The Blockchain Show

202: Jack Ottman Returns - Minds upgraded Jun 18, 2021

Jack Ottman is Chief Operating Officer at Minds. Jack is welcomed back for a look into recent updates on the Minds social network platform.

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201: Sentinel with Dan Edlebeck - dVPN Jun 01, 2021

Dan Edlebeck is Co-founder and CEO of Exidio, Sentinel’s development arm. He joins host Ethan for an informative episode concerning the need for decentralized virtual private networks, or dVPNs. With recent hacks into centralized VPNs, this development comes at a crucial time for internet freedom. Dan outlines how they are building on the Cosmos blockchain and how individuals can get involved and even be rewarded for their efforts as a node and/or validator.

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Episode 200 May 19, 2021

Steve and Ethan look back at the last five years of the podcast. Other topics include: the switch to Ethereum 2.0, staking, Elon Musk’s tweets, committing to crypto, and what we’re looking forward to in the near future.

199: Divi with Nick Saponaro May 07, 2021

Nick Saponaro is an entrepreneur, crypto enthusiast, and keynote speaker who is passionate about helping Crypto achieve its vision to deliver a truly decentralized financial services paradigm that benefits everyone. As Divi’s CIO, he deploys his programming and functional design skills to achieve the company’s core aim; to make crypto easy and drive its mainstream adoption. Media appearances include Cheddar, CNBC, Quartz, Investing.com, Nasdaq.com, and CoinTelegraph.

The Divi Project was established in 2017 to accelerate crypto’s mainstream adoption. Through Divi Labs, the company’s fintech innovation center, the company is developing world-class decentralized solutions that make cryptocurrency faster, more secure, and accessible to people at all levels of technical expertise.

Main Divi Project Website: https://diviproject.org/

Divi Wallet Microsite: https://wallet.diviproject.org/

Nick Twitter Profile: https://twitter.com/NSapProductions?s=20

Divi YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCihooU0crqQkBOvV0_lsRnw

198: Jack O'Holleran CEO of SKALE Returns Apr 22, 2021

We hosted Jack O’Holleran, SKALE’s CEO back in February of 2019. We discussed Proof of Stake Blockchains and SKALE. A lot has happened at since then.

SKALE is currently going through a big and exciting network upgrade that will bring multichain to Ethereum.

Jack talks about the Ethereum Ecosystem Development and the role of L2s like SKALE - which is a center of the conversation at the moment. Jack also shares some great advice and information for new crypto and blockchain enthusiasts.

197: Prabhakar Reddy / FalconX Apr 15, 2021

Prabhakar is the Co-Founder of FalconX. He exited his last venture to an Accel Partners portfolio company, prior to joining Accel as an investor. At Accel, one of the largest and most successful VC firms in the world, Prabhakar focused on Blockchain, B2B, and Enterprise SaaS investments. Prabhakar is a serial entrepreneur with over nine years of experience running successful digital media and online video platforms, having scaled his first startup into the top 100 most visited websites in the world within three years of inception, and successfully exited his second startup to BookMyShow, India's largest entertainment platform, prior to joining Accel. An electronics engineer by background, Prabhakar also has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

FalconX is a cryptocurrency financial services company, providing institutions trading, credit, and clearing across all major crypto pairs. Fortune 1000 companies, family offices, and asset managers turn to FalconX as a trusted partner in the cryptocurrency market. FalconX currently services over 250 institutions globally and is backed by leading investors including Accel, American Express, B Capital Group, Coinbase Ventures, Fidelity and Tiger Global.

196: William Quigley Apr 06, 2021

William Quigley is co-founder of the first-ever stablecoin and most traded cryptocurrency in the world, Tether. He is also the co-founder of WAX, the world’s leading decentralized NFT ecosystem. NFTs are very popular currently, and have moved into sports, art, design, and more. William explains to host Ethan how NFTs and the blockchain will completely transform the way we do modern business and collect items in the next 10 years.

Some other topics in this episode include:

Bitcoin predictions for the rest of 2021
The adoption of blockchain technology across other industries
Cryptocurrency’s market fluctuation

Aside from co-founding Tether and WAX, William is currently managing director at Magnetic Capital, a top investment and incubation firm that has launched the most innovative businesses in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sectors under William’s guidance and decades of expertise. Magnetic has funded successful players like OpSkins, Tether, WAX and StrongBlock, and many more, with an estimated $500m in gains across their portfolio over the last decade.

195: Prometheum with Aaron Kaplan Mar 03, 2021

Aaron Kaplan is the founder and co-CEO of Prometheum, Inc., a NYC based fintech company building a Federal Securities Law compliant, blockchain native, public market infrastructure servicing the entire digital asset lifecycle.

Aaron is also of counsel at Gusrae Kaplan Nusbaum, where since 2013 he has focused his practice on the applications of distributed ledger technology in the securities industry.

In this episode hosted by Ethan, Aaron offers extensive insights into the legalities around blockchain and the future of digital asset securities.

Articles referenced in the episode:

Ethereum Homestead Doc: https://ethdocs.org/en/latest/

Prometheum Architecture Paper: https://info.prometheum.com/papers

194: Xangle with Lihan Lee / Crypto Transparency with Standardized Disclosures Feb 23, 2021

Lihan Lee is the Co-CEO / Founder at Xangle.io. We talk about the need for standardized disclosure practices in blockchain projects, investor relations best practices for crypto startups, what South Korean crypto investors are looking for, how they're helping expose and avoid scams, and the state of the crypto market in South Korea.

193: Marc Grens Returns / DigitalMint Feb 15, 2021

Marc Grens is the Co-Founder & President of DigitalMint. He is a serial entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience in the investment industry. Prior to DigitalMint, Grens held senior positions at Charles Schwab, HighTower Advisors, and Alpha Strategies. He received his M.B.A. from the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University in 2010, and a B.A. from Illinois State University. Grens is an active angel investor and serves on multiple advisory boards of companies in the Chicago tech community.

DigitalMint is the leading Bitcoin point-of-sale provider in the nation with more than 325+ Bitcoin ATM and teller locations across the U.S. The company enables financial service centers, convenience stores, grocery chains, gas stations, and retail locations to sell cryptocurrency through physical kiosks and point-of-sale solutions.

https://www.digitalmint.io/

192: Stellar Development Foundation with Justin Rice Jan 10, 2021

Justin Rice is the Head of Ecosystem for the Stellar Development Foundation , the nonprofit supporting Stellar’s growth, and has a wide variety of topics that interest him. Some of those topics include:

Community Development - As Head of Ecosystem, Justin specializes in working closely with the developers that are building on Stellar’s network.
Stellar Ecosystem - Another key focus of Justin’s role is on how to effectively create and maintain an ecosystem that will continue to grow in future years.
Music and Film - Before joining the Stellar team, Justin worked in the arts, leading the band Bishop Allen and starring in several popular indie films.

