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