crypto gossip: Recent Episodes
crypto gossip
Dale Dickins and Peter Robertson have a weekly chat from Melbourne's Bitcoin Technology Center in Southbank. They introduce different people to include listeners in what's happening in cryptocurrencies, who's doing what and what's going on. This technology is sometimes difficult to keep up with as it spreads around the planet, and they think it's important to stay tuned to global and local developments.
This is our first CryptoGoss since September 2016. We had an unscheduled hiatus due to my (Peter's) health issues which resulted in me being unable to speak for more than a couple of minutes without coughing, unconducive to podcast recording. Fortunately, things have taken a turn for the better and we're confident of a strong podcasting season in 2017 at Crypto Studios, Blockchain Centre, Level 1, 89 - 91 City Road, Southbank, Victoria, 3006.
This episode, we were fortunate to catch up with Fran Strajner, CEO and founder of BraveNewCoin.com, on one of his lightning visits to Melbourne. With the benefit of Fran's unique perspective, we discussed:
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Standards Australia and international standards for blockchain technology http://bravenewcoin.com/news/australia-to-lead-iso-blockchain-standards-endeavor/
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Crypto Regulation
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The Blockchain Hype Cycle
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Automation, iOT, Surveillance and Privacy
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The upcoming SEC decision in the US re the Winklevoss ETF application
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The bitcoin price
Music for this episode, A Ride on the Coast by Espresso Music, courtesy of Shutterstock inc.
This episode, we look at Steem and how it can apply to learning in schools.
Katherine Noall, Scott Phillips and Peter Robertson are joined in Crypto Studios at the Melbourne Bitcoin Technology Centre by Kieran Nolan, Educational Technologist and Janet Whittle, Assistant Principal from Wooranna Park Primary School. We discuss Steem and how Wooranna Park Primary is planning to use the Steem platform for collaborative learning.
Inspired by an article on steem, Kieran Nolan and Tom Mcgann (Educational Technologist) requested a Google Hangout on air (featured on OpenSourceLearning.School) with the author Derek Reith.
All music for this is episode was freely provided by www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music
Rafael Taylor is a freelance journalist, contributor to ROAR Magazine and campaigner with Australians for Kurdistan, building solidarity networks with the Rojava Revolution. Based in Melbourne, he is a freethinker, transhumanist and libertarian socialist passionate about supporting new value-systems and social institutions.
Grant Lenaarts is a digital entrepreneur and software developer whose main interest is in the evolution of consumer civilization. This episode features an excellent Peter Hitchen's impersonation, a debate on Yanis Varoufakis' critique of digital currencies, and brief primers on political economy, libertarian socialism and the Rojava Revolution.
HYPERLINKS:
The Rojava Plan website and bitcoin address: http://rojavaplan.com/donate.html The Fearless Imagination Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TheFearlessImagination/ Rafael’s public Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/rafaeltaylor3/ Rafael’s Roar Magazine profile: https://roarmag.org/author/rafael-taylor/
Scott, Julian and Simon discuss the DAO, Ethereum and the hard fork.
Music:
Air (R3z) - e a r t h s p a c e RMX 0.2 fantasytripp https://allihoopa.com/s/sY2vbm3r
C A T C H Y Monsinho https://allihoopa.com/s/7NLtwpXD
Left or Right skyfitsheaven https://allihoopa.com/s/RwnfgbuB
Back to the MF Beat BobMaurice https://allihoopa.com/s/TBvxIxLm
This episode we feature two exciting new projects operating from here at Melbourne Bitcoin Technology Center and are very pleased to have Sam Lee, CEO of Bitcoin Group http://www.bitcoingroup.com.au/ also join us on the show.
Paul Ayling tells about his Ant Stand project along with the dramas he experienced trying to set up an Amazon store and how easy, by contrast, his experience with https://openbazaar.org/ was. Find out more about Paul's project at www.antstand.com, https://twitter.com/theantstand and https://www.facebook.com/antstand/
Julian Smith introduces his new project, https://blockfreight.com/ which aims to revolutionise the freight container industry by notarising every data point in a container's journey on the Blockfreight blockchain. If you'd like to take part in the Blockfreight Token pre-sale, go to https://tokens.blockfreight.com/
Full disclosure, I (Peter Robertson) am deeply biassed in favour of all projects being built in this community space and pretend no dispassion whatsoever! Note that since this episode was recorded I have participated in the early Blockfreight token sale.
Music: This episode, one of our guests, JimmyY (AKA Paul Ayling), provided all of our wonderful tracks. Find these and many other pieces at https://allihoopa.com/JimmyY. In order, we hear: - Sydney Rd Hardstep JimmyY - Domino JimmyY - Loop - Clifton Hill Medicine Man JimmyY - Bitcoin Island JimmyY - Loop -for the disruptive Influence Podcast JimmyY - Burger Time JimmyY
In this episode of Cryptogoss Katherine Noall and Peter Robertson speak with Fran Strajnar, CEO and co-founder of Brave New Coin, a data and research company focused on the Blockchain and Digital Equities industry. Fran helps us tease out some of the thorny issues around the DAO “attack” and what this might mean for the world's view on Ethereum and blockchain technologies as general.
Fran was also able to share some insights on views held at the big end of town that he gathered from the recent Melbourne Blockchain Summit http://www.blockchainsummit.com.au/. We gained some further understandings of what private blockchains might actually turn out to be in practice and how there are cases where this might make sense, although it was also acknowledged that a lot of corporate activity involving the "B" word might be more spin for appearances than substance on the ground.
Finally, we turned to the topic of "what will the browser for the blockchain look like" as a basis for speculating about the services and applications that will really mark the crypto revolution for the masses. If email was the killer app for the Internet, what will the killer app for the blockchain be?
Music: Boxing Bears Is My Business by brewmeisterbean https://www.propellerheads.se/s/YNgnTY0M
Rip squad by sliipii https://www.propellerheads.se/s/FOhV5qaU
Computer Controlled -3 by figure freak https://allihoopa.com/s/A29bWam0
News from Mars by theshoemaker https://allihoopa.com/s/cBWbGsI8
Peter, Katherine, Scott, and Warwick talk about the latest news within the world of crypto. The new DAO launched and beautifully explained by Scott. Hermits can live in peace. Fermat.org has big dreams of a bright crypto future. Warwick talks trading. Miami is known for good looking people, so it's no surprise you can get a butt lift with bitcoin in the glossy city.
2:15 http://www.fermat.org/ 3:58 A Florida man sells bitcoin to undercover agents, and is looking at jail time. This Miami money-laundering case may define whether Bitcoin is really money. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article80421072.html 3:32 http://maidsafe.net/ 7:24 http://cointelegraph.com/news/japan-officially-recognizes-bitcoin-and-digital-currencies-as-money 10:10 http://cointelegraph.com/news/what-makes-japan-second-largest-bitcoin-market-potentially-first 11:30 http://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/mrs-watanabe.asp 12:43 trading bitcoin 16:57 bitsquare.io 18:18 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/three-reasons-why-bitcoin-price-130253117.html 19:53 http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/12/a-crisis-worse-than-isis-bail-ins-begin/ 20:35 Australian bank deposit info http://www.guaranteescheme.gov.au/qa/deposits.html 20:56 it's actually $250,000 in Australia, not $100,000 as mentioned 23:50 Currency Price talk 25:10 Silk Road and Australian drug dealer's bitcoin being sold http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36412487 27:27 music break 28:06 Launching of the THE DAO (distrubuted automous organization) What is it, and how it works http://cointelegraph.com/news/dao-trading-launches-today-what-should-we-expect slock.it 32:49 Hermicity http://hermicity.org/ Living far from annoying people, and using drones and internet to keep others away. 35:40 DAO Tokens price 39:50 https://voteflux.org/ A new system of voting. 40:26 brief musical interlude 40:42 Big thanks to Dale. Dale has left Cryptogoss. And she is now producing Infinite Imaginarium Here is a snipet of the new show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0_IGgGaegI 42:51 Musicial thanks 43:20 Are there any Melbourne based musicians that we can feature ? help !