191: Jack Leahy - Enterprise Ethereum Alliance Dec 11, 2020

Steve interviews Jack Leahy from the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. The EEA enables organizations to adopt and use Ethereum technology in their daily business operations.

Visit https://entethalliance.org/news/ to find current news and upcoming events

190: Christian Kameir Returns - Current VC Blockchain Insights Dec 09, 2020

Christian Kameir is Managing Partner at Sustany Capital. He brings Ethan up to speed on current blockchain venture capital insights. His last appearance on The Blockchain Show was episode 78.

Topics covered include:

Why Bitcoin failed to deliver on internet cash.
What his recommendations for startups would be to raise money.
The impact of regulation in the blockchain space.
Some core criteria for making investments specifically with blockchain solutions.
Voting - identity and blockchain technology as an election tool.
The case to investors for venture capital over other asset classes.
Why Sustany Capital chose blockchain as an investment focus.

189: Braintrust with CEO Adam Jackson Nov 24, 2020

Adam Jackson is the CEO of Braintrust, the world's first user controlled network that connects organizations to highly skilled tech talent. Their company shares have been tokenized and distributed as cryptocurrency amongst the freelance talent that uses the network. A huge leap forward for the gig economy especially during the era of working from home.

188: Utopia Genesis Foundation with Daniele Sestagal - Music and Blockchain Nov 15, 2020

Utopia Genesis Foundation is creating a base for the music industry that benefits artists and creators and streamlines the business. By harnessing big data and the power of blockchain, Utopia will provide the UOP with the needed data to usher in a new ecosystem thereby addressing current problems. Thus promoting growth, innovation, and a new stream of creativity in the music industry.

187: VAIOT with Michael Beches Nov 12, 2020

Michael Beches is the Growth Manager for VAIOT, the developer of AI-powered services for businesses. They are leveraging both AI and blockchain technology to offer B2C businesses an intelligent virtual assistant with a seamless user interface for convenient communication with customers.

186: Atari with Fred Chesnais - Blockchain, Video Games, and much more Nov 01, 2020

Fred Chesnais is the CEO of Atari. You can learn more about their blockchain gaming initiative at atarichain.com

Mass adoption of blockchain technology has been a central theme of this podcast since 2016. Fred helps explain to Blockchain Show host Ethan how Atari is making it happen. This includes the Atari Token, Exchange, Casino, and Betting with more to come including a new Atari PC / console hybrid: the Atari VCS

185: INVIZION with Russ Lema and Daryl Taylor Oct 27, 2020

INVIZION is a decentralized Digital Token for funding green renewable energy projects, along with waste tracking, that utilizes blockchain technology.

Russ Lema and Daryl Taylor join Blockchain Show host Ethan for an innovative look into how the NVZN token is fixing the waste and renewable energy industry.

184: Mythical with Rudy Koch and Cameron Thacker - Next Gen Video Game Tech Oct 19, 2020

Mythical is a next generation game technology studio utilizing a digital and open standard for virtual items on blockchain with dGoods. Rudy and Cameron from the team join Blockchain Show host Ethan for a look into the upcoming Blankos Block Party game and the changes to the gaming industry that will surely follow.

183: Easy Crypto Hunter with Josh Riddett - The New Era of Energy and Wealth Creation Oct 12, 2020

Easy Crypto Hunter is the UK's largest manufacturer and supplier of GPU mining. They're helping to build the renewable energy sector by encouraging more sites to be built. The excess energy generated powers mining rigs and gives the miners a far greater return than the traditional model of selling the electricity back to the grid. What may seem too good to be true is actually possible and CEO Josh Riddett educates host Ethan about just how they're making it work.

182: Binance Charity with Helen Hai - Crypto Against COVID Sep 28, 2020

Helen Hai is heading Binance's Blockchain Charity initiative which concentrates on using blockchain for social good. Helen is the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Goodwill Ambassador for industrialization in Africa among many other accolades. She joins host Ethan and reveals how donating with blockchain technology is superior to legacy systems and the remarkable progress being made. To learn more about how you can help visit binance.charity

In this episode you will learn:

Why Binance Charity decided to start Crypto Against Covid
How they helped people in Wuhan, New York City, and other major centers of the pandemic
How they were able to unite the crypto community around the globe to help those in need
Their Transparent Donation System
Ways COVID will affect the crypto industry
What the PPE token is and how it works
Who is being fed in Africa from crypto donations
How the blockchain community will change the way people think of personal identity and culture
With blockchain tech, how trust can be rebuilt

181: Dan Holdings with Danny Oyekan - Blockchain in Africa Sep 23, 2020

Danny Oyekan is the founder and CEO of Dan Holdings - Africa’s leading fintech, blockchain, artificial intelligence and emerging technologies firm. They're developing new blockchain-powered products and services, including Telechat - a chat application with a built in social payment application for cryptocurrency, Coins App - an all-in-one social payment application for global digital currencies, and BlockFinex - a crypto to crypto and fiat to crypto exchange platform.

Danny gives host Ethan some insight into how to use virtually no fiat currency, how to use crypto to avoid remittances, and the future of the African markets.

180: JellySwap with Tito Titov and Krasimir Raykov Sep 17, 2020

Tito Titov is the CEO of JellySwap, a DEX working on several blockchains aiming to solve the interoperability issues between the different networks. In addition to swapping coins, users can provide liquidity and become market makers thereby enabling them to make profit.

Tito is joined accompanied with CTO Krasimir Raykov for an interview with Blockchain Show host Ethan for a look into JellySwap's features, use-cases, and technology. Several interesting anecdotes are mentioned, including what it's like meeting Vitalik at a European meetup.

179: Blockchain in Education with Nadav Zeimer Sep 13, 2020

Nadav Zeimer has worked in technology and education for decades, from software engineering in the Silicon Valley to serving as a principal in NYC. Thus, Nadav has unique insights into how blockchain technology can help students. He's been recognized for his digital media centered approach to reforming schools by integrating podcasting into his curricula.

In his book Education in the Digital Age: How We Get There he explains the need to re-imagine how academic credits are stored and utilized in education by introducing blockchain technology to the credit ledger system.

In this episode Nadav explains the problems with politicians setting the academic policy, standardized testing, high school credits, and how his plan for using blockchain-based credits will revolutionize the current system of academic capital. He gives examples of how podcasting in high schools is bridging the gaps for some students and how it may play a role in the post COVID-19 world. We also talk about digital code being used to write anti-bias, both in race and equity in education.

