Podcast appearances and mentions of Paul Brody

Nachum Segal interviews Dr. Paul Brody and Yaakov Serle, Co-Publisher of the Queens Jewish Link, and he presents great Jewish music, the latest news from Israel and Morning Chizuk with Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser.

As blockchain technology seeps slowly into the traditional financial services ecosystem, it is offering new opportunities through tokenization and decentralized finance (DeFi). Today's episode of the Tearsheet podcast hosts Paul Brody, EY's Global Blockchain Leader who shares his expertise on these developments. Paul is focusing on the promise of public blockchain and the challenges surrounding privacy. He is also the Chairman of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. Brody's unique roles provide a distinctive perspective on blockchain adoption in enterprises. Reflecting on his decade at EY, Brody explains, "One of the things I'm most proud of is how little our strategy has evolved. We've consistently believed in the value proposition of public blockchains." EY's blockchain initiatives center around asset tokenization. It focuses on privacy-focused solutions and enabling enterprises to scale blockchain use effectively. Addressing misconceptions, Brody highlights a critical distinction. He says, "A lot of people don't realize private blockchains have no privacy. They're centralized systems without the benefits of a decentralized ledger." This belief underpins EY's commitment to public blockchains, which he argues are the only viable path for enterprises. The big ideas 1. Tokenization is transforming B2B transactions. “Every transaction comes down to tokenizing money, tokenizing the stuff. And automating the terms via smart contracts,” says Brody. 2. Public blockchains offer a compelling value proposition. “Private blockchains have no privacy,” Brody explains. He emphasizes the importance of decentralized, public systems for scalability and security.   3. Privacy is essential for enterprise adoption. Brody highlights the need for privacy layers. He states, “Enterprises require privacy to share sensitive information securely on public blockchains.” 4. DeFi innovation is influenced by market conditions. Brody observes, “Lower interest rates make decentralized finance tools much more appealing. They do so by doubling potential returns compared to traditional options.” 5. Regulatory clarity will drive enterprise adoption. “The true race begins once the rules are clear. Until then, enterprises will hesitate to commit fully to blockchain-based solutions,” Brody asserts.

Interview with Paul Brody, who is the Global Blockchain Leader at EY (Ernst & Young), chairman of the Ethereum Enterprise Alliance, and the author of Ethereum for Business.Topics:- PayPal, EY, & SAP settle first corporate invoice with the PYUSD stablecoin- Enterprises adopting blockchain and crypto - EY's blockchain solutions for businesses- Adoption outlook for different industries - Impact of BlackRock and Wall Street entering the crypto space Show Sponsor -

Paul is in charge of EY's initiatives and investments in blockchain technology across the company's consulting, audit and tax businesses. He led EY's first blockchain strategy engagement to examine how digital services, payments and the Internet of things are coming together in new ecosystems. We spoke of his long-geld belief that corporations should be building on public chains like Ethereum, and how that squares with his recent appointment as chairman of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, which is a proponent of private, permissioned blockchains.Follow Decential Media: Website: https://www.decential.io/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@decentialmediaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/decential_mediaTiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@decential_mediaLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/decential-media/Newsletter: https://decential.beehiiv.com/ Follow Matt Leising: https://twitter.com/mattleisingPaul Brody: @pbrodySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

"In Some Future day, we will be using blockchain technology and cryptocurrency to, basically, run all business to business transactions." Paul Brody is Principal & Global Blockchain Leader at Ernst & Young. Under his leadership, EY is established a global presence in the blockchain space with a particular focus on public blockchains, assurance, and business application development in the Ethereum ecosystem. He is also the author of "Ethereum for Business: A Plain-English Guide to the Use Cases that Generate Returns from Asset Management to Payments to Supply Chains."In this episdoe, Marc Beckman and Paul Brody dig into the evolution of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency's impact on society. Paul talks about on the transition of Ethereum from proof of work to proof of stake, aiming to address climate concerns. He discusses the potential and challenges of bringing blockchain to mainstream business operations, emphasizing the importance of regulation and its impact on investment. Brody critically examines the narratives around blockchain for social justice and financial inclusion, advocating for a realistic assessment of technology's role. Further, he highlights the ethical considerations in blockchain applications, particularly around privacy and the misuse by bad actors. Projecting into the future, Brody envisions a world where business transactions are predominantly executed through blockchain, offering efficiency, transparency, and resistance to monopolies, albeit acknowledging a gradual implementation pace spanning over decades.Sign up for the Some Future Day Newsletter here: https://marcbeckman.substack.com/Episode Links:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pbrody/Twitter: https://twitter.com/pbrody?lang=enErnst & Young: https://blockchain.ey.com/Ethereum for Business: https://www.amazon.com/Ethereum-Business-Plain-English-Generate-Management/dp/1954892101To join the conversation follow Marc Beckman here:YoutubeLinkedInTwitterInstagram

