The Ethereum builder: “The world is going to be bridges & chains” - Arjun Bhuptani, Connext
Nina talks with Arjun about his Web3 path and building on Ethereum, the original Connext mission of how to bring Ethereum to a billion people, the evolution and state of bridging, scalability/interoperability, the concept of roll-ups... [25.04.2024]
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The Venture Capitalist: “Explain your company in 11, 30 or 90 seconds.” Aly Madhavji, Blockchain Founders Fund
Nina talks with Aly about his path to Web3, his multipolar view of crypto and blockchain tech from pre ICO era to 2024, legacy tech founders vs. Web 3 founders, traditional VCs vs. Web3-focused VCs, helpful pitch tools for founders, Blockchain FF practices and project selection process, bear vs. bull market proposal dynamics, blockchain pessimism, […]
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The Catalyst: “I hate banks but like technology” From financial injustice to Web 3 - Michael Rosmer, De.Fi
Nina talks with Michael about an eclectic assortment of topics: who Michael is and his interest in Web 3, views on financial injustices within corrupt government systems, the pace of innovation of an open system, international banking, co-founding De.Fi and more [21.03.2024].
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On-chain ZK Privacy Talk with Kieran (Kai) Mesquita, Contributor to Railgun
Nina talks with Kai about his path to Web3 and Railgun, importance of data hygiene practices, the state of privacy in crypto and Web3, the role of AI in privacy, ZK tech, Railgun as a privacy protocol, chain deployment and usage, address shielding and regulatory implications, Private Proofs of Innocence (PPIs), Railgun use cases, NFTs, […]
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Stability Talk with Klay Nichol, COO & Co-Founder of the Stability Protocol
Nina talks with Klay about his TradFi banking background and bringing institutions to the blockchain space, working for Mike Novogratz, key barriers to advancing institutional adoption, public vs. private blockchains and Stability Protocol as a tokenless & feeless concept [15.02.2024]
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DeFi, Liquidity & AI Deep Dive with VCRED Founder and CEO Vijay Lakshminarayanan
Nina talks with Vijay about his path to Web3 and his interest in trading and arbitrage, VCRED and its purpose, cornerstones of DeFi and relevant terminology, the liquidity issue, arbitrage, exchange dynamics, CLOBs, VCRED’s AI liquidity layer and much more [01.02.2024].
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Arthera L1 Talk with CEO & Co-Founder Laurent Perello
Laurent is a Co-Founder and CEO of Arthera, a Layer 1 EVM-compatible and DAG-based blockchain platform. He is also the Founder of the Web3StrongerTogether Initiative and a former TRON DAO Blockchain Advisor with rich experience in business strategy and development. [21.12.2023]
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Web3 Governance Security Talk with Martin Schmidt, Co-Initiator of Q Protocol
Nina talks with Martin about his path to Web3, Q Protocol, the on-chain governance space, what is “proper governance”, use cases within DAOs, the “constitution”, the term “beyond code is law”, the theory of incomplete contracts, critical Q governance elements and root nodes, Q blockchain characteristics, the DeFi element within Q, the Q culture and […]
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Bringing Decentralized Storage to the Masses. Talk with David Tacer, PollinationX Co-Founder
Nina talks to David about his background and cryptography thesis, co-founding PollinationX, the landscape around decentralized storage, the PollinationX Drive, W3XShare, the testing process, dynamic NFTs, the revenue model, potential customers, further use case outlook, roadmap and Web3 adoption. [23.11.2023]
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Data Enablement Talk with Lloyd Moore, CTO of Valence
Nina talks with Lloyd about his background and path to Valence as a startup, the importance of “data” and data ownership, Valence’s role and rebranding, Lloyd’s CTO role, a further dive into data enablement and data validation and more [19.10.2023]
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L2 Talk with Roy Hui, Co-Founder and CEO of LightLink
Roy is the founder of LightLink, a Layer 2 blockchain built for the Metaverse, NFT and Gaming applications. Roy is an engineer and entrepreneur who has founded several other ventures. [05.10.2023]
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Scaling Ethereum with Keone Hon, CEO and Co-Founder of Monad
Nina talks with Keone about his high-frequency trading (HFT) background & the niche industry, and the decision to start Monad. Keone is the co-founder and CEO of Monad Labs, a team of systems engineers bringing parallel execution and low-level optimization to the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). [21.09.2023]
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DAOs & Sustainability: Using Blockchain to Drive Environmental and Social Impact
The speakers discuss the importance of deeper community engagement with a common purpose vs. “the speed” of execution, the problem of voting power, incentivization and setting up mechanisms for the greater good among other ideas with respect to DAOs. [14.09.2023]
