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Trent McConaghy is the Founder and CTO of Ocean Protocol and BigchainDB, specializing in AI and blockchain technology to democratize data and AI. His work includes advancing decentralized data solutions and ensuring equitable access to AI technologies. McConaghy also contributes to the IPDB Foundation and advises the Estonian E-residency programKey HighlightsMcConaghy presented a solarpunk future, envisioning an optimistic trajectory for humanity. He covered three topics: web3 to sovereign agents, AI to human superintelligence, and defining human goals.He covered topics including AI superintelligence, humanity's goals, and the transition from web3 to sovereign agents.McConaghy emphasized the importance of aiming for an optimistic future beyond mere survival – proposing reshaping the cosmos at a macro scale as a potential human endeavour. However, he highlighted the challenge of interstellar travel, noting the time it takes to reach the nearest star beyond our sun.Discussed established technologies like Bitcoin, decentralized data storage, and decentralized compute platforms like Ethereum; and explored the concept of sovereign agents through smart contracts on Ethereum, emphasizing their autonomous and ungoverned nature.Dive deeper into the session: Full SummaryAbout Foresight InstituteForesight Institute is a research organization and non-profit that supports the beneficial development of high-impact technologies. Since our founding in 1987 on a vision of guiding powerful technologies, we have continued to evolve into a many-armed organization that focuses on several fields of science and technology that are too ambitious for legacy institutions to support.Allison DuettmannThe President and CEO of Foresight Institute, Allison Duettmann directs the Intelligent Cooperation, Molecular Machines, Biotech & Health Extension, Neurotech, and Space Programs, alongside Fellowships, Prizes, and Tech Trees. Get Involved with Foresight:Apply: Virtual Salons & in-person WorkshopsDonate: Support Our Work – If you enjoy what we do, please consider this, as we are entirely funded by your donations!Follow Us: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedInNote: Explore every word spoken on this podcast through Fathom.fm, an innovative podcast search engine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Trent McConaghy is the founder of Ocean Protocol, a decentralized platform aimed at democratizing AI data sharing while maintaining privacy. With a career starting in AI research for national defence, McConaghy transitioned to entrepreneurship, where his first startup, ADA, was acquired by Synopsys in 2004. His work continued with Solido, an AI venture aiding Moore's Law, culminating in an acquisition by Siemens in 2017. His current venture, Ocean Protocol, follows earlier initiatives like the ascribe NFT platform and BigchainDB. McConaghy's enduring mission is to equalize AI opportunities and ensure humanity's significance in a future of autonomous technology.Session SummaryThis podcast episode delves into Trent McConaghy's integration of AI with global challenges, highlighting his innovative strategies in technology and environmentalism.The Map: Trent discusses the need for a resource like Wikipedia to show potential technological outcomes – his "Starships and Tokens" outlines pathways to major goals of humanity, from superhuman intelligence to reshaping the cosmos.AI Evolution and Impact: He highlights AI's growth, especially in creative fields and CAD. Discusses AI-induced job displacement, with UBI as a potential solution. He mentions projects like Nature 2.0 for surplus wealth generation.AI Superintelligence Challenge: Focuses on keeping humans competitive with AI through high-bandwidth BCIs and addressing regulatory challenges.Climate Change Strategy: He emphasizes addressing climate change impacts on society, exploring special zones for BCI research and governance adaptations, and stresses the need for aggressive BCI development and jurisdictional arbitrage for research and climate adaptation. He also proposes a climate-focused DAO for legal actions and addressing investment risks in flood-prone areas like Miami.Vision of Eucatastrophe: Trent's long-term goals for humanity include developing Dyson spheres and achieving human superintelligence. Full transcript, list of resources, and art piece: https://www.existentialhope.com/podcastsExistential Hope was created to collect positive and possible scenarios for the future so that we can have more people commit to creating a brighter future and to begin mapping out the main developments and challenges that need to be navigated to reach it. Existential Hope is a Foresight Institute project.Hosted by Allison Duettmann and Beatrice ErkersFollow Us: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn | Existential Hope InstagramExplore every word spoken on this podcast through Fathom.fm. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of the Web3 Innovators Podcast, host Conor Svensson interviews Gautam Dhameja, Solutions Delivery Director at Parity Technologies. Gautam shares his journey into the blockchain space, explaining the concepts that initially captured his attention, the challenges of data reconciliation, and the potential of decentralisation and immutability. They discuss Parity's role in the Polkadot ecosystem, the significance of solutions engineering, and the importance of balancing security and scalability. The conversation concludes with Gautam's vision of Polkadot's impact on scalability, security, and adoption over the next decade.Standout Quotes: • "We want to make sure that we talk about use cases, the application layer, the solutions that we can bring to solve some of the real-world problems because at the end of the day, you know, like when we fly in an aeroplane, we don't look at what thrust engine is producing... the user is important and we have to talk in the language of the user." • "It's more of a road towards large-scale adoption with the basic infrastructure pieces in place."Episode Highlights:Gautam's background and journey into the blockchain space.The role of blockchain in solving supply chain issues.The concept of decentralisation and immutability.Transitioning from exploring blockchain to diving deep into the technology.Exploring solutions engineering at BigchainDB and Parity Technologies.Parity's role in the Polkadot ecosystem and solutions delivery.Balancing security and scalability in blockchain development.Importance of user-centric language and real-world use cases.Decentralised identity and zero-knowledge proofs.The impact of Polkadot on scalability, security, and adoption.Resources:Weekly Polkadot Digest by Bill LaboonDot Leap NewsletterPolkadot TwitterSubscribe to the BlockShots Podcast hosted by Gautam Dhameja to learn about blockchain concepts in simple terms.Contact Gautam Dhameja: LinkedIn | TwitterGautam leads the Solution Delivery team at Parity, where he focuses on building Web3 solutions for the Polkadot ecosystem. He has been working on decentralised systems and blockchain technology since 2017. Prior to coming into the Web3 space, he worked on IoT and Supply Chain solutions at Microsoft. Gautam also hosts the "Block Shots" podcast about concise explanations of blockchain concepts, and he has co-authored a book on blockchain fundamentals, "Beginning Blockchain".Connect with Us Join the Web3 Innovators community and engage with like-minded individuals passionate about the potential of blockchain technology.Contact Web3 Labs:Twitter | LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Discord | Tiktok • Explore Web3 Labs: Web3 Labs specialise in web3 solutions for enterprise. • Email Web3 Labs • Get Conor's latest thoughts on Web3 and where we're headed.

