The Blockchain New Zealand Podcast

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  • E09 - Marc Krisjanous on Security Standards in Crypto

    Marc Krisjanous is a cyber security turned crypto auditor that been working with the C4 cryptocurrency consortium to develop the new cryptocurrency auditor certification course (CCSSA). Marc is presently undertaking the first ever audit of a business using the standard to asses their crypto security practices. In this conversation we talk about where the standards fit into a business, what they consist of, and touch on best practices both for businesses and for people getting into crypto. 

    Acronyms(!)

    • QSA - Qualified Security Assessor
  • PCI - Payment Card Industry 
  • DSS - Data Security standard
  • HSM - Hardware Security Module
  • CCSS - Cryptocurrency Security standard
  • CCSSA - CCSS Auditor
  • C4 - Cryptocurrency Certification Consortium
  • SOC2 - System and Organization Controls standard
  • ISO27001 - Information Security Management standard

    • Timestamps:

    01:44 background in credit card security
    10:22 crypto security standard
    14:09 attack vectors
    17:04 profanity vanity generator
    20:59 CCSS levels
    25:35 the audit boundary
    28:34 social engineering
    30:29 practical takeaways for businesses
    35:00 multi-party compute
    37:33 security advice for newcomers
    40:10 wen audit? 
    45:39 rapid fire
    48:20 proof of reserves
    52:28 fin

    Some notes from the show:

    • Marc's writing 
  • C4 
  • CCSS  
  • https://rekt.news/
  • Profanity hack 
  • emp data storage 
  • Quadriga podcast: A Death in Cryptoland 
  • MPC
  • Sandbox
  • Decentraland
  • Celsius Machinsky withdraws 10m in customer funds 
  • proof of reserves

    • Contact Marc:

    • LinkedIn 

    Find Jeff:

    • Twitter
  • LinkedIn 

    • The BCNZ Pod:

    • Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/
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    Recorded at blockheight 757090. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.

     

    53 min
  • E08 - Paul Stonham on Enterprise DLT & Tokenising Assets

    Paul Stonham is the General manager of the DLT division at the Australian Stock Exchange. For the last few years the ASX has been developing an enterprise DLT that uses VMware's blockchain and runs the DAML smart contract language. In this conversation we talk traditional finance getting into distributed leger tech and some of the use cases. Paul is a technologist always looking to improve efficiency; and we get into tokenisation of assets and the utility of NFTs. 

    Timestamps:

    01:42 background in traditional markets
    05:00 DLT as a service
    09:42 is it a blockchain?
    11:00 simplifying the path to adoption
    13:46 enterprise client's use cases
    23:33 competitors - hyperledger etc.
    25:37 on trust in tokenisation of digital assets
    28:46 real estate & tokenised land
    31:27 web3, NFTs, & a metaverse
    37:12 DLT fit at ASX
    39:14 blockchain New Zealand
    41:53 rapidfire
    44:37 fin

    Some notes from the show:

    • CHESS replacement with DLT 
  • VMware blockchain 
  • daml 
  • BFT distributed systems 
  • PBFT based on The Part-time Parliament paper 
  • Barclays, JPMorgan use haskell 
  • KPMG & NSW Building Trustworthy Indicator
  • Hyperleger 
  • Corda 
  • Speed & Trust 
  • Culture’s new home on the blockchain 
  • Australian Open NFTs 

    • Contact Paul:

    • LinkedIn
  • ASX

    • Find Jeff:

    • Twitter
  • LinkedIn 

    • The BCNZ Pod:

    • Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/
  • YouTube 
  • Apple Podcasts
  • Google Podcasts
  • Spotify 
  • iHeartRadio 

    • Sponsor:

    The Blockchain New Zealand podcast is brought to you by EasyCrypto

    Media & Sponsorship Enquires:

    Recorded at blockheight 754135. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.

     

    45 min
  • E07 - Tornado Cash and The Merge; Bryan and Jeff Roundtable 1

    Bryan Ventura is here for our first roundtable; Bryan is a lawyer specializing in blockchain and Web3. Today we're covering two main topics:

    • Tornado cash - what is it and why was it sanctioned - and the downstream effects of platform level censorship along with freedom of expression and how open source code fits in.
  • Then we dive into Eth2.0 (I still call it that) - The Merge - we talk about some of the history of proof of work transitioning to proof of stake ethereum and what people are expecting afterwards.
  • We wrap up with a shoutout to Roger Ver and Zuckerberg's metaverse.

