LAB Radio

Sometimes known as DJ Eth Ledger, Zane is the co-founder and CTO @ Dispatch Labs, Founding partner at The Bureau, and co-organizer of the San Francisco Ethereum Meetup.

Zane is an experienced blockchain architect and distributed systems specialist. He is firmly entrenched as an expert in the blockchain world, sitting on the board of advisors for four California based blockchain companies, and is an author in the space.

Zane's entire life is focused on his desire to build something at the bleeding edge of what is currently possible.

After listening to this episode you will learn:

• That Zane has a background in both Music and Technology
• How Zane began his career doing Technology in San Francisco
• About when Zane helped build one of the first Ethereum Meetups in the Bay area
• What use cases excite Zane as a Blockchain developer
• How Zane has tweaked functionality to bridge the gaps on smart contracts
• What the future of development looks like
• About how this technology will touch previously inaccessible smaller nations and small-town America
• What the Bureau, Dispatch Labs and their incubator does in San Francisco
• How the Cryptocurrency industry has an incredible ethos of using technology to change the world for the better

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Kim is a prolific event speaker, social media influencer, fitness enthusiast, startup mentor and has shared the stage with superstars across industries including Gary Vee.

Kim Parnell, the Cofounder of Blank, is a seasoned startup veteran originally from Toronto, Canada with a successful exit under her belt.

Blank aims to be a platform that builds apps automatically without code, thus making app development available to everyone. Her passion for Blank comes from her frustration in finding a technical partner during the early phases of her first software startup.

Alongside the team at Blank, she's working to level the playing field so that anyone with an idea and the ambition to make it happen has the tools they need to do so.

After listening to this episode you will learn:

• How we reacted during an earthquake during our recording
• About Kim's background in film, entrepreneurship and eventually app development
• A look into the Toronto startup scene and community
• How more Women in STEM isn't necessarily the issue we should be focused on
• What some barriers are getting into Crypto and how to overcome them

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"Events are expensive operations. As a result, event organizers establish costly subsidies and artificial deals to maximize revenue and minimize risk, ultimately hurting the entire event financing process" - Jason Robert, Co-founder & CEO of Hello Sugoi

Jason is Co-founder & CEO of HelloSugoi, the world's first blockchain powered live events ecosystem. The team over at Hello Sugoi operates on principals that the event coordinators and customers deserve a fair system in which to operate. Currently, the model is flawed with intermediaries, risk, fraud and price gouging. With the Hello Sugoi platform, using smart contracts to issue tickets adds transparency and helps disrupt inefficiencies in the current system.

He also co-founded the popular "Real World Blockchain" meetup and is the founding instructor at Product School's "Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies" course in Los Angeles, CA. Jason has facilitated numerous public speaking engagements on the topic of blockchain and the entertainment industry, including appearances at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, BlockCon, SF Music Tech Summit, XLIVE, and SXSW.

After years as a touring drummer, he founded Lost Midas, a music production company. While there, he negotiated recording, publishing, and live event agreements. He released several albums to critical acclaim by the BBC and NPR, and performed extensively across North America and the UK. Jason has also composed original songs at BMG Production Music for high-profile TV shows on ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, Netflix, and Showtime.

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Sarah Hody counsels entrepreneurs, established tech businesses and innovators on a variety of regulatory matters, primarily in the fintech and blockchain industries. Sarah is well-versed in state and federal financial services regulations, data security, privacy, intellectual property and regulatory compliance.

Sarah's background includes serving as in-house counsel at Coinbase, a digital asset exchange company as well as assisting token crowd sales (ICOs), asset-backed digital tokens, peer-to-peer lending, corporate governance, Bank Secrecy Act compliance, FINRA arbitration and financial services litigation.

Valeria Bystrowicz-Liendo advises emerging growth and established technology companies in the United States and Latin America, with a particular emphasis on blockchain/distributed ledger technology (DLT).

As part of the Blockchain Technology & Digital Currency industry group, Valeria has been at the forefront of the legal and regulatory frameworks related to virtual currency and blockchain.

She has represented clients in launching commercial platforms powered by blockchain tokens and counselled teams through their initial coin offerings (ICOs) process by offering regulatory guidance and corporate advice in engineering domestic and international corporate structures.

After listening to this episode you will learn:

• How Sarah and Valeria got started in the legal field
• The challenges they faced as lawyers and how they discovered blockchains
• How the law operates and requires taking a new set of facts and sifting that through existing rules
• How there are tons of hard problems to be solved in the Blockchain world both technically and legally
• How tokens, Dapps and other Blockchain focused applications will touch everything we do behind the scenes
• How GDPR compliance, new European legislation is pushing the "right to be forgotten" data management policies
• What Sarah and Valeria would change and want to see more of in the space

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Raphaël is a socially focused technology entrepreneur and is way down the blockchain rabbit hole.

His former life was in lobbying and corporate communications in Europe and Latin America. Raphaël is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese (and currently learning Greek).

He is now the founder and CEO of Alice, a social funding and management platform on the Ethereum Blockchain.

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Dan Bates has spent the last 10 years as President, CEO and Founder of WindStream Technologies, a recognized leader in hybrid renewable energy systems. Under Bates' guidance, the Company has deployed projects of all sizes in over 35 countries and established manufacturing facilities in the United States and in India.

