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The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba

by Stewart Mackenzie

Long-form discussions with interesting people

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Episodes

  1. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #40 Super Testnet

    Super Testnet talks BitVM and other projects he's working on. Music: "Welding The Steel Frame" by Wintergatan This track can be downloaded for free at www.wintergatan.net Free license to use this track in your video can be downloaded at www.wintergatan.net

  2. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #39 Paul Sztorc

    A conclusion to the debate between Paul Sztorc and Peter Todd on BIP300/1. Music: "Welding The Steel Frame" by Wintergatan This track can be downloaded for free at www.wintergatan.net Free license to use this track in your video can be downloaded at www.wintergatan.net

  3. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #38 CryptAxe

    CryptAxe has contributed to Bitcoin Core and is the programmer of BIP300/1. This conversation goes into the early days of contributing to Bitcoin Core and what things have become. twitter.com/CrypteAxe Paradigm Key: https://paradigmlink.com Music: "Welding The Steel Frame" by Wintergatan This…

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  4. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #37 Fiatjaf + Paul Sztorc

    Paul and Fiatjaf come in guns a blazin', pushing drivechains. Music: "Welding The Steel Frame" by Wintergatan This track can be downloaded for free at www.wintergatan.net Free license to use this track in your video can be downloaded at www.wintergatan.net

  5. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #36 Pat Deegan

    Founder of Psychogenic (psychogenic.com) a hardware + software house. Pat is a physicist by training and a hacker at heart. Music: "Welding The Steel Frame" by Wintergatan This track can be downloaded for free at www.wintergatan.net Free license to use this track in your video can be downloaded…

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  6. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba # Eric Voskuil 2

    U.S. Air Force Top gun pilot returns for round 2. Eric dispels myths, calling "much ado about nothing" on the latest trends and elaborating on libbitcoin's capabilities. Music: "Welding The Steel Frame" by Wintergatan This track can be downloaded for free at www.wintergatan.net Free license to…

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  7. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #34 Skot Croshere

    Skot is the author of the Bitaxe. An open source hardware solution that aim to convert sunlight energy directly into bitcoin. Music: "Welding The Steel Frame" by Wintergatan This track can be downloaded for free at www.wintergatan.net Free license to use this track in your video can be downloaded...

  8. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #33 Fiatjaf

    Fiatjaf is the author of Nostr. He's a computer programmer knowledgeable in Bitcoin, decentralized networks and many other things. In this indaba we try to poke holes at bitcoin and better understand nostr, a data network he wrote. Music: "Welding The Steel Frame" by Wintergatan This track can be...

  9. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #32 Nikita Chashchinskii

    Nikita Chashchinskii is the author of two BIP300 Bitcoin sidechains. In this indaba we go some common asked questions regarding BIP300 and also expand on the details of the Ethereum and Zcash BIP300 sidechains. Music: "Welding The Steel Frame" by Wintergatan This track can be downloaded for free…

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  10. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #31 Fernando Borretti

    Fernando Borretti (@zetalyrae) is the author of the Austral programming language, a systems language with linear types and capability-based security. This conversation probes the depths of Fernando's mind for implementing this beautiful language. Music: "Welding The Steel Frame" by Wintergatan…

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  11. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #30 Sergei Winizki

    Dr Winitzki is a theoretical physicist now moved into computer programming. He's taken a physics approach to understanding programming from a fundamental perspective. Having authored the book "The Science of Functional Programming" a draft book [0] and "Concurrency in reactions. Declarative...

  12. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #29 Jonathan Logan

    It's very rare to find someone so familiar with the architecture of the current internet. Jonathan Logan designed and implemented the now shutdown cryptohippie.com privacy preserving communications infrastructure. He goes into detail on his experiences and drops some very useful advice for anyone...

  13. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #28 Ruben Somsen

    Ruben Somsen is a Bitcoin Sorcerer. He does protocol design in order to enhance Bitcoin. He also helps maintain the bitcoin-dev mailing list, am co-host of the Unhashed Podcast , and he's the organizer/founder of the Seoul Bitcoin Meetup. Music: "Welding The Steel Frame" by Wintergatan This track...

