Speaking of Crypto podcast

Speaking of Crypto podcast is about inspiring people in Bitcoin, crypto + blockchain. This leading edge crypto podcast is hosted by Shannon Grinnell. Join Shannon Grinnell in this inspiring crypto podcast with crypto + blockchain experts like Anthony Di Iorio, Co-founder of Ethereum, Alex Mashinsky, Pioneer of VoIP and CEO of Celsius Network, Sandra Ro, CEO of the Global Blockchain Business Council. Ethereum address: 0x259f6cebbf7afc1928f254f9b04de27c3d87a990

SOC094. Connie Gallippi, Founder at BitGive, on Charitable Donations Revolutionized WCW009. 10/30/2019

SOC093. Trekk, on Creating Better Crypto Content 10/29/2019

SOC092. Pascal Gauthier, CEO at Ledger - Saving Bitcoin with Ledger ESGS04. 10/25/2019

SOC091. John Carvahlo, CCO at Bitrefill, on Spending Bitcoin with Bitrefill ESGS03 10/19/2019

SOC090. Dr. Jane Thomason, CEO at Fintech Worldwide, on Blockchain For Impact in Action WCW008. 10/17/2019

SOC090. Dr. Jane Thomason, CEO at Fintech Worldwide, on Blockchain For Impact in Action WCW008. Dr. Jane Thomason, Author of Blockchain Technology for Global Social Change, shares her thoughts on the importance of putting digital identity on a blockchain, how remittances, using blockchain, can aid in financial inclusion, and why being able to hold Bitcoin in emerging economies is empowering. This is Episode 90 for the Speaking of Crypto podcast. Episode #8 for our Women in Crypto Wednesday series. But before we get started a BIG SHOUTOUT and many THANK YOUs to our show sponsors. Please check out our show sponsors at speakingofcrypto.com/partners This show is sponsored by + + We also talk about Supply chains being able to prove provenance decentralized autonomous communities how to encourage globally collaborative action (hyper-co-collaboration) what blockchain project has woken everyone up I caught up with Jane while she was in NYC for the United Nations General Assembly at the time when Greta Thunberg was also there sharing her message on climate change. Jane talks about what a new concept it is to be an influencer. “When I was younger and growing up and throughout most of my career, the people who could be really influential were largely Prime Ministers, heads of major corporation, heads of international agencies. And, just a random person with a point of view at that time could never stand up on the stage at the UNGA or anywhere else and have opinions that people paid attention to. And that's totally changed with social media. If you’re enjoying the podcast, please take a minute to rate, review and subscribe. This goes a long way to helping people who are new to crypto find the show. Follow Dr. Jane Thomason on @janeathomason + Buy the Book Follow Speaking of Crypto on: 💻Speaking of Crypto website 🎞️The New Internet documentary film ₿🔥Earn, Save, Give, Spend Bitcoin series 💁‍♀️Women in Crypto Wednesday series 🎇Apple: 🔥GooglePlay: 🎉Spotify: ✅Twitter@SpeakingCrypto ✅YouTube ✅LinkedIn ✅Medium ✅Minds Join for updates: 💌Speaking of Crypto /episode/index/show/speakingofcrypto/id/11673419

SOC090. Dr. Jane Thomason, CEO at Fintech Worldwide, on Blockchain For Impact in Action WCW008. 10/17/2019

SOC089. Isaiah Jackson, Author of Bitcoin + Black America, on Why Bitcoin is Better Money 10/13/2019

SOC088. Cory Klippsten, Founder at Give Bitcoin, GIVE Bitcoin with GiveBitcoin.io ESGS02. 10/11/2019

SOC087. Dominic Hrabe, Founder at EvolvEvents, on World Crypto Con and Vegas Blockchain Week 10/06/2019

SOC086. Alex Adelman, CEO at Lolli, EARN Bitcoin Free with Lolli ESGS01. 10/04/2019