Trent McConaghy is the Founder of Ascribe (2013), BigChainDB (2015), and Ocean Protocol (2017). Ascribe went on to become the first-ever NFT Marketplace that was deployed on Bitcoin in late 2014. This revolutionary platform existed for four years and ceased operations in 2018 with over 35,000 NFTs created during that time. Currently Trent works on Ocean Protocol, which is a privacy-preserving data sharing protocol for AI and the New Data Economy.|Trent McConaghy|• Twitter → https://twitter.com/trentmc0• Website → http://www.trent.st/|CONNECT WITH JAKE|• Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/jakegallen/• Twitter → https://twitter.com/jakegallen_• Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/JakeNGallen• Linkedin →  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-gall...|FOLLOW AND SUBSCRIBE THE PODCAST|• Website → https://www.jakegallen.com/• Youtube → Subscribe to this page• Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...• Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/7hQdRAz...• Google Podcasts → https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR...• RSS Feed → https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1005154.rss• Website → https://solo.to/theguestlistpod• Media Host → https://theguestlistpod.buzzsprout.com/

In der Mittagsfolge sprechen wir heute mit Tobias Pohl, Founder und CEO von Celus, über die erfolgreich abgeschlossene Series-A-Finanzierungsrunde in Höhe von 25 Millionen Euro. Celus hat eine Cloud-basierte B2B-SaaS-Plattform entwickelt, mit der die Elektronik-Entwicklung optimiert wird. Mit umfangreichen Komponentendaten von Elektronikherstellern unterstützt die Entwicklungsplattform die Developer mit künstlicher Intelligenz. Durch Designautomatisierung wird das flexible Austauschen von Bestandteilen einer Leiterplatte ermöglicht. So können Elektroingenieurinnen und -ingenieure die Supply Chain des Produktes flexibel an Lieferengpässe oder Preisänderungen ohne den üblichen manuellen Änderungsaufwand anpassen. Anhand der funktionalen Anforderungen werden bereits designte Module aus einer Datenbank entnommen und verschaltet. Die Datenbank kann zudem von den Usern erweitert werden und bleibt auch unter ihrer Kontrolle. Die Wiederverwendbarkeit in anderen Projekten wird durch klare Regeln ermöglicht, wodurch kein Reverse-engineering mehr betrieben werden muss. Die Entwicklungsplattform integriert sich in die bestehenden Prozesse und Tools des Unternehmens. Das Startup wurde 2018 von Tobias Pohl, Alexander Pohl und André Alcalde in München gegründet. Nach eigenen Angaben nutzen bereits über 1.800 Developer die Engineering-Plattform. In einer Series-A-Finanzierungsrunde hat Celus nun 25 Millionen Euro eingesammelt. Earlybird Venture Capital hat die Runde angeführt. Der Münchner VC fokussiert sich auf europäische Unternehmen mit technologischen Innovationen. Dabei investieren sie in alle Größen und Phasen von Technologie-Unternehmen und unterstützen diese auch strategisch. Im Portfolio befinden sich u.a. edyoucated, Goodlegal, N26, ottonova, smava, Traxpay, UberCloud, B2X, BigchainDB, Codasip, CONNY, Instamotion, koppla, KREATIZE, Xayn, wellabe und Upvest. Das Portfolio ist in den letzten 12 Monaten um mehr als 30 Unternehmen gewachsen und umfasst aktuell über 90 Unternehmen. Der alternative Asset Manager Deutsche Invest Capital Partners mit einem verwalteten Vermögen von mehr als 3 Milliarden Euro hat sich ebenfalls, wie die Bestandsinvestoren Speedinvest und Plug and Play an der Serie A beteiligt. Celus möchte das Kapital nutzen, um weiter auf den US-amerikanischen Markt zu expandieren. One more thing wird präsentiert von OMR Reviews – Finde die richtige Software für Dein Business. Wenn auch Du Dein Lieblingstool bewerten willst, schreibe eine Review auf OMR Reviews unter https://moin.omr.com/insider. Dafür erhältst du einen 15€ Amazon Gutschein.

In der Nachmittagsfolge sprechen wir heute in der Rubrik “VC Talk” mit Dr. Christian Nagel, Co-Founder und Managing Partner des VCs Earlybird, u.a. über einen neuen Fonds in Höhe von 350 Millionen Euro. Das deutsche Venture Capital Unternehmen Earlybird wurde 1997 von Christian, Dr. Hendrik Brandis, Roland Manger und Rolf Mathies gegründet. Das Unternehmen hat heute 68 Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter in Aachen, Berlin, Istanbul, London, München und Paris. Dabei verwaltet der VC ein Vermögen von über 2 Milliarden Euro. Earlybird fokussiert sich auf europäische Startups mit technologischen Innovationen. Dabei investieren sie in alle Größen und Phasen von Technologie-Unternehmen und unterstützen diese auch strategisch. Im Portfolio von Earlybird stecken unter anderem edyoucated, Goodlegal, N26, ottonova, smava, Traxpay, UberCloud, B2X, BigchainDB, Codasip, CONNY, Instamotion, koppla, KREATIZE, Xayn, wellabe und Upvest. Das Portfolio ist in den letzten 12 Monaten um 34 Unternehmen gewachsen und umfasst aktuell 91 Unternehmen. Earlybird hat mit dem Digital West VII einen neuen Fonds mit einem Gesamtvolumen von 350 Millionen Euro aufgesetzt. Die siebte Generation des Digital West Fonds soll Startups aus den Bereichen Fintech, Unternehmenssoftware und Nachhaltigkeit mit einem besonderen Deeptech-Schwerpunkt unterstützen. Mit dem Kapital des Frühphasen-Fonds wurde bereits in 17 Unternehmen investiert. Dazu gehören unter anderem Hive Technologies, HiveMQ, Marvel Fusion, Deed, Aleph Alpha, MAYD, Remberg, Sikoia and ThingsTHINKING und Finmid. Die weiteren Fonds von Earlybird sind neben Digital West, Digital East, Gesundheitswesen, UNI-X und Growth Opportunity.

