Crypto Watch

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler chats to Dr. Navjit Dhaliwal, the CEO of Iagon, which is a proposal to disrupt the big cloud computing companies: Amazon, IBM, Google and Microsoft, with a distributed network of storage and computer processing using computers of the world.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Nick Armstrong, the CEO of Identitii (ASX:ID8) which listed last month. The business is using blockchain technology to set up an information sharing network between banks at an enterprise level. There's also market commentator Saeed Sidaoui's report on the latest cryptocurrency news and market movements.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler chats to UWA Business School Professor Dr Dirk Baur, regarding the launch of their upcoming blockchain unit they'll soon be teaching at the university, as well as his thoughts on the current state of the cryptocurrency market and blockchain technology in general. Market commentator Saeed Sidaoui also provides his report on the latest cryptocurrency news and market movements.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler speaks to Rupert Colchester, Head of Blockchain and Practice Leader at IBM Australia and New Zealand regarding the IBM Food Trust — a blockchain to track food through the supply chain. Market commentator Saeed Sidaoui also provides his report on the latest cryptocurrency news and market movements.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler speaks to Jordan Michaelides, Head of Institutional Investment at CoinJar for an update on institutional investment in the cryptocurrency space. Market commentator Saeed Sidaoui also provides his report on the latest cryptocurrency news and market movements.

This week's episode of Crypto Watch is focussed on the 'Australian National Blockchain’ — Australia’s first cross-industry and large scale blockchain to be built by the CSIRO's Data61 in conjunction with Herbert Smith Freehills and IBM. Alan Kohler spoke to Dr Mark Staples, senior research scientist at the CSIRO’s Data61 and Natasha Blycha, Blockchain and Smart Legal Contract Lead from Herbert Smith Freehills to find out more. Market commentator Saeed Sidaoui also provides his report on the latest cryptocurrency news and market movements.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Sophie Gilder, Head of Blockchain, Innovation Labs at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia who were chosen by the World Bank to deliver the world's first blockchain bond. Alan spoke to Sophie to find out how it will work, what implications it might have for other securities such as company shares, and for her thoughts on what the future holds for blockchain and cryptocurrencies in general. Market commentator Saeed Sidaoui also provides his report on the latest cryptocurrency news and market movements.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Fred Schebesta, the Co-Founder of Finder and also the Co-Founder of HiveEx to discuss the future of the cryptocurrency world. Market commentator Saeed Sidaoui also provides his report on the latest cryptocurrency news and market movements.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Roger Ver, the Chief Executive Officer of Bitcoin.com and the main proselytiser for Bitcoin Cash which is the competitor to Bitcoin. Roger recently tweeted  that "Bitcoin Cash just processed more transactions in a single day than BTC ever has, and the fees stayed at a fraction of a penny." Roger is all about Bitcoin Cash now, and believes it's the one that's going to take over, so Alan spoke to him to find out why.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Steve Vallas, the founder of Honey Digital and the co-founder of the Blockchain APAC conference which is coming up in late August. Steve has his feet firmly on the ground when it comes to blockchain and cryptocurrencies so Alan gave him a call to find out what businesses are set to jump on the blockchain first.

This week in Crypto Watch, I spoke to Adrian Harrison, the CEO in Australia of Huobi Global. Huobi is a global exchange for trading cryptocurrencies, and they recently launched an ETF. 

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Andrew Gillick, a writer at Brave New Coin, and this week he's done an interesting piece about how cryptocurrency and blockchain is to some extent a demographic phenomenon, a response to baby boomers pricing them out of the property and share markets.  

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Ken Anderson, Chief Developer Advocate for Hedera Hasgraph which is cited as an alternative to the blockchain that was invented by Leemon Baird in the US. Hedera is a development of distributed ledger technology, and they're saying the blockchain that currently exists has a number of problems, including speed and performance. They reckon they've come up with something that is much faster, so here's Ken to explain more about how it all works. Market commentator SaeedSidaoui also provides his report on the latest cryptocurrency news and market movements.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Daniel Bar, one of the co-founders of Tenzorum, which calls itself the unstoppable machine for self-sovereign key management and access to the decentralized world. Alan spoke to Daniel to find out what it all means. Market commentator Saeed Sidaoui also provides his report on the latest cryptocurrency news and market movements.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Ben Way, the CEO of Digits, to find out more about their technology which they say allows people to spend cryptocurrencies in shops using their credit cards. Market commentator Saeed Sidaoui also provides his report on the latest cryptocurrency news and market movements.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Alex Saunders from Nugget's News Australia about the current sentiment of the cryptocurrency market, whilst Saeed Sidaoui provided his market wrap of the week.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Caile Ditterich, the CEO of BlockGrain, to find out more about their blockchain for agriculture based ventures.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Gareth Simpson, the Trade and Investment Commissioner for Austrade based in New York.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to John Price, a Commissioner of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) about cryptocurrencies, initial coin offerings (ICOs), and whether they are securities or something else.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Peter Hiom, Deputy CEO of the ASX about the replacement of the CHESS system (the settlement system behind the ASX) with blockchain technology.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Scott Stornetta, one of the co-founders of blockchain technology.