SOC086. Alex Adelman, CEO at Lolli, EARN Bitcoin Free with Lolli ESGS01. Alex Adelman, CEO at Lolli, talks about how you can earn Bitcoin for free when you shop online, what he does to help with Bitcoin adoption and education and why he thinks we’re still in the early days in the crypto payments space. This is Episode 86 for the Speaking of Crypto podcast - the first episode for our Earn, Save, Give, Spend Bitcoin Series. Lolli’s one of our show sponsors. I’m a big fan of Lolli, the team, and what they’re up to and think that being able to earn Bitcoin by doing things we already do – like shop in this case, is one of the best ways for those who are new to Bitcoin to get excited about the space. We talk about: What sparked the idea for Lolli What cheapens a brand or elevates it What happens if bitcoin goes up 5x Creative shopping from outside of the US Wen Canada? Working on merchant adoption Merchants becoming Bitcoiners + Bitcoin education Is it too early for BTC payments companies? margins in the payments space payment flows the power of the Bitcoin community Paul Puey shoutout Bitcoin vs points The Lolli wallet + cold storage wallets Second layer applications Running a node @CasaHODL @bluewalletio@lightning @CashApp The grandma test We talk about Bitcoin vs points. “Points are like something that a lot of times. The consumer doesn't realize it, but it's an arbitrage on them. Most points never get used. It's because you forget about them, it's because they might have terms and conditions where they can take their points back, they can change the price of them. If every company had its own point system. It's like the most centralized cryptocurrency in the world.” Please check out our sponsors at speakingofcrypto.com/partners And… if you’re enjoying the podcast, please take a minute to rate, review and subscribe. This goes a long way to helping people who are new to crypto find the show. Alex Adelman Links: on Twitter on Twitter /episode/index/show/speakingofcrypto/id/11520302

SOC085. Carolina Abenante, Founder at NYIAX, on Trading Advertising Contracts Using Blockchain Tech WCW007 10/02/2019

SOC084. Sheila Warren, Head of Blockchain + DLT at World Economic Forum, on Blockchain Policy, Projects + Possibilities WCW006. 09/25/2019

SOC084. Sheila Warren, Head of Blockchain + DLT at World Economic Forum, on Blockchain Policy, Projects + Possibilities WCW006. Sheila Warren, Head of Blockchain + DLT at World Economic Forum talks about blockchain policy and some exciting projects in the social impact space. This is Episode 84 for the Speaking of Crypto podcast - the sixth episode in our Women in Crypto Wednesday Series. Sheila is based in San Francisco at the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution where the focus of the World Economic Forum at the Center is on four areas of technology - blockchain and DLT, AI, IoT and data policy where their looking at how policy can “support and enhance the social benefit of using these technologies.” “The most exciting experimentation is really happening in what we call the frontier economies.” We talk about some of the work Sheila has been a part of, including publications such as We get into: Cbdcs Policies that support adoption and enhance protocol? China’s central bank digital currency Libra Association + governance structure Transparency, accountability and exploitation Apple Pay getting into crypto the blockchain backbone + why the tech is important blockchain and the environment, rethinking resources + accountability ,and Biases in deployment of new technologies Transparency leading to exploitation before accountability Promise and possibility attracted a lot of women into the space The inherent inclusivity of the blockchain ecosystem “There's a lot more we could actually be doing if we are willing to go and interrogate these, in many cases, antiquated systems and processes that are not serving the bulk of the population best.” Check out our affiliate links at speakingofcrypto.com/earncrypto for some great ways to support the show. And… if you’re enjoying the podcast, please take a minute to rate, review and subscribe. This goes a long way to helping people who are new to crypto find the show. Sheila Warren Links: Check out our affiliate links at for some great ways to support the show. And… if you’re enjoying the podcast, please take a minute to rate, review and subscribe. This goes a long way to helping people who are new to crypto find the show. And to all of you listening – thank you for helping to make this podcast happen! /episode/index/show/speakingofcrypto/id/11398520

SOC083. Rachel Siegel, CEO at Crypto Finally on Being a Female Influencer in the Crypto Space WCW005. 09/18/2019

SOC083. Rachel Siegel, CEO at Crypto Finally on Being a Female Influencer in the Crypto Space WCW005. Rachel Siegel, Founder at Crypto Finally talks about Bitcoin + crypto adoption, a new age of feminism and what it means to be a woman in the crypto space. This is Episode 83 for the Speaking of Crypto podcast - the fifth ep in our Women in Crypto Wednesday Series. Rachel’s been met with strong emotional responses on Crypto Twitter to a recent tweet of hers about the fact that she posts bikini selfies and she’s also a crypto conference speaker. The response from a lot of the community was outrage. We talk about why. We dig deep into what it means to be not just a woman in crypto, but also a woman in today’s landscape, a female influencer, an entrepreneur in crypto with the goal of growing the space and attracting and welcoming a greater, more diverse group of people into the Bitcoin and crypto ecosystem. We have a great conversation and I’m so happy that I was able to chat with Rachel for the podcast. Although we have a sometimes heated discussion around this topic, I think we just scratched the surface. There’s a lot more to talk about… in fact I’d love to have a Women in Crypto Roundtable for the purpose of having different women in the space voice their ideas on some of these controversial topics and more. But for now, here’s Rachel Siegel, aka Crypto Finally. We get into: Working in media production Life as a digital nomad creating animated explainer videos her tweet about posting bikini photos + being a keynote speaker lack of representation of women in crypto how her body is not an inherent sexual object why people are triggered how we portray ourselves should not affect the work we do whether she is being opportunistic what selfie photos don’t say what a husband’s got to do with it or not female sex workers in crypto the ‘Hey, what’s that?’ phase learning how to deal with being recognized and watched influencer status and opportunities that come with it Being a woman in crypto First wave feminism vs the new feminism Lizzo Check out our affiliate links at speakingofcrypto.com/earncrypto for some great ways to support the show. And… if you’re enjoying the podcast, please take a minute to rate, review and subscribe. This goes a long way to helping people who are new to crypto find the show. Crypto Finally Links: /episode/index/show/speakingofcrypto/id/11293550