Jim Rutt An American businessman and entrepreneur who was the former CEO of Network Solutions, and the former chairman of the Santa Fe Institute. He was also a Researcher in Residence at the Santa Fe Institute from 2002 to 2004, studying the application of complexity science to financial markets, and evolutionary artificial intelligence. He is one of the thinkers behind BigChainDB, the highly scalable blockchain architecture. He was CEO of Network Solutions, which operated the .com, .net, and .org domain namespaces on the Internet until its acquisition by Verisign in 2000. Jim was the first CTO of Thomson-Reuters. He was Chairman of the computer chip design software company Analog Design Automation until its acquisition by Synposis in 2004. Previously he either founded or played a key role in several significant information services and network companies: THE SOURCE, Business Research Corp., First Call, Pinpoint Information, Wall Street on Demand, and MarketSwitch. Jim Rutt is the host of the Jim Rutt Show podcast series. The Jim Rutt Show is an interview podcast series examining cutting-edge thinking in science and technology and the future of our economic, political and social systems and institutions. Available on all popular podcast apps. Follow Jim Rutt (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimrutt/) on Twitter (https://twitter.com/jim_rutt?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) and/or Medium (https://medium.com/@memetic007). Subscribe! If you enjoyed the podcast please subscribe and rate it. And of course, share with your friends! Special Guest: Jim Rutt.

In this C! Podcast Corinne M. Flick speaks with Bruce Pon, Founder and CEO at BigchainDB as well as Founder and Board Member at Ocean Protocol, about:Is Blockchain Revolutionizing our Lifes?

In der heutigen Episode sprechen wir mit Thomas Fürstner, dem Gründer und CTO von Riddle & Code, über die Anfänge der Blockchain und ihre Entwicklung sowie die Zukunft der industriellen Token-Ökonomie. Er ist Forscher und Universitätsprofessor mit über 30 Jahren Erfahrung in sozialer Wirtschaftstheorie, digitaler Kunst und formaler Logik. Sein Unternehmen Riddle & Code konzentriert sich auf die Entwicklung von Hardware für das physische Internet und Public-Ledger-Systeme. Derzeit arbeitet er an einem gehärteten Serversystem für BigchainDB und IPFS, um nachhaltige und widerstandsfähige Identitätsdienste in Schwellenländern zu ermöglichen.

Wat is een NFT? Hoe werkt dat systeem? Waarom zoveel buzz? Waarom betaalt iemand $69 miljoen dollar voor een digitaal plaatje? Hoe maak je van een digitaal object een uniek object? Wat is de waarde van een digitaal object wanneer je het tegelijkertijd nog oneindig kunt kopiëren? Wat zijn de succesfactoren van de NFT Hype?  Wat zijn de usecases die we nu zien? Hoe ziet de toekomst eruit?  Dimitri De Jonghe is een onderzoeker, oprichter en investeerder in web3 technologieën. Na het afronden van zijn doctoraat op het gebied van micro-elektronica en machine learning, was hij medeoprichter van een reeks blockchain-startups: ascribe, BigchainDB, en Ocean Protocol. Momenteel is Dimitri mede-oprichter van het web3-ontwikkelingsbedrijf Keyko.“Listening to the Future” is de podcast van Jarno Duursma, een Nederlandse technologie-expert, publicist, trendwatcher en spreker op het gebied van digitale technologie. In deze podcast kijkt hij samen met een gast naar de toekomst, door de lens van digitale technologie. Check ook zijn blogs, boeken en lezingen. Abonneer je op de podcast via je favoriete podcast kanaal. 

Episode 12 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Bruce Pon, Founder of Ocean Protocol and Founder / CEO of BigchainDB. Tor asks Bruce: What secrets did he learn building data and blockchain-based solutions before Ocean Protocol? How did Ocean emerge from those learnings, and what are they building now? What is the importance of privacy and data for artificial intelligence? What are datatokens, and how can they revolutionize the data economy? And what is the biggest piece of advice he has for people trying to enter the blockchain space for the first time today? Ocean Protocol: https://www.oceanprotocol.com Bruce on Twitter: https://twitter.com/brucepon Ocean and Secret: https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/ocean-and-secret-collaborating-on-access-control-and-private-compute-for-datatokens-1427acd1fcbe --- Sharing Secrets - a new series from the Secret Foundation - explores the biggest secrets of the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Featuring everything from interviews, to monologues, to special guests, to technical explainers, to surprises, and beyond. The Secret Foundation is a key organization in the Secret Network ecosystem. It is dedicated to building, researching, and scaling adoption of open-source, privacy-centric technologies and networks. Its guiding values are Usability, Sustainability, Impact, and Empowerment. Secret Network is the first blockchain to allow privacy-preserving smart contracts. That means applications built on Secret can utilize encrypted data without revealing it to anyone, even the nodes in the network. Using groundbreaking privacy technologies (such as trusted execution environments), Secret Network allows developers to build new types of powerful, permissionless, privacy-preserving applications - Secret Apps. Join our communities and help us build! Homepage: https://scrt.network Official Chat: https://chat.scrt.network Community Telegram: https://t.me/scrtcommunity Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/secretnetwork

