crypto gossip

This week we cover the Bit Film crowd sourcing project that may may Max Keiser a star of the screen, we chill while we hear how cannabis startups need bitcoin (yes, you heard right, there are cannabis startups!), we take far too much pleasure from the Ashley Madison hacks, learn new and novel ways that decentralised networks can be used to underpin democracy and help people hook up, we DON'T interview Roger Ver, we report on our joint Safe Network and podcasting projects with RMIT and much other great stuff.

5:10 coursera courses + standford + princeton / brooke shields

5:47 BIT FILM PROJECT

https://www.bitcoin.com/news/bitfilm-crowfund-feature-film-satoshis-last-will/

9:58 Cannabis Startups Need Bitcoin

https://www.bitcoin.com/news/cannabis-startups-need-bitcoin/

http://www.sbs.com.au/topics/marijuana-legalisation

16:14 Ashley Madison Hacks

https://www.rt.com/news/312788-ashley-madison-affair-hack/

Thompson Holidays - http://www.databreaches.net/uk-data-breach-by-holiday-firm-thomson-exposes-hundreds-of-passengers/

nickelback - http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018791719

decentralized dating service

lots of privacy issues spoken about

20:25 Maidsafe project at the MBTC

https://forum.safenetwork.io/t/melbourne-crypto-community-to-host-project-for-rmit-university-post-grad-students/4460

24:51 roger Ver was supposed to talk to the MBTC, he's the bitcoin Jesus !

http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinMelbourne

27:11 Litecoin

29:20 RMIT students with podcasting

30:56 William Bullock talks about the MBTC and bitcoin in Melbourne

34:04 Bitcoin Node day http://www.bitcoinnodeday.org

38:53 Thanks to Leo in postproduction

39:15 end

Your hosts were Dale Dickins, Warwick Greville and Peter Robertson. This week's guests were William Bullock and

Katherine Noall

Music Credits

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

The Pranqster by brewmeisterbean https://www.propellerheads.se/s/myho09BA

Celestial Drifter by brewmeisterbean https://www.propellerheads.se/s/IBSYlx00

Under The Desert Moon by brewmeisterbean https://www.propellerheads.se/s/IkEXz6a1

There Will Always Be Hope (For Slim) by brewmeisterbean https://www.propellerheads.se/s/R33GNpmg

The Godfather (part II) by brewmeisterbean https://www.propellerheads.se/s/KUgwFpH0

Expiditing The Inevitable by brewmeisterbean https://www.propellerheads.se/s/cl3qhKv4

The Pranqster by Brewmeisterbean (SeYSMIxed) https://www.propellerheads.se/s/lFxdvWT6

epic journey by leviathan42 https://www.propellerheads.se/s/95c3cCXe

Clawtooth - 42rmx by leviathan42 https://www.propellerheads.se/s/TBRmlwBk

Hypnoburp by leviathan42 https://www.propellerheads.se/s/v5lx9aRi

Our post production engineer was Leo Treasure ably assisted by Warwick Greville.

This week we look at how crypto currencies in Australia are faced with a very severe challenge in the face of our Taxation Office's interpretation of existing laws in issuing their advisory on how businesses and individuals should approach GST (the Goods and Services Tax). By declaring that crypto currencies are not actually currencies for taxation purposes, but rather members of the asset class, the opportunity for double GST to be paid was created. This even lead to significant business in Australia moving their headquarters off shore. Recently a senate committee came back with a list of recommendations that, if implemented, promise to fix this problem.

On the topic of rolling back democracy and the bad guys winning (again), we discuss recent additions to the Defence Trade Control Act and how our masters in Canberra have put yet another burden on the shoulders of education, business, entrepreneurship, and the economy in general by making our defence community the peak regulator of all technologies that, in the fevered imagination of some bureaucrat, could conceivably be used as a weapon by terrorists. I for one have dropped my shares in that rubber band factory quick smart.

Aside from that, we talk about Satoshi's hoard, Greece, Brave New Coin and finally we dabble ineptly in a bit of string theory.

Your hosts were Warwick Greville and Peter Robertson. This week's guests were Paul Ayling and Pantelis Roussakis

Our post production engineer was Leo Treasure ably assisted by Warwick Greville.

2:22 music

2:25 Australian Tax Changes

http://www.coindesk.com/australian-senate-committee-seeks-to-overturn-bitcoin-tax-ruling/

http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Economics

Defence Trade Control Act Defense and Strategic

http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r5407

9:31 Japanese Judge says bitcoin is not something that can be "owned"

http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/06/japanese-court-bitcoin-ownership-ruling/

11:01 London George Galloway will be using blockchain for govt transparency

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/london-mayoral-candidate-george-galloway-calls-city-government-use-block-chain-public-accountability/

government accountability

14:43 TWEET - SATOSHI's COINS HAVE BEEN MOVED ?

