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02/18/20 • 38 min
Welcome to the Free Republic of Liberland. Wait you've never heard of this country? "Well, that's a pretty normal response", says Joey Langenbrunner, Deputy Head of Mission to the United States.
Liberland is new. The micronation, like Somaliland, will have existed for 5 years on April 13th, 2020. The delegation is planning a big celebration. They are launching they're own blockchain for governance and a cryptocurrency called Merits. Although, they are starting to get recognition internationally, they are still not recognized by the UN.
This micronation lies along the Danube river, between Serbia and Croatia. The land lay unclaimed after the dissolution of Yugoslavia in 1991. The Danube is an international waterway and lends to many interesting trade and commerce opportunities.
Liberland is will act as a testing ground for new models of governance. Additionally, they are planning an e-residency program like Estonia. After the launch of their blockchain in April 2020 they will start issuing citizenships too. As a result, these announcements caused them to receive over 600,000 applications for citizenship.
We've had over 600K applications for citizenship.There are still many issues to sort out, but Joey is confident the last 5 years of work Liberlanders have put in will pay off. His path to become a citizen is one of perseverance and dedication. All things have led him up to this point.
Joey is very passionate about the goals of Liberland and it will be interesting to watch this nation grow. We encourage you to support Liberland. Why, you ask? Experimentation is needed in governance and what better way to accomplish this than by letting a real sovereign and peaceful nation attempt it.
Nevertheless, numerous lessons are to be learned.
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Further Reading and ResourcesJoseph Langenbrunner, Deputy Head of Mission to USA, Free Republic of Liberland - LinkedIn - Email - Twitter
04/16/20 • 50 min
Carlos Torriellos is changing the political system in Latin America. He is the face of a volunteer group, consisting of concerned citizens in Guatemala, called Fiscal Digital. This translates to, “The Digital Witness”. Their goal is to certify post-election paper ballot results in a corrupt and broken system.
Last year, in mid 2019, Guatemala held an election. Everything was going fine, until doubt was cast on the official results through social media. The situation escalated quickly and no one seemed to have a solution. The election officials began searching for a solution.
Back in 2018, Carlos and some colleagues built the system that is now being utilized by the Guatemalan government. The platform wasn’t originally built for certifying election results. Their plans to gain traction and revenue diminished and they tabled the project temporarily. Then it happened. Opportunity came a knockin’.
The stage was set. The Guatemalan government was in quite a predicament. Unrest was at hand. The election officials were in a tough spot and like a knight in shining armor, Fiscal Digital appeared. Fortunately, their solution was simple. Authenticate election results in real time.
Carlos gets into the details around the 07:46 mark.
Something as simple as having multiple people check the digital signatures of the images and tally the votes on those images while arriving at the same conclusion is enough to authenticate election results. The system is live now. You can see results and participate yourself on the Fiscal Digital website.
The US Government needs this techGovernments should consider using Fiscal Digital is an inexpensive process to determine election authenticity in near real time. The code is already available. Instead of UBI, give out election audit jobs. Reward people for doing the audit work and tallying votes. It’s cheaper and builds a more sustainable economy if you pay the citizens to act as the witness. Not to mention giving the people the transparency they so desperately deserve.
Their motivation is nearly as impressive as their solution. If you know people in governments who can give this project visibility, please make sure to contact Carlos. His information is below. What they are doing has the ability to bring back the sanctity of democratic elections. Give the power to the people and let them check the results.
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Further Reading and ResourcesCarlos Torriellos Herrerrias, Volunteer & Champion at Fiscal Digital – LinkedIn – Twitter
Fiscal Digital – Website – Email – YouTube – Facebook – Github – Use hashtag #Fiscal_Digital
06/19/18 • 47 min
"A high energy, creative and resourceful problem solver who enjoys working in teams and engaging with other individuals. A quick learner with demonstrated initiative and strong analytical skills." ~CJ Smith, co-founder of CryptoBlockCon
CJ previously worked as a business analyst and digital marketing professional. Now he's an Entrepreneur, event organizer and co-founder of CryptoBlockCon, a global Blockchain conference series.
