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Welcome to the Gossip About Gossip Podcast! Join us to learn about the future of distributed ledger technology #DLT and how it will impact you or your industry. Paul Madsen and our rotating hosts will guide you through the business, technical and practical aspects of this exciting industry, sharing different perspectives and interviewing key leaders in the field. We'll focus on providing entrepreneurs, developers, crypto enthusiasts and those interested in learning more about the field with fresh news and ideas. We hope you'll love our episodes, subscribe now! Hedera is a public distributed ledger built on the hashgraph consensus algorithm. It allows anyone to develop enterprise-grade distributed applications on a scalable and stable platform. Hashgraph is based on a gossip protocol, in which the participants don’t just gossip about transactions. They gossip about gossip. Views expressed on this podcast do not necessarily reflect the official policy or view of Hedera Hashgraph, LLC, Swirlds Inc, or their affiliates. The content of this podcast is for information and entertainment purposes and is not intended to be, and should not be relied on for, legal, tax, accounting, investment or other professional advice.
When was the last time your bank offered to stake your assets or provide a loan backed by your crypto holdings? What if your bank could not only custody your crypto, but also let you stake assets for rewards and take out loans backed by your tokens?
The merging of traditional banking and digital assets opens up fascinating new possibilities.
But who is actually bridging these two worlds?
Welcome to the first episode of Season 5 of Gossip About Gossip, hosted by Zenobia Godschalk. Join us as we explore the merging of traditional banking and crypto with Aliya Das Gupta of Sygnum Bank, the world’s first regulated digital asset bank. This forward-thinking conversation provides insights into the new possibilities unfolding:
- How did Sygnum get its start and gain the vision to integrate crypto with regulated banking?
- What's driving global demand for Sygnum's unique crypto banking services?
- What does the future hold for decentralized identity and compliance?
- Insights into how Sygnum navigates the thrilling frontiers where banking collides with blockchain innovation.
By integrating crypto with trusted, regulated services, Sygnum points to a future where the best of both worlds can merge.
Explore the fascinating intersection of traditional banking and digital assets with Aliya Das Gupta of Sygnum Bank, as she illuminates the vision behind Sygnum's origin story to bridge these two worlds.
With this conversation, we learn the burgeoning global demand for their novel crypto banking services, from custody and staking to loans collateralized by tokens. Aliya gives us a glimpse into the future of decentralized identity and compliance to expand access to DeFi. This conversation provides insight into how Sygnum navigates the frontiers of finance by integrating crypto with trusted, regulated offerings.
The Gossip About Gossip podcast closes out its fourth season with an in-depth look back at the most exciting projects built on Hedera Hashgraph over the past year. Learn how developers and enterprises like Dovu, Quartr, and Unstoppable Domains are leveraging Hedera's speed, security, and low costs to create real-world utility and trust for decentralized applications. Hear directly from the teams pioneering carbon credit marketplaces, distributed mortgages, NFT gaming, travel booking engines, and more. Whether you're a developer looking to build on a high-performance DLT or an enterprise seeking business value, this finale provides unique insight into Hedera's thriving ecosystem. Discover how Hedera is bringing mainstream adoption to decentralized ledgers and get a sneak preview of Gossip About Gossip Season 5. Don't miss the exciting unveiling of new partnerships and platforms coming soon on Hedera Hashgraph.
Over 60 million people in the U.S. play fantasy sports—that’s one in almost five people. Game developers need to keep rolling out new and exciting opportunities to keep these gamers engaged.
How is one company, GameOn, leveraging Web 3.0 to do just that?
On today’s episode of Gossip About Gossip by Hedera, podcast Host and SVP of Communications at Swirlds Labs, Zenobia Godschalk, speaks with Matt Bailey, CEO of GameOn, about what GameOn is and how they are leveling up the sports and fantasy gaming experience on Web 3.0 through their Karateka launch.
Godschalk and Bailey also discuss…
The journey GameOn has taken to get to where they are now
How GameOn is leveraging blockchain technology for the fantasy sports industry
GameOn’s cross-chain compatibility and partnership with Hedera
Bailey covered the Web 3.0 benefits. “Let’s use the karate combat partnership that we have as an example… We’re going to be selling playable digital fighters. So, every fighter in the karate combat league, you’re going to be able to buy them. They’ll be limited at 200 per fighter but it will look and feel like the actual fighter that’s fighting in the live events. With that playable digital fighter, notice we’re not calling it an NFT. Of course, it is an NFT, but it’s a playable digital fighter. You can gear it up, so you can buy gear like weapons and shorts and other different items that can not only change the look of your playable digital fighter, but can also give it an advantage in games,” he stated.
Matt Bailey is CEO of GameOn and Founder & Board Director of Brooklyn Kings Rugby League. He is an entrepreneur breaking into the future of Web 3.0 games. He has served as an Adjunct Professor for Clark University, Senior Director, Brand Partnerships, for LiveStyle, Inc., and Director, Global Partnerships for Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment, amongst other roles. Bailey attended the University of Technology Sydney, where he earned a Bachelor of Management in Sport & Exercise.
With the rise of Web3 and AI technologies, the consumer market is being revolutionized in a profound way, opening up avenues for decentralized and personalized experiences. In the face of a world where audience reach for brands is widely distributed, Unthink.AI offers an innovative solution, creating a platform for anyone to establish a mini e-commerce store, ushering in a new era of decentralized marketplaces.
The core question is, how can today’s customers, consuming content across various platforms, be effectively reached by brands? Unthink.AI’s provides the solution with a decentralized platform.
