Brandon Bucher is an engineer and the co-founder of LightningPay.nz. Brandon and I talk about the recent indictments against the Samourai founders whose wallet was operating a bitcoin mixing service. They are charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmission business which echo with the privacy battles in the 90s over encryption. We get into lightning network adoption, privacy, and the future outlook of your UTXO. Timestamps: 00:00 Samourai indictment 08:22 moving the goal posts 16:26 privacy as choice 21:37 privacy long game 26:11 cypherpunks and the battle 32:26 lightning network 38:04 public info on lightning 41:09 adoption in lighting 49:12 UTXO scarcity 54:25 LightningPay.nz 1:02:25 rapid fire 1:05:24 fin Some notes from the show: Samourai indictment coin-join/whirlpool Bitcoin fog Tornado Cash founder sentenced to prison Coin Centre post by Peter Van Valkenburgh unannounced lightning channels Lighting charts River Reports eCash Lightning Pay Contact Brandon: X LinkedIn Find Jeff: X LinkedIn The BCNZ Pod: Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/ YouTube Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio Media & Sponsorship Enquires: team@blockchain.org.nz Recorded at blockheight 842607. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.
Ian Woolford has made a career working at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and presently he's the director of money and cash which is overseeing the CBDC or Digital Cash program. The RBNZ is partway through a series of consultations to get public feedback and opinion on a Reserve Bank issued digital currency. In this conversation Ian makes it very clear that the Reserve Bank wants cash to remain as close to regular cash as possible meaning that anonymity is preserved, and activity is not tracked. Ian also highlights that innovation in banking by banks has been woeful and they hope to encourage non-bank players to innovate here to provide more options for Kiwis. Timestamps: 00:00 intro 03:05 rural access to cash & services 08:24 balancing physical and digital cash 10:56 is this a CBDC? 12:21 blockchain? 15:14 benefits of digital cash 19:36 innovation in cash 24:54 privacy 28:40 banking access for startups 30:22 rapidfire 33:02 fin Some notes from the show: rural cash trial program cyclone Gabrielle cash shortage ESAS settlement Northern Rock's trouble Nigeria's CBDC failure Sweden's e-krona Ecuador's Dinero Electronico RBNZ privacy support paper RBNZ Digital Cash Feedback Contact Ian: LinkedIn RBNZ Find Jeff: X/Twitter LinkedIn The BCNZ Pod: Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/ YouTube Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio Media & Sponsorship Enquires: team@blockchain.org.nz Recorded at blockheight 842510. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.
Brooke Howard-Smith is the founder of Otterfish that is at the heart of the creator economy and influencer marketing. He's also a cofounder of Non-Fungible Labs which is now a part of Futureverse. Brooke and I broadly cover what's happening with AI and how its affecting everything digital and where Web3 fits in. We jump right in Brooke is talking about everyone leveraging what they love, being commercial and non commercial at the same time in the creator economy. Timestamps: 00:00 intro 00:56 monetizing & creator economy 05:15 web3 12:26 spotify, superapps, & AI 18:15 instagram & influence marketing 23:08 client AI tools in the creator economy 28:40 personal AI use 38:46 non fungible labs 41:55 fluf launch & futureverse 46:22 gemini's mis-launch 51:58 rapidfire 1:02:31 fin Some notes from the show: Gino the Ghost on music https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb2NG6NWyhjisymBWg8aSXQ Kurzweil's singularity https://www.singularity.com/ Otterfish https://otterfish.com/ Brian Armstrong AI use https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1779946210226577913 Futureverse https://www.futureverse.com/ unstoppable art machine https://www.instagram.com/unstoppableartmachine/?hl=en fluf launch https://nfts.wtf/what-the-fluf-3d-bunnies-break-the-blockchain/ Gemini's mis-launch https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-woke-ai-image-generation/ Asian shopping https://youtu.be/p3RhRB3YJks?si=M-y5cZab34sQ3Q5G Ready Player One announcement https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/ready-player-one-metaverse-warner-bros-discovery-1235862190/ Golden https://heresgolden.com/ Contact Brooke: X/Twitter LinkedIn Find Jeff: X/Twitter LinkedIn The BCNZ Pod: Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/ YouTube Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio Media & Sponsorship Enquires: team@blockchain.org.nz Recorded at blockheight 839555. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.
