Courtesy Manoush Zomorodi As the newly minted co-founder of a startup related to the emerging technology blockchain, Manoush Zomorodi feels like an Old West prospector. “It really kind of reminds me of if you got into your covered wagon and you were like, ‘We’re going west and we’re gonna look for gold,’” she said on the latest episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka. “If there’s gold in the hills, then you could build a homestead, right? And if there’s not, you’re kinda screwed.” Zomorodi...

Courtesy Circle You’ve heard about it, maybe in relation to a digital currency like bitcoin — but what is blockchain and how does it work? On the latest episode of Too Embarrassed to Ask, Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire answered all our questions and yours. Let’s start with payments: Right now, it’s easy to send people money online, but how we send that money is tied to institutions like credit cards and banks. Circle and its competitors want to use blockchain to offer their users a more open...