Music by Jesse Jnr, https://allihoopa.com/JessieJnr https://allihoopa.com/s/a4EbC9D1 Alpine X https://allihoopa.com/s/2fZ7kogn Cheese https://allihoopa.com/s/H4iFqgPA Cold Space (Pt 2 of 2) https://allihoopa.com/s/uj7lQi9q Lazy Bone https://allihoopa.com/s/ox984ojm Satellite
Warwick, Scott and Dale take the mics today while Peter recovers from the flu.
Craig Wright makes the news again, Scott and Warwick are swinging on the issue "he's part of many" #TeamSatoshi "there's a little bit of bitcoin in all of us". We cover the very basics of the story.
VoteFlux get another mention, because we love them... and as Scott says
"besides politicians don't want to be making decisions anyway", we'll do the work for them.
Hot topics of the week Ethereum, TOR, encryption and Australia is hot on the VPN trail. We discuss tracking and illegal activity "where does the madness stop?"
We close off with updates on OpenBazaar, and what's happening in Melbourne's Bitcoin Technology Center.
Music: swingSWINGswing Mocean99 https://www.propellerheads.se/s/DJOLEFYv Glitch o'swing Mocean99 https://www.propellerheads.se/s/5jQ8hDzY mowo builder Mocean99 https://www.propellerheads.se/s/V3EeqzRh Sorry... Shoemaker with BrewmeisterBean https://www.propellerheads.se/s/W6ijxtJF Bliss Junction Shoemaker https://www.propellerheads.se/s/BG4qUlou
Enjoy!
In this special episode, Scott Phillips, Grant Lenaarts and Peter Robertson discuss the present and future of electronic voting systems with Dr. Vanessa Teague, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Dr. Teague's work has included detailed studies of two instances where electronic voting systems have been used in Australia, and the news isn't always good. It turns out that online voting systems delivering privacy, transparency and verifiable results aren't that easy to create and operate. What are the problems, can they be solved, and is there a role for the blockchain?
Links Dr Vanessa Teague https://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/vjteague/ NSW State Election Vulnerability http://theconversation.com/thousands-of-nsw-election-online-votes-open-to-tampering-39164
Music: Special thanks to JessieJnr, https://allihoopa.com/JessieJnr Tokyo https://allihoopa.com/s/HZ0b24WZ Democracy https://allihoopa.com/s/ihB96u9l Not From This World https://allihoopa.com/s/B8qhQDKm Stay Focus https://allihoopa.com/s/CDiT5yEy Mercury https://allihoopa.com/s/cfh8Ug48 Streets of Tokyo https://allihoopa.com/s/xpszhAKJ
In this episode we interview Nathan and Max, the founders of Flux, an online voting system and political party, aimed at disrupting and fixing representative democracy. It's the political party where YOU create the policies. Any issue that people care about will have an avenue to be addressed via Flux. They have AEC accrediation and are fielding candidates in the upcoming Australian federal election.
Take the power back and vote for Flux... if you want any further information add your questions in the timeline and we'll happily get back to you.
voteflux.org
@voteflux
https://www.facebook.com/voteflux.org
Further Reading:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOokTsj92vY
https://theagilerevolution.com/2016/04/25/episode-105-the-flux-interview/
https://m.reddit.com/r/voteflux/comments/4e8woa/the_big_smoke_interviews_flux_cofounders/
http://forklog.net/australian-dreamers/
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/the-bitcoin-of-politics-flux-party-offers-radical-new-model-for-democracy-20160205-gmn066.html
http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/new-political-party-flux-says-it-wants-to-change-australias-political-system-by-focusing-on-policy/news-story/984c7d181d564cb35e0f004c02e8e023
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-politics-tech-idUSKCN0VP2TJ
http://www.sammway.com.au/know-your-client/nathan-spataro-changing-way-vote-change-world/
http://www.echo.net.au/2016/01/new-political-party-flux-set-to-register/
http://www.merimbulanewsweekly.com.au/story/3844642/crowdsourcing-democracy-for-the-fed-up/
http://themerkle.com/australian-political-party-aims-to-reinvent-democracy-with-blockchain-tech/
http://thebigsmoke.com.au/2016/04/11/flux-australias-new-smart-political-party-vote-counts/
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/new-australian-political-party-claims-bitcoin-will-bring-democracy-2-0/
http://www.coinfox.info/news/4842-australian-new-political-party-uses-blockchain-to-transform-democracy
Music:
Ginza mahayuga432 https://allihoopa.com/s/UNZYa9R0
trapped at noon contracota108 https://allihoopa.com/s/vhIIWazi
Vasile Plesca Lazy love https://soundcloud.com/vasile-plesca/lazy-love
Intro/Outro: allihoopa.com/s/xrTkE8tS Mowo! Electro Swing Builder 2 - mocean99
Peter, Dale and Scott are in the studio for this ep, extending the 'grown up' theme with a new decentralised bitcoin/crypto exchanged called BitSquare. They read thru the whitepaper and discuss how this exchange differs from existing centralised crypto currency exchanges.
And other centralised projects like the one that Peter Todd discovered was intending to force miners into collecting personal data, quite sneaky we thought. We also looked at how AI is joining the battle with the blockchain in a Skry manner. These types of projects aim to not only de-anonymize, but to effectively censor bitcoin transactions.
Julian Smith our legendary guru of all matters technical and generally incomprehensible briefed us on his latest project blockFreight. Now this is a game changer and we'll be updating the progress as this business unfolds.
In closing off we covered a few things happening at the newly scrubbed up and looking damned cool Technology Center for melbourne's knowledge week. Although a 'celebrity' hasn't quite firmed up his skype in, we're ready for him to feature on the event space wall :)
Put in your earplugs, relax and enjoy the chat!
MUSIC:
Shoemaker, Do the Right Thing https://allihoopa.com/s/UaNkNSAO JimmyY, Amazing https://allihoopa.com/s/vNNppiX6 Mocean, Berlin Blade 99 https://allihoopa.com/s/lwQ5NU4t Mocean, MJ - Phunk 99 https://allihoopa.com/s/2IzQdO3A Shoemaker, Lions Den https://allihoopa.com/s/RDkIZjjv
LINKS: https://petertodd.org/2016/mit-chainanchor-bribing-miners-to-regulate-bitcoin https://bitsquare.io/bitsquare.pdf https://skry.tech/ http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/arts-and-culture/events-partnerships/melbourne-knowledge-week/whats-on/Pages/whats-on.aspx
Voteflux: http://www.meetup.com/FluxSydney/events/230138091/ ethereum workshops: http://www.meetup.com/mbtcenter/events/230482561/ Talk and Trade (Informal, all things bitcoin and crypto): http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinMelbourne/events/qllcclyvhbgb/
In the Blockchain Imaginarium, Dale and Scott discuss and imagine the future of #blockchain technologies.
In this, our third episode, we chat with @LovelyCorrine about whether the sex industry has parallels with the blockchain, it is after all a decentralised network based on trust - and agreements. Can the blockchain learn from this age old industry, or will the this tech provide the sex industry with more than just automated sex robots??
Shove your earbuds in to hear salacious discussion filled with fetishes... and politics.
Music: allihoopa.com/s/YSKp3HJT Nofane by autoban allihoopa.com/s/E9voh2Bu Brainwave by Djorkaeff allihoopa.com/s/4FD1mm45 Experimental by jacobckessler allihoopa.com/s/cXyw3Az1 001 unrabel by twbeatz allihoopa.com/s/H7tyl5sR 8 bit rain by vargrstorm Intro/Outro: allihoopa.com/s/xrTkE8tS Mowo! Electro Swing Builder 2 by mocean99
Know any Melbourne musicians who would like a bit of exposure to a new audience? We're looking for music to use in the show. Hit us up on twitter @cryptogoss, @drsplot or @MADinMelbourne or all three if you're really keen :)
Warwick, Peter and Dale do their due diligence and get down and dirty with the scams rocking Australia's media this week.
iGot got their name (deservedly) smeared by ABC, Australia's national broadcaster affectionately known as Aunty. Of course the message got messed up and some people were left thinking that there is indeed somebody who "runs bitcoin". Mainstream just don't get it, so Cryptogoss set them straight! Well, as straight as we could with another acronym wielding usurper claiming to represent the industry and lead bitcoin down Australia's regulatory path. Who is ADCCA anyway??