In this episode of Gossip About Gossip powered by Hedera, hosted by Zenobia Godschalk, the guest is Tina Mani, the CEO and Founder of Unthink AI. The discussion provides an in-depth look into Unthink.AI’s revolutionary platform, enabling creators to generate mini e-commerce stores, establish their brand, and earn money.
Key Points of Conversation:
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Unthink.AI’s platform provides a solution for brands to reach distributed audiences effectively.
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The decentralized marketplace of Unthink.AI enables creators to design an e-commerce store within minutes.
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Unthink.AI leverages AI and Web3 technologies to create personalized experiences and fulfill customer needs.
Tina Mani is the CEO and Founder of Unthink AI, a revolutionary platform in the e-commerce landscape. With an impressive background in AI and distributed ledger technologies, she has spearheaded Unthink.AI to create decentralized marketplaces that redefine how brands engage with their audiences.
Hedera Co-founders, Dr. Leemon Baird, and Mance Harmon join SVP of Communications, Zenobia Godschalk, to answer questions directly from the community in our monthly Town Hall.
Zenobia Godschalk, SVP of Communications, and Christian Hasker, CMO, discuss Hedera's long-term vision to build a trusted, secure, and empowered digital future for all, a developer-oriented marketing strategy, and growth as the world’s most used public, decentralized network with over one billion transactions and counting.
Hedera Co-founders, Dr. Leemon Baird, and Mance Harmon join SVP of Communications, Zenobia Godschalk, and answer questions directly from the community in our monthly Town Hall.
Hedera Co-founders, Dr. Leemon Baird, and Mance Harmon join SVP of Communications, Zenobia Godschalk, and answer questions directly from the community in our monthly Town Hall.
Mance Harmon (Co-founder and CEO of Hedera Hashgraph) and David Post (Managing Director of Business Development and Strategy for Chainlink Labs) discuss Chainlink Labs joining the Hedera Governing Council. Chainlink, which serves as a secure blockchain middleware for powering a wide variety of enterprise users, will be the preferred oracle partner for the Hedera network and will collaborate to provide Chainlink integration with the Hedera Token Service (HTS). For more information, visit: https://hedera.com/blog/chainlink-labs-furthers-enterprise-focus-joins-hedera-governing-council
Hedera Co-founders, Dr. Leemon Baird, and Mance Harmon join SVP of Communications, Zenobia Godschalk, and answer questions directly from the community in our monthly Town Hall.
Hedera Co-founders, Dr. Leemon Baird, and Mance Harmon join SVP of Communications, Zenobia Godschalk, and answer questions directly from the community in our ninth Town Hall.
Blockchain and the decentralized web provide a new opportunity to course-correct how we interact online. To help guide the conversation and shape how businesses build applications, the World Economic Forum's Global Blockchain Council created the Presidio Principles, a set of foundational values for a decentralized future. In this episode, we chat with Sumedha Deshmukh, who leads Blockchain, Digital Assets, & Data Policy at the World Economic Forum.
WEF Presidio Principles: https://www.weforum.org/communities/presidio-principles
Hedera Co-founders, Dr. Leemon Baird, and Mance Harmon, join SVP of Communications, Zenobia Godschalk, and answer questions directly from the community in our ninth Town Hall. Leemon addresses transaction prices on the Hedera Hashgraph mainnet, we answer if Hedera Hashgraph a good fit for CBDC creation and much more!
Listen to the latest episode of Gossip about Gossip to learn more about one of the longest-standing teams building on Hedera, Ledgerama. Through their newest product, WallaWallet, they provide a flexible and secure option to store and transfer HBAR. You’ll also be able to gain some insight into what may be coming from their team in the future, and their experiences within our community.
Ledgerama: https://ledgerama.com/
WallaWallet: https://wallawallet.com/
Jesse’s Hedera Hashgraph Guide: https://hh.guide/
Learn about Wipro’s participation in the Hedera Governing Council. In this episode Varun Dube, Global Head of Blockchain Practice at Wipro, shares thoughts on becoming a Hedera Council member with Hedera Product Marketer Brady Gentile. Varun explains Wipro’s reasons for joining, committee participation, applications being built for Wipro and their customers, and his thoughts on the future of Hedera and distributed ledger technologies.
In this episode, Alex Taylor, Founder of KPAY, discusses his experience working in various enterprise IT roles and eventually stumbling upon Hedera Hashgraph. Throughout his participation in one of Hedera’s hackathons, Alex ended up building KPAY – one of the easiest to use micropayments tools available today. Simply sign up, add in a link, and start earning cryptocurrency (or fiat) without having to go through any burdensome onboarding processes.
Listen to this podcast to hear Alex’s journey within the Hedera Community and learn more about what he is building with KPAY.
Learn more here: https://kpay.live/
In this episode Jordan Fried, SVP Business Development, and Christian Hasker, CMO, reflect on the past three years of Hedera Hashgraph, and take a trip down memory lane. Jordan looks ahead to what’s next for him, as he starts a new chapter.
Listen to this podcast to hear Jordan's experience first learning of the hashgraph consensus algorithm and then joining the Hedera Team.
Hedera Co-founders, Dr. Leemon Baird, and Mance Harmon, join SVP of Communications, Zenobia Godschalk, and answer questions directly from the community in our eighth Town Hall. Topics ranged from the possibility of using a DLT to vote on the U.S. presidential election, the Hedera Token Service, their favorite horror movies, and much more!