178: Uphold with Michelle O'Connor Sep 04, 2020

Michelle O’Connor is VP of Marketing and Community at Uphold, an “anything-to-anything” digital money platform, serving two million customers in more than forty countries, with access to fifty-five currencies, including commodities, digital assets and precious metals.

Michelle is passionate about building the future of inclusive finance through emerging technologies and was recently recognized in the list of ‘Most Inspirational Women in Tech 2019.

177: Max Sklar Aug 30, 2020

Max Sklar is a machine learning engineer and podcast host at The Local Maximum. On this episode, Max speaks to the state of emerging technology, rapid prototyping and building products, as well as the current state of the Tech Industry / Silicon Valley. We also talk about his contributions at Foursquare as a machine learning engineer. This includes Foursquare's City Guide and Ad Attribution products. We speculate how Blockchain and Crypto will work with future technologies in the near future.

Episodes we mentioned:

Episode 83 - about Bitcoin Energy Consumption: localmaxradio.com/83

Episode 5 - Ethereum and Smart Contracts: localmaxradio.com/5

localmaxradio.com/126 on electoral systems (for the blockchain enthusiasts)

Others that we didn't mention:

localmaxradio.com/89 on liberland

localmaxradio.com/112, localmaxradio.com/37 with Naomi Brockwell

localmaxradio.com/76 - Bitcoin and Google invades Politics

176: TALGiving with Tej Gundavelli Aug 17, 2020

Tej Gundavelli is CEO and Co-founder of TALGiving, a giving platform built with blockchain technology. It's an app that helps facilitate one-to-one connections between donors and recipients, built with matchmaking features. Beyond just monetary assistance, TALGiving also provides people in need with specific resources including clothing, shelter, food, medical, and education—crowdfunded by individual and corporate donors. Differing from platforms like GoFundMe, TALGiving has absolutely 0 costs involved for all parties, 100% of proceeds go towards the specific causes.

They're also working with Minds to allow crypto-based donations (in the works: https://www.minds.com/touchalife/

175: Grey Swan with Peter Harrigan Aug 09, 2020

Peter Harrigan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Grey Swan Digital. Grey Swan is a decentralized, global platform that will serve as the foundation for the Price Sharing Economy, by doing for the $500 Trillion derivatives industry what Apple did for the computer.

174: EFANI with Haseeb Awan - America's Most Secure & Private Cellphone Carrier Aug 03, 2020

Haseeb Awan is a cell phone security expert and the CEO of EFANI the most secure and private cellphone service in the USA. By using 11 layers of client-side integrity and authentication protection they are ensuring no one's cell phone number is attached to personal information through their service. As a SIM swap attack survivor, Haseeb knows what it's like to recover from this potentially devastating situation which is why he created EFANI.

They've protected hundreds of crypto investors in the last few months. Haseeb has unique insights and stories around the subject.

@efani @haseeb

173: Zilliqa with Amrit Kumar Jul 26, 2020

Amrit Kumar is the President and Chief Scientific Officer of Zilliqa, the high-performance, high-security blockchain platform which looks to enable a new standard enterprise-grade scalability and security in the industry.

172: Polyient Games with Craig Russo Jul 25, 2020

Craig Russo is Director of Innovation at Polyient Games. Polyient Games is the first open, chain-agnostic investment ecosystem devoted entirely to funding and expediting the growth of early-stage startups that are developing the infrastructure and application layers necessary to scale the blockchain gaming industry.

171: InfiniGold with Jon Deane Jul 21, 2020

Jon Deane is the CEO of InfiniGold and was formerly CEO of TCM Capital, and a Managing Director of JP Morgan where he was the Global Head of Agricultural and Bulks Commodities Trading, as well as Head of Commodities Trading for Asia Pacific, covering oil, base metals, bulks, precious metals and agriculture.

The Perth Mint Gold Token (PMGT) is the first digital gold token on a public blockchain with its underlying asset underpinned by government guaranteed gold. Each digital token is issued by InfiniGold and backed 1:1 by GoldPass certificates representing physical gold held by The Perth Mint – the custodian of the physical gold which supports PMGT. This gold is securely stored in its central bank grade vaults and is guaranteed by the Government of Western Australia. For more information visit: https://pmgt.io/about/

170: Mysterium.Network with Jaro Šatkevic Jul 17, 2020

Jaro Šatkevic is the head of Product at Mysterium.Network an open-source project that built the world's first decentralized VPN. We cover the ways in which everyday people's data is vulnerable on the current version of the internet and how to better safeguard digital footprints. Some surprising insights into censorship, digital discrimination, and more online injustice are brought to light as well as solutions with their platform and others.

BCS Ethereum Show 2: Kosala Hemachandra - MyEtherWallet Jul 10, 2020

Kosala Hemachandra is the founder of MyEtherWallet, a safe, free, open-source wallet that puts you in control of your private keys as the nexus for all interactions on the Ethereum blockchain. This episode includes:

How crypto wallets have evolved and where MEW's heading
Why MEW sees mobile as the next wave of financial inclusion
ETH 2.0
How his quick visit to see his family in Sri Lanka means he's running his company while locked down at his parent's home indefinitely

169: IoTeX with Raullen Chai and Larry Pang Jul 01, 2020

IoTeX has been recognized for using blockchain for a use case that makes sense: decoupling the identity of devices from users and issuing decentralized accounts to serve as access controls and logins for IoT devices.

168: Securrency with Dan Doney Jun 27, 2020

Dan Doney Co-Founded Securrency in 2015 and serves as Chief Executive Officer and Lead Architect of Securrency’s comprehensive, cutting-edge technology. Dan is a recognized expert in software development, artificial intelligence, process automation, cybersecurity, dynamic asset pricing, and enterprise architecture. Dan served as the Chief Innovation Officer of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency and is the recipient of the 2014 Fierce 15 award as a top government change agent. Dan holds degrees from the U.S. Naval Academy and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

TBCS Ethereum Show 1: Back to Basics, Flipping Bitcoin Jun 26, 2020

Steve and Joey host a spinoff of The Blockchain Show called The Ethereum Show. The original concept for the podcast dates back to 2016 with Steve and Ethan going forward instead with The Blockchain Show. As interest in new developments in regards to Ethereum surge, Steve reclaims the hosting throne this time with his friend Joey to shed some light on the Ether side of things. Ethan joins briefly to recount the early days of The Blockchain Show and Steve later breaks down decentralization and unforeseen use cases of Ethereum to Joey.

167: RealT with David Hoffman Jun 11, 2020

David Hoffman is Co-Founder and COO of RealT, the platform for tokenizing property ownership in the United States. RealT’s platform allows investors to earn daily dividends on a fractional, tokenized basis.