SOC081. Samantha Radocchia on Decentralized Friend Groups, Virtual Workouts + a New Work Model WCW003. 09/04/2019

SOC081. Samantha Radocchia on Decentralized Friend Groups, Virtual Workouts + a New Work Model WCW003. Samantha Radocchia, Author of Bitcoin Pizza and a Forbes 30 Under 30 Enterprise Tech inductee talks about writing her book on Bitcoin and blockchain tech, virtual living, and a new work model. Samantha is a tech entrepreneur who launched into the startup world with her first company when she was 20 years old. With a background in technology and anthropology, Samatha has been able to dive deep into the bowels of blockchain technology, while maintaining a big picture perspective enabling her to both see what innovations are leading change and also where they will have the biggest impact on society. We have a great conversation about her recent book, “Bitcoin Pizza: The No Bullshit Guide to Blockchain” which is now a number one best seller. We also chat about: How we consume information and learn using new technologies Virtual worlds in gaming Digital marketplaces in virtual worlds Transferring value from online worlds like Fortnight to other ecosystems VR workouts, like virtually paddleboarding in Bali with a friend New types of governance, nation states, and corporate structures Brazil’s perspective on Facebook’s Libra Redefining work, through distributed systems, new compensation avenues, and increased areas of opportunity Employee benefits and pension plans for decentralized freelancers Competitive skydiving Redefining what it means to be a woman How women can truly support each other When to stop writing, editing, reworking and call the book – done We had a great conversation and I’m so happy that I was able to chat with Sam Rad today for this Women in Crypto Wednesday series. Some of my biggest takeaways are around redefining work, adding more social and physical aspect to life online, and the importance of redefining what it means to be female in a previously male dominated society. Check out our affiliate links at speakingofcrypto.com/earncrypto for some great ways to support the show. And… if you’re enjoying the podcast, please take a minute to rate, review and subscribe. This goes a long way to helping people who are new to crypto find the show. Book: Bitcoin Pizza: The No-Bullshit Guide to Blockchain Samantha Radocchia on Twitter Samantha Radocchia on LInkedIn /episode/index/show/speakingofcrypto/id/11123960

SOC080. Emma Todd on Crypto Tribalism + Digital Community WCW002. 08/29/2019

SOC080. Emma Todd on Crypto Tribalism + Digital Community WCW002. Emma Todd, Executive Board Member & Co-Chair of Blockchain for Impact and CEO at MMH Blockchain Group talks about Crypto Tribalism and Digital Community. Emma is an expert blockchain marketer with extensive marketing experience in the banking sector. She shares what advice she gives to blockchain companies. She also talks about how important it is for entrepreneurs to know what problem their solving, who their targeting and how to explain their idea clearly before they pour money into their project. Emma and I have a great conversation about some important crypto projects and events, and what community looks like online, in real life, and on Crypto Twitter. I’m very excited to be publishing this conversation with Emma for our second installment of our new Women In Crypto Wednesday podcast series. We also chat about Hearing about Bitcoin + diving in immediately What happens when we say yes Bitcoin for remittances Marketing for crypto startups When your idea is not going to go anywhere Knowing your audience You’re company isn’t Uber and you’re not Steve Jobs Progressive ideas being implemented in Asia Crypto tribalism and Bitcoin maximalism Co-chairing Blockchain for Impact at the United Nations Alberta Blockchain week Blockchain in Bermuda Bunz, bartering and Btz Bitcoin and crypto mining Women supporting women in tech When I asked her about marketing to crypto companies she explained how straightforward she is. Really it’s about the idea. If an entrepreneur can’t explain their idea. If people can’t understand who would benefit and who the target is, than they’ve got a problem. “Everyone likes to think that they're the next Steve Jobs. And he's the only person I know that told me that I needed to end I had before I knew I needed it.” We had a great conversation and I’m so happy that I was able to chat with Emma Todd today for this Women in Crypto Wednesday series. Some of my biggest takeaways are around being able to explain an idea clearly and knowing who it’s for and QR codes used in new ways. Check out our affiliate links at speakingofcrypto.com/earncrypto for some great ways to support the show. And… if you’re enjoying the podcast, please take a minute to rate, review and subscribe. This goes a long way to helping people who are new to crypto find the show. Emma Todd on Twitter MMH Blockchain Group Blockchain Commission for Social Change/Pvblic /episode/index/show/speakingofcrypto/id/11037962

