kunz & Matthew Graham, CEO of Sino Global Capital. An investor living in mainland China, Matthew shares why the blockchain market “couldn’t be hotter”. There was a recently leaked demo application, which showcases the digital currency electronic payment project, with large enterprises like Alibaba & Tencent helping bring the technology to

Hedera Hashgraph’s CMO Christian Hasker and Sr. Manager of Events & Community Lina Tran, join us on this podcast for a special announcement for our developer community. Lina describes Hedera’s community development approach and lessons learned. We touch on community management tools such as Zoom and YouTube Live. Virtual meetings are becoming more common and accessibility to online meeting software will grow. Virtual events allow us to more effectively distribute information to our developer communit

We discuss the ever changing blockchain-powered audit and accounting landscape with Armanino‘s Director, Noah Buxton. Armaninio is building trust for the decentralized internet. “Putting the trust back in trustless.” Learn how this disruptive technology impacts auditing, cryptocurrency and more. Check out Armanino's TrustExplorer, a real-time assurance dashboard here: https://real-time-attest.trustexplorer.io/ This marks the first time a full auditor’s opinion has been issued in real-time.

Listen to Acoer's CEO Jim Nasr explain the innovation in healthcare technology that provides near real-time results. The coronavirus emergency has caused much confusion and many question the accuracy of the reported data. Public health and large data depend heavily on trusted data sources. DLT and Blockchain in healthcare can improve the information flow in supply chain management. Visit acoer.com for more information on the project and see the daily tracking of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

The boom in monetized data has some claiming that private data is the new oil. The use cases are varied from banking and credit management to name a couple. Join Vishal Dharmawat and Sharat Chandra from EarthID as we discuss an enhanced user experience in the Identity space. Download the EarthID app and learn more at https://www.myearth.id/.

Despite the controversy surrounding blockchain, today distributed ledger technology is used to track food, address land grabs, protect refugee identity rights, combat bribery & corruption, eliminate voter fraud, and facilitate financial transactions for those without access to banks. Prof. Marcia Narine Weldon, Rachel Epstein and Paul Madsen share the potential to transform the way companies look at governance and risk management, and to assist governments and businesses in mitigating human rights impacts.

Liam Julien Lin, CEO of Nickel, joins the podcast to discuss his Fintech dapp being built on Hedera. Learn more about how Nickel is building Asia's first FX exchange for institutions. For more information on Nickel visit Nickel.to

This is a special edition episode featuring Dr. Leemon Baird's guest lecture at Oxford University November 2019. Dr. Baird delivered a lecture on distributed ledger technology, hashgraph, blockchain, gossip and voting protocols, cryptocurrency, mathematical proofs, and answered Oxford University students’ thoughtful questions along the way. You can also view a version with some associated slides via YouTube here: https://youtu.be/yYNv6YadS64

Learn how Otrafy uses distributed ledger to optimize the supply chain management to help farmers and producers become more efficient and reduce waste. This episode is an audio version of a livestream recording found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlYuAzqn0-E Visit Otrafy.com for more on the company and solution.

Helping developers go from idea to adoption is a key objective of Hashing Systems. In this episode, Pablo Peillard, Founder of Hashing Systems discusses key tools that enable success on Hedera Hashgraph. For more on HIP described by Pablo, visit github.com/hashgraph/hedera-improvement-proposal Visit https://medium.com/hashingsystems for the latest info on Hashing Systems.

Quantum supremacy has made breaking news, but what is it and how could this impact DLT cryptography? Learn from Atul Luyks, our Head of Cryptography in this fascinating discussion. For more on Hedera's post-quantum resistance visit this FAQ: https://help.hedera.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000764318-Is-Hedera-post-quantum-resistant-

Sam Ulrich, CTO of Lonestar Data shares insights on developing cybersecurity solutions and why they decided to build on the Hedera network for mission-critical systems. For more on Lonestar Data visit Lonestardata.io

AdsDax is a rich media advertising platform that aims to leverage blockchain technology to reinvent the advertising industry.  AdsDax is an early user of the Hedera network, accounting for a good portion of the network transactions.  Find out more about how the Hedera network helps AdsDax with their business vision of fighting ad fraud. For more information, visit https://adsdax.com/ and check out the performance metrics on the Hedera.com home page.

Join Ken Anderson and Paul Madsen in a technical round-up. This episode, recorded 2 weeks after Hedera's Open Access, reviews the state of the developer ecosystem, network performance, fees, and wallets. Network metrics can be found on the home page of Hedera.com. More information on the Hedera fee model for transactions and queries can be found in this blog post by Paul Madsen https://www.hedera.com/blog/hedera-fee-model-for-transactions-queries