"A high energy, creative and resourceful problem solver who enjoys working in teams and engaging with other individuals. A quick learner with demonstrated initiative and strong analytical skills." ~ C J Smith, co-founder of CryptoBlockCon CJ previously worked as a business analyst and digital marketing professional. Now he's an Entrepreneur, event organizer and co-founder of CryptoBlockCon, a global Blockchain conference series. After listening to this episode you will learn: Where CJ is from an...
Jun 19, 2018•48 min
"Faruk Okcetin is an experienced business professional and lifelong entrepreneur. He has been actively involved in a wide range of businesses, including Real-Estate, Mortgage Finance, Restaurants, Technology, BlockChain, Medical Devices, and Biometrics. Faruk takes pride in taking ideas and implementing strategies to bring them to fruition. Having been an investor and part of a number of start-ups, he truly relishes in building a strong brand awareness, and applying the correct marketing and sal...
Jun 16, 2018•36 min
"After writing an M.A. thesis on the use of blockchain technology in the art ecosystem and working at Sotheby's helping collectors to bid at auction, I co-founded Codex Protocol, a decentralised title registry for art and collectibles. I previously spent six years in the finance industry. Sailing enthusiast and collector of old maps." After listening to this episode you will learn: How Jess initially got into the Blockchain The connection Jess saw between Blockchain and the art world How that le...
Jun 13, 2018•31 min
Kirk Phillips, CPA, CMA, CFE, DCC is an entrepreneur, Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) passionate about technology and the possibilities for bitcoin to disrupt, decentralize and bring transparency into the business world. He is the author of the The Ultimate Bitcoin Business Guide , an inspirational business-focused Bitcoin book for entrepreneurs and small businesses. He weaves risk management into business process outsourcing, crypto business consulting and...
Jun 05, 2018•1 hr 4 min
Munair is a Wharton graduate, information technologist, engineer, entrepreneur, fitness model, Capoeira teacher, aspiring yogi and marketing strategist presently focused on cryptocurrency ventures. He also contributes regularly to CoinCentral, a Cryptocurrency news website. We discuss South Korea, Fluidity, Ethereal, Consensus, and our Adventures at Blockchain week. After listening to this episode you will learn: Munair's story and background growing up in the Carribean and US before eventually ...
May 30, 2018•57 min
Tim Francisco has a background in B2B enterprise sales of hardware and software. He has worked at such companies as Dell, EMC, Cisco as well as the AI and deep neural network industry. Now Tim is helping build the Blockchain economy by providing consulting and introducing companies to platforms, services and other valuable information needed to BUIDL. After listening to this episode you will learn: Tim's story and background growing up in Socal How he was working at Cisco when the Internet as we...
May 25, 2018•51 min
Brian Deery is the Chief Scientist at Factom, a platform that stores the world's data on a decentralized system. Using Blockchain technology Factom facilitates smart contracts, digital assets and database integrity. Brian is an early innovator in technology. He built a self-driving Lotus Elise which competed in the 2007 DARPA Urban Grand Challenge. The race competition included a precursor to Google’s driverless car. Previously, he served as an R&D Engineer at Pentair, Ltd where he designed ...
May 03, 2018•52 min
Sometimes known as DJ Eth Ledger, Zane is the co-founder and CTO @ Dispatch Labs, Founding partner at The Bureau, and co-organizer of the San Francisco Ethereum Meetup. Zane is an experienced blockchain architect and distributed systems specialist. He is firmly entrenched as an expert in the blockchain world, sitting on the board of advisors for four California based blockchain companies, and is an author in the space. Zane’s entire life is focused on his desire to build something at the bleedin...
Apr 25, 2018•39 min
Kim is a prolific event speaker, social media influencer, fitness enthusiast, startup mentor and has shared the stage with superstars across industries including Gary Vee. Kim Parnell, the Cofounder of Blank, is a seasoned startup veteran originally from Toronto, Canada with a successful exit under her belt. Blank aims to be a platform that builds apps automatically without code, thus making app development available to everyone. Her passion for Blank comes from her frustration in finding a tech...
