Ranked #1
Ari Paul: BlockTower Capital and the Cryptocurrency Opportunity
Ari Paul: BlockTower Capital and the Cryptocurrency Opportunity
For many years, Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies were regarded as little more than a nerdy curiosity by the financial world.... Read more
26 Sep 2017
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1hr 13mins
Ranked #2
Andreas Antonopoulos: Mastering Bitcoin
Andreas Antonopoulos: Mastering Bitcoin
Few question that educating people about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies is one of the most important and challenging tasks... Read more
4 May 2015
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1hr 23mins
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Silvio Micali: Algorand – A New Scalable and Secure Approach to Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus
Silvio Micali: Algorand – A New Scalable and Secure Approach to Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus
There is no doubt that proof of work, introduced in the Bitcoin white paper, has stood the test of time as a robust and ... Read more
8 Feb 2017
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1hr 18mins
Ranked #4
Arthur Breitman & Kathleen Breitman: Tezos – The Long Road Towards A Digital Commonwealth
Arthur Breitman & Kathleen Breitman: Tezos – The Long Road Towards A Digital Commonwealth
The Tezos whitepaper, published in 2014, anticipated several areas that would become major issues for blockchain network... Read more
5 Oct 2018
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1hr 29mins
Ranked #5
Guy Zyskind: Enigma – Providing Scalable Privacy-Preservation to Smart Contacts
Guy Zyskind: Enigma – Providing Scalable Privacy-Preservation to Smart Contacts
Privacy and scalability are arguably the most challenging issues blockchains face. Scalable privacy-preserving state mac... Read more
2 Aug 2018
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1hr 5mins
Ranked #6
Vlad Zamfir: Bringing Ethereum Towards Proof-of-Stake with Casper
Vlad Zamfir: Bringing Ethereum Towards Proof-of-Stake with Casper
With Proof-of-Stake (PoS) a blockchain is secured not by spending an external resource such as electricity but by using ... Read more
16 Nov 2015
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1hr 11mins
Ranked #7
Monetary Systems in an International Context
Monetary Systems in an International Context
With global commerce and finance continuing to digitize, the world’s borders are seemingly becoming more fluid, even as ... Read more
31 Dec 2019
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32mins
Ranked #8
Brian Behlendorf: Hyperledger – From Blockchain Hype to Production Networks
Brian Behlendorf: Hyperledger – From Blockchain Hype to Production Networks
Most observers of the ecosystem will probably agree that 2015-2017 were the years of the enterprise blockchain. It was d... Read more
20 Nov 2018
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1hr 21mins
Ranked #9
Fred Ehrsam & Trent McConaghy: IPDB – The Interplanetary Database and its Applications in AI
Fred Ehrsam & Trent McConaghy: IPDB – The Interplanetary Database and its Applications in AI
Data is the new oil, and those who control massive amounts of it have a major competitive advantage. That advantage beco... Read more
23 May 2017
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1hr 35mins
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Olaf Carlson-Wee: Polychain Capital – The Rise of Protocol Tokens
Olaf Carlson-Wee: Polychain Capital – The Rise of Protocol Tokens
Writing his college thesis on Bitcoin in 2012 and becoming Coinbase’s first employee in 2013, Olaf Carlson-Wee has been ... Read more
7 Mar 2017
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1hr 7mins
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Ralph Merkle: Revolutionizing Democracy Using DAOs (rebroadcast)
Ralph Merkle: Revolutionizing Democracy Using DAOs (rebroadcast)
Legendary scientist and cryptography pioneer Ralph Merkle joined us to discuss his recent paper on DAOs. Merkle examined... Read more
12 Sep 2018
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1hr 16mins
Ranked #12
Siân Jones: Cryptocurrency Regulation Update – UK, Isle of Man, California, Bitlicense
Siân Jones: Cryptocurrency Regulation Update – UK, Isle of Man, California, Bitlicense
When one is busy driving a technological and societal revolution forward, complying with complicated regulatory requirem... Read more
30 Mar 2015
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1hr 10mins
Ranked #13
Galen Wolfe-Pauly: Urbit – A Digital Republic Reinventing the Internet
Galen Wolfe-Pauly: Urbit – A Digital Republic Reinventing the Internet
Galen Wolfe-Pauly, CEO of Tlon, the company behind Urbit, joined us to discuss one of the most radical and curious proje... Read more
18 Oct 2017
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1hr 4mins
Ranked #14
Brian Behlendorf: How Hyperledger is Developing Foundational Blockchain Technology
Brian Behlendorf: How Hyperledger is Developing Foundational Blockchain Technology
As a lead developer of the Apache webserver and founder of the Apache Software Foundation, Brian Behlendorf has played a... Read more
5 Dec 2016
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1hr 6mins
Ranked #15
Evan Schwartz & Stefan Thomas: Building the Internet of Payments with Interledger
Evan Schwartz & Stefan Thomas: Building the Internet of Payments with Interledger
One of the foundational problems in payment networks is that they are mostly uninteroperable. This problem exists at all... Read more
16 May 2016
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #16
Jesse Powell: How Kraken Accelerates Cryptocurrency Adoption
Jesse Powell: How Kraken Accelerates Cryptocurrency Adoption
As the cryptocurrency space has grown, exchanges have become the dominant juggernauts of the industry. One of the earlie... Read more
13 Nov 2019
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1hr 17mins
Ranked #17
Dan O’Prey & Daniel Feichtinger: Hyperledger Decentralized Ledger Platform
Dan O’Prey & Daniel Feichtinger: Hyperledger Decentralized Ledger Platform
The cryptocurrency ecosystem is increasingly divided into different camps. There are those betting and working on the ev... Read more
6 Apr 2015
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1hr 9mins
Ranked #18
Kevin Owocki: Gitcoin – Aligning Incentives in Open-Source Development
Kevin Owocki: Gitcoin – Aligning Incentives in Open-Source Development
Building open source software is a collaborative process which relies on good faith and willingness of volunteers. While... Read more
17 Oct 2018
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1hr 11mins
Ranked #19
Andrew Miller: The Gas Model and Ethereum’s Economics
Andrew Miller: The Gas Model and Ethereum’s Economics
Andrew Miller is a computer science PhD student at the University of Maryland who focuses on cryptocurrency. Having gott... Read more
28 Dec 2015
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #20
Ryan Zurrer: Polychain – A Crypto Hedge Fund Success Story
Ryan Zurrer: Polychain – A Crypto Hedge Fund Success Story
We are joined by Ryan Zurrer, Principal and Venture partner, at Polychain capital. Polychain capital is a breakout crypt... Read more
22 Aug 2018
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1hr 27mins