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CoinGeek ConversationsFestive Sweaters and Bubbly Battles: the CoinGeek Conversations Christmas Quiz Extravaganza!Setting a festive mood with a holiday shirt to boot, Charles Miller kicks off the CoinGeek Conversations Christmas Special this year, sharing a bubbly toast with his guests: CoinGeek Reporter, Becky Liggero, and Osmin Callis, the Founder and CEO of Mode 8. The two battled it out to the end in an exciting quiz covering topics, such as Bitcoin SV (BSV) companies, Bitcoin terminologies, entertainment, science, and a final odd one out round. Formulating the questions using ChatGPT, Charles marveled at how the language model came up with its responses, as well as abstract images for B...
2023-12-2131 min
CoinGeek ConversationsDojo graduates aim to transform recruitment and workplace healthThe latest group of entrepreneurs to graduate from Block Dojo, the London incubator programme for startups building on the BSV blockchain, are sharing their ambitions on CoinGeek Conversations over the next three weeks.In the first show, two founders describe their business plans. First, Ash Yarro’s Trackr HR is designed to bring technology, particularly AI, to bear on the inefficiencies of the highly-lucrative recruitment business. Ash was already an experienced entrepreneur. But when he talked to his girlfriend about her work in recruitment, he was astonished at what he heard: “it became appar...
2023-11-2319 min
CoinGeek ConversationsNumber Go Up: A Crypto Adventure Reveals the Dark Side of Digital FortunesIn the latest episode of CoinGeek Conversations, Jack Pitts, founder of Slictionary, Brendan Lee, founder of Elas Digital and CoinGeek's Charles Miller delve into Zeke Faux's new book, Number Go Up. Faux, a journalist from Bloomberg Businessweek, takes readers on a journey through the crypto world, focusing on characters like Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX, the cultural phenomenon of Bored Apes, and the mysteries of Tether's $68 billion valuation. The book's format, a first-person narrative, fascinated Jack, who said he enjoyed the informal style. Faux's approach reflected the author's personal experience as he bec...
2023-11-1631 min
CoinGeek ConversationsCarby helps address climate challenges while CyberXchain looks to incentivize ethical hackersCarby is the first marketplace for future carbon credits, solving liquidity, scalability and transparency issues of the market. It’s CEO and Co-founder Mark Moores believes more carbon projects are needed to fight climate change. Speaking as a father, Mark tells Charles Miller on this episode of CoinGeek conversations, “when you have a child, you re-evaluate things and you think about the future and one thing you've got to think about is what type of planet are we bequeathing our children?” With Carby, a platform that connects carbon projects with carbon credit buyers, Mark is addressi...
2023-08-2423 min
CoinGeek ConversationsVymt incentivizes gaming fans while Ditto offers a cure for lonelinessOn this episode of CoinGeek Conversations, two entrepreneurs from London’s incubator program Block Dojo speak to Charles Miller about their start-ups and how they can solve real world problems. First up is Ditto, an AI-powered platform that aims to help people combat loneliness. “We are in a global epidemic of loneliness,” says James Kirk, Ditto Founder and CEO. Research suggests that over half the adults living in the United Kingdom experienced loneliness in 2022. The platform which focusses on companionship and mental well-being will utilize advances in AI technology, allowing users to have human-like conversations with Dit...
2023-08-1021 min
CoinGeek ConversationsJames Belding: Tokenized was built with blood, sweat and tearsFor James Belding, the co-founder and CEO of Tokenized, the launch of his desktop app just days ahead of the London Blockchain conference in June was the fruit of years of work, ever since he appeared at a CoinGeek conference with his self-funded team in Toronto in 2019. Described as a “self-custodial and enterprise-grade digital wallet …for issuing, managing and holding digital assets including Bitcoin SV”, Tokenized boasts an elegant interface, an easy sign up process and an impressive range of functions.Sure...
2023-08-0322 min
CoinGeek ConversationsCombat IQ: harnessing the powers of AI and blockchainTim Malik, CEO and co-founder of Combat IQ, has come a long way since participating in the Block Dojo program in 2022 - the London incubator for start-ups building on the Bitcoin SV blockchain. His Combat IQ, which has since been with company accelerator, Techstars wants to be a game-changer in the combat sports industry with its AI-powered analytic platform. Armed with investment, a vision and determination, Tim says his team exceeded their own expectations in completing their prototype and having the opportunity to conduct real-time pilots with sports leagues. The company now plans to sc...
2023-05-1822 min
CoinGeek ConversationsKurt Wuckert Jr: Bitcoin needs more salespeopleUntil now, the kind of people attracted to Bitcoin have mainly been developers, says Kurt Wuckert Jr. But that needs to change in order to create real Bitcoin businesses and convert existing businesses to Bitcoin.“If we were better at sales and marketing,” Kurt believes, “we might not even be in the blockchain economy at all. We could all be selling solar panels or something and make pretty good money. So it really, I think, is largely a culture thing.”Changing Bitcoin culture would mean bringing in experienced salespeople - and it wouldn’t matter i...
2023-03-0931 min
CoinGeek ConversationsKurt Wuckert Jr: Think of Bitcoin mining as financial self-disciplineWhen you set up a blockchain mining pool, there’s plenty of complicated technology involved. And if it’s just you and a few colleagues and friends, when you switch it on for the first time, it’s not immediately obvious whether it’s working. Your computers have to compete with others on the network – the Bitcoin SV network in this case – to ‘win’ the next block on the blockchain. But are they in the game? At the start of his GorillaPool enterprise, its founder Kurt Wuckert Jr. says, “we weren't even sure if we would build a block. We didn't k...
2023-03-0229 min
CoinGeek ConversationsDr. Craig Wright: Crypto regulation will make life easier for BSVThe UK government has announced a consultation on crypto regulation. Dr. Wright believes that rather than new regulations, the priority should be to enforce existing financial laws because crypto is not outside the conventional financial system: “I mean, we should just actually start applying the rules and the argument that it's new, that it's online... It's really not.”As far as Bitcoin SV is concerned, new regulation should be welcomed, and probably won’t require changes: “it'll just make our life easier as everyone else has to now start doing things that we've been doing already.”On the f...
2023-02-0927 min
CoinGeek ConversationsWright or wrong? It’s the CoinGeek Conversations Christmas Quiz!To celebrate the end of 2022, the team behind CoinGeek Conversations brings you a festive special edition: the CoinGeek Conversations Christmas Quiz. Diddy Wheldon from Women of BSV, Becky Liggero from CoinGeek and Alessio Pagani from nChain were all put through their paces by CoinGeek’s Charles Miller. The contestants’ knowledge was tested on subjects including music, Bitcoin SV and former CoinGeek Conversations guests. It was a competitive affair as there could only be one winner, so the guests had to be ready to ring their buzzers as quickly as they knew the answer...
2022-12-2237 min
CoinGeek ConversationsCoinGeek Conversations: ECGOn the fourth and final installment of CoinGeek Conversations Special, we’ll hear from individuals whose companies’ ESG or environmental, social, and corporate governance initiatives are achieved through blockchain technology. While it seems like blockchain is not usually associated with ESG, these companies are making strides in proving how the technology can play a vital role in the industry. Joe Holles de Peyer of Gate2Chain and Daniel Keane of Predict Ecology talk about the integrity that blockchain provides while recording data on the environment; Dave Perill of Compute North talks about how blockchain provides efficiency in data c...
