Episodes
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State Chain #44 - A New Approach to Ending Slavery
Today, we look at the problem of modern slavery and how it intersects with wildlife conservation. This subject is brought to the fore by growing interest in using blockchain technologies to illuminate the business processes which conceal the presence of slavery. Our guests are Brian Iselin…
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State Change #43 - The Battle for your attention, Meher Roy, Simon de la Rouviere
Recalling State Change #40 Weaponized AI propaganda machine, we discussed at length the value of attention. Today we take this subject to it’s maximum extend. Software engineer Simon de la Rouviere and biochemical engineer Meher Roy shed light on how the battle for our attention is the basis for...
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State Change #42 The Use of Knowledge in Society, Jeffrey Tucker, Kirk Dameron, Stephen Macaskill
While today decentralization seems like a revelation, one thinker more than any other stands as its chief proponent. In 1945 Friedrich Hayek bucked the post war fashion of command-control thinking and announced the futility of central economic or societal planning. His essay, The Use of Knowledge...
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State Change #40 Weaponized AI propaganda machine, Amanda Gutterman, Berit Anderson, Brett Horvath
The surprising outcome of the last US Presidential election brought attention to the effect fake news and social media manipulation can have on public thought. Today we are going to take a deep look at what exactly took place, while considering possible solutions to the problems we uncover. Berit...
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State Change #39 Technologies of Social Organization — Vinay Gupta, Joseph Lubin
Technology enables new forms of social organisation. That statement is itself a truism, but as we see technological development accelerate, our means of organising ourselves is constantly changing. Our guests today are Joseph Lubin and Vinay Gupta. Joe is the Founder of ConsenSys and co-founder…
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State Change #41 Unpacking Digital Identity - Christian Lundkvist, Stephen Wilson
Today we compare in-depth the self-sovereign and federated models of identity. Why is our means of proving who we are important? Well, for one thing, relying on an authority which doesn’t have our best interests at heart to manage our identity is one of the many problems exploited by the...
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State Change #38 — Truffles in the Azure Marketplace
In brief: Ethereum developer framework Truffle offers a Swiss Army Knife of solutions to the blockchain application developer. Recently Truffle was added to the Azure marketplace, allowing the Microsoft development community can take advantage of this powerful tool. Since June of 2015 developer…
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State Change #37 - State Channels Deep Dive with Ameen Soleimani
In Brief: Imagine the security of a blockchain transaction with the speed and low cost of a packet of information sent through traditional infrastructure. This is what state channels can offer any blockchain. After finishing his work on the Co-tricity project (the ConsenSys run part of which is…
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State Change #36 - The uPort Developer Alpha & 2016 in Review
In Brief: Longtime applied cryptography guru and uPort developer Pelle Braendgaard announces the upcoming release of the uPort developer Alpha! Then we take a look at tokenless blockchains and examine the fundamental confusion behind DAO projects. uPort promises to solve the biggest problem on…
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State Change #35 — Delivering Big: The Synechron Partnership
In Brief: ConsnenSys and enterprise software giant Synechron have joined forces to take the blockchain solution world by storm. Synechron is a global financial services software delivery firm. Seeing an opportunity to improve back and middle office efficiency and revolutionize multi-party…
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State Change #34 - Reimagining Education with Jarad Pereira
In Brief: Institutional education today suffers from a perverse incentive: The educators define the method by which their own performance is measured. Jarad Pereira explains how his decentralized assessment platform can solve the problem. Jarad describes a system comprised of assessment in which...
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State Change #33 — The Future of Financial Blockchain Panel Evening
In association with the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance and Blockchain for Wall Street conference, ConsenSys hosted a panel discussion with some of the experts who will be attending the event. Panelists: Ron Quaranta, Chairman, Wall Street Blockchain Alliance Michael Wuehler, INFURA Project Lead,...
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State Change #32 - Carolyn Reckhow, Weaving the Mesh
Carolyn Reckhow is responsible for designing and implementing the developing organizational structure of ConsenSys. Balancing employee autonomy with a coherent and unified collective direction is a challenge which Carolyn addresses with a deft hand. Taking inspiration from the distributed...
