About this episode

Emin Gün Sirer returns to discuss his research and the EOS mainnet freeze shortly after launch.

This is a Flashback Episode, we are going back to June 2018 in which Emin Gün Sirer makes his third of seven appearances on The Bitcoin Podcast Network. Back for the third time, Emin stops by to drop some knowledge bombs on us! He is an associate professor of computer science at Cornell University, and is the Co-Director of the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts (IC3) . His research interests span distributed systems, cryptocurrencies, and software infrastructure for large scale services. In addition, the boys chat about EOS mainnet experiencing a ‘Freeze’ two days after launch!

People in this episode

Hosts: Corey Petty, Demetrick Ferguson, Jessie Santiago

Guest: Emin Gün Sirer

Topics covered

• cryptocurrencies
• distributed systems
• software infrastructure
• EOS mainnet
• knowledge sharing

Keywords

• Emin Gün Sirer
• cryptocurrencies
• EOS
• Cornell University
• IC3
• distributed systems
• software infrastructure

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cornell University, Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts, EOS

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