2022-09-2119 min
CoinGeek ConversationsCoinGeek Conversations: Venture CapitalOn the third installment of CoinGeek Conversations Special, we take a look at some of the most interesting contributions about venture capital from previous episodes of the series. We hear from Craig Massey and Osmin Callis from the London BSV incubator Satoshi Block Dojo. Craig talked about how investors and start-ups profit and benefit from the incubator process; Osmin focussed on what went on during the program and made interesting observations about the participants; Pacer Ventures co-founder Gbemi Akande talked about the adoption of blockchain technology in Africa; and Paul Rajchgod, managing director of private equity at Ai...
2022-09-1413 min
CoinGeek ConversationsCoinGeek Conversations: Personalities of Bitcoin SVIn the second of four CoinGeek Conversations special episodes, we take a look back at some of the best moments from the last season, featuring the biggest and boldest personalities in the Bitcoin SV ecosystem. We hear from Mandeep Singh, musician and qualified doctor, on how Bitcoin can revolutionise the relationship artists have with their fans; Nick Numas, Founder and CEO of Genuine Retweets explains the impact his social media company is having on those in the developing world; the Women of BSV...
2022-09-0719 min
CoinGeek ConversationsCoinGeek Conversations: Bitcoin SV and the global economyIn the first of four CoinGeek Conversations special episodes, we revisit some of our favourite conversations from the last season, on the subject of Bitcoin SV’s relationship with the global economy. We hear from Eswar Prasad, Tolani senior Professor of International Trade Policy at Cornell University, and author of ‘The Future of Money’, on why competition in the digital asset industry is a good thing; Patryk Walaszczyk, blockchain solutions expert at IBM, discusses the burgeoning relationship between BSV and IBM; Owen Vaughan, director of research at nChain, talks about the role Bitcoin could play in political economi...
2022-08-3116 min
CoinGeek ConversationsMichał Scisłowski: A new revenue stream for the music industryAlmost fifty years ago, four boys became school friends in Poland. Today they are working together to revolutionise the music industry with a BSV-powered startup called Soundoshi. It’s not their first collaboration: they previously created a software development company together which is still in business.But now, as Michał Scisłowski explains on this week’s CoinGeek Conversations, their focus is “100 percent on Soundoshi”. The opportunity, as they see it, is to improve the business model for both music producers and consumers. “Even if you are generating a few million streams, then you can't really make a...
2022-08-1726 min
CoinGeek ConversationsPaul Rajchgod: BSV opportunities for existing enterprise software businessesAyre Ventures invests in ground-breaking businesses powered by BSV technology. Its Managing Director, Paul Rajchgod says he receives a stream of business proposals through platforms such as LinkedIn and through the CoinGeek and Ayre Group websites. Paul stresses that for Ayre Venture, completing a deal with a new business is just the start of the relationship. “We have frequent meetings with the company, we make lots of introductions to other companies, which is one of the things that VCs are meant to be used for - it's not just a blank cheque.” Paul says that Ayre V...
2022-07-1327 min
CoinGeek ConversationsCoinGeek Conversations: A Look Back at CoinGeek ConferencesCoinGeek Conversations: A Look Back at CoinGeek ConferencesAs we patiently await the upcoming BSV Global Blockchain Convention to be held in Dubai this May, Claire Celdran takes a look back at some of the highlights of CoinGeek Conferences past. Listen in on Jeff Baek’s presentation of Peersend and how it allows users to send and receive money seamlessly on the internet. Watch personalities from the gaming industry including Haste Arcade, HandCash, NFTY Jigs and Built by Gamers discuss how users can monetize from playing and participating in games. And witness all over again BSV...
2022-04-2021 min
CoinGeek ConversationsTony Mugavero: NFTV unites entertainment and blockchainRad CEO Tony Mugavero knows a thing or two about big entertainment brands - just look at the list of the company’s content deal partners, which includes Disney, NBCUniversal, Fox, Showtime, Warner Brothers, Sony.And he knows about cutting-edge tech. Rad’s current focus on blockchain follows pioneering work in VR, in which he also partnered with big entertainment brands.But Tony is happy to admit that for Rad and for many others a couple of years ago, the VR revolution didn’t quite happen. Back then, Rad was a VR streaming company - offeri...
2022-04-1335 min
CoinGeek ConversationsIntroducing the eight startups from Satoshi Block DojoThe Bitcoin SV incubator Satoshi Block Dojo is approaching the end of its first 12-week programme in London’s East End. The cohort of eight startups is working towards a big night in which they’ll have the chance to pitch their businesses to an audience of potential investors. Ahead of that, this week’s CoinGeek Conversations offers a sneak preview of all eight of the startup ideas. And if you want to find out more about Block Dojo itself, just go back to last week’s show, in which COO Osmin Callis explains the Dojo’s philosophy...
2022-03-3018 min
CoinGeek ConversationsHow two old friends are supporting Ukraine with a charity NFTYuriy Porytko is a fifth generation Ukrainian-American who says sport has been a significant vehicle in his life when it comes to connecting with people. It was through skateboarding that he met Adam Hawley, the managing partner at NFTfamiliars. It’s a new NFT company which has just launched a charity initiative to support Ukraine. All the proceeds raised will go to the Joint Ukrainian-American Relief Committee (UUARC) to help Ukrainians affected by the country’s war with Russia. Yuriy describes Adam as a significant force in the skateboarding community having manufactured skateboard equipment and merchandise under...
2022-03-0924 min
CoinGeek Conversations2021: A year of innovation and litigationIt was the year in which, despite everything, CoinGeek managed to bring BSVers together in Zurich and New York for two magnificent three day conferences. Both online and in person, they showcased the vibrancy of entrepreneurship around BSV, featuring a host of new projects like Peersend, Haste and Project Babbage, while also digging into its history with blockchain pioneers Stuart Haber and Scott Stornetta and cryptography guru Ian Grigg. Then, of course, there was that trial: the seemingly endless drama in a Miami courtroom in which Dr Craig Wright successfully defended himself against accusations of fraud from t...
2021-12-2229 min
CoinGeek ConversationsVictor Tang: Making NFTs more niftyThe mission of NiftyCo, where Victor Tang is CTO is to “democratise” NFTs (non-fungible tokens). As he puts it, “we're basically creating a platform that makes it possible for anyone, not just crypto enthusiasts, to create and transact NFTs on the blockchain.”Speaking on this week’s CoinGeek Conversations, Victor explains that users won’t need to create wallets, use exchanges to convert from fiat or transfer assets between accounts. Instead, NiftyCo’s customers will only need to know “how to create a user account, how to upload documents or image files and how to pay for that with...
2021-11-1023 min
CoinGeek ConversationsDave Perrill: Compute North provides the power behind blockchainWorking for an internet service provider in the 1990s, Dave Perrill witnessed the emergence of a new set of technologies. As the dot com boom gathered pace, he saw the magnitude of adoption and innovation that occurred on the internet platform. Dave ventured into blockchain in 2017. He is now CEO and co-founder of Compute North, developing and operating data center infrastructure for computationally intensive applications such as Bitcoin miners. Like the internet back in the 1990s, he believes that his new business is here to stay. And like the internet, he expects blockchain to continue to e...
2021-11-0322 min
CoinGeek ConversationsStuart Haber and Scott Stornetta: How our timestamping mechanism was used in BitcoinWorking at Bellcore Labs in the 1990s, scientists Stuart Haber and Scott Stornetta were allowed to pick their own research projects. For Scott, a problem worth solving was the authentication of digital documents: how could you be sure the version you were looking at had not been altered from its original? The two worked as a team and were on the point of proving to themselves that the question of trust made the problem insoluble: there always needed to be some independent person or body to verify authenticity – but what if they were also part of a col...
