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RChain Cooperative
RChain is a complete, concurrent blockchain platform designed for maximum efficiency at minimal computational and environmental costs by utilizing proof of stake. Beyond our platform, our investment partners fund organizations that are working within our core mission statement to create a better world by enabling social coordination in robust, secure, and scalable ways. Each week you'll hear from the founders of RChain's portfolio companies, co-op members, staff, and other figures in the RChain ecosystem, about the most pressing issues in blockchain today.
Today's guest was former W3C chair / current CEO of RChain Publishing -Steven Ross Talbot.
1 billion children at risk of climate shocks, a town moved to higher ground, media's role in climate denial, exciting CBC Casper update
Douglas Rushkoff joined as surprise guest. We discussed flooding in Japan, the cultural origins that led to blockchain, NFT's, Greg shared a poem, and Steve Ross Talbot shared a sketch for a health app for displaced people.
IPCC#6, the best tweets from climate twitter, fires in California and Greece, the importance of climate for the coop.
mark solms sentience, preserving culture sites, historic flooding in Europe and China, blockchain solutions for climate refugees.
Today we spoke about the G7 summit, new oil and gas production around the world, and a new letter from financial asset managers owning $41 trillion asking for governments to act more boldly on climate and to disclose long term financial risk due to climate. Darryl also discussed the west coast drought and Greg presented his ideas for a blockchain-based music collaboration game.
Steve Keen - climate studies largely ignored for 5 decades, the new “Earth System Observatory” project at NASA, UFO’s, global temperature rise and tough week for big oil
Iceberg 75 times the size of Manhattan breaks off Antarctica, the Maldives risk of disappearing, global temperature rise decimates food production, Amazon Web Services and an increasingly centralized internet
Today we spoke with visual artist and astronaut in training Richelle Gribble ( https://www.richellegribble.com/ ), and we also discussed recent environmental debates involving NFT’s, blockchain and Elon Musk. Ian also spoke about the Apple / Epic lawsuit and how it could affect utility tokens.
home mortgages and climate change, over half of US sees climate change as a critical threat, green plans for Paris, RChain’s work on identity, Facebook and Apple’s war will be waged in VR and AR
earth day, life fleeing the equator, only 3% of Earth’s nature remains fully intact, coal miners union backs shift from coal, music climate activism, women blockchain leaders, Google / Youtube meets "social tokens" and the "creator economy"
australian flooding, preserving arable land, transparency is facebook's biggest threat, jack dorsey: bluesky, square and tidal
taxpayer costs of climate change, the advantages of decentralized energy solutions, 3 million abandoned oil wells, and the general vulnerability of our grid, RChain's type checking
freshwater fish extinction, 385 million yr old tree roots, Bill Gates bitcoin energy concerns, can bitcoin migrate away from POW?, RChain's CBC Casper
Climate crisis adaptation, earth's slowing ocean currents, collective intelligence, surveillance capitalism vs democracy
NASA and Climate, Facebook's climate labelling, US officially rejoins Paris Climate Accord today, why Elon Musk doesn't seem to understand blockchain's potential.
Climate change and pandemics, Shell announces that it has hit peak oil, RChain scales as you add hardware, RChain and multi-chains.
Keystone XL, Paris Climate Accords, Elon Musk’s $100M prize, BlackRock and Bitcoin. RChain and the scalability trilemma. The coop has now joined the Climate Chain Coalition!
Today RChain member John Grant https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnlgrant/ joined us, and we discussed financial risk in the agriculture market due to climate change as well as a new irrigation data app called “OpenET.” We also discussed governance and modern social media. "Why Hacktivism Will Lead to Digital Sovereignty"
Today we discussed a piece of public art called The Climate Clock, the United States’ climate debt, The Green New Deal, the principal of Gaia and Cyborgs.
The ways in which the climate crisis impacts human health, New Zealand’s declaration of a climate emergency, an "Eco-passport" and Steve Wozniak's Efforce and the birth of the decarbonization economic boom.
The tsunami risk in Alaska, the need for a National Institute of Health on Climate, John Kerry as Climate Czar, a new global map of bees, Jaron Lanier, the Social Dilemma and hacking Surveillance Capitalism.
