On this LAB Radio, episode Aaron Mangal discusses Blockchain Regulation and the legal side of things with Morvareed Salehpour.
Morvareed Salehpour, Attorney and Speaker
Morvareed Z. Salehpour specializes in handling a diverse range of complex legal matters both in and outside the courtroom. She is experienced in negotiating a variety of contracts and legal agreements and litigating cases from inception to trial and appeal. She has represented companies and individuals in a variety of industries, including blockchain, technology, entertainment, media, banking, manufacturing, real estate, fashion, retail, food and beverage, and healthcare, among others.
She has represented clients across the nation ranging from entrepreneurs and small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. Ms. Salehpour enthusiastically applies unique solutions to client needs, working hard to devote herself to efficient resolutions.
Ms. Salehpour earned a degree in Political Science, summa cum laude, from UCLA in 2007 and received her JD from the UCLA School of Law in 2010, where she also served as a Managing Editor for the UCLA Law Review. Ms. Salehpour previously practiced at BakerHostetler, a national firm where her work included being a member of the legal team seeking to recover the principal lost in the Madoff Ponzi scheme, and then at Strange & Butler, a complex litigation boutique.
She is admitted to the State Bar of California, is a member of the bars of the United States District Court for the Central, Northern, Southern, and Eastern Districts of California, and a member of the bar of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Ms Salehpour is also active in the tech community and enjoys analyzing and discussing developing legal issues in that field, particularly with respect to the blockchain, artificial intelligence, virtual reality/augmented reality, and esports.
After listening to this episode you will learn:
- About Morvareed's background, where she's from and how she got started in the Law (Hint: Law and Order)
- How Morvareed decided to focus her legal services on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency technology
- The way she approached applying legal capabilities and the Law to Blockchain
- About the US-based case law system and how it affects the development of Regulation
- Why we have been through these cycles before with the Law but with other tech booms
- Key concepts including Jurisdiction, Liability, Enforcement, Crypto Asset Management, and Copyright Protection
- The dark side of Cryptocurrency and the Law
- Threats to Blockchain immutability
- About the uniform regulation of virtual-currency businesses act
For show notes and more please visit: LAB Radio Episode 44
On this LAB Radio, episode Aaron Mangal discusses creating rare digital art on the Blockchain as well as the myriad of platforms out there for artists. Our guest this week is Joe Chiappetta, cartoonist, comic book author and artist.
Joe Chiappetta, Author, Cartoonist, Blockchain Art Creator
Joe Chiappetta has been involved in cartooning and publishing since the mid-1980s, creating comics and art that reflect something positive about life. As an author, Chiappetta has won many awards, including an Illinois Arts Council Award for his work on the book "Back Pain Avenger." This volume, its research, and the speaking tour surrounding it focused on issues of disability in the history of comic books, as well as presenting a non-medicated memoir of rehabilitation. For his family documentary work on the graphic novel "Silly Daddy," Joe was also the recipient of the Xeric Award as well as numerous other award nominations over the years.
Rare Silly Chain from Joe's Blockchain Art Card Collection Called CrystalsCraft
While widely known for his award-winning work on Silly Daddy Comics, Joe has also been a prolific cartoonist creating comics about cryptocurrency and blockchain since 2015. He exhibited twelve blockchain comics at the 2018 Ethereal Summit in New York City and was the only cartoonist selected for this event to create live interpretive comics covering the show.
As the author of numerous articles about rare digital art, and an early adopter in this field as well as on crypto-social networks, Joe has educated and encouraged thousands of professionals, including artists and collectors, to pay close attention to the rising opportunities that cryptocurrency has opened up for the art industry.
After listening to this episode you will learn:
- Joe's Background and how he got into making art
- How the old system of collectables works (Creating, selling and distributing the works)
- What makes something rare, valuable and collectable
- How Joe sees the opportunity to transition into digital collectables
- The story behind Joe's rare digital artwork
- How does Cryptocurrency open new opportunities for Cartoonists and Collectors
- About Spells of Genesis and their "Blockchanization" in gaming
- Applications in the Cryptocurrency art realm Joe is excited about
- Book of Orbs, a platform for buying/selling and storing digital art
- Platforms Joe likes including Steemit and Ono
For show notes and more visit: LAB Radio
On this LAB Radio, episode Aaron Mangal discusses Spark, a web and mobile payments platform and decentralized exchange (DEX) powered by Graphene and built on BitShares.
