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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.

Ian Grigg: Ricardian Contracts and Digital Assets Prehistory

87 hours 28 mins; October 03, 2016

Devcon 2 and the State of Ethereum

73 hours 25 mins; September 26, 2016

Lukas Abegg: Smart Contracts and the Law

61 hours 44 mins; September 19, 2016

Kyle Torpey: Diving Into Bitcoin – The Debates, the Issues and What’s to Come

67 hours 44 mins; September 12, 2016

Sarah Meiklejohn: Anonymity, Central Bank Cryptocurrencies and the Academic View on Bitcoin

67 hours 42 mins; September 05, 2016

Ryan X. Charles: Allowing Content Creators to Own and Monetize Content with Yours

67 hours 32 mins; August 29, 2016

Russell McLernon & Stephen King: RexMLS – Disrupting Real Estate with a Decentralized MLS

62 hours 7 mins; August 22, 2016

Alex Chepurnoy & Charles Hoskinson: IOHK, Scorex and the Case for Ethereum Classic

76 hours 32 mins; August 15, 2016

Joey Krug: Augur – A Decentralized Crowdsourced Prediction Market Built on Ethereum

66 hours 26 mins; August 09, 2016

Claire Warren & Scott Farrell: DnA Contracts – Bringing Human Discretion to Smart Contracts

75 hours 17 mins; August 01, 2016

Ralph Merkle: Revolutionizing Democracy Using DAOs

77 hours 16 mins; July 25, 2016

Manfred Karrer: Bitsquare – The Decentralized Open-Soure Cryptocurrency-Fiat Exchange

64 hours 24 mins; July 19, 2016

Martin Köppelmann: Gnosis – The Ethereum Prediction Market

70 hours 15 mins; July 11, 2016

Sergio Lerner: How RSK Will Bring Smart Contracts to Bitcoin

59 mins; July 04, 2016

Siân Jones: Regulatory Update – The Brexit, the EU and the DAO

68 hours 41 mins; June 27, 2016

Arthur Breitman: Tezos – A Self-Amending Crypto-Ledger

73 hours 48 mins; June 20, 2016

Stephen Palley: Lawmodynamics – How to Sue a DAO

70 hours 23 mins; June 12, 2016

Emin Gün Sirer & Vlad Zamfir: On a Rocky DAO

69 hours 48 mins; June 06, 2016

Julien Hamonic & Pascal Hamonic: Applying the Mechanisms of Thermoregulation to Cryptocurrencies

59 mins; May 30, 2016

Stephan Tual: Building a Universal Sharing Network on Ethereum and a $150M DAO

78 hours 47 mins; May 23, 2016

Evan Schwartz & Stefan Thomas: Building the Internet of Payments with Interledger

62 hours 28 mins; May 16, 2016

Erik Voorhees: Fooling the Fox – The Story of the Shapeshift Hack

70 hours 8 mins; May 09, 2016

The Far Future in Front of Us

57 mins; May 02, 2016

Jed Mccaleb: Stellar and the Vision of an Open Financial System

66 hours 45 mins; April 25, 2016

Anthony di Iorio: Jaxx – Ethereum and Why Community Matters

59 mins; April 18, 2016

Trent McConaghy: BigchainDB – Scalable Public Distributed Databases

76 hours 48 mins; April 11, 2016

Florian Glatz: Defining a Legal Framework for Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO)

69 hours 6 mins; April 04, 2016

Rune Christensen: Maker DAO Ethereum’s Decentralized Central Bank

79 hours 41 mins; March 28, 2016

Brock Pierce: From Digital Goods to Digital Currency

73 hours 54 mins; March 21, 2016

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn: Zcash – An Open Financial System with Privacy

