The Bitcoin Game #67: Eric Martindale and Fabric

Welcome to episode 67 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. Eric Martindale is a hardcore cypherpunk hacker. We get some details about Eric's past and present, including the well-known Bitcoin companies Eric has worked for, and Fabric, a decentralized, peer-to-peer protocol, created with the goal of replacing our current broken internet.

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EPISODE LINKS

Eric on Twitter
https://twitter.com/martindale

Fabric
https://fabric.pub

Fabric on Twitter
https://twitter.com/FabricProtocol 

BitPay (Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitPay

Schildbach Wallet (Github)
https://github.com/bitcoin-wallet/bitcoin-wallet

Airbitz (Wiki)
https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/Airbitz

Blockstream (Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockstream

Adam Back (The Bitcoin Game)
https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-bitcoin-game-59-dr-adam-back

Elements Sidechain
https://elementsproject.org

Liquid Sidechain
https://blockstream.com/liquid

The Halting Problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem

Byzantine Generals Problem (Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault

Homomorphic Encryption (Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption

RPG games
https://www.roleplaygateway.com

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