Episode 35: Testnets with Ethan from Tendermint

ZK Podcast

English - July 25, 2018 13:00 - 47 minutes - 27.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
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Previous Episode: Episode 34: Blockchain 101: What are smart contracts?

Next Episode: Episode 36: Eric Tang of Livepeer talks off-chain computation

In this episode, we sit down with Ethan (Bucky) Buchman, co-founder & CTO of Tendermint, to talk about testnets. We look into what they are, what purpose they serve and cover examples from Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cosmos and Polkadot.
Links
* Testnets on Karl.tech (https://karl.tech/intro-guide-to-ethereum-testnets/)
* The latest gossip on BFT consensus (https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04938)
* Bitcoin Testnet (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Testnet)
* Ropsten Testnet (https://github.com/ethereum/ropsten)
* Kovan Testnet (https://medium.com/@Digix/announcing-kovan-a-stable-ethereum-public-testnet-10ac7cb6c85f)
* Rinkeby Testnet (https://www.rinkeby.io/#stats)
* Join the Cosmos testnet (https://cosmos.network/docs/getting-started/full-node.html)
* Join the Polkadot testnet (https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/blob/master/README.md)

Links

Testnets on Karl.tech
The latest gossip on BFT consensus
Bitcoin Testnet
Ropsten Testnet
Kovan Testnet
Rinkeby Testnet
Join the Cosmos testnet
Join the Polkadot testnet