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On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Corey Petty, and Dee sit down with Jonathan Chou from Bee Token. Jon is working with a word-class team of Silicon Valley engineers and designers on a AirBnB-esque service for the Ethereum public blockchain; complete with its own token, of course! We discuss his background, vision for the platform, and what lead up to its creation. At some point, McKie copies the voice of the pervert from Family Guy, the moviephone guys voice, and Dee pretends he’s DMX. It’s a fun candid discussion on a great use-case for Ethereum, one with a solid pedigree. Is this where finally token sales become Silicon Valley-ized? Let’s find out. Show Links: Official Website: http://thebeetoken.com Intro/Outro Music “Chucky Brown” By Woody Allen: https://soundcloud.com/wk1812/chuck-brown Show Sponsor(s): Status Messaging Client: http://status.im Status Developer Documentation: wiki.status.im/contributing/deve…ent/introduction/ Disclaimer: This is not investment advice, it is an engaged discussio

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Petty sit down with the founders of Cent.co, Max Brody and Cameron Hejazi. Cent, presently, is a Quora-like Q&A platform built on the Ethereum blockchain. Their service allows you to post questions with monetary bounties via Ethereum smart-contracts. By being a member of Cent, you can then answer questions, and in return received Ether for your valuable insights/contributions. Members of the site then vote on the various answers posted to each question bounty, and depending on your overall number of votes, you’ll receive a proportional share of the bounty. It’s a very straight-forward and simple platform that allows anyone to quickly start earning ETH with just a few clicks. Full disclosure: McKie is also an advisor for the Cent team. Show Links: Cent: http://cent.co Cent Twitter: http://twitter.com/Cent Sign-up for Cent: http://beta.cent.co Intro/Outro Music “Sheep” by G Yamazawa: https://soundcloud.com/gyamazawa/sheep-feat-city-james?in=gyamazawa/sets/shouts-to-

On this episode of BlockChannel, Mckie, Dee, and Petty take a trip into the crazy world of Ethereum + VR. Yeah that's right, 2017 is lit, and Decentraland is about to combine two very pivotal, innovative technologies to create a completely free, sovereign virtual reality where we can truly express ourselves; free from centralized control or potential corruption. VR is about to take over the world in a big way, what better than to blend that with another world-changing technology like Ethereum. This is powerful episode, it'll make you think. Hop on. Show Links: Decentraland Website: https://decentraland.org Decentraland Crowdsale: https://decentraland.org/#token-sale-terms Intro/Outro Music "1990" by G Yamazawa:https://soundcloud.com/gyamazawa/1990-interlude Show Sponsor(s): Status Messaging Client: http://status.im Status Developer Documentation: wiki.status.im/contributing/deve…ent/introduction/

On this episode of BlockChannel, Mckie and Dee sit down with Tyler and Max from the Poet team. Poet aims to solve the problem content attribution, by utilizing blockchain technology (bitcoin), their service allows you to submit timestamped metadata to create an immutable timestamp of original written work/media. This will prove authenticity of a piece of written work online, and allow content creators to more effectively get credit for their hard work online. Show Link(s) Poet Website:https://po.et Intro/Outro Music "One Crown" by G Yamazawa: https://soundcloud.com/gyamazawa/one-crown-feat-junoflo Show Sponsor(s): Status Messaging Client: https://status.im Status Developer Documentation: https://wiki.status.im/contributing/development/introduction/

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie & Petty enter a mental handicap cage match in our first ever triple-header with some of the team behind Grid+. Their project aims to create P2P decentralized markets for sharing and selling energy using Ethereum-based smart contracts. Their project aims to tap into the sustainability movement as a way to assist in bootstrapping the Ethereum network; in similar ways to how AOL trojan-horsed dial-up internet use and the internet with the use of mailable CDs. By utilizing energy usage and consumption, Grid+ believes we can hasten the pace of Ethereum adoption, while creating novel and compelling use-cases for the future. Show Links: Grid+ Website: https://gridplus.io Grid + Whitepaper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz90riPGRHquVVphSVROODJMWk0/view Intro/Outro Music "Guacamole" by Abhi the Nomad: https://soundcloud.com/abhithenomad/guacamole-prod-aso?in=abhithenomad/sets/follow-me-on-twitter Show Sponsor(s) ZCash: https://z.cash TokenData ICO Analysis & Data: http://t