Leo Clark is a documentary filmmaker that is presently working with the Nouns DAO community. His latest film, NON-FUNGIBLE AOTEAROA, is debuting at the American Documentary and Animation Film Festival in Palm Springs with the tagline: See how NFTs and Nouns DAO are transforming people’s lives in New Zealand. In this conversation Leo and I talk about the Nouns project and what the community is doing with NFTs and funding artists, we get into Farcaster and decentralised social media and touch on CC-zero (CC0) licensing and how it aligns with web3. Timestamps: 00:00 intro & doco 12:13 NFT art 14:46 Nouns 20:58 community funding 26:06 Farcaster 31:46 Warpcast 35:50 incentives 39:59 mint everything 42:41 nouns cafe 46:42 CC0 no copyright 50:43 rapid-fire 52:13 fin Some notes from the show: The Doco The Festival Nouns Prophouse Nouns names a new species of frog Farcaster Warpcast Frames CC0 No Copyright Contact Leo: X/Twitter Warpcast Find Jeff: X/Twitter LinkedIn The BCNZ Pod: Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/ YouTube Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio Media & Sponsorship Enquires: team@blockchain.org.nz Recorded at blockheight 834418. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.
Sam Kamani has lots of experience in tech, from being a founder to a VC, an advisor, and an author. We talk about 3 important aspects to entrepreneurship: talent, ability to raise capital, and access to market. In the back third we get into trends in Web 3 including decentralised physical infrastructure (DePIn) and ETFs. Timestamps: 00:00 intro 01:12 realestate/density/Dubai 05:22 web3 in Dubai 09:29 capital & market access 15:57 New Zealand's rating 17:18 Sam's background 22:47 Kiwi access to capital 27:28 no-code tools 31:52 the 30 day startup 37:22 post covid 37:40 trends in web3 - stablecoins 46:52 DePIn 50:13 ETFs 56:45 rapid fire 1:00:20 fin Some notes from the show: Norway's Oil Fund autowhale Cookbook.dev Remix IDE The 30 Day Startup PayPal stablecoin Chris Rothfuss in Wyoming Contact Sam: X/Twitter LinkedIn Find Jeff: X/Twitter LinkedIn The BCNZ Pod: Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/ YouTube Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio Media & Sponsorship Enquires: team@blockchain.org.nz Recorded at blockheight 832462. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.
Will Remor is a former quantitative risk analysist from traditional banking that got into stablecoins via the maker DAI project. He's consulted on a number of finance, stablecoin, and defi protocols, including New Zealand's newest stablecoin the NZDD, and has been involved with asset tokenization (or RWAs) from the early days. In this conversation Will takes us through some of the key differences between USDC, Tether, and DAI. We talk about some of the prominent depegging events affecting USDC when Silicon Valley Bank collapsed and who remembers 20% yield in Anchor and the Terra-Luna death spiral. Timestamps: 00:00 intro 01:15 background in finance 03:19 open banking 06:00 2017-era crypto 11:49 what's a stablecoin? 16:55 circle 19:07 tether 21:50 DAI & maker 27:30 NZDD 35:36 mechanics 39:49 stay pegged 44:11 USDC depegs 53:23 UST Terra/Luna 58:46 tokenizing real world assets 1:14:10 opening markets 1:17:20 rapid fire 1:26:20 fin Some notes from the show: tZero ETHLend history Paul Salisbury from Everlasting Janine Grainger from EasyCrypto Stables by marketcap Circle winds down consortium USDC SVB depeg TrueUSD arbitrage Contact Will: LinkedIn Find Jeff: X/Twitter LinkedIn The BCNZ Pod: Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/ YouTube Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio Media & Sponsorship Enquires: team@blockchain.org.nz Recorded at blockheight 828304. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.
