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SAFE Crossroads
by John Ferguson
Welcome to the Crossroads of Project SAFE, podcasts. Safecrossroads covers the technology, applications, ideas and people of SAFE Network, where SAFE stands for Secure Access For Everyone, with the keynote of Privacy, Security and Freedom for all.Your host is John Ferguson, the Simpleton of the Project SAFE, because sometimes it takes a simpleton to ask the right questions. After all, we can't all be geeks.Visit www.safecrossroads.net and technologyandchoice.com for additional blog posts and articles.-----------------------------------------------------------
Episodes
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SAFE Crossroads #55, Vaults Phase 1, with Nikita Baksalyar and Lionel Faber
It is a delight to have back two previous guests, Nikita Baksalyar and Lionel Faber, for a wide-ranging conversation that touches on many advances in SAFE Network development. Centering around the recently released Vault program library, we explore the implications of other advances, including…
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SAFE Crossroads #54, From a UX Point of View, with Jim Collinson
The SAFE Network is a project of such large scope, doing things that have never been done, it can be hard to wrap one's head around the whole thing without a lot of work. But in the end it is for people to use. It needs to be easily adopted and made to work by everyone. As core development...
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SAFE Crossroads #53, A QUIC SAFE Solution, with Spandan Sharma
MaidSafe's Crust (Connections in Rust) program library was necessary due to lack of existing tech to do what was needed for the SAFE Network. The QUIC protocol has evolved and now provides a connection solution which the whole internet will likely be moving to--really great for the internet at...
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SAFE Crossroads #52, SAFE Network Fundamentals, Part 2, with David Irvine and Viv Rajkumar
This is part 2 of a wide ranging discussion about the SAFE Network, with the two people most familiar with all aspects of it, MaidSAFE's Founder and CEO, David Irvine and CTO, Viv Rajkumar. To guide our discussion we focused on the 21 Fundamentals of the SAFE Network as linked below. Amongst many...
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SAFE Crossroads #51, SAFE Network Fundamentals, Part 1 with David Irvine and Viv Rajkumar
I had the honor of a 2+ hour conversation with the two people most familiar with all aspects of the SAFE Network, MaidSAFE's Founder and CEO, David Irvine and CTO, Viv Rajkumar. To guide our discussion we focused on the 21 Fundamentals of the SAFE Network as linked below. We had a very…
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SAFE Crossroads #50, Native Android Development for SAFE, with Lionel Faber
As the various parts of SAFE Network development come together, facility for mobile access to and use of the network becomes a greater priority. Most individuals now use mobile devices for a large part, if not all, of their internet access. Our guest is Lionel Faber, a front-end developer with...
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SAFE Crossroads #49, What's so Special about the SAFE Browser?
MaidSafe just released a completely in-house version of the SAFE Browser with some very cutting-edge features and toggles to explore experimental features. It opens the door to some very advanced development options as the SAFE Network matures toward readiness for launch. Helping us get a feel…
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SAFE Crossroads #48, A Reintroduction and Update on the SAFE Network, with Dug Campbell
I've been wanting to do an overview of the SAFE Network for some time, as a sort of new introduction, an update on where the project has currently gotten to, and a view of what's ahead. Dug Campbell from MaidSafe helps me try to accomplish this, because I found it really hard to do by myself! Dug...
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SAFE Crossroads #47, Resource Description Framework, SOLID and SAFE
Simpleton says, "We go a bit geeky on this one, but in a way that should be very accessible to most anyone." Our guests on this episode are Josh Wilson and Gabriel Viganotti. Both are front-end developers for MaidSafe, working with Resource Description Framework (RDF) in a number of forms, to...
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SAFE Crossroads #46, Connection Needs of an Autonomous Network, with Spandan Sharma
Our guest today is Spandan Sharma from MaidSafe. We go over the results of the second community testing of Crust, the automated peer-to-peer connection library being developed by MaidSafe for the SAFE Network, and available for open source use by other P2P projects as they find useful. In looking...
