Support the show, consider donating: 3CdLCDLSg5XdrzZyHkXemFjiC5f6jeFa7P (http://bit.ly/1MoBlf1) Amidst all the discussion of alternative uses of blockchains, it is often forgotten that the very first fork of Bitcoin, Namecoin, pursued a daring vision for a decentralized, censorship-resistant internet. Greg Slepak, co-founder of the okTurtles Foundation joined us for an interesting discussion of DNS, Namecoin and how blockchains can be used to decentralize the internet. Topics covered included: - What DNS is and the role it plays in the architecture of the internet - What man-in-the-middle attacks are and why certificate authorities offer poor protection - How certificate authorities, SSL, IP routing and VPNs work - Why the current model is broken from a privacy and security perspective - How Namecoin and the blockchain could enable a decentralized and more secure internet - The security risks when online identity is tied to a private key and how they could be mitigated - What DNSChain is and what projects okTurtles is working on Links mentioned in this episode: - okTurtles Foundation http://bit.ly/1SJq76Q - Namecoin Primer http://bit.ly/1S6KxM4 - Namecoin Website http://bit.ly/1fzrus2 - Airplane Wifi is not safe http://bit.ly/1fzdqyX - DNSChain demo http://bit.ly/1DIC2uS Sponsors: - Ledger Nano: Smart card security for your Bitcoins - Get 10% off your first order when you use the code EB09 at http://ledgerwallet.com (valid until 09/30/15) - CoinCap: Crypto-currency market cap rankings, charts, and more coincap.io/#/ Show notes: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/podcast/089 SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/epicenterbitcoin/eb-089 Epicenter Bitcoin is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain & Sébastien Couture. - Visit our website: http://epicenterbitcoin.com - Subscribe to our newsletter: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/newsletter - Twitter: http://twitter.com/epicenterbtc

Support the show, consider donating: 13AnaAVN4SMzMYVT3pb1S3A8wBFQYpqvnR (http://bit.ly/2lBipab) In the footsteps of the finance industry, the energy sector has been caught by the blockchain fever. Conceived over a century ago, increased usage and an explosion of devices have made energy grids outdated. Smart grids offer a two-way dialogue where electricity and information are exchanged between utilities and its customers. This new grid takes advantages of connected devices and green energy production to provide more reliability, security and sustainability. Carsten Stöcker, Senior Manager Machine Economy & Blockchain at Innogy, shares his vision for how blockchains will serve as the transactional fabric for tomorrow's smart grids. In this new paradigm, energy is locally produced and blockchains provide the rails on which local energy marketplaces can be built. The German utility has been conducting blockchain experiments for several years and is soon releasing the Mobility Transaction Platform moveX. The Ethereum-powered platform will serve an ecosystem of electric vehicles with transaction layer needed for charging, car sharing and mobility as a service. Topics discussed in this episode: - Carsten's background in technology - The history of RWE and creation of Innogy - Business models in a decentralized economy - How the energy grid system works - The transition from the traditional grid to the smart grid - How blockchains can be integrated in tomorrow's smart grids - Use cases for blockchain and energy - Innogy's moveX blockchain experiment for mobility Links mentioned in this episode: - innogy Innovation Hub: https://innovationhub.innogy.com - World Economic Forum - Decentral Blockchain Transaction Platform: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/12/goodbye-car-ownership-hello-clean-air-this-is-the-future-of-transport - Share and Charge - Mobility on Blockchain: https://shareandcharge.com/en/ - Blockcharge - Electric Vehicle Charging on Ethereum Blockchain: https://youtu.be/it2X_j-DPmA - Genesis of Things - Industry 4.0 on Blockchain: http://www.genesisofthings.com - Automating Machine Transactions and Building Trust in the 4th Industrial Revolution: https://medium.com/iotatangle/automating-machine-transactions-and-building-trust-in-the-4th-industrial-revolution-d3219a157396#.u99on2xeo - "Free Electrons" - a new global energy start-up program: http://www.freelectrons.co Sponsors: - Jaxx: Wallets that Unify the Blockchain Experience Across Devices - http://jaxx.io This episode is also available on : - Epicenter.tv: https://epicenter.tv/174 - YouTube: http://youtu.be/9q5gsKo9DHE - Souncloud: http://soundcloud.com/epicenterbitcoin/eb-174 Watch or listen, Epicenter is available wherever you get your podcasts. Epicenter is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain, Sébastien Couture & Meher Roy.