Apr 18, 2018•58 min
"Events are expensive operations. As a result, event organizers establish costly subsidies and artificial deals to maximize revenue and minimize risk, ultimately hurting the entire event financing process" - Jason Robert, Co-founder & CEO of Hello Sugoi Jason is Co-founder & CEO of HelloSugoi, the world's first blockchain powered live events ecosystem. The team over at Hello Sugoi operates on principals that the event coordinators and customers deserve a fair system in which to operate. ...
Apr 10, 2018•27 min
Sarah Hody counsels entrepreneurs, established tech businesses and innovators on a variety of regulatory matters, primarily in the fintech and blockchain industries. Sarah is well-versed in state and federal financial services regulations, data security, privacy, intellectual property and regulatory compliance. Sarah’s background includes serving as in-house counsel at Coinbase, a digital asset exchange company as well as assisting token crowd sales (ICOs), asset-backed digital tokens, peer-to-p...
Apr 04, 2018•27 min
Raphaël is a socially focused technology entrepreneur and is way down the blockchain rabbit hole. His former life was in lobbying and corporate communications in Europe and Latin America. Raphaël is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese (and currently learning Greek). He is now the founder and CEO of Alice, a social funding and management platform on the Ethereum Blockchain. For show notes and more please visit: CoinStructive...
Mar 24, 2018•34 min
Dan Bates has spent the last 10 years as President, CEO and Founder of WindStream Technologies, a recognized leader in hybrid renewable energy systems. Under Bates’ guidance, the Company has deployed projects of all sizes in over 35 countries and established manufacturing facilities in the United States and in India. The Company has won international awards for product design, efficiency and sustainability and has developed strong relationships in the international renewable energy community. Pr...
Mar 16, 2018•47 min
Joe Ciccolo is an accomplished expert in building and implementing successful BSA/AML programs for traditional and non-traditional financial institutions offering a variety of banking products and services. Following 10+ years in legacy bank compliance, Joe founded BitAML, a regulatory compliance advisory group devoted exclusively to helping bitcoin startups and innovators leveraging Blockchain technology. BitAML allows him to share his subject matter expertise with those that share his passion ...
Mar 09, 2018•1 hr 5 min
This is a re-post from The Captain Crypto Show by Kylan Hurt Kylan is a Full-Stack Developer for a Cryptocurrency wallet provider called Edge (formerly Airbitz). He specializes in such languages as: PHP, Javascript & jQuery, MySQL, Angular.js, Python, HTML, CSS After listening to this show you will learn: Chris' corporate background and how he transitioned into the Crypto world How he got his start as a Bitcoin community organizer What CoinStructive does and how it works A look at the Crypto...
Feb 22, 2018•1 hr 19 min
Sheree is currently the Legal and Blockchain Development lead at automotive blockchain company, BitCar. She provided Legal and Compliance counsel for an Australian based blockchain commercialisation company, Ledger Assets. At Power Ledger, she worked across Australia’s first ICO on the token design, commercial strategy and led the ICO marketing efforts to the company’s success in $34M raise creating the third largest global crypto Telegram community, 60k+ Twitter followers. Sheree's expertise sp...
Feb 13, 2018•25 min
Steven Masur has over 22 years of legal experience advising emerging companies since the days of the Internet and most recently the Blockchain and cryptocurrency regulation. His practice focuses on corporate finance, M&A, intellectual property, entertainment, and guiding startups. Steve has extensive experience in angel and venture capital finance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and cross-border transactions in Europe and Asia. Previously he counselled enterprise level clients like...
Feb 12, 2018•32 min
Diego is a veteran Technologist and Entrepreneur with a focus in Latin America and Argentina, having grown up there and along with various successful startups he built. Diego's track record includes being part of the founding teams of Clarín Digital (a top Argentina newspaper website), Patagon.com (a financial community eventually sold to Banco Santander), Internet Argentina (the first Argentinean ISP to provide ADSL), and Edunexo (a SaaS platform for educational institutions). He also founded c...
