Around the blockchain

Karen Cohen is the Deputy Chair for Blockchain Australia and is also the founder of Emerging Tech Talent, an Australian HR company specialising in finding HR solutions for businesses in the Emerging Technology sector.

Karen and I chat about her introduction to the crypto space back in 2017, her work with Blockchain Australia. We also chat about all the exciting things she is doing with her company Emerging Tech Talent as well as her recent appointment as the Algorand Community Champion.

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Julian Sawyer is the CEO of Bitstamp, the world's oldest crypto exchange.

Julian and I discuss the early days of Bitstamp and how he has managed to successfully transition from co-founding Starling Bank in the traditional finance world, to then moving into the crypto space having worked at Gemini exchange and now Bitstamp.

We did experience some technical difficulties throughout the episode so I apologise for that in advance.

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Emma Weston is a Co-Founder and CEO of AgriDigital, Australia's fastest growing agricultural supply chain innovator.

With their current focus specifically on the grain supply chain industry, Emma and I discuss the current problems farmers across Australia are facing and how AgriDigital is helping solve those problems.

We also chat about AgriDigital's plans to move into North America and Emma drops some EXCLUSIVE news right here on the podcast!

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Jordan Michaelides is the Head of Partnerships at CoinJar, Australia's longest serving crypto exchange. 

Jordan and I chat about CoinJar's recent Melbourne Football Club sponsorship and the significance of that for mainstream crypto adoption here in Australia. Jordan also talks about CoinJar's recent MasterCard deal and what's in store of CoinJar for the remainder of 2021!

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Dave Haslop is the founder of The Crypto Den, one of Australia's largest crypto FaceBook communities which boasts over 50,000 members to date.

Dave and I chat about his introduction to crypto back in 2017 and the early days of The Crypto Den. I also pick Dave's brain about trading crypto and the various trading methods him and his team at TCD teach to their students. If you want to learn more about trading crypto, watch this episode and then make sure you get in touch with Dave and the team at TCD!

Phil Talbot is the founder and CEO of Authentium, a supply chain technology project built on the Algorand blockchain and supported by the Algorand foundation.

 

Phil and I discuss the massive hurdles farmers face within the supply chain industry and how Authentium is building a new open source decentralised way of doing things that is shifting the power back into the hands of the people that need it most, Australian farmers.

Erica Stanford is the founder of Crypto Curry Club; a popular and well established UK based crypto meet up group. Erica has also recently written and published a book about Scams in Crypto called 'Crypto Wars; Faked Deaths, Missing Billions & Industry Disruption'.

 

Erica and I sit down to discuss the Crypto Curry Club and the disruption caused by Covid, as well as all of the infamous crypto scams that she uncovered while writing Crypto Wars!

 

This episode was a fascinating discussion and if you're interested in hearing about the history of crypto scams, definitely give it a listen! As always, SMASH THE LIKE, SUBSCRIBE & BELL BUTTON!

 

*a link to Erica's book is available in the comments section, I would highly recommend reading :)

Jeff Yew is the former CEO of Binance Australia and the current CEO and founder of Monochrome Asset Management, an Australian based digital asset management fund providing exposure to Bitcoin for wholesale investors! Jeff and I chat about his time spent as the CEO of Binance Australia and how that led him down the path to creating his own digital fund. We also speak about Elon's recent Bitcoin energy FUD and Jeff describes the Bitcoin mining process! If you enjoy the episode don't forget to LIKE the video and SUBSCRIBE to the channel :)

John Will is a highly accomplished martial arts instructor and is part of the legendary group of people known as The Dirty Dozen; the first 12 non Brazilian practitioners of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu to receive their Black Belts.

Myself and John discuss how he came to train under the legendary Rigan Machado and being the first person to bring BJJ to Australia. We also discuss Johns investment strategy and how he has managed to automate and diversify his investment portfolio, which of course includes Bitcoin.

This is a fantastic episode as John is highly regarded in the BJJ world and has just as much knowledge to share off to mats as he does on it. Enjoy!

Adam Poulton is the co-founder of Australian company Get Paid In Bitcoin. Founded in 2013, GPIB allows everyday Australian's easy exposure to Bitcoin through their employers existing payroll system.

 

Adam and myself discuss the early days of Bitcoin, GPIB and the technology behind their great product as well as some of the high profile Australian's that are currently using GPIB.

 

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