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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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 breakthrough in privacy and the core math behind the blockchain. It was originally developed as Zerocash and eventually Zcash. ZenCash then forked this original codebase into a new project and has since added many additional security and privacy features beyond Zcash.
As stated on Rob's LinkedIn: "ZenCash is building a globally distributed secure node network resilient to censorship by implementing network-level encryption on top of zk-SNARK blockchain obfuscation, embedding secure messaging, document publishing on IPFS, and a system of decentralized governance."
After listening to this episode you will learn:
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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 Collaborative Community inspired by the ideas behind Bitcoin, Decentralization, and the Open Source movement."
Ready to become a decentralist? Great!
After listening to this episode you will learn:
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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 collateral through a smart contract.
After listening to this episode you will learn:
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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 size and opulent surrounds, this conference provides unparalleled access to the people and technologies that are redefining the world of payments. Bitcoin is the next chapter in FinTech”
For a great wrap-up of the event visit our friends at Bitsabio: http://bitsabio.com/blogs/news/84977985-the-north-american-bitcoin-conference-in-miami-florida-2016
We had the pleasure of interviewing the following people:
Each of these individuals are doing fantastic work in the space in various capacities. We were thrilled to spend some time talking Bitcoin, Blockchain and their individual stories and take on things.
We hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed recording it!
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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 protocols, blockchain-based startups, and more through conference sessions.”
If you want a full recap on the event feel free to pop over to our friends at BitSabio who were also in attendance: http://bitsabio.com/blogs/news/83255873-inside-bitcoins-conference-in-san-diego-california-2015
This event was a lot of fun featuring such figures as:
We had a great time doing the show as well and got to talk with such people as:
How the show is broken down:
We pulled clips from each guest (listed above) and provided our own commentary and reflections between each clip.
The subject matter ranges from opinions, Bitcoin stories, definitions and lots of discussion of each guest's unique niche which made for a well-rounded and illuminating discussion.
We hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed making it!
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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. We provide business solutions to all industries from Startups to Enterprises.
We (the CoinStructive team) come from diverse backgrounds and seek to bring our unique knowledge, networks and resources to the world. We respect the interconnected richness this fine planet has to offer and welcome the opportunity to promote a more open, virtuous and free world.
What does CoinStructive do?
CoinStructive helps speed up adoption, knowledge and implementations of these technologies through mutually beneficial and engaging dialogues, initiatives and partnerships with thought leaders in the space.
After listening to this Episode you will learn:
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