    • Timestamps:

    00:00 intro
    00:57 Tornado cash intro
    06:27 OFAC & US regulatory influence
    09:27 Circle censoring USDC tx
    13:30 Multiple identities & dusting accounts
    17:08 freedom of speech 
    23:51 Dutch jailed the founder
    25:57 contributing to open source
    27:18 FATF virtual asset guidance
    32:56 is code speech
    38:26 Eth2.0, the merge & the history of PoW
    45:46 merge performance & fees
    51:20 validators
    55:37 deflationary distribution of ETH
    59:15 Roger Ver
    1:01:11 metaverse
    1:13:20 fin

    Some notes from the show:

    • What is Tornado Cash 
  • Sanctions 
  • Roman Semenov 
  • Chainalysis report & Lazarus North Korean hacking group 
  • Bernstein v. Department of Justice 
  • Developer jailed for 90 days 
  • Stable Diffusion 
  • Dall-e 
  • pgp privacy 
  • Github's co-pilot 
  • Ethereum difficulty bomb 
  • Otherside land mint fees 
  • Ethereum nodes 
  • Futureverse 
  • Horizon Worlds 
  • paper cheques 
  • Zuckerberg on Lex 

    • Contact Bryan:

    • LinkedIn
  • MinterEllisonRuddWatts

    • Find Jeff:

    • Twitter
  • LinkedIn 

    • The BCNZ Pod:

    • Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/
  • YouTube 
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    1 hr 14 min
  • E06 - Stephen Macaskill on Economics, Money, and Bitcoin

    Stephen Macaskill is the CEO of Dasset, a trading platform for buying bitcoin and other digital assets. Before digital assets Stephen ran a precious metals company helping people maximize their savings and financial literacy.

    In this conversation we talk about:

    • precious metals and gold's role in recent monetary history including Bitcoin;
  • the definition of money and Austrian and Keynesian methodologies within economics;
  • bitcoin and its intrinsic versus subjective value;
  • spontaneous orders, and
  • human cooperation through decentralized autonomous organizations.

    • Timestamps: 

    00:00 intro
    01:23 precious metals and gold's role in monetary history
    07:04 WTF happened in 1971
    13:27 what is money
    19:46 Austrian vs Keynesian
    27:35 social data vs natural science
    32:59 Bitcoin
    39:30 intrinsic vs subjective value of Bitcoin
    43:32 on enabling global collaboration
    45:52 scaling blockchains
    49:13 defining digital assets
    51:53 potential of DAOs
    59:07 insurance
    1:01:23 rapid fire
    1:04:02 fin

    Some notes from the show:

    • what happened in 1971? https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
  • Turkish rare earths discovery https://www.wired.com/story/turkey-rare-earth-metals/
  • French try to redeem gold https://www.huffpost.com/entry/august-15-1971_b_4284327
  • Austrian methodology https://mises.org/library/methodology-austrian-school-economists-0
  • Keynes & rise of macroeconomics https://www.investopedia.com/terms/k/keynesianeconomics.asp
  • tomayo https://www.newworld.co.nz/shop/product/5267101_ea_000nw
  • Bitcoin whitepaper https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
  • spontaneous order https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_order
  • coinmarketcap https://coinmarketcap.com/
  • Vitalik's essay on DAOs https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/bootstrapping-a-decentralized-autonomous-corporation-part-i-1379644274
  • Whitehouse redefines recession https://twitter.com/EpsilonTheory/status/1551349167674499073?s=20&t=i4KWmNn8oWiVhCt7MdvMVg

    • Contact Stephen:

    • Dasset https://dassetx.com/ 
  • LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenm/  

    • Find Jeff:

    • Twitter
  • LinkedIn 

    • The BCNZ Pod:

    • Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/
  • YouTube 
  • Apple Podcasts
  • Google Podcasts
  • Spotify 
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    • Media & Sponsorship Enquires:

    Recorded at blockheight 746718. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.