166: Fold with Will Reeves Jun 04, 2020

Will Reeves is CEO of Fold, and a tech entrepreneur with expertise in developing payments solutions. Will continues to work as Head of Payments at Thesis with previous experience as Venture Lead at A3Ventures and Co-founder of Membo. Of note, Will also was part of the early team that brought the Google Store to market, and he led the vision for the cult project, Lightning Pizza, the first real-world service using the bitcoin Lightning Network that allows customers to order Dominos Pizza anywhere in the U.S. with bitcoin.

The Fold app, now available on Android and iOS, allows shoppers to earn bitcoin rewards back (up to 20%) on credit card and lightning purchases when shopping at merchants like Amazon, Target, Starbucks, Uber, Airbnb, and more. Users can spend these rewards on their next purchase, save for later use, or withdraw to a personal wallet.

165: DigitalMint with Marc Grens May 31, 2020

Marc Grens is an investor, Fin Tech expert, and the Co-Founder and President of DigitalMint, the leading Bitcoin point-of-sale provider in the USA.

164: O(1) Labs and Coda Protocol with Evan Shapiro May 27, 2020

Evan Shapiro is the CEO and Co-Founder of O(1) Labs, the team behind Coda Protocol. Coda swaps the traditional blockchain for a tiny cryptographic proof, enabling a cryptocurrency as accessible as any other app or website. This makes it dramatically easier to develop user friendly crypto apps that run natively in the browser, and enables more inclusive, sustainable consensus.

163: Climate Futures and 1PLANET with Jesse Uzzelle May 06, 2020

Jesse Uzzell is CEO and Founder of Climate Futures, the organization behind 1Planet. They are empowering individuals and businesses to take climate action in their daily lives by enabling access to global carbon markets.

162: Asensys with Michelle Chuang Apr 28, 2020

Michelle Chuang is COO of Asensys, a new-generation, high performance system that brings throughput and capacity to a new, scalable level.

Just how they are solving blockchain's scalability problem, AI and blockchain tech will power internet 3.0, what Asynchronous Consensus Zones are, and how the new age of the internet will help humanity stay secure in the post COVID-19 era are answered in this episode.

161: Cypherium with Sky Guo Apr 15, 2020

Sky Guo is the CEO at Cypherium, a highly scalable and robust smart contract platform. Their design features a joint Proof-of-Work (PoW) and HotStuff (Also adopted by Facebook's Libra) consensus mechanism that can achieve thousands of transactions per second without sacrificing decentralization. Cypherium also implements a Turing-complete virtual machine for smart contracts that runs on Java, the most widely-utilized and reliable programming language in the world. This enables democratization of the development of smart contracts and lowers the barrier to blockchain adoption for existing enterprise.

160: Zcoin with Reuben Yap Apr 10, 2020

Reuben Yap is the project steward for Zcoin, a global privacy-first digital currency. They are taking privacy to the next level with untraceable coins.

Reuben's background in corporate law specializing in institutional frameworks as a lawyer, combined with his strong advocacy for online and financial privacy provides great insights into the future of cryptocurrencies and privacy.

He talks about the merits of untraceable transactions and how Zcoin facilitates it, why privacy is a fundamental human right, and some other privacy and crypto-related use cases such as verifying elections on the blockchain.

159: Bitfinex with Paolo Ardoino Apr 03, 2020

Paolo Ardoino is the CTO at Bitfinex. He explains some new projects they are working on at one of the world's biggest crypto exchange, how IEO's are still alive and well, the Bitcoin Lightning network, how they bounced back from 2016's hack, the Halvening, and more.

158: LGO with Hugo Renaudin / Digital Asset Exchange for Institutions Mar 30, 2020

Hugo Renaudin is the CEO and co-founder of LGO, the leading digital asset exchange for institutions and the biggest institution exchange in Europe.

157: Solve.Care with Pradeep Goel Mar 23, 2020

Pradeep Goel is the CEO of Solve.Care, a global healthcare blockchain technology company using innovative approaches to solve the complex problems that plague healthcare around the world.

Pradeep has deep expertise in healthcare, human services, finance, and technology. Before taking the reins at Solve.Care, he has been passionate about designing and building solutions for public programs, such as Medicaid, the Children Health Insurance Program, Medicare, SNAP/TANF, the Child Welfare Program, and other health insurance and health information exchanges over the past 26 years.

156: Orbs with Danny Brown-Wolf Mar 19, 2020

Danny Brown-Wolf is the Head of Partnerships and Strategy at Orbs, an enterprise blockchain solution allowing companies to prove responsibility with data through a public blockchain as a neutral third party way of verifying data.

155: SolidBlock and Women in Block with Yael Tamar Mar 05, 2020

Yael Tamar is the CMO and partner at SolidBlock the company behind the world's first commercial tokenization. She is a thought leader on this topic and the future of real estate financing. She also founded Women in Block.

154: BearTax with Vamshi Vangapally Mar 02, 2020

Vamshi is the CEO and co-founder of BearTax. He joins Ethan to explain how his team's software is helping cryptocurrency traders file taxes with ease and confidence.

With tax season upon us, learn the IRS's latest stance on crypto and what that means for investors and businesses. Also why it's crucial to classify cryptocurrency income appropriately, both gains and losses, and how accurate record keeping goes a long way. Vamshi speaks to why this is so and some of the advantages of their smart matching program across multiple exchange platforms. Users can even go backwards to update previous returns and become current on back taxes.

153: Ampleforth with Evan Kuo Feb 28, 2020

Ethan is joined by Evan Kuo from Ampleforth, for a exploration into the potential of DeFi - Decentralized Finance.

Today's decentralized assets, such as Bitcoin and ETH, can be seen as the primitive building blocks for tomorrow's DeFi use-cases. These include lending, debt, and synthetic equities, however, we quickly come to a realization of their inherent limitations. Evan breaks down how their limitations are due to their high correlation to each other and why they bring about the need for extreme overcollateralization and the risk of autoliquidation.

This brings up a big problem in crypto that not many are addressing. The diversification of these primitive building blocks will be required for DeFi to reach its potential. Hypercorrelation is a huge problem, one that threatens the very viability of cryptocurrency.

Further topics covered in this episode:

The AMPL is a decentralized commodity-money like Bitcoin, but with near perfect supply-elasticity like fiat.
Its protocol automatically increases or decreases the quantity of tokens each user holds in response to 24 hr volume weighted price by adjusting a global scalar variable (similar to a gravitational constant or coefficient of expansion).
Because traders of this coin realize gains and losses in quantity as well as price, the protocol introduces a fundamentally new set of incentives--requiring profit-maximizing users to trade in a different manner.
Ultimately, unique behavior in response to these incentives creates a new different movement pattern, resulting in lower correlation with bitcoin and floating price assets today.