Even comprehensive crypto legislation won't stop people from making bad investment decisions, says EY's blockchain leader Paul Brody.Today's episode is sponsored by CME Group.To get the show every day, follow the podcast here.Today's featured story is an opinion piece from Paul Brody, titled: “Regulatory Clarity Won't Bring an End to Crypto Risk.”-From our sponsors:CME Group Cryptocurrency futures and options provide market-leading liquidity for bitcoin andether trading. These cash-settled contracts give full exposure to crypto performance without thehassle of holding the physical position. No digital wallet? No problem. Trade nearly 24/7 in atransparent, CFTC-regulated market. Visit cmegroup.com/crypto to learn more.Disclaimer:This communication is not directed to investors located in any particular jurisdiction and is notintended to be accessed by recipients based in jurisdictions in which distribution is notpermitted. The information herein should not be considered investment advice or the results ofactual market experience. Past results are not necessarily indicative of future performance.Trading derivatives products involves the risk of loss. Please consider carefully whether futuresor options are appropriate to your financial situation.-This episode was hosted by Noelle Acheson. “Markets Daily” is executive produced by Jared Schwartz and produced and edited by Eleanor Pahl. All original music by Doc Blust and Colin Mealey. This episode used WondercraftAI voice.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Even comprehensive crypto legislation won't stop people from making bad investment decisions, says EY's blockchain leader Paul Brody.Today's episode is sponsored by CME Group.Today's featured story is an opinion piece from Paul Brody, titled: “Regulatory Clarity Won't Bring an End to Crypto Risk.”-From our sponsors:CME Group Cryptocurrency futures and options provide market-leading liquidity for bitcoin andether trading. These cash-settled contracts give full exposure to crypto performance without thehassle of holding the physical position. No digital wallet? No problem. Trade nearly 24/7 in atransparent, CFTC-regulated market. Visit cmegroup.com/crypto to learn more.Disclaimer:This communication is not directed to investors located in any particular jurisdiction and is notintended to be accessed by recipients based in jurisdictions in which distribution is notpermitted. The information herein should not be considered investment advice or the results ofactual market experience. Past results are not necessarily indicative of future performance.Trading derivatives products involves the risk of loss. Please consider carefully whether futuresor options are appropriate to your financial situation.-This episode was hosted by Noelle Acheson. “Markets Daily” is executive produced by Jared Schwartz and produced and edited by Eleanor Pahl. All original music by Doc Blust and Colin Mealey. This episode used WondercraftAI voice.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Das Buch “Ethereum for Business” von Paul Brody gibt spannende Übersichten zu Ethereum und Anwendungen in Unternehmen und der Industrie

