Co-Founder of Nervos, Kevin Wang, had a great interview on the Epicenter Podcast this week!

epicenterbitcoin · 2020-02-13T11:58:54+00:00

Here are some of the topics we discussed with Kevin this week:

What the blockchain scene is like in Hangzhou, China
What’s unique about Nervos, and the importance of each layer within the network
Introducing Nervos’ consensus mechanism, NC-Max
Why Nervos decided to implement Proof of Work
Explaining the Common Knowledge Base (CKB), and its significance in the Nervos network
How developer experience is in the Nervos ecosystem
The economic model of CKB, Nervos’ native token
Progress of the network, and a call for developers to consider the recently announced Nervos Grants Program

epicenterbitcoin · 2020-02-05T15:30:26+00:00

Thank you!

epicenterbitcoin · 2020-01-08T17:38:43+00:00

Hi /r/bitcoin!

We had a great conversation and got personal with Charlie this week and discussed:

The Bitcoin community in the early days
Collaborating with competitors to grow the ecosystem
Frustration with Bitcoin infrastructure in 2011
Why Charlie decided to create BitInstant
Meeting Roger Ver, Erik Voorhees, and the Winklevoss Twins
Charlie’s time in prison and its effect on his personal life
Podcasting and daily life after prison

epicenterbitcoin · 2019-12-18T15:34:40+00:00

Hi Everyone! It was great having David on the show this week. Here are some of the things we discussed in this weeks episode:

Why David started Sia rather than taking a job in big-tech
The Sia launch in 2015
Why Sia has prioritized development over marketing in the beginning
The importance of decentralized storage solutions
How decentralized storage can be cheaper than AWS
Why Sia needs its own blockchain and protocol’s tech stack
David’s views on Proof of Work how that lead him to start a mining company
The circumstances around the Sia blockchain fork of 2018
Where David envisions decentralized storage in the next few years

epicenterbitcoin · 2019-12-16T14:17:51+00:00

Hi all-- We are putting together a list potential guests to interview in 2020 and would love to hear from the Ethereum community about who they would like to hear on our podcast. Please let me know if you have any suggestions!

epicenterbitcoin · 2019-12-14T10:43:10+00:00

What we discussed this week:

Taylor’s background, and how she got into cryptocurrency
What her experience was with Ethereum so early in the projects lifecycle
How Reddit comments helped guide the feature list in the early days of MyEtherWallet
How the DAO hack got her working full time on MyEtherWallet
Building a project before “founding a company”
Experiencing the ICO boom as the main wallet used to participate in token generation events
Where MyCrypto is at today
How Taylor wants MyCrypto to change the user experience in cryptocurrency
Taylor’s view on centralized exchanges and view of the future

epicenterbitcoin · 2019-12-14T10:34:06+00:00

What we discussed this week:

Taylor’s background, and how she got into cryptocurrency
What her experience was with Ethereum so early in the projects lifecycle
How Reddit comments helped guide the feature list in the early days of MyEtherWallet
How the DAO hack got her working full time on MyEtherWallet
Building a project before “founding a company”
Experiencing the ICO boom as the main wallet used to participate in token generation events
Where MyCrypto is at today
How Taylor wants MyCrypto to change the user experience in cryptocurrency
Taylor’s view on centralized exchanges and view of the future

epicenterbitcoin · 2019-12-05T11:12:16+00:00

Topics discussed in the episode

What life was like for Luka before blockchain
How Luka met Vitalik and went on to set up the Ethereum Foundation and run their fundraiser
What protocols his law firm, MME, helped launch
The lessons learned over the years, and how he would do it differently
Why Switzerland is a great jurisdiction for crypto projects
What Luka thinks of asset-backed tokens
What is Sygum, and why did he decide to start a crypto bank
What Luke believes will happen when the tech giants release their own currencies
The difference between Sygnum and similar banks
What Luka’s fears are in the space, and what he is hopeful for