The Company has won international awards for product design, efficiency and sustainability and has developed strong relationships in the international renewable energy community. Prior to starting WindStream Dan spent 15 years in the technology sector and has launched successful technology ventures in both hardware and software.

Dan's first technology venture, Extreme Audio Reality (EAR) was the first provider of multi-channel, interactive audio, designed for the PC and set-top box gaming arena.

EAR successfully licensed its products to all major game publishers including Electronic Arts, Activision, Id Software, Ubisoft and many others. After EAR, Mr. Bates started Avant Interactive, which was the Leadership first provider of an interactive or clickable video solution for content owners, publishers and advertisers.

Avant was the market leader in this emerging sector, holding licenses and/or contracts with many of the Fortune 100 companies.

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Joe Ciccolo is an accomplished expert in building and implementing successful BSA/AML programs for traditional and non-traditional financial institutions offering a variety of banking products and services. Following 10+ years in legacy bank compliance, Joe founded BitAML, a regulatory compliance advisory group devoted exclusively to helping bitcoin startups and innovators leveraging Blockchain technology. BitAML allows him to share his subject matter expertise with those that share his passion for digital currency and all the potential it holds for the future. Joe is a frequent guest speaker at both Bitcoin and Blockchain conferences. He also meets regularly with traditional bankers and volunteers his time and talents with the non-profit Blockchain Education Network.

After listening to this episode you will learn:

• Joe's background and how he got into the field
• What compliance, AML and KYC is and why we need it
• How the market has shifted over the last two years
• What Joe does with bitAML
• How he decided to tackle that niche
• Specific problems he solves for organizations and how
• A first-time sneak peek on a new SaaS software solution from BitAML
• How Joe thought of it and what's your roadmap for future development
• What excites and scares Joe about the direction of compliance and regulation

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This is a re-post from The Captain Crypto Show by Kylan Hurt

Kylan is a Full-Stack Developer for a Cryptocurrency wallet provider called Edge (formerly Airbitz). He specializes in such languages as: PHP, Javascript & jQuery, MySQL, Angular.js, Python, HTML, CSS

After listening to this show you will learn:

• Chris' corporate background and how he transitioned into the Crypto world
• How he got his start as a Bitcoin community organizer
• What CoinStructive does and how it works
• A look at the Cryptocurrency industry and how its changed since 2014
• Advice for eager onlookers on how to get started in the community

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Sheree is currently the Legal and Blockchain Development lead at automotive blockchain company, BitCar. She provided Legal and Compliance counsel for an Australian based blockchain commercialisation company, Ledger Assets.

At Power Ledger, she worked across Australia's first ICO on the token design, commercial strategy and led the ICO marketing efforts to the company's success in $34M raise creating the third largest global crypto Telegram community, 60k+ Twitter followers.

Sheree's expertise spans across all stages of blockchain development from strategic architectural design, product implementation and compliance, through marketing.

She is an Academic at Curtin University's Law School in Western Australia teaching across various areas of law and a Doctoral Candidate researching in Digital Currency Law and Blockchain Regulation.

Finally, Sheree cofounded Certus Consulting bringing her legal experience from a variety of sectors to current blockchain projects.

She is a qualified Practitioner and a Board Member of Blockchain Australia helping lead the conversation around regulation and policy reform matters.

After listening to this episode you will learn:

• How Sheree got into the Blockchain field and her vocation
• How Sheree is brought on board for projects to evaluate the different laws and also future-proof projects for future regulations
• How initiatives need to go through a set of particular privacy laws in Australia such as data management and storage
• How Blockchain Australia helps provide guidance for lawmakers and facilitates comments from the industry
• How their policy work helped prevent a double taxation event for Bitcoin in Australia
• What Sheree would change about the industry
• What Sheree looks for in high quality and integrity projects

For show notes and more please visit: http://coinstructive.com/lab-radio-episode-11-sheree-ip/

Steven Masur has over 22 years of legal experience advising emerging companies since the days of the Internet and most recently the Blockchain and cryptocurrency regulation. His practice focuses on corporate finance, M&A, intellectual property, entertainment, and guiding startups. Steve has extensive experience in angel and venture capital finance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and cross-border transactions in Europe and Asia.

Previously he counselled enterprise level clients like Shazam, Virgin Mobile, Liberty Media, Yamaha, Nielsencounselledics, Bob Vila and Conde Nast Publications in corporate, digital media, and new business matters. His knowledge has guided a wide variety of industries including media, mobile, digital music, social media, augmented and virtual reality, software and hardware.

Today, Steve is a partner at Masur Griffitts + Co, LLP, a full-service transactional law firm which guides emerging companies of all sizes and industries navigate uncertain waters as rapidly growing technology meets regulation.

After listening to this episode you will learn:

• How Steve began his career as a drummer and eventually entered the legal field
• How Steve thought that the Internet was a once in a lifetime opportunity that he never thought he would see again
• How although law hasn't fundamentally changed, these new industries create consternation among market participants
• How the Howie-Test is a big discussion among legal circles
• How the Munchee case affects the Howie-Test and the outcome of it
• How the SEC doesn't necessarily want people to stop doing ICOs
• How companies need to be mindful is their coin is a security or utility token
• How the Phreakers, Cypherpunks and Cyberpunks were early web pioneers and how the movement is alive and well
• How Steve believes you need to find what excites you and follow that drive

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