I'm launching a podcast: Two And A Half Coins posted August 2022

It's been forever since I've been thinking of doing a podcast. Today I decided screw it, I'll do it live.

From the description:

This series focuses on teaching you about cryptocurrencies from the very start! We'll start with databases, banks, distributed systems, and we will then go further with Bitcoin, Ethereum, Mina, and other cryptocurrencies that are making the world advance today.

Listen to it here or on your favorite platform:

• spotify
• apple podcasts
• amazon music
• google podcasts

Or just listen to it here:

Cryptocurrencies from scratch: databases, the banking world, and distributed systems

This is the first episode of a series on cryptocurrencies. In this series I will tell you about cryptocurrencies from scratch. This first episode is quite non-technical and should be easy to understand for most folks. I will explain what databases are, how banks around the world move money around, and what cryptocurrencies fundamentally offer.

Bitcoin from scratch: The Bitcoin client, public keys and signatures, and the miners

In the previous episode we briefly talked about what cryptocurrencies fundamentally are, and what problems they attempt to solve. In this episode we'll dig int our very first cryptocurrency: Bitcoin. This will be a high-level overview that will cover what the software looks like, what cryptographic signatures are, and who are these miners who process transactions.

More on Bitcoin: How does mining work? What are hash functions? And what is Proof of Work?

In this third episode we'll dig more into the tech of Bitcoin. But for that, we'll need to talk briefly about cryptographic hash functions and how they work. Once done, we'll talk about mining, proof of work, chains of blocks, and mining pools!