Hashing It Out

By Corey Petty, Dean Eigenmann, Jaye Harrill, John Mardlin

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Hashing It Out is a podcast which dives into the weeds with tech innovators in blockchain infrastructure and decentralized networks to learn more about what they build and the problems they face head on to overcome.

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Episode 67 · 7 months ago

Hashing It Out #67-Optimistic Rollups - John Adler

Layer 2 scaling solutions have gone through a lot of iterations and disappointing conclusions in the past few years. There is a newer solution, which is boasting some positive (and safe) results: Optimistic Rollups. John Adler, Blockchain Researcher at Consensys, speaks on the history of Layer 2 solutions and describes Optimistic Rollups and how they may help with blockchain scaling.

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Episode 66 · 1 year ago

Hashing It Out #66 - Trueblocks - Thomas Jay Rush

The Ethereum ecosystem is very attractive to creators and data analysts, attracting tops engineers with its novel set of problems. Thomas Jay Rush, CEO of TrueBlocks.io is one such mind. He saw a problem with Ethereum's accounting and built a suite of tools to enable highly-details and lightning fast dives into the data of Ethereum, allowing users to find information about anything their address has touched. This is a far more compelling problem than most realize, and T.J. gives a great look into the design required to make such a service fast and responsive.

http://trueblocks.io
https://medium.com/@tjayrush
https://twitter.com/quickblocks
http://github.com/Great-Hill-Corporation/trueblocks-core

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Episode 59 · 1 year ago

Hashing It Out #59 - Truebit - Jason Teutsch

We're happy to welcome back Truebit Protocol to the podcast! This time we're speaking with Jason Teutsch, mathematican, computer scientist, and founder of the protocol. Truebit is an incentivization scheme for the compute and validation of off-chain code execution with on-chain commitment and validation. We talk about the protocol, but also about their two-token model for producing value in the network and encouraging participation. Truebit is a very interesting protocol, listen and then check it out!

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Truebit protocol whitepaper:

http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~teutsch/papers/truebit.pdf

Token whitepaper:

http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~teutsch/papers/stableCPU.pdf

10-minute token lightning talk @ TEGG 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFcSqKXfCuE&t=28198

Truebit-OS software demo:

https://github.com/TrueBitFoundation/truebit-os

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Episode 58 · 1 year ago

Hashing It Out #58 - Stellar - Nikhil Saraf

International payments is not an easy challenge to tackle, and Stellar is working diligently to upend the current aging and fee-ridden systems for a more democratized method of international asset transfer. In this episode we have Nikhil Saraf, Principal Software Engineer at Stellar Development Foundation, to educate us on the core features of Stellar, how it achieves consensus, and the practicals of how Stellar can be integrated into regular business and consumer applications.

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Keybase - Wallet for Stellar and end-to-end encrypted chat application: https://keybase.io/
Best way to contact me (via Keybase): https://keybase.io/nikhilsaraf
Coinbase Earn tutorial videos for Stellar: https://www.coinbase.com/earn/stellar
Stellar's Reddit community: https://www.reddit.com/r/Stellar
Stellar's chat groups (Keybase): https://keybase.io/team/stellar.public
Documentation for Stellar: https://www.stellar.org/developers/
Stellar Github Repos: https://github.com/stellar
Kelp, open-source market-making bot for Stellar DEX and centralized exchanges: https://github.com/stellar/kelp
blog post summarizing SCP: https://medium.com/stellar-development-foundation/on-worldwide-consensus-359e9eb3e949
SCP whitepaper (Simplified version): http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/blog/simplified-scp.html
Full SCP Whitepaper (very detailed): https://www.stellar.org/papers/stellar-consensus-protocol.pdf
Talk explaining SCP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmwnhZmEZjc
Animated community video on the Stellar Consensus Protocol: https://www.lumenauts.com/lessons/stellar-consensus-protocol
Blog post about "The Liquidity Problem": https://medium.com/stellar-developers-blog/kelp-why-we-built-it-the-liquidity-problem-425ca5558c1d
Docker quickstart image to run a Stellar Node: https://hub.docker.com/r/stellar/quickstart/
Block Explorer for Stellar: https://stellar.expert/explorer/public
StellarX, frontend to the Stellar Decentralized Exchange: https://www.stellarx.com/

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