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DAOs & Democratic Participation: Using Blockchain to Enhance Political Engagement and Inclusion
The panel continues to define a DAO, its challenges and use cases. The speakers also discuss voting practices, proof solutions such as zero knowledge, and concerns with respect to usability, compliance & education among other related ideas. [07.09.2023]
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”Digital Asset Lending” with Adam Reeds, Co-Founder and CEO at Ledn
Adam is the Co-Founder and CEO at Ledn, a global company regulated in the Cayman Islands that focuses on building financial products to help people save in Bitcoin and digital assets [31.08.2023]
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DAOs and Community Governance: Empowering Local Decision-Making Via Blockchain Technology
The panel discusses the main challenges and issues in creating and managing DAOs from community engagement to governance. It is imperative to tackle governance as DAOs have all the potential to pave the way for organizational infrastructure in a decentralized digital economy [24.08.2023].
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DAOs for Social Good: Leveraging Decentralized Autonomous Organizations to Tackle Global Challenges
The panel explores the trajectory of DAOs, their challenges and how to leverage them for social good with the importance of understanding their value proposition and potential for innovation. [10.08.2023]
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DeFi & the Future of Investing: Decentralized Investment Platforms & DAOs
The panel explores the emergence of decentralized investment platforms and DAOs in the DeFi space, their potential risks and challenges and how they are changing the way we think about investment and asset management [03.08.2023]
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DeFi & the Future of Lending: P2P Lending and Decentralized Credit
The panel covers the discussion of the potential and advantages of decentralized credit and peer-to-peer lending platforms in the DeFi space, and how they could revolutionize traditional lending models. [27.07.2023]
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DeFi and the Future of Money: Exploring CBDCs & Stablecoins
The panel covers diving into the role of CBDC and stablecoins in the DeFi ecosystem and how they are changing the way we think about money and financial transactions. [20.07.2023]
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BTC Mining Deep Dive with JP Baric, the Founder & CEO of Miningstore
We talk with JP about his crypto mining and entrepreneurial beginnings, founding Miningstore, his insights on the current state of crypto, mining and energy markets, the ins and outs of BTC mining and infrastructure, and energy economics. [13.07.2023]
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DeFi for Financial Inclusion: Breaking Down Barriers to Access
The panel covers how DeFi can provide financial access to underserved populations. The speakers identify the major barriers to financial inclusion as well as advantages to DeFi, the problem of decentralization and the realistic differences between DeFi, CeFi and FinTech, reflections of what MICA and other global regulatory initiatives will bring as well as financial […]
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The Rise of DeFi: Disrupting Traditional Financial Institutions
The panel talks about the rise of DeFi and disrupting traditional financial institutions. The speakers 1st define DeFi in more depth and speak about the role of smart contracts. They further discuss advantages and the value of DeFi, use cases, and opinions on trends on the market and technology side in addition to shedding light […]
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The Intersection of Gaming and Social Impact: How GameFi and Web3 Enable Meaningful Change
The panel talks about the intersection of gaming with social impact; namely how GameFi and Web3 enable meaningful change. The speakers first delineate the need for basic infrastructure or access and affordability as well as education and the need for a holistic discussion about equity vs. elitist monetization. [22.06.2023]
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GameFi and the Democratization of Game Development: How Blockchain Technology Can Empower Indie Developers
The panel covers the topic of GameFi and the democratization of game development. The speakers 1st define indie developers and evaluate the differences between traditional vs. Web3 gaming. They further identify adoption as a key challenge, the importance of game experience vs. Web3 tech, token unification, quality web wallets, cost & accessibility, the issue of […]
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The Rise of Crypto Gaming: How GameFi and Web3 are Democratizing the Industry and Empowering Player
The panel centres on crypto gaming, namely how GameFi and Web3 are democratizing the industry and empowering the player. The speakers discuss how Web 3 and GameFi are improving the gaming industry with respect to building equity and shifting power and ownership to users. [08.06.2023]
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From Monopoly to Mutualism: How GameFi and Web3 are Transforming the Business Models of the Gaming Industry?
