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On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dee have a conversation on the history of creating a P2P bitcoin merchant exchange with Chris Maurice. He's been boots on the group helping to establish bitcoin dominance in Africa with his firm YellowCard. He breaks down what it takes to build a crypto business in Africa as a humble man from Alabama, his thoughts on growing Handshake in Africa, and how his firm helps to aid in crypto adoption.  Show Link(s): YellowCard Website: http://Yellowcard.io Intro/Outro Music "On The Way" by Al Hostile: https://soundcloud.com/al-hostile/free-my-album-prod-steezyzo-madbliss Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: Amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dr. Petty and Dee finally may have found someone who can bring crypto + music & audio to the masses. We're joined by Roneil Rumburg, CEO of Audius, and an all around incredibly nice guy. He's sharp: he understands Ethereum; he built on Bitcoin back in the day; and is familiar with the music industry. His team realizes the barriers that stand between Audius, and mass adoption - and we think he just might succeed. We discuss the platform, his vision for the future, and have some laughs along the way.  Show Link(s): Audius Website: https://audius.co Intro/Outro Music "On The Way" by OvaEastMeech: https://soundcloud.com/ovaeastmeech/im-on-the-way-1 Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dr. Petty and Dee are back with a new season, with fresh new faces and guests. To start off this season, we spoke to Paul Berg, CEO and Co-Founder of Sablier Finance. Many have sought to scale Ethereum transactions off-chain, with the use of Roll-ups/Plasma/State Channels, but Paul's team took a different approach. They're building an on-chain protocol for real-time payments; one that's lean, extendable, and a great PoC into how the future of real-time finance will work going forward. Join this enlightening discussion into his design decisions, and why he thinks Sablier is going to revolutionize payments by allowing you to stream digitized value of any form. Show Link(s): Sablier Website: https://www.sablier.finance Sablier Github: https://github.com/sablierhq/sablier Intro/Outro Music "Rosethroat" by YTK: https://soundcloud.com/yungtrvpkid/rosethroat Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty become journalists, for just this one time, as we interview a journalist from the industry who's quickly made a name for herself, Leigh Cuen. Leigh is a reporter from Coindesk and with a colorful past as a journalist with a broad range of focuses. She walks us through her process on how she seeks to provide objective truth and value into her reporting; as well as sharing valuable insights into how you should frame your perspective with crypto media. Sit down and enjoy this one, you'll definitely appreciate the struggles of objective media by the end of it. Show Link(s): Leigh Cuen: https://twitter.com/la__cuen Intro/Outro Music "Down" by XamVolo: https://soundcloud.com/xamvolo/down Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Dr. Petty join the founders Cameron Robertson (CEO) and Paul Gerhardt (CTO) to discuss what we believe is an innovation in bridging digital money with physical, secure digital hardware. They present us Kong, their digital cash equivalent: possessing the ability to act as a fungible representation of digital money, with a secure element and programmatic expiry which enables extraction of the funds at a future date. It's a very futuristic idea, and we're here for it. Come have a listen. Show Link(s): Kong Cash: http://kong.cash Intro/Outro Music “Touche” by Armani White: https://soundcloud.com/legendbound/touche1 Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty have a friendly chat with your favorite neighborhood developer, Austin Griffith. Creator of the burner wallet, Austin is one of the leading developers focused on usability and creating the "aha!" moments necessary to bridge traditional software developers and consumers, over into the bright and bountiful world of crypto. This is of course a technical, and a human-oriented task, and Austin has the chops to speak to developers/users in fun and exciting ways - and his passion for Ethereum is contagious. Come learn what it takes to create new product engineers, as we discuss how Austin plans to tackle that problem on the journey to a million+ Ethereum developers. Show Link(s): ETH Build: http://eth.build Intro/Outro Music "In Love and War" by XamVolo: https://soundcloud.com/xamvolo/in-love-and-war Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty sit down with Zak Cole, CEO and blockchain-literate extraordinaire of WhiteBlock. They're working on the testing and implementation of cryptographically assured blockchain-based protocols; all built with their in-house designed open source testing suite. Their tools allow blockchain architects and developers the means to test their public chains in a more stringent real-world like environment so you they can quantify the fault tolerance, latency, and stability of p2p blockchain systems more easily. This allows for improved sustainable data availability for public chains, and a more mature methodology for testing chains at scale. We also have some discussions around ETH 2.0, and Zak's experiences building in a chain agnostic manner. Show Link(s): WhiteBlock: http://whiteblock.io FLP Impossibility: https://www.the-paper-trail.org/post/2008-08-13-a-brief-tour-of-flp-impossibility/ Intro/Outro Music "Motivation" by Alec King: https://soundcloud.com/alecking13

