Blockchain Pro Podcast

Welcome to Episode 26 with Anya Nova. In this episode, Anya talks about growing up in a remote Russian island, where good career options were not common, her journey studying in the United States, moving to Australia, and how she feels like she's paying off her "carbon emissions karma" now, working at Powerledger, after having worked with non-renewable energy most of her adult life.

Anya's Bio

Recipient of the 2019 Australian Blockchain Leader of the Year. Anya works as Power Ledger's Crypto Economist where she is responsible for fostering global partnerships. Anya has presented at premier blockchain and energy conferences, including Consensus in New York, Event Horizon in Berlin and World Energy Congress in Abu Dhabi. Prior to Power Ledger, Anya held a variety of commercial roles within the resources sector (Shell, Rio Tinto), working internationally in the USA, Russia and Australia, as well as running an accelerator program for early stage resource focused startups.

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Welcome to Episode 25 with everyone's favourite bitcoin evangelist, Andreas M. Antonopoulos. In this episode, Andreas talks about what makes bitcoin special, the difference between bitcoin and blockchain, why open blockchains are the ones that matter for our future and much more.

Andreas bio

Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a best-selling author, speaker, educator, and highly sought after expert in Bitcoin and open blockchain technologies. Andreas has served as a teaching fellow for the free Introduction to Digital Currencies course offered to the public at the University of Nicosia. Along with co-authoring the course curriculum, Andreas has also written two best-selling technical books for programmers, Mastering Bitcoin and Mastering Ethereum. He has published The Internet of Money series of books, which focus on the social, political, and economic importance and implications of these technologies. Andreas has been interviewed by Bloomberg, CNN, CNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, BBC, and Financial Times for his industry expertise. He has been a repeat guest on The Joe Rogan Experience and London Real. He has been featured in numerous documentary films, and is a permanent host on the Let's Talk Bitcoin podcast with more than 400 episodes recorded to date. You can support Andreas' work on Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/aantonop

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Tim Bass is the CEO of Block8, which is Australia's leading blockchain venture studio. He has deep technical experience designing infrastructure and cloud architectures across a wide range of customers. Tim enjoys working with customers to create and commercialise disruptive software products.

About Block8

Block8 is Australia's leading blockchain venture studio. We partner with startups, enterprise and government to bring a professional product management and technical development capability that take ideas from zero to one. Founded in 2016, Block8 has grown to 50 people across two countries. Our team has deep expertise in product management, blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, incentive design, economics and full stack development.

Block8 has delivered Australia's most successful and innovative blockchain ventures which have created over A$250m in enterprise value. Our portfolio spans fintech, regtech, proptech, energy and gaming. Notably, in 2018, we designed and built a decentralized finance product called Havven (Synthetix) which raised A$39m and remains Australia's largest blockchain capital raise. More recently, our ventures have tokenised unlisted equities and residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), as well as developed blockchain-based industry applications within residential tenancy, payments and identity.

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Marketers, this one's for you!

Dennis Graham is a Marketing Director at a leading Australian cryptocurrency exchange.

He has worked in marketing for over 15 years. In that time, he ran social networking sites, financial and crypto comparison websites, worked in FinTech, banking, cloud hosting and now crypto.

Dennis is not only a marketing machine, but he is also the person who introduced me to bitcoin. We must have had a million conversations about it, and I'm pleased that he's finally working full-time in crypto, so I could interview him.

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Adriana is an ambassador for Edge app - a non-custodial multi-currency crypto wallet. Find out more info at https://dl.edge.app/blockchainpro

Bio

Katrina is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Civic Ledger - a civic focused blockchain Australian company. We work with governments globally on the use of blockchain technologies to solve specific business problems where blockchain is advantaged over traditional legacy technologies.

Through her early years as a sociologist through to her interest in entrepreneurialism, she has extensive experience in public policy and early stage commercialisation. For more than 20 years, Katrina has worked in both public and not for profit sectors with a specific focus on business development, project delivery and revenue diversification with the view to building resilient and sustainable organisations.

In Australia, she founded the Brisbane Women in Blockchain Meetup and regularly speaks on the topic of why cities and governments should be exploring blockchain technologies. Katrina's interest in blockchain technologies is driven by her curiosity of its potential to replace government legacy systems to deliver efficiencies, stimulate innovation and build digital societies.

