🎙️ We are so happy to share with you our anniversary, #100th episode of #Encrypted podcast, featuring Eowyn Chen, CEO of Trust Wallet, one of the largest multi-chain, non-custodial crypto wallets serving tens of millions globally, that has recently moved its headquarters to #Dubai! 🚀
\n💡This episode of Encrypted is powered by myco.io and sponsored by The #HBAR Foundation: https://www.hbarfoundation.org/
\n✅The HBAR Foundation cultivates vibrant economies and ecosystems on the Hedera network by providing financial, community, and marketing support for projects attracting millions of users and billions of dollars to the ecosystem!
\n🔎 In this episode, Eowyn shares her incredible journey from building Binance’s central marketing team to scaling Trust Wallet into a leader in Web3. With her unique perspective—rooted in history, finance, and tech—she dives into:
\n🔑 The Philosophy of 'Trust Yourself': How Trust Wallet empowers users in a decentralized world.
\n 🌍 Blockchain Integration: The criteria and challenges behind supporting a vast ecosystem of blockchains.
\n 🛡️ Security First: How Trust Wallet leads the way in safeguarding user funds across multiple blockchains.
\n 🌐 The Future of Crypto Wallets: Eowyn’s vision of a Web3 experience akin to the “Amazon of Web3.”
\n 💡 New Innovations: From decentralized ‘Launchpool’ features to UI/UX upgrades that cater to both beginners and pros.
\n 📜 Regulatory Readiness: Balancing compliance while staying true to decentralization.
\n🎤 Eowyn also opens up about Trust Wallet’s independence from Binance, the profitability challenges in the wallet space, and the role of education in combating Web3 social engineering risks.
\n📺 🎧 Watch and listen now to hear Eowyn's insights and explore the exciting future of self-custody and Web3!
\n👉 Link to the episode: [Insert link]
\n🙌Let us know your thoughts on this inspiring discussion and how you see crypto wallets evolving! 💬
Special Guest: Eowyn Chen.
","summary":"🎙️ We are so happy to share with you our anniversary, #100th episode of #Encrypted podcast, featuring Eowyn Chen, CEO of Trust Wallet, one of the largest multi-chain, non-custodial crypto wallets serving tens of millions globally, that has recently moved its headquarters to #Dubai! 🚀\r\n💡This episode of Encrypted is powered by myco.io and sponsored by The #HBAR Foundation: https://www.hbarfoundation.org/\r\n✅The HBAR Foundation cultivates vibrant economies and ecosystems on the Hedera network by providing financial, community, and marketing support for projects attracting millions of users and billions of dollars to the ecosystem!\r\n","date_published":"2024-12-04T20:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/5e9c16a9-676e-4b89-9326-5f4b3f806778.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":75041173,"duration_in_seconds":3110}]},{"id":"1212ecd5-f4d4-408b-963c-92b76ec2f40e","title":"#EP99: \"Blockchain Revolution: Architecting the Digital Future with Don Tapscott.\"","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/don-tapscott","content_text":"🎙️We're thrilled to share with you our latest, #99th episode of Encrypted podcast, titled “Blockchain Revolution: Architecting the Digital Future with Don Tapscott,” featuring a globally renowned thought leader on technology’s impact on business and society, Executive Chairman of the Blockchain Research Institute Don Tapscott\n💡This episode of Encrypted is powered by myco.io and sponsored by the The HBAR Foundation: https://www.hbarfoundation.org/\n✅The HBAR Foundation cultivates vibrant economies and ecosystems on the Hedera network by providing financial, community, and marketing support for projects attracting millions of users and billions of dollars to the ecosystem!\n📚Don has shaped how we understand the digital economy through his bestselling books, including “Blockchain Revolution”, “Wikinomics”, and more.\n📢In this episode we dive deep into:\n🌐 His visionary predictions on blockchain and how they’ve held up over the past 8 years.\n🤖 The convergence of Web3, AI, IoT, and Extended Reality—and what this means for our digital future\n🔓 The journey toward data ownership and privacy, and blockchain’s transformative potential\n🛡️ Addressing the “dark side” of tech and building a new social contract for the digital age\n🌍 How blockchain can tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges, from financial inclusion to sustainability\n\n🔎This is a must-listen episode for anyone interested in the next wave of technological innovation and the strategies that will shape our future!\n\nBlockchainRevolution #Web3 #DonTapscott #EncryptedPodcast #FutureOfTech #DigitalTransformation #Blockchain #Innovation #DubaiBlockchainCenter #Hedera #Hbar #HbarFoundation #Myco #TEDtalks #BlockchainResearchInstitute #AI #IOTSpecial Guest: Don Tapscott.","content_html":"🎙️We're thrilled to share with you our latest, #99th episode of Encrypted podcast, titled “Blockchain Revolution: Architecting the Digital Future with Don Tapscott,” featuring a globally renowned thought leader on technology’s impact on business and society, Executive Chairman of the Blockchain Research Institute Don Tapscott
\n💡This episode of Encrypted is powered by myco.io and sponsored by the The HBAR Foundation: https://www.hbarfoundation.org/
\n✅The HBAR Foundation cultivates vibrant economies and ecosystems on the Hedera network by providing financial, community, and marketing support for projects attracting millions of users and billions of dollars to the ecosystem!
\n📚Don has shaped how we understand the digital economy through his bestselling books, including “Blockchain Revolution”, “Wikinomics”, and more.
\n📢In this episode we dive deep into:
\n🌐 His visionary predictions on blockchain and how they’ve held up over the past 8 years.
\n🤖 The convergence of Web3, AI, IoT, and Extended Reality—and what this means for our digital future
\n🔓 The journey toward data ownership and privacy, and blockchain’s transformative potential
\n🛡️ Addressing the “dark side” of tech and building a new social contract for the digital age
\n🌍 How blockchain can tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges, from financial inclusion to sustainability
🔎This is a must-listen episode for anyone interested in the next wave of technological innovation and the strategies that will shape our future!
\n\nSpecial Guest: Don Tapscott.
","summary":"🎙️We're thrilled to share with you our latest, #99th episode of Encrypted podcast, titled “Blockchain Revolution: Architecting the Digital Future with Don Tapscott,” featuring a globally renowned thought leader on technology’s impact on business and society, Executive Chairman of the Blockchain Research Institute Don Tapscott\r\n💡This episode of Encrypted is powered by myco.io and sponsored by the The HBAR Foundation: https://www.hbarfoundation.org/\r\n✅The HBAR Foundation cultivates vibrant economies and ecosystems on the Hedera network by providing financial, community, and marketing support for projects attracting millions of users and billions of dollars to the ecosystem!","date_published":"2024-10-29T20:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/1212ecd5-f4d4-408b-963c-92b76ec2f40e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":77997116,"duration_in_seconds":3235}]},{"id":"d69ada98-b2ba-4e93-b858-6fb867b178ec","title":"#EP98:\"Breaking the Mold: Crypto Disruption, AI Hype, and Betting Big with Dragonfly Capital\".","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/dragonfly-capital","content_text":"🎙️We’re excited to share with you the latest, #98th episode of the Encrypted podcast, \"Breaking the Mold: Crypto Disruption, AI Hype, and Betting Big with Dragonfly Capital\", featuring Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Partner at Dragonfly Capital, a programmer, a writer, a teacher, a public speaker, an Effective Altruist, and a former professional poker player, for an in-depth conversation on the future of Web3 and crypto investing. \n💡This episode of Encrypted is powered by Myco.io and sponsored by the Hbar Foundation:https://www.hbarfoundation.org/\n✅The HBAR Foundation cultivates vibrant economies and ecosystems on the Hedera network by providing financial, community, and marketing support for projects attracting millions of users and billions of dollars to the ecosystem!\n\n🃏We sat down with Haseeb during the Token 2049 week in Singapore. He shared his unique journey from poker pro and a programmer to venture capitalist, the lessons he learned from navigating the high-stakes crypto markets, and why he believes “AI in crypto” might be overhyped. We also dive into:\n\n🔑 The sectors Dragonfly Capital is prioritizing for its fourth fund.\n🌐 The battle between EMV-compatible and EVM-non-compatibleLayer 1s.\n♠️ The striking similarities between poker and crypto.\n📈Decoding Effective Altruism in the Crypto World.\n🔧 Why tokenomics and sustainability matter now more than ever.\n🌀 How Dragonfly adapts investment strategies in bull and bear markets.\n🚀Which startups Haseeb finds the most promising at Token2049 in Dubai and Singapore, and more…\n\nIf you're interested in the future of Web3, crypto investments, and how to navigate extreme market volatility, this episode is for you! 🔥\n\nWeb3 #Crypto #DubaiBlockchainCenter #Encrypted #Hedera #Myco #Hbar #HbarFoundation #VentureCapital #DragonflyCapital #HaseebQureshi #DeFi #Tokenomics #EffectiveAltruism #Ethereum #Solana #Blockchain #PodcastSpecial Guest: Haseeb Qureshi.","content_html":"🎙️We’re excited to share with you the latest, #98th episode of the Encrypted podcast, "Breaking the Mold: Crypto Disruption, AI Hype, and Betting Big with Dragonfly Capital", featuring Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Partner at Dragonfly Capital, a programmer, a writer, a teacher, a public speaker, an Effective Altruist, and a former professional poker player, for an in-depth conversation on the future of Web3 and crypto investing.
\n💡This episode of Encrypted is powered by Myco.io and sponsored by the Hbar Foundation:https://www.hbarfoundation.org/
\n✅The HBAR Foundation cultivates vibrant economies and ecosystems on the Hedera network by providing financial, community, and marketing support for projects attracting millions of users and billions of dollars to the ecosystem!
🃏We sat down with Haseeb during the Token 2049 week in Singapore. He shared his unique journey from poker pro and a programmer to venture capitalist, the lessons he learned from navigating the high-stakes crypto markets, and why he believes “AI in crypto” might be overhyped. We also dive into:
\n\n🔑 The sectors Dragonfly Capital is prioritizing for its fourth fund.
\n🌐 The battle between EMV-compatible and EVM-non-compatibleLayer 1s.
\n♠️ The striking similarities between poker and crypto.
\n📈Decoding Effective Altruism in the Crypto World.
\n🔧 Why tokenomics and sustainability matter now more than ever.
\n🌀 How Dragonfly adapts investment strategies in bull and bear markets.
\n🚀Which startups Haseeb finds the most promising at Token2049 in Dubai and Singapore, and more…
If you're interested in the future of Web3, crypto investments, and how to navigate extreme market volatility, this episode is for you! 🔥
\n\nSpecial Guest: Haseeb Qureshi.
","summary":"🎙️We’re excited to share with you the latest, #98th episode of the Encrypted podcast, \"Breaking the Mold: Crypto Disruption, AI Hype, and Betting Big with Dragonfly Capital\", featuring Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Partner at Dragonfly Capital, a programmer, a writer, a teacher, a public speaker, an Effective Altruist, and a former professional poker player, for an in-depth conversation on the future of Web3 and crypto investing.","date_published":"2024-09-30T17:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/d69ada98-b2ba-4e93-b858-6fb867b178ec.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":35299044,"duration_in_seconds":2181}]},{"id":"941154e7-5fc4-46eb-ad9d-e500a4ab0893","title":"#EP97:\"DePIN and Tokenized #RWAs: Drivers for Hedera&HBar’s Adoption”","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/hedera-hbar","content_text":"🎙️ We’re excited to share with you the latest, #97 episode of the #Encrypted Podcast, “DePIN and Tokenized RWAs: Drivers for Hedera/HBar’s Adoption”, featuring Vignesh Raja, Director of Business Development, The HBAR Foundation, Middle East & South Asia.\n\n🚀In this episode, we dive deep into:\n🌐The main layers of the Hedera ecosystem and the role of the HBAR Foundation. \n📈Strategies for driving enterprise adoption of Hedera in the Middle East & South Asia.\n🤖Groundbreaking partnerships like Humans.ai&Deca4, integrating AI and blockchain. \n💼The tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) and how it’s transforming industries. \n🚚The rise of DePIN, and how projects like “Kwik Pik” are revolutionizing logistics in Africa. \n🛠️Strategies to stand out in a world of Layer-2 solutions.\n🎶Partnerships with the world-known composers like A.R. Rahman, and more…\n🔗Tune in now and get ahead on what’s shaping the future of Web3 and AI adoption!\n\nBlockchain #Hedera #HBAR #Hederaenterprise #Web3 #DePIN #AI #RWA #Encrypted #Podcast #DubaiBlockchainCenter #Myco #Innovation #MiddleEast #SouthAsia #Tokenization #Web3adoptionSpecial Guest: Vignesh Raja .","content_html":"🎙️ We’re excited to share with you the latest, #97 episode of the #Encrypted Podcast, “DePIN and Tokenized RWAs: Drivers for Hedera/HBar’s Adoption”, featuring Vignesh Raja, Director of Business Development, The HBAR Foundation, Middle East & South Asia.
\n\n🚀In this episode, we dive deep into:
\n🌐The main layers of the Hedera ecosystem and the role of the HBAR Foundation.
\n📈Strategies for driving enterprise adoption of Hedera in the Middle East & South Asia.
\n🤖Groundbreaking partnerships like Humans.ai&Deca4, integrating AI and blockchain.
\n💼The tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) and how it’s transforming industries.
\n🚚The rise of DePIN, and how projects like “Kwik Pik” are revolutionizing logistics in Africa.
\n🛠️Strategies to stand out in a world of Layer-2 solutions.
\n🎶Partnerships with the world-known composers like A.R. Rahman, and more…
\n🔗Tune in now and get ahead on what’s shaping the future of Web3 and AI adoption!
Special Guest: Vignesh Raja .
","summary":"🎙️ We’re excited to share with you the latest, #97 episode of the #Encrypted Podcast, “DePIN and Tokenized RWAs: Drivers for Hedera/HBar’s Adoption”, featuring Vignesh Raja, Director of Business Development, The HBAR Foundation, Middle East & South Asia.","date_published":"2024-09-13T14:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/941154e7-5fc4-46eb-ad9d-e500a4ab0893.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":79200912,"duration_in_seconds":2474}]},{"id":"d32f3429-6ce9-418a-8e3c-c463e5e1fe89","title":"#Ep.96: \"Fueling Dubai's D33 Vision: DFDF's Investments into the Tech Future\"","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/dubaifuturedistrictfund","content_text":"🎙️We’re happy to share our latest, #96 episode of the “Encrypted” podcast, \"Fueling Dubai's D33 Vision: DFDF's Investments into the Tech Future\", featuring an insightful conversation with Nader Albastaki, Managing Director of the Dubai Future District Fund (DFDF). \n✅This episode of Encrypted is sponsored by TransFi: https://www.transfi.com, and powered by Myco.io!\n🚀 TransFi powers the world’s payments, helping businesses and individuals access better ways to move money!\n\n🎧 Listen now to gain more insights into how Dubai is shaping its future and fueling innovation on a global scale. \n💡In this episode, Nader delves into:\n\n\nThe primary vision and goals of DFDF.\nCriteria for investing in tech startups and VC funds.\nHow DFDF supports business development and aligns with Dubai’s long-term economic vision.\nThe role of DFDF in advancing Dubai’s D33 economic agenda.\nInsights on tech trends like Web3 and AI and their impact on Dubai’s future.\n\n\n❇️Nader also shares his unique experiences as a startup entrepreneur and offers valuable advice for entrepreneurs aiming to join the DFDF portfolio.\n💫 Special guest: Nader AlBastaki.\n🌟Podcast host: Maria Vovchok.\n\n❗️And remember to subscribe to our Youtube channel, so you don’t miss out on our future episodes:\nhttps://youtube.com/@dubaiblockchaincenter?si=ZRxBlhyHCgTyPr2t\n\nEncrypted #Podcast #DubaiBlockchainCenter #Myco #DubaiFutureDistrictFund #DFDF #D33economicagenda #TechInvestment #D33 #Innovation #Future #Techstartups #Entrepreneurship #Web3 #AI #startupinvestments #VCSpecial Guest: Nader AlBastaki.","content_html":"🎙️We’re happy to share our latest, #96 episode of the “Encrypted” podcast, "Fueling Dubai's D33 Vision: DFDF's Investments into the Tech Future", featuring an insightful conversation with Nader Albastaki, Managing Director of the Dubai Future District Fund (DFDF).
\n✅This episode of Encrypted is sponsored by TransFi: https://www.transfi.com, and powered by Myco.io!
\n🚀 TransFi powers the world’s payments, helping businesses and individuals access better ways to move money!
🎧 Listen now to gain more insights into how Dubai is shaping its future and fueling innovation on a global scale.
\n💡In this episode, Nader delves into:
❇️Nader also shares his unique experiences as a startup entrepreneur and offers valuable advice for entrepreneurs aiming to join the DFDF portfolio.
\n💫 Special guest: Nader AlBastaki.
\n🌟Podcast host: Maria Vovchok.
❗️And remember to subscribe to our Youtube channel, so you don’t miss out on our future episodes:
\nhttps://youtube.com/@dubaiblockchaincenter?si=ZRxBlhyHCgTyPr2t
Special Guest: Nader AlBastaki.
","summary":"🎙️We’re happy to share our latest, #96 episode of the “Encrypted” podcast, \"Fueling Dubai's D33 Vision: DFDF's Investments into the Tech Future\", featuring an insightful conversation with Nader Albastaki, Managing Director of the Dubai Future District Fund (DFDF). \r\n✅This episode of Encrypted is sponsored by TransFi: https://www.transfi.com, and powered by Myco.io!\r\n🚀 TransFi powers the world’s payments, helping businesses and individuals access better ways to move money!\r\n","date_published":"2024-08-30T11:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/d32f3429-6ce9-418a-8e3c-c463e5e1fe89.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":94055376,"duration_in_seconds":2351}]},{"id":"532de8d9-44da-4647-96de-81516209f222","title":"#Ep.95: “From Oracles to Interoperability: Chainlink's Impact on DeFi and Capital Markets.\"","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/chainlink","content_text":"🎙️ We're thrilled to share with you our latest, #95th episode of the #Encrypted podcast, powered by Myco.io, “From Oracles to Interoperability: Chainlink's Impact on DeFi and Capital Markets,” featuring an in-depth conversation with Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder of Chainlink, the industry-standard technology platform for on-chain data, cross-chain interoperability, and blockchain abstraction.. 🚀\n🌐 Chainlink's Journey:\nSergey takes us through Chainlink’s evolution from its inception to becoming a pivotal player in enabling cross-chain interoperability. Discover how their oracle solutions have become indispensable for leading banks, and Defi companies.\n💥 CCIP & SWIFT Collaboration:\nGet the inside scoop on the groundbreaking Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) that connects blockchains to bank chains. Sergey talks about its launch as well as Chainlink's strategic cooperation with SWIFT.\n💡 Unlocking the Potential of Tokenized RWAs:\nTokenized RWAs hold immense potential in transforming capital markets. Sergey shares insights from Chainlink's comprehensive industry report on tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), featuring contributions from BCG, 21 Shares, Paxos, and Backed. Tune in for key takeaways on what’s needed to unlock the full benefits of tokenized assets.\n🔍 Chainlink Proof of Reserve:\nExplore how Chainlink Proof of Reserve is working with Ark Invest and 21 Shares on a Bitcoin ETF to verify that the ETF is backed by the correct amount of Bitcoin. Sergey also discusses the future of capital market products leveraging Proof of Reserve.\n🏦 Adoption of Blockchain by Financial Institutions:\nDespite its potential, financial institutions have been cautious in adopting blockchain technology. Sergey identifies the primary obstacles and shares his vision of how these can be overcome, facilitating a smoother integration of blockchain into traditional finance.\n🏙️Blockchain Development in Dubai:\nDubai has emerged as a global hub for blockchain development. Sergey recounts his experiences and impressions from Dubai, shedding light on the vibrant and forward-thinking blockchain community in the region.\n🎯 Chainlink’s Top Priorities:\nWhat’s next for Chainlink? Sergey outlines the top priorities and strategic goals for Chainlink over the next three years, giving us a glimpse into the future of blockchain technology and its potential to reshape various industries.\n💫 Special guest: Sergey Nazarov.\n✨ Podcast Host: Maria Vovchok.\n✅We hope you enjoy this deep dive into the future of blockchain with Sergey Nazarov. Stay tuned for more episodes featuring the brightest minds in the industry! And don’t forget to subscribe to our @DubaiBlockchainCenter #Youtube channel:\nhttps://youtube.com/@dubaiblockchaincenter?si=in0qORZMa4cB6w1LSpecial Guest: Sergey Nazarov.","content_html":"🎙️ We're thrilled to share with you our latest, #95th episode of the #Encrypted podcast, powered by Myco.io, “From Oracles to Interoperability: Chainlink's Impact on DeFi and Capital Markets,” featuring an in-depth conversation with Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder of Chainlink, the industry-standard technology platform for on-chain data, cross-chain interoperability, and blockchain abstraction.. 🚀
\n🌐 Chainlink's Journey:
\nSergey takes us through Chainlink’s evolution from its inception to becoming a pivotal player in enabling cross-chain interoperability. Discover how their oracle solutions have become indispensable for leading banks, and Defi companies.
\n💥 CCIP & SWIFT Collaboration:
\nGet the inside scoop on the groundbreaking Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) that connects blockchains to bank chains. Sergey talks about its launch as well as Chainlink's strategic cooperation with SWIFT.
\n💡 Unlocking the Potential of Tokenized RWAs:
\nTokenized RWAs hold immense potential in transforming capital markets. Sergey shares insights from Chainlink's comprehensive industry report on tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), featuring contributions from BCG, 21 Shares, Paxos, and Backed. Tune in for key takeaways on what’s needed to unlock the full benefits of tokenized assets.
\n🔍 Chainlink Proof of Reserve:
\nExplore how Chainlink Proof of Reserve is working with Ark Invest and 21 Shares on a Bitcoin ETF to verify that the ETF is backed by the correct amount of Bitcoin. Sergey also discusses the future of capital market products leveraging Proof of Reserve.
\n🏦 Adoption of Blockchain by Financial Institutions:
\nDespite its potential, financial institutions have been cautious in adopting blockchain technology. Sergey identifies the primary obstacles and shares his vision of how these can be overcome, facilitating a smoother integration of blockchain into traditional finance.
\n🏙️Blockchain Development in Dubai:
\nDubai has emerged as a global hub for blockchain development. Sergey recounts his experiences and impressions from Dubai, shedding light on the vibrant and forward-thinking blockchain community in the region.
\n🎯 Chainlink’s Top Priorities:
\nWhat’s next for Chainlink? Sergey outlines the top priorities and strategic goals for Chainlink over the next three years, giving us a glimpse into the future of blockchain technology and its potential to reshape various industries.
\n💫 Special guest: Sergey Nazarov.
\n✨ Podcast Host: Maria Vovchok.
\n✅We hope you enjoy this deep dive into the future of blockchain with Sergey Nazarov. Stay tuned for more episodes featuring the brightest minds in the industry! And don’t forget to subscribe to our @DubaiBlockchainCenter #Youtube channel:
\nhttps://youtube.com/@dubaiblockchaincenter?si=in0qORZMa4cB6w1L
Special Guest: Sergey Nazarov.
","summary":"🎙️ We're thrilled to share with you our latest, #95th episode of the #Encrypted podcast, powered by Myco.io, “From Oracles to Interoperability: Chainlink's Impact on DeFi and Capital Markets,” featuring an in-depth conversation with Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder of Chainlink, the industry-standard technology platform for on-chain data, cross-chain interoperability, and blockchain abstraction.. 🚀","date_published":"2024-06-11T21:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/532de8d9-44da-4647-96de-81516209f222.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":89317008,"duration_in_seconds":3721}]},{"id":"33cdc5d1-4f8a-49fb-8e43-69863105470f","title":"#Ep.94: \"Near AI Is Back: Empowering User-Owned AI.\"","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/near-ai","content_text":"🎙️” We’re bringing the NEAR AI back”, says Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol, and CEO of the Near Foundation, in an exclusive interview for the #94 episode of #Encrypted #podcast, powered by Myco.io! 🙌Join us and be the first to know more!\n\n🚀In this episode, we’ll explore:\n\n🔍From AI to Blockchain: Discover why Illia pivoted from his original AI company to create NEAR Protocol, a scalable, robust, and highly usable blockchain platform, and how they bring the NEAR AI back!\n💡Building a Dream Team: Learn how the core team's expertise from Google and AI research contributed to NEAR’s early development and eventual growth.\n🔑Keys to Rapid Expansion: The crucial factors behind NEAR Protocol's rapid success and its aim to onboard a billion users to the Open Web.\n🌐The NEAR Foundation: Understand the motivation behind its establishment, its transformative role within the NEAR ecosystem, and how it supports decentralized development.\n⛓️💥 Innovative Chain Abstraction Stack: A deep dive into how NEAR allows users to transact on every chain with a single NEAR account, making Web3 more accessible.\n🤖 AI Engineers Wanted: NEAR’s new initiative to hire AI engineers and develop user-owned AI within the next 3-6 months—an exciting step towards integrating AI and blockchain.\n⏳AI in DAO Governance: Insights from the latest Token2049 panel in Dubai on how integrating AI can revolutionize DAO governance.\n🌍 Expanding in the Middle East: the NEAR team's major goals and strategic plans for growing their presence and impact in the Middle East.\n\n⏰Tune in to learn more about Illia's vision and the future of NEAR Protocol! 🚀🌍\n💫Special guest: Illia Polosukhin\n✨Podcast Host: Maria Vovchok.\n✅ And don’t forget to subscribe and follow:\nhttps://youtube.com/@dubaiblockchaincenter?si=pQ8SYBKRoc_NQHUBSpecial Guest: Illia Polosukhin.","content_html":"🎙️” We’re bringing the NEAR AI back”, says Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol, and CEO of the Near Foundation, in an exclusive interview for the #94 episode of #Encrypted #podcast, powered by Myco.io! 🙌Join us and be the first to know more!
\n\n🚀In this episode, we’ll explore:
\n\n🔍From AI to Blockchain: Discover why Illia pivoted from his original AI company to create NEAR Protocol, a scalable, robust, and highly usable blockchain platform, and how they bring the NEAR AI back!
\n💡Building a Dream Team: Learn how the core team's expertise from Google and AI research contributed to NEAR’s early development and eventual growth.
\n🔑Keys to Rapid Expansion: The crucial factors behind NEAR Protocol's rapid success and its aim to onboard a billion users to the Open Web.
\n🌐The NEAR Foundation: Understand the motivation behind its establishment, its transformative role within the NEAR ecosystem, and how it supports decentralized development.
\n⛓️💥 Innovative Chain Abstraction Stack: A deep dive into how NEAR allows users to transact on every chain with a single NEAR account, making Web3 more accessible.
\n🤖 AI Engineers Wanted: NEAR’s new initiative to hire AI engineers and develop user-owned AI within the next 3-6 months—an exciting step towards integrating AI and blockchain.
\n⏳AI in DAO Governance: Insights from the latest Token2049 panel in Dubai on how integrating AI can revolutionize DAO governance.
\n🌍 Expanding in the Middle East: the NEAR team's major goals and strategic plans for growing their presence and impact in the Middle East.
⏰Tune in to learn more about Illia's vision and the future of NEAR Protocol! 🚀🌍
\n💫Special guest: Illia Polosukhin
\n✨Podcast Host: Maria Vovchok.
\n✅ And don’t forget to subscribe and follow:
\nhttps://youtube.com/@dubaiblockchaincenter?si=pQ8SYBKRoc_NQHUB
Special Guest: Illia Polosukhin.
","summary":"🎙️” We’re bringing the NEAR AI back”, says Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol, and CEO of the Near Foundation, in an exclusive interview for the #94 episode of #Encrypted podcast, powered by Myco.io! 🙌Join us and be the first to know more!","date_published":"2024-05-23T18:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/33cdc5d1-4f8a-49fb-8e43-69863105470f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":65683324,"duration_in_seconds":2730}]},{"id":"861d0217-2e3f-4dc7-9d22-b8b93aca7b7c","title":"#Ep.93: \"Future Money: Banking Analyst Who Went Crypto.\"","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/future-money","content_text":"🚀 Excited to announce our latest, #93rd episode of the Encrypted podcast, powered by Myco.io, “Future Money: Banking Analyst Who Went Crypto”, featuring Ronit Ghose, Global Head of Citi’s Future of Finance team! \n🎙️ Join us as we dive into the future of money, fintech, and blockchain with one of the industry's leading voices.\n\n🔍 In this episode, Ronit shares insights on:\n\n\nHis journey from banking analyst to crypto enthusiast\nThe role of centralized CBDCs in blockchain adoption\nThe drivers behind blockchain technology and the future of securities\nHis recently published book “Future Money” features how money changes in the internet era. \nThe intersection of AI and finance, and its transformative impact.\n\n\n💡 Don't miss out on Ronit's perspectives on the rise of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology in regions like the Middle East and Asia, and how they're shaping the future of finance.\n\n📖 Tune in to discover more about the future of money in the internet era, including cryptocurrency, DeFi, Web3, and AI, in our latest episode of Encrypted! Available on all major podcast platforms. #EncryptedPodcast #FutureOfFinance #Blockchain #AI #Cryptocurrency #Fintech\n\nEncryptedPodcast, #DubaiBlockchainCenter, #Myco, #Blockchain, #Cryptocurrency, #FutureMoney, #FutureofFinance, #Blockchain, #AI, #Metaverse, #FintechSpecial Guest: Ronit Ghose.","content_html":"🚀 Excited to announce our latest, #93rd episode of the Encrypted podcast, powered by Myco.io, “Future Money: Banking Analyst Who Went Crypto”, featuring Ronit Ghose, Global Head of Citi’s Future of Finance team!
\n🎙️ Join us as we dive into the future of money, fintech, and blockchain with one of the industry's leading voices.
🔍 In this episode, Ronit shares insights on:
\n\n💡 Don't miss out on Ronit's perspectives on the rise of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology in regions like the Middle East and Asia, and how they're shaping the future of finance.
\n\n📖 Tune in to discover more about the future of money in the internet era, including cryptocurrency, DeFi, Web3, and AI, in our latest episode of Encrypted! Available on all major podcast platforms. #EncryptedPodcast #FutureOfFinance #Blockchain #AI #Cryptocurrency #Fintech
\n\nSpecial Guest: Ronit Ghose.
","summary":"🚀 Excited to announce our latest, #93rd episode of the Encrypted podcast, powered by Myco.io, “Future Money: Banking Analyst Who Went Crypto”, featuring Ronit Ghose, Global Head of Citi’s Future of Finance team! \r\n🎙️ Join us as we dive into the future of money, fintech, and blockchain with one of the industry's leading voices.\r\n","date_published":"2024-04-23T19:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/861d0217-2e3f-4dc7-9d22-b8b93aca7b7c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":56705394,"duration_in_seconds":2348}]},{"id":"51d476bc-b16a-4696-9465-bf41ddcad5a5","title":"#Ep.92: \"Defining Security: Ledger CEO On Clear Signing and Crypto Hacks\".","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/ledger-ceo","content_text":"🎙️ Welcome to an insightful #92nd episode of the #Encrypted podcast, joined by Pascal Gauthier, Chairman&CEO of Ledger, a leading provider of hardware wallets for crypto self-custody. \n🔊We discuss the importance of self-custody in the age of crypto ETFs, the evolving security landscape for digital assets, and Ledger's vision for the future of crypto.\n🔒Join us and find out, what Pascal has to say to the critics of the “Ledger Recover” feature, and how his team dealt with a hack when Ledger’s Connect Kit software got compromised. Pascal shares valuable insights into navigating security challenges, including recent exploits and data breaches. Discover how Ledger is innovating to protect users' digital assets in the face of evolving cyber threats.\n👥Also, learn about Pascal’s stance on Bitcoin ETFs and which sessions at the Satoshi Round Table he found the most exciting.\n🚀 Additionally, explore how Ledger is shaping the future of DeFi and user education. Learn about upcoming developments and products that will shape the industry's future.\n💫 Special guest: Pascal Gauthier.\n🌟Podcast Host: Maria Vovchok.\n\nCryptoSecurity #Ledger #Encrypted #DubaiBlockchainCenter #Podcast #Myco #LedgerCEO #CryptoInnovation #cryptocurrency #selfcustody #bitcoin #BitcoinETF #SatoshiRoundTable #wallet #DeFi #security #blockchainSpecial Guest: Pascal Gauthier.","content_html":"🎙️ Welcome to an insightful #92nd episode of the #Encrypted podcast, joined by Pascal Gauthier, Chairman&CEO of Ledger, a leading provider of hardware wallets for crypto self-custody.
\n🔊We discuss the importance of self-custody in the age of crypto ETFs, the evolving security landscape for digital assets, and Ledger's vision for the future of crypto.
\n🔒Join us and find out, what Pascal has to say to the critics of the “Ledger Recover” feature, and how his team dealt with a hack when Ledger’s Connect Kit software got compromised. Pascal shares valuable insights into navigating security challenges, including recent exploits and data breaches. Discover how Ledger is innovating to protect users' digital assets in the face of evolving cyber threats.
\n👥Also, learn about Pascal’s stance on Bitcoin ETFs and which sessions at the Satoshi Round Table he found the most exciting.
\n🚀 Additionally, explore how Ledger is shaping the future of DeFi and user education. Learn about upcoming developments and products that will shape the industry's future.
\n💫 Special guest: Pascal Gauthier.
\n🌟Podcast Host: Maria Vovchok.
Special Guest: Pascal Gauthier.
","summary":"🎙️ Welcome to an insightful #92nd episode of the #Encrypted podcast: \"Defining Security: Ledger CEO On Clear Signing and Crypto Hacks\", joined by Pascal Gauthier, Chairman&CEO of Ledger, a leading provider of hardware wallets for crypto self-custody. \r\n🔊We discuss the importance of self-custody in the age of crypto ETFs, the evolving security landscape for digital assets, and Ledger's vision for the future of crypto.\r\n","date_published":"2024-03-22T21:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/51d476bc-b16a-4696-9465-bf41ddcad5a5.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":35914118,"duration_in_seconds":2213}]},{"id":"8f399c1a-e316-4ba4-83a9-5332f69fb138","title":"#Ep.91: \"Bitcoin Evangelist: The Roger Ver's Experience.\"","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/bitcoin-evangelist","content_text":"🎙️ Tune in to our latest Encrypted podcast episode, powered by Myco.io, #Ep.91: \"Bitcoin Evangelist: The Roger Ver's Experience\", featuring Roger Ver, known as \"Bitcoin Jesus\", co-founder of Bitcoin.com, Blockchain.com. and a pioneer in the cryptocurrency space! \n\n✅ Discover Roger's journey as the world's first Bitcoin investor, his role in promoting Bitcoin and later Bitcoin Cash, and his perspective on the ongoing Bitcoin vs. Bitcoin Cash debate. Find out why he believes that BTC Cash is the original vision of Satoshi Nakamoto and what book Roger Ver is working on now.\n\n🚀 Learn about Roger's motivation to get involved in cryptocurrencies, his insights on the scalability challenges facing them, and the role of Bitcoin Cash in the broader ecosystem. \n\n💡 Explore Roger's vision for the future of decentralized finance (DeFi), the barriers hindering mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies, and how Bitcoin.com is driving adoption and usability.\n\n📈 Plus, get exclusive updates on Cashscript, Roger's views on the cryptocurrency industry's challenges and opportunities, and his advice for newcomers navigating the complexities of the crypto space.\n\n🔥 Moreover, what happened to Bitcoinstore.com and the CoinFlex crypto exchange? And why does Roger like to spend more time in the UAE? About this and more, listen now on the Encrypted podcast. \n\n💫 Special guest: Roger Ver.\n🌟Podcast Host: Maria Vovchok.Special Guest: Roger Ver.","content_html":"🎙️ Tune in to our latest Encrypted podcast episode, powered by Myco.io, #Ep.91: "Bitcoin Evangelist: The Roger Ver's Experience", featuring Roger Ver, known as "Bitcoin Jesus", co-founder of Bitcoin.com, Blockchain.com. and a pioneer in the cryptocurrency space!
\n\n✅ Discover Roger's journey as the world's first Bitcoin investor, his role in promoting Bitcoin and later Bitcoin Cash, and his perspective on the ongoing Bitcoin vs. Bitcoin Cash debate. Find out why he believes that BTC Cash is the original vision of Satoshi Nakamoto and what book Roger Ver is working on now.
\n\n🚀 Learn about Roger's motivation to get involved in cryptocurrencies, his insights on the scalability challenges facing them, and the role of Bitcoin Cash in the broader ecosystem.
\n\n💡 Explore Roger's vision for the future of decentralized finance (DeFi), the barriers hindering mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies, and how Bitcoin.com is driving adoption and usability.
\n\n📈 Plus, get exclusive updates on Cashscript, Roger's views on the cryptocurrency industry's challenges and opportunities, and his advice for newcomers navigating the complexities of the crypto space.
\n\n🔥 Moreover, what happened to Bitcoinstore.com and the CoinFlex crypto exchange? And why does Roger like to spend more time in the UAE? About this and more, listen now on the Encrypted podcast.
\n\n💫 Special guest: Roger Ver.
\n🌟Podcast Host: Maria Vovchok.
Special Guest: Roger Ver.
","summary":"🎙️ Tune in to our latest Encrypted podcast episode, powered by Myco.io, #Ep.91: \"Bitcoin Evangelist: The Roger Ver's Experience\", featuring Roger Ver, known as \"Bitcoin Jesus\" and a pioneer in the cryptocurrency space! \r\n✅ Discover Roger's journey as the world's first Bitcoin investor, his role in promoting Bitcoin and later Bitcoin Cash, and his perspective on the ongoing Bitcoin vs. Bitcoin Cash debate. Find out why he believes that BTC Cash is the original vision of Satoshi Nakamoto and what book Roger Ver is working on now.\r\n","date_published":"2024-02-28T15:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/8f399c1a-e316-4ba4-83a9-5332f69fb138.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":32100473,"duration_in_seconds":1972}]},{"id":"3e507ff9-e5d4-499c-9a4d-558be326e2ed","title":"#Ep.90: \"Inside Solana: Navigating Outages&The Satoshi Round Table.\"","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/solana-foundation","content_text":"🎙️ Join us for an exciting #90th episode of the Encrypted podcast: “Inside Solana: Navigating outages&Satoshi Round Table,” as we delve deep into the Solana ecosystem with Lily Liu, co-founder of Anagram and president of Solana Foundation! 💼\n\n🚀Lily Liu, a seasoned veteran in the crypto space with a decade of experience, shares insights into her journey from early Bitcoin adoption to her current role shaping the future of blockchain technology with Solana.\n\nIn this episode, we discuss:\n🌐The Recent Satoshi Round Table event in Dubai.\n🔍 Solana's goals for ecosystem development and growth. \n🔒 Understanding the Proof of History Consensus Algorithm.\n💡 Strategies to enhance Solana's scalability and performance.\n🛠️ Steps taken to address past challenges and ensure network reliability.\n🌱 Solana's role in fostering developer engagement and supporting DApp creation - more on Solana Hacker House.\n🔹The intersection of blockchain technology and longevity projects.\n🌐 Solana's position in Web3 and DeFi ecosystems, etc.\n✅Visa's expansion of stablecoin settlements using Solana and its implications.\n\n🎧Don't miss out on this insightful conversation! Tune in now to stay ahead in the ever-evolving world of Web3. \n\n💫 Special Guest: Lily Liu.\n⭐️ Podcast Host: Maria Vovchok\n\nEncryptedPodcast #DubaiBlockchainCenter #Myco #Blockchain #Cryptocurrency #Solana #Web3 #DeFi #Visa #Innovation #SolanaEcosystem #SatoshiRoundTable #NavigatingOutages #SolanaHackerHouseSpecial Guest: Lily Liu.","content_html":"🎙️ Join us for an exciting #90th episode of the Encrypted podcast: “Inside Solana: Navigating outages&Satoshi Round Table,” as we delve deep into the Solana ecosystem with Lily Liu, co-founder of Anagram and president of Solana Foundation! 💼
\n\n🚀Lily Liu, a seasoned veteran in the crypto space with a decade of experience, shares insights into her journey from early Bitcoin adoption to her current role shaping the future of blockchain technology with Solana.
\n\nIn this episode, we discuss:
\n🌐The Recent Satoshi Round Table event in Dubai.
\n🔍 Solana's goals for ecosystem development and growth.
\n🔒 Understanding the Proof of History Consensus Algorithm.
\n💡 Strategies to enhance Solana's scalability and performance.
\n🛠️ Steps taken to address past challenges and ensure network reliability.
\n🌱 Solana's role in fostering developer engagement and supporting DApp creation - more on Solana Hacker House.