There are rumours that Craig Wright is proving himself true to his surname with yet another lead that he could be outing himself as Satoshi in London. Gavin and Co have stringent tests for him to pass, will he pass the test, and what will it mean for Bitcoin?
This episode boils down to many people are making up stories and running with headlines. Information is a gamble - who can you trust anymore in this proof-less world? Oh, and we touch on those panama papers too... they could be the hack of the year :)
Music
124BPM-Deep by Willscore https://allihoopa.com/s/ACcTz8IH RipSquad by Sliipii https://allihoopa.com/s/FOhV5qaU BoxingBears is my business by BrewmeisterBean https://allihoopa.com/s/YNgnTY0M LA to Des Moines The Wellpennies https://allihoopa.com/s/M7GFR1nF Sadroid by Sliipii https://allihoopa.com/s/hwruhA4G Jugu Pyta by Sliipii https://allihoopa.com/s/YKaMfr64
Links Craig Wright the big reveal http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/03/31/2158024/craig-wrights-upcoming-big-reveal/ iGot robbed http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2015/s4441330.htm ADCCA who? http://adcca.org.au/ http://www.coindesk.com/trade-groups-unite-to-launch-blockchain-forum/
Ethereum: http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinMelbourne/events/229407753/ Talk and Trade http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinMelbourne/events/230361904/ VoteFlux http://www.meetup.com/FluxSydney/events/230138091/ Melbourne Knowledge Week http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/news-and-media/Pages/melbourne-knowledge-week-program-released.aspx http://www.meetup.com/Third-Place/events/229803113/
In the Blockchain Imaginarium, Dale and Scott discuss and imagine the future of #blockchain technologies.
In this, our second episode, we discuss the Panama Papers, Flux (voteflux.org), Tesla Model 3 and electric vehicle charging using smart contracts, ZeroNet (for open, free and uncensorable websites, using Bitcoin cryptography and BitTorrent network) and the decentralised Ebay competitor that has just been launched, OpenBazaar.
For those playing at home, this is what a trillion dollars looks like in $100 notes: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nKG1HvaIfNE/VS28KMkp_tI/AAAAAAAABNc/lmLbCWJ8H-c/s1600/one%2Btrillion.gif
And this is $15 trillion ... so about double this amount is socked away in accounts related to the Panama Papers: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pFfq-UtZstY/T_o2Ii4AE9I/AAAAAAAAAlA/V8cFd0Vig_o/s1600/15+trillion+dollars+in+100s.jpg
... enough to fill a good sized skyscraper with paper money.
music: https://soundcloud.com/djleo/dragnetbounce Dragnetbounce - djleo https://allihoopa.com/s/JtewkOS2 Block-Rockin' Bling - Pendagram https://allihoopa.com/s/Vp8XlWIm Get It! -djphatjive remix- djphatjive with figurefreak https://allihoopa.com/s/7sMqfeET Celestial Drifter rmx - autoban Intro/Outro: https://allihoopa.com/s/xrTkE8tS Mowo! Electro Swing Builder 2 - mocean99
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/04/06/3766982/next-apple-tesla-model-3-presales/ Tesla3 https://voteflux.org/ Voteflux http://www.meetup.com/FluxSydney/events/230138091/ come to the Melbourne event (via their Sydney page)
Peter and Dale introduce Scott Philips aka Dr. Splot in this episode to give you more of an idea of who he is and why he's another important asset in MBTC's space.
Julian Smith also joins us with BitPay's adaptive solution to the block debate. He provides evidence for why he thinks this approach makes sense - we're leaving it for you to do your homework and decide for yourself.
Our headlines cover some very basics, RichardBranson has declared Bitcoin is working... and Blythe the Masters of our wonderful GFC has also added her 2c into this equation so we thought we better make mention of these 'facts'. We are way more excited that one of Australia's Big4 banks has come to their senses and written a decent article on why Bitcoin IS important.
There is a hack of the week this time round, we discuss why crooks socially engineering corruption are giving Bitcoin a bad reputation.
Enjoy!
music:
Opening with the Shoemaker: https://allihoopa.com/s/SjrtDNxc Even more please https://allihoopa.com/s/Fnht0S76 Mystique https://allihoopa.com/s/itBmdW6S Catwoman
and, from Figurefreak: https://allihoopa.com/s/JZnZFXpa Artistic License https://allihoopa.com/s/iTOgfKWo Here I will get you started https://allihoopa.com/s/CrfGSTFZ SK Landing
Links:
Australia is Ideal Testing Ground for Blockchain-Based Trading, Says Blythe Masters http://www.coinspeaker.com/2016/03/22/australia-is-ideal-testing-ground-for-blockchain-based-trading-says-blythe-masters/
Counterparty's Chris DeRose Calls Ethereum "100% Hype and No Substance" https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/chris-derose-ethereum-hype-no-substance/
Drag and Drop smart contract scripting for Ethereum: http://etherscripter.com/
"Banks need to integrate with Bitcoin, now". (Yes, WE AGREE) Max Tannahill, ANZ's Business Change and Implementation Manager, blogs about BITCOIN rather than the BLOCKCHAIN. http://linkis.com/bluenotes.anz.com/po/S8fA3
The whole point of this imaginarium is for me, Dale, and Dr Splott of Melbourne's Bitcoin Technology Center (mbtc) to discuss and imagine the future of #blockchain technologies. We'll be talking about existing projects and then stretching those ideas out to the universe and back with probabilities that we imagine will rock the world, from Melbourne the supernode of all things crypto.
In this first episode we cover the very basics - what is the blockchain, how does it work? What does #ProofOfWork mean? Why is it a trustless system? How does ethereum fit in? Why is it secure? Can this technology be hacked?
We didn't really get to imagine very much at all in the first episode, or talk any of the projects that are already causing headlines (even though Dale tried numerous times to #SlockIt into the conversation).. DrSplot is adamant people comprehend the very very basics, so that we did.
Next ep we'll s t r e t c h the imagination, we promise :)
Links we spoke about: Ethereum Workshop at MBTC: http://www.meetup.com/mbtcenter/events/229405065/ ANZ Article: https://bluenotes.anz.com/posts/2016/03/the-case-for-bitcoin/ Ethereum: https://www.ethereum.org/ Cell411: http://safearx.com/ The Robots Are Coming: www.the-robots-are-coming.com
Thanks to our fabulous musicians: mocean99: https://allihoopa.com/s/xrTkE8tS DJBasqo: https://allihoopa.com/s/A4fQiMUe sliipii: https://allihoopa.com/s/pF2Zuqzt theshoemaker: https://allihoopa.com/s/Vey2bJh8 figurefreak: https://allihoopa.com/s/iXjRVwza
Katherine Noall (mbtc’s favourite RMIT University lecturer) dropped into the studio to catch Peter, Dale and Warwick up on her European bitcoin blockchain tour. A rich conversation with many questions, we talked about why bitcoin vending machines (BTMs) are disappearing, and touched on some of the projects taking their place. It sounds like letting go of the machines has allowed for some ingenuity to shine through.
Stepping into negative interest rates is a first for the world and we discussed some of the implications and why major corporations would still trust banks with holding their hard earned untransparent digital cash.
Is that glee you hear when she shares her disappointment with London’s blockchain conference? Listen in and decide for yourself :)
We touched on a few major headlines to conclude this episode, and agreed that the safenetwork, openbazaar and augur are humming along quite nicely with their new releases.
