Mike Hearn: Lighthouse, Assurance Contracts, bitcoinj, Transaction Fees & Core Dev Team

Today out 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 Andoid wallet, Multibit and Hive. Until recently he was working at Google and is now working full-time on Bitcoin, including an interesting crowd-funding platform called Lighthouse.

Episode links:

• Lighthouse
• Assurance contracts
• Arianna Simpson - Game Theory, Assurance Contracts, and Crowdfunding with Bitcoin
• Venumeris
• Mike Hearn talk at Coinscrum 2014 in London
• BitcoinJ
• BitcoinJ on Github

This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain and Sébastien Couture. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/025