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Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies

Epicenter brings you in-depth conversations about the technical, economic and social implications of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. Every week, we interview business leaders, engineers academics and entrepreneurs, and bring you a diverse spectrum of opinions and points of view. Epicenter is hosted by Sebastien Couture, Brian Fabian Crain, Friederike Ernst, Meher Roy and Felix Lutsch. Since 2014, our episodes have been downloaded over 8 million times.

Gabriel Jiménez: Petro – The Crypto Project That Tried to Free Venezuela

82 hours 44 mins; June 10, 2020

Jim Bianco: Deep Insights Into the Global Economic Crisis

80 hours 57 mins; June 02, 2020

Post-interview chat – Sam Williams of Arweave

12 mins; May 28, 2020

Sam Williams: Arweave – Bringing Permanence to the Web

78 hours 56 mins; May 26, 2020

David Vorick: On Skynet and Trusted Setups

55 mins; May 22, 2020

Daniel Wang: Loopring – A Scalable DEX Protocol Using ZK-Rollups

76 hours 49 mins; May 19, 2020

Harry Halpin & John Shipton: What Julian Assange Represents to the Crypto Movement

59 mins; May 12, 2020

Marco Streng: Genesis Mining – Taking Bitcoin Mining to the Cloud

72 hours 51 mins; May 05, 2020

Marc Zeller & Stani Kulechov: Aave – Unlocking Access to Capital With Flash Loans

68 hours 5 mins; April 28, 2020

Jinglan Wang & Karl Floersch: Optimism – The Optimistic Approach to Ethereum Scaling

60 hours 27 mins; April 21, 2020

Tom Pocock & Zac Williamson: AZTEC Protocol – Bringing Zero-Knowledge Transactions to Ethereum

60 hours 31 mins; April 14, 2020

Ryan Sean Adams: Mythos Capital – On Becoming Bankless

67 hours 0 mins; April 07, 2020

James Dyer & Jason Goldberg: Pepo & Decrypt – New Token Models for Media Engagement

62 hours 23 mins; April 02, 2020

Albert Wenger: Union Square Ventures – Towards the Knowledge Age and the World After Capital

88 hours 15 mins; March 31, 2020

Joseph Lubin: What's Next for ConsenSys and Ethereum

46 mins; March 26, 2020

David Hoffman: Eth Is Money?

75 hours 58 mins; March 24, 2020

Ryan Selkis: “Too Many Variables” – Understanding the Lasting Effects of COVID19

64 hours 39 mins; March 17, 2020

EthCC 3 – Flash Loans and Elbow Bumps

43 mins; March 13, 2020

Jacob Arluck: TQ Tezos – Meet the Independent Driving Force Behind the Growth of Tezos

68 hours 8 mins; March 10, 2020

Joe Lallouz: Bison Trails – Building a Better Proof of Stake Ecosystem for Everyone

83 hours 55 mins; March 03, 2020

Clinton Donnelly: Bitcoin & Crypto Taxes – What Every US Taxpayer Needs to Know (sponsored)

46 mins; February 28, 2020

Gabriel Shapiro: ZeroLaw – A Philosophy of Securities Laws for Tokenized Networks

59 mins; February 25, 2020

Itamar Lesuisse: Argent – The Self-Custody Crypto Bank

66 hours 9 mins; February 18, 2020

Kevin Wang: Nervos – Scaling Smart Contact Blockchains With Proof of Work and Generalized UTXO

84 hours 37 mins; February 11, 2020

Kain Warwick: Synthetix – Bringing the World’s Assets Into DeFi

70 hours 19 mins; February 04, 2020

Yaya Fanusie: Bitcoin and Terrorism – How Compliance Will Shape Cryptocurrencies

74 hours 28 mins; January 28, 2020

Silvio Micali & Steven Kokinos: Algorand – In Pursuit of the Blockchain Trilemma

91 hours 39 mins; January 21, 2020

Dillon Chen: Edgeware – Coordinating Distributed Communities With On-Chain Governance

58 mins; January 15, 2020

Charlie Shrem: The Untold Story of a Bitcoin Pioneer and Renegade

78 hours 19 mins; January 08, 2020

Monetary Systems in an International Context

32 mins; December 31, 2019

Increasing Wallet Usability to Decrease the Anxiety of Self-Custody

50 mins; December 24, 2019

David Vorick: Sia – Creating a P2P Marketplace for Data Storage to Disrupt the Cloud Industry