65 hours 59 mins; March 14, 2016

Jeremy Stephen & Winston Moore: Barbados, Bitcoin and Central Banking

58 mins; March 07, 2016

Maciej Olpinski: Solving the Economic Mismatch Between Content and Attention

70 hours 14 mins; February 29, 2016

Adam Gibson: A New Kind of Auditing – Cryptographic Proof of Online Accounts

64 hours 42 mins; February 22, 2016

Manu Sporney: W3C – Making Payments a Web Standard

78 hours 37 mins; February 15, 2016

Eric Lombrozo: Upgrading Bitcoin with Segregated Witness

69 hours 26 mins; February 08, 2016

Eli Ben-Sasson: Zero Knowledge Proofs

68 hours 18 mins; February 01, 2016

Backfeed – The Social Operating System for Decentralized Organizations

66 hours 16 mins; January 24, 2016

Vinay Gupta: From Lawyer Capitalism to Programmer Capitalism

80 hours 20 mins; January 18, 2016

Dustin Byington, Ethan Buchman & Jae Kwon: Tendermint – Private Modularized Blockchains

78 hours 49 mins; January 11, 2016

Casey Kuhlman: Permissioned Blockchains and Disrupting Industrial Application Design

78 hours 12 mins; January 04, 2016

Andrew Miller: The Gas Model and Ethereum’s Economics

62 hours 45 mins; December 28, 2015

James D'Angelo: Satoshi’s Big Mistake and the Centralization of Bitcoin

79 hours 3 mins; December 21, 2015

Tim Pastoor: Identifi – Rethinking Identity as a Decentralized Web of Trust

64 hours 14 mins; December 14, 2015

The Big Chain Powwow

80 hours 29 mins; December 08, 2015

Gideon Greenspan: MultiBit – The Blockchain is a New Database Paradigm

63 hours 14 mins; November 30, 2015

Christian Decker: Scaling Bitcoin with Duplex Micropayment Channels

67 hours 56 mins; November 23, 2015

Vlad Zamfir: Bringing Ethereum Towards Proof-of-Stake with Casper

71 hours 32 mins; November 16, 2015

Giyom Lebleu: The Gyft of the Blockchain and Improving Prepaid Cards

66 hours 15 mins; November 09, 2015

Emin Gün Sirer & Ittay Eyal: Bitcoin-NG – Scientists Versus the Church

69 hours 17 mins; November 02, 2015

Flavien Charlon: Openchain – Centralized Digital Assets Without Blockchains or Consensus

73 hours 34 mins; October 26, 2015

Muneeb Ali & Ryan Shea: Onename – Bringing Decentralization to Identity with Blockchain ID

85 hours 34 mins; October 19, 2015

Juan Benet: IPFS – Decentralizing the Web with the Inter-Planetary File System

97 hours 6 mins; October 12, 2015

Esteban Ordano & Manuel Aráoz: Streamium – Pay-Per-Second Video Streaming for Indie Producers

71 hours 4 mins; October 05, 2015

Robin Hanson: Futarchy – Prediction Markets and the Challenge of Disruptive Technology

79 hours 25 mins; September 28, 2015

Paul Sztorc: Truthcoin & Prediction Markets – From Information-Overload to Crowd Intelligence

78 hours 21 mins; September 21, 2015

John Clippinger: Developing a Social Ecosystem of Trusted, Self-Healing Digital Institutions

68 hours 45 mins; September 14, 2015

Adam Back: Why Bitcoin Needs a Measured Approach to Scaling

75 hours 41 mins; September 07, 2015

Gavin Andresen: On the Blocksize and Bitcoin’s Governance

78 hours 38 mins; August 31, 2015

Simon Dixon: How Bank to the Future is Rethinking Finance

63 hours 1 min; August 24, 2015

Stefan Thomas: Understanding Ripple

65 hours 5 mins; August 17, 2015

Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum Frontier Launch, Scalability and the Road Ahead

76 hours 36 mins; August 10, 2015

Dave Hudson: Insights from the Data Mine and Other Adventures Around the Block

67 hours 15 mins; August 03, 2015

Greg Slepak: The Turtle Crawl Towards Internet Decentralization

60 hours 47 mins; July 27, 2015

Siân Jones: Bitlicense and the Regulatory Straitjacket

71 hours 52 mins; July 20, 2015

John McDonnell: How Bitcoin Will Win Online Payments

72 hours 8 mins; July 13, 2015

William Mougayar: The Business of Decentralization

70 hours 33 mins; July 06, 2015

Adam Draper: Accelerating 100 Bitcoin Startups with Boost VC

59 mins; June 29, 2015

Tim Swanson: Permissioned Ledgers and the Case for Blockchains Without Bitcoin

71 hours 5 mins; June 22, 2015

David Andolfatto: Fedcoin – The Implications of Cryptocurrencies Issued by Central Banks

