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020: Bitcoin is at $10,000 – Here’s a Brief History with Professor Emin Gün Sirer
Manage episode 192869019 series 1445891
Emin Gün Sirer is a Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and Co-director of IC3 (Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts)
He has made numerous contributions to both Bitcoin & Ethereum. His research spans, networking, distributed systems, and operating systems.
Professor Sirer created Karma – the first cryptocurrency to use a distributed mint-based proof-of-work – 6 years before Bitcoin existed.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Emin’s invention – Karma – the first decentralized cryptocurrency pre-dating Bitcoin
- The pros and cons of Segwit2x (which has now been abandoned)
- Little-known aspects of Bitcoin’s architecture and history such as the Bitcoin Relay, Falcon, and Fiber networks, selfish mining, the lightning network, sidechains, and much more
- We also discuss some of the relatively unknown academics who contributed the theoretical foundations to what we now know as Bitcoin
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020: Bitcoin is at $10,000 – Here’s a Brief History with Professor Emin Gün Sirer
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Manage episode 192869019 series 1445891
Emin Gün Sirer is a Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and Co-director of IC3 (Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts)
He has made numerous contributions to both Bitcoin & Ethereum. His research spans, networking, distributed systems, and operating systems.
Professor Sirer created Karma – the first cryptocurrency to use a distributed mint-based proof-of-work – 6 years before Bitcoin existed.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Emin’s invention – Karma – the first decentralized cryptocurrency pre-dating Bitcoin
- The pros and cons of Segwit2x (which has now been abandoned)
- Little-known aspects of Bitcoin’s architecture and history such as the Bitcoin Relay, Falcon, and Fiber networks, selfish mining, the lightning network, sidechains, and much more
- We also discuss some of the relatively unknown academics who contributed the theoretical foundations to what we now know as Bitcoin
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