2021-10-2727 min
CoinGeek ConversationsJeff Baek: Spreading BSV across the internetOne of the most discussed presentations at CoinGeek New York was by a newcomer to its conferences, Jeffrey Baek. His Peersend product offers what appears to be an almost magical integration of BSV with existing websites such as Twitter, and, to come, Amazon. Peersend works through a Chrome extension which allows Jeff to superimpose his own Peersend icons onto Tweets, for instance, providing an instant mechanism for paying anyone on Twitter. If, as a Twitter user and BSV wallet-holder, you send money to someone who doesn’t know anything about BSV and has maybe not even...
2021-10-2024 min
CoinGeek ConversationsWomen of BSV: We’re not an oppressed minority, we’re just asking different questionsIf you thought digital currency was just another financial ‘boys club’, you may need to think again. The Women of BSV group is committed to carving out a place for women in a male-dominated industry. Ruth Heasman and Diddy Wheldon are the two founders of the group which describes itself on Twitter as “down to earth & welcoming.” On their YouTube channel they cover events, conduct interviews with BSV entrepreneurs and influencers and create educational videos for those looking to learn about Bitcoin. Ruth explains that the women don’t feel side-lined or oppressed: they are simply tryin...
2021-10-1334 min
CoinGeek ConversationsJimmy Nguyen: It’s about time for another CoinGeek conferenceAhead of next week’s CoinGeek Conference in New York, Charles Miller speaks to Bitcoin Association Founding President, Jimmy Nguyen, about the complexities of organizing a live event in the time of Covid. “It’s exciting - yet painful - because of Covid challenges with travel,” Jimmy says. Since the start of the pandemic in 2020, global lockdown restrictions have prevented many from traveling in and out of their countries but CoinGeek’s organizers haven’t let that interrupt their conference schedule and have now evolved a hybrid format combining in person and specially designed online experiences. Being able t...
2021-09-2927 min
CoinGeek ConversationsMuhammad Salman Anjum: Signing up customers for BSV-powered invoicingMost tech startups can only dream of the early achievements of InvoiceMate. Before its official launch later this year, the Dubai-based company already has four customers using its product and the prospect of another to be added soon. And these aren’t just a few friends doing them a favour: they include, for instance, a large government institution, SALIC - the Saudi LIvestock and Investment Company.No wonder Muhammad Salman Anjum is bullish about the prospects for InvoiceMate. He calls himself Chief Mate but in any other company would be called CEO. “We are the world's first ever...
2021-09-1530 min
CoinGeek ConversationsCoinGeek Conversations: The EducatorsIn the fourth and final installment of our CoinGeek Conversations special episodes, Natalie Mason picks out three fascinating interviews from past shows that showcase note-worthy educators in the Bitcoin SV ecosystem. On this episode, Lise Li Bitcoin Association China Manager talks about the technological advancements in China and how the Bitcoin SV blockchain can fit right into the country’s socio-cultural environment; Michael Hudson, Bitstocks and Gravity CEO talks about their company’s mission and guiding philosophies; and Liz Louw, a digital marketing and content strategist shares her research methodologies in writing ‘What is Bitcoin?’ To get fre...
2021-09-0817 min
CoinGeek ConversationsCoinGeek Conversations: The TechnologistsIn the third of four CoinGeek Conversations special episodes, Natalie Mason picks out her favourite moments from previous interviews with technologists in the Bitcoin SV ecosystem. On this episode, Dean Little, Founder and CEO of Bitping, fresh from winning 2019’s Bitcoin SV Hackathon, explains the political benefits his idea can bring to the world; Luke Rohenaz, CEO of TonicPow talks about how he utilises social media and shared network protocols; and Richard Baker, former CEO of Geospock, explores the opportunities for Bitcoin SV to move into the lucrative cloud market. Join Natalie next week as she pi...
2021-09-0116 min
CoinGeek ConversationsCoinGeek Conversations: The VisionariesIn the second of four CoinGeek Conversations special episodes, Natalie Mason picks out highlights from some of her favourite past shows featuring exciting visionaries in the BSV space. On this episode, Lorien Gamaroff,CEO and co-founder of Centbee, shares his hopes for what Bitcoin can achieve in developing countries like his native Zimbabwe; Jack Liu, founder of RelayX explains what attracted him to Bitcoin and how he hopes micropayments can revolutionise the way we live; and Brendan Lee, founder of Elas Digital, talks about his ambitious plans for the Bitcoin SV blockchain in Tuvalu and the rest of...
2021-08-2516 min
CoinGeek ConversationsCoinGeek Conversations: The EntrepreneursIn the first of four CoinGeek Conversations special episodes, Natalie Mason picks out highlights from some of our favorite past shows that featured top entrepreneurs in the BSV space. On this episode, Josh Petty, CEO and founder of the social media platform Twetch, explains how an effective business model can contribute to the success of a company; Stephan Nilsson, CEO of UNISOT, discusses the benefits of a public blockchain such as BSV in the global supply chain industry; and Robert Rice, CEO and founder of Transmira, talks about his journey in the virtual reality space and monetizing o...
2021-08-1816 min
CoinGeek ConversationsIan Grigg: How I learnt the full story of Satoshi NakamotoFinancial cryptographer Ian Grigg wanted to help protect Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin, without knowing who that person was. He figured that anyone in favour of the libertarian politics of the community loosely called cypherpunks around 2012 ought also to believe that Satoshi should be allowed to stay anonymous if that was their choice. (Ian believed Satoshi was a group of people, albeit led by one key individual.)In the second of a two-part interview for this week’s CoinGeek Conversations, Ian explains he was concerned that an attention-seeking US go...
2021-08-1134 min
CoinGeek ConversationsIan Grigg: the “stunning notion” that Bitcoin software could create its own moneyThe history of Bitcoin began long before Satoshi Nakamoto’s White Paper appeared on an obscure online messageboard. Many of the ideas that Satoshi used had been part of previous cryptocurrencies. But Satoshi combined them in an original way and added his own brilliant solution to problems that had dogged previous attempts at digital currencies.Around 2008, Ian Grigg was a financial cryptographer on the fringes of a loosely-defined group known as the cypherpunks. They anticipated a blending of cryptography with the ever-growing Internet: “if you put the two together,” Ian said, ”you created the possibil...
2021-08-0422 min
CoinGeek ConversationsDr Maximilian Korkmaz: My blockchain solution to construction industry woesDr Maximilian Sinan Korkmaz is a civil engineer who has been working in the construction industry for 16 years. He founded Stabilwerk Bau, a construction company based in Frankfurt, Germany. Stabilwerk Bau now accepts his BSV blockchain-based credit tokens as payment for its services. On this episode of CoinGeek Conversations, Dr Korkmaz discusses some of the obstacles experienced in the construction industry today and how blockchain can offer solutions. Dr Korkmaz first caught wind of Bitcoin while studying for his PhD in 2010 but it wasn’t until 2017 that he took a liking to it, specifically the Bitcoin SV...
