Non-fungible Tokens, or NFTs, are a form of digital assets that can represent anything from pictures to audio files, to videos – really any kind of art that you want to buy, sell, or trade over the internet.

Their ownership is tracked by immutable distributed ledgers, such as blockchain – the same kinds of ledger technology that is used to record ownership of other digital assets, such as bitcoin or other crypto currencies.

But are the existing methods of managing the exchange of digital assets really optimizing the markets they serve? In some communities, there is a concern that certain ledgers, blockchain, is having a NEGATIVE impact on the markets they serve because of the energy required to operate them and associated carbon footprint.

In today’s episode of the Future of Money, Governance, and the Law, we speak with Joshua Bell to get his insights on new approaches to using blockchain technologies to further unlock the limitless potential of digital assets; all while having a minimal impact on the planet.

Website: https://nupaytechnologies.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-bell71/

Press:

https://pixelplex.io/news/pixelplex-nupay-technologies-partnership/

https://www.wfmz.com/news/pr_newswire/pr_newswire_entertainment/discover-how-blockchain-technology-is-disrupting-the-finance-industry/article_08d959ab-1eac-5b41-951f-200a10e45bc6.html

https://capital.com/how-to-create-nft

https://issuu.com/fintechtimes/docs/the_fintech_times_-_edition_42

Central Bank Currency Report:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/january-2022-cbdc.htm

Elections have been part of the United States since the beginning, but how is technology helping us vote and, more importantly, how is that technology being designed and deployed in a secure, reliable, and trustworthy manner?

Next-generation systems need standards to protect voter access, security of the systems, and systems credibility.

Leading the charge is our guest Susan Eustis, President of Wintergreen Research, and inventor of the first electronic voting machine.

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/susan-eustis-8a4225

GBA Member Profile: www.gbaglobal.org/members/susan-eustis

Website: www.wintergreenresearch.com

Where did the idea of Blockchain and Secure, Decentralized Ledgers come from?

Today, we speak with Dr. Scott Stornetta, who is considered by many to be the co-inventor of Blockchain, about his work with Dr. Stuart Haber at Bellcore on the introduction of time-stamped digital documents and how that has led to the evolution of immutable, distributed ledgers.

 Dr. Stornetta is Partner and Chief Scientist for Yugen Partners.

 Dating back to 1991, his pioneering series of papers, written with co-author Dr. Stuart Haber at Bell Communications Research, received the 1992 Discover Award for Computer Software, and were featured in the New York Times in 1995. This helped lay the foundation for blockchain, Bitcoin and other digital currencies.

 Dr. Stornetta was Assistant General Manager of the 125-person Mathematical and Computer Sciences Laboratory. He has consulted for many years, evaluating the commercial potential of emerging technologies on behalf of universities, commercial research labs, and venture capital interests. Along with Dr. Haber, he co-founded Surety, a Bellcore spinoff. Surety’s offering constituted the first commercial deployment of a blockchain.

Dr. Stornetta received his Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University, after attending MIT, Harvard, and Brigham Young University.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/w-scott-stornetta-25186120/

Yungen Partners Website: https://www.yugenpartners.com/team

Forbes Article on Blockchain Introduction: https://www.forbes.com/sites/vipinbharathan/2020/06/01/the-blockchain-was-born-20-years-before-bitcoin/

Wikipedia – Blockchain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain

Gizillion: www.gizillion.org

Dr. Stornetta’s Keynote Address at GBA Event (Jan 31, 2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsoFYDK5828

Reference site for Dr. Stornetta’s research work: https://immutablerecord.com/

What is Decentralized Identification (Decentralized ID) and why is it crucial for the future of money, governance, and the law?

Today we speak with Shiv Aggarwal, CEO of Earth ID about Decentralized ID and its importance.

 Shiv Aggarwal is the founder and CEO of EarthId, an award-winning universal identity platform that allows secure and frictionless exchange of identity information.

Shiv is also a global thought leader on identity and blockchain and the European lead for the Government Blockchain Association (GBA).

Website: https://www.myearth.id/

GBA Profile: https://www.gbaglobal.org/members/myselfshiv/profile/

LinkedIn (MyEarth ID): https://www.linkedin.com/company/myearthid/

LinkedIn (Shiv A):

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shiv-aggarwal/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/earthid_ssi

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/myearthid/

How can blockchain technologies help small communities across the US?  

