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Peter Van Valkenburgh, Director of Research at Coin Center explains the regulatory considerations that may bear on DAO tokens. This episode was recorded before the hack but is still an excellent guide for those interested in understanding the importance of due legal diligence in advance of a crowd sale. https://coincenter.org/ etherreview.info Thank you to cryptocompare.com Content: Arthur Falls, Peter Van Valkenburgh

So the DAO was hacked. Karl Floersch and myself discuss the state of play. What happened? Was it the fault of the DAO developers or a bug in the Solidity language? What does this mean for the ecosystem? How should we respond as a community? What is certain is that this event will drive the maturity of Ethereum forward. Hackingdistributed.com blog.ethereum.org/ Understanding The DAO Hack for Journalists - https://goo.gl/JIFgNJ Karl.tech Credits: Content: Karl Floersch, Arthur Falls

This episode features a somewhat undirected discussion with critical thinker Vinay Gupta. Starting with the technological components of Bitcoin and Ethereum, we find that all roads lead to the singularity. Thank you to cryptocompare.com for the support etherreview.info http://t.co/xrESgq7lBz (Vinay's site) https://twitter.com/leashless https://twitter.com/arthurfalls Content: Vinay Gupta, Arthur Falls Editing: Connor O'Day

Today we have Ethereum founder and Ethcore CEO, Gavin Wood and head of business development at Ethcore, Ken Kappler. We take a look at their Parity client and the Web 3 concept. We look at the future of Bitcoin - Ethereum interoperation, Geth security flaws, Whisper, Swarm, the DAO and even the possibility of sidechains on Ethereum. There was additional content cut into this episode so it’s a bit choppy but altogether this episode offers a fresh glimpse into the ever changing future of Ethereum. Before we dive in though, this episode’s sponsor, the enterprise blockchain solution provider Blockapps, has a request for the community. ethcore.io blockapps.net https://twitter.com/gavofyork https://twitter.com/KapplerKen

This episode features two interviews. First, Karl Floersch discusses the underlying structures which shape distributed applications. Karl’s ability to explain the deeper mechanics of software running in the Ethereum environment is unique and discussions with him are always fun, insightful, and visionary. Then we have Manfred Karrer, the creator of Bitsquare. For the uninitiated, Bitsquare is a decentralized fiat to crypto exchange. While it is completely self contained and doesn’t use Ethereum in any way. It’s a standalone DApp and that’s pretty cool. On top of that that we have a comprehensive, decentralized version of local bitcoins now which is extremely newsworthy. Bitsquare is especially interesting because by looking at the challenges Manfred faced throughout its development we can gain an understanding of the need for a unified DApp platform. Bitsquare.io Karl.tech https://twitter.com/ArthurFalls

Blockchain Revolution, the acclaimed book by Alex and Don Tapscott has been stirring interest in elite tech circles in advance of it's launch. Steve Wozniac called it "Mindblowing in its expansiveness and profundity." Alex Tapscott joins to discus the work. Content: Alex Tapscott, Arthur Falls https://twitter.com/alextapscott https://twitter.com/arthurfalls http://goo.gl/lrll0H

In the few days between this episodes interview and the recording of this introduction, the DAO has raised over ten million dollars, bringing its total cash reserves to twenty three million. Such investor enthusiasm is unprecedented in the cryptocurrency world. But is such enthusiasm justified? What is the DAO anyway? Where does Slockit fit into the picture? Will the investor control of the DAO result in overly optimistic capital management? Do these investors realize the highly speculative nature, and general poor performance of venture capital investment? Stephan Tual fields these questions and more. Please guys, this is not investment advice. https://daohub.org/ https://twitter.com/slockitproject https://twitter.com/stephantual https://twitter.com/arthurfalls?lang=en Content: Stephen Tual, Arthur Falls

Bob Summerwill has been developing the C++ Ethereum client since July last year. His background is primarily in game development but he spent a short time in finance as a “Solutions Architect” giving him a unique insight into development and culture across these fields. There are some interesting posts we speak about in this episode on his company website DoubleThink. Today we look primarily at the importance of C++ but I took the chance to ask Bob a few questions that had been accumulating over the last few weeks. https://bobsummerwill.com/ http://www.ethdocs.org/en/latest/ethereum-clients/cpp-ethereum/ https://github.com/doublethinkco/cpp-ethereum-cross http://github.com/ethereum/cpp-ethereum Content: Bob Summerwill, Arthur Falls Editing: Richard Toth https://twitter.com/bobsummerwill https://twitter.com/arthurfalls http://podcast-editing.com

