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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 show art 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) show art 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) show art 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) show art 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) show art 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 show art 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 show art 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 show art 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 show art 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 show art 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.”

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Trent 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