\n🔹The intersection of blockchain technology and longevity projects.
\n🌐 Solana's position in Web3 and DeFi ecosystems, etc.
\n✅Visa's expansion of stablecoin settlements using Solana and its implications.
🎧Don't miss out on this insightful conversation! Tune in now to stay ahead in the ever-evolving world of Web3.
\n\n💫 Special Guest: Lily Liu.
\n⭐️ Podcast Host: Maria Vovchok
Special Guest: Lily Liu.
","summary":"🎙️ Join us for an exciting #90th episode of the Encrypted podcast: “Inside Solana: Navigating outages&Satoshi Round Table,” as we delve deep into the Solana ecosystem with Lily Liu, co-founder of Anagram and president of Solana Foundation! 💼\r\n","date_published":"2024-02-10T19:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/3e507ff9-e5d4-499c-9a4d-558be326e2ed.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":36043365,"duration_in_seconds":2218}]},{"id":"2585baac-13a2-436d-89d2-ac8d9bee7daa","title":"#Ep.89: “MENA Fintech Association: Spot Bitcoin ETFs and Green Finance”","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/mena-fintech-association","content_text":"🎙️Join us in a captivating conversation with Nameer Khan, Chairman of the MENA Fintech Association (MFTA) and Founder & CEO of Fils in our latest, #89 episode on Encrypted, “MENA Fintech Association: Spot Bitcoin ETFs and Green Finance”, powered by Myco.io. Recently recognized as MENA's Future Fintech Leader by the UAE Central Bank, Nameer shares his journey, insights, and exciting projects shaping the industry.\n\n🌐 Spot Bitcoin ETF Approval: After the recent news that the Securities and Exchange Commission has finally approved the Spot Bitcoin ETFs, Nameer shared his views on how this decision will impact both retail and institutional investors in the long run, paving the way for diversified portfolio strategies.\n\n🚀 MFTA's Remarkable Journey: Under Nameer's exceptional leadership, MFTA has become the 4th best global fintech body. Discover the strategies and initiatives that distinguished MFTA on the global stage, and what partnerships play the key role in the industry's success.\n\n💚 Green FinTech Innovation: Nameer's passion for green fintech innovation is evident. Learn how he envisions the intersection of fintech and sustainability shaping the future of the financial industry, and the role MFTA plays in promoting green fintech initiatives.\n\n🌐 Web3 and MFTA: Explore the exciting developments in the intersection of DeFi and TradFi within the MFTA. Nameer shares intriguing projects building bridges between these worlds, fostering innovation and collaboration.\n\n🔥 Future of FinTech: Nameer shares his vision for the future of fintech, especially in the MENA region. Discover exciting developments and projects on the horizon that promise to shape the industry's trajectory.\n\n🌟 Fils and Unique Contributions: Learn about Fils and its distinctive contributions to the fintech ecosystem. Nameer discusses what sets Fils apart from other players in the industry and how they are making waves in the evolving financial landscape.\n\nFinTech #Sustainability #Innovation #BitcoinETF #MFTA #Web3 #DeFi #TradFi #FutureOfFinance #Podcast #GreenFinance #DubaiBlockchainCenter #Encrypted #MycoSpecial Guest: Nameer Khan.","content_html":"🎙️Join us in a captivating conversation with Nameer Khan, Chairman of the MENA Fintech Association (MFTA) and Founder & CEO of Fils in our latest, #89 episode on Encrypted, “MENA Fintech Association: Spot Bitcoin ETFs and Green Finance”, powered by Myco.io. Recently recognized as MENA's Future Fintech Leader by the UAE Central Bank, Nameer shares his journey, insights, and exciting projects shaping the industry.
\n\n🌐 Spot Bitcoin ETF Approval: After the recent news that the Securities and Exchange Commission has finally approved the Spot Bitcoin ETFs, Nameer shared his views on how this decision will impact both retail and institutional investors in the long run, paving the way for diversified portfolio strategies.
\n\n🚀 MFTA's Remarkable Journey: Under Nameer's exceptional leadership, MFTA has become the 4th best global fintech body. Discover the strategies and initiatives that distinguished MFTA on the global stage, and what partnerships play the key role in the industry's success.
\n\n💚 Green FinTech Innovation: Nameer's passion for green fintech innovation is evident. Learn how he envisions the intersection of fintech and sustainability shaping the future of the financial industry, and the role MFTA plays in promoting green fintech initiatives.
\n\n🌐 Web3 and MFTA: Explore the exciting developments in the intersection of DeFi and TradFi within the MFTA. Nameer shares intriguing projects building bridges between these worlds, fostering innovation and collaboration.
\n\n🔥 Future of FinTech: Nameer shares his vision for the future of fintech, especially in the MENA region. Discover exciting developments and projects on the horizon that promise to shape the industry's trajectory.
\n\n🌟 Fils and Unique Contributions: Learn about Fils and its distinctive contributions to the fintech ecosystem. Nameer discusses what sets Fils apart from other players in the industry and how they are making waves in the evolving financial landscape.
\n\nSpecial Guest: Nameer Khan.
","summary":"🎙️Join us in a captivating conversation with Nameer Khan, Chairman of the MENA Fintech Association (MFTA) and Founder & CEO of Fils in our latest, #89 episode on Encrypted, “MENA Fintech Association: Spot Bitcoin ETFs and Green Finance”, powered by Myco.io.","date_published":"2024-01-20T20:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/2585baac-13a2-436d-89d2-ac8d9bee7daa.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":32702057,"duration_in_seconds":2016}]},{"id":"fe031cd3-9a86-4f9c-b8e5-dbf60af0d117","title":"#Ep.88: \"Cryptocurrency's Godfather: Privacy, DigiCash, AI, and the Quantum-Secure Future\".","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/cryptocurrency-godfather","content_text":"🎙️ We’re thrilled to have the visionary David Chaum on our latest, #88th episode of Encrypted, powered by Myco.io, \"Cryptocurrency's Godfather: David Chaum on Privacy, DigiCash, AI and the Quantum-Secure Future\"! \n📝Renowned as the 'Godfather of Cryptocurrency,' David's pioneering work in applying cryptography to cash in 1982 set the stage for today's digital currency landscape. From #ecash to groundbreaking #cryptographic #protocols, his contributions have reshaped #privacy and #security in the digital realm. \n🔖 In our discussion, David shared his insights about Project #Tourbillon, a CBDC collaboration with a Swiss central bank, emphasizing its paramount focus on preserving user privacy—a critical stride in the realm of Central Bank Digital Currencies. \n 💡We dived into the evolution from challenging centralized financial players with cryptographic digital cash to collaborating on CBDCs, exploring the intersection of privacy, decentralization, and the future of currency. \n✅We also spoke about 'better than money' (BTM) concepts, their connection to e-cash, and the intriguing realm of #cMoney. \n 💡David highlighted the urgency of quantum-resistant cryptography, offering foresight into forthcoming developments crucial for safeguarding digital systems against quantum threats in the current landscape. \n 📚Discover more about the meaningful contributions of the cryptocurrency industry to the core of useful computer science and the crucial discussion about AI, and data accumulation. \n 🎧Join us in exploring the future of #cryptography, privacy, and technology with David Chaum on the Encrypted podcast! \n 💫 Special guest: David Chaum\n 🌟 Podcast Host: Maria Vovchok. \n\nCryptocurrency #Privacy #security #cryptography #ecash #digicash #CBDCs #AI #DigitalInnovation\"Special Guest: David Chaum.","content_html":"🎙️ We’re thrilled to have the visionary David Chaum on our latest, #88th episode of Encrypted, powered by Myco.io, "Cryptocurrency's Godfather: David Chaum on Privacy, DigiCash, AI and the Quantum-Secure Future"!
\n📝Renowned as the 'Godfather of Cryptocurrency,' David's pioneering work in applying cryptography to cash in 1982 set the stage for today's digital currency landscape. From #ecash to groundbreaking #cryptographic #protocols, his contributions have reshaped #privacy and #security in the digital realm.
\n🔖 In our discussion, David shared his insights about Project #Tourbillon, a CBDC collaboration with a Swiss central bank, emphasizing its paramount focus on preserving user privacy—a critical stride in the realm of Central Bank Digital Currencies.
\n 💡We dived into the evolution from challenging centralized financial players with cryptographic digital cash to collaborating on CBDCs, exploring the intersection of privacy, decentralization, and the future of currency.
\n✅We also spoke about 'better than money' (BTM) concepts, their connection to e-cash, and the intriguing realm of #cMoney.
\n 💡David highlighted the urgency of quantum-resistant cryptography, offering foresight into forthcoming developments crucial for safeguarding digital systems against quantum threats in the current landscape.
\n 📚Discover more about the meaningful contributions of the cryptocurrency industry to the core of useful computer science and the crucial discussion about AI, and data accumulation.
\n 🎧Join us in exploring the future of #cryptography, privacy, and technology with David Chaum on the Encrypted podcast!
\n 💫 Special guest: David Chaum
\n 🌟 Podcast Host: Maria Vovchok.
Special Guest: David Chaum.
","summary":"🎙️ We’re thrilled to have the visionary David Chaum on our latest, #88th episode of Encrypted, powered by Myco.io, \"Cryptocurrency's Godfather: David Chaum on Privacy, DigiCash, AI and the Quantum-Secure Future\"! ","date_published":"2024-01-05T17:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/fe031cd3-9a86-4f9c-b8e5-dbf60af0d117.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":44036638,"duration_in_seconds":2725}]},{"id":"988aa09e-e7ab-41dd-bc91-89748e618d83","title":"#Ep87: Redefining Tomorrow: Decentralized ID, Wellness, HealthTech, and Synthetic Biology\".","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/cardano-did-healthtech","content_text":"🎙️Hello and welcome everyone to another exciting, #87 episode of the “Encrypted” podcast, powered by Myco.io, “Redefining tomorrow: Decentralized ID, Wellness, Healthtech, and Synthetic Biology”. \n🌐Join us on an insightful journey through the tech universe with Charles Hoskinson, visionary entrepreneur, mathematician, and co-founder of Input Output Global, Inc. and Cardano. His leadership in blockchain technology has reshaped the landscape of decentralized systems, pushing boundaries in tech, wellness, and synthetic biology.\n📜In our conversation, Charles shares untold aspects of his endeavors, exploring the misconceptions surrounding Cardano, the power of type-based programming in #Plutus development, and the pivotal role of interoperability in shaping the future of blockchain networks.\n🤖Discover the lesser-known aspects of Cardano's technology, and delve into the promising potential of decentralized identity technology globally. We also explore the intersection of AI and decentralization, navigating the fine balance between power and custodianship in this transformative era.\n\n✅That’s not all! We uncover Charles’s newest venture, the Hoskinson Health and Wellness Clinic, and his expansive focus on pioneering projects in health tech and synthetic biology. \n🎧Tune in to gain invaluable insights from Charles Hoskinson, a tech visionary reshaping tomorrow’s world!\n💫 Special guest: Charles Hoskinson,\n🌟 Poscast Host: Maria Vovchok.Special Guest: Charles Hoskinson.","content_html":"🎙️Hello and welcome everyone to another exciting, #87 episode of the “Encrypted” podcast, powered by Myco.io, “Redefining tomorrow: Decentralized ID, Wellness, Healthtech, and Synthetic Biology”.
\n🌐Join us on an insightful journey through the tech universe with Charles Hoskinson, visionary entrepreneur, mathematician, and co-founder of Input Output Global, Inc. and Cardano. His leadership in blockchain technology has reshaped the landscape of decentralized systems, pushing boundaries in tech, wellness, and synthetic biology.
\n📜In our conversation, Charles shares untold aspects of his endeavors, exploring the misconceptions surrounding Cardano, the power of type-based programming in #Plutus development, and the pivotal role of interoperability in shaping the future of blockchain networks.
\n🤖Discover the lesser-known aspects of Cardano's technology, and delve into the promising potential of decentralized identity technology globally. We also explore the intersection of AI and decentralization, navigating the fine balance between power and custodianship in this transformative era.
✅That’s not all! We uncover Charles’s newest venture, the Hoskinson Health and Wellness Clinic, and his expansive focus on pioneering projects in health tech and synthetic biology.
\n🎧Tune in to gain invaluable insights from Charles Hoskinson, a tech visionary reshaping tomorrow’s world!
\n💫 Special guest: Charles Hoskinson,
\n🌟 Poscast Host: Maria Vovchok.
Special Guest: Charles Hoskinson.
","summary":"🎙️Hello and welcome everyone to another exciting, #87 episode of the “Encrypted” podcast, powered by Myco.io, “Redefining tomorrow: Decentralized ID, Wellness, Healthtech, and Synthetic Biology”. \r\n🌐Join us on an insightful journey through the tech universe with Charles Hoskinson, visionary entrepreneur, mathematician, and co-founder of Input Output Global, Inc. and Cardano. His leadership in blockchain technology has reshaped the landscape of decentralized systems, pushing boundaries in tech, wellness, and synthetic biology.","date_published":"2023-12-14T19:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/988aa09e-e7ab-41dd-bc91-89748e618d83.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":51490917,"duration_in_seconds":3196}]},{"id":"d4b758b3-6b4c-461d-b94e-11f353fa0fb1","title":"#Ep.86: \"Breaking Frontiers: #Cardano's Vision for Blockchain Advancement”.","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/cardano-foundation","content_text":"🎙️Hello and welcome everyone to an exciting #86 episode of Encrypted, powered by myco.io, \"Breaking Frontiers: #Cardano's Vision for Blockchain Advancement”. Join us as we sit down with Frederik Gregaard, the visionary CEO of the Cardano Foundation, to uncover the dynamic landscape of Cardano and its impact on the future.\n\n🔍 Dive deep into the layers of the Cardano ecosystem with Frederik as he explains the Cardano Foundation's role in it. Discover how the foundation drives adoption strategies, integrates its mission, and fosters value creation for inclusive growth worldwide using Cardano.\n\n💡 Unraveling misconceptions! Frederik sheds light on the most common misunderstandings people have about Cardano and also highlights active participation and significant contributions of the Cardano community.\n\n🌍 Challenges are part of the journey. Frederik shares the main hurdles encountered by the Cardano Foundation and the valuable lessons learned, offering insights into their strategies for overcoming obstacles.\n\n💬 Engaging with the community matters! Learn how the Cardano Foundation handles criticism and feedback, taking proactive steps to address concerns raised by community members.\n\n🌐 Looking forward, Frederik unveils his long-term vision for Cardano and the instrumental role the foundation aims to play in achieving these ambitious goals.\n\n🤝 Decentralized governance in action! Discover how the Cardano community actively participates in decision-making processes for the platform's development and growth.\n\n🌐 Partnerships that pave the way! Gain insights into upcoming collaborations that align with Cardano's values and mission and how the foundation builds partnerships, including those in the Middle East and Africa.\n\n📚 And, of course, about education as a driving force! Learn about the Cardano Foundation's initiatives aimed at educating and bringing widespread adoption of blockchain technology.\n\n💫Special guest: Frederik Gregaard, CEO of the Cardano Foundation.\n🌟Podcast Host: Maria Vovchok, Podcast Host&Journalist, Dubai Blockchain Center.\n\nCardano #Blockchaintechnology #cardanofoundation #IOG #Emurgo #partnerships #MiddleEast #DubaiBlockchainCenter #PodcastSpecial Guest: Frederik Gregaard.","content_html":"🎙️Hello and welcome everyone to an exciting #86 episode of Encrypted, powered by myco.io, "Breaking Frontiers: #Cardano's Vision for Blockchain Advancement”. Join us as we sit down with Frederik Gregaard, the visionary CEO of the Cardano Foundation, to uncover the dynamic landscape of Cardano and its impact on the future.
\n\n🔍 Dive deep into the layers of the Cardano ecosystem with Frederik as he explains the Cardano Foundation's role in it. Discover how the foundation drives adoption strategies, integrates its mission, and fosters value creation for inclusive growth worldwide using Cardano.
\n\n💡 Unraveling misconceptions! Frederik sheds light on the most common misunderstandings people have about Cardano and also highlights active participation and significant contributions of the Cardano community.
\n\n🌍 Challenges are part of the journey. Frederik shares the main hurdles encountered by the Cardano Foundation and the valuable lessons learned, offering insights into their strategies for overcoming obstacles.
\n\n💬 Engaging with the community matters! Learn how the Cardano Foundation handles criticism and feedback, taking proactive steps to address concerns raised by community members.
\n\n🌐 Looking forward, Frederik unveils his long-term vision for Cardano and the instrumental role the foundation aims to play in achieving these ambitious goals.
\n\n🤝 Decentralized governance in action! Discover how the Cardano community actively participates in decision-making processes for the platform's development and growth.
\n\n🌐 Partnerships that pave the way! Gain insights into upcoming collaborations that align with Cardano's values and mission and how the foundation builds partnerships, including those in the Middle East and Africa.
\n\n📚 And, of course, about education as a driving force! Learn about the Cardano Foundation's initiatives aimed at educating and bringing widespread adoption of blockchain technology.
\n\n💫Special guest: Frederik Gregaard, CEO of the Cardano Foundation.
\n🌟Podcast Host: Maria Vovchok, Podcast Host&Journalist, Dubai Blockchain Center.
Special Guest: Frederik Gregaard.
","summary":"🎙️Hello and welcome everyone to an exciting #86 episode of Encrypted, powered by myco.io, \"Breaking Frontiers: #Cardano's Vision for Blockchain Advancement”. Join us as we sit down with Frederik Gregaard, the visionary CEO of the Cardano Foundation, to uncover the dynamic landscape of Cardano and its impact on the future.","date_published":"2023-11-21T23:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/d4b758b3-6b4c-461d-b94e-11f353fa0fb1.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":51907610,"duration_in_seconds":1610}]},{"id":"c6d2d655-b03b-45b6-add4-71c44c98a7aa","title":"#Ep.85: Game Changers: Decoding NFTs, Open Metaverse, And Digital Economies.","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/animoca-brands","content_text":"🎙️Hello and welcome everyone to the #85 episode of Encrypted, where we explore the Future of Blockchain, NFTs, and the Open Metaverse! \n\n🚀In this exciting episode of Encrypted, we sit down with the extraordinary Yat Siu, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, a global powerhouse in the blockchain and gaming industry. With an awe-inspiring investment portfolio of over 450 blockchain companies worth a staggering $5 billion, Yat Siu is a true visionary shaping the digital landscape.\n\n🎶Meet the Multitalented Innovator: Dive deep into Yat Siu's world as he shares his fascinating journey—from his accolades as a classically trained musician to becoming a renowned tech entrepreneur, recognized by institutions like the World Economic Forum and BAFTA.\n\n🕹️Blockchain Gaming and NFTs: Explore the evolution of Animoca Brands, from mobile games to groundbreaking ventures in blockchain gaming and NFTs. Discover Yat Siu's take on Bitcoin #Ordinals NFTs and the intriguing concept of #RWA tokens in the ever-changing digital marketplace.\n\n🌐Demystifying the Open #Metaverse: Yat Siu challenges misconceptions about the open metaverse and shares his insights on building new economies, including the innovative concept of #Mocaverse. Explore the potential of enterprise-oriented metaverses and their impact on the future of technology.\n\n💡NFTs, Web3, and Market Dynamics: Delve into the rise, fall, and potential resurgence of #NFTs as Yat Siu discusses their role in driving #Web3 adoption. Uncover Animoca Brands' due diligence processes and the criteria guiding their investments in Web3 startups amidst market downturns.\n\n🌍Focus on the Middle East: Learn about Animoca Brands' strategic expansion into the #UAE and the Middle East. Discover the untapped opportunities in the region and how it's becoming a focal point for Animoca Brands' innovative endeavors.\n\n🔥Don't Miss This Episode! Join us in this eye-opening conversation with Yat Siu, where we explore the intersection of technology, creativity, and innovation. Get ready for insights that will reshape your understanding of the digital future.\n\n🎧 Subscribe: Never miss an episode! Like and subscribe to stay ahead in the world of technology and innovation.\n Special guest: Yat Siu.\n Podcast Host: Maria Vovchok.Special Guest: Yat Siu.","content_html":"🎙️Hello and welcome everyone to the #85 episode of Encrypted, where we explore the Future of Blockchain, NFTs, and the Open Metaverse!
\n\n🚀In this exciting episode of Encrypted, we sit down with the extraordinary Yat Siu, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, a global powerhouse in the blockchain and gaming industry. With an awe-inspiring investment portfolio of over 450 blockchain companies worth a staggering $5 billion, Yat Siu is a true visionary shaping the digital landscape.
\n\n🎶Meet the Multitalented Innovator: Dive deep into Yat Siu's world as he shares his fascinating journey—from his accolades as a classically trained musician to becoming a renowned tech entrepreneur, recognized by institutions like the World Economic Forum and BAFTA.
\n\n🕹️Blockchain Gaming and NFTs: Explore the evolution of Animoca Brands, from mobile games to groundbreaking ventures in blockchain gaming and NFTs. Discover Yat Siu's take on Bitcoin #Ordinals NFTs and the intriguing concept of #RWA tokens in the ever-changing digital marketplace.
\n\n🌐Demystifying the Open #Metaverse: Yat Siu challenges misconceptions about the open metaverse and shares his insights on building new economies, including the innovative concept of #Mocaverse. Explore the potential of enterprise-oriented metaverses and their impact on the future of technology.
\n\n💡NFTs, Web3, and Market Dynamics: Delve into the rise, fall, and potential resurgence of #NFTs as Yat Siu discusses their role in driving #Web3 adoption. Uncover Animoca Brands' due diligence processes and the criteria guiding their investments in Web3 startups amidst market downturns.
\n\n🌍Focus on the Middle East: Learn about Animoca Brands' strategic expansion into the #UAE and the Middle East. Discover the untapped opportunities in the region and how it's becoming a focal point for Animoca Brands' innovative endeavors.
\n\n🔥Don't Miss This Episode! Join us in this eye-opening conversation with Yat Siu, where we explore the intersection of technology, creativity, and innovation. Get ready for insights that will reshape your understanding of the digital future.
\n\n🎧 Subscribe: Never miss an episode! Like and subscribe to stay ahead in the world of technology and innovation.
\n Special guest: Yat Siu.
\n Podcast Host: Maria Vovchok.
Special Guest: Yat Siu.
","summary":"Welcome everyone to the #85 episode of Encrypted, where we explore the Future of Blockchain, NFTs, and the Open Metaverse with an extraordinary Yat Siu, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, a global powerhouse in the blockchain and gaming industry.","date_published":"2023-11-09T12:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/c6d2d655-b03b-45b6-add4-71c44c98a7aa.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":88413842,"duration_in_seconds":2762}]},{"id":"a686690a-0615-4325-97ac-38e3bef841d3","title":"#Ep.84: \"Beyond the Sandbox: Unveiling Middle East Adventures with Sandbox Game's New Partnerships\"","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/the-sandbox","content_text":"Welcome to the #84th episode of the “Encrypted” podcast, empowered by Myco, the place where tech and innovation collide! Today, we have a special guest who's not just a tech whiz but also a genuine enthusiast for all things creative and fun. Sebastien Borget, the Co-Founder and COO of The Sandbox, is here to tell us more about the trailblazing decentralized gaming virtual world that's capturing the imagination of millions. \n\nSebastien, with his rich background in computer science engineering and over 16 years of entrepreneurial experience, is not just a tech visionary, but also a champion for the integration of blockchain and NFTs in the gaming industry. As the President of the Blockchain Game Alliance, he's been advocating for the power of NFTs and blockchain in transforming the way we play and create games. \n\nToday, we're diving deep into the heart of The Sandbox. Sebastien will unravel the mysteries of the open Metaverse, share the platform's incredible journey from its mobile gaming hits to the expansive virtual world it is today, and provide insight into the creative process that fuels this innovative platform. We'll explore the practical use cases of The Sandbox, learn about the tools and resources empowering creators, and discover inspiring success stories that showcase the impact this platform has had on both creators and players.\n\nStay tuned as we unravel the secrets behind The Sandbox's partnerships, including their recent collaboration with Sandsoft Games, and understand the strategies they employ to bring renowned brands into their virtual realm. Plus, we'll talk about why the GCC region is one of the major focuses of the company. \n\nSo get ready for an enlightening conversation with Sebastien Borget, a driving force in the future of gaming and the open Metaverse. You're in for a thrilling ride!Special Guest: Sebastien Borget.","content_html":"Welcome to the #84th episode of the “Encrypted” podcast, empowered by Myco, the place where tech and innovation collide! Today, we have a special guest who's not just a tech whiz but also a genuine enthusiast for all things creative and fun. Sebastien Borget, the Co-Founder and COO of The Sandbox, is here to tell us more about the trailblazing decentralized gaming virtual world that's capturing the imagination of millions.
\n\nSebastien, with his rich background in computer science engineering and over 16 years of entrepreneurial experience, is not just a tech visionary, but also a champion for the integration of blockchain and NFTs in the gaming industry. As the President of the Blockchain Game Alliance, he's been advocating for the power of NFTs and blockchain in transforming the way we play and create games.
\n\nToday, we're diving deep into the heart of The Sandbox. Sebastien will unravel the mysteries of the open Metaverse, share the platform's incredible journey from its mobile gaming hits to the expansive virtual world it is today, and provide insight into the creative process that fuels this innovative platform. We'll explore the practical use cases of The Sandbox, learn about the tools and resources empowering creators, and discover inspiring success stories that showcase the impact this platform has had on both creators and players.
\n\nStay tuned as we unravel the secrets behind The Sandbox's partnerships, including their recent collaboration with Sandsoft Games, and understand the strategies they employ to bring renowned brands into their virtual realm. Plus, we'll talk about why the GCC region is one of the major focuses of the company.
\n\nSo get ready for an enlightening conversation with Sebastien Borget, a driving force in the future of gaming and the open Metaverse. You're in for a thrilling ride!
Special Guest: Sebastien Borget.
","summary":"Welcome to the #84th episode of the “Encrypted” podcast, the place where tech and innovation collide! Today, we have a special guest who's not just a tech whiz but also a genuine enthusiast for all things creative and fun. Sebastien Borget, the Co-Founder and COO of The Sandbox, is here to tell us more about the trailblazing decentralized gaming virtual world that's capturing the imagination of millions. ","date_published":"2023-10-26T12:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/a686690a-0615-4325-97ac-38e3bef841d3.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":70702991,"duration_in_seconds":2209}]},{"id":"e5631a54-60e8-46b8-991a-7102976adc73","title":"#Ep.83: Revolutionizing Finance: Middle East Crypto Hedge Funds Shaping the Future of Global Finance.","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/revolutionizing-finance","content_text":"Welcome to the 83# episode of the “Encrypted podcast”, where we delve deep into the future of finance and the world of cryptocurrencies with a visionary leader who’s actively shaping our financial landscape. Today, we are happy to have a true trailblazer with us, Henri Arslanian, the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Nine Blocks Capital Management.\n\nHenri is not just a prominent figure in the crypto world; he's a force driving change. With a sterling background as the former global crypto leader at PwC, Henri has advised governments, financial institutions, and tech giants on crypto initiatives. He's a TEDx speaker, a best-selling author, and the host of The Future of Money podcast and the CryptoCapsules™ social media video series, and he is regularly featured in global media, including Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, BBC, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and the Financial Times. \n\nJoin us as Henri shares his insights on the evolving landscape of crypto hedge funds, the impact of regulations on the industry, and the strategies employed to navigate the volatile crypto market. Find out how crypto hedge funds should properly handle the security and custody of digital assets, learn the difference between active and passive crypto funds, and whether more traditional hedge funds are entering crypto now. Why did Henri choose Dubai as a manager's location for Nine Blocks Capital Management, and how the crypto hedge funds in the Middle East are shaping the future of finance? About this and more…\n Stay tuned for an episode that promises to be both enlightening and inspiring. Let’s dive in!\n Special guest: Henri Arslanian.\n Podcast Host: Maria Vovchok.Special Guest: Henri Arslanian.","content_html":"Welcome to the 83# episode of the “Encrypted podcast”, where we delve deep into the future of finance and the world of cryptocurrencies with a visionary leader who’s actively shaping our financial landscape. Today, we are happy to have a true trailblazer with us, Henri Arslanian, the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Nine Blocks Capital Management.
\n\nHenri is not just a prominent figure in the crypto world; he's a force driving change. With a sterling background as the former global crypto leader at PwC, Henri has advised governments, financial institutions, and tech giants on crypto initiatives. He's a TEDx speaker, a best-selling author, and the host of The Future of Money podcast and the CryptoCapsules™ social media video series, and he is regularly featured in global media, including Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, BBC, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and the Financial Times.
\n\nJoin us as Henri shares his insights on the evolving landscape of crypto hedge funds, the impact of regulations on the industry, and the strategies employed to navigate the volatile crypto market. Find out how crypto hedge funds should properly handle the security and custody of digital assets, learn the difference between active and passive crypto funds, and whether more traditional hedge funds are entering crypto now. Why did Henri choose Dubai as a manager's location for Nine Blocks Capital Management, and how the crypto hedge funds in the Middle East are shaping the future of finance? About this and more…
\n Stay tuned for an episode that promises to be both enlightening and inspiring. Let’s dive in!
\n Special guest: Henri Arslanian.
\n Podcast Host: Maria Vovchok.
Special Guest: Henri Arslanian.
","summary":"Welcome to the 83# episode of the “Encrypted podcast”, where we delve deep into the future of finance and the world of cryptocurrencies with a visionary leader who’s actively shaping our financial landscape. Today, we are happy to have a true trailblazer with us, Henri Arslanian, the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Nine Blocks Capital Management.\r\n","date_published":"2023-10-10T19:45:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/e5631a54-60e8-46b8-991a-7102976adc73.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":99584550,"duration_in_seconds":3099}]},{"id":"ce7e98d3-26ac-4b6c-ad91-650be975c341","title":"#Ep.82: The Rise of Dubai: Why The World's Tech Community is Focusing on Dubai!","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/dubai-blockchain-center","content_text":"We are thrilled to announce the grand return of the \"Encrypted\" podcast! This time, it's not just for your ears but also for your eyes - both listen and watch! 🎧📺\n\nIn our latest episode, we're honored to converse with the illustrious Dr. Marwan Alzarouni, CEO of Dubai Blockchain Center and the esteemed Strategic Advisor of the Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism. Recognized as a blockchain luminary by CoinTelegraph, ranking amongst the Top 100 global influencers, his insights are truly invaluable.\n\nMoreover, we're proud to introduce the Dubai Blockchain Center as our strategic partner for the “Encrypted podcast”!\n\nDelve into Dr. Marwan's compelling vision of positioning the UAE, especially Dubai, at the forefront of blockchain innovation globally. Learn about the pivotal role Dubai Blockchain Center plays in transforming this ambitious vision into reality. Their dedication and contributions to the blockchain community are genuinely groundbreaking.\n\nGain exclusive insights into the Dubai Future Foundation's offerings for attendees of the imminent AI Assembly in the Museum of the Future. Get a sneak peek into the objectives of this year's government summit, which paints a transformative picture for Dubai's future. Wondering about other buzzing tech happenings in Dubai? Stay tuned!\n\nDiscover Dubai's tech evolution, as Dr. Marwan shares exhilarating accounts of partnering with global tech behemoths, establishing Dubai as a magnet for tech giants worldwide.\n\nFor all this and more, tune in and immerse yourself in our enriching podcast, also available for viewing on YouTube.\n\nSpecial Guest: Dr. Marwan Alzarouni.\nPodcast Host: Maria Vovchok.🌟Special Guest: Dr. Marwan Alzarouni .","content_html":"We are thrilled to announce the grand return of the "Encrypted" podcast! This time, it's not just for your ears but also for your eyes - both listen and watch! 🎧📺
\n\nIn our latest episode, we're honored to converse with the illustrious Dr. Marwan Alzarouni, CEO of Dubai Blockchain Center and the esteemed Strategic Advisor of the Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism. Recognized as a blockchain luminary by CoinTelegraph, ranking amongst the Top 100 global influencers, his insights are truly invaluable.
\n\nMoreover, we're proud to introduce the Dubai Blockchain Center as our strategic partner for the “Encrypted podcast”!
\n\nDelve into Dr. Marwan's compelling vision of positioning the UAE, especially Dubai, at the forefront of blockchain innovation globally. Learn about the pivotal role Dubai Blockchain Center plays in transforming this ambitious vision into reality. Their dedication and contributions to the blockchain community are genuinely groundbreaking.
\n\nGain exclusive insights into the Dubai Future Foundation's offerings for attendees of the imminent AI Assembly in the Museum of the Future. Get a sneak peek into the objectives of this year's government summit, which paints a transformative picture for Dubai's future. Wondering about other buzzing tech happenings in Dubai? Stay tuned!
\n\nDiscover Dubai's tech evolution, as Dr. Marwan shares exhilarating accounts of partnering with global tech behemoths, establishing Dubai as a magnet for tech giants worldwide.
\n\nFor all this and more, tune in and immerse yourself in our enriching podcast, also available for viewing on YouTube.
\n\nSpecial Guest: Dr. Marwan Alzarouni.
\nPodcast Host: Maria Vovchok.🌟
Special Guest: Dr. Marwan Alzarouni .
","summary":"In our latest episode, we're honored to converse with the illustrious Dr. Marwan Alzarouni, CEO of Dubai Blockchain Center and the esteemed Strategic Advisor of the Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism. Recognized as a blockchain luminary by CoinTelegraph, ranking amongst the Top 100 global influencers, his insights are truly invaluable.","date_published":"2023-09-25T19:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/ce7e98d3-26ac-4b6c-ad91-650be975c341.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":64014742,"duration_in_seconds":1981}]},{"id":"6c918033-c201-4b3a-95cb-51e6ab36849a","title":"#Ep. 81: DIFCs take on building Fintech and Crypto success in MENA","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/difcs-take-on-building-fintech-and-crypto-success-in-mena","content_text":"In this episode we speak with Christian Kunz, Head of Group Strategy at DIFC Authority, a leading financial center based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates\n\nIn his capacity as Head of Group Strategy at DIFC Authority, Christian is responsible to develop and continuously evolve the strategic agenda and initiatives of DIFC in line with the UAE’s commitment to innovation and development of future economies. \n\nWe start off speaking about the foundations of his experience in the region and work towards the future of fintech, blockchain and crypto within DIFC's ecosystem and the regional market places.\n\nIf you are looking to know more about regulations, setting up and getting ahead within the region, this episode is a great listen.\n\nWe want to give a special shoutout to our sponsor Blockfinex. Blockfinex offers one of the most competitive trading fees compared to industry leading competitors as well as a quick onboarding process for its users. You can find them at blockfinex.comSpecial Guest: Christian Kunz.","content_html":"In this episode we speak with Christian Kunz, Head of Group Strategy at DIFC Authority, a leading financial center based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
\n\nIn his capacity as Head of Group Strategy at DIFC Authority, Christian is responsible to develop and continuously evolve the strategic agenda and initiatives of DIFC in line with the UAE’s commitment to innovation and development of future economies.
\n\nWe start off speaking about the foundations of his experience in the region and work towards the future of fintech, blockchain and crypto within DIFC's ecosystem and the regional market places.
\n\nIf you are looking to know more about regulations, setting up and getting ahead within the region, this episode is a great listen.
\n\nWe want to give a special shoutout to our sponsor Blockfinex. Blockfinex offers one of the most competitive trading fees compared to industry leading competitors as well as a quick onboarding process for its users. You can find them at blockfinex.com
Special Guest: Christian Kunz.
","summary":"In this episode we speak with Christian Kunz, Head of Group Strategy at DIFC Authority, a leading financial center based in Dubai, UAE. We hear the DIFCs stance on crypto and their ambitions within this growing sector. If you are looking to know more about regulations, setting up and getting ahead within the region, this episode is a great listen.","date_published":"2021-06-20T17:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/6c918033-c201-4b3a-95cb-51e6ab36849a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":84357617,"duration_in_seconds":2108}]},{"id":"f0bfbe05-db6d-4282-91a4-da6794526597","title":"#Ep. 80: NFTs - The Direct to Avatar Economy & The Open Metaverse","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/nfts-the-direct-to-avatar-economy-and-the-open-metaverse","content_text":"In this episode we speak with Ryan Gill, founder at Crucible. \n\nDid you hear about that $69 million NFT sale on Christie’s? Well, we just dove right into NFTs! NFTs or non-fungible tokens are unique digital items that are not interchangeable. We are beginning to see the rise and value of NFTs take off, mostly in the creative industries, where we see digital art, music and other creative work being bought and sold as NFTs. In this episode we explore the state of play of the NFT world and how they have taken the world by storm this past year. Our guest, Ryan goes on to discuss the origins and beginnings of NFTs and the creative industries, namely creators and artists in Hollywood, his former hometown.\n\nWe continue discussing the potential and opportunity NFTs hold for creators that have been traditionally left out of the spotlight and off the stage. Ryan describes how new and young creators can take work into their own hands and start making a living for themselves without necessarily needing to answer to the current “gatekeepers” of the creative industry. \n\nRyan shares the work they are doing at Crucible and his vision for the platform and how it will contribute to a larger paradigm shift of what he calls an Open Metaverse. We also touch on the future of NFTs and how the world will look in a decade’s time because of this new technology.\n\nWe want to give a special shoutout to our sponsor Blockfinex.\n\nSpecial Guests: Ryan GillSpecial Guest: Ryan Gill.","content_html":"In this episode we speak with Ryan Gill, founder at Crucible.
\n\nDid you hear about that $69 million NFT sale on Christie’s? Well, we just dove right into NFTs! NFTs or non-fungible tokens are unique digital items that are not interchangeable. We are beginning to see the rise and value of NFTs take off, mostly in the creative industries, where we see digital art, music and other creative work being bought and sold as NFTs. In this episode we explore the state of play of the NFT world and how they have taken the world by storm this past year. Our guest, Ryan goes on to discuss the origins and beginnings of NFTs and the creative industries, namely creators and artists in Hollywood, his former hometown.
\n\nWe continue discussing the potential and opportunity NFTs hold for creators that have been traditionally left out of the spotlight and off the stage. Ryan describes how new and young creators can take work into their own hands and start making a living for themselves without necessarily needing to answer to the current “gatekeepers” of the creative industry.
\n\nRyan shares the work they are doing at Crucible and his vision for the platform and how it will contribute to a larger paradigm shift of what he calls an Open Metaverse. We also touch on the future of NFTs and how the world will look in a decade’s time because of this new technology.
\n\nWe want to give a special shoutout to our sponsor Blockfinex.
\n\nSpecial Guests: Ryan Gill
Special Guest: Ryan Gill.
","summary":"Did you hear about that $69 million NFT sale on Christie’s? Well, we just dove right into NFTs in this episode! NFTs or non-fungible tokens are unique digital items that are not interchangeable. Today, we speak with Ryan Gill, CEO and co-founder of Crucible about the beginnings and the future of NFTs.","date_published":"2021-03-28T18:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/f0bfbe05-db6d-4282-91a4-da6794526597.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":65804401,"duration_in_seconds":2725}]},{"id":"9eea9cc7-0b2e-40d3-95ef-b128abe57b2f","title":"#Ep. 79: Scalability and Advancement of Enterprise Blockchain","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/scalability-and-advancement-of-enterpise-blockchain","content_text":"In this episode we speak with Saqr Ereiqat, consultant at IBM and Akbar Farook, founder of Just Chain, a justice in the public blockchain space solution. \n\nWe start off speaking about what blockchain applications are currently live in the region and where enterprise utilizes blockchain for the betterment of business. Saqr and Akbar both share their views on the current state of blockchain use in the Middle East and general region.\n\nWe go on to discuss the challenges of raising funding for Proof of Concept projects. Both our guests walk us through their experiences in each of their domains and advise companies on how best to approach funding for a POC.\n\nFinally we discuss what adoption of blockchain technology will look like, specifically for enterprises.\n\nWe want to give a special shoutout to our sponsor Blockfinex. Blockfinex offers one of the most competitive trading fees compared to industry leading competitors as well as a quick onboarding process for its users. You can find them at blockfinex.comSpecial Guests: Akbar Farook and Saqr Ereiqat.","content_html":"In this episode we speak with Saqr Ereiqat, consultant at IBM and Akbar Farook, founder of Just Chain, a justice in the public blockchain space solution.
\n\nWe start off speaking about what blockchain applications are currently live in the region and where enterprise utilizes blockchain for the betterment of business. Saqr and Akbar both share their views on the current state of blockchain use in the Middle East and general region.
\n\nWe go on to discuss the challenges of raising funding for Proof of Concept projects. Both our guests walk us through their experiences in each of their domains and advise companies on how best to approach funding for a POC.
