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If the Internet was reimagined with the software and hardware infrastructure we have today, what would it look like? That is the question that DFINITY is working on answering. DFINITY’s goal is to build a decentralized, secure Internet computer. DFINITY takes concepts from the cryptocurrency world, but it is focused on computation, not financial products. The post DFINITY: The Internet Computer with Dominic Williams appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Andreas M. Antonopoulos is the author of several books about cryptocurrency engineering, including Mastering Bitcoin and Mastering Ethereum. In these books, Andreas lays out the systems of economics and computer science that underpin the two most mature decentralized monetary systems. When Andreas originally discovered the Bitcoin whitepaper, he had witnessed the repeated mismanagement of government-backed fiat The post Bitcoin Ecosystem with Andreas M. Antonopoulos appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Upcoming events: A Conversation with Haseeb Qureshi at Cloudflare on April 3, 2019 FindCollabs Hackathon at App Academy on April 6, 2019 A currency can fulfill numerous financial use cases. One use case is store of value: currency holders can reliably expect their currency to maintain some value, though that value may fluctuate over time. The post Stablecoins with Rune Christensen appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Malware is malicious software that makes money for the creator of that software. Malware can appear onto a user’s computer if that user visits a malicious website or installs malicious software by accident. There are many types of malware. Spyware sits on your machine and logs your data in order to sell it. Ransomware can The post Cryptojacking: Bitcoin Malware with Estaban Vargas appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Cryptocurrencies enable a large number of applications. Trustless reputation systems, decentralized identity tools, micropayments, non-fungible Internet items, borderless currencies, just to name a few. But cryptocurrencies have not yet impacted daily life, for most of us. Why is that? One reason is that it is still very hard for developers to build within the cryptocurrency The post Ethereum Usability with Sean Li appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Ethereum allows developers to run decentralized applications. But the tooling for building and managing those decentralized applications is immature. Experienced software engineers have difficulty getting started with writing Ethereum applications because the stack of tools is so unfamiliar and different than traditional software tools. Whether or not Ethereum itself succeeds, developers in the future will The post Ethsimple: Ethereum Tools with Brian Soule appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

The Bitcoin main chain is a large distributed ledger of transactions. Bitcoin is useful for maintaining a trusted record of payments, but is not practical for small day-to-day payments. Bitcoin payment channels allow users to issue small payments to each other without paying the high transaction cost and latency of going through the main chain. The post Bitcoin Payment Channels with Alex Bosworth appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Parity is a company that builds blockchain infrastructure. Parity has built several open source projects and works with enterprises to put blockchain technology in production. Gavin Wood is the founder of Parity, and he joins the show to talk about the state of blockchain technology and what his company is currently focused on. Four years The post Parity: Blockchain Infrastructure with Gavin Wood appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Cryptocurrencies are not very usable today. The main use cases for cryptocurrencies today are store of value (somewhat like gold) and speculation. One reason that the use cases are so narrow is the problem of scalability. Cryptocurrencies have several scalability bottlenecks. Think about the Internet in 1994. The consumer sitting at home with a dial-up The post Blockchain Distribution Network with Aleksandar Kuzmanovic appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Cryptocurrency security is a concern to anyone who has a significant amount of money in the form of Bitcoin, Ethereum, or other crypto assets. Most Bitcoin is held in either a Bitcoin wallet or a Bitcoin bank. Your Bitcoin holdings are recorded on a public ledger. You access these holdings by authenticating with your private The post Casa: Crypto Wallet Security with Jameson Lopp appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

A token is a unit of virtual currency. Most tokens are built on a blockchain-based cryptocurrency platform, such as Ethereum. Building on top of a platform like Ethereum allows these tokens to form their own financial ecosystem while leveraging the scale of an existing currency. Tokens became highly popular in early 2018, with the boom The post Token Types with Felipe Pereira appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Big blocks or small blocks: this is the fundamental question of Bitcoin scalability. The argument for big blocks is also known as “on-chain scalability.” Under this strategy, each block in the append-only chain of Bitcoin transaction blocks would grow in size to be able to support lower transaction fees and higher on-chain throughput. A set The post Bitcoin Lightning Network with Jameson Lopp appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Cryptocurrency infrastructure is a new form of software. Thousands of developers are submitting transactions to Bitcoin and Ethereum, and this transaction volume tests the scalability of current blockchain implementations. The bottlenecks in scalability lead to slow transaction times and high fees. Over the last twenty years, engineers have learned how to scale databases. We’ve learned The post Scaling Ethereum with Raul Jordan and Preston Van Loon appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Podcasting about cryptocurrencies is a strange occupation. You get emails all the time from companies doing a token sale that you would never want to be affiliated with. You get angry tweets from anonymous Twitter accounts that are on one side of the Bitcoin scaling debate. You get to interview extreme personalities, and the technical The post Epicenter Cryptocurrencies with Brian Fabian Crain appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash are two cryptocurrencies with similar properties. But the supporters of each of these Bitcoin versions have strongly divergent opinions on the direction of the Bitcoin project. At the center of this debate is the subject of block size. Bitcoin’s block size determines how many transactions fit into each block that is The post Bitcoin Debates with Roger Ver appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Let’s Talk Bitcoin is one of the most popular podcasts about cryptocurrencies. Adam B. Levine started it after three other podcasts he started did not get the traction he had hoped for. Adam parlayed the success of Let’s Talk Bitcoin into a network of podcasts–the Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network–which also includes one of my favorite The post Talking Bitcoin with Adam B. Levine appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

The Interplanetary File System (IPFS) is a decentralized global, peer-to-peer file system. IPFS combines ideas from BitTorrent, Git, and Bitcoin, creating a new way to store and access objects across the Internet. When you access an object on almost any website, you are accessing the object via a location address—a URL. The URL tells you The post IPFS Design with David Dias appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

The Ethereum community started as a small group of dedicated engineers. It has ballooned to thousands of engineers, entrepreneurs, and investors, all of whom have a stake in the direction of Ethereum. Ethereum is an open source project, and the direction of a popular open source project can get complex. Ethereum is figuring out how The post Ethereum Governance with Hudson Jameson appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

The pubsub pattern allows a developer to create channels, which messages can be written to and read from. Pubsub messaging is useful for multicast messaging–when you want to publish messages from a producer, and have multiple consumers who are subscribed to the publisher receive those messages. Almost any application that reaches a high level of The post PubSub Infrastructure with Stephen Blum appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Most technology companies rely on open source software projects. But open source software projects are often maintained by a group of people that is not affiliated with any particular company. When an open source project develops too much technical debt, it can become a tragedy of the commons. Who is responsible for maintaining these open The post Gitcoin: Open Source Bounties with Kevin Owocki appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.