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Katrina Donaghy

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Civic Ledger

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Adriana Belotti

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Adriana is an ambassador for Edge app - a non-custodial multi-currency crypto wallet. Find out more info at https://dl.edge.app/blockchainpro

Kaia Myers-Stewart is a product manager at PegaSys, the protocol engineering group at ConsenSys.

She has worked in emerging technology for nearly 6 years, including her first blockchain use-case for supply-chain in 2016.

Originally from Canada, Kaia lives in Melbourne where she co-organises the local chapter of Women in Blockchain.

She is also the "Entrepreneur in Residence" at #StartWest, providing mentorship and consulting to startup founders in emerging tech.

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Brenda Saveluc is the director and founder of BlackGold Legal. She's a straight talking, freelance commercial and corporate M&A lawyer with more than a decade of experience working in accounting and law. Brenda is passionate about ICO and STO regulation, blockchain technology and cryptocurrency, and loves working with cool tech clients all over the world.

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See you at the next block!

Daniel is an entrepreneur with primary focus on decentralized web technologies. He is the founder of bitfwd and currently serves as Chairman. Daniel is particularly interested in disruptive innovation in the FinTech space and promotes equitable business models through opensource systems and cryptoeconomic empowerment. Daniel was selected as impact entrepreneur fellow to join the Edmund Hillary Fellowship program.

He is based mostly in APAC (Australia, New Zealand and China).

Daniel leads global Blockchain collaborations involving grassroots developers communities, high profile tech projects, venture funding activities, academic research groups, NFPs and governmental organizations. His work attracted government grants and sponsorship from China, Australia, New Zealand and Israel.

Prior to Blockchain technology ventures Daniel was involved in research and engineering roles in areas such as Quantum Computation, Nanoelectronics and Biosensors.

Daniel holds an MSc degree in Nanotechnology from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and a graduate of the QLC Orion Entrepreneurship program from the Business School at the University of New South Wales.

Daniel cares deeply about initiatives in the education space, advancement of indigenous people, gender equality, diversity & inclusion, and environmental sustainability.

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Website https://www.bitfwd.com/

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Crypto Chicks is a volunteer-run non-profit educational hub with a mission to grow the economic, professional and leadership potential of both women and youth in blockchain and AI THROUGH education, mentorship, business and diverse employment opportunities.

Check out their website https://cryptochicks.ca

Elena Sinelnikova

FOUNDER AND CEO (TORONTO, CANADA)

Software development team lead and entrepreneur. Elena Sinelnikova founded CryptoChicks non-profit organization with the vision to empower and inspire women interested in learning about blockchain technology. She managed to involve hundreds of women who became blockchain evangelists, blockchain developers, blockchain entrepreneurs themselves. Elena developed CryptoChicks into an international hub for women talent in blockchain technology with chapters and educational events all over the world. Elena holds a Master of Computer Science and her specialties are in blockchain, application architecture, software design and development.

Natalia Ameline

CO-FOUNDER (TORONTO, CANADA)

Natalia is a Senior Finance Executive with multi-industry experience. Her expertise is in strategic financial planning, decision support, operations management and change management. She holds Master's degrees in Computer Science and Business Administration as well as CPA/CMA accounting designation. She is a co-founder of CryptoChicks and is inspired by its mission - to grow the industry and its adoption by engaging women. After attending multiple crypto events, she believes that "we have this incredible opportunity to gain further insight and innovation by tapping into the immense talent of women". Natalia was introduced to Blockchain technology in 2014 and has been passionate about the industry since.

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Luke Anderson teaches computer security and is the co-founder of Sigma Prime, a software and security consultancy, that is playing a big part in the new the Ethereum 2.0 ecosystem by developing a client implementation called Lighthouse.

In this episode, we talked about the importance of developing skills like public speaking and coding, we also talk about geeking out at a young age, the new paradigm shift brought on by Ethereum, and much more.

Get in touch with Luke https://sigmaprime.io/

Sign up for Ethereum Sydney Meetup https://meetup.com/ethsydney

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