\n\nFinally we discuss what adoption of blockchain technology will look like, specifically for enterprises.
\n\nWe want to give a special shoutout to our sponsor Blockfinex. Blockfinex offers one of the most competitive trading fees compared to industry leading competitors as well as a quick onboarding process for its users. You can find them at blockfinex.com
Special Guests: Akbar Farook and Saqr Ereiqat.
","summary":"In this episode we speak with Saqr Ereiqat, consultant at IBM and Akbar Farook, founder of Just Chain about blockchain enterprise advancements.","date_published":"2021-02-08T19:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/9eea9cc7-0b2e-40d3-95ef-b128abe57b2f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":80833876,"duration_in_seconds":2011}]},{"id":"1698d620-3f55-4bb2-acc9-e9ab8b0f4840","title":"#Ep. 78: Tech Scoop on Bitfinex and Tether from Stablecoins to Global Decentralised Liquidity ","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/the-tech-scoop-on-bitfinex-and-tether","content_text":"In this episode, we hear from one of the most influential figures in the space, Paolo Ardoino who is the CTO of Bitfinex and Tether.\n\nIn the beginning we discuss Paolo's background and his vision for the space. We then delve into the rise of DEXs and how decentralised vs centralised exchanges will fair in the years to come. Paolo shares what his vision for a decentralised exchange will look like and lays out Bitfinex's plans for doing so. \n\nWe also touch on the heavy stablecoin topic. We hear Paolo's views on the future of stablecoins, the differences between the various forms of stablecoins we see today, and also USDT's future roadmap. Paolo also shares recent updates with regards to the New York Attorney General's lawsuit against Tether and we discuss misconceptions that have arisen about Tether. \n\nAdditionally, we discuss the technical aspects of Tether's tech stack, specifically with regards to layer 2 and scalability. Finally, we discuss the role of Defi and what this means in the context of Bitfinex and Tether.\n\nWe want to give a shout out to our sponsor Blockfinex (Not to be confused with Bitfinex). Blockfinex is the Global cryptocurrency exchange where you can trade your cryptos in seconds. With one of the fastest matching engines in the space, and high liquidity, you can trade your favourite cryptocurrencies quickly and seamlessly. Blockfinex offers one of the most competitive trading fees compared to industry leading competitors as well as a quick onboarding process for its users. You can find them at blockfinex.comSpecial Guest: Paolo Ardoino.","content_html":"In this episode, we hear from one of the most influential figures in the space, Paolo Ardoino who is the CTO of Bitfinex and Tether.
\n\nIn the beginning we discuss Paolo's background and his vision for the space. We then delve into the rise of DEXs and how decentralised vs centralised exchanges will fair in the years to come. Paolo shares what his vision for a decentralised exchange will look like and lays out Bitfinex's plans for doing so.
\n\nWe also touch on the heavy stablecoin topic. We hear Paolo's views on the future of stablecoins, the differences between the various forms of stablecoins we see today, and also USDT's future roadmap. Paolo also shares recent updates with regards to the New York Attorney General's lawsuit against Tether and we discuss misconceptions that have arisen about Tether.
\n\nAdditionally, we discuss the technical aspects of Tether's tech stack, specifically with regards to layer 2 and scalability. Finally, we discuss the role of Defi and what this means in the context of Bitfinex and Tether.
\n\nWe want to give a shout out to our sponsor Blockfinex (Not to be confused with Bitfinex). Blockfinex is the Global cryptocurrency exchange where you can trade your cryptos in seconds. With one of the fastest matching engines in the space, and high liquidity, you can trade your favourite cryptocurrencies quickly and seamlessly. Blockfinex offers one of the most competitive trading fees compared to industry leading competitors as well as a quick onboarding process for its users. You can find them at blockfinex.com
Special Guest: Paolo Ardoino.
","summary":"USDT, Tether, and everything in between. In this episode, we have the CTO of Bitfinex and Tether, Paolo Ardoino, who shares all you need to know about Bitfinex, and Tether. From discussing the backing of Tether to the future of exchanges and stablecoins, this episode dives deep into one of the most forward thinking CTOs in the space. ","date_published":"2021-01-26T20:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/1698d620-3f55-4bb2-acc9-e9ab8b0f4840.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":74315085,"duration_in_seconds":3080}]},{"id":"c9b55a06-6ca9-477f-9cfd-4cf8f9257740","title":"#Ep. 77: The rise of institutional adoption in crypto and blockchain","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/rise-of-institutional-adoption-in-crypto-and-blockchain","content_text":"This is another excellent episode from the Future Blockchain Summit which was part of GITEX in Dubai, one of the only in-person events that has taken place during COVID times.\n\nOur guests for this episode are Thamim Ahmed from UCL Center for Blockchain Technologies and Dotun Rominiyi from the emerging technology division at the London Stock Exchange. We talk about the rise of reasearch and development leading into emerging and new technologies to drive adoption in enterprise.\n\nWe cover financial securities and tokenisation, how ideation leads to solid research and then real world products.\n\nWe talk about how the London Stock Exchange moved from paper to digital and how it now is working towards a future that embraces next generation infrastructure and digital tranformation.\n\nIf you are looking to understand more about how the London Stock Exchange and UCL view blockchain and cryptocurrency, then this episode is definitey for you.\n\nWe want to give a shout out to our sponsor Blockfinex. Blockfinex is THE Global cryptocurrency exchange where you can trade your cryptos in seconds. With one of the fastest matching engines in the space, and high liquidity, you can trade your favourite cryptocurrencies quickly and seamlessly. Blockfinex offers one of the most competitive trading fees compared to industry leading competitors as well as a quick onboarding process for its users. You can find them at blockfinex.comSpecial Guests: Dotun Rominiyi and Thamim Ahmed.","content_html":"This is another excellent episode from the Future Blockchain Summit which was part of GITEX in Dubai, one of the only in-person events that has taken place during COVID times.
\n\nOur guests for this episode are Thamim Ahmed from UCL Center for Blockchain Technologies and Dotun Rominiyi from the emerging technology division at the London Stock Exchange. We talk about the rise of reasearch and development leading into emerging and new technologies to drive adoption in enterprise.
\n\nWe cover financial securities and tokenisation, how ideation leads to solid research and then real world products.
\n\nWe talk about how the London Stock Exchange moved from paper to digital and how it now is working towards a future that embraces next generation infrastructure and digital tranformation.
\n\nIf you are looking to understand more about how the London Stock Exchange and UCL view blockchain and cryptocurrency, then this episode is definitey for you.
\n\nWe want to give a shout out to our sponsor Blockfinex. Blockfinex is THE Global cryptocurrency exchange where you can trade your cryptos in seconds. With one of the fastest matching engines in the space, and high liquidity, you can trade your favourite cryptocurrencies quickly and seamlessly. Blockfinex offers one of the most competitive trading fees compared to industry leading competitors as well as a quick onboarding process for its users. You can find them at blockfinex.com
Special Guests: Dotun Rominiyi and Thamim Ahmed.
","summary":"Institutions are coming. Tokenisation is real and taking place. In this episode, we have Thamim Ahmed from UCL Center for Blockchain Technologies and Dotun Rominiyi from the emerging technology division at the London Stock Exchange, where we talk about institutional and enterprise adoption of blockchain and crypto, particularly within the financial sector. ","date_published":"2021-01-10T08:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/c9b55a06-6ca9-477f-9cfd-4cf8f9257740.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":83722312,"duration_in_seconds":2616}]},{"id":"eb2de6c9-420e-488e-b9c7-3453cb94716f","title":"#Ep. 76: The humble beginnings of crypto art and its meteoric rise ","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/the-humble-beginnings-of-crypto-art-and-its-meteoric-rise","content_text":"We're super excited to be recording this episode live at the Future Blockchain Summit which was part of Gitex 2020 in Dubai, one of the only in-person events that took place in this crazy 2020 year. \n\nOur guest for this episode is Vesa, a Finnish artist who has had a unique journey following his interests throughout his life. After stumbling into art, and finding his hidden talents there, Vesa has helped to pioneer digital art which is now seeing tremendous growth in the crypto sphere. Vesa is unique in that he embraces both the physcial and digital forms of art, where his physcial copies go for a rate at 1 btc per piece (thats $19,200 at time of writing!)\n\nWe really enjoyed this episode as we discuss the early forms of digital art, what the transition of art will look like from the physical to digital realm, how will digital art be used and look like in the context of NFT (non fungible tokens), VR and AR, and how people can get involved! \n\nWe want to give a shout out to our sponsor Blockfinex. Blockfinex is THE Global cryptocurrency exchange where you can trade your cryptos in seconds. With one of the fastest matching engines in the space, and high liquidity, you can trade your favourite cryptocurrencies quickly and seamlessly. Blockfinex offers one of the most competitive trading fees compared to industry leading competitors as well as a quick onboarding process for its users. You can find them at blockfinex.com Special Guest: Vesa.","content_html":"We're super excited to be recording this episode live at the Future Blockchain Summit which was part of Gitex 2020 in Dubai, one of the only in-person events that took place in this crazy 2020 year.
\n\nOur guest for this episode is Vesa, a Finnish artist who has had a unique journey following his interests throughout his life. After stumbling into art, and finding his hidden talents there, Vesa has helped to pioneer digital art which is now seeing tremendous growth in the crypto sphere. Vesa is unique in that he embraces both the physcial and digital forms of art, where his physcial copies go for a rate at 1 btc per piece (thats $19,200 at time of writing!)
\n\nWe really enjoyed this episode as we discuss the early forms of digital art, what the transition of art will look like from the physical to digital realm, how will digital art be used and look like in the context of NFT (non fungible tokens), VR and AR, and how people can get involved!
\n\nWe want to give a shout out to our sponsor Blockfinex. Blockfinex is THE Global cryptocurrency exchange where you can trade your cryptos in seconds. With one of the fastest matching engines in the space, and high liquidity, you can trade your favourite cryptocurrencies quickly and seamlessly. Blockfinex offers one of the most competitive trading fees compared to industry leading competitors as well as a quick onboarding process for its users. You can find them at blockfinex.com
Special Guest: Vesa.
","summary":"In this episode we talk about crypto art! We discuss its origins, what it actually is, why it matters and what to expect in the years to come! Recording from Gitex and the Future Blockchain summit in Dubai, we're super lucky to have recorded this in person using our equipment which haven't been used for several months. Hope you enjoy!","date_published":"2020-12-21T10:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/eb2de6c9-420e-488e-b9c7-3453cb94716f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":44845691,"duration_in_seconds":1868}]},{"id":"cd920f0b-afc2-4526-8aa9-06938cd42d57","title":"#Ep. 75: Crypto Communications - How PR can make or break projects","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/crypto-communications-how-pr-can-make-or-break-projects","content_text":"In this episode we talk public relations and the blurring lines of promoting, community engagement and shilling. Our guests are Mohanned Halawani, founder of Crypto-PR.io and David Wachsman Founder and CEO of WACHSMAN. Both our guests are leaders in the Crypto and Blockchain space for communications.\n\nThis was a great episode for us, both Ahmed and I really enjoyed challenging Mohanned and David to the perception and roles of PR in the industry. If you are looking to leverage PR and comms for your own project or want to know how agencies perceive the space then this episode is for you.\n\nWe want to give a shout out to our sponsor Coinsapp, a global social payments application for cryptocurrencies based on the Dan blockchain ecosystem. It empowers the world to send money around the world in seconds. You can find coins app on google and Apple stores. https://coins.app/Special Guests: David Wachsman and Mohanned Halawani.","content_html":"In this episode we talk public relations and the blurring lines of promoting, community engagement and shilling. Our guests are Mohanned Halawani, founder of Crypto-PR.io and David Wachsman Founder and CEO of WACHSMAN. Both our guests are leaders in the Crypto and Blockchain space for communications.
\n\nThis was a great episode for us, both Ahmed and I really enjoyed challenging Mohanned and David to the perception and roles of PR in the industry. If you are looking to leverage PR and comms for your own project or want to know how agencies perceive the space then this episode is for you.
\n\nWe want to give a shout out to our sponsor Coinsapp, a global social payments application for cryptocurrencies based on the Dan blockchain ecosystem. It empowers the world to send money around the world in seconds. You can find coins app on google and Apple stores. https://coins.app/
Special Guests: David Wachsman and Mohanned Halawani.
","summary":"In this episode we talk public relations and the blurring lines of promoting, community engagement and shilling. Our guests are Mohanned Halawani, founder of Crypto-PR.io and David Wachsman Founder and CEO of WACHSMAN. Both our guests are leaders in the Crypto and Blockchain space for communications as we dive deep into their experience and expertise. ","date_published":"2020-11-30T05:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/cd920f0b-afc2-4526-8aa9-06938cd42d57.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":74372263,"duration_in_seconds":3098}]},{"id":"9b2b9428-588b-4be9-8f62-05cba91a8362","title":"#Ep. 74: Build it and they will come - How one firm is designing chain infrastructure to enable you to scale ","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/build-it-and-they-will-come","content_text":"In this episode we have special guest Joe Lallouz, CEO and Co-founder of Bison Trails.\n\nIn this talk, we deep dive into what running a remote company is like, the transition from physical to remote, how to maintain strong leadership virtually, and more importantly how to retain talent (and how to peacefully allow your good ones to leave if they have an entrepreneurial bug!) There were so many awesome nuggets shared by Joe in this episode even way before we talked about crypto! \n\nOn the crypto side, Joe dives into what Bison Trails are doing and how they are helping to achieve a robust infrastructure set up to ensure blockchains can be easily secured and anyone can easily set up and run a node! This core infrastructure is crucial to the development and uptake of blockchain networks, where we learn how Bison Trails are leading the pack in this area. \n\nSo many things and more in this episode of Encrypted!\n\nThis is absolutely the episode for you if you are looking to know more about running a remote company, leading in a virtual world, a crypto entrepreneur or a project/fund/exchange needing core infrastructure services.\n\nWe hope you enjoy the episode and many thanks again to our wonderful sponsor, CoinsApp! You can find out more at https://coins.app/Special Guest: Joe Lallouz.","content_html":"In this episode we have special guest Joe Lallouz, CEO and Co-founder of Bison Trails.
\n\nIn this talk, we deep dive into what running a remote company is like, the transition from physical to remote, how to maintain strong leadership virtually, and more importantly how to retain talent (and how to peacefully allow your good ones to leave if they have an entrepreneurial bug!) There were so many awesome nuggets shared by Joe in this episode even way before we talked about crypto!
\n\nOn the crypto side, Joe dives into what Bison Trails are doing and how they are helping to achieve a robust infrastructure set up to ensure blockchains can be easily secured and anyone can easily set up and run a node! This core infrastructure is crucial to the development and uptake of blockchain networks, where we learn how Bison Trails are leading the pack in this area.
\n\nSo many things and more in this episode of Encrypted!
\n\nThis is absolutely the episode for you if you are looking to know more about running a remote company, leading in a virtual world, a crypto entrepreneur or a project/fund/exchange needing core infrastructure services.
\n\nWe hope you enjoy the episode and many thanks again to our wonderful sponsor, CoinsApp! You can find out more at https://coins.app/
Special Guest: Joe Lallouz.
","summary":"In this episode, we speak to Joe Lallouz who is the CEO and Co-founder of Bison Trails. This has been one of the most valuable conversations we've ever had on the show that touches on remote working, leadership, retaining talent and crypto infrastructure. So make sure not to miss out on this one!","date_published":"2020-10-26T01:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/9b2b9428-588b-4be9-8f62-05cba91a8362.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":76980793,"duration_in_seconds":3207}]},{"id":"b67f814a-866e-41da-a30c-840c4cc08b07","title":"#Ep. 73: Blending Securities and Defi - Bringing reg tech into CEFI & DEFI ","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/blending-securities-and-defii","content_text":"Todays episode is a great mix of enterprise scaling of tokenised securities and the blending with DeFi. We have the co-founders from Securrency, a leading blockchain and crypto technology platform helping transform the digital securities industry.\n\nHaving started this journey long before ICOs/IEOs and many of form of security or utilities tokens starting gaining steam, John Hensel and Dan Doney began their journey to build their interoperable and very versatile financial supply chain infrastructure.\n\nWith a big focus on compliance and meeting regulatory requirements they are leading the way in enabling cross chain, cross border and cross regulation movement. And with the growth in DeFi and CeFi they are well positioned to be ready for the future of digital finance across the globe.\n\nThis is absolutely the episode for you if you are looking to know more about becoming friends with regulators and building long term visions for you blockchain and fintech business.\n\nWe hope you enjoy the episode and many thanks again to our wonderful sponsor, CoinsApp! You can find out more at https://coins.app/Special Guests: Dan Doney and John Hensel.","content_html":"Todays episode is a great mix of enterprise scaling of tokenised securities and the blending with DeFi. We have the co-founders from Securrency, a leading blockchain and crypto technology platform helping transform the digital securities industry.
\n\nHaving started this journey long before ICOs/IEOs and many of form of security or utilities tokens starting gaining steam, John Hensel and Dan Doney began their journey to build their interoperable and very versatile financial supply chain infrastructure.
\n\nWith a big focus on compliance and meeting regulatory requirements they are leading the way in enabling cross chain, cross border and cross regulation movement. And with the growth in DeFi and CeFi they are well positioned to be ready for the future of digital finance across the globe.
\n\nThis is absolutely the episode for you if you are looking to know more about becoming friends with regulators and building long term visions for you blockchain and fintech business.
\n\nWe hope you enjoy the episode and many thanks again to our wonderful sponsor, CoinsApp! You can find out more at https://coins.app/
Special Guests: Dan Doney and John Hensel.
","summary":"Todays episode is a great mix of enterprise scaling of tokenised securities and the blending with DeFi. We have the co-founders from Securrency, a leading blockchain and crypto technology platform helping transform the digital securities industry.","date_published":"2020-10-05T15:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/b67f814a-866e-41da-a30c-840c4cc08b07.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":68844639,"duration_in_seconds":2868}]},{"id":"3517c70b-6eea-4c06-b9df-c6022b3f8b55","title":"#Ep. 72: Connecting Africa to the World with Danny Oyekan","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/connecting-africa-to-the-world","content_text":"We're super excited to have Danny Oyekan on this episode today. He has been slowly and quietly building his own blockchain empire and ecosystem through a variety of ventures he is spearheading, one of which is CoinsApp, which is one of the sponsors of this show!\n\nIn this episode, we hear more about CoinsApp and the incredible traction it recieved post launch, how they're disrupting the remittance industry and hearing the low down about blockchain and crypto in Africa. \n\nWe also discuss the Defi craze and when the crypto market will be maturing because quite frankly this Defi craze is showing that we are still some time away from any maturity. \n\nWe hope you enjoy the episode and many thanks again to our wonderful sponsor, CoinsApp! You can find out more at https://coins.app/Special Guest: Danny Oyekan.","content_html":"We're super excited to have Danny Oyekan on this episode today. He has been slowly and quietly building his own blockchain empire and ecosystem through a variety of ventures he is spearheading, one of which is CoinsApp, which is one of the sponsors of this show!
\n\nIn this episode, we hear more about CoinsApp and the incredible traction it recieved post launch, how they're disrupting the remittance industry and hearing the low down about blockchain and crypto in Africa.
\n\nWe also discuss the Defi craze and when the crypto market will be maturing because quite frankly this Defi craze is showing that we are still some time away from any maturity.
\n\nWe hope you enjoy the episode and many thanks again to our wonderful sponsor, CoinsApp! You can find out more at https://coins.app/
Special Guest: Danny Oyekan.
","summary":"In episode 72, we hear from Danny Oyekan, the Founder of Dan Holdings, which is an Investment firm focused exclusively on ventures, and projects related to blockchain tech, digital currency, and digital assets. In this talk, we discuss remittances, the blockchain scene in Africa, Defi and when the crypto market will be maturing !","date_published":"2020-09-07T08:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/3517c70b-6eea-4c06-b9df-c6022b3f8b55.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":54041456,"duration_in_seconds":2251}]},{"id":"3bee80d9-43d1-4982-afee-93ad4e718849","title":"#Ep. 71: The Nod of Approval - How Bitt pioneered the world's first concept of a blockchain Central Bank Digital Currency","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/nod-of-approval-how-bitt-pioneered-cbdcs","content_text":"In this episode, we uncover the story of how Barbados set its sights on creating a digital dollar and how this set the course for a legal central bank digital currency across the Caribbean. \n\nWe speak to 3 amazing guests, Dr. Delisle Worrell (the Former Governor of the Barbados Central Bank), Gabriel Abed (Founder of Bitt.com) and Simon Chantry (CBDO at Bitt.com). The three share with us stories from the past of how Bitt.com came about, how the idea of a Central Bank Digital Currency came to light and how Dr. Delisle Worrell as the Governor of the Central Bank gave Gabriel and his team the nod of approval to build out this concept. \n\nWe dive deeper into how the events unfolded over the years, what the future holds for CBCDs and how Bitt.com plans to implement CBDCs across the Caribbean.\n\nAll this and more on this episode of Encrypted!\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word and hitting that subscribe button!\n\nThis episode is sponsored by CoinsApp!Special Guests: Dr. DeLisle Worrell, Gabriel Abed, and Simon Chantry.Sponsored By:Dan Holdings","content_html":"In this episode, we uncover the story of how Barbados set its sights on creating a digital dollar and how this set the course for a legal central bank digital currency across the Caribbean.
\n\nWe speak to 3 amazing guests, Dr. Delisle Worrell (the Former Governor of the Barbados Central Bank), Gabriel Abed (Founder of Bitt.com) and Simon Chantry (CBDO at Bitt.com). The three share with us stories from the past of how Bitt.com came about, how the idea of a Central Bank Digital Currency came to light and how Dr. Delisle Worrell as the Governor of the Central Bank gave Gabriel and his team the nod of approval to build out this concept.
\n\nWe dive deeper into how the events unfolded over the years, what the future holds for CBCDs and how Bitt.com plans to implement CBDCs across the Caribbean.
\n\nAll this and more on this episode of Encrypted!
\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word and hitting that subscribe button!
This episode is sponsored by CoinsApp!
Special Guests: Dr. DeLisle Worrell, Gabriel Abed, and Simon Chantry.
Sponsored By:
","summary":"In today’s episode, we have a super panel, featuring the Ex governor of the Barbados Central Bank, Dr. Deslisle Worrell, Founder of Bitt.com Gabriel Abed, and the CBDO of Bitt.com, Simon Chantry. We uncover the amazing story of how Gabriel and his team defied all odds with their crazy idea for central bank digital currencies, and how they managed to get a nod of approval from the governor of the central bank himself. We also look into how the events unfolded over the years, what the future holds for CBCDs and how Bitt.com plans to implement CBDCs across the Caribbean. \r\n","date_published":"2020-07-30T19:30:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/3bee80d9-43d1-4982-afee-93ad4e718849.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":43009007,"duration_in_seconds":1791}]},{"id":"af53b20c-8fda-405f-831b-48e98d179b6a","title":"#Ep. 70: AI Generated Content - The Why, What and How","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/ai-generated-content-why-what-how","content_text":"We speak to Arif Khan, CEO and Founder of Alethea.AI, which is a blockchain marketplace for synthetic media. \n\nWe discuss all things under the sun related to synthetic media, specifically AI generated content. \n\nWith the drop in costs of computing power, according to Moore's Law, this allows people to experiment with new technology and in this context AI generated content. This is where you have fully AI generated audio, videos and imagery leading people to experiment to create content without needing a particular person in the flesh. Take Alethea.AI's recent demo of Ex-President Obama where you see a virtual baby face Obama reading a script in a voice resembling much like his actual voice which was all created through AI. Essentially you can use Obama's voice to say anything you want! \n\nOf course, there are many implications of this, and Arif shares the good and the bad that can arise and the future demands we may see from such a technology, in particular the various use cases that can arise.\nArif argues that the model of Cut, copy and paste of text transformed our lives, and we're able to do this with cut, copy and paste of a face. Think of how movies, individuals, influencers, can create tell and share new stories. Weird right and if you want to get weirder, think Black Mirror! Arif further argues how during a pandemic, AI generated content becomes more feasible for celebrities and brands to work together.\n\nWe talk about how this is connected to blockchain and why it would enhance the technology further and enable its widespread adoption. \n\nThis is an amazing episode where we learned so much about a new technology, the potential market for it, use cases for our private lives and businesses and how this could truly impact society in the long run. Special Guest: Arif Khan.Sponsored By:Dan Holdings","content_html":"We speak to Arif Khan, CEO and Founder of Alethea.AI, which is a blockchain marketplace for synthetic media.
\n\nWe discuss all things under the sun related to synthetic media, specifically AI generated content.
\n\nWith the drop in costs of computing power, according to Moore's Law, this allows people to experiment with new technology and in this context AI generated content. This is where you have fully AI generated audio, videos and imagery leading people to experiment to create content without needing a particular person in the flesh. Take Alethea.AI's recent demo of Ex-President Obama where you see a virtual baby face Obama reading a script in a voice resembling much like his actual voice which was all created through AI. Essentially you can use Obama's voice to say anything you want!
\n\nOf course, there are many implications of this, and Arif shares the good and the bad that can arise and the future demands we may see from such a technology, in particular the various use cases that can arise.
\nArif argues that the model of Cut, copy and paste of text transformed our lives, and we're able to do this with cut, copy and paste of a face. Think of how movies, individuals, influencers, can create tell and share new stories. Weird right and if you want to get weirder, think Black Mirror! Arif further argues how during a pandemic, AI generated content becomes more feasible for celebrities and brands to work together.
We talk about how this is connected to blockchain and why it would enhance the technology further and enable its widespread adoption.
\n\nThis is an amazing episode where we learned so much about a new technology, the potential market for it, use cases for our private lives and businesses and how this could truly impact society in the long run.
Special Guest: Arif Khan.
Sponsored By:
","summary":"Arif khan is the CEO and founder of Alethea.AI. We discuss what AI generated synthetic media is, why it could explode in the future and how blockchain is enabling real use cases to counter the growing rise in deep fakes and drive the adoption of this new media segment. This episode will blow you away with all the facts and interesting findings around how audio and AI generated content is being used and can be used in many different contexts. \r\n","date_published":"2020-06-30T19:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/af53b20c-8fda-405f-831b-48e98d179b6a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":40854563,"duration_in_seconds":1686}]},{"id":"fbf68e23-f6b8-4239-a9af-474a1191052f","title":"#Ep. 69: A World Divided - Covid19 is the World's Chief Digital Officer","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/covid-19-worlds-chief-digital-officer","content_text":"In this episode we have special guests Maja Vujinovic, Ex CIO of Emerging tech globally for GE Digital and Vinny Lingham, Founder and CEO of Civic. \n\nWith the world living through a pandemic, economic uncertainty and political upheaval through the Black Lives Matter movement in the U.S., we discuss how the world is becoming divided and old traditions being highly questioned. \n\nWe first talk about vaccinication where Vinny walks us through how vaccination will become an underpinning factor for our digital lives and future digital identities. We explore the opportunities, risks and implications of such a system that should be private and free from government control to protect user data.\nMaya with her background in tech and operations shares her experience and the advice and considerations she proposes to governments, leaders and private corporations, particularly around tech ethis. We also discuss the ideas around biohacking and relevant solutions that Maja has been working on. \n\nWith the increasing need of digitization in this COVID19 reality, we also discuss how blockchain is increasingly significant as the technology already exists but needs open mindedness, structural change and acceptance. \n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word and hitting that subscribe button!Special Guests: Maja Vujinovic and Vinny Lingham .Sponsored By:Dan Holdings","content_html":"In this episode we have special guests Maja Vujinovic, Ex CIO of Emerging tech globally for GE Digital and Vinny Lingham, Founder and CEO of Civic.
\n\nWith the world living through a pandemic, economic uncertainty and political upheaval through the Black Lives Matter movement in the U.S., we discuss how the world is becoming divided and old traditions being highly questioned.
\n\nWe first talk about vaccinication where Vinny walks us through how vaccination will become an underpinning factor for our digital lives and future digital identities. We explore the opportunities, risks and implications of such a system that should be private and free from government control to protect user data.
\nMaya with her background in tech and operations shares her experience and the advice and considerations she proposes to governments, leaders and private corporations, particularly around tech ethis. We also discuss the ideas around biohacking and relevant solutions that Maja has been working on.
With the increasing need of digitization in this COVID19 reality, we also discuss how blockchain is increasingly significant as the technology already exists but needs open mindedness, structural change and acceptance.
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word and hitting that subscribe button!
Special Guests: Maja Vujinovic and Vinny Lingham .
Sponsored By:
","summary":"Maja Vujinovic, Ex CIO of Emerging tech globally for GE Digital and Vinny Lingham, Founder and CEO of Civic joins this special episode of Encrypted where we discuss how the world is becoming increasingly divided with recent events, how technologies like blockchain is increasingly becoming relevant with digital identities on the rise and why we need ethical leaders and corporations to lead us into the new generation of technology.","date_published":"2020-06-10T12:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/fbf68e23-f6b8-4239-a9af-474a1191052f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":67346635,"duration_in_seconds":2805}]},{"id":"73056884-569b-4b96-8fd0-ec4d7afcc764","title":"#Ep. 68: Digital Keynote - A Global Economic Crisis is Looming, Now the Time for Blockchain to Leave Self Isolation","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/digital-keynote-future-blockchain-summit","content_text":"Encrypted is excited to partner up with the Future Blockchain Summit who have recently held their first ever Digital Keynote! Digital Keynote, a live webinar series dedicated to tackling and exploring the world of Blockchain. Join us as we discuss with foremost experts from around the globe and break down topics such as Blockchain Development, Use cases, Tokenization , Sustainability, Business Networks and more.\n\nIn this episode of Encrypted, we are sharing the Digital Keynote as a podcast on our channel, to share with our community and audience! In this episode we have superstar speakers from the United Nations, Ant Financial and Swedish Government, moderated by a world-famous radio host & TEDx Speaker all debating on how Blockchain technology will be leveraged to fight the economic collapse caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. \n\nKey takeaways from this panel includes:\n\n\nInnovation and adoption has to come from both government/public sector and the private sector\nActual serious adopotion after pilot project/demos is still low\nBlockchain has a marketing problem\n\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word and hitting that subscribe button!Special Guests: Ben Treganna, David Suomalainen, Ken Rutkowski, and Tony Sun.","content_html":"Encrypted is excited to partner up with the Future Blockchain Summit who have recently held their first ever Digital Keynote! Digital Keynote, a live webinar series dedicated to tackling and exploring the world of Blockchain. Join us as we discuss with foremost experts from around the globe and break down topics such as Blockchain Development, Use cases, Tokenization , Sustainability, Business Networks and more.
\n\nIn this episode of Encrypted, we are sharing the Digital Keynote as a podcast on our channel, to share with our community and audience! In this episode we have superstar speakers from the United Nations, Ant Financial and Swedish Government, moderated by a world-famous radio host & TEDx Speaker all debating on how Blockchain technology will be leveraged to fight the economic collapse caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
\n\nKey takeaways from this panel includes:
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word and hitting that subscribe button!
Special Guests: Ben Treganna, David Suomalainen, Ken Rutkowski, and Tony Sun.
","summary":"Encrypted is excited to partner up with the Future Blockchain Summit who have recently held their first ever Digital Keynote! In this Digital Keynote, the panel saw superstar speakers from the United Nations, Ant Financial and Swedish Government, moderated by a world-famous radio host & TEDx Speaker all debating on how Blockchain technology will be leveraged to fight the economic collapse caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. ","date_published":"2020-05-31T18:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/73056884-569b-4b96-8fd0-ec4d7afcc764.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":54347745,"duration_in_seconds":2264}]},{"id":"e26d58e9-bfa2-4bd0-b2d3-b87c8266de7c","title":"#Ep. 67: Web3 + Egypt + Global Users = Next Gen Privacy Email","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/web3-egypt-globalusers-next-gen-privacy-email","content_text":"Ahmed sits down with Mohamed Abdou, the founder and CEO of Pravica where they discuss a wide range of topics ranging from privacy centric apps being accessible to millions, the opportunities blockchain represents, how it is perceived in emerging countries like Egypt, where do we expect to see adoption coming from and all the learnings Mohamed has had building a Web 3 start up in MENA. \n\nAll this and more on this episode of Encrypted!\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word and hitting that subscribe button!Special Guest: Mohamed Abdou.Sponsored By:Dan Holdings","content_html":"Ahmed sits down with Mohamed Abdou, the founder and CEO of Pravica where they discuss a wide range of topics ranging from privacy centric apps being accessible to millions, the opportunities blockchain represents, how it is perceived in emerging countries like Egypt, where do we expect to see adoption coming from and all the learnings Mohamed has had building a Web 3 start up in MENA.
\n\nAll this and more on this episode of Encrypted!
\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word and hitting that subscribe button!
Special Guest: Mohamed Abdou.
Sponsored By:
","summary":"Today we speak with Mohamed Abdou, the founder and CEO of Pravica, which is MENAs first blockchain powered email service focusing on security and user privacy. In this episode we hear about Mohamed’s journey, why he’s so passionate about bringing privacy to MENA, and what its like to build a Web 3 start up in Egypt with users from all over the world. ","date_published":"2020-05-25T09:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/e26d58e9-bfa2-4bd0-b2d3-b87c8266de7c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":35331117,"duration_in_seconds":1471}]},{"id":"b6dd4f31-18a4-4ae3-9f27-d291cb238456","title":"#Ep. 66: Mike Dudas on how Covid19 is growing attention in the crypto and digital assets space","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/mike-dudas-on-how-covid19-is-growing-attention-in-crypto-digital-assets","content_text":"Mike Dudas is the founder and CEO of The Block, the leading research, media & information brand in the digital asset marketplace. \n\nIn this episode, Ahmed and Mike discuss the global impacts Covid19 is currently having on the tech industry and the chain of events that is happening in Silicon Valley tech companies so far. They also discuss impacts on crypto, and impacts on both their underlying businesses as Mike shares The Block had its record break revenue generating month in March 2020 and also some of their metrics and numbers from a geographical standpoint.\n\nAhmed drives the discussion to understand what leaders and CEOs should do during these intense times and what attributes a wartime CEO should have to navigate uncertain times. They also talk about how we can make this industry move forward as it's an industry which has still not burst out into the mainstream and still lives within its own confines and communities. \n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word and hitting that subscribe button!Special Guest: Mike Dudas.","content_html":"Mike Dudas is the founder and CEO of The Block, the leading research, media & information brand in the digital asset marketplace.
\n\nIn this episode, Ahmed and Mike discuss the global impacts Covid19 is currently having on the tech industry and the chain of events that is happening in Silicon Valley tech companies so far. They also discuss impacts on crypto, and impacts on both their underlying businesses as Mike shares The Block had its record break revenue generating month in March 2020 and also some of their metrics and numbers from a geographical standpoint.
\n\nAhmed drives the discussion to understand what leaders and CEOs should do during these intense times and what attributes a wartime CEO should have to navigate uncertain times. They also talk about how we can make this industry move forward as it's an industry which has still not burst out into the mainstream and still lives within its own confines and communities.
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word and hitting that subscribe button!
Special Guest: Mike Dudas.
","summary":"In this episode, we have Mike Dudas, who is the CEO and founder of The Block, which is one of the most rapidly growing research and media brands in the crypto and digital asset space. We discuss with Mike how Covid19 is affecting tech companies, the impact it will have on crypto , and what attributes a wartime CEO should have during these times. All this and more is discussed on today's episode!","date_published":"2020-04-13T17:30:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/b6dd4f31-18a4-4ae3-9f27-d291cb238456.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":46391189,"duration_in_seconds":1917}]},{"id":"5cc2b268-87ae-48c0-8e8c-3f6b5f2fa889","title":"#Ep. 65: Covid19 Special - A Pandemic of Fake News","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/covid19special-a-pandemic-of-fake-news","content_text":"In this Covid19 special, we have an interesting discussion on how this pandemic became widespread with the advent of lies and fake news. \n\nOur special guest, Arwen Smit, walks us through a few eye opening topics in times like this:\n\n\nThree questions regarding lies:\nHow strong is a lie?\nWho can the lie reach?\nHow to sever the link between the two\nTaxonomy of “fake news”: Mis-information, Mal-information, Dis-information\nWhat type of fake news was spread during the outbreak and where does it fit in?\nIs Corona virus used to push adversarial narratives?\nWhat are the Debunked stories regarding Corona?\nHow can we solve these problems moving forward? What role does tech have to play?\n\n\nAll this and more on this week's episode of Encrypted!Special Guest: Arwen Smit.","content_html":"In this Covid19 special, we have an interesting discussion on how this pandemic became widespread with the advent of lies and fake news.
\n\nOur special guest, Arwen Smit, walks us through a few eye opening topics in times like this:
\n\nHow to sever the link between the two
Taxonomy of “fake news”: Mis-information, Mal-information, Dis-information
What type of fake news was spread during the outbreak and where does it fit in?
Is Corona virus used to push adversarial narratives?
What are the Debunked stories regarding Corona?
How can we solve these problems moving forward? What role does tech have to play?
All this and more on this week's episode of Encrypted!
Special Guest: Arwen Smit.
","summary":"It’s been quite an extraordinary time we live in. The world as we know it is in shutdown due to the Corona virus outbreak. I would like to wish all of our listeners, supporters and everyone around the world good health in these extreme times. \r\nThis is our 65th episode, and we are fully remote! We have a special guest, Arwen Smit, who is the author of Identity Reboot and the Lead Blockchain Strategist and Mintbit. \r\nOn this episode, we talk about lies, the taxonomy of fake news, how this all created unnecessary panic and its consequences, and finally we discuss potential tech solutions that can help during a crisis like this. ","date_published":"2020-03-25T21:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/5cc2b268-87ae-48c0-8e8c-3f6b5f2fa889.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":57352547,"duration_in_seconds":2389}]},{"id":"72268907-1bd4-46c2-9f25-53e2c445ea6a","title":"#Ep. 64: How Orchid is revolutionizing the VPN space through blockchain and crypto!","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/orchid-revolutionizing-vpn-through-blockchain-crypto","content_text":"Ahmed was in Denver, Colorado speaking with Dr. Steven Waterhouse from Orchid Protocol.\n\nDr. Steven (or as he’d like to be called Seven), is quite an experienced individual who can do loads of English accents as well as researching and implementing AI before the dotcom boom, built companies and sold them, and was also a VC investing in a variety of tech companies. He is now decentralizing VPN - Woah hold up, what does that even mean?\n\nIn this really interesting discussion, Ahmed and Seven discuss a variety of topics:\n\n\nWhat was working on AI like before it was called AI\nHow Seven got involved in the crypto space and why he did\nHow Seven played a part in building Pantera Capital, one of the oldest and respected blockchain and crypto funds\n‘The flavor of the day’\nBeing sim swapped and how that led Seven to start Orchid\nWhat decentralizing/distributing VPNs mean? What does it mean for end-users?\nToken economics and business model of Orchid and stakeholders\nUX of utility tokens\n\n\nDo make sure to check it out, especially as these guys are rebuilding the VPN model, particularly in how normal people can make money from providing their bandwidth!Special Guest: Dr. Steven Waterhouse.","content_html":"Ahmed was in Denver, Colorado speaking with Dr. Steven Waterhouse from Orchid Protocol.
\n\nDr. Steven (or as he’d like to be called Seven), is quite an experienced individual who can do loads of English accents as well as researching and implementing AI before the dotcom boom, built companies and sold them, and was also a VC investing in a variety of tech companies. He is now decentralizing VPN - Woah hold up, what does that even mean?
\n\nIn this really interesting discussion, Ahmed and Seven discuss a variety of topics:
\n\nDo make sure to check it out, especially as these guys are rebuilding the VPN model, particularly in how normal people can make money from providing their bandwidth!
Special Guest: Dr. Steven Waterhouse.
","summary":"We were in Denver, Colorado for the amazing EthDenver event, and we were fortunate to catch up with Dr. Steven Waterhouse from Orchid. In this discussion, Ahmed and Seven (yes, he also goes by that name too) discuss what AI looked like in the 1990s, how he built Pantera Capital, how him being swim swapped led him to build Orchid and how Orchid is literally revolutionizing the VPN space!","date_published":"2020-03-03T17:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/72268907-1bd4-46c2-9f25-53e2c445ea6a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":45596265,"duration_in_seconds":1899}]},{"id":"a7d9ce99-78b7-4329-93d7-a181128d19e2","title":"#Ep. 63: Scale matters, Localization doesn't ","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/scale-matters-localization-doesnt","content_text":"Nic had the opportunity to speak with Hussein Khanji, partner at Hoxton Ventures during ArabNet Riyadh in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Hussein walks us through his theory on venture capital, searching for unicorns and avoiding copycats. \nPlus he discusses why business models should be able to transcend borders and why it plays to their investment strategy.Special Guest: Hussein Kanji.","content_html":"Nic had the opportunity to speak with Hussein Khanji, partner at Hoxton Ventures during ArabNet Riyadh in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Hussein walks us through his theory on venture capital, searching for unicorns and avoiding copycats.
