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Pat Thompson spends most of his time helping early-stage companies create their communication strategies. He started his career doing PR/Marketing for emerging technology companies in San Francisco and went on the be the editor of the North American Region for a tech publication called CoinGeek.com before diving head-first into the world of early-stage start-up investing and support at two start-up incubators. Afterward, he launched the Bootstrap First incubator, helping idea-stage founders and pre-revenue businesses in the Philadelphia area go from initial concept to early adopter launch in 100 days. Pat still helps a few early-stage founders on their journey to early adopter launching and growth but is currently spending most of his time doing communications about consumer-facing artificial intelligence for a media agency in London as he prepares to take his next step in his career (entering law school in fall 2025 so that he can better-help businesses navigate their legal obstacles). If Pat isn't spending his time learning about new technologies and business frameworks, then he is probably roasting coffee, collecting watches, snowboarding somewhere on the east coast, or watching college basketball. Key Moments [05:14] "First Job at Verma Media" [09:38] Startup Sympathies: Lessons Learned [10:16] Bootstrap Incubator for Early Startups [13:46] Empathy-Driven Problem Solving Find Patrick Online https://www.linkedin.com/in/bootstrappat/ If you're enjoying Entrepreneur's Enigma, please give me a review on the podcast directory of your choice. The show is on all of them and these reviews really help others find the show. iTunes: https://gmwd.us/itunes Podchaser: https://gmwd.us/podchaser TrueFans: https://gmwd.us/truefans Also, if you're getting value from the show and want to buy me a coffee, go to the show notes to get the link to get me a coffee to keep me awake, while I work on bringing you more great episodes to your ears. →  https://gmwd.us/buy-me-a-coffee or support me on TrueFans.fm → https://gmwd.us/truefans. Follow Seth Online: Seth | Digital Marketer (@s3th.me) Seth Goldstein | LinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/in/sethmgoldstein Seth On Mastodon: https://indieweb.social/@phillycodehound Seth's Marketing Junto Newsletter: https://MarketingJunto.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kurt Wuckert, Jr., Chief Bitcoin Historian visits the beachside studios of  @MessyTimes  to talk about #Bitcoin and all its implications. Every 210,000 coins or roughly four years, the block reward of Bitcoin is cut in half. Every infrastructure player in Bitcoin has to find ways to make money on transaction volume instead of the block reward. The bootstrapping subsidy was designed to help the Bitcoin ecosystem develop to the point where a natural economy would take hold.   Fifteen years in, the Bitcoin experiment is getting near the point where real economic transactions need to take the place of subsidy-chasing. Bitcoin (BSV) is no weirder than HTML for the Internet. Most users don't understand how the Internet works, but they use it. Same thing here. Huge businesses can be built using blockchain data and payment rails, without you thinking about it. Come on in! The #blockchain is fine! Together we will connect another 4 billion people to the economy, providing a path for true freedom and economic liberation which will drive every Leftist, control freak Progressive Statist completely insane - an added if delicious bonus. For more of Kurt's wisdom, check out  @Kurtwuckertjr  and his weekly show on  @CoinGeek .   https://christophermessina.substack.com/ for more details and sheer Enlightentainment.   LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE - IT DON'T COST NOTHIN', to quote the immortal Senator Bluto Blutarsky. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/messytimes/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/messytimes/support

As we end 2024, Kurt Wuckert Jr. takes us through some of his favourite moments of the year so far. Starting with Connor Murray, Kurt and Connor discussed 15 years since the release of the  #Bitcoin Whitepaper, and if it has fulfilled its original promise. Kurt also talked with Steve Bailey, one of the leaders behind the #DigitalCurrency Wallet, Rock Wallet.In an interview with Craig Mason, Kurt discusses the need for verifiable information and how #Bitcoin can solve real-world #data problems.Ty Everett also joins Kurt, and they talk about blockchain start-ups, the tooling and focusing on going out and doing business.His final clip is with the founder of Champions of Other Worldly Magic, the unique trading card game, that utilises #bitcoin technology, but is not focusing on telling that to the world, to just create a great game.As the show concluded Kurt took some of the burning questions from our live chatbox audience. ► Hit #Subscribe & #HitTheBell so you don't miss out on any new videos!-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------► Our Links:Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/realcoingeek/Twitter ► https://twitter.com/realcoingeekInstagram ► ...

Setting a festive mood with a holiday shirt to boot, Charles Miller kicks off the CoinGeek Conversations Christmas Special this year, sharing a bubbly toast with his guests: CoinGeek Reporter, Becky Liggero, and Osmin Callis, the Founder and CEO of Mode 8. The two battled it out to the end in an exciting quiz covering topics, such as Bitcoin SV (BSV) companies, Bitcoin terminologies, entertainment, science, and a final odd one out round. Formulating the questions using ChatGPT, Charles marveled at how the language model came up with its responses, as well as abstract images for BSV companies, based on the very little information he gave. The first round focused on Bitcoin SV companies, with Charles asking participants to identify BSV their names based on AI images. The next round shifted to general knowledge, covering topics such as the Olympic Games in London, planets, Komodo dragons, and Taylor Swift albums. The third round took a unique turn, presenting descriptions from Robin Kohze, CEO and Co-founder of Vaionex, with participants tasked to identify Bitcoin-related terms based on these descriptions. In the final, odd one out, round, participants had to pick the word or phrase that didn't belong among four choices. The competition was fierce as Osmin and Becky vied to answer questions, earning points for correct answers. At the end of the quiz, the scores were tallied, ultimately revealing the winner, with prizes, like the bubbly, ‘magically' passed across the online connections! To find out who won, you'll need to watch the show and perhaps test your knowledge by attempting some of the questions! Best of luck, and may you have a joyful holiday season from the CoinGeek Conversations team!

Join Kurt Wuckert Jr. live as he discusses the future of video streaming through blockchain. CEO of RAD NFTV will be joining Kurt to discuss just what RAD have been working on, and how they can change the landscape of payments for content creators.► Hit #Subscribe & #HitTheBell so you don't miss out on any new videos!-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------► Our Links:Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/realcoingeek/Twitter ► https://twitter.com/realcoingeekInstagram ► ...