Hedera Co-founders, Dr. Leemon Baird, and Mance Harmon, join SVP of Communications, Zenobia Godschalk, and answer questions directly from the community in our seventh Town Hall. Topics ranged from Leemon's thoughts on shared worlds in VR & AR, how appnets work, as well as what it means for Hedera to be regulatory compliant. (Recorded Oct 21, 2020)
In this episode of Gossip about Gossip, Hedera's Developer Evangelist Cooper Kunz is joined by Michael Lewellen, the CEO and Co-founder of Tarski Technologies. Michael has years of experience in the blockchain industry, from mining Bitcoin, to doing enterprise consulting with some of the largest companies in the world.
Tarski Technologies has expertise building blockchain and Hedera Hashgraph based solutions, exploring use cases, and even doing independent 3rd party security reviews and audits. Michael also serves on the newly established Texas Blockchain Council, helping instantiate a clear and friendly regulatory environment for blockchain companies in the State of Texas.
Give this podcast a listen to hear Michaels's experience coming to the Hedera community, participating in hackathons, and other work he’s doing in the industry.
In this episode of Gossip about Gossip, Hedera's Developer Evangelist Cooper Kunz is joined by Tim Berglund, the Sr. Director of Developer Advocacy at Confluent. Tim’s experience in the technology industry spans decades, from writing firmware to some of the early days at GitHub, currently leading outreach and training at the multibillion-dollar enterprise software company Confluent. At Confluent, they're building an ecosystem around the popular event streaming platform Apache Kafka, which powers everything from Fortnite to the "Big Banks'" backend microservices.
Listen to this podcast to hear Tim's thoughts on distributed ledgers, Bitcoin, event streaming architectures, and the Hedera Consensus Service's low trust logging. You can follow him on Twitter at @tberglund and learn more about Confluent at https://Confluent.io.
New technologies push a high school student to overcome imposter syndrome by programming and developing in the DLT crypto space. Advancements towards Web 3.0, like distributed ledger technology Hedera Hashgraph, have many experts looking at which DAPP will fully realize the resiliency of a decentralized network.
In this Gossip About Gossip podcast episode, Hedera’s Cooper Kunz is joined by Christian Holman, a self-taught developer high school student, and Ivy Wallet Creator. Christian drops insights on how to learn coding (for beginners) and shares how Ivy Wallet users will benefit from unique features no other wallet offers.
Listen to the podcast and learn what to focus on when building and developing on Hedera Hashgraph. This is just a taste of new technologies that will change the world.
You can learn more about Ivy Wallet at https://ivy.world/.
Hedera Co-founders, Dr. Leemon Baird and Mance Harmon, join SVP of Communications, Zenobia Godschalk, and answer questions directly from the community in our sixth Town Hall.
Topics ranged from how we got in contact with Deepak Chopra for the Never Alone initiative, did Hedera consider a non-profit business model, as well as Mance and Leemon's thoughts on the past year since Open Access.
Smart cities and IoT projects will be made possible with financial innovations achieved in the payments industry. Self-sovereign identity and digital identity verification are made possible with recent advancements in payment technology.
Launched in the 1980s, eftpos introduced a fast, simple, and secure payment system, which was rapidly embraced by both shoppers and merchants in Australia. eftpos revolutionized the way we pay for goods and services, and, as a result, changed the retail landscape forever.
In this Gossip About Gossip podcast episode, Hedera’s Christian Hasker and Cooper Kunz are joined by Rob Allen, Entrepreneur in Residence at eftpos Payments Australia. Rob shares how eftpos addresses the blockchain trilemma constraints and what will probably be Hedera’s first-ever stablecoin.
Listen to the podcast and learn how a micropayments infrastructure will change the way we interact with online businesses and disrupt the revenue model for online content creators.
You can learn more about eftpos at https://www.hedera.com/blog/eftpos-pioneers-new-ecommerce-micropayments-solution-using-hedera-hashgraph and https://www.eftposaustralia.com.au/.
Hedera Co-founders, Dr. Leemon Baird, and Mance Harmon, join SVP of Communications, Zenobia Godschalk, and answer questions directly from the community in our fifth Town Hall.
Topics ranged from Mance and Leemon's vision for the future, what the last thing the Governing Council voted on, how Hedera can be used for supply chain tracking, and more.
This month's fun questions also didn't disappoint. What's Leemon's favorite scuba diving destination? What music is Mance listening to? Does Leemon like cats or dogs? Listen to find out!
Farmers deal with various pests during growing seasons. Currently, there isn’t a public database for pest data to be uploaded and presented. The lack of available data makes it difficult for these growers to know what pests to expect and when they should start treatment. Treatment at the wrong time affects our food crops as well as the environment.
Public Pest Network is a public decentralized database where pest data can be published and then shared in a way that is easy to understand. In this Gossip About Gossip episode, Hedera’s Paul Madsen and Cooper Kunz are joined by Katie Grubb, an Entomologist at the University of Kentucky, and Bryan Racic, a Software Engineer.
The Public Pest Network’s user-friendly interface, heat map distribution of data, and pest prediction system, give entomologists and growers an easy way to communicate pest data to save crops and encourage minimal pesticide use.
Listen to the entire podcast and learn how data science, data aggregation, and a next-generation distributed ledger technology deal with pest control and protect our food supply.
You can learn more about Public Pest Network at https://hedera20-platform.bemyapp.com/#/projects/5ec9692d834fc0001b7d7be4.
Hedera Co-founders, Dr. Leemon Baird and Mance Harmon, join SVP of Corporate Communications, Zenobia Godschalk, and answer questions directly from the community in our fourth Community Town Hall.