2021-07-2824 min
CoinGeek ConversationsZach Resnick: Bitcoin could be one of the most eco-friendly technologies ever createdGovernments and legacy financial systems all over the world are discovering that it’s not easy being green. And Bitcoin is no exception. Elon Musk famously reversed his decision to accept Bitcoin as payment for Tesla in May, citing environmental concerns as the reason. But many in the Bitcoin SV world are confident that it can and will be eco-friendly. Zach Resnick, Managing Partner of venture capital fund Unbounded Capital is one of many unconcerned BSVers. “We would argue that Bitcoin is perhaps one of the most eco-friendly technologies ever created,” he says. Zach argues that Bit...
2021-07-2124 min
CoinGeek ConversationsJurg Conzett: Money is always changingThe founder of Zurich’s MoneyMuseum, Dr. Jurg Conzett discusses the history and evolution of money on this episode of CoinGeek Conversations. As Dr. Conzett tells Charles Miller, money creation today is unlike the coins of the Middle Ages in the sense that its value remains the same after a historical event has taken place. “If there was a pandemic, you close shop, put the coins on the shelf, waited six months then opened again, the coins still have the same value.” he said. “Not so with our money, a pandemic hits and the next...
2021-07-1428 min
CoinGeek ConversationsTatjana Meier: Blockchain technology is here to stayThere is “no doubt that blockchain technology is here to stay,” says IBM’s Tatjana Meier. Tatjana, Blockchain Practice Leader at IBM Services Switzerland, admits that it’s still early days for the technology. But she is confident it will prove beneficial for businesses and consumers alike and “can do a lot of good.” She is particularly excited about the value blockchain brings to supply chain management. Traditionally, she explains, “you only have information one tier back, but you don’t have the visibility along the supply chain.” This is not the case when companies use block...
2021-07-0722 min
CoinGeek ConversationsHaste: How BSV takes online games to the next levelEntrepreneurs Joe De Pinto and Dan Wagner have created a unique use for microtransactions through Haste, an online games arcade with what they call Instant Leaderboard Payout or ILP games. The idea is that the top players in a game at any time receive payouts from the small entry fees paid by the rest of the players. Everyone’s trying to get to the top of the leaderboard where they’ll be earning money instead of spending it.Joe explains how he and Dan were inspired by the possibilities created by the micropayment capabilities of Bitcoin SV...
2021-06-3040 min
CoinGeek ConversationsEileen Brown: I see complete transparency with Bitcoin SV projectsBritish technology journalist Eileen Brown says she receives more PR pitches for Ethereum-based projects than for any other protocol. But despite ETH’s popularity, she is keen to point out that most companies that use Ethereum tend to do their transactions off chain to achieve speed and cost efficiency - which she notes is not the case with Bitcoin SV. “I don't see that with BSV,” she said. “I see complete transparency with BSV projects.” Speaking to Charles Miller on the sidelines of the CoinGeek Zurich conference for this week’s CoinGeek Conversations, Eileen said CoinGee...
2021-06-2325 min
CoinGeek ConversationsNouriel Roubini: Bitcoin must embrace the rule of lawDigital currencies can survive if they embrace the rule of law, says leading economist and professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, Nouriel Roubini. The economist, who is known as “Dr. Doom” for his pessimistic predictions about the economy, including in 2008 when he famously predicted the housing bubble crash, believes that legal institutions will help bring reliability to cryptocurrencies. Nouriel says AML and KYC legislation will be crucial to the acceptance of Bitcoin by legacy financial systems. “You need regulation, you need that credibility, but you build it by having institutions,” he says.
2021-06-1621 min
CoinGeek ConversationsPhuong Dinh: Gen Z are a hot prospect for digital currenciesHow do you attract the attention of young people in 2021? By offering them cryptocurrency, says Phuong Dinh, entrepreneur and founder of Mijem Inc. That’s why he has decided to integrate a Bitcoin SV cashback reward scheme into the online community he has created. Mijem is a free app aimed at college students in the United States and Canada, that allows members to buy and sell items, like eBay, but for Gen Z. According to Phuong, a high proportion of the student demogra...
2021-06-0216 min
CoinGeek ConversationsPatrick Prinz: Building Bitcoin SV’s distribution armBitcoin SV needs to put more emphasis on connecting its experts and developers with potential business users, according to Patrick Prinz of the Bitcoin Association. Talking on CoinGeek Conversations, Patrick stressed the importance of creating a ‘distribution arm’ to introduce businesses to the new world of digital transformation. He cites Salesforce, an American cloud-based software company that provides a customer relationship management service as a company that “built an army of outside distributors by incentivizing them”. He views this kind of business model as a particular opportunity for BSV because of its own technical capabilitie...
2021-05-2627 min
CoinGeek ConversationsDaniel Skowronski: Fabriik Exchange will bridge the gap between the old world and a new oneLegacy financial services are making a mistake not offering crypto, according to Daniel Skowronski, General Manager of Fabriik Exchange. Daniel’s extensive experience working in finance, including stints in senior management at HSBC Hong Kong and Bank of America, has left him concerned about the lack of agility in the banking world. He warns that banks and stock markets will be left behind if they continue to ignore digital currencies. He believes that their reluctance is down to a concern with wealth preser...
2021-05-1933 min
CoinGeek ConversationsRobin Kohze: We are fighting for a spot in the next generation of technologyWhat do Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin have in common? Aside from great success, these tech innovators pursued higher education while setting-up a business. Much like Robin Kohze, CEO of Vaionex - a company that specializes in solutions at the nexus of data science and blockchain technology -who is currently completing a PhD in genetics at Cambridge University. On this week’s CoinGeek Conversations, Robin tells Charles Miller that while working on his academic and entrepreneurial activities simultaneously is a challenge, it keeps his ambitions aligned: “I can always tr...
2021-05-1234 min
CoinGeek ConversationsBrendan Lee: Tuvalu will show the world what’s possible with Bitcoin SVTuvalu may be the fourth smallest country in the world, but it hasn’t let that get in the way of its giant ambitions. The island nation announced in December 2020 that it plans to create the world’s first national digital ledger, using Bitcoin SV (BSV) blockchain technology.The plan is to migrate to a completely digital infrastructure, with Tuvalu choosing BSV for its scalability and efficiency. The news has already made waves in the BSV ecosystem but could it go further and show the world what can be done on BSV?One of those behi...
2021-05-0538 min
CoinGeek ConversationsCraig Wright: Speaking as SatoshiIt’s almost exactly ten years since Satoshi Nakamoto made his last regular appearance online – on April 23 2011. After that, there was only one more message, of just five words, a few years later. To commemorate the occasion, on this week’s CoinGeek Conversations, Charles Miller is joined by the man behind the pseudonym, Dr. Craig S. Wright.Between managing a full-time job at the Sydney accountancy firm BDO, finishing multiple degrees and traveling from the city to his farm, Craig found the time to write emails and post as Satoshi Nakamoto on the Cryptography Mailing List where...
2021-04-2835 min
CoinGeek ConversationsBitcoin Association’s Developer Bootcamp: How China is opening up to Bitcoin SVThe Chinese government is “open” to blockchain technology says Lise Li, China Manager of the Bitcoin Association.Lise says that the government’s attitude is down to a recognition that it needs new technology to digitise and “build a more efficient and more trustworthy …society.” She also credited the power of the internet industry and the “large group of experienced developers and engineers” that China boasts. Forty of those talented developers gathered last week on the beautiful island of Dong’ao, in Guangdong province, to attend the Bitcoin Association’s BSV B...