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Petty sit down with Joe Urgo and Matus Lestan of the District0x team. What originally started as a few Ethereum-based token contracts for creating a service for freelancing, has now evolved into an upcoming system for creating and managing digital communities and decentralized markets called “Districts”. McKie and Petty dive in and ask questions about their vision, current partnerships for interoperable functionality (i.e. with Aragon), in order to gain more insight into all the exciting possibilities they have in-store for the future. The team also shares with us tips for potential Ethereum developers and entrepreneurs in the space curious to get in on all the fun. PS: We say this is Episode 26 in the intro, but it’s really Episode 25. There’s a queue if you wish to sue. :) Show Links: District0x Website: http://Distrixt0x.com District0x Slack: https://district0x-slack.herokuapp.com/ Intro/Outro Music: “Proud of Us” by Bugus https://soundcloud.com/bugus1/proud-of

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dee sit down with motivational speaker, rapper, YouTube star, Prince EA. Prince EA is known for being a lyrical poet of the spoken word, previously a rapper that performed with Grammy award winning artists like Busta Rhymes, Ludacris, DJ Khaled...he once even hugged Oprah. Amazing. So, we had to introduce him to crypto and have him help us on our mission to bringing crypto to the masses. We talk about crypto investing, societal impacts, how multiple implementations work for protocols, and more. You won't want to miss this one! And yeah, we got Prince EA into crypto -- YOU'RE WELCOME. Show Links(s): Prince EA: http://princeea.com Prince EA YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/thamagicsho2003 Intro/Outro Music "Fortune" by G Yamazawa: https://soundcloud.com/gyamazawa/fortune Show Sponsor(s): ZCash: https://zcash.co ZCash Foundation: https://z.cash/blog/announcing-the-zcash-foundation.html

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee, and Dr. Petty are joined by Dan Finlay from the Metamask team. Metamask is a chrome extension that enables you to access a variety of different ethereum related tokens in order to transact and interact with the web - with the additional capabilities of interfacing with the Ethereum public chain. Their plugin and service has exploded in popularity, and developers are using it to embed Ethereum related functionality into traditional webpages. These sorts of services are pivotal in bringing more adoption in the space by simplifying interacting with these new complex networks of trust online; we picked Dan's head accordingly and got the scoop on their vision and background. We also discuss ICOs, and potential alternative methods for raising that may be coming around the corner in the future to alleviate congestion on the network. Show Links(s): Metamask: http://metamask.io Intro/Outro Music "Coins" by Aubrey Gouch: https://soundcloud.com/aubreygouch/coin Show Sponso

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie is completely solo; he sits down with Stephen and Russel from REX. REX is seeking to cater to the real estate market, using Ethereum and smart contracts to connect home buyers, vendors, and agents from all over the world. Real estate listings and buying homes can be a fairly complex process; their project aims to simplify this process, from listings, to escrow, to closing. These gentleman believe the real estate industry is ripe for a product like theirs. We agree. Show Link(s): REX: http://www.rexmls.com/ REX Blog: https://blog.rexmls.com/ Intro/Outro Music "#FinesseLove" by The Outsiders (prod. by Faruhdey): https://soundcloud.com/outsidersox/finesselove?in=outsidersox/sets/ox2 Show Sponsor(s): ZCash Co: http://z.cash

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dee sit down and chat with Luis Cuende of Aragon. Luis discusses his many tech-related accomplishments leading up to the creation of Aragon, as well as his vision for future of the platform. He gives us opinions on a few other Ethereum projects he has his eyes on, and provides us with advice to share with other budding developer/entrepreneur hybrids like himself. Show Links: Aragon Project: https://aragon.one/ Intro/Outro Music "Na'Wow" by Umai: soundcloud.com/thebaygerian/nawow-prod-by-trapmoneybenny/ Show Sponsor(s): ZCash ZCash Blog:https://z.cash/blog/ ZCash Foundation:https://z.cash/blog/announcing-the-zcash-foundation.html