This week in Crypto Watch, Producer Greg Dimopoulos spoke to Lasanka Perera, Head of Strategy at Independent Reserve and Rob Wilson, CEO of Incent Loyalty.

This week in Crypto Watch, Producer Greg Dimopoulos spoke to a range of industry heavyweights who were at the World Blockchain Forum in Dubai.

This week in Crypto Watch, Producer Greg Dimopoulos spoke to Gregory Van den Bergh, the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bankorus - the world's first private wealth management platform powered by AI and built on the blockchain. 

This week in Crypto Watch, Producer Greg Dimopoulos spoke to James Nguyen, co-founder and Managing Partner of Anti-Hero Capital who have launched a wholesale investment fund dedicated entirely to cryptocurrencies, but here’s the kicker; they’re using the help of evolutionary science and ant colonies to help make some of the decisions.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Kain Warwick, the founder of an Australian based cryptocurrency called Havven, who's trying to produce a stable cryptocurrency.

This week in Crypto Watch, Producer Greg Dimopoulos spoke to Rupert Hackett, CEO of Melbourne based cryptocurrency exchange bitcoin.com.au, who's now selling Bitcoin in newsagencies across the nation.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Richard Levin, Chair of the FinTech and Regulation Practice at the AmLaw 100 law firm Polsinelli.

This week in Crypto Watch, Producer Greg Dimopoulos spoke to a range of guests present at the APAC Blockchain Conference in Melbourne.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Greg Medcraft, the Director of the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs at the OECD who was in Melbourne for the APAC Blockchain Conference.

This week in Crypto Watch, Producer Greg Dimopoulos spoke to Sam Nickless, a Partner and the Chief Operating Officer at Gilbert + Tobin to find out about the impact of blockchain within the legal services industry.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Lord Meghnad Desai, Emeritus Professor at The London School of Economics.

This week in Crypto Watch, Producer Greg Dimopoulos spoke to Urszula McCormack, a Partner and regulatory specialist at King and Wood Mallesons based in Hong Kong, who recently authored a brief sheet on Ethereum.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Leigh Travers, the CEO of DigitalX.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Da Hongfei, the founder of NEO.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Fran Strajnar, the CEO and Co-Founder of Brave New Coin about the price of Bitcoin and where it might head to.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Emma Channing, Founder and Principal of a cryptocurrency investment bank in California called Satis Group and a leading light in American cryptocurrencies and in particular, initial coin offerings.  

This week in Crypto Watch, Producer Greg Dimopoulos spoke to David Beros, General Manager of ICO Advisory at DigitalX about bitcoin futures.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Erik Voorhees, the CEO and Founder of ShapeShift - a money exchange for cryptocurrencies.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Alex Saunders from the Nugget's News Australia channel on Youtube.

This week in Crypto Watch, Producer Greg Dimopoulos spoke to Crypto Watch commentator Saeed Sidaoui about initial coin offerings and how they work.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Jason Davis, the CEO of a new fund manager called BitFunds, designed to invest in cryptocurrencies.

This week in Crypto Watch, Producer Greg Dimopoulos spoke to Education Consultant Anouk Pinchetty from the Blockchain Centre about how different cryptocurrencies work on different networks.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Victor Jiang, Chairman of Civic Ledger and Sapien Ventures about why Australia is the place to go for initial coin offerings.

This week in Crypto Watch, Producer Greg Dimopoulos spoke to Nick Giurietto, the CEO and Managing Director of the Australian Digital Commerce Association (ACDA).

This week in Crypto Watch, Producer Greg Dimopoulos spoke to Andrew Bragg, Partner at Cryptotax about tax implications when it comes to cryptocurrencies.

This week in Crypto Watch, Producer Greg Dimopoulos spoke to Igor Goldobin, co-founder of Coin Wisdom about how to research the thousands of cryptocurrencies that are on the market.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Jason Lee, the Global Director of Partnerships and Strategic Alliance for the NEM Foundation - which offers a blockchain for rental. NEM also has its own cryptocurrency, XEM.

This week in Crypto Watch, Producer Greg Dimopoulos spoke to Chris Pavlesic - the CEO of Coinstop, about security and hardware wallets.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Roger Ver a.k.a. ‘Bitcoin Jesus’ - for his thoughts on Bitcoin versus Bitcoin Cash.

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Sebastian Quinn-Watson, a partner of the blockchain advisory business Blockchain Global to find out more about initial coin offerings.