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2015/08/04/no-satoshi-did-not-move-any-bitcoins-today-blockchain-info-was-spoofed/

do we trust the blockchain.info?

smartbit.com.au provides great access to blockchain info

20:30 Scientists in Greece create an evoting platform

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/07/29/scientists-in-greece-design-cryptographic-e-voting-platform/

Hacking votes

22:48 Brave New Coin with Pantelis

http://bravenewcoin.com/

Lots of information on all the top crypto currencies. Great for crypto traders.

28:45 String Theory example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory

31:34 ending / close

31:54 END

An Aussie pub is raising money through a crowdfunding exercise to rebuild after a fire damaged the building and left the local population with nowhere to drink. It's great to see this new approach to fund raising is being put to socially important work at last.

A main theme this week which the discerning among you will have deduced from the title is safety and security.

We also talk about Mike watch-your-ears Tyson and his apparent funding of Bitcoin ATMs, the Ethereum launch, how to fix the world's broken voting systems, and lot's of other great topics, check the notes below.

Your hosts were Warwick Greville and Peter Robertson. This week's guests were Paul Ayling and Martin Davidson.

Our post production engineer was Leo Treasure ably assisted by Warwick Greville.

SHOW NOTES:

00:00 intro

00:27 Ripple

https://forum.ripple.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=15550

6:00 Buchan Victoria -

Pub - crowdfunding for a PUB

http://www.smartcompany.com.au/growth/48025-buchan-awesome-record-crowdfunding-target-reached-to-rebuild-pub.html

pozzible accepts BITCOIN

10:28 MIKE TYSON BOXER to help promote bitcoin ATM's in LAS VEGAS

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/27/mike-tyson-apparently-entering-the-bitcoin-market.html

12:52 ETHEREUM LAUNCH

https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/07/30/ethereum-launches/

https://www.ethereum.org/

20:50 Privacy and security for individuals

... 22:00 Voters in the USA (A lot of people in the USA do not vote. Turns out 40% do not vote.)

the Bipartisan Research Center has stated that turnout for 2012 was 57.5 percent of the eligible voters

http://phys.org/news/2011-11-voters-privacy-elections.html

... 22:30 Nothing to hide argument

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

... 23:00 Identity Theft

... 24:00 Mass Survellaillance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance

... 26:47 McDonald's story

Australian Privacy Law and Reform (The McDonald's story)

http://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/privacy-act/privacy-law-reform

... 29:44 e-mail security

zero knowledge encryption MEGA www.mega.co.nz Spider Oak backup https://spideroak.com/

Lavabit saga .. just go to http://lavabit.com/ and read about Nazi-like enforcers trying to get to personal data.

"Lavamail" is now Lavaboom which replaced Lavabit https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/lavaboom-replaces-lavabit-offer-truly-secure-email/

Threema.com

... 32:44 A superhero can't do what he does in a surveilled world

35:25 tracking web pages

Ghostery https://www.ghostery.com/en/

... 37:08 Google tracks you now... Google Timing now

http://www.cnet.com/au/how-to/stop-google-from-tracking-you-on-google-maps/

38:27 Peter wraps up so far.

Ethereum, Maidsafe, Crypto, Privacy, Security, etc.. what about MASS ADOPTION ?

THREEMA.com in Germany Maidsafe http://maidsafe.net/ Yammer https://www.yammer.com/

Peerio https://peerio.com/

49:45 How private is bitcoin ?

The past week saw a certain amount of navel-gazing from the bitcoin world with a survey of attitudes by finance professionals, the 'State of Bitcoin' report by CoinDesk, and yet another survey on our predictions for the price of bitcoin by the end of 2015, (you'd think we'd have learned something last year, but no, so have a go!). This and other good gossip on things crypto, including the excitement building around the imminent first release of Ethereum.

Your hosts were Warwick Greville and Peter Robertson. This week's guest was Pantelis Roussakis from Brave New Coin.

Our post production engineer was Leo Treasure.

In this episode we discuss the furore that has erupted around the proposal to increase the blockchain size from its current limit of 1MByte to 10 or 20 MBytes. We also talk about JoyStream, an exciting project combining peer to peer with Bitcoin (http://www.joystream.co/) and the rather ominous prospect for the systematic removal of pseudonymity from bitcoin transactions, courtesy of Elliptic's new service offering; www.elliptic.co.

Your hosts were Dale Dickens, Warwick Greville and Peter Robertson. This week's guest was Tom Kearney from Coinbase.

Our post production engineer was Leo Treasure.

This week's roundup includes news and views on major events in the crypto world, including major banks in Australia going into business with Ripple Labs, news of a new podcast covering Maidsafe, Kraken exchanges new 'Dark Pool' and a host of other topical subjects.

This episode featured Dale Dickens, Warwick Greville and Peter Robertson. Post production by Leo Treasure.

Dale Dickens and Peter Robertson chat with Katherine Noall about the impacts of crypto currencies and decentralisation in store for payment systems, government policy and our lives in general.

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