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A personal interview with Edward Cunningham about his adventure from living globally and finding that the solution he needed to solve was the management of hotel bookings and customer relationships. We discuss how his company Trippki is seeking to create an alternative booking solution for hotel operators globally. We discuss the current structure of the existing model and how hotel operators are at the mercy of the big major players.

Website: trippki.com

Twitter: @trippki

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An interview with Simon Yu on his path from delivering Korean Tacos to launching a blockchain company. Here are the main takeaways from the podcast:

1. Storm Market is a gamified micro-task marketplace.
2. People across all industries can use the Storm Market (including advertisers, machine learning companies, gaming platforms and recruiters).
3. Storm Market is different from other similar applications due to its human-centric user interface and experience.
4. Storm Market creates an engaging user experience that encourages active participation within the STORM token community.

Website: www.stormtoken.com

Twitter: @storm_token

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An wide ranging interview with Roger Ver from Bitcoin.com Covering Bitcoin and Blockchain Regulation, Mt. Gox, Segwit2X, the Bitcoin Core team. We discussed the impact of blockchain on government, and some of the risks that it has. We discuss the comments by Jamie Dimon, form JPMorgan and Ray Dalio, from Bridgewater Associates. A discussion on his utopian country without government, laws, and documents. We end the interview with his 5-year forecast of the value of Bitcoin, the number of Bitcoin versions and the implementation of blockchain globally.

Website: bitcoin.com

Twitter: @rogerkver

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An interview with Nicolas Fierro from Mimir Blockchain Solutions. Having been with the Ethereum Foundation when it launched its token, Nicolas has been working on creating the Mimir Bridge that will greatly accelerate Ethereum developers to quickly and securely access the Ethereum network. Listen to his interesting story from the US Navy, to the Ethereum Foundation and then to the founding of Mimir Blockchain.

Website: mimirblockchain.solutions

Twitter: @mimirblockchain @blockchainNick

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An interview with John Lyotier from RightMesh. Currently, nearly 4 billion people lack Internet access. That's 4 billion people who are disenfranchised from the societal and economic benefits brought about by connectivity. RightMesh, seeks to recognize that global connectivity benefits everyone, and their goal is to incentivize the expansion of Internet access worldwide. The digital economy has become synonymous with the economy generally, and bringing the remaining billions online will catalyze global trade, communication, and the exchange of ideas.

Here are the main takeaways from the interview:

1. The United Nations deems Internet connectivity to be a basic human right due to the social and economic benefits afforded to those who have access, yet there are currently 4 billion people in the world who lack connectivity.
2. RightMesh intends to bridge that gap by connecting users directly over free, fast, unlicensed spectrum without the complete reliance on middlemen such as ISPs and telecom providers.
3. By integrating its mesh technology with the blockchain and a cryptocurrency token, RightMesh will create a new generation of digital entrepreneurs who are able to sell their connectivity, on-device storage, processing power, sensor information, or any digital content they create.
4. There are a lot of software applications that claim to be decentralized but rely on centralized infrastructure at the hardware level. RightMesh is the first truly decentralized network and platform that is actually p2p (peer-to-peer).
5. RightMesh's parent company, Left.io, is a multinational enterprise. Given funding from Left, we are able to put resources into traveling the world, participating in conferences and educating developers and people in the blockchain community about the need for increased connectivity and how RightMesh is making this possible.

Website: www.rightmesh.io Twitter: @Right_Mesh

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An interview with Heather Montgomery from 420Blockchain about the development of an infrastructure blockchain solution being developed by her company that addresses the seed-to-sale aspect for cannabis. Her company is creating a platform that will allow marijuana growers to input relevant information about their particular crops as well as allow for transportation companies to participate in the logistical aspects of delivering the product to the dispensaries. From there the dispensaries can use the solution for a POS (point of sale) to provide government confirmation for taxes and usage, which in turn will allow for banks to accept deposits from these companies.

Here are the key takeaways from the episode:

1. Current medical environment is lacking SOP and understanding about medical benefits of cannabis.
2. The legalization of Marijuana deals with black market competition & lack of supply controls.
3. Regulators, banks, and governing bodies struggle for ways to regulate policies, taxation, and regulation.
4. Blockchain, ioT, and Ai offer the tools to support the needs of the cannabis industry.
5. Medical application of cannabis requires deep research, clinical studies, and proper data analysis to significantly impact public health.

Website: www.420blockchain.cloud Twitter: @420_blockchain

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An interview with Adam Helfgott, co-founder and CEO of Madhive. MadHive is a blockchain-powered data management platform that enables the secure and transparent transfer of campaign data between publishers, video networks, and advertisers. A combination of fraud and weakness within the ad tech supply chain costs the industry an average of $8.2 billion a year. MadHive's solution to this gaping problem is to leverage blockchain and AI-backed technology to accurately track data as it travels along the supply chain from creative to consumer's browser.