In the latest episode of CoinGeek Conversations, Jack Pitts, founder of Slictionary, Brendan Lee, founder of Elas Digital and CoinGeek's Charles Miller delve into Zeke Faux's new book, Number Go Up. Faux, a journalist from Bloomberg Businessweek, takes readers on a journey through the crypto world, focusing on characters like Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX, the cultural phenomenon of Bored Apes, and the mysteries of Tether's $68 billion valuation.  The book's format, a first-person narrative, fascinated Jack, who said he enjoyed the informal style. Faux's approach reflected the author's personal experience as he became a character in the story. Brendan found the storytelling engaging, describing it as an adventure that kept him hooked: “the author managed to get into the offices of several of these really high flying crypto executives. And I mean, it kind of reads like a bit of an adventure.” Charles discussed the evolution of Faux's perspective from a seemingly innocent article about Sam Bankman-Fried to a more critical stance, especially regarding FTX's legitimacy. The conversation touched on the author's initial portrayal of FTX as a “thought experiment”, later questioning its potential scam-like nature.  A discussion on Tether's central role in the crypto world surfaced, with Brendan raising concerns about Tether's backing and its potential impact on the overall economy. He emphasized that Tether's $68 billion valuation should have corresponding funds in a bank account. They discussed the suspicions surrounding Tether's operations, with concerns about its actual reserves and its role in market manipulation. “I suspect and a lot of people in the BSV community as well, that Tether, there's not much money there at all,” Brendan asserted.  Jack meanwhile argued that regulators should focus on auditing the trading practices of platforms like Binance and Bitfinex rather than questioning Tether's reserves. “What they need to audit is not what's backing the treasure chest. They need to audit how the treasure chest was obtained, which means they need an audit of Binance. They need an audit of Bitfinex and an audit of Tether to find out what trades were being made, how they were being made, and what dirty people they were trading with, and how they were manipulating prices to basically make themselves all that money.”   The conversation turned to the NFT craze, with Jack criticizing the quality of the digital assets. “I think the funniest thing about the NFT craze is the levels of ideocracy behind it. So first of all, the pictures themselves aren't even on the Ethereum blockchain. And yet the funny thing about these NFTs is they have to be really low 1980s quality pictures.”  Brendan brought up the exploitative nature of some artists profiting from NFTs. “I was reading about these people who were creating NFTs and they were paying the artists, like $10 to create all of this material and then going and making $10 million from selling them. It's not just lazy, but it's exploitative.” They proceeded to discuss a section of Faux's book, which delves into the bizarre world of Bored Apes and how Faux risked $20,000 of his own money to purchase an Ape, with the goal of gaining access to an exclusive party and later selling the digital asset. The Bored Ape phenomenon represents the broader NFT craze, as discussed by the participants. They critiqued the low-quality, pixelated images of these digital assets. “I find the whole Bored Ape kind of hype cycle which I think really has largely ended now seems to be one of the strangest things that's happened in crypto,” Brendan noted.  A significant part of the book explor

Our guest is BSV YouTuber and CoinGeek writer Joshua Henslee. We discuss big blocker vindication, the narrative fallout of Ordinals, Hodlocker, the state of BSV from inside, and more. Enjoy the chat!Links:Joshua Henslee on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cryptoAcornsJoshua Henslee on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@UC0aRGlWxBDkEZXS5IPOBhXwPresentation slides of this episode: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/119Fo9paoW_PfFE9bsSgnT8cCT7uyRrZa/edit#slide=id.g1001e085589_0_4Donations:bitcoincash:qqh6763nrx32k5lh0agtzhwqts4grp7qdsetp3k929Sponsors:Thank you very much to our flipstarter contributors (NEW Flipstarter for ep. 96-105): https://flipstarter.bitcoincashpodcast.com/enGeneral Protocols: https://generalprotocols.com and https://bchbull.comSocials:Website: https://www.bitcoincashpodcast.comTimestamps:00:00 Podcast starts00:37 Intro02:43 Joshua's intro and Bitcoin journey09:38 Year of the Bitcoin forks15:47 2023 year of Ordinals vindication21:21 Will there be a new BTC fork?30:03 More on replay protection34:27 Inertia is a powerful thing37:48 Hodlocker48:53 Question of the week1:02:29 State of BSV1:21:26 Whale Tank1:31:04 Meme of the week1:42:03 Community comment of the week1:46:52 Joshua's message to the community1:48:57 Podcast supporter appreciation1:49:37 Shoutouts and outro

Kurt and Jack previewed what is happening in the trial between #COPA and Dr. Craig Wright. Also, Kurt discusses his latest article on CoinGeek.com. Check it out at the link below:https://coingeek.com/the-overlooked-history-of-turing-completeness-in-bitcoin/► Hit #Subscribe & #HitTheBell so you don't miss out on any new videos!-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------► Our Links:Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/realcoingeek/Twitter ► https://twitter.com/realcoingeekInstagram ► ...

Kurt Wuckert Jr interviewed Bryan Daugherty, Founder and Chairman of Smart Ledger to discuss all the amazing innovations the team have been working on from CertiHash to Proof of ESG, also find out why Bryan is in Germany and his role with the BSV Association.► Hit #Subscribe & #HitTheBell so you don't miss out on any new videos!-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------► Our Links:Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/realcoingeek/Twitter ► https://twitter.com/realcoingeekInstagram ► ...

Join Kurt Wuckert Jr. for an ask me anything #AMA show, on all the latest happenings in the #BSV, #Bitcoin, #AI, #IPv6 and just about anything else!Kurt discusses the current story surrounding the nChain drama with Craig Wright, Calvin Ayre, and Christen Ager-Hanssen and answers all of the viewers pressing questions.► Hit #Subscribe & #HitTheBell so you don't miss out on any new videos!-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------► Our Links:Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/realcoingeek/Twitter ► https://twitter.com/realcoingeekInstagram ► ...

Alex Fauvel joins Kurt to chat about a new type of card game that allows you to get to know people by asking questions but not knowing who actually answered Yes or No. Alex and Kurt also answer questions from the audience about the details of Dark2Light and what the future holds for this new-age card game.Learn More: https://tpow.app/3b6fc3ff► Hit #Subscribe & #HitTheBell so you don't miss out on any new videos!-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------► Our Links:Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/realcoingeek/Twitter ► https://twitter.com/realcoingeekInstagram ► ...

Fellow Native New Yorker, now proud resident of the Last Free State in America, Florida, Andrew Gutmann joins us in the  @MessyTimes  studios for a wide-ranging but focused conversation about the need to root out the insidious evil of Marxism in American life. He achieved accidental fame for penning a letter of protest to his daughter's school in New York City - a private school called Brearley which for decades was a beacon of educational excellence, but during the Wuhan Hysteria and the BLM Summer of Love 2020 turned into a racist, CRT-pushing propaganda factory. That letter went viral. Andrew cogently sums up the main ills of the Woke Ideological Disease: 1. The woke loathe free speech; their relentless campaign to silence voices they disagree with has become their non-stop obsession 2. The woke hate capitalism, based as it is on personal freedom. 3. The woke's focus on groups, not individuals goes against the entirety of Judaeo-Christian Western civilization and the Constitution. 4. They insist on denying objective reality, hence the nonsense around "dozens of genders;" their power comes from forcing people to say publicly things they know are insane. 5. The woke loathe democracy and our system of meritocracy; their entire focus is on leveling outcomes rather than setting fair conditions for people to compete in. During our talk - spoiler alert! - we added a 6th symptom of Wokeism: 6. The woke hate religion and hate the family unit, because both resist the godless materialist chaos of Marxist conception. None of this is new to scholars of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist thought. In the American context, the Marxist Left have taken advantage of Americans' relative ignorance of the true nature of Communism/Socialist to hide behind words like "justice" and "equality," which they have perverted into their exact opposites. After realizing the same thing I did, that New York has become a Marxist cesspool of illogic and Leftist totalitarianism, he moved his family to Palm Beach County and is now running for Congress (FL-22) to help reverse the horrible radically leftward tide the nation has been suffering under. To learn more, donate and support this excellent candidate whose sensibility, morality and clear comprehension of the Constitution is badly needed in Congress, please go to: www.andrewgutmann.com. After getting a fresh dose of #Enlightentainment about parents' rights in education and the need to reverse the decades-long impact of Marxist indoctrination on our schools, might we suggest as a palate cleanser that you check out CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering? It is more important than ever that you get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing: https://tpow.app/ebc70fcc --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/messytimes/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/messytimes/support

Join Kurt Wuckert Jr. for the upcoming episode of the #CGWeeklyLivestream where he will be joined by Ari Kuqi, to discuss the latest developments in #Bitcoin and #blockchain ► Hit #Subscribe & #HitTheBell so you don't miss out on any new videos!-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------► Our Links:Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/realcoingeek/Twitter ► https://twitter.com/realcoingeekInstagram ► ...