83 hours 23 mins; December 17, 2019

Taylor Monahan: From Side Project to Center Stage – The Story of MyEtherWallet & MyCrypto

69 hours 36 mins; December 10, 2019

Dr. Luka Müller: MME – The Law Firm Behind the Rise of Switzerland’s CryptoValley

67 hours 12 mins; December 04, 2019

Viktor Radchenko: Trust Wallet – Building and Growing the Official Binance Wallet

66 hours 57 mins; November 26, 2019

Nishant Sharma: Bitmain – Rising to Mining Dominance

65 hours 41 mins; November 19, 2019

Jesse Powell: How Kraken Accelerates Cryptocurrency Adoption

77 hours 52 mins; November 12, 2019

Anatoly Yakovenko: Solana - Reaching for the Limits of Blockchain Performance

97 hours 23 mins; November 06, 2019

Rhys Lindmark: MIT's Digital Currency Initiative – Why We Need Blockchain Ethics

72 hours 48 mins; October 29, 2019

Eli Ben-Sasson: StarkWare – Productizing zk-STARKs to Provide Blockchain Scalability and Privacy

77 hours 17 mins; October 22, 2019

Yoni Assia: eToro – The Social Trading Platform

74 hours 26 mins; October 15, 2019

DappCon 2019 – Tales of Governance: DAOs, Swarms and Anarchic Systems

45 mins; October 08, 2019

DappCon 2019 – Look at My Flashy Colors  And Rounded Corners!

53 mins; October 02, 2019

Omer Shlomovits & Ouriel Ohayon: ZenGo – The ‘Keyless’ Crypto Wallet

74 hours 45 mins; September 24, 2019

Sharon Goldberg: Arwen – Centralized Exchange Trading Without Counterparty Risk

71 hours 54 mins; September 18, 2019

David Chaum: The Forefather of Cryptocurrencies and the Cypherpunk Movement

63 hours 57 mins; September 10, 2019

Ayo Akinyele: Bolt Labs – Zcash on Lightning

65 hours 14 mins; September 03, 2019

Anthony Sassano & Eric Conner: EthHub – Ethereum Education and the Quest for Ether Dominance

100 hours 8 mins; August 27, 2019

Dan Shin: Terra – The Stable Currency Tackling the Ecommerce Payments Market

68 hours 24 mins; August 20, 2019

Erik Voorhees: ShapeShift – There's a New Fox in Town

78 hours 36 mins; August 13, 2019

Igor Barinov: POA Network – Enabling Scaling Through Trust in Public Notaries

68 hours 0 mins; August 06, 2019

Rune Christensen: Maker DAO – The Central Bank of Web 3.0

85 hours 35 mins; July 30, 2019

Ameen Soleimani: Moloch DAO – A Simple Yet Unforgiving DAO to Fund Ethereum Development

77 hours 59 mins; July 24, 2019

Jerry Brito: The Case for Electronic Cash in an Open and Free Society

69 hours 56 mins; July 16, 2019

Robert Leshner: Compound – An Automated Money Market for Ethereum Tokens

64 hours 13 mins; July 09, 2019

Rob Dawson: PegaSys – Enterprise-Grade Ethereum Protocol Engineering

62 hours 20 mins; July 04, 2019

Stephen Palley: The Regulatory Landscape for Cryptocurrencies and the SEC's Case Against Kik

73 hours 25 mins; June 25, 2019

Bonus 2/2: Cosmos Validator Panel and Governance Debates – Interchain Conversations Berlin

84 hours 35 mins; June 21, 2019

Bonus 1/2: “Epicenter Live” and a Chat with Jae Kwon of Cosmos – Interchain Conversations Berlin

95 hours 56 mins; June 21, 2019

Hayden Adams: Uniswap – An Automated Decentralized Exchange for Ethereum

72 hours 28 mins; June 18, 2019

Tal Moran: Spacemesh – The Space-Time Consensus Blockchain

72 hours 4 mins; June 11, 2019

Dominic Tarr: Secure Scuttlebutt – The “Localized” but Distributed Social Network

72 hours 27 mins; June 04, 2019

Dan Robinson: Rainbow Network – Off-Chain Synthetics Exchange or “Multicolored Lightning”