After listening to this episode you will learn:
- Where CJ is from and how he got started
- How CJ got into event management and then the Blockchain niche
- Things CJ likes and dislikes about different events and how he improves on that
- Examples of what a good event looks like
- What Blockchain projects and use cases CJ is most excited about
For show notes and more please visit: LAB Radio
01/23/20 • 32 min
This episode is LAB Radio's "Best of 2019". It's composed of several clips from guests over the past year. For many, 2019 will be one of those years in crypto that won't stand out in people's minds much. It wasn't flashy. There wasn't a lot fanfare. CNBC wasn't pumping XRP. It was quiet and people were busy building great things.
I was fortunate to sit down with many amazing people this year to discuss their thoughts and contributions on the industry. Unfortunately, I had to narrow it down to just a hand full of clips but, trust me, all of our guests were fire. I know you'll enjoy hearing perspectives from the likes of:
- Alex Mashinsky & Leah Jonas, Celsius Network
- Jan Čapek, Braiins
- Hannah Rosenberg, Velas Commerce
- Hailey Lennon, Coinbase
- Xan Ditkoff, Blockstack
- Uri Klarman, bloXroute Labs
- Alyse Killeen, Stillmark Capital
- Alex Adelman, Lolli
- Caitlin Long, Lawyer
- R0ckstar Developer, BTC Payserver
So no matter how awful a year in crypto seems, try to remember we are just getting started. Building a foundation for the next quarter millenia of finance, while simultaneously breaking down the current one, is no small feat.
The Crypto and Blockchain industry isn't just about changing finance, it's about creating a better world to live in. Whether you're new to crypto or have been following along for years, it's not too late to join the movement. For these technologies to succeed in allowing humans to participate in free global trade without the interference of governments, we need all people, from all walks of life to start by asking the question, "What is money?"
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02/12/18 • 31 min
Steven Masur has over 22 years of legal experience advising emerging companies since the days of the Internet and most recently the Blockchain and cryptocurrency regulation. His practice focuses on corporate finance, M&A, intellectual property, entertainment, and guiding startups. Steve has extensive experience in angel and venture capital finance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and cross-border transactions in Europe and Asia.
Previously he counselled enterprise level clients like Shazam, Virgin Mobile, Liberty Media, Yamaha, Nielsencounselledics, Bob Vila and Conde Nast Publications in corporate, digital media, and new business matters. His knowledge has guided a wide variety of industries including media, mobile, digital music, social media, augmented and virtual reality, software and hardware.
Today, Steve is a partner at Masur Griffitts + Co, LLP, a full-service transactional law firm which guides emerging companies of all sizes and industries navigate uncertain waters as rapidly growing technology meets regulation.
After listening to this episode you will learn:
- How Steve began his career as a drummer and eventually entered the legal field
- How Steve thought that the Internet was a once in a lifetime opportunity that he never thought he would see again
- How although law hasn't fundamentally changed, these new industries create consternation among market participants
- How the Howie-Test is a big discussion among legal circles
- How the Munchee case affects the Howie-Test and the outcome of it
- How the SEC doesn't necessarily want people to stop doing ICOs
- How companies need to be mindful is their coin is a security or utility token
- How the Phreakers, Cypherpunks and Cyberpunks were early web pioneers and how the movement is alive and well
- How Steve believes you need to find what excites you and follow that drive
For show notes and more please visit: https://coinstructive.com/category/lab-radio/
10/25/19 • 31 min
When I noticed the talented Hannah Rosenberg would be speaking at the Avantpay |19 conference, you have no idea how happy I became. I had recently visited Chicago at the end of August and I was able to sit down with Hannah and record an episode. Unfortunately, the recording had some technical issues and it was unusable. I wasn't going to let a second opportunity slip by.
Hannah got started in crypto back in 2014 and is one of the most involved and passionate people in the industry. She is the Managing Director of the Blockchain Institute, the Lead Organizer of the B.O.B. meetup (Bitcoin and Open Blockchain), an adjunct faculty member at UIC (University of Illinois Chicago) and the founder of Velas Commerce.
Hannah was representing Velas Commerce at the Avantpay conference. So I asked her what she was hoping to get out of this event. She was really curious to hear the Cannabis Industries thoughts on crypto. Additionally, Hannah shares with us her take on the intersection of cannabis, crypto and payments. She also identifies why it is important to get out of the crypto bubble. As a full time crypto person, Hannah needs to remind herself that obvious solutions to her, are not obvious to others.
For the rest of us that don't live in Hannah's bubble, we dig into what the Chicago seen is like. She starts with the B.O.B. meetup group and tells us how thankful she was to have pioneers like Brooke Mallers and Pamela Morgan.