In this episode of The Future of Money, Governance, and the Law, we speak with Tony Camero, CEO of LocalPort Technologies, who tells us about the success he has had introducing blockchain to local communities to help them share information through decentralized ledgers but with information that is trustworthy and authenticated.

Based in Iowa, LocalPort Technologies has developed a platform for local communities to benefit from secure communications and exchange, and for local actors to be more securely and integrally connected through a symphony of decentralized ledger technologies, linked data structures, and encrypted communications.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonycamero/

Twitter: @tonycamero

Company websites:

https://locaport.io

https://localHERO.io

Tony’s Email: [email protected]

How did our healthcare system fare during the pandemic? Would it have performed better if the healthcare system was less centralized? How would decentralized healthcare help patients? How can blockchain improve healthcare and the services it provides?

In this episode, we speak with Pradeep Goel, CEO of Solve.Care – a global healthcare blockchain technology company who is working to solve the complex problems that plague healthcare around the world.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/goelpradeep/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/_pradeepgoel

Solve.Care Website:

https://solve.care/

How are our education institutions preparing their graduates to understand blockchain and build applications on distributed ledger technologies? Today, we talk with Professor Justin Goldston, a five-time TEDxspeaker and Professor at Penn State University about how he is incentivizing his students to create chaos and mayhem as they innovate to not only understand blockchain, but also so they can be leaders in the Web3 movement.

Ted Talks:

https://www.ted.com/search?q=justin+goldston

Justin’sWebsite:

www.justingoldston.com

LinkedIn:

www.Linkedin.com/in/justin-goldston

BlocksEDU:

blocksedu.com

Favorex:

favorex.exchange

LogChain:

thelogchain.com

Sydtek:

sydtek.ai

Blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and digital assets are disruptive technologies that are impacting markets, financial institutions, economies, governments across the globe. And because they are being applied to a variety of uses – regulators are working to ensure their policies are current with the use of these technologies.

However, like any technology, these can be abused. That is where regulation may have to step in. But what regulation, if any, is required? Who enforces the regulation? Who should write the regulations?

During this episode, we talk with the Director of the Digital Asset and Cryptocurrency Association, Gabriella Kusz, to find the answers!

GBA Member Profile:

https://www.gbaglobal.org/members/gabbykusz/profile/

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriella-kusz-mba-cpa-mpp-5545872/

Global Digital Asset & Cryptocurrency Association:

https://global-dca.org/

In this episode we visit with Chris J Snook CEO of SDK Co about the current and future state of the global economy, decentralized identity, the data economy, the broken aspects of web 2, the promise and current reality of web3 and decentralized systems, the risk of over or under-regulation in the innovation economy, and the regions or countries best positioned to win. 

Important Links:

https://www.sdkco.io/ 

https://www.chrisjsnook.com

http://digitalsen.se/

https://lodestudio.com/

http://www.worldtokenomicforum.com/

https://www.sandcastle.foundation/

https://wyohackathon.io/

Are you a victim of fraud involving cryptocurrencies? Is there a new and emerging Nigerian Prince scam trying to separate you from your cryptocurrency?

What are the types of scams that are emerging?  

What should you be looking out for?

If you become a victim of cryptocurrency fraud, is there anything you can do about it? What is the process for investigations? Who investigates? How are victims helped? 

And how is all this related Bitcoin ATM Compliance?

In today’s episode, we look at Blockchain Forensics Analysis and the growing need for Crypto Fraud Investigations with our guest, Chris Groshong, President of CoinStructive Inc

GBA Profile:

https://www.gbaglobal.org/members/coinstructive/profile/

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisgroshong/

CoinStructive Investigations Page:

https://coinstructive.com/home/investigations/

CoinStructive Cryptocurrency Fraud Investigation Intake Form:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Crypto_Investigations

Paper – Protecting Consumers in the Digital Currency Economy

http://consumersresearch.org/research/papers/bretton-woods-2016-protecting-consumers-in-the-digital-currency-economy/

Uniform Regulation of the Virtual-Currency Business Act.

https://www.uniformlaws.org/committees/community-home/librarydocuments?communitykey=e104aaa8-c10f-45a7-a34a-0423c2106778&tab=librarydocuments&LibraryFolderKey=&DefaultView=

Bank Secrecy Act (BSA):

https://complyadvantage.com/knowledgebase/the-bank-secrecy-act-bsa/