Today we discussed the largest storm in the history of Nicaragua, the National Flood Insurance Program’s debt, RChain's Casper as permissioned or permissionless, Facebook's systemic problem, and data and communication of Covid-19.
In this RCast we talked about the record breaking hurricane season, and the decline of swamp ash for luthiers. We then discussed aspects of Directed Acyclic Graphs and how they apply to RChain's technology as well as RChain's CBC Casper tech.
Today we discussed the new Colorado fires, the “30 by 30” conservation effort in the US, and new polling that shows Pennsylvanians opposed to fracking. We also discussed voting in the AGM and recent technological achievements of RChain.
Public transit in the age of COVID and the climate crisis, as well as Congress’ new investment in the US National Park System. After this, […]
Today we discussed recent climate reports that suggest Earth has a 24% chance of reaching an average of 1.5 Degree C temperature rise, as well […]
Greg and Steve Ross Talbot began with a conversation about smart contracts, which was followed by a group discussion on the Arctic reaching 100 degrees Fahrenheit, including an exploration of media, coordination and the value of whales.
RCast 91 - Methane leak tracking, future roles of co-ops [Climate & Coordination] Jun 19 2020
Darryl started the call by sharing a presentation about Jeremy Rifkin's Empathic Civilization concept, and the conversation shifted into the topic of smart cities and the future of blockchain-powered municipalities.
Darryl started the call by sharing a presentation about Jeremy Rifkin’s Empathic Civilization concept, and the conversation shifted into the topic of smart cities and […]
Today we spoke about human beings living outside of what David Wallace-Wells calls the "climate niche," adapting post COVID-19, David Attenborough's upcoming "witness statement" on climate, and advancements in both Power Ledger and Tesla's technology.
Today we were joined by Jubilee Briscoe who is the founder of Together Tec which aims to further the cause of technology cooperatives by mobilizing 10,000 people at a time.
May 15 2020 Mukara Meredith led a discussion about effective decentralization, the enlightenment of feminine consciousness, and a more “open source” spiritual approach to working together.
Our guest today was Alex McDougall, Chief Investment Officer of Bicameral Ventures, and author of the article: "Think a Privacy Law Will Stop Surveillance Capitalism? You Don’t Know Google"
We discussed the relationship between the coronavirus and the climate as well as the ethics of data collection. Greg also gave a brief technical update.
Nuno Lopes from the RChain community joined us to talk about his project https://lopezi.com/ We also discussed Toyota’s blockchain initiative as well as the resilience of the climate since the start of the Coronavirus outbreak.
Today we discussed Rhode Island’s new law to promote blockchain business and Honolulu suing fossil fuel companies for climate change.
JP Morgan’s Climate RepoToday, Steve Ross-Talbot joined us to discuss JP Morgan’s new report about the climate crisis and blockchain’s ability to decentralize and demonopolize […]
A friend of the coop joins the team to discuss his vision for the future of the planet that he calls the “Blueprint for a […]
This week the team discusses BitFury’s partnership with the United Nations to plant trees in order to offset its carbon footprint and help reach the […]
Greg Meredith discusses the upcoming Main Net launch with Isaac DeFrain and Christian Williams.
This week the team discusses the omission of the term “climate change” from the recent FEMA report by the U.S. Government, a new blockchain app […]
In this year-end podcast, Derek Beres discusses the necessity of a unified collective for success in blockchain—and life.
This week the team discusses the potential connection between blockchain technology and circular economies and how to move past the break down of the COP25 […]
Christian Williams discusses the results of his latest work with Greg Meredith and Isaac DeFrain.
The team discusses misinformation. Greg weighs in on unique aspects of mass coordination technology.
Greg Meredith discusses his game ideas for the RChain platform with Isaac DeFrain and Christian Williams.
This week the team dives into a Fox Business Report citing the environmental impacts of Bitcoin.
Greg Meredith explains nominality and RChain's unique features during Casper Standup 111.
The team discusses their hopes for blockchain technology's role in the climate crisis, the historic flooding at the government counsel building in Venice, and electric planes and the debate over frequent flyer miles.
Greg Meredith discusses cost accounting, Testnet-3, and RChain's unique features with Isaac DeFrain.
