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 Cryptocurrency industry and how its changed since 2014
- Advice for eager onlookers on how to get started in the community
For show notes and more, please visit: coinstructive.com/blog
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 spans across all stages of blockchain development from strategic architectural design, product implementation and compliance, through marketing.
She is an Academic at Curtin University's Law School in Western Australia teaching across various areas of law and a Doctoral Candidate researching in Digital Currency Law and Blockchain Regulation.
Finally, Sheree cofounded Certus Consulting bringing her legal experience from a variety of sectors to current blockchain projects.
She is a qualified Practitioner and a Board Member of Blockchain Australia helping lead the conversation around regulation and policy reform matters.
After listening to this episode you will learn:
- How Sheree got into the Blockchain field and her vocation
- How Sheree is brought on board for projects to evaluate the different laws and also future-proof projects for future regulations
- How initiatives need to go through a set of particular privacy laws in Australia such as data management and storage
- How Blockchain Australia helps provide guidance for lawmakers and facilitates comments from the industry
- How their policy work helped prevent a double taxation event for Bitcoin in Australia
- What Sheree would change about the industry
- What Sheree looks for in high quality and integrity projects
For show notes and more please visit: http://coinstructive.com/lab-radio-episode-11-sheree-ip/
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 Shazam, Virgin Mobile, Liberty Media, Yamaha, Nielsencounselledics, Bob Vila and Conde Nast Publications in corporate, digital media, and new business matters. His knowledge has guided a wide variety of industries including media, mobile, digital music, social media, augmented and virtual reality, software and hardware.
Today, Steve is a partner at Masur Griffitts + Co, LLP, a full-service transactional law firm which guides emerging companies of all sizes and industries navigate uncertain waters as rapidly growing technology meets regulation.
After listening to this episode you will learn:
- How Steve began his career as a drummer and eventually entered the legal field
- How Steve thought that the Internet was a once in a lifetime opportunity that he never thought he would see again
- How although law hasn't fundamentally changed, these new industries create consternation among market participants
- How the Howie-Test is a big discussion among legal circles
- How the Munchee case affects the Howie-Test and the outcome of it
- How the SEC doesn't necessarily want people to stop doing ICOs
- How companies need to be mindful is their coin is a security or utility token
- How the Phreakers, Cypherpunks and Cyberpunks were early web pioneers and how the movement is alive and well
- How Steve believes you need to find what excites you and follow that drive
For show notes and more please visit: https://coinstructive.com/category/lab-radio/
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 countless startups including: Xinergia (web development company), Cero a Cien (tutoring platform for entrepreneurs), Arraiga (IT training platform) and Restocoins (a payment system for bitcoin)
In 2011, Diego first encountered Bitcoin and feel in love with the technology and how it could benefit not only the world but Argentinean and Latin grassroots communities. This led to him co-founding Rootstock, the first open-source peer-to-peer smart-contract platform and payment network.
Diego is also a relentless community builder as one of the founders of the Argentinean Bitcoin Community with over 20,000 members in its online community. In addition, he organized the first bitcoin conference in Latin America (www.labitconf.com) which is rapidly becoming not only a top even in Latin America but worldwide.
His reach includes helping other grassroots communities in places such as: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, México, Nicaragua, Perú, Paraguay and Uruguay.
After listening to this episode you will learn:
- How Diego and his team took Rootstock from an idea into a working testnet
- How you can participate in what Rootstock is doing
- How your reputation is your collateral with this system
- How Diego's solutions are being replicated across Latin America
- Why community building is a often overlooked yet critically important activity for companies in the Blockchain space
- The challenges the Blockchain ecosystem faces to see full adoption and build-outs needed to change society
- How one of the most important takeaways is to follow your passions and let that be your guiding force
For show notes and more please visit: https://coinstructive.com/category/lab-radio/
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 his expertise into blockchain and is tackling digital identity with his startup ShoCard which has a specific focus on the financial services sector offering value to companies that have costly processes in place.
After listening to this episode you will learn:
- How Armin got started in this field as well as his background
- How ShoCard helps streamline current expensive and high friction methods for KYC, AML and other digital identity management
- How current methods for KYC, AML and identity management are outdated
- The types of use cases and industries ShoCard works with such as credit reporting
- How ShoCard helps financial institutions and banks prevent duplication of efforts
- How ShoCard provides a deep dive service suite for financial institutions
- What Armin would change about the ecosystem
For show notes and more please visit: www.coinstructive.com/lab-radio/
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 involved in the bitcoin and blockchain ecosystem in 2013.
Caterina is a very social good, philosophy and sustainability-focused individual and implores us all to take these concepts more seriously in our personal and professional lives.
Today, Caterina lends her expertise to Fintech startups as well as other clients in industries ranging from P2P collaborative economies, consumer products, governance, and healthcare, and is helping organizations think about tapping the advantages of decentralized, transparent, secure databases and self-executing contracts.
After listening to this episode you will learn:
- Who Caterina is and what is her background
- What is Caterina's take on the ecosystem
- What excites and scares Caterina about the Blockchain ecosystem
- What she would change about the ecosystem
For show notes and more please visit: www.coinstructive.com/lab-radio
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 late 1990's, he interviewed Jack Ma, Jerry Yang, Vinton Cerf and Richard Li Tzar Kai.
Blockpass is Han's latest project and it incorporates the "internet of everything" and a blockchain based identity protocol. The magic of Cloud Computing allowed us to access data anywhere, so why can't we do that with things like IDs or passports? Blockpass aims to use technology to evolve this situation by creating a "Passport for a connected world".
This means your ID shouldn't be locked down to the whim of a piece of paper, with this new digital identity management system, anyone with a smartphone can download an app and have their identity managed via the Blockchain in the Cloud. In fact, identities can even be assigned to other devices or objects, creating a truly connected world.
After listening to this episode you will learn:
- How Hans got started and why he focused on Asia
- What Has has been up to since we last spoke
- How Hans it evolving Digital Identity Management
- What Blockpass is and how it works
- What Hans would change about the ecosystem today
For show notes and more please visit: www.coinstructive.com/lab-radio/