Epicenter – Podcast on Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies

Coinapult’s CEO Ira Miller and marketing specialist Freya Stevens join us for a discussion about their company and plans for the future. We particularly dove into their new Locks feature, which allows people to ‘lock’ the value of their bitcoins to other assets such as US Dollar, Euro or gold from directly within the Coinapult … Continued

This episode features a panel discussion called “The challenges of operating a Bitcoin business in Europe”. Peter Smith of Blockchain.info, Mark Lamb of Coinfloor and Frank Schuil of Safello provide their insights on some of the challenges of running a Bitcoin business on the old continent. These challenges include regulatory compliance, establishing banking relationships and establishing trust with consumers. The panel is moderated by Adam Vaziri of Diacle. Links: - European Banking Authority: bit.ly/1sUdKJP - EBA opinion on “virtual currencies”: bit.ly/1maQthg Show notes: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/coinsummit-london-03 Running time: 32:00 Epicenter Bitcoin is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain & Sébastien Couture and is available on iTunes, SoundCloud, Mixcloud, Stitcher and other podcast aggregators. Website: http://epicenterbitcoin.com Subscribe: http://feed.epicenterbitcoin.com Subscribe to our Friday newsletter: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/newsletter Twitter: http://twitter.com/epicenterbtc Tip the show: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/tips

CoinSummit London Conference Series – July 10 and 11, 2014 This episode features a panel discussion called “The challenges of operating a Bitcoin business in Europe”. Peter Smith, COO of Blockchain.info, Mark Lamb, CEO of Coinfloor and Frank Schuil CEO, of Safello provide their insights on some of the challenges of running a Bitcoin business … Continued

Support the show, consider donating: 3KL1YtKfQYpWt9QBjcz5hDjrq4oD2Qpofp (http://bit.ly/1LB10zz) Gavin Wood joins us for an episode that is all about Ethereum. The uniquely ambitious Ethereum project with its turing-complete programming language is building a platform on which the next generation of decentralized applications can be run. While the project is still in development, the goal is to provide the infrastructure for the completely decentralized web of the future. The first part of the episode features an interview of Ethereum CTO and lead developer of the C++ client Gavin Wood. In the second part of the episode, Brian discusses the crowdsale of Ethereum’s own cryptocurrency ether that is currently going on from an investment perspective. Links: Ethereum: https://www.ethereum.org/ Show notes: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/eb-031 Running time: 1:06:17 Epicenter Bitcoin is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain & Sébastien Couture and is available on iTunes, SoundCloud, Mixcloud, Stitcher and other podcast aggregators. Website: http://epicenterbitcoin.com Subscribe: http://feed.epicenterbitcoin.com Subscribe to our Friday newsletter: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/newsletter Twitter: http://twitter.com/epicenterbtc Tip the show: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/tips

Gavin Wood joins us for an episode that is all about Ethereum. The uniquely ambitious Ethereum project with its turing-complete programming language is building a platform on which the next generation of decentralized applications can be run. While the project is still in development, the goal is to provide the infrastructure for the completely decentralized … Continued

CoinSummit London Conference Series – July 10 and 11, 2014 Our second CoinSummit Episode is out! In it we have two fantastic interviews. In the first one we discussed transaction fees, the economics of Bitcoin and the coming relaunch of Coinometrics with Jonathan Levin. Jonathan is a co-founder of Coinometrics and just finished his Master’s … Continued

*CoinSummit London Conference Series - July 10 and 11, 2014* Our second CoinSummit Episode is out! In it we have two fantastic interviews. In the first one we discussed transaction fees, the economics of Bitcoin and the coming relaunch of Coinometrics with Jonathan Levin. Jonathan is a co-founder of Coinometrics and just finished his Master's thesis on Bitcoin at Oxford University. In the second interview we talked with Peter Todd, one of the thought leaders in the Bitcoin space. We covered the economics of transactions, mining centralization and the state of Bitcoin development. Peter is a core developer and also an advisor to projects such as Mastercoin and Dark Wallet. He's also come up with a number of important innovations such as treechains and stealth addresses. Links: Coinometrics: http://bit.ly/XnarAP Coinometrics Volatility Index: http://bit.ly/1qwdpeq Show notes: epicenterbitcoin.com/coinsummit-london-02 Running time: 48:01 Epicenter Bitcoin is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain & Sébastien Couture and is available on iTunes, SoundCloud, Mixcloud, Stitcher and other podcast aggregators. Website: epicenterbitcoin.com Subscribe: feed.epicenterbitcoin.com Subscribe to our Friday newsletter: epicenterbitcoin.com/newsletter Twitter: twitter.com/epicenterbtc Tip the show: epicenterbitcoin.com/tips

Radko Albrecht joins us to discuss his startup, the Bitcoin-based peer-to-peer lending platform, BitBond. We dove deeply into why Bitcoin-based peer-to-peer lending is such a compelling proposal. We also talked about a lot of the intricacies such as volatility, reputation and loans pegged to fiat currencies. The final part we discussed raising venture capital for … Continued