Aditya Das is a crypto analyst and writer with a background in applied economics working with Brave New Coin and the Techemy Group analysing macro trends in the crypto and wider markets. In this conversation Aditya and I cover the Bitcoin ETF and it acting as a gateway for an Ethereum ETF, broader Ethereum scaling solutions such as proto danksharding and layer 2 mechanisms. We touch on the halving, US elections, and the tokenisation of real world assets including stablecoins. ---------------- Timestamps: 00:00 intro 01:07 background & Silk Road 06:40 applied economics 09:03 Bitcoin ETF 16:16 GBTC outflows 19:41 Ethereum ETF 24:31 scaling Ethereum 33:33 halving 40:37 US election 44:20 new projects 47:41 stabull.finance 51:51 tokenised realworld assets 56:00 rapidfire 59:03 fin ---------------- Some notes from the show: Brave New Coin https://bravenewcoin.com/ American Kingpin by Nick Bolton https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31920777-american-kingpin Ross Ulbricht https://freeross.org/ Aaron Schwartz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz Bitcoin ETF tracker https://www.tradingview.com/markets/etfs/funds-bitcoin/ Grayscale GBTC https://decrypt.co/resources/gbtc-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-grayscale-bitcoin-trust XRP not a security https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-says-sec-lawsuit-vs-ripple-labs-can-proceed-trial-some-claims-2023-07-13/ ETH ETF tracker https://blockworks.co/ethereum-etf BTC-ETH correlation https://www.blockchaincenter.net/en/crypto-correlation-tool/ Danksharding https://cointelegraph.com/explained/danksharding-and-proto-danksharding-explained halving countdown https://www.nicehash.com/countdown/btc-halving-2024-05-10-12-00 Powell on 60 Minutes https://www.cbsnews.com/news/full-transcript-fed-chair-jerome-powell-60-minutes-interview-economy/ Ramblocks https://www.ramblocks.com/ Stabull Stablecoin AMM https://stabull.finance/ Contact Aditya: X/Twitter LinkedIn Find Jeff: X/Twitter LinkedIn The BCNZ Pod: Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/ YouTube Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio Media & Sponsorship Enquires: team@blockchain.org.nz Recorded at blockheight 829267. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.
Darcy Ungaro is the host of the Everyday Investor podcast, and he advises clients in a range of financial matters from mortgages all the way to Bitcoin. In this conversation Darcy and I broadly cover financial advice in the age of digital assets such as the Bitcoin ETF and strategies to modernize that dusty portfolio. ---------------- Timestamps: 00:00 intro 01:00 finite supply & property 07:37 trad-fi advice 13:08 responsibility for other's money 15:38 not financial advice 20:26 60/40 portfolio 27:00 update your models 30:00 zombie apocalypse 32:15 bitcoin curious 35:46 crypto portfolio 43:18 bitcoin ETF 50:52 diversification 54:32 property 59:29 rapid fire 1:05:50 fin ---------------- Some notes from the show: Bitcoin ETF news BITO Fred Kruger record NZ immigration Peter Schiff on The Everyday Investor Contact Darcy: X/Twitter LinkedIn Find Jeff: X/Twitter LinkedIn The BCNZ Pod: Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/ YouTube Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio Media & Sponsorship Enquires: team@blockchain.org.nz Recorded at blockheight 828315. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.
Janine Grainger is the cofounder and CEO of Easy Crypto which is coming up on their 6th anniversary and very well known in New Zealand. In this conversation we talk about growing a crypto company, competition in the New Zealand market, building a wallet and some of the security issues that come with it, and deploying an NZ dollar stablecoin on the main chains. ---------------- Timestamps: 00:00 intro 01:17 hi-tech awards 05:35 WTF is crypto documentary 08:20 long term goals 11:46 competition in the NZ market 15:00 exchange vs swaps 18:43 building a wallet 22:50 seed phrases & security 30:07 NZDD stablecoin 42:00 rapidfire 45:25 fin ---------------- Some notes from the show: NZ Hi-Tech awards WTF is Crypto MPC for crypto wallets account abstraction social recovery DFX exploit (affected NZDS) AUDD Contact Janine: LinkedIn Find Jeff: X/Twitter LinkedIn The BCNZ Pod: Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/ YouTube Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio Media & Sponsorship Enquires: team@blockchain.org.nz Recorded at blockheight 817074. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.
