EB18 - Guest Meinhard Benn: Dark Wallet, Bitcoins for MIT, Bitcoin’s Limitations and Mining

Summary: For episode 18, Meinhard Benn was on as our guest host, while Sebastien was enjoying a few days off. Meinhard is the lead software developer for Bitcoin Brothers, a Bitcoin mining startup based in Berlin. We covered the following topics: - Dark Wallet: Features, privacy and is this good or bad for Bitcoin? - Every MIT undergrad will receive $100 in BTC - Can Bitcoin scale? Blocksize, bandwidth, etc. - Bitcoin Brothers’ ambitious mining project Links: - Dark Wallet: http://darkwallet.is/ - Bitcoin Brothers: http://bitcoinbrothers.de/about - MIT Bitcoin Club: http://bitcoin.mit.edu/announcing-the-mit-bitcoin-project/ 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