Christoph Jentzsch is a theoretical physicist and high performance computing expert. The road to co-founding Slockit lead Christoph through the world of mining to testing the Ethereum codebase to developing the DAO concept to it’s most advanced state. In this episode we cover not only the internet of things but also the challenges of creating a new model for online community entrepreneurship. https://slock.it/ Content: Christoph Jentzsch, Arthur Falls Editing: Richard Toth https://twitter.com/ChrJentzsch https://twitter.com/arthurfalls http://podcast-editing.com

MetaMask is a Chrome browser extension that will enable trustless interaction with DApps. Developers Aaron Davis and Dan Finlay discuss self sovereign identity, leaving Apple to develop on Ethereum and developing decentralized web services. We also talk about the Web 3 experience. http://metamask.io Content: Aaron Davis, Dan Finlay, Arthur Falls Editing: Richard Toth http://podcast-editing.com

John Lilic discusses the Transactive Grid project which aims to localize energy production through the creation of micro grids. John’s idea of using a pure incentive system to solve and infrastructure problem is inspired. We also touch on early days of ConsenSys and the Total Return Swap Content: @johnlilic, @arthurfalls @etherreview etherreview.info

Ethereum Full Transparency is a feature that has recently been added to the live.ether.camp blockchain explorer. It now allows the user to explore the operations of a smart contract in both interpreted and raw form. It's the most interesting exposition of the inner workings of Ethereum to date and definitely something everyone should take a look at. @mandeleil @arthurfalls live.ether.camp ethchamps.org etherreview.org

The stable token platform Maker is the focus of today’s episode. It’s a mature design that builds on both the academic and technological legacy of Bitshares. It’s live right now and has been for months. This is a great follow on to episode 16 with Dominic Williams. https://makerdao.com/ Rune Cristiansen, @arthurfalls etherreview.info @etherreview [email protected]

Christopher David, founder of the transportation network Arcade City came on the show today to discuss the project. Arcade City aims ultimately to be owned by the drivers themselves using a suite of technologies built on our favorite platform. It was interesting to hear the complaints many drivers had about incumbent Uber and how this has turned into grass roots support for Arcade City. It’s also interesting to see a single use case employ so many technologies. It’s a taste of things to come, I’ll let Chris give you the details Content: Cristopher David, @arthurfalls https://arcade.city/ etherreview.info @etherreview [email protected]

Taylor Gerring brings us an Ethereum Development update. Then we’re taking another look at Digix, a gold backed token issuance and exchange platform. The platform featured in episode 8 but given their crowdsale begins on the first of next month and their DAO goes live on the first of the following I figured it was worth revisiting. I’m a big fan of what Kai, Anthony and Shaun have done here. It’s no frills recombinant innovation. Robust and uncomplex. For a critical view of their methodology check out episode 16 with Dominic Williams. Digix.io ethereum.org Content: @taylorgerring, Anthony Eufemio, Shaun Djie, @arthurfalls Contact: @etherreview [email protected]

This is a special episode of The Ether Review. Today Taylor Gerring, the director of technology at the Ethereum Foundation joins to offer a quick development update and answer a few listener questions. If you’re interested in finding out more or would like to participate, head over to ethereum.org. Questions should be sent to [email protected]

Today we have one of my favourite thinkers in the cryptocurrency space. Dominic Williams featured briefly in the last episode of Beyond Bitcoin discussing Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus processes. Today we talk about Synthetic Assets: Colored Coins, Dynamically Collateralized Coins, Hedged Dao Assets, and Smart Market Instruments. This is really significant stuff and this conversation significantly deepened my understanding of the challenges of creating value pegged tokens. It’s a very technical one and Dominic moves super fast so get ready for some super dense content. @dominic_w http://dfinity.io/ http://string.technology/ @arthurfalls @etherreview Content: Dominic Williams, Arthur Falls Production and Editing: Arthur Falls

Oraclize is a project developing tools to provide trustable data feeds to smart contacts and prediction markets. Founder Thomas Bertani joins me today to explain oracles, oracle networks, TLS Notary and the emerging decentralised ecosystem. @ThomasBertani @oraclizeit oraclize.it Content: Thomas Bertani, Arthur Falls Production and Editing: Arthur Falls

Juan Bennet is the founder and CEO of Protocol Labs. The chief project under development over there is IPFS or the Interplanetary Storage Network. I keep hearing IPFS mentioned in the same sentence as Ethereum so I thought I’d ask Juan what the deal was. [Note: This episode does not contain a magic word.] Juan Benet: @juanbenet IPFS: https://ipfs.io/ Epicenter Episode: https://epicenterbitcoin.com/podcast/100/ Josh Stern: @joshuastern http://www.joshstern.info/ Content: Juan Benet, Arthur Falls Production and Editing: Arthur Falls

