Crypto Koala

Ferrum - Hello Crypto and Blockchain community. Today I talk with Co - Founder and COO at the Ferrum Network Ian Friend

Ian shares his background and how he is apart of the global company the Ferrum Network with a presence in Europe, Africa and the US.

Entering into Crypto industry as a lawyer, setting up a law firm called the blockchain practice team.

Whilst building up his connections in the Crypto Industry he discovered Naeim Yeganeh and together they started the Ferrum Network.

I ask In a Nutshell what the Ferrum Network is?

What’s the relationship between Kudi exchange and the Ferrum Decentralized exchange, what does that do for trading, stable coins and does act as fiat gateway?

The potential for Adoption in Africa where Google search trends have tripled in the African countries recently such as Nigeria and South Africa.

Also Africa has more mobile phone users than the US and Europe combined, But only 34% have access to bank accounts.

Recent changes in the approach to how the Ferrum Network team is looking at raising funds with the recent release of the token metrics paper.

Ian explains the key parts of the Ferrum Network which is Interoperability and cross chain capability.

Bitcoin, Gold and Silver Top stores of value from the Global financial crisis up until the present day April 2019 Showing a comparison between Gold, Silver and Bitcoin over the years, the inception of Bitcoin with the first Block 'Genesis Block' to the great 2017 end of year Bull run peak.

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Santiment - Hello Crypto and Blockchain community. Today I talk with Founder at Santiment

Maksim starts with what inspired him to get into Crypto and start Santiment

with Maksim having a background in market analysis and psychology as these go hand in hand in developing Santiment.

What the Santiment team have learnt in the last 2 years with the Crypto markets?

How Santiment assists the everyday Crypto Investor?

Max goes into the platform in more detail looking at the features, I ask has any venture capitalists or institutions been looking at the data on the platform and how accurate is the data?

We talk STO - Security token offerings, ICO - Initial coin offerings or the new Token generation model the IEO - initial exchange offerings.

The use case of the SAN token and what the future holds for Santiment?

NKN - Hello Crypto and Blockchain community. Today I talk with Bruce Li - The Co -Founder, Strategy & Operations at the New Kind of Network

Bruce starts with his background, where he studied in Australia for 4 years undertaking a masters in telecommunications.

NKN had their token generation event just under a year ago and I ask How the funds have assisted the projects.

The challenges NKN have faced with in that time and the current token swap which goes to the 28th March 2019 transiting over from NEO NEP -5 to ERC -20 and why?

Bruce raises the number of nodes there currently is on the New kind of Network, so how decentralized does this make the network.

With how easy it is to set up a node with NKN just 1 click, this achieved with NKN working with the Google cloud marketplace and digital ocean to achieve this easy set up.

The Incentives for both the everyday person and the Businesses (Telecommunication providers).

The status of the test net, the soon Main net release with the team in California planning for the next 24 months.

Blue Wallet - Hello Crypto and Blockchain community. Today I talk with Nuno Coelho - The Co -Founder, product & UX at Blue Wallet

We discuss the Lightning Network being able to achieve millions of transactions per second

Providing a scaling solution for Bitcoin, Gearing Bitcoin and The Blue Wallet on Lightning Network for Mass adoption as a use for peer to peer electronic cash - Instantly!

Nuno explains Hows the Lighting Network able to achieve fast transactions compared to regular Bitcoin transactions?

The Blue Wallet as currently a Custodial wallet the user is putting trust in the wallet to be accurate, Nuno's thoughts?

The Bitcoin and Lighting network wallets available on Google/App store and IOS, What they deliver on Bluewallet, With the Lightning Network wallet for your micro transactions and the Bitcoin wallet for potential Hodling?

I ask how secure is the Bitcoin Wallet? do the users hold there private keys?

Our favorite uses for lightning network! for example playing Lighting roulette, Paying bills on the Livingroom of Satoshi or Tippin on twitter with how easy it is to use.

Ravencoin - Hello Crypto and Blockchain community. Today I talk with Tron Black, The Lead Developer at Ravencoin, we discuss the Ravencoin project.

The beginnings of Ravencoin started with Bruce Fenton former executive director of the Bitcoin foundation and Patrick Byrne the CEO overstock, now when Tron heard they was going launch a coin, that's the sort of project he wanted to be involved in.

With existing large developer community, Tron makes an open invitation to developers and welcomes everyone to participate saying that it’s a super transparent and open sourced project.

Why they choose to fork off the Bitcoin/Genesis block with the proof of work consensus and Will Atomic swaps and the Lighting network be able to assist Ravencoin?

Tron explains The X16R Algorithm, which is ASIC resistant by design, its original idea is to be the peoples coin with how its evolved with Tron and Jay working on the algorithm.

Core Concept of Ravencoin launching on Bitcoins 9th Birthday, the idea of tokenization of assets, this could be form collectable items on games to tokenization of stocks and bonds.

How they could assist STO's with their tokenized assets from a technical prospective.

Long term block rewards, the token burns over time and being Proof of work the incentive to mine RVN tokens.

