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Epicenter brings you in-depth conversations about the technical, economic and social implications of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. Every week, we interview business leaders, engineers academics and entrepreneurs, and bring you a diverse spectrum of opinions and points of view. Epicenter is hosted by Sebastien Couture, Brian Fabian Crain, Meher Roy, Sunny Aggarwal, and Friederike Ernst. Since 2014, episodes have been downloaded over 4 million times.
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Episode 573: Leader In The Clubhouse
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Jason and Kevin discuss 16-yeard-old Erriyon Knighton going pro, Brianna McNeal’s provisional suspension, Hugues Fabrice Zango breaking the indoor triple jump world record, Athing Mu’s stellar NCAA... For more on the show, visit us at http://www.houseofrun.comBy House of Run
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Trent Elmore: YAM Finance 🍠 – The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of the OG Foodcoin
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During the DeFi Summer of 2020, YAM Finance launched with a bang, and had its share of ups and downs within its first couple of days. It started out as an experiment to bring together some of the more innovative ideas in the space. It sparked a movement which brought massive attention to yield farming, and started the food token craze. After a bug …
Jason and Kevin discuss the cancelation of the USATF Indoor Championships, Andrew Bumbalough retiring, American men’s marathoning, athletes primed for a comeback and Kenya bidding for the 2025 World... For more on the show, visit us at http://www.houseofrun.comBy House of Run
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The Great Epicenter Host Extravaganza 2021
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The new year has brought with it a new bull run. This is great news for crypto holders, but at what cost? Will this bring with it a number of negative implications such as regulatory push back and privacy battles? Listen as the five hosts of Epicenter come together for an in-depth chat to share their predictions for the crypto space in 2021. Topics…
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Episode 571: What Will Happen In 2021
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Jason and Kevin make their predictions about what will happen in the running world in 2021. Show Notes –House of Run Shirt –Easy Double Shirt –#BeatOrkney Shirt –State vs. States Shirt –Our iTunes... For more on the show, visit us at http://www.houseofrun.comBy House of Run
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Eric Wall: Arcane Assets – The Future of Digital Investments
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Eric Wall is the Chief Investment Officer at Arcane Assets, but you may already know him from his writing and his presence on Twitter where he offers valuable insights on crypto markets. He joined us on the show to share with us his deep and timely insights into the current bull run and how this compared to 2017, where it is headed from here, and a…
Jason and Kevin recap the year in track and field and road racing and discuss the best athletes, races and moments of 2020. Show Notes –House of Run Shirt –Easy Double Shirt –#BeatOrkney Shirt... For more on the show, visit us at http://www.houseofrun.comBy House of Run
In this digital age, counting ballots by hand, as recently seen in the US Presidential Election, is very analogue and behind the times. Although the US constitution is over two centuries old and hasn't had a major version update since 1992, European democracies are much more recent and utilizing the technology available today. This panel discussion…
Jason and Kevin recap The Marathon Project and discuss another big run for Sara Hall, the state of American men’s marathoning and whether the gap to Galen Rupp will close. Then, the guys pick the... For more on the show, visit us at http://www.houseofrun.comBy House of Run
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Rethinking the Justice System: A Digital Jurisdiction for Decentralized Organisations
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In today's world, life and business is moving more into to a virtual space and this has of course been accelerated as a result of the Covid pandemic. Now more than ever it is important to rethink the very basis of how we organise, make decisions, and structure the world’s governance. And how can we do this in the context of crypto and Web3? Web3 in…
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Leonard Tan & Yong Zhen Yu: The Decentralized Key Management and Login System for Web3
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Torus is an open-source and universal key management system for the Web3 ecosystem. It's simple, secure and non-custodial, and suitable for anyone to manage their keys. Torus runs a Distributed Key Generation protocol built on Shamir's Secret Sharing. Supporting over a hundred thousand authentications a month on popular applications like AAVE, Kybe…
Jason and Kevin preview The Marathon Project and discuss Sara Hall entertaining the American record and if we will finally see a flood of American men break 2:10. Then, the guys pick the best... For more on the show, visit us at http://www.houseofrun.comBy House of Run
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Hasu & Kain Warwick: Diving Deep Into Liquidity Mining