Existing payments like FedNow systems are hard to beat, but there may be niches where blockchain companies can play, says EY's Paul Brody.Today's episode is sponsored by Kraken Pro.Today's featured story is an opinion piece from Paul Brody, titled: “FedNow Is a Reminder That Payments Aren't Crypto's Differentiator.”-From our sponsors:Meet the all-new Kraken Pro. The powerful, customizable, beautiful way to trade crypto.It's Kraken's most powerful trading platform ever - packed with trading features like advanced order management and analytics tools — all in a redesigned, modular trading interface.Head to pro.kraken.com and trade like a pro.Not investment advice. Some crypto products and markets are unregulated. The unpredictable nature of the cryptoasset markets can lead to loss of funds and profits may be subject to capital gains tax.-This episode was hosted by Michele Musso. “Markets Daily” is executive produced by Jared Schwartz and produced and edited by Eleanor Pahl. All original music by Doc Blust and Colin Mealey.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Existing payments like FedNow systems are hard to beat, but there may be niches where blockchain companies can play, says EY's Paul Brody.Today's episode is sponsored by Kraken Pro.Today's featured story is an opinion piece from Paul Brody, titled: “FedNow Is a Reminder That Payments Aren't Crypto's Differentiator.”-From our sponsors:Meet the all-new Kraken Pro. The powerful, customizable, beautiful way to trade crypto.It's Kraken's most powerful trading platform ever - packed with trading features like advanced order management and analytics tools — all in a redesigned, modular trading interface.Head to pro.kraken.com and trade like a pro.Not investment advice. Some crypto products and markets are unregulated. The unpredictable nature of the cryptoasset markets can lead to loss of funds and profits may be subject to capital gains tax.-This episode was hosted by Michele Musso. “Markets Daily” is executive produced by Jared Schwartz and produced and edited by Eleanor Pahl. All original music by Doc Blust and Colin Mealey.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A daily update on what's happening in the Rocket Pool community on Discord, Twitter, Reddit, and the DAO forum. 0:00 - Welcome 0:22 - An exploit leads to Invis getting banned and Marceau leaving the server https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1071625222047944735 https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1071629521373114388 https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1071637102292369629 https://etherscan.io/tx/0x6cfd6075b09f00f2e75aafafd9529d0da520c4ea74e40eab58d488b961cd6fe3 https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1071642992798081175 https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1071643177209049161 https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1071647516061347870 https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1071648328036659253 https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1071589868238540820 https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1071657683050049627 21:06 - The team is working on a checkpoint sync https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1071685361585115146 22:25 - Atlas before Shanghai? https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1071266979610107905 24:15 - rETH premium was up. Why? North Korea is involved https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1071097203122253915 https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/703196131181723668/1071111155759718460 https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1071106319035150426 29:48 - Metamask showing higher rETH rewards https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1071833328874962964 31:12 - Aave integration process moving along https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1071617234532843560 32:47 - Paul Brody joins the RP discord https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1072201529655824514 35:43 - Justin Drake gives info about the ultrasound relay https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/704196071881965589/1071961142265663548 36:33 - Phiz wants a RP gathering at Denver https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1071835804185411617 38:11 - Shanghai update might not be as bad as the doom scenarios https://twitter.com/data_always/status/1622385055166341121 40:08 - Bankless talk about the cultural difference between Lido and Rocket Pool https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1071109059488514218 43:35 - Thomas explains his downtime https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1071244580781039697 https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1071247267027222608 https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1071251018186248192 47:47 - Poaps for voting in governance https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/1071118068304064533/1071565166006784170 49:09 - Ramana seeks an EVM expert https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1071818529868886146 49:38 - Dybsy Day https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1071256587118850099 https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1071259741893971998 https://discord.com/channels/405159462932971535/405163713063288832/1071261858725642250

In the first episode of our new season of Web3 Innovators, our host Conor Svensson is joined by Paul Brody, Global Blockchain Leader at EY where he drives EY's initiatives and investments in blockchain technology across consulting, audit, and tax business lines.Paul is also a Board Member of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and prior to working at EY was Vice President and Global Industry Leader of Electronics at IBM.Episode highlights:The prototype system, ‘Adapt' that Paul built and how IBM not wishing to take it further inspired him to leave and join EYHis role in developing blockchain within the organisationWhy Paul is such an advocate for public blockchainWhy there is a lack of privacy with public blockchains and the problems this causesThe reasons you can't migrate applications built on private blockchain to publicWhy he sees blockchain as transformational technologyThe issues around forming and working with a consortiumThe differences between permission and permissionless blockchain and the problems Paul sees with permissionedThe key differentiators between trust anchors and trusted third partiesThe two initiatives; Nightfall and Starlight Paul is currently working onHow Paul believes the future landscape for Web3 technologies will lookKey Takeaways:We had created this product, we had pitched it to IBM leadership and they were not interested. They didn't want to go any further than the prototype, and that was at the point where I parted company with IBM because I wanted to do this. - PaulWe see this over and over again, people created these centrally run private blockchain business models and they just didn't work. - PaulWe've had this vision of a value proposition where you can basically take any kind of business application and run it on a public blockchain, any kind of B2B transaction. But the reality has been that we can't do it. - PaulThere will be many stablecoin firms, there will be many audit firms, there will be many external data sources at Oracles. We will have to decide to trust some of them in how we build our transactions, but none of them will become central intermediaries. None of them will become monopolists. None of them will have overwhelming power in the ecosystem. - PaulMy goal is that in January of 2023 we will launch the first production versions of both Nightfall and Starlight as production betas on the public Ethereum main net. - PaulWhat's really cool about X.509 certificates is they are themselves public open standards supported by many different third party providers. So nightfall will remain truly public and permissionless. - PaulResources: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.