The panel covers the topic of monopoly to mutualism with respect to GameFi and Web3 transforming business models of the gaming industry. The panel first identifies the issue of playability & usability vs. centralization & decentralization as well as the main challenges within GameFi. [01.06.2023]
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GameFi & The Metaverse: A New Frontier for Virtual Events & Conferences
The panel intertwines the topic of Gamification and the Metaverse with respect to virtual events by first speaking about how the way we communicate has changed drastically with the emergence of AR/VR/XR. [25.05.2023]
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The Future of Work: How GameFi and the Metaverse Can Transform Remote Collaboration
The panel covers the topic of work in the future with respect to the Metaverse and GameFi. Remote collaboration through the Metaverse can provide diversity, global connection, commute time savings, etc. But how do we give an equal chance to everyone everywhere globally? [18.05.2023]
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Web3 Healthtech Talk with Pradeep Goel, the CEO of Solve.Care
We talk to Pradeep about his extensive health tech background and mission, defining fundamental healthcare elements and common issues, the “silo” problem, the global nature of the relationship-based platform model, the importance of healthcare choice, and the technicals of Solve.Care and L2 chain. [11.05.2023]
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The Future of Education: How GameFi & Metaverse Can Transform Learning
The panel covers the topic of education and how GameFi and the Metaverse can transform learning. Since human education is getting increasingly globalized, it is key to dedicate importance to the curatorship of content. Speakers further identified some challenges and drawbacks of using the Metaverse in education as well as the need for educator and […]
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Evmos Talk with Nic Z., Co-founder of Evmos
Nic talks to us about his background with the infamous Blockchain at Berkeley group, the genesis story of Evmos with a context dive of Cosmos and Cosmos SDK, the Tendermint consensus protocol, the story of Ethermint, the hub role of Evmos and more. [20.04.2023]
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The Metaverse: A New Era of Marketing and Advertising
This W3ST panel takes a slightly different topic turn and discusses the metaverse with respect to human interaction. Speakers define "the metaverse", discuss tangible applications focusing on social impact and touch upon the importance of marketer responsibility, setting ethical standards, user protection and much more. [13.04.2023]
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Innovation in the Metaverse; How GameFi and Virtual Reality can Enhance Customer Experience
W3ST panel covers the topic of innovation in the metaverse. The group defines "the metaverse" and discusses GameFi and Virtual Reality influence as well as use cases, especially in the educational and medical fields. [06.04.2023]
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The Future of NFTs in the Film Industry with Ashley Scott Meyers
Ashley Scott Meyers is a writer, producer and director. He is best known for The Pinch (2018), The Rideshare Killer (2022) and Rushlights (2013). In addition, he is a screenwriter and blogger at sellingyourscreenplay.com and created an NFT project in conjunction with the movie The Rideshare Killer (2022). [30.03.2023]
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Nina Cerar, BRP Host; Importance of Quality Education & Blockchain Fundamentals
Nina's keynote reflects her Web3 journey from the ICO era to the Blockchain Recorded startup with reflections along the way and a call for support of educators and real Web3 use case dialogue facilitators. Quality unbiased and unhyped education about Web3 fundamentals is needed now more than ever and is key to Web3 adoption. [23.03.2023]
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Dr. Tali Rezun; The Road to Data Ownership & Secure Communication
This episode is titled; The Road to Data Ownership & Secure Communication. It summarises the work that the Block Labs team has been doing for the past 5 years and proposes a new Web3-based approach to immutable communication and data ownership retention. [16.03.2023]
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Web3 Talk with Wes Levitt, Head of Strategy at Theta Labs
Wes speaks to us about his path to Web3, Theta Network’s origin story (SLIVER.tv), content delivery networks (CDNs), THETA.tv, Theta Metachain technicals incl. Edge Nodes, validation incentive model with Theta token and TFUEL, token business model track with streaming platforms, Theta Video API, ThetaDrop NFT marketplace, Theta’s roadmap, core focus and community [07.03.2023]