In this week's episode, Kurt will be taking all your questions about what is going on with the blockchain space. ► Hit #Subscribe & #HitTheBell so you don't miss out on any new videos!-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------► Our Links:Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/realcoingeek/Twitter ► https://twitter.com/realcoingeekInstagram ► ...

Kurt talks #Bitcoin price with guest Gareth Soloway, as they go over the digital asset markets, commodities and stocks, as well as what is causing the price movements.► Hit #Subscribe & #HitTheBell so you don't miss out on any new videos!-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------► Our Links:Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/realcoingeek/Twitter ► https://twitter.com/realcoingeekInstagram ► ...

Kurt was joined by special guest Hector Lopez. Hector chats about his Bitcoin story, his software development career, as well as how #AI and #Blockchain are going to be the future of technology.► Hit #Subscribe & #HitTheBell so you don't miss out on any new videos!-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------► Our Links:Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/realcoingeek/Twitter ► https://twitter.com/realcoingeekInstagram ► ...

On this weeks' show, Kurt takes a trip down memory lane, looking at some interesting clips from previous shows and interviews he has done.Kurt talks with Luke Rohenaz about their time at BTC Miami 2021, having been turned away at BTC Miami 2023, the two reminisce on the discussion Kurt had with Tim Draper and Lightning Network. Kurt took a question from the audience in his ask me anything show this April explaining what is Proof of Work and why it is important. Kurt looks at the #BSV price, but from 2 years ago and what some of the reasons are for price movements with BSV. Finally looking back on some clips from his coverage of the Kleiman vs Wright trial, answering a question from none other than Greg Maxwell, followed by his discussions with Craig Wright's legal team Andres Rivero and the late Amanda McGovern. ► Hit #Subscribe & #HitTheBell so you don't miss out on any new videos!-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------► Our Links:Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/realcoingeek/Twitter ► https://twitter.com/realcoingeekInstagram ► ...

Carby is the first marketplace for future carbon credits, solving liquidity, scalability and transparency issues of the market. It's CEO and Co-founder Mark Moores believes more carbon projects are needed to fight climate change. Speaking as a father, Mark tells Charles Miller on this episode of CoinGeek conversations, “when you have a child, you re-evaluate things and you think about the future and one thing you've got to think about is what type of planet are we bequeathing our children?”   With Carby, a platform that connects carbon projects with carbon credit buyers, Mark is addressing climate challenges by scaling the voluntary carbon market. The platform will help provide project developers with funding to overcome cashflow challenges while giving them access to liquidity solutions in the market. In effect, the platform will encourage project developers to increase the supply of carbon credits as buyers signal a future demand. Project developers will be able to sell NFT's that represent a specific carbon credit in a specific future year. Attached to the NFT is an advance purchase agreement that gives project developers a legal obligation to deliver the carbon credit to the buyer once it's been produced.  CyberXchain looks to incentivize ethical hackers using blockchain technology  Cybercrime is a massive problem, says Jean Lehmann, Founder and CEO of CyberXChain, a marketplace that brings together ethical hackers and businesses. As defined by Jean, “ethical hackers are essentially professionals, security experts, consultants looking to flag, fix and identify vulnerabilities in computer systems so companies can be better informed of the vulnerabilities and the steps on how to fix them.” As Jean explains, “everyday brings in new headlines of cyber-attacks, we are observing a never ending cycle of cyber-attacks and the cyber arms race between the attackers and the defenders.” Jean's solution is to create a trust and economic layer between ethical hackers and businesses. With CyberXchain, ethical hacking is democratized, made more accessible and cost effective for both businesses and ethical hackers, he says. The platform will have its own token that ethical hackers can directly be rewarded with upon job completion, through their digital wallet. According to Jean, using blockchain technology will improve operational efficiency and create economic incentives . “I look at blockchain as a way to create an economic policy, governance and technology ledger, which is going to bring various types of efficiency and benefits around smart contracts for rule based automation of security events,” he says. After many years of working in cybersecurity, Jean realized that the service model to counter cyber-attacks is not scalable. For his part, CyberXChain will address the cybersecurity challenge while creating economic incentives, ultimately improving security posture. Watch the full episode of CoinGeek Conversations' third installment of its summer special series featuring Block Dojo entrepreneurs here:  

For James Belding, the co-founder and CEO of Tokenized, the launch of his desktop app just days ahead of the London Blockchain conference in June was the fruit of years of work, ever  since he appeared at a CoinGeek conference with his self-funded team in Toronto in 2019. Described as a “self-custodial and enterprise-grade digital wallet …for issuing, managing and holding digital assets including Bitcoin SV”, Tokenized boasts an elegant interface, an easy sign up process and an impressive range of functions.Sure, it's taken a while, James admits, but that's because he wanted his product to be more than just “the hundredth wallet that wasn't that good and that didn't distinguish itself at all from anything else.”Tokenized's distinction lies in the wide range of what James calls “instrument types” that it supports. So in your wallet, you can have an eclectic mix, including bonds, tickets, coupons and loyalty points as well alongside fiat currencies. Despite the name of the business, James plays down the tokens themselves, partly because he thinks people have a distorted idea about them from the hype around dodgy NFTs. The tokens are just “tiny, tiny pieces of the puzzle,” he says. “You just make a token on chain. Maybe it's a five, or twenty percent improvement over current things”. It's the rest of what blockchain can do that is key to what he wants to achieve with Tokenized: “the real unlocking of value - and where all the hard work is - in the smart contracts and all the implications that arise from those”. On this week's CoinGeek Conversations, James talks about the journey from initial idea to product launch, and explains why he thinks users will agree that Tokenized was worth the wait: “We really put our blood, sweat and tears into it to make it as compelling as we could, as simple as we could. But right now anyone can download the app and they can use it as what we think is probably the best Bitcoin wallet or even crypto wallet in the whole industry.”Part of that claim rests on the thinking that James and his team have put into security. By reducing Tokenized's own custody of assets, they have put their users in a more direct relationship with the blockchain: “we saw a non-custodial approach [allowing] users to connect directly with the DLT [digital ledger technology] as intuitively very compelling from a security point of view.”That has an additional benefit when trying to sign up customers, big business especially: he can tell them that they don't need to put their faith in Tokenized being around forever - although he is confident it will be! But if the company were to disappear, the Tokenized protocol, which is open source, would still exist and continue to operate, and users could access their assets through alternative interfaces. “I think that resonates very well” in discussion with potential customers, James says. “It's a really powerful message and we get a lot of positive feedback for it.”So what are the prospects for signing up big business users? James is cautiously optimistic: “we're in active discussions with a lot of big players that are getting their heads around it. I wouldn't say we're at a stage where one of the biggest players is ready to drop everything, but we're basically at the point where I think a bunch of pilot projects are going to start rolling out quite soon”. 

