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Blockchain 101: Blocks & Block Headers Jun 27, 2018

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In this introductory episode, we discuss what makes up blocks and block headers. We also cover a bit about state vs history, what exactly makes up a transaction and do a quick intro to a Merkle Tree.

For more, please check out these resources:

Open Organizations & Governance with Colony Jun 20, 2018

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In this episode, we speak with Jack du Rose and Aron Fischer from Colony about governance and open organizations.

Colony is building an infrastructure based on the Ethereum blockchain that aims to revamp the way projects and organizations collaborate, promising to make HR and project management more open, fair and efficient.

We discuss different ways in which the ideas around colony could be used to created shared and open organisations, how reputation is built as well as discuss their thougths around the general ideas of governance and some of the biggest challenges this creates.

For more about Colony - have a look at their site or follow them on twitter!

The DAO, the white hat hacker group & Giveth with Griff Jun 13, 2018

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In this episode, Griff Green shares his experience of working through The DAO hack, the white hat hacker group & Giveth.

Through his telling of this story, we are given a front row seat to one of the most exciting events in ethereum and general blockchain history. These events also set the stage for a lot of the decisions, attitudes, rifts and relationships that have since taken hold - from the emergence of the white hat hacker group, the currency split, to the attitude towards governance and immutibility and the community's attitude towards the very concept of a DAO. The story leads us to Griff's latest project Giveth, an ethereum-based project that aims to bring back some of the most inspiring ideas from the era of the DAO, and applies them towards charitable giving.

To get involved with Giveth check out their Riot Channel

To hear a bit more about Griff's work check out this video

or follow him on twitter HERE

ETHBuenosAires in review Jun 06, 2018

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In this week's episode, we share our interviews from ETHBuenosAires, the 3rd instalment of the ETHGlobal Hackathon series. Through these conversations with the participants, sponsors and organizers, we found out more about the Buenos Aires Blockchain scene, captured the spirit of the ETHGlobal series and learned about some amazing new ideas and hackathon projects

This was recorded during the event, but you can watch the winners presenting HERE

Other projects that were mentioned:

http://www.thegraph.com/
All Submissions can be seen here

Follow the peeps we interviewed on twitter:

https://twitter.com/cryptowanderer

https://twitter.com/ethstatus

https://twitter.com/licuende

https://twitter.com/AragonProject

https://twitter.com/MakerDAO

https://twitter.com/komodoman

https://twitter.com/liamihorne

https://twitter.com/nanexcool

https://twitter.com/gomox_ar

https://twitter.com/crypt0glitter

https://twitter.com/pfletcherhill

https://twitter.com/eordano

Zeppelin and a chat about upgradability May 30, 2018

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Coming to you from Buenos Aires, we sit down with Demi and Facu from Zeppelin Solutions to talk developer experience, upgradability and how they aim to make running software on blockchains simple, fast and error free.

We discuss their products - OpenZeppelin, a framework of reusable smart contracts, and ZeppelinOS, an operating system designed specifically for smart contracts - and how these projects have emerged from their work as auditors on some of the most important projects in the space. They introduce their proposal for upgradability, a method for making some alterations to existing smart contracts without impeding immutability.

Here are a few links to find out more:

https://zeppelin.solutions/

https://openzeppelin.org/

https://zeppelinos.org/

https://ethernaut.zeppelin.solutions/

What and why of eWasm with Lane and Alex May 23, 2018

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In this episode, we sit down with Lane Rettig and Alex Beregszaszi from the eWasm team at the Ethereum Foundation to talk about WebAssembly (Wasm).

We explore why Wasm was chosen as the instruction set of the future for Ethereum, what it means to switch instructions sets and why you would want to go with one over another. We also dig into Wasm specifics and tooling.

If you want to learn more about Wasm, check out some of the links below:

Official Wasm website
eWasm design repo where there are documents discussing the different VMs as well as goals, motivations and design specs of eWasm.
K Framework description

Storage rent with Phil Daian May 16, 2018

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In this episode, we catch up with Phil Daian once again to dig deeper into the idea of cryptocommodities and storage rent. Cryptocommodities are defined as the resources used for blockchain transactions - for example blockchain memory or computation (such as Ethereum's gas) - and storage rent is the idea of issuing a payment for use of these resources per unit of time instead of as a one-time fee.

We discuss how the storage rent idea is becoming increasingly relevant as blockchain technology becomes more widely adopted, and the challenges in implementing this into existing systems.

Phil is a researcher with IC3 and PhD student at Cornell Tech as well as the creator of GasToken and member of Project Chicago.

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Blockchain UX and the UXUnConf May 11, 2018

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In this special episode, we share a number of short interviews we did with the participants of the Web3 UX Unconference which followed Edcon last week in Toronto. Featuring Dan Finlay from Metamask, Alex van de Sande from the Ethereum Foundation, Ric Burton from Balance, Philippe Castonguay, Jonny Howle from Uport, Dan Tsui and Bryant Eisenbach, we explore the topic of UX in the blockchain space.

Thanks to guest co-host Maciej Hirsz!

Find & follow the guests on Twitter:

Thanks to @derek_sys & @sdtsui for organising!

Blockchain 101: get your full node running! May 03, 2018

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In this episode, we share an introduction to full nodes. Speaking with the Parity community support lead, Thibaut Sardan, we walk through what it means to set up the Parity Ethereum client, explore what the difference is between this and a light client, help define some of the commonly used language and answer some frequently asked questions.

Big thank you to 1kx for inviting us to the Full Node co-working space to record this episode!

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Developer Education in Blockchain Apr 26, 2018

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In this weeks episode, Fredrik and Anna speak with Elias Haase and Rob Hitchens from B9Lab about how a curriculum can be developed to introduce developers to the concepts and languages in the blockchain space.

We discuss some of their process, the unique qualities of teaching in this space and how important it is that the people building core infrastructure consider the impact of their decisions on society in the future.

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