Topics range from what is Hedera’s "why", the Hedera Wallet, why a Governing Council of 39 members, and more. The community continues to enjoy asking fun questions that we are excited to answer, including some fun ‘this or that’ questions that both Leemon and Mance gladly addressed. What does Leemon think of Elon Musk's Neuralink interface project?
Listen to find out!
Acts of kindness and charitable donations receive a massive boost as distributed ledger technology offers transparency, micropayments, and a decentralized internet.
New blockchain applications are being created continually and here we present a socially responsible business in this Gossip About Gossip episode. Hedera’s Paul Madsen and Cooper Kunz are joined by Jeff MacFarland and Jacob Shepherd from the Humankind team.
It pays to do good things. HumanKind is a marketplace that sponsors and rewards good behavior and random acts of kindness, giving back to the communities, businesses, and charities you care about. Essentially, the kinder you are, the more you—and the community you are a part of—get back.
Listen to the entire podcast and learn how being on the HumanKind platform is a win-win.
You can find Humankind at https://humankind.ly/ and https://hedera20-platform.bemyapp.com/#/projects/5edf92720d38ff001b6b06f6.
Blockchain technology won’t replace the need for databases; however, it will strengthen cybersecurity by introducing a layer of trust that mitigates internal threats, malware, and other concerns.
In this Gossip About Gossip episode, Hedera’s Paul Madsen and Cooper Kunz are joined by Guy Harrison. Guy is CTO of ProvenDB, a database professional, and author.
Here are some blockchain applications and use cases that ProvenDB make possible:
- Prove ownership of intellectual property
- Prove timestamps for legal instruments
- Prove that records have not been falsified or tampered with
- Create a log of all document changes
There is no doubt that the proof of work algorithm was a breakthrough technology. We are now witnessing the limits of this distributed ledger technology as it cannot realistically scale without harmful effects.
Listen to the entire podcast and learn why anchoring digital proofs in databases are the new fingerprint.
You can find ProvenDB at https://www.provendb.com/.
When will data breaches be a thing of the past? How do we protect our personally identifiable information? How will CCPA, GDPR, and future regulations reinforce data protection and data privacy?
These questions and more are addressed by Hedera’s Paul Madsen in this Gossip About Gossip episode with Manetu’s Product Strategist Terry Keene and Strategic Advisor Nathaniel Rand.
It has long been thought that blockchain and distributed ledger technology will positively impact privacy management. In response to data breaches, regulators expect enterprises to adhere to CCPA compliance, GDPR compliance, and future data privacy regulations.
Nate and Terry walk us through CCPA vs GDPR and how Hedera’s Consensus Service (HCS) will help Manetu allow consumers to manage their own private data, with Terry claiming that “Hedera will be our badge of honor.”
Listen to the entire podcast and learn why privacy compliance demands not only doing the right thing, but being able to prove it.
You can find Manetu at https://www.manetu.com/.
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What is MVD and how can you manage decentralization without going too far?
Join Hedera’s Cooper Kunz in this Gossip About Gossip episode with Amazon’s Alexa Software Developer Summer Intern, Tune.fm’s Hashgraph Implementation Consultant and Lead Developer, and Bluesky’s volunteer researcher, Rahul Kothari.
From the Software Developer perspective, Rahul shares the concerns enterprises have with blockchain technology and why he turned his attention away from Ethereum. Blockchain forking represents a very real risk to enterprise adoption. “Hedera is the most enterprise-facing DLT out there in the market, out of all them that I’ve seen.”
The Minimum Viable Decentralization means the minimum decentralization you need to achieve distributed trust that blockchain provides without going overboard. Enterprises will face only minimal changes to their codebase. Rahul points out that not many people address the negative aspects of decentralization, such as catching bad actors. Bad actors can cause massive havoc, which is why the final goal should be a high degree of anonymity without allowing bad actors to escape responsibility. This is what Hedera Consensus Service achieves.
Rahul is supporting Jack Dorsey’s project, Bluesky. Jack Dorsey, and others, have identified that data can be a liability, which is why Bluesky is attempting to decentralize a social media protocol that can still be easily accessed by everyone.
Listen to the entire interview and learn how a healthy balance of decentralization will address privacy and fake news issues without relying on a centralized database.
You can find Rahul at rahul-kothari.github.io.
Hedera Co-founders, Dr. Leemon Baird and Mance Harmon, join SVP of Communications, Zenobia Godschalk, and answer questions directly from the community in our third Town Hall.
Topics range from the Zain Group and future Council recruitment, addressing rumored Hedera layoffs, plans for future events and more. This month's fun questions also didn't disappoint. What science topics does Leemon think are important? Is Leemon scared of AI and Skynet taking over? What show has Mance most recently watched? Listen to find out!
Get ready to turn your calculator sideways.
Join Hedera’s Paul Madsen and Cooper Kunz in this Gossip About Gossip episode with Jay Johnson, CTO of The Coupon Bureau.
Jay shines a light on the overwhelming fraud surrounding the transparency, and accountability when using 350 billion coupons per year. The Coupon Bureau is addressing how coupons are settled, reconciled, and validated without the use of a centralized database.
Coupons enhance loyalty programs and retailers are incentivized to provide higher valued coupons as fraud is reduced. Future coupon campaigns will leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to capture additional use cases for consumers.
With The Coupon Bureau revolutionizing the industry, coupons are live within 5 minutes, rather than 10-15 days, and quick campaign results are produced; compressing 6 weeks down to a single day. Jay points out that the coupon industry could possibly be the world’s most unregulated legal tender.