152: CryptoTrader.Tax Feb 17, 2020

David Kemmerer is the CEO and Co-Founder at CryptoTrader.Tax the largest cryptocurrency tax reporting software in the U.S.

With the new cryptocurrency question on the IRS 1040 Schedule 1, all U.S. taxpayers will, for the first time, be asked to declare crypto on their income tax return.

David speaks to where the IRS is in regard to cryptocurrency and where this space is heading.

151: SKALE Labs with Jack O'Holleran Feb 10, 2020

Jack O'Holleran is the Co-Founder and CEO at SKALE Labs.

SKALE is an Ethereum-compatible network with a leaderless consensus designed to run on an uncapped number of independent nodes, each of which will be providing resources to multiple high performance decentralized elastic blockchains.

150: AdEx with Ivo Georgiev Jan 31, 2020

Ethan interviews Ivo Georgiev, the CEO of AdEx Network an up-and-coming adtech blockchain startup. They've received recognition within the Ethereum community since 2017 for constantly innovating on their technology.

Ivo explains how they've managed to build the largest payment channels network on Ethereum, how they're bringing in clients from outside of crypto, the challenges of building a Web 3.0 startup, the similarity and differences to Brave, the hype around DeFi, and more.

149: Fireblocks with Michael Shaulov Jan 31, 2020

Michael Shaulov is the CEO and Co-Founder of Fireblocks, a secure transfer environment that gives financial institutions a safe way to move blockchain-based digital assets. Since launching in June, Fireblocks has secured more than $9 billion in digital assets

148: Luke Stokes FIO Managing Director Jan 24, 2020

Luke Stokes is the Managing Director at FIO https://fio.foundation

The Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO) is a consortium of leading wallets, exchanges, and crypto payment processors supporting the FIO Protocol. FIO Members are early supporters who intend to integrate the protocol into their respective products and provide assistance/guidance in its direction.

He brings Ethan up to speed on the new developments since we last spoke with David Gold in March of last year.

147: Monica Quaintance - Kadena Head of Research and Networks Jan 15, 2020

Kadena Head of Research and Networks Monica Quaintance joins The Blockchain Show host Ethan to discuss today's hybrid blockchain launch.

146: Danny Kim - Head of Growth at SFOX Jan 14, 2020

Ethan is joined by Danny Kim, Head of Growth at SFOX, a crypto trading platform and prime dealer for whale traders and institutional investors that's connected to over 20 exchanges and OTC desks to provide a single point of access to crypto markets. SFOX has quietly performed over $11B in transactions and works with some of the biggest names in crypto.

Topics covered include:

• Danny's Career: What lead him from his traditional banking job into the then unknown, wild world of crypto, ignoring concerns from his mentors and peers. (And whether it was worth it.) • Danny tells us about SFOX – and what even is a Prime Dealer? Why a single point of liquidity to all the major crypto exchanges and OTC desks is key for institutional and retail adoption of crypto trading. • How SFOX is designed for traders: SFOX’s suite of algorithms – and SFOX's FoxEye suite of trading tools for personalized trading strategies. • Traders Insurance: SFOX provides its traders with industry-first FDIC-insured accounts; why qualified insurance is vital for institutional adoption.   • What type of institutions are getting into crypto? From family offices and hedge funds to money managers, SFOX is seeing a wide variety of institutional investors gaining exposure to digital assets. • Why segregated accounts are crucial to institutional investment in cryptocurrencies, and how the QuadrigaCX debacle exposed the current model as flawed.

145: Lost in Blockchain Space Dec 31, 2019

Happy New Year! Ethan sends his gratitude to the listeners, co-hosts, guests, and sponsors that have made this last year possible. As he reflects on some of last years memorable moments, he offers some vision for the future of the space and podcast.

144: Daryl Davis and Bill Ottman - Minds.com Nov 18, 2019

Bill Ottman, Founder and CEO of Minds returns to the podcast and we welcome Daryl Davis who recently joined the team at Minds as they unveil their Deradicalization Initiative (www.minds.com).

Davis, an accomplished R&B musician, has been passionate about deradicalization for decades, documenting his journey of reaching to the other side in his 1998 book, Klan-destine Relationships: A Black Man's Odyssey in the Ku Klux Klan. Minds.com is on the forefront of making the Internet a more tolerant place, recently having a successful dialogue about race, politics, and other challenging topics at their Minds IRL event in New Jersey earlier this year.

Minds offers its users unlimited reach and the ability to earn points, a form of digital currency, just for using the app. Points are then used to ‘Boost’ posts to wider audiences. Every upload, vote, swipe and ‘Remind’ (share) earns points that are stored in each user’s wallet. Users may then send offers of points to other users, peer-to-peer, in exchange for shares of their content to those audiences. Or, users can Boost content site-wide by exchanging their points with Minds for increased views.

143: Audius with Roneil Rumberg Nov 12, 2019

Ethan interviews Roneil Rumberg from Audius, a decentralized music streaming service that launched a public beta recently and is already one of the biggest consumer crypto apps with more than 30,000 users onboard. Backed by some of the top VCs, including General Catalyst, KPCB, Lightspeed, and Pantera, Audius is driving mainstream crypto adoption.

Roneil speaks on:

His background as a seed investor into blockchain and AI companies, how he co-founded a peer-to-peer bitcoin payment company, and ultimately what led him to founding Audius.
The need for a truly decentralized music platform. Platforms like Soundcloud and Spotify provide little-to-no control or transparency on how artists distribute their content.
The future of music. Will artists be able to thrive in a censorship-resistant, transparent, community-driven world? How will artists and fans adapt to a blockchain-powered streaming service?

142: Fight to Fame with Flex Moore and Fernando Carilla Nov 05, 2019

Ethan talks with Flex Moore from Fight To Fame, the first blockchain-based sports entertainment platform paving new paths to fame for action superstars. Fernando Carrillo makes a brief cameo midway through the episode.

With the backing of Carrillo and other established talent, Fight To Fame is creating the future of sports entertainment, powered by a blockchain-based platform to fuel everything from global fan engagement to fair and more transparent monetization opportunities for fighters. The company is leading a global talent competition to unearth the next generation of fighters through a series of combat challenges. The ultimate winners from this contest will go on to secure starring roles in upcoming Hollywood action films, thanks to key partnerships the company has forged with production companies.

