Oktahedron

OH008 - Printing Money

Augusto from Raiden Network core team, explains Raiden Network: extension to Ethereum which scales-out asset transfer capacity. Hosted by Dirk Jaeckel & Ksenya Links: Repository https://github.com/raiden-network Lefteris' short presentation at Ethdev from November 2016 https://youtu.be/JuVP4iDVkoQ?list=PLaM7G4Llrb7wPiT2G75tj2JQr8qg6P5hi Heiko's presentation from devcon1 (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h791zjvf3uQ

In this episode Dirk Jaekel & Ksenya discuss zcash with Zooko. Zcash dev wiki https://github.com/zcash/zcash/wiki/specification, a repo https://github.com/zcash/zcash and a user guide https://github.com/zcash/zcash/wiki/1.0-User-Guide To get your head around zero knowledge proofs and zcash even better we also recommend two episodes recorded by our fellow podcasters Meher & Brian from a different podcast Epicenter: Ep116 with professor Eli Ben-Sasson and Ep122 with Zooko Here is the paper that we mention “How to explain Zero-Knowledge Protocols to your children” Towards the middle of the podcast we talk about a practical way of making a nice and useful zcash node, which we intend to make IRL and will shortly publish some basic specs for it. For the latest updates, you can check Oktahedron on Twitter and feel free to ping any questions to Dirk Jäckel & Ksenya.

This episode was recorded 2016-12-29 in Hamburg. We had a short chat with Ryan Taylor (@AdjyLeak), zooko (@zooko) and Meredith L Patterson (@maradydd) at 33c3. In this short episode Zooko tells us a cute story of practical love letters hidden in blockchain transactions, Meredith highlights the importance of compilers in the world and Ryan mentions Alexandria library. It's a bit of a teaser for the 2017, as some of it we will be covering in detail in 2017 on Oktahedron. Recorded at Sendecentrum at Chaos Communication Congress with the guests: AdjyLeak, Meredith L Patterson, Zooko and that TBA guest with a nice podcasting voice, who spoke very little. Hosted by Dirk Jaeckel & Ksenya of Oktahedron. Thanx to Tim Pritlove for recommending Sendecentrum, instead of dragging all our audio equipment all the way to the Congress from Berlin, thanx to Chistopher who was so patient & helpful, and other guys at Sendecentrum . And a great big thanx to our wonderful sound guy in particular. Enjoy!

This episode is about Secure Scuttlebutt - a database of unforgeable append-only feeds, optimized for efficient replication for peer to peer protocols. Scuttlebutt in slang usage means rumor or gossip, deriving from the nautical term for the cask used to serve water (or, later, a water fountain) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuttlebutt A gossip protocol is a style of computer-to-computer communication protocol inspired by the form of gossip seen in social networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip_protocol History of Scuttlebutt with Dominic Tarr https://www.gwenbell.com/dt-interview/ Dominic Tarr http://dominictarr.com/ Twitter @dominictarr Secure Scuttlebutt consortium https://github.com/ssbc Peer-to-peer audio publishing and streaming application. Like SoundCloud but decentralized. A mashup of ssb, webtorrent and electron http://ferment.audio Decentralised git git-ssb https://github.com/clehner/git-ssb

Swarm guide http://swarm-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ nicely organised Swarm documentation Swarm landing page & public gateway http://swarm-gateways.net/bzz:/swarm/ Ethereum Name System - ENS https://github.com/ethereum/ens/wiki Decentralised Git https://github.com/axic/mango using Ethereum and P2P content addressable networks (Swarm, IPFS, SSB) Short talk introducing Swarm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_MnZM9J4TQ at DAppHack, Berlin Nov 26th 2016

Turing completeness vs decidable languages, safer smart contracts and running Ethereum on Ethereum. Do we want Turing-completeness, or is a weaker model more suitable? Would a dumber (not a Turing complete) language would make smart contracts smarter (easily verifiable)? We talk about total functional languages and alternatives to accounts-based model. Should we look at the blockchain as a pure data store, possibly equipped with primitives such as map/reduce or similar? Links: Meredith Pattersson talks about The Weird Machine https://archive.org/details/The_Science_of_Insecurity_ Tau Chain http://tauchain.org/ Idris: a general purpose pure functional programming language with dependent types http://www.idris-lang.org/ Safer smart contracts through type-driven development byt ROBERT EDSTRÖM, JACK PETTERSSON http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/234939/234939.pdf Jack Pettersson and Robert Edström (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) present on a dependantly typed functional language for

@heckerhut, @dirkjaeckel and @j32804 Some time passed after the DAO goxed. We will probably need to mention it again, because it raised a lot of questions about jurisdictions etc. What has happened since? http://cointimes.tech/2016/08/12/etcdao-stolen-coins-frozen-by-exchanges-was-sent-by-ethereum-foundation-developers/ Esma Discussion paper https://www.esma.europa.eu/sites/default/files/library/2016-773_dp_dlt.pdf Dominic Williams about tokens and security law https://medium.com/@dominic_w/on-protocol-tokens-and-securities-law-8e54d2237eee#.ll96uwj8n Sian Jones gave some regulatory update on Epicenter Bitcoin. EU regulations are not so restrictive towards fintech / virtual currency businesses? But what about crowdsales? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F-Z3rlOapk Its funny that there is a certain amount of worries around whether crowdsales are legal, and whether people can get in trouble basically printing their own money or issuing securities. As a friend of mine put it: blockchain is a hot new coo

OH000 - Gox Early