Alex Van de Sande is the lead designer for the Ethereum Foundation and Eth Dev. Originally working on the Mist browser, more recently Alex has been focussed on the developing the Ethereum wallet. The exercise tutorials he published on the official Ethereum Blog were a blast to work through and examining them makes up much of the content of this episode. [Note: This episode does not contain a magic word.] Adam Van de Sande: @avsa Wallet Tutorials https://blog.ethereum.org/author/avsa/ Josh Stern: @joshuastern http://www.joshstern.info/ Content: Alex Van de Sande, Arthur Falls Production and Editing: Arthur Falls

Joining me today is Stephen Tual is a one time member of the Ethereum team and one of the founders of Slock.it, a project that aims to be Ethereum’s bridge to the internet of things. Their Devcon 1 presentation was lauded as one of the most stark illustrations of the power of Ethereum. Well worth looking up on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49wHQoJxYPo [Note: This episode does not contain a magic word.] Stephan Tual: @stephantual @slockitproject slock.it Josh Stern: @joshuastern http://www.joshstern.info/ Content: Stephan Tual, Arthur Falls Production and Editing: Arthur Falls, Kerry Guy

Free My Vunk is a movement to port game items and assets into the blockchain. The goal is to give control of these hard won in game rewards entirely to the players themselves. On the surface this seems like a simple, maybe even mundane use case but the significance a gamer may attach to a specific achievement can be a real source of economic value. We see this in phenomena like world of warcraft gold mining and character sale. This is an especially interesting project due to the numerous collaborations involved. From Digix and Colony to Jon NEVERDIE Jacobs. www.freemyvunk.com/ Sponsored by: Josh Stern Joshstern.info @joshuagstern Content: Tyler Smith, Arthur Falls Production and Editing: Arthur Falls, Richard Toth, Kerry Guy

Today is our second episode covering the ether.camp hackathon. Familiar voice Hudson Jameson returns with Jaden Hess to explain their milestone reward Dapp kit “Motivate”. Then Roman Mandeleil wraps things up for us. Mea culpa next week due to the holidays. Content: Tjaden Hess, Hudson Jameson, Roman Mandeleil, Arthur Falls Production and Editing: Arthur Falls Info Jaden Hess: https://github.com/tjade273 Hudson Jameson: http://hudsonjameson.com/ Roman Mandeleil: https://twitter.com/mandeleil <hack.ether.camp>: http://hack.ether.camp/

On the first of this month Roman Mandeleil and the ether camp team kicked off the first decentralised ethereum based hackathon. It was a tremendous opportunity to see the developer community showcase the ideas that were simmering away behind the scenes. There were a ton of solid entries and hundreds of people active in the ether camp slack. All tolled the event was a roaring success and showed that the grass roots development community is vibrant and active. As a spectator, it felt like we’d watched a the first cricket test match of a long summer. The next two episodes consist of a series of interviews with some of the people involved. Today, Christian Reitwiessner, Judge and solidity language designer dscusses the language itself; Peter Kolakovic explains his proof of individuality entry etherealand Sebastian Burgel introduces us to Dlab book. [Note: This episode does not contain a magic word.] Content: Christian Reitwiessner, Peter Kolakovic, Sebastian Burgel, Arthur Falls Production and Editing: Arthur Falls https://solidity.readthedocs.org http://kolakovic.net/ [email protected] https://github.com/dlabbook/dlabbook/commits?author=SCBuergel

DiGix is a digital asset issuance and tracking platform built on Ethereum. It is designed to minimise KYC intrusion and offer physical asset shadowing while offering the protection from loss of funds customers expect of contemporary financial products. Digix appears to be on track to providing the most comprehensive and customer oriented digital asset platform around. Initially they will be offering gold backed tokens using a powerful Proof Of Asset Certificate. http://www.digix.io/ Content: Kai Cheng Chng, Carl Mullan, Anthony Eufemio, Arthur Falls Production and Editing: Arthur Falls

Aron Von Ammers is a business developer who covered Devcon 1 as it was in session for coin telegraph. His two major ventures in the space, blockstars and outlier ventures aim to rapidly develop and launch blockchain oriented startups. Today we discuss Devcon, business on the blockchain and the altcon space. Content: Arthur Falls and Aron Von Ammers Production and Editing: Arthur Falls

Today we have a panel of Devcon attendees. Alex Amsel, Hudson Jameson and Jack du Rose.We discuss the Ethereum community, the development state of the consensus process, storage solutions, Free My Vunk, Slock, Oraclize and much more. Alex Amsel: http://newretro.org/ Hudson Jameson: http://hudsonjameson.com/ Jack du Rose: http://colony.io/ Production and Editing: Arthur Falls

Today Jack Du Rose explains his social collaboration platform colony and his old job designing the most expensive work of art ever sold.