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State Change #31 - Martin Lundfall, Co-tricity
Martin Lundfall, mathematician, poet, and developer on the Co-tricity project, is here today. Co-tricity is a joint venture with German utilities provider, RWE and ConsenSys. It allows the peer to peer trading of energy, targeting prosumer and small business. Content: Martin Lundfall, Arthur…
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State Change #30 - Michael Wuehler, Infura & the NYC Meetup
Michael Wuehler is a developer for the Infura Ethereum/IPFS as a service offering. He is also the founder of the NYC Ethereum Meetup. Today we talk about how the Infura team is mitigating the recent attacks on the Ethereum Network, and Mike's Ethereum journey. Content: Michael Wuehler, Arthur…
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State Change #29 - Ethereum Meets Psychological Horror and Custom Apparel
This year, ConsenSys has hosted two external projects in its offices: Wu&Y Apparel and the production team of Braid, a psychological thriller based on the award winning script by Mitzi Peirone. The goal has been to bring individuals from industries which might be served by blockchain based tools...
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State Change #28 - Troy Murray, The Rudimental Content Marketplace
Troy Murray plans to revolutionize media production by combining the Gnosis prediction market with Nick Dodson's Weifund crowdfunding platform, Boardroom decentralized governance too, a token marketplace, and fiat to crypto payment rail. After receiving SEC approval, The Rudimental is approaching...
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State Change #27 - Rebecca Migirov, Ethical Supply Chains Powered by Self Sovereign Identity
The relationship between manufacturers, materials suppliers, and materials producers in modern supply chains is used to obscure the use of slave labor to produce products we use everyday. Blockchain based solutions can be used to bring this information to the consumer. In March of this year,...
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State Change #26 - Hadrien Charlanes, Stabl
The usability of cryptocurrency has historically been a stumbling block for adoption: The addressing system is alien to many users, payment rails have been weak or non existent, and it’s value has been volatile. The problems are being solved however. Coinbase’ relationship with PayPal and...
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State Change #25 - Jehan Tremback, Taking Back the Last Mile
In Brief Your Internet Service Provider is underperforming and over charging. However, mesh networking combined with the micropayment capabilities state channel technology offers will soon provide a prosumer alternative to the aging, legacy solutions. Whether you live in Auckland, Oakland, Paris,...
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State Change #24 - Zach LeBeau, SingularDTV
Zach LeBeau, screenwriter, producer and mastermind behind both the SingularDTV decentralized entertainment platform and and the soon to be crowdfunded Singular television series joins to discus his far reaching project. We talk about the CODE, an entity which bridges the centralized and...
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State Change #23 - Juan Blanco, Nethereum
Juan Blanco developed the .NET API for Ethereum as a hobby project. Since he has joined ConsenSys to develop the project full time. www.nethereum.com twitter.com/juanfranblanco twitter.com/arthurfalls Content: Juan Blanco, Arthur Falls
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State Change #22 - Herman Junge, Infura
Herman Junge is the architect of Infura, a bootstrapping system for decentralized networks. By hosting a cluster of Ethereum and IPFS nodes, Infura simplifies deployment of applications using these kinds of services. https://twitter.com/hermanjunge https://twitter.com/arthurfalls Content: Herman...
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State Change #20 - Tracking Timber Quality and Vine Ownership with REGIS
Brazilian timber supplier BVRIO has adopted a solution to proving the validity of documents outlining the quality rating of it's timber, built on the public Ethereum network. The platform used to register these documents is ConsenSys spoke, REGIS. Lead developer Daniel Novy explains this use case...
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State Change #19 - Governance from Mars with Mike & Connor
Connor O'Day and Mike Goldin discuss the growing number of new governance structures which are possible using smart contracts in conjunction with immutable ledgers. https://twitter.com/voidsnax https://twitter.com/arthurfalls Content: Connor O'Day, Mike Goldin, Arthur Falls
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State Change #18 - Simon DLR, Dive into Tokens
Simon de la Rouviere explains his work with community tokens and his project Token Factory. We discuss UJO, BTC Relay, and naively discuss the DAO (this was recorded pre-hack). https://twitter.com/simondlr https://twitter.com/arthurfalls Content: Simon de la Rouviere, Arthur Falls
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State Change #17 - Nick and Karl on Development Toolkits
Karl Floersch and Nick Dodson discuss trends in development toolkits inside and outside the Ethereum Ecosystem. This episode is a valuable insight into Ethereum development for the non-technical person and an interesting commentary for the technically oriented. https://twitter.com/karl_dot_tech...
