025: Kik – The Billion-Dollar Crypto Unicorn with Ted Livingston
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
Release Date: 01/31/2018
046: Ethereum 2.0 – with Lane Rettig
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
Lane Retting works at the Ethereum Foundation. He is a hacker and polyglot with an affinity for East Asian languages.
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045: Your Biggest Challenge with Blockchain (part 4/4)
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
I sent a survey to about 1,500 people and asked them what their biggest challenges were, when it comes to learning about blockchain and cryptocurrency.
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044: Your Biggest Challenge with Blockchain (part 3/4)
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
I sent a survey to about 1,500 people and asked them what their biggest challenges were, when it comes to learning about blockchain and cryptocurrency.
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043: Your Biggest Challenge with Blockchain (part 2/4)
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
I sent a survey to about 1,500 people and asked them what their biggest challenges were, when it comes to learning about blockchain and cryptocurrency.
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042: Your Biggest Challenge with Blockchain (part 1/4)
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
I sent a survey to about 1,500 people and asked them what their biggest challenges were, when it comes to learning about blockchain and cryptocurrency.
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041: Decentralization-as-a-Service – with Blockdaemon’s Konstantin Richter
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
Konstantin Richter is the Co-Founder & CEO of Blockdaemon. He is a serial software entrepreneur and has also held senior-level positions at prominent firms such as Nokia and Deutsche Telekom.
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040: The New Blockchain Business Model – with Nodesmith’s Brendan Lee
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
Brendan Lee is the CEO & Co-Founder of Nodesmith. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science, and has spent much of his career building developer platforms.
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039: The Bunz App Takes Canada by Storm – with Sascha Mojtahedi
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
Sascha Mojtahedi is the CEO of Bunz. The Bunz App uses its BTZ token to facilitate peer-to-peer bartering and purchases, while also compensating users for interacting with partner brands.
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038: ICOs are Dead. Introducing STOs – with Swarm’s Philipp Pieper
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
Philipp Pieper is the CEO & Co-Founder of Swarm. He discovered decentralized technologies and Blockchain after an encounter with the founder of BitTorrent.
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037: The Ultimate Cryptocurrency Tax Solution – with TaxToken’s Michael Foland
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
Michael Foland is the President and Co-Founder of TaxToken. His mission is to make TaxToken, “the ultimate cryptocurrency tax solution.”
info_outlineTed Livingston is the CEO and Founder of Kik Interactive – creators of Kik – a messaging app that connects the world through chat.
After working at Blackberry, his boss encouraged him to start his own company, which he did in 2009.
That company (Kik) has since grown to 15 million monthly users, a billion-dollar valuation, $120 million dollars in venture funding, and an uber-successful $100 million-dollar ICO.
In this episode, Ted and I discuss:
- His journey from Blackberry, to Kik, to Kin – which is the new cryptocurrency that powers the Kik messaging platform
- How back in 2010 Kik went from 0 to 1 million users in only 15 days
- The power of incentives in a decentralized network –and–
- Why Ted believes Bitcoin is fundamentally flawed, and how Kin addresses those flaws, to the point of maybe one day replacing Bitcoin as the world’s top cryptocurrency