Maxine Ryan, Spark's Chief Operations Officer, discusses the platform and a variety of concepts including the components of a DEX and the process of moving from Spark from Bitcoin to BitShares.
Maxine Ryan, COO and co-founder of Spark
Maxine Ryan is a Hong Kong-based entrepreneur who is passionate about the freedom of financial services for people. In 2014, she co-founded Bitspark, the world's first cash in, cash out blockchain money transfer platform for Money Transfer Operators which helps business owners send money better via cryptocurrency solutions worldwide.
The company in 2017 launched its ICO, $ZEPH, a rewards token for Bitspark's 180+ pegged cryptocurrency network whereby users of networks are incentivised via rewards and the company contributes buybacks to the market via its profits. Maxine frequently speaks at tech and finance events, can be seen on BloombergLive and was selected for Forbes 30 Under 30, 2018. Twitter : @MaxieRyan @BitsparksLtd #Bitshares #Decentralisation #RealSolutions
As stated on their website:
Bitspark, a Hong Kong based fintech company provides Spark, a secure web and mobile platform for money transfer operators [MTO] to send and receive payments quicker and cheaper utilising blockchain technology in addition to a suite of compliance and analytics tools tailored for the MTO industry.
In November 2014 Bitspark conducted the world’s first cash-in cash-out remittance transaction using Bitcoin and has since refined and targeted their services towards money transfer operators.
Bitspark has in recent years expanded to over seven countries in the Asia Pacific and African regions including Hong Kong, Malaysia, Ghana, Nigeria, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam and Pakistan and has formed a number of important partnerships and gained recognition at home and internationally. Bitspark has a history of excellent support from many notable organisations.
Bitspark is an alumni of the Cyberport Incubation Program in 2014 backed by the Hong Kong government, in 2015 was selected for the Accenture Fintech Innovation Lab APAC, in 2016 selected for the SixThirty Fintech accelerator USA and in 2017 was selected by the United Nations Development Program for financial inclusion projects in Tajikistan. In the financial space, Bitspark has been recognised by Goldman Sachs, Citibank, KPMG and Nikkei and has received coverage by noted publications like Forbes, SCMP, RT News, New York Times, The Australian, Coindesk and many more.
We discuss network effects and building technology that can be used across the Blockchain universe.
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After listening to this episode you will learn:
- How Maxine got started in her career and eventually into Blockchains
- The state of the Blockchain market an industry in 2014
- Why Spark (BitSpark at the time) shifted from Bitcoin to the BitShares Blockchain
- About how Spark is bankless, using full Crypto for all of their business
- The SparkDEX, what it is and how it works on BitShares
- Core models of Spark's business
- How Spark wants to create an open ecosystem for the money transfer space
- The 3 components of a DEX: fund management, order books and crypto transaction
- How the Sendy App works to facilitate cash-in and cash-out transaction in person leveraging Spark
For show notes and more please visit: LAB Radio
On this LAB Radio, episode Aaron Mangal discuss Blockdaemon, a three-click Blockchain node deployment and cloud platform with Konstantin Richter, the CEO and founder. Konstantin is a technology Entrepreneur in the Telecom, SaaS, and the B2B space.
Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, he was an executive at Deutsche Telekom and Nokia in software/services strategy and business development. He is also fluent in 4 languages.
Konstantin Richter, CEO and founder of Blockdaemon
Blockdaemon is a node deployment tool that allows you to launch your node on a public blockchain network or join a private network in three clicks.
To maintain decentralization, Blockdaemon partners with multiple cloud providers, including AWS, Digital Ocean, and Google Cloud Services.
With Blockdaemon you can customize an existing protocol, supply your genesis block, choose the regions you want and how many nodes you need.
Current Blockchains supported include Bitcoin, Ethereum, Stellar and AION
We discuss network effects and building technology that can be used across multiple Blockchain universes.
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After listening to this episode you will learn:
- How Konstantin got his start through telecom and consulting
- The power of network effects Konstantin observed and how he sought to leverage that construct in his companies
- About the crossover between network effects and the Blockchain
- Previous experiences including helping structure the business and strategy for Gem
- How his previous consulting experiences led him to think strategically about systems
- The benefits of Nodes-as-a-service which allows users to pool resources and gain economies of scale
- Why the goal has been to provide self-provisioning 3-click deployment of nodes for Cryptos like Bitcoin and Stellar
- Their developer first focus in term of the tools and services they provide
For show notes and more please visit: LAB Radio