Hello, welcome to episode 22 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell.

In today’s podcast you’ll hear the Blockchain Tech panel from the State Of Digital Money conference, which took place earlier this year in Los Angeles. I thought it was a very fun panel that was filled with many insights. You might say the panel was stacked a bit on the side of blockchain tech over Bitcoin, and Bitcoin maximalists (amongst others) may not agree with some of the points made. But hopefully everyone can still appreciate hearing ideas and discussion from very bright people in the field.

Some interesting tidbits: It’s Jeff Garzik you’ll hear yell “not true” from his seat in the audience, and Connie Gallippi also speaks from the crowd. I was surprised to learn the source of inspiration for Medici (the blockchain-based stock exchange being pioneered by Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne).

On the panel, you’ll hear (in order of appearance):

 

Moderator: Alex Rozman Senior Manager in the Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP @rozman7

Craig Sellars Co-Founder and CTO for Tether @Tether_to

Eric Benz VP of Payments at BitReserve @EricBenz84

Judd Bagley Director of Communications at Overstock.com @WriterJudd

Alyse Killeen Associate Venture Capital Investor at March Capital Partners @AlyseKilleen

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SHOW LINKS

State Of Digital Money http://www.cureativ.com/sodm#digitalmoney

Deloitte http://deloitte.com

Tether https://tether.to

BitReserve https://bitreserve.org

Overstock.com http://www.overstock.com

March Capital Partners http://www.marchcp.com

Patrick Byrne's Reddit AMA https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/24kbc0/im_patrick_byrne_a_profreedom_supporter_of

CounterParty http://counterparty.io

Perkins Coie https://www.perkinscoie.com

BitGive Foundation http://bitgivefoundation.org

SPONSOR

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Here's a link to the YouTube video of the panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9sZu-HIFys

The videographer who recorded videos from this conference works relentlessly on the front lines, recording cryptocurrency and P2P content from all over the country. Check out all his videos at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxfh-2aOR5hZUjxJLQ2CIHw/feed?activity_view=3.

MUSIC

All music in this episode was created by me, or with friends and family. Ganesh Painting Company is the name of one of the jam bands I feature live recordings of regularly. Some of the musicians you're hearing are Mike Coleman and Steve Lunn. Feel free to contact me if you want more info about any music you hear on the podcast.

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