En este episodio del podcast, exploramos el peligroso mundo del SIM swapping, donde los hackers pueden tomar el control de cuentas de teléfono y criptomonedas. Comenzamos con el relato de kaKi, que nos compartió su historia en el canal Telegram de ElSiglo21esHoy.com. Y continuaremos aprendiendo a través de casos como el de Michael Terpin, que perdió $24 millones en criptomonedas, hasta el robo del famoso streamer Ibai Llanos, aprendemos cómo estos ataques ocurren y damos consejos para protegernos.También analizaremos el caso Santa Clara, uno de los episodios más intrigantes y perturbadores en el mundo del ciberdelito, donde los hackers jóvenes y astutos llevaron a cabo una serie de estafas conocidas como SIM swapping. Además, se profundiza en el caso Bittrex y Gregg Bennett, donde Bennett demandó a Bittrex, el exchange de criptomonedas, luego de sufrir el hackeo de SIM y la pérdida de casi 100 BTC. Este episodio destaca la creciente preocupación por los ataques de SIM swapping y la necesidad de implementar medidas de seguridad más sólidas en la industria de las criptomonedas. Se ofrece información y consejos útiles para mantenerse seguro en línea y protegerse del SIM swapping.Bibiliografía:

En este episodio del podcast, exploramos el peligroso mundo del SIM swapping, donde los hackers pueden tomar el control de cuentas de teléfono y criptomonedas. Comenzamos con el relato de kaKi, que nos compartió su historia en el canal Telegram de ElSiglo21esHoy.com. Y continuaremos aprendiendo a través de casos como el de Michael Terpin, que perdió $24 millones en criptomonedas, hasta el robo del famoso streamer Ibai Llanos, aprendemos cómo estos ataques ocurren y damos consejos para protegernos.También analizaremos el caso Santa Clara, uno de los episodios más intrigantes y perturbadores en el mundo del ciberdelito, donde los hackers jóvenes y astutos llevaron a cabo una serie de estafas conocidas como SIM swapping. Además, se profundiza en el caso Bittrex y Gregg Bennett, donde Bennett demandó a Bittrex, el exchange de criptomonedas, luego de sufrir el hackeo de SIM y la pérdida de casi 100 BTC. Este episodio destaca la creciente preocupación por los ataques de SIM swapping y la necesidad de implementar medidas de seguridad más sólidas en la industria de las criptomonedas. Se ofrece información y consejos útiles para mantenerse seguro en línea y protegerse del SIM swapping.Bibiliografía:

Join Kurt Wuckert Jr. for another instalment of the CoinGeek Weekly Livestream, where he will answer any of your questions about #blockchain, #bitcoin, and just about anything.In this week's episode, Kurt was joined by Luke Rohenaz, who is helping to create Ordinals on the #BSVBlockchainMake sure to like, share, subscribe, and turn on your notifications, so you never miss the dulcet tones of Mr Wuckert Jr.► Hit #Subscribe & #HitTheBell so you don't miss out on any new videos!-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------► Our Links:Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/realcoingeek/Twitter ► https://twitter.com/realcoingeekInstagram ► ...

Join Kurt Wuckert Jr. for another instalment of the CoinGeek Weekly Livestream, where he will answer any of your questions about #blockchain, #bitcoin, and just about anything.In this week's episode, Kurt was joined by David Case and Nicolas Ryan-Schreiber of Aym. Make sure to like, share, and subscribe, and turn on your notifications, so you never miss the dulcet tones of Mr Wuckert Jr.► Hit #Subscribe & #HitTheBell so you don't miss out on any new videos!-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------► Our Links:Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/realcoingeek/Twitter ► https://twitter.com/realcoingeekInstagram ► ...

Ray Nayler wrote a great novel, The Mountain in the Sea. The Enlightentaining Host of  @MessyTimes  was so delighted by the book that he wrote a book review and reached out to Ray to invite him for a visit to the studios. The conversation that follows is the result of Ray's saying yes to that invitation. Ray is a deep thinker with wide-ranging international experience and a persistent curiosity which drives him to learn more and to express what he learns in his writing. Beyond or as part of his writing, he's spent a great deal of time examining how information flows - or fails to flow - in society, and the implications that has for a healthy town square in which people of goodwill but differing ideas can engage in robust debate. Enjoy! You can find more of Ray's work at www.raynayler.net. After getting a fresh dose of #Enlightentainment from our discussion, might we suggest that you check out CoinGeek's ⁠Bitcoin 101 free course⁠ offering? It is more important than ever that you get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing: ⁠https://tpow.app/ebc70fcc If you're picking up what Messy Times is laying down, you're welcome to provide whatever support you can via our crypto tip jar: HandCash: $MuddyWaters --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/messytimes/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/messytimes/support

We are delighted to have Dr. Ken Dekleva join us for a deep and wide-ranging conversation across his areas of expertise. Ken covers a lot of intellectual and practical ground in his second visit to the studios. A prolific author as well as a Senior Fellow at the George H.W. Bush Center for U.S.-China Relations, Ken's experience spans the globe. His deep experience is not only represented in historical knowledge, but directly in current international affairs and innovations in healthcare, not only for military veterans but for patients of all kinds. We discuss a few of the #mental_health advances he champions, including #telemedicine which he already uses in his medical practice. That is just scratching the surface - please grab a soothing beverage and settle in for a great discussion. In addition to the range of sources discussed in the episode, we remind our listeners to check out The Cipher Brief for the best reporting and analysis on national security issues. After getting a fresh dose of #Enlightentainment from our discussion, might we suggest that you check out CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering? It is more important than ever that you get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing: https://tpow.app/ebc70fcc --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/messytimes/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/messytimes/support

It's a weird thing about history. One can visit, say, ancient European city centers and marvel at the architecture, in full knowledge of horrific war crimes and atrocities committed on the very streets one is currently strolling on, nibbling pastries and snapping selfies. All that happened a long time ago, so - to steal a line - at this point, what difference does it make that babies were snatched from their mothers' arms and dashed to the pavement right here where I'm dropping powdered sugar on my sweater? When war is happening in the here and now, however, it seems somehow tasteless to express any concern about urban design and respect for tradition. Private-jet-setting-on-the-taxpayer-dime Climate Nag John Kerry in a supreme fit of tone-deaf absurdity urged Vladimir Putin to "be aware of Russia's carbon emission / climate commitments" while he began his evil invasion of Ukraine. This came as Russian planes were bombing a maternity hospital in Mariupol. So if the Carbon Gadfly can burn jet fuel for thousands of miles while hectoring people about the supposed existential threat posed by carbon emissions and express a preference for clubbing Ukrainian children to death rather than running tanks over them, I think it's okay to ruminate on architectural issues in a postwar Ukraine. Urbanist and architectural traditionalist Michael Diamant joins us in the  @MessyTimes  studios to discuss his deep convictions about the destruction of Western architecture being caused by the same underlying root cause that leads to the rampant idiocy around "pronouns" and other, bizarre-to-normal-people social phenomena. How, you might well ask, does a commitment to urban renewal along the lines of building things people like to live in rather than brutalist Soviet silly boxes, play into a consideration of the war ongoing in Ukraine? Tune in to find out! Afterwards, flush with enthusiasm, peruse Michael's architectural musings: https://twitter.com/michael_diamanthttps://www.facebook.com/groups/Klassisknyproduktionhttps://www.reddit.com/r/ArchitecturalRevival/  After getting a fresh dose of urbanist Enlightentainment, might we suggest as a palate cleanser that you check out CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering? In an era fraught with architectural disruption it is more important than ever that you get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing: https://tpow.app/ebc70fcc --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/messytimes/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/messytimes/support

