Vinay Gupta is a cryptographic applications developer and part of the original Ethereum team. In this episode, he introduces his company Mattereum, which focuses on securitising physical assets on the Ethereum blockchain.Corey, Dee, and Jessie talk to Gupta about Mattereum's goal to provide a scalable and legally-regulated way to conduct transactions involving physical assets, envisioning a system where blockchain functions as a namespace registry, while transactions happen on more efficient and ephemeral layers.

Vinay Gupta | Mattereum: Part 1

Jessie is showing Corey, Dee, and everyone watching how to build your own node. The computer is based on a parts list similar to a Dappnode and meets the minimum hardware performance requirements necessary to run an Ethereum node. Dappnode is sponsoring this episode and offering a discount code on all Dappnode Home Models. Discount code can be found in the show.

HIO Hardware Series | Let’s Build a Dappnode Together!

Corey Petty chats with Danny Ryan - Researcher at the Ethereum Foundation - about the massive task of coordinating async work and the Ethereum 2.0 rollout. They also discuss how to get started in the crypto and blockchain community, as well as, how much you can learn by stepping in to do small tasks as part of the bigger picture.

Danny Ryan | Permissionless Coordination & Contribution

Corey, Dee, and Jessie talk to Ray Redacted about protecting your digital assets, artificial intelligence, and cyber security.Topics include multifactor authentication, convenience vs security, health related privacy, and generating techniques.

Ray Redacted | Personal Responsibility & Avoiding Theft

The Hashing it Out team assembles the ultimate roundtable to discuss the state of P2P. Corey, D, and Jessie chat with DELV co-Founder, Jonny Rhea, along with Astaria CTO, Joe Delong, and Managing Partner of the Number Group, Zak Cole.

Jonny Rhea, Joe Delong & Zak Cole | The Current State of P2P

In this episode, Paul Sztorc discusses his vision for drivechains, a concept he believes could advance Bitcoin by allowing for permissionless innovation and competition among developers, leading to a diverse array of L2 applications that work in tandem with Bitcoin's L1. Drivechains would enable large-scale blockchain solutions, enhanced privacy features akin to Zcash, and innovative applications such as decentralised Namecoin and prediction markets without changing the core of Bitcoin. Sztorc emphasises the importance of competition and suggests that drive chains could align miners' incentives with users' desires through transaction fees. He acknowledges there are cultural and political barriers within the Bitcoin community that affect the adoption of new ideas like drivechains, citing the reluctance to implement soft forks and the influence of a "Bitcoin is perfect" mentality as hindrances to innovation. Despite these challenges, Sztorc continues to promote drivechains, advocating for a solution that would allow Bitcoin to scale while maintaining its decentralised and secure foundation.

Paul Sztorc | Drivechains: Scaling Bitcoin Without Compromise

Corey, D, and Jessie sit down with Robin Linus of ZeroSync — the team spearheading the development of proof systems for Bitcoin for scalability, interoperability, and privacy. Robin discusses everything from the recently published BitVM white paper, challenges and tradeoffs of validation proofs on Bitcoin, ZK coins, and his birthday cake from Gisele Bündchen.

Robin Linus of ZeroSync and BITVM.org | Pioneering Proof Systems, Adoption in Bitcoin 

The Hashing it Out team speaks with Ameen Soleimani, co-author of the Privacy Pools paper - Blockchain Privacy and Regulatory Compliance: Towards a Practical Equilibrium. Ameen, along with Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum Foundation), Jacob Illum (Chainalysis), Matthias Nadler (University of Basel), and Fabian Schär (Center for Innovative Finance, University of Basel; University of Basel - Economics Department) describe a novel smart contract-based privacy-enhancing protocol. Corey, D, and Jesse chat with Ameen about the motivations behind Privacy Pools, historical references including Tornado Cash and Z Cash, as well as the mechanics and tradeoffs associated with the approach. 

Ameen Soleimani of Privacy Pools | Unpacking Privacy Pools – Motivations, Mechanics, and Tradeoffs

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Hashing It Out is a highly-technical bi-weekly show that brings you the pioneering developers driving the Cypherpunk movement. In each show we take a deep dive through privacy, sovereignty, and network state technology with some of web3's most influential innovators.

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Latest episodes

Vinay Gupta | Mattereum: Part 1

Vinay Gupta | Mattereum: Part 1

HIO Hardware Series | Let’s Build a Dappnode Together!

Danny Ryan | Permissionless Coordination & Contribution

Ray Redacted | Personal Responsibility & Avoiding Theft

Jonny Rhea, Joe Delong & Zak Cole | The Current State of P2P

Paul Sztorc | Drivechains: Scaling Bitcoin Without Compromise

Robin Linus of ZeroSync and BITVM.org | Pioneering Proof Systems, Adoption in Bitcoin

Ameen Soleimani of Privacy Pools | Unpacking Privacy Pools – Motivations, Mechanics, and Tradeoffs