     

    1 hr 5 min
  • E05 - Tak Suzuki on Funding Emerging Artists through NFTs

    Tak Suzuki is the co-founder of Senkusha, a funding platform looking to support and grow emerging artists, musicians, and athletes through NFT sales. Tak is soon to be a physiology graduate from the University of Auckland, he loves experimenting with new tech, and has an impressive CV at a young age.

    In this conversation we talk about: 

    • Music labels and the motivation for a crowd funding platform
  • NFTs, mp3s, transparency, and minting on Ethereum
  • The upcoming launch with musician Ash Supé

    • Timestamps:

    • 00:00 Intro
  • 01:06 When did you first hear about crypto?
  • 05:36 Senkusha
  • 08:19 Not a music label
  • 11:04 Finding talent and upside for artists
  • 13:06 Business model & royalties 
  • 17:06 Why NFTs & mp3s?  
  • 19:40 Minting on ethereum
  • 24:14 Transparency & DAOs
  • 28:02 Ash Supé
  • 30:32 the Senkusha 500
  • 34:50 BCNZ
  • 36:47 rapidfire
  • 39:42 fin

    • Some notes from the show:

    • Banksy NFT 
  • Mike Shinoda's music NFTs 
  • At least 2600 fake tickets to the Champions League Final 
  • IPFS for storing NFTs 

    • Contact Tak:

    • LinkedIn 
  • Senkusha 

    • Find Jeff:

    • Twitter
  • LinkedIn 

    • The BCNZ Pod:

    • Website https://bcnz.podbean.com/
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    • Music: Liféstyle Freéstyle by Ash Supé

    • Spotify
  • Instagram

    • Media & Sponsorship Enquires:

    Recorded at blockheight 743902. The BCNZ Podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.

     

    40 min
  • E04 - Jit Maharaj on Crypto Payments with BSC/BNB

    Jit Maharaj is a former commercial pilot turned crypto co-founder of Pay it Now, a payments network that uses a custom layer 2 built on the Binance smart chain (now BNB) that makes it easy for merchants and businesses to accept cryptocurrency payments. Jit is also a long time web developer, an Ethereum miner, and a Solana critic. 

    In this conversation we talk about: 

    • Payments networks and providers,
  • Building on the Binance smart chain
  • Customer rewards programs and creating a token
  • Regulation in the crypto space in New Zealand
  • $20k bitcoin, and being a pilot.

    • Timestamps:

    • 00:00 intro
  • 01:18 what is PayItNow?
  • 03:25 fixing gas fees
  • 09:56 what's a layer 2?
  • 13:33 how does a merchant onboard?
  • 18:00 on bridging tokens
  • 19:53 why token? (&safemoon)
  • 25:18 competition with bitpay/stripe/shopify/solana
  • 30:33 regulation in NZ crypto
  • 35:28 $20k bitcoin? and market activity
  • 40:05 cofounder story flying 737s
  • 44:45 BCNZ in the industry
  • 45:36 rapid fire
  • 49:31 fin

    • Some notes from the show:

    • Pay it Now
  • BNB Smart Chain  
  • Matic & Polygon  
  • Solend debacle 
  • Harmony bridge hack 
  • Indian crypto regulation  
  • USDD lost its peg similar to UST
  • the last bitcoin 
  • Hal Finney (the GOAT) 

    • Contact Jit:

    • Pay it Now

    Find Jeff:

    • Twitter
  • LinkedIn 

    • The BCNZ Pod:

    • Website https://bcnz.podbean.com/
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    • Media & Sponsorship Enquires:

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    50 min
  • E03 - Liz Izmailova on Ukraine and Charitable Crypto Donations

    Liz Izmailova is a Ukrainian New Zealander that has been working in blockchain for the past five years, she is a marketing manager at CENNZnet which is part of the Centrality ecosystem.

    In this conversation we talk about: 

    • Financial Inclusion and the monetary situation in Ukraine, both before the war and presently.
  • Ukraine has been ranked 4th in global per capita crypto adoption by Chainalysis and are likely the first to have a government directly accept crypto donations and provide transparency on where those donations are going.
  • We cover a lot in the crypto-donation space in general, and some local New Zealand based projects.

