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 transcribedSolving the pain points of online payments was the applications that garnered the most attention in Bitcoin’s early days. In recent times, as consumer...
Peter Thiel argued in his book ‘Zero to One’ that the way to build a great and highly profitable company is to build a monopoly. But with decentralize...
Revolutionary progress doesn’t happen without lots of work and in the case of Bitcoin that requires many different startups building technology. Few h...
One topic that is guaranteed to cause heated discussion among cryptocurrency enthusiasts is the idea that blockchains can be controlled by known valid...
Many people think of Bitcoin as the ultimate contender against the power of central banks, most importantly the Federal Reserve System. But that is ce...
Whether the block size should be increased to 20MB has created more controversy than any other question in Bitcoin’s recent history. For some, it is a...
From the mysterious creation story, to the early development among a small group of cypherpunks, to the emergence of the Silk Road, the collapse of Mt...
Since Gavin Andresen’s proposal to increase the Bitcoin block size, how Bitcoin can scale to accommodate higher transaction volumes has been heatedly...
Started in May 2013, Coinkite has by now almost advanced to senior citizen status in the short-lived Bitcoin startup space. CEO Rodolfo Novak joined u...
The idea of using the Bitcoin blockchain to represent and track the ownership of off-chain assets is almost as old as Bitcoin itself. One of the start...
Few question that educating people about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies is one of the most important and challenging tasks to achieve mass adoption. And...
Bitcoin’s approach to solving the double spending problem is to make a collusion and attack on the network prohibitively expensive. One of the main fa...
As the cost of computing continues to plummet, the number of connected devices is increasing dramatically. In the future powerful computing capacity w...
The cryptocurrency ecosystem is increasingly divided into different camps. There are those betting and working on the eventual mainstream success of B...
When one is busy driving a technological and societal revolution forward, complying with complicated regulatory requirements is rarely a top priority....
Creating a new token and selling it to fund the development of software has become a preferred way of fundraising for cryptocurrency entrepreneurs. It...
When spinning up a few hundred data-gathering Bitcoin nodes prevented some breadwallet users from transmitting bitcoin transaction, a minor panic quic...
Powering an estimated 5-10% of all Bitcoin transactions, Electrum is one of the leaders of the Bitcoin wallet space. The open-source walled was starte...
Is Bitcoin secure from attacks that could destroy the currency? To a large part, this is determined by how expensive it is to carry out an attack and...
What Bitcoin did for money, OpenBazaar is trying to achieve for commerce. Born as a fork of the Dark Market project, OpenBazaar aims to facilitate onl...