Paul Brody is the head of EY's blockchain business. EY is Ernst & Young, one of the “big 4” global professional services and accounting firms. He's been at EY for nearly 8 years now and before that he was a VP at IBM where he started IBM's first blockchain project. Paul is deeply intertwined with the Ethereum community as well as enterprise use cases. If anyone is going to crack the nut of Enterprise use cases for public blockchains, it's going to be him. ------ Crypto Tax Calculator | Free Crypto Tax Calculator https://bankless.cc/CTCpodcast  ------ JOIN BANKLESS PREMIUM: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/subscribe  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://bankless.cc/kraken  UNISWAP | ON-CHAIN MARKETPLACE https://bankless.cc/uniswap  ️ ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum  EARNIFI | CLAIM YOUR UNCLAIMED AIRDROPS https://bankless.cc/earnifi  ----- Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 7:00 Enterprise Blockchains 11:20 Public vs. Private Blockchains 15:00 Use Cases 18:36 Supply Chains vs. Digital Money 22:00 Disruption 23:55 Network Effects 26:40 EY's Nightfall 30:50 Low-Cost Transactions 37:30 Tokenizing the World 41:50 Real-World Assets 47:10 Transactions 50:44 Stablecoin Adoption 54:15 DeFi Integration 56:35 Operating Nightfall 59:40 Nightfall Roadmap 1:01:35 Why EY 1:05:15 Enterprise Blockchain Burn Leaderboard 1:08:40 Action Items & Disclaimers ----- Resources: Paul Brody https://twitter.com/pbrody  ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures 

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In the newest edition of "Around the Block With Jefferson Nunn," Jefferson interviews Paul Brody. Paul Brody is the global blockchain leader at Ernst & Young, responsible for directing work and investments across assurance, tax, consulting, and software development worldwide in blockchain. Prior to joining EY, Paul was the Vice President for the Electronics Industry at IBM. He started his career at McKinsey & Co. in Los Angeles and Seoul. 

On today's show, Paul Brody, EY's Global Blockchain leader, takes a look at how DAOs are increasing transparency in businesses and other organizations, while also improving governance. Read the full story here.This episode is sponsored by Kava, Arculus and PathDAO. -Kava lets you mint stablecoins, lend, borrow, earn and swap safely across the world's biggest crypto assets. Connect to the world's largest cryptocurrencies, ecosystems and financial applications on DeFi's most trusted, scalable and secure earning platform with kava.io.-Arculus™ is the next-gen cold storage wallet for your crypto. The sleek, metal Arculus Key™ Card authenticates with the Arculus Wallet™ App, providing a simpler, safer and more secure solution to store, send, receive, buy and swap your crypto. Buy now at amazon.com.-PathDAO is a community-first, decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that creates value for investors and gamers in the blockchain metaverse (game + social + NFTs). Earn up to 225% APR by staking $PATH tokens and track more than 30 investments on PathDAO's industry-leading dashboard. Get started today at PathDAO.io.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of Blockchain Innovators, Conor Svensson, founder and CEO of Web3 Labs, talks to Paul Brody, Global Blockchain Leader at EY.Prior to EY, Paul worked at IBM and McKinsey amongst other firms and having a wealth of experience across IoT, supply chain and operations and business strategy.In the conversation Conor and Paul discuss how EY first got involved in blockchain via bitcoin, and subsequently went on to create the NightFall Zero Knowledge Proof library. They also discussed why Paul believes organisations should only focus on public blockchains, not private, why the future is tokenisation of everything even within enterprise, and some of the common myths he sees with where blockchain can be impactful.Follow Paul on Twitter - @pbrodyEmail Paul - Paul.Brody@ey.com https://blockchain.ey.com/Watch this podcast here.

Blockchain, the brains behind cryptocurrencies, is a concept that once seemed like the stuff of science fiction. But there is much more that blockchain can do beyond supporting digital currency. It is the building block (pun intended) of programmable ledgers that will define the way forward for complex digital financial transactions. CIO Tony Roth explores blockchain's vast potential with Paul Brody, EY Global Blockchain Leader.

