crypto gossip

This is our first CryptoGoss since September 2016. We had an unscheduled hiatus due to my (Peter's) health issues which resulted in me being unable to speak for more than a couple of minutes without coughing, unconducive to podcast recording. Fortunately, things have taken a turn for the better and we're confident of a strong podcasting season in 2017 at Crypto Studios, Blockchain Centre, Level 1, 89 - 91 City Road, Southbank, Victoria, 3006.

This episode, we were fortunate to catch up with Fran Strajner, CEO and founder of BraveNewCoin.com, on one of his lightning visits to Melbourne. With the benefit of Fran's unique perspective, we discussed:

- Standards Australia and international standards for blockchain technology http://bravenewcoin.com/news/australia-to-lead-iso-blockchain-standards-endeavor/

- Crypto Regulation

- The Blockchain Hype Cycle

- Automation, iOT, Surveillance and Privacy

- The upcoming SEC decision in the US re the Winklevoss ETF application

- The bitcoin price

Music for this episode, A Ride on the Coast by Espresso Music, courtesy of Shutterstock inc.

This episode, we look at Steem and how it can apply to learning in schools.

Katherine Noall, Scott Phillips and Peter Robertson are joined in Crypto Studios at the Melbourne Bitcoin Technology Centre by Kieran Nolan, Educational Technologist and Janet Whittle, Assistant Principal from Wooranna Park Primary School. We discuss Steem and how Wooranna Park Primary is planning to use the Steem platform for collaborative learning.

Inspired by an article on steem, Kieran Nolan and Tom Mcgann (Educational Technologist) requested a Google Hangout on air (featured on OpenSourceLearning.School) with the author Derek Reith.

All music for this is episode was freely provided by www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music

Rafael Taylor is a freelance journalist, contributor to ROAR Magazine and campaigner with Australians for Kurdistan, building solidarity networks with the Rojava Revolution. Based in Melbourne, he is a freethinker, transhumanist and libertarian socialist passionate about supporting new value-systems and social institutions.

Grant Lenaarts is a digital entrepreneur and software developer whose main interest is in the evolution of consumer civilization. This episode features an excellent Peter Hitchen's impersonation, a debate on Yanis Varoufakis' critique of digital currencies, and brief primers on political economy, libertarian socialism and the Rojava Revolution.

HYPERLINKS:

The Rojava Plan website and bitcoin address: http://rojavaplan.com/donate.html

The Fearless Imagination Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TheFearlessImagination/

Rafael’s public Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/rafaeltaylor3/

Rafael’s Roar Magazine profile: https://roarmag.org/author/rafael-taylor/

Scott, Julian and Simon discuss the DAO, Ethereum and the hard fork.

Music:

Air (R3z) - e a r t h s p a c e RMX 0.2

fantasytripp

https://allihoopa.com/s/sY2vbm3r

C A T C H Y

Monsinho

https://allihoopa.com/s/7NLtwpXD

Left or Right

skyfitsheaven

https://allihoopa.com/s/RwnfgbuB

Back to the MF Beat

BobMaurice

https://allihoopa.com/s/TBvxIxLm

This episode we feature two exciting new projects operating from here at Melbourne Bitcoin Technology Center and are very pleased to have Sam Lee, CEO of Bitcoin Group http://www.bitcoingroup.com.au/ also join us on the show.

Paul Ayling tells about his Ant Stand project along with the dramas he experienced trying to set up an Amazon store and how easy, by contrast, his experience with https://openbazaar.org/ was. Find out more about Paul's project at www.antstand.com, https://twitter.com/theantstand and https://www.facebook.com/antstand/

Julian Smith introduces his new project, https://blockfreight.com/ which aims to revolutionise the freight container industry by notarising every data point in a container's journey on the Blockfreight blockchain. If you'd like to take part in the Blockfreight Token pre-sale, go to https://tokens.blockfreight.com/

Full disclosure, I (Peter Robertson) am deeply biassed in favour of all projects being built in this community space and pretend no dispassion whatsoever! Note that since this episode was recorded I have participated in the early Blockfreight token sale.