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State Change #16 - Kishore on the Digital Bank
Kishore Atreya is the head of consulting and digital banking at ConsenSys Enterprise. In today's episode Kishore explains the importance of building a bank in digital form from the ground up. Content: Kishore Atreya, Arthur Falls Editing: Richard Toth
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State Change #15 - Igor Lilic, Proof of Physical Address
Systems for proving real world truths are required for representing identity on the blockchain. Igor Lilic, principal technical lead at ConsenSys Enterprise, is solving one example this problem with his Proof of Physical Address project. https://proofofphysicaladdress.com/...
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State Change #14 - Mark D'Agostino
Mark D'Agostino was head of blockchain research at Deloitte before joining the team at ConsenSys. Today we talk about what smart contracts and blockchains can do to eliminate systemic risk in financial institutions. Content: Mark D'Agostino, Arthur Falls Editing: Richard Toth...
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State Change #13 - Foam
We have some interesting neighbours around the ConsenSys offices in Bushwick. Located down the street, Ryan King and Katya Zavayalova are establishing a decentralized architecture office. Foam aspires to use crowd equity and the DAO model to bring much needed flexibility and freedom to the field…
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State Change #12 - Jesse Grushack, Ujo
Intellectual property arrangements in the music industry can be incredibly complex. This is both the result and the cause of the numerous intermediaries that sit between the listener and the artist. Ujo aims to solve this problem for the benefit of all. Jesse Grushack explains.…
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State Change #11 - Nick Dodson, BoardRoom, WeiFund
Nick Dodson is the creator of blockchain governance DApp BoardRoom. The plaform is designed to interoperate with Weifund, his equity crowdfunding Dapp. Together they use the trustless nature of the blockchain to provide decentralized equity based crowdsale and governance tools for online...
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State Change #10 - Christian Lundkvist, uPort
Systems architect Christian Lundkvist explains self sovereign identity through the lens of ConsenSys’ identity management platform uPort. Self sovereign identity is a key infrastructure component of the blockchain ecosystem. http://uport.me Content: Arthur Falls, Christian Lundkvist Editing:...
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State Change #9 Daniel Novy, Regis
Regis is a decentralized key/value storage Dapp. Use cases include property and domain name registry, and also online store product registries. Access control features and auction tools give the creator a suite of options for managing the way users interact with their registry. Lead developer...
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State Change #8 - Andrew Keys, ConsenSys Enterprise
Andrew Keys leads business development and strategy for ConsenSys Enterprize spoke, focusing on the ideation of business solutions for Fortune 500 companies. These include standardizing Know Your Client solutions and tracking the provenance of assets. Andrew also explains the ConsenSys-Microsoft...
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State Change #6 - John Crain, BlockApps
John Crain explains Blockapps and consortium ledgers @jallancrain http://blockapps.net/
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State Change #5 - Yorke E. Rhodes III, Microsoft
York Rhodes of Microsoft explains how blockchain technology fits into the software giant’s long term roadmap. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/ @yorkerhodes @arthurfalls media.consensys.net
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State Change #4 - Ashley Taylor, Inflekt
Inflekt is an open source tribal network and events management platform. It enables a secure and fluid web of individuals’,’ tribes, and relationships between tribes based upon events attended and roles that were held at those events. It allows sharing responsibility for events and manage...
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State Change #3 - Aakil Fernandes, Safemarket
Safemarket is a suite of peer to peer commerce protocols designed to enable trustless exchange of goods and services. Lead developer Aakil Fernandes explains the details and the future of Ethereum.
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State Change #2 - Troy Murray, The Rudimental
Today Troy Murray, founder of The Rudimental, an equity crowd funding platform for artists, discusses the SEC's recent guidance relating to crowd funding and the platform he is building to empower individual creatives. www.therudimental.com
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State Change #1 - Joseph Lubin, The Hub and Spoke Model
ConsenSys Systems is a venture production studio building businesses and business infrastructure using the global compute platform Ethereum. Founder, Joseph Lubin explains the mission and structure of the organization. consensysmedia.net @consensysllc
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