Advance Tech Podcast

This episode features John Carvalho, CEO of Synonym, a company using Bitcoin and new protocol, Slashtags, to reboot the web & economy. To view the show transcript, complete guest bios and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

This episode features Rick, Founder and President of CryptoCloaks, a company designing and manufacturing unique 3D Printed Bitcoin products. To view the show transcript, complete guest bios and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

This episode features Roman Martínez, co-founder and Community Leader at Bitcoin Beach. We discuss the founding of Bitcoin Beach, a sustainable Bitcoin Economic ecosystem on the coast of El Salvador. To view the show transcript, complete guest bios and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

This episode features Vijay Boyapati, Author of The Bullish Case for Bitcoin. To view the show transcript, complete guest bios and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

This episode features Jennifer Robertson, Sales and Marketing Lead and Co Founder of Qwasar Silicon Valley, a coding school with locations in Silicon Valley, Seattle and other satellite locations around the world. To view the show transcript, complete guest bios and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

This episode features Sodomák, Co Founder of Paralelni Polis and Josef, Manager of Bordel Hackerspace. To view the show transcript, complete guest bios and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

This episode features Chris Wood, COO at Pixelmatic, creators of Infinite Fleet their new MMO video game. To view the show transcript, complete guest bios and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

This episode features Stack and Ali, Bitcoiners and Cofounders of Upcarta. To view the show transcript, complete guest bios and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

This episode features Katie Ananina one of the Bitcoin Toxic Ladies, a competitive sailor, proponent of being a sovereign individual, flag theory, and opting out. To view the show transcript, complete guest bios and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

This episode features Yellow, Greg Zaj, and RD the Chief Meme Officers recently hired at Strike. To view the show transcript, complete guest bios and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

This episode features Max Sills IP Counsel at Square and General Manager of the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) and Jed Grant Cofounder and Advisory Board Member of the Open Crypto Alliance (OCA) and CEO of KYC3. To view the show transcript, complete guest bios and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

This episode features Cypherpunk Now, a Bitcoin Artist who transforms memes and milestones into limited edition visuals, collages, drawings and silk screen prints. To view the show transcript, complete guest bios and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

This episode features Chris Tramount, CEO of Scarce.City a Bitcoin based marketplace enabling Lightning Network auctions for Bitcoin artists. To view the show transcript, complete guest bios and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

This episode is part two with Smuggler and Frank Braun live from the 7th Annual Hackers Congress, Digital Totality, at Paralelni Polis in Prague, CZ. To view comprehensive show notes, complete guest bios and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

In this episode I spend time with Smuggler and Frank Braun live from the 7th Annual Hackers Congress, Digital Totality, at Paralelni Polis in Prague, CZ. To view comprehensive show notes, complete guest bios and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

In this episode I interview JW Weatherman, software security expert and startup founder, his son Will, and Robert Spigler, crypto anarchist, free and open source software and hardware enthusiast and early bitcoin maximalist. To view comprehensive show notes, complete guest bios and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

This episode is part two with Hodlonaut, Katia and Karo talking about bitcoin and Citadel 21. To view comprehensive show notes, complete guest bios and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

In this episode I spend time with Hodlonaut and Katia talking about Citadel 21, zine culture and maintaining an authentic voice. Karo Zagorus cohosts the discussion and announces his new show Bitcoin Rehab. To view comprehensive show notes, complete guest bios and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

In this episode I spend time with Peter McCormack, Founder and Host of the What Bitcoin Did podcast, Defiance podcast and Defiance TV. To view comprehensive show notes, complete guest bios and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

In this episode Mario Gibney from Blockstream and the Unhashed Podcast joins me to interview Bitcoiner Karo Zagorus. To view comprehensive show notes, complete guest bios and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

In this episode I spend time with Rodolfo, CEO of Coinkite who are makers of bitcoin hardware products including Coldcard and Opendime, enabling the ability to use bitcoin securely and privately. To view comprehensive show notes, complete guest bios and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

In this episode I spend time with Jonathan Leong CEO and CoFounder of BTSE a financial tech company that uses bitcoin and other blockchain technologies to build real world products. To view comprehensive show notes, complete guest bios and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click episode title.

In this episode I spend time Mir Liponi. Mir is CEO of Satoshi Design, a partner company of Bitcoin Valley, and a cypherpunk. Discovering bitcoin in 2012 Mir has contributed to many important bitcoin projects through BHB Network GmbH and Blockchain Labit and has given talks at many key bitcoin conferences around the world. To view comprehensive show notes, complete guest bios and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

In this episode I spend time with Daniel Krook, CTO for Call for Code and Code and Response at IBM. Right now and throughout 2020 participants will have the opportunity to rapidly identify and deploy solutions for the current COVID-19 pandemic and tackle climate change. Both programs help address the greatest challenges to the world with sustainable open source technology. To view comprehensive show notes, complete guest bios and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click episode title.