Until now, the kind of people attracted to Bitcoin have mainly been developers, says Kurt Wuckert Jr. But that needs to change in order to create real Bitcoin businesses and convert existing businesses to Bitcoin.“If we were better at sales and marketing,” Kurt believes, “we might not even be in the blockchain economy at all. We could all be selling solar panels or something and make pretty good money. So it really, I think, is largely a culture thing.”Changing Bitcoin culture would mean bringing in experienced salespeople - and it wouldn't matter if they came into the job knowing nothing about Bitcoin: “it's not that difficult to just hire good experienced people from sales, “ says Kurt. “I mean, there's there's companies that have SAAS [software as a service] salesmen or enterprise cloud computing salesmen. These guys could pretty quickly get up to snuff on selling Bitcoin SV solutions. Get them out there, get them knocking on doors, build leads, build clients, build business. It's formulaic. It's not that hard to do if you put the right people on the job.”Kurt was speaking on this week's CoinGeek Conversations, the second part of his interview for the show. This week he took a step back from discussing his day-to-day responsibilities as CEO of the mining business GorillaPool, and spoke in his capacity as Chief Historian of CoinGeek. With that longer-term perspective he stressed the importance of increasing the throughput of transactions on the blockchain to make up for the halving every few years of the ‘subsidy' (the block reward payment in Bitcoin) that miners receive for adding a block to the chain:“If you were just mining casually in 2009, you were earning 50 coins a block. And the average miner is earning less than seven coins a block right now. So there has been a - I don't know what that is - ninetyish percent drop off in profitability, really, if you're measuring in Satoshis. It's bad. And so we need to do better. We need to have massive blocks because that is Bitcoin's security model at scale.”So the mining network - and therefore the continuing existence of Bitcoin - depends for its future on more businesses creating transactions to be processed. Kurt is confident that will happen, but says “we've got to hurry”. The problem is that in the past few years, too much emphasis has been put on the extremely volatile price of coins rather than on their utility: “people kind of can't get it through their heads that there are other ways to make money with blockchain.”If that doesn't happen soon, there's a doomsday scenario in which the whole Bitcoin economy grinds to a halt. People will look back on this time, Kurt speculates, thinking that “maybe blockchain was just a bad idea. And it's going to be real humbling in ten years [when] all of us are just doing something different because nobody actually got a real customer”.But, ever the optimist, Kurt hopes the current depressed market conditions will actually prove to be just what Bitcoin needs: “this is actually what I love about bear markets,” he says. “They make people reassess that ‘Hey, maybe I've been wrong. Maybe I need to rethink the profit model of being in this economy'. And yeah, I mean, we just need somebody to get out there and seal the deal …or else.” 

Join Kurt Wuckert Jr. for another instalment of the CoinGeek Weekly Livestream, where he answers viewer questions about #blockchain, #bitcoin, and just about anything.Thank you to our Sponsor London Blockchain Conference! Register for the Conference at the Link Below!!https://londonblockchain.net/Make sure to like, share, and subscribe, and turn on your notifications, so you never miss the dulcet tones of Mr Wuckert Jr.Timestamps: 00:00 - Countdown 00:35 - Kurt's intro 11:32 - Start of show 11:47 - Tulip Trading17:23 - Appointment & App help18:25 - Mining 21:11 - Binance 24:58 - COPA trial 25:32 - Credit card processing 27:57 - T► Hit #Subscribe & #HitTheBell so you don't miss out on any new videos!-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------► Our Links:Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/realcoingeek/Twitter ► https://twitter.com/realcoingeekInstagram ► ...

When you set up a blockchain mining pool, there's plenty of complicated technology involved. And if it's just you and a few colleagues and friends, when you switch it on for the first time, it's not immediately obvious whether it's working. Your computers have to compete with others on the network – the Bitcoin SV network in this case – to ‘win' the next block on the blockchain. But are they in the game?  At the start of his GorillaPool enterprise, its founder Kurt Wuckert Jr. says, “we weren't even sure if we would build a block. We didn't know that we had it right. And then within about an hour of us putting it up, we found a block, which was our only indicator”.It was the fulfilment of a long-held ambition for Kurt, CEO of GorillaPool, as he explains on this week's CoinGeek Conversations; “I was very interested in doing some of these things that I've theorised in Bitcoin for a very long time and said, you know ‘what we need is an active public pool in BSV. We need a pool that is run for the sake of doing cool stuff …I really wanted to test theories and really push the limits of Bitcoin.”A mining pool combines the efforts of a group of mining computers, sharing the rewards between members whenever any of them wins a block. GorillaPool is open to all: you can join up your own computer to the pool - but we're talking industrial strength computers here, not just your laptop - or you can pay Kurt and his colleagues to set it up for you, renting the hardware and running it. It will cost you between $3,000 and $10,000 depending on market conditions, to put yourself into the Bitcoin business.As to whether or not it is profitable, Kurt says that depends on timing: the price of the specialised ASIC chips that power mining computers fluctuates with the market price of Bitcoin - because everyone wants them when it's profitable to mine. So Kurt's advice is to buy your equipment when the market is low, and sell when it's high:“I've been in mining since 2013, and so this is now my fourth bear market. And what I've seen is that the people that really grow are the people that at the top of the bull market are selling their coins, but they're also selling off their fleet. They're selling their ASICs because they might have bought an asset for $2,000 at the bottom of the bear market, but they can sell it used for eight to $10,000. And it's going to be obsolete in the next cycle anyway …And so if you do that, I've seen a lot of people do really well.”If you have faith in the long-term value of Bitcoin SV, would you be better off simply buying some when the market is low, and waiting it out? Kurt believes mining is a better option because it forces a kind of self-discipline, making you, effectively, invest regularly, in the form of electricity bills to keep your computers running, and reaping the occasional reward when the pool wins a block. No matter how you might intend to make regular savings, it usually doesn't happen, but if you're in a mining pool, it happens by default: “it really is the opportunity to just put it on cruise control, let it do the work and it's disciplined for you”.On next week's CoinGeek Conversations, Kurt talks about one of his other roles, as CoinGeek's Chief Bitcoin Historian.    

Join Kurt Wuckert Jr. for another instalment of the CoinGeek Weekly Livestream, where he will answer any of your questions about #blockchain, #bitcoin, and just about anything.In this week's episode, Kurt will be joined by a special guest, so you don't want to miss this!Make sure to like, share, and subscribe, and turn on your notifications, so you never miss the dulcet tones of Mr Wuckert Jr.Timestamps:00:00 - Countdown 04:55 - Start of show 05:10 - Kurt's intro 07:48 - Livestream w/ Daniel Krawisz08:17 - Location status check 09:07 - Work updates 16:54 - Powco 20:04 - Concepts on Bitcoin 24:30 - Walkthrough to Powco30:35 - Mining & boosting37:24 - Sorting 39:30 - Avoiding sabotage► Hit #Subscribe & #HitTheBell so you don't miss out on any new videos!-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------► Our Links:Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/realcoingeek/Twitter ► https://twitter.com/realcoingeekInstagram ► ...

Join Kurt Wuckert Jr. for another instalment of the CoinGeek Weekly Livestream, where he will answer any of your questions about #blockchain, #bitcoin, and just about anything.In this week's episode, Kurt will be joined by a special guest, so you don't want to miss this!Make sure to like, share, and subscribe, and turn on your notifications, so you never miss the dulcet tones of Mr Wuckert Jr.► Hit #Subscribe & #HitTheBell so you don't miss out on any new videos!-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------► Our Links:Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/realcoingeek/Twitter ► https://twitter.com/realcoingeekInstagram ► ...

Join Kurt Wuckert Jr. for another installment of the CoinGeek Weekly Livestream, where he chats with Smart Ledger's Greg Ward, Bryan Daugherty, and Shawn Ryan about their latest proof of concept applications and how blockchain is going to change the world.Make sure to like, share, and subscribe, and turn on your notifications, so you never miss the dulcet tones of Mr. Wuckert Jr.► Hit #Subscribe & #HitTheBell so you don't miss out on any new videos!-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------► Our Links:Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/realcoingeek/Twitter ► https://twitter.com/realcoingeekInstagram ► ...

