The Blockchain Show

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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. theblockchainshow.com Connect via Social Media: Minds.com – Join with referral link Facebook Twitter

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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/

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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/

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.

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

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.

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.

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/

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.

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

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.