"I really see crypto as 'Power to the People' via technology." -Hannah RosenbergHannah started out holding events and creating trustworthy information during the 2017 crypto rush. After one of her events a woman from her Alma Mater, UIC, reached out to her. They began talking and the next thing she knew, she was creating a curriculum. She loves teaching because she gets to emphasize the potential impact the technology has on the world.
Additionally, you'll hear topics like:
- Crypto Commerce & Lightning Network
- Gresham's Law
- Velas Commerce Crypto Payment Integrations
- What a world with crypto for her children will look like
- Her thoughts on the trajectory of the industry
- What she would change about the crypto industry
Tweet your favorite quote and tag @CoinStructive @djkinkle @hmichellerose & #LABradio
Further Reading and Resources
Hannah Rosenberg , Blockchain Institute, Managing Director | Twitter | LinkedIn
The Blockchain Institute| Website | Twitter | LinkedIn
Velas Commerce - | Website | Twitter |LinkedIn
04/10/18 • 26 min
"Events are expensive operations. As a result, event organizers establish costly subsidies and artificial deals to maximize revenue and minimize risk, ultimately hurting the entire event financing process" - Jason Robert, Co-founder & CEO of Hello Sugoi
Jason is Co-founder & CEO of HelloSugoi, the world's first blockchain powered live events ecosystem. The team over at Hello Sugoi operates on principals that the event coordinators and customers deserve a fair system in which to operate. Currently, the model is flawed with intermediaries, risk, fraud and price gouging. With the Hello Sugoi platform, using smart contracts to issue tickets adds transparency and helps disrupt inefficiencies in the current system.
He also co-founded the popular "Real World Blockchain” meetup and is the founding instructor at Product School's "Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies" course in Los Angeles, CA. Jason has facilitated numerous public speaking engagements on the topic of blockchain and the entertainment industry, including appearances at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, BlockCon, SF Music Tech Summit, XLIVE, and SXSW.
After years as a touring drummer, he founded Lost Midas, a music production company. While there, he negotiated recording, publishing, and live event agreements. He released several albums to critical acclaim by the BBC and NPR, and performed extensively across North America and the UK. Jason has also composed original songs at BMG Production Music for high-profile TV shows on ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, Netflix, and Showtime.
For show notes and more please visit: CoinStructive LAB Radio
10/04/19 • 33 min
Our guest on episode 74 of LAB Radio is InsureYourBit’s founder, Doug Moeller. Doug is passionate about providing crypto related insurance to individuals and entities who regularly use uninsured third party custodians as a regular part of their business.
Stay in crypto long enough and you will eventually hear of or be a part of an exchange hack. US based residents who are used to traditional financial services, like banking, are familiar depositors insurance. They receive this as part of the banks agreement with the FDIC. However, the FDIC only insures one kind of deposit, US dollars. Many US based exchanges have FDIC insurance for their customers US dollar deposits, but what about all those crypto deposits?
This is where InsureYourBit comes in. Doug wants to see a world where users, on exchange platforms, are able to purchase their own insurance for their digital assets.
Crypto on an exchange is not insuredDoug's passion for insurance comes from his experience of platform failure in the crypto space, but also as a poker player on Full Tilt Poker. The similarities of this centralized failure to the crypto exchange failures is eerily synonymous. It also comes from a deep sense of wanting people to be able to protect their assets or provide for their loved ones.
The principles of insurance are to protect people and share risk. Currently, no one offers hot wallet insurance. Exchanges currently have war chests in case they are hacked. However, Doug believes the exchanges could better deploy that capital if it wasn't all tied up in an emergency fund.
"Insurance is the oldest Coop" - Doug MoellerIn this episode we cover topics like:
- How insurance works
- What it takes to launch an Insurance company
- Regulatory Frameworks
- Smart Contract Insurance
- The types of Crypto they plan to cover
- Insurance "Need vs. Want"
According to a recent survey by InsureYourBit, "64 % of people who hold their crypto outside of an exchange would be more likely to keep it there if there was a crypto insurance product available."
Lastly, the indemnity to the user will cover the total amount of crypto losses, let's say Bitcoin in this case. If a trader wants to use and insure 10 bitcoins on X platform, once they start paying their premiums, they are covered in the event of an exchange hack.
Hope you Enjoy!