SOC079. Jenny Shaver, COO at SALT Lending, on Crypto Backed Lending vs Traditional Banking WCW001. 08/21/2019

SOC079. Jenny Shaver, COO at SALT Lending, on Crypto Backed Lending vs Traditional Banking WCW001. Jenny Shaver, COO at SALT Lending talks about her tech background in finance at American Express, what the culture is like working in New York City, and how entering the startup world in the crypto space at the bottom of a bear market, is like participating in an extreme sport. She shares valuable advice that she received from a mentor that she carries with her to date and explains what’s important to her now that she’s in a leadership role. Jenny and I have a fantastic conversation about the work she’s doing now, what she sees for the future, and how she views her role as a woman in crypto for our first Women In Crypto Wednesday podcast series. We also chat about The growing city of Denver and work life balance there Crypto backed lending at SALT Continuing to own a master node while using crypto as collateral The SALT token and what it’s used for Questioning the incentives around using Facebook’s Libra coin Which parties are most threatened by Libra Existing power structures and whether they will change Risk taking and rewriting rules Comradery among women in the crypto space And some of her insights from Nassim Taleb’s book Antifragile When I asked her about Libra adoption and her thoughts, she says she’s made the joke before that – “the establishment is just allowing us to play in our little pool to incubate tech for them.” We had a great conversation and I’m so happy that I was able to do this first WCW series with Jenny. There are some real take always that I’m going to carry with me after this conversation. Check out our affiliate links at speakingofcrypto.com/earncrypto for some great ways to support the show. And… if you’re enjoying the podcast, please take a minute to rate, review and subscribe. This goes a long way to helping people who are new to crypto find the show. Jenny Shaver on Twitter SALT Lending Jenny Shaver on LinkedIn /episode/index/show/speakingofcrypto/id/10949933

078. Robert Beadles, President at Monarch, on Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash + the Future of Crypto 08/18/2019

078. Robert Beadles, President at Monarch, on Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash + the Future of Crypto Robert Beadles, aka Crypto Beadles, is the President of Monarch, which is a non-custodial wallet as well as a payment solution. Not only is he president of one of the most successful wallets in the crypto space, but he’s also a YouTuber and share’s great interviews with some of incredible frontrunners in the space. I urge you to check out his YouTube channel, too, because with every video they post, they also give away $100 in Bitcoin cash. So check out Crypto Beadles on YouTube. Robert and I sat down for this conversation while we were at the Futurist Conference in Toronto. Thanks to Tracy and the amazing Untraceable team for putting on another incredible event and thanks to Robert for a great interview to Aaron for recording this one for us! Here’s what we chat about: Max Keiser’s influence Getting into Bitcoin in 2011 Monarch Pay and the Free Ross, Fund Ross campaign Monarch Wallet’s non-custodial solution Facebook’s Libra and crypto adoption Facebook, trust and global regulation YouTube and the $100 Bitcoin cash giveaways $100 around the globe Decentralized social media + paid content Bitcoin vs Bitcoin Cash What percentage of his holdings are in Bitcoin When I asked him about where he sees the future of crypto, he says: “You can already see the move towards digital currencies, especially when you have things like the Fed coin, or the Federal Reserve talking about their own currency in 2022. So you already know that that's the direction we're going, is with a digital currency. Do I think they'll still be some fiat paper out there? Of course, just like there's still people with cheque books.” We had a great conversation. I have huge respect for Robert aka Crypto Beadles and what he’s building, both at Monarch and on the educational side with his fantastic YouTube channel. Check out our affiliate links at speakingofcrypto.com/earncrypto for some great ways to support the show. And if you’re enjoying the podcast, please take a minute to rate, review and subscribe. This goes a long way to helping people who are new to crypto find the show. And to all of you listening – thank you for helping to make this podcast happen! Crypto Beadles on YouTube Twitter Monarch Wallet /episode/index/show/speakingofcrypto/id/10912791