You can find The Coupon Bureau at https://www.thecouponbureau.org/.
Hedera Co-founders, Dr. Leemon Baird and Mance Harmon, answer questions directly from the community in our second Town Hall. Topics range from the governing council, proof of stake, Sybil attacks, HBAR, proxy staking, Hedera Consensus Service (HCS), Hyperledger, AdsDax, public vs private vs intergalactic networks, virtual voting, and open source software. We also include some fun questions. Where did the name ‘Hedera’ come from? What does Leemon say are the top three scientific achievements or discoveries of all time? What does Mance describe as “palate shocking”? How would Leemon colonize Mars? Listen to find out!
Hedera co-founders, Mance Harmon and Dr. Leemon Baird answer questions directly from the community in our first Community Town Hall. Topics range from the current COVID-19 climate, Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC), Testnet communications, future network usage, comparing Stardate as Star Trek's measure of time and corporate goals but also include some fun personal questions. What video games are Leemon playing? What is Mance's favorite hobby? Listen to find out!
The Chinese government has made blockchain a key focus of their 5 year plan, quickly moving the industry beyond the “trough of disillusionment” and into real-world use cases.
Join Hedera’s Cooper Kunz in this Gossip About Gossip episode with Matthew Graham, CEO of Sino Global Capital, and Managing Partner of Liquid Value. As an investor living in mainland China and focused on the blockchain industry, Matthew provides insight into why their blockchain market “couldn’t be hotter”. They also discuss a recently leaked demo application, which showcases progress on their digital currency / electronic payment (DCEP) project, with large enterprises like Alibaba and Tencent helping bring the technology to a country with over 1.3B people. You can find Matthew on Twitter at @mattysino and learn about Sino Global Capital at SinoGlobalCapital.com.
As the world adjusts to new social norms and communications evolve within the current business climate, we welcome new and more efficient ways to share valuable content.
Hedera Hashgraph’s CMO Christian Hasker and Sr. Manager of Events & Community Lina Tran, join us on this podcast for a special announcement for our developer community.
Lina describes Hedera’s community development approach and the lessons learned. We touch on community management tools such as Zoom and YouTube Live. Virtual meetings are becoming more and more common and the accessibility to online meeting software will only continue to grow. These virtual events will allow us to more effectively distribute important information to our developer community.
Content is king and Hedera is committed to providing the very best content over future virtual meetups. In addition to meetups, developers are true fans of hackathon competitions. Hedera is excited to share with our developer community there will be an online hackathon for six weeks, May 1st to June 12th. Sign up starting April 1st.
Want to learn more about the Hedera Heroes program mentioned in this episode? Click here: https://www.hedera.com/blog/hedera-heroes-tutorials-holidays
We discuss the ever changing blockchain-powered audit and accounting landscape with Armanino‘s Director, Noah Buxton. Armanino is building trust for the decentralized internet. “Putting the trust back in trustless.”
Learn how this disruptive technology impacts data provenance, chain of custody, IT assurance, risk assurance, cryptocurrency, auditing, reconciliation accounting, substantive procedures, and decentralized finance (DeFi).
Check out Armanino's TrustExplorer, a real-time assurance dashboard here: https://real-time-attest.trustexplorer.io/ This marks the first time a full auditor’s opinion has been issued in real-time.
TrustExplorer enables the issuance of audits on-demand. This reduces the issuance of audit reports from 30 days to 30 seconds. By utilizing technology, auditors can now provide more relevant and timely data to the public. We have a revolutionary new source of trust and transparency. “It’s a decentralized future, but there still are centralized players.”
Armanino believes this is only the beginning for accounting industry breakthroughs due to the advent of cryptocurrency and blockchains. Learn more here: https://www.armaninollp.com/
Listen to CEO Jim Nasr of Acoer, a software development firm, explain the innovation in healthcare technology that provides near real-time results. The coronavirus emergency has caused much confusion and many question the accuracy of the reported data. Public health and large data depend heavily on trusted data sources. DLT and Blockchain in healthcare can improve the information flow in supply chain management. We are only scratching the surface of the many healthcare use cases that will benefit from this innovation. Visit https://www.acoer.com/ for more information on the project and see the daily tracking and visualizations of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
The boom in monetized data has some claiming that private data is the new oil. The use cases are varied from banking and credit management to name a couple. Join Vishal Dharmawat and Sharat Chandra from EarthID as we discuss an enhanced user experience in the Identity space. Decentralized Identity promises to give users greater control and privacy over their identity – as regulations like GDPR are more and more mandating for enterprises. This episode explores that value proposition, how it differs from other identity models, and how EarthID is building a decentralized identity platform on Hedera.
Download the EarthID app and learn more at https://www.myearth.id/.
This episode discusses key corporate governance, compliance, and social responsibility initiatives that distributed ledger technology makes possible.
Despite the controversy surrounding blockchain, today distributed ledger technology is used to track food, address land grabs, protect refugee identity rights, combat bribery and corruption, eliminate voter fraud, and facilitate financial transactions for those without access to banks.
Prof. Marcia Narine Weldon, Rachel Epstein and Paul Madsen share the potential to transform the way companies look at governance and enterprise risk management, and to assist governments and businesses in mitigating human rights impacts.