THANK YOU to these musicians for contributing your creations and making us sound rather funky:
https://www.propellerheads.se/s/mY83zGWT I Got RhythMowo! fargiy
https://www.propellerheads.se/s/zVk0IBVz Sockerchock allihooper
https://www.propellerheads.se/s/6WR42cqU Gradiaoa housemanscost
https://www.propellerheads.se/s/ziGPAC9W Imagination lordondrums
https://www.propellerheads.se/s/rtC2ALC4 Jojysu by sliipii
LINKS
The chairman of the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) has encouraged regulators around the world to embrace blockchain innovation, the technology that underpins bitcoin. https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/asic-chairman-to-regulators-worldwide-dont-be-afraid-of-blockchain-innovation/
MAIDSAFE and the Safenetwork http://maidsafe.net/
Safenetwork Beta Code Download and Discussion https://forum.safenetwork.io/t/safe-network-client-testing-commences/7373
Open Bazaar https://openbazaar.org/
Auger Prediction Market http://augur.strikingly.com/
London Blockchain Conference https://blockchainlondon.com/
The Safenetwork is up for testing and Peter’s clearly excited he was given the chance to add cryptogoss to their network. We talked about the implications of working from an encrypted decentralised network, one that gives us the choice to keep matters private, how does a platform that provides security affect how we relate to each other?
Peter uncovered an encrypted coin in a mailbox leaflet and reads out claims that lead him to think it’s a scam - ‘insert claims here’ watch for an s coin in your letterbox.
We discussed some of the events happening at Melbourne’s Bitcoin Technology center, it’s buzzing with activity :)
Ethereum workshop 10 March 7pm Talk and Trade each Wednesday night from 6.30pm - a casual conversation over a glass of wine. RMIT students joining us from Wednesday 2 March - there will be regular updates on their progress and we’ll interview them at the end of their semester.
MUSIC:
https://allihoopa.com/s/UQhCc1Sh Firilahu 1.081 contracota108
https://allihoopa.com/s/95c3cCXe Leviathan42 Epic journey
https://allihoopa.com/s/HUm0h2cz Four letters MrFunk106
https://allihoopa.com/s/cl3qhKv4 Expiditing The Inevitable by brewmeisterbean
https://allihoopa.com/s/IBSYlx00 Celestial drifter by brewmeisterbean
https://allihoopa.com/s/IBSYlx00 Numavu - autoban
https://allihoopa.com/s/lFxdvWT6 The Pranqster by Brewmeisterbean
LINKS: Apple’s open letter re iPhone back door demand from US Gov https://www.apple.com/customer-letter/
Article from ZeroHedge states they’re capitalising on the publicity, have previously decrypted 70 phones. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-18/it-all-just-publicity-stunt-apple-unlocked-iphones-feds-70-times
Donald Trump tweets for an Apple boycott - from his iPhone! Doh! http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-19/it-just-occurred-me-trump-proposes-boycott-apple
HackOfTheWeek http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/us-hospital-pays-24k-ransom-after-cyber-attack-locks-medical-records-20160218-gmy4ww.html
BitHalo https://bithalo.org/
Dale and Peter alone in the studio discuss headlines, starting with ACCC's decision regarding banks colluding with #Bitcoin, the Bitcoin Association of Australia knows a new strategy is needed. Dale thinks Australia's VoteFlux is that strategy, she thinks politicians are going to get with this program one way or another, it might have to be that our voting system is the way. (She also gave incorrect information on VFlux they're working from the Bitcoin blockchain with Ethereum as a backup.)
Peter is not quite sure about uproov, even though he now knows how to pronounce it, the patent pending message is a little disconcerting - what is a patent troll anyway?
The subject of BitNation came up again, it's getting a lot more press lately, especially now that the NASDAQ has involved itself in Estonia's stockmarket. What better place to practice than Estonia - where is it??
There's a strong call for transparency with corporations, where is the point of too much information?? They talk about the way that Koinify and Cryptsy handled recent controversy.
uproov: https://uproov.com/ Bitnation and related topics: Commonwealth and the blockchain: http://bit.ly/1QQ0nVe econotimes on Bitnation: http://bit.ly/1SGKpmc UNICEF on child poverty: http://bit.ly/1otWhev NASDAQ and Bitnation: http://bit.ly/1RdAX6B Storj.io: http://bit.ly/24gIbOg
If you're in Melbourne and would like to come to an ethereum meetup, connect with us here: bit.ly/1otYTJ6
maidsafe: http://maidsafe.net/ gems: http://getgems.org/ koinify: http://bit.ly/21fxDfQ cryptsy: http://bit.ly/1KtHOJm minds: https://www.minds.com Estonia where is it?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia node counter: http://bit.ly/24gHDI8 IPFS https://ipfs.io/ filecoin http://filecoin.io/ robotcoingame: http://bit.ly/1XDp3Fu
music: https://www.propellerheads.se/s/mY83zGWT Mocoean99 - I’ve got rythMowo https://www.propellerheads.se/s/ZoeeEyd7 shoemaker - House of the rising sun https://www.propellerheads.se/s/NT3DNG3w Figurefreak - would you care to dance? https://www.propellerheads.se/s/BboxtMY5 Figurefreak - chope https://www.propellerheads.se/s/mwNAWZbB The shoemaker - from mars https://www.propellerheads.se/s/mwNAWZbB JimmyY - Sydney Road HardStep
BONUS material at the end, some outtakes. The wikiBEing that Dale's talking about is being created on minds.com together with @LeeTravis, @StoneArcher and a few other interested people. Meet Dale there, she's @TheWildCard :)
Kieran Nolan from Wooranna Park Primary School dropped in to the bitcoin center today to chat with us about some of the many projects his school is involved in. He focuses on fun ways to include students in relevant technologies like cryptocurrencies, his school has a spaceship, and the students are involved in global minecraft projects.
Together with Paul Ayling we chatted about potential uses for the blockchain in education and the difference it's already making in Australia's education system.
Music credits (in order of appearance) 1, 2 and 8: mocean99 Mowo! Electro Swing Loop- Mocean Worker - Song-AM https://www.propellerheads.se/s/GbgbnOks 3: FigureFreak Boiled Peanuts https://www.propellerheads.se/s/0GkoOeXu 4: Jimmy Y Mr Bitcoin https://www.propellerheads.se/s/7nS8FXCZ 5: Jimmy Y Bitcoin Island https://www.propellerheads.se/s/BBfQlB1M 6: mocean99 Funk and Clavé https://www.propellerheads.se/s/V2gbw3NO 7: Jimmy Y Clifton Hill Medicine Man https://www.propellerheads.se/s/uYFwZZCA
Links: justice4assange.com https://justice4assange.com/
Facebook's FreeBasics controversy in India http://theconversation.com/facebook-is-no-charity-and-the-free-in-free-basics-comes-at-a-price-52839 https://medium.com/backchannel/how-india-pierced-facebook-s-free-internet-program-6ae3f9ffd1b4#.3jjka421f
meetup events: Blockchain meetup Monday 29 Feb http://www.meetup.com/Blockchain-Developers/events/228519896/
CoderDojo Wooranna Park http://www.woorannaparkps.com.au/#!coderdojo/cee5
find one near you https://coderdojo.com/
Minecraft https://minecraft.net/
Stimulating Learning platforms http://www.bobpearlman.org/Learning21/enigma_portal.htm
Hacks: Lincolnshire county council: http://www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/Cyber-hack-cripples-libraries-bus-services-fourth/story-28631569-detail/story.html Melbourne Hospital: http://theconversation.com/hack-attack-on-a-hospital-it-system-highlights-the-risk-of-still-running-windows-xp-53431 Berwick High School: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-03/nossal-high-school-investigated-threatening-school-hoax-calls/7135746
WARNING: This episode has a sprinkling of strong language.