The Steps Tron and the Ravencoin team are taking to safeguard against an attack, similar to the Ethereum Classic 51% attack.

Narrative - Hello Crypto and Blockchain community. Today I talk with Rosemary O'Neill, The Founder and CEO at Narrative, we discuss the Narrative project.

Its Superbowl time! Rosemary shares her background with Social Strata of 20yrs with her husband Ted O'Neill together the have been working with a platform called Hoopla which serves Fortune 500 customers. A year ago, Ted developed the narrative white paper with the concept to deliver a platform that's removes the middle man who governs the system.

Rewarding content creators with the work they have done based on your reputation and the quality of the work.

Content creators can post to Niche which is core of the platform which are subject areas on the Narrative platform, this could be game of thrones, Australia or fly fishing with each Niche having an owner.

Each Niche owner has an incentive to draw in quality writers/content creators to their Niche to make it more popular and more popular it becomes the more the Niche owner is rewarded.

Rosemary explains how they looking at publications, this will be a more of a controlled environment.

Narrative being a decentralized platform has the benefit of being censorship resistant and Being non-centralized in its nature by utilizing blockchain, Trust is instilled for the users.

The reasons they choose the NEO Smart Economy?

The use case of the NRVE NEP – 5 tokens as a utility and how it is attractive to be used for its utility purpose.

The recent ability to draft content with narrative top 10 Niches ready to go live when the Beta stage comes online.

The Beta is due in March 2019 bringing visible content for everyone to see, attracting content creator inside of crypto and outside of the crypto geared for the everyday blogger.

Futures plans also include advertising, iOS/Android application and multiple languages to target a global audience.

Loopring - Hello Crypto and Blockchain community. Today I talk with Jay Zhou, the Co - Founder and CMO at Loopring, we discuss the Loopring project.

Jay's Prospective on the Chinese government, are they being more friendly to crypto?

Loopring assisting the Hong Kong government who have recently launch a sandbox to regulate a crypto centralised exchange with hopefully good news coming soon.

How Looping can assist in turning a wallet into a mini DEX for token exchange using the Loopring agnostic protocol. The use case of having the capability on your mobile phone, offering convenience and security.

Binance looking to launch its own DEX and the advantages and disadvantages of centralised and decentralised exchanges.

We reference the recent cryptopia centralised exchange highlighting the weaknesses of centralised exchanges.

Loopring's history starting with the crowd sale, launching the currency on Ethereum (LRC) with later the launch on NEO with the (LRN)

Jay explains the challenges they had on NEO and Loopring are focusing on a side chain on Ethereum.

Potential how Ethereum's Constantinople Hard fork upgrade with its Ethereum improvement proposals (EIPs) and the future switch to Proof of Stake with Serenity. How will this assist in both speed (TPS) and bringing more liquidity with volume.

The comparison to Ox Protocol with Loopring's unique Ring matching feature.

What the Loopring team are working towards including Versions 2.1 and 2.2

Recently Jay and the team attended the Asian financial forum this included big financial players like JP Morgan and HSBC with Loopring announcing a Joint paper with PwC on a Stablecoin study.

TranslateMe - Hello Crypto and Blockchain community. Today I talk with Ryan Lloyd, the Founder at TranslateMe, we discuss the TranslateMe project.

The project is based out of Mauritius, A island who is developing its approach toward the Blockchain and Fintech industry. with Mauritius being proactive in education and regulation basing their ventures similar Malta's

Ryan background of both translation and crypto of 10 years with the experience its bring to the project.

2018 has been the developing year for TranslateMe taking practical steps towards creating a translation solution for developers. for example, this can be a plugin to translate French to English Text.

Comparing TranslateMe decentralized application to current centralized application, highlighting the unique difference over the traditional translation applications like Google Translate, ihandy and iTranslate.

One main difference being its unique element that make is stand out from the rest, this is the human contributor.

Each human contributor to the MVP Alpha application can be rewarded in various ways with the TMN token.

Ryan shows the Telegram application giving a demonstration on how its used and the potential for the telegram community.

The unique funding method where the TMN tokens are already on the Switcheo exchange with the team vision of focusing more on the application then the marketing.

The advantages of being with Neo and how the have made serious progress in the last couple of years, providing good service with its ability to support the TranslateMe project. Believing me going to see more faster TPS and decentralization coming form NEO in the future.

Overall vision of the TranslateMe application with its ease of use, showing how attractive it is to get mass adoption.

Bridge Protocol - Hello Crypto and Blockchain community. Today I talk with Stephen Hyduchak, the CEO at Bridge Protocol, we discuss the Bridge Protocol project.

Stephen explain they providing a KYC (Know You Customer) and AML (Anti Money Laundering) solutions with Bridge Protocol using Blockchain for Businesses, assisting them to be compliant.

Offering a streamlined solution giving savings to ICO's, STO's, Exchanges and any token generation event.

Making it easy for the everyday user to register with the Bridge Passport via the Google Chrome Extension.

Once your details are registered. The benefits are they save time for the user and provides security as only your NEO address is provided to say a Exchange or ICO.