\nPlus he discusses why business models should be able to transcend borders and why it plays to their investment strategy.
Special Guest: Hussein Kanji.
","summary":"This episode is part 2 of the Arabnet series we recorded in Saudi Arabia where we welcome Hussein Kanji, Partner at Hoxton ventures. In this discussion Hussein discusses why scale matters, why the copy cat models are at risk, why he is focusing his investment efforts in Europe and what we liked most from the discussion was understanding the way Hoxton Ventures partners with the founders and teams they invest in. ","date_published":"2020-02-14T06:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/a7d9ce99-78b7-4329-93d7-a181128d19e2.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":47229483,"duration_in_seconds":1967}]},{"id":"b993b6f7-fbe2-4d39-af4f-06cfd1880f4b","title":"#Ep. 62: How the UAE is saving AED 11 Billion through blockchain implementation? - World Economic Forum Special ","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/how-the-uae-is-saving-11-billion-aed-through-blockchain","content_text":"We welcome Mariam AlMuhairi live from Davos at the World Economic Forum to discuss with us today the newly published whitepaper from the WEF and Dubai Future Foundation: Inclusive Deployment of Blockchain - Case Studies and Learnings from the United Arab Emirates. \n\nMariam who is the Head of the Center for the 4th Industrial Revolution led the report's formation, paritcularly from a policy standpoint. In this episode, we discuss:\n\n\nMariam's insights from Davos\nKey takeaways from the report\nHow particular challenges such as regulation and stakeholder engagement will be overcome?\nA brief look into the 7 Case Studies included in the report\nC4IR's stance on cryptocurrencies\nTop down vs bottom up approach to deploying innovative opportunities\n\n\nThis was an extremely insightful podcast where we see the Dubai Blockchain Strategy and the Federal Blockchain Strategy achieving higher levels of success!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word and hitting that subscribe button!Special Guest: Mariam Al Muhairi .","content_html":"We welcome Mariam AlMuhairi live from Davos at the World Economic Forum to discuss with us today the newly published whitepaper from the WEF and Dubai Future Foundation: Inclusive Deployment of Blockchain - Case Studies and Learnings from the United Arab Emirates.
\n\nMariam who is the Head of the Center for the 4th Industrial Revolution led the report's formation, paritcularly from a policy standpoint. In this episode, we discuss:
\n\nThis was an extremely insightful podcast where we see the Dubai Blockchain Strategy and the Federal Blockchain Strategy achieving higher levels of success!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word and hitting that subscribe button!
Special Guest: Mariam Al Muhairi .
","summary":"The Dubai Future Foundation and World Economic Forum published a new paper showcasing how the UAE is saving AED 11 billion through deploying blockchain technology. Live from Davos, we speak to Mariam AlMuhairi, who is the head for the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in the UAE to discuss key insights, takeaways and learnings from the paper! She also gives us a low down on the latest developments happening in Davos.","date_published":"2020-01-27T11:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/b993b6f7-fbe2-4d39-af4f-06cfd1880f4b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":36720837,"duration_in_seconds":1529}]},{"id":"92f40201-80ef-4209-a580-2bddaacbb6e5","title":"#Ep. 61: Creating and encouraging Fintech in Saudi Arabia","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/creating-encouraging-fintech-in-saudi-arabia","content_text":"This is part 1 of a series of podcasts recorded during Arabnet Riyadh 2019. We had the pleasure of speaking with Ali Al Omran, Chief Information Officer for Arab Bank.\n\nWe go in to details on how banks in the region are diversifying their interests, creating collaborative environments for startups to work with banks and where the future of fintech is heading as Saudi Arabia moves quickly to disrupt and create growth in its economy.Special Guest: Ali AlOmran.","content_html":"This is part 1 of a series of podcasts recorded during Arabnet Riyadh 2019. We had the pleasure of speaking with Ali Al Omran, Chief Information Officer for Arab Bank.
\n\nWe go in to details on how banks in the region are diversifying their interests, creating collaborative environments for startups to work with banks and where the future of fintech is heading as Saudi Arabia moves quickly to disrupt and create growth in its economy.
Special Guest: Ali AlOmran.
","summary":"We had the pleasure of speaking with Ali Al Omran, Chief Information Officer for Arab Bank at Arabnet Riyadh!\r\n \r\nWe go in to details on how banks in the region are diversifying their interests, creating collaborative environments for startups to work with banks and where the future of fintech is heading as Saudi Arabia moves quickly to disrupt and create growth in its economy.","date_published":"2020-01-22T10:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/92f40201-80ef-4209-a580-2bddaacbb6e5.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":16895786,"duration_in_seconds":674}]},{"id":"77352445-f36e-495e-bf19-385cbeafe92a","title":"#Ep. 60: How an ICO can get you fired and open doors unimagined","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/how-an-ico-can-get-you-fired","content_text":"In episode 60 (woot woot, 60 episodes and counting), Ahmed and Nic speak to Anthony Gilman, Founder and CEO of Aqua. \n\nWe dive into some company drama that unfolded during Aqua's fundraise, especially as they opted to do an inital coin offering (ICO). In this episode Anthony's shares:\n\n\nHow not to do an ICO\nHow he fired his CTO\nHow he made a good situation out of a bad one\nThe hotel and hospitality inudstry's current problems\nHow Aqua is out to solve them\n\n\nWe loved this story Anthony shared because it showed outright the true colours of how certain individuals can be manipulative for personal gain, and more broadly exposed the intention behind most ICOs. Special Guest: Anthony Gelman.","content_html":"In episode 60 (woot woot, 60 episodes and counting), Ahmed and Nic speak to Anthony Gilman, Founder and CEO of Aqua.
\n\nWe dive into some company drama that unfolded during Aqua's fundraise, especially as they opted to do an inital coin offering (ICO). In this episode Anthony's shares:
\n\nWe loved this story Anthony shared because it showed outright the true colours of how certain individuals can be manipulative for personal gain, and more broadly exposed the intention behind most ICOs.
Special Guest: Anthony Gelman.
","summary":"Remember when ICO’s were a thing and everyone tried to do it? Well we have a guest who followed the advice of his team, particularly his CTO, to raise money through an ICO before things turned sour! Hear the story of how Anthony Gilman from AQUA managed to squash the ICO plans, save his company from failure and what his key takeaways were from all the drama that unfolded. ","date_published":"2019-12-17T22:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/77352445-f36e-495e-bf19-385cbeafe92a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":47734681,"duration_in_seconds":1988}]},{"id":"280ea612-8d25-40f9-8024-fbc46c49897d","title":"#Ep. 59: Regulating Crypto in the GCC - The Lowdown","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/regulating-crypto-in-the-gcc-lowdown","content_text":"In this episode, we sit down with lawyers to pick their brains and know how about regulation surrounding blockchain and crypto in the region. Karm Legal is a home grown legal practice based out of the UAE focusing on Fintech and blockchain.\n\nOn the show we have Kokila Alagh, Founder of Karm Legal and Akshata Namjoshi, Senior Associate at Karm Legal speaking to us.\n\nWe discuss:\n\n\nHow progressive the implementation of regulation has been\nComparing regulations/initiatives around ADGM, DIFC, ESCA and Central Bank of Bahrain\nThe recent public consultation paper issued by ESCA\nHow to enter the MENA market from a regulatory and strategic standpoint? What licenses should companies look at? How as a company entering the region should we label ourselves?\nHow long it takes companies to graduate from a sandbox?\nInternational regulatory landscape\nWhy Karm Legal are bullish on security tokens?\n\n\nNic also asks his usual bunch of futuristic ‘What if’ questions which results in inspired answers and we also diverge into other Fintech topics too.Special Guests: Akshata Namjoshi and Kokila Alagh.","content_html":"In this episode, we sit down with lawyers to pick their brains and know how about regulation surrounding blockchain and crypto in the region. Karm Legal is a home grown legal practice based out of the UAE focusing on Fintech and blockchain.
\n\nOn the show we have Kokila Alagh, Founder of Karm Legal and Akshata Namjoshi, Senior Associate at Karm Legal speaking to us.
\n\nWe discuss:
\n\nNic also asks his usual bunch of futuristic ‘What if’ questions which results in inspired answers and we also diverge into other Fintech topics too.
Special Guests: Akshata Namjoshi and Kokila Alagh.
","summary":"We all now that Cryptocurrency regulations has been a headache for regulators and companies around the world. The UAE and the region has been pretty busy lately with attempts to implementing practical regulatory frameworks. In this episode, we speak to Fintech and crypto specialist lawyers Kokila Alagh and Akshata Namjoshi from Karm Legal in the UAE, to discuss how this region is going about regulating this growing and nascent space and what should you do as a crypto company wishing to enter the region?\r\n","date_published":"2019-12-08T05:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/280ea612-8d25-40f9-8024-fbc46c49897d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":57713747,"duration_in_seconds":2404}]},{"id":"d485e272-518e-4d0a-9297-36c0a782ba0d","title":"#Ep. 58: WEEKLY ROUND UP: China, New York, FINCEN, TON","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/weekly-round-up-china-newyork-fincen-ton","content_text":"After several requests by regular listeners, we get back to summarising interesting news that has happened in the last 7 days. \n\nWith Matt Hamilton and Gary Sheynkman as our guest news commentators.\n\nWe discuss some unlikely stories, including you’re not a banana if you say you’re a banana and how this ties into stable coins and FinCEN, how China appears to be 'protecting' (cough cracking down cough) its crypto businesses and a quick catchup on where Telegram Open Network is heading with the SEC.Special Guests: Gary Sheynkman and Matt Hamilton.","content_html":"After several requests by regular listeners, we get back to summarising interesting news that has happened in the last 7 days.
\n\nWith Matt Hamilton and Gary Sheynkman as our guest news commentators.
\n\nWe discuss some unlikely stories, including you’re not a banana if you say you’re a banana and how this ties into stable coins and FinCEN, how China appears to be 'protecting' (cough cracking down cough) its crypto businesses and a quick catchup on where Telegram Open Network is heading with the SEC.
Special Guests: Gary Sheynkman and Matt Hamilton.
","summary":"In this episode, we bring friends of the show to discuss relevant news items from the week. We look at what U.S. regulators had to say about Stablecoins, how Fidelity is the latest company to obtain a custodian license in New York, and dissecting the latest china crypto crackdown. We also discuss Teelgram’s latest updates as some of our guests are secretly TON shillers.","date_published":"2019-11-26T05:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/d485e272-518e-4d0a-9297-36c0a782ba0d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":61955348,"duration_in_seconds":2581}]},{"id":"02653946-9120-4bc5-bb52-05f342af5621","title":"#Ep. 57: How an early YouTube employee is competing against Uber and Airbnb!","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/how-an-early-youtube-employee-is-competing-against-uber-and-airbnb","content_text":"Ahmed is in San Francisco for his first ever visit! As well as attending the San Francisco Blockchain Week, Ahmed set some time to explore a bit of SF and also spent time interviewing one of the pioneers of blockchain technology in SF; Matthew Liu from Origin Protocol. \n\nIn this episode, the pair discuss:\n\n\nMatt’s experience and key lessons as a product manager at Youtube in its early days \nMatt’s ups and downs in entrepreneurship \nWhat it takes to be a real entrepreneur \nWhy Origin is building a platform for decentralised marketplaces\nHow incentivisation functions in Origin\nReal practical use cases\nDifferences in the business models between open sourcing your tech (tokens) vs keeping it private (equity) \nCulture and personality around delivering impact\n\n\nThey also discuss the race to digital supremacy between the U.S. and China!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word and hitting that subscribe button!Special Guest: Matthew Liu.","content_html":"Ahmed is in San Francisco for his first ever visit! As well as attending the San Francisco Blockchain Week, Ahmed set some time to explore a bit of SF and also spent time interviewing one of the pioneers of blockchain technology in SF; Matthew Liu from Origin Protocol.
\n\nIn this episode, the pair discuss:
\n\nThey also discuss the race to digital supremacy between the U.S. and China!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word and hitting that subscribe button!
Special Guest: Matthew Liu.
","summary":"Will marketplaces like Uber and Airbnb decline with the advent of decentralised infrastructure? Ahmed is in San Francisco and chats with Matthew Liu, CEO and Co-founder of Origin Protocol, which is a protocol for creating sharing economy marketplaces on Ethereum. The two discuss Matt’s career as a Product Manager during Youtube’s early days, Matt’s entrepreneurship journey, and what exactly are decentralised marketplaces and how Origin is implementing them. \r\n","date_published":"2019-11-18T05:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/02653946-9120-4bc5-bb52-05f342af5621.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":54677036,"duration_in_seconds":2262}]},{"id":"b70625fb-9c4a-4f7c-8c1d-3447a69aa3f0","title":"#Ep. 56: Cre8ting a future of music artists","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/cre8ting-a-future-of-music-artists-","content_text":"Nic Watson and Ahmed Al Balaghi co-host todays episode with a Millennial angle, with guest star Erik Mendelson, a music executive with Grammy Award Winning artists under his belt.\n\nWe discuss how the record industry is not paying it forwards to the artists and creative teams involved in music production and how blockchain through Tune Token and Cre8tor app will enable a fair share of earnings.\n\nLearn about:\n\n\nTheir journey to securing recognition in technology\nGaining momentum with music industry executives\nOnboarding and recognising tomorrows future artists\nUsing blockchain tech where it matters\nWhy being completely decentralised is not a reality\n\n\nWe also have some fun with music industry stories that involve millennials, rock stars, chickens, tents, blockchain and “wasta”.\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word and hitting that subscribe button!Special Guest: Erik Mendelson.","content_html":"Nic Watson and Ahmed Al Balaghi co-host todays episode with a Millennial angle, with guest star Erik Mendelson, a music executive with Grammy Award Winning artists under his belt.
\n\nWe discuss how the record industry is not paying it forwards to the artists and creative teams involved in music production and how blockchain through Tune Token and Cre8tor app will enable a fair share of earnings.
\n\nLearn about:
\n\nWe also have some fun with music industry stories that involve millennials, rock stars, chickens, tents, blockchain and “wasta”.
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word and hitting that subscribe button!
Special Guest: Erik Mendelson.
","summary":"The intersection of music and tech promises a lot, and in this episode we explore how the blockchain will affect the music industry. We discuss how the record industry is not paying it forwards to the artists and creative teams involved in music production and how blockchain through Tune Token and Cre8tor app will enable a fair share of earnings.\r\n ","date_published":"2019-11-05T05:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/b70625fb-9c4a-4f7c-8c1d-3447a69aa3f0.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":61172397,"duration_in_seconds":2548}]},{"id":"8edab424-0745-4549-a310-09996cd5aa53","title":"#Ep. 55: THE (DIS)TRUST GENERATION: Genuine, Fake and Fraudulent","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/the-distrust-generation-genuine-fake-and-fraudulent","content_text":"Nic Watson and Ahmed Al Balaghi co-host todays episode, with guest Damu Winston, author of “I Don't Trust You, But Blockchain Will Help”\n\nToday we focus on distrust and what it means to live in a world of genuine, fake and fraudulent trust. In a world where every day you are surrounded by information that directs your decision making and purchasing habits, how can you be sure what you are basing your decisions on are real.\n\nThere are so many factors that impact trust and how organisations, individuals and social groups are more than ever relying on fraudulent information to make decisions.\n\nDamu covers key technologies including blockchain that will enhance how genuine trust can replace fake trust and its impact on how we interact daily with each other, corporations and governments.\n\nExpect to walk away with:\n\n\nA different opinion of what trust is\nHow future technologies will impact even greater what is genuine and what is not\nWhere you can get Damu’s free ebook\nWhy distrust is more important to understand than trust\nHow Alexa, Siri and other game changing voice tech will impact trust\n\n\nAnd don’t forget to stick around for the whole episode as we have a few laughs about 6 year olds teaching enterprise technology decision makers about bitcoin.\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word and hitting that subscribe button!Special Guest: Damu Winston.","content_html":"Nic Watson and Ahmed Al Balaghi co-host todays episode, with guest Damu Winston, author of “I Don't Trust You, But Blockchain Will Help”
\n\nToday we focus on distrust and what it means to live in a world of genuine, fake and fraudulent trust. In a world where every day you are surrounded by information that directs your decision making and purchasing habits, how can you be sure what you are basing your decisions on are real.
\n\nThere are so many factors that impact trust and how organisations, individuals and social groups are more than ever relying on fraudulent information to make decisions.
\n\nDamu covers key technologies including blockchain that will enhance how genuine trust can replace fake trust and its impact on how we interact daily with each other, corporations and governments.
\n\nExpect to walk away with:
\n\nAnd don’t forget to stick around for the whole episode as we have a few laughs about 6 year olds teaching enterprise technology decision makers about bitcoin.
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word and hitting that subscribe button!
Special Guest: Damu Winston.
","summary":"Today we focus on distrust and what it means to live in a world of genuine, fake and fraudulent trust. In a world where every day you are surrounded by information that directs your decision making and purchasing habits, how can you be sure what you are basing your decisions on are real. Ahmed and Nic are joined by Damu Winston, author of “I Don't Trust You, But Blockchain Will Help”.","date_published":"2019-10-21T00:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/8edab424-0745-4549-a310-09996cd5aa53.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":57237659,"duration_in_seconds":2384}]},{"id":"dfc9105e-51ed-4272-9934-879a7eeb7983","title":"#Ep. 54: Encrypted @ Gitex - The Future of Programmable Money","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/encrypted-at-gitex-the-future-of-programmable-money","content_text":"We are live! We held a live podcast at Gitex and discussed an awesome topic ‘The future of programmable money’!\n\nWe had two great guests on the show: Gabriel Abed from Bitt.com and Aruba Khalid from the Dubai Future Foundation. In this episode, we discussed:\n\n\nWhy programmable money is important (04:17)\nWhat is programmable money (06:32)\n Money for the authorities: Is there an argument for separating political decisions from economic outcomes (09:47)\nHow Bitt.com have helped central banks to create central bank digital currency (11:47)\nAdvantages of central bank digital currencies (16:42)\nAre banks needed if central banks create their own central bank digital currencies? (18:00)\n Money for the corporations: Libra and how money is based on its usefulness (19:18)\nCan we program money that is useful and is private? (22:22)\nThe roles of regulators when regulating Money for the corporations (25:17)\nThe advent of corporation based money (29:45)\nNow it all depends on who you trust (32:02)\nMoney for the people: Cryptocurrencies have forced the conversation (35:29)\nBitcoin is designed to protect the 99% (36:22)\nBitcoin prices and fluctuations (39:17)\n\n\nThis was another amazing live panel we hosted as we discussed the real problems and questions surrounding programmable money and what sound money looks like. \n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word and hitting that subscribe button!Special Guests: Aruba Khalid and Gabriel Abed.","content_html":"We are live! We held a live podcast at Gitex and discussed an awesome topic ‘The future of programmable money’!
\n\nWe had two great guests on the show: Gabriel Abed from Bitt.com and Aruba Khalid from the Dubai Future Foundation. In this episode, we discussed:
\n\nThis was another amazing live panel we hosted as we discussed the real problems and questions surrounding programmable money and what sound money looks like.
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word and hitting that subscribe button!
Special Guests: Aruba Khalid and Gabriel Abed.
","summary":"Bitcoin. The US dollar. Litecoin. The Euro, oh and wait how can we forget gold. Money - the thing that drives this world, for the good or better, is going through an unprecedented shift like never before. It’s becoming digital and programmable. In this live episode we did at Gitex with the Future Blockchain summit, I sit down with Gabriel Abed and Aruba Khalid to discuss the Future of Programmable Money and we look at it through three lenses, Money for the authorities, money for the corporations and money for the people. ","date_published":"2019-10-14T05:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/dfc9105e-51ed-4272-9934-879a7eeb7983.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":71542257,"duration_in_seconds":2980}]},{"id":"57dee094-3e39-461a-a34d-4fd67fded81c","title":"#Ep. 53: How a young Chinese entrepreneur is building a crypto empire","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/young-chines-entrepreneur-creating-crypto-empire","content_text":"Interested in hearing about how a young 27 year old is building a crypto empire?\n\nAhmed is in one of his favourite places in the world, Shanghai, for the Shanghai Blockchain week. In this episode, he caught up with James Wo, CEO and Founder of Digital Finance Group.\n\nThe two delve right in to talk about James’ incredible ventures as well as latest topics in the crypto world including:\n\n\nDigital Finance Group’s $80 million venture fund which was raised from traditional capital in Shanghai (02:10)\nBridging UAE and China: Why are they setting up an exchange in Abu Dhabi and how they got an In Principal Approval from the ADGM (04:50)\nHow MENA is a big enough market for multiple exchanges to operate (09:00)\nProof of work Vs Proof of Stake (12:30)\nWould you choose Bitcoin or Ethereum. Interesting thoughts from James! (15:15)\nBlockchain and crypto ecosystem in China (16:54)\n\n\nAll of the above and more is discussed on this week’s episode of Encrypted!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word and hitting that subscribe button!Special Guest: James Wo.","content_html":"Interested in hearing about how a young 27 year old is building a crypto empire?
\n\nAhmed is in one of his favourite places in the world, Shanghai, for the Shanghai Blockchain week. In this episode, he caught up with James Wo, CEO and Founder of Digital Finance Group.
\n\nThe two delve right in to talk about James’ incredible ventures as well as latest topics in the crypto world including:
\n\nAll of the above and more is discussed on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word and hitting that subscribe button!
Special Guest: James Wo.
","summary":"We have a super episode in the Far East and our special guest is James Wo, Founder and CEO of Digital Finance Group. We talk about how James is building a crypto empire at age 27, how he is building a China - Middle East bridge and the current developments in the Chinese blockchain ecosystem. ","date_published":"2019-10-07T11:30:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/57dee094-3e39-461a-a34d-4fd67fded81c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":22676825,"duration_in_seconds":944}]},{"id":"50aad325-497c-439b-8a55-59d2e7ab5deb","title":"#Ep. 52: The TikTok vs Baidu Court Case, Switzerland as a Blockchain Hub and why Homeschooling rocks!","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/tiktok-baidu-court-case-shanghai-blockchain-week","content_text":"Ahmed jetted off to China for the Shanghai Blockchain Week and in this episode, he is joined by an old friend of his, David Johnston. David is literally an OG in this space getting involved as early as 2012 and has contributed in more ways than one since joining. He is currently the Chairman of Factom and the Managing Director of Yeomans Global Capital. \n\nAhmed reminisces the first time he and David first met, remembering a quote he would never forget; ‘Everything that can be decentralized will be decentralized’. This was jokingly described as Johnston’s law when David first introduced this at the Coin Summit in 2014. Great, things will be decentralised but when and to what extent? David does a good job showcasing how and when certain processes and use cases should be decentralised. \n\nThe two dig deeper to explore what use cases we are seeing today that is both decentralised and has some credible adoption behind it. Other than Bitcoin, of course, David goes onto explain how Factom, a decentralised blockchain that anchors into bitcoin and ethereum, has secured hundreds of millions of business records and cites a couple of uses by real companies using Factom as a way to record business documents. This is where the amazing TikTok Baidu case was revealed by David. You definitely don’t want to miss this interesting court case story, oh and the supreme court of China was involved too. \nDavid goes into what Factom is and why it exists claiming that it solves as many problems as bitcoin does as its core focus is on record keeping which allows for strong transparency and accountability.\n\nAhmed shifts the conversation to see David’s opinion on which jurisdiction is the best for blockchain and crypto. In his words - ‘Switzerland. Hands down’. Ahmed, a bit shell shocked dove in to understand why David thinks Switzerland is the hotspot for blockchain and David urges blockchain projects should consider moving to Zug, which is dubbed as Crypto Valley.\n\nDavid further shocks Ahmed when Ahmed asks him Bitcoin or Ethereum. David chooses Ethereum for a number of reasons - Do make sure to listen to hear why!\n\nBefore the end of the show, the pair go off on a completely random topic - Homeschooling. As David mentioned he was homeschooled, Ahmed was intrigued to find out what is homeschooling about, hows it different from public schooling and why parents make the decision to homeschool their children. \n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!Special Guest: David Johnston.","content_html":"Ahmed jetted off to China for the Shanghai Blockchain Week and in this episode, he is joined by an old friend of his, David Johnston. David is literally an OG in this space getting involved as early as 2012 and has contributed in more ways than one since joining. He is currently the Chairman of Factom and the Managing Director of Yeomans Global Capital.
\n\nAhmed reminisces the first time he and David first met, remembering a quote he would never forget; ‘Everything that can be decentralized will be decentralized’. This was jokingly described as Johnston’s law when David first introduced this at the Coin Summit in 2014. Great, things will be decentralised but when and to what extent? David does a good job showcasing how and when certain processes and use cases should be decentralised.
\n\nThe two dig deeper to explore what use cases we are seeing today that is both decentralised and has some credible adoption behind it. Other than Bitcoin, of course, David goes onto explain how Factom, a decentralised blockchain that anchors into bitcoin and ethereum, has secured hundreds of millions of business records and cites a couple of uses by real companies using Factom as a way to record business documents. This is where the amazing TikTok Baidu case was revealed by David. You definitely don’t want to miss this interesting court case story, oh and the supreme court of China was involved too.
\nDavid goes into what Factom is and why it exists claiming that it solves as many problems as bitcoin does as its core focus is on record keeping which allows for strong transparency and accountability.
Ahmed shifts the conversation to see David’s opinion on which jurisdiction is the best for blockchain and crypto. In his words - ‘Switzerland. Hands down’. Ahmed, a bit shell shocked dove in to understand why David thinks Switzerland is the hotspot for blockchain and David urges blockchain projects should consider moving to Zug, which is dubbed as Crypto Valley.
\n\nDavid further shocks Ahmed when Ahmed asks him Bitcoin or Ethereum. David chooses Ethereum for a number of reasons - Do make sure to listen to hear why!
\n\nBefore the end of the show, the pair go off on a completely random topic - Homeschooling. As David mentioned he was homeschooled, Ahmed was intrigued to find out what is homeschooling about, hows it different from public schooling and why parents make the decision to homeschool their children.
\n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
Special Guest: David Johnston.
","summary":"Ahmed is back in China again and this time in Shanghai for the blockchain week where he is joined by a crypto OG, David Johnston. In this awesome episode, the pair discuss how blockchain solved a legal court case between two Chinese tech giants TikTok and Baidu, why Switzerland is the global blockchain hub and why homeschooling rocks. They pretty much covered several topics in this episode!","date_published":"2019-09-30T05:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/50aad325-497c-439b-8a55-59d2e7ab5deb.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":47123511,"duration_in_seconds":1947}]},{"id":"6dcb5f78-a547-4ac4-b401-c550da58b77e","title":"#Ep. 51: Assessing token models: Why tokens are a unit of trust? ","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/assessing-token-models-why-tokens-are-a-unit-of-trust","content_text":"In this episode, Ahmed sits with Pranav Sharma, Founding Partner of Woodstock Fund. \n\nWoodstock Fund is a new and emerging crypto fund based out of India and Pranav delves into how their fund operates, in particular, their 3 core focuses, which include:\nPublic decentralised ledger technology \nDecentralised finance\nWeb 3.0\n\nPranav shares his experience of co-creating creative solutions in sales and distribution and how his learnings through creating this led him to create the fund he is running today. \n\nAhmed sets the theme for the episode which focuses on the right investment vehicles behind cryptocurrencies and assessing the optimal token models that make sense.\n\nStarting off with public chains, Pranav explains their thesis behind the investments they made in Holochain, Casper Labs and Elrond. From a decentralised finance perspective, Pranav shares why this emerging sector is not just important for the new value it can bring but how it’s solving problems that currently exist in traditional finance. Web 3.0, according to Pranav, is all about being more human and unbundling of the human potential wherever you are in the world. \n\nPranav expresses that the right economics has to come into play before any consideration of investment. Ahmed is intrigued about what is the right vehicle when investing in these projects as the investor can invest in equity, tokens and convertible notes. In the past two years, countless projects used tokens as a way to raise money without necessarily thinking about how token economics will play and pan out in the future. \n\nHow do you define the right instrument when building out a project? Pranav argues the business model should drive this decision and currently, in this cycle of the crypto market we are seeing more projects using the right instruments during fundraising.\nBut the question still arises, should investors go for equity (which has legal recourse) or go for tokens which are still largely unregulated with not so much legal recourse.\n\nRunning a pro token investment fund, Pranav gives many suggestions to the above, from a dual equity-token structure, or raising through an STO which can then be converted to a utility, or the project themselves having to bootstrap the project until they find minimum viable utility where a token is the right instrument in this case.\n\nTokens as a unit of trust\nAhmed and Pranav then discuss the different ways to assess token models and how an investor can discern whether a token model makes sense or not. Pranav shares his experience with the 6 investments they have made and that a token model should be looked at from two important aspects: Ecosystem and adoption. \n\nSomeone can create the best technology ever, but if the ecosystem is small and there is zero to little adoption, then what is the point? Pranav also shares a technical-economic response between demand and supply and how the right economics should facilitate more adoption in a perpetual enforcing cycle.\n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!Special Guest: Pranav Sharma.","content_html":"In this episode, Ahmed sits with Pranav Sharma, Founding Partner of Woodstock Fund.
\n\nWoodstock Fund is a new and emerging crypto fund based out of India and Pranav delves into how their fund operates, in particular, their 3 core focuses, which include:
\nPublic decentralised ledger technology
\nDecentralised finance
\nWeb 3.0
Pranav shares his experience of co-creating creative solutions in sales and distribution and how his learnings through creating this led him to create the fund he is running today.
\n\nAhmed sets the theme for the episode which focuses on the right investment vehicles behind cryptocurrencies and assessing the optimal token models that make sense.
\n\nStarting off with public chains, Pranav explains their thesis behind the investments they made in Holochain, Casper Labs and Elrond. From a decentralised finance perspective, Pranav shares why this emerging sector is not just important for the new value it can bring but how it’s solving problems that currently exist in traditional finance. Web 3.0, according to Pranav, is all about being more human and unbundling of the human potential wherever you are in the world.
\n\nPranav expresses that the right economics has to come into play before any consideration of investment. Ahmed is intrigued about what is the right vehicle when investing in these projects as the investor can invest in equity, tokens and convertible notes. In the past two years, countless projects used tokens as a way to raise money without necessarily thinking about how token economics will play and pan out in the future.
\n\nHow do you define the right instrument when building out a project? Pranav argues the business model should drive this decision and currently, in this cycle of the crypto market we are seeing more projects using the right instruments during fundraising.
\nBut the question still arises, should investors go for equity (which has legal recourse) or go for tokens which are still largely unregulated with not so much legal recourse.
Running a pro token investment fund, Pranav gives many suggestions to the above, from a dual equity-token structure, or raising through an STO which can then be converted to a utility, or the project themselves having to bootstrap the project until they find minimum viable utility where a token is the right instrument in this case.
\n\nTokens as a unit of trust
\nAhmed and Pranav then discuss the different ways to assess token models and how an investor can discern whether a token model makes sense or not. Pranav shares his experience with the 6 investments they have made and that a token model should be looked at from two important aspects: Ecosystem and adoption.
Someone can create the best technology ever, but if the ecosystem is small and there is zero to little adoption, then what is the point? Pranav also shares a technical-economic response between demand and supply and how the right economics should facilitate more adoption in a perpetual enforcing cycle.
\n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
Special Guest: Pranav Sharma.
","summary":"There are over 2000 different cryptocurrencies and tokens on the market. How can you assess them, and how can you differentiate the good token models from the bad? Ahmed sits down with Pranav Sharma, Founding Partner of Woodstock Fund, where they discuss investment vehicles in crypto projects, how to assess token models and why tokens are a unit of trust. ","date_published":"2019-09-22T09:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/6dcb5f78-a547-4ac4-b401-c550da58b77e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":44467883,"duration_in_seconds":1852}]},{"id":"84db56c8-97b3-4216-a4b8-ac0055d1097e","title":"#Ep. 50: Special 50th episode - Everyone's an 'Economist'","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/everyones-an-economist","content_text":"It’s our 50th episode anniversary!!! In this episode, Nic and Ahmed are back to co-hosting together, and for this special milestone, we have a special topic in store.\n\nWe are joined by Amin Elkholy, Siddiq Farid and Matt Hamilton to discuss all things economy, crypto, sound money, pending recessions, global reserve currency and much more!\n\nThe first topic is all about crypto or fiat, examining traditional currencies and what sound money could look like in the future. Amin and Ahmed look from a historical point of view whereas Matt and Siddiq look at this from a technological perspective. \n\nSince currencies and money are tied with central banks and monetary policy, the conversation diverges into the role of central banks in the future, how credit, leverage, and distribution of money works, particularly the distribution of money into private banks, and ultimately why the tools that central banks use today could be totally disrupted with transparent distribution of money via the concept of central bank digital currencies. \n\nThe conversation then goes into the pros and cons of central bank digital currencies, the impact of removing cash and China’s plans to be the first country to issue a central bank digital currency. \n\nAmin gives fascinating ideas around how commercial banks can possibly innovate when central bank digital currencies do become a reality. In this scenario, will consumers be in the driving seat if there is an efficient allocation of money and capital from the central bank to the consumer and then the consumer decides which bank they can deposit their money, effectively leading to dynamic and competitive interest rates and pricing?\nThe discussion continues into the concept of money vs gold, and how consensus plays a big role in whether a currency is accepted or not. \n\nAs a limited supply of a currency can bring certain stability to that currency and an economy, Nic argues that leveraging has created an enormous amount of wealth and is thus a key factor in the economy. However, we see huge amounts of inequality in wealth and income distribution with only a tiny percentage of the world population managing to amass most of the generated wealth. Amin sees it from a different perspective where the distribution of money supply is not distributed properly and thus income and wealth inequality can arise.\n\nAs the economy is globally slowing down, the gentlemen speak about an impending recession and look at history lessons to try and dictate the future. Matt speaks out against negative interest rates and explains how the U.S. is currently experiencing it and what he expects the Fed’s reaction will be. \n\nNic then asks the guests to predict what the future will look like in 15 years! Check out what they had to say.\n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!Special Guests: Amin El-Kholy, Matt Hamilton, and Siddiq Farid.","content_html":"It’s our 50th episode anniversary!!! In this episode, Nic and Ahmed are back to co-hosting together, and for this special milestone, we have a special topic in store.
\n\nWe are joined by Amin Elkholy, Siddiq Farid and Matt Hamilton to discuss all things economy, crypto, sound money, pending recessions, global reserve currency and much more!
\n\nThe first topic is all about crypto or fiat, examining traditional currencies and what sound money could look like in the future. Amin and Ahmed look from a historical point of view whereas Matt and Siddiq look at this from a technological perspective.
\n\nSince currencies and money are tied with central banks and monetary policy, the conversation diverges into the role of central banks in the future, how credit, leverage, and distribution of money works, particularly the distribution of money into private banks, and ultimately why the tools that central banks use today could be totally disrupted with transparent distribution of money via the concept of central bank digital currencies.
\n\nThe conversation then goes into the pros and cons of central bank digital currencies, the impact of removing cash and China’s plans to be the first country to issue a central bank digital currency.
\n\nAmin gives fascinating ideas around how commercial banks can possibly innovate when central bank digital currencies do become a reality. In this scenario, will consumers be in the driving seat if there is an efficient allocation of money and capital from the central bank to the consumer and then the consumer decides which bank they can deposit their money, effectively leading to dynamic and competitive interest rates and pricing?
\nThe discussion continues into the concept of money vs gold, and how consensus plays a big role in whether a currency is accepted or not.
As a limited supply of a currency can bring certain stability to that currency and an economy, Nic argues that leveraging has created an enormous amount of wealth and is thus a key factor in the economy. However, we see huge amounts of inequality in wealth and income distribution with only a tiny percentage of the world population managing to amass most of the generated wealth. Amin sees it from a different perspective where the distribution of money supply is not distributed properly and thus income and wealth inequality can arise.
\n\nAs the economy is globally slowing down, the gentlemen speak about an impending recession and look at history lessons to try and dictate the future. Matt speaks out against negative interest rates and explains how the U.S. is currently experiencing it and what he expects the Fed’s reaction will be.
\n\nNic then asks the guests to predict what the future will look like in 15 years! Check out what they had to say.
\n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
Special Guests: Amin El-Kholy, Matt Hamilton, and Siddiq Farid.
","summary":"You know those keyboard warriors on What’s app groups who just love to debate? Would it not be better for them to debate over chai and maybe record it as a podcast? Well, to celebrate our 50th episode, we brought in the guys from a Fintech group that we run who love debating the economy and how it affects central banks, crypto and the future of finance. So much interesting knowledge on the economy and the intersection between traditional economics, monetary policy, and cryptoassets. ","date_published":"2019-09-11T05:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/84db56c8-97b3-4216-a4b8-ac0055d1097e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":68625787,"duration_in_seconds":4288}]},{"id":"712a92b0-cb0d-4b79-afde-e7694a158ed9","title":"#Ep. 49: 1 Ethereum address for every 110 people: Why adoption rates are super low in Crypto today!","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/1-ethereum-address-for-every-110-people-low-adoption-crypto","content_text":"Ahmed sits down with Fredrik Haga, co-founder of Dune Analytics to discuss crypto and blockchain adoption rates and exploring why these adoption rates are still so low today!\n\nFredrik is focusing on making data on the blockchain more accessible to project founders, investors, and individuals by analysing and aggregating public blockchain data. The two talk about the right types of metrics needed to measure the right levels of adoptions and how to measure the success of a product and its market fit. \n\nExtraordinary data they showcased in Berlin shows that there is 1 Ethereum address for every 110 people. Only 1 in every 110 people! But is this the right metric to measure for success?\nFredrik argues that they’re creating a platform not just to state what the right metrics are but to allow their users to have a say in what success looks like and what are the right metrics to measure. \n\nOf course, retention rates are top in priority and Fredrik explains a certain case they’ve been seeing within the context of the MakerDAO project. He argues that although the macro data for MakerDAO are positive but when you dig into the data, there are many surprises in store. Surprise surprise, retention rates in crypto-related products such as MakerDAO are still super low!\n\nFredrik also goes into his enterprise experience, working for one of the largest Norwegian media companies which looked to implement blockchain in their operations. Going into the infrastructure of trust, particularly in a jurisdiction like Norway where people trust their government, the pair really explore if blockchain, privacy by design and all the things this industry stands for matters for these types of institutions and countries. \n\nBefore the pair sign off, Fredrik goes into his takeaways from Berlin Blockchain Week. He sees usability and real use cases are coming to front and center instead of fancy tech stuff taking the limelight. \n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!Special Guest: Fredrik Haga.","content_html":"Ahmed sits down with Fredrik Haga, co-founder of Dune Analytics to discuss crypto and blockchain adoption rates and exploring why these adoption rates are still so low today!
\n\nFredrik is focusing on making data on the blockchain more accessible to project founders, investors, and individuals by analysing and aggregating public blockchain data. The two talk about the right types of metrics needed to measure the right levels of adoptions and how to measure the success of a product and its market fit.
\n\nExtraordinary data they showcased in Berlin shows that there is 1 Ethereum address for every 110 people. Only 1 in every 110 people! But is this the right metric to measure for success?
\nFredrik argues that they’re creating a platform not just to state what the right metrics are but to allow their users to have a say in what success looks like and what are the right metrics to measure.
Of course, retention rates are top in priority and Fredrik explains a certain case they’ve been seeing within the context of the MakerDAO project. He argues that although the macro data for MakerDAO are positive but when you dig into the data, there are many surprises in store. Surprise surprise, retention rates in crypto-related products such as MakerDAO are still super low!
\n\nFredrik also goes into his enterprise experience, working for one of the largest Norwegian media companies which looked to implement blockchain in their operations. Going into the infrastructure of trust, particularly in a jurisdiction like Norway where people trust their government, the pair really explore if blockchain, privacy by design and all the things this industry stands for matters for these types of institutions and countries.
\n\nBefore the pair sign off, Fredrik goes into his takeaways from Berlin Blockchain Week. He sees usability and real use cases are coming to front and center instead of fancy tech stuff taking the limelight.
\n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
Special Guest: Fredrik Haga.