Simon Collins is the founder of Stackr.co.nz, a Bitcoin mining company that uses sustainable and renewable energy sources. Simon is also the lead on the fundraising campaign to Orange Pill New Zealand parliament, and that is what we're talking about today. As we lead up to an election here in New Zealand we're listening to a lot of promises from the parties, many of them economic, but none of them are talking of potential alternative financial paths. The plan is simple: raise money to buy copies of The Bitcoin Standard to send to all 120 MPs in New Zealand's next, 54th parliament. ---------------- Timestamps: 02:06 orange pilling 09:44 Plato's cave 15:45 sound money as a threat to Bitcoin 19:23 convincing politicians 23:00 remittances 30:50 breaking the spending addiction 38:02 Sov & MoE 40:04 inflation/deflation 58:28 The Bitcoin Standard 56:00 rapidfire 58:31 fin ---------------- Some notes from the show: NZ Parliament Fundraiser The Bitcoin Standard Plato's cave Cantillon effect Why the Yuppie Elite Dismiss Bitcoin Javier Milei to Abolish Argentinian Central Bank The Price of Tomorrow A Progressive's Case For Bitcoin Simon on The Everday Investor Contact Simon: X/Twitter: LinkedIn: Find Jeff: X/Twitter LinkedIn The BCNZ Pod: Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/ YouTube Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio Sponsor: The Blockchain New Zealand podcast is brought to you by EasyCrypto Media & Sponsorship Enquires: team@blockchain.org.nz Recorded at blockheight 807695. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.
Joerg Buss is the Cofounder of Timpi, a decentralised search engine. Joerg is a long time cyber security professional that is now playing in the blockchain space. In this conversation we talk about taking on google by incentivising others to index the web, returning unbiased information, as well as some of the ethical issues around AI and ads in search. ---------------- Timestamps: 01:40 darkscope 05:35 cybersecurity 10:33 decentralised search 13:12 indexing 20:25 results speed 24:28 bias 31:52 access to information 33:31 ethical ads 35:50 tokens 37:27 building on cosmos 38:38 AI ethics 43:52 rapidfire 45:11 fin ---------------- Some notes from the show: Darkscope https://www.darkscope.com/ DHB ransomware attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waikato_District_Health_Board_ransomware_attack Timpi https://timpi.io/ DuckDuckGo results https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/ Cosmos IBC https://cosmos.network/ibc/ Neutaro https://neutaro.com/ Contact Joerg: Web https://timpi.io/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/beawarenz/ Find Jeff: Twitter LinkedIn The BCNZ Pod: Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/ YouTube Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio Sponsor: The Blockchain New Zealand podcast is brought to you by EasyCrypto Media & Sponsorship Enquires: team@blockchain.org.nz Recorded at blockheight 801258. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.
David Ding is a futurist, founder, and tech advisor, and I haven't yet decided if he's a bit mad, or a bit genius. I think its likely he's a bit of both. By day David is an innovation advisor at Callaghan Innovation, he's deep in the start up and founder mindset, and loves the potential that immutable distributed systems have for reformation. In this conversation we get into the idea of trinity systems - infinity + binary; over-unity thinking, self sovereignty, authority deferral, and what's on the horizon beyond blockchain. ---------------- Timestamps: 01:23 - ternary thinking 10:12 - data sovereignty & OpenAI 15:36 - deferred authority 22:21 - AI applications 30:40 - tech advisement 36:35 - product market fit 40:34 - beyond blockchain 45:57 - singularity 48:08 - 11.5625% surplus 54:43 - rapid fire 57:56 - fin ---------------- Some notes from the show: Callaghan Innovation https://www.callaghaninnovation.govt.nz/ Kirsten Patterson re:DAOs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x4l2HngITA&t=1945s OpenAI data lawsuit https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/28/openai-chatgpt-lawsuit-class-action/ Contact David: Web https://davidding.xyz/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/daviddingnz/ Find Jeff: Twitter LinkedIn The BCNZ Pod: Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/ YouTube Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio Sponsor: The Blockchain New Zealand podcast is brought to you by EasyCrypto Media & Sponsorship Enquires: team@blockchain.org.nz Recorded at blockheight 796070. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.