2021-04-2130 min
CoinGeek ConversationsAmy Castor: BTC speculation is like musical chairs – with not many places to sit when the music stopsExperienced cryptocurrency journalist and self-confessed Bitcoin sceptic, Amy Castor puts matters into perspective when it comes to the valuation of BTC. The spike in price in recent months has everyone, both crypto and non-crypto people, buzzing. “There’s a big rush of people trying to make money in the space,” Amy says. “People are kind of running in, in the hopes that it'll go up higher.”The price of BTC of late is around sixty thousand dollars, a whopping increase from its previous ten thousand dollars back in September. But Amy says BTC has no intrinsic value. She views...
2021-04-1430 min
CoinGeek ConversationsJeff Ifrah: US regulators odds-on to approve in-game tokensTop online gaming lawyer Jeff Ifrah says that US regulators are unlikely to have a problem with tokens that are “offered on the game to extend play, to skip levels, to gain certain powers.” The news will be welcomed by game developers keen to monetize through the integration of cryptocurrency wallets and blockchain technology. Jeff is also optimistic about the recent flurry of activity around NFTs. He said “it’s a very exciting space right now and I really hope the regulators don’t ruin it.” He singled out...
2021-04-0726 min
CoinGeek ConversationsTDXP dances its way to the Asia-Pacific regionCalling on traders and non-traders who want to start trading! TDXP - short for ‘truly distributed exchange protocol’ - is a trading platform that is simple and easy to use. All you need is a Bitcoin SV wallet and you can start buying and selling cryptocurrencies, commodities, stocks, indices and foreign exchange. So what makes TDXP different from other trading platforms? That’s what Charles Miller finds out as he speaks to TDXP CEO, Armen Azatyan in Russia and TDXP’s marketing manager, Nick Numas in the UK, in this week’s CoinGeek Conversations. A...
2021-03-3134 min
CoinGeek ConversationsJosh Petty and David Gerard: NFTs - New opportunity or crypto scam?Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are like Bitcoin marmite - you either love ‘em or hate ‘em. Some, like digital artist Beeple, who recently sold an NFT at auction for $69.3 million, are understandably enamoured. Others, such as crypto sceptic David Gerard, have serious doubts. Josh Petty, co-founder of Twetch, has seen the trend first-hand. He recently launched NFTs for 101 Twetch hats which sold out in under a minute. The hats are embroidered with an individual number and come with a digital trading card to represent them. “The Twetch hat is a very special type of digital item because i...
2021-03-2435 min
CoinGeek ConversationsJack Liu: NFTs, making Haste and tokenizing socksRelayX’s new product, the RelayX Exchange, billed as Bitcoin’s first decentralized exchange, last week started offering trades in a first token, the Shua (created by and named after Bitcoin SV developer Joshua Henslee). But it’s non-fungible tokens, NFTs, that have been in the news and RelayX founder Jack Liu is bullish about their prospects – though not just for speculators: “It’s not about the token going higher and higher in price,” Jack asserts. “It’s about an immutable way to do provenance - and track and move and trade an item, that I think can be super...
2021-03-1740 min
CoinGeek ConversationsFrom Memento to Relica: How brotherly entrepreneurship spans the globeA little over a year ago, two brothers from Australia presented their application idea to a group of investors at the Bitcoin Association’s Pitch Day conference in London. Their proposal for a picture-sharing app powered by Bitcoin SV was then called Memento. It is now open for business, as Relica. In this week’s CoinGeek Conversations, Charles Miller catches up with co-founders Jeremy and Daniel Street to ask about their journey — how Relica came to be, how it’s doing and where it’s heading.For most of the past year, both have still been workin...
2021-03-1027 min
CoinGeek ConversationsFrom fish to diamonds: How blockchain can improve supply chainsCan blockchain technology which streamlines and secures supply chains operate across widely different industries?‘Yes’, says Stephan Nilsson, founder and CEO of the Oslo-based enterprise blockchain platform UNISOT. ‘Well, I might be persuaded,’ says Sukhi Jutla, co-founder and CEO of MarketOrders, a London-based online platform for the gold and diamond jewelry industry.The two entrepreneurs were brought together for this week’s episode of CoinGeek Conversations, in which Charles Miller invited them to compare their respective fields – jewelry for Sukhi, and, as his first case study for UNISOT, Stephan’s experience with supply chains in the Norwegian...
2021-03-0336 min
CoinGeek ConversationsSteven Walt: Fabriik Markets will be a one-stop-shop for liquiditySteven Walt, General Manager of Fabriik Markets describes the business as the digital assets service arm of the Bayesian-owned, Fabriik group. He highlights the company’s three major offerings - market making, liquidity provision and its OTC or over-the-counter desks.“The focus of the company is trading” Steven says. As he points out, digital asset prices change every second. To address the volatility, clients are provided a stable fixed price of up to 15 minutes. This would essentially allow payment processors the ability to provide their customers time to transact. “What we do is we use really ou...
2021-02-2427 min
CoinGeek ConversationsLuke Rohenaz: How TonicPow can compete with the tech giantsImagine signing up for a website, start sharing links and, voila, you’re earning money! That’s just one of the scenarios that could happen when you create an account with TonicPow and start participating. On this week’s episode of Coingeek conversations, Charles Miller talks to TonicPow Founder and CEO, Luke Rohenaz about his startup and its potential to go after the tech giants. TonicPow allows its users to earn Bitcoin, advertise a business or do both. You can sign-up and choose to be a promoter and/or an advertiser. How? Well...
2021-02-1738 min
CoinGeek ConversationsHow BSV is Bridging the Gap between Big Pharma and its ConsumersThe pharmaceutical industry or Big Pharma is no doubt a multi-billion-dollar industry. Whilst extremely profitable, pharmaceutical companies have a long-standing history of fraud cases often resulting in billion-dollar pay out settlements. These cases generally stem from purported illegal marketing strategies and the company’s failure to report safety data. As a result, trust remains to be an issue, widening the gap between pharmaceutical companies and its consumers. Veridat, a company that uses bitcoin blockchain technology, offers a solution to the problem. It describes itself as a TaaS or Trust as a Service for data integrity. Spe...
2021-02-1025 min
CoinGeek ConversationsBrendan Lee: What really happens when you make a Bitcoin paymentThe Bitcoin SV Academy has launched a new course, Introduction to Bitcoin Theory, which is designed for anyone, even those completely new to Bitcoin. Its 13 sections are expected to take nine hours to complete and there’s an exam at the end to make sure you have absorbed the knowledge. The course covers the design of the Bitcoin blockchain and the node network, with an emphasis on its security features. CoinGeek’s Charles Miller recently completed the course and in this week’s CoinGeek Conversations he talks to Brendan Lee, one of the instructors on the...
2021-02-0334 min
CoinGeek ConversationsRobert Rice: Shaking up Industries by Converging AR & VR with Blockchain TechWhen emerging technologies collide, the effects are game changing. Those at the forefront of augmented and virtual reality have already transformed multiple industries. But what happens when you apply blockchain technology, putting both the 3D and real world on chain? It allows for unparalleled personalization of data and most importantly, profitability that anyone can build on, reaping just rewards. Robert Rice is the founder and CEO of Transmira Inc. the developer of Omniscape, an XR platform seamlessly blending AR and VR. He also happened to coin the term XR, the umbrella term for mixing the two mixed re...
2021-01-2720 min
CoinGeek ConversationsCraig Wright: Lockdown, Shakespeare and how Bitcoin could have been part of MicrosoftCraig Wright is a lockdown sceptic. Masks and isolation policies “don’t make a difference”, he says. Dr Wright, the Chief Scientist of nChain, says he’s studied epidemiology and is convinced that, despite appearances and government claims, death rates are no worse than usual because “everything else has gone down equal to the number of Covid deaths”. He had the disease himself “months ago” and dismisses the experience as “terrible for a day”. The real damage from government response to the pandemic, he says, is long term. The disruption in trade affects developing countries: “if you look at the people in S...