In this episode I visit SEBA Bank AG and speak with Phil Dettwiler, Head of Custody Storage and Transaction Banking. To access comprehensive show notes, complete guest bios and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

In this episode I spend some time with Ivan Beschastnikh, Associate Professor of Computer Science at UBC. Ivan is co Author of Erlay a proposed Bandwidth Efficient Transaction Relay for Bitcoin, and Biscotti a distributed machine learning system. To access comprehensive show notes, complete guest bios and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click episode title.

In this episode I spend some time with Dan Berlin and Charles R. Scott from Team See Possibilities in one of the most powerful episodes I have had the opportunity to record. To access comprehensive show notes, complete guest bios and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click episode title.

In this episode I spend some time with Adam Back Cypherpunk, Applied Cryptographer, Inventor of Hashcash, Cofounder and CEO of Blockstream. To access comprehensive show notes, a complete guest bio and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

In this episode I spend some time with Mari Galloway, CEO and WSC Founding Board Member. To access comprehensive show notes, a complete guest bio and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

In this episode I spend some time with Adron Hall, software architect, engineer, coder, distributed systems advocate and Developer Advocate at DataStax. To access comprehensive show notes, a complete guest bio and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

In this episode we spend some time with Dogu Taskiran, CEO of Stambol Studios, a Virtual and Augmented Reality studio specializing in hyper-realistic immersive experiences. To access comprehensive show notes, a complete guest bio and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

In this episode Alex interviews Samson Mow, CSO at Blockstream, CEO at Pixelmatic and 25 percent of Magical Crypto Friends. To access comprehensive show notes, a complete guest bio and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

Alessandro Castellani explains the Akira project which puts professional design tooling on the Linux desktop. We also discuss the new role Alessandro has with Mozilla as the Lead UX Architect for Thunderbird email project. To access comprehensive show notes, a complete guest bio and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

In this special edition memorial episode Adam interviews Pieter Hintjens. Pieter was a published author, an expert in distributed computing, a passionate supporter of free software and a very dear friend. To access comprehensive show notes, a complete guest bio and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

In this episode we spend some time with Giacomo Zucco, Director at BHB Network and CoFounder of TheB. To access comprehensive show notes, a complete guest bio and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or go to advancetechmedia.org and click the episode title.

In this episode we spend some time with Roman Snitko, CTO of HODL HODL and coorganizer of the Baltic Honeybadger conference held annually in Riga, Latvia. To access comprehensive shownotes, a complete guest bio and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or click the episode title.

In this episode we spend some time with Andreas M. Antonopoulos best selling author, speaker, educator, and one of the foremost bitcoin and open blockchain experts in the world. To access comprehensive shownotes, a complete guest bio and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or click the episode title.

In this episode I spend some time with Dr. Angel Diaz, Vice President of Developer Technology, Open Source and Advocacy at IBM, and Bryan Knouse and Nick Feuer from Project OWL the winning team of the Call for Code hackathon. For comprehensive shownotes, complete bios of our guests and links mentioned in the episode take a look below, click the episode title or go to advancetechmedia.org.

This week we interview Tone Vays. Tone is a Blockchain and Bitcoin Researcher and Consultant and a very experienced Traditional Derivatives Trader. We dive into his background in the traditional finance world and ask Tone about how he got into Bitcoin. We ask Tone a number of questions about the properties of Bitcoin, what makes sound money and what determines value. For comprehensive shownotes, complete bios of our guests and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or click the episode title.

This week we interview John Walicki and Animesh Singh from IBM and Trevor Riggen from the American Red Cross in part one of a three part series IBM Innovates. This episode was recorded live at the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit, August 28 to 31 in our hometown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. For comprehensive shownotes, complete bios of our guests and links mentioned in the episode take a look below or click the episode title.

Jameson Lopp is a Professional Cypherpunk, Infrastructure Engineer at Casa and Bitcoin Philosopher. Jameson enjoys building technology that empowers individuals and is interested in opportunities within the Bitcoin and crypto asset ecosystem. Graduating from the University of North Carolina with a degree in computer science, Jameson is passionate about sharing his expertise and technical knowledge of crypto assets, his philosophical approach to understanding the systems, and his opinion on the consensus of their participants. For comprehensive shownotes, a complete bio and links in the episode take a look below or click the episode title.

