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EB25 - Mike Hearn: Lighthouse, Assurance Contracts, bitcoinj, Transaction Fees & Core Dev Team
Support the show, consider donating: 3HUdhAYWfkVRxvxeXKjZPTFGMteDJV3P4F (http://bit.ly/1LB1rtI) Today our guest is Mike Hearn who many of you are familiar with. He's one of the first Bitcoin users and the developer of BitcoinJ, a Java library used by a number of popular Bitcoin wallets such as the Android wallet, Multibit and Hive. Until recently he was working at Google and is now working full-time on Bitcoin, including an interesting crowdfunding platform called Lighthouse. Links: - Lighthouse: http://bit.ly/1nmV81R - Assurance contracts: http://bit.ly/1yovAIN - Arianna Simpson - Game Theory, Assurance Contracts, and Crowdfunding with Bitcoin: http://bit.ly/1lF1ziq - Vinumeris: http://bit.ly/1icVLh7 - Mike Hearn talk at Coinscrum 2014 in London: http://bit.ly/1icVQRO - BitcoinJ: http://bit.ly/TaRzT0 - BitcoinJ on Github: http://bit.ly/1lCHcnp Show notes: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/eb-025 Running time: 1:17:34 Epicenter Bitcoin is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain & Sébastien Couture and is available on iTunes, SoundCloud, Mixcloud, Stitcher and other podcast aggregators. Website: http://epicenterbitcoin.com Subscribe: http://feed.epicenterbitcoin.com Subscribe to our Friday newsletter: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/newsletter Twitter: http://twitter.com/epicenterbtc Tip the show: http://epicenterbitcoin.com/tips