077. Amber Scott, CEO at Outlier, on Facebook’s Libra + Crypto Regulation 08/06/2019

077. Amber Scott, CEO at Outlier, on Facebook’s Libra + Crypto Regulation Amber D. Scott is CEO at Outlier, and a compliance ninja. She’s an expert in regulation around cryptocurrencies, custody, privacy and in keeping with all of the latest changes. She’s a guru at the intersection of compliance and blockchain technology and as an MBA grad she also understands where businesses are coming from. Amber sits down with me at my home office in Toronto. We recorded this episode on video as well. Check out YouTube Channel. Speaking of Crypto – The New Internet. This channel is still in its infancy but we’ll be posting more podcasts here as well as clips from the documentary film, The New Internet which is currently in production. More info at speakingofcrypto.com. Amber and I have a fantastic conversation. Some of the things we talk about are: Her early days in compliance at Capital One A simple strategy to avoid scams Spending Bitcoin instead of hodling in the early days (Amber’s pizza purchase equivalent) The political statement behind Satoshi creating Bitcoin Outlier’s compliance work, education and philosophy Self-custody rights and a personal experience that hits home When KYC + AML are required or not + creating data honeypots What went wrong with Quadriga Where Facebook may run into trouble with compliance A new definition of fiat currency Bitcoin as a reserve currency On Satoshi’s decision to stay in the pseudonymous, Amber ends with this idea: “(Bitcoin) is meant to be borderless and censorship resistant. And that might annoy some censors, with good reason. And if that is an act that you're doing, maybe that's not something that you necessarily want to be attributed.” We had a really great chat. I have huge respect for the work that Amber has been doing for so many years and all that she puts into her expertise now. Also, check out our affiliate links at speakingofcrypto.com/earncrypto for some great ways to support the show. And if you’re enjoying the podcast, please take a minute to rate, review and subscribe. This goes a long way to helping people who are new to crypto find the show. And to all of you listening – thank you for helping to make this podcast happen! Twitter https://twitter.com/OutlierCanada LinkedIn Outlier Canada /episode/index/show/speakingofcrypto/id/10787405

076. Coldie on Crypto Art: Rare, Unique and Valuable 07/30/2019

075. Austin Davis on Bitcoin, Blockchain – Why Community Is Key 07/22/2019

074. Alan Wunsche on Tokenization as Investment + Opportunity 07/16/2019

073. Mauricio Di Bartolomeo on Hyperinflation in Venezuela: Is Bitcoin A Solution? 07/09/2019

073. Mauricio Di Bartolomeo on Hyperinflation in Venezuela: Is Bitcoin A Solution? Mauricio Di Bartolomeo, Co-founder of Ledn, shares his perspective of growing up in Venezuela. We talk about what the culture, and economic and political sentiment was like when Hugo Chavez became president rewrote the constitution, renamed the country, changed the flag and and changed the entire economic landscape that ultimately created the devastating state of hyperinflation that there is today, which, in 2019, is estimated to be 10 million per cent. We talk about the oil boom instigating outrageous government spending, Chavez’s marathon Sunday propaganda broadcasts of Aló Presidente and his power moves like expropriating property live on national TV under the guise of making life better for the people of Venezuela. “Authoritarian regimes have been incredibly successful when they place capital controls, in pushing this narrative that it doesn't affect the common person, that it only affects the rich people because they travel. And because they get to buy things from abroad, but that these currency controls don't really affect the actual residents of the country because they don't live in dollars.” Mauricio explains how hyperinflation effected Venezuelans. And… in doing research for this podcast, I’d read and listened to talks on how hyperinflation was devasting, causing extreme poverty and dire circumstances, which we get into. But I wanted to ask Mauricio about the other side as well, who benefits from hyperinflation? Because it’s not one sided. So he explains from personal experience how he was able to benefit from shorting the Bolivar. “Personally, I have done better off shorting the bolivar than long Bitcoin. And the way you short the bolivar, in essence, and the way the rich get richer to your point, is when you have assets, you have an asset base, you can borrow against that asset base… So what you do is you take a loan at 30% converted to dollars on spot, wait for inflation to do with thing, three months later, you convert a fraction of the principal back, pay off the entire loan, do it again. And biggest problem with extreme monetary inflation is how quickly the currency becomes devalued. This is why Mauricio and his family started Bitcoin and why it was the perfect solution… until it wasn’t. Ledn Venezuelan government vs. Mauricio’s brother’s Bitcoin mining operation run by run by Looking for ways to Support the Show? Follow us on Twitter @speakingcrypto. Check out our website at speakingofcrypto.com for a few easy ideas like downloading the podcast or listening on Radio Public. And check out our affiliate links at our speakingofcrypto.com/earncrypto for more great ways to support the show. Many thank yous to all of you listening for helping make this show happen! /episode/index/show/speakingofcrypto/id/10449476

