An interesting show.  Nothing groundbreaking discussed but the vicious dog's appearance made up for it.


https://soundcloud.com/beyond-bitcoin-hangouts/hangout-7-05-2014-dan-larimer#t=0:40

• 0:40 Status of Bitshares XTS via Dan Larimer.
• 4:18 What Bitshares ME will be.
• 9:27 Why would someone implement their own chain and not use an existing chain?
• 14:08 Why is Bitshares using C++ over other languages ?
• 18:55 Talk about partial centralization to register identities.  Dan announces the Follow My Vote DAC and discusses certification of identities.
• 28:20 Dan talks about issues with scalability with 100% distributed systems.
• 35:40 Talk about code to handle URLs that link to Delegate voting directly.  
• 44:16 Ethereum vs Bitshares github commit rates.  Brent from canonizer.com explains his site while being attacked by his dog in the background.
• 48:22 The dog turns it up a notch.  Brent talks about how canonizer.com approaches the problem of wikis and opposing camps.
• 1:03:30 Discussion about how to join the Bitshares X testing team.

We're always happy to have Dan Larimer on, but we'd also like to interview some altcoin devs out there with interesting projects.  Send me a pm here if you are interested in being interviewed.