Erik Reppel and Robert Reppel

This week we interview Cryptocurrency and Blockchain expert Erik Reppel from Coinbase and Robert Reppel. To find out more about this episode take a look at the shownotes by clicking the episode title.

Written by Alexandra Moxin

Erik Reppel was one of the winners at Hack the North, Canada’s biggest Hackathon, in 2016 and works for Coinbase. Erik is finishing his B.SEng. at UVIC majoring in Computer Science. You can find Erik on twitter @programmer.

Robert Reppel was formerly CTO and Partner at Adaptech Solutions and was a co-host of the Microservices Design and Implementation Meetup. A true Polyglot, Robert has more than 25 years of practical, hands-on experience as a Software and Systems Architect, fixer, aligner, deliverer and explainer of products and projects within all aspects of the software development life cycle.

We cover a lot in this episode, so get comfortable and hope you enjoy listening to this episode as much as we enjoyed making it!

Things we cover in this episode

Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, blockchain technologies
Industry trends in the past year
The recent SEC securities ruling and paper
Network effects
Why event streams are good for blockchain and cryptocurrency systems
Using Adaptech’s PaaS and webeventstorming.com to win the UBC Blockathon
Team Consentaur’s UBC Blockathon Win! (Blockchain Hackathon)
NOTA
Centralized and decentralized applications
Blockchain, CQRS and event sourced systems
Merkle trees and asynchronous systems, RACE conditions, eventual consistency
Byzantine generals problem, trusted nodes
Proof of work mining, nonce and hashing conditions
Zero knowledge proofs
SegWit (Segregated Witness) and the Lightning Network
Stream based architecture, blockchain cryptocurrency, AI, Machine Learning
Robert’s predictions for the future of event based / event sourced systems
Greg Young’s 10 years of DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing
Erik’s predictions for the future of cryptocurrency

Hope you enjoy our interview with Erik and Robert!

Stay tuned for news, announcements and our next interview!

Show Links

Hack the North
UBC Blockathon Winner Announcement, Team Consentaur
Coinbase
UVIC - Computer Science Program
Microservices Design and Implementation with DDD/CQRS/ES Meetup
Adaptech Blog: Blockchain, Hype or Necessity?
NOTA
Satoshi Nakamoto
Merkle Trees
Proof of Work and Trustless Consensus
Nonce
Edge Networks
SegWit (Segregated Witness)
Lightning Networks
SegWit and Lightning Networks
Bitcoin
Greg Young’s A Decade of DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing
Zero Knowlege Proof
Web 3.0