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 transcribedWith academic research on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies still in its infancy, Sarah Meiklejohn’s track record of publications in the area stands out. T...
In the last 20 years, content publishing platforms have proliferated to an almost insane number. There are countless places where people and companies...
One of the sectors which is ripe for disruption is the real estate industry. In the US for instance, a handful of historic and very powerful players o...
From BitShares to his central role during the inception of Ethereum Charles Hoskinson has continually influenced key projects in the blockchain and cr...
Prediction markets are fascinating financial instruments which have proven to be accurate at making predictions on things like the outcome of election...
Blockchain smart contracts are self-executing contracts composed of computer code. These programs, which are executed by the entirety of the network,...
Legendary scientist and cryptography pioneer Ralph Merkle joined us to discuss his recent paper on DAOs. Merkle examined how the voting mechanisms in...
Exchanges are often criticized as a central point of failure of the cryptocurrency space. This isn’t without justification as, in recent years, we hav...
Few things arouse among free market believers and enthusiasts of decentralization as prediction markets do. By allowing people to bet on any range of...
Security researcher and RSK co-founder Sergio Lerner joined us to discuss RSK (also Rootstock), the project to launch a turing-complete smart contract...
With recent news surrounding The DOA and the Brexit vote causing a stir in the blockchain world and beyond, it seems like a regulatory update is due....
The lack of an explicit governance mechanism has created deep problems for Bitcoin. Ethereum, with the DAO-related soft/hard-fork discussions, may fac...
For many the promise of decentralized applications and DAOs is to be beyond the limitations and rigidity of the existing legal system. There is no que...
Raising $150m+ through its toke sale, ‘The DAO’ has become the most notable decentralized application to date. The ambitious goal of the project is to...
One of the problems often cited when talking about cryptocurrencies is their level of volatility compared to traditional fiat currencies. This makes m...
In this episode we welcome back Stephan Tual, the COO of Slock.It, a German startup working at the intersection of the Internet of Things and the Ethe...
One of the foundational problems in payment networks is that they are mostly uninteroperable. This problem exists at all levels, from consumer payment...
In the short history of the Bitcoin industry, there has been an impressive amount of high profile hacks, ranging from a few hundred thousand to many m...
As the blockchain field continues evolving rapidly, Sebastien, Meher and Brian take some time to discuss the current environment and the longer term i...
When Jed McCaleb discovered Bitcoin, there didn’t even exist an online marketplace to trade the cryptocurrency yet. The experienced founder who had ea...
