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General Category => General => Topic started by: psztorc on September 21, 2015, 05:54:56 PM

Title: Epicenter Bitcoin
Post by: psztorc on September 21, 2015, 05:54:56 PM
Myself on Epicenter Bitcoin  8)
https://epicenterbitcoin.com/podcast/097/
Title: Re: Epicenter Bitcoin
Post by: sflicht on September 22, 2015, 12:45:12 PM
Nice interview. You were pretty vague about the timeline. I have two questions, being ignorant about sidechains. (1) How likely is gmaxwell / Blockstream / whoever to get a working sidechain implementation within 1 year? (2) Assuming that happens, how likely is truthcoin-cpp to be at a "beta"-level release stage within 2 years?
Title: Re: Epicenter Bitcoin
Post by: zack on September 22, 2015, 01:13:25 PM
I enjoyed the nervous system comparison around 34:00.

I hope that the betting leading up to the 2016 American presidential election will have distributed prediction markets.
Title: Re: Epicenter Bitcoin
Post by: psztorc on September 23, 2015, 01:40:11 AM
Quote from: sflicht on September 22, 2015, 12:45:12 PM
Nice interview. You were pretty vague about the timeline. I have two questions, being ignorant about sidechains. (1) How likely is gmaxwell / Blockstream / whoever to get a working sidechain implementation within 1 year? (2) Assuming that happens, how likely is truthcoin-cpp to be at a "beta"-level release stage within 2 years?

(1) Hard to say. They'll want to carefully think through a number of security issues before Doing Actual Things (like making an OP_SPVPROOF or whatever), so it really depends on how much time they put into it. Unfortunately they've been distracted by blocksize and many of them are interested in other things (confidential transactions, etc).

(2) 99%.  I would say 90% it will be at beta level by October 4th.

Quote from: zack on September 22, 2015, 01:13:25 PM
I hope that the betting leading up to the 2016 American presidential election will have distributed prediction markets.

I as well.