Download Prof Marcia Narine Weldon’s paper, Beyond Bitcoin: Leveraging Blockchain to Benefit Business and Society
This episode was recorded January 3rd, 2020
Liam Julien Lin, CEO of Nickel, joins the podcast to discuss his Fintech dapp being built on Hedera. Learn more about how Nickel is building Asia's first FX exchange for institutions. For more information on Nickel visit Nickel.to
This is a special edition episode featuring Dr. Leemon Baird's guest lecture at Oxford University November 2019. Dr. Baird delivered a lecture on distributed ledger technology, hashgraph, blockchain, gossip and voting protocols, cryptocurrency, mathematical proofs, and answered Oxford University students’ thoughtful questions along the way. You can also view a version with some associated slides via YouTube here: https://youtu.be/yYNv6YadS64
Learn how Otrafy uses distributed ledger to optimize the supply chain management to help farmers and producers become more efficient and reduce waste.
This episode is an audio version of a livestream recording found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlYuAzqn0-E
Visit Otrafy.com for more on the company and solution.
Helping developers go from idea to adoption is a key objective of Hashing Systems. In this episode, Pablo Peillard, Founder of Hashing Systems discusses key tools that enable success on Hedera Hashgraph. For more on HIP described by Pablo, visit github.com/hashgraph/hedera-improvement-proposal Visit https://medium.com/hashingsystems for the latest info on Hashing Systems.
Quantum supremacy has made breaking news, but what is it and how could this impact DLT cryptography? Learn from Atul Luykx, our Head of Cryptography in this fascinating discussion. For more on Hedera's post-quantum resistance visit this FAQ: https://help.hedera.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000764318-Is-Hedera-post-quantum-resistant-
Sam Ulrich, CTO of Lonestar Data shares insights on developing cybersecurity solutions and why they decided to build on the Hedera network for mission-critical systems. For more on Lonestar Data visit Lonestardata.io
AdsDax is a rich media advertising platform that aims to leverage blockchain technology to reinvent the advertising industry. AdsDax is an early user of the Hedera network, accounting for a good portion of the network transactions.
Find out more about the opportunity that Hedera brings to this app and the capacity that the Hedera network has to bring on more transactions, helping AdsDax with their business vision of fighting ad fraud.
For more information, visit https://adsdax.com/ and check out the performance metrics on the Hedera.com home page.
Join Ken Anderson and Paul Madsen in a technical round-up. This episode, recorded 2 weeks after Hedera's Open Access, reviews the state of the developer ecosystem, network performance, fees, and wallets. Network metrics can be found on the home page of Hedera.com. More information on the Hedera fee model for transactions and queries can be found in this blog post by Paul Madsen https://www.hedera.com/blog/hedera-fee-model-for-transactions-queries
In episode 37 of Gossip About Gossip, Frederic Rough, CEO of Coinsquad shares their company's approach to managed cryptocurrency services and why they have built on Hedera Hashgraph to integrate Coinsquad's secure desktop/mobile device technical support software into a comprehensive decentralized solution for provisioning remote management for distributed ledger technology. For more information on Coinsquad visit https://coin-squad.com/.
Find out more about identity management in the distributed ledger space in this tech chat with Hedera's Ken Anderson and Paul Madsen. Visit Hedera.com to learn more about Hedera Hashgraph.
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According to Michael Beitler, Co-founder and CEO of Virtual Power Plant LLC, the future of energy is moving off the grid and into the distributed ledger space. Learn more about Michael and the virtual power plant concept in this episode. For more information visit https://myvpp.io/
Roland Ringgenberg is an Independent Digital Architect shaping our digital world with a current focus on Eclesia, a dapp for increasing trust in a decentralized collector's marketplace. In this episode you'll learn more about creating tomorrow's radical markets of the Web 3.0 based on Hedera. Here is a link to the book by Glen Weyl & Eric Posner that Roland mentioned on Radical Markets, where you can also find a PDF version of chapter 1: https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11222.html You can find the blog post on Deep Fakes mentioned by Paul Madsen here: https://www.hedera.com/blog/using-distributed-ledgers-to-combat-deepfakes
Get an inside view of Hedera's Governing Council in this episode of Gossip About Gossip with Brett McDowell, Executive Director of the council. For more information visit the Hedera Council web page https://www.hedera.com/council. You can also find the LLC agreement for the council https://www.hedera.com/hedera-llc-agreement.pdf and council meeting minutes https://www.hedera.com/council-meeting-2019-02-19.pdf.
Find out how Armada Chain is buidling a supply chain on-ramp to DLT. Our guest Kent Makishima, Founder of Armada Chain joins the Gossip About Gossip podcast to share how his company is building a collaboration hub that authenticates transactions, streamlines communication, and connects companies. More on Armada here: http://www.armadachain.io/
In this episode, Ali Pasha Foroughi, Independent Developer, Architect & Tech Lead, discusses immutable code, forking, smart contracts and more with host Paul Madsen.
According to Andrew Antar of Hearo.fm, an artist may crack $20 for a million music streams today and receive the payment in as long as a year or two. That's not a sustainable model. Hearo.fm is reinventing the business model allowing artists to maintain control of their work, set their price and retain earned payments. Learn how the hearo.fm platform helps artists earn a living wage while providing a new experience for listeners and fans.
Visit hearo.fm to experience the platform.