2021-01-2028 min
CoinGeek ConversationsDavid Gerard: The birth pangs of Facebook’s crypto projectA staunch critic of Silicon Valley, writer and journalist David Gerard offers a stinging critique of Facebook’s cryptocurrency project: “Libra is not a story about cryptocurrency; it’s a story about Silicon Valley hubris and people who think they can start their own money and take over the world that way.” Known in the crypto world as a Bitcoin and blockchain critic, in his new book Libra Shrugged Gerard offers a comprehensive analysis of Facebook’s Libra project. Speaking to Coingeek’s Charles Miller, he characterizes the Libra team as “a group of people who think...
2021-01-1330 min
CoinGeek ConversationsCoinGeek Conversations: Goodbye 2020!Sharing their picks of interesting BSV moments captured on video, CoinGeek’s Natalie Mason, Charles Miller, Kurt Wuckert Jr and Bitcoin Association’s Patrick Prinz close out the year in a special CoinGeek Conversations episode. And what better way to start than conversation than hearing from the one and only Craig Wright? The episode opens with a clip of Craig professing the importance of owning your digital identity. Kurt chose to share an inspiring video clip filmed during a Cambrian SV event in Lisbon. In the video, Paul Martin of Relay X gives a passion...
2020-12-1644 min
CoinGeek ConversationsMehran Hydary: How UNICEF uses blockchain to map school connectivity around the worldThe United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is dedicated to improving the welfare of children across the globe. The organization has launched initiatives called Giga and Project Connect to enhance the quality of education by connecting schools to the internet. This initiative comes from UNICEF’s Office of Innovation, a unit dedicated to studying new technologies including blockchain. Mehran Hydary, product manager at UNICEF, talked to CoinGeek’s Natalie Mason about how technology is being used to advance its initiatives. As Mehran explains, Giga’s mission is to connect every school around the world to the internet. Its main foc...
2020-12-0924 min
CoinGeek ConversationsDave Mullen-Muhr: There is just so much opportunityIf you believed in the potential of Bitcoin SV, what would you do? You might set up a venture capital and hedge fund to invest in BSV startups because you thought they had such great prospects. And if that wasn’t enough, you might try to get into transaction processing with your own Bitcoin node infrastructure. That’s what exactly what Dave Mullen-Muhr, of Unbounded Capital and Unbounded Enterprise, is doing. On this week’s episode of Coingeek Conversations, Charles Miller talks to Dave about the Unbounded brand and the book he co-authored with his busines...
2020-12-0231 min
CoinGeek ConversationsPeter Bainbridge-Clayton: Identity verification for financial institutions and big corp on chainKompany provides advanced solutions to financial institutions and corporations on identity verification. It offers a quick and efficient way to do business verification. With this being a legal requirement for global businesses, Kompany have positioned themselves as the go to company, on a global scale. Having previously built up the verification system for the UK's Companies House, Kompany CTO and co-founder Peter Bainbridge-Clayton is well versed on the processes. Peter sat down with CoinGeek’s Natalie Mason to talk about his company’s journey, how it fits in perfectly on the blockchain and why they are mo...
2020-11-2529 min
CoinGeek ConversationsRamon Quesada: Everything you ever wanted to know about Craig WrightIf you’re interested in Dr Craig Wright, and want to find out more about him, there’s no better place to go than Ramonquesada.com. It’s a website devoted to all things Craig and Satoshi-related and includes a chronological list of more than 400 of Craig Wright’s publications, pictures of his academic certificates and videos of his interviews and presentations.So who is Ramon Quesada and why has he assembled this incredible collection of Craigobilia? That question is answered in this week’s CoinGeek Conversations, where Ramon explains his project and how he felt he needed to...
2020-11-1822 min
CoinGeek ConversationsEileen Brown: Why do I get trolled when I write about Bitcoin SV?Why do journalists get complaints and abuse on social media just for mentioning Bitcoin SV?Eileen Brown writes about the tech scene for ZDNet, and says the BSV effect is quite unique in her experience: “when I wrote about the [BSV] Genesis protocol upgrade, the trolling I received on Twitter lasted for nearly three weeks, and I never had that before.”“What is it about Bitcoin SV that people hate so much?” Eileen asks. “They want to bully somebody like me into not attending [the CoinGeek conference], not writing about it. The trolling is amazingly vicious.”
2020-11-0422 min
CoinGeek ConversationsCalvin Ayre: How BSV will let machines create a new kind of commerceRecent news about the possibility of nano-payments on Bitcoin SV is inspiring ideas for a whole new field of applications. Calvin Ayre, founder of Ayre Group and CoinGeek, describes it as “commerce between machines”. Just as micro-transactions have, “this is going to create even more new business models”. The technology will take the ‘Internet of things’ to a whole new level through the application of smart contracts: “corporations most likely will own machines that will be conducting commerce with each other. So the value will eventually go back to the shareholders. But these little bits of business can be agreed i...
2020-09-2321 min
CoinGeek ConversationsJohn Pitts: The BSV network could have an “astronomical” valueA former technology analyst on Wall Street, John Pitts brings his experience of assessing Internet companies to making educated guesses about the prospects for Bitcoin SV and BTC. And he’s confident that it’s possible to make valuations based on the existing information: “it's my belief not only that you can, but if it cannot be valued, then it probably isn't anything.”In an article on CoinGeek, John worked through a series of calculations to assess the value of the BTC network and compared it with BSV. He started by taking transaction fees across the network as the ‘...
2020-09-0239 min
CoinGeek ConversationsTop Picks from CoinGeek Conversations: Craig WrightFor the final addition of Top Picks from CoinGeek Conversations past, it had to be Dr. Craig Wright. Who better than the candid inventor, aka Satoshi Nakamoto, to set the Bitcoin story straight? Let’s start with his explanation of what Bitcoin is and why it is not a cryptocurrency. As Craig puts it: “Cryptography is secret writing. Bitcoin is the exact opposite of that. Bitcoin is basically a public ledger. So, it’s designed to be private, but it doesn’t actually encrypt things. You can encrypt data and store it in the blockchain; but the differenc...
2020-08-2739 min
CoinGeek ConversationsCoinGeek Conversations Top Pick: Lise Li on Bitcoin SV in ChinaFor the next few weeks, CoinGeek producer Natalie Mason is introducing her own Top Picks from CoinGeek Conversations, giving us another chance to enjoy previous episodes of the podcast series. Natalie’s choice this week is Lise Li, discussing the opportunities for Bitcoin SV in China. Lise is the China Manager for the Bitcoin Association. She has worked in ecommerce and been Chief Operating Officer for a Bitcoin mining pool, but, most important, she believes in the potential of BSV in China.It’s partly a matter of culture. As a resident of Beijing, she says...
2020-08-1912 min
CoinGeek ConversationsCoinGeek Conversations Top Pick: Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia and blockchainFor the next few weeks, CoinGeek producer Natalie Mason is introducing her own Top Picks from CoinGeek Conversations, giving us another chance to enjoy previous episodes of the podcast series. Natalie’s choice this week is Jimmy Wales, talking about his phenomenally successful creation, Wikipedia. Jimmy spoke at CoinGeek’s London conference, where he reflected on what Bitcoin SV supporters have in common with the early proponents of a free, online encyclopedia - since Wikipedia’s feasibility was just as much of a challenge to conventional wisdom as the notion of a global Bitcoin economy is today...
