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"If you look back through history, Richard, people in power have always used their power to grow their power, and to safeguard their power." This is Rick Falkvinge, founder of the Swedish Pirate Party. The Pirate Party, first established in Sweden, has now grown to 70 countries, and continues to grow what Falkvinge calls "swarm methodologies." Rick and other members of his party fear that with the technical ability to measure personal data, there is a loss to civil liberties, especially for younger generations. That we are under surveillance. "Our kids ought to have the same civil liberties in their digital environment as their parents," says Falkvinge. Hit play to hear more of Falkvinge's insights. Subscribe, review, and if you can, consider donating some Bitcoin to the cause.
As with many people, Robert Wiecko first started getting interested in Bitcoin in 2013. Since then, he's come to think of cryptocurrency as the greatest innovation of the 21st century. Now, Wiecko is a project manager for Dash, an up and coming cryptocurrency. Starting with core wallet development, Wiecko is heading up a lot of new projects at Dash, from front end to back end. "A lot of things are happening in Dash, I would say," says Wiecko, "It's even difficult to talk about all of them." Listen in to learn more about Dash and Wiecko's work with them. Be sure to subscribe and review. And if you can, consider donating some Bitcoin to the cause. Every little bit helps.
Since the 80's, Jan Vijg has been fascinated with the process of aging. This, having heard a fascinating talk on the subject back when he was a student at the University of Leiden. The speaker, then, "actually mentioned the possibility that we age because damage is accumulating in our DNA—the DNA of our cells and tissues. And I never forgot that," says Vijg. As soon as he could, he started his own research. Tune in to learn more about how and why we age from Jan Vijg. Subscribe, review, and if you can, consider donating some Bitcoin to the cause.
Right now in the cryptocurrency space, there are a lot of different exchanges out there. And they all have different prices. Let's say you're doing a larger order, and you get a higher price on one of the exchanges: bummer. To save registering on multiple exchanges and comparing rates, now, you can go through a brokerage like Cryptobroker.io. "People can come to us," says Cryptobroker CEO Ryan Scott. "And we'll eventually route all of the orders through the other exchanges to give them the best cost-average price." With a brokerage like Cryptobroker, you can send your orders to one place, and get the best price of multiple exchanges. Tune in to learn more about Cryptobroker.io, and to hear more from Ryan Scott. Be sure to review and subscribe. And if you can, consider donating some Bitcoin to the cause.
SciFest Dubai may be exactly what it sounds like: a festival celebrating science in Dubai. But there's more to it than that; there's a whole rationale and methodology to think about. SciFest Dubai aims to celebrate science through the arts, in order to improve scientific literacy. "If you look around you, there's a lot of people who are intimidated by science," explains festival co-founder Rohan Roberts. "That's because of how it was taught in high school." For many, science is a huge, boring body of information that you have to memorize for a test. The goal of Roberts, and the festival, is to re-think science as a way of being in the world, a way of thinking. Listen in to learn more about SciFest Dubai. Be sure to subscriber and review. And if you can, consider donating a few BitCoin to the podcast. Every little bit helps.
"The banking system, while people don't like to necessarily say this," says Rik Willard, "is a rigged game, in many cases. If you have money: great. If you don't have money, it's the worst possible scenario." Willard is the founder and managing director of Agentic Group. Agentic is a sustainability platform for the BlockChain ecosystem—a major player. Rik's position made him a key interviewee in the forthcoming documentary, "The Blockchain and Us," which reckons with the impact the BlockChain is having on society. Tune in to hear more of Willard's insights. Be sure to subscribe and review, and if you can, consider donating some BitCoin.
In today's world, all the data from medical imaging is handled at a local level—the hospital level. For physicians, and especially radiologists, this is a constrained environment. There aren't enough resources at the local level to get everything done. Much has to be done manually, and is (maybe therefore) less accurate. These constraints were identified by Arterys and improved with faster, more accurate automation, using the cloud and A.I. along the way. "We're really trying to enable data-driven medicine," says CEO and co-founder Fabien Beckers. Tune in to learn more about Arterys. Subscribe, review, and consider donating some BitCoin to the podcast. Every little bit helps in producing content like this for listeners like you.
Most large institutions don't want to use about BitCoin. They don't even want to talk about it. As an emergent and in some cases untested technology, BitCoin is mostly used for select applications, and is not broadly accepted. So what makes Fidelity different—Fidelity, the company that tested BitCoin both in-house in their cafeterias, and for their charity? Culture. "I think there is a different cultural aspect," says Senior VP and Managing Director Hadley Stern. "Fidelity… has a very long-term view of technology. So it's not necessarily a one or three or five year view… it's a 30 year view." In it for the long game, Fidelity sees cryptocurrency as a tremendous new way to validate transactions. Those who discount BitCoin for its downsides are missing out on a "rearchitecture of the internet," explains Stern. Tune in to hear more of Stern's insights. Be sure to subscribe, review. And if you can, consider donating some BitCoin to the cause. Every little bit helps.
The word "Blockchain" gets thrown around a lot these days. Used so often—and in so many different contexts—it's hard to exactly define what it actually means. In short, it's a buzzword. As Tim Swanson of the R3 Consortium attests, the word doesn't mean a whole lot beyond "something magical": the magical super-technology that fits into every excited sentence you can come up with about fintech. For the purposes of the interview, Swanson defines the word "Blockchain" as a kind of distributed ledger: a data structure that's "cryptographically secured," "tamper resistant," and "stored in the cloud." Importantly, this is to say that Blockchains are only one form of distributed ledger. Technically, what R3 is building isn't a Blockchain per se; it's a different kind of distributed ledger R3's raised 100 million dollars for. It's a lot of money. That's what it takes to deploy a distributed ledger at scale, "for regulated financial institutions and capital markets specifically." Listen in to learn more about R3, and hear more of Tim Swanson's insights on fintech. Be sure to subscribe, review, and if you can, donate some BitCoin to the cause.
As of this writing, there's not really much incentive to run a full node as an individual. As just one person, it's not worth the cost. And the cost is high. Nate Basanese estimates it at "too much." Along with partner Michael Folkson, Nate is one of two winners of a recent BCoin Hackathon. Folkson and Basanese joined me to talka bout their recent success, and to get into further detail on their winning project. As with most Hackathons, it started with the brainstorming stage. "We wanted to work on something that used Lightening and BCoin, given that there were representatives of both there." What they ended up with was a prototype of a full node generating revenue, a prototype that monetizes full nodes using both Lightening and BCoin. Hit play to hear the rest of Folkson and Basanese's story. Be sure to subscribe and review, and if you can, consider donating a BitCoin or two to the cause. Every little bit helps.
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