Guest Info Name of Guest: Paul Brody Name of Project: EY Twitter URL of Guest: https://twitter.com/pbrody Project Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/EY_US Project URL: https://blockchain.ey.com/ Show Notes How he got started and became the Global Blockchain Leader at EY How he got into blockchain and EY While at IBM: Talked about connected devices like light bulbs and how their clients were selling them and they were losing money from cloud services. So they decided on blockchain and spoke to Vitalik Buterin about it. That project convinced him that blockchain was all he wanted to work on. IBM wasn't interested, but EY was. He laid the groundwork for EY, that it was going to go up and down and needed them to stay with it whenever it goes down or up. He got a 5-10 year commitment from them 5 years ago. Polygon partnership is a direct outcome from that investment over the ups and downs. How large companies get excited about things and expect big revenue and then realize they have to wait or call it a failure. How he really set expectations. How they decided what EY would be doing in blockchain Went through a large number of options. Had a blank sheet Were going to focus on external, not internal. Most difficult decision was private or public blockchains and decided that public was only way, but that privacy of what they do is critical. They need privacy in their competition. Cannot be open on chain. Didn't think that private would ever work so they adopted Public - but. They decided on Ethereum and to be the best at Ethereum. They decided to invest heavily in privacy. Hired researchers and cryptographers. Could only choose 1 platform. Decided couldn't mess with any others and he thinks it paid off. How he had to convince partners at EY to give away millions of dollars in research as open source. Nightfall Had to protect the actual transaction and then also make sure that the asset and transfer are private and then they are working on Starlight which allows making business logic private. Optimistic rollup with privacy and best in class costs. Polygon partnership Polygon approached them to deliver as one of their layer 2 solutions. Says they are very smart about how they engineer things Scaling support. User experience Fast, low cost and private. Ecosystem of buyers and sellers. No disclosure of transaction data. Starlight Zero knowledge compiler They have prototype right now Can tag variables that need to remain private. Now adding more complex logic. Now adding enterprise level logic. Entire contract on chain for widgets and price, etc. and you couldn't see it. So private procurement agreement running privately on public blockchain. Customer Offering Complex applications for businesses. Multi-party Doing a procurement system for XBOX/Microsoft on blockchain with smart contracts. Reduces 45 day process for paying game developers to 5 minutes. How the blockchain solves the big problem with ERP implementations and makes tx a level playing field for large and small companies. Data flows give big guys advantage without disclosing the big player the small players data. This this is one of the key things that will drive adoption and all players meet in neutral territory. Their Revenue Model For Blockchain Blockchain analyzer Consulting SaaS offerings --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/missiondefi/support

This week on “Opinionated,” Ben Schiller and co-host Anna Baydakova are joined by Paul Brody, head of blockchain at consulting powerhouse EY.This episode is sponsored by Unique One Network and Mimo.If you read CoinDesk in 2017 and 2018, you'd have come across many stories like this: Big Company joins Big Industry Blockchain Consortium to work on technology set to shake up Everything.These days, many of those consortia are closed, others are barely issuing press releases, and “enterprise blockchain” is often struggling to take off. In recent months, IBM has laid off most of its blockchain services staff and Microsoft has shuttered its Azure-based blockchain-as-a-service platform. What happened?Blockchain industry veteran Paul Brody unpacks why many corporate blockchain projects fail, and what works and doesn't work when companies adopt decentralized technology. He pinpoints where blockchain is having a dramatic impact, the validation that comes from DeFi and how blockchains can re-engineer enterprises in the years ahead. Brody's Twitter is: @pbrodyCoinDesk stories mentioned in this episode:Brody: Web 3.0 Is Coming for the Sharing EconomyBrody: Public Blockchains Are Set to Reshape Global CommerceIBM Blockchain Is a Shell of Its Former Self After Revenue Misses, Job Cuts: SourcesMicrosoft to Shutter its Azure Blockchain Service This Autumn-Unique One Network is an interoperable Platform for DeFi enabled NFT Marketplaces, in a variety of sectors, built on Polkadot Parity Substrate. Unique One Network's cross chain NFT hub facilitates transfers between a variety of blockchains and ecosystems, unleashing the power of NFTs with myriad innovative capabilities. Find out more at Unique One Network.-Mimo is home of the world's #1 euro-algorithmically pegged token minted at an interest rate of just 2%. Lock in your crypto assets, access their liquidity, and stabilize your portfolio by hedging against inflating coins. Open a Vault and experience the power of Mimo today at mimo.capital.-Image credit: DKosig/iStock/Getty Images Plus, modified by Coindesk