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141: Bakkt, Lightning Network, Verity Bankrupt Oct 08, 2019

The Bakkt project by ICE gains momentum and Steve breaks down what it's all about. The Lightning Network has come up on several podcasts, but this time the basics and advanced use cases are clearly defined. Also a listener emails us about a previous guest, Verity, going bankrupt.

140: Daniel Lindsay CFO at AXEL / Growing IPFS and Masternode Technology Sep 30, 2019

Steve and Ethan interview Daniel Lindsay, the CFO at AXEL in Las Vegas, Nevada. Daniel is a veteran financial professional with experience in consumer lending, retail banking, treasury services, and ultra-high net worth wealth management. He graduated with a degree in finance from Michigan State University and then went on to manage a financial institution in Las Vegas while concurrently earning his MBA from University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Immediately following graduate school, Dan worked for a large regional bank providing financial consulting services before pursuing a law degree from Western Michigan University where he not only completed his JD, but also an LLM in taxation. After law school, Daniel was instrumental in the formation of a successful Registered Investment Advisor firm where he played a key role for several years. Daniel holds multiple FINRA licenses and a CFP designation.

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AXEL.Network, and follow them on Discord, and Medium

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139: Podcrypt Beta Launch with Jordan Last Sep 22, 2019

Jordan Last joins Ethan again for an update on Podcrypt.app beta launch. Podcrypt allows you to listen to and optionally donate back to podcasts automatically, fairly, and peer-to-peer. To learn more visit the Podcrypt about page.

Supporting content with micro-payments has been mentioned for years on this show and Jordan is making it happen on the Ethereum Blockchain.

In this episode they cover the apps development and beta launch, compare different forms of media throughout the last century, the pitfalls of advertising, and the need for supporting content the listener actually wants.

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138: Kevin Wang co-founder of Nervos Sep 16, 2019

Kevin Wang is a co-founder of Nervos, a public blockchain designed by a former Ethereum core developer and backed by Sequoia, Polychain, and others. As one of China's top projects, Nervos recently partnered with crypto exchange Huobi to build a new public chain for banks and financial institutions. Kevin was responsible for Nervos' unique token economics design where users will eventually pay "rent" to store assets and smart contracts on the network. He believes this type of model is critical if blockchains are to scale. Same goes for the layered design, which splits the public consensus layer from the transactional layer to increase a blockchain's performance while balancing security and trust.

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137: Dave Kaplan - AXEL General Counsel Sep 01, 2019

Ethan is joined by The Blockchain Show's first guest attorney, Dave Kaplan of AXEL General Counsel. Dave is a proven attorney who focuses on the intersection of business, technology, and law. Dave has played a leading role in high-stakes litigation in a broad array of forums, including in many patent matters. He has represented clients such as Volkswagen, Sony, Lenovo, Olympus, Toyota, and GE Healthcare, but has also successfully represented clients against adversaries with much deeper pockets. Dave carries a B.S.E. from the University of Michigan College of Engineering and a law degree from Rutgers University.

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136: German negative yield bonds, Lite Coin's lite developers, who owns the bitcoin twitter handle? Aug 31, 2019

Steve and Ethan are back from time off and bring you last week's crypto and blockchain related news.

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135: Jeremy Forsberg and AXEL IEO Aug 06, 2019

Jeremy from AXEL and AXEL.Network joins hosts Steve and Ethan for another informative and insightful look into today's Blockchain space.

Jeremy was co-founder and CEO of the NAVADA Group – a UK based creative agency that worked with some of Europe’s most powerful and recognizable brands. He boosted audience engagement for a horse racing brand by over 2,000%, and is best known for leading the award-winning Road Respect campaign, among many others. He leads AXEL's strategic content and marketing initiatives and has launched the company's major projects, including its blockchain platform AXEL.Network, AXEL IPFS Pinning Facility, AXEL Wallet, and most recently announcing the AXEL IEO on ProBit Exchange.

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134: Anchor with Daniel Popa Aug 02, 2019

Ethan speaks with Daniel from Anchor, a stable currency and financial standard that aims to preserve and enhance the value of investor holdings. The Anchor stablecoin is pegged to a proprietary algorithm, the Monetary Measurement Unit (MMU), developed by a team of PhDs and based on the growth of the global economy. The currency is further protected from inflation and volatility by a two-token system that incentivizes validators to mint and burn tokens to keep the value at the MMU.

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133: Rokfin with Martin Floreani Aug 01, 2019

Ethan calls from LA into the Austin city limits and connects with Martin Floreani the founder and CEO of Rokfin. Rokfin is a creator-first subscription media company and a (live) digital platform that rewards content creators for the full value they generate.

Topics covered:

How to Make the “Network Effect” Work for Creators?
Addressing the disparity in work-to-reward ratio for creators vs. platforms
Structuring an Ecosystem that Fosters Collaboration over Competition: when one wins, we all win
Why ICO's are a dirty word

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132: POTUS disapproves Libra; PayFast's negative bitcoin adoption, Lite coin Jul 16, 2019

Trump takes to Twitter to bash Libra and bitcoin. Steve and Ethan expand on the ever present question, what is money?

PayFast unhappens bitcoin support.

Steve gives a brief history of Lite coin and how it stacks up to the main 3.

Links mentioned in the show:

PayFast ends support for bitcoin

You Don’t Understand Bitcoin Because You Think Money Is Real

131: Dublin Ohio's slp Token, Chuck E Cheese vs bitcoin, Google's foray into crypto Jul 07, 2019

Steve and Ethan bring you up to speed with this past week's Blockchain developments as well as an update into Craig Wright's (faketoshi) court case. Articles mentioned in the show: Dublin Ohio's token Chuck E Cheese tweet Google's cryptocurrency project

130: Plouton Mining with Ramak Sedigh CEO Jun 29, 2019

Ramak J. Sedigh, CEO of Plouton Mining, has been a life-long entrepreneur across many industries who is bringing his multi-disciplinary talents and track record of success to building N. America’s largest solar-powered bitcoin mining operation in Western Mojave California. Ramak began his professional life in the real estate industry by building a 1900-unit apartment portfolio in the late 1980s. Later, he started, built and sold a successful online tenant screening service with one of the early nationwide criminal databases in the US. Ramak has a BS in Political Science from the University of Houston.

Plouton Mining (based in LA), will be North America’s largest solar-powered bitcoin mining facility. Based on 50 acres in Western Mojave, CA, Plouton Mining will implement new sustainable mining practices via solar panels that will allow the industry to continue to grow, while also providing ordinary investors with the opportunity to participate in the process of mining via a security token. The way Plouton Mining will contract with local utility providers will allow for ultra-cheap operating costs when the sun goes down. This will benefit both the project and the utility companies themselves. Because utility companies sell the bulk of their energy during peak hours when demand is highest, they are left with an excess supply during much of the nighttime hours when demand is much lower. Plouton’s next-generation ASIC miners will operate with maximum efficiency, both day and night.