Support the show, consider donating: 13pzV8heDZD9sfRmDWrYQLdsThyTZLL3Qc (http://bit.ly/1Kk0wwF) As the debate about the blocksize continues to roar through the Bitcoin community, Gavin Andresen joins us to take a step back and ask the big questions: How should these decisions be made in the first place? What does the governance of Bitcoin look like now and what do we want it to look like in the future? In a challenging time for Bitcoin, it's a critical discussion to have with the Chief Scientist of the Bitcoin Foundation and successor of Satoshi. We cover everything from the current blocksize debate to the nature of forks to how decisions will be made in Bitcoin XT. Topics covered included: - MIT Digital Currency Initiative - The way Gavin thinks about Bitcoin - How were decisions made throughout Bitcoin's history - What the Nakamoto/market consensus is - Forking the software vs a fork of the blockchain - Who should make decisions in Bitcoin and how the interest of different stakeholders should be reconciled - Why the desirable state is to move towards many different implementations - How decisions will be made for the Bitcoin XT code base Links mentioned in this episode: - Eli Durado: How should Bitcoin be governed? http://bit.ly/1Vm7JnM - Arvind Narayanan: Bitcoin faces a crossroads, needs an effective decision-making process http://bit.ly/1LCq8bf - Matt Asay: Why you should fork your next open-source project http://tek.io/1N2bk9i - Robles & Gonzalez-Barahona, A comprehensive study of software forks http://bit.ly/1JDCtwB - Chinese Mining Pools Call for Consensus; Refuse Switch to Bitcoin XT http://bit.ly/1Ukpph6 - Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies - Chapter 7: Community, Politics, and Regulation http://bit.ly/1PZVZo5 - BIP 100 Proposal http://bit.ly/1iakV0M Sponsors: - Ledger Nano: Smart card security for your Bitcoins - Get 10% off your first order when you use the code EB09 at http://ledgerwallet.com (valid until 09/30/15) - Vaultoro: Invest in the gold-Bitcoin trading platform on Bank to the Future http://bit.ly/1ER5gIo Show notes: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/podcast/094 SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/epicenterbitcoin/eb-094 Epicenter Bitcoin is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain & Sébastien Couture. - Visit our website: http://epicenterbitcoin.com - Subscribe to our newsletter: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/newsletter - Twitter: http://twitter.com/epicenterbtc

Support the show, consider donating: BTC: 127AsgERpdaAuierL1jKMP52RgfKu22tGo (http://bit.ly/2q4uFC2) ETH: 0x8cdb49ca5103Ce06717C4daBBFD4857183f50935 (http://bit.ly/2pEUs2f) Data is the new oil, and those who control massive amounts of it have a major competitive advantage. That advantage becomes exponential when that data is used to teach artificial intelligence. Companies such as Google, Facebook and Amazon have a far greater probability of building strong AI than smaller actors simply by the sheer amount of user data and metadata they possess. Let's now envision an alternate reality where big data lives on public infrastructure and is accessible to anyone who wishes to use it for the purpose of teaching AI. Big data as a public resource could have the potential to enable vast amounts of innovation at the edges, far greater than that of a small set of incumbents building large centralized AI systems. We're joined by Trent McConaghy, who is the CTO and Co-founder of BigchainDB and Ascribe. Trent brings along a special surprise guest, Fred Ehrsam, former Co-founder at Coinbase. For the first half of the show, we have a fascinating discussion with Trent and Fred about the intersection of AI and blockchain technologies, and the implications of publically available data sets on innovation in AI. For the second half of the show, we talk with Trent about the public implementation of BigchainDB, the Interplanetary Database (IPDB), and the applications for a public big data storage network accessible to all of humanity. Topics discussed in this episode: - The issues which arise with big data centralization in the context of building artificial intelligence - How blockchain technologies could serve as the public data infrastructure for teaching AI - How an AI might gain financial dominance over humanity by selling art on a DAO - An update on Ascribe and BigchainDB - The IPDB network and what goals it hopes to achieve - The IPDB Foundation, its members and governance rules - The technical components of the IPDB network - Use cases and applications for a public decentralized global database Links mentioned in this episode: - IPDB - Interplanetary Database Foundation: https://ipdb.foundation/ - IPDB Dev Portal: https://developers.ipdb.io/ Sponsors: - Jaxx: Wallets that Unify the Blockchain Experience Across Devices - http://jaxx.io Watch or listen, Epicenter is available wherever you get your podcasts. Epicenter is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain, Sébastien Couture & Meher Roy.