For the holidays, I’m doing two AMAs. In the second of two, I cover: privacy blockchains my thoughts on the STABLE Act whether or not Facebook’s Diem will have a[…]
Tag: privacy
After Years of Secret Work, Decred Adds a New Feature: Privacy
Jonathan Zeppettini, international ops lead and chief evangelist for Decred, aka “Decred Jesus,” announces the launch of the coin’s privacy feature. He first describes how Decred came out of some[…]
Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation on the 3 Reasons Bitcoin Matters
In recent years, the Human Rights Foundation and Alex Gladstein, its chief strategy officer, have become forces in the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency community. In this episode, he discusses why Bitcoin[…]
Libra’s Dante Disparte on Why We Should Trust a Financial System Designed by Facebook
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[…]
Could Social Media Discontent Help the Decentralized Web?
At the Subzero conference in Berlin, Ashley Tyson, the cofounder of the Web 3 Foundation, talks about how it plans to support the Polkadot protocol, plus bring together protocols to[…]
Charlie Lee on How Litecoin Can Be Truly Successful
Charlie Lee, the creator of Litecoin and aka SatoshiLite, discusses how he came to launch Litecoin, how the “fair” launch may have helped its success, why he didn’t work on[…]
Why Beam Thinks Businesses Will Use Its Cryptocurrency
Alexander Zaidelson, the CEO of Beam, a cryptocurrency being built on the MimbleWimble protocol, talks about how he came to start Beam, how it differs from Grin, another cryptocurrency being[…]
Grin: A More Private, Lighter Bitcoin
Daniel Lehnberg and Michael Cordner, core team members of Grin, discuss the first implementation of the MimbleWimble protocol, named after a tongue-tying curse in Harry Potter. We discuss the many[…]
Monero’s Riccardo Spagni, aka Fluffypony, on How He Feels About Monero Being Used for Crime – Ep.93
Riccardo Spagni, the lead maintainer for Monero, describes the four pillars of Monero’s privacy, makes the case for why it would still be valuable even if BItcoin were to adopt[…]
Why ‘Ethereum Killers’ Will Have a Hard Time Attracting Its Developers – Ep.038
Linda Xie, cofounder at Scalar Capital, talks about what she saw at ETHBerlin, why it made her think Ethereum’s first-mover advantage may be hard for other smart contract platforms to[…]