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Crypto is largely reliant on incentive mechanisms, and liquidity mining is one of the more recent cryptoeconomic incentive models to emerge. When decentralized exchanges need liquidity, they can leverage liquidity mining to incentivize users to provide it. In turn, the “miners” generate revenue, generally in the form of a native tokens, proportiona…
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Episode567: Valencia and Everything Else
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Jason and Kevin talk about the ridiculous times at Valencia, Athlete of the Year and Breakdancing over Cross Country in the Olympics. Then, they answer emails and finally get Kevin’s opinion on Ted... For more on the show, visit us at http://www.houseofrun.comBy House of Run
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Sandeep Nailwal: Matic – A Scalable Layer-2 Dapp Platform for Ethereum
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Matic Network is a Layer-2 scaling solution that provides instant, low cost, and secure transactions on Ethereum. Built on an adapted implementation of Plasma and a decentralized network of Proof-of-Stake (PoS) validators, its goal is to solve the scalability and usability issues for developers building Dapps, whilst not compromising on decentraliz…
Jason and Kevin preview the loaded Valencia Marathon and Half Marathon fields, talk about The Track Meet and answer some emails. Show Notes –House of Run Shirt –Easy Double Shirt –#BeatOrkney Shirt... For more on the show, visit us at http://www.houseofrun.comBy House of Run
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Juan Benet: Protocol Labs – IPFS, Filecoin and the Vision for a Decentralized Web (Part 2 of 2)
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Filecoin is a peer-to-peer network data storage network, with built-in economic incentives for storage providers. It facilitates open-markets for storing and retrieving data, in which anyone can participate. Users can pay the network to access storage space, which can be encrypted, replicated, and highly available. After years of development and it…
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IPFS, Filecoin and The Vision for a Decentralized Web (Part 1 of 2)
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IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) is a fully decentralized distributed system for storing and accessing files, websites, applications, and data. Released just over 5 years ago by Protocol Labs, it has had a tremendous impact in the Web3 space as the standard for how blockchain projects store data. Filecoin is a complementary protocol to IPFS and wa…
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Episode 565: Last World Record Standing
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Jason and Kevin discuss Keira D’Amato’s American record, the 2021 Diamond League schedule, the December racing schedule and the limits of human performance. Show Notes –House of Run Shirt –Easy... For more on the show, visit us at http://www.houseofrun.comBy House of Run
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Episode 564: A Digression Inside A Digression
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Jason and Kevin discuss Elijah Manangoi’s whereabouts suspension, Paul Chelimo’s cross country race, Mo Farah’s reality show chances and much more. Show Notes –House of Run Shirt –Easy Double Shirt... For more on the show, visit us at http://www.houseofrun.comBy House of Run
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Trent McConaghy: Ocean Protocol – The Platform Making Waves in the Data Industry
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Data is a huge industry, worth about $500 billion in Europe alone. And currently there's a fundamental misalignment between those creating data and those consuming it. There's a one direction value flow in terms of those who are providing the value (the data) and those extracting it. These are big tech platforms that typically use that data to sell…
Jason and Kevin discuss Wayde Van Niekerk’s future, Jordan Hasay’s half-marathon, Mo Farah on a reality show and buying an indoor track. Show Notes –House of Run Shirt –Easy Double Shirt... For more on the show, visit us at http://www.houseofrun.comBy House of Run
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Martin Köppelmann: Circles – Creating Universal Basic Income Economies for Everyone
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Circles UBI is a blockchain-based Universal Basic Income created to promote local economy within communities. It was recently launched on Ethereum’s POA network. The idea is to create a parallel economy by forming trust lines within Circles. Anyone who joins Circles receives a basic income regularly, without conditions. And the more connected your …
Jason and Kevin discuss Athlete of the Year nominees, updates on Wayde Van Niekerk and Makhloufi and a couple other things going on in the world. Show Notes –House of Run Shirt –Easy Double Shirt... For more on the show, visit us at http://www.houseofrun.comBy House of Run
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Alchemy – A Powerful Developer Platform and API for Ethereum Apps
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Alchemy is a powerful blockchain developer platform providing a suite of developer tools. Developers building apps which interact with Ethereum can use Alchemy's powerful APIs to supercharge their apps, and leverage features not available in vanilla nodes. They also provide services like analytics, monitoring, alerting, logging and debugging. Today…