Today’s guest is Bruce Pon, CEO of BigchainDB and founder of Ocean Protocol. We began our conversation by probing into the value of data as an asset, what are the problems preventing the value of data being unlocked and how Ocean is solving that problem by building a protocol for data sharing, how it envisions global adoption through community building and industry partnerships. We discussed about the Ocean token – its usage, value creation and learnings from its IEO and ICO. Finally, we imagined a future where Ocean Protocol becomes the de facto protocol for access control and an Ocean DAO driven entirely by its contributors. A personal disclaimer before we begin – I am a holder of Ocean Token since March 2019.   Key highlights from our conversation Data is worth at least as much as land Data is the new asset that people are going to be able to monetize, securitize, use as collateral. The hypothesis is that data is worth at least as much as land which is estimated to be worth $7trillion by an economist. This belief is further reinforced by the fact that the top 10 most valuable companies in the world today are mostly internet platforms, information platforms. Blockchain is the middle layer between data provider and data buyer The key problem with centralised data marketplaces is that they need to have custody of your data which results in the need for trust – data providers need to trust that the data marketplaces can manage your data well, keep it secure and provide you with a full audit trail. This often limits data sharing. What blockchain can do is to act as a trusted middle layer – the custodian for data, providing the data providers the full control of their data. The Ocean Protocol is fundamentally an access control system. Currently, there aren't any other protocols that look at data sharing as an access control problem. Ocean is the access control layer. In five years, what I want is Ocean being seen as the protocol that everybody follows to use for access control.   The usage and value accrual of Ocean Token At the very core, any crypto token can be used as a means of exchange. In the case of Ocean token, it is the means of exchange within Ocean Protocol. So that's the base level. Second thing. And this is since the inception of the proof of authority network, you can use Ocean tokens to kickstart smart contracts on our proof of authority network. So right there was utility of this kind of a native token for a unique network. Moving into the future, we're going to have some other exciting kind of uses of the Ocean token. Number one is we're going to kickstart the network rewards. This is 51% of the total supply that we've talked about from the very beginning. That is kind of a discount token model that allows value to come back into the ecosystem if people are using the protocol. And then there's another use case where we have for the Ocean token, which is governance. That's a little preview of what we're going to be releasing later on this year.   In the blockchain space, you can't separate speculation from utility from kind of global adoption. I think it all plays together. I see speculation very, very optimistically. It is viewed as this interplay between builders, speculators and the existing kind of traditional world where we are trying to disrupt.   Content at a glance with time-code (01.36) Bruce’s background story (03.18) BigchainDB and Ocean Protocol explained (05.57) Data as an asset is worth at least as much as land (07.38) Core problems in data that Ocean Protocol is solving (17.56) How Ocean Protocol is designed to overcome trust, privacy and security of data (20.30) Uses cases and industry partnerships of Ocean Protocol (24.59) Importance of community for decentralised projects like Ocean Protocol (27.30) The usage and value accrual of Ocean Token (33.03) Learning from Ocean’s failed IEO (36.47) The value of speculation within Crypto (39.38) The future of Ocean Protocol imagined Episode linksBigchainDB: https://www.bigchaindb.com/ Ocean Protocol: https://oceanprotocol.com/ Ocean’s blog post on IEO: https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/what-happened-with-the-ieo-54cc5c6c3db9 ChainLink: https://chain.link/    

Bruce Pon with Ocean Protocol joins us to discuss how you can build powerful Web3 apps for the data economy. Bruce Pon is the Founder of BigchainDB and Ocean Protocol, blockchain startups focused on bringing data and AI together since 2013. Previously, Bruce co-founded Avantalion, a consulting firm that helped to build 20 banks around the globe for companies such as Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, Mitsubishi & Jaguar LandRover. He has an Advanced Executive Certificate from MITSloan, a B.Sc in Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan and has given guest lectures at Oxford, MIT Media Lab, Columbia University and the European School of Management & Technology.  In addition to being in the 2020 full-length documentary Cryptopia, Bruce was featured in Oxford University and Saïd Business School’s online Blockchain course as a guest expert.  Ocean Protocol is a decentralized data exchange protocol to unlock data for AI, launched in 2017.  Through blockchain technology and the OCEAN token, Ocean Protocol connects data providers and consumers, allowing data to be shared while guaranteeing traceability, transparency, and trust for all stakeholders involved. It allows data owners to give value to and have control over their data assets without being locked-in to any single marketplace. By bringing together decentralized blockchain technology, a data sharing framework, and an ecosystem for data and related services, Ocean Protocol is committed to kick-starting a new Data Economy that touches every single person, company and device, giving power back to data owners, enabling people to reap value from data to better our world.  In summer 2019, the production-ready mainnet Pacific Network was released, just four months after the delivery of the initial Nile beta network. Pacific Network features smart contract deployment on Ocean’s own Proof of Authority (PoA) network, ensuring a high-performance platform for data scientists. With the release of Pacific, Ocean Protocol is ready for the introduction of apps and integrations to facilitate the use of the protocol and grow the ecosystem. The next major product update is v2 compute-to-data, which allows AI models to be trained on-premise, ensuring security and privacy for the data owner and minimizes the need to have trust amongst the different parties. This V2 milestone is scheduled for Spring 2020.  Visit oceanprotocol.com to find out more.  View this episode on our website here. *Disclaimer. None of this information is financial advice. ~ Want to learn more about cryptocurrency? Check out our educational videos today! ~ Looking to attend a cryptocurrency or blockchain event? Check out our events page! ~ Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Uptrennd today! ~ Enjoying our podcast? Please leave us a 5 star review here! ~ Stay up to date with the latest news in cryptocurrency by opting-in to our newsletter! You will receive daily emails (M-S) that are personalized and curated content specific to you and your interests, powered by artificial intelligence.  ~ We were featured as one of the Top 25 Cryptocurrency Podcasts and one of the 16 Best Cryptocurrency Podcasts in 2020. ~ Are you an accredited investor looking to invest in cryptocurrency? Check out Crescent City Capital. ~ Want to take educational courses on cryptocurrency & blockchain? Sign up for Blockchain Training Academy today! ~ Earn Interest. Receive Loans. Trade Crypto. Start Today! Learn more about how you can sign up for Blockfi  ~ Want to be on our show or know someone who should? Contact us today! ~ We hope you are enjoying our cryptocurrency and blockchain educational content! We greatly appreciate donations, which all go directly towards creating even better educational content. Thank you for your generosity! Buy us a coffee here :) BTC: 3BpSmgS8h1sNtbk6VMiVWxoftcwBxAfGxR  ETH: 0x743c0426CE838A659F56aFC4d3c10872d758EC79  LTC: MKCpf3qEVfT6yprhDhkJJcdNpqh5PZXSbx  

