Explaining Cryptocurrency

Intro Hello my friends. You are listening to the very first episode of "Explaining Cryptocurrency". I am Jason Rigden and I am your host. Thank you so much for listening. On this episode we will be talking about the two of most famous people in cryptography. The pair have been working together for decades. The have worked with almost every cryptography researcher in the world. I am of course talking about, Alice and Bob. And the most interesting thing about Alice and Bob is that they are not even real people. But first let me tell you about "LiveOverflow". Interstitial This is not an paid advertisement. I don't do those on this show. But, I do recognize the power of interstitials to punctuate a podcast episode. I'll going to be doing short little recommendations, like this, to enable this punctuation. Are you interested in hacking and reverse engineering? Do you want to know more about how computer programs really work? Well there is a really cool YouTube channel called "LiveOverflow" that you should check ou

Welcome to the Explaining Cryptocurrency podcast.I'm Jason Rigden and I'll be your host. This isn't going to be another hour long cryptocurrency podcast where I interview some boring startup founder. I'm not gonna be talking about investing or trading crypto. And I'm not gonna be pushing any alt-coin pump and dumps. There are plenty of other people making those show. This show is going to be about teaching you how and why cryptocurrency and the blockchain work. I'm going to introduce a different concept in every episode. We are going to be exploring things like the byzantine generals problem, zk snarks, and public key encryption. I'm gonna to try to do this as simply as possible. I really want for this show to be understandable for the general public. The cryptocurrency revolution is going to affect everyone. And I really want to create a resource for non-technical people. Although techy people are welcome too. Hopefully, everyone listening will learn something. So, if you want to learn more about cryptocurre