This week on “Opinionated,” Ben Schiller and co-host Anna Baydakova are joined by Paul Brody, head of blockchain at consulting powerhouse EY.This episode is sponsored by Unique One Network and Mimo.If you read CoinDesk in 2017 and 2018, you'd have come across many stories like this: Big Company joins Big Industry Blockchain Consortium to work on technology set to shake up Everything.These days, many of those consortia are closed, others are barely issuing press releases, and “enterprise blockchain” is often struggling to take off. In recent months, IBM has laid off most of its blockchain services staff and Microsoft has shuttered its Azure-based blockchain-as-a-service platform. What happened?Blockchain industry veteran Paul Brody unpacks why many corporate blockchain projects fail, and what works and doesn't work when companies adopt decentralized technology. He pinpoints where blockchain is having a dramatic impact, the validation that comes from DeFi and how blockchains can re-engineer enterprises in the years ahead. Brody's Twitter is: @pbrodyCoinDesk stories mentioned in this episode:Brody: Web 3.0 Is Coming for the Sharing EconomyBrody: Public Blockchains Are Set to Reshape Global CommerceIBM Blockchain Is a Shell of Its Former Self After Revenue Misses, Job Cuts: SourcesMicrosoft to Shutter its Azure Blockchain Service This Autumn-Unique One Network is an interoperable Platform for DeFi enabled NFT Marketplaces, in a variety of sectors, built on Polkadot Parity Substrate. Unique One Network's cross chain NFT hub facilitates transfers between a variety of blockchains and ecosystems, unleashing the power of NFTs with myriad innovative capabilities. Find out more at Unique One Network.-Mimo is home of the world's #1 euro-algorithmically pegged token minted at an interest rate of just 2%. Lock in your crypto assets, access their liquidity, and stabilize your portfolio by hedging against inflating coins. Open a Vault and experience the power of Mimo today at mimo.capital.-Image credit: DKosig/iStock/Getty Images Plus, modified by CoindeskSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

❤️ Loved it!👎 Meh…Summary transcript: https://www.listory.com/ll/c9cffb1f6b02c9331e06908d908f2ee2e6e49811Original story: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/26/crypto-outlook-blockchain-analyst-weighs-in-on-bitcoin-btc-ether.htmlDescription: One year on, cryptocurrency markets could branch out into three different so-called "ecosystems," according to EY's Paul Brody.

In den 1990ern zieht der amerikanische Jazztrompeter Paul Brody nach Berlin. Trotz jüdischer Eltern versteht er sich selbst nicht als Jude. Erst die Klezmer-Musik bringt ihn dazu, sich mit seiner Familiengeschichte zu beschäftigen. // Von Paul Brody / WDR 2019 / www.radiofeature.wdr.de

In den 1990ern zieht der amerikanische Jazztrompeter Paul Brody nach Berlin. Trotz jüdischer Eltern versteht er sich selbst nicht als Jude. Erst die Klezmer-Musik bringt ihn dazu, sich mit seiner Familiengeschichte zu beschäftigen. // Von Paul Brody / WDR 2019 / www.radiofeature.wdr.de

No décimo quarto episódio de BlockTalks a gente conversa em inglês com Paul Brody, líder global de Blockchain da EY .. Instagram.com/blockdropspodcast .. Twitter.com/blockdropspod .. blockdropspodcast@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/blockdropspodcast/message

As stablecoins surge in usage and growth around the world, these digital dollar currencies are finding their way into more and more traditional dimensions of cross-border commerce.  This week we'll explore the growth and use of stablecoins in trade finance, invoice financing, and the growing interaction between these traditionally "off-chain" assets and processes into both distributed and fully decentralized financial infrastructure. To explore these themes, we're joined by Ernst & Young's Paul Brody who is their Principal for Blockchain Technology, where he has been helping spearhead new core supply chain finance infrastructure with OpsChain; by HongZhuang Lim, the founder and CEO of ShuttleOne, an emerging fintech out of Southeast Asia leveraging stablecoins and DeFi for trade finance; and Centrefuge.io founder Lucas Vogelsang, who's firm has been driving innovation in the synthesis of traditional assets such as invoices and DeFi money market protocols.

As stablecoins surge in usage and growth around the world, these digital dollar currencies are finding their way into more and more traditional dimensions of cross-border commerce.  This week we'll explore the growth and use of stablecoins in trade finance, invoice financing, and the growing interaction between these traditionally "off-chain" assets and processes into both distributed and fully decentralized financial infrastructure. To explore these themes, we're joined by Ernst & Young's Paul Brody who is their Principal for Blockchain Technology, where he has been helping spearhead new core supply chain finance infrastructure with OpsChain; by HongZhuang Lim, the founder and CEO of ShuttleOne, an emerging fintech out of Southeast Asia leveraging stablecoins and DeFi for trade finance; and Centrefuge.io founder Lucas Vogelsang, who's firm has been driving innovation in the synthesis of traditional assets such as invoices and DeFi money market protocols. About the show The global economy is experiencing unprecedented challenges and change. Business leaders everywhere are grappling with how to transform their companies to become more digital, resilient and efficient. As we face this change, a new global movement is building around the promise of digital currencies and blockchains — forming a new architecture for the global economy and creating new opportunities for companies everywhere. The Money Movement explores and chronicles the issues and ideas driving this brave new world of digital money. The Money Movement is brought to you by Circle. Our mission is to raise global economic prosperity through programmable internet commerce. Learn more about Circle Business Accounts and Platform APIs at circle.com.