Support the show, consider donating: 33h3KLCFrupqqBaEB9soWQJdgwz7hTbwZG (http://bit.ly/1zdPsvi) Radko Albrecht joins us to discuss his startup, the Bitcoin-based peer-to-peer lending platform, BitBond. We dove deeply into why Bitcoin-based peer-to-peer lending is such a compelling proposal. We also talked about a lot of the intricacies such as volatility, reputation and loans pegged to fiat currencies. In the final section, we discussed raising venture capital for European Bitcoin startups and how Bitcoin will change the financial industry. Enjoy! Links: - BitBond: https://www.bitbond.net/ Show notes: epicenterbitcoin.com/eb-030 Running time: 1:06:40 Epicenter Bitcoin is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain & Sébastien Couture and is available on iTunes, SoundCloud, Mixcloud, Stitcher and other podcast aggregators. Website: http://www.epicenterbitcoin.com Subscribe: feed.epicenterbitcoin.com Subscribe to our Friday newsletter: epicenterbitcoin.com/newsletter Twitter: twitter.com/epicenterbtc Tip the show: epicenterbitcoin.com/tips

CoinSummit London Conference Series – July 10 and 11, 2014 We start our coverage of CoinSummit with Garrick Hileman, CoinDesk contributor & Economic Historian at LSE, who delivers the opening “State of Bitcoin” keynote, a data-driven assessment of how the Bitcoin Ecosystem is developing. The second part of the episode features a panel discussion called … Continued

*CoinSummit London Conference Series - July 10 and 11, 2014* We start our coverage of CoinSummit with Garrick Hileman, CoinDesk contributor & Economic Historian at LSE, who delivers the opening “State of Bitcoin” keynote, a data-driven assessment of how the Bitcoin Ecosystem is developing. The second part of the episode features a panel discussion called Will Bitcoin Last the Distance where Jeff Garzik, Bitcoin core developer, Prof. Emin Gün Sirer, Cornell University, Peter Todd, Bitcoin a core developer discuss the issue of mining centralization. This panel is moderated by Angel Investor Jez San. Links: - CoinSummit: http://bit.ly/1sWS2Yn - CoinDesk State of Bitcoin 2014: http://slidesha.re/1tEMOy2 - “How to Disincentivize Large Bitcoin Mining Pools” by Emin Gün Sirer: http://bit.ly/1x5A7MY - “It's Time For a Hard Bitcoin Fork” by Emin Gün Sirer: http://bit.ly/1x5A7MY - “Jeff Garzik Announces Partnership to Launch Bitcoin Satellites into Space” on Coindesk: http://bit.ly/UpQBTB Show notes: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/coinsummit-london-01 Running time: 59:15 Epicenter Bitcoin is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain & Sébastien Couture and is available on iTunes, SoundCloud, Mixcloud, Stitcher and other podcast aggregators. Website: http://epicenterbitcoin.com Subscribe: http://feed.epicenterbitcoin.com Subscribe to our Friday newsletter: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/newsletter Twitter: http://twitter.com/epicenterbtc Tip the show: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/tips

Support the show, consider donating: 3Kyd4kxBsuYLLt1eCLDok2oK9diTCPNiuQ (http://bit.ly/1LB19Tz) Steven Morell and Gabriel Mirón join us to discuss the recent New York Department of Financial Services BitLicense proposal. Our regulatory affairs correspondent Siân Jones also joins us briefly to give a general overview of this proposed legislation. We also take the opportunity to talk about Bitcoin’s development in Latin America, notably as a means to disrupt the remittance market, a multi-billion dollar industry. Our guests also talk about their respective companies. Steven is Chief Product Officer at Moneero, a company based in Uruguay and which is building a full suite of Bitcoin services. Gabriel is CEO of MEXBT, a Bitcoin exchange based in Mexico. Links: - BitLicense draft proposal press release: http://on.ny.gov/1zYJt1a - BitLicense draft proposal document: http://on.ny.gov/1n6s2Xq - MEXBT: http://bit.ly/1k8LeEE - Moneero: http://bit.ly/1p8EO73 Show notes: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/eb-029 Running time: 1:05:43 Epicenter Bitcoin is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain & Sébastien Couture and is available on iTunes, SoundCloud, Mixcloud, Stitcher and other podcast aggregators. Website: http://epicenterbitcoin.com Subscribe: http://feed.epicenterbitcoin.com Subscribe to our Friday newsletter: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/newsletter Twitter: http://twitter.com/epicenterbtc Tip the show: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/tips

Steven Morell and Gabriel Mirón join us to discuss the recent New York Department of Financial Services BitLicense proposal. Our regulatory affairs correspondent Siân Jones also joins us briefly to give a general overview of this proposed legislation. We also take the opportunity to talk about Bitcoin’s development in Latin America, notably as a means … Continued

This episode is part of our coverage of the Bitcoin 2014 Conference which took place in Amsterdam from May 15 to 17, 2014. These interviews were conducted by Siân Jones and focus on the area of regulation.

This episode is part of our coverage of the Bitcoin 2014 Conference which took place in Amsterdam from May 15 to 17, 2014. These interviews were conducted by Siân Jones and focus on the area of regulation. In this series of interviews, we talked to: - Patrick Murck, General council of the Bitcoin Foundation - Preston Byrne, Securitisation lawyer at Norton Rose Fulbright in London Epicenter Bitcoin is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain & Sébastien Couture and is available on iTunes, SoundCloud, Mixcloud, Stitcher and other podcast aggregators. Website: http://epicenterbitcoin.com Subscribe: http://feed.epicenterbitcoin.com Subscribe to our Friday newsletter: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/newsletter Twitter: http://twitter.com/epicenterbtc Tip the show: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/tips