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.
664 episodes transcribedLending is one core pillar of the economy, enabling one person or company to be entrepreneurial with someone else’s capital. However, in the tradition...
Since the rise of digital currencies and cryptocurrencies, central banks are considering the role these new forms of money may play in our evolving di...
While trustless interactions on Ethereum are native to the protocol, trustless interactions between the Ethereum blockchain and other blockchains are...
We enter dozens of trust relationships ever time we interact with the Web. Browsers, ISPs, DNS providers, cloud hosting companies, all the way down to...
The Ethereum vision has always been to create a world computer. But its scalability and performance limitations have meant that it has fallen far shor...
Most observers of the ecosystem will probably agree that 2015-2017 were the years of the enterprise blockchain. It was during that time that many star...
The difficulties of compensating content creators for their work has been a driving force of the web for decades. It gave rise to advertising-driven t...
It’s that time of year again, Devcon time! Just as the conference was wrapping up, we sat down at the Prague Congress Center for a Devcon4 recap. Join...
From one of the main Ethereum clients, to Polkadot to Substrate; Parity has become exceptional at developing successful open-source blockchain project...
We’re joined by Monica Quaintance, Head of Engineering and Adoption at Kadena. While most companies providing enterprise solutions focus primarily on...
Building open source software is a collaborative process which relies on good faith and willingness of volunteers. While most of the software we use d...
CoinFund is one of the earliest crypto-funds to have taken shape, forming in early 2016. The fund is well known for running an active Community Slack,...
The Tezos whitepaper, published in 2014, anticipated several areas that would become major issues for blockchain networks. Especially around governanc...
Public blockchains produce enormous amounts of data. In theory, anyone can access the raw contents of transaction and blocks. In practice, however, qu...
The expectation has become widespread that blockchains will end up underpinning major societal infrastructures. The narrative in the blockchain space...
Legendary scientist and cryptography pioneer Ralph Merkle joined us to discuss his recent paper on DAOs. Merkle examined how the voting mechanisms in...
The rise of populism and increasing inequality have led to widespread questioning of democracy and capitalism. Glen Weyl, a political economist and Pr...
Dispute resolution is the process by which contracting parties settle disagreements. Whether in the form of litigation, arbitration, or other means of...
We are joined by Ryan Zurrer, Principal and Venture partner, at Polychain capital. Polychain capital is a breakout crypto hedge fund with over $100 mi...
Until now, proposals to improve blockchain scalability have addressed the problem in one of two ways. One seeks to increase efficiency by optimizing t...