So, how about that Mike Hearn eh? One big dummy spit* took almost USD$100 off the bitcoin price and generated an incredible amount of discussion. Mike earned his place at number 89 on https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoinobituaries/. The site, that records the most significant announcements of bitcoin's death, now currently stands at 93 obituaries. Mike's farewell to the bitcoin community can be found at https://medium.com/@octskyward/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experiment-dabb30201f7#.4hs9zlp6c .
Dale had an experience with Open Bazaar's new addition to the bitcoin market Bazaar Bay. Passions ran high. Words were said. And then more words. But, in the end, there's nothing a hug from the Lovely Corrine couldn't fix:) https://soundcloud.com/cryptogoss/episode-12-the-lovely-corrine .
Music credits (in order of appearance)
- Domino by JimmyY https://www.propellerheads.se/s/punzFpGv
- Bring Yo A$$ by mocean99 https://www.propellerheads.se/s/JRTljNO7
- Booty Shaker by mocean99 https://www.propellerheads.se/s/10sLB2a1
- and 5. Loop -for the disruptive Influence Podcast by JimmyY https://www.propellerheads.se/s/HYtGXZns
- The Bitcoin Group by JimmyY https://www.propellerheads.se/s/8LEqCmy7
- Mowo!-Dishko-Jamiro-Quoi? by mocean99 https://www.propellerheads.se/s/pJSQdMEW
Many thanks to our fine artists and to Propellerheads!
- What's a "dummy spit"? Listen to the show and learn some "Strine".
Trent McDonald Is a Melbourne ambassador for BitNation, a blockchain style governance system that quickly came to the refugee crisis with a solution for ID’s. He dropped in to chat with us about evolutionary economics, holacracy, polycentricity and whether or not Australian economics is an oxymoron (we think so).
BitNation is a virtual platform that enables people to notarise documents, Trent even notarised his thesis into the blockchain, we talked about the impact that would have on the office lady “don’t just give her the boot, give her an upgrade” argued Dale.
Estonia is used as an example for e-governance, this small sparsely populated country is leading the way with virtual governance, we chatted about merging jurisdictions and virtual worlds entering traditional governance.
“Distributed currencies will bring distributed governance systems. The end of geographically isolated nation states will follow.” RogerVer Twitter 2Jan2016
More about BitNation https://bitnation.co/ their refugee emergency response (was very fast) https://refugees.bitnation.co/
Read more on holacracies here http://www.holacracy.org/ and polycentricity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycentricity
The digitisation of society… catch up with Estonia https://e-estonia.com/the-story/digital-society/ there’s even an e-governance academy http://www.ega.ee/
What is a DAC (Distributed Autonomous Corporation)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_organization
Motherboard’s article we read from: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/heres-what-the-hell-happened-in-bitcoin-in-2015
contact Trent on twitter https://twitter.com/trentjmacdonald check out his blog: mesosoup.com and here’s his thesis: https://blockexplorer.com/tx/10f45c22ef1dfab2a5518f383ca179a3f4724b6a72114ad955d64d1356bb71a4 Transaction 10f45c22ef1dfab2a5518f383ca179a3f4724b6a72114ad955d64d1356bb71a4
music by Shoemaker
https://www.propellerheads.se/s/laelC7fQ TheForce https://www.propellerheads.se/s/exseYoBZ Pain-X https://www.propellerheads.se/s/9TLqg5xG Breach Interstellar mix https://www.propellerheads.se/s/Pcyl9Zvr FunkyMonkeyRemix https://www.propellerheads.se/s/9zntnRfP Pux and borky
http://backfeed.cc/
This interview was recorded by Peter Robertson with Michele Seven AKA Bitcoin Belle, 17 December 2015.
WARNING This program contains strong libertarian/anarchist views, including language that could offend, and adult themes, therefore listener discretion is recommended. The views expressed in this interview are not necessarily those of Peter's, he just goaded the situation :) ______________________________________________________________ At 41:40 Michele spoke of this quote:
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
CS Lewis Michele's favourite logician and theologian ______________________________________________________________
Links: All-Star Panel: Ed Moy, Joseph Vaughn Perling, Trace Mayer, Nick Szabo, Dr. Craig Wright https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdvQTwjVmrE as part of http://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-San-Diego/events/225369085/
Andy Greenberg article http://www.wired.com/2015/12/bitcoins-creator-satoshi-nakamoto-is-probably-this-unknown-australian-genius/
Thank you PropellorHeads, www.propellerheads.se for their music sharing service and in particular on this episode, figurefreak, www.propellerheads.se/u/figurefreak.
The tracks for this episode are: - Block-Rockin' Bling #BestBling (freakmix) https://www.propellerheads.se/s/NGs9GbbH - Good Lawd! https://www.propellerheads.se/s/TPPNbmIK - #5MC 6 (5 Minute Challenge) https://www.propellerheads.se/s/KtrnGwZu - 8? https://www.propellerheads.se/s/LyCI02z1 - To The Ends of the Galaxy https://www.propellerheads.se/s/KqehfWUC - Singapore --> Seoul https://www.propellerheads.se/s/1QJL3ZpV
The pants Belle referred to at the beginning of this ep are also known as DarkPurse pants, a DarkWallet for females.
Peter and Dale will be chatting with people they've got questions for and uploading random One-on-ones as they get published. Dale has an adversity to editing, hers will be quite raw. #StayTuned
This (our first one-on-one) interview was recorded by Peter Robertson with John Ferguson, the Simpleton of Safe - http://www.safecrossroads.net/ - on 1 November 2015. Apologies to our listeners, and particularly to John Ferguson, for taking so long to get this piece live, we hope you enjoy it.
John is very active in the Safe Network and has done a great deal of work in spreading the word and educating us all in how this vital project will deliver its world-changing benefits. I urge you to go to John's site, http://www.safecrossroads.net and subscribe to his podcast. Also make sure you visit the community and company links at https://forum.safenetwork.io/ and http://maidsafe.net/ respectively.
We'd like to thank JimmyY, (a.k.a. Paul Ayling), for the great music we used for this show. Be sure to follow JimmyY at www.propellerheads.se.
The tracks for this episode are: - https://www.propellerheads.se/s/OnwPEITp Airplane Sydney - https://www.propellerheads.se/s/ihjiG9iO UPlifting - https://www.propellerheads.se/s/lyao6kPl DunnyHumour
Peter and Dale will be chatting with people they've got questions for and uploading random One-on-ones as they get published. Dale has an adversity to editing, hers will be quite raw. #StayTuned
WeAreSatoshi
Well, we did ask in episode 13 what would happen if Satoshi 'came out', today we got our answer. Wired magazine published an article proposing that Australian security expert #CraigStevenWright was #SatoshiNakamoto. Within two hours of the article being published Craig's home was raided by the Australian TaxOffice - so much for Turnbull's declaration of Australia being open to innovation.
One thing is certain, Bitcoin brings events into real time for all the world to see.
People thinking about privacy might be interested in the second part of this episode, we chat to Robin and Andrew of the pixelated project about online privacy. Melbourne is humming on all matters online privacy - a subject that's totally relevant in today's world, Robin (robindoherty.com) and Andrew (both from pixelated-project.org) they share why and how people are learning about encryption.
links:
myplanetganja - catch up on the SilkRoad here: http://myplanetganja.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=11022&sid=3c233079cd4ec5adb2c8550a6073b2e6&start=930
http://www.meetup.com/cryptohack-melbourne/ - if you live in Melbourne and are interested in learning more about encryption, this is one of the best places to go.
Here's enigmail, they said it wasn't so easy, however Dale managed to install it so it's definitely do-able. Take 10minutes to learn how https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57hl4WDoPUc
Scott Ludlam is somebody standing up for people's right to encrypt - contact him here, http://scott-ludlam.greensmps.org.au/ or on twitter https://twitter.com/senatorludlam.... avoid this one https://twitter.com/scottludlamhair is a NOTScott.