Mike Bacina is a former software engineer turned lawyer that chairs the blockchain Australia organization. In this conversation we talk about de-banking and the regulatory environment in crypto. We touch on CBDCs, Blackrock, and Coinbase. Mike tells us what a blockchain lawyer does, And he plugs some of the speakers and events lined up for next week's Blockchain Week such as Caitlin Long. You can find the lineup at blockchainweek.com.au ---------------- Timestamps: 01:35 debanking in crypto 05:55 operation chokepoint 09:05 bank digital currencies 18:16 technical complexity and UX 22:42 AML & CFT costs 32:14 blackrock ETF 38:00 coinbase 42:02 blockchain week Australia 44:55 what does a blockchain lawyer do? 51:25 rapid fire 54:05 fin ---------------- Some notes from the show: French influencer crackdown (bits of blocks) https://www.bitsofblocks.io/post/oui-s-il-te-pla%C3%AEt-france-tackling-scams-at-the-on-ramp-with-new-influencer-laws ChokePoint 2.0 (Cooper & Kirk) https://www.cooperkirk.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Operation-Choke-Point-2.0.pdf Sports Illustrated NFT tickets https://decrypt.co/138532/sports-illustrated-box-office-nft-tickets RFK's speech at Bitcoin 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz7FPl065II tornado cash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oain31005Go&t=106s Blackrock Bitcoin ETF https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/blackrock-close-filing-bitcoin-etf-coindesk-2023-06-15/ Grayscale Bticoin trust https://grayscale.com/products/grayscale-bitcoin-trust/ Coinbase SEC case https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-102 Binance SEC case https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-101 MiCA in Europe https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/04/20/eu-parliament-approves-crypto-licensing-funds-transfer-rules/ Blockchain Week Australia https://www.blockchainweek.com.au/ Custodia bank https://custodiabank.com/roughstock/ Fed master account holders list https://twitter.com/CaitlinLong_/status/1669788541470244865 Contact Mike: Twitter https://twitter.com/MikeBacina LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikebacina/ Find Jeff: Twitter LinkedIn The BCNZ Pod: Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/ YouTube Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio Sponsor: The Blockchain New Zealand podcast is brought to you by EasyCrypto Media & Sponsorship Enquires: team@blockchain.org.nz Recorded at blockheight 794976. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.
Kirsten 'KP' Patterson is the Chief Executive of the Institute of Directors (IoD) New Zealand that has over 10,500 members. In this conversation we talk about all things governance, corporate and not for profit, climate, some trends in the tech industry including AI and DAOs, and a favourite topic of mine - responsibility - where is the parental supervision? ---------------- Timestamps: 01:31 IoD; for-profits & NFP 08:00 climate 14:35 why do we need boards? 18:00 tech trends at board-level 24:03 AI thoughts 29:22 copyright & data 33:21 DAOs 40:06 who's responsible? 44:14 FTX had no board 50:54 an NZ rugby story 52:46 rapid fire 55:57 fin ---------------- Some notes from the show: Institue of Directors https://www.iod.org.nz/ Air New Zealand Hydrogen fuel cell powered aircraft https://archive.ph/3GXLz Global Network of Director Institutes http://gndi.org/ chatGPT & data privacy https://theconversation.com/chatgpt-is-a-data-privacy-nightmare-if-youve-ever-posted-online-you-ought-to-be-concerned-199283 National Party uses AI in ads https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/24/new-zealand-national-party-admits-using-ai-generated-people-in-ads?ref=dl-staging-website.ghost.io AI in the boardroom (VITAL) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4339413 FTX's woes (Harvard Business Review) https://hbr.org/2022/12/ftx-and-the-problem-of-unchecked-founder-power Elizabeth Holmes 11-year prison sentence https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/what-elizabeth-holmes-did-theranos-prison-b2348733.html Wellington Homeless Women's Trust https://www.whwt.org.nz/ Across the board podcast https://www.iod.org.nz/news/articles/across-the-board-podcast/# Contact KP: Twitter https://twitter.com/iodnz LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/pattersonkirsten/ Find Jeff: Twitter LinkedIn The BCNZ Pod: Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/ YouTube Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio Sponsor: The Blockchain New Zealand podcast is brought to you by EasyCrypto Media & Sponsorship Enquires: team@blockchain.org.nz Recorded at blockheight 794099. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.
