DigiByte and Friends Josiah Spackman

Geoff Simmons and I caught up to talk about why people put their money in to property / gold / cryptocurrency, addressing poverty, getting around changing cities, unconditional basic incomes and the impacts of an automation society.



You can learn more about Geoff Simmons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Simmons



And follow him on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/geoffsimmonz



Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/GeoffSimmonsNZ/



Geoff is the leader of The Opportunities Party in New Zealand, which you can also follow on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/top_nz



Or Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/topnz/



And check the website:

https://www.top.org.nz/



Want to find out more about Josiah? Follow him on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/dgb_chilling

This episode of DigiByte and Friends looks at utilizing cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Litecoin and DigiByte as a method of payment, the ups and downs of talking with companies, security of different payment methods (Credit card / Paypal etc), helping people to take crypto as payments, advice to use to get people interested, the benefits of crypto vs traditional credit cards, helpful analogies for customers and so much more!



You can reach Jon at https://www.LitecoinTechSupport.com



Or on Twitter, https://twitter.com/jonnylitecoin

In the 4th episode of DigiByte and Friends, we hear from Laura Taylor. She's lead a Blockchain course at a college, as well as running many different meet-ups.



We talk about DigiByte in the education system, how you can "plant a seed" to get people interested in blockchain, alcohol and cryptocurrency, starting a meet-up in your area and so much more!



You can reach Laura on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LTLovesDigi

In this episode of DigiByte and Friends, we discuss ProgPOW with Kristy-Leigh Minehan, one of the authors of ProgPOW. We also look at general blockchain mining, ASIC vs GPU vs CPU, user-engagement /participation in mining, decentralization of a blockchain, optimizing for hardware and more



You can reach Kristy-Leigh on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ohgodagirl/



Or Twitter:

https://twitter.com/OhGodAGirl



You can also read more about ProgPOW:

https://medium.com/@ifdefelse/understanding-progpow-performance-and-tuning-d72713898db3



And a ProgPOW FAQ:

https://medium.com/@ifdefelse/progpow-faq-6d2dce8b5c8b

In this 3rd episode of DigiByte and Friends, we have a great dive in to scaling Bitcoin, scaling DigiByte, roles played on the network, what a node is, SPV ("lite") wallets, incentivizing people to give you cryptocurrency, and did something *actually* happen if it wasn't on-chain?



You can find out more about Kurt on Crypto Traders Pro:

https://cryptotraderspro.com



He's also available on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/kurtwuckertjr



And Twetch:

https://twetch.app/u/292

In Episode #2 of DigiByte and Friends, I have Forrest (Hashoshi4) on to talk about dApps.  We talk about building on Ethereum, DigiAssets for DigiByte, what can / shouldn't be a dApp, challenges, costs, and building for the future.  You should definitely check his YouTube channel out, he does a ton of great educational and informative content that's well worth giving him a subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/Hashoshi4?sub_confirmation=1