073. Mauricio Di Bartolomeo on Hyperinflation in Venezuela: Is Bitcoin A Solution? 07/09/2019

072. Matias Nisenson on Why Blockchain Gaming with NFTs is changing the gaming industry 07/02/2019

072. Matias Nisenson on Why Blockchain Gaming with NFTs is changing the gaming industry The crypto space often asks what is the killer app? What is it that’s going to catapult crypto into the mainstream? The killer app might be gaming. Gaming is huge. Worldwide, it’s expected to be a 152 Billion Dollar market in 2019. And it’s only getting bigger… fast. “Fortnight is registering half a million users per day… and that's exactly 20 times the total amount of wallets with dai on them.” Matias Nisenson and his co-founder Luciano Bertenascotook a leap of faith, 18 months ago, that the technology they knew they would need would be there, when they were ready to launch and it is. So they’re using the Loom Network’s sidechain technology on the Ethereum Blockchain. Their game Crypto Wars is revolutionizing the gaming model. Instead of players buying skins or guns or other assets that only they can use, the whole game being built on a blockchain using NFTs allows users to purchase, unique, valuable, tradeable assets. Because these assets are unique, and therefore scarce, they will go up in value as the game grows in popularity. Users can purchase NFTs like swords, cars, skins and sell them to other users for a return on their investment. And as the technology expands, these NFTs will at some point be able to be interoperable so they can be moved from game to game. And within the game, players can also earn crypto. “What we're doing at crypto wars is basically giving the power back to the users. They are not spending money anymore in games, but what they're basically doing now is they're investing it. So, they could actually monetize their time while having a lot of fun at the same time.” Matias explains how the gaming economy resembles the real-world economy. “You will have some users that want to spend time, and you will have some users that want to spend money. The users that want to spend time can farm all these resources and can sell them to the users who want to spend money. So, it's basically like a real-life economy just translated into a game.” It may sound futuristic that people in real life will want to purchase NFTs for a whole lot of money, but it’s happening now. One of the Crypto Kitties kitties sold for $140,000 and Matias tells me about a Formula One NFT by Animoca that sold for $100,000. Experimental Crypto Wars Matias Nisenson Crypto Kitties Animoca Formula One NFTs Looking for ways to Support the Show? Follow us on Twitter @speakingcrypto. Check out our website at speakingofcrypto.com for a few easy ideas like downloading the podcast or listening on Radio Public. And check out our affiliate links at our speakingofcrypto.com/earncrypto for more great ways to support the show. Many thank yous to all of you listening for helping make this show happen! /episode/index/show/speakingofcrypto/id/10380857

070. Eric Tippets on Tokenization, Monetization of Content, and Lessons from China 06/19/2019

070. Eric Tippets on Tokenization, Monetization of Content, and Lessons from China Everything changed for Eric Tippets when he went to China about 10 years ago. He started to see what business looked like in a country with 1.3 billion people. And he could see how technology increased efficiency, scaling and opportunity. “In China, the velocity of things just moves extremely quick, but their technology… it's funny how the culture was behind, but the technology was way advanced. And they were way, way ahead of us.” Eric talked about how processes were so streamlined that whether he was seeing huge numbers of people go through the airport or walk through a café to grab a bagel, everything ran smoothly and efficiently, with the help of technology. In January of 2015 Eric and a partner launched a microlending platform that facilitated crowd-funding for entrepreneurs, and they learned very quickly what running a business on a massive scale looked like. “Within six months, we had 3.5 million people, and $3 billion USD come through that platform. People talk about doing big numbers. It's amazing to me, unless you’ve done it, you can't even remotely begin to understand all the difficulty of it. And all the complexity between getting hacked nine times between bank accounts getting shut down, because they thought we were money laundering, (Hackers) would do a complete replica of our site and have people come over and take their money. We over 100 of those.” As they worked through the bugs, working at this scale paid off. “We got to the point after those six months, we were doing 35 to 40 million dollars a minute.” Now Eric is working on helping entrepreneurs to tokenize their business with NASGO and the NSG token. They’ve giving startups a way to use a working utility token within their community. One of the artists they’re working with to facilitate tokenizing and monetizing his content is Jaafar Jackson (Jermaine Jackson’s son) who uses their VAPR app and his tokens to incentivize fans to purchase like, follow, comment, and share content and he rewards them with experiences like a studio visit when he records his next song. I met Eric at the Blockchain for Impact summit in NYC in early June and we talk about one of the contributions he’s been making with the NASGO blockchain. One of the delegates in their DPOS structure goes to charitable donations, so every 17 minutes when a block reward gets paid out, one of them goes to their charitable contributuions. Eric Tippets NASGO Jaafar Jackson, JUSIC token Looking for ways to Support the Show? Listen to Speaking of Crypto on Radio Public and they’ll send us a micropayment for each listen. Listen to 3 episodes or more, and they’ll send us a buck. Download the Radio Public app or listen online here à Looking for other ways to support the podcast, check out the page of our website for a few more ideas. /episode/index/show/speakingofcrypto/id/10213325