Jim Rutt is an influential thinker, writer and podcaster. He's an American businessman and entrepreneur, the former CEO of Network Solutions, and the former chairman of the Santa Fe Institute. We talk about the transition to a new way of existing, aka the road to Game B. He has amazing insights on how we can go from where we are to where we ought to be. Support this show by donating at www.paypal.me/ariintheair Find Jim's podcast at https://www.jimruttshow.com Find Jim's writing at https://medium.com/@memetic007 And more about Jim https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/jim-rutt "Jim Rutt is the host of the Jim Rutt Show podcast series. He is past Chairman of the Santa Fe Institute. He is one of the thinkers behind BigChainDB, the highly scalable blockchain architecture. He was CEO of Network Solutions, which operated the .com, .net, and .org domain namespaces on the Internet until its acquisition by Verisign in 2000. Jim was the first CTO of Thomson-Reuters. He was Chairman of the computer chip design software company Analog Design Automation until its acquisition by Synposis in 2004. Previously he either founded or played a key role in several significant information services and network companies: THE SOURCE, Business Research Corp., First Call, Pinpoint Information, Wall Street on Demand, and MarketSwitch. He was Researcher in Residence at the Santa Fe Institute from 2002 to 2004, studying the application of complexity science to financial markets, and evolutionary artificial intelligence. He was Executive Producer of the awarding winning film "Zombiewood." He is a co-founder of the Staunton Makerspace, a membership maker shop and hacker space. Jim is currently an SFI Research Fellow working in the scientific study of consciousness and evolutionary artificial intelligence. Jim is also a member of the Board of Advisers of the Krasnow Institute and of the Virginia Tech Carilion Neuroscience Research Institute. Jim received his B.S. degree in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975 and is a member of MIT's Visiting Committee for the Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences." Thanks! Love! YAY!

In this exciting podcast, we are joined by Bruce Pon, co-founder of Ocean Protocol, to discuss how to monetize and tokenize data. Almost 6 years ago Bruce and Trent McConaghy, previously on Insureblocks regarding “The Data Economy”, got into the blockchain space by seeing how the concept of Bitcoin could be applied into non-financial use cases like data.   What is blockchain? Bruce, refers to blockchain as a general purpose technology. He states there are only about 30 to 35 general purpose technologies that have ever been discovered on Earth, by humankind. You start off with agriculture such as the domestication of plants and animals to the steam engine of the industrial revolution to electricity and railways to the last century. In this decade we’re going to see things like AI, blockchain, bioengineering infuse themselves across the entire world. At the highest level, blockchain is one of those fancy technologies that is going to change the world over the next 30 years. At a more in-depth technical level it is a way use technology where you don't need to trust an authority. Bruce read an interesting concept which states that it was science in the Enlightenment era which took us away from believing in authority, the Supreme kind of knowledge of authority from priests and/or kings. That Enlightenment era made us take a different methodology for understanding the world around us, which was the scientific method. Blockchain is taking us away from believing that we need a central intermediary to hold things of value for us like a bank, like a government, or any other enterprise that holds for instance our data. Blockchain allows for data to now be held in a way that there is no authority to control your own data. Just like the internet 30 plus years ago allowed the general public to get access to information in a way that was never before possible. Blockchain is going to allow us to get access to control our own assets in a way that was never before possible.   Ocean Protocol In 2013 Trent McConaghy and his wife found the idea of Bitcoin as an interesting global database that allows people to have perfect knowledge about who controls what? Along with Bruce they found that this could be applied to intellectual property with copyright. Who owns the copyright? Who owns the rights to control the distribution of music or books? In 2014, they started a company called ascribe to do exactly that to try to put intellectual property copyrights, trademarks, all these types of things on the Bitcoin blockchain. 18 months later they realised that Bitcoin wasn’t the appropriate infrastructure for metadata for copyrights. They then created BigchainDB, a database that was built on blockchain technology to store metadata to solve the problem with ascribe. After running 50 to 100 industry proof of concepts they came to realise that who needs data with provenance? Who needs control of their data? It is either the people providing the data and/or trying to sell the data to the AI consumer. As it is AI that is actually absorbing all the data in order to feed its algorithms. The more sources of data, the better the AI algorithm. If provenance, ownership, and origin of data can be ensured then you have the potential to change the economic model for society when it comes to non-financial use cases such as intellectual property. Bruce recounts how in the mid 90s there was a valuation made of all the land and all the intellectual property in the world. It turns out that their respective valuations where roughly equal. The only exception was there wasn’t a proper mechanism for valuing intellectual property nor was there the infrastructure to track who owns what. Blockchain provides the infrastructure to track ownership of intellectual property globally. With the increase growth to the service economy, the knowledge economy is now going to be valued in a way that wasn’t possible.

Today my guest is the profound and salty Jim Rutt.Jim is a polymath of the highest order: former CEO of Network Solutions, former Chairman of the Santa Fe Institute, one of the leading thinkers behind the highly scalable blockchain architecture BigChainDB, and host of the Jim Rutt Show.Jim is deeply committed to asking better and more precise questions about the future of humanity. He has written on liquid democracy, “The Fifth Attractor”, and helped start the “Game B” meme along with former ZION 2.0 guest Jordan Hall.Sit back and enjoy this wide ranging conversation with an exceptional human mind firing on every cylinder.