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Web3 Self-Custody Talk with Aleksei Zakharov, founder of Ottr Finance
🔈Aleksei Zakharov is the founder and CEO of Ottr Finance. He speaks about his path to Ottr, the importance of self-custody and interoperability with legacy systems, wallet security and dual encryption, interoperability with Solana’s Saga phone, network congestion troubleshooting, KYC user data collection and privacy, Ottr’s roadmap, early adopter incentives, and more. [09.02.2023]
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Web3 Land “Tooling” Talk with Thom Ivy, the Founder of Valar
🔈 Thom Ivy is the founder of Valar, a platform for decentralized migration and property services, and furthermore, a solution for DAOs to acquire and administer land, along other land-related tooling for Web3. [20.01.2023]
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Embedding philanthropy in money with Glo, Jeffrey Milewski and Jasper Driessens
🔈 We speak about founding non-profit Glo, the Glo dollar, extreme poverty, clarification of basic income, the rebranding of Glo and how it works, the social impact, users & recipients, challenges, technicals, USD peg and much more. [22.12.2022]
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Web3 Membership Talk with Julien Genestoux, Founder & CEO of Unlock Protocol
🔈Julien Genestoux is the Founder & CEO of Unlock. He speaks to us about his entrepreneurial background, path to Web 3 and building Unlock, NFTs in the form of membership, the Unlock protocol and its use cases, security and privacy [05.12.2022].
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Personalization of Finance with Emmanuel Daniel
🔈 Emmanuel Daniel is a global thought leader in the future of finance. His deep understanding of the evolution of finance is also reflected in his new book “The Great Transition - The Personalization of Finance is Here” [21.11.2022].
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Decentralized VPN Talk with Travis Cannell, Head of Product at Orchid Labs
🔈Travis talks about his entry into the crypto space, Web 2 vs. Web 3 growth marketing, censorship, Orchid’s strategy as a decentralized VPN system vs. service, Orchid’s probabilistic nano payment system, EVM compatible multi-chain strategy and OXT staking with an illustration of Orchid’s core architecture and multi-hop features [07.11.2022]
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Showreel Season 2, Highlights from Blockchain Recorded Podcast
🔈 In commemoration of our 2nd podcast season, we prepared showreel highlights from our guests at Kabocha, Block Labs, hs.credits, Reserve, Tally, Tron DAO and Linera. [17.10.2022]
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Showreel Season 1, Highlights from Blockchain Recorded Podcast
🔈To commemorate our first two seasons, we prepared a 2-part highlights showreel. Released first are Season 1 guests from 4thTech, Edgeware Agency DAO, Blockstream, Ambire and GlobaliD. [10.010.2022]
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Blockchain Talk with Mathieu Baudet, Founder & Software Architect of Linera Protocol
🔈 Mathieu Baudet is the founder and software architect of Linera Protocol, which is a new decentralized, multi-chain protocol targeting low latency and high throughput applications. [20.09.2022]
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Web3 Talk with Laurent Perello, Tron DAO Advisor & Business Developer
🔈 Laurent Perello is the founder and CEO of Visions of Blockchain, a Tron DAO Blockchain Advisor, serial entrepreneur and crypto veteran. Laurent takes us through his journey from cloud computing and business development to his current Tron DAO advising experience. [25.08.2022]
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DAO Talk with Dennison Bertram, founder and CEO of Tally
🔈 Dennison Bertram is an early blockchain technologist/entrepreneur with an eclectic background ranging from photography to his current CEO and founder role of Tally, a DAO operations platform that provides tools for decentralized decision-making and governance for distributed ledger ecosystems. [25.07.2022]
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Stablecurrency Talk with Nevin Freeman, the Co-founder & CEO of Reserve
🔈 Nevin Freeman is the co-founder and CEO of Reserve where he oversees strategy, legal and team coordination. Reserve is a project that enables access to stable currency (i.e. stable cryptocurrencies) to individuals from inflation-heavy regions. [05.07.2022]
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NFT and Digital Age Education talk with Nadav Zeimer, the founder of hs.credits