070. Kevin Owocki on Gitcoin, Open Source, and Earning Crypto on the New Internet 06/11/2019

070. Kevin Owocki on Gitcoin, Open Source, and Earning Crypto on the New Internet Open Source Technology and Blockchain Technology have created these base layer technologies with billions of dollars’ worth of value. Like what happened open source and the internet, now with blockchain, a few large players with buckets of money are going after only a small segment of developers to maximize profits for their investors. But what about developers? Shouldn’t they be able to capture some of that value – whether they’re building on open source or blockchain platforms? “Open source software creates billions of dollars a year in economic value for the world, and software developers don't have the opportunity to capture the value that they've created in the world because of because of open source… and in a lot of ways, it's a tragedy of the commons.” Kevin Owocki, founded Gitcoin, which brings together funders and developers in a peer to peer job network. We talk about what Gitcoin is all about and how to get started. I asked him about how it would work if I wanted to hire a developer to create an online shopping cart for speakingofcrypto.com to sell SOC podcast merch and walks me through it. We also talk about the new paradigm of getting paid in ways we couldn’t in the past (like earning crypto for block rewards or for maintaining a network). “Since we value the work that miners are doing, we're paying them a block reward. But what if you also added a 10% overhead for the people who are actually building the open source software that the miners are running in order to secure the network, then you could have point to either go to a group of software developers who built the who built the ecosystem. And I think that that's the ultimate example of programming your values into your money, because it's a fundamentally new thing that could exists before the blockchain internet.” We also chat about globalization and the exportability of law and culture through blockchain’s borderless structure. Can developers from countries in Venezuela, Argentina, or Egypt where there has been a history of extreme inflation benefit from accessing American systems of freelance work structure? “We talk about the exportability of law through blockchain’s borderless structure. “one of the primary features of blockchain is that you can export the rule of law and faith in faith in your investments that you would get in somewhere like America, to a place where they don't have great rule of law and there's a lot of corruption.” We also talk about the idea of nations competing for citizens and Kevin recommends the book, The Sovereign Individual by and https://www.amazon.ca/Sovereign-Individual-Mastering-Transition-Information/dp/0684832720 Kevin also shares some great things about the Boulder, Colorado developer community. // Kevin Owocki Gitcoin Gitcoin Mission How is Gitcoin doing? Check out their earnings here: /episode/index/show/speakingofcrypto/id/10118227

069. Brian Behlendorf on Hyperledger, Open Source, and Blockchain for Good 06/05/2019

069. Brian Behlendorf on Hyperledger, Open Source, and Blockchain for Good Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director of The Hyperledger Project at The Linux Foundation, previously worked at the White House under the Obama Administration and also as CTO for the World Economic Forum. When he read the Bitcoin White Paper and saw what some people were doing in the crypto and blockchain space, he recognized that open source technology was a way out of the top down hierarchical structure that he’d been a part of. “I saw a lot of determined technologists trying to answer this question of -how can we build systems that are as trustworthy and scalable as the centralized systems we know about today, but don't have that concentration of power and concentration of risk and concentration of wealth that the traditional client server model seems to inevitably lead to?" We talk about Hyperledger, some of what’s being built on top of it, open source technology as a concept, and Blockchain for Social Good (he uses the example of tracking where a diamond has come from and sites the United Nations SDGs.) We also get into data privacy and protection and how Europeans have taken action to make changes around this. “I definitely think people in Europe and the United States have this sense of a lot loss of agency around their personal data. In fact, in Europe, they actually felt that so sharply and so intensely that they developed this thing called the GDPR, which has a lot of critics out there, but is fundamentally at its heart about helping citizens understand, you know, in relation to any business out there, what information do you have about me, I have a right to see that I have a right to correct it, if it's wrong, and I have a right to delete it, if you don't need it anymore. You know, if it's a part of the history of a transaction between you and I, then I can't make you delete it. But if you're just you bought my data off of a third-party data broker, and I know about that, well, I get the right to pull that back.” Brian also talks about quantifying the IP investment of the Linux Foundation with all of its different projects and said that it has to be in the 10s of billions in terms of economic value. Brian Behlendorf The Hyperledger Project The Linux Foundation Want to Support the Show? Listen to Speaking of Crypto on Radio Public and they’ll send us a micropayment for each listen. Listen to 3 episodes or more, and they’ll send us a buck. Download the Radio Public app or listen online here à /episode/index/show/speakingofcrypto/id/10062977