72 hours 48 mins; May 28, 2019

Jill Carlson: Open Money Initiative – Free Access to Finance as a Human Right

87 hours 48 mins; May 22, 2019

Aya Miyaguchi: The Role and Challenges of the Ethereum Foundation

51 mins; May 16, 2019

Mark Miller: Agoric and the Decades-Long Quest for Secure Smart Contracts

70 hours 7 mins; May 07, 2019

Mike Pieciak: NASAA – A “To The Moon” Approach to Regulating Crypto

77 hours 32 mins; April 30, 2019

Griff Green: Giveth – Creating the New Economic Model of Giving

81 hours 11 mins; April 23, 2019

Yaniv Tal: The Graph – A Marketplace for Web3 Data Indexes Based on GraphQL

73 hours 22 mins; April 16, 2019

Simon de la Rouviere: Bonding Curves, Curation Markets, Token Curated Registries… and Art

81 hours 41 mins; April 10, 2019

Ethan Buchman & Sunny Aggarwal: Cosmos – Launching the Internet of Blockchains

86 hours 56 mins; April 03, 2019

Jackson Palmer: Dogecoin – wow! so meme. such community. very charity. much story.

81 hours 49 mins; March 27, 2019

Brian Hoffman & Washington Sanchez: OpenBazaar – Growing a Permissionless Marketplace

91 hours 19 mins; March 19, 2019

Daniel Lehnberg & Michael Cordner: Grin – Cypherpunk Mimblewimble

81 hours 57 mins; March 12, 2019

Amaury Séchet: Bitcoin Cash – Part 2

70 hours 43 mins; March 05, 2019

Amaury Séchet: Bitcoin Cash

80 hours 37 mins; February 28, 2019

Ben Goertzel: SingularityNET – The Global AI Network and Marketplace

83 hours 49 mins; February 20, 2019

Alexey Akhunov: Ethereum 1.x – BUIDLing Things One Step at a Time

80 hours 4 mins; February 13, 2019

Christian Decker: Lightning Network – The Road to Scaling Bitcoin

81 hours 33 mins; February 07, 2019

Jameson Lopp: On Being a Professional Cypherpunk

85 hours 27 mins; January 29, 2019

Martin Köppelmann & Matan Field: How the dxDAO could become the world’s largest organization

89 hours 33 mins; January 24, 2019

Looking Back on 5 Years of Epicenter

55 mins; January 15, 2019

Joseph Lubin: ConsenSys – The Distributed Incubator which Jumpstarted the Ethereum Ecosystem

67 hours 4 mins; January 08, 2019

Andy Bromberg: CoinList – Capital Formation for the Crypto Industry

68 hours 8 mins; January 01, 2019

Nadav Hollander: Dharma – A protocol for tokenized debt

63 hours 37 mins; December 25, 2018

David Andolfatto: The Impact of Central Bank Digital Currencies on the Banking Sector

78 hours 4 mins; December 18, 2018

James Prestwich: Summa One – Cross-chain Financial Instruments and Contracts

67 hours 36 mins; December 12, 2018

Nick Sullivan: Cloudflare – The Internet’s (De)centralized Security Blanket

80 hours 4 mins; December 04, 2018

Justin Drake: Ethereum’s Audacious Roadmap to Build a True World Computer

71 hours 52 mins; November 27, 2018

Brian Behlendorf: Hyperledger – From Blockchain Hype to Production Networks

81 hours 1 min; November 20, 2018

Ben Sharafian & Stefan Thomas: Coil – A New Business Model for the Web

91 hours 0 mins; November 13, 2018

Devcon4 Recap – From HODL to BUIDL

56 mins; November 06, 2018

Gavin Wood: Substrate, Polkadot and the Case for On-Chain Governance

96 hours 25 mins; October 31, 2018

Monica Quaintance: Kadena – Public and Permissioned Blockchains that Scale

85 hours 25 mins; October 23, 2018

Kevin Owocki: Gitcoin – Aligning Incentives in Open-Source Development

71 hours 28 mins; October 17, 2018

Aleksandr Bulkin & Jake Brukhman: CoinFund – Crypto-Investing by Community Building

81 hours 21 mins; October 11, 2018

Arthur Breitman & Kathleen Breitman: Tezos – The Long Road Towards A Digital Commonwealth

89 hours 51 mins; October 05, 2018

Allen Day: Google’s Mission to Provide Open Datasets for Public Blockchains

68 hours 19 mins; September 26, 2018

Angela C. Walch: The Case for Treating Developers as Fiduciaries in Public Blockchains

72 hours 56 mins; September 19, 2018

Ralph Merkle: Revolutionizing Democracy Using DAOs (rebroadcast)

76 hours 16 mins; September 12, 2018

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