Hashing It Out #60 – Balance Research – Arthur Gervais & Dominik Harz

ABOUT THIS EPISODE

This episode Corey and Collin bring on the academics Arthur Gervais and Dominik Harz from Imperial College London. They discuss a new protocol that attempts to reduce the required financial deposits for various mechanisms in a way that does not reduce security. In other words, it is an attempt to help with over-collateralization, which could save investors a lot of money! As always, we get into the weeds to try and figure out exactly how it works, and where it is best used. Come listen and enjoy!

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Episode 39 · 1 year ago

Hashing It Out #39 - Patrick McCorry - State Channels

We have the great honor of speaking with Dr. Patrick McCorry, lecturer at King's College London and expert in cryptocurrency research. This conversation focuses on state channel research. We go over the latest and greatest in that field, what advancements have achieved, and what is yet to be done. It's exciting to learn from someone with such an extremely deep knowledge on the subject of state channels!

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  • https://twitter.com/paddykcl
  • https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/patrick.mccorry/

Episode 38 · 1 year ago

Hashing It Out #38 - KZen - Omer Shlomovits

We have the great pleasure of speaking with Omer Shlomovits. Omer is a multi-party computation and cryptography expert with KZen. He speaks to us about KZen, his research on threshold signatures for building simpler and more secured wallets, key recovery schemes, and the future of multi-party computation. Fantastic episode choked full of deep knowledge!

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  • https://www.kzencorp.com/
  • https://github.com/KZen-networks
  • https://twitter.com/KzenCorp
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veIXYIZrSC8
  • https://www.facebook.com/groups/800441673459620/

Episode 37 · 1 year ago

Hashing It Out #37 - Base Zero - Matt Zimmerman and Ken Sedgwick

Managing crypto keys is difficult enough for private holders, but when managing large portfolios of cryptocurrency assets on an institutional level, the risk surface increases tremendously. Base Zero has devised a suite of tools to manage multisignature signing over an air-gapped signing device and a sharded backup system to ensure security for large organizations. This unique approach enables these institutions to mitigate risk associated with large fund transfers without any one single person being able to compromise the system and with highly secured disaster recovery.

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  • https://medium.com/base-zero/the-state-of-security-5667048d3923
  • Whitepaper
  • Matt Zimmerman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mdzin/
  • Ken Sedgwick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-sedgwick-83541/

Episode 36 · 2 years ago

Hashing It Out #36: Dan Robinson - HTLCs (And why they suck)

We have the pleasure to present one of the more entertaining speakers at SBC19, Dan Robinson. After two talks on Hash Time Locked Contracts (HTLCs), he drops a massive bomb in with a slide deck entitled, "HTLCs (And why they suck)." Lively and entertaining, we have him step through is thoughts on HTLCs and the alternate solutions to this technique that Interleger implements. Bombastic show chocked full information and analysis!

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