Since recording this episode a few articles have cropped up about Craig, read them here:
A question worth asking that makes the most sense - is Satoshi is a team of people who have been working on Bitcoin for 20 years? http://cointelegraph.com/news/115848/craig-wright-may-be-satoshi-nakamoto-but-is-he-the-inventor-of-bitcoin
may, be http://www.wired.com/2015/12/new-clues-suggest-satoshi-suspect-craig-wright-may-be-a-hoaxer/
The NewYorker city of BitLicence even had something to say: http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/bizarre-saga-craig-wright-latest-inventor-bitcoin
Peer2Peer contracting gone a little wrong, does that make him #CraigWrong? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3358695/Suspected-Bitcoin-founder-paid-85m-worth-cybercurrency-buy-gold-software-told-good-insurance-funny-money.html
Crypto currencies call for open ledgers, and open minds... speaking of minds, there's a social media platform that's cropped up, one that encrypts - check out minds.com - and speak yours.
We'll leave you with this: http://www.thebitcoindoco.com/images/rusatoshi.gif
Warwick, Peter and our foreign correspondent Leo in Taiwan talk about why Paypal was banned in Taiwan and the media's spin on legality of Bitcoin there. Even though they don't sound so happy about Ebay and Paypal's patents for cryptocurrency, they're kind of happy to speak about reputation systems being created on blockchain technology. "Ebay could become completely irrelevant when OpenBazaar starts" bold claim from Leo.
In the second half Dale interviews Nicholas, TJ, Steve and ParthDave who just completed a semester at Melbourne's Bitcoin Technology Center. They were totally green when they started, had minimal knowledge of cryptocurrencies and learned a lot about privacy. Hear what they have to say about their experience.
Thanks to Figurehead for your music... find him on propellerheads/se
6:24 http://www.coindesk.com/ebay-files-for-two-cryptocurrency-patents/
14:10 http://cointelegraph.com/news/115538/bitcoin-banned-in-taiwan-after-billionaire-bitcoin-ransom-attempt
20:47 students interview
Dale and Peter cover the headlines - and come to the conclusion they don't know the major difference between Coinbase's new card and Coin Jar's old(er) card. IPFS comes into the conversation as well, Peter explains what it is and how it works, then they discuss their thoughts on a panel of Bitcoin royalty in Vegas. Is Szabo Satoshi, and what difference would it make if Satoshi 'came out?' A large chunk of this interview features Paul Ayling in Bali chatting to Gary Dykstra about Hubud and how to pronounce it on Bitcoin Island. Wait, no, Bali isn't Bitcoin Island, that's a project Gary's involved in on Bali. Listen in to make sense of it all.
2:16 Shiftcard https://www.shiftpayments.com/ https://blog.coinbase.com/2015/11/20/introducing-the-shift-card/ https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/coinbase-and-shift-payments-introduce-a-visa-branded-bitcoin-debit-card-that-works-everywhere-visa-is-accepted-1448392638
IPFS https://ipfs.io/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System
Safenetwork http://maidsafe.net/
16:38 @BitcoinBelle panel in LasVegas http://bit.ly/1TktK4g
34:26 Paul in Bali with GaryDykstra @ Hubud co-working space
39:26 Wired: Rise and Fall of Bitcoin http://bit.ly/1YHvyrR
42:34 Hubud, in Ubud :) http://www.hubud.org/
45:16 Castlemaine http://bit.ly/1IoK2J3
45:59 Bitislands http://bitislands.com/
1:02:00 http://thedisruptiveinfluence.com/
1:02:20 propellerheads.se/JimmyY
Community Announcement: No marriages were destroyed in the making of this recording.
This episode we talk with "The Lovely Corrine" a Sex Worker / Escort who uses and promotes bitcoin to her clients. Corrine takes us into her world and talks freely about a number of aspects of her industry, social, legal, and of course, commercial. We learn about how Corrine is educating her clients in the use of bitcoin to enable private, safe transactions. We also touch on the astounding case where the major credit card companies have withdrawn their merchant services from the classified advertising publication, BackPage, which is where many sex workers publicise their services. Thank you financial establishment, for creating yet another opportunity for crypto currencies!
Oh, and for all those wondering, yes, Corrine IS lovely and she’s also smart, tech-savvy, a strong advocate for privacy, and an all-round damn nice person.
CORRECTION: In this episode, we incorrectly report than the Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull purchased shares in BitcoinGroup at a public event. This is incorrect, Mr Turnbull demonstrated a mobile application for purchasing shares and used Bitcoin Group for demonstration purposes only.
Hosts: Dale Dickens, Peter Robertson, Warwick Greville
A big thanks to Leo Treasure for editing and adding the music for the show.
00:00 The recent headlines
3:03 We talk with thelovelcorrine.com The different services and rates Corrine provides 10:45 Are her colleagues in the biz using bitcoin? 11:35 her blog article about using Bitcoin for her clients https://aboutcorrine.wordpress.com/2015/09/09/bitcoin-for-clients/
12:03 All about advertising as an Escort and the weird legalities http://www.backpage.com http://www.cracker.com Tom Dart - anti-sex working sheriff who helped shut down the Visa MC support http://www.cookcountysheriff.com/sheriffs_bio/sheriff_bio.html
18:00 Vegas ? Mostly Illegal in the USA, and legal in all states in Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pahrump,_Nevada Getting around the laws and loopholes 20:30 paypal and sex workers don't get along 21:15 some bitcoin wallets blockchain.info and coincafe.com don't allow sex workers to use them.
22:18 new business name for private appointments and private money exchange for sex workers aprivatebit.com and or myprivatebits.com screening different by each sex worker and each country Corrine Twitter https://twitter.com/lovelycorrine getting paid - no merchant account high risk are 10% to 14% costs involved in taking money
29:50 privacy new meta data laws in Australia started OCT 1st 2015 31:36 Craig Thompson affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Services_Union_expenses_affair burner phones travelling overseas - information database - governments talk to one another
43:07 Ashley Madison - what could they have done to protect their clients? 47:02 Corrine and Decentralized services 48:25 Women vs. Girls
First up this episode, Leo Treasure our Taiwan Correspondent interviews Alex Liu from MaiCoin (pronounced the same as my coin), a premier digital currency exchange and investment platform in Greater China. https://www.maicoin.com/en/about We apologize for some audio drops during the guest interview spot, this was our first attempt at remote interviews using Google Hangouts and clearly needs some refinement. Our guests this week are Adam Poulton (Launceston, TAS) and Lucas Cullen (Brisbane, QLD), https://www.bitcoin.asn.au/ Your hosts are: Dale Dickins, Peter Robertson and Warwick Greville www.MelbourneForexGroup.com Credits for music Vasile Plesca Leo Treasure Dyfo Jeluky by sliipii, https://www.propellerheads.se/s/aX7HTCLh Jojysu by sliipii, https://www.propellerheads.se/s/rtC2ALC4 Rip squad by sliipii, https://www.propellerheads.se/s/FOhV5qaU Sadroid by sliipii, https://www.propellerheads.se/s/hwruhA4G Jyjegybo by sliipii, https://www.propellerheads.se/s/5jFu2C9O Jugu Pyta by sliipii, https://www.propellerheads.se/s/YKaMfr64 Miiyagii by sliipii, https://www.propellerheads.se/s/q6Y8y4fu Higuvupiju by sliipii, https://www.propellerheads.se/s/Pxhep0yb
0:00 Leo Treasure, interviews Alex Liu from www.Maicoin.com https://angel.co/maicoin 14:26 DALE intros the news topics for the show 17:23 Peter starts it off with Banks and Patents http://www.coindesk.com/bank-of-america-cryptocurrency-wire-transfer-patent/?utm_campaign=Third-Party%20Articles&utm_content=21297110&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter http://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-files-9-patents-for-bitcoin-products/ Tesla files a patent - #opensourcedly http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you BankOfAmerica filed a patent to wire transfers using cryptocurrency https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bank-of-america-wire-transfers-cryptocurrency/
22:25 Australia Banks clamping down on Bitcoin Companies http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-22/bitcoin-traders-claim-discrimination-by-australias-banks/6795782 Big Australian banks stun bitcoin companies by closing their accounts http://www.afr.com/technology/big-banks-cut-off-accounts-of-bitcoin-companies-in-battle-for-the-future-of-payments-20150921-gjr7hu 25:29 start our own bank ! maybe not.... talked about Launceston having a lot of bitcoin merchants 30:20 Master Chess Game - I think this is the link... https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1148538.320 34:06 beating the banks with info BANKs are creating their own Blockchain http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/72ffd222-66be-11e5-97d0-1456a776a4f5.html#axzz3neQlGUFX Banks can't trust other Banks. $1 billion for a real time solution for Banks. If Banks use bitcoin as the settlement medium, transaction costs will rise. 38:32 Try to explain to a 5 year old why we still need banks, that's not so easy. 41:52 A Litecoin guy made millions that Accountants and ATO just don't know how to deal with it. 46:47 New Silk Road Drama http://motherboard.vice.com/read/fbi-is-investigating-whether-a-crooked-agent-harassed-variety-jones Eileen Ormsby: https://twitter.com/eileenormsby 48:07 Australian Bitcoin Association Adam Poulton and Lucas Cullen on their involvement in the Bitcoin Community. Adam https://au.linkedin.com/in/gpibitcoin Lucas http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinBrisbane/members/45238142/ 54:55 Adam and Lucas also run.... http://www.getpaidinbitcoin.com.au 1:06:20 Lucas: paying bills with the Australian service https://www.livingroomofsatoshi.com/ 1:07:39 Launceston, Adam has signed up local businesses to accept bitcoin plus 2 ATM's. CBA have ALBERT: https://www.commbank.com.au/business/merchant-services/eftpos-options/in-store/albert.html 1:09:01 Sexpo Festival using bitcoin www.sexpo.com.au Tokens provide cashless ways to get paid. 1:11:43 Dopecoin Variety Jones - Lots of drama over http://www.xbt.money/dopecoin-launches-grow-network-pegging-crypto-to-cannabis/ 1:13:36 END
We go wide and deep this episode, with a strong focus on security and its lack in our world, we touch again on the blockchain scaleability issues, and we... well, of course we gossip! Come and join us!
