The Blockchain Show

Bill Ottman, Founder and CEO of Minds returns to the podcast and we welcome Daryl Davis who recently joined the team at Minds as they unveil their Deradicalization Initiative (www.minds.com). 

Davis, an accomplished R&B musician, has been passionate about deradicalization for decades, documenting his journey of reaching to the other side in his 1998 book, Klan-destine Relationships: A Black Man's Odyssey in the Ku Klux Klan. Minds.com is on the forefront of making the Internet a more tolerant place, recently having a successful dialogue about race, politics, and other challenging topics at their Minds IRL event in New Jersey earlier this year. 

Minds offers its users unlimited reach and the ability to earn points, a form of digital currency, just for using the app. Points are then used to ‘Boost’ posts to wider audiences. Every upload, vote, swipe and ‘Remind’ (share) earns points that are stored in each user’s wallet. Users may then send offers of points to other users, peer-to-peer, in exchange for shares of their content to those audiences. Or, users can Boost content site-wide by exchanging their points with Minds for increased views.

Ethan interviews Roneil Rumberg from Audius, a decentralized music streaming service that launched a public beta recently and is already one of the biggest consumer crypto apps with more than 30,000 users onboard. Backed by some of the top VCs, including General Catalyst, KPCB, Lightspeed, and Pantera, Audius is driving mainstream crypto adoption.  

Roneil speaks on:

• His background as a seed investor into blockchain and AI companies, how he co-founded a peer-to-peer bitcoin payment company, and ultimately what led him to founding Audius.

• The need for a truly decentralized music platform. Platforms like Soundcloud and Spotify provide little-to-no control or transparency on how artists distribute their content.

• The future of music. Will artists be able to thrive in a censorship-resistant, transparent, community-driven world? How will artists and fans adapt to a blockchain-powered streaming service?

Ethan talks with Flex Moore from Fight To Fame, the first blockchain-based sports entertainment platform paving new paths to fame for action superstars. Fernando Carrillo makes a brief cameo midway through the episode.

With the backing of Carrillo and other established talent, Fight To Fame is creating the future of sports entertainment, powered by a blockchain-based platform to fuel everything from global fan engagement to fair and more transparent monetization opportunities for fighters. The company is leading a global talent competition to unearth the next generation of fighters through a series of combat challenges. The ultimate winners from this contest will go on to secure starring roles in upcoming Hollywood action films, thanks to key partnerships the company has forged with production companies.

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The Bakkt project by ICE gains momentum and Steve breaks down what it's all about. The Lightning Network has come up on several podcasts, but this time the basics and advanced use cases are clearly defined. Also a listener emails us about a previous guest, Verity, going bankrupt.

Steve and Ethan interview Daniel Lindsay, the CFO at AXEL in Las Vegas, Nevada. Daniel is a veteran financial professional with experience in consumer lending, retail banking, treasury services, and ultra-high net worth wealth management. He graduated with a degree in finance from Michigan State University and then went on to manage a financial institution in Las Vegas while concurrently earning his MBA from University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Immediately following graduate school, Dan worked for a large regional bank providing financial consulting services before pursuing a law degree from Western Michigan University where he not only completed his JD, but also an LLM in taxation. After law school, Daniel was instrumental in the formation of a successful Registered Investment Advisor firm where he played a key role for several years. Daniel holds multiple FINRA licenses and a CFP designation.

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Jordan Last joins Ethan again for an update on Podcrypt.app beta launch. Podcrypt allows you to listen to and optionally donate back to podcasts automatically, fairly, and peer-to-peer. To learn more visit the Podcrypt about page.

Supporting content with micro-payments has been mentioned for years on this show and Jordan is making it happen on the Ethereum Blockchain.

In this episode they cover the apps development and beta launch, compare different forms of media throughout the last century, the pitfalls of advertising, and the need for supporting content the listener actually wants.

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Kevin Wang is a co-founder of Nervos, a public blockchain designed by a former Ethereum core developer and backed by Sequoia, Polychain, and others. As one of China's top projects, Nervos recently partnered with crypto exchange Huobi to build a new public chain for banks and financial institutions.

Kevin was responsible for Nervos' unique token economics design where users will eventually pay "rent" to store assets and smart contracts on the network. He believes this type of model is critical if blockchains are to scale. Same goes for the layered design, which splits the public consensus layer from the transactional layer to increase a blockchain's performance while balancing security and trust.

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Ethan is joined by The Blockchain Show's first guest attorney, Dave Kaplan of AXEL General Counsel. Dave is a proven attorney who focuses on the intersection of business, technology, and law. Dave has played a leading role in high-stakes litigation in a broad array of forums, including in many patent matters. He has represented clients such as Volkswagen, Sony, Lenovo, Olympus, Toyota, and GE Healthcare, but has also successfully represented clients against adversaries with much deeper pockets. Dave carries a B.S.E. from the University of Michigan College of Engineering and a law degree from Rutgers University.

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Steve and Ethan are back from time off and bring you last week's crypto and blockchain related news.

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Jeremy from AXEL and AXEL.Network joins hosts Steve and Ethan for another informative and insightful look into today's Blockchain space.

Jeremy was co-founder and CEO of the NAVADA Group – a UK based creative agency that worked with some of Europe’s most powerful and recognizable brands. He boosted audience engagement for a horse racing brand by over 2,000%, and is best known for leading the award-winning Road Respect campaign, among many others. He leads AXEL's strategic content and marketing initiatives and has launched the company's major projects, including its blockchain platform AXEL.Network, AXEL IPFS Pinning Facility, AXEL Wallet, and most recently announcing the AXEL IEO on ProBit Exchange.

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