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BlockChannel Episode 16: Partly Cloudy, with a Chance of Ethereum Apr 03, 2017

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On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Dr. Petty sit down with Shawn Wilkinson of Storj. Storj is a decentralized cloud storage provider that was created back in 2014. Since its inception, Storj has been hard at work on creating “cloud farms” of user submitted disk storage, where individuals who “rent’ out their additional disk space can receive monetary incentives for supporting the network. Originally built on XCP (Counterparty), Storj now plans to make a migration away from the now abandoned project (XCP is platform created originally on the bitcoin blockchain), and move their token and service over to Ethereum, to leverage its smart contracting capabilities, and reduced fees. Support the Show! ETH Donation Address: 0xa368e33E927D825F5FD05463E6A781414672251c Show Link(s): Storj: storj.io Ethereum: ethereum.org CounterParty: counterparty.io/ Swarm: swarm-gateways.net/bzz:/theswarm.eth/ Intro/Outro Music “Wait Luther by Faruhdey: Faruhdey — Wait-luther-outro Show Sponsor(s): Gnosis PM: gnosis.pm

TBP121 - Liberty Life Trails Apr 02, 2017

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This week we sit down with former Wall St. trader and now Bitcoin expert, Tone Vays. We talk about his stance on drugs, Roger Ver debates, and of course, the technical aspects on what makes crypto tick nowadays. Let’s move this discussion beyond Roger Ver’s complaints of not being able to make micro transactions On-Chain and move straight to the Chinese Miners and more specifically Bitmain. They not only manage the biggest mining pool in the space, they are also the predominant chip maker that most of the world uses to then compete with them for global hash rate. They have already demonstrated that they don’t care about clearing transaction by not mining full blocks, so what can be their motivation for wanting Bigger Blocks? Press play to get the low-down.

TBP120 - The Token Protocol Mar 26, 2017

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Nate Dogg said it best: 'Smoke weed everyday'. Well, at least the legal kind, right? Well this episode, it's blockchain meets cannabis as The TOKES Platform provides a digital currency solution dedicated to the Cannabis Industry via a token called, you guessed it, “TOKES.” With this episode, we invite Michael Wagner on to facilitate the necessary education and training to secure and protect digital assets. Also, our faith in bitcoin is kind of in limbo. UH OH!

BlockChannel Episode 15: A Hedge on Ethereum, with Numerai Mar 21, 2017

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On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Dr. Petty are joined by Richard Craib. Richard is the mind behind “Numerai”; an AI-based hedge fund that feeds off of data science and machine-learning modeling. Models that are used on Numerai for algorithmic trading are submitted by users (Data Scientists) on the platform, where they are rewarded “Numeraire” tokens for successful modeling. Numeraire is not a currency in itself; the tokens are used for Data Scientists to essentially “bet” on their own machine learning models and how well they’d actually perform on a live market with real money. This form of “staking” allows the scientist to essentially receive a dividend of sorts for their successful modeling. As the success of Numerai grows, so will the overall proportion of funds being paid off to data scientists. This project is made possible my utilizing the Ethereum public chain; we believe it’s a ground-breaking concept, one that hopefully is replicated across other hard sciences. Dive in and keep an open-mind! Support the Show! ETH Donation Address: 0xa368e33E927D825F5FD05463E6A781414672251c Show Links: Numerai: numer.ai/about Numeraire Token Info: numer.ai/whitepaper.pdf www.wired.com/2017/02/ai-hedge-f…-like-open-source/ Augur: augur.net Intro/Outro Music “Comeback” by Umai: Thebaygerian – Comeback-1 Show Sponsor(s): Cryptodex: www.cryptodex.io

TBP119 - Shorting the Bull Rally II Mar 20, 2017

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Coming BACK to the show for a second go-around, our guest was there when bitcoin was trading at 600 when he shorted it. He was there when market went deep bear below 200 when he went long. He was there when bitfinex allowed him to trade at a leverage of more than 6:1. Amateur traders like his old self don’t survive long enough to tell stories later. Well, later is here. And stories we shall tell.

BlockChannel Episode 14: Ethereum Foundation Researcher, Absurdist, Troll - Vlad Zamfir Mar 18, 2017

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On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee, and Dr. Petty sit down with Vlad Zamfir in their studio (not really, but if ETH keeps going up, maybe). The topic of the show revolves around Vlad Zamfir, his background, brief history -- and discussions around his research for the Ethereum Foundation for Proof of Stake. Vlad also shares his thoughts on the current scaling debate occurring in Bitcoin, and his opinions on PoW (spoilers: he doesn't like). Show Links: Ethereum Foundation: www.ethereum.org/foundation Vlad's Blog: https://medium.com/@Vlad\_Zamfir Vlad's Twitter: twitter.com/VladZamfir Intro/Outro Music "C'est La Via" by Umai Show Sponsor(s): CryptoDex: www.cryptodex.io/

TBP118 - Bitcoin or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Crypto Mar 12, 2017

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It came to me when I was sitting in the shower, and I couldn't stop laughing about it. The juxtaposition of an educational website with an egregious grammatical error is immensely satisfying, and also acts as a reminder that seriousness doesn't help you to learn anything. That is the explanation of our guest today, Greg Walker a.k.a. inersha, about why he started a Bitcoin website. Bitcoin is currently the biggest possible challenge at this moment in time for explaining how something works, so here we go, PABS!

Episode #7: On-Ramping with Dee Mar 10, 2017

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There’s something to be said about the bitcoin industry providing a physical onramp to cryptocurrency. That is in essence what On-Ramping with Dee provides to people — a familiar experience. This week, we feature Kyle! He's like you and me! Whee!

BlockChannel Episode 13: Decentralized Web Browsing, with Blockstack Mar 07, 2017

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On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Petty interview Ryan Shea, Co-Founder of Blockstack. Blockstack is a decentralized web browsing experience brought to you by the power of blockchain technology. Ryan and his other Co-Founder, Muneeb Ali, both share a vision of a decentralized web; one where individuals control the data that encapsulates their private identities. Learn how they plan to create this system with Blockstack, and how they grew to begin this great venture. Show Links: Blockstack: blockstack.org Blockstack Slack: chat.blockstack.org/ Ethereum Name Service (ENS): ens.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html Intro/Outro Music by Umai: Thebaygerian – 002-chief-umeh-x-typicalshit Show Sponsor(s): Cryptodex: cryptodex.io

TBP117 - Venturing Into the Web3 Mar 05, 2017

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The Monolith Studio is a Web3 venture production studio. It’s sole purpose is to materialize Ethereum’s transcendental potential by creating next generation Ethereum powered products and platforms for the end-user, on the Web3. It represents a generational leap from traditional debit cards by putting the user back in control, offering an entire platform of features and setting the bar for security. Hot diggity! Who better to have on the show than Mel Gelderman, co-founder of Monolith Studio?! Let's get into it, folks!

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