Hard Problems with Bram Cohen
Join Chia CEO and BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen as he and a growing cast of subject matter experts explore the hardest problems still unsolved in our modern world.
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American Hacker Jeffrey "Sneak" Paul joins Bram for a deep-dive into the hard problems behind the growing rash of ransomware attacks, what it means and what we can do about it.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Bitstamp.
On this episode we’re digging into, not a new problem, but an old problem that seems to be getting worse as a growing proportion of our lives are spent connected, to each other, to the inter...
Bitcoin's 'Nakamoto Consensus' changed the world. For the first time ever, strangers on the internet were empowered by a system that allowed them to individually and jointly track who owned which internet-native items... First money, then early stage (and often illegal) investments, followed by digital cats, multi-million dollar art, viral memes and soon enough, well, everything.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io an...
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