129: Libra coin, Calibra wallet; Facebook's stable coin Jun 22, 2019

Steve and Ethan talk about Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency

128: AXEL.Network with Jeremy Forsberg, CMO, AXEL Jun 13, 2019

AXEL is committed to providing users with true ownership over their data with dynamic, easy-to-use technology solutions for file sharing, access, security and privacy, transfer, streaming and integration, from one secure platform. They just launched AXEL.Network, a global decentralized network to help foster the movement from centralized to decentralized computing — the next-generation internet.

Jeremy was co-founder and CEO of the NAVADA Group – a UK based creative agency that worked with some of Europe’s most powerful and recognizable brands. He boosted audience engagement for a horse racing brand by over 2,000%, turning it into the top racing brand. He’s best known for leading the award-winning Road Respect campaign, wielding viral content to slash drunk driving incidents. He leads AXEL's strategic content and marketing initiatives and has launched the company's major projects, including its blockchain platform AXEL.Network.   For more information, visit: Website: https://axel.network, https://www.axel.org

Twitter: @AXELUnlimited

FB: https://www.facebook.com/AxelUnlimited

Medium: https://medium.com/@axelunlimited

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/axelunlimited

127: Self-Sovereign Identity, Replacing Credit Reporting Bureaus with Blockchain Technology Jun 07, 2019

Ethan reads listener mail about credit on blockchain before calling co-host Steve who introduces the concept of self-sovereign identity on blockchain. What it is and what it would take to implement.

126: Facebook's Global Coin, Firefox's Crypto Blocker, SunBlock Podcast Jun 02, 2019

Ethan reads a few articles (0:26) concerning some recent developments in the mysterious world of Facebook's "Global Coin" (4:40) and Mozilla's new "Crypto Blocker" privacy setting on their Firefox browser.

Presenting Ian Collin's new podcast (12:22) "SunBlock" debuting here first showcasing Florida's growing Blockchain community and businesses.

125: Will the real Satoshi please stand up? May 23, 2019

Blockchain Show OG's Steve and Ethan get into rumors surrounding Satoshi Nakamoto's true identity...

Also, Whole Foods “accepts” bitcoin, and a follow up on Purse.io years later.

124: Binance Hacked, Tether, Crypto Exchanges, and Banking Myths May 17, 2019

Steve breaks down the recent Binance debacle and what that means for crypto-kind. Some more reflections on Tether not really being tied to the dollar, as well as other common myths about exchanges and traditional banks. For complete show notes and links mentioned in the show, please visit TBCS website

*The Silk Road Episode mentioned in last week's update has been postponed. Please check back soon.

123: The Blockchain Show Update May 10, 2019

Ethan sits down for another solocast bringing you up to speed on the show's recent developments.

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122: Harmony with Nick White Apr 25, 2019

Nick White is the co-founder of Harmony, A public chain project (using sharding different than Zilliqa's), made up of Harvard and Stanford graduates with an ex-engineering team from places like Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon in San Francisco.

Harmony is a public blockchain protocol with key innovations in state sharding (secure staking & re-sharding with decentralized randomness) and in peer-to-peer networking (optimal cross-shard routing, fast block propagation)

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121: TradeCloud with Matthew Botell Apr 17, 2019

Matthew Botell has 20 years’ experience in the physical commodity business. He joins host Ian Collins for an in-depth discussion about the physical commodity web and how TradeCloud will use blockchain to revolutionize the outdated technology still largely used today.

TradeCloud currently serves the metals industry and plans to expand into the energy and agricultural sectors in the near future. The combined trade value across the three markets is estimated to be in excess of USD 8 trillion per year- representing one, if not the, largest untapped e-commerce opportunity available today.

120: Verity with Martin Mikeln Apr 17, 2019

Martin co-founded the world’s first decentralized human oracle known as Verity. Currently, projects in the oracle space (for example: Chainlink, Witnes, Augur etc) are gaining a lot of attention considering the essential part they play in unlocking the potential of smart contracts.

Verity is the decentralized oracle for smart contracts. It makes it easy to verify real-world information and connect it to any smart contract. Using the wisdom of the crowd and blockchain-as-a-court-system, Verity eliminates the oracle problem.

Martin hails from Slovenia, a little-known (but extremely beautiful!) country, that also happens to be a blockchain hotspot with a long pedigree in top crypto companies such as BitStamp - one of the largest and oldest crypto exchanges in the world, and NiceHash - the world’s largest crypto-mining marketplace.

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119: myCryptoWallet with Jaryd Koenigsmann Apr 07, 2019

myCryptoWallet was founded by Jaryd Koenigsmann in 2017 and is a digital currency service and marketplace based in Melbourne, Australia. The platform currently enables purchasing and trading of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, XRP and Power Ledger. In 2019, the company became Australia’s first zero-fee platform, and launched myCryptoCard, a first-of-its-kind debit card that allows consumers to spend their cryptocurrency at more than 1 million locations and withdraw money from 30,000 ATMs across Australia. myCryptoWallet also intends to add 50-plus new coins to the platform to offer even more opportunities and flexibility of cryptocurrency enthusiasts. For more information, visit www.mycryptowallet.com.au.

118: Bitcoin Minimalists Mar 28, 2019

Co-founder of The Blockchain Show, Steve Anderson, returns with more relevant perspective on what's been happening since his hiatus.

Thanks to Sarah, Mark, Ian, Heather and Steve, for all their help over the years in making this show. For a complete list of our past sponsors, and to read the show notes, please visit the website

117: Kadena with Will Martino - Pact, Public Blockchain, and Enterprise Scalability Mar 21, 2019

Will Martino co-founded Kadena in 2016 with his colleague Stuart Popejoy to provide the fastest, safest, and most scalable smart-contracts for entrepreneurs and enterprises. Prior to starting Kadena, Will worked in JPMorgan’s emerging technology group along with Stuart Popejoy, where they spearheaded the company’s blockchain project, Juno. Additionally, Will worked as a senior science advisor for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on the Cryptocurrency Steering Committee.

Pact is the first truly human readable smart contract language. It lets anyone write clearly, directly and safely onto a blockchain—a true advance for secure, automated contracts. Pact supports entirely new business models and on-chain services.

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116: Bill Ottman Reloaded - Open Sourcing, Internet Freedom, and Minds.com Mar 17, 2019

Bill Ottman is an Internet entrepreneur and freedom of information activist based, and is also the CEO and co-founder of Minds an open sourced and decentralized platform for internet freedom where users can get paid in crypto for contributions to their community.