","summary":"There is 1 Ethereum address for every 110 people! Is this the right metric to look at? What about retention rates of crypto-related products? Ahmed sits down with Fredrik Haga from Dune Analytics in Berlin Blockchain Week to discuss why the adoption rates of crypto products and even permisisoned blockchain applications are still super low today and what success for crypto products would look like!","date_published":"2019-09-02T05:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/712a92b0-cb0d-4b79-afde-e7694a158ed9.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":26585569,"duration_in_seconds":1107}]},{"id":"3a40b6c2-2cd2-4646-b110-0d2e6baef753","title":"#Ep. 48: Berlin Blockchain Week: Why is the Ex-CTO and Cofounder of Ethereum preaching Less Trust, More Truth?","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/why-the-ex-cto-co-founder-of-ethereum-is-preaching-less-trust-more-truth","content_text":"Ahmed is in Berlin for Berlin Blockchain Week, and as part of this short Berlin Blockchain Week series, we are super excited to have Dr. Gavin Wood, who is the President and Founder of Web 3 Foundation and notably known for being one of the co-founders and Ex CTO of Ethereum. \n\nAhmed dives into Gavin’s value system and tries to understand why he is pursuing the path he is currently on. Driven by curiosity, we learn that he helped to code the ideas that Vitalik drew up for Ethereum and is increasingly curious about what else he can create next! \n\nAhmed, curious about Gavin’s experiences, wants to find out the challenges he faced in the past 6 years as a prolific tech leader in the field and most importantly how he discerned the cynical from the authentic. \n\nWe also get some interesting opinions on a few topics:\n\n\nBitcoin vs Ethereum? Gavin gives us his views on which one he’d pick if bitcoin and ethereum were hanging off a cliff! \nIf blockchain was deployed in a country, which country would you deploy it in? Gavin thinks superpowers!\n\n\nOn one of the last things advocated by Gavin is a push for reducing the need for trust in the world; less trust, more truth. \n\nMusic Credit: LAKEY INSPIRED\n\nTrack Name: Warm Nights\n\nMusic By: LAKEY INSPIRED @ https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired\n\nOriginal upload HERE – https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired/warm-nightsSpecial Guest: Dr. Gavin Wood.Sponsored By:CBX : CBX is a digital asset trading platform dedicated to providing users with safe and professional digital currency trading services. The company has independent operating teams in UAE, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, and the London, other countries and regions.\r\n","content_html":"Ahmed is in Berlin for Berlin Blockchain Week, and as part of this short Berlin Blockchain Week series, we are super excited to have Dr. Gavin Wood, who is the President and Founder of Web 3 Foundation and notably known for being one of the co-founders and Ex CTO of Ethereum.
\n\nAhmed dives into Gavin’s value system and tries to understand why he is pursuing the path he is currently on. Driven by curiosity, we learn that he helped to code the ideas that Vitalik drew up for Ethereum and is increasingly curious about what else he can create next!
\n\nAhmed, curious about Gavin’s experiences, wants to find out the challenges he faced in the past 6 years as a prolific tech leader in the field and most importantly how he discerned the cynical from the authentic.
\n\nWe also get some interesting opinions on a few topics:
\n\nOn one of the last things advocated by Gavin is a push for reducing the need for trust in the world; less trust, more truth.
\n\nMusic Credit: LAKEY INSPIRED
\n\nTrack Name: Warm Nights
\n\nMusic By: LAKEY INSPIRED @ https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired
\n\nOriginal upload HERE – https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired/warm-nights
Special Guest: Dr. Gavin Wood.
Sponsored By:
Richard Muirhead is a Co-Founder and General Partner at Fabric Ventures. Our host Ahmed recorded this episode in sunny London at the Fabric Ventures office.
\n\nWith an established career in engineering, entrepreneurship and investing, Ahmed was intrigued to find out Richard’s core and to see what influenced him to become the person he is today. Richard shares parts of his childhood experiences when growing up and how his post-university experiences, particularly in building companies, has built much of who he is today. This led him to believe that developers and computer engineers are the primary driving forces behind successful businesses.
\n\nMoving onto Web 3 and its construct, Richard talks about why Web 3 is his focus touching on the intersections of easily architecting software that is easily interwoven in our lives, how the world currently works and how start-ups succeed.
\nAs Google came up with the motto “Don’t be evil’, Fabric Ventures thought about this differently. Their motto is ‘Cant’ be evil’ and Richard discusses the story behind why they came up with this motto and concepts such as privacy by design.
As Fabric Ventures are currently fundraising, Ahmed was intrigued to find out how Richard and the team are trying to convince the wider investor community and traditional LP’s to invest in this new wave. The ideas surrounding Web 3 are great, but how can you rally traditional investors to back you? Richard articulately lays down the the things that get the investors excited and things that they should avoid.
\n\nAhmed shifts the conversation to the types of entrepreneurs that Fabric will typically back. If you’re a Web 3 entrepreneur reading this or listening to the podcast, make sure you listen to what Richard had to say!
\n\nEnterprise and tech titans - how are they looking at this and will they be adapting? Ahmed and Richard discussed whether or not the current incumbents will be able to change their business models to the new world of Web 3 and the new value chain that will emerge as a result. Richard draws interesting comparisons from history citing the move from IP to cloud (around 10 years ago) created lots of software applications and resulted in huge value creation. He argues we may see something similar when we move from IP to an architecture whereby people and companies all hold their own data and share it at their will in an interwoven system.
\n\nFinally, the two touch on regulation to see how GDPR and Open Banking will be able to aid this nascent industry in moving forward!
\n\nAll this and more is discussed in the week’s episode of Encrypted!
Special Guest: Richard Muirhead.
","summary":"If you could architect a new internet where privacy is in the users’ control, how would you go about doing that? Richard Muirhead, Founder and General parter of Fabric Ventures articulates why and how a new privacy-centric construct of the internet, commonly known as Web 3, would take place. We discuss why Web 3, the ‘Can't be evil’ motto, how to convey Web 3 to traditional investors, and the intersection of Web 3, enterprise and regulation. ","date_published":"2019-07-29T05:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/60aae222-281b-4e39-95e8-89f534b89ab2.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":37738211,"duration_in_seconds":2358}]},{"id":"c7ea3326-0187-4673-85f8-7466134996c1","title":"#Ep. 46: Why this start-up is crucial for the Dubai Blockchain Strategy!","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/why-this-start-up-is-crucial-for-the-dubai-blockchain-strategy","content_text":"Richard Ma is the CEO of Quantstamp, one of the leading smart contract auditing firms in blockchain space\n\nIn this episode, Ahmed and Nic speak to Richard to understand what on earth Quantstamp do and why their smart contract auditing solution is so crucial to the development of this space.\n\nRichard starts off with his background and how the idea of Quantstamp evolved. Using industrial techniques he picked up as an also trader, he and his co-founder wanted to apply those techniques to provide smart contract auditing services to the up and coming projects which are all based on smart contracts.\n\nNic dives straight intp addressing key concerns associated with smart contracts such as coding a simple mistake and how would a reissue be implemented. Would it be done through contract modularisation or would a fork have to be implemented?\nRichard goes into his experiences back in 2016 where the general consensus is code is law but that narrative changed with the introduction and uptake of blockchains such as Hyperledger and Corda. In term of permissionless chains, he goes into the concept of upgradeable contracts which can be implemented on Ethereum and draws upon an example and takes us through this use case along with the challenges it represents. \n\nWe also go on to the topic of enterprise and how Quantstamp interacts with different levels of enterprise clients. One colossal client of theirs is Kakao’s Ground X project (Kakao is Korea’s largest messaging platform) and shares how he has interacted with them and the processes involved. \nRichard shares how they approach different projects according to their security valuations and how different they have become over time, particularly the big shift from 2017 to 2019. \n\nAhmed shifts the topic to why Quantsamp is in cohort 6 of the Dubai Future Accelerators program, which is a 12-week program dedicated to bringing in start-ups from around the world to bring innovation to certain government departments. They were paired up with the Road and Transport Authority (RTA) in order to help them build a secure system to sync up the different data silos that exist in the various agencies of the RTA to bring the coordination of data from days to seconds. Richard shares his current experiences with the RTA explaining how welcoming and open-minded they are in trialing these projects, in particular how the government departments emphasize the business applications and benefits these solutions would bring rather than focusing on the hype that blockchain.\n\nRichard touches upon their global expansion, such as their new set up in Japan and Noumura’s recent investment in Quantstamp. Nic changes the conversation to trust and data standardization and given Quantstamp’s global footprint and diverse clientele, what this means for them introducing standards in the industry and becoming the trust anchor. Richard dives deep into the 3 verticals of standards they are working on, one of which is the Smart Contract Security Alliance (which Nomura and Fujitsu are current stakeholders).\n\nWhen Richard started the company there were 300,000 smart contracts on Ethereum and now on there are 12 million contracts deployed on Ethereum! This led them to think that security audits should be automated with future anticipated demand and theoretically a token can be used as a security and utility feature to secure the system and verify the smart contract audits. The QSP token of Quantstamp is the token that powers this protocol and Richard further explains the viability of why the token economics could work in the future. \n\nNic further questions Richard if they would implement AI and machine learning into their business! Make sure to listen and find out what he had to say!\n\nAll this and more was discussed on this week’s episode of Encrypted!\n\nAlso, the legal bits for the soundtrack used in the podcast:\nMusic Credit: LAKEY INSPIRED\n\nTrack Name: Warm Nights\n\nMusic By: LAKEY INSPIRED @ https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired\n\nOriginal upload HERE – https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired/warm-nights\n\nLicense for commercial use: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported “Share Alike” (CC BY-SA 3.0) License.\n\nFull License HERE – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcodeSpecial Guest: Richard Ma.","content_html":"Richard Ma is the CEO of Quantstamp, one of the leading smart contract auditing firms in blockchain space
\n\nIn this episode, Ahmed and Nic speak to Richard to understand what on earth Quantstamp do and why their smart contract auditing solution is so crucial to the development of this space.
\n\nRichard starts off with his background and how the idea of Quantstamp evolved. Using industrial techniques he picked up as an also trader, he and his co-founder wanted to apply those techniques to provide smart contract auditing services to the up and coming projects which are all based on smart contracts.
\n\nNic dives straight intp addressing key concerns associated with smart contracts such as coding a simple mistake and how would a reissue be implemented. Would it be done through contract modularisation or would a fork have to be implemented?
\nRichard goes into his experiences back in 2016 where the general consensus is code is law but that narrative changed with the introduction and uptake of blockchains such as Hyperledger and Corda. In term of permissionless chains, he goes into the concept of upgradeable contracts which can be implemented on Ethereum and draws upon an example and takes us through this use case along with the challenges it represents.
We also go on to the topic of enterprise and how Quantstamp interacts with different levels of enterprise clients. One colossal client of theirs is Kakao’s Ground X project (Kakao is Korea’s largest messaging platform) and shares how he has interacted with them and the processes involved.
\nRichard shares how they approach different projects according to their security valuations and how different they have become over time, particularly the big shift from 2017 to 2019.
Ahmed shifts the topic to why Quantsamp is in cohort 6 of the Dubai Future Accelerators program, which is a 12-week program dedicated to bringing in start-ups from around the world to bring innovation to certain government departments. They were paired up with the Road and Transport Authority (RTA) in order to help them build a secure system to sync up the different data silos that exist in the various agencies of the RTA to bring the coordination of data from days to seconds. Richard shares his current experiences with the RTA explaining how welcoming and open-minded they are in trialing these projects, in particular how the government departments emphasize the business applications and benefits these solutions would bring rather than focusing on the hype that blockchain.
\n\nRichard touches upon their global expansion, such as their new set up in Japan and Noumura’s recent investment in Quantstamp. Nic changes the conversation to trust and data standardization and given Quantstamp’s global footprint and diverse clientele, what this means for them introducing standards in the industry and becoming the trust anchor. Richard dives deep into the 3 verticals of standards they are working on, one of which is the Smart Contract Security Alliance (which Nomura and Fujitsu are current stakeholders).
\n\nWhen Richard started the company there were 300,000 smart contracts on Ethereum and now on there are 12 million contracts deployed on Ethereum! This led them to think that security audits should be automated with future anticipated demand and theoretically a token can be used as a security and utility feature to secure the system and verify the smart contract audits. The QSP token of Quantstamp is the token that powers this protocol and Richard further explains the viability of why the token economics could work in the future.
\n\nNic further questions Richard if they would implement AI and machine learning into their business! Make sure to listen and find out what he had to say!
\n\nAll this and more was discussed on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\n\nAlso, the legal bits for the soundtrack used in the podcast:
\nMusic Credit: LAKEY INSPIRED
Track Name: Warm Nights
\n\nMusic By: LAKEY INSPIRED @ https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired
\n\nOriginal upload HERE – https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired/warm-nights
\n\nLicense for commercial use: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported “Share Alike” (CC BY-SA 3.0) License.
\n\nFull License HERE – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
Special Guest: Richard Ma.
","summary":"This week, we have the super talented Richard Ma, CEO of Quantstamp. We talk about smart contract auditing, how Quantstamp is contributing to the Dubai Blockchain strategy, how they are automating the audits of millions of lines of codes and which countries are already living in the future! You don’t want to miss this one!","date_published":"2019-07-21T05:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/c7ea3326-0187-4673-85f8-7466134996c1.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":41121332,"duration_in_seconds":2570}]},{"id":"70fb4cd0-666b-4047-9a78-297bef818692","title":"#Ep. 45: Bitcoin Satellites, Lightning Network & Bitcoin as a Store of Value!","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/bitcoin-satellites-lightning-network-bitcoin-as-a-store-of-value","content_text":"Ahmed and Dr. Marwan Alzarouni from the Dubai Blockchain Center went to Singapore to attend and speak at the World Blockchain Forum. \n\nIn this episode, Ahmed and the special co-host for this episode, Dr. Marwan, catch up with Samson Mow who is the CSO at Blockstream, a bitcoin infrastructure company.\n\nHaving spent two years in China working for BTCC, Samson reminisces over his time in Shanghai and goes over what it's like working in a Chinese exchange in a relatively early period in the industry. We then move on to talk about Blockstream, and how they are building out bitcoin infrastructure. \n\nBlockstream is known for its product Blockstream Satellite (what the hell does this have to do with bitcoin?!). No, it's not a bitcoin node that they launched into space, but rather a satellite that is in space to allow more access to bitcoin where the network broadcasts the bitcoin blockchain around the world 24/7 for free. This means less dependency on internet access to broadcast transactions and according to Samson, adds extra resilience to the bitcoin network through network stability and cost savings. \nSamson explains the methodology and rationale behind why they launched a satellite and how it works. Dr. Marwan follows up on extra technicalities on the Satellite and if there are applicable applications to third world countries. \n\nSamson then goes on to talk about the Lightning network, what it is and also applications of it in third world countries. The discussion slowly diverts to bitcoin as a digital asset and what form it would take once the lightning network becomes mainstream. If bitcoin is digital gold now, would bitcoin become a medium of exchange when the lightning network goes live? Samson takes an interesting approach saying that bitcoin is everything and has multiple use cases. \n\nSince Samson’s background is in gaming, Ahmed picks his brains on how blockchain can be applicable to gaming and to declutter the hype from reality on what's possible and not. \n\nAll this and more is discussed in this week's episode of Encrypted!\n\nAlso, the legal bits for the soundtrack used in the podcast:\nMusic Credit: LAKEY INSPIRED\n\nTrack Name: Warm Nights\n\nMusic By: LAKEY INSPIRED @ https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired\n\nOriginal upload HERE – https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired/warm-nights\n\nLicense for commercial use: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported “Share Alike” (CC BY-SA 3.0) License.\n\nFull License HERE – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcodeSpecial Guests: Dr. Marwan Alzarouni and Samson Mow.","content_html":"Ahmed and Dr. Marwan Alzarouni from the Dubai Blockchain Center went to Singapore to attend and speak at the World Blockchain Forum.
\n\nIn this episode, Ahmed and the special co-host for this episode, Dr. Marwan, catch up with Samson Mow who is the CSO at Blockstream, a bitcoin infrastructure company.
\n\nHaving spent two years in China working for BTCC, Samson reminisces over his time in Shanghai and goes over what it's like working in a Chinese exchange in a relatively early period in the industry. We then move on to talk about Blockstream, and how they are building out bitcoin infrastructure.
\n\nBlockstream is known for its product Blockstream Satellite (what the hell does this have to do with bitcoin?!). No, it's not a bitcoin node that they launched into space, but rather a satellite that is in space to allow more access to bitcoin where the network broadcasts the bitcoin blockchain around the world 24/7 for free. This means less dependency on internet access to broadcast transactions and according to Samson, adds extra resilience to the bitcoin network through network stability and cost savings.
\nSamson explains the methodology and rationale behind why they launched a satellite and how it works. Dr. Marwan follows up on extra technicalities on the Satellite and if there are applicable applications to third world countries.
Samson then goes on to talk about the Lightning network, what it is and also applications of it in third world countries. The discussion slowly diverts to bitcoin as a digital asset and what form it would take once the lightning network becomes mainstream. If bitcoin is digital gold now, would bitcoin become a medium of exchange when the lightning network goes live? Samson takes an interesting approach saying that bitcoin is everything and has multiple use cases.
\n\nSince Samson’s background is in gaming, Ahmed picks his brains on how blockchain can be applicable to gaming and to declutter the hype from reality on what's possible and not.
\n\nAll this and more is discussed in this week's episode of Encrypted!
\n\nAlso, the legal bits for the soundtrack used in the podcast:
\nMusic Credit: LAKEY INSPIRED
Track Name: Warm Nights
\n\nMusic By: LAKEY INSPIRED @ https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired
\n\nOriginal upload HERE – https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired/warm-nights
\n\nLicense for commercial use: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported “Share Alike” (CC BY-SA 3.0) License.
\n\nFull License HERE – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
Special Guests: Dr. Marwan Alzarouni and Samson Mow.
","summary":"Samson Mow, CSO at Blockstream joins us on this week's episode of Encrypted! This time, we record from Singapore at the World Blockchain Forum with Dr. Marwan Alzarouni as a co-host. We discuss the early days of bitcoin in China, what bitcoin satellites are and why it's a good idea, what bitcoin’s role should be in the context of the lightning network and its relevant applications for streaming services and in third world countries. ","date_published":"2019-07-14T05:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/70fb4cd0-666b-4047-9a78-297bef818692.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":27299033,"duration_in_seconds":1706}]},{"id":"a468626b-f401-4783-9d44-87002623f525","title":"#Ep. 44: Venture as a stack: Why Web 3.0 needs a different kind of investor","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/venture-as-a-stack-web-3-needs-a-different-invetsor","content_text":"Jamie Burke is a co-founder and CEO of Outlier Ventures, one of the leading European crypto VC incubators.\n\nAhmed catches up with Jamie in London to learn more about Outlier Ventures, how they’re structured, their investment thesis and what makes them different as a VC investing in this space. \n\nUnlike other VCs, Outlier is funded by the capital of the co-founders, their team is mostly comprised of technical analysts and researchers in order to do a lot of applied learning as well as supporting the projects they invest in and contributing to the wider ecosystem building out open source networks. Jamie likes to describe Outlier as more of an incubator or a Venture as a Platform business where they reinvest all returns into the platform, where they recently committed to reinvesting $30 million of their own capital in the next 3 years to support investments.\n\nJamie then goes onto to discuss the concept of Convergence and what the Convergence stack is, how autonomous agents work, and how they’re trying to create the new data economy. \nHe talks about the evolution of the internet citing two main innovations; platforms and cloud. Like every other person who believes in the space, Jamie touches upon the current problems of the internet and these past innovations, in particular how big platforms and cloud providers have become. With European regulators trying to strive ahead to unbundle these mammoth platforms to protect the end consumer, Jamie shares how they are solving these problems and preparing for what consumers demand in the future. \n\nIf you’re a governance lover, Ahmed and Jamie discuss the concept of Pathway to Decentralisation. This is a really interesting concept and idea which proposes founders and projects to never codify assumptions early on and to keep some aspects centralised until their assumptions are validated. Jamie also shares their recent partnership with Smart Dubai and how they’re working together. \n\nUltimately, this awesome episode is all about the new internet, theorizing how it could play out and what's needed to realise the vision. What’s amazing is that this is all a socio-economic experiment and we have no idea what will happen. \n\nAll this and more on this week's episode of Encrypted.\n\nAlso, the legal bits for the soundtrack used in the podcast:\nMusic Credit: LAKEY INSPIRED\n\nTrack Name: Warm Nights\n\nMusic By: LAKEY INSPIRED @ https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired\n\nOriginal upload HERE – https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired/warm-nights\n\nLicense for commercial use: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported “Share Alike” (CC BY-SA 3.0) License.\n\nFull License HERE – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcodeSpecial Guest: Jamie Burke.","content_html":"Jamie Burke is a co-founder and CEO of Outlier Ventures, one of the leading European crypto VC incubators.
\n\nAhmed catches up with Jamie in London to learn more about Outlier Ventures, how they’re structured, their investment thesis and what makes them different as a VC investing in this space.
\n\nUnlike other VCs, Outlier is funded by the capital of the co-founders, their team is mostly comprised of technical analysts and researchers in order to do a lot of applied learning as well as supporting the projects they invest in and contributing to the wider ecosystem building out open source networks. Jamie likes to describe Outlier as more of an incubator or a Venture as a Platform business where they reinvest all returns into the platform, where they recently committed to reinvesting $30 million of their own capital in the next 3 years to support investments.
\n\nJamie then goes onto to discuss the concept of Convergence and what the Convergence stack is, how autonomous agents work, and how they’re trying to create the new data economy.
\nHe talks about the evolution of the internet citing two main innovations; platforms and cloud. Like every other person who believes in the space, Jamie touches upon the current problems of the internet and these past innovations, in particular how big platforms and cloud providers have become. With European regulators trying to strive ahead to unbundle these mammoth platforms to protect the end consumer, Jamie shares how they are solving these problems and preparing for what consumers demand in the future.
If you’re a governance lover, Ahmed and Jamie discuss the concept of Pathway to Decentralisation. This is a really interesting concept and idea which proposes founders and projects to never codify assumptions early on and to keep some aspects centralised until their assumptions are validated. Jamie also shares their recent partnership with Smart Dubai and how they’re working together.
\n\nUltimately, this awesome episode is all about the new internet, theorizing how it could play out and what's needed to realise the vision. What’s amazing is that this is all a socio-economic experiment and we have no idea what will happen.
\n\nAll this and more on this week's episode of Encrypted.
\n\nAlso, the legal bits for the soundtrack used in the podcast:
\nMusic Credit: LAKEY INSPIRED
Track Name: Warm Nights
\n\nMusic By: LAKEY INSPIRED @ https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired
\n\nOriginal upload HERE – https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired/warm-nights
\n\nLicense for commercial use: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported “Share Alike” (CC BY-SA 3.0) License.
\n\nFull License HERE – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
Special Guest: Jamie Burke.
","summary":"Jamie is a co-founder and CEO of Outlier ventures, one of the leading European crypto VCs and incubators. We talk about the Outlier Ventures’ Convergence thesis, the layout of the new internet, theorizing how it can play out and what’s needed to achieve that vision. Additionally, Jamie touches on what they have done to date, what makes them different as a VC investing in this space and also shares their recent partnership with the Dubai Government. ","date_published":"2019-07-08T05:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/a468626b-f401-4783-9d44-87002623f525.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":43183462,"duration_in_seconds":2675}]},{"id":"a5fb2c8b-f75e-489a-9693-aa898bbfcbda","title":"#Ep. 43: Why design is crucial for blockchain and cryptocurrencies!","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/why-design-is-crucial-for-blockchain-crypto","content_text":"Asim Janjua, is the Director of Innovation and Design at Consensys in the Middle East.\n\nIn this episode we look at blockchain from a design perspective and to answer the most crucial question: how does design intersect with blockchain?\n\nAsim walks us through deisgn thinking techniques and how we can use that for emerging technologies like blockchain and cryptocurrencies. He looks at it from two lenses:\n\n\nDesign as a problem solving tool to create new experiences and use cases\nDesign from a UX perspective as most blockchain enabled apps/dapps are currently catered for those within the industry\n\n\nAsim explains how his design led experience at Google led him to use those same principles when building out Consensys in Dubai. We also touch on whether design is one of the best ways to achieve mass adoption and how thinking of it from a human perspective is crucial for mainstream adoption. Examples such as Gemini and Grid Plus from the crypto space was highlighted by Asim as two comapnies which have implemented sound design from both a process and a user experience stand point. \n\nOne of the main points we emphasise is that design should be implemented in the beginning before starting any project as opposed to thinking about it later on in the project. These come in the form of user journeys and user personas to test whether or not problems discovered in the research phase can can be solved using the product. \n\nWe switch a gear towards the end of the podcast where the discussion leads us to how the paradigm shift with blockchain is bigger than those of the other emerging technologies we are currently seeing, such as AI and IoT. \n\nAll this and more on this week’s episode of Encrypted. Special Guest: Asim Janjua .","content_html":"Asim Janjua, is the Director of Innovation and Design at Consensys in the Middle East.
\n\nIn this episode we look at blockchain from a design perspective and to answer the most crucial question: how does design intersect with blockchain?
\n\nAsim walks us through deisgn thinking techniques and how we can use that for emerging technologies like blockchain and cryptocurrencies. He looks at it from two lenses:
\n\nAsim explains how his design led experience at Google led him to use those same principles when building out Consensys in Dubai. We also touch on whether design is one of the best ways to achieve mass adoption and how thinking of it from a human perspective is crucial for mainstream adoption. Examples such as Gemini and Grid Plus from the crypto space was highlighted by Asim as two comapnies which have implemented sound design from both a process and a user experience stand point.
\n\nOne of the main points we emphasise is that design should be implemented in the beginning before starting any project as opposed to thinking about it later on in the project. These come in the form of user journeys and user personas to test whether or not problems discovered in the research phase can can be solved using the product.
\n\nWe switch a gear towards the end of the podcast where the discussion leads us to how the paradigm shift with blockchain is bigger than those of the other emerging technologies we are currently seeing, such as AI and IoT.
\n\nAll this and more on this week’s episode of Encrypted.
Special Guest: Asim Janjua .
","summary":"Asim Janjua, Director of Innovation and Design at Consensys, joins us on this show to look at how design intersects with blockchain and cryptocurrencies. We explore design led thinking principles, how it is applied to this nascent technlogy, how his experience at Google paved his design led methodology and ultimately, why design will lead us to mainstream adoption.","date_published":"2019-07-01T05:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/a5fb2c8b-f75e-489a-9693-aa898bbfcbda.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":36187190,"duration_in_seconds":2238}]},{"id":"91a30a82-5c54-493e-8541-611362949955","title":"#Ep. 42: Facebook's Libra: The good, the bad & the ugly","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/libra-facebook-the-good-bad-ugly","content_text":"Gabriel Abed Is the Founder of Bitt, a company known for inventing central bank digital currencies. \n\nIn this special episode, Ahmed and Gabriel take a deep dive into Libra, Facebook’s recently announced cryptocurrency that they will be launching in 2020. Everything you need to know about Libra such as what it is, the economics behind it, how it will work and also the Libra Foundation are all discussed and explained. \n\nMore importantly they discuss what Libra means for:\n• Common users\n• Central banks and banks \n• The payments industry and companies such as Paypal, Mastercard and Visa\n• The crypto industry and bitcoin in particular \n• Governance and data privacy\n\nAmong the takeaways from this episode and the Libra project itself are:\n• No banks are involved at the foundation level \n• Private forms of money that are not government issued rarely exist, and if they do, they operate at such a small scale i.e. loyalty points, community points. Facebook’s willingness to create a cryptocurrency means they are creating a form of private money that can be globally accessed and could potentially be used as a means of payment besides the dollar. This begs the question; will we see more global companies making their own private forms of money via cryptocurrencies?\n• Comparing Libra to Bitcoin is like comparing apples and oranges\n• Libra could be advantageous for Central Banks as this could allow them to move towards central bank digitally issued national currency which enhances the utility of their national currencies. Just think on ramp and off ramp between cryptocurrencies like Libra and central bank digital currency. This would be huge!\n• Announcement of Libra means one thing: The end user is the one that will be empowered! There will be increased competition in the payments space, and it means consumers have more options.\n\nAll this and more on this week's episode of Encrypted.\n\nAlso, the legal bits for the soundtrack used in the podcast:\nMusic Credit: LAKEY INSPIRED\n\nTrack Name: Warm Nights\n\nMusic By: LAKEY INSPIRED @ https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired\n\nOriginal upload HERE – https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired/warm-nights\n\nLicense for commercial use: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported “Share Alike” (CC BY-SA 3.0) License.\n\nFull License HERE – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcodeSpecial Guest: Gabriel Abed.","content_html":"Gabriel Abed Is the Founder of Bitt, a company known for inventing central bank digital currencies.
\n\nIn this special episode, Ahmed and Gabriel take a deep dive into Libra, Facebook’s recently announced cryptocurrency that they will be launching in 2020. Everything you need to know about Libra such as what it is, the economics behind it, how it will work and also the Libra Foundation are all discussed and explained.
\n\nMore importantly they discuss what Libra means for:
\n• Common users
\n• Central banks and banks
\n• The payments industry and companies such as Paypal, Mastercard and Visa
\n• The crypto industry and bitcoin in particular
\n• Governance and data privacy
Among the takeaways from this episode and the Libra project itself are:
\n• No banks are involved at the foundation level
\n• Private forms of money that are not government issued rarely exist, and if they do, they operate at such a small scale i.e. loyalty points, community points. Facebook’s willingness to create a cryptocurrency means they are creating a form of private money that can be globally accessed and could potentially be used as a means of payment besides the dollar. This begs the question; will we see more global companies making their own private forms of money via cryptocurrencies?
\n• Comparing Libra to Bitcoin is like comparing apples and oranges
\n• Libra could be advantageous for Central Banks as this could allow them to move towards central bank digitally issued national currency which enhances the utility of their national currencies. Just think on ramp and off ramp between cryptocurrencies like Libra and central bank digital currency. This would be huge!
\n• Announcement of Libra means one thing: The end user is the one that will be empowered! There will be increased competition in the payments space, and it means consumers have more options.
All this and more on this week's episode of Encrypted.
\n\nAlso, the legal bits for the soundtrack used in the podcast:
\nMusic Credit: LAKEY INSPIRED
Track Name: Warm Nights
\n\nMusic By: LAKEY INSPIRED @ https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired
\n\nOriginal upload HERE – https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired/warm-nights
\n\nLicense for commercial use: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported “Share Alike” (CC BY-SA 3.0) License.
\n\nFull License HERE – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
Special Guest: Gabriel Abed.
","summary":"Gabriel Abed, Founder of Bitt, joins Encrypted to explain and discuss Facebook’s recent announcement of launching a stable cryptocurrency called Libra. Ahmed and Gabriel go through what Libra is, how it works, how different it is to other cryptocurrencies we currently have, the approach Facebook are taking and ultimately what this means for the crypto industry, for people globally and monetary authorities and central banks alike. ","date_published":"2019-06-24T05:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/91a30a82-5c54-493e-8541-611362949955.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":37025141,"duration_in_seconds":2314}]},{"id":"c1a4ab93-40cf-44c2-8e10-91c37dd4764d","title":"#Ep. 41: Education 3.0: Why the education industry is ripe for blockchain?","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/why-the-education-industry-ripe-for-blockchain","content_text":"Almost everyone in the world has or will eventually be bestowed with a grade, certificate or honour that will at some future point need verification.\n\nToday's episode has both Nic and Ahmed interacting with Educhain CEO Mark Balovnev on how to build scalable academic passporting systems. Focusing on interfaces to access documents and wallets for sharing with other gateways and portals.\n\nMark talks about how sentiment has changed over the last 3 years, why industry is adopting the technology and increasing mobility of these documents.\n\nKey learnings:\n-The starting process and how the industry can get involved\n-What values can blockchain provide in education and the industries impacted by it\n-Finding your blockchain hobbyist and enabling them\n-How UAE University put transcripts, certificates, and other metadata on chain for over 70,000 students\n-Plus a quick overview as to how the amazing Blockchain report recently launched with Smart Dubai came together.\n\nAll this and more on this week's episode of Encrypted.\n\nAlso, the legal bits for the soundtrack used in the podcast:\nMusic Credit: LAKEY INSPIRED\n\nTrack Name: Warm Nights\n\nMusic By: LAKEY INSPIRED @ https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired\n\nOriginal upload HERE – https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired/warm-nights\n\nLicense for commercial use: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported “Share Alike” (CC BY-SA 3.0) License.\n\nFull License HERE – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcodeSpecial Guest: Mark Balovnev.","content_html":"Almost everyone in the world has or will eventually be bestowed with a grade, certificate or honour that will at some future point need verification.
\n\nToday's episode has both Nic and Ahmed interacting with Educhain CEO Mark Balovnev on how to build scalable academic passporting systems. Focusing on interfaces to access documents and wallets for sharing with other gateways and portals.
\n\nMark talks about how sentiment has changed over the last 3 years, why industry is adopting the technology and increasing mobility of these documents.
\n\nKey learnings:
\n-The starting process and how the industry can get involved
\n-What values can blockchain provide in education and the industries impacted by it
\n-Finding your blockchain hobbyist and enabling them
\n-How UAE University put transcripts, certificates, and other metadata on chain for over 70,000 students
\n-Plus a quick overview as to how the amazing Blockchain report recently launched with Smart Dubai came together.
All this and more on this week's episode of Encrypted.
\n\nAlso, the legal bits for the soundtrack used in the podcast:
\nMusic Credit: LAKEY INSPIRED
Track Name: Warm Nights
\n\nMusic By: LAKEY INSPIRED @ https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired
\n\nOriginal upload HERE – https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired/warm-nights
\n\nLicense for commercial use: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported “Share Alike” (CC BY-SA 3.0) License.
\n\nFull License HERE – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
Special Guest: Mark Balovnev.
","summary":"Nic and Ahmed take a deep dive with Educhain CEO Mark Balovnev into the world of education and how blockchain is helping solve high levels of inefficiencies and connecting more than just students with credentials.\r\n\r\nWe discuss how Educhain help enable students and graduates to 'passport' and transfer their credentials for use with jobs, further education, and government. This could mean the troublesome attestation process could be over very soon ✊🏽😌","date_published":"2019-06-17T05:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/c1a4ab93-40cf-44c2-8e10-91c37dd4764d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":32813781,"duration_in_seconds":2027}]},{"id":"5289b88c-64c0-4c76-b9a2-09099889ba0f","title":"#Ep. 40: Du: Leading UAE telco operator leveraging blockchain technology","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/leading-telco-leveraging-blockchain-technology-du","content_text":"Faisal, finally back on the show, joins Ahmed to welcome a new guest, Fatma Elsafty, who is the Blockchain Technology Manager at Du, which is one of the leading telecom operators in the UAE. \n\nFatma, in charge of driving Du’s blockchain programs, walks us through why Du are focusing their time and efforts on using blockchain technology and what they are actually building for their diverse customer base. \n\nOne of their main products is the Blockchain Platform as a Service (BPaas) which helps enterprises and SME’s alike easily deploy blockchain network and applications in a simple and secure environment. Fatma shares why the BPaaS is a game changer for the region and how they are aiming to lead the enterprise space for blockchain adoption. \n\nWith all the focus on their end customer, we also learn about Du’s other ventures in this nascent space such as the Smart Contract Repository and the Dapp marketplace they are building. \n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!Special Guest: Fatma Elsafty.","content_html":"Faisal, finally back on the show, joins Ahmed to welcome a new guest, Fatma Elsafty, who is the Blockchain Technology Manager at Du, which is one of the leading telecom operators in the UAE.
\n\nFatma, in charge of driving Du’s blockchain programs, walks us through why Du are focusing their time and efforts on using blockchain technology and what they are actually building for their diverse customer base.
\n\nOne of their main products is the Blockchain Platform as a Service (BPaas) which helps enterprises and SME’s alike easily deploy blockchain network and applications in a simple and secure environment. Fatma shares why the BPaaS is a game changer for the region and how they are aiming to lead the enterprise space for blockchain adoption.
\n\nWith all the focus on their end customer, we also learn about Du’s other ventures in this nascent space such as the Smart Contract Repository and the Dapp marketplace they are building.
\n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
Special Guest: Fatma Elsafty.
","summary":"\r\nIn this episode, we hear from Fatma Elsafty, a Blockchain Technology Manager at Du, to tell us what Du are cooking up in the blockchain department and how they envisage being one of the pioneers in the region. \r\n","date_published":"2019-06-09T05:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/5289b88c-64c0-4c76-b9a2-09099889ba0f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":28308994,"duration_in_seconds":1745}]},{"id":"3306e455-1606-43b3-9eb5-daf10e831937","title":"#Ep. 39: Tezos: Past, Present and Future. With Hubertus Thonhauser","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/tezos-past-present-and-future","content_text":"In this episode, Ahmed and Nic speak to Hubertus Thonhauser, Founding Partner of Enabling Future and a Board Member of the Tezos Foundation.\n\nHubertus, who was part of the Tezos Foundation board transformation and is currently very active on Tezos operations, speaks to us about how he became involved in the project and gives a rundown on the early days of Tezos, its present status and also the future outlook.\n\nHe shares why Tezos was initially created, how they completed a mega crowdsale and the key features that distinguish Tezos from the rest. We also touch on the issues that the Tezos Foundation faced following the fundraise and how the team acted accordingly.\n\nWe also talk about the verticals in enterprise that Tezos will initially tackle which are: Digital Assets, Mobility and Gaming. And yes, Tezos are creating their own token security standard under the Digital Assets vertical, so do make sure to watch this space!\n\nHubertus being an investor himself at Enabling Future, shares his investment experience in both the start-up sphere and blockchain/crypto sphere and what he typically looks out for in projects.\n\nAll this and more on this episode of Encrypted. Please subscribe if you still haven’t and remember to rate and review the show!Special Guest: Hubertus Thonhauser .","content_html":"In this episode, Ahmed and Nic speak to Hubertus Thonhauser, Founding Partner of Enabling Future and a Board Member of the Tezos Foundation.
\n\nHubertus, who was part of the Tezos Foundation board transformation and is currently very active on Tezos operations, speaks to us about how he became involved in the project and gives a rundown on the early days of Tezos, its present status and also the future outlook.
\n\nHe shares why Tezos was initially created, how they completed a mega crowdsale and the key features that distinguish Tezos from the rest. We also touch on the issues that the Tezos Foundation faced following the fundraise and how the team acted accordingly.
\n\nWe also talk about the verticals in enterprise that Tezos will initially tackle which are: Digital Assets, Mobility and Gaming. And yes, Tezos are creating their own token security standard under the Digital Assets vertical, so do make sure to watch this space!
\n\nHubertus being an investor himself at Enabling Future, shares his investment experience in both the start-up sphere and blockchain/crypto sphere and what he typically looks out for in projects.
\n\nAll this and more on this episode of Encrypted. Please subscribe if you still haven’t and remember to rate and review the show!
Special Guest: Hubertus Thonhauser .
","summary":"Hubertus Thonhauser, Founding Partner of Enabling Future and a Board Member of the Tezos Foundation takes us through the trials and tribulations of the Tezos Foundation, their renewed focus on blockchain implementation use cases and the hot sectors they are pursuing with their technology.","date_published":"2019-05-27T05:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/3306e455-1606-43b3-9eb5-daf10e831937.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":48385509,"duration_in_seconds":2982}]},{"id":"6234b710-1397-47db-8b2c-c3913dfd10cf","title":"#Ep. 38: How a Dubai family office partnered with Techstars and ventured into blockchain? With Gary Sheynkman","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/emirati-family-partner-techstars-venturing-into-blockchain","content_text":"In this episode, Ahmed and Nic speak with Gary Sheynkman, an Investment Partner at Ginco Investments and the Corporate Lead for Techstars Dubai. \n\nWe find out what Ginco Investments is, their role in the entrepreneurship ecosystem and their enterprise-focused investment thesis. Being the first Emirati family to operate a pure play early-stage VC, they have also ventured into the blockchain space.\nWe dig deep into the different investments they have made, in particular, their blockchain investments, which revolve heavily around the verticals of financial services, developer toolsets, and broad enterprise use cases.\n\nWe also talk about what crypto related services will pave the way in the short term to medium term future, such as crypto asset management and custody solutions that hedge funds and professional investors inherently need.\n\nGary also shares his views and insights on how start-ups should approach this region and how they should set their expectations when starting in this new market. \n\nFinally, we also talk about the regional banking system, how they should improve and change and why on earth we are still using paper to change small details in our bank accounts!\n\nIf you enjoyed this episode, do not forget to hit that subscribe button and do remember to rate and review the show. Every little helps!Special Guest: Gary Sheynkman.","content_html":"In this episode, Ahmed and Nic speak with Gary Sheynkman, an Investment Partner at Ginco Investments and the Corporate Lead for Techstars Dubai.
