Blockchain 2025

A male-dominated space, adoption of crypto depends on both men and women. We talk about females in blockchain culture and highlight 3 underrated women who are making a big difference in the blockchain world.

"Whatever controls the courts, controls the state." An intriguing use case. What if disputes could be solved via a decentralized platform? Kleros is working on it. We speak with their cryptoeconomics expert. What an exciting interview. William George is part of Kleros, a dispute resolution layer built on top of Ethereum. In layman's terms, we go from traditional small claims court, centralized dispute resolution like PayPal and Amazon to the Kleros alternative and paint a picture for the future.

Like many blockchain plays, sports startups could work, but will require a ton of serendipitous marketing. If athletes are broadcasting games, they better be really into it and promoting it, because they are getting paid in these new tokens, so a lot depends on the market perception that these tokens hold value. We talk about: The blockchain project that the NFL Players Association invested in. The rise of e-sports Tokenizing athletes Gambling and it's fundamental importance to fan interaction

You've heard of the advantages of blockchain: *Trustless *Saves time and money *Traceability / Immutability Well this industry needs all of the above. The international food and pharma supply chain is a giant ... mess. We speak with the CEO of Ambrosus, Angel Versetti. Whether it's making product recalls more accurate and less costly, understanding where in the supply chain things went wrong, or helping consumers understand where their food really comes from, there is giant potential here.

Cody Wilson. 30 years old. About five years ago, on a lark, decided to create world’s first 3D printable gun. Succeeded. Media went nuts.  Defense Distributed, his website, was effectively shut downe State Department said having downloadable gun files violated international arms law. Wilson complied. Wilson would later take the fight directly to the federal government. Wilson sued them. He basically lost all early court challenges. Feds cut a deal with Wilson this year.

The use of blockchain in the public sector reached another milestone this month when West Virginia became the first U.S. state to allow internet voting by blockchain in primary elections. While the voter participation through this platform was estimated to be small, the intention of the administrators was to test the technology in a pilot project. Matt and Kelso review a few projects that are already operating in the U.S., Africa, and South America.

"We propose that blockchain technologies can become a new framework not only for the production (distribution and financing) of stories but also their creation.” Kelso covered the humongous ComicCon conference a few weeks back. In between meeting celebrities from top comic-book movies like AquaMan, he had the chance to interview a ConsenSys startup, Cellarius.

Encouraging governments to use and implement blockchain, the theory goes will lead to more transparency, data security, streamlined communication and reporting. All around the world, there are billions of hours and dollars wasted on tedious bureaucratic processes. Blockchain for government is providing a public audit. This public audit log has the potential to be free from manipulation and immutable. Forgeries and outright fraud can be made more difficult.

Today's special guest is none other than Taylor Pearson, author of The End Of Jobs.  He has emerged as a thought leader around blockchain's impact on our future. This episode is centered around you, the individual. a belief in the individual as the source of creativity a belief in serving the needs of the protocol as the ultimate purpose of the individual and a belief in the application of blockchains to achieve an individual’s highest potential.

In the mainstream press and corporate world, cryptocurrency is reviled. It is hated. Its users are thought to be straight trash. There is absolutely no reason for the financial system undergirding media and business, insulated and protected by the status quo, to do anything other than what they’re doing: portray cryptocurrency as a plaything for geeks, drug losers, and terrorists. And they have some legitimate arguments: 90% of the projects taking advantage of the buzzword in order to make money.

Without much doubt, exchanges, or banks, such as San Francisco based Coinbase have onboarded more folk to cryptocurrencies than any other. At the same time, hacks, flash crashes, government raids and lawsuits are ongoing issues for centralized crypto exchanges. Bank of America recently admitted to doctoring paperwork on over 16 million market orders from institutional clients. If P2P decentralized exchanges take over, it could change the world as we know it.

We are bullish on file storage using blockchain. The cloud is just someone else's computer. And you are susceptible to others accessing your data (see Dropbox hack) A blockchain solution would empower decentralized end-users: files are encrypted, distributed, and then distributed in redundancy all around the world. You’re the only person who can access your files. Not even someone hosting your files can get to them, theoretically. 

Religion has always been very top-down, and for good reason. We explore the idea of religion without a central authority. Scripture = Ledger? Matt Liston and Avery Singer made a blockchain-based religion called Zero X Omega. Their first totemic object is a narwhal with a doge head, and their place of worship is a chat room. Tying it all together, the Bitcoin world has its own remnants of religious themes and figures.

This is an episode that sounds like a Sci-Fi movie. But it is (eventually) going to happen and that is very exciting! Imagine a world where anyone can become a market maker; profit from information and knowledge you have. We have people who call themselves experts and we really don’t know … prediction markets will have a radical impact on the way we consume media. Journalism, global warming, business, politics .. all will be affected.

What if we could organize property titles to a blockchain? Tokenize real estate all over the world? In Haiti, the disastrous earthquake in 2010 had a destructive effect on the land registry: approximately 16,000 civil servants were killed and an unknown number of title deeds and land registry records were destroyed. To this day, land ownership issues are still unsolved. Very few of us can afford an apartment in San Fran or Hong Kong, but what if we could invest just a few hundred dollars?