Steve Vallas is the managing director of Blockchain APAC, previous CEO of Blockchain Australia, and an all around Linkedin Wizard. Steve came to Auckland to meet with industry discussing aligning incentives and shared interests between Australia and New Zealand. In this conversation we touch on the scam narrative within crypto, how it has affected the nft space, and crytpo marketing, and of course regulation and where we're at in Asia Pacific. ---------------- Timestamps: 01:30 Southern Hemisphere Perspectives 10:26 ICO hangover & NFTs 20:35 supply chains 24:40 nftFestAus 29:39 crypto marketing bros 34:41 regulation 41:14 lessons from Singapore 48:41 stablecoins 52:57 blockchain orgs 55:52 fin ---------------- Some notes from the show: doodles pivot https://www.fastcompany.com/90783396/doodles-domination-how-a-1-year-old-nft-project-turned-into-the-next-big-thing opensea https://opensea.io/ magiceden https://magiceden.io/ blur https://blur.io/ starkware https://starkware.co/ nftfest aus https://nftfest.com.au/ MiCA European Crypto Assets https://cointelegraph.com/news/eu-mica-crypto-regulation-is-a-balancing-act-paris-blockchain-week-2023 BIS's Carstens says fiat has lost https://insidebitcoins.com/news/bis-head-crypto-has-lost-the-battle-against-fiat-currencies Singapore crypto ad restrictions https://archive.ph/FKD5Y Singapore's Regulatory Sandbox https://www.mas.gov.sg/development/fintech/regulatory-sandbox Contact Steve: Twitter https://twitter.com/stevevallas LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevevallas/ Find Jeff: Twitter LinkedIn The BCNZ Pod: Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/ YouTube Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio Sponsor: The Blockchain New Zealand podcast is brought to you by EasyCrypto Media & Sponsorship Enquires: team@blockchain.org.nz Recorded at blockheight 781595. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.
Paul Salisbury has been around the crypto scene in New Zealand for over a decade. He's been a founding member of BlockchainNZ and BlockchainLabs, and now has a new venture into crypto estate planning with Everlasting to help folks manage their crypto because one day you're not going to be around to sign a message with your private key. Paul and I talk about auditing smart contracts, layer 2s & privacy, multi-sig and key recovery methods and one of my favourite topics - long term plans and low time preference. Timestamps: 01:58 early days in Bitcoin 04:11 Ethereum ICO 07:33 BlockchainLabs NZ 10:58 auditing smart contracts 16:52 layer 2s 19:38 anonymity & privacy 22:35 crypto estate planning 32:32 multisig 37:20 social recovery 43:56 nunchuck & casa 46:46 local jurisdictions 52:02 long term plans 57:31 staking & DVT 1:01:12 BCNZ 1:04:40 rapid fire 1:08:57 fin Some notes from the show: coming soon Contact Paul: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulsalisbury https://twitter.com/paulsalis Find Jeff: Twitter LinkedIn The BCNZ Pod: Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/ YouTube Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio Sponsor: The Blockchain New Zealand podcast is brought to you by EasyCrypto Media & Sponsorship Enquires: team@blockchain.org.nz Recorded at blockheight 776561. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.
