Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain - 039: The Bunz App Takes Canada by Storm – with Sascha Mojtahedi

039: The Bunz App Takes Canada by Storm – with Sascha Mojtahedi

05/16/19 • 32 min

Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain

Sascha Mojtahedi is the CEO of Bunz. The Bunz App uses its BTZ token to facilitate peer-to-peer bartering and purchases, while also compensating users for interacting with partner brands. In this episode, Sascha and I discuss:

The $325 billion-dollar “data and attention economy” Bunz is tapping into
The difference between the Brave Browser BAT (Basic Attention Token) model and the Bunz BTZ (Bunz Trading Zone) model
The simple yet clever business model that Bunz uses to drive revenue while generously compensating its users – what Sascha calls, “the 60% promise”

The $325 billion-dollar “data and attention economy” Bunz is tapping into
The difference between the Brave Browser BAT (Basic Attention Token) model and the Bunz BTZ (Bunz Trading Zone) model
The simple yet clever business model that Bunz uses to drive revenue while generously compensating its users – what Sascha calls, “the 60% promise”

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038: ICOs are Dead. Introducing STOs – with Swarm’s Philipp Pieper

Philipp Pieper is the CEO & Co-Founder of Swarm. He has held various private equity and management positions at Deutsche Bank and Allianz Group.

Philipp is a serial tech entrepreneur and discovered Blockchain after an encounter with the founder of BitTorrent.

In this episode, we discuss:

The history of ICOs
Whether it makes sense to tokenize traditional securities
The 3 components of the Swarm system – tokenization, compliance, and decentralization
How Swarm, as an open-source non-profit entity, differentiates itself from other players in the STO market

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040: The New Blockchain Business Model – with Nodesmith’s Brendan Lee

Brendan Lee is the CEO & Co-Founder of Nodesmith. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science, and has spent much of his career building developer platforms. In this episode, Brendan and I discuss:

The complexities around running a full node and how Nodesmith solves that problem
We go over some of the concerns developers and engineers may have. For example, if you outsource your full node, who controls the keys? Or, what are Nodesmith’s API standards?
And, from an economic perspective, we look at the Nodesmith business model – “Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)”