    • Timestamps:

    • 00:00 Intro
  • 01:06 Ukrainian background, financial independence and entrepreneurship at an early age, coming to New Zealand
  • 05:20 Financial privilege in the West
  • 10:45 Crypto donations and the currency situation in Ukraine
  • 16:07 New crypto legislation in Ukraine
  • 20:04 War donation transparency
  • 24:02 FlufWorld F*ck the War campaign & Universe.xyz
  • 29:29 How are NFTs helping?
  • 33:40 Crypto & NFTs for gen-Z'ers
  • 36:35 Crypto friendly New Zealand charities
  • 40:15 How can BCNZ help with education?
  • 42:25 Rapid fire
  • 44:37 fin 

    • Some notes from the show:

    • Letter criticizing financial innovation https://concerned.tech/
  • Rebuttal for financial inclusion https://www.financialinclusion.tech/
  • Ukrainian Government crypto donation https://donate.thedigital.gov.ua/
  • Ukrainian Government Bitcoin address visible in a block explorer: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/357a3So9CbsNfBBgFYACGvxxS6tMaDoa1P
  • National Bank of Ukraine partners with FTX https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/03/14/ukraine-partners-with-ftx-everstake-to-launch-new-crypto-donation-website/
  • USD $100m raised so far https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/03/09/ukraine-has-received-close-to-100-million-in-crypto-donations/
  • Ukraine legalises Bitcoin https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/03/17/ukraine-war-zelenskyy-signs-a-new-law-officially-legalising-bitcoin-and-other-cryptos 
  • $411k raised and donated to Ukraine by Auckland based FLUF & NonFungible Labs: https://luckytrader.com/nft/fluf-world/news/fluf-world-finalizes-400000-donation-to-ukraine
  • Michael Chobanian, president of the Blockchain Association of Ukraine https://www.theverge.com/23138465/decoder-ukraine-war-cryptocurrency-michael-chobanian-interview-bitcoin-usdt
  • Charitable Donations with cryptocurrency
    • UNICEF https://www.unicef.org.nz/donate-in-crypto
  • Childfund https://childfund.org.nz/pages/donate-your-cryptocurrency-to-childfund
  • Savethechildren https://www.savethechildren.org/us/ways-to-help/ways-to-give/ways-to-help/cryptocurrency-donation

  • Heart Kids via the Giving Block https://thegivingblock.com/donate/heart-kids-nz/

  • Ukrainian NFT projects
    • https://metahistory.gallery/
  • https://www.avatarsforukraine.com/
  • Ukraine DAO’s Flag NFT Sells for $6.75 Million https://decrypt.co/94353/ukraine-daos-flag-nft-sells-for-6-75-million
  • Fidelity Charitable Study Insights https://www.fidelitycharitable.org/insights.html
  • NFT marketplace https://lithoverse.xyz/
  • FLUF World https://www.fluf.world/
  • ASM/Non-Fungible Intelligence https://www.alteredstatemachine.xyz/
  • BCNZ https://blockchain.org.nz/  

    •  

    Contact Liz:

    • LinkedIn
  • Cennznet

    • Find Jeff:

    • Twitter
  • LinkedIn 

    • The BCNZ Pod:

    • Website https://bcnz.podbean.com/
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    • Media & Sponsorship Enquires:

    Recorded at blockheight 740812. The BCNZ Podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.

     

    45 min
  • E02 - Paul Quickenden on Navigating Crypto Markets & Growing a Business

    Paul Quickenden is the current Head of New Zealand for EasyCrypto. He's been active in the blockchain and Crypto sector for a number of years, consulting to numerous projects and helping them with successful capital raises and commercial launches.  Prior to that Paul was the CEO of Putti Apps, and held numerous roles in Product Marketing and Strategy within Spark New Zealand.  Paul is passionate about growing New Zealand businesses, helping us to stand out on the global stage, and make a difference to the lives of New Zealanders.

    In this conversation we talk about: 

    • Recent market activity: everything's down but people are still buying
  • EasyCrypto expanding into overseas markets,
  • Their process for listing new digital assets - how do they decide what to list and their ethical considerations,
  • The TerraLuna crash and stablecoin depegging event,
  • The price of cheese.