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee, and Dr. Petty have a well-rounded chat with Ayo Akinyele of Bolt Labs. His firm is pioneering greater privacy for layer 2 technology (think Lightning) but with a support for multiple different public chains. He imagines an interoperable future of interconnectivity, with a privacy first mindset. We go in-depth on his background and how he got here, and how he sees layer 2 technology to evolve, while building a sustainable business outside of academia. Come check it out, there’s plenty to learn. Show Link(s): Bolt Labs: https://boltlabs.tech/ Intro/Outro Music “Voodoo” by OvaEast Meech: https://soundcloud.com/ovaeastmeech/voodoo Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty have a nice long discussion on the future of humanity with Vinay Gupta, CEO and Co-Founder of Mattereum. His firm (after having successfully assisting in launching Ethereum) is building a way to merge legal, real-world contracts, with on-chain smart contracts on Ethereum. His belief is that the digitization of tangible resources will be pivotal in solving some of humanity's hardest problems - especially those in relation to climate change and resource scarcity. This one is a tad longer than usual, but we couldn't just tell Vinay to stop talking, his words were too important. It's a very educational episode -- grab a coffee. Show Links: Mattereum: http://Mattereum.com Intro/Outro Music “Triple Double” by Phay: https://soundcloud.com/phayweather/triple-double-prod-by-3am Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due d

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Petty sit down with Petty's fellow co-worker, Dean Eigenmann, from Status. He's working on building an improved messaging protocol for Status, and is also working on the side on a Swift implementation of the ETH 2.0 Beacon chain. We learn more about Dean, as we go in deep to understand the mind of a real thot leader. Show Links: Yeeth Website: https://yeeth.af Intro/Outro Music “Badu” by Phay: https://soundcloud.com/phayweather/badu-prod-by-3am Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dee have a chat with Pedro Gomez, the Founder and developer behind WalletConnect. As Ethereum based accounts and wallets proliferate, standards surrounding how they're accessed, and extended interoperability becomes ever more important. Pedro's effort are to simplify this process for developers of Ethereum wallet's and services, in order to improve the UX across dApps in the ecosystem.  Show Links: WalletConnect: https://walletconnect.org WalletConnect Github: https://github.com/WalletConnect Intro/Outro Music "SonShine" by Phay: https://soundcloud.com/phayweather/sonshine Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty sit down with the crypto twitter famous, Ari Paul. Ari is the head honcho at BlockTower capital, and comes from a background of endowment management at the University of Chicago; Ari is a traditional finance nerd turned crypto nerds. We have a solid discussion on some of his perspectives on investing, and Petty and McKie pick his brain for some new insights you might not have heard elsewhere. Show Links: BlockTower Site: https://www.blocktower.com Intro/Outro Music "Learnt Some Jazz Today" by Tesselated: https://soundcloud.com/tessellated/jazz Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dr. Petty and Dee sit down with Aidan Hyman and Gregory Markou, the CEO and VP of Engineering from Chainsafe. Chainsafe builds tooling, implementations, and infrastructure to help maintain and interoperate major public blockchains. They aim to, overtime, make it much easier to build and deploy DApps on a variety of chains and services, in order to greatly lower the barrier to entry for new developers in crypto. Chainsafe considers themselves a chain agnostic developer tooling house (that loves TypeScript and Go) that's doing their part to ignore developer tribalism, and build robust tooling that aids in scaling the ecosystem (such as ETH 2.0). A must listen for crypto-related developers who also consider themselves chain-agnostic. Show Links: Chainsafe Site: https://chainsafe.io Chainsafe Github: https://github.com/ChainSafe Intro/Outro Music "Better" by Kelechi: https://soundcloud.com/oddwin/as-long-as-we-are-1 Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaime

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty sit down with Kyle Thomas, the CEO from Provide. Provide builds client libraries and APIs to simplify the management of deploying blockchain-based nodes to be used in production and for development. Their firm also has a new arm, called Provide Payments, where they are working on low-cost settlement using Ethereum and state channels. We discuss building for enterprises and gaining their adoption, and what it'll take for us to get there. Show Links: Provide Services: http://provide.services Provide Payments: http://providepayments.com Intro/Outro Music "As Long As We Are" by Oddwin: https://soundcloud.com/oddwin/as-long-as-we-are-1 Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Dr. Petty are on a mission to get their heads wrapped around what ProgPow is attempting to accomplish as Kristy Minehan assists us in understanding her teams motivations and goals to retrofit Ethereum's hashing algorithm to deter the usage of ASICs, in an attempt to make mining more egalitarian and less reliant on large scale purpose-built hardware. This is a complex subject, and its important we didn't shy away from the hard details. Hopefully this balanced discussion serves as a means to educate the community on any ulterior motives or conflicts of interest to reduce any social contention in the greater community. The audio was left mostly unedited for full transparency. Show Links: Ethereum ProgPow EIP: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-1057.md Intro/Outro Music "Garden" by Grady: https://soundcloud.com/whoinvitedgrady/garden Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discus

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Dr. Petty get to talk to Marcus Martin, CEO of Anchor Digital. His firm is focused keenly on compliance; having worked for a bulk of his career in investment banking, he's seeking to get crypto up to code for regulators and adoption. His platform makes it easy to track your portfolio, exchange trades, tax obligations, and puts it front and center in their Compass dashboard. He breaks down what his vision is, and what they're planning to release following their fundraising. A very insightful look into the regulatory side of things. Show Links: Anchor Digital: http://anchordigital.io Intro/Outro Music "Only One" by Grady: https://soundcloud.com/thisisgrady/only-one-prod-by-whethan-roget-chahayed-3 Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dr. Petty get to talk to speak to a member of the original Handshake team, Hans Schoenburg. Hans is currently the one managing and building the Handshake faucet that will distribute HNS coins to the open source developers that applied on the platform; he also helped manage and research some of the important topics that pertain to the launch of Handshake's mainnet. We talk about some of the challenges Handshake dealt with, what he learned along the way, the vision for Handshake going forward, and much more. If you've been following the story of Handshake, this is a chapter you don't want to skip! Show Link(s): Handshake: http://handshake.org Intro/Outro Music "Super God Mode" by Angelo Mota: https://soundcloud.com/immaculate-taste/super-god-mode-prod-angelo-mota-1 Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before

On this episode of BlockChannel, Mckie and Dr. Petty sit down with Brian Soule, the CEO of HNSimple (ENSToolkit). His team got their start by building tools to make building atop of ENS (the "Ethereum Name Service"), and now with the looming launch of the Handshake mainnet, his team has changed focuses for a bit to help prepare for the launch by building a native mobile client. Come relax with us and get another valuable peek into the mind of another developer building on Handshake, there's much to learn. Show Link(s): HNSimple: http://ENSToolkit.org Intro/Outro Music "Don't Fuck It Up" by Kelechi: https://soundcloud.com/kelechief/dont-fuck-it-up Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, Mckie and Dee sit down with Sean Kilgarriff, the CEO of Urkel.io. With the impending launch of the Handshake public blockchain, Sean's team has been building the essential tooling and infrastructure the HNS community and developers will need at launch. After launching a block explorer, and the HNS Alliance, they'll soon add API services, desktop wallets, and other open source tools; they're poised to help Handshake get the jumpstart it needs. Come learn how his team plans to position itself to be a huge value add to the HNS community. Show Link(s): Urkel: http://Urkel.io HNS Alliance: http://HNSAlliance.org Intro/Outro Music "Long Distance" by Alec King: https://soundcloud.com/alecking13/longdistance Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.

On this episode of BlockChannel, Mckie, Dee and Dr. Petty finally get a chance to sit down with Preethi Kasireddy. Preethi, a crypto-native and CEO and Founder of TruStory (and former Coinbase/a16Z employee), sits down to fill us in on her storied background while watching crypto mature over the years. She also breaks down her technical and architectural decisions as to why she opted to build atop of Cosmos; come enjoy while we listen to her wax poetic on her next big project in the opener of Season Freedom. Show Link(s): TruStory: http://trustory.io Intro/Outro Music "Keep it Real" by Alec King: https://soundcloud.com/alecking13/keepitreal Show Sponsor(s): Amentum: http://amentum.org Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussion on new technology; BlockChannel reminds you to always do your own due diligence before investing in any crypto-related project in the industry.