\n\nWe find out what Ginco Investments is, their role in the entrepreneurship ecosystem and their enterprise-focused investment thesis. Being the first Emirati family to operate a pure play early-stage VC, they have also ventured into the blockchain space.
\nWe dig deep into the different investments they have made, in particular, their blockchain investments, which revolve heavily around the verticals of financial services, developer toolsets, and broad enterprise use cases.
We also talk about what crypto related services will pave the way in the short term to medium term future, such as crypto asset management and custody solutions that hedge funds and professional investors inherently need.
\n\nGary also shares his views and insights on how start-ups should approach this region and how they should set their expectations when starting in this new market.
\n\nFinally, we also talk about the regional banking system, how they should improve and change and why on earth we are still using paper to change small details in our bank accounts!
\n\nIf you enjoyed this episode, do not forget to hit that subscribe button and do remember to rate and review the show. Every little helps!
Special Guest: Gary Sheynkman.
","summary":"In this episode, Ahmed and Nic speak with Gary Sheynkman, an Investment Partner at Ginco Investments and the Corporate Lead for Techstars Dubai. We talk about how an Emirati family ventured into blockchain, their partnership with Techstars and what they see as the future of crypto related services. All this and more on this episode of Encrypted.","date_published":"2019-05-17T23:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/6234b710-1397-47db-8b2c-c3913dfd10cf.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":40013646,"duration_in_seconds":2435}]},{"id":"ac5a7101-caa7-498c-82a9-3385171b5a2e","title":"#Ep. 37: How are lawyers creating, building and using smart contracts?","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/creating-building-using-smart-contracts","content_text":"In this episode, Ahmed and Nic speak with two amazing lawyers who are actively leveraging smart contracts for their current line and future line of work. \n\nWe have Mark Beer, President of the International Association for Court Administration and a lawyer turned tech entrepreneur Alessandro Palombo, CEO, and Co-founder of Jur joining us in episode 37 of Encrypted.\n\nWe talk extensively about what smart contracts really are, the roles they play in the future in both codifying principles and contracting machines, and how billions of people can benefit from this!\n\nYes, we also tackle the million dollar question: What will the roles of lawyers and law firms be in a smart contracting future world?\n\nWe hope you enjoy. And don't forget to subscribe to our podcast and make sure to rate and review the podcast as well!Special Guests: Alessandro Palombo and Mark Beer.","content_html":"In this episode, Ahmed and Nic speak with two amazing lawyers who are actively leveraging smart contracts for their current line and future line of work.
\n\nWe have Mark Beer, President of the International Association for Court Administration and a lawyer turned tech entrepreneur Alessandro Palombo, CEO, and Co-founder of Jur joining us in episode 37 of Encrypted.
\n\nWe talk extensively about what smart contracts really are, the roles they play in the future in both codifying principles and contracting machines, and how billions of people can benefit from this!
\n\nYes, we also tackle the million dollar question: What will the roles of lawyers and law firms be in a smart contracting future world?
\n\nWe hope you enjoy. And don't forget to subscribe to our podcast and make sure to rate and review the podcast as well!
Special Guests: Alessandro Palombo and Mark Beer.
","summary":"In this episode, we have two amazing lawyers Mark Beer and lawyer turned tech entrepreneur Alessandro Palombo, who are adapting to the future of legal tech and smart contracts. \r\nWe talk extensively about what smart contracts really are, the roles they play in the future in both codifying principles and contracting machines, and how billions of people can benefit from this! You don't want to miss this one!\r\n","date_published":"2019-05-12T11:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/ac5a7101-caa7-498c-82a9-3385171b5a2e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":61147340,"duration_in_seconds":3821}]},{"id":"bc7bab44-19a9-4a75-8446-df97669ea194","title":"#Ep. 36: What the Stake? All you need to know about Staking and PoS networks!","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/what-is-staking-proof-of-stake","content_text":"Staking. Generalised Mining. Proof of stake. What are all these???\n\nIn this episode, Ahmed speaks to Tim Ogilvie, CEO of Staked which recently raised $4.5 million from investors such as Coinbase and Pantera to build a staking as a service platform for institutional investors. \n\nWe cover the difference between proof of work and proof of stake, different implementations of proof of stake (POS, DPOS etc), the roles of staking services/node operators, opportunities it presents, and related regulatory concerns. \n\nWe hope you enjoy!!!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!Special Guest: Tim Ogilvie.","content_html":"Staking. Generalised Mining. Proof of stake. What are all these???
\n\nIn this episode, Ahmed speaks to Tim Ogilvie, CEO of Staked which recently raised $4.5 million from investors such as Coinbase and Pantera to build a staking as a service platform for institutional investors.
\n\nWe cover the difference between proof of work and proof of stake, different implementations of proof of stake (POS, DPOS etc), the roles of staking services/node operators, opportunities it presents, and related regulatory concerns.
\n\nWe hope you enjoy!!!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
Special Guest: Tim Ogilvie.
","summary":"Tim Ogilvie is the CEO of Staked, a company that operates and runs block production nodes for decentralised Proof Of Stake networks on behalf of institutional investors. We talk about the what staking is, why it exists, what opportunities it presents, the state of the staking industry, the roles of staking providers and also related regulatory concerns!","date_published":"2019-05-02T13:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/bc7bab44-19a9-4a75-8446-df97669ea194.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":26008418,"duration_in_seconds":1625}]},{"id":"db2e470d-f3c1-48d5-997c-4bb55b5c5fa1","title":"#Ep. 35: Building enterprise blockchain adoption in the Middle East with Jibrel Network","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/enterprise-blockchain-getting-your-first-poc","content_text":"In this episode, we speak to Talal Tabbaa, Co-founder and COO of Jibrel Network. Ahmed also welcomes a new guest host on the podcast, Nicholas Watson Managing Director of Naseba. \n\nWe cover examples of winning, implementing and managing digitization of sukuks (Islamic bonds) and fiat. We also take some time to answer the question...What does Enterprise really mean? as well as looking at how to tackle the Middle Eastern enteprise space, especially when it comes to blockchain!\n\nWe hope you enjoy!!!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!Special Guests: Nicholas Watson and Talal Tabbaa.","content_html":"In this episode, we speak to Talal Tabbaa, Co-founder and COO of Jibrel Network. Ahmed also welcomes a new guest host on the podcast, Nicholas Watson Managing Director of Naseba.
\n\nWe cover examples of winning, implementing and managing digitization of sukuks (Islamic bonds) and fiat. We also take some time to answer the question...What does Enterprise really mean? as well as looking at how to tackle the Middle Eastern enteprise space, especially when it comes to blockchain!
\n\nWe hope you enjoy!!!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
Special Guests: Nicholas Watson and Talal Tabbaa.
","summary":"Ever wanted to get an idea about the Middle East Enterprise space for blockchain? \r\nToday's podcast is the right place to start. With Talal Tabbaa of Jibrel Network and Nic Watson of Naseba, we cover examples of winning, implementing and managing digitization of sukuks and fiat. We also take some time to answer the question...What does Enterprise really mean? \r\n\r\nWe hope you enjoy!\r\n","date_published":"2019-04-23T16:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/db2e470d-f3c1-48d5-997c-4bb55b5c5fa1.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":51897970,"duration_in_seconds":3178}]},{"id":"7f1ffab0-42f4-453f-b0f0-98f3d3be19c8","title":"#Ep. 34: What is a blockchain phone? A conversation with Phil Chen, HTC's Decentralised Chief Officer","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/blockchain-phone-htc-phil-chen-decentralised-chief-officer","content_text":"In this episode, Ahmed speaks to Phil Chen, the Decentralised Chief Officer at HTC. \n\nAhmed first questions Phil about what his title actually means and Phil drills down into the idea of leaderless leaders, and how every person becomes their own leader. \n\nBefore talking about the Exodus phone, Phil delves into his entrepreneurial career, how he helped HTC become a global brand and how he got into the crypto space. \n\nThe pair go on to discuss the Exodus phone, key management systems, how HTC's Blockchain phone is different to its competitors and the importance of shipping products first!\n\nWe hope you enjoy!!!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!Special Guest: Phil Chen.","content_html":"In this episode, Ahmed speaks to Phil Chen, the Decentralised Chief Officer at HTC.
\n\nAhmed first questions Phil about what his title actually means and Phil drills down into the idea of leaderless leaders, and how every person becomes their own leader.
\n\nBefore talking about the Exodus phone, Phil delves into his entrepreneurial career, how he helped HTC become a global brand and how he got into the crypto space.
\n\nThe pair go on to discuss the Exodus phone, key management systems, how HTC's Blockchain phone is different to its competitors and the importance of shipping products first!
\n\nWe hope you enjoy!!!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
Special Guest: Phil Chen.
","summary":"In this episode, we have an interesting discussion with Phil Chen, the Decentralised Chief Officer (DCO) at HTC. We discuss what a DCO actually does, the idea of leaderless leadership, Phil’s extensive entrepreneurial background and everything you need to know about the Exodus phone! ","date_published":"2019-04-16T13:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/7f1ffab0-42f4-453f-b0f0-98f3d3be19c8.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":14388152,"duration_in_seconds":944}]},{"id":"7669ad13-ebe5-47cf-8454-33cdd1acc005","title":"#Ep. 33: Revisiting the 2019 Global Blockchain Challenge in Dubai","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/revisiting-the-global-blockchain-challenge","content_text":"In this episode, we cover the SDO Global Blockchain Challenge which was showcased in the Future Blockchain Summit in Dubai. \n\nOut of the 700+ applications, only 20 finalists were flown to Dubai with a chance to pitch their ideas and where only three can be crowned winners do receive cash prizes. \n\nWe first speak with Karin Gabriel, a Project Lead at the Dubai Future Accelerators (DFA), who explains to us what the DFA is and its role within the Dubai Government, and also what the Global Blockchain Challenege is all about. \n\nWe then spoke with 6 of the finalists to learn more about what they’re doing and what their projects are! These include:\n-TE-Food (Supply chain management for food traceability)\n-Bluechain (Digitizing and optimising the industrial management process and operation)\n-Quantstamp (Blockchain agnostic protocol which secures smart contracts)\n-Ole Sports (Making football fairer and tokenising the aspects of the football experience)\n-PO8 (Marine archelogy start-up that is tokenising underwater assets)\n-Akita Blockchain Solutions (Building tangible prototypes and products based on blockchain)\n\nWe wish we could have sat down with all 20 start-ups, but the above 6 just showcases how diverse the finals were. \n\nThe competition took place on Wednesday 3rd April and the winners were announced during the Future Blockchain Summit - \nCongratulations to:\nQuantstamp (1st place) \niGrowChain (2nd place) \nGrayBlock Power (3rd place). \n\nWe hope you enjoy!!!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!Special Guest: Karin Gabriel.","content_html":"In this episode, we cover the SDO Global Blockchain Challenge which was showcased in the Future Blockchain Summit in Dubai.
\n\nOut of the 700+ applications, only 20 finalists were flown to Dubai with a chance to pitch their ideas and where only three can be crowned winners do receive cash prizes.
\n\nWe first speak with Karin Gabriel, a Project Lead at the Dubai Future Accelerators (DFA), who explains to us what the DFA is and its role within the Dubai Government, and also what the Global Blockchain Challenege is all about.
\n\nWe then spoke with 6 of the finalists to learn more about what they’re doing and what their projects are! These include:
\n-TE-Food (Supply chain management for food traceability)
\n-Bluechain (Digitizing and optimising the industrial management process and operation)
\n-Quantstamp (Blockchain agnostic protocol which secures smart contracts)
\n-Ole Sports (Making football fairer and tokenising the aspects of the football experience)
\n-PO8 (Marine archelogy start-up that is tokenising underwater assets)
\n-Akita Blockchain Solutions (Building tangible prototypes and products based on blockchain)
We wish we could have sat down with all 20 start-ups, but the above 6 just showcases how diverse the finals were.
\n\nThe competition took place on Wednesday 3rd April and the winners were announced during the Future Blockchain Summit -
\nCongratulations to:
\nQuantstamp (1st place)
\niGrowChain (2nd place)
\nGrayBlock Power (3rd place).
We hope you enjoy!!!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
Special Guest: Karin Gabriel.
","summary":"20 finalists out of 700+ applications for the 2019 Global Blockchain Challenge. We sit down the the project lead of the Dubai Futures Accelerators, Karin Gabriel who explains what the Global Blockchain challenge is all about and we also catch up with the finalists before their pitch to see what ideas are being born and already applied. You can't miss this one!","date_published":"2019-04-10T12:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/7669ad13-ebe5-47cf-8454-33cdd1acc005.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":51962948,"duration_in_seconds":3305}]},{"id":"184f5dba-33a9-48b3-85b2-1199bb3ed967","title":"#Ep. 32: Encrypted presents Decrypt Hour!","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/decrypt-hour","content_text":"So our stats shows that 42% of our listeners are from the UAE. Well we have never met nor interacted with the majority of them, and so we decided to host our first meet-up. \nThis meet-up, however, is with a twist. \n\nWe did a live podcast to interact and engage with our community and the wider blockchain community in Dubai. We allowed the audience to pitch in their thoughts and questions at any point during the panel to allow for an interactive discussion. \n\nThe topics were also chosen by the community too! On the registration form, we allowed the attendees to pick three topics out of 5 we picked and the three that were chosen were:\n\n\nBlockchain in the GCC\nState and future of adoption\nBlockchain start-up investments\n\n\nThis is our longest episode where we, as a community, discussed many different factors of our ecosystem and we hope you will enjoy this. \n\nAs always, please do not subscribe to our podcast. If you have, do not forget to rate and review the podcast!!Special Guests: Dr. Marwan Alzarouni and Talal Tabbaa.","content_html":"So our stats shows that 42% of our listeners are from the UAE. Well we have never met nor interacted with the majority of them, and so we decided to host our first meet-up.
\nThis meet-up, however, is with a twist.
We did a live podcast to interact and engage with our community and the wider blockchain community in Dubai. We allowed the audience to pitch in their thoughts and questions at any point during the panel to allow for an interactive discussion.
\n\nThe topics were also chosen by the community too! On the registration form, we allowed the attendees to pick three topics out of 5 we picked and the three that were chosen were:
\n\nThis is our longest episode where we, as a community, discussed many different factors of our ecosystem and we hope you will enjoy this.
\n\nAs always, please do not subscribe to our podcast. If you have, do not forget to rate and review the podcast!!
Special Guests: Dr. Marwan Alzarouni and Talal Tabbaa.
","summary":"Our. First. Live. Podcast. Meetup!! Yipeeee, in episode 32, we took it offline to have a live podcast recording with the blockchain community in Dubai. Special thanks to Dr. Marwan and Talal Tabbaa for being the panelists and as well as the awesome audience who contributed their thoughts and insights in this very engaging and special episode. You can't miss this one!","date_published":"2019-04-02T17:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/184f5dba-33a9-48b3-85b2-1199bb3ed967.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":92805146,"duration_in_seconds":5800}]},{"id":"c58c4245-c8ea-487a-b23c-c8bffe08adbc","title":"#Ep. 31: How Matic Network is solving the biggest problems in Blockchain today?","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/how-magic-network-is-solving-biggest-problems","content_text":"In this episode Ahmed and Aniket speak to Sandeep Nailwal, COO of Matic Network. \n\nMatic Network is a Layer 2 scaling solution for decentralised blockchain networks. The hosts explore why Matic exists, how they’re implementing Layer 2 solutions and what the platform is all about. \n\nSandeep in a nutshell explains how important it is to solve the biggest problems in the space; scalability and UX. \n\nThe Challenges\n\n\nCurrent blockchain networks have a big problem in scaling due to its decentralised nature and that for mass adoption current blockchain networks will not be able to service millions of users. \nWhen it comes to UX and usability of blockchain’s the biggest problems lie in the technical nature of using blockchain. The ultimate goal is that when users interact, they wouldn’t know that they are really interacting with blockchain networks. From a developer standpoint, they are also providing easy tools for developers to develop applications on top of Matic which would allow scalability for Dapps and ultimately lower fees as well. \n\n\nLayer 1 and Layer 2\nSandeep goes into the differences between Layer 1 and Layer 2 in blockchain networks and how they behave respectively. \n\nSandeep explains that Layer 1 is all about economic considerations where there is a trade-off between security and scalability which is commonly seen in networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum. The higher the security the lower the scalability and thus inherently slow. Ahmed quotes Vitalik’s Scalability trilemma where if you had scalabilty, decentralisation and security, you can only choose two of these three. Most, if not all Layer 1 blockchain networks, they choose decentralisation and security.\n\nIn Layer 2, since you have Layer 1 to rely on which is security and decentralisation, then through cryptographic mechanisms you can get the same features on layer 2 as well as adding the scalability in layer 2 which is not included in layer 1. \nMake sure to listen to the episode to hear how Matic network is building out this innovative Layer 2 solution they are creating. \n\nDifference between Matic and others\nMatic’s solution is highly inspired by the Plasma implementation that was put forward by Vitalik Buterin and Joseph Poon. Plasma is one of the first layer 2 frameworks out there in the market. \n\nHere Sandeep explains how they are implementing layer 2 differently from Plasma, briefly explaining how they are implementing an account-based system rather than the UTXO system which is used by Plasma. Make sure to tune in to find out more!\n\nSandeep explains how Matic is different from competitors such as Loom Network and Skale. \nHe also goes into how they are improving developer experience since Matic is built on Ethereum, Ethereum developers are automatically Matic developers and thus it is easy to migrate to the layer 2 Matic is providing. \n\nCrypto in India\nAniket who has been researching the Indian blockchain space is curious to see how Matic are operating in India given they are an Indian team. \nSandeep explains the structure of Matic and where they are based and states that their research team is based in India. He also goes to talk about the current regulatory landscape of crypto in India and believes that India will not ban crypto. \n\nThe Matic token and tokenomics\nAhmed asks about the token mechanism of Matic network and Sandeep answers that their token is a network token which is used to keep the network secure and to have the token in order to use the Matic network. Therefore, like most blockchain’s such as Bitocin and Ethereum and other protocol layers a native token is used for transaction fees. Additionally, Matic is a proof of stake system which requires a token to govern and secure the network thus a native asset is necessary to secure and incentivise network participants to keep honest, like how most blockchains currently are. \nThus, the token has two utilities: used for transaction fee and used for staking.\n\nIs Matic doing an ICO?\nSandeep explains that they are looking to do an ICO and shares his plans on doing a large public sale on the back of recently completing a small private sale. They have an amazing announcement soon so do make sure to keep your eyes peeled.\n\nWe hope you enjoy!!!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!Special Guest: Sandeep nailwal.","content_html":"In this episode Ahmed and Aniket speak to Sandeep Nailwal, COO of Matic Network.
\n\nMatic Network is a Layer 2 scaling solution for decentralised blockchain networks. The hosts explore why Matic exists, how they’re implementing Layer 2 solutions and what the platform is all about.
\n\nSandeep in a nutshell explains how important it is to solve the biggest problems in the space; scalability and UX.
\n\nThe Challenges
\n\nCurrent blockchain networks have a big problem in scaling due to its decentralised nature and that for mass adoption current blockchain networks will not be able to service millions of users.
When it comes to UX and usability of blockchain’s the biggest problems lie in the technical nature of using blockchain. The ultimate goal is that when users interact, they wouldn’t know that they are really interacting with blockchain networks. From a developer standpoint, they are also providing easy tools for developers to develop applications on top of Matic which would allow scalability for Dapps and ultimately lower fees as well.
Layer 1 and Layer 2
\nSandeep goes into the differences between Layer 1 and Layer 2 in blockchain networks and how they behave respectively.
Sandeep explains that Layer 1 is all about economic considerations where there is a trade-off between security and scalability which is commonly seen in networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum. The higher the security the lower the scalability and thus inherently slow. Ahmed quotes Vitalik’s Scalability trilemma where if you had scalabilty, decentralisation and security, you can only choose two of these three. Most, if not all Layer 1 blockchain networks, they choose decentralisation and security.
\n\nIn Layer 2, since you have Layer 1 to rely on which is security and decentralisation, then through cryptographic mechanisms you can get the same features on layer 2 as well as adding the scalability in layer 2 which is not included in layer 1.
\nMake sure to listen to the episode to hear how Matic network is building out this innovative Layer 2 solution they are creating.
Difference between Matic and others
\nMatic’s solution is highly inspired by the Plasma implementation that was put forward by Vitalik Buterin and Joseph Poon. Plasma is one of the first layer 2 frameworks out there in the market.
Here Sandeep explains how they are implementing layer 2 differently from Plasma, briefly explaining how they are implementing an account-based system rather than the UTXO system which is used by Plasma. Make sure to tune in to find out more!
\n\nSandeep explains how Matic is different from competitors such as Loom Network and Skale.
\nHe also goes into how they are improving developer experience since Matic is built on Ethereum, Ethereum developers are automatically Matic developers and thus it is easy to migrate to the layer 2 Matic is providing.
Crypto in India
\nAniket who has been researching the Indian blockchain space is curious to see how Matic are operating in India given they are an Indian team.
\nSandeep explains the structure of Matic and where they are based and states that their research team is based in India. He also goes to talk about the current regulatory landscape of crypto in India and believes that India will not ban crypto.
The Matic token and tokenomics
\nAhmed asks about the token mechanism of Matic network and Sandeep answers that their token is a network token which is used to keep the network secure and to have the token in order to use the Matic network. Therefore, like most blockchain’s such as Bitocin and Ethereum and other protocol layers a native token is used for transaction fees. Additionally, Matic is a proof of stake system which requires a token to govern and secure the network thus a native asset is necessary to secure and incentivise network participants to keep honest, like how most blockchains currently are.
\nThus, the token has two utilities: used for transaction fee and used for staking.
Is Matic doing an ICO?
\nSandeep explains that they are looking to do an ICO and shares his plans on doing a large public sale on the back of recently completing a small private sale. They have an amazing announcement soon so do make sure to keep your eyes peeled.
We hope you enjoy!!!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
Special Guest: Sandeep nailwal.
","summary":"We learn about an exciting project in this space called Matic Network. Ahmed and Aniket talk with Sandeep Nailwal who is the COO of Matic. In this episode, we learn all about the scalability problem and how Matic attempts to solve this problem and also other pressing problems in the blockchain space! You don’t want to miss this one!","date_published":"2019-03-30T15:30:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/c58c4245-c8ea-487a-b23c-c8bffe08adbc.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":31138208,"duration_in_seconds":2260}]},{"id":"4c9474b1-c93a-4e15-af86-05653fcfa99c","title":"#Ep. 30: Back to where it all started: Reflecting on 30 episodes","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/back-to-where-it-all-started-reflecting-over-thirty-episodes","content_text":"This episode was a real heart to heart. \n\nAhmed and Faisal reflect over their experience of running the Encrypted podcast covering what they learned when creating a podcast, their favourite episodes, the challenges they faced, revisiting why they are doing a podcast and sharing future plans of Encrypted. \n\nNot your typical episode this time, but a good break and pause from the usual. Reflecting out loud has definitely renewed our purpose for delivering valuable content and making Encrypted what it Is today. \n\nWe hope you enjoy!!!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!","content_html":"This episode was a real heart to heart.
\n\nAhmed and Faisal reflect over their experience of running the Encrypted podcast covering what they learned when creating a podcast, their favourite episodes, the challenges they faced, revisiting why they are doing a podcast and sharing future plans of Encrypted.
\n\nNot your typical episode this time, but a good break and pause from the usual. Reflecting out loud has definitely renewed our purpose for delivering valuable content and making Encrypted what it Is today.
\n\nWe hope you enjoy!!!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
","summary":"The highs, the lows and everything in between! This is our topic for episode 30 where we reflect on our milestone of 30 episodes on Encrypted. Ahmed and Faisal talk about their experiences running the Encrypted podcast and renewing the purpose as to why they are dedicating time to it. We also talk about the Emaar ICO and why this is so significant. All this and more on this special episode.","date_published":"2019-03-20T15:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/4c9474b1-c93a-4e15-af86-05653fcfa99c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":27257671,"duration_in_seconds":1768}]},{"id":"c44f3bef-be10-4e38-8ca8-c15471cab859","title":"#Ep. 29: Assessing blockchain for insurance with Takaful Emarat and Addenda","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/assessing-blockchain-for-insurance","content_text":"Episode 29 is here! Ahmed sits down with Walid Daniel Dib from Addenda and Vivek Bhalla from Takaful Emarat.\n\nWhat is insurance and what challenges does the industry face?\nAhmed starts off by questioning the two guests about what we mean by insurance and the challenges that the industry faces. Vivek touches on the concept of how sharing should be closely related to this industry and how it is a social responsibility to share risk, a principle held at Takaful Emarat. \nBeing described as an industry still with a stone age mentality, main challenges include: very low digital processes, engagement with customers is low, and fundamentally it’s all manual process orientated. \n\nCollaboration is also a key challenge that Walid pointed citing that insurance companies find It harder to come together and would rather sit on their heaps of data and not doing anything with it. \n\nCan blockchain help? And if so, how?\nWell of course blockchain would be able to help, and Walid and Vivek cite many examples, both theoretical and practical applications that are currently being deployed. Do tune in to find out more!\n\nGoing corporate!\nWalid cites the importance of private chains and what they offer over public blockchains, particularly in a corporate environment. Fun fact, Walid used to be a bitcoin maximalist before going corporate! \nPart of this conversation entertained many questions such as: how to maintain trust in networks operated by, let’s say, a group of insurance companies? Another question is then, who is responsible for authenticating all this data and how is it structured? Do insurance companies have to remove all their old systems away? Ah yes, the burning questions needed for innovation to really happen are explored too!\n\nOk, but why does this all matter? How will I, as an end user, see any change?\nAhmed then steers the conversation to see why this all really matters and what the implications are for both end users and insurance companies. \n\nWalid and Vivek cite further examples, both within a typical insurance transaction (that is usually coordinated between many parties), and also enterprises currently developing proof of concepts in industries like trade finance. \n\nWith authenticated data processed seamlessly and less reliance on manual processes, the biggest implication for end users are the cost of premiums should significantly drop.\n\nB3I\nB3I is a blockchain Insurance Industry Initiative that provides insurance solutions on a blockchain platform offering opportunities for efficiency, growth and quality across the value chain to benefit all participants including end customers.\nThis industry initiative is what Takaful Emarat is a part of to help realise the innovation blockchain brings to the insurance industry. \n\nLets talk convergence\nAhmed asks how AI, IoT and blockchain are able to come together to be able to provide far better value than what each technology can provide on its own. Yes, there will be an inflection point soon! Listen in on what the guests had to say.\n\nThe relationship between a start-up and a traditional player\nWe can see how amazed Ahmed is to see how a traditional player within this stone age like insurance industry is working closely with Walid’s start-up, and helping to drive innovation. \n\nWalid first starts off talking about his experience in the Fintech Hive, a leading fintech accelerator in Dubai, and how their talks with traditional insurance players surprised them as they saw local players being a bit more open compared to the international insurance firms with regional offices. Vivek and Walid both talk about their experiences working with and engaging the regulators and ultimately describing how their partnership formed and how their work is evolving!\n\nWell what an episode that was, do make sure to tune in as we talked about the above and much more!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!Special Guests: Vivek Bhalla and Walid Daniel Dib.","content_html":"Episode 29 is here! Ahmed sits down with Walid Daniel Dib from Addenda and Vivek Bhalla from Takaful Emarat.
\n\nWhat is insurance and what challenges does the industry face?
\nAhmed starts off by questioning the two guests about what we mean by insurance and the challenges that the industry faces. Vivek touches on the concept of how sharing should be closely related to this industry and how it is a social responsibility to share risk, a principle held at Takaful Emarat.
\nBeing described as an industry still with a stone age mentality, main challenges include: very low digital processes, engagement with customers is low, and fundamentally it’s all manual process orientated.
Collaboration is also a key challenge that Walid pointed citing that insurance companies find It harder to come together and would rather sit on their heaps of data and not doing anything with it.
\n\nCan blockchain help? And if so, how?
\nWell of course blockchain would be able to help, and Walid and Vivek cite many examples, both theoretical and practical applications that are currently being deployed. Do tune in to find out more!
Going corporate!
\nWalid cites the importance of private chains and what they offer over public blockchains, particularly in a corporate environment. Fun fact, Walid used to be a bitcoin maximalist before going corporate!
\nPart of this conversation entertained many questions such as: how to maintain trust in networks operated by, let’s say, a group of insurance companies? Another question is then, who is responsible for authenticating all this data and how is it structured? Do insurance companies have to remove all their old systems away? Ah yes, the burning questions needed for innovation to really happen are explored too!
Ok, but why does this all matter? How will I, as an end user, see any change?
\nAhmed then steers the conversation to see why this all really matters and what the implications are for both end users and insurance companies.
Walid and Vivek cite further examples, both within a typical insurance transaction (that is usually coordinated between many parties), and also enterprises currently developing proof of concepts in industries like trade finance.
\n\nWith authenticated data processed seamlessly and less reliance on manual processes, the biggest implication for end users are the cost of premiums should significantly drop.
\n\nB3I
\nB3I is a blockchain Insurance Industry Initiative that provides insurance solutions on a blockchain platform offering opportunities for efficiency, growth and quality across the value chain to benefit all participants including end customers.
\nThis industry initiative is what Takaful Emarat is a part of to help realise the innovation blockchain brings to the insurance industry.
Lets talk convergence
\nAhmed asks how AI, IoT and blockchain are able to come together to be able to provide far better value than what each technology can provide on its own. Yes, there will be an inflection point soon! Listen in on what the guests had to say.
The relationship between a start-up and a traditional player
\nWe can see how amazed Ahmed is to see how a traditional player within this stone age like insurance industry is working closely with Walid’s start-up, and helping to drive innovation.
Walid first starts off talking about his experience in the Fintech Hive, a leading fintech accelerator in Dubai, and how their talks with traditional insurance players surprised them as they saw local players being a bit more open compared to the international insurance firms with regional offices. Vivek and Walid both talk about their experiences working with and engaging the regulators and ultimately describing how their partnership formed and how their work is evolving!
\n\nWell what an episode that was, do make sure to tune in as we talked about the above and much more!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
Special Guests: Vivek Bhalla and Walid Daniel Dib.
","summary":"Bringing trust back to an industry built on it: Assessing blockchain for insurance. \r\n\r\nWalid Daniel Dib from Addenda and Vivek Bhalla from Takaful Emarat join us in episode 29 as it is all about understanding the use case for blockchain in the insurance industry, an industry that is plagued with manual processes and very little innovation. \r\nWe also delve deep into how relationships are made between an established player and a small start-up that is deploying a very niche technology. ","date_published":"2019-03-12T09:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/c44f3bef-be10-4e38-8ca8-c15471cab859.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":38010095,"duration_in_seconds":2375}]},{"id":"e0d14c45-544e-4652-9b9b-64606000add2","title":"#Ep. 28: Behavioural Science, Transparency, and the role of Governments: A conversation with Maja Vujinovic, the Former CIO of Emerging Tech at GE","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/behaviouralscience-transparency-role-of-governments-maja-vujinovic","content_text":"In our next instalment of Encrypted, episode 28 brings you an inspiring discussion with Maja Vujinovic, the CEO of OGroup and the former CIO of Emerging Technology at GE.\n\nMaja first talks about the spark that caused her to go full time in blockchain after GE. The topics around deciphering data, what incentivizes behaviours, token economies, to name a few, were the topics that stimulated her interest and has ultimately led her to speak to global corporates about different ways you can incentivize behaviour for better business models. \n\nData, behavioural science and hype\n\nAhmed and Faisal start off the discussion with Maja about data to see what role it plays with blockchain networks and how that interacts with behavioural economics and science that is typically embedded in these networks. \n\nMaja explains her story at GE in how she managed to convince upper management about the opportunities that well-built incentive models backed by the right data will help drive business growth and newer business models for the firm. \n\nTransparency in large organisations – Yay or nay?\n\nAs Maja explains her experiences, this leads Ahmed to ask why do large corporates not like transparency? Maja spills the beans on what are in the minds of corporates and argues that in the real-world open source, for all its transparency, may actually not work.\nRather, it’s the rise of technology and rising customer expectations, transparency is being forced on the face of corporates and governments. This develops into a very interesting discussion about the philosophy behind transparency. \n\nWhat is the most important function of the government?\n\nMaja proposes this above question stimulating a discussion on the responsibility that governments have with regards to their functions. There are clear use cases for the government to use blockchain to make their processes more efficient. Great! But now they have more coordinated data – uh oh, can we trust the governments to not abuse this data? Has blockchain brought power to those that it seeks to destroy? Tune in to this episode to hear what is being discussed!\n\nMaja also touches on the topic of surveillance capitalism and explains that we have to think twice before building these tools otherwise we may see the wrong side of technology impacting humanity for the worse. \n\nTouching upon centralisation, Ahmed talks about how decentralisation can only be realised in a slow fashion as we cannot have a full shift from centralisation to decentralisation overnight. Maja did not only agree but also explained her experiences at GE attested to this, explaining how their customers reacted to initial pilot projects that were launched.\nMake sure to catch Maja talk about the other pilot projects and use cases she’s been involved with in the past!\n\nOh – and are the institutions really coming?\n\nThe trio deep dive into the aspect of what institutional money coming into crypto really means. Many people talk about it, but it’s never really explained properly. Is it heaps of money buying up bitcoin? Or is money going into specific blockchain funds? Or is it something else?\n\nAfter Maja gives her thoughts on this, Faisal goes back to ask the question of whether or not we actually need humans to be their own banks, have specific applications, or have multi sig wallets because they are complicated, and humans are not used to it. Make sure to tune in this episode to hear Maja’s thoughts on this!\n\nThere is no killer app?!\n\nAs Maja toys with the idea that the killer app would be in gaming, she backtracks and says there is no killer app in the market. Faisal then poses the question of what do we need to see before a killer app comes along? Maja argues that Volume, true utility, deep purpose and underlying value are the 4 main traits before we see a real killer app. \n\nWell what an episode that was, do make sure to tune in as we talked about the above and much more!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!Special Guest: Maja Vujinovic.","content_html":"In our next instalment of Encrypted, episode 28 brings you an inspiring discussion with Maja Vujinovic, the CEO of OGroup and the former CIO of Emerging Technology at GE.
\n\nMaja first talks about the spark that caused her to go full time in blockchain after GE. The topics around deciphering data, what incentivizes behaviours, token economies, to name a few, were the topics that stimulated her interest and has ultimately led her to speak to global corporates about different ways you can incentivize behaviour for better business models.
\n\nData, behavioural science and hype
\n\nAhmed and Faisal start off the discussion with Maja about data to see what role it plays with blockchain networks and how that interacts with behavioural economics and science that is typically embedded in these networks.
\n\nMaja explains her story at GE in how she managed to convince upper management about the opportunities that well-built incentive models backed by the right data will help drive business growth and newer business models for the firm.
\n\nTransparency in large organisations – Yay or nay?
\n\nAs Maja explains her experiences, this leads Ahmed to ask why do large corporates not like transparency? Maja spills the beans on what are in the minds of corporates and argues that in the real-world open source, for all its transparency, may actually not work.
\nRather, it’s the rise of technology and rising customer expectations, transparency is being forced on the face of corporates and governments. This develops into a very interesting discussion about the philosophy behind transparency.
What is the most important function of the government?
\n\nMaja proposes this above question stimulating a discussion on the responsibility that governments have with regards to their functions. There are clear use cases for the government to use blockchain to make their processes more efficient. Great! But now they have more coordinated data – uh oh, can we trust the governments to not abuse this data? Has blockchain brought power to those that it seeks to destroy? Tune in to this episode to hear what is being discussed!
\n\nMaja also touches on the topic of surveillance capitalism and explains that we have to think twice before building these tools otherwise we may see the wrong side of technology impacting humanity for the worse.
\n\nTouching upon centralisation, Ahmed talks about how decentralisation can only be realised in a slow fashion as we cannot have a full shift from centralisation to decentralisation overnight. Maja did not only agree but also explained her experiences at GE attested to this, explaining how their customers reacted to initial pilot projects that were launched.
\nMake sure to catch Maja talk about the other pilot projects and use cases she’s been involved with in the past!
Oh – and are the institutions really coming?
\n\nThe trio deep dive into the aspect of what institutional money coming into crypto really means. Many people talk about it, but it’s never really explained properly. Is it heaps of money buying up bitcoin? Or is money going into specific blockchain funds? Or is it something else?
\n\nAfter Maja gives her thoughts on this, Faisal goes back to ask the question of whether or not we actually need humans to be their own banks, have specific applications, or have multi sig wallets because they are complicated, and humans are not used to it. Make sure to tune in this episode to hear Maja’s thoughts on this!
\n\nThere is no killer app?!
\n\nAs Maja toys with the idea that the killer app would be in gaming, she backtracks and says there is no killer app in the market. Faisal then poses the question of what do we need to see before a killer app comes along? Maja argues that Volume, true utility, deep purpose and underlying value are the 4 main traits before we see a real killer app.
\n\nWell what an episode that was, do make sure to tune in as we talked about the above and much more!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
Special Guest: Maja Vujinovic.
","summary":"In Episode 28, Ahmed and Faisal do their first remote recording online with their guest. Maja Vujinovic, CEO at OGroup and Former CIO of Emerging Tech at GE, joins this episode to share her works and thoughts surrounding behavioural science and crypto economics and how they will ultimately play huge in large corporates and governments!","date_published":"2019-03-03T16:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/e0d14c45-544e-4652-9b9b-64606000add2.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":31774357,"duration_in_seconds":2599}]},{"id":"351900e7-a867-4113-be10-387f4735c799","title":"#Ep. 27: Future of Crypto: World Government Summit Special","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/future-of-crypto-world-government-summit-special","content_text":"Ahmed is at the World Government Summit recording from a beautiful room that overlooks the beautiful Jumeirah Beach and the Madinah Jumeirah in all its glory. \n\nAnd what an amazing line-up he have for this episode with two amazing guests, Lawrence Wintermeyer from Global Digital Finance and Martin Bartlam from DLA Piper. \n\nAdult supervision\n\nAfter initial introductions, Ahmed recalls with Lawrence the crypto panel that took place at the World Government Summit this time last year which comprised mostly of bitcoin maximalists. This is in complete contrast to this year’s crypto panel at the World Government Summit where panel members all comprised of regulators and lawyers. Interesting how much changes in one year!\n\nLawrence and Martin emphasise the aspect that the crypto market is reforming and it is a time of consolidation and building before another round of excitement will come to the market again. \n\nWhy reinvent the wheel?\n\nMost commentators would ascertain that new regulation would need to be implemented before the industry would see mass adoption. Martin, however, disagrees putting forth the viewpoint that we already have an effective regulatory framework in place and instead the market would need new infrastructures such as regulated exchanges, effective KYC procedures and custody solutions to exist before we see real traction.\n\nIn an environment of seeing the next wave of infrastructure the two guests believe that regulators and lawyers are already up to speed with recent developments in the space and are preparing for the new wave of innovations coming in the next couple years. \n\nLet’s have a new term for STOs\n\nAhmed takes a crack at killing the term security tokens and STOs and the guests have slightly mixed views about this. Check out the episode to hear more!\n\nConquer or Partner?\n\nAhmed moves the conversation to see whether or not the current incumbents are able to or will bypass the current innovators and use their mass resources to move to a truly digital platform. \nThe guests believe that the partnership model seems to be an approach that is common in the industry and that start-ups in the future will provide very niche services. Incumbents, they argue, have gone better in researching and collectively working together to find opportunities and actively contribute to the industry. \n\nAll the above and more was discussed in this week’s episode of Encrypted. But before the ending, the two guests talk about their biggest takeaways from the World Government Summit. So do make sure to check out this episode to hear their takeaways and what they have to say. \n\nWe really hope you enjoy this episode as we worked really hard to get this specific episode recorded and yes sorry about the echoes in this episode. \n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!Special Guests: Lawrence Wintermeyer and Martin Bartlam.","content_html":"Ahmed is at the World Government Summit recording from a beautiful room that overlooks the beautiful Jumeirah Beach and the Madinah Jumeirah in all its glory.
\n\nAnd what an amazing line-up he have for this episode with two amazing guests, Lawrence Wintermeyer from Global Digital Finance and Martin Bartlam from DLA Piper.
\n\nAdult supervision
\n\nAfter initial introductions, Ahmed recalls with Lawrence the crypto panel that took place at the World Government Summit this time last year which comprised mostly of bitcoin maximalists. This is in complete contrast to this year’s crypto panel at the World Government Summit where panel members all comprised of regulators and lawyers. Interesting how much changes in one year!