The team discusses a new climate report that cites 11,000 scientists calling for a climate emergency, how blockchain can help support the coordination necessary to rise to this crisis, and the importance of free and open internet for RChain's success.
Greg Meredith talks to Isaac DeFrain and Christian Williams about the last year of RChain research.
Today the team discusses the benefits of the decarbonization economy, the Libra/Facebook hearings in Congress, blockchain’s ability to combat corruption in government and finance, and the AGM meeting.
Beginning with a set of interactive rewrite rules, Greg Meredith discusses his work with Mike Stay to derive a proof theory that exhibits a Curry-Howard style correspondence.
Greg Meredith discusses blockchain technology taking climate matters into its own hands, explains autonomy and agency, as they relate to coordination.
Steve Henley talks about several different projects he's involved with in Florida that are using blockchain technology to help solve climate change and local traffic congestion.
Greg Meredith is joined by others to discuss the driving reason behind the creation of RChain.
Greg Meredith discusses the state of blockchain with Isaac DeFrain and Christian Williams.
Greg Meredith continues the discussion on liveness with Isaac DeFrain and Christian Williams.
Greg Meredith talks derivatives and reflection with Isaac DeFrain and Christian Williams. Please visit our blog to view slides mentioned in this podcast.
David Snyder, who co-wrote "Knots as processes: a new kind of invariant," with Greg Meredith, Isaac DeFrain and Christian Williams.
Greg Meredith discusses calculating the square root with Isaac DeFrain and Christian Williams.
Greg Meredith is joined by Isaac DeFrain and Christian Williams to talk about the future of governance.
This RCast begins with a discussion of TLA (Temporal Logic of Actions), but most of the conversation focuses on LADL.
Greg Meredith discusses his notion of TOGL (Theory of Graph Languages) with Isaac DeFrain and Christian Williams.
Greg Meredith and Isaac DeFrain discuss reaction rates as it pertains to RChain, Rholang, and Rho-calculus.
Chris Boscolo, Kelly Foster, and Greg Meredith discuss the underlying architecture of RChain and what's in store as main net approaches.
Greg Meredith and Kayvan Kazeminejad discuss dApp development on RChain through the lens of RCAT.
Greg Meredith and Mike Stay discuss updates to their latest paper, "Name-free combinators for concurrency."
A talk between Greg Meredith and Christian Williams on LADL (Logic as A Distributive Law).
Greg Meredith discusses the implications of proof of stake economics with Isaac DeFrain and Steve Ross-Talbot.
Greg Meredith is joined by Isaac DeFrain and Christian Williams for this second edition of Brain Candy.
Resonate is a blockchain music streaming service on a mission to remake streaming. The Cooperative recently announced it's going open source.
Gautham Peddibhotla is the COO of Re-Sure, which is building partnerships with stakeholders to create and deliver innovative insurance solutions for activities in a shared, connected and autonomous world.
Kamran Khan is the founder and CEO of Translo, which is solving the problem of lack of collaboration in biomedical research.
Adán Sánchez de Pedro is the Tech Lead of Witnet, whose goal is to create a decentralized protocol connecting smart contracts to any data source available online.
In this episode, we discuss the technology behind RSong, fairer payment systems for artists, and the future empowerment of musicians being offered by blockchain.
John Wantz is the CEO and founder of EVERY*, a blockchain-based retail rewards program that empowers consumers by allowing them to control all of their data.
Inkyrypt is building an anonymous, decentralized content-hosting solution that provides censorship resistance.
Rahul Sonnad is the co-founder and CEO of Tesloop, a company dedicated to providing low-cost access to a shared fleet of Teslas
Netvote and Govurn recently joined forces to run RChain's board elections and are tackling the problem of voting security and hacking on local and national levels.
Chris Young is a professor of business ethics at Rutgers Business School and co-founder of Proof, which is building a platform which leverages the wisdom of the crowds to establish truth in media.
Evan Caron is the co-founder and managing director of Swytch, a blockchain-based platform that tracks and verifies the impact of sustainability efforts and actions on the worldwide level of C02 emissions.
Chris Boscolo is the founder of LifeID, an open-source, tokenized protocol for self-sovereign identity.