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Dr. Petty are joined by John Lilic of ConsenSys. John's role has been busy working to proliferate their vision for Ethereum everywhere, all over the globe across various enterprise sectors. They've been very successful thus far (have you seen the price of ETH? lol jk); so John fills us in our their vision for ensuring as the Ethereum ecosystem matures, no one is left behind. Very eye opening discussion on just how far ConsenSys is going to embed Ethereum, everywhere. Show Links(s): ConsenSys: http://consensys.com Intro/Outro Music "Coffee" by Masego/Medasin: https://soundcloud.com/officialmedasin/coffee-ft-masego Show Sponsor(s): Gnosis Prediction Market: http://gnosis.pm

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Dr. Petty put on their hella skeptical caps, and sit down with Galen and Curtis from the Urbit project. Urbit claims/seeks to be a “virtual land in the clouds” that will enable siloed, encapsulated computing environments for users. They believe in a new type of digital freedom; and even the mere mention of freedom gets our American blood boiling with excitement, so of course had to chat and get an in-depth breakdown into crazy new adventure they’re embarking on. Confused? We were, but we’re onboard now. Hopefully you will be too. Show Links: Urbit Website: https://www.urbit.org/ Urbit Blog: https://www.urbit.org/blog/ Ethereum: http://ethereum.org Intro/Outro Music "The Feeling" by Aaron London & Boadi: https://soundcloud.com/boadimusic/the-feeling-prod-by-aaron-london-boadi-1 Show Sponsor(s): Gnosis Prediction Market: http://gnosis.pm

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Dr. Petty finally get a chance to have a chat with Jarrad Hope and Carl Bennetts of Status. After many reschedules due to their non-stop hustling the past few months since the announcement of their project -- we got the scoop. We get an inside look into how Jarrad and Carl met, insights on the projects, and their vision for the platform in the future. Messaging applications are all the rage lately, and by embedding decentralization applications (DApps) into the heart of the experience, you get whole new type of platform -- and we think that's going to game changing for Ethereum. Show Links: Status.im: https://status.im Status Blog: https://blog.status.im/ Status Slack: http://slack.status.im/ Into/Outro Music "You Really Helped Me" by Faruhdey: https://soundcloud.com/faruhdey/you-really-helped-me?in=faruhdey/sets/shirley Show Sponsor(s): Gnosis Prediction Market: http://gnosis.pm

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dee & Dr. Petty are joined by Jake Brukhman of Coinfund. Jake is a crypto nerd (an honorable title) with a mission to bring sound investment practices to interested investors/technologists/tech junkies like yourself. He walks us through his credentials, then breaks down his plans for CoinFund going forward; as well as his personal perspectives for the future of the crypto space. Show Links: CoinFund Website: http://coinfund.io CoinFund Blog: https://blog.coinfund.io/coinfund-2016-year-in-review-3a24f8ec43de Intro/Outro Music “Have to Go” by Faruhdey: https://soundcloud.com/faruhdey/have-to-go?in=faruhdey/sets/shirley Show Sponsor(s): Gnosis: http://gnosis.pm

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Dr. Petty sit down with Shawn Wilkinson of Storj. Storj is a decentralized cloud storage provider that was created back in 2014. Since its inception, Storj has been hard at work on creating "cloud farms" of user submitted disk storage, where individuals who "rent' out their additional disk space can receive monetary incentives for supporting the network. Originally built on XCP (Counterparty), Storj now plans to make a migration away from the now abandoned project (XCP is platform created originally on the bitcoin blockchain), and move their token and service over to Ethereum, to leverage its smart contracting capabilities, and reduced fees. Show Link(s): Storj: http://storj.io Ethereum: http://ethereum.org CounterParty: http://counterparty.io/ Swarm: http://swarm-gateways.net/bzz:/theswarm.eth/ Intro/Outro Music "Wait Luther by Faruhdey: https://soundcloud.com/faruhdey/wait-luther-outro?in=faruhdey/sets/shirley Show Sponsor(s): Gnosis PM: http://gnosis.pm