0:00 intro once every 2 weeks for now 1:15 topics we will cover 2:30 bitpay wants a bitcoin association 8:27 why isn't there a bitcoin bank ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer 14:17 Scaling of the blockchain https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/epicenter-bitcoin-95-adam-back-why-bitcoin-needs-a-measured-approach-to-scaling 18:13 what if the banks start their own block chain? http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/07/citibank-is-working-on-its-own-digital-currency-citicoin/ http://cointelegraph.com/news/114717/citi-develops-3-blockchains-with-own-citicoin-token The security of the blockchain explained https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-finance/money-and-banking/bitcoin/v/bitcoin-security-of-transaction-block-chains 24:13 reddit fires CEO and now is back again with DATT http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/create-analysis-ninjas-data-driven-cultures/ 26:53 crypto voter http://cryptovoter.com/ https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/41063-decentralizing-development-through-coin-holder-consensus/ https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/41064-pre-ann-bitcoin-scrypt-is-1st-coin-to-be-on-cryptovoter/ 29:49 TOKENS: my shout cobber http://www.e-phrase.com.au/index.php/expression_detail/Shout_my_shout/ auger is a drill - NOT - it's AUGUR http://www.augur.net/ decentralized "prediction market" very cool stuff ! Spells of genesys http://www.spellsofgenesis.com/ Tokens - are used by APPLE PAYMENT for the payment system DALE will create an AUGUR prediction - Mr Robot - tv show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Robot_(TV_series) will MR robot mention bitcoin ? - she will create a market for that wager 34:50 OK COIN chinese exchange stops US citizens from transacting http://www.coindesk.com/okcoin-restricts-bitcoin-deposits-us-customers/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2015/08/12/yuan-and-you-how-chinas-devalued-currency-affects-us-consumers/31524925/ http://fortune.com/2015/08/11/why-china-devalued-yuan/ 37:21 GOSSIP protocol http://gavintech.blogspot.com.au/2015/09/how-efficient-is-bitcoins-gossip.html 40:42 Hacks of the week.........HIV clinic in London. Apple - 25,000 jailbroken phones hacked into. 42:30 wrapup and future stuff
Your hosts were Dale Dickins, Warwick Greville and Peter Robertson.
Music Credits Musical Credits: Pokémon by Yung Lean @averyernst032 https://www.propellerheads.se/s/Qxbjz77J Firilahu 1.081 by contracota108 https://www.propellerheads.se/s/UQhCc1Sh trapped at noon by contracota108 https://www.propellerheads.se/s/vhIIWazi Run to by contracota108 https://www.propellerheads.se/s/d0anAX6Q Four letters by mrfunk116 https://www.propellerheads.se/s/HUm0h2cz Celestial Drifter rmx by autoban https://www.propellerheads.se/s/7sMqfeET Bliss Junction rmx by autoban https://www.propellerheads.se/s/MoBnBdEV Numavu by autoban https://www.propellerheads.se/s/TlRudKYW Nofane by autoban https://www.propellerheads.se/s/YSKp3HJT 8 bit rain by vargrstorm https://www.propellerheads.se/s/H7tyl5sR fly by vargrstorm https://www.propellerheads.se/s/KOQI1Ff9 001 unrabel by twbeatz https://www.propellerheads.se/s/cXyw3Az1 In My Nike$ by averyernst032 https://www.propellerheads.se/s/X8pKffBq Experimental by jacobckessler https://www.propellerheads.se/s/4FD1mm45 Forever <3 #different rmxd by Djorkaeff https://www.propellerheads.se/s/2YLB2neB Hunger by Djorkaeff https://www.propellerheads.se/s/mslXhuq0 Over the river by Djorkaeff https://www.propellerheads.se/s/BoEtHROJ Brainwave by Djorkaeff https://www.propellerheads.se/s/E9voh2Bu
This week we cover the Bit Film crowd sourcing project that may may Max Keiser a star of the screen, we chill while we hear how cannabis startups need bitcoin (yes, you heard right, there are cannabis startups!), we take far too much pleasure from the Ashley Madison hacks, learn new and novel ways that decentralised networks can be used to underpin democracy and help people hook up, we DON'T interview Roger Ver, we report on our joint Safe Network and podcasting projects with RMIT and much other great stuff.
5:10 coursera courses + standford + princeton / brooke shields 5:47 BIT FILM PROJECT https://www.bitcoin.com/news/bitfilm-crowfund-feature-film-satoshis-last-will/ 9:58 Cannabis Startups Need Bitcoin https://www.bitcoin.com/news/cannabis-startups-need-bitcoin/ http://www.sbs.com.au/topics/marijuana-legalisation 16:14 Ashley Madison Hacks https://www.rt.com/news/312788-ashley-madison-affair-hack/ Thompson Holidays - http://www.databreaches.net/uk-data-breach-by-holiday-firm-thomson-exposes-hundreds-of-passengers/ nickelback - http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018791719 decentralized dating service lots of privacy issues spoken about 20:25 Maidsafe project at the MBTC https://forum.safenetwork.io/t/melbourne-crypto-community-to-host-project-for-rmit-university-post-grad-students/4460 24:51 roger Ver was supposed to talk to the MBTC, he's the bitcoin Jesus ! http://www.meetup.com/BitcoinMelbourne 27:11 Litecoin 29:20 RMIT students with podcasting 30:56 William Bullock talks about the MBTC and bitcoin in Melbourne 34:04 Bitcoin Node day http://www.bitcoinnodeday.org 38:53 Thanks to Leo in postproduction 39:15 end
Your hosts were Dale Dickins, Warwick Greville and Peter Robertson. This week's guests were William Bullock and Katherine Noall
Music Credits Boxing Bears Is My Business by brewmeisterbean https://www.propellerheads.se/s/YNgnTY0M The Pranqster by brewmeisterbean https://www.propellerheads.se/s/myho09BA Celestial Drifter by brewmeisterbean https://www.propellerheads.se/s/IBSYlx00 Under The Desert Moon by brewmeisterbean https://www.propellerheads.se/s/IkEXz6a1 There Will Always Be Hope (For Slim) by brewmeisterbean https://www.propellerheads.se/s/R33GNpmg The Godfather (part II) by brewmeisterbean https://www.propellerheads.se/s/KUgwFpH0 Expiditing The Inevitable by brewmeisterbean https://www.propellerheads.se/s/cl3qhKv4 The Pranqster by Brewmeisterbean (SeYSMIxed) https://www.propellerheads.se/s/lFxdvWT6 epic journey by leviathan42 https://www.propellerheads.se/s/95c3cCXe Clawtooth - 42rmx by leviathan42 https://www.propellerheads.se/s/TBRmlwBk Hypnoburp by leviathan42 https://www.propellerheads.se/s/v5lx9aRi
Our post production engineer was Leo Treasure ably assisted by Warwick Greville.