Most people know the solar calendar has ticked over to 2023. The cognoscenti are aware that a far more important milestone has been reached - the start of the 4th season of MessyTimes and all the glitteringly brilliant #enlightentainment that entails! Join #CraigWright and our Glittering Host for a rollicking ride starting with the ignominious and predicted collapse of #FTX and the lying fraud #SBF and ending with a hard binary choice between two competing philosophical systems of deliberate existence. Kantians in particular will want to brace themselves! For those interested in learning more about real world, critical minerals #NFT applications, please register for Christopher Messina's February 15th lecture in the City of London about using the #blockchain to advance a #Greenland rare earths mine: https://www.zyen.com/events/all-events/how-to-nft-a-greenland-rare-earths-mine/ There is always a prize in the box! As a reward for filling your head with positivity, you get to check out CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering! Astute listeners know it is more important than ever that you get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing: https://tpow.app/ebc70fcc --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/messytimes/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/messytimes/support

Kindly Sponsored by https://londonblockchain.net & https://madam2lip.com/Kurt Wuckert Jr  was joined by Peter Schiff to discuss his views on Gold, Blockchain and Bitcoin. Make sure you like and subscribe, and turn on that notification bell to never miss a #CGWeeklyLivestream

This week Kurt Wuckert Jr. hosts a clip show with some of his top clips of the season.

To celebrate the end of 2022, the team behind CoinGeek Conversations brings you a festive special edition: the CoinGeek Conversations Christmas Quiz. Diddy Wheldon from Women of BSV, Becky Liggero from CoinGeek and Alessio Pagani from nChain were all put through their paces by CoinGeek's Charles Miller. The contestants' knowledge was tested on subjects including music, Bitcoin SV and former CoinGeek Conversations guests. It was a competitive affair as there could only be one winner, so the guests had to be ready to ring their buzzers as quickly as they knew the answer. Please watch and find out how you score. Thank you for tuning in to CoinGeek Conversations this year, happy holidays and we will see you in 2023 when the show returns for its next sparkling season. 

One of the biggest challenges for companies looking to start out on their own can be a lack of demand for a product or service and this is what the Block Venture Studio has been created to solve.  Venture studios are organisations which help founders build start-ups based on what corporates need. They help businesses come up with an initial idea which will suit the market and assist with product development. This differs from incubators which are meant for entrepreneurs who already have an idea for a business but need support in getting it off the ground.   “The start-up itself is built for the corporate so the corporate is the shareholder, the corporate is the one that's funding it,” Ari Kuqi, Director of Research and Development at Block Venture Studio, explains to CoinGeek's Charles Miller at the company's launch event in London.  The studio is the new division of the Satoshi Block Dojo, the successful global blockchain incubator which has taken the Bitcoin SV world by storm since it was set up in 2021 by Craig Massey.  And like the Block Dojo, it recognises the power of using Bitcoin SV to build out solutions. “We think that Bitcoin SV is the only blockchain that actually offers the utility that are promised by so many blockchains,” says Ari.  Charles meets some of the corporates that the Block Venture Studio are engaging with about potential solutions, including Kim Dingler, CCO at ITV Studios Entertainment, who is exploring ways that world-famous brands can be monetised using blockchain technology.  She tells him about two projects the channel has been working on recently; a partnership between culinary reality show ‘Hell's Kitchen' and The Sandbox Metaverse and NFT artwork based on the classic TV show ‘Thunderbirds'.  Another interested executive is Rose Tighe from Sky Labs, who is looking at blockchain technology with a view to beefing up the company's approach to piracy and copyright protection. And while she's excited about the opportunities presented by blockchain technology, she's also aware of the challenges that come with it.  “I will say loudly and clearly that a lot of consumers are already struggling with everyday technology within their homes and what I would hope is that whatever we do is usable and accessible by everybody,” she says.  Rose has come to the right place to find a simple solution that suits her organisation, as the Block Venture Studio has been built for exactly this purpose with products designed to be as functional as possible, showcasing the simplicity of blockchain technology.   “It should be about actually providing value instead of some random blockchain that's more used for marketing or just to make shareholders happy that you're innovating in blockchain,” says Ari Kuqi.   Overall, the launch event was an exciting chance for major corporates to discuss their needs with the Block Venture Studio and network with budding entrepreneurs, and we look forward to seeing the fruits of this new venture.

On the fourth and final installment of CoinGeek Conversations Special, we'll hear from individuals whose companies' ESG or environmental, social, and corporate governance initiatives are achieved through blockchain technology.  While it seems like blockchain is not usually associated with ESG, these companies are making strides in proving how the technology can play a vital role in the industry. Joe Holles de Peyer of Gate2Chain and Daniel Keane of Predict Ecology talk about the integrity that blockchain provides while recording data on the environment; Dave Perill of Compute North talks about how blockchain provides efficiency in data centers; and Bryan Daugherty discussed his project, Proof of ESG and explained why blockchain will make the world a greener place. 

On the third installment of CoinGeek Conversations Special, we take a look at some of the most interesting contributions about venture capital from previous episodes of the series. We hear from Craig Massey and Osmin Callis from the London BSV incubator Satoshi Block Dojo. Craig talked about how investors and start-ups profit and benefit from the incubator process; Osmin focussed on what went on during the program and made interesting observations about the participants; Pacer Ventures co-founder Gbemi Akande talked about the adoption of blockchain technology in Africa; and  Paul Rajchgod, managing director of private equity at Air Ventures stressed that there's a lot more to venture capital investment in a promising new start-up than simply handing over a cheque. Join me, Claire Celdran next week as we revisit episodes that focus on companies whose Environment Social and Corporate Governance or ESG initiatives are achieved through blockchain technology.  

In the second of four CoinGeek Conversations special episodes, we take a look back at some of the best moments from the last season, featuring the biggest and boldest personalities in the Bitcoin SV ecosystem.  We hear from Mandeep Singh, musician and qualified doctor, on how Bitcoin can revolutionise the relationship artists have with their fans; Nick Numas, Founder and CEO of Genuine Retweets explains the impact his social media company is having on those in the developing world; the Women of BSV discuss why they decided to carve out a space for themselves; and Adam Hawley and Yuriy Porytko explain what the NFT they launched is doing to help people in Ukraine.  Join CoinGeek producer Claire Celdran next week as she highlights some of the most insightful conversations from past shows on the theme of venture capital. 

In the first of four CoinGeek Conversations special episodes, we revisit some of our favourite conversations from the last season, on the subject of Bitcoin SV's relationship with the global economy.  We hear from Eswar Prasad, Tolani senior Professor of International Trade Policy at Cornell University, and author of ‘The Future of Money', on why competition in the digital asset industry is a good thing; Patryk Walaszczyk, blockchain solutions expert at IBM, discusses the burgeoning relationship between BSV and IBM; Owen Vaughan, director of research at nChain, talks about the role Bitcoin could play in political economics; and Bryan Daugherty, public policy director of the BSV Blockchain Association tells us about his work for the US Department of Defence. Join me, Sarah Higgs, next week as I take another journey down memory lane, picking guests from past shows for an episode featuring four personalities of BSV.  

