The Blockchain Show

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

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-b

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/