Money is changing, but where do we go from here? Through high profile interviews and thoughtful analysis, join CoinDesk's Michael Casey and Sheila Warren of the World Economic Forum as they explore the connections between finance, human culture and our increasingly digital lives.In this inaugural episode media studies professor Lana Swartz and multimedia artist Nicky Enright join the discussion.Sushi, Hotdogs, Yams, Shrimp. The whimsical, food-obsessed names of DeFi protocols are antithetical to the stodgy imagery of the mainstream financial system they seek to disrupt. Banks’ memes, by contrast, skew toward strength and durability. (Think of the rampart lions and Roman columns at the entrances of bank branches in old parts of London, New York or Paris.)DeFi’s critics say the silly names betray the fact it’s merely a fad and a game – or worse, a scam. It’s all imaginary, they say. It’s not real. The problem with that perspective is that all aspects of money, including the financial systems built on top of it, are imaginary. And, in case you’re wondering, that’s a feature, not a bug. Israeli historian Yuval Harari calls money “the most successful story ever told,” even more important to the evolution of society than religion, corporations and a host of other human-imagined institutions. Like those concepts, money’s power hinges on the collective adoption of a common belief system. It takes a set of mutually understood rules and gives them symbolic representation in a token we call a currency. In exchanging that token, we reach agreements that reflect those rules and so enable commerce, collaboration, value creation and, ultimately, civilization. Storytelling and cultural creation have always been integral to how society fosters this belief system, how we’ve forged communities around currencies. It’s why representations of money and the conversations around it are rich with iconography, foundational myths and stirring language.This process of collective imagination has become firmly tied to another powerful imaginary concept: the nation-state. This combination has been so effective that it has survived the introduction of new technologies and tokens over time. We’ve gone from shells to coins to banknotes to checks to credit cards to Venmo, and each time we’ve just accepted that a new transfer vehicle can convey the same rules and values we’ve always attached to our national currencies. This is a useful lens to apply to the many new ideas for money bubbling up in the crypto world. Whether it’s bitcoin’s bid to become a digital gold-like currency or the fight between Uniswap and SushiSwap to dominate liquidity in DeFi’s lending markets, the semiotic process for creating memes and stories is vital to the establishment of a new system. National elites used such methods to get us to collectively imagine a bank-centric system of fiat currencies. Those of us who want to change that need to do something similar. We need to reimagine money.Imagined CommunitiesIf you have a $100 bill in your wallet, take a good look at it.On one side, there’s Ben Franklin’s balding head and torso, behind which are a quill, an inkwell with the Liberty Bell superimposed onto it, and an extract from the Declaration of Independence. There are also the seals of the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve, the signatures of the Secretary of the Treasury and the Treasurer, a serial number and other identifying numerals. On the other, we see Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where Franklin and other Founding Fathers signed the declaration, along with the words “In God We Trust.” On both sides, the number 100 appears numerous times in and around a highly ornate border. Combined with cotton threads and watermarks, the baroque design helps make the note difficult to counterfeit. But more importantly, the imagery appeals directly to patriotism. It’s all associated with the nation-state to which the dollar, we are encouraged to believe, is indelibly linked. Now think about the actual value of the note, by which I mean the physical piece of paper. You could use it as a bookmark, maybe, make a paper plane out of it, or write a very small amount of information in very small print on it. But none of those uses add up to $100 in utility. A banknote’s value comes almost entirely from our shared imagination, a commonality of beliefs fed by centuries of cultural production that forges a type of community. It’s only because the payer and the payee share those beliefs that this piece of paper can function as an instrument for clearing that community’s debts.Each tribe of cryptocurrency advocates is endeavoring to create the same sense of community and belief around its preferred token. How they attain that is a cultural challenge. What’s Real?In November 2014, I created a video for The Wall Street Journal with Nicky Enright, a multimedia artist. We filmed him walking the streets of the Diamond District in New York’s Midtown as he wore an A-frame sandwich board and held a wad of “Globos,” his personal currency, in hand. The beautifully ornate notes were on sale for a $1, he told passersby, in a special two-for-one deal. The interactions with people were fascinating. One of the most common questions was, “Is it real?” Enright’s answer was always something like, “Of course it’s real. You can see and hold it, right?” As a guest on this week’s inaugural