2020-08-1213 min
CoinGeek ConversationsCoinGeek Conversations Top Pick: Lawry Trevor-Deutsch on the Blockchain DomeWelcome to Top Picks. Throughout the month of August, we will revisit past CoinGeek Conversations. With so many great interviews to choose from, our first Top Pick is Lawry Trevor-Deutsch, of United Corp, who has a greener way to mine Bitcoin.
2020-08-0517 min
CoinGeek ConversationsSheila Warren: Using blockchain to stop corruption and improve school mealsThe World Economic Forum does much more than organise its annual Davos meetup. The not-for-profit foundation calls itself “the international organization for public-private cooperation”. As such, it investigates and promotes ways to make the world a better place, including in the field of blockchain. Sheila Warren is the WEF’s Head of Blockchain, Digital Currency and Data Policy. She talked to CoinGeek about her view of the prospects for the blockchain economy solving some of the problems of ‘surveillance capitalism’, by letting individuals own their own data. She admitted that she doesn’t see any revolution hap...
2020-07-2933 min
CoinGeek ConversationsDavid Case: How Kronoverse is helping game developers to build on blockchainIt’s been a busy couple of months for the gaming platform company Kronoverse. They received fresh investments from Persimmon Hill Ltd as well as a third investment from Calvin Ayre, founder of Ayre Group and CoinGeek. They are also set to announce the open beta date for their skill-based fighting game CryptoFights. David Case, Kronoverse’s Chief Architect, said that their platform will enable developers to build on the Bitcoin SV blockchain rather than the traditional networking layer of cloud servers. For gamers, it’s a new era of digital ownership of in-game assets and the chance...
2020-07-0123 min
CoinGeek ConversationsGu Lu: Building a child-friendly gaming platform powered by BitcoinSVIn the first of two CoinGeek Conversations about gaming and Bitcoin SV, we talk to Gu Lu, the founder of Satoplay. Next week, we hear about Kronoverse from the company’s Chief Architect, David Case. Gu Lu is an entrepreneur with an impressive track record in the gaming industry, having worked as a game developer for more than a decade, for the likes of UBISoft, the French game publisher, and CCP Games, an Icelandic company. Since 2018, he’s been immersing himself in blockchain technology, and then, as he says “I found BSV, so I’m here. That...
2020-06-2426 min
CoinGeek Conversations“Blockchain can reinvent the internet”: Jeff Chen’s new BSV browser and plan to redesign the domain name systemIn 2003, Jeff Chen single-handedly built his own web browser, Maxthon. With its customizable interface, the fast, secure and ad-free web browser drew the attention of investors and Jeff turned it into a profitable business. Today it serves 100 million monthly users in over 140 countries. Now Jeff has discovered the capabilities of Bitcoin SV and is building the latest version of his browser on the BSV blockchain, as well as creating a revolutionary internet domain-name system where all the information will be stored on the chain. Speaking to Charles Miller in this week’s CoinGeek Conv...
2020-05-0626 min
CoinGeek ConversationsA unique chance to teach and learn: Tales from the home front in lockdown, Part 2For Stephan Nilsson, CEO of Unisot, the Bitcoin SV supply chain business in Norway, these unusual times are providing a chance to explain to potential customers the benefits of tracking their products on the blockchain. With industries and consumers nervous about the supply of products that they need, people want to know more, says Stephan: “where does it come from? How secure is it? How safe is it? And that’s exactly what we deliver to them.”Unisot is using fish, a traditional Norwegian business, as a demonstration of the potential of its Bitcoin SV-based system...
2020-04-2220 min
CoinGeek ConversationsHow are you doing? Tales from the home front in lockdownToday, when people ask “how are you doing?”, they expect an answer. The question is now more than just a polite alternative to clearing your throat before the conversation begins. And everyone’s answer is different. At best, you may find yourself in a physically cut-off world, except from those you live with - who you may be getting to know even better than you thought possible. But you may also be more in touch with long-lost friends and family members around the world, just to ask them “how are you doing?”.This week and next, CoinG...
2020-04-1527 min
CoinGeek ConversationsDaniel Diemers: Bitcoin SV should sell itself to corporates – before someone else doesDaniel Diemers started out as a coder in the Eighties. Interested in the interactions between international gamers in the earliest stages of online multiplayer gaming, he studied trust-building among virtual communities as his PhD subject. Digital native Daniel was able to grab the attention of big corporations, even back then during the first dot-com era. Fast forward to today, and as a business strategy consultant, Daniel makes the world of blockchain accessible to the world’s biggest corporate players. “Digitalization for corporations is quite a complex thing,” he says. “It’s not just blockchain; they're looking at other techno...
2020-04-0821 min
CoinGeek ConversationsWhat role will venture capital play in the Bitcoin economy? CambrianSV DebateVenture capital funding has played a huge role in the success of high growth businesses over the past decades. Instagram, Uber and Snapchat are just three relatively recent venture capital (VC) winners, with earlier examples Amazon, Facebook and Google rolling off the tongue as easy as ABC. But will venture capital be as relevant to the Bitcoin economy as it has been to the giants of Silicon Valley?In the second instalment of the CambrianSV debate series, CoinGeek’s Charles Miller pitted two brains from the Bitcoin bootcamp in Lisbon against each other to argue the...
2020-04-0111 min
CoinGeek ConversationsHow different are Bitcoin businesses? The Cambrian SV DebateThe recent Cambrian SV Bootcamp in Lisbon brought together about 30 developers and entrepreneurs from around the world. As well as writing code to make their businesses more interoperable, there was time for wider discussion, some of which took place in two debates where issues were aired in front of the rest of the attendees.The first of those debates makes up this week’s CoinGeek Conversations podcast. It’s between Ryan X. Charles of Money Button and Jimmy Odom of Bittboard (right and left, above). Their subject: how different are Bitcoin businesses from any other kind?Fo...
2020-03-2511 min
CoinGeek ConversationsJimmy Wales: I’m known as a critic but I find blockchain technology fascinatingEncyclopaedias once came as expensive books in many volumes - until the 1990s, when they moved to CD-ROMs, which were smaller, cheaper and included more pictures, and video. But putting an encyclopedia online was better still, because it could be constantly updated. That was the vision of a former Chicago day trader Jimmy Wales when, in I999, he created - Nupedia. But Nupedia’s software and its editorial processes were so complex - that he started again, with Wikipedia. This time, anyone could contribute articles and edit them. Jimmy rejected the idea of supporting the busin...
2020-03-1114 min
CoinGeek ConversationsGeorge Gilder on Craig Wright’s “great vision” for Bitcoin SVThirty years ago, in 1990. George Gilder wrote Life After Television, predicting the effect of the Internet on the media, society and the economy. Gilder, formerly an economist and speechwriter for Republican politicians, became as interested in technology as in economics. Ten books later, he wrote Life After Google, heralding what he sees as the next tech revolution, around Bitcoin and blockchain. Speaking at CoinGeek’s London conference, Gilder shared a platform with Bitcoin creator, as Satoshi Nakamoto, Craig Wright. Gilder explained how he expects Bitcoin to solve major problems created by the Internet and the international money mar...