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Further Reading and Resources
Doug Moeller, InsureYourBit Founder & CEO | Twitter | LinkedIn
10/29/19 • 28 min
Cryptocurrency Analyst and Financial Crimes Investigator, Lourdes Miranda joins us for episode 77 on LAB Radio.
Lourdes’ expertise lies in her years working from a compliance and financial crimes angle. Her knowledge of the Bank Secrecy Act led her to a career in the intelligence community, primarily the CIA. She knows the ins and outs of how money launderers operate. So when she was approached to join, admittedly she didnt know much about cryptocurrencies. That didnt bother the Agency one bit. She told their cyber security teams, if they taught her how crypto worked, she’d show them how it was being used to launder illegal proceeds.Lourdes speaks to and teaches both local and federal law enforcement communities across the country. She also consults banks and financial institutions. More recently Lourdes tells us about an interaction with a Bank and a Bitcoin ATM operator. The advice she gives seems obvious to me, but it just goes to show the Banks disparate view of this asset class.
We further discussed the future of the crypto and blockchain industry and how it will impact banks. Ultimately, Lourdes feels banks will end up going the route of the newspapers during the proliferation of internet. The small banks react the slowest and are most vulnerable, but also have an advantage the bigger banks don’t. They posses the agility big banks can’t. So if a Credit Union or small bank decides to take a proactive approach they might actually avoid extinction. Sadly, these institutions dont realize they’re eventually going to lose their customers to crypto exchanges as they add more services and products, with lower fees.
Lourdes and I also have differing opinions on whether cryptocurrency illegal activity will increase or decrease. Let’s just say, we agree to disagree, but we both might be right. You’ll just have to listen and give us your opinion.
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Further Reading and Resources
Lourdes C. Miranda, CAMS, CFE, Financial Crimes Investigator and Crytpocurrency Analyst at Miranda FinIntel Consulting, | Email | LinkedIn
11/05/19 • 32 min
The first person I met at the Avantpay |19 conference was the always smiling, Crypto Curator, Paul McNeal. I had no idea Paul was the host of a crypto news show, but after talking to him, I knew he had the chops and would make a great guest for LAB Radio.
Paul's path into crypto took a circuitous route to say the least. Like many, he was able to leverage a previous skillset to help him land where he is today. Initially Paul heard about Bitcoin from the Bitcoin Knowledge podcast by Trace Mayer.
This officially made him the "go-to" Bitcoin guy when the monthly Chamber of Commerce Tech Committee Meeting took place in Loudoun County, VA. Back in 2012 it was tough to make a case for its uses, but Paul always spoke about it in a positive light and defended it against its critics. However, the Chamber would not put on a Bitcoin event.
Paul's background in the military has helped him in many ways. He was an ROTC Army member in High School and then went into the Navy. He was on a submarine and was doing IT work, which helped him transition after leaving the military. Also, Paul picked up lots of real world skills which was surprising to me. The story of how he actually joined the Navy is quite interesting and worth a listen (@14:02)
At this point we transition into the Avantpay19 Conference. Initially he heard about the conference because he knows Joshua and Peter, the organizers and founders of the event. It's not every day you see Legislators, Bankers, Payments people, Cannabis Entrepreneurs and Crypto enthusiasts all in one space talking about the same thing. Since this conference is truly one-of-a-kind, I asked Paul for his take on the event and his other thoughts:
- What was the most eye opening part of the event
- The difficulties bringing crypto and cannabis together
- What would he change about the conference
- What he learned by moderating the Tax panel
- The SAFE (Secure And Fair Enforcement) Banking Act
- The quality of the Speakers
Finally, we run through the Crypto Curators biggest fears in the industry, as well as what he would change if he had a magic wand.
Tweet your favorite quote and tag @CoinStructive @djkinkle @_CryptoCurator & #LABradio
Further Reading and Resources
Paul McNeal , The Crytpo Curator, Founder | Twitter | LinkedIn
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How many episodes does LAB Radio have?
LAB Radio currently has 87 episodes available.
What topics does LAB Radio cover?
The podcast is about Blockchain, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Podcasts, Technology and Business.
What is the most popular episode on LAB Radio?
The episode title 'Ep 82 - Darknet Market Research with Cedric Dahl - 1000X Group' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on LAB Radio?
The average episode length on LAB Radio is 46 minutes.
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Episodes of LAB Radio are typically released every 6 days, 21 hours.
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The first episode of LAB Radio was released on Jun 14, 2016.
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