The team is joined by Shane Mac, Co-founder of XMTP - the secure messaging network for Web3 to discuss their goal of allowing any wallet address to message with one another. Shane walked us through his long history in the world of messaging and working with Web2 giants including Facebook bots, Ebay, and email clients, in his journey to make connecting with each other more human. Shane is an experienced start-up founder with a refreshing vision and outlook on how to bring Web3 to the next billion users. 

<p class="u-text-align-left"><span style="--u-color: #000000;--u-font-size: 11pt;--u-font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;;" class="u-font-weight-400">Hashing It Out is a highly-technical bi-weekly show that brings you the pioneering developers driving the Cypherpunk movement. In each show we take a deep dive through privacy, sovereignty, and network state technology with some of web3's most influential innovators.</span></p>

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Shane Mac of XMTP | The Power of Web3 Messaging

Executive Producer, Christian, attempts to keep Corey, Dee, and Jessie on topic and within two minutes a piece on three timely topics. The three topics discussed in this episode are Crypto Security Firm Unciphered Claims Ability to Physically Hack Trezor T Wallet, Ava Labs Launches 'No-Code' Web3 Launchpad, and the Taproot wizards cause a stir at Bitcoin Miami.

FLASH HASH – Aug. 2023 | Hardware Wallet Security, Ava Labs 'No-Code' Launchpad, and Bitcoin Miami

Hashing It Out is continuing its series on blockchain infrastructure with part 2 of the Application layer. In this episode, Corey, Dee and Jessie talk to Head of Engineering at Ava Labs, Patrick O’Grady. Prior to joining Ava Labs, Patrick worked as a software engineer at Coinbase where he created Rosetta - a system and method for integration of components to facilitate executing transactions with different blockchain networks by using a standard API format. Patrick has a deep understanding of blockchain networks and the infrastructure surrounding them. 

Patrick O’Grady of Ava Labs | Application Infrastructure Part 2

Hashing It Out is continuing its series on blockchain infrastructure with part 1 of security. Corey, Dee, and Jessie talk to Mehdi Zerouali, Director at Sigma Prime, about security within the blockchain industry. Mehdi is a penetration tester particularly interested in decentralised systems, with a strong focus on the Ethereum platform. He has been an integral member of the security community for some time now and he joins us to discuss how developers can looks at the entire tech stack to secure their work. 

Mehdi Zerouali of Sigma Prime | Blockchain Security Part 1

Security Research Engineer at Ethereum, David Theodore, talks about the merge and his path from electrical engineering to security.

Hashing it Out Personals | David Theodore – Making it through the merge

In this episode, we speak with Franck Royer – lead developer of Waku at Logos. Waku is a family of robust, censorship-resistant communication protocols designed to enable privacy-focused messaging for web3 apps. Waku has a strong emphasis on privacy and censorship resistance and are building protocols that are modular and scalable. In this episode, Franck breaks down what decentralised messaging is, why it is so important, and what are its requirements. We dive into the details of gossip networks, message passing, and tradeoffs involved in secure p2p messaging.

Franck Royer of Waku  | Decentralized messaging

In this Hashing It Out Personals episode, Dee talks to Stephen Pair, Cofounder, President and CEO of BitPay.com. Dee and Stephen discuss the history of Bitcoin from the early days, to the lightning network, and to its role in modern economies. Stephen sheds light on his introduction to crypto and how he still manages to have fun in the industry. 