2020-02-2623 min
CoinGeek ConversationsDaniel Connolly: The post-Genesis worldIn the first episode of a new series of CoinGeek Conversations, Daniel Connolly, Lead Developer for Bitcoin SV at the London blockchain research and development company nChain, talks about the forthcoming hard fork in the BSV blockchain known as Genesis. Daniel explains what it means for miners, businesses and individuals and about the new opportunities he sees it offering for the BSV ecosystem.
2020-01-2227 min
CoinGeek ConversationsThis is not a podcastSeason 3 of CoinGeek Conversations starts next week. Here's a quick preview.
2020-01-1500 min
CoinGeek Conversations2019: A great year for Bitcoin SVIt’s been quite a year for Bitcoin SV - its first full year since its emergence in the split from Bitcoin Cash in November 2018. Since then, developers have been busy creating new apps for BSV and nChain has been working on restoring the protocol to its original ‘Satoshi vision’. As the Bitcoin which is truest to Satoshi Nakamoto’s ideas as outlined in the White Paper, BSV’s big blocks are designed to easily and cheaply accommodate the huge numbers of transactions that will be required to fulfil the vision of a global electronic cash - and much mo...
2019-12-1824 min
CoinGeek ConversationsConnor Murray: podcaster turns entrepreneurConnor Murray has spent hours thinking and talking about Bitcoin as the co-host of the podcast Bitcoin and Beyond, and before that too. But now he’s turning theory into practice, as he launches his own Bitcoin SV enterprise, TrueReviews.io, which he hopes will become a kind of BSV-powered TripAdvisor. It was hailed as one of the standout projects at the Bitcoin Association’s Pitch Day at the CoinGeek Conference in Seoul. TrueReviews describes itself as “an online review platform that enables businesses to incentivize more reviews for their businesses and for users to earn Bitcoin and tok...
2019-12-0436 min
CoinGeek ConversationsDean Little: BSV works because it can value information on a very small scaleUptimeSV is an Australian startup which won the CoinGeek Hackathon earlier this year. Its cofounder and lead developer, Dean Little, sees the work that Uptime will do as a way to increase the value of the whole Bitcoin SV ecosystem. The idea is to offer a service that allows businesses to check their online presence in different places, on different devices and conduct other technical tests. To do that, Uptime will recruit an army of ordinary people who will allow their devices to be used for testing. In return, they’ll receive micropayments in Bitcoin SV. De...
2019-10-3025 min
CoinGeek ConversationsJoshua Henslee: Making BitcoinSV the choice for businessPersuading businesses to put their data on a public blockchain shouldn’t be a big deal, says Joshua Henslee. After all, it’s not long since they overcame their objections to storing their data on cloud servers instead of locally on their own computers. Joshua is an IT professional from California who mostly works with Microsoft products. He believes the future for his clients, and for his own success as a consultant, lies with blockchain solutions using BitcoinSV (BSV). While private blockchains may sound appealing to cautious businesses, Joshua believes they’re not worth investing in. They...
2019-07-2422 min
CoinGeek ConversationsRyan X. Charles: People are so vastly underestimating BSV right now it’s absurdThe nature of Bitcoin makes the startup business more efficient than for other tech areas, because much of the work has already been done, says Ryan X. Charles, founder of Money Button. “Why are we able to move so quickly with such a small number of people? Because we understand what Bitcoin offers us ...The magic is Bitcoin: that’s what’s actually doing all these things. So with fewer people and less money, we can go further.”Money Button has only two other staff besides Ryan. Both are located in Argentina, while Ryan is in the St...
2019-07-1032 min
CoinGeek ConversationsAdam Kling on blockchain gaming: “With BSV, the multiverse can happen.”As the founder and CEO of the new gaming platform company Kronoverse, Adam Kling could hardly be more upbeat about the prospects that the BitcoinSV blockchain will unlock: “we haven’t seen anything like this in gaming - and it is sci-fi”.The idea is that all your actions as a gamer will be recorded on the BSV blockchain. And that’s why BSV supporter, and owner of CoinGeek, Calvin Ayre invested in Kronoverse earlier this year. Using BSV will transform all aspects of gaming, Adam believes: “We need to innovate and evolve what games are,” he sa...
2019-07-0330 min
CoinGeek ConversationsHackathon winner plans to recruit new users by paying them in BitcoinSVThe challenge given to contestants in the first CoinGeek hackathon was to create a project that would encourage more people to use BitcoinSV for the first time - to promote ‘onboarding’ in the jargon.The winner, announced at CoinGeek’s recent Toronto conference, is a project called UptimeSV, from a team in Australia. The idea behind Uptime is to pay people for the use of their computers and mobiles to run tests on websites and IP addresses. The leader of the Uptime team, Brent Bevear, explains in this podcast that “we wanted to give people a way of...
2019-06-1921 min
CoinGeek ConversationsKate Hiscox: BitcoinSV and the payment networks of tomorrowKate Hiscox is the founder and Chief Executive of Drive Markets, a fintech startup that operates a crypto and fiat exchange as one of an emerging suite of financial products. Kate’s company recently announced an investment from Calvin Ayre, the owner of CoinGeek and a leading backer of Bitcoin SV. Drive Markets is planning to process its transactions on the Bitcoin SV blockchain. The integration of Bitcoin with existing financial institutions, structures and regulations was one of the themes at CoinGeek’s recent Toronto conference. Kate spoke at the conference and Drive Markets is a grea...
2019-06-1219 min
CoinGeek ConversationsAre private blockchains the route to public blockchains for big business?There’s no question the corporate world is serious about blockchain technology. Exhibitors at the recent Blockchain Expo in London included multinational tech, finance and consultancy firms. But what stage have big companies reached in developing blockchain projects? And are they ready to accept the original Bitcoin vision of public blockchains - rather than working on ‘in house’ private blockchains? Many in the Bitcoin world see the latter as like the so-called ‘walled gardens’ of online services such as AOL and Compuserve, which were popular before the Internet overtook them as the public grew more confident about going onlin...
2019-05-1033 min
CoinGeek ConversationsCalvin Ayre: courts could rule on "consumer fraud" of cryptos claiming to be BitcoinIn a wide-ranging interview with CoinGeek, the businessman Calvin Ayre, a major supporter of Bitcoin SV and the work of Dr Craig Wright, says that a forthcoming legal case being brought to prove that Dr Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, could also lead to a ruling that would stop other cryptocurrencies using the name Bitcoin. To do so would constitute "consumer fraud", Ayre warned.
2019-05-0841 min
CoinGeek ConversationsHelping blockchain businesses to grow upA London business incubator, State Zero Labs, has just completed its first programme, in which seven blockchain startup businesses were given 13 weeks of support, both human and financial. At the end, there was a Demo Day, in which each of the startups was invited to present their business to an audience of prospective investors, partners and employees. This week's Coingeek Conversations was recorded during the Demo Day and features interviews with three of the entrepreneurs on the programme, together with State Zero Labs' co-founder, Tazz Gault (pictured). If you have ideas for a blockchain business, there's much...
2019-04-1725 min
CoinGeek ConversationsHow to encourage businesses to use Bitcoin SVConverting the fiat world to crypto isn't easy. This week's podcast shares the experience of four people from different businesses about what worked and what didn't in their dealings with a wide range of sectors. Elizabeth White of the luxury retailer The White Company in New York established her business with sales of Lamborghinis and other high priced items to customers who already had crypto. For her, the challenge was to persuade retailers to accept it. Heidi Patmore from the South African wallet company Centbee says you need to be aware of the priorities and co...
2019-03-0624 min