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee and Dr. Petty are joined by Richard Craib. Richard is the mind behind “Numerai”; an AI-based hedge fund that feeds off of data science and machine-learning modeling. Models that are used on Numerai for algorithmic trading are submitted by users (Data Scientists) on the platform, where they are rewarded “Numeraire” tokens for successful modeling. Numeraire is not a currency in itself; the tokens are used for Data Scientists to essentially “bet” on their own machine learning models and how well they’d actually perform on a live market with real money. This form of “staking” allows the scientist to essentially receive a dividend of sorts for their successful modeling. As the success of Numerai grows, so will the overall proportion off funds being paid of to data scientists. This project is made possible my utilizing the Ethereum public chain; we believe it’s a ground-breaking concept, one that hopefully is replicated across other hard sciences. Dive in and keep an ope

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee, and Dr. Petty sit down with Vlad Zamfir in their studio (not really, but if ETH keeps going up, maybe). The topic of the show revolves around Vlad Zamfir, his background, brief history -- and discussions around his research for the Ethereum Foundation for Proof of Stake. Vlad also shares his thoughts on the current scaling debate occurring in Bitcoin, and his opinions on PoW (spoilers: he doesn't like). Show Links: Ethereum Foundation: https://www.ethereum.org/foundation Vlad's Blog: https://medium.com/@Vlad_Zamfir Vlad's Twitter:https://twitter.com/VladZamfir Intro/Outro Music "C'est La Via" by Umai: https://soundcloud.com/thebaygerian/cest-la-vie Show Sponsor(s): CryptoDex: https://www.cryptodex.io/

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Petty interview Ryan Shea, Co-Founder of Blockstack. Blockstack is a decentralized web browsing experience brought to you by the power of blockchain technology. Ryan and his other Co-Founder, Muneeb Ali, both share a vision of a decentralized web; one where individuals control the data that encapsulates their private identities. Learn how they plan to create this system with Blockstack, and how they grew to begin this great venture. Show Links: Blockstack: http://blockstack.org Blockstack Slack: http://chat.blockstack.org/ Ethereum Name Service (ENS): http://ens.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html Intro/Outro Music by Umai: https://soundcloud.com/thebaygerian/002-chief-umeh-x-typicalshit Show Sponsor(s): Cryptodex: http://cryptodex.io

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie, Dee, and Petty speak with George Li and Patrick Long of WeTrust.io in this jam packed double-header. George and Patrick fill us in on their impressive educational backgrounds, where their idea for WeTrust originated from, their upcoming token launch, P2P lending, and much more. If you're curious how P2P technologies like Ethereum can enable next generation low-cost financial services, this is the episode for you. And, if it's not, it should be. Show Links: WeTrust: http://WeTrust.io WeTrust ROSCA Product Demo: https://rosca.wetrust.io/ Colu: https://www.colu.com/ MetaMask: https://metamask.io/ Intro/Outro Music "Forecast" by Umai: https://soundcloud.com/thebaygerian/forecast-prod-by-ayok-kids?in=thebaygerian/sets/trill-oasis Show Sponsor(s): Cryptodex: http://cryptodex.io

On this episode of BlockChannel, McKie and Dee sit down with Vaughn McKenzie of Jaak.io. Jaak is an upcoming content and media rights management platform built on top of various Ethereum technologies. Vaughn believes technology to more adeptly get creators paid for the digital works is a major need for the entertainment industry. Listen as he tells us his first ventures in entrepreneurship, his vision for smart content, and Jaak.io in the future. Show Links: Jaak.io Newsletter: http://jaak.io Swarm: https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/12/15/swarm-alpha-public-pilot-basics-swarm/ Jaak META: https://cointelegraph.com/news/jaak-announces-meta-decentralized-network-backed-by-ethereum-and-swarm Colony: https://colony.io/ Intro/Outro Music "Be" by UMAI: https://soundcloud.com/thebaygerian/chief-umeh-be-prod-tc8to Show Sponsor(s): CryptoDex: https://www.cryptodex.io/