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The Bitcoin Podcast
The Bitcoin Podcast

The Bitcoin Podcast

The Bitcoin Podcast Network is a collection of long form conversation format podcasts on Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum and everything in between. Shows include The Bitcoin Podcast.

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Corey sits down with Simona Pop: PG Steward ENS, Gov Advisor Element, Gov Advisor Optimism, for a Personals episode.

We discuss the challenges of building a privacy-centric portfolio management tool and the tradeoffs required compared to highly centralized alternatives. We dive deep into local-first software and take a look at how Lefteris has made this a pillar of Rotki. 

Topics Covered in this episode: 

  1. Lefteris' history in blockchain development and the path to Rotki
  2. Technical challenges in building private, secure portfolio management tools
  3. Local-First Software
  4. Exciting developments for Rotki

JOIN THE COMMUNITY:

TBP Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebtcpodcast 

Hashing it Out Discord: https://discord.gg/eCwSWRyzam 

RESOURCES: 

Rotki Website - https://rotki.com/ 

Lefteris X - https://twitter.com/LefterisJP 

Rotki X - https://twitter.com/rotkiapp

 Rotki Discord - https://discord.rotki.com/ 

Rotki Docs - https://rotki.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html 

Rotki Github - https://github.com/rotki Download 

Rotki App - https://rotki.com/download 

TIMESTAMPS: 

00:00 Intros 

02:40 Motivations to build Rotki and Tax Code 

05:00 - Managing the various DeFi opportunities and DeFi primitives 

06:50 - Prioritizing new features and keeping up with the ecosystem 

11:00 - Premium features of Rotki - Ethereum Staking, graphs, back ups and more 

12:35 - Data structure and ecosystem growth 

16:45 - Infrastructure costs and active management 

19:45 - Securing Rotki while adding new features 

21:44 - Supported ecosystems - more than EVM 

28:50 - Nodes, Pruning, Transaction Hashes 

32:00 - Local-first software and challenges in business use cases 

35:15 - The roadmap and what’s next for Rotki 

36:30 - 10 words or less - describe Rotki 

37:00 - Is what you do hard?

This episode includes:

Tornado Cash Founders Charged With Money Laundering And Sanctions Violations: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/tornado-cash-founders-charged-money-laundering-and-sanctions-violations

Social Platform Friend.tech Gains 100K Users in Days Even in Depths of a Bear Market: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2023/08/21/friendtech-gains-100k-users-quickly-in-depths-of-a-bear-market/

RISC Zero's open source Zeth proves Ethereum blocks in minutes, instead of hours: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/risc-zeros-open-source-zeth-proves-ethereum-blocks-in-minutes-instead-of-hours-301907186.html

JOIN THE COMMUNITY
TBP Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebtcpodcast
Hashing it Out Discord: https://discord.gg/eCwSWRyzam

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introductions
03:43 Tornado Cash Founders Charged With Money Laundering And Sanctions Violations
11:28 Social Platform Friend.tech Gains 100K Users in Days Even in Depths of a Bear Market
19:40 RISC Zero's open source Zeth proves Ethereum blocks in minutes, instead of hours
26:14 Goodbyes

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Shane walked us through his long history in the world of messaging and working with Web2 giants including Facebook bots, Ebay, and email clients, in his journey to make connecting with each other more human.

Shane is an experienced start-up founder with a refreshing vision and outlook on how to bring Web3 to the next billion users.

Topics Covered in this episode:
Shane’s background in the messaging space and his journey into Web3
Technical goals of XMTP and how to drive network effects without the cold start problem
Recent developments of XMTP including launching with Coinbase Wallet
How XMTP Web3 messaging works

JOIN THE COMMUNITY
TBP Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebtcpodcast
Hashing it Out Discord: https://discord.gg/eCwSWRyzam

RESOURCES:
Shane X - https://twitter.com/ShaneMac
XMTP Website - https://xmtp.org/
XMTP X - https://twitter.com/xmtp_
XMTP Discord - https://discord.com/invite/xmtp

Coinbase Announcement - https://xmtp.org/blog/coinbasewallet
Converse App X - https://twitter.com/converseapp_

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Intros
01:45 - Facebook, Email, and connecting with stranger driving acquisition by Blackberry
03:10 - Creating form factor messaging experiences in crypto
06:30 - Identities, Messaging, and Privacy – A demo of Coinbase Wallet
09:00 - Selectively disclosing and the analogy to Apple’s “hide me email”
13:30 - UX, intuitive design and more user experience into Web3
16:30 - P2P messaging infrastructure of XMTP and owning your messages
18:50 - The lifecycle of a message in XMTP
23:20 - Breaking the shackles of Web2 walled gardens
25:00 - Web3 brings in new models outside of “Value is Data”
27:28 - A world where no one knows XMTP exists and any wallet address can communicate
29:30 - Marketplace and network dynamics – the network has a lesser take rate than the app
31:05 - What drives revenue and growth?
35:00 - Wallets are just managements of various types of identity and being chain agnostic
36:31 - Universal inbox, spam prevention, filtering - Converse App example
42:40 - Onboarding into web3 was painful but it’s getting easier
44:55 - Coinbase Wallet partnership and messaging as the heart of the universe
46:44 - Focus and roadmap ahead
47:50 - Is what you do hard? Drawing from past experiences

Todays' show focuses on Carnot Consensus.

Dee talks decentralized messaging with the Waku Lead at Logos, Franck Royer. Corey and Jessie jump in for round two.

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This episode includes DAS and Erasure Coding.

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In this Hashing It Out Personals episode, Dee talks to Stephen Pair, Cofounder, President and CEO of BitPay.com

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Executive Producer, Christian, attempts to keep Corey, Dee, and Jessie on topic and within two a minutes a piece on three timely topics.

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