032: Ocean Protocol – The Future of Data, AI and Blockchain with Trent McConaghy
Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain
Release Date: 06/20/2018
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_outlineTrent McConaghy is the Co-Founder of Solido, Ascribe, BigchainDB and Ocean Protocol. He holds a PhD in Engineering and has a background in Computer Science.
In this episode, Trent and I discuss:
- How Trent went from being raised on a pig farm in Saskatchewan, Canada, to being one of the world’s top experts in Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- How companies like Facebook and Google are really just data companies that hoard data (and it looks like Ocean may change that)
- The “ArtDAO” – a thought experiment on how an autonomous piece of AI code becomes independently wealthy. What does it do with the money?
- The nuts and bolts of Ocean Protocol, Estonia’s e-residency program (which Trent has advised Estonia on), and much more