  14. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #2 Mike Spencer Bown

    The great @mikespencerbown has extensively traveled every country on this planet, he is, after all, the world's most traveled man, with 30 years backpacking under his belt. In this Indaba, Mike shares some of his wild adventures while exploring our planet.

  15. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #3 Lester Lim

    Sat down and thoroughly enjoyed cuban cigars and Gin & Tonics with the legendary and witty @Thelesterlim. Our discussion revolved around China, Hong Kong, information and cyber security. Lester shares some of the challenges he faces as the COO of @BlackpandaGroup and the kinds of problems his...

  16. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #4 Patrick Poon

    Patrick Poon is a PhD student, a journalist and human rights activist who did 6 years in Amnesty International. In this episode Patrick speaks about his experience with Uyghurs in East Turkestan or Uyghuristan or Xinjiang and also goes into depth on pre-Communist China and current affairs…

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  17. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #1 Sébastien Bourdeauducq

    Sébastien Bourdeauducq is a dear friend of mine. He's the founder and a director of M-Labs Ltd, a company that builds control systems for ion-traps in Hong Kong.

  18. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #5 Scott Edmunds

    In this indaba, Scott Edmunds @SCEdmunds, Executive Editor of BGI HK's @GigaScience and I go into Open Data Hong Kong, some of the failings of current Science journals and discuss his work at @GigaScience along with the soon to be released GigaByte.

  19. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #6 Stanley Lee

    Stanley Lee and I discuss the communist mindset and how it relates to Hong Kong. We attempt to get under the skin of the current Hong Kong situation. My guest requested to be censored in this Indaba, so you get to see my ugly mug a little more.

  20. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #7 Shawn Chang

    The legendary Shawn Chang (@citypw) and I smack lips on a few good cigars + german beers over computer security, hardened linux, hardened vault. Donation https://hardenedlinux.github.io/about... System security and crypto https://github.com/hardenedlinux https://grsecurity.net/...

  21. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #8 Gareth Hayes

    My good mate @gazhaze and I sit down for an Indaba over bitcoin, global currencies, AGI and competitive asian dictatorships.

  22. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #9 Jeffrey Broer

    @jebbery and I sit down over kornbranntwein and discuss venture capital, small businesses and life in general in Hong Kong Chinese History Podcast: https://chinahistorypodcast.libsyn.co...Mea Culpa, The Podcast: https://www.postmortemconf.com/mea-cu...

  23. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #10 Janice Leung Hayes

    Food! Janice (@e_ting) takes us on a journey around food. Janice is a food writer, editor and judge and the founder of an organic farmers market here in Hong Kong. We explore Hong Kong milk tea, Miso, why food tastes great when fried. Other stories dip into Dai Pai Dongs, Hong Kong pasta soup…

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  24. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #11 Frankie Li

    Frankie Li's one of the pioneers in the information security field here in Hong Kong. He's a founder of Dragon Threat Labs, a hackerspace providing a place for folks to sharpen their skillz. The founder of Dragon Con, a conference for security minded people to demo their warez. He's also the...

  25. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #12 Jeremy Li & Nic Law

    This indaba is shot on site at Nic Law (ig @nic.distilling.hk) & Jeremy Li distillery. These legends take us on their journey setting up and running their distillery. I found N.I.P. (ig @nipdistilling / https://www.nipdistilling.com/) to be a thoroughly enjoyable gin, thanks guys.

  26. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #13 Celia Schunter

    In this indaba Dr Celia Schunter (https://www.celiaschunter.com, @celiaschunter), a Molecular Ecologist, takes us through her research into the effects of increased CO2 prevalence in fish. Dr Schunter elaborates on her ways of reverse engineering the genome, transcriptome, proteome - finding that...