The Ether Review #4 - Augur by Arthur Falls

Roman Mandeleil, builder of the Ethercamp blockchain explorer and the java implimentation of Ethereum discusses among other things, what it is like to be a longtime developer in the Ethereum community.

The Ether Review #2 - Vlad Zamfir by Arthur Falls

Arthur speaks with Joseph Lubin, one of the founders of the Ethereum project and also Consensys, a constellation of Ethereum focused companies. This is the first episode of a weekly show featuring interviews with the people building the Ethereum ecosystem. Content: Joseph Lubin, Arthur Falls Additional assistance: Rob Mitchell of The Bitcoin Game and Jarrad Hope. Twitter: @etherreview

todays episode is my favourite of all, not to diminish all of the wonderful interviews and guests I've been lucky enough to have on the show. Sorry Adam, I forgot to thank you for getting me into this. The mark of a great catalyst is that he's taken for granted :-) Enjoy. I know I sure did. http://www.blockstream.com/ http://hyperledger.com richard brown - http://gendal.me/ david birch - http://www.dgwbirch.com/ https://onename.com/ http://www.ofnumbers.com/2014/05/29/will-colored-coin-extensibility-throw-a-wrench-into-the-automated-information-security-costs-of-bitcoin/ http://organofcorti.blogspot.co.nz/ http://cryptonomics.org/ https://www.cypherpunks.to/faq/cyphernomicron/cyphernomicon.txt https://erisindustries.com/ http://tendermint.com/ https://www.melotic.com/ http://tezos.com/ http://filecoin.io/ http://szabo.best.vwh.net/ https://bithalo.org/ ethttps://www.ethereum.org/ https://empoweredlaw.wordpress.com/bio/ https://twitter.com/petertoddbtc/ Thank you Tim, Meher and Dominic Find tim swanson at ofnumbers.com Dominic Williams at pebble.io Meher Roy's on https://medium.com/@meher Richard Toth - Mixing and Mastering http://podcast-mastering.com/ CSUS - Music [email protected] @arthurfalls

All about Darkcoin. Having sworn my allegiance to the 2.0 space long ago I was blown away to see how deeply innovative a single token tracking platform could be. Darkcoin is a project I will watch closely following this fascinating discussion.Thanks to Fernando for introducing me to Evan and organising this interview. darkcoin.io https://bitsquare.io/crowdfunding/ http://podcast-mastering.com/ Content: Fernando Gutierez, Evan Duffield, Arthur Falls Music: CSUS Mixing and Mastering: Richard Toth @arthurfalls [email protected] Bitsquare Donation: 33KyHsPZcCqNVNaqK3jbx9aeubGaXgLgzt Beyond Bitcoin Address: 1Dy8TtQvc9W7WqdowN4avVtnLDu3VLJch9

Chris Mountford is a developer at Atlassian, a software company based in Australia and has been interested in digital currency for over twenty years. In this episode we discuss reputation and personal information management systems. Chris' ability to identify the issues and dangers of various approaches make him an excellent commentator. http://blockzombie.com/ http://wiki.bitshares.org/index.php/.p2p_(BitShares_DNS) bitsquare.io http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~chriskorte/article1982Suicide.html [Podcast mastering](http://podcast-mastering.com) Bitcoin Address: 1Dy8TtQvc9W7WqdowN4avVtnLDu3VLJch9 Bitsquare Donation: 33KyHsPZcCqNVNaqK3jbx9aeubGaXgLgzt beyondbitcoinshow@gmailcom Twitter: @ArthurFalls @blockzombie

In this, the second to last episode of Beyond Bitcoin We Look at Nubits, the value controlled digital currency that has emerged from the Peercoin/Peershares team. discus.nubits.com nubits.com docs.nubits.com The Internet of Money, Meher Roychoudhury: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r2ulmzif92lbdh3/An%20architecture%20for%20the%20Internet%20of%20Money.pdf?dl=0 Content: Ben Rossi Music: Csus Contact: [email protected]

Jeffrey Tucker joins for this episode! "Could you please compare Menger and Mises views on the origin of value in money and explain how their views relate to bitcoin?" fee.org liberty.me mises.org CSUS: Music BIP38wallets.com: Sponsorship Jeffrey Tucker: Content [email protected]