You can hear more from Andrew Antar and brother Brian Antar in this Hedera Dapp Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYKZCSByHAU
What is the Hedera Consensus Service and what are the ideal use cases for this service? Join hosts Paul Madsen and Ken Anderson to learn why this service could be a game-changer for developers. Here is a link to the video mentioned by Ken that discusses the power of the memo field: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTiedLINZwc Watch this webinar for more from Dr Leemon Baird about the service: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84bmHRO5OqE Here is a link to the Hedera Consensus whitepaper mentioned in the show: https://www.hedera.com/hh-consensus-service-whitepaper.pdf
80% of smart contracts need external data, but without an oracle, the data is stuck in silos. Johann Eid from Chainlink shares more about the future of smart contracts as the primary method for establishing digital agreements and explains why Chainlink is integrating with technology like Hedera Hashgraph. In May 2019 Hedera and Chainlink announced they will integrate Chainlink’s decentralized oracle network with Hedera’s enterprise-grade distributed public ledger. Read more here: https://www.hedera.com/blog/hedera-hashgraph-and-chainlink-collaborate-to-provide-a-decentralized-oracle-network-for-hederas-enterprise-grade-distributed-public-ledger
How do future innovators learn about new DLT technologies? How can you learn more? Elizabeth Strickler, Director, Media Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Creative Media Industries Institute at Georgia State University gives us some insight into the ways that people are getting educated on DLT, and using this knowledge to collaboratively innovate solutions. Elizabeth is also a Hedera "Ambassador" and helps coordinate Meetups for networking and knowledge sharing. For more about the program at Georgia State University visit https://cmii.gsu.edu/.
More on the Hedera Ambassador program is here: https://hashgraph.org/discussion/113/interested-in-participating-in-the-hedera-hashgraph-ambassador-program-get-more-information-here
It's not every day that a major tech company validates a unique business and governance model that you've been promoting for years. Hedera CEO Mance Harmon joins hosts Zenobia Godschalk and Ken Anderson to share how Facebook libra has validated Hedera's model and the important differences between Facebook Libra and Hedera Hashgraph, including ABFT. Mance Harmon's related blog post is here: https://www.hedera.com/blog/our-contrarian-approach-validated. Hedera's governance model can be found here: https://www.hedera.com/council#model.
Hedera's Cooper Kunz joins the Gossip About Gossip podcast to share ideas on helping developers explore and optimize DLT solutions for end users. Check out Hedera Hashgraph on GitHub https://github.com/hashgraph/ or join the Discord channel for more information from the community.
Ed Nwokedi from RedSwan.io discusses the tokenization of commercial real estate assets with the liquidity and security of public markets. Find out more about Red Swan and why it was built on the Hedera Hashgraph consensus algorithm. For more information on Red Swan check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhOJIhpS41c or visit Redswan.io
Recorded June 14 2019
Ken Anderson and Paul Madsen discuss the concept of rent in the DLT context. If you want to have a platform that has some type of shared storage or shared compute, long term you will need someone to pay for that, and that has to be a scalable, sustainable model. Learn how how rent is distinct from buying a permanent space in a block and how the Hedera platform strategically approaches rent. For more information on Hedera, visit https://www.hedera.com/ You can also find content from some of our top podcasts in our YouTube playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcaTa5RR9SuChJCAxj96nNFCoX_sWeHze
According to Jiro Olcott from Guard Global, electricity is controlled by very large power organizations on old traditional architectures, costing the consumer a huge amount of money. With microgrid technology we can leapfrog hurdles and make electricity more available, at the right price for everyone. Guard Global develops software principally on the Hedera Hashgraph platform to support microgrids and tokenization of energy. In this Gossip About Gossip podcast episode, find out why Jiro Olcott believes Hedera is positioned to be "the packhorse of the microgrid industry".
Check out this inspiring video on managing renewable energy microgrids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBpX15oOqfA and visit http://www.guardglobal.org/ for more information on Guard Global.
Learn about testing security, scalability and performance as Donald Thibeau and Brady Gentile of Hedera discuss the Hedera Hashgraph community testing program. Find out how to gain early access to the mainnet to potentially earn hbars. Visit portal.hedera.com to find out more or get started.
With over 1 trillion photos projected to be taken in 2019, 85% of them with a smartphone, the risk of deepfakes is a serious concern. In episode 20 of the Gossip About Gossip podcast we speak with Attestiv CEO Nicos Vekiarides and COO Mark Morley who share their vision to leverage Hedera DLT to help businesses put provable authenticity into media files. For more information visit https://attestiv.com/
Learn about the Hedera enterprise-grade public network for decentralized applications with Hedera Hashgraph Co-Founders Dr. Leemon Baird and Mance Harmon. Topics include: DAGs, security, running nodes, proxy staking, governance, problems with forks, software upgrades, proof of stake, dapps and more!
For more on the subject, visit Hedera.com or listen to this recorded webinar from Dr. Leemon Baird on The Path to Decentralization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTNNYeSks-s
Find out how Intiva Health uses distributed ledger technology to automate the tasks of credentialing, continuing education, and communication for health care professionals in this podcast featuring John Hartigan, CEO of Intiva Health. Check out this blog post mentioned in the podcast to learn more about the challenges in credentialing: https://intivahealth.com/blog/what-is-provider-credentialing-for-facilities/.
For more information on Intiva Health visit https://intivahealth.com/
In discovery workshops the team plots use cases on the Y axis and superpowers on the X axis driving a discussion on the value of Hedera for feasible and viable solutions. Join co-hosts Ken Anderson and Paul Madsen to learn more about Hedera Hashgraph "Superpowers" and how these powers can be valuable for your business.
In the episode Ken Anderson refers to the Council members running the nodes. Hedera will migrate over time from a permissioned model where only the Council members run nodes to eventually a fully permissionless model where anyone can
For more information on Hedera visit https://www.hedera.com/ for more information.