Almost fifty years ago, four boys became school friends in Poland. Today they are working together to revolutionise the music industry with a BSV-powered startup called Soundoshi. It's not their first collaboration: they previously created a software development company together which is still in business.But now, as Michał Scisłowski explains on this week's CoinGeek Conversations, their focus is “100 percent on Soundoshi”. The opportunity, as they see it, is to improve the business model for both music producers and consumers. “Even if you are generating a few million streams, then you can't really make a living from Spotify,” Michał says. That's because revenue is shared between artists on a strictly proportional basis. So if smaller artists have a certain number of plays, what they earn depends on whether or not a big artist happens to release new music and win a large share of Spotify's total plays at that particular time.Soundoshi's solution? “In order to make it fair again, we need to have the same flat payment for each stream, for every artist on the platform. So they all have the same terms and they are competing with each other.”In building a system like that, “BSV is made for the task”. It will allow the creation of music NFTs so the consumer will own the music they buy - as opposed to simply being given access to it in return for a subscription. Artists will be free to set their own prices per track - anything from very cheap for a mass audience to more expensive and as limited in numbers as they choose for a highly exclusive product. All the music will be stored on the BSV blockchain. “In this way we want to avoid any kind of manipulation or censorship.”The artist would likely have to pay something to have their work put into the system, but “we are exploring the options of maybe having split payments for this. It's just a few dollars and maybe we can reimburse that from what we are earning on commissions.”From the consumer's point of view, Soundoshi is a pay-per-track model. Instead of subscription there will be a top up mechanism to keep your account in credit but in other respects, “everything will be very similar” to the experience on Spotify. Just as Bitcoin users can send money to each other, Soundoshi's customers will be able to transfer ownership of the tracks they have bought. As well as this being a new economic model for the music business, psychologically, it's a return to an older mode: one of music ownership. As Michał explains:“We want to reintroduce ownership of the music to the fans, so they will be able to collect their favourite music and build their collections, as we were doing 15 years ago before streaming arrived.”As to whether Soundoshi plans to destroy the music industry or provide a service to it, Michał is clear: “you always have two choices. You can go for revolution or evolution. And as much as I would love to see the revolution, I understand that we need to go the evolution way.”That means working with the music industry and talking to music publishers: “we want to offer this industry a new revenue stream.”CoinGeek followed the inside story of Soundoshi and the other startups who were part of  Satoshi Block Dojo's first cohort, for a CoinGeek Originals film, How to Build a BSV Business. 

Have you ever wanted to call BS on something you've seen online? For most of us the answer is a resounding yes. That's why Errol Hula is building a system that allows users to mark whether information on social media is accurate or not. His application, called NOBL, includes a BS button which users can click on if they see something online that they know is not true. They can also add external links to posts to prove that material is false. Errol says that by aggregating all this information the system can display which posts can be trusted and whether a user is trustworthy or not. He believes that this will solve the problem of identifying misinformation online, while still allowing people the freedom to speak their minds. “We won't get rid of loud voices but what we'll hopefully do is be able to, rather than just shouting at one another, hopefully have more reasoned discussions.” Errol tells CoinGeek's Charles Miller that the other issue he aims to tackle is the lack of privacy in social media. Instead of making money from harvesting user data and selling it on to third parties, as so many leading technology companies do currently, NOBL will use a micropayment system. This will allow users to monetise content where they see fit and allow readers to tip writers or posts that they find interesting. “The goal is to generate enough revenue from the subscriptions and the tipping and that micro economy that it can actually fund the free use for others.” Due to the Bitcoin SV blockchain's high scaling capacity and low fees, micropayments are possible in a way that they are not on other blockchains. Users will also be able to control their newsfeeds by adjusting a slider, which Errol calls ‘the BS filter', meaning people can choose what they see online rather than being at the mercy of whatever algorithm is put in place by social media companies. Errol explains that he was motivated to build NOBL to solve real world problems, such as the proliferation of fake news online and the concentration of power that big tech currently enjoys. The impact that these issues are having on democratic society became increasingly evident in the Donald Trump era, with the former President banned from Twitter for spreading misinformation about the 2020 US presidential election and the part his tweets played in the 2021 United States Capitol attack. Errol hopes to transform the future of social media by harnessing the power of Bitcoin SV, but he stresses that the digital asset will be just the ‘plumbing' that underpins the product and not the main attraction. “The fact that it uses Bitcoin SV is not going to influence whether someone is interested or not. If it's a product that's going to succeed because it solves a problem, investment will follow.”

If you haven't heard of the metaverse, it's likely you've been hiding under a rock for the last couple of years. Hailed by many, including Facebook (which even changed its name to Meta in October 2021) and Microsoft, as the next generation of the internet, the technology provides a way for internet users to connect online within a virtual world.  One person who is bullish on the technology is Lou Yu, head of KuCoin Labs, the investment and incubation arm of cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin. She believes that the metaverse will be the place to be for the next generation of entrepreneurial internet users and is putting her money where her mouth is by investing in several metaverse companies.  She explains that a lot of people are drawn to the metaverse because of the freedom it offers. “We can do a lot of things that we can't do in the real world, for example flying, throwing things in the ocean which is very unethical in the real world but in the virtual one you can do it and it's not a mess.”  One thing that many people can do on the metaverse which they might not be able to in real life is buy property, which is a cornerstone of Bloktopia, one of the companies that KuCoin Labs has invested in. Bloktopia is a metaverse which consists of a skyscraper, made up of 21 levels where users can become virtual landlords, earn revenue, play games, and build networks.  “People are purchasing lands like empty places in the Metaverse to lend to people and to build their own things so they can build a building or a space or a pool,” Lou explains.  Lou tells CoinGeek's Charles Miller that she believes the social aspect also plays an important role in the popularity of platforms like this, with many younger users signing up during the Covid-19 pandemic as a way to connect online.  She says that one game KuCoin Labs invested in that saw an influx of users during the pandemic is Cryowar, an NFT multi-player arena, which is very popular with young people.  “They're making money with it, they're happy with it, they can socialise with it, they can help their parents with it, they can help themselves buying a lot of things that they like with this money. So actually, young people they need things like that, and they need those kind of economic aspects.”  Both Cryowar and Bloktopia have their own tokens, which are currently not worth very much. Lou sees this as a positive though as it means that players are happy to spend and trade within the game without worrying too much about losing money, as they might with an asset like Bitcoin.  She believes that this traction will gradually bring more attention to these communities, allowing developers to build up more mature token systems as the ecosystem develops.  This is a positive for investors who will see return on their investment as the metaverse gets busier and the coins get more valuable. But it's also a good thing for young gamers who will be given the chance to exchange coins and educate themselves about how marketplaces work, without losing real money.  This is imperative for the survival of these games and for creating much-needed trust in the industry. 

Ayre Ventures invests in ground-breaking businesses powered by BSV technology. Its Managing Director, Paul Rajchgod says he receives a stream of business proposals through platforms such as LinkedIn and through the CoinGeek and Ayre Group websites. Paul stresses that for Ayre Venture, completing a deal with a new business is just the start of the relationship. “We have frequent meetings with the company, we make lots of introductions to other companies, which is one of the things that VCs are meant to be used for - it's not just a blank cheque.” Paul says that Ayre Ventures carries out extensive due diligence before investing. “We need to go into the forecast and understand why the company thinks those numbers are going to pan out.” The process is carried out by an investment committee, which also acts as the deciding body who makes the final push towards granting a company the funds it needs.  On this episode of CoinGeek Conversations, Paul talks about companies under Ayre Ventures that are making waves in the bitcoin space. As he tells Charles Miller, MintBlue, a BSV “ground-up company” that uses BSV technology in their accounting software service product, reported hitting two million transactions on the blockchain in the form of digital invoices. He also mentions RAD NFTV, a live-streaming platform that uses BSV as an added layer to its NFT offerings. Paul is keen to encourage existing enterprise companies in the growth stage to explore the opportunities offered by BSV. As a venture capitalist business that exclusively supports BSV technology, Paul points out Ayre Ventures takes a dim view of companies in their portfolio that don't develop their BSV projects – however successful they may be in other respects: “I'll just say that where a company has not delivered by choosing not to go to BSV for whatever reason, we find that unacceptable. It's a breach of our contract and we look to exit.”Paul would like to see more enterprise software companies approach him. And he's not saying that existing businesses can't continue their involvement with other blockchains at the same time as with BSV. He reverts back to RAD NFTV: “Rad is saying we'll continue to sell Ethereum NFTs and whatnot and we're going to use BSV internally to manage everything… that is a unique business.”