Dr. Richard Matthew Stallman is a software developer and software freedom activist. He worked at the Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT from 1971 to 1984, learning operating system development and wrote the first extensible Emacs text editor there in 1976. He also developed the AI technique of dependency-directed backtracking, known as truth maintenance. In 1983 Stallman announced the project to develop the GNU operating system, a Unix-like operating system meant to be entirely free software, and has been the leader of the project ever since. With that announcement he also launched the Free Software Movement. Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft, is the main author of the GNU General Public License and gives speeches frequently about free software and related topics. For comprehensive shownotes, a complete bio and links in the episode take a look below or click the episode title.

Yurii Rashkovskii is a Software Developer, Entrepreneur and Blockchain expert. Yurii is passionate about edge computing and creating free and open solutions that liberate us from vendor lock-ins. Yurii recently released SIT: Serverless Information Tracker and has been around Bitcoin and Blockchain since 2012. He previously co-founded two startups in the space, and is looking forward to participating in thoughtful initiatives and projects in the future. For comprehensive shownotes and links in the episode take a look below or click the episode title.

Cale Moodie is CEO and Director of Neptune DASH. Neptune DASH is the first public blockchain company that is entirely focused on the DASH eco-system and the first public company to exclusively own and operate masternode assets as a business. Fidelity investments is a major and supportive shareholder of Neptune DASH. For comprehensive shownotes and links in the episode take a look below or click the episode title.

Claire Gallant is a talented cryptoasset and blockchain technologies researcher, token designer and educator. She is a payment advisor for Payfirma, and a well-known community organizer and advocate for technology innovation as opportunities to establish new forms of value creation and social transformation. Claire is the Organizer of Women in Blockchain Vancouver, Organizer of the Gender Dynamics Speakers Series 2018 through Co[i]nfluence, and Organizer of the BC Blockchain Forum and the Spotlight on Women in Blockchain Roundtable. For comprehensive shownotes and links in the episode take a look below or click the episode title.

MaRi Eagar is a cryptoasset and blockchain consultant working in this industry since 2013. MaRi is a Chartered Accountant and Business Strategist with an international career at Deloitte, HSBC and Standard Bank. MaRi is Founder and Chair of DigitalFutures B.U.I.L.D. (Blockchain User-Centric Innovation and Leadership Development) and Founder of the BC Blockchain Forum. She is passionate about the cryptocurrency and blockchain space and is a leader and core contributor in many areas. For comprehensive shownotes and links in the episode take a look below or click the episode title.

Peter-Paul Van Hoeken is Founder and CEO of FrontFundr the leading online funding and investment platform in Canada with a proven track record of successfully completing the first equity crowdfunding transactions in Canada. FrontFundr advocates an open and transparent market in which companies and investors understand the risks and potential returns (or losses). FrontFundr has developed a secure proprietary technology platform and has strong relationships with all stakeholders including the provincial securities regulators in Canada, as a fully registered Exempt Market Dealer in eight provinces. For comprehensive shownotes and links in the episode take a look below or click the episode title.

Pavel Bains is the CEO of Bluzelle - a leading blockchain technology company based in Asia. Pavel is a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer. Pavel is an expert in digital media having worked with Disney, Microsoft, Warners Bros, DreamWorks. Pavel is also a frequent contributor to Forbes, Huffington Post and Fast Company, writing articles in the areas of finance and digital media. For comprehensive shownotes and links in the episode take a look below or click the episode title.

Matthew Unger is CEO and Founder of iComply Investor Services Inc. a regtech platform that automates compliance procedures for ICOs enabling them to be securely utilized as efficient financial instruments. iComply ICO streamlines legal, due diligence and accounting processes providing automated checks and balances and supports financial literacy, trust, democratization, decentralization and integrity. Find out more at iComplyICO.com. Matthew is passionate about unlocking the opportunities that new technology has to offer. For comprehensive shownotes and links in the episode take a look below or click the episode title.

This week I interview Mitchell Loureiro, Marketing Lead at SingularityNET, the decentralized marketplace for AI. By combining a protocol for inter-AI data and value transfer, SingularityNET makes a distributed AI economy possible. Backed by leading minds in AI like Dr. Ben Goertzel (creator of AGI) and the creators of Sophia the Robot, SingularityNET is here to lay the foundation of a decentralized machine to machine economy. You can learn more about the project at singularitynet.io. For comprehensive shownotes and links in the episode take a look below or click the episode title.

This week we interview James Nugent, a software developer from Bath, England. He currently works in engineering at Joyent, an open source public cloud company recently acquired by Samsung Electronics. Previously, James was a core contributor at HashiCorp building operations tooling, and Event Store LLP, which produces an open source stream database with a built in projections system. For a comprehensive breakdown of the episode and showlinks take a look at the shownotes below or by clicking the episode title.