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SAFE Crossroads #45, Approaches to Alpha 3, with Nikita Baksalyar
In this episode we catch up on some of the things that have been going on in SAFE Network development, where it's been and what's coming down the line now, including the roll out of public testing of the automated peer-to-peer connection library, Crust (standing for "Connected" "Rust"). How do…
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SAFE Crossroads #44, Consensus Code Release, with Bartłomiej Kamiński
In late May, MaidSafe released the whitepaper for PARSEC (Protocol for Asynchronous, Reliable, Secure and Efficient Consensus). This week MaidSafe published the open source code for implementing PARSEC so that it can be used by any other projects which would find it suits their needs. This…
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SAFE Crossroads #43, PARSEC - Efficient, Provable Consensus has Arrived, with Pierre Chevalier
On Thursday evening, May 24th, 2018, MaidSafe released publically the PARSEC consensus protocol. PARSEC stands for Protocol for Asynchronous, Reliable, Secure and Efficient Consensus. It is being released under very permissive, open-source GPL and MIT licensing for potential use in a wide variety...
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Ep42, SAFE DevCon 2018 Highlights, with Dug Campbell
April 23rd brought core and app developers for the SAFE Network from all over the world to Ayr, Scotland for SAFE Dev Con 2018. In this episode we hit the highpoints with Dug Campbell, head of Marketing and Outreach with MaidSafe. The full video of the event is linked below, and the different...
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Ep41, App Devs Jump In, with Shane Armstrong
With the SAFE Alpha 2 Network running for some months now, providing a stable, improving interface for developers to interface with and learn to use the SAFE APIs, a lot of development activity is taking place by independant App Developers. Our guest for this episode is Shane Armstrong, an...
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Ep40, The SAFE Nework Primer
The main problems in talking about the SAFE Network are understanding (1) the enormous scope of the project, (2) the various specific innovations it represents, (3) how those innovations interrelate in the overall system, and (4) why the approach is fundamentally different than pretty much…
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Ep39, More on SAFE Apps, with Gabriel Viganotti
The SAFE Network is a huge software infrastructure project which is currently in Alpha 2, a network of distributed nodes, hosted on cloud servers for MaidSafe as the many intricacies of the architecture are fine tuned. A future iteration will return to nodes hosted by external participants at…
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Ep38, Event Sourcing on the SAFE Network
With the SAFE Network Alpha 2 release progressing forward with interfaces stablizing, and a stable network to test against, application developers are starting to see and begin exploiting what is possible with such a network when it is ultimately in place. Today we have a very interesting talk…
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Ep37, SAFE Network Alpha 2, with Mobile
Nick Lambert joins us with to talk about the new Alpha 2 network just released by MaidSafe, as well as other aspects of the network development and what differentiates what MaidSafe is developing from all other existing projects. MUSIC Music for this episode: *SAFE Crossroads*, an original piece...
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Ep36, Nick Lambert, MaidSafe Update
IN THIS EPISODE Nick Lambert joins us with an update on development progress and the milestones recently passed, and expectations for the near future, as well as MaidSafe activities around the world. MUSIC Music for this episode: *SAFE Crossroads Beta* and *Arrival* are original pieces composed…
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Ep 35, Viv Rajkumar, CTO MaidSafe
IN THIS EPISODE Viv Rajkumar is CTO of MaidSafe in Troon, Scotland. We go into depth about the development process in general, the development experience at MaidSafe, and then catch up on what's been going on with the forward motion of SAFE Network development. There's quite a lot here, but very...
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Ep 34 What's to Profit? with Nick Lambert
In this Episode Today we have an in-depth visit with Nick Lambert, COO of MaidSafe, covering a lot about where MaidSafe has been, where it's gotten to and where it's going. With the Bank to the Future equity crowd funding pitch in play, we dig in to find out how MaidSafe, as an open source, very...
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Ep33, Alpha Release
####In this Episode We have a chat with Francis Brunelle, a returning guest, about the recent Alpha Release of the MaidSafe Client, and a lot more about the state and progress of the SAFE Network project. ####Magic Word Listen for the magic word, and submit it to your LetsTalkBitcoin.com account…
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Ep32, David Irvine Speaks
IN THIS EPISODE David Irvine, Founder and lead developer of MaidSafe has faced a huge workload over the last couple of years, moving the SAFE Network towards launch. So much so that he hasn't recorded an in-depth interview in over two years. That changed today. In this episode he finally...