Many would have you believe that Bitcoin and the environment don't mix. But that simply isn't the case according to Daniel Keane, co-founder and managing director of Predict Ecology. Blockchain is actually a real asset to the environmental industry because its immutable ledger technology means there is a permanent and reliable record of data. “In 100 years', time, you'll still have that string of numbers, they will still be written to the blockchain.”  This is particularly important when it comes to monitoring and predicting ecological changes, which is Daniel's area of expertise. He explains that it's essential to collect and analyse data to see the effects human development is having on biodiversity so future projects can reduce their impact.     This is something that Daniel has experienced first-hand in his time working as a consultant for the mining industry. Mining companies are required to rehabilitate and repair the ecosystem once mining has ceased, and it was Daniel's job to check they were doing a good job.  “I'm a botanist, more specifically, and oftentimes I was validating and assessing the rehabilitation that they had planted back, comparing it to the reference ecosystems that they were trying to achieve,” he says.  Daniel tells CoinGeek's Charles Miller that it was when he attended a start-up weekend in Queensland with Paul Chiari, founder of WeatherSV and MetaStreme that he realised how useful the Bitcoin SV blockchain could be for his purposes. This is when Predict Ecology, an environmental and ecological consulting firm with a focus on real-world data and predictive modelling was born.  Predict Ecology starts off by gathering data using a mobile data collector. The data is then validated and verified using traditional field survey techniques. The combined datasets are then loaded to the BSV ledger using the MetaStreme transaction processor, allowing the data to be indexed and retrieved in a self-serve “pay-per-view” framework, open to researchers and modellers worldwide.  Daniel explains that by inputting data onto the blockchain, the risk of any damage to the information is eliminated. This is reassuring for clients working with large volumes of data over many years.  “I might have gone out of business, I might have had a server fire, I might have lost my notepad. There's a whole heap of variables there so that peace of mind for the long-term check that's where it really comes into play.”  Daniel says he wants Predict Ecology and MetaStreme to be the ‘plumbing' that works behind the scenes to ensure clients can utilise the power of the blockchain. This means that customers without any technical or ecological knowhow can interact with the BSV blockchain to easily record data and keep an eye on their environmental footstep.   His aim is admirable: a network of long-lasting and high-quality data that will help companies monitor and model biodiversity. It's also a powerful example of how blockchain technology can be used in the fight against climate change.

The upcoming BSV Global Blockchain Convention in Dubai from May 24 to 26 will be an important event for anyone with a “sense of history”, says Calvin Ayre, founder of Ayre Ventures and CoinGeek.  “It's like Woodstock coming to these conferences, that's how influential this technology is going to be and it's going to change so many things and it's going to touch everything,” says Calvin.   While attendees of the Convention might be dressed in suits rather than flares and sunglasses, the comparison to the iconic, late 60s counterculture festival, will resonate for those in the Bitcoin SV space who understand how revolutionary the technology could be.    Calvin is particularly excited about links between Bitcoin SV companies and big consultancy firms like IBM Consulting, which has recently been developing Sentinel Node in association with Certihash.  “I hope we educate these big consulting companies so that they understand what this technology can do so they in fact become evangelists for us when they are brought in to solve technical problems in big data.”  Another organisation that Calvin is pleased to see teaming up with the Bitcoin SV community is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) – the world's largest association of technical professionals.   This connection came about when Latif Ladid, founder, and president of the IPv6 Forum and an IEEE influencer, came across Bitcoin inventor Dr. Craig Wright's blog after reading about his victory in the Kleiman v. Wright trial in Miami last autumn.  When Latif learnt that Bitcoin SV had been built to integrate IPv6, the most recent version of the internet protocol, he reached out directly to Dr. Wright, who has now become a keynote speaker in the IEEE conference series and is publishing information about the technology in the IEEE newsletter.  Calvin believes that the Kleiman case has opened people up to Dr. Wright's work in a big way. “The fictional cloud of fraud has been removed off of Craig's shoulders, and as a result, the serious engineers who have been studying Craig's technology feel that the reputational risk has also been removed and people have been reaching out to Craig and our community and we've got a lot more serious people directly involved, publicly.”  On the subject of Dr. Wright's lawsuits, of which one more was announced last week, Calvin admits he wishes Dr. Wright didn't have to spend his time on them and could instead focus on other things.   "Craig's going to go down in history as one of the largest filers of patents in the world, if not the largest, and all the while doing it while he's being attacked and forced to deal with this massive litigation overheard and continuing to do multiple university degrees at the same time.”  Despite this distraction, Calvin is clear that the main goal for the Convention is education. “All my focus is on educating people that can actually use this technology to solve big data challenges,” he says. 

CoinGeek Conversations: A Look Back at CoinGeek ConferencesAs we patiently await the upcoming BSV Global Blockchain Convention to be held in Dubai this May, Claire Celdran takes a look back at some of the highlights of CoinGeek Conferences past. Listen in on Jeff Baek's presentation of Peersend and how it allows users to send and receive money seamlessly on the internet.  Watch personalities from the gaming industry including Haste Arcade, HandCash, NFTY Jigs and Built by Gamers discuss how users can monetize from playing and participating in games. And witness all over again BSV Technical Director Steve Shadders' live demonstration of terranode! On this episode, we brought back Patrick Thompson's interview with TAAL CEO Stefan Mathews and Financial Cryptographer Ian Grigg on the premiere broadcast of CoinGeek TV where the two revealed stories of their initial encounter with the Bitcoin White Paper and Dr. Craig Wright.   Lastly, get inspired with the keynote speeches from the distinguished economist George Gilder and nChain Chief Scientist Dr. Craig Wright at the 2020 CoinGeek Conference in London.    

In an interview for CoinGeek, Artur Souza, VP of Business Engineering for Global Business Group at Meta, takes us into the Metaverse in this episode of the Meta Business, Innovation and Technology podcast. CoinGeek Editor Patrick Thompson asks the questions on everyone's mind, from curious beginners to everyday users.   Artur shares the basic premise of the Metaverse: to bring the real world and the digital world together. He explains what attracts people to the Metaverse, how we can access it, and what kinds of immersive experiences we might have. There are strong use cases for consumer, business, and educational activities.   You'll learn about NFTs, why they are essential to the Metaverse, and how they drive financial equity. Artur also talks about Meta's digital wallet project, working with regulators to close gaps and understand opportunities, and the biggest challenges to mass adoption of the Metaverse.   After you listen, connect with Artur Souza and Patrick Thompson on LinkedIn. Begin your journey into the Metaverse here.

Episode 109: Kurt Wuckert Jr., Chief Bitcoin Historian at CoinGeek discusses the metaverse and how crypto, blockchain/NFTs are all interrelated. Kurt speculates how the metaverse will be like in the near future and talk about sci-fi related examples.  Social media:Kurt Wuckert Jr.Twitter: kurtwuckertjrInstagram: kurtwuckertjrWebsite: www.kurtwurkertjr.comCoin GeekTwitter: realcoingeekWebsite: www.coingeek.comKurt's recommended metaverse related movies:1. Total Recall2. The Matrix  films series 3. Blade Runner4. The Outer Limits5. Black Mirror