This week we look at how crypto currencies in Australia are faced with a very severe challenge in the face of our Taxation Office's interpretation of existing laws in issuing their advisory on how businesses and individuals should approach GST (the Goods and Services Tax). By declaring that crypto currencies are not actually currencies for taxation purposes, but rather members of the asset class, the opportunity for double GST to be paid was created. This even lead to significant business in Australia moving their headquarters off shore. Recently a senate committee came back with a list of recommendations that, if implemented, promise to fix this problem.
On the topic of rolling back democracy and the bad guys winning (again), we discuss recent additions to the Defence Trade Control Act and how our masters in Canberra have put yet another burden on the shoulders of education, business, entrepreneurship, and the economy in general by making our defence community the peak regulator of all technologies that, in the fevered imagination of some bureaucrat, could conceivably be used as a weapon by terrorists. I for one have dropped my shares in that rubber band factory quick smart.
Aside from that, we talk about Satoshi's hoard, Greece, Brave New Coin and finally we dabble ineptly in a bit of string theory.
Your hosts were Warwick Greville and Peter Robertson. This week's guests were Paul Ayling and Pantelis Roussakis
Our post production engineer was Leo Treasure ably assisted by Warwick Greville.
2:22 music 2:25 Australian Tax Changes http://www.coindesk.com/australian-senate-committee-seeks-to-overturn-bitcoin-tax-ruling/ http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Economics
Defence Trade Control Act Defense and Strategic http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r5407
9:31 Japanese Judge says bitcoin is not something that can be "owned" http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/06/japanese-court-bitcoin-ownership-ruling/
11:01 London George Galloway will be using blockchain for govt transparency https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/london-mayoral-candidate-george-galloway-calls-city-government-use-block-chain-public-accountability/ government accountability
14:43 TWEET - SATOSHI's COINS HAVE BEEN MOVED ? http://siliconangle.com/blog/2015/08/04/no-satoshi-did-not-move-any-bitcoins-today-blockchain-info-was-spoofed/ do we trust the blockchain.info? smartbit.com.au provides great access to blockchain info
20:30 Scientists in Greece create an evoting platform http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/07/29/scientists-in-greece-design-cryptographic-e-voting-platform/ Hacking votes
22:48 Brave New Coin with Pantelis http://bravenewcoin.com/ Lots of information on all the top crypto currencies. Great for crypto traders.
28:45 String Theory example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory
31:34 ending / close
31:54 END
An Aussie pub is raising money through a crowdfunding exercise to rebuild after a fire damaged the building and left the local population with nowhere to drink. It's great to see this new approach to fund raising is being put to socially important work at last.
A main theme this week which the discerning among you will have deduced from the title is safety and security.
We also talk about Mike watch-your-ears Tyson and his apparent funding of Bitcoin ATMs, the Ethereum launch, how to fix the world's broken voting systems, and lot's of other great topics, check the notes below.
Your hosts were Warwick Greville and Peter Robertson. This week's guests were Paul Ayling and Martin Davidson.
Our post production engineer was Leo Treasure ably assisted by Warwick Greville.
SHOW NOTES: 00:00 intro 00:27 Ripple https://forum.ripple.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=15550 6:00 Buchan Victoria - Pub - crowdfunding for a PUB http://www.smartcompany.com.au/growth/48025-buchan-awesome-record-crowdfunding-target-reached-to-rebuild-pub.html pozzible accepts BITCOIN 10:28 MIKE TYSON BOXER to help promote bitcoin ATM's in LAS VEGAS http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/27/mike-tyson-apparently-entering-the-bitcoin-market.html 12:52 ETHEREUM LAUNCH https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/07/30/ethereum-launches/ https://www.ethereum.org/ 20:50 Privacy and security for individuals ... 22:00 Voters in the USA (A lot of people in the USA do not vote. Turns out 40% do not vote.) the Bipartisan Research Center has stated that turnout for 2012 was 57.5 percent of the eligible voters http://phys.org/news/2011-11-voters-privacy-elections.html ... 22:30 Nothing to hide argument https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four ... 23:00 Identity Theft ... 24:00 Mass Survellaillance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance ... 26:47 McDonald's story Australian Privacy Law and Reform (The McDonald's story) http://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/privacy-act/privacy-law-reform ... 29:44 e-mail security zero knowledge encryption MEGA www.mega.co.nz Spider Oak backup https://spideroak.com/ Lavabit saga .. just go to http://lavabit.com/ and read about Nazi-like enforcers trying to get to personal data. "Lavamail" is now Lavaboom which replaced Lavabit https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/lavaboom-replaces-lavabit-offer-truly-secure-email/ Threema.com ... 32:44 A superhero can't do what he does in a surveilled world 35:25 tracking web pages Ghostery https://www.ghostery.com/en/ ... 37:08 Google tracks you now... Google Timing now http://www.cnet.com/au/how-to/stop-google-from-tracking-you-on-google-maps/ 38:27 Peter wraps up so far. Ethereum, Maidsafe, Crypto, Privacy, Security, etc.. what about MASS ADOPTION ? THREEMA.com in Germany Maidsafe http://maidsafe.net/ Yammer https://www.yammer.com/ Peerio https://peerio.com/ 49:45 How private is bitcoin ?
The past week saw a certain amount of navel-gazing from the bitcoin world with a survey of attitudes by finance professionals, the 'State of Bitcoin' report by CoinDesk, and yet another survey on our predictions for the price of bitcoin by the end of 2015, (you'd think we'd have learned something last year, but no, so have a go!). This and other good gossip on things crypto, including the excitement building around the imminent first release of Ethereum.
Your hosts were Warwick Greville and Peter Robertson. This week's guest was Pantelis Roussakis from Brave New Coin.
Our post production engineer was Leo Treasure.
In this episode we discuss the furore that has erupted around the proposal to increase the blockchain size from its current limit of 1MByte to 10 or 20 MBytes. We also talk about JoyStream, an exciting project combining peer to peer with Bitcoin (http://www.joystream.co/) and the rather ominous prospect for the systematic removal of pseudonymity from bitcoin transactions, courtesy of Elliptic's new service offering; www.elliptic.co.
Your hosts were Dale Dickens, Warwick Greville and Peter Robertson. This week's guest was Tom Kearney from Coinbase.
Our post production engineer was Leo Treasure.
This week's roundup includes news and views on major events in the crypto world, including major banks in Australia going into business with Ripple Labs, news of a new podcast covering Maidsafe, Kraken exchanges new 'Dark Pool' and a host of other topical subjects.
This episode featured Dale Dickens, Warwick Greville and Peter Robertson. Post production by Leo Treasure.
Dale Dickens and Peter Robertson chat with Katherine Noall about the impacts of crypto currencies and decentralisation in store for payment systems, government policy and our lives in general.