Today on the show we have Jim Rutt, complexity researcher, systems thinker, podcaster, and former key player in several technology companies. Jim was previously the chairman of the Santa Fe Institute, where he has been involved since 2002, working in the scientific study of consciousness and evolutionary artificial intelligence. He is also one of the thinkers behind BigChainDB, the blockchain architecture startup. In this episode we talk about the concept of Game B, what it is and how it emerged, the idea of network attractors in complex systems like human society, and how to prepare for potential collapse scenarios in the future. Show notes: http://www.futurethinkers.org/105 Learn how to thrive in this fast changing world. Sign up for our mailing list and get the 50+ page guide: http://futurethinkers.org/signup  Upgrade your mental operating system, increase personal sovereignty and gain deeper self-knowledge with our Courses in Personal Evolution. Register at http://courses.futurethinkers.org   

Trent McConaghy (@trentmc0) returns for another interview with Erik. He’s the founder of Ocean Protocol and BigchainDB. In this episode, he starts by explaining Ocean Protocol’s mission and gives us a history of how the overall philosophy of the web has changed over the years, going from what could be called Web 1 to Web 2.0 to the yet-to-be-written story of Web 3. He explains how the web started out as a tool for democratizing access and how Web 2.0 created some undesirable effects when it comes to the siloing of information, questions about privacy, and the prevalence of advertising. Trent is hopeful though that Web 3 will be a return to the roots of Web 1. He lays out a compelling case for why several of the web’s biggest names should be tokenized and how that will remedy the current case of misaligned incentives between company and users. Trent also helps us imagine a world where AI and blockchain are working to amplify each other and what kinds of changes for society that might portend. He explains a number of scenarios related to digitally autonomous organizations, self-driving cars, road infrastructure, medicine and art.Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform. Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global and is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg. Shawn Xu is our researcher, Colin Campbell is our audio engineer, and the show is produced by Brett Bolkowy.

Trent McConaghy (@trentmc0) returns for another interview with Erik. He’s the founder of Ocean Protocol and BigchainDB. In this episode, he starts by explaining Ocean Protocol’s mission and gives us a history of how the overall philosophy of the web has changed over the years, going from what could be called Web 1 to Web 2.0 to the yet-to-be-written story of Web 3. He explains how the web started out as a tool for democratizing access and how Web 2.0 created some undesirable effects when it comes to the siloing of information, questions about privacy, and the prevalence of advertising. Trent is hopeful though that Web 3 will be a return to the roots of Web 1. He lays out a compelling case for why several of the web’s biggest names should be tokenized and how that will remedy the current case of misaligned incentives between company and users. Trent also helps us imagine a world where AI and blockchain are working to amplify each other and what kinds of changes for society that might portend. He explains a number of scenarios related to digitally autonomous organizations, self-driving cars, road infrastructure, medicine and art.Thanks for listening — if you like what you hear, please review us on your favorite podcast platform. Check us out on the web at villageglobal.vc or get in touch with us on Twitter @villageglobal.Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global and is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg. Shawn Xu is our researcher, Colin Campbell is our audio engineer, and the show is produced by Brett Bolkowy.

Trent McConaghy is the Co-Founder of Solido, Ascribe, BigchainDB and Ocean Protocol. He holds a PhD in Engineering and has a background in Computer Science. In this episode, Trent and I discuss: How Trent went from being raised on a pig farm in Saskatchewan, Canada, to being one of the world’s top experts in Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence (AI) How companies like Facebook and Google are really just data companies that hoard data (and it looks like Ocean may change that) The “ArtDAO” – a thought experiment on how an autonomous piece of AI code becomes independently wealthy. What does it do with the money? The nuts and bolts of Ocean Protocol, Estonia’s e-residency program (which Trent has advised Estonia on), and much more  

Top 5 AOTB News – Episode 18 – June 9, 2018 Guests: Marcus K. Dowling and Matt Hall 1. June 7, 2018 - Blockchain Innovation Conference at Rabobank in Utrecht the Netherlands. https://blockchaininnovationconference.com/ 2. June 13, 2018 – Basel ArtTech + Blockchain Connect in Basel, Switzerland https://www.forbes.com/forbes-live/event/basel-arttech-blockchain-connect/ 3. June 26-27, 2018 - Blockchain Summit – London – Two day conference and exhibition. http://blockchainsummitlondon.com/ 4. July 17, 2018 – Art + Tech Summit – One day conference co-curated with Christie’s Education (education arm of Christie’s Auction House https://www.christies.edu/) and Vastari (exhibit collaboration facilitators - https://www.vastari.com/). https://www.christies.com/exhibitions/2018/art-and-tech-summit-exploring-blockchain 5. All Public Art – New to me! “Our mission is part of a movement in technology called ‘regtech’ – the application of technology to the traditional regulatory functions of auditing, compliance and market surveillance. https://allpublicart.io/ https://t.me/allpublicart Twitters @arthur_camara @leashless @vincente @everledgerio @leanne_kemp @JessyBlock @kevinabosch @artmediaagency @NewArtAcademy @vjevremovic @SukhiJutla @marcusodair @JohnZettler @artnome @BigchainDB @matthall2000 @grandenchilada @artorycom @dblockdotorg @allpublicart @scrillaventura @squizzie Tip jar: BTC: 1D3DYP4nBC5DqTm1g5GeKf1uWeemLipwpY ETH: 0x9Ac7Bc3D3933e83A3544b36A075d2d59fac1c405

Cross-posting from Cryptoradio.io Overview Francesco Gadaleta introduces Fitchain, a decentralized machine learning platform that combines blockchain technology and AI to solve the data manipulation problem in restrictive environments such as healthcare or financial institutions.Francesco Gadaleta is the founder of Fitchain.io and senior advisor to Abe AI. Fitchain is a platform that officially started in October 2017, which allows data scientists to write machine learning models on data they cannot see and access due to restrictions imposed in healthcare or financial environments. In the Fitchain platform, there are two actors, the data owner and the data scientist. They both run the Fitchain POD, which orchestrates the relationship between these two sides. The idea behind Fitchain is summarized in the thesis “do not move the data, move the model – bring the model where the data is stored.” The Fitchain team has also coined a new term called “proof of train” – a way to guarantee that the model is truly trained at the organization, and that it becomes traceable on the blockchain. To develop the complex technological aspects of the platform, Fitchain has partnered up with BigChainDB, the project we have recently featured on Crypto Radio. Roadmap Fitchain team is currently validating the assumptions and increasing the security of the platform. In the next few months, they will extend the portfolio of machine learning libraries and are planning to move from a B2B product towards a Fitchain for consumers. By June 2018 they plan to start the Internet of PODs. They will also design the Fitchain token – FitCoin, which will be a utility token to enable operating on the Fitchain platform.  