Here are the takeaways form the interview:

1. The digital economy is powered by advertising dollars. That is how we can all use free services like email, search, chat, and video. Advertising is fueled by data. The problem is that certain parties within the advertising ecosystem hold the majority of data, and therefore, all the power. These parties are intermediaries.
2. The advertising supply chain describes the trajectory an ad takes from creative to a consumer's browser. Agencies use the programmatic marketplace to determine the sites, or publishers, on which to serve the ad. The marketplace relies on algorithms to make these decisions. As you can imagine, the algorithms are not always able to distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate sites, so the advertisers rely on intermediaries to verify where ads are served, and to whom, so intermediaries control all the data, which is where the value is. What would be immensely helpful to advertisers and publishers is to regain control of their data.
3. This is where blockchain comes into play. By leveraging a blockchain-backed network, this advertising data can be securely recorded, shared, and accessed by cryptographic keys. MadHive is a founding member of AdLedger, which is a group of advertising and publishing executives committed to determining the rules and standards that will govern a blockchain-backed peer-to-peer network for the advertising industry.
4. The timing is particularly ripe for blockchain solutions in ad tech now because it is getting more and more difficult to compete against the Google-Facebook duopoly. These two companies control so much of the data that it is nearly impossible to compete against their audience reach and targeting capabilities, but if advertisers and publishers share data, they dramatically increase their reach to the level that could be at least on par with Google and Facebook. This would be a huge win for advertisers and publishers looking to retain some of their lost margins. Additionally with the onset of GDPR, the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, in May of 2018, there is even more urgency for businesses operating in Europe to figure out how to meet these standards, which includes giving users access to data and ceasing use of data, should a user request it. Smart contracts are great for this.
5. MadHive already provides a data orchestration layer on a private, but the real promise of blockchain will be realized when the network can be enabled and the transaction speed increases, which IBM's Hyperledger is making headway on.

Website: http://www.madhive.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamhelfgott/ Adam's Twitter: @adamhelfgott MadHive Twitter: @madhivetech

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Blockchain360 announcements about updates to the podcast. Remixed audio. New distribution channels iHeartRadio and YouTube. Speaking engagement announcements. Bryant Nielson Speaking Schedule

UPCOMING 2017 SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Sept 15-16 Cryp Trade Conference, Antalya Turkey: Keynote: "Blockchain Tsunami"

Oct 17 MassChallenge Mexico City: Speaker "Blockchain Tectonic Shift"

Oct 24-25 World Blockchain Summit – Dubai UAE: Speaker topic not created

Nov 29-30 Blockchain Expo – Santa Clara, CA: Speaker topic not created

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An interview with John Wise CEO of Loci, a leader in DIY patent research that is branching out to a distributed database for patent research, discovery, and licensing. Outside of Loci, the patenting process is long and costly, but Loci uses a combination of intuitive user interfaces, machine learning, and blockchain technology to optimize this process. Loci's InnVenn, a visual searching tool for patents, was designed to simplify the process of identifying patents and more importantly, ideas that have not been patented yet.

• John's background as an auto-racing engineer led him to witness many inventions, and also how frustrating the process of patenting is.
• The current patent system is so convoluted, if one wants to file a patent, they must either spend thousands of dollars on a lawyer, or is legally obligated to read tens of thousands of patents to ensure their idea is has not yet been patented. This makes it extremely difficult for individuals to protect their intellectual property.
• Loci's product, InnVenn, was designed to simplify the process of identifying patents and more importantly, ideas that have not been patented yet.
• Loci's pre-sale is happening now through the end of the month, for accredited investors only. Loci's token sale launches in October.

Loci will be the first fully funded company with a working product and sales (in the product they are tokenizing) to embark on a token sale.

"As a clarification and redaction, Loci inc. has no immediate intentions to register as an investment bank and thus cannot offer securities or equities of any of the investment pools. Loci is legally bound to selling inventions or investment pools in totality to a third-party. If that third party is a registered bank or registered offerer of securities, then IT can offer securities stemming from that investment pool. NOT LOCI."

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An interview with Jessica VerSteeg, former model, Miss Iowa US 2014, on The Amazing Race season 28, CEO of AuBox, and now CEO of PARAGON. PARAGON is a distributed ledger for the marijuana industry, which enables secure and transparent record-keeping for doctor registries, marijuana IDs, and prescriptions.

Key takeaways:

1. There are many medical benefits to cannabis, including chronic pain relief, anxiety relief, etc. Unfortunately, governments, social stigmas and uneducated politicians hinder the positive change that marijuana could bring.
2. Currently, there is no established standards for purity, lab testing, ID verification, organic or eco-friendly certifications, prescriptions, THC/CBD potency, start-to-finish tracking, and so on. Having all this information publically available on the blockchain will solve that.
3. There are few places that allow cannabis businesses to rent office space, making it incredibly difficult for start-ups - but Paragon seeks to create co-working spaces.
4. The Paragon team is chock-full of talent, with backgrounds at Facebook, CISCO, Stocks.Exchange, City National Bank... and rapper The Game sits on their advisory board.

Paragon's token crowdsale will be from September 15th- October 15th.

Website: paragoncoin.com Twitter: @paragoncoin

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