Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Podcasts

Inside IOST is the plainest case. Evan Schindler, Josh Bryant and Peter K. help produce blocks on IOST, and near the end of IOST Price Climbing! + Are IOST Account Names the Next Domain Names? comes an appeal to vote for their node. The same 20-minute episode handles a real puzzle well. A seller of an account name still holds its private key, so why would a buyer trust the deal? The answer, checked by phone with Pete K, is that ownership moves when the permissions on the public key change.

The Cardano Effect, which signed off with Latest Cardano News, Year End Recap, Final Episode | TCE 116, wore its loyalty openly. In that episode one host, after reading Ethereum's staking requirements, concludes "Cardano won. I mean, Cardano is just easier," and the pair thank IOG as their first sponsor. Yet ADA Strong in the Market, Cardano Economics, Wage Privacy, Latest News | TCE 115 holds a story every newcomer should hear. A wallet reported a transaction as failed, the host sent it again, and both payments went through. The host still calls it "my favorite light wallet" while demanding a fix. The show's "Gauntlet" episode puts Project Catalyst funding applicants through timed questions from the hosts and the live chat, which lets you watch a funding process happen in public.

NFT CIRCUS PODCAST, hosted by NiftyBC with TC and Crackers, is the WAX community at its loosest, full of giveaways and swearing. In the 80-minute NiftyBC's NFT CIrcus w/ Neon Space, Wax DAO, Mine The Future, Realm NFT, one guest recalls encouraging their community into a game partnership. That developer later left for Solana, where "people are saying he's rug pulling on that chain as well." The parting advice, near the end, is simple: "be wary of bridge tokens."

When you want a mechanism explained, Blockchain Insider Podcast by 11:FS alternates news episodes with "Insights" episodes. In 161. Insights: Scaling blockchains and Layer 2 - a deep dive, a guest is asked to "drop them into buckets." The answer separates two kinds of rollup, a way of bundling many transactions off the main chain. Optimistic rollups assume transactions are valid while allowing a chance of being wrong. Zero-knowledge rollups prove them. One guest's sum puts Bitcoin's mining hardware at $17.6 billion "all to do four transactions per second." The panel takes project names a newcomer might have heard of and leaves them sorted.

The Third Web, hosted by Arthur Falls, moves more slowly through the Internet Computer. Understanding ICP Staking and Neurons in Simple English w/ John & Diego earns its title with arithmetic. Lock 10 ICP for eight years and you vote as if you had 20 staked for six months, while every transfer burns one ten-thousandth of an ICP. One guest worked at DFINITY, and near the end comes a pitch for a voting neuron. Take it as instruction from interested parties.

Hashing It Out, hosted by Dr. Corey Petty, uses the term mempool. In Hashing It Out #89-Optimism Karl Floersch, Floersch predicts layer twos will settle into "some kind of power law distribution." One participant also expects hacks and confusion from early experiments: "it's going to be a nightmare, but it's going to be a fun one." In Hashing It Out #85- Gauntlet.Network Tarun Chitra, Chitra explains why simulating real consensus code is slow when the aim is the highest possible ratio of simulation time to wall-clock time.

A blockchain pitch is best tested in a field with problems of its own. Health Unchained Podcast takes it to medicine. In Ep. 131: Rebuilding Trust in Healthcare - Gianluca De Novi, PhD (CEO Circular Protocol), De Novi argues that proof-of-work concentrates hardware and proof-of-stake sets steep entry costs: "Can you imagine a student in a dorm staking $200,000?" He then makes the case for his company's proof-of-reputation consensus, while allowing that "Decentralization alone doesn't address all problems." It is a founder's argument, and its scepticism is aimed at rival designs. The show also turns to AI, and the Artificial Intelligence page goes further.

Lay of the Land, hosted by Kiersten Jowett, covers proof of location and supply chains, and states that it takes no money from guests or advertisers. In ConsenSys Company Treum; Trace, Trade, Transparency, the guest answers the "why blockchain" question with unusual candour, conceding that a vertically integrated hemp farm "could do this with an Excel spreadsheet." Is community mapping for crypto the road to fresher, fairer maps? hears from a former Yahoo Maps product lead who says contributors earn a cryptocurrency called honey for dash-cam footage. He admits the system is "by no means all done yet." The Enterprise Technology page covers the business side.

On UAE Tech Podcast, Senet: Skill2Earn Gaming finds the host playing devil's advocate about whether over-monetizing games drains the fun. The Gaming page picks up from there.

Digitally Rare, with Matt Condon and Jonathan Mann, asks what it means to own things on a blockchain, through artists and makers. In Sketch-y Art-i-facts w/ Mackenzie Davenport, picking a chain turns comic, with Base and similar chains dismissed as "literally just vibe differential." It also turns practical: a participant says a sketch costs them 5 to 15 cents to make. The same 52-minute episode carries a frank bear-market confession from a participant whose only income is selling NFTs. The Tech Culture page continues the thread.

Some feeds matter most as documents. Varanida was a company's own podcast, and [Update] VARANIDA CEO talks about Acquisition & ICO (September 2018) is partly a pitch. But the CEO describes several thousand people committing during the token-sale whitelist, and investors declining to convert those commitments as the market turned. He concedes that launching the structure without considering how the community would receive it was probably a mistake.