Trent McConaghy, the founder of BigChainDB and Ocean Protocol discusses the relationship between artificial intelligence, blockchain technology and democratizing data. Show notes: http://cryptoradio.io/trent This episode is sponsored by: http://cryptoradio.io/bitguild  

In this matchup for White Paper Madness, where we breakdown 64 blockchain whitepapers and their uses to see whom may break the bracket for the 2018 title, we talk BigchainDB - making big data decent again.

Bruce Pon, founder and CEO of Berlin based BigchainDB, is a pioneer and thought leader in the field of blockchain and artificial intelligence. He is one of the most brilliant minds in the Berlin tech ecosystem. Interviewed by Christoph Keese, Bruce takes us onto a tour of today's cutting edge technology and explains his personal motivation. He touches on the power and perils of ICOs and explains how distributed databases will change the intellectual and social topography of the world. A 30 minute journey into one of the most fascinating technologies of our day.

Part 2 in our series on decentralized storage: Solutions. In this episode, we look at the problems decentralised storage are trying to solve, interesting projects trying to tackle these problems and some of the implications. We also have a look at what properties you should keep an eye out for when looking at decentralized storage solutions and what you may want to consider before jumping into mining. Links to some of the things we talk about in this episode: Storj (https://storj.io/) IPFS (https://ipfs.io/) Filecoin (https://filecoin.io/) MaidSafe (https://maidsafe.net/) Sia (https://sia.tech/) Bluzelle (https://bluzelle.com/) BigchainDB (https://www.bigchaindb.com/)

Bruce Pon. He’s the CEO and founder of BigchainDB and he’s been playing in the crypto world. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Mungerisms by Charlie Munger What CEO do you follow? – Vitalik Buterin Favorite online tool? — Streak CRM How many hours of sleep do you get?— At least 8 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – “Buy bitcoin earlier”   Time Stamped Show Notes: 02:03 – Nathan introduces Bruce to the show 02:44 – Bruce built BigchainDB to manage data 02:55 – Bitcoin is a payments cryptocurrency in a global network while Ethereum is a business logic in a global network 03:11 – People pass trusted data over the blockchain network for enterprise use cases and consumer applications 03:32 – From the business logic, you can exchange bitcoin and other types of value 03:42 – The problem with the use case on top of the bitcoin blockchain 3 years ago was it didn’t scale 04:04 – Bruce was building io which is putting intellectual property into the blockchain 04:25 – You can sell your intellectual property over the network 04:48 – It was built over the bitcoin blockchain and got difficult to develop over time 04:54 – Ascribe.io needed meta data about the creative work, author and licensing model 05:04 - Ascribe.io isn’t just built for bitcoin—it’s like trying to using a Lamborghini to move your house 05:49 - Ascribe.io had AI, scientists and other PhDs who told them that building Ascribe.io wasn’t worth it 06:09 – Team size is around 20 and is based in Berlin 06:24 – BigchainDB has raised $6M in price round series A 06:41 – Open source software is traditionally a dual license model 06:53 – BigchainDB is looking at an enterprise model 07:00 – They’re looking into the ICO craze too 07:21 – BigchainDB is like a SaaS model 07:27 – They’re looking at per transaction charges but it may not work for the long-run 07:54 – BigchainDB just released their 1.0 08:08 – They give premium support 08:27 – Bruce is looking into 5-6 figures per month for their starting price point 08:58 – One-third of the work in businesses happen in the back office 09:13 – Blockchain allows you to have a single source of truth 09:29 – BigchainDB unlocks the opportunity for different organizations to have a single source of truth 09:48 – When you can make IoT, AI and blockchain tools, you can track the product from the inception until it gets to the customer’s hand 10:01 – The customer will now understand how the product is made 10:03 – The regulators will know that the product followed the guideline 10:07 – The company will know if there’s a recall or quality issue and they will know where exactly the product is 10:40 – BigchainDB can work with different kinds of products 11:20 – Blockchain is definitely auditable 11:30 – Before the product comes to you, it will be signed by entities with a cryptographic key in every process 12:00 – With AI, you can also see who is in the very process of making your product 12:34 – The key metric Bruce is measuring is the number of people that are building upon them 12:56 – Target MRR is $100K by end of 2017 13:03 – BigchainDB is currently at $50-60K MRR 13:19 – Number of customers 13:44 – There are 300 developers in BigchainDB’s channels and there are 5K clones of their software 13:54 – BigchainDB has 1K monthly downloads of their whitepaper 14:45 – The ratio of developer to clone is the 300 developers to 5K clone requests 16:05 – The Famous Five   3 Key Points: Data that is passed over the blockchain network can be used for enterprise use case and consumer applications. The beauty of blockchain is that it is auditable and has accountability capabilities. Some tools that are built over the bitcoin network won’t always work; even if you have the best people in the industry.   Resources Mentioned: Simplero – The easiest way to launch your own membership course like the big influencers do but at 1/10th the cost. The Top Inbox – The site Nathan uses to schedule emails to be sent later, set reminders in inbox, track opens, and follow-up with email sequences GetLatka - Database of all B2B SaaS companies who have been on my show including their revenue, CAC, churn, ARPU and more Klipfolio – Track your business performance across all departments for FREE Hotjar – Nathan uses Hotjar to track what you’re doing on this site. He gets a video of each user visit like where they clicked and scrolled to make the site a better experience Acuity Scheduling – Nathan uses Acuity to schedule his podcast interviews and appointments Host Gator– The site Nathan uses to buy his domain names and hosting for the cheapest price possible Audible– Nathan uses Audible when he’s driving from Austin to San Antonio (1.5-hour drive) to listen to audio books Show Notes provided by Mallard Creatives

Bruce is the CEO and Co-Founder of BigchainDB. He comes from an Engineering, Management, Innovation, and Technology background. Before co-founding BigchainDB, Bruce worked in some of the world’s largest corporations and also founded a successful consultancy firm. In this episode, he explains why the world needs a scalable blockchain database, the emergence of a decentralized technology stack, and the one quality that differentiates humans from machines.

