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Block Zero

8 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 250 ratings

Kevin Rose interviews cryptocurrency builders and experts. Learn more about Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple and other new decentralized technologies. Time Magazine calls Kevin one of the "Top 25 Most Influential People on the Web," and Bloomberg lists him as a "Top 25 Angel Investor." Kevin has appeared on the Jimmy Fallon Show, Charlie Rose Show, as well as the covers of Businessweek and Inc. Magazine.

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Episodes

#009 - Solana nears launch. Founder Anatoly Yakovenko

March 07, 2020 00:05 - 58 minutes - 39.9 MB

Kevin talks with Solana founder Anatoly Yakovenko about their upcoming launch and other exciting projects in the industry. 

#008 - Solana - The fastest blockchain on earth? Founder Anatoly Yakovenko

August 07, 2018 18:48 - 53 minutes - 24.6 MB

710,000 transactions a second with off-the-shelf hardware and no sharding. Sound impossible? Solana Founder Anatoly Yakovenko is here to change your mind.

#007 - Blockstack - A new internet for decentralized apps w/ Muneeb Ali

May 20, 2018 18:11 - 1 hour - 42.1 MB

Blockstack is a new internet for decentralized apps where users own their data. Blockstack's platform helps entrepreneurs and engineers build these apps and deliver better end-user experiences.

#006 - MakerDAO & the Dai stable coin - Founder Rune Christensen

February 27, 2018 19:00 - 1 hour - 47.9 MB

Dai is a cryptocurrency that is price stabilized against the value of the U.S. Dollar. Dai is created by the Dai Stablecoin System, a decentralized platform that runs on the Ethereum blockchain. Maker is a decentralized autonomous organization on the Ethereum blockchain seeking to minimize the price volatility of its own stable token, the Dai, against the U.S. Dollar.

#005 - Bancor - Co-founder Eyal Hertzog

February 18, 2018 17:30 - 1 hour - 60.5 MB

Bancor allows you to convert between any two tokens on their network, with no counterparty, at an automatically calculated price. Show links: Bancor. Bancor is flawed, and their rebuttal.

#004 - Stellar - Founder Jed McCaleb

February 07, 2018 18:29 - 33 minutes - 23 MB

Kevin's sits down w/ Stellar Founder, Jed McCaleb. Stellar is now the 8th largest cryptocurrency in the world. As a platform, Stellar connects banks, payments systems, and people. Integrate to move money quickly, reliably, and at almost no cost.

#003 - TurtleCoin - The next Dogecoin?

January 25, 2018 23:56 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MB

Kevin gives you a glimpse into a very small privacy coin with a great community. You'll hear the founding story of a new coin. "This reminds me of the early Dogecoin days. -Kevin"

#002 - ZenCash - Co-founder Rob Viglione

January 23, 2018 02:45 - 1 hour - 41.3 MB

Rob Viglione is the co-founder of ZenCash (ZEN), a fork from ZCash/Zclassic. Rob's shares his vision for the ultimate privacy coin, other players in the space, and what makes ZenCash different.

#001 - Bitcoin's true potential - Andreas M. Antonopoulos

January 22, 2018 04:27 - 1 hour - 80.1 MB

Andreas M. Antonopoulos is the author of Mastering Bitcoin (O'Reilly). We discuss the separation of state and money, how bitcoin is the worlds first trust protocol, how mining works, looking at bitcoin from a global perspective, what happens to bitcoin once we have quantum computing, and much more.