Sorel Carr is the Head of FinTech Business at BNZ (Bank of New Zealand). Sorel comes from a decade in corporate banking and has been down the blockchain rabbit hole looking to inject new emerging tech such as defi into the more traditional banking world. In this conversation we discuss the centralised networks banks are part of such as SWIFT & CBDCs, and the decentralised competitors that can run stablecoins, and defi protocols like Uniswap. Timestamps: 01:27 how do you define fintech? 06:09 is a bank a fintech? 09:22 future of money RBNZ & CBDCs 17:49 future of cash 21:58 SWIFT 28:24 stablecoins 33:11 defi 41:12 pancake swap & uniswap 48:05 UST & FTX 50:21 tokenisation 52:52 bcnz 54:29 rapidfire: chatGPT, future outlook 1:02:17 end Some notes from the show: software is eating the world https://a16z.com/2011/08/20/why-software-is-eating-the-world/ RBNZ future of money https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/money-and-cash/future-of-money CBDC tracker https://cbdctracker.org/ NZ helicopter money https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/114413517/give-kiwis-helicopter-money-cash-payouts-if-economy-crashes--treasury China CBDC status https://cbdctracker.org/currency/china-e-cny UK CBDC pilot https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/consumers-face-20000-pound-limit-digital-pound-bank-england-says-2023-02-07/ Russian SWIFT sanctions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWIFT_ban_against_Russian_banks China/Saudi oil priced in Yuan https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Saudi-Arabia-Considers-Ditching-The-Dollar-For-Chinese-Oil-Sales.html alternatives to SWIFT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWIFT#Competitors NAB to launch stablecoin https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/01/19/national-australia-bank-becomes-second-australian-bank-to-build-stablecoin/ NZ corruption index https://www.transparency.org/en/countries/new-zealand JPMorgan defi trade https://www.benzinga.com/markets/asia/22/11/29552324/jpmorgan-executes-first-defi-transaction-for-singapores-project-guardian Aave https://aave.com/ NZDs(table) https://www.techemynt.com/ BSC validators https://bscscan.com/validators# SushiSwap zombie attack https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/sushiswap-uniswap-vampire-attack pancake swap tokenomics https://docs.pancakeswap.finance/tokenomics/cake/cake-tokenomics Matt Damon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEjjufPd3Is no crypto at the Superbowl https://cryptonews.com/news/there-will-no-crypto-advertisements-during-super-bowl-year-heres-why.htm Roofstock sells house as NFT https://www.forbes.com/sites/amydobson/2022/10/26/blockchain-makes-deeper-inroads-into-real-estate-as-roofstock-announces-its-first-nft-home-sale/ chatGPT https://chat.openai.com/chat NFTs on Bitcoin https://decrypt.co/resources/what-are-ordinals-a-beginners-guide-to-bitcoin-nfts Contact Sorel: LinkedIn https://nz.linkedin.com/in/sorel-carr Find Jeff: Twitter LinkedIn The BCNZ Pod: Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/ YouTube Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio Sponsor: The Blockchain New Zealand podcast is brought to you by EasyCrypto Media & Sponsorship Enquires: team@blockchain.org.nz Recorded at blockheight 775626. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.
