Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter

Join me, host Aviva Õunap and lawyer Jonathan Dunsmoor from Dunsmoor Law as we explore this topic and see just what Tether, Binance, and iFinex (the parent company of the latter two) have done to draw ire from the NYAG.

A report was produced by Bitwise Asset Management showing the existence of faked volumes in the bitcoin market – 95% of total volume according to its research. How can we move forward in the cryptosphere? Join me, Aviva Õunap and Michael McCarty, CEO and Founder of Shrimpy.io for a fun and fascinating talk as we work our way around the issue of fake volume, crypto adoption and the bitcoin halving of May this year.

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce outlined details of a proposal that would provide crypto projects with a three-year safe harbor within which they could mature their token in order to successfully pass the SEC’s securities evaluation processes. Join us as we go through this new Rule (which does NOT need to go through Congress to be enacted) and talk about the finer points of this proposal.

It is NO BULL! Making it in the business world is hard as heck. There is no easy way to make it but to put in the hard work and sweat. Sometimes you just want to jack it all in and run for the woods. That is what Founder and CEO of Bison Trails, Joe Lallouz, will tell you, but $30M in funding later, he can tell you it is ALL worth the work. But how did he do this? Tune in and realize some truths as we discover which elements pave to the road to success.

What do you do after working at NASA, Boeing, and Samsung? You open a company called Shrimpy.io and make a crypto exchange trading bot for portfolio management, indexing the market, rebalancing, and strategy backtesting! Join Michael McCarty, the CEO of Shrimpy and me, Aviva Ounap, as we discuss how the cryptocurrency market is shaping the personal finance space and thought that the next big wave in the crypto market will be crypto brokerages.

The former CTFC Chairman, J. Christopher Giancarlo, and Accenture have launched a "Think Tank" To digitize the U.S Dollar, but does this really need to be organized outside of government departments and their employees? Is the next step that Amazon will be leading a "Think Tank" on minting and issuing US Dollars and Euros? They already print books, so hey, why not? Also, they are looking at amending the requirements for accredited investors, but what will that mean for US investors?

I love the smell of a legitimate project, which is the reason why I found this podcast topic to be of interest. Lightnet, a project based on the Stellar blockchain, will apparently be moving $50 Billion of International Payments by 2022 by targeting the Southeast Asian region. But I never heard of it, until this morning. That is not normal as usually projects like this are splashed everywhere, or at least that is the way that we do it in the marketing world.

Mattias Bergstrom, CEO of Quantum1Net has been right about many things, so how will his predictions for the next decade fare? Join me, Aviva Õunap, as I talk to Mattias about some of his thoughts on developments within the tech space over the next ten years and have a chat about general related topics. Plus, when am I getting my quantum blessed tricorder? We have a little wager on when this will appear in my hot little hands!

Being financially savvy is important these days, and ETFs have been around for a while. But what are they? And what do they have to do with crypto and blockchain? Tune in and listen to me, Aviva Õunap and Forbes.com writer Ben Jessel explain what ETFs are and what they do, and how it may impact you and investments in the future.

Welcome to a brand new decade, with the same old scams! It may be the roaring '20s all over again, with the SEC coming out of the gates like a lion, looking to pounce on any companies trying to offload their coins and tokens without properly registering them as securities. Sometimes you do your best, but you lose everything, like with QuadirigaCX (for more backstory, please refer back to Episodes 71 and 49). But what is the very latest with QuadrigaCX? Listen today and find out!

According to the investigations, from 2014 to 2016, Onecoin conned around 3 million people worldwide by creating a pyramid scheme based on fraudulent claims. By misleading purposely their investors, the organization has generated around 4 billion US dollars worldwide from victims between the fourth quarter of 2014 and the third quarter of 2016, according to US prosecutors.

Alan Goodman is not just one of the geniuses behind MTV. He is a branding God, and one who applies his knowledge of branding, marketing and trust to crypto and blockchain. Listen to this fabulous podcast where I, Aviva Ounap, talk to the man who has created global brands from fairy dust, as we explore the world of crypto and blockchain.

Mattias Bergstrom, CEO of Quantum1Net does not fear the future. Nor should you, when people like him are on the scene. Yes, the future of blockchain is still young and confusing for many, and with new technology like Quantum coming onto the scene, what will happen to our lovely blockchain? Yes, Quantum is the hardware and blockchain is a software, but Quantum has amazing capabilities that can really scare blockchain lovers like you and me. But Mattias is light years ahead, and with him on guard.

I guess it is goodbye, my beautiful night sky… We all know that blockchain needs the internet as parties within a transaction have to be connected to the internet to verify the transaction, and once a transaction is verified then it is broadcast to all of the nodes which are connected on the network.

We all know how easy it is to find negative articles on AI, as they are written by the dozen daily, but what about the good? And what is the Singularity, exactly? And what will Quantum do to the AI and blockchain landscape? Listen to this podcast and you will find out just what Professor Hacker’s take on all of this is, and perhaps even learn something new that you can use in your everyday conversation.