  27. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #14 Ming Ming Chiu

    Professor Ming Ming Chiu is the Director of Assessment Research Centre (ARC) and the Chair Professor of the Department of Special Education and Counselling (SEC) at the Education University of Hong Kong. We explore his 7 step Hong Kong Truth and Reconciliation Commission inspired by South…

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  28. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #15 Mike Brownnutt

    Mike Brownnutt a post doc of Rainer Blatt has started up his own endeavour out here in Hong Kong focusing on the intersection between Science and Religion. This conversation goes into the "is" vs "aught". Where Science is typically strong in answering "is" questions, it waivers on "aught"...

  29. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #16 Torbjørn C. Pedersen

    Torbjørn aka Thor, a Danish traveler known for the Once Upon A Saga project (http://www.onceuponasaga.dk) has traveled to 194 countries without flying. A global pandemic stopped Thor in his tracks and he's been biding his time ever since, waiting for a window to break free and complete 9...

  30. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #17 Riccardo Spagni

    Riccardo Spagni (@fluffypony) is the ex-lead maintainer of the privacy preserving cryptoasset Monero. In this conversation we go into Monero, Tari, contributor contracts, lightning networks and chastise data dissemination monopolies. Enjoy! Music: "Welding The Steel Frame" by Wintergatan This…

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  31. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #18 Nix Bitcoin Dev

    Anonymous computer programmer, going by the handle "Nix Bitcoin Dev", and I have a chat about the nix-bitcoin project. A project that makes it easy for a semi-technical person to run a full Bitcoin node and/or a lightning node. Our conversation revolves around how the open source approach is…

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  32. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #19 Max Hillebrand

    Max Hillebrand (@HillebrandMax) of towardsliberty.com is an Austrian economist, libertarian and a crypto-anarchist advocating for privacy preserving technology such as the Wasabi bitcoin wallet (https://wasabiwallet.io) that has built-in coinjoin functionality. Music: "Welding The Steel Frame" by...

  33. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #20 Caleb James DeLisle

    Caleb James DeLisle is the author of CJDNS a VPN over IPv6. A programmer, a cypherpunk and overall badass, Caleb shared his insights into the work he's done on CJDNS, PKT and networking on the whole. Music: "Welding The Steel Frame" by Wintergatan This track can be downloaded for free at...

  34. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #21 Eric Voskuil

    Eric is an ex-topgun pilot, libbitcoin maintainer, author of cryptoeconomics and a motorcyclist. Music: "Welding The Steel Frame" by Wintergatan This track can be downloaded for free at www.wintergatan.net Free license to use this track in your video can be downloaded at www.wintergatan.net

  35. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #22 Seth Simmons

    Seth is in information security researcher and privacy advocate. He runs a blog over at sethsimmons.me detailing how to maintain privacy in your financial life. Music: "Welding The Steel Frame" by Wintergatan This track can be downloaded for free at www.wintergatan.net Free license to use this...

  36. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #23 Paul Sztorc

    Paul Sztorc (@Truthcoin) discusses the implications of Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 300 (BIP-300) (drivechain.info). Essentially sidechains for Bitcoin. To me this technology is pivotal in solving one of Bitcoin's major issues: Fungibility. Join the telegram announcement list:...

  37. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #24 Robin Hanson

    Dr Robin Hanson (@robinhanson) is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University, an author, a blogger and inventor of market scoring rules such as LMSR and prediction markets. Join the telegram announcement list: https://t.me/the_stewart_mackenzie_indaba Music: "Welding The Steel...

  38. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #25 Alexis Sellier

    @cloudhead is focused on distributed computing. He's currently building a decentralized code sharing competitor to github/gitlab. he also the author of nakamoto a privacy preserving, light weight bitcoin SPV library. Music: "Welding The Steel Frame" by Wintergatan This track can be downloaded for...

  39. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #26 Moonsettler

    Moonsettler (@4moonsettler) has been in bitcoin for a good few years and is looking to get into bitcoin development. We discuss what happened and is happening in the Bitcoin space. Music: "Welding The Steel Frame" by Wintergatan This track can be downloaded for free at www.wintergatan.net Free...

  40. The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba #27 Peter Van Roy

    Peter Van Roy (@PeterLodewijk) is co-author of a foundational book in computer science; Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming. He's a professor at Université catholique de Louvain. In this talk we discuss the intersection between distributed systems and programming, IoT,...

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