Feb 09, 2018•39 min
Armin is a veteran of the Technology scene having experience with such giants as Yahoo as the Senior Vice President of Engineering for their advertising and web portal and helped build strategic partnerships with telecom giants like AT&T and Verizon. Armin also worked with Advertising.com which was a division of AOL networks. Armin has a Ph.D. in Organizational Management from Capella University and B.S. and M.S. degree in Computer Science from Chico State University. Now, Armin is taking hi...
Feb 06, 2018•37 min
Caterina is a polyglot (multi-lingual), Blockchain educator, consultant and even TEDx speaker among other engagements worldwide. Caterina's areas of expertise include bitcoin and blockchains education, training, mentoring, project implementation, community engagement, and technology integration. Caterina Rindi comes from a background in education and non-profits; through her efforts developing more scalable opportunities and tapping existing resources via peer-to-peer technologies, she became in...
Feb 01, 2018•27 min
Meet Hans Lombardo, serial entrepreneur and Technology journalist with a focus on China and Hong Kong. Hans has seen the birth of various industries including the Internet, Cloud computing, Big Data and now the Blockchain. Hans co-founded Chain of Things, a Hong Kong-based startup integrating blockchain and IoT devices. He also built a data collection and analytics research firm focused on mainland Chinese high-technology industries which he eventually sold. As a technology journalist in the lat...
Feb 01, 2018•30 min
Rob Viglione is the founder of ZenCash and blends his interests as an academic and entrepreneur in finance and Blockchain development. As a PhD Candidate in Finance, Rob's research interests span across crypto-finance, venture capital, asset pricing and blockchain development. Rob teaches a course "Bitcoin & Blockchain Applications in Finance" one of only 3 in the world at the University of South Carolina . ZenCash is built on zero-knowledge proofs ( zk-SNARKs ), a new cryptographic breakthr...
Jan 31, 2018•39 min
Chelsea Palmer is a mega curious academic, activist and passionate decentralist. What is a decentralist you might ask? Well, it's someone who espouses the values of decentralization and Chelsea is it. (She also does rap around Technology and other open sourced philosophies) With humble beginnings in the northeast USA, Chelsea eventually moved to Vancouver where she is helping run DCTRL, a decentralized hackerspace, located in British Colombia, Canada. As stated on the DCTRL Meetup: "We are a Col...
Jan 31, 2018•33 min
Hey everyone, we’re back! It’s been a whirlwind to say the least but we are resurrecting LAB Radio. To kick things off we caught up with some amazing people building amazing things at the World Crypto Economic Forum (WCEF). People like Shawn Owen of Salt, Rob Viglione of Zen Cash and even Chelsea Palmer of DCTRL. Meet Shawn and SALT, a blockchain based lending platform which allows you to secure cash loans sent directly into your bank account with no credit checks and backed by cryptocurrency co...
Jan 30, 2018•42 min
It was a great experience with people from across the globe, brought together under excitement and interest in a new and exciting technology, namely Bitcoin. In the organizers own words: “ Financial technologies are developing faster today than ever before. The North American Bitcoin Conference is the conference that not only brings you up to speed on the latest innovations, but plugs you directly into the brightest industry minds, preparing you for tomorrow. Boasting big name speakers, intimate...
Jun 15, 2016•51 min
The Inside Bitcoins Conference which took place in San Diego on December 15-16, 2015 was a great opportunity for southern California locals, San Diego Bitcoin Meetup members and out of town travelers to network among various influential folks in the global bitcoin community. In the event organizers own words: “This conference and expo provide up-to-date information on the latest in FinTech business trends, funding models, investment strategies, next-generation payment solutions, multi-signature ...
Jun 14, 2016•51 min
Hello Friends, We are proud to announce the inaugural episode of LAB Radio, Learn About Bitcoin and Learn About Blockchain. This show emerged organically from within the CoinStructive team as a way to document the various subject matter around Bitcoin and The Blockchain in an approachable way. Who is CoinStructive? We are passionate change agents, enthusiastic about the promise of Technologies such as Bitcoin and Blockchain and the myriad of other influencing parts to this burgeoning ecosystem. ...
Jun 14, 2016•48 min