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Ep31, Harmen Klink
####In this Episode#### We're back again with Harmen Klink, talking about further innovations on the Decorum decentralized forum and social connection protocol. We talk about a web of trust function which will make the protocol very handy at evaluating one's connections and resisting unwanted...
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The Decentralization Itch
Why does decentralization as a concept motivate so many people so powerfully and often so irrationally? I wrote this article as part of the process of dissecting the anatomy of my own itch regarding decentralization. Enjoy this recording and visit the written article at...
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Ep30, Decorum and SAFE Altcoins
####In this Episode#### Great news about the progress of the SAFE Network and imminent release of a Minimum Viable Product, then an interview with Harmen Klink, the developer of the Decorum (Decentralized forum) protocol, which will enable fully functional and flexible implementations for…
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Ep29, Class X, Graduation Review, All Invited
####In this Episode#### Come one, come all, to the last planned class of the SAFE Network School. We do a high-level overview of what we know about the SAFE Network in a way that even parents, friends and family of the proud graduates will be warmed with what they learn, and be proud of those who...
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Ep28, SAFE Class IX, Let's Grok Safecoin
**grok**-- [Martian] literally meaning "to drink" but taken to mean "to understand at a deep, intuitive level." (from the novel Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein, a story about a human raised by Martians) ####In this Episode#### Having explored the SAFE Network from end to end…
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Ep27 SAFE Class VIII, The Parts Of The Heart
####In this Episode#### First off its some Simpleton perspective on the Safe Exchange, followed by answering some listener questions. Then it's full bore into Class VIII of the SAFE Network School, examining the key persona types and functions in the Vaults that form the heart of the SAFE…
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Ep26, The Safe Exchange
####In this Episode#### History in the making. Exaggeration? You be the judge. This last week Daniel DaBek announced the release of the whitepaper on the new Safe Exchange. More than just a protocol, it is the core tool kit necessary to establish a decentralized contract marketplace, via which...
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Ep25, App Time
####In this Episode#### We take an aside from the SAFE Network School this week due to time constraints. But we do take a bit of time to visit with Francis Brunelle from the Montreal SAFE Pod and get some insights about app development on the SAFE Network. The doors are open to those who are…
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Ep24, SAFE School Class VII, No 3rd Party Needed
####In this Episode#### Class VII of the School of the SAFE Network takes us to the realm of Self-Authentication, something else new to the world which will first appear with the SAFE Network, but will certainly become a standard for those who wish to have true control over their data and...
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Ep23 SAFE Class VI, Autonomous, Really?
####In this Episode#### In Class VI of SAFE Network School, we round out a deeper view of the remaining component factors necessary to establishing and maintaining the SAFE Network as an autonomous entity. We've come far pilgrims, and through the heaviest going--hopefully--but there is more to...
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Ep22, SAFE School V, Connecting All
####In this Episode#### Class V of the School of the SAFE Network brings clarity on another component of the SAFE Network configuration which is critical to the autonomous functioning of the network. We explore some of the problems and solutions of peer-to-peer networking, and explore some of the...
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Ep21, SAFE School IV, Reaching Bedrock
*In this Episode* In Class IV of the SAFE Network School we get down to bedrock on one of the most important aspects of the SAFE Network. We have loads of fun, actually. It's back to school for sure, but also has a bright gem of entertainment to help bring the lesson home. With this material we…
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Ep20, SAFE School, Class III, Deep And Wide
####In this Episode#### In Class III of the SAFE Network School we break down some of the underlying computer technology needed to get a better grip on why the SAFE Network can do what it is designed to do. We take a closer look at the Vault structure and get an understanding of what a…
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Ep19, SAFE Network School, Class Two, Going Deeper
####In this Episode#### Class Two of the SAFE Network School takes us deeper. We probe down and start to pull apart the great intricacy of the SAFE Network by closely examining the key elements that make it work. But not too fast or overwhelmingly. You'll be surprised how understandable it is…
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Ep18, SAFE Network School, Class One
####In this Episode#### We're happy to announce the opening of the Simpleton's School of the SAFE Network. Since the SAFE Network is being built on a very different combination of fundamentals than has ever been used before and because it is so intricate, it's not possible to just wade in and get…
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Ep17, Surfing the SAFE Network
####In this Episode#### Another interview on The Crypto Show, talking more basics about the SAFE Network and an interview with Will Gallo, member of ths San Francisco SAFE Pod, regarding application--proposed as well as well developed--to run on top of the SAFE Network. The field for creation is...
