May 2019

58 m

SLP73 Tamas Blummer - Rust-Bitcoin, Thre...

About this episode

Tamas Blummer, Bitcoin developer and entrepreneur with a long and respected background in Bitcoin joins me in this must-listen, wide ranging episode to talk about:

Rust-Bitcoin projects
Threats to bitcoin:
Soft fork threats and protocol ossification
Incentivised re-orgs of Bitcoin’s blockchain
Central Bank Digital Currencies and Negative Interest rates
Bitcoin data science
Liveliness measure
Work with Adamant Capital

Tamas Blummer links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/TamasBlummer
Github: https://github.com/tamasblummer
Medium blogs by Tamas: https://medium.com/@tamas.blummer/

Stephan Livera links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/@stephanlivera
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