Hedera Hashgraph and the Future of Consensus | Internet for the 21st Century with Leemon Baird

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On this video episode of Hidden Forces, host Demetri Kofinas interviews Leemon Baird, the inventor of Hashgraph, a new, distributed ledger technology poised to disrupt the entire ecosystem of blockchain-based applications and cryptocurrencies.

Leemon Baird is the Co-founder and CTO of Swirlds Inc. With over 20 years of technology and startup experience, he has held positions as a Professor of Computer Science at the Air Force Academy, Adjunct Professor at multiple other prestigious universities, and as a senior scientist in several labs. He has been the co-founder of several startups, including two identity-related starts-ups with successful exits. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University faster than any student in school history (2 years, 9 months), has multiple patents and over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals on computer security, machine learning, and mathematics. He regularly keynotes on these topics at conferences.

Hashgraph is a revolutionary new distributed ledger technology with patented properties which purport to make it superior to the blockchain in every way -- i.e., unlike blockchain, it is fast/high throughput (300,000+ transactions per second pre sharding), fair (mathematically proven fairness with consensus timestamping) and secure (asynchronous Byzantine fault tolerant). Leemon Baird claims that these properties expand decentralized use cases to complex markets, auctions, crypto-currency micropayments, live games (even MMOs), and much more.

This is Demetri Kofinas’ second time interviewing Leemon Baird, and his third time covering Hashgraph. The first time was on Episode 22 of the Hidden Forces podcast. Demetri also hosted a panel with CEO of Swirlds, Mance Harmon, at the Assemblage in NYC in mid-October 2017.

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