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Ep16, René van de Polder, Proponent of the Exponent
####In this Episode#### René De Polder is very involved in a number of projects in the crypto space, most especially the SAFE Network. He shares his thoughts and experiences as a participant in various projects and his experiences as a forum moderator. He also has some great insights as to the...
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Special #1 Simpleton and Ernest Hancock, Revisited
This is the first in a series special edition SAFE Crossroads podcasts. Specials will contain content not formally part of the main series which play on the Let's Talk Bitcoin Network, but which may yet be of interest to SAFE Crossroads followers. ###In this episode### Your host recently had the...
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Ep15, Ben Bollen, Getting Technical
####In this Episode#### Things are rocking at MaidSafe in Troon, and around the world, with the initial SAFE Network software installers just released. We talk with MaidSafe core developer Ben Bollen about the release and what it means (and what it doesn't mean), then go on to get technical about...
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Ep14, Max Hernandez, A Frontier on Every Doorstep
####In this Episode#### Your host and Max Hernandez, author of *Thieves Emporium,* take time to explore the new frontier, the electronic frontier, where people have new choices. We cover aspect of this gripping and educational tale, and then turn to utilize Max's knowledge and experience to…
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Ep13, Rich Beer And The Crypto Show
####In this Episode#### This week chronicles a mini adventure I had trying to connect with others in the south Texas area who might want to form a meet-up regarding the SAFE Network. It started with a post on the SAFE Network Community Forum (https://forum.safenetwork.io), on to connecting with…
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Ep12, David Yamanaka, A Network Aborning
####In this Episode#### We have the pleasure of talking with David Yamanaka, a consumer experience specialist and avid supporter and pursuer of that which empowers the individual. He has been a very active member in the Project SAFE community and is great at doing all manner of quantitative...
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Ep11, Francis Brunelle, Community in Action
####In this Episode#### First off we start this episode with several pieces very encouraging news from the MaidSafe development team. Then we have a chat with one of the most active Project SAFE community members, Francis Brunelle, from Montreal, Canada. Francis hosts the largest SAFE Network...
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Ep10, Paige Peterson and the Seeds of SAFE
Today we're delighted to speak with Paige Peterson, community and developer outreach person for MaidSafe. --Music-- Music for this episode: *Arrivals* and *Magic Words, * original pieces, composed and performed by Nicholas Koteskey of Two Faced Heroes Links: - [The Bill Hicks clip mentioned in…
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Ep09, The SAFE Network Is For People
In this Episode Today we have the pleasure of speaking with two Project SAFE members, James Lindsey and David McCaultey, about their involvement in the project and why. Music Music for this episode: *SAFE Crossroads* and *Magic Words, * original pieces, composed and performed by Nicholas Koteskey...
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Ep08, Perspectives on Africa, Nhial Majok
Today we have the pleasure of speaking with Nhial Majok, a Project SAFE member who is a system administrator for backup and storage with IBM Australia. He reached out recently to share some insights on the impact of Bitcoin and the SAFE Network on his home continent of Africa. Music Music for…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to the Crossroads of Project SAFE, podcasts. Safecrossroads covers the technology, applications, ideas and people of SAFE Network, where SAFE stands for Secure Access For Everyone, with the keynote of Privacy, Security and Freedom for all.Your host is John Ferguson, the Simpleton of the Project SAFE, because sometimes it takes a simpleton to ask the right questions. After all, we can't all be geeks.Visit www.safecrossroads.net and technologyandchoice.com for additional blog posts and articles.-----------------------------------------------------------
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