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Episode 561: The Christian Coleman Suspension
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Jason and Kevin discuss Christian Coleman’s two-year ban for whereabouts failures, who is best positioned to become the fastest man in the world, Taoufik Makhloufi under suspicion and the Boston... For more on the show, visit us at http://www.houseofrun.comBy House of Run
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Sam Bankman-Fried: FTX & Project Serum – The World's First Decentralized Derivatives Exchange
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Alameda Research is a quant trading fund founded in 2017. Today it manages over $100 million in digital assets and trades $600 million to $1.5 billion per day across thousands of products: all major coins and altcoins, as well as their derivatives. Whilst running this fund, the team thought there was space for a robust crypto derivatives exchange b…
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Episode 560: A Conversation With A Gas Canister
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Jason and Kevin recap the World Half Marathon Championships, Joshua Cheptegei’s first loss of the year and a strong showing from Peres Jepchirchir. Then, the guys discuss the strange circumstances... For more on the show, visit us at http://www.houseofrun.comBy House of Run
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Simon Polrot: Adan – Unraveling MiCA and the New Regulations Threatening Crypto in Europe
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Adan (Association for the Development of Digital Assets), is an organization which helps promote the development of the crypto industry in France, and more broadly in Europe. Its President, Simon Polrot, is also the Co-founder Ethereum France, which host the EthCC conference in Paris. The European Commission has released a regulatory proposal, MiCA…
Jason and Kevin discuss Joshua Cheptegei’s and Letesenbet Gidey’s World Records and how much wave light technology had to do with it. Show Notes –House of Run Shirt –Easy Double Shirt –#BeatOrkney... For more on the show, visit us at http://www.houseofrun.comBy House of Run
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Kyle Samani: Multicoin Capital – The Thesis-Driven Cryptoasset Investment Firm
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Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain companies. They manage a hedge fund and a venture fund, investing across both public and private markets. They are extremely bullish on smart contract platforms and DeFi is one of their main areas of focus. They've invested in several proje…
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Ido Sadeh Man: Sögur – The Digital Coin Changing Global Currency for the Better (sponsored)
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Sögur, formerly known as Saga, aims to provide a global digital currency that acts as a store of value, a unit of account, and a medium of exchange. It is not impacted by any single nation state agenda and complements national currencies. And it is governed by its holders. The SGR is Sögur's digital coin. It's built to provide a self-sustaining, de…
Jason and Kevin recap the London Marathon and talk about Eliud Kipchoge’s surprising defeat, his future prospects, Brigid Kosgei’s dominant win and Sara Hall’s incredible kick. The guys also discuss... For more on the show, visit us at http://www.houseofrun.comBy House of Run
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Demetri Kofinas: Uncovering the Hidden Forces of Today's Society
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Hidden Forces is a podcast devoted to exploring the underlying forces driving the most powerful changes we see in the world. Demetri Kofinas, host of the show, holds conversations with some of the most brilliant minds in technology, finance, social science, and the hard sciences. He consults blockchain and distributed ledger technology companies, a…
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Episode 557: The Marathon We’ve All Waited For
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Jason and Kevin preview the London Marathon and discuss what chance Kenenisa Bekele has at an upsetting Eliud Kipchoge, if Brigid Kosgei can stay atop women’s marathoning and where Kipchoge sits in... For more on the show, visit us at http://www.houseofrun.comBy House of Run
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The Layer-1 Data Availability and Consensus Solution
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LazyLedger is a scalable general-purpose data availability layer for decentralized apps and trust-minimized sidechains. It is a minimal, viable blockchain which does time stamping and block ordering. Think back to Bitcoin in the early days, before Ethereum. Layer-2 systems were being built on top of Bitcoin and were leveraging Bitcoin’s consensus l…
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Episode 556: Preview of the London Marathon Preview
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Jason and Kevin dive into next Sunday’s London Marathon, discuss who should win the men’s and women’s athlete of the year and debate if an 18.99 200m or 6.35-meter pole vault will happen first. Show... For more on the show, visit us at http://www.houseofrun.comBy House of Run
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Camila Russo: The Defiant – Laying Bare the Story of Ethereum