Music:

This episode, one of our guests, JimmyY (AKA Paul Ayling), provided all of our wonderful tracks. Find these and many other pieces at https://allihoopa.com/JimmyY. In order, we hear:

- Sydney Rd Hardstep JimmyY

- Domino JimmyY

- Loop - Clifton Hill Medicine Man JimmyY

- Bitcoin Island JimmyY

- Loop -for the disruptive Influence Podcast JimmyY

- Burger Time JimmyY

In this episode of Cryptogoss Katherine Noall and Peter Robertson speak with Fran Strajnar, CEO and co-founder of Brave New Coin, a data and research company focused on the Blockchain and Digital Equities industry. Fran helps us tease out some of the thorny issues around the DAO “attack” and what this might mean for the world's view on Ethereum and blockchain technologies as general.

Fran was also able to share some insights on views held at the big end of town that he gathered from the recent Melbourne Blockchain Summit http://www.blockchainsummit.com.au/. We gained some further understandings of what private blockchains might actually turn out to be in practice and how there are cases where this might make sense, although it was also acknowledged that a lot of corporate activity involving the "B" word might be more spin for appearances than substance on the ground.

Finally, we turned to the topic of "what will the browser for the blockchain look like" as a basis for speculating about the services and applications that will really mark the crypto revolution for the masses. If email was the killer app for the Internet, what will the killer app for the blockchain be?

Music:

Boxing Bears Is My Business by brewmeisterbean https://www.propellerheads.se/s/YNgnTY0M

Rip squad by sliipii https://www.propellerheads.se/s/FOhV5qaU

Computer Controlled -3 by figure freak https://allihoopa.com/s/A29bWam0

News from Mars by theshoemaker https://allihoopa.com/s/cBWbGsI8

Peter, Katherine, Scott, and Warwick talk about the latest news within the world of crypto. The new DAO launched and beautifully explained by Scott. Hermits can live in peace. Fermat.org has big dreams of a bright crypto future. Warwick talks trading. Miami is known for good looking people, so it's no surprise you can get a butt lift with bitcoin in the glossy city.

2:15 http://www.fermat.org/

3:58 A Florida man sells bitcoin to undercover agents, and is looking at jail time. This Miami money-laundering case may define whether Bitcoin is really money. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article80421072.html

3:32 http://maidsafe.net/

7:24 http://cointelegraph.com/news/japan-officially-recognizes-bitcoin-and-digital-currencies-as-money

10:10 http://cointelegraph.com/news/what-makes-japan-second-largest-bitcoin-market-potentially-first

11:30 http://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/mrs-watanabe.asp

12:43 trading bitcoin

16:57 bitsquare.io

18:18 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/three-reasons-why-bitcoin-price-130253117.html

19:53 http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/12/a-crisis-worse-than-isis-bail-ins-begin/

20:35 Australian bank deposit info http://www.guaranteescheme.gov.au/qa/deposits.html

20:56 it's actually $250,000 in Australia, not $100,000 as mentioned

23:50 Currency Price talk

25:10 Silk Road and Australian drug dealer's bitcoin being sold

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36412487

27:27 music break

28:06 Launching of the THE DAO (distrubuted automous organization)

What is it, and how it works

http://cointelegraph.com/news/dao-trading-launches-today-what-should-we-expect

slock.it

32:49 Hermicity http://hermicity.org/ Living far from annoying people, and using drones and internet to keep others away.

35:40 DAO Tokens price

39:50 https://voteflux.org/ A new system of voting.

40:26 brief musical interlude

40:42 Big thanks to Dale. Dale has left Cryptogoss. And she is now producing Infinite Imaginarium Here is a snipet of the new show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0_IGgGaegI

42:51 Musicial thanks

43:20 Are there any Melbourne based musicians that we can feature ? help !

Music by Jesse Jnr, https://allihoopa.com/JessieJnr

https://allihoopa.com/s/a4EbC9D1 Alpine X

https://allihoopa.com/s/2fZ7kogn Cheese

https://allihoopa.com/s/H4iFqgPA Cold Space (Pt 2 of 2)

https://allihoopa.com/s/uj7lQi9q Lazy Bone

https://allihoopa.com/s/ox984ojm Satellite

Warwick, Scott and Dale take the mics today while Peter recovers from

the flu.

Craig Wright makes the news again, Scott and Warwick are swinging on the

issue "he's part of many" #TeamSatoshi "there's a little bit of bitcoin

in all of us". We cover the very basics of the story.

