Author Topic: 2 new episodes of Beyond Bitcoin. Great place to listen to Dan give updates !! (Read 1825 times)

gamey · « *Last Edit: July 11, 2014, 12:29:05 pm by gamey* »

0:50 Dan Larimer gives update on the state of the Bitshares project. Dan explains why propagating through anonymous nodes causes issues for 15 second blocks.
8:00 What is the difference in damage a miner can do vs a Delegate inside DPOS ?
13:20 Selective DOS. How could government use centralized mining pools to attack BTC. How the ability to fork a digital organization prevents rule by majority which can be a problem in Democracy.
18:00 Dan goes into why he doesn’t see share-dropping onto other communities to be that valuable.
30:40 What is the status on the Delegate pay method? aka transaction fees.
39:00 DAC employees and discussing the various ways employees can be paid.
49:30 Would it be possible to snapshot assets ?!?
56:50 Dan talks about the group trap.

0:40 Status of Bitshares XTS via Dan Larimer.
4:18 What Bitshares ME will be.
9:27 Why would someone implement their own chain and not use an existing chain?
14:08 Why is Bitshares using C++ over other languages ?
18:55 Talk about partial centralization to register identities. Dan announces the Follow My Vote DAC and discusses certification of identities.
28:20 Dan talks about issues with scalability with 100% distributed systems.
35:40 Talk about code to handle URLs that link to Delegate voting directly.
44:16 Ethereum vs Bitshares github commit rates. Brent from canonizer.com explains his site while being attacked by his dog in the background.
48:22 The dog turns it up a notch. Brent talks about how canonizer.com approaches the problem of wikis and opposing camps.
1:03:30 Talk about how to join the testing team.