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Camila Russo is a financial journalist, starting her career writing for Chile's largest national newspaper. She then spent 8 years at Bloomberg covering the Argentine market from Buenos Aires, the European stocks from Madrid, and analysed macro emerging markets moves for the Markets Live blog in New York. She is the founder of the Defiant and recen…
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Episode 555: Watching The Rome Diamond League Live
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Jason and Kevin record as they watch the Rome Diamond League and react to Mondo Duplantis’s outdoor world record, Karsten Warholm’s valiant attempt in the 400m hurdles, a thrilling men’s 3000m,... For more on the show, visit us at http://www.houseofrun.comBy House of Run
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MacLane Wilkison: NuCypher – Proxy Re-Encryption for Distributed Systems
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NuCypher is a decentralized threshold cryptography network offering interfaces and runtimes for secrets management and dynamic access control. It provides cryptographic infrastructure for privacy preserving applications and it exists as a smart contract on the Ethereum blockchain. They are currently in testnet but once launched you will be able to …
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Episode 554: It’s Our 10th Anniversary
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Jason and Kevin discuss the world records from Sifan Hassan and Mo Farah, racing holograms, Karsten Warholm’s anger at the clock, Faith Kipyegon’s pursuit of the 1000m record and much more. Show... For more on the show, visit us at http://www.houseofrun.comBy House of Run
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Tarun Chitra: Gauntlet – The Simulation Platform for Blockchain Protocols
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Gauntlet is a simulation platform for building financial models of blockchain protocols and applications. Their platform uses machine learning methods to simulate different environments with various user behaviors and see how the system holds up in those conditions. They perform analysis on things like core mechanisms to test for liveness, block pr…
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Episode 553: How Far Can You Run in an Hour?
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Jason and Kevin discuss potential World Records in random races at the Brussels Diamond League before catching up on emails. Show Notes –House of Run Shirt –Easy Double Shirt –#BeatOrkney Shirt... For more on the show, visit us at http://www.houseofrun.comBy House of Run
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Marek Olszewski & Rene Reinsberg: Celo – Towards Prosperity for Everyone
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Celo has a clear mission - to build a financial system that creates the conditions for prosperity, for everyone. The Celo Foundation is a non-profit organization that supports the growth and development of the open-source, decentralized Celo Platform. Its aim is to build a flexible network of applications built on a blockchain to facilitate payment…
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Cory Doctorow: Reviving the Cypherpunk in All of Us
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Republic is an investment platform that allows anyone pretty much anywhere in the world, of any income and net worth, to invest in some of the best private equity startups. It allows regular people, not just a few wealthy accredited investors, to invest in highly vetted private startups, with as little as $10 or as much as $100,000 per investment. …
Jason and Kevin discuss Karsten Warholm’s thrilling performance in Stockholm, Donavan Brazier toying with another 800m field, the Mt. Rushmore of world records and much more. Show Notes –House of... For more on the show, visit us at http://www.houseofrun.comBy House of Run
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Ken Nguyen: Republic – Bridging the Gap Between Investing and Startups
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Republic is an investment platform that allows anyone pretty much anywhere in the world, of any income and net worth, to invest in some of the best private equity startups. It allows regular people, not just a few wealthy accredited investors, to invest in highly vetted private startups, with as little as $10 or as much as $100,000 per investment. …
Jason and Kevin discuss Joshua Cheptegei’s world record, Timothy Cheruiyot’s strange pacing, Bryce Hoppel’s big personal best and all the other storylines from the Monaco Diamond League. Show Notes... For more on the show, visit us at http://www.houseofrun.comBy House of Run
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Jack O'Holleran: SKALE Labs – An Ethereum Scaling Solution Using App Specific Blockchains
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SKALE Network's modular protocol is one of the first of its kind to allow developers to build application specific blockchains. These are interoperable and compatible with the Ethereum mainchain, and the entire Ethereum ecosystem. They provide the benefits of decentralization without compromising on computation, storage, or security. The focus of S…
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Episode 550: Welcome To The Biosphere
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Jason and Kevin discuss the London Marathon staging an elite race featuring Eliud Kipchoge and Kenenisa Bekele, cross country in the Olympics, Donavan Brazier’s chances at the world record, the... For more on the show, visit us at http://www.houseofrun.comBy House of Run