🔈 Nadav or “Principal Z” works at the intersection of technology and education. Based on nearly two decades of experience ranging from software engineering to teaching physics/robotics and reforming an NYC public high school as principal, he has launched an open-source, blockchain ledger of "gold standard" high school credits. [13.06.2022]
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Web3 Community management Talk with Phillip Reidy, Community Manager of Spartan Protocol, Universe Finance & THX Network
🔈 Phillip Reidy is a blockchain enthusiast, a core team member at Spartan Protocol, Universe Finance and a community manager at THX.network. Phillip had started his journey as a crypto investor, but became more intrigued by the people in the space and their ability to coordinate as a team with the new technology being created.[02.05.2022]
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Privacy & Security in online Communication, Web3 Talk with Dr. Tali Rezun, Head of Block Labs
🔈 The internet changed the way we live, it opened the highway to unlimited communication and revolutionized access to information, but it failed greatly in regard to our digital freedom and privacy. As a way out, web3 solves online privacy, ownership and security with encryption and decentralization. [04.04.2022]
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Blockchain & Network Publics Talk with Ramsey from Kabocha
🔈 Ramsey is the “technical steward” for the Kabocha blockchain project, he’s a technical startup founder, systems architect and blockchain engineer. Kabocha is Edgeware's parachain candidate for Kusama and continues Edgeware’s governance and treasury experiment by accelerating founders, creators and teams building open and sovereign public networks. [03.03.2022]
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Industry 4.0 and web 3.0 Talk with Tomas Svoboda, founder of VEFramework
🔈 Most of Tomas’ background comes from industrial automation, electronics, firmware, software design and product design. In 2021 he started building 2nd layer framework for blockchain, IoT and other technologies. Some combination of industry 4.0 and web 3.0 visions together in real code and adoption. [24.01.2022]
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Digital Identity Talk with Mitja Simcic (co-founder, CTO) and Greg Kidd (co-founder, CEO) at GlobaliD
🔈 GlobaliD is a portable digital identity platform that uses blockchain tech and revolutionizes how we engage and transact online. It empowers users to build digital reputations and to maintain consent-based control over their personal data. Join us when we dive deep into the topic. [27.12.2021]
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Crypto, Blockchain & Marketing Talk with Vanina Ivanova, CMO at Ambire
🔈 For the past 5 years, Vanina has been running the marketing, growth and sales team at AdEx Network. AdEx is a blockchain-powered system that is bringing full transparency to the digital marketing space through smart contract technology. [03.12.2021]
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DeFi Talk with Jimmy the Hypnotist, Crystl Finance co-founder
🔈 “Decentralized Finance is essentially banking and investing for Cryptocurrency, and it has so many different forms. The main mantra of Crypto for most users has been and still is “HODL”, the mindset of buying Crypto to hold until it appreciates greatly in value.” Jimmy the Hypnotist [19.11.2021]
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Part Two of the Crypto Talk with Ivar Moesman, Blockstream Biz Dev director
🔈 Our guest is Ivar Moesman, the Business Development Director at Blockstream. Part Two of our talk continues with the Lightening Network and Bitcoin as well as topics of decentralization, network effects and governance. [Part Two - 25.10.2021].
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🔈 Our guest is Ivar Moesman, Business Development Director at Blockstream. Part One of this podcast talk focuses on Ivar’s evolving crypto path to Blockstream, Blockstream’s extensive ecosystem and its products, including mining, Blockstream Finance and the Liquid Network. [Part One - 18.10.2021].
Read More & ListenEdgeware Blockchain Talk with Thom Ivy
🔈 Our guest is Thom Ivy, Founder of the Edgeware Agency DAO. The Talk reveals the ins and outs of the Polkadot Substrate Edgeware Blockchain and its innovative DAO approach. [28.09.2021]
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September Talk with Denis Jazbec, 4thTech CTO
🔈 The Talk reveals the thought process of Denis Jazbec covering blockchain as a fundamental technology, the importance of data privacy, data decentralization and decentralized data cloud storage solutions. [10.09.2021]
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Round Table, April 2021, Episode 01
🔈 Join the discussion covering decentralised digital data exchange and multi-blockchain application advantages. [20.04.2021]
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