\n\nLawrence and Martin emphasise the aspect that the crypto market is reforming and it is a time of consolidation and building before another round of excitement will come to the market again.
\n\nWhy reinvent the wheel?
\n\nMost commentators would ascertain that new regulation would need to be implemented before the industry would see mass adoption. Martin, however, disagrees putting forth the viewpoint that we already have an effective regulatory framework in place and instead the market would need new infrastructures such as regulated exchanges, effective KYC procedures and custody solutions to exist before we see real traction.
\n\nIn an environment of seeing the next wave of infrastructure the two guests believe that regulators and lawyers are already up to speed with recent developments in the space and are preparing for the new wave of innovations coming in the next couple years.
\n\nLet’s have a new term for STOs
\n\nAhmed takes a crack at killing the term security tokens and STOs and the guests have slightly mixed views about this. Check out the episode to hear more!
\n\nConquer or Partner?
\n\nAhmed moves the conversation to see whether or not the current incumbents are able to or will bypass the current innovators and use their mass resources to move to a truly digital platform.
\nThe guests believe that the partnership model seems to be an approach that is common in the industry and that start-ups in the future will provide very niche services. Incumbents, they argue, have gone better in researching and collectively working together to find opportunities and actively contribute to the industry.
All the above and more was discussed in this week’s episode of Encrypted. But before the ending, the two guests talk about their biggest takeaways from the World Government Summit. So do make sure to check out this episode to hear their takeaways and what they have to say.
\n\nWe really hope you enjoy this episode as we worked really hard to get this specific episode recorded and yes sorry about the echoes in this episode.
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
Special Guests: Lawrence Wintermeyer and Martin Bartlam.
","summary":"Ahmed kicks off episode 27 in style at the World Government Summit where he is joined by Lawrence Wintermeyer from Global Digital Finance and Martin Bartlam from DLA Piper. In this episode, the trio delve into what the future of crypto looks like, how we'll get there, the current state of the market and also takeaways from this exclusive 3 day summit which was organized by the Prime Minister's Office. ","date_published":"2019-02-17T16:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/351900e7-a867-4113-be10-387f4735c799.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":33378494,"duration_in_seconds":2150}]},{"id":"f1f38f73-9f57-4200-8e0d-377a7a11178a","title":"#Ep. 26: How blockchain is revolutionizing the real estate experience in Dubai","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/how-blockchain-is-revolutionizing-the-real-estate-experience-in-dubai","content_text":"Ahmed and Faisal host Khalifa Alsuwaidi, CEO of Emirates Real Estate Solutions (ERES).\n\nThe episode starts with Khalifa introducing himself and his experiecne in the real estate sector and how ERES was founded and how it relates to the Dubai Land Department (DLD). He touches upon the strategic objectives of ERES and the engagement model with DLD. \n\nHistory of blockchain in real estate\n\nKhalifa then elaborates on how DLD and ERES began their exploration in blockchain and understanding how it could potnetially transform the real estate sector in Dubai. How they began their benchmarking process and worked closely with Smart Dubai and other government entities to put a clear roadmap for blockchain implementations. \n\nThe ecosystem & current implementations \n\nAhmed asks the guest to explain in more details the ecosystem of real estate. Khalifa explains all stakeholders involved in the ecosystem and how transactions are flowing; from developers to buyers to brokers to sellers and so on. He then explains how ERES developed the roadmap to design and implement solutions and products to cater for the needs of the market and different stakeholders and faciliate easier experiences. The guest also explains the main pillars and modules that are in the roadmap for ERES reaching 2020.\n\nMoving forward\n\nThe hosts then touch upon 2019 and beyond plans of ERES and the main challeneges that are expected to be tackled moving forward. Khalifa explains challenges related to collaboration, capabilities and technical aspects.\n\nAs you can see, we talked about a lot of things and so all of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!","content_html":"Ahmed and Faisal host Khalifa Alsuwaidi, CEO of Emirates Real Estate Solutions (ERES).
\n\nThe episode starts with Khalifa introducing himself and his experiecne in the real estate sector and how ERES was founded and how it relates to the Dubai Land Department (DLD). He touches upon the strategic objectives of ERES and the engagement model with DLD.
\n\nHistory of blockchain in real estate
\n\nKhalifa then elaborates on how DLD and ERES began their exploration in blockchain and understanding how it could potnetially transform the real estate sector in Dubai. How they began their benchmarking process and worked closely with Smart Dubai and other government entities to put a clear roadmap for blockchain implementations.
\n\nThe ecosystem & current implementations
\n\nAhmed asks the guest to explain in more details the ecosystem of real estate. Khalifa explains all stakeholders involved in the ecosystem and how transactions are flowing; from developers to buyers to brokers to sellers and so on. He then explains how ERES developed the roadmap to design and implement solutions and products to cater for the needs of the market and different stakeholders and faciliate easier experiences. The guest also explains the main pillars and modules that are in the roadmap for ERES reaching 2020.
\n\nMoving forward
\n\nThe hosts then touch upon 2019 and beyond plans of ERES and the main challeneges that are expected to be tackled moving forward. Khalifa explains challenges related to collaboration, capabilities and technical aspects.
\n\nAs you can see, we talked about a lot of things and so all of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
","summary":"In the 26th episode, Ahmed and Faisal host Khalifa Al Suwaidi, CEO of ERES and elaborate on the landscape of blockchain applications in the real estate sector in Dubai. They discuss the history, current implementations and the future foresight of blockchain in this space. ","date_published":"2019-02-05T18:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/f1f38f73-9f57-4200-8e0d-377a7a11178a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mp3","size_in_bytes":44205047,"duration_in_seconds":2762}]},{"id":"5bc7ad77-62a6-43a9-926c-f9644d3298e4","title":"#Ep. 25: The balance between ROI and Social Impact: A conversation with the Blockchain Founders Fund","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/balance-roi-social-impact-blockchain-founders-fund","content_text":"Ahmed and Faisal are joined by Aly Madhavji, a Managing Partner at the Blockchain Founders Fund. \n\nThe episode starts off with Ahmed describing his experience at the Binance Fair in Singapore where he gives a few highlights and takeaways as well as a general landscape of the region. \n\nUse cases and investments\n\nThe show then dives deep into Aly’s background and what the Blockchain Founders Fund actually is and what it does in the industry. Having an investment arm, incubation arm as well as a consulting arm, Aly reminds us all as to why blockchain is beneficial and cites many cross-border use cases. \n\nAhmed asks what type of companies the fund has already invested in and what are they looking to invest in going forward. With an interesting and diverse portfolio, this episode brings to light the unsung no-hype projects that are solving real problems and making real use cases.\n\n2019 focus: Finding transformative solutions and UN Impact report\n\nAly also delves into their different focus points for 2019; one of which is contributing to the written publication of an Impact report for the United Nations. Having different stakeholders, in particular funds, contribute to social enterprise and social impact causes are crucial in moving the industry forward. Do make sure to listen in on what exactly this report is all about!\n\nInvestment criteria and the Lemonade video!\n\nFaisal questions Aly on the Blockchain Founders Fund’s investment criteria and philosophy where he describes how their fund operates, their thoughts on tokens and the different brackets within their investment strategy. Listen in to how their fund tries to find the right balance between obtaining the highest ROI and making sure to have a social lens too.\n\nLet’s ban the term STO\n\nAs Aly is an advisor to Polymath, he talks about his thoughts and concerns in regards with security tokens and security token offerings. \nHe highlights the fundamental fact that the underlying does not change; where a company, or a project is not more valuable because it’s done an STO. \n\nThey also talk about the benefits of STOs as well as the challenges of implementing an STO now, where they cite that implementing a security token could in fact add extra layers in the process rather than making it more efficient. \nThe three also touch on crowdfunding, the decreasing popularity of public fundraising and more on this exciting topic!\n\nAs you can see, we talked about a lot of things and so all of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!\n\nSource:\nLemonade Video!Special Guest: Aly Madhavji 穆亚霖 .","content_html":"Ahmed and Faisal are joined by Aly Madhavji, a Managing Partner at the Blockchain Founders Fund.
\n\nThe episode starts off with Ahmed describing his experience at the Binance Fair in Singapore where he gives a few highlights and takeaways as well as a general landscape of the region.
\n\nUse cases and investments
\n\nThe show then dives deep into Aly’s background and what the Blockchain Founders Fund actually is and what it does in the industry. Having an investment arm, incubation arm as well as a consulting arm, Aly reminds us all as to why blockchain is beneficial and cites many cross-border use cases.
\n\nAhmed asks what type of companies the fund has already invested in and what are they looking to invest in going forward. With an interesting and diverse portfolio, this episode brings to light the unsung no-hype projects that are solving real problems and making real use cases.
\n\n2019 focus: Finding transformative solutions and UN Impact report
\n\nAly also delves into their different focus points for 2019; one of which is contributing to the written publication of an Impact report for the United Nations. Having different stakeholders, in particular funds, contribute to social enterprise and social impact causes are crucial in moving the industry forward. Do make sure to listen in on what exactly this report is all about!
\n\nInvestment criteria and the Lemonade video!
\n\nFaisal questions Aly on the Blockchain Founders Fund’s investment criteria and philosophy where he describes how their fund operates, their thoughts on tokens and the different brackets within their investment strategy. Listen in to how their fund tries to find the right balance between obtaining the highest ROI and making sure to have a social lens too.
\n\nLet’s ban the term STO
\n\nAs Aly is an advisor to Polymath, he talks about his thoughts and concerns in regards with security tokens and security token offerings.
\nHe highlights the fundamental fact that the underlying does not change; where a company, or a project is not more valuable because it’s done an STO.
They also talk about the benefits of STOs as well as the challenges of implementing an STO now, where they cite that implementing a security token could in fact add extra layers in the process rather than making it more efficient.
\nThe three also touch on crowdfunding, the decreasing popularity of public fundraising and more on this exciting topic!
As you can see, we talked about a lot of things and so all of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
\n\nSource:
\nLemonade Video!
Special Guest: Aly Madhavji 穆亚霖 .
","summary":"In the 25th episode, (wow it has been 25 episodes already), Ahmed and and Faisal sit down with the Managing Partner of the Blockchain Founders Fund, Aly Madhavji to discuss their work with the UN, STO's and investments in the blockchain space both with a ROI lens and a social lens.","date_published":"2019-01-29T14:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/5bc7ad77-62a6-43a9-926c-f9644d3298e4.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":35809260,"duration_in_seconds":2212}]},{"id":"e7cfc202-e695-4047-8ca9-e68ccc2c26b4","title":"#Ep. 24: Crypto Tales: The Success Story of Dubai's Bitoasis","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/crypto-tales-dubais-success-story-bitoasis","content_text":"In the 24th episode of Encrypted, Ahmed and Faisal were joined by a very special guest from the Middle Eastern bitcoin and blockchain community, Ola Doudin, CEO of Bitoasis.\n\nBeing the only exchange in the MENA region with on-ramp and off-ramp (i.e. exchange fiat for crypto and vice versa), Ola shares her background and past experiences before launching Bitoasis. We were impressed by it and we’re sure you will too!\n\nFirst, we wanted to clear misconceptions and confusion around the ‘Virtual Currency’ ban in a policy paper that was issued by the UAE Central Bank in early 2017. With Bitoasis already being an established digital assets exchange, Ola explains how they reacted to this piece of news and how they made a clear path forward. \n\nHow can you get a crypto exchange license in the UAE?\n\nThis led the discussion to the subject of obtaining a crypto exchange license here in the UAE when there was no clear guidance or laws on running crypto asset exchanges. Ola explains their approach with licensing in the UAE, their approach with lawyers and regulators and most importantly, how they dealt with compliance. For those budding exchange entrepreneurs looking towards the MENA region, you’ll definitely learn a thing or two from Ola’s experience. \n\nOh and what about a bank account?\n\nGetting bank accounts as a crypto company is not an easy task here in the UAE. Ola, however, has showcased to the region that it is doable. She explains the journey Bitoasis had with their banking relationships, the challenges they encountered and how they resolved them. Yes, relationships played a key role, but make sure to listen in to hear what else Bitoasis had up their sleeve to secure stable banking relationships for their exchange. \n\nOla emphasises that after the ADGM issued its exchange guidelines, regional banks have taken a more accommodating approach to banking crypto companies.\n\nRegulatory and competitive landscape\n\nOla talks about her experiences engaging with regulators across the region and GCC stating that we are at a point where most crypto companies and exchanges have to classify themselves as a financial services companies and thus have to be regulated accordingly. Faisal tries to understand how Ola is trying to scale Bitoasis in the region as well as her thoughts on the regional crypto exchange competitive landscape as more exchanges are actively trying to set up shop in the UAE.\n\nBitoasis’ Demographics\n\nOla shares the demographics of Bitoasis’ platform; particularly the persona of their users and their most active regions. She also highlights that the main crypto communities are UAE, Saudi and Kuwait. \n\nShe also mentions that users are not only on the exchange to trade and invest but their users use their platform as a means of payment and micropayments through their wallet product. \n\nBeing a crypto entrepreneur in the Middle East – wait a female crypto entrepreneur\n\nHere we try to understand Ola a bit more and how she persevered in a niche space during a time when blockchain and crypto was unheard of and typically rejected. Vision, their stakeholders, execution and being in the right city to experiment (want to hazard a guess where they experimented?) were the main factors behind their growth and success. This is an interesting part of the episode, so do make sure to tune in!\n\nDecentralisation and data hacking\n\nWe diverted our discussion to data, how dangerous centralised data stores are for society and more specifically the paradigm shift that needs to occur to prevent incidents such as the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica case. Ola asks an interesting question: when a huge data leak happens, what is the role of government and public services?\nWe clearly see that it’s just a matter of time that these problems will be solved using blockchain. So if you like to hear about the philosophical side of blockchain and why it can solve the above problem, then you wouldn’t want to miss this one!\n\nBuilding the infrastructure and what should be done in the region?\n\nAhmed asks Ola where does she see Bitoasis in 5 years time? Will they do an ICO, be an STO exchange etc? \n\n‘Building the infrastructure; particularly the liquidity pool and education that’s needed to build an industry’ – was her answer. Very visionary and powerful!\n\nFaisal follows up to hear Ola’s thoughts on what she thinks should be the government’s role to aid the industry and especially what should be done in the UAE and Dubai? Well, do tune in to find out. \n\nAs you can see, we talked about a lot of things and so all of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!Special Guest: Ola Doudin.","content_html":"In the 24th episode of Encrypted, Ahmed and Faisal were joined by a very special guest from the Middle Eastern bitcoin and blockchain community, Ola Doudin, CEO of Bitoasis.
\n\nBeing the only exchange in the MENA region with on-ramp and off-ramp (i.e. exchange fiat for crypto and vice versa), Ola shares her background and past experiences before launching Bitoasis. We were impressed by it and we’re sure you will too!
\n\nFirst, we wanted to clear misconceptions and confusion around the ‘Virtual Currency’ ban in a policy paper that was issued by the UAE Central Bank in early 2017. With Bitoasis already being an established digital assets exchange, Ola explains how they reacted to this piece of news and how they made a clear path forward.
\n\nHow can you get a crypto exchange license in the UAE?
\n\nThis led the discussion to the subject of obtaining a crypto exchange license here in the UAE when there was no clear guidance or laws on running crypto asset exchanges. Ola explains their approach with licensing in the UAE, their approach with lawyers and regulators and most importantly, how they dealt with compliance. For those budding exchange entrepreneurs looking towards the MENA region, you’ll definitely learn a thing or two from Ola’s experience.
\n\nOh and what about a bank account?
\n\nGetting bank accounts as a crypto company is not an easy task here in the UAE. Ola, however, has showcased to the region that it is doable. She explains the journey Bitoasis had with their banking relationships, the challenges they encountered and how they resolved them. Yes, relationships played a key role, but make sure to listen in to hear what else Bitoasis had up their sleeve to secure stable banking relationships for their exchange.
\n\nOla emphasises that after the ADGM issued its exchange guidelines, regional banks have taken a more accommodating approach to banking crypto companies.
\n\nRegulatory and competitive landscape
\n\nOla talks about her experiences engaging with regulators across the region and GCC stating that we are at a point where most crypto companies and exchanges have to classify themselves as a financial services companies and thus have to be regulated accordingly. Faisal tries to understand how Ola is trying to scale Bitoasis in the region as well as her thoughts on the regional crypto exchange competitive landscape as more exchanges are actively trying to set up shop in the UAE.
\n\nBitoasis’ Demographics
\n\nOla shares the demographics of Bitoasis’ platform; particularly the persona of their users and their most active regions. She also highlights that the main crypto communities are UAE, Saudi and Kuwait.
\n\nShe also mentions that users are not only on the exchange to trade and invest but their users use their platform as a means of payment and micropayments through their wallet product.
\n\nBeing a crypto entrepreneur in the Middle East – wait a female crypto entrepreneur
\n\nHere we try to understand Ola a bit more and how she persevered in a niche space during a time when blockchain and crypto was unheard of and typically rejected. Vision, their stakeholders, execution and being in the right city to experiment (want to hazard a guess where they experimented?) were the main factors behind their growth and success. This is an interesting part of the episode, so do make sure to tune in!
\n\nDecentralisation and data hacking
\n\nWe diverted our discussion to data, how dangerous centralised data stores are for society and more specifically the paradigm shift that needs to occur to prevent incidents such as the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica case. Ola asks an interesting question: when a huge data leak happens, what is the role of government and public services?
\nWe clearly see that it’s just a matter of time that these problems will be solved using blockchain. So if you like to hear about the philosophical side of blockchain and why it can solve the above problem, then you wouldn’t want to miss this one!
Building the infrastructure and what should be done in the region?
\n\nAhmed asks Ola where does she see Bitoasis in 5 years time? Will they do an ICO, be an STO exchange etc?
\n\n‘Building the infrastructure; particularly the liquidity pool and education that’s needed to build an industry’ – was her answer. Very visionary and powerful!
\n\nFaisal follows up to hear Ola’s thoughts on what she thinks should be the government’s role to aid the industry and especially what should be done in the UAE and Dubai? Well, do tune in to find out.
\n\nAs you can see, we talked about a lot of things and so all of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
Special Guest: Ola Doudin.
","summary":"Ahmed and Faisal sits down with Ola Doudin, CEO of Bitoasis. With Bitoasis committed to building the blockchain infrastructure for the MENA region through a crypto assets exchange, Ola describes her journey of founding Bitoasis. We take a deep dive into crypto licensing, opening bank accounts, Bitaosis' user demographics and more in this episode! ","date_published":"2019-01-22T14:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/e7cfc202-e695-4047-8ca9-e68ccc2c26b4.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":44309905,"duration_in_seconds":3088}]},{"id":"5e774dc1-a8e4-4c27-b4fa-f40b6432e709","title":"#Ep. 23: An insight into Smart Dubai - What are they really doing in blockchain?","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/smart-dubai-blockchain-under-the-hood","content_text":"Let’s face it, Dubai has sent ripples across the blockchain ecosystem upon the launch of its Dubai Blockchain strategy which was launched by H.H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Al-Maktoum in October 2016. \n\nAhmed sits down with Mohammed Al-Sharid, the Senior Project Manager for Business Development & Global Partnerships at the Smart Dubai Office, which is a government agency in the UAE tasked with making Dubai the happiest city on earth. \n\nMohammed gives a deep dive into how Smart Dubai are using their role as an implementor and orchestrator within the blockchain ecosystem to ensure Dubai becomes the first blockchain powered city by 2020.\n\nMohammed starts off the deep dive by talking about the 3 pillars that defines Dubai’s Blockchain strategy.\n\nThe First Pillar: Government Efficiency\n\nMohammed explains the 3 different elements (Use Cases, Blockchain Platform and Blockchain policy implementation) within the first pillar and how the three contribute to help the government of Dubai increase efficiency within their government departments. Make sure to listen to this episode to find out about these 3 elements, especially If you’re a start-up, policy implementor, and also interested in crypto. (Yes, a Crypto Positioning by Smart Dubai is cooking under the hood for 2019).\n\nMohammed also mentions a couple of uses that is being implemented currently. \n\nThe Second Pillar: Industry Creation\n\nTo achieve the 2020 vision, Smart Dubai have been running the Global Blockchain challenge for the past 2 years where they have received hundreds of applications across the world to tap into the growing innovation taking place globally. The Global Blockchain Challenge is back for 2019, where Dubai is calling all blockchain start-ups to apply to the Challenge. The 20 shortlisted winners will be competing in the Future Blockchain Summit organised by Smart Dubai which is taking place in April 2019. P.S. Application deadline is 30th January 2019. Details are below. \n\nThe second part of the Industry Creation is about helping to accelerate blockchain projects at the Dubai Future Accelerators program where start-ups work with government agencies for 12 weeks to build a proof of concept. \n\nThe Third Pillar: International Leadership\n\nThis pillar is about cross border collaborations to build Dubai as an international leader within the blockchain space. Listen in to hear how they are building bridges with other cities to build blockchain use cases. \n\nAs well as building Dubai as a hub, they are actively learning from different jurisdictions such as Malta and Crypto Valley in Switzerland.\n\nFinally, listen into how one of the live blockchain use cases being built across several government departments in Dubai regarding payment reconciliation. \n\nGlobal Blockchain Challenge Details\nLink: Smart Dubai Global Blockchain Challenge\nApplications are open until 30 January 2019, 11.59pm GMT +4.\n\nFor more information about Smart Dubai, please click on this link Smart Dubai.\n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!Special Guest: Mohammed AlSharid.","content_html":"Let’s face it, Dubai has sent ripples across the blockchain ecosystem upon the launch of its Dubai Blockchain strategy which was launched by H.H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Al-Maktoum in October 2016.
\n\nAhmed sits down with Mohammed Al-Sharid, the Senior Project Manager for Business Development & Global Partnerships at the Smart Dubai Office, which is a government agency in the UAE tasked with making Dubai the happiest city on earth.
\n\nMohammed gives a deep dive into how Smart Dubai are using their role as an implementor and orchestrator within the blockchain ecosystem to ensure Dubai becomes the first blockchain powered city by 2020.
\n\nMohammed starts off the deep dive by talking about the 3 pillars that defines Dubai’s Blockchain strategy.
\n\nThe First Pillar: Government Efficiency
\n\nMohammed explains the 3 different elements (Use Cases, Blockchain Platform and Blockchain policy implementation) within the first pillar and how the three contribute to help the government of Dubai increase efficiency within their government departments. Make sure to listen to this episode to find out about these 3 elements, especially If you’re a start-up, policy implementor, and also interested in crypto. (Yes, a Crypto Positioning by Smart Dubai is cooking under the hood for 2019).
\n\nMohammed also mentions a couple of uses that is being implemented currently.
\n\nThe Second Pillar: Industry Creation
\n\nTo achieve the 2020 vision, Smart Dubai have been running the Global Blockchain challenge for the past 2 years where they have received hundreds of applications across the world to tap into the growing innovation taking place globally. The Global Blockchain Challenge is back for 2019, where Dubai is calling all blockchain start-ups to apply to the Challenge. The 20 shortlisted winners will be competing in the Future Blockchain Summit organised by Smart Dubai which is taking place in April 2019. P.S. Application deadline is 30th January 2019. Details are below.
\n\nThe second part of the Industry Creation is about helping to accelerate blockchain projects at the Dubai Future Accelerators program where start-ups work with government agencies for 12 weeks to build a proof of concept.
\n\nThe Third Pillar: International Leadership
\n\nThis pillar is about cross border collaborations to build Dubai as an international leader within the blockchain space. Listen in to hear how they are building bridges with other cities to build blockchain use cases.
\n\nAs well as building Dubai as a hub, they are actively learning from different jurisdictions such as Malta and Crypto Valley in Switzerland.
\n\nFinally, listen into how one of the live blockchain use cases being built across several government departments in Dubai regarding payment reconciliation.
\n\nGlobal Blockchain Challenge Details
\nLink: Smart Dubai Global Blockchain Challenge
\nApplications are open until 30 January 2019, 11.59pm GMT +4.
For more information about Smart Dubai, please click on this link Smart Dubai.
\n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
Special Guest: Mohammed AlSharid.
","summary":"Ahmed sits down with Mohammed AlSharid from Smart Dubai where he takes us through Dubai’s visionary blockchain strategy which aims to make Dubai the first government to be powered by the blockchain by 2020. Listen in into how this vision is unfolding right before our eyes. ","date_published":"2019-01-15T15:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/5e774dc1-a8e4-4c27-b4fa-f40b6432e709.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":23249857,"duration_in_seconds":1527}]},{"id":"60363a92-c17b-4790-9227-d2d2087a52fe","title":"#Ep. 22: 4 Blockchain Trends and Observations for 2019","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/trends-observations-2019","content_text":"Happy New Year all!\n\nAhmed and Faisal sit together to open the 2019 year with 4 predictions and trends the duo expect to see in the new year.\n\nThe first trend is of course the rise of Security Tokens/Digital Securities and Security Token Offerings/Digital Security offerings (yes the industry has yet to properly set key terms and definitions, and so they are being used interchangeably). They explain what they are, why they are important and what we expect to see in this space.\n\nThe second trend is all about tech implementation. This revolves more around the simple fact that many big tech implementations such as Ethereum’s Casper, main nets of popular projects and the usability of layer 2 solutions are due to launch in 2019. This will showcase whether the complementary pieces that seeks to improve some of blockchain’s weaknesses will actually show some promise. It is a huge thing to look out for as the industry is depending on the tech advancements from these grand experiments. \n\nThe third is all about education and adoption. The duo believe there will be more education and adoption about the core tenets of the technology but also from the perceived benefits that this technology brings. Ahmed argues that we need to be comfortable as a society with fully automated and truly digital experiences before decentralisation seeks to take place.\n\nLastly, the pair touch on regional developments and what to expect from the UAE in terms of country wide regulation and how self-regulation is happening at a governmental level. \n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!\n\nAND\n\nWe have our feedback form abiut Encrypted, please do not forget to support us and fill it in! Tell us your thoughts about the show!\n\nhttps://faisalalhawi.typeform.com/to/fxfOpk\n\nSources:\n2019: The Year Digital Securities Offerings Become the New ICOs\n\nBlockchain in 2019: Trends to watch","content_html":"Happy New Year all!
\n\nAhmed and Faisal sit together to open the 2019 year with 4 predictions and trends the duo expect to see in the new year.
\n\nThe first trend is of course the rise of Security Tokens/Digital Securities and Security Token Offerings/Digital Security offerings (yes the industry has yet to properly set key terms and definitions, and so they are being used interchangeably). They explain what they are, why they are important and what we expect to see in this space.
\n\nThe second trend is all about tech implementation. This revolves more around the simple fact that many big tech implementations such as Ethereum’s Casper, main nets of popular projects and the usability of layer 2 solutions are due to launch in 2019. This will showcase whether the complementary pieces that seeks to improve some of blockchain’s weaknesses will actually show some promise. It is a huge thing to look out for as the industry is depending on the tech advancements from these grand experiments.
\n\nThe third is all about education and adoption. The duo believe there will be more education and adoption about the core tenets of the technology but also from the perceived benefits that this technology brings. Ahmed argues that we need to be comfortable as a society with fully automated and truly digital experiences before decentralisation seeks to take place.
\n\nLastly, the pair touch on regional developments and what to expect from the UAE in terms of country wide regulation and how self-regulation is happening at a governmental level.
\n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
\n\nAND
\n\nWe have our feedback form abiut Encrypted, please do not forget to support us and fill it in! Tell us your thoughts about the show!
\n\nhttps://faisalalhawi.typeform.com/to/fxfOpk
\n\nSources:
\n2019: The Year Digital Securities Offerings Become the New ICOs
Blockchain in 2019: Trends to watch
","summary":"\r\nIn the first episode of 2019, Ahmed and Faisal are excited to be back and in this one, they share the different observations and trends the industry should look out for in 2019!\r\n","date_published":"2019-01-08T16:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/60363a92-c17b-4790-9227-d2d2087a52fe.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":19086778,"duration_in_seconds":1307}]},{"id":"ff19fe5d-e5fa-4828-b897-9ceb68be6edf","title":"#Ep. 21: World War Regulation - A conversation with Simmons & Simmons","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/world-war-regulation","content_text":"Ahmed is joined by two Partners from Simmons & Simmons law firm; George Morris a Partner in the London office and Raza Rizvi a Partner in the Dubai office.\n\nAhmed starts off by asking about Simmons and Simmons’ journey in the blockchain and crypto space. George explains how they started their journey by working with projects to help them navigate through the grey area that still very much exists till today. \nHe then discusses the risk-based approach when operating in a grey area and explains why having a lack of clear definitions makes the process more difficult. \n\nThe talk moves onto the different regulatory jurisdictions and how they are different from one another when wanting to conduct an ICO or any other crypto related activity. George also does a deep dive into the difference between ICOs and STOs and lays out the process for how STOs from an equity standpoint should be conducted. Yes, lots of free advice from a lawyer!\n\nThe conversation then moves onto regulatory arbitrage or World War Regulation as the three discuss what regulatory arbitrage is, why it exists and whether or not it actually aids and adds value to the industry. Raza also talks about the regulatory arbitrage happening in MENA and how that actually aids regulators to make collaborations. \n\nSelf-regulation is another topic that was discussed during this episode as George argues the case for self-regulation and cites current examples and themes. Finally, Ahmed tries to understand how Simmons & Simmons are planning to utilise smart contracts for the future. \n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!Special Guests: George Morris and Raza Rizvi.","content_html":"Ahmed is joined by two Partners from Simmons & Simmons law firm; George Morris a Partner in the London office and Raza Rizvi a Partner in the Dubai office.
\n\nAhmed starts off by asking about Simmons and Simmons’ journey in the blockchain and crypto space. George explains how they started their journey by working with projects to help them navigate through the grey area that still very much exists till today.
\nHe then discusses the risk-based approach when operating in a grey area and explains why having a lack of clear definitions makes the process more difficult.
The talk moves onto the different regulatory jurisdictions and how they are different from one another when wanting to conduct an ICO or any other crypto related activity. George also does a deep dive into the difference between ICOs and STOs and lays out the process for how STOs from an equity standpoint should be conducted. Yes, lots of free advice from a lawyer!
\n\nThe conversation then moves onto regulatory arbitrage or World War Regulation as the three discuss what regulatory arbitrage is, why it exists and whether or not it actually aids and adds value to the industry. Raza also talks about the regulatory arbitrage happening in MENA and how that actually aids regulators to make collaborations.
\n\nSelf-regulation is another topic that was discussed during this episode as George argues the case for self-regulation and cites current examples and themes. Finally, Ahmed tries to understand how Simmons & Simmons are planning to utilise smart contracts for the future.
\n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
Special Guests: George Morris and Raza Rizvi.
","summary":"\r\nAhmed sits down with two Partners from Simmons & Simmons law firm to further understand the crypto space from a lawyers’ perspective. We chat about regulatory arbitrage, risk based regulatory approaches, self-regulation and more!\r\n","date_published":"2018-12-19T15:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/ff19fe5d-e5fa-4828-b897-9ceb68be6edf.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":40573316,"duration_in_seconds":2649}]},{"id":"a8752f24-bc35-46dd-bb57-339f1c4725dd","title":"#Ep. 20: What lessons did we learn in 2018?","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/lessons-learnt-in-2018","content_text":"Ahmed and Faisal sit down with Samson Williams, Partner from Axes and Eggs, in episode 20 of Encrypted.\n\nIn this episode the trio do a 2018 recap looking at positives, negatives and lessons learnt from the industry.\n\nAhmed starts off with the lessons learnt from this bear market and what a 75% decline in bitcoin actually means. Samson uses examples from his education courses citing that ICOs and STOs are not businesses and how people still fall for selling low and buying high.\n\nSamson and Faisal talks about their experiences dealing with banks and how cryptocurrencies should all be about seamless user experiences and a customer service battles. Samson argues that those launching cryptocurrencies, are in fact launching global payment systems.\n\nAhmed questions what 2018 use cases we have seen in blockchain and cites the lack of killer apps not in production as being a factor stagnating the industry. The topic of who’s winning in this market and regulation being put in place is seen as a positive element in this industry as well as citing IBMs hyperledger being the current leaders in deploying blockchain use cases. \nThe case for IBM vs Amazon is also explored as more bigger players are joining this industry.\n\nOld lessons of building businesses are brought to surface as the MENA based souq.com example is highlighted as it took them 12 years before Amazon bought them out and thus the same thing should happen in the ICO space. \n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!Special Guest: Samson Williams.","content_html":"Ahmed and Faisal sit down with Samson Williams, Partner from Axes and Eggs, in episode 20 of Encrypted.
\n\nIn this episode the trio do a 2018 recap looking at positives, negatives and lessons learnt from the industry.
\n\nAhmed starts off with the lessons learnt from this bear market and what a 75% decline in bitcoin actually means. Samson uses examples from his education courses citing that ICOs and STOs are not businesses and how people still fall for selling low and buying high.
\n\nSamson and Faisal talks about their experiences dealing with banks and how cryptocurrencies should all be about seamless user experiences and a customer service battles. Samson argues that those launching cryptocurrencies, are in fact launching global payment systems.
\n\nAhmed questions what 2018 use cases we have seen in blockchain and cites the lack of killer apps not in production as being a factor stagnating the industry. The topic of who’s winning in this market and regulation being put in place is seen as a positive element in this industry as well as citing IBMs hyperledger being the current leaders in deploying blockchain use cases.
\nThe case for IBM vs Amazon is also explored as more bigger players are joining this industry.
Old lessons of building businesses are brought to surface as the MENA based souq.com example is highlighted as it took them 12 years before Amazon bought them out and thus the same thing should happen in the ICO space.
\n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
Special Guest: Samson Williams.
","summary":"Ahmed and Faisal sit down with Samson Williams from Axes and Eggs to discuss the lessons learnt from this bear market and in general 2018. They discuss the pros and cons the industry has showcased in 2018 and how can the industry can move forward going into 2019. ","date_published":"2018-12-05T16:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/a8752f24-bc35-46dd-bb57-339f1c4725dd.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":34173488,"duration_in_seconds":2196}]},{"id":"00b03092-b043-481b-b7eb-fdcafc48b06d","title":"#Ep. 19: Is 2019 the year of enterprise blockchain?","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/year-of-enterprise-2019","content_text":"Faisal is finally back on this episode with Encrypted alongside Ahmed. They are joined by this week’s special guest; Chris Fernandez, CEO of Block Gemini, a blockchain focused developer shop based in the UAE.\n\nThe show kicks off with Chris explaining his background and the history of Block Gemini and its growth trajectory. \nThey go into speak about one of the major projects Block Gemini are working on, a supply chain solution that tracks the movement of goods in trucks across the UAE that is already in use and close to production stage.\n\nChris explains their enterprise blockchain solution approach when it comes to B2B relationships and B2G (business to government) relationships. He the discusses the trends in enterprise blockchain and his outlook for 2019. \n\nThe three then discuss what is needed for smart contracts and blockchain technology to fully realise its potential in enterprise level applications. The IP issue is also debated as it is seen as an impediment to adoption for when enterprises are collaborating on blockchain projects. \n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!Special Guest: Chris Fernandez.","content_html":"Faisal is finally back on this episode with Encrypted alongside Ahmed. They are joined by this week’s special guest; Chris Fernandez, CEO of Block Gemini, a blockchain focused developer shop based in the UAE.
\n\nThe show kicks off with Chris explaining his background and the history of Block Gemini and its growth trajectory.
\nThey go into speak about one of the major projects Block Gemini are working on, a supply chain solution that tracks the movement of goods in trucks across the UAE that is already in use and close to production stage.
Chris explains their enterprise blockchain solution approach when it comes to B2B relationships and B2G (business to government) relationships. He the discusses the trends in enterprise blockchain and his outlook for 2019.
\n\nThe three then discuss what is needed for smart contracts and blockchain technology to fully realise its potential in enterprise level applications. The IP issue is also debated as it is seen as an impediment to adoption for when enterprises are collaborating on blockchain projects.
\n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
Special Guest: Chris Fernandez.
","summary":"Ahmed and Faisal are joined by Chris Fernandez, the CEO of Block Gemini which is a UAE based blockchain development house focusing on enterprise level blockchain applications. They talk about enterprise use cases, projects Block Gemeni are working on, challenges and how the enterprise blockchain world works!","date_published":"2018-11-27T16:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/00b03092-b043-481b-b7eb-fdcafc48b06d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":27044610,"duration_in_seconds":1742}]},{"id":"a35a4ff3-1761-4595-8906-db4063229351","title":"#Ep. 18: What a week of madness!","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/what-a-week-of-madness","content_text":"On episode 18 of Encrypted, Ahmed and Aniket discuss recent developments that have been happening in the blockchain world!\n\nAhmed first starts off by talking about his experience at the Sora Summit in Macau and explains his takeaways from the investment focused event.\n\nThe two then go on to discuss the recent news of the week, starting off with the SEC going after ICOs that did not comply with SEC laws. The two projects in question, Airfox and Paragon, had to return millions to investors after the SEC managed to settle charges with these projects for not following security registrations laws. They talk about what this means for the future of ICOs, in particular the future of regulation in the states. \n\nThey move onto the second article which sheds light on a more progressive regulator; Switzerland, who have approved the world’s first crypto exchange traded fund. The two talk about its background, which cryptos it will be covering and what this means for the industry.\n\nFinally, they move onto the last article which discusses the bitcoin cash hash wars. They explain what bitcoin cash is, its difference with bitcoin and what has been happening in the bitcoin cash camp and why there has been an internal conflict. it is seen that this conflict was the catalyst for the bloodbath in the crypto markets. Ahmed emphasises that this is a grand experiment which is interesting and progressive for the industry. \n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!\n\nSources:\nSEC Orders Airfox and Paragon to Return Millions to Investors on ICO Registration Violations\nSwitzerland gives green light to first cryptocurrency ETP\nBitcoin Cash Hash War Continues as Billions are Wiped Off the Markets!","content_html":"On episode 18 of Encrypted, Ahmed and Aniket discuss recent developments that have been happening in the blockchain world!
\n\nAhmed first starts off by talking about his experience at the Sora Summit in Macau and explains his takeaways from the investment focused event.
\n\nThe two then go on to discuss the recent news of the week, starting off with the SEC going after ICOs that did not comply with SEC laws. The two projects in question, Airfox and Paragon, had to return millions to investors after the SEC managed to settle charges with these projects for not following security registrations laws. They talk about what this means for the future of ICOs, in particular the future of regulation in the states.
\n\nThey move onto the second article which sheds light on a more progressive regulator; Switzerland, who have approved the world’s first crypto exchange traded fund. The two talk about its background, which cryptos it will be covering and what this means for the industry.
\n\nFinally, they move onto the last article which discusses the bitcoin cash hash wars. They explain what bitcoin cash is, its difference with bitcoin and what has been happening in the bitcoin cash camp and why there has been an internal conflict. it is seen that this conflict was the catalyst for the bloodbath in the crypto markets. Ahmed emphasises that this is a grand experiment which is interesting and progressive for the industry.
\n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
\n\nSources:
\nSEC Orders Airfox and Paragon to Return Millions to Investors on ICO Registration Violations
\nSwitzerland gives green light to first cryptocurrency ETP
\nBitcoin Cash Hash War Continues as Billions are Wiped Off the Markets!
The world is at the at the forefront of the token revolution. With the invention of non-fungible tokens, we have seen a lot of innovations and developments to find solutions to complex real-world problems.
\n\nIn the episode, Ahmed sits down with Aniket, and they discuss the current happenings in the Non-Fungible Token (NFT) world.
\nThe episode is centric towards explaining nonfungible tokens in a simple and easy to understand manner, highlighting the developments from the birth of NFTs till now.
They covered the applications of NFTs in gaming and other industries as well as current developments in the space around nonfungible tokens. They also shared some future trends and why NFTs can possibly be valuable in the future.
\n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
Ahmed is at the World Blockchain Summit where he records episode 16!
\n\nHe is joined by Loauy Al-Doory from Kambio Ventures and Saeed Al-Darmaki from Binary Financial to take a deep dive into the world of security tokens.
\n\nThe three distil the concept of security tokens; what they are, how they operate, the problems it can solve and also its difference with utility tokens.
\n\nThe taxonomy of security tokens is discussed as well as its similarity to traditional market offerings. Ahmed then starts the discussion regarding the customisation of security tokens and whether these will be breaking new ground compared to offerings from traditional markets.
\n\nCurrent market players operating in the space are explored as well as thoughts on the challenges we must solve which will allow security tokens to flourish and be accepted.
\nLouay also talks about the economics and multiplier effects and how they relate to security tokens.
