Today we're joined by two guests. Tatiana Moroz is a singer-songwriter, anti-war activist and a very active bitcoin enthusiast and evangelist. Recently, Tatiana created Tatiana Coin, the very first musical artist coin on the Counterparty Protocol. She also recently joined Bitcoin Magazine as their sales director and joins us from New York. Wendell Davis is also with us again from Thailand. He's the creator of the beautiful Hive wallet and CEO of Humint, a company which aims to help companies create and deploy branded coins. Wendell is quite knowledgeable in crowd sale platforms as well as new crowdfunding models and will help us dissect some of the challenges and opportunities of creating custom coins. Links: - EBA: Financial Institutions Should Avoid Bitcoin, Await Regulation (CoinDesk): http://bit.ly/1pUeeSM - EBA opinion on "virtual currencies" document: http://bit.ly/1rGPtcl - Tatiana Coin Website: http://bit.ly/1qDsRrA - Tatiana Coin on Coinpowers: http://bit.ly/1lNleZn - Woman's Crypto Association: http://bit.ly/1n7w9C4 - Hive Web: http://bit.ly/VyPemo - Hive Wallet: http://bit.ly/VyPwtu - Hummint: http://bit.ly/1kvIZFN Show notes: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/eb-027 Running time: 1:08:33 Epicenter Bitcoin is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain & Sébastien Couture and is available on iTunes, SoundCloud, Mixcloud, Stitcher and other podcast aggregators. Website: http://epicenterbitcoin.com Subscribe: http://feed.epicenterbitcoin.com Subscribe to our Friday newsletter: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/newsletter Twitter: http://twitter.com/epicenterbtc Tip the show: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/tips

Support the show, consider donating: 1E4wyGGWVanUqbGxZvy3PTg2FtxSre7YqX (http://bit.ly/1PMCqNV) A pioneering feature of Bitcoin is verifiability of transactions: It is designed to enable low-power devices and high end computers alike to be able to verify occurrences on the blockchain. This observation led our guest, Adam Gibson, to wonder why webpages aren't so easily verifiable as a Bitcoin transaction? Can I prove to you that I have certain bank account balance over the internet? Why do we submit photocopies of passports rather than furnishing a cryptographically verifiable proof of citizenship by logging on to a Government site? Born out of this intellectual itch is the TLS Notary protocol. It pioneers a new kind of auditing that enables participants to prove that a certain https page was in their browser. This protocol paves the way to brilliant designs for Proof of Reserves, Smart contract oracles and Decentralised fiat-to-bitcoin exchange. Topics covered included: - Why is the current Web structured to be not easily verifiable? - What is TLS and how does it work? - How TLS differs from SSL. - The TLS Notary protocol - Capabilities and limitations of TLS Notary. - Applications of TLS Notary including provably honest smart contract oracles. Links mentioned in this episode: - The TLS Notary website: https://tlsnotary.org/ - Oraclize, the provably honest oracle service: http://www.oraclize.it/ - The TLS specification (TLS 1.0 RFC 2246): https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2246.txt Sponsors: - Ledger Nano: Smart card security for your Bitcoins - Get 10% off your first order when you use the code EPICENTER at http://ledgerwallet.com - GTEC: Apply now to enter the GTEC Blockchain Contest and win prizes worth €50k http://epicenterbitcoin.com/gtec Show notes: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/podcast/119 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/epicenterbitcoin/eb-119 Epicenter Bitcoin is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain, Sébastien Couture & Meher Roy. - 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: 1B9JXncTuGtZx2yUTUjHXWDjugvkjtBQrw (http://bit.ly/2olzP8m) ETH: 0x8cdb49ca5103Ce06717C4daBBFD4857183f50935 (http://bit.ly/2nKneP1) Bitcoin and Ethereum miners collectively make up what is perhaps the most powerful computational resource in the world. However, mobile phones from the early 2000's could arguably run more complex operations than these networks combined. While blockchains themselves may never reach the level of computational power of modern computers, they may be leveraged as the underlying verification layer for centralized computing. We're joined by Jason Teutsch and Christian Reitwiessner. They are the co-authors of a visionary whitepaper which describes Truebit. This protocol would allow complex computations to be executed on off-chain systems while being validated by Ethereum miners. The results of these computations would consequently be available to on-chain smart contracts. Truebit makes clever use of proof systems and game theory to build a protocol where a Task Giver can ask a third party, the Solver, to execute a complex computation in exchange for a reward. Not limited to Solidity, these could be executed in traditional languages such as Go, Python or C++. Verifiers could then challenge the results, incentivising the Solver to be honest or see his reward be stripped away. This incentive structure would guarantee fast and reliable results while eliminating the need for a trusted third party. Topics discussed in this episode: - Jason and Christian respective backgrounds in the ecosystem. - The core problem being addressed by Truebit - Why a scalable decentralized computational resource is desirable - How Truebit makes use of proof systems and game theory to enable trusted computations off-chain - How the verification game works the incentive structures proposed in Truebit - The various use cases for Truebit - How Truebit could allow for blockchain interoperability without the need for ""blockchain of blockchains"" type networks Links mentioned in this episode: - TrueBit Website: http://truebit.io - TrueBit Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/truebit/ - TrueBit: Scalable Computation talk by Christian Reitwiessner at Ethereum Meetup in Berlin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO2tEOBBFOE - Slides for the Scalable Computation talk: https://chriseth.github.io/notes/talks/truebit_meetup_2017-03 Sponsors: - Jaxx: Wallets that Unify the Blockchain Experience Across Devices - http://jaxx.io This episode is also available on : - Epicenter.tv: https://epicenter.tv/177 - YouTube: http://youtu.be/QY0OUTaIWIc - Souncloud: http://soundcloud.com/epicenterbitcoin/eb-177 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: 3LyMXDjQCeQPETn4XPViUB3YevMqQD67JS (http://bit.ly/1fBZXXm) Revolutionary progress doesn't happen without lots of work and in the case of Bitcoin that requires many different startups building technology. Few have contributed to this as much as Silicon Valley based startup accelerator Boost VC, which has been focusing on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency startups since 2013. Focusing exclusively on Bitcoin for an extended time, they've invested in companies such as Blockcypher, Coinprism, Coinjar, Mirror, Snapcard, Zapchain and many others. Boost VC Founder Adam Draper joined us to discuss running an accelerator, their investment thesis and why they've chosen to add Virtual / Augmented Reality startups to the program. NOTE: Applications to join the next tribe of Boost startups can be submitted until Wednesday July 1. If you're interested in applying go here: http://bit.ly/1IG49MQ Topics covered included: - The qualities they look for in companies (8:50) - What the overarching Boost VC investement thesis is (14:40) - His view on the BitLicense rules and how they affect cryptocurrency startups (38:14) - How regulatory concerns have risen among their startups (41:40) - Why they chose to add Virtual / Augmented Reality to the program (47:50) Links mentioned in this episode: - Boost VC http://bit.ly/1dsqWD1 - Adam Draper: New York's BitLicense Will Hurt Startup Incubators http://bit.ly/1g1YIB5 - William H. Draper III: The Startup Game http://amzn.to/1LxS1m8 - But with bitcoins... http://bit.ly/1Kkkc7f - AB 129 California Cryptocurrency Law http://bit.ly/1GKO48h 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 http://coincap.io/#/ Show notes: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/podcast/085 SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/epicenterbitcoin/eb-085 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