Our Year in Review 2022 show brings together Bryan Ventura, Stephen Macaskill, and Paul Quickenden for a panel discussion of the years key events. We starts with the SBF FTX debacle that is still unwinding, then we discuss the fallout from all the links that led to FTXs collapse. 2022 has been a record year for hacks as well, mostly bridging hacks, and we discuss security and the perception of crypto to the broader community. We finish with our picks for winners & losers in 2022, and trends for 2023. Timestamps: 00:00 intro 01:48 FTX collapse 06:00 FTX reactions 17:14 CeFi dominoes fall back to UST/Luna 24:24 record bridge hacks 33:00 losers of 2022 39:36 winners of 2022 44:44 trends for 2023 55:47 fin Panel Guests (Podcast): Bryan Ventura https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/e/e07-tornado-cash-and-the-merge-bryan-and-jeff-roundtable-1/ Stephen Macaskill https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/e/e06-stephen-macaskill-on-economics-money-and-bitcoin/ Paul Quickenden https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/e/e02-paul-quickenden-on-navigating-crypto-markets-growing-a-business/ Panel Guests (YouTube): Bryan Ventura https://youtu.be/Oain31005Go Stephen Macaskill https://youtu.be/luJSgA9vkIc Paul Quickenden https://youtu.be/boAGDM-urWY Some notes from the show: Sam Bankman-fried interview (by George Stephanopolous on GMA) https://twitter.com/GMA/status/1598296985010073600 List of hacks in 2022 https://chainbulletin.com/the-7-biggest-crypto-hacks-of-2022-so-far Alexey Pertsev of Tornado Cash https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tornado-cash-developer-alexey-pertsev-123423038.html Find Jeff: Twitter LinkedIn The BCNZ Pod: Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/ YouTube Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio Sponsor: The Blockchain New Zealand podcast is brought to you by EasyCrypto Media & Sponsorship Enquires: team@blockchain.org.nz Recorded at blockheight 766048. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.
James Bayly is the COO of SubQuery and onfinality which are basically data service providers focussing on non-EVM chains such as Polkadot and Cosmos. In this conversation we talk about indexing blockchain data and making it available for users and apps to query in a manner that’s cost efficient, quick, and reliable. We also touch on the modern evolution of blockchains, the blockchain trilemma, and creating a Web3 data marketplace. Timestamps: 00:00 intro 01:45 indexing blockchain data 11:24 opensourcing code 14:13 FTX debacle & boom bust cycles 20:37 SubQuery decentralising data 25:00 tokenised incentives 28:22 reliability & uptime 29:47 onfinality infrastructure 31:30 building in New Zealand 35:24 Polkadot as a 3rd gen blockchain 44:30 blockchain trilemma 48:22 industry groups & legislation 52:23 rapid fire 55:59 fin Some notes from the show: SubQuery onfinality Etherscan Consensys/MetaMask/Infura Coinbase holds 2m bitcoin FTX leaked balance sheet Kimchi premium Mt. Gox Centrality blockchain trilemma with sharding bridge hacks in 2022 Contact James: Twitter https://twitter.com/JamesABayly LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-bayly/ Find Jeff: Twitter LinkedIn The BCNZ Pod: Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/ YouTube Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio Sponsor: The Blockchain New Zealand podcast is brought to you by EasyCrypto Media & Sponsorship Enquires: team@blockchain.org.nz Recorded at blockheight 765227. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.
Ben Rose is the GM of Binance New Zealand. He has a long history of sales, marketing, and growth with New Zealand businesses from start ups to banks like ASB and NIB. Last month Binance launched here in the New Zealand market and Ben is tasked with growing the crypto market and *maybe* bringing back our futures trading once Binance is properly licenced. In this conversation we touch on marketing, regulation, education and some self sovereign topics like custody and ownership. I hope you enjoy my conversation with Ben Rose. Timestamps: 00:00 intro 01:46 sales and marketing 09:10 the NZ customer 12:53 Binance in NZ 15:10 licensing in NZ 20:00 customer protection 23:40 education in crypto 26:00 but crypto isn't backed 29:54 self custody 35:02 near term outlook 36:24 on podcasting 38:09 rapid fire 40:46 fin Some notes from the show: Tesla's no spend marketing Binance registers in NZ 1-in-10 Kiwi's hold crypto NTSB retrospective SAFU Robett Hollis busting myths Federal Reserve Building (NYC) Blackrock's long journey toward crypto adoption Koura's crypto Kiwisaver fund NZ Sales & Marketing Insider podcast Contact Ben: LinkedIn Find Jeff: Twitter LinkedIn The BCNZ Pod: Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/ YouTube Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio Sponsor: The Blockchain New Zealand podcast is brought to you by EasyCrypto Media & Sponsorship Enquires: team@blockchain.org.nz Recorded at blockheight 762353. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.