Halsey Minor | VideoCoin & Live Planet

10/29/18 • 65 min

Decentralised Podcast - Blockchain, Crypto, and Futurism

Halsey Minor has been founding technology companies since CNET in 1993, including NBCi, OpenDNS, Salesforce, Uphold Inc., Google Voice, and his latest ventures, VideoCoin and Live Planet.

VideoCoin aims to compete with Amazon, Google and Microsoft – by sharply reducing cost for encoding, storing and streaming video ... by decentralising the infrastructure ... rewarding machines for processing video, similar to how Bitcoin miners are rewarded for confirming transactions.

Live Planet is a virtual reality company, set to put affordable VR sets of cameras and goggles – into the hands of consumers in the very near future.

In this episode we're talking about virtual reality, cloud sourcing video encoding via blockchain, and Halsey's experiences in the early days of the internet in the 1990s.

I spoke with Halsey via non-VR call from my new podcast studio in Byron Bay, Australia on October 2, 2018.

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Halsey Minor has been founding technology companies since CNET in 1993, including NBCi, OpenDNS, Salesforce, Uphold Inc., Google Voice, and his latest ventures, VideoCoin and Live Planet.

Live Planet is a virtual reality company, set to put affordable VR sets of cameras and goggles – into the hands of consumers in the very near future.

In this episode we're talking about virtual reality, cloud sourcing video encoding via blockchain, and Halsey's experiences in the early days of the internet in the 1990s.

I spoke with Halsey via non-VR call from my new podcast studio in Byron Bay, Australia on October 2, 2018.

Join our Telegram group via t.me/decentpod

Decentralised is sponsored by New Alchemy.

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Aaron Wright | OpenLaw

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Their project aims to reduce cost for legal services, while increasing speed and ease for getting things done via smart contracts. As we’ll hear in this episode, blockchain technology has major implications for all industries.

Beyond OpenLaw, Aaron is a Professor at Cardozo Law School in New York City, and leads the Cardozo Blockchain Initiative. Among the first of its kind in the United States – where law students are learning how to code and create smart agreements.

He is also a Co-Founder of The Brooklyn Project, creating a framework of standards for token generation – aiming to promote the token-economy and protect consumers.

I met with Aaron at Ethereal Summit in Brooklyn, hosted by ConsenSys during Blockchain Week NYC in May.

Decentralised is sponsored by New Alchemy and DreamState UX

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In this episode we're talking about blockchain for social impact, the power of meaningful data, and futurist visions of a countercultural movement in the ascendancy.

We recorded in Manhattan during Blockchain Week NYC on May 21, 2018.

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