All of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
Special Guests: Louay Al Doory and Saeed Al Darmaki.
","summary":"Ahmed is joined by Kambio Ventures CEO, Louay Al Doory, and Binary Financial Managing Director, Saeed AL Darmaki, for a deep dive into Security Tokens at the World Blockchain Summit in Dubai!\r\n","date_published":"2018-10-30T17:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/2a098471-d12f-4b79-aad9-59e0b1bc3a54.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":21306364,"duration_in_seconds":2154}]},{"id":"ee8726db-f21c-4dd8-9278-22a6f5c2ccdd","title":"#Ep. 15: What does a Star Wars convention have to do with the blockchain world?","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/starwars-convention-blockchain","content_text":"Ahmed sits down with Kris Bennet, also known as the Blockchain Beard Guy, who is on the road non-stop to educate the masses on blockchain. \n\nKris shares his experiences in educating people from different backgrounds about the technology, and his experiences in helping enterprises deploy blockchain solutions.\n\nAhmed digs a bit deeper to understand the notion of open and closed blockchains and how this fits in with private and public implementations. For example; Does a public closed blockchain make sense?\n\nThe two also talk about best approaches to identify a blockchain use case as well as dissecting the role blockchains will play as Kris argues its merely a tool that is analogous to the internet. \n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!Special Guest: Kris Bennett.","content_html":"Ahmed sits down with Kris Bennet, also known as the Blockchain Beard Guy, who is on the road non-stop to educate the masses on blockchain.
\n\nKris shares his experiences in educating people from different backgrounds about the technology, and his experiences in helping enterprises deploy blockchain solutions.
\n\nAhmed digs a bit deeper to understand the notion of open and closed blockchains and how this fits in with private and public implementations. For example; Does a public closed blockchain make sense?
\n\nThe two also talk about best approaches to identify a blockchain use case as well as dissecting the role blockchains will play as Kris argues its merely a tool that is analogous to the internet.
\n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
Special Guest: Kris Bennett.
","summary":"In this episode, Ahmed sits down with Kris Bennet, also known as the Blockchain Beard Guy himself to discuss blockchain education, how to evaluate blockchain use cases and what a Star Wars convention has in common with this industry!","date_published":"2018-10-24T18:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/ee8726db-f21c-4dd8-9278-22a6f5c2ccdd.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":15995785,"duration_in_seconds":1250}]},{"id":"0c6d1c40-e32c-4e11-86fa-611066b222b8","title":"#Ep. 14: What is the use case for blockchain in energy?","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/energy-blockchain-use-case","content_text":"Paul Massara, CEO of Electron, joins Ahmed for the 14th episode of Encrypted.\n\nOn today’s show, Ahmed explores an interesting application of blockchain technology: Energy!\n\nPaul first talks about the challenges and pain-points that currently face the energy industry, before moving on to how these challenges can be solved.\nExisting players in the blockchain market attempting to solve these challenges are explored as Paul explains the use cases within the energy sector in both the developed and developing markets. \n\nHe also takes us into a deep dive (in layman terms) into how Electron are utilising blockchain for energy, particularly in the digitalisation of assets. \n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!Special Guest: Paul Massara.","content_html":"Paul Massara, CEO of Electron, joins Ahmed for the 14th episode of Encrypted.
\n\nOn today’s show, Ahmed explores an interesting application of blockchain technology: Energy!
\n\nPaul first talks about the challenges and pain-points that currently face the energy industry, before moving on to how these challenges can be solved.
\nExisting players in the blockchain market attempting to solve these challenges are explored as Paul explains the use cases within the energy sector in both the developed and developing markets.
He also takes us into a deep dive (in layman terms) into how Electron are utilising blockchain for energy, particularly in the digitalisation of assets.
\n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
Special Guest: Paul Massara.
","summary":"Ahmed sits down with Paul Massara from Electron to take a deep dive into the interesting application of blockchain technology in the energy market! \r\n","date_published":"2018-10-16T15:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/0c6d1c40-e32c-4e11-86fa-611066b222b8.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":14975842,"duration_in_seconds":1175}]},{"id":"76211c06-0fa4-482d-801d-ffb19c70ff46","title":"#Ep. 13: How does the App-Infrastructure cycle relate to the future of ICOs?","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/app-infrastructure-future-ico","content_text":"In this episode, your hosts Ahmed and Faisal, discuss 3 interesting articles; first off is a thought leadership piece from USV around what is needed at this stage of the blockchain cycle and the overall tech cycle by looking at past trends: a killer app or well built infrastructure? The hosts have a couple of interesting points that goes inline with the article and other points which begs to differ. \n\nThen, the hosts discuss the recent Venezuelan government move which forces citizens who wish to obtain a passport to pay using the controversial Venezuelan cryptocurrency: Petro. They explain what the Petro cryptocurrency is and they discuss the impact of such a move and how it affects the country’s citizens. \n\nFinally, the hosts share and discuss the announcement of the UAE’s Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) of regulating ICOs as securities. They exchange opinions on this direction and how it could foster or hinder the ecosystem’s advancement. \n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!\n\nSources:\nThe Myth of the Infrastructure Phase\nCrypto Now the Only Way Isolated Venezuelans Can Buy Passports\nICOs Get a Green Light in the UAE","content_html":"In this episode, your hosts Ahmed and Faisal, discuss 3 interesting articles; first off is a thought leadership piece from USV around what is needed at this stage of the blockchain cycle and the overall tech cycle by looking at past trends: a killer app or well built infrastructure? The hosts have a couple of interesting points that goes inline with the article and other points which begs to differ.
\n\nThen, the hosts discuss the recent Venezuelan government move which forces citizens who wish to obtain a passport to pay using the controversial Venezuelan cryptocurrency: Petro. They explain what the Petro cryptocurrency is and they discuss the impact of such a move and how it affects the country’s citizens.
\n\nFinally, the hosts share and discuss the announcement of the UAE’s Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) of regulating ICOs as securities. They exchange opinions on this direction and how it could foster or hinder the ecosystem’s advancement.
\n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
\n\nSources:
\nThe Myth of the Infrastructure Phase
\nCrypto Now the Only Way Isolated Venezuelans Can Buy Passports
\nICOs Get a Green Light in the UAE
Ahmed and Faisal sit down with the Tarik Mohammed.
\n\nFirstly, Ahmed brings up the Wall Street Journal’s article of identifying that $90 million in suspected criminal proceeds that flowed through intermediaries such as Shapeshift over two years. The discussion goes into how Monero, and more specially how these private transactions work along with explaining concepts such as zero knowledge proofs and atomic swaps.
\nTarek lists the issues that the industry faces with these types of private cryptocurrencies and how these challenges can still remain with the rise of decentralised exchanges.
The conversation delves into whether or not cryptocurrencies are actually used for criminal purposes and Tarek explains the ‘know your flow of funds’ concept which has become a rising theme in the regulatory space and how it impacts exchange and OTC businesses going forward. They also explain how the Journal categorised potential addresses that were associated with criminal purposes.
\n\nAhmed then moves onto the next topic which started as a debate on a WhatsApp group and was related to the next article covered. This article is regarding how an employee in a bank tried for many years to implement private blockchain solutions and concluded that he has lost faith in private blockchains. Faisal explains his view as someone who is helping to implement blockchain solutions at a governmental level.
\n\nThe three talk about how current blockchain implementations worldwide seem to force a blockchain solution, rather than finding an alternative and better solution for a particular problem. Tarek adds that data classifications and uniformity are critical in implementing blockchain solutions at an enterprise and government level and sees this as one of the biggest challenges.
\nThe three explain the concept of central points of failure and how these risks are increased under private permissioned implementations. Faisal also compares the incremental innovations from the disruptive innovations under these different scenarios.
The next article they cover is about Zebpay, a large Indian cryptocurrency exchange, which has decided to stop its cryptocurrency exchange operations due to the central bank banning banks servicing cryptocurrency projects making it harder for them to continue their operations.
\n\nAhmed argues that emerging markets like India should be leading in this space and support the ecosystem. Tarek explains his experiences with emerging market regulators and how they have a wait and see approach regarding regulations and thus is harder for them to lead in a new nascent industry.
\nHe goes on to discuss how different exchanges globally have different approaches to implementing their businesses, as some favour a more professional regulatory approach versus others who would launch services straight away without any regulation as a means to capture more market share.
\nThe bitcoin ATMs recently installed in Area 2071 in the Emirates Towers in Dubai also gets a shout out due to the Central Bank of the UAE only allowing registered customers to buy and sell up to 1000 AED ($200-300) worth of cryptos per day and Tarek argues this is a good first step for the local industry rather than indirectly banning innovation as with the case of the Central Bank of India.
All of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
\n\nSources:
\nHow Dirty Money Disappears Into the Black Hole of Cryptocurrency
\nHow I Lost My Faith in Private Blockchains
\n‘Extremely Difficult’ Conditions: India’s Zebpay Shutters Crypto Exchange Over Central Bank Ban
Special Guest: Tarek Moahmmed.
","summary":"In this episode, Ahmed and Faisal are joined by Tarek Mohammed. They discuss the exciting developments happening both globally and locally in the industry from the WSJ’s recent research about crypto being used for criminal purposes to the new official licensed bitcoin ATMs being installed in Dubai!\r\n","date_published":"2018-10-02T13:30:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/1f185e3b-dfb9-483c-aaad-9936fbbc1e87.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":23691554,"duration_in_seconds":2054}]},{"id":"5aa8d2dc-e3b2-4fb6-98b4-b158c7c69c28","title":"#Ep. 11: Bad Ripple? And Crypto for women and Humanity!","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/ripple-woman-humanity","content_text":"Ahmed and Faisal sit down with Irina Heaver, a technology lawyer based in Dubai.\n\nFirst up they discuss XRP, a cryptocurrency created by Ripple, and its short ascension to number 2 in coinmarket cap and the conversation quickly goes into the concept of decentralisation as big question marks hang over Ripple’s centralised approach. The three go down the rabbit hole of historical references citing how there had to be incremental steps before real disruption took place. \nThey also touch on whether the pump in the price of XRP was down to speculators increasing the price. \n\nNext, Ahmed delves into the blockchain uses cases that help to serve humanity! He talks about how Palestinians are using bitcoin to facilitate transactions cross border and how this serves as a pretty common use case for countries that do not have the required financial infrastructure that developed economies typically enjoy. Irina, very passionate about this subject, talks about how lucky they are of being able to participate in the international economy. The three then discuss the differences of bitcoin use cases between countries like Palestine and Venezuela. The challenges of using cryptocurrencies in these developing economies are also talked about as on ramp and off ramp are still huge issues faced by the local people. \n\nIrina also touches on a project called AIAR which uses both AI and blockchain to actually help the lives of refugees globally. \n\nAhmed then starts a topic on women in blockchain as Irina is a huge advocate for women in tech. Reasons as to why there is underrepresentation in tech and blockchain more specifically is discussed. Irina talks about her initiatives of bringing more women into this space! Bro culture is also explored during this discussion and ways of combatting it is also laid out!\n\nLastly, we touch on the new and exciting news that Dubai Pay has been launched which is using blockchain technology. The reconciliation of transactions which typically takes 45 days to settle, now takes only a couple of seconds! FYI, this is one of the first Dubai Governmental projects that is now in live in production after months of testing and a year since its concept design. \n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!\n\nSources:\nThe Flippening: XRP Overtakes Ethereum as Second-Largest Cryptocurrency\n\nPalestinians Are Using Bitcoin to Transact Across Borders Amid Conflict\n\nSmart Dubai turns to blockchain to expedite government transactionsSpecial Guest: Irina Heaver.","content_html":"Ahmed and Faisal sit down with Irina Heaver, a technology lawyer based in Dubai.
\n\nFirst up they discuss XRP, a cryptocurrency created by Ripple, and its short ascension to number 2 in coinmarket cap and the conversation quickly goes into the concept of decentralisation as big question marks hang over Ripple’s centralised approach. The three go down the rabbit hole of historical references citing how there had to be incremental steps before real disruption took place.
\nThey also touch on whether the pump in the price of XRP was down to speculators increasing the price.
Next, Ahmed delves into the blockchain uses cases that help to serve humanity! He talks about how Palestinians are using bitcoin to facilitate transactions cross border and how this serves as a pretty common use case for countries that do not have the required financial infrastructure that developed economies typically enjoy. Irina, very passionate about this subject, talks about how lucky they are of being able to participate in the international economy. The three then discuss the differences of bitcoin use cases between countries like Palestine and Venezuela. The challenges of using cryptocurrencies in these developing economies are also talked about as on ramp and off ramp are still huge issues faced by the local people.
\n\nIrina also touches on a project called AIAR which uses both AI and blockchain to actually help the lives of refugees globally.
\n\nAhmed then starts a topic on women in blockchain as Irina is a huge advocate for women in tech. Reasons as to why there is underrepresentation in tech and blockchain more specifically is discussed. Irina talks about her initiatives of bringing more women into this space! Bro culture is also explored during this discussion and ways of combatting it is also laid out!
\n\nLastly, we touch on the new and exciting news that Dubai Pay has been launched which is using blockchain technology. The reconciliation of transactions which typically takes 45 days to settle, now takes only a couple of seconds! FYI, this is one of the first Dubai Governmental projects that is now in live in production after months of testing and a year since its concept design.
\n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
\n\nSources:
\nThe Flippening: XRP Overtakes Ethereum as Second-Largest Cryptocurrency
Palestinians Are Using Bitcoin to Transact Across Borders Amid Conflict
\n\nSmart Dubai turns to blockchain to expedite government transactions
Special Guest: Irina Heaver.
","summary":"Ahmed and Faisal are joined by Irina Heaver, a technology lawyer, and they discuss the recent news of the week as well topics that range from blockchain helping humanity to the bro culture that exists in this industry. We also touch on an exciting announcement by the Smart Dubai Government which just announced a blockchain project that has went live! ","date_published":"2018-09-25T15:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/5aa8d2dc-e3b2-4fb6-98b4-b158c7c69c28.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":30430424,"duration_in_seconds":2915}]},{"id":"05b699cf-85f6-471d-8501-950b9bc51005","title":"#Ep. 10: Institutionalising Crypto and a Fintech Special!","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/fintech-special-institutional-crypto","content_text":"Ahmed has an exciting line up on this episode of Encrypted.\n\nFirst up, Ahmed interviews the CEO of the ADGM Financial Services Regulatory Authority, Richard Teng.\n\nThey talk about the 3-year-old financial free trade zone, Abu Dhabi Global Markets (ADGM), and how it differs itself as a financial and fintech hub for the region.\n\nRichard explains the regulatory sandbox that was recently implemented at the ADGM, also known as the RegLab, and how it aims to facilitate innovation through providing a relaxed regulatory environment and a test bed for new fintech business models and start-ups. \n\nRichard further explains the fintech bridges they have built with overseas regulatory sandboxes that are similar in nature with the aim of increasing fintech adoption globally and also helping to close the funding gap between investors and start-ups. \n\nDelving into the blockchain and crypto landscape, Richard discusses how the ADGM are building a comprehensive framework for this new industry comprising of exchanges, ICOs, ETFs and more.\n\nAhmed then enquires about how traditional capital from family offices and sovereign wealth funds will start to invest and take positions into this new asset class. \n\nNext up, Ahmed is joined by Austin Alexander from the CEO’s office of Kraken and Dan Donny, the CEO of Securrency. \n\nAhmed gets straight into why both guests view the Abu Dhabi Global Markets as an attractive jurisdiction for blockchain and cryptocurrency companies. It is noteworthy that being able to go into great detail with forward thinking regulators is seen as a unique attribute when compared to other regulatory authorities across the world.\n\nThe three then go into the evolution of institutional money flowing into crypto and discussing the potential of when Wall Street money sitting on the side-lines will actually help mature the markets. Dan addresses the challenges that need to be addressed before institutional money flows in. \n\nThe concept of self regulated organisations (SROs) are explored too as well as the feasibility of ETFs being potentially a minor factor in bringing in new capital and funds into this space.\n\nAhmed opens up the discussions on security tokens and how important they will be moving forward as well as exploring their potential use cases in our guests’ respective businesses. \n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!Special Guests: Austin Alexander, Dan Doney, and Richard Teng.","content_html":"Ahmed has an exciting line up on this episode of Encrypted.
\n\nFirst up, Ahmed interviews the CEO of the ADGM Financial Services Regulatory Authority, Richard Teng.
\n\nThey talk about the 3-year-old financial free trade zone, Abu Dhabi Global Markets (ADGM), and how it differs itself as a financial and fintech hub for the region.
\n\nRichard explains the regulatory sandbox that was recently implemented at the ADGM, also known as the RegLab, and how it aims to facilitate innovation through providing a relaxed regulatory environment and a test bed for new fintech business models and start-ups.
\n\nRichard further explains the fintech bridges they have built with overseas regulatory sandboxes that are similar in nature with the aim of increasing fintech adoption globally and also helping to close the funding gap between investors and start-ups.
\n\nDelving into the blockchain and crypto landscape, Richard discusses how the ADGM are building a comprehensive framework for this new industry comprising of exchanges, ICOs, ETFs and more.
\n\nAhmed then enquires about how traditional capital from family offices and sovereign wealth funds will start to invest and take positions into this new asset class.
\n\nNext up, Ahmed is joined by Austin Alexander from the CEO’s office of Kraken and Dan Donny, the CEO of Securrency.
\n\nAhmed gets straight into why both guests view the Abu Dhabi Global Markets as an attractive jurisdiction for blockchain and cryptocurrency companies. It is noteworthy that being able to go into great detail with forward thinking regulators is seen as a unique attribute when compared to other regulatory authorities across the world.
\n\nThe three then go into the evolution of institutional money flowing into crypto and discussing the potential of when Wall Street money sitting on the side-lines will actually help mature the markets. Dan addresses the challenges that need to be addressed before institutional money flows in.
\n\nThe concept of self regulated organisations (SROs) are explored too as well as the feasibility of ETFs being potentially a minor factor in bringing in new capital and funds into this space.
\n\nAhmed opens up the discussions on security tokens and how important they will be moving forward as well as exploring their potential use cases in our guests’ respective businesses.
\n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
Special Guests: Austin Alexander, Dan Doney, and Richard Teng.
","summary":"In this Fintech special, Ahmed has a stellar line up of guests present at the Fintech Abu Dhabi conference. Hear what Kraken and Securrency have to say about Abu Dhabi as a crypto hub as well as an interesting discussion revolving around institutional capital meeting crypto. Ahmed also engages in a one to one interview with Richard Teng, the CEO of the ADGM Financial Services Regulatory Authority about Abu Dhabi being a Fintech hub.\r\n","date_published":"2018-09-18T17:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/05b699cf-85f6-471d-8501-950b9bc51005.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":30626952,"duration_in_seconds":2589}]},{"id":"a8e335f8-c1ca-4a8b-9eeb-265318790def","title":"#Ep. 09: Crypto Bloodbath and a DTEC Tour!","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/crypto-bloodbath-dtec-tour","content_text":"Faisal sits down with Hans Christensen, VP of Dubai Technology Entrepreneur Centre, to talk all things blockchain and crypto. \n\nHans first introduces the pillars and model of DTEC and then explains how it aims to support the startup ecosystem when it comes to blockchain based projects. He also shares insights on a couple of blockchain use cases and projects that are undergoing and how Dtec aims to utilize this technology. \n\nThen, Faisal and Hans discuss the news related to Coinbase discussing an crypto ETF in partnership with Blackrock and what this means to the investment domain. \n\nNext, the story of Goldman Sachs swings on their crypto-focused arm is explored and how the news of that being abandoned heavily affected the market!\n\nFinally, the host and guest shed light on IBM’s announcement on their new payment product in partnership with Stellar and how this benefits the banking ecosystem by having more and more competition and the technology in general.\n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!\n\nSources:\nCoinbase Considers Launching Crypto ETF with Help of Wall Street’s BlackRock\n\nGoldman Sachs CFO: Recent Reports About Crypto Trading Desk Are ‘Fake News’\nManipulation Game on the Cryptocurrency Market – September 6\nIBM Debuts Stellar-Powered 'Blockchain World Wire' Payments SystemSpecial Guest: Hans Christensen.","content_html":"Faisal sits down with Hans Christensen, VP of Dubai Technology Entrepreneur Centre, to talk all things blockchain and crypto.
\n\nHans first introduces the pillars and model of DTEC and then explains how it aims to support the startup ecosystem when it comes to blockchain based projects. He also shares insights on a couple of blockchain use cases and projects that are undergoing and how Dtec aims to utilize this technology.
\n\nThen, Faisal and Hans discuss the news related to Coinbase discussing an crypto ETF in partnership with Blackrock and what this means to the investment domain.
\n\nNext, the story of Goldman Sachs swings on their crypto-focused arm is explored and how the news of that being abandoned heavily affected the market!
\n\nFinally, the host and guest shed light on IBM’s announcement on their new payment product in partnership with Stellar and how this benefits the banking ecosystem by having more and more competition and the technology in general.
\n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
\n\nSources:
\nCoinbase Considers Launching Crypto ETF with Help of Wall Street’s BlackRock
\n
\nGoldman Sachs CFO: Recent Reports About Crypto Trading Desk Are ‘Fake News’
\nManipulation Game on the Cryptocurrency Market – September 6
\nIBM Debuts Stellar-Powered 'Blockchain World Wire' Payments System
Special Guest: Hans Christensen.
","summary":"In this episode, special guest Hans Christensen, VP of the Dubai Technology Entrepreneur Centre (DTEC), explains the position of DTEC in the blockchain ecosystem and what kind of support is provided to drive this forward. Moreover, the most interesting crypto related news stories of the week are explored!","date_published":"2018-09-11T13:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/a8e335f8-c1ca-4a8b-9eeb-265318790def.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":19260593,"duration_in_seconds":1883}]},{"id":"e30da162-a364-4a54-8776-1e00946ab907","title":"#Ep. 08: When VCs go eye to eye with Blockchain!","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/when-vcs-go-eye-to-eye-with-blockchain","content_text":"Ahmed and Faisal sit down with Fares Ghandour, Partner at Wamda Capital which is a VC based in Dubai, to discuss the latest news, trends and the really interesting debates that circulate in the blockchain space. \n\nFares first introduces Wamda Capital and shares the investments they have made in the blockchain space as well as thoughts about regulation in the region and how regulation is being shaped by the blockchain start-ups they are investing in.\n\nThe three then start of the discussion on this week’s news starting with Japan’s approach to tackle illicit crypto activities, and how as a developed market it is increasingly active in regulating this industry. They also touch on how crypto is becoming less and less used for illicit purposes as it actually makes it easier to get caught using crypto for fraud! \nWe discuss a wide range of topics from this piece; from bitcoin maximalism, to working with regulators, and to a new generation of regulated exchanges implementing pieces of software that allows to track the origin of funds of cryptocurrencies and tokens.\n\nIn the next news article, Ahmed opens up the discussion about a crypto start up called Dfinity which just raised $102 million and what this means for investments going forward, particularly in a bear market. \n\nThen we discuss the findings of one particular research showing that from the top 100 cryptocurrencies on coinmarketcap, only 36 projects have a working product with users. Fares shares a very interesting perspective from the VC angle and argues the importance of protocol development first before assessing working products. \n\nAhmed and Faisal also question the viability of the current VC model, and Fares shares how he thinks the VC model will change in the future. \n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!\n\nArticles links:\nJapanese Police to Fund Crypto Criminal Tracking Tool\nCryptocurrency Start-Up Dfinity Raises $102 Million to Build Internet Computer \nCryptocurrencies in the top 100 with working products\nMount Gox bitcoin theft flow of funds- you can toggle your mouse to track where the bitcoins went after they were stolen Special Guest: Fares Ghandour.","content_html":"Ahmed and Faisal sit down with Fares Ghandour, Partner at Wamda Capital which is a VC based in Dubai, to discuss the latest news, trends and the really interesting debates that circulate in the blockchain space.
\n\nFares first introduces Wamda Capital and shares the investments they have made in the blockchain space as well as thoughts about regulation in the region and how regulation is being shaped by the blockchain start-ups they are investing in.
\n\nThe three then start of the discussion on this week’s news starting with Japan’s approach to tackle illicit crypto activities, and how as a developed market it is increasingly active in regulating this industry. They also touch on how crypto is becoming less and less used for illicit purposes as it actually makes it easier to get caught using crypto for fraud!
\nWe discuss a wide range of topics from this piece; from bitcoin maximalism, to working with regulators, and to a new generation of regulated exchanges implementing pieces of software that allows to track the origin of funds of cryptocurrencies and tokens.
In the next news article, Ahmed opens up the discussion about a crypto start up called Dfinity which just raised $102 million and what this means for investments going forward, particularly in a bear market.
\n\nThen we discuss the findings of one particular research showing that from the top 100 cryptocurrencies on coinmarketcap, only 36 projects have a working product with users. Fares shares a very interesting perspective from the VC angle and argues the importance of protocol development first before assessing working products.
\n\nAhmed and Faisal also question the viability of the current VC model, and Fares shares how he thinks the VC model will change in the future.
\n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
\n\nArticles links:
\nJapanese Police to Fund Crypto Criminal Tracking Tool
\nCryptocurrency Start-Up Dfinity Raises $102 Million to Build Internet Computer
\nCryptocurrencies in the top 100 with working products
\nMount Gox bitcoin theft flow of funds- you can toggle your mouse to track where the bitcoins went after they were stolen
Special Guest: Fares Ghandour.
","summary":"In this episode, we take a deep dive into the intersection of where Venture Capital meets blockchains and cryptocurrencies. With our special guest, we share super exciting news and topics and discuss disruptive thoughts. You don’t want to miss this one!\r\n","date_published":"2018-09-04T20:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/e30da162-a364-4a54-8776-1e00946ab907.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":48422016,"duration_in_seconds":3026}]},{"id":"0a7e3561-06d9-48a6-a976-c1f166989a5d","title":"#Ep. 07: How are new moves from China and the U.S. shaping the crypto industry?","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/ep-7-china-us-crypto","content_text":"Ahmed and Faisal sit down to discuss China’s crackdown on cryptocurrency activities as Wechat, China's biggest social media platform, clamps down on major crypto accounts along with other series of related events. \n\nNext, the hosts discuss the US SEC’s rejection decision on 9 ETF proposal and the rebound on that decision along with its effects on the crypto market. \n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!\n\nSources:\nChina is now policing cryptocurrency by targeting WeChat accounts\n\nSEC U-Turn on ETF Rejection — A Balancing Act for Adoption?","content_html":"Ahmed and Faisal sit down to discuss China’s crackdown on cryptocurrency activities as Wechat, China's biggest social media platform, clamps down on major crypto accounts along with other series of related events.
\n\nNext, the hosts discuss the US SEC’s rejection decision on 9 ETF proposal and the rebound on that decision along with its effects on the crypto market.
\n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
\n\nSources:
\nChina is now policing cryptocurrency by targeting WeChat accounts
SEC U-Turn on ETF Rejection — A Balancing Act for Adoption?
","summary":"In this episode, Ahmed and Faisal discuss 2 major series of events from across the globe; namely China’s crackdown on crypto and the US’s ETF rejection decision. ","date_published":"2018-08-28T14:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/0a7e3561-06d9-48a6-a976-c1f166989a5d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":15305903,"duration_in_seconds":1406}]},{"id":"e4e3809d-75db-484a-bb2f-bf1ce3cbd641","title":"#Ep. 06: Encrypted Interviews: How are Dubai Economy using blockchain technology? A Discussion with Mohammed Shael","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/encrypted-interviews-mohammed-shael","content_text":"In this episode of Encrypted Interviews, Ahmed sits down with the CEO of Strategic Affairs of the Department of Economic Development of Dubai. \n\nThey discuss:\n• How the Department’s current processes are inefficient \n• How blockchain will help eliminate inefficiencies and why they need a blockchain \n• Their successful pilot test with one free trade zone in Dubai\n\nMohammed delves into their Department’s blockchain journey and their approach to actually solve problems currently faced by investors and businessmen coming into the UAE.\nAs well as critically deconstructing the problem, Mohammed shared the grand plans for how their Department’s blockchain solution could not only be a solution used in the UAE but also shares their worldwide ambitions.\n\nThe crux of the conversation is all about digital identity and Mohammed discusses their ideas and implementations for how digital IDs can soon become a reality in the UAE utilising digital signatures. \n\nAll of the above and more will be on this episode of Encrypted Interviews!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other podcast platforms. And if you found it helpful or know someone who will, spread the knowledge and tell them to tune in!Special Guest: Mohammed Shael Al Saadi.","content_html":"In this episode of Encrypted Interviews, Ahmed sits down with the CEO of Strategic Affairs of the Department of Economic Development of Dubai.
\n\nThey discuss:
\n• How the Department’s current processes are inefficient
\n• How blockchain will help eliminate inefficiencies and why they need a blockchain
\n• Their successful pilot test with one free trade zone in Dubai
Mohammed delves into their Department’s blockchain journey and their approach to actually solve problems currently faced by investors and businessmen coming into the UAE.
\nAs well as critically deconstructing the problem, Mohammed shared the grand plans for how their Department’s blockchain solution could not only be a solution used in the UAE but also shares their worldwide ambitions.
The crux of the conversation is all about digital identity and Mohammed discusses their ideas and implementations for how digital IDs can soon become a reality in the UAE utilising digital signatures.
\n\nAll of the above and more will be on this episode of Encrypted Interviews!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other podcast platforms. And if you found it helpful or know someone who will, spread the knowledge and tell them to tune in!
Special Guest: Mohammed Shael Al Saadi.
","summary":"Ahmed sits down the Mohammed Al Shael Al Saadi, the CEO of Strategic Affairs of the Dubai Department of Economic Development discussing how he is using blockchain in his government department.\r\n","date_published":"2018-08-24T16:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/e4e3809d-75db-484a-bb2f-bf1ce3cbd641.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":15423899,"duration_in_seconds":1607}]},{"id":"b6a90993-22ed-40a9-99e9-e366b012f42a","title":"#Ep. 05: What did we learn about India's Blockchain ecosystem?","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/ep-5-india-blockchain-ecosystem","content_text":"In this episode, Ahmed and Aniket sit down to discuss the Indian blockchain ecosystem as they attended the International Blockchain Congress in Hyderabad and Goa. \n\nAniket gives a general overview of the current market state in India as he touches upon, the current challenges and the ever delaying regulation regarding crypto-assets and exchanges. \n\nAhmed shares his experience about the conference, the interesting projects he met and also the panel he was invited to speak at along with the IT Director of the Government of Goa. \n\nThe duo also tries to answer what could lie ahead in India’s blockchain story?\n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word and do not forget to subscribe!\n\nSources:\nIndian Crypto Regulation Ready by September: Official","content_html":"In this episode, Ahmed and Aniket sit down to discuss the Indian blockchain ecosystem as they attended the International Blockchain Congress in Hyderabad and Goa.
\n\nAniket gives a general overview of the current market state in India as he touches upon, the current challenges and the ever delaying regulation regarding crypto-assets and exchanges.
\n\nAhmed shares his experience about the conference, the interesting projects he met and also the panel he was invited to speak at along with the IT Director of the Government of Goa.
\n\nThe duo also tries to answer what could lie ahead in India’s blockchain story?
\n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word and do not forget to subscribe!
\n\nSources:
\nIndian Crypto Regulation Ready by September: Official
In this episode, Ahmed and Faisal touch on the SEC’s delay on deciding the way forward with a bitcoin ETF and the effects of that on the crypto market. The hosts discuss the response of this decision along with the view point of some domain leaders like Vitalil Buterin.
\n\nThe Binance decentralised demo is covered too along with how decentralised exchanges function and how they are actually governed. This is also contrasted with the other side of the spectrum with the Intercontinental Exchange recently reporting that they will be launching a new Digital Asset Exchange called Bakkt in November of this year!
\n\nFinally, the hosts discuss Tezos’s research grant announcement as well as recent news on the Emerging Markets which also concerns exchanges!
\n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word!
\n\nArticles links:
\n\nSEC Postpones Decision on Bitcoin ETF Listing to September
\nBinance Unveils Demo of New Decentralized Cryptocurrency Exchange
\nTezos Foundation to Issue Grants for Blockchain and Smart Contract Research
Today Ahmed is joined by Dr. Marwan Al-Zarouni who gives a low down on the Dubai Blockchain Centre and generally what Dubai is up to in the blockchain space.
\n\nThey discuss:
\n• His very interesting flippening moment (jargon for how someone got interested in bitcoin and blockchain)
\n• Advice on how to the enter the industry
\n• Different applications utilised by blockchain and the Dubai Blockchain Strategy
They also delve into how the Dubai Blockchain Center is helping Dubai become a global blockchain capital and how blockchain entrepreneurs can get support from the Center. Also, cryptocurrency regulation is a hot topic where they discuss how the UAE is fairing against the world, especially on the back of a new crypto OTC license that has recently been made available in the region allowing for regulated crypto OTC desks.
\n\nAll of the above and more will be on this episode of Encrypted Interviews!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other podcast platforms. And if you found it helpful or know someone who will, spread the knowledge and tell them to tune in!
\n\nAdditional resources:
\nDubai Blockchain Center
\nSmart Dubai Blockchain Strategy
Special Guest: Dr. Marwan Alzarouni .
","summary":"In this episode of Encrypted Interviews, we speak to Dr. Marwan Al-Zarouni, a man who wears many hats and was one of the earliest adopters of blockchain technology in the UAE.\r\n","date_published":"2018-08-10T16:30:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/597a952c-7893-4ab1-812e-6215b0f83529.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":16806608,"duration_in_seconds":1020}]},{"id":"f126aa09-bef6-4da2-acfe-8fc229feb622","title":"#Ep. 02: The Concept of Money and When can I pay using Cryptos?","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/episode-2-money-concept-pay-using-cryptos","content_text":"In this episode we bring in our first special guest Amin El Kholy; who co-created the Fintech connector chapter in Dubai. Amin has great experience in fund management and the Fintech domain and is currently diving deeper in to how blockchain could change this industry. \n\nIn this episode, a couple of interesting topics are discussed:\n\n\nCryptocurrency becoming mainstream\nThe concept of decentralization\nICO failures and the next step\nUAE SCA recognizing crypto as securities \n\n\nAhmed starts off with the first topic of cryptocurrencies being mainstream within 10 years according to research. The evolution of money and the 3 characteristics are explored along with where cryptocurrencies stand. The timeline of 10 years is also challenged in terms of how technology and humans will work together. Some existing platforms are explored and the hosts discuss what roles they play in helping cryptocurrencies become more mainstream. \n\nFaisal explains the concept of decentralization and its importance is discussed. They also explore the required balance and the effect of decentralization on efficiency.\n\nThe next topic discussed is the failure rate of ICOs being almost 50% last year! Amin explains what he believes should be done with ICOs and how it compares to other domains. The role of regulation and its impact on the entire journey is also explored.\n\nLastly, the news of the UAE SCA officially recognizing digital assets as securities is evaluated from the point of view of the guest and hosts. \n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word and do not forget to subscribe!\n\nSources:\nCryptocurrencies Will Become Mainstream in 10 Years, Says eToro and Imperial College Research\n\n\nThe Long Game in Crypto: Why Decentralization Matters\n\n46% of Last Year’s ICOs Have Failed Already\n\nEmirates SCA is looking to label cryptocurrencies as security (in Arabic only)Special Guest: Amin El-Kholy.","content_html":"In this episode we bring in our first special guest Amin El Kholy; who co-created the Fintech connector chapter in Dubai. Amin has great experience in fund management and the Fintech domain and is currently diving deeper in to how blockchain could change this industry.
\n\nIn this episode, a couple of interesting topics are discussed:
\n\nAhmed starts off with the first topic of cryptocurrencies being mainstream within 10 years according to research. The evolution of money and the 3 characteristics are explored along with where cryptocurrencies stand. The timeline of 10 years is also challenged in terms of how technology and humans will work together. Some existing platforms are explored and the hosts discuss what roles they play in helping cryptocurrencies become more mainstream.
\n\nFaisal explains the concept of decentralization and its importance is discussed. They also explore the required balance and the effect of decentralization on efficiency.
\n\nThe next topic discussed is the failure rate of ICOs being almost 50% last year! Amin explains what he believes should be done with ICOs and how it compares to other domains. The role of regulation and its impact on the entire journey is also explored.
\n\nLastly, the news of the UAE SCA officially recognizing digital assets as securities is evaluated from the point of view of the guest and hosts.
\n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other platforms. Don’t forget to support us by spreading the word and do not forget to subscribe!
\n\nSources:
\nCryptocurrencies Will Become Mainstream in 10 Years, Says eToro and Imperial College Research
\n
The Long Game in Crypto: Why Decentralization Matters
\n\n46% of Last Year’s ICOs Have Failed Already
\n\nEmirates SCA is looking to label cryptocurrencies as security (in Arabic only)
Special Guest: Amin El-Kholy.
","summary":"In our 2nd episode, special guest Amin Elkholy takes us through a thrilling ride of how money evolved and what journey awaits us with cryptocurrencies. Plus many more interesting discussions!","date_published":"2018-08-07T15:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/f126aa09-bef6-4da2-acfe-8fc229feb622.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":25588739,"duration_in_seconds":2712}]},{"id":"83f11c8f-86de-4885-812c-e09c2a7b990b","title":"#Ep. 01: Decrypting Encrypted and a Bitcoin 10 year anniversary special!","url":"https://podcast.encrypt-d.com/episode-1-decrypting-encrypted-bitcoin-special","content_text":"Ahmed and Aniket sit down to introduce the motivations behind the Encrypted podcast and discuss all things bitcoin on the back of its fast approaching 10-year anniversary! \n\nIf you are new to the space, they will help you to unwrap what bitcoin actually is by discussing the following:\n• Why bitcoin exists and how it emerged\n• 2 analogies to help you understand how bitcoin works\n• Clearing misconceptions – Is bitcoin only used by criminals? Does bitcoin = blockchain? How many times has bitcoin been hacked?!!\n• Breaking down private and public keys and wallets\n\nThey also discuss the incidents, both good and bad, in bitcoin’s 10-year history, including:\nCrypto adoption rapidly increasing as blockiain.info, a free wallet provider, announces 25 million downloads of its wallet.\nBitcoin is legal in over 106 countries and legal tender in Japan, meaning people can use bitcoin as a currency to purchase goods.\nThe challenge of scaling bitcoin and how the community has responded so far. They will also be talking about the bitcoin fork which resulted in bitcoin cash’s existence and the implications of this. \n\nAll of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other podcast platforms. And if you found it helpful or know someone who will, spread the knowledge and tell them to tune in!\n\nSources:\nBlockchain.info hits 25 million crypto wallets\n\nBitcoin legality\n\nStill Don't Get Bitcoin? Here's an Explanation Even a Five-Year-Old Will Understand ","content_html":"Ahmed and Aniket sit down to introduce the motivations behind the Encrypted podcast and discuss all things bitcoin on the back of its fast approaching 10-year anniversary!
\n\nIf you are new to the space, they will help you to unwrap what bitcoin actually is by discussing the following:
\n• Why bitcoin exists and how it emerged
\n• 2 analogies to help you understand how bitcoin works
\n• Clearing misconceptions – Is bitcoin only used by criminals? Does bitcoin = blockchain? How many times has bitcoin been hacked?!!
\n• Breaking down private and public keys and wallets
They also discuss the incidents, both good and bad, in bitcoin’s 10-year history, including:
\nCrypto adoption rapidly increasing as blockiain.info, a free wallet provider, announces 25 million downloads of its wallet.
\nBitcoin is legal in over 106 countries and legal tender in Japan, meaning people can use bitcoin as a currency to purchase goods.
\nThe challenge of scaling bitcoin and how the community has responded so far. They will also be talking about the bitcoin fork which resulted in bitcoin cash’s existence and the implications of this.
All of the above and more will be on this week’s episode of Encrypted!
\n\nIf you liked what you heard, please do leave us a review on iTunes and the other podcast platforms. And if you found it helpful or know someone who will, spread the knowledge and tell them to tune in!
\n\nSources:
\nBlockchain.info hits 25 million crypto wallets
Still Don't Get Bitcoin? Here's an Explanation Even a Five-Year-Old Will Understand
","summary":"In our first episode, we introduce the Encrypted podcast by explaining our motivation for creating it and what you can expect to get out of it. As bitcoin is approaching its 10-year anniversary, we also go back to basics with a bitcoin primer and reviewing its successes and setbacks.\r\n","date_published":"2018-07-31T22:00:00.000+04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/4fe80d00-e380-4f64-8889-02ea6a3f54c7/83f11c8f-86de-4885-812c-e09c2a7b990b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":50023458,"duration_in_seconds":2855}]}]}