66 hours 16 mins; June 15, 2015

Mike Hearn: Blocksize Debate at the Breaking Point

75 hours 57 mins; June 08, 2015

Nathaniel Popper: Digital Gold – The Inside Story of Bitcoin

66 hours 46 mins; June 01, 2015

Joseph Poon & Tadge Dryja: Scalability and the Lightning Network

75 hours 19 mins; May 25, 2015

Rodolfo Novak: Coinkite and the Feature Factory

57 mins; May 18, 2015

Trent McConaghy: Ascribe – The Internet of Ownership

65 hours 40 mins; May 11, 2015

Andreas Antonopoulos: Mastering Bitcoin

83 hours 32 mins; May 04, 2015

Emin Gün Sirer & Ittay Eyal: From Selfish Miners to The Miner’s Dilemma

70 hours 25 mins; April 27, 2015

Paul Brody: Internet of Things and the Democracy of Devices

58 mins; April 20, 2015

Robby Dermody: Counterparty – Assets, Dividends and Decentralized Exchange

67 hours 44 mins; April 13, 2015

Dan O’Prey & Daniel Feichtinger: Hyperledger Decentralized Ledger Platform

69 hours 48 mins; April 06, 2015

Siân Jones: Cryptocurrency Regulation Update – UK, Isle of Man, California, Bitlicense

70 hours 42 mins; March 30, 2015

Lisa Cheng: Token Sales and Crowdfunding in the Cryptocurrency Space

60 hours 23 mins; March 23, 2015

Michael Gronager: Chainalysis – Surveillance and the Path to Mass Panic

60 hours 12 mins; March 16, 2015

Thomas Voegtlin: Electrum, SPV Wallets and Bitcoin Aliases

58 mins; March 09, 2015

Kamikaze Attack – Block Halving and the Perils of Proof-of-Work

66 hours 21 mins; March 02, 2015

Brian Hoffman: OpenBazaar – Peer-To-Peer Commerce, Third-Party Arbitration, Ricardian Contracts

76 hours 26 mins; February 23, 2015

Levin Keller: Coyno – Bitcoin Bookkeeping, Filing Taxes, Building a Bitcoin Startup in Europe

60 hours 6 mins; February 16, 2015

Adam Back & Greg Maxwell: Sidechains Unchained

92 hours 30 mins; February 09, 2015

Adam B. Levine: Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network, LTBCoin, Monetizing Content & Crowdfunding

66 hours 22 mins; February 02, 2015

Tim Swanson: The Bitcoin Hype Buster

68 hours 3 mins; January 26, 2015

Preston Byrne & Siân Jones: Eris Industries – The Distributed Application Software Stack

63 hours 46 mins; January 19, 2015

Garrick Hileman: CoinDesk’s State of Bitcoin 2015 – Ecosystem Grows Despite Price Decline

72 hours 13 mins; January 12, 2015

Robert Sams: Bitcoin, Volatility and the Search for a Stable Cryptocurrency

71 hours 11 mins; January 05, 2015

Fireside Chat – A Fascinating Year in Retrospect and Exciting Times Ahead

95 hours 27 mins; December 29, 2014

Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Proof-of-Stake, The Future of Bitcoin

95 hours 5 mins; December 22, 2014

Allen Scott & Ian DeMartino: CoinTelegraph and the Rise of Crypto-Powered Independent Media

63 hours 31 mins; December 15, 2014

Daniel Krawisz: Nakamoto Institute – Bitcoin, Libertarianism and the Problem with Appcoins

66 hours 18 mins; December 08, 2014

Daniel Gallancy: SolidX – Bridging the Gap Between Bitcoin and Institutional Investors

66 hours 28 mins; December 01, 2014

Daniel Peled & Tom Kysar: Gems – The Social Messaging App That Pays You for Your Attention

72 hours 42 mins; November 24, 2014

Arianna Simpson: BitGo – Security and Usability with Multi-Signature HD Wallets

59 mins; November 17, 2014

Paul Snow & Peter Kirby: Factom – Proof of Existance, Proof of Process, Proof of Audit

60 hours 14 mins; November 10, 2014

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