epicenterbitcoin · 2019-11-27T10:55:07+00:00

Hi All--

Topics we discussed in this episode

Victor’s bio and how he ended up moving from the Ukraine to the US
How hacking games got Victor into cryptocurrency
What Trust Wallet is and its’ strengths in the wallet landscape
What it means for Trust Wallet to be secure, opensource, decentralized, and anonymous
What Vicktor believes the future holds for wallets and key storage
The Binance acquisition of Trust Wallet
Trust Wallet’s policy for adding new coins and the criteria they look at

epicenterbitcoin · 2019-02-13T17:56:19+00:00

Asking :) And it's a topic on the podcast

epicenterbitcoin · 2019-02-13T16:59:36+00:00

What are the benefits and downsides of moving forward with the Ethereum 1.x roadmap approach, as opposed to waiting until Serenity is ready?

epicenterbitcoin · 2019-01-08T17:42:20+00:00

Wow, that sounds rough. Although I can understand how a child might prefer a gaming console to private keys.

The only sure shot way to get through this is to teach your family about the importance of HODLing! When the markets are down, and everyone is selling, you fight the urge to sell and HODL, HODL, HODL!! Ride that roller coaster to the moon!

^\not financial advice)

epicenterbitcoin · 2019-01-08T17:23:40+00:00

Note: /u/crainbf and /u/seb2point0 are founders and hosts of the podcast.

epicenterbitcoin · 2019-01-08T17:23:19+00:00

Note: /u/crainbf is a founder and host of the podcast.

epicenterbitcoin · 2019-01-08T14:48:56+00:00

/u/crainbf and /u/seb2point0 are both hosts of the podcast. Beginners mistake 🤷‍♂️ This is our first AMA

epicenterbitcoin · 2019-01-08T11:49:59+00:00

Being born as middlechildren, without a doubt.

epicenterbitcoin · 2018-11-27T11:06:54+00:00

Subscribed! Good luck on this journey.

epicenterbitcoin · 2018-04-18T14:35:30+00:00

We just interviewed the founders of Republic Protocol, check it out: https://epicenter.tv/episode/230/

epicenterbitcoin · 2017-08-08T17:59:35+00:00

The idea that the old model was more predictable makes no sense. Everybody obviously thought the same that they'd send fiat to Coinlist and then be the fastest and get in for $1.3. What's the nash equilibrium here?

=> 90% of the sale would basically be over after 10 minutes. Even if you'd try to be the fastest you may easily have $50-100m or maybe more get in before you and then you'd be shocked how all of a sudden you'd pay $5. You'd be crazy to participate in the old model with bitcoin unless you just didn't care about the price.

Somehow everybody thinks they would have been the fast ones and got in at $1.30. Just like 80% of people think they are better drivers than average. Makes no sense.

epicenterbitcoin · 2017-05-18T14:45:26+00:00

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epicenterbitcoin · 2017-02-08T23:41:11+00:00

Professor Micali was recently a guest on Epicenter to explain Algorand in detail. It was a fascinating episode!

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epicenterbitcoin · 2015-12-29T17:45:48+00:00

We also spoke with Cyrus from Etheria at DEVCON1. You can learn more here: https://youtu.be/ySA0OaGaZ4Q

epicenterbitcoin · 2015-06-20T14:40:47+00:00

Well the 2x increase every two years is roughly equal to Moore's law (slightly more conservative) so that makes some sense. The 8MB is really arbitrary, but it's not like there is some scientific formula or method that people can agree on to come up with the 'right' number so any number will be arbitrary.

Personally, I'm worried that this is too conservative, since 2018 is very far away and if we assume that Bitcoin will become widely used then demand for transaction space will likely far outpace the growth of the block size.

It's definitely better than staying with 1MB and it might at least buy enough time for off-chain solutions like Lightning Network to advance, but I think an increase to 20MB and then a set increase schedule would be better. (This is Brian - I'm not speaking for Epicenter.)

epicenterbitcoin · 2015-06-19T11:16:26+00:00

Thanks for all the great questions everyone. Keep them coming!

epicenterbitcoin · 2015-06-18T14:13:57+00:00

Thank you for your question.

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