    • Timestamps:

    • 00:00 Intro
  • 01:25 Current market conditions
  • 06.08 Do market factors affect Easy Crypto?
  • 09.13 People are still buying crypto 
  • 13:45 Is crypto its own asset class?
  • 15.03 Koura Investments KiwiSaver
  • 17.37 EasyCrypto global expansion
  • 20.58 On the Brasilian crypto market
  • 22.30 Lightweight NZ exports
  • 26.56 Banking as an export & the regulatory aspects
  • 30.52 Ethics around coin listings & approaches to risk
  • 36.46 Terra death spiral
  • 41.27 EC circuit breaker
  • 47.38 BCNZ
  • 51.33 What's next for easy crypto?
  • 54.50 Rapid fire
  • 56.43 Fin

    • Some notes from the show:

    • EasyCrypto’s expansion overseas https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/452991/easy-crypto-secures-17m-backing-from-investors
  • Koura KiwiSaver Scheme https://www.kourawealth.co.nz/
  • Terra Death Spiral https://blockchain.org.nz/2022/05/17/crypto-market-plunges-hard-and-fast-investors-are-spooked/
  • Kindrik Partners (prev. Simmonds Stewart) has free resources for startups: https://kindrik.co.nz/resources/startup-resources/
  • BCNZ https://blockchain.org.nz/ 

    • Contact Paul:

    • LinkedIn
  • EasyCrypto

    • Find Jeff:

    • Twitter
  • LinkedIn 

    • The BCNZ Pod:

    • Website https://bcnz.podbean.com/
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    57 min
  • E01 - Jonty Kelt on Venture Capital in Crypto

    Kia Ora and welcome to the very first episode of the Blockchain New Zealand Podcast. I’m Jeff Nijsse and today I’m talking to Jonty Kelt. Jonty is the Founder of Fantail Ventures, a venture capital business that has invested in some of the biggest names in crypto, including Kraken, Ledger, Stacks, Yield Guild Games, and Uniswap, just to name a few.

    In this conversation we talk about: 

    • Jonty coming out of Otago University and getting his start in finance; and the role of education in tech;
  • He was building an online advertising business in the early days of the internet and his business was eventually acquired by google and we discuss the work culture at google in those days;
  • Jonty has strong feelings about blockchain adoption providing a financial lifeline to the underbanked, and how digital ownership is just getting started;
  • He’s an advisor for the teams behind VeVe–the NFT marketplace, and also Altered State Machine, the non fungible intelligence protocol;
  • We wrap up with Jonty’s views on blockchain regulation in New Zealand and he gives us his thoughts on who Satoshi is.

    • Timestamps:

    • 01:47 From Otago to NYC
  • 04:58 Being a non-technical founder
  • 07:03 Technology in education
  • 11:55 Building an online advertising company
  • 16:45 Google in 2008
  • 20:54 Xero: a NZ success story
  • 22:59 Fantail ventures
  • 25:26 Advice for young entrepreneurs
  • 26:58 Blockchain & income inequality
  • 33:10 Bitcoin and debasement
  • 36:00 Security & energy criticism
  • 41:40 NFTs
  • 47:46 Regulation in New Zealand
  • 52:08 Rapid fire

    • Some notes from the show:

    • Peter Thiel Fellowship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiel_Fellowship
  • No college degree required https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/16/15-companies-that-no-longer-require-employees-to-have-a-college-degree.html
  • Google is ten years old https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/sep/05/google.google
  • Jonty’s talk at Kea New Zealand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVfICUToQ58&ab_channel=KeaNewZealand
  • NFTs with your bank account (Tweet) https://twitter.com/provenauthority/status/1517166544270381063
  • Crypto Kitties https://www.cryptokitties.co/
  • Ecomi & VeVe https://medium.com/ecomi/ecomi-advisors-introducing-jonty-kelt-2264026e0f97
  • Immutable Layer 2 for Ethereum NFTs https://www.immutable.com/ 
  • BCNZ https://blockchain.org.nz/ 

    • Contact Jonty:

    • Fantail Ventures
  • LinkedIn

    • Find Jeff:

    • Twitter
  • LinkedIn

    • The BCNZ Pod:

    • Website https://bcnz.podbean.com/
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    Recorded at blockheight 734642. The BCNZ Podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.

    54 min

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