Support the show, consider donating: 33Xypu9aTiHKbJqqsYZxjxQZ62vAS6ke1T (http://bit.ly/1wl2We3) Today's episode is all about Factom, an open source project which aims to solve three core problems which apply to all Bitcoin 2.0 applications: Speed, Cost, and Bloat. Rather than writing every transaction to the blockchain, Factom allows decentralized applications to write blocks of transactions to Factom blocks, which themselves get hashed and stored to the bitcoin blockchain. At its core, Factom provides Proof of Existence, which allows for any digital artifact to be reduced to a hash that proves that artifact's existence at a specific point in time. We are joined by Factom CEO, Paul Snow, and President, Peter Kirby, to explore the different applications of Factom as well as the technical workings of this very interesting and promissing project. Links mentioned in this episode: - Factom: http://www.factom.org/ - Factom White Paper: https://github.com/FactomProject/FactomDocs Show notes: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/podcast/052 YouTube: http://youtu.be/ev2mJnX5xqQ Epicenter Bitcoin is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain & Sébastien Couture. - Visit our website: http://epicenterbitcoin.com - Subscribe to our newsletter: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/newsletter - Twitter: http://twitter.com/epicenterbtc