Check out this YouTube video for more on how hashgraph works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgwYU1Zr9Tg
Who is Swisscom Blockchain and why have they joined the Hedera Governing Council? Kamal Youssefi, Industry Lead of Enterprise Blockchain at Swisscom Blockchain AG https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamal-youssefi-20180077/ joins the Gossip About Gossip podcast to share perspectives including DLT integrations and enterprise implementations. Visit Swisscom Blockchain's website here: https://blockchain.swisscom.com/ and learn more about the Hedera Governing Council in this overview video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfYLsHFXyGQ
Adam Lindemann, Partner and CEO of Mind Fund Group joins Hedera's APAC lead Edgar Seah and host Paul Madsen to discuss progress of the Hong Kong based Helix Accelerator.
Read more about Helix here https://www.helixaccelerator.com/ and the Helix global startup participants in the Medium blog post here: http://hhg.io/PADa30orpzf
Helix Accelerator is hosting its 1st Cohort Demo Day April 17 2019. Check out the event's YouTube livestream link: https://youtu.be/295yhUcBMFg.
Ari Paul, CIO and Co-founder of BlockTower Capital https://www.blocktower.com/ joins hosts Paul Madsen and Jordan Fried on the Gossip About Gossip podcast to share insights on trends and opportunities for leveraging distributed ledger technologies DLT.
New Business Director Simon Olson from Brazilian retailer Magazine Luiza (https://www.magazineluiza.com.br/) joins the podcast to share insights on the retail business and DLT attributes of security, fairness, throughput, energy use and governance.
We've turned the tables and interviewed Gossip Guy, a community member well known for gossiping about the world powered by hashgraph and the Hedera ecosystem. For about the last year, Gossip Guy has provided videos and livestreams with updates, interviews and insights. Find out what drives Gossip Guy, and become of one of the more than 1000 people who have subscribed to his Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaAz9GU7TlvG5kDdGbxANlQ
In this episode we talk with Dan Rice, Co-Founder and CTO at Sagewise https://www.sagewise.io/meet-the-team-co-founder-and-cto-dan-rice/.
Dan discusses contract issues, dispute resolution, arbitration and some of the challenges of building and coding safe, smart contracts.
For more information, read the Hedera Technical Insight: Code is law, but what if the law needs to change? https://medium.com/hashgraph/code-is-law-but-what-if-the-law-needs-to-change-87846b209e1
If enterprise DLT / blockchain is an area that is difficult to link to what you do day-to-day, meet Helen Disney - a thought leader who helps provide a bridge. Recorded on International Women's Day 2019, this interview provides insight into how foundational technology can help solve some of the bigger issues in the private and public sector. Learn more about Helen Disney's role as CEO of Unblocked here: https://unblockedevents.com/speaker/helen-disney/
Learn more about identity, confirmation mechanisms and more in this discussion with Hedera's Paul Madsen and Ken Anderson.
Learn more about governance and the Hedera Council. In this episode Scott Thiel from DLA Piper shares thoughts on becoming a Hedera Council member with Hedera Communications VP Zenobia Godschalk. Scott discusses legal uncertainty, regulatory frameworks, banned cryptocurrencies and 13 clients building dapps on Hedera. Watch this video for more information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0ZfhgJqNHE
Simon Ostergaard, Futurist from the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies https://cifs.dk/ joins the Gossip About Gossip podcast to talk about the Future of Trust.
What does it mean to reach consensus on blockchain versus hashgraph? What powers do council members have? Do I have to pay to check my balance? In this episode hosts Ken Anderson and Paul Madsen answer tough questions on the challenges of understanding how blockchain and hashgraph reach consensus, council powers and paying for transactions. Join the Hedera discord channel for further discussions on hashgraph technology and development.
Is the definition of micropayments that which cash or digital fiat currency can't currently do? Fiat currency is leaving business on the table and Consultant Jon West who previously led blockchain for Thomson Reuters joins us for this spotlight on micropayment opportunities. More information on the IMF "Winds of Change: The Case for New Digital Currency" article mentioned in the podcast can be found here: https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2018/11/13/sp111418-winds-of-change-the-case-for-new-digital-currency.
Learn more about the impact micropayments will have on industries in this webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJHkM5M9ZVw
You asked, We Answered! Ken Anderson and Paul Madsen challenge each other to answer the most challenging development questions to date on Hedera hashgraph. Have they solved your questions? Check out the Hedera hashgraph Discord channel for more questions and answers. https://discord.gg/JwX4Nc
Listen to Jim Nasr, VP of Synchrogenix, a Certara company, talk about Open Pharma, technology, micropayments and the future of healthcare. Visit OpenPharma.IO for more information on the project and watch Jim's presentation at the 2018 developer event Hedera18: https://youtu.be/1uS2706lO3A
Are our purchase decisions the biggest weapons of mass destruction? Olly Bolton, CEO of Almond shares ideas on a sustainable, transparent economic framework to help responsible brands build their sales. For more information visit http://almond.io/.
Gaming theory with Dr. Leemon Baird! Does the value that DLT brings to the world also apply in a simulated world of gaming? Dr. Leemon Baird, inventor of hashgraph joins our hosts to discuss ways that DLT can fit in the gaming stack. This podcast provides a fascinating perspective on the future of gaming, protecting the value of game assets, grinding tactics, ownership and trust. Watch more from Dr. Leemon Baird in this Hedera hashgraph masterclass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzWiiOLv96I.
The blog post Dr. Baird mentioned in the podcast "Hedera Technical Insights: A hybrid DLT architecture for gaming" by Paul Madsen can be found here: https://medium.com/hashgraph/hedera-technical-insights-a-hybrid-dlt-architecture-for-gaming-e77d27b11901