Description

David Mazières, Chief Scientist at Stellar, talks to us about his work at the Stellar foundation building software to expand financial access. We also talk about how he uses temporary email addresses to ward off spammers, how he started coding in the fourth grade, and why he doesn’t think you need a computer science degree to make an impact in tech.

Show Notes

• Byzantine agreement
• Proof of work algorithm
• Bitcoin
• Bitcoin mining
• Bitcoin Mining and its Energy Footprint
• cryptographic hash function
• digital signatures
• Stellar Consensus Protocol
• Mail Avenger
• Greylisting
• Apple II computer
• Sinclair ZX81 computer
• Codeland Conf
• Codeland 2019

Picks

• Adventures in Galactic Consensus
• Bitcoin: How does Bitcoin work?
• Notmuch Mail
• Emacs lisp
• Stellar