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Podcast: Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies
Episode: Gideon Greenspan: MultiBit – The Blockchain is a New Database Paradigm
Description: Gideon Greenspan, a computer scientist and CEO/Founder of the Israeli startup Coin Sciences, joined us for a discussion of their private blockchain platform MultiChain. Besides diving into the popular question of what’s the point of a private blockchain, we covered his earlier colored coins implementation as well as his view that blockchains are best understood as a novel database paradigm.
Topics covered in this episode:
How Gideon got involved in the blockchain space
Their colored coins implementation MultiSpark and why it failed to get traction
Why he saw a market for an open-source private bl...