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The Women Changing The World With Blockchain Sep 19, 2018

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A male-dominated space, adoption of crypto depends on both men and women.

We talk about females in blockchain culture and highlight 3 underrated women who are making a big difference in the blockchain world.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

2:00 How we're pissing off entire blockchain ecosystem 3:30 How can we bring more women into the space? Why is it predominantly male? 5:25 The mission at bitcoin com and why we need women to achieve that 7:30 Why businesses need to be able to speak women's language and meet their needs 8:51 Are men more likely to take risks? 9:59 Instagram appeal to women …should we use customization in blockchain more? 11:56 Using blockchain can give women more freedom 15:50 Alena Vranova - co-founder of the Trezor hardware wallet 17:41 Taylor Monahan- MyCrypto Previous Co-Founder of MyEtherwallet 24:47 XDite Founder of OTCBTC in Taiwan & also running for Mayor of Taipei 27:46 Why women will help adoption of crypto

& much more!

Dispute Resolution - William George of Kleros.io Sep 12, 2018

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"Whatever controls the courts, controls the state."

An intriguing use case. What if disputes could be solved via a decentralized platform? Kleros is working on it. We speak with their cryptoeconomics expert.

What an exciting interview. William George is part of Kleros, a dispute resolution layer built on top of the Ethereum blockchain.

In layman's terms, we go from traditional small claims court, centralized dispute resolution like PayPal and Amazon to the Kleros alternative and paint a picture for the future.

The Sports Industry Sep 05, 2018

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Like many blockchain plays, sports startups could work, but will require a ton of serendipitous marketing.

If athletes are broadcasting games, they better be really into it and promoting it, because they are getting paid in these new tokens, so a lot depends on the market perception that these tokens hold value.

Interesting concepts that will be tough to turn into a sustainable, prosperous business.

We talk about:

The blockchain project that the NFL Players Association invested in
The rise of e-sports
Tokenizing athletes
Gambling and it's fundamental importance to fan interaction

Food and Pharmaceuticals - Ambrosus Aug 29, 2018

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You've heard of the advantages of blockchain:

*Trustless

*Saves time and money

*Traceability / Immutability

*Accountability

Well this industry needs all of the above. The international food and pharma supply chain is a giant ... mess.

We speak with the CEO of Ambrosus, Angel Versetti.

Whether it's making product recalls more accurate and less costly, understanding where in the supply chain things went wrong, or helping consumers understand where their food really comes from, there is giant potential here.

What do 3D Printable Guns have to do with it? Aug 22, 2018

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Cody Wilson. 30 years old. Law school dropout. About five years ago, on a lark, decided to create world's first 3D printable gun. Succeeded. Media went nuts.

Defense Distributed, his website, was effectively shut downe State Department said having downloadable gun files violated international arms law. Wilson complied.

Wilson would later take the fight directly to the federal government. Wilson sued them. He basically lost all early court challenges. But feds feared he would ultimately win. Based his case on 1st and 2nd amendments.

Feds cut a deal with Wilson this year. He was allowed to have files for download on his site. Now states are getting into the act.

This all relates back to blockchain and bitcoin. Really.

Voting and Elections Aug 15, 2018

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The use of blockchain in the public sector reached another milestone this month when West Virginia became the first U.S. state to allow internet voting by blockchain in primary elections.

While the voter participation through this platform was estimated to be small, the intention of the administrators was to test the technology in a pilot project with no immediate plans to implement it at a larger scale.

Matt and Kelso review the current challenges of voting, the potential for blockchain to revolutionize, and a few projects that are already operating in the U.S., Africa, and South America.

Mentioned in the episode:

Voatz - Voatz.com

Agora vote - https://www.agora.vote/

Democracy Earth - https://www.democracy.earth/

Follow My Vote - https://followmyvote.com/

Democracy OS - http://democracyos.org/

Vote Watcher - http://votewatcher.com/

Voto Social - http://votosocial.github.io/

Skepticism - http://www.govtech.com/GT-OctoberNovember-Securing-the-Vote.html?flipboard=yes

Storytelling Aug 08, 2018

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"We propose that blockchain technologies can become a new framework not only for the production (distribution and financing) of stories but also their creation."

Kelso covered the humongous ComicCon conference a few weeks back. In between meeting celebrities from top comic-book movies like AquaMan, he had the chance to interview a ConsenSys startup, Cellarius.

Mentioned in the episode:

ApolloBros interview: https://youtu.be/JZSsud-hyXgApolloBros interview: https://youtu.be/JZSsud-hyXg ComicCon 2018: https://comiccon2018.sched.com/event/FSjy ConsenSys: https://new.consensys.net/ Cellarius: https://cellarius.network/ Transmedia Cyberpunk Franchise 2:26 - 2:36 https://blackgirlnerds.com/bgn-review-cellarius-a-collaborative-sci-fi-universe/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/cellarius2084

Blockchain for Better, Fairer Government? Aug 01, 2018

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Encouraging governments to use and implement blockchain, the theory goes will lead to more transparency, data security, streamlined communication and reporting.

All around the world, there are billions of hours and dollars wasted on tedious bureaucratic processes.

Blockchain for government is providing a public audit. This public audit log has the potential to be free from manipulation and immutable. Forgeries and outright fraud can be made more difficult. Audit logs rest upon nodes, which carry copies of the distributed ledger.

One criticism, for example, of the federal security apparatus within the United States prior and during 9/11 was the lack of departmental communication. Blockchain could streamline that.

Whichever agency drops the ball in terms of protecting the public would be clearer from an audit log standpoint.

The Blockchain Man with Taylor Pearson Jul 25, 2018

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Today's special guest is none other than Taylor Pearson, author of The End Of Jobs.

He has emerged as a thought leader around blockchain's impact on our future. This episode is centered around you, the individual.

The 1950's 9-to-5 company man is a thing of the past. Taylor explains:

"The Organization Man was defined by the Social ethic which emphasized the individual as subordinate to the group, the importance of belongingness, and The Organization as the means to achieve belongingness and achieve the proper subordination of the individuals to the group.

The Blockchain Man's world will be defined by the three tenets of the Protocol Ethic.

a belief in the individual as the source of creativity
a belief in serving the needs of the protocol as the ultimate purpose of the individual
and a belief in the application of blockchains to achieve an individual's highest potential.

The Blockchain Man exists as a unit of the blockchain. Of himself, he is isolated, meaningless; only as he collaborates with the blockchain does he become worthwhile, for by sublimating himself to the blockchain, he helps produce a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts."

Blockchain - Don't Believe the Hype Jul 18, 2018

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In the mainstream press and the global corporate world, cryptocurrency is reviled. It is hated. Its users are thought to be straight trash. Don't ever forget that. That it derives from distinctly polemical anarchists who were bent on leaving government forms of money makes it all the worse.

There is absolutely no reason for the financial system undergirding media and business, insulated and protected by the status quo, to do anything other than what they're doing: portray cryptocurrency as a plaything for geeks, drug losers, and terrorists.

And they have some legitimate arguments: 90% of the projects taking advantage of the buzzword "blockchain" in order to make money.

Despite triggering a quick pump in the share price of several companies, the practice of companies attempting to cultivate an exaggerated or fraudulent association with distributed ledger technology has resulted in little more than an increase in the scrutiny and suspicion with which the mainstream markets treat publicly listed crypto companies.

Kelso and Matt discuss the hype and try to make sense of it all.

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