Data is the new oil, and those who control massive amounts of it have a major competitive advantage. That advantage becomes exponential when that data is used to teach artificial intelligence. Companies such as Google, Facebook and Amazon have a far greater probability of building strong AI than smaller actors simply by the sheer amount of user data and metadata they possess. Let’s now envision an alternate reality where big data lives on public infrastructure and is accessible to anyone who wishes to use it for the purpose of teaching AI. Big data as a public resource could have the potential to enable vast amounts of innovation at the edges, far greater than that of a small set of incumbents building large centralized AI systems. We’re joined by Trent McConaghy, who is the CTO and Co-founder of BigchainDB and Ascribe. Trent brings along a special surprise guest, Fred Ehrsam, former Co-founder at Coinbase. For the first half of the show, we have a fascinating discussion with Trent and Fred about the intersection of AI and blockchain technologies, and the implications of publicly available data sets on innovation in AI. For the second half of the show, we talk with Trent about the public implementation of BigchainDB, the Interplanetary Database (IPDB), and the applications for a public big data storage network accessible to all of humanity. Topics covered in this episode: The issues which arise with big data centralization in the context of building artificial intelligence How blockchain technologies could serve as the public data infrastructure for teaching AI How an AI might gain financial dominance over humanity by selling art on a DAO An update on Ascribe and BigchainDB The IPDB network and what goals it hopes to achieve The IPDB Foundation, its members and governance rules The technical components of the IPDB network Use cases and applications for a public decentralized global database Episode links: IPDB - Interplanetary Database Foundation IPDB Dev Portal This episode is hosted by Sébastien Couture. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/184

In this episode Andy Davis talks to Bruce Pon, founder of Big Chain DB, and they discuss the world of blockchain, the differences between centralised and decentralised data and how organisations can look after their staff. Show Notes: 1.42 Technology interests when Bruce was a child 2.27 When did Bruce learn to programme 5.22 Rolling out internet in decentralised space 6.05 What are the differences between centralised and decentralised internet? 12.30 Weaknesses to centralisation 15.22 The main concerns about decentralisation 16.59 What’s next in the decentralisation pipeline? 18.19 Data as an asset in data driven use cases 22.24 Hardware to gather data 25.52 The digital world advancing faster than the hardware 30.24 Groups of invention 37.02 Organisations working to develop and train more programmers 38.22 Policy and education points that organisations need to focus on 40.00 What sort of personality fits at BigChainDB?

This week we dig deep into what is known as a tech revolution. You see, Bruce Pon, has helped to build a dozen bank and industry startups while working with leading companies. He is an advisor / investor to six startups. He believes (as do we) that Blockchain will usher in the era of decentralized computing. He is the founder of BigchainDB! BigchainDB was built as a result of seeing scalability as a fundamental barrier to wider adoption of blockchain technologies. Our patent-pending approach to “blockchainify” databases give enterprises the possibility to get up and running with blockchain technologies quickly.

In this episode 11:FS’ resident blockchain geek, Simon Taylor, is in heaven this week. Today we bring you ace interviews with Adam Ludwin, Co-Founder & CEO at Chain – @adamludwin Trent McConaghy, Founder & CTO of BigchainDB – @trentmc0 Later this week, we’ve got another fantastic blockchain episode with R3’s Richard Brown and other great guests. Chain is a blockchain technology company that partners with financial firms to build and deploy blockchain networks that transform markets. BigchainDB allows developers and enterprise to deploy blockchain proof-of- concepts, platforms, and applications with a scalable blockchain database. Simon, blockchain lead at 11:FS,  is a globally-recognised blockchain subject matter expert and fintech Influencer. He serves as a trusted advisor to the UK government, Bank of England, tier 1 banks, asset managers, and investors. He also established Barclays as one of the leaders in blockchain and helped a variety of startups flourish through Barclays Tech Stars accelerator. The post Ep119 – Back on the Blockchain Gang! appeared first on 11FS. The post Ep119 – Back on the Blockchain Gang! appeared first on 11:FS.

In this episode 11:FS' resident blockchain geek, Simon Taylor, is in heaven this week. Today we bring you ace interviews with Adam Ludwin, Co-Founder & CEO at Chain – @adamludwin Trent McConaghy, Founder & CTO of BigchainDB – @trentmc0 Later this week, we've got another fantastic blockchain episode with R3's Richard Brown and other great guests. Chain is a blockchain technology company that partners with financial firms to build and deploy blockchain networks that transform markets. BigchainDB allows developers and enterprise to deploy blockchain proof-of- concepts, platforms, and applications with a scalable blockchain database. Simon, blockchain lead at 11:FS,  is a globally-recognised blockchain subject matter expert and fintech Influencer. He serves as a trusted advisor to the UK government, Bank of England, tier 1 banks, asset managers, and investors. He also established Barclays as one of the leaders in blockchain and helped a variety of startups flourish through Barclays Tech Stars accelerator. The post Ep119 – Back on the Blockchain Gang! appeared first on 11FS. The post Ep119 – Back on the Blockchain Gang! appeared first on 11:FS.

One of the major drawbacks of Bitcoin is its low transaction throughput. Maxing out only a handful of operations per second, there have been many proposals to scale it up so that it can compete with existing distributed database technologies. As the blockchain’s demand continues to increase, it’s unclear if the Bitcoin protocol will ever be able to handle thousands, if not millions of transactions per second. BigchainDB is taking a different approach. Rather than trying to scale up blockchain technology, it starts with a big data distributed database, RethinkDB, and adds blockchain features and characteristics. Trent Mcconaghy, Co-founder and CTO of Ascribe and BigchainDB, joins us to talk about how this protocol may become to databases, what IPFS and Ethereum are to distributed filestorage and computing, respectively. Able to perform more than one million writes per second and capacities in the petabytes, BigchainDB has the ambition to become the world’s public database platform. Topics covered in this episode: A brief update on Ascribe since Trent was last on the show The motivations behind BigchainDB and that problems it’s trying to solve How BigchainDB plans to solve the typical scalability bottlenecks found in blockchain protocols BigchainDB’s capacity, performance and latency characteristics BigchainDB’s consensus model, applied to RethinkDB Potential application for BigchainDB, in both centralised and decentralised application stacks Episode links: BigchainDB BigchainDB Whitepaper Ascribe Left Gallery 23vivi This episode is hosted by Meher Roy and Sébastien Couture. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/126