Redecentralize interviews
Redecentralize interviews
Francis Irving
Quietly, some geeks are decentralizing the net. Again. Who are they? Why are they doing it? What new technologies are they using? How will this change the world? Each month, we interview one for 15 minutes.
#23: Pablo Ojanguren - SwellRT
Pablo Ojanguren talks about SwellRT, a real-time framework for making decentralized apps. It is based on the Apache Wave protocol.
Feb 18, 2017
25 min
Video
#22: Juan Benet - IPFS
Juan Benet, founder of Protocol Labs, describes the InterPlanetary File System, a decentralized content distribution protocol. What ways are there to fund protocol development?
Oct 16, 2016
26 min
Video
#21: Sam Patterson - OpenBazaar
Sam Patterson describes decentralized marketplace OpenBazaar. He's cofounder of OB1, a company made on top of OpenBazaar. How to have competitive middlemen, peer-to-peer dispute resolution and build using IPFS.
Oct 10, 2016
19 min
Video
#20: Luis Molina - Fermat
Luis Molina, founder of Fermat, a platform for making 'Internet of People' apps. When should we have geographically localised networks? How do we share reputation between applications?
Sep 20, 2016
25 min
Video
#19: Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn - Tahoe-LAFS
Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn, co-founder of Tahoe-LAFS, a distributed cloud storage system. Zooko discusses the long view of a 7 year old project, including changing business models.
Nov 17, 2014
28 min
Video
#18: Gavin Wood - Ethereum
Gavin Wood, co-founder of Ethereum, a distributed social contract platform. What kind of apps can be built on a block chain? How can this enable financial scrutiny?
Sep 23, 2014
21 min
Video
#17: Kenton Varda - Sandstorm
Kenton Varda, creator of Protocol Buffers, on his new personal cloud platform Sandstorm. How can we get more open source web apps?
Aug 20, 2014
20 min
Video
#16: Sally Carson - Pinoccio
Sally Carson talks about Pinoccio, an Internet of Things platform which uses mesh networking. How can it be made easy to use? Can we build a decentralized global sensor network?
Jul 10, 2014
32 min
Video
#15: David Irvine - MaidSafe
David Irvine, founder of MaidSafe, which lets you pay for decentralizing storage, computation and bandwidth using a cryptocurrency. Why do this, and how will the economics work?
May 20, 2014
23 min
Video
#14: Aral Balkan - Indie Phone
Aral Balkan, founder of Indie Phone, talks both about what motivates him to build a decentralized smartphone, and how starting with a great user experience is key to mass adoption.
Apr 21, 2014
38 min
Video
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