What kind of internet do we want to be remembered? How do we want to interface with it? How decentralized do we want it? Who gets to decide? This and more with the powerful Bill Ottman.

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115: Foundation for Interwallet Operability with David Gold, Ian and MasterGenesis live at Hamburger Mary's Mar 08, 2019

David Gold is the mastermind leading a project called FIO (Foundation for Interwallet Operability). David is a former dot com entrepreneur and 11+ year tech/blockchain venture capitalist, who believes usability must be greatly improved for Satoshi’s vision of “purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash” to become a broad reality.

The foundation is a consortium of leading blockchain wallets, exchanges and payments providers that seeks to accelerate blockchain adoption by reducing the risk, complexity, and inconvenience of sending and receiving cryptoassets.

FIO is developing the FIO Protocol, a decentralized open-source blockchain protocol, that will enable greatly enhanced user experience inside the FIO enabled wallets, exchanges and applications of their choice.

Erik Voorhees from ShapeShift is extremely excited about this project which is intended to massively improve UX of all wallet software (blockchain agnostic).

Furthermore, The FIO Protocol is a new inter-wallet operability protocol that removes the risk, complexity, and inconvenience of sending and receiving tokens and coins.

ShapeShift.io, KeepKey, TrustWallet, Coinomi, MyCrypto, BRD, Edge & Mycelium are already signed up as members to the Foundation and will implement the protocol that provides an enhanced layer of usability features for existing and future wallets and exchanges - making the

transfer of cryptocurrencies between wallets as simple and straightforward for consumers as making transfers on PayPal.

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23:40 Ian meets up with Justin Dean and Lucas Dimos from MGEN

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114: 81-c with Jessica Merrell - Founder and Co-CEO Mar 01, 2019

Jessica Merrell is the Founder and Co-CEO at 81-c. 81-c is creating a solution in the global challenge of financial inclusion by growing entrepreneur-led small to medium-sized enterprises and making them accessible to everyone. Their proprietary scaling method allows for rapid growth and value creation that is immediately made available to the public. The 81-c approach is revolutionary as it delivers, for the first time, a way for everybody to access the value created by entrepreneurship. It also unlocks maximum value for entrepreneurs who can now source previously untapped capital and resources. So it’s a win-win for both 81-c entrepreneurs and the investing public.

113: GunClear with David Noble and Bryant Eisenbach Feb 22, 2019

David Noble returns to The Blockchain Show as Co-Founder of GunClear along with Protocol Architect Bryant Eisenbach. They join hosts Ian and Ethan for an exploration of an absolutely private and secure data storage solution for the firearm industry. It has proven elusive, and has often been dismissed as impossible altogether. But they seek to crush these preconceived notions using the latest in blockchain asset transfer, zero-knowledge proofs and applied cryptography, GunClear will be the first to enable completely private and secure firearm transactions.

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112: Frank Holmes - Hive Feb 13, 2019

Renowned global investor Frank Holmes joins host Ian Collins. Frank leads the HIVE board of directors and is contributing to the company's vision and strategy. Frank is also chief executive and chief investment officer at U.S. Global Investors, a leading mutual fund and asset management firm. Frank is a sought after keynote speaker at international investment conferences and a regular guest in business media. His Frank Talk CEO Blog is one of the most widely read in finance.

111: Podcrypt with Jordan Last Feb 01, 2019

Podcrypt is a podcast application that allows automatic, fair, peer-to-peer podcast donations using Ether. Join the Podcrypt group on Telegram to learn more.

110: Paul Puey - Edge CEO and Co-founder Jan 15, 2019

The venerable Paul Puey returns after nearly two years of innovating to talk about the update, what he’s working on at Edge and why, as well as the importance of accessible, client-side security protocols.

Edge is a secure and easy to use multi-asset wallet that recently announced an expansive suite of updates that builds on Edge’s already impressive range of user capabilities. Through Edge, Paul’s mission is to simplify bitcoin and make sending and securing the currency easy for everyone, while maintaining the highest level of privacy. Founded in 2014 as Airbitz, the edge-secure client-side encryption secures user private keys before ever leaving a personal device for the utmost decentralized wallet protection. Edge supports Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Dash, and other top cryptocurrencies. For more information, visit edge.app.

109: Listener Mail - Sports Betting Dime, Nuggets Update, Mycellium, Paxful in Kenya, ETH Denver, and Avoiding Cryptocurrency Scams Jan 07, 2019

Happy New Year! As mentioned on the show, thanks to the writers at Sports Betting Dime for your listener mail question 0:30. 2:32 An update from our friends at Nuggets, who have partnered with Latpay to Bring Secure Blockchain-Powered Payments to Global Merchants. 6:10 Mycellium Becomes Latest Addition To Foundation For Interwallet Operability. 11:25 ETH Denver Hackathon February 15-17 2019. 13:30 Paxful Update from Kenya during the holidays. 19:24 Some legal direction for keeping safe while you buy or sell cryptocurrency.

108: Tone Vays - Blockchain Misconception and 2019 Predictions Dec 27, 2018

Tone Vays joins host Ian Collins for our last podcast of the year. Tone has worked on Wall Street for almost 10 years starting as a Risk Analyst at Bear Stearns and later becoming a VP at JP Morgan Chase in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. His expertise is in Economic Trends, Trading and Risk Analysis. Ever since getting involved in the Crypto Currency ecosystem in early 2013, he has been very active in spreading the relevance and importance of this technology as it helps promote economic freedom. You can learn more at his website or follow him on Twitter @ToneVays

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107: healthbank with Karston Stampa Dec 20, 2018

Karston Stampa is COO/CFO at healthbank a Swiss cooperative, founded in 2013 in the digital health sphere. They aim to become the leading health data hub for the 21st century and act as a game changer in the global health data market by offering providers, users and healthcare professionals a secure environment for all health-related data – from electronic health records via fitness data; from ePrescriptions to medical therapy plans, prevention recommendations and many more.

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106: Jack Ottman COO at Minds.com - The Social Media Blockchain Bastion pt. 2 Dec 16, 2018

Jack Ottman is COO at Minds.com, a Blockchain based social media alternative. He calls in from the snowy Rocky Mountains and catches up with Ian on their developments since we last spoke to Bill this past summer.

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105: Ray Youseff - Paxful Founder and Bitcoin Philanthropist Dec 12, 2018

Ray Youseff is CEO and Co-Founder at Paxful. He's a NYC native who has been a serial entrepreneur since 2001. Ray is also a full stack web developer and systems admin.

Paxful is building a global peer to peer payment logistics platform of the future. Paxful is PayPal + Uber and the peoples Wall Street.

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