Austrian economics is one of these impenetrable black boxes that you hear referenced occasionally but that has little meaning for many people. Recently I was perusing Cameron Harwick's blog, Thrica where I periodically go to soak up some free market goodness, and I found myself re-reading a post entitled Hayek vs. Rothbard on Free-Market Money. The article and the comments illucidate many interesting and relevant ideas that can not only help us understand cryptocurrency but also show that the problem of discovering what is a good kind of money has been mulled over by brilliant people long before the cypherpunks sunk their teeth into it. A clearly novel approach has been taken by the team working on Bitshares. I asked Dan Larimer to explane the roots of his idea and update us on the progress of the platform. Bitshares.org bitsharestalk.org wiki.bitshares.org thri.ca/blog/hayek-vs-rothbard-on-money Content: Arthur Falls, Dan Larimer Sponsor: Matthew Jones, Bitshares Delegate: argentina-marketing.matt608 Mixing and mastering: Richard Toth, www.audio-cleaning-online.com Music: Csus Contact: [email protected]

Jae Kwon joins to discuss his consensus algorithm Tendermint. Following from there we cover sideshains, quantifiable security, stealth coins, and much more. Today's episode was sponsored by bip38wallets.com. bip38wallets.com https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=129317.0 http://tendermint.com/ http://groups.csail.mit.edu/tds/papers/Lynch/jacm88.pdf ofnumbers.com [email protected]

Stephen Thomas and Evan Schwartz discuss Ripple Labs open source smart contract system Codius! Codius.org Thanks to CSUS for the music [email protected]

A technical writer known on the forums as "Cassius" chats about jl777's SuperNET and related subjects. jl777.org thesupernet.org forum.thesupernet.org Csus provided the music [email protected]

Cryptonite is a currency built on the mini-blockchain scheme. It features tons of features not present in any other coins as well as some limitations. Music: Csus Cryptonite.info [email protected]

Today Robby Dermody of Counterparty, also known on the forums as Xnova joins to discuss the platform's recent Armory implementation, two factor authentication, asset development, Dogeparty, a potential Counterparty foundation in the works and more. counterparty.io Music: Csus Contact: [email protected]

Today Justus Ranvier returns to discuss Monetas, a start up he is involved with which is building on the Open Transactions protocol. We also dig into cryptoequities, reputation, arbitration and the informal economy as well as the current price fluctuations. As usual, no investment advice. [email protected] http://monetas.net/ http://bitcoinism.liberty.me/ Music: Csus

This time we're checking out culture on the block chain with Alex co Author of the Bitcoin graphic novel which is at this moment awating a name. We talk making money interesting, working with the guys at Swarm, funding models, the Bitcoin ethos and the power of the graphic novel medium. Alex Preukschat (content) Csus (music) https://www.swarm.co/comiccoin.html#/comiccoin [email protected]

Dan O'Prey, Daniel Feichtinger and Tim Swanson discuss Hyperledger. hyperledger.com www.ofnumbers.com/author/timswanson/ Credits: Content - Dan O'Prey, Daniel Feichtinger, Tim Swanson and Arthur Falls Music - Csus Contact: [email protected]

In this episode Justus Ranvier joins for a discussion about Open Transactions and the future of smart contract platforms. Then a few words from international man of mystery jl777 on the SuperNET and the life of an anonymous coding machine. http://bitcoinism.liberty.me/ https://nxtforum.org/nxtservices-releases/darkpaper-for-teleport/ www.jl777.org http://thesupernet.org/ Credits: Content - Justus Ranvier and jl777 Music - Csus Contact - [email protected]

After an involuntary hiatus BB is back with a very late interview with Shaun Wilkinson and . . . a magic word!

This episode Bas Wisselink, an NXT community organiser joins me again to discuss what's going on in the next ecosystem. From a little grand theft crypto to a new altcoin adapter for the next asset exchange, there is a ton of interesting stuff going on and Bas is always great value. Thanks to Csus for the tune Multigateway: http://multigateway.com/

Brian Hoffman and Washington Sanchez join me to discuss Open Bazaar, a marketplace built from Amir Taaki's Toronto Hackathon winning "Dark Market". A great exposition of a broad range of new ideas. CREDITS Audio production by Kerry Guy. Music provided by Csus. Check them out on Soundcloud. Content provided by Washington Sanchez and Brian Hoffman Any questions or comments? Email [email protected]. Check out beyondbitcoin.fm for more material and recordings of developer hangouts