The Bitcoin Game #38: Rodolfo Novak of Coinkite & Opendime

The Bitcoin Game

Hello, welcome to episode 38 of The Bitcoin Game. I'm Rob Mitchell.

It's always great interviewing a knowledgeable person who's not afraid to give an opinion, and Rodolfo Novak is that sort of guest. In this interview, we discuss Coinkite's early days, which started with a Blockchain explorer, custom Bitcoin payment terminals, a widely-used wallet hosting service, and a backend that utilizes hardware security modules of Coinkite's own design. And now, with Opendime, they've moved on to a fascinating new type of Bitcoin hardware that's best use cases are still to be determined.

Rodolfo was also happy to give his opinions on the $70 million Bitfinex theft, the Ethereum fork, the scaling debate, and more. Note that Coinkite's co-founder and CTO is Peter D. Gray (and Peter Todd serves as an advisor to Coinkite).

SHOW LINKS

Opendime.com Coinkite.com Beautyon on Opendime Opendime Review (posted after our interview) @Opendime on Twitter

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CREDITS

All music in this episode of The Bitcoin Game was created by Rob Mitchell.

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