068. Riccardo Spagni aka FluffyPony on Financial Privacy with Monero and Tari 05/29/2019

068. Riccardo Spagni aka FluffyPony on Financial Privacy with Monero and Tari I talk with Riccardo Spagni also known as FluffyPony about concerns over Monero’s privacy model and why financial privacy is something healthy, rather than something that should be looked at as deceitful or nefarious. Our society believes in privacy, but it’s interesting to see where it’s accepted and where it’s challenged. Riccardo uses the analogy of going to a public restroom. We don’t argue with someone who wants to close the door when they’re going to the bathroom in a public place. “When you go to a public restroom, you go to the restroom, you close the door, and you don't go like oh, you know, that's a privacy enhancement. That's just natural. So like, a tool like Monero or any privacy enhancing tool really, is just about that same thing, being able to close the door when you're doing something private, like using the bathroom.” Some people think that if you want to hide your financial transactions, you must be doing something illegal. Isn’t financial privacy a right? If we flip things around and say that ok, every financial transaction you make, must be public, what kind of society would that be? Riccardo puts it this way - “Why don't you upload three months of bank statements onto Twitter so that we can make sure you're not a criminal?” Our society has given up on privacy for the sake of convenience. We think that there has to be a trade-off. We’ll give away our photos, our personal information, as long as we can have quick access to all of my online accounts. “We've ended up in a world that's very Orwellian. It’s very 1984. But the difference between the world that 1984 portrayed, and the world that we live in, is instead of the government going and putting cameras in everyone's homes, and on the streets and all that - we put the cameras and the microphones in our home, and we just call them Alexa.” Riccardo Spagni @FluffyPony on Twitter Tari Monero /episode/index/show/speakingofcrypto/id/9958913

067. Paul Puey – Facebook’s GlobalCoin Stablecoin and Payment Network 05/24/2019

067. Paul Puey – Facebook’s GlobalCoin Stablecoin and Payment Network Paul Puey, Co-founder and CEO at Edge, and I sat down for a live podcast at Consensus 2019 in NYC last week and one of the first things we talk about is the Facebook Coin. Today in crypto news we learned the Facebook coin is going to be called GlobalCoin and that this cryptocurrency will be coming out in early 2020. Facebook is so huge, with billions of users, about a third of the population of the entire planet, so what will this mean for crypto? And what will in mean for the value of the Facebook coin, GlobalCoin? Reports have been saying that the GlobalCoin will be a stablecoin and Paul believes that this will have everything to do with its value as a coin. “How valuable can a coin be that's already pegged to something else? So how do you equate the value? Maybe it's the most used stable coin, but if you talk about pure value, well, it can't go up and down in price because it's stable, right? That's the whole point. So, what you then become is you become the most valuable payment network. “It potentially is true that Facebook will have a huge ecosystem in their payment network of using this stablecoin, but how much value will it have if it's stable to the dollar? It will have the value of $1.” “Stablecoins are effectively payment networks. They're not currencies per se, because they're pegged to some other currency. It's just like saying that a gift card is a currency. It's not. It's a payment mechanism. It's a way of holding another currency in a different form to be transmitted between certain parties that accept that payment mechanism, but it in and of itself, it isn't a currency.” We also talk about the Binance hack, custodial verses non-custodial crypto wallets, and holding our own crypto keys, like owning your own gold. // Paul was also on the Speaking of Crypto podcast a few weeks ago. See episode 064. Paul Puey on Skin in the Game and Levelling the Pyramid of Power from May 7, 2019 Paul Puey Edge https://edge.app /episode/index/show/speakingofcrypto/id/9916286

066. Alex Mashinsky on Bitcoin in 2019 and Beyond 05/21/2019

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