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For his whole career, George Howard has been working to improve the music industry. "I've been put on this planet to help artists create sustainable careers on their own terms," says Howard. "That's what I get out of bed every day to do." Along the way, he's gotten several degrees and founded several companies. It's with this perspective that he approaches one of his biggest frustrations: "Unless an artist is signed to a major label, they are not going to get big time radio play. Just not going to happen." His latest company, MAX, is all about redressing that issue. This is the problem he set out to solve. Hit play to learn more. Subscribe, review, and if you can, consider donating some Bitcoin to the cause.
Brave New Coin is a market data and research company. This multi-divisional company works in many different capacities. The market data division taps into every exchange in the planet. For cryptocurrencies, there are over 150 different exchanges. They supply many different crypto and non-crypto funds. Learn more about Brave New Coin by hitting play. Be sure to subscribe, review, and if you can, consider donating some Bitcoin to the cause.
Can blockchain technology serve as the final defense against the blood diamond trade? Will it transform the way artists disseminate and profit from their work? Might it serve as an equivalent- if not superior- replacement for the traditional banking system? For most people, blockchain technology is defined by its inextricable link to cryptocurrency exchange. While this understanding isn't entirely wrong, Aman Ladia argues that it's glaringly incomplete. As co-founder of Blockstein, Ladia is making it his mission to uncover and promote the gamut of blockchain benefits, and by doing so, he aims to bolster a public understanding that will fuel its widespread adoption. Ladia discusses the seemingly buried uses of blockchain technology that provide both transparency and anonymity in blockchain-based transactions. But that's not all: when used as a replacement for traditional banking systems, it may even save you thousands of dollars. Ladia also discusses: Ways to prevent fraudulent transactions on blockchains, as well as relieve public doubt and misconception surrounding blockchain technology How the use of Ethereum will aid in the widespread adoption of blockchain technology The efforts that will be made in order to spread Blockstein's message and make these technologies more usable, including branding blockchains and incentivizing their use by large companies For those who would like to reach out to Aman Ladia directly, here's his email address: amanladia1@gmail.com
Nathan Wilcox, CTO of Zcash, discusses the guiding principle behind Zcash, the pros and cons of using it, and its similarity to Bitcoin. All coins are created equal—that's the motto of Zcash. With Bitcoin, the sender, recipient, and transaction amount are visible in the blockchain, meaning that with enough time and data, the history of individual coins can be traced back through its hops. None of these are visible with Zcash, which gives its users complete privacy. Transactions can still be verified, even without this information, using a zero-knowledge proof called a ZK SNARK. In this way, all that is ever known about coins is their value, making your money fully fungible and private.
Ian Worrall, founder of Mybit.io, discusses the need to begin purchasing automated machinery, how it works to create a profit for investors, and the future of this platform. As autonomous machines become more capable of doing work that is currently produced by humans, job displacement around the world will grow. At the same time, these types of automated machinery can be very expensive, limiting entrance to these markets to large companies. Mybit.io's solution is to crowdfund the ownership of, and investment in, different projects, so that individuals and small companies around the world can also share in the revenue created by these machines, thereby democratizing the market. Tests are scheduled to begin in 2018 with solar power and real estate development. In the future, Mybit.io believes that this platform could work for any machine connected to the Internet–commercial farming, construction, or warehouse machinery, delivery drones, 3D printers, crypto-currency ATMs, and more.
Riccardo Spagni, Lead Maintainer of Monero, discusses their unique approach to blockchain privacy, in depth. Many cryptocurrencies are centralized, and some disregard blockchain privacy entirely, in order to attract users. Monero aims to be completely decentralized and open-source, and yet still places a high priority on privacy. They accomplish this by focusing on four different aspects of transaction privacy: obscuring where the transaction is going to through stealth addresses; obscuring where the transaction is coming from through ring signatures; encrypting the amounts of the transactions; and obscuring the IP address that the transaction is coming from through an I2P protocol.
Andreas Antonopoulos, tech guru, author, and speaker behind the "Lets Talk Bitcoin" podcast discusses how he became interested in Bitcoin, why it's important, and what we might see in the future. In 2011, Andreas Antonopoulos was between freelance jobs when he read Satoshi's bitcoin white paper. Seeing its potential, and having taught the public about computers since the age of 15, he decided that the best way for him to contribute to the crypto movement would be to teach people about bitcoin in a way they can understand. The focus on public, open, and decentralized blockchains preserves privacy and empowers individuals, especially the world's unbanked, underbanked, and poor, is Andreas' main interest. Tune in for insights from Bitcoin and Crypto's top thought leader.
Have you ever had an idea pop into your head and wondered if it's already been discovered? You assume it probably has been, but how can you really know? And if it were patentable, would you even know where to begin? John Wise, CEO of Loci Coin, proposes an alternative avenue for people to stake a claim on their inventions: tokenizing the right to file a patent on them. "We wanted to create… a network where inventors could stake their claim on an invention without going through all the cost and rigmarole around filing a patent. We wanted to make it very cheap, we wanted to make it very easy, and very fast. Cryptocurrency made a lot of sense for that," says Wise. By simply conducting a search for their invention in the Loci Coin searching system, users are granted the legal rights to it- just as they would by obtaining a legal provisional patent. However, Loci Coin provides its users with the option of immediately monetizing and putting that invention on the Loci blockchain. But that's not all. With the use of predictive analytics and a database of millions of inventions, Loci Coin offers an unprecedented tool for building big ideas out of many small ones. "This is everybody in the world actively using their minds and their ideas together for some greater collective," says Wise. Click play to hear more. Wise also discusses: The reasoning behind and the benefits of Loci Coin, including cutting down on the cost of inventions and clearing the way for more transparency The specific process of memorializing inventions on the blockchain, and the ways in which Loci will help you to monetize your inventions The background and meaning behind the company's name The problems with the existing US patent system
Digital currency has the potential to be instant and global, but to what extent will the realization of this potential be stymied by regulation? How can this type of innovation maintain both momentum and regulatory compliance? Among other things, Amber Scott, Chief AML Ninja at Outlier Solutions, and Joseph Ciccolo, Head of BitAML, will be addressing these questions at the upcoming Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Blockchain SuperConference slated for February of 2018. Admittedly one of the biggest challenges to the cryptocurrency industry, potential remedies for regulatory restrictions are already surfacing. "We can demonstrate as an industry to the regulators that not only are we are in a position to have a strong compliance program in place to meet their requirements as a regulatory body, but at the same time we have some other tools at our disposal as an industry that are creative, and that in many cases are ahead of traditional bank compliance AML tools," says Ciccolo. Tune in to hear more. Scott and Ciccolo also discuss: The additional challenges presented by the local nature of regulation The position and attitude of federal US agencies on innovation and regulation, as well as state impact on money transmission regulation Canada's current status on the topic, and the intent of Canadian regulators Additional topics that they plan to discuss at the 2018 SuperConference
When Evan Van Ness started his weekly Ethereum-centered newsletter, he was having a lot of the same conversations over and over again. He was talking about the same updates and news items with different people, and reiterating the same commentary on the current state of the art in crypto. With his newsletter, he hoped to create a common basis for more intelligent, detailed, and researched conversation. In brief, Van Ness saw a need, and filled it. Starting with five subscribers, the newsletter blew up on Reddit and now has a much bigger readership. Reading this newsletter, you can feel confident you're not missing out. Now, you can read all about the latest in Ethereum at weekinethereum.com. Be sure to tune in to learn more about Evan Van Ness and his reporting. Subscribe, review, and if you like what you're hearing, consider donating some Bitcoin to the cause.
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