Brandon Bucher is an engineer and the co-founder of LightningPay.nz. Brandon and I talk about the recent indictments against the Samourai founders whose wallet was operating a bitcoin mixing service. They are charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmission business which echo with the privacy battles in the 90s over encryption. We get into lightning network adoption, privacy, and the future outlook of your UTXO.

Timestamps:

00:00 Samourai indictment

Some notes from the show:

• Samourai indictment 

Contact Brandon:

• X

Find Jeff:

• X

The BCNZ Pod:

• Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/

Media & Sponsorship Enquires:

• [email protected] 

Recorded at blockheight 842607. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.

Ian Woolford has made a career working at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and presently he's the director of money and cash which is overseeing the CBDC or Digital Cash program. The RBNZ is partway through a series of consultations to get public feedback and opinion on a Reserve Bank issued digital currency. 

In this conversation Ian makes it very clear that the Reserve Bank wants cash to remain as close to regular cash as possible meaning that anonymity is preserved, and activity is not tracked. Ian also highlights that innovation in banking by banks has been woeful and they hope to encourage non-bank players to innovate here to provide more options for Kiwis.

Timestamps:

00:00 intro

Some notes from the show:

• rural cash trial program 

Contact Ian:

• LinkedIn

Find Jeff:

• X/Twitter

The BCNZ Pod:

• Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/

Media & Sponsorship Enquires:

• [email protected] 

Recorded at blockheight 842510. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.

Brooke Howard-Smith is the founder of Otterfish that is at the heart of the creator economy and influencer marketing. He's also a cofounder of Non-Fungible Labs which is now a part of Futureverse. Brooke and I broadly cover what's happening with AI and how its affecting everything digital and where Web3 fits in. We jump right in Brooke is talking about everyone leveraging what they love, being commercial and non commercial at the same time in the creator economy.

Timestamps:

00:00 intro 

Some notes from the show:

• Gino the Ghost on music https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb2NG6NWyhjisymBWg8aSXQ 

Contact Brooke:

• X/Twitter

Find Jeff:

• X/Twitter

The BCNZ Pod:

• Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/

Media & Sponsorship Enquires:

• [email protected] 

Recorded at blockheight 839555. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.

Leo Clark is a documentary filmmaker that is presently working with the Nouns DAO community. His latest film, NON-FUNGIBLE AOTEAROA, is debuting at the American Documentary and Animation Film Festival in Palm Springs with the tagline: See how NFTs and Nouns DAO are transforming people’s lives in New Zealand.

In this conversation Leo and I talk about the Nouns project and what the community is doing with NFTs and funding artists, we get into Farcaster and decentralised social media and touch on CC-zero (CC0) licensing and how it aligns with web3.

Timestamps:

00:00 intro & doco

Some notes from the show:

• The Doco 

Contact Leo:

• X/Twitter

Find Jeff:

• X/Twitter

The BCNZ Pod:

• Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/

Media & Sponsorship Enquires:

• [email protected] 

Recorded at blockheight 834418. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.

Sam Kamani has lots of experience in tech, from being a founder to a VC, an advisor, and an author. We talk about 3 important aspects to entrepreneurship: talent, ability to raise capital, and access to market. In the back third we get into trends in Web 3 including decentralised physical infrastructure (DePIn) and ETFs.

Timestamps:

00:00 intro

Some notes from the show:

• Norway's Oil Fund 

Contact Sam:

• X/Twitter

Find Jeff:

• X/Twitter

The BCNZ Pod:

• Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/

Media & Sponsorship Enquires:

• [email protected] 

Recorded at blockheight 832462. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.

Will Remor is a former quantitative risk analysist from traditional banking that got into stablecoins via the maker DAI project. He's consulted on a number of finance, stablecoin, and defi protocols, including New Zealand's newest stablecoin the NZDD, and has been involved with asset tokenization (or RWAs) from the early days. In this conversation Will takes us through some of the key differences between USDC, Tether, and DAI. We talk about some of the prominent depegging events affecting USDC when Silicon Valley Bank collapsed and who remembers 20% yield in Anchor and the Terra-Luna death spiral.

Timestamps:

00:00 intro

• tZero

Contact Will:

• LinkedIn

Find Jeff:

• X/Twitter

The BCNZ Pod:

• Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/

Media & Sponsorship Enquires:

• [email protected] 

Recorded at blockheight 828304. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.

Aditya Das is a crypto analyst and writer with a background in applied economics working with Brave New Coin and the Techemy Group analysing macro trends in the crypto and wider markets. In this conversation Aditya and I cover the Bitcoin ETF and it acting as a gateway for an Ethereum ETF, broader Ethereum scaling solutions such as proto danksharding and layer 2 mechanisms. We touch on the halving, US elections, and the tokenisation of real world assets including stablecoins.

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00:00 intro

• Brave New Coin https://bravenewcoin.com/

Contact Aditya:

• X/Twitter 

Find Jeff:

• X/Twitter

The BCNZ Pod:

• Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/

Media & Sponsorship Enquires:

• [email protected] 

Recorded at blockheight 829267. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.

Darcy Ungaro is the host of the Everyday Investor podcast, and he advises clients in a range of financial matters from mortgages all the way to Bitcoin. In this conversation Darcy and I broadly cover financial advice in the age of digital assets such as the Bitcoin ETF and strategies to modernize that dusty portfolio. 

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00:00 intro

• Bitcoin ETF news

Contact Darcy:

• X/Twitter

Find Jeff:

• X/Twitter

The BCNZ Pod:

• Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/

Media & Sponsorship Enquires:

• [email protected] 

Recorded at blockheight 828315. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.

Janine Grainger is the cofounder and CEO of Easy Crypto which is coming up on their 6th anniversary and very well known in New Zealand. In this conversation we talk about growing a crypto company, competition in the New Zealand market, building a wallet and some of the security issues that come with it, and deploying an NZ dollar stablecoin on the main chains. 

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00:00 intro

• NZ Hi-Tech awards 

Contact Janine:

• LinkedIn

Find Jeff:

• X/Twitter

The BCNZ Pod:

• Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/

Media & Sponsorship Enquires:

• [email protected] 

Recorded at blockheight 817074. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.

Simon Collins is the founder of Stackr.co.nz, a Bitcoin mining company that uses sustainable and renewable energy sources. Simon is also the lead on the fundraising campaign to Orange Pill New Zealand parliament, and that is what we're talking about today. As we lead up to an election here in New Zealand we're listening to a lot of promises from the parties, many of them economic, but none of them are talking of potential alternative financial paths. The plan is simple: raise money to buy copies of The Bitcoin Standard to send to all 120 MPs in New Zealand's next, 54th parliament.

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02:06 orange pilling

• NZ Parliament Fundraiser 

Contact Simon:

• X/Twitter: 

Find Jeff:

• X/Twitter

The BCNZ Pod:

• Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/

Sponsor:

The Blockchain New Zealand podcast is brought to you by EasyCrypto

Media & Sponsorship Enquires:

• [email protected] 

Recorded at blockheight 807695. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.