#VoteFlux get another mention, because we love them... and as Scott says

"besides politicians don't want to be making decisions anyway", we'll do

the work for them.

Hot topics of the week Ethereum, TOR, encryption and Australia is hot on

the VPN trail. We discuss tracking and illegal activity "where does the

madness stop?"

We close off with updates on OpenBazaar, and what's happening in

Melbourne's Bitcoin Technology Center.

Music:

swingSWINGswing Mocean99 https://www.propellerheads.se/s/DJOLEFYv

Glitch o'swing Mocean99 https://www.propellerheads.se/s/5jQ8hDzY

mowo builder Mocean99 https://www.propellerheads.se/s/V3EeqzRh

Sorry... Shoemaker with BrewmeisterBean https://www.propellerheads.se/s/W6ijxtJF

Bliss Junction Shoemaker https://www.propellerheads.se/s/BG4qUlou

Enjoy!

In this special episode, Scott Phillips, Grant Lenaarts and Peter Robertson discuss the present and future of electronic voting systems with Dr. Vanessa Teague, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Dr. Teague's work has included detailed studies of two instances where electronic voting systems have been used in Australia, and the news isn't always good. It turns out that online voting systems delivering privacy, transparency and verifiable results aren't that easy to create and operate. What are the problems, can they be solved, and is there a role for the blockchain?

Links

Dr Vanessa Teague https://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/vjteague/

NSW State Election Vulnerability http://theconversation.com/thousands-of-nsw-election-online-votes-open-to-tampering-39164

Music: Special thanks to JessieJnr, https://allihoopa.com/JessieJnr

Tokyo https://allihoopa.com/s/HZ0b24WZ

Democracy https://allihoopa.com/s/ihB96u9l

Not From This World https://allihoopa.com/s/B8qhQDKm

Stay Focus https://allihoopa.com/s/CDiT5yEy

Mercury https://allihoopa.com/s/cfh8Ug48

Streets of Tokyo https://allihoopa.com/s/xpszhAKJ

In this episode we interview Nathan and Max, the founders of Flux, an online voting system and political party, aimed at disrupting and fixing representative democracy. It's the political party where YOU create the policies. Any issue that people care about will have an avenue to be addressed via Flux. They have AEC accrediation and are fielding candidates in the upcoming Australian federal election.

Take the power back and vote for Flux... if you want any further information add your questions in the timeline and we'll happily get back to you.

voteflux.org

@voteflux

https://www.facebook.com/voteflux.org

Further Reading:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOokTsj92vY

https://theagilerevolution.com/2016/04/25/episode-105-the-flux-interview/

https://m.reddit.com/r/voteflux/comments/4e8woa/the_big_smoke_interviews_flux_cofounders/

http://forklog.net/australian-dreamers/

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/the-bitcoin-of-politics-flux-party-offers-radical-new-model-for-democracy-20160205-gmn066.html

http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/new-political-party-flux-says-it-wants-to-change-australias-political-system-by-focusing-on-policy/news-story/984c7d181d564cb35e0f004c02e8e023

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-politics-tech-idUSKCN0VP2TJ

http://www.sammway.com.au/know-your-client/nathan-spataro-changing-way-vote-change-world/

http://www.echo.net.au/2016/01/new-political-party-flux-set-to-register/

http://www.merimbulanewsweekly.com.au/story/3844642/crowdsourcing-democracy-for-the-fed-up/

http://themerkle.com/australian-political-party-aims-to-reinvent-democracy-with-blockchain-tech/

http://thebigsmoke.com.au/2016/04/11/flux-australias-new-smart-political-party-vote-counts/

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/new-australian-political-party-claims-bitcoin-will-bring-democracy-2-0/

http://www.coinfox.info/news/4842-australian-new-political-party-uses-blockchain-to-transform-democracy

Music:

Ginza

mahayuga432

https://allihoopa.com/s/UNZYa9R0

trapped at noon

contracota108

https://allihoopa.com/s/vhIIWazi

Vasile Plesca

Lazy love

https://soundcloud.com/vasile-plesca/lazy-love

Intro/Outro:

allihoopa.com/s/xrTkE8tS Mowo! Electro Swing Builder 2 - mocean99