Episodes

Episode 38: Intro to zkSNARKs with Howard Wu

In this episode, we sit down with our friend Howard Wu to explore zkSNARKs, the challenges in the application of this awesome technology, the new ideas emerging for how to scale them and his latest work on DIZK. Howard was an early member of Blockchain at Berkeley, is the co-author of Libsnark, and is a managing partner of Dekrypt Capital.

Episode 37: Sharding Update With Prysmatic Labs

In this episode, we sit down with Raul & Preston from Prysmatic Labs to discuss sharding, the evolution of the spec, Ethereum 2.0, what happens to a side chain during a hard fork, and whats coming up for this important scaling solution.

Episode 36: Eric Tang of Livepeer talks off-chain computation

In this episode, we speak with Eric Tang from Livepeer about the need for off-chain computation, what scenarios make sense for on-chain and what should be done off-chain. We also discuss how Livepeer fits into the ecosystem and how they aim to help more people livestream in a decentralised way.

Episode 35: Testnets with Ethan from Tendermint

In this episode, we sit down with Ethan (Bucky) Buchman, co-founder & CTO of Tendermint, to talk about testnets. We look into what they are, what purpose they serve and cover examples from Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cosmos and Polkadot.

Episode 34: Blockchain 101: What are smart contracts?

In this episode, we dig into the topic of smart contracts with our guest James Prestwich. We explore what the term smart contract means, where it comes from, some use cases and some of the new challenges that come along with it.

Episode 32: Zero Knowledge at Zcon0!

In this week’s episode, we cover the Zcon0 conference in Montreal. In our interviews with some of the participants, we explore the zcash community, projects actually implementing zero knowledge proofs, and some of the most exciting ideas to be generated at the event!

Episode 31: Blockchain 101: Blocks & Block Headers

In this introductory episode, we discuss what makes up blocks and block headers. We also cover a bit about state vs history, what exactly makes up a transaction and do a tiny intro to a Merkle Tree.

Episode 28: ETHBuenosAires in review

In this week’s episode, we cover ETHBuenosAires, the 3rd instalment of the ETHGlobal Hackathon series. Through Anna’s conversations with the participants, sponsors and organisers, she got some insights into the Buenos Aires ecosystem, the technical problems people are trying to solve and the awesome hacks that came out of the event.

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