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 yea...
Jan 10, 2021•50 min•Season 2Ep. 95
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
Dec 11, 2020•39 min•Season 2Ep. 93
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 technol...
Dec 09, 2020•52 min•Season 2Ep. 92
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.
Nov 24, 2020•39 min•Season 2Ep. 92
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....
Nov 15, 2020•59 min•Season 2Ep. 90
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.
Nov 12, 2020•27 min•Season 2Ep. 89
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...
Nov 01, 2020•28 min•Season 2Ep. 88
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.
Oct 27, 2020•43 min•Season 2Ep. 87
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.
Oct 19, 2020•30 min•Season 2Ep. 86
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.
Oct 12, 2020•33 min•Season 2Ep. 85
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 lear...
Sep 28, 2020•36 min•Season 2Ep. 84
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 som...
Sep 23, 2020•32 min•Season 2Ep. 83
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...
Sep 17, 2020•34 min•Season 2Ep. 82
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 e...
Sep 13, 2020•42 min•Season 2Ep. 81
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....
Sep 04, 2020•35 min•Season 2Ep. 80
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. E...
Aug 30, 2020•41 min•Season 2Ep. 79
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 ...
Aug 17, 2020•26 min•Season 2Ep. 78
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.
Aug 09, 2020•39 min•Season 2Ep. 77
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 ...
Aug 03, 2020•42 min•Season 2Ep. 76
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.
Jul 26, 2020•35 min•Season 2Ep. 75
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.
Jul 25, 2020•23 min•Season 2Ep. 75
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 In...
Jul 21, 2020•53 min•Season 2Ep. 73
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....
Jul 17, 2020•34 min•Season 2Ep. 72
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...
Jul 10, 2020•35 min•Season 2Ep. 71
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.
Jul 01, 2020•36 min•Season 2Ep. 70
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...
Jun 27, 2020•36 min•Season 2Ep. 69
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 unf...
Jun 26, 2020•37 min•Season 2Ep. 68
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.
Jun 11, 2020•44 min•Season 2Ep. 67
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 anywhe...
Jun 04, 2020•35 min•Season 2Ep. 66
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.
May 31, 2020•53 min•Season 2Ep. 65
