Mance Harmon | the Hashgraph Consensus Algorithm: A Panel Discussion With The Founders Of The Future Internet

Hidden Forces

Demetri Kofinas

Business, Government

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2017

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Members of the hashgraph consensus algorithm's founding team, including the CEO of Swirlds, Mance Harmon, speak with Demetri Kofinas about the future of the Internet. In this blockbuster event, blockchain developers, entrepreneurs, and fans of Hidden Forces ask questions to the founders of hashgraph about their revolutionary technology. Leemon Baird, Mance Harmon, and the rest of the Swirlds team claim to have built an entirely new distributed ledger technology that is better (orders of magnitude more efficient), faster (300,000+ transactions per second pre-sharding), safer (asynchronous byzantine fault tolerant), and fairer (mathematically proven fairness with consensus time stamping) than the blockchain.

This is the second installment in a series of interviews, panel discussions, and conversations that Demetri Kofinas has had with the founders of Hashgraph. Hashgraph is a consensus algorithm that appears to have solved the problem of scale in distributed information management. It is a distributed ledger technology that may do for information processing and storage, what TCP/IP and broadband has done for communication. This is a revolution unlike any we have seen since the earliest days of the World Wide Web.

This event took place at the Assemblage NOMAD in New York City. It was a packed house with over 200 people in attendance from the blockchain and fintech communities who were eager to learn about how hashgraph is going to change the future of the Internet.

You can listen to Demetri's interview with the inventor and founder of Hashgraph, Leemon Baird, as well as read the transcript to that conversation on our website.

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0:00.0	What's up everybody? Welcome to a special release of Thursdays Hidden Forces panel event with the
0:16.0	CEO of Squurlds, the VP of Business Development and the co-founder of a soon to be
0:22.0	released public distributed ledger built using the
0:25.8	hashcraft consensus protocol.
0:28.4	This was a blockbuster event full of people from Silicon Alley, blockchain developers, entrepreneurs, and fans of Hidden Forces
0:37.0	who flew in from as far afield as Santa Monica, California to be with us on this night.
0:43.4	Where you're about to hear is round two of Hidden Forces groundbreaking coverage of Hashcraft,
0:49.3	the consensus algorithm that may well have solved the problem of scalability in distributed
0:55.2	consensus. If this company can do for the database what TCIP did for
1:00.8	communication then we are talking about a revolution unlike anything we've seen
1:05.3	since the earliest days of the World Wide Web. In the second half of the panel we took
1:11.2	questions from the audience and gave an opportunity to our more than 200 attendees to challenge the assumptions and assertions of the squirrels team.
1:21.0	This is one of the most exciting pieces of audio that I've ever released and you're going to love every minute of it.
1:30.0	Thank you everyone for coming tonight. I really appreciate it. We have a real packed house and I want to thank the assemblage for making this space available as well on such short notice as well as the panelists for being here.
1:41.0	I have some things I don't want to forget. I'd have to read them off this list.
1:45.0	One is we have a bull right here for anyone that wants to drop their business cards. We're going to be raffling off some books from previous guests of my show Hidden Forces.
1:53.0	And there are two people walking around with iPads.
1:56.1	I know many of you've already given your names and emails.
1:58.9	You can join our distribution.
2:00.7	And I realize also there are a lot of hidden forces listeners here which is exciting and
2:05.0	meeting a lot of you for the first time.
2:08.0	So let me start it this way.
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