Money Reimagined podcast, Enright reflected on those exchanges, noting that “people will question the Globo in a way that they rarely, if ever, question their own currency” and yet the very same questions about what is “real” could be applied to the purely symbolic value of the dollar. The pertinent question for cryptocurrency advocates is: How do the purveyors and believers in a particular currency similarly get enough people to believe in it, to view it as “real?” And that’s again where the cultural conversation comes in. It’s why Bitcoin’s culture is filled with ideas, phrases and iconography that help build community. Think of the word “HODL,” or the concept that Bitcoin is “The Honey Badger of Money,” or the almost religious devotion to the mysterious founding father, Satoshi. (By the way, it’s irrelevant that these ideas, like DeFi’s, seem frivolous to traditionalists. They are appropriately in line with the meme culture of the digital age, and consistent with the liberal conventions that internet culture unleashed, as names like Yahoo! and Google became corporate mainstays.)Community = GovernanceUniversity of Virginia media studies professor Lana Swartz, author of the newly published New Money: How Payment Became Social Media, has some thoughts on all this. As the second guest on this week’s podcast, she reflected on the very early research that she and two colleagues did into Bitcoin’s culture in 2013. At that time, she said, “there was a real fixation on the idea that Bitcoin would be free from human institutions, free from human foibles and free from the need for human governance… But then all these early Bitcoin people ever really did was to talk and create community, and create ways to govern themselves, and create ways to think about this project.”It’s a great insight. Money is inseparable from community, and community is about values, the expression of which involves governance. (Not government per se, but governance.) This brings us full circle to DeFi, where tribes conduct meme warfare on Twitter and elsewhere to promote their tokens. Each of those tokens is tied to a protocol, which offers a different form of governance. The difference with traditional money is that the enforcement of each token’s particular governance model comes via a decentralized network rather than the centralized institutions of a nation-state. That shift is what makes it so promising. But it’s also why the cultural creation process is so challenging, as it must compete with the giant mindshare that traditional finance occupies. It’s why the meme-ing must continue. The End of Wall Street As We Know It?Hats off to Bloomberg’s Joe Weisenthal for coming up with a killer graph. Sadly, I’m using that descriptive literally. The chart, which appeared Tuesday in Bloomberg’s daily “Five Things to Start your Day” newsletter, maps the reservations at New York restaurants recorded by the website OpenTable and subway turnstile receipts from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, against the price of shares in SL Green, a real-estate investment trust focused on Manhattan office space. COVID-19 has done a number on all three. Source: BloombergI include this here, because when thinking about the future of Manhattan real estate, it’s hard not to think about the future of Wall Street. Banks, brokerages and other financial institutions are giant contributors to the city’s commercial rents, occupying large open-plan trading areas on multiple floors of some of NYC’s prime real estate. But in the COVID-19 era, banks have learned that, with the help of new low-latency connectivity packages, their traders can work pretty well from home, offering the prospect that the firms can save millions in rents if they pare back their footprint in the city. An exodus from New York by bankers, traders and brokers would mark an end to an era. Hollywood’s movies about testosterone-fueled trading floors will become period pieces. The bigger question is what it means for the idea of Wall Street as a New York institution and, by extension, for the city’s outsized role in the regulation of the global financial system. There are plenty of reasons for banks to maintain a legal residence in New York. Most important, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has a unique role within the Fed’s monetary system, as it conducts the open-market operations by which the central bank implements monetary policy. To act as a counterparty with FRBNY in those trades and gain access to that vital flow of monetary liquidity, banks need, at the very least, a capital markets subsidiary domiciled in New York. Their presence for that purpose in turn gives local regulators such as the New York Department of Financial Services a critical role in world finance.But it’s not hard to imagine that a physical downgrading of banks’ physical presence in New York could, over time, degrade the city’s dominance. Will the rest of the U.S. continue to grant NYC its gatekeeping role?. And as central banks, potentially armed with digital currencies, move to expand the range of counterparties they deal with to include non-banks such as large companies and municipalities, New York’s centrality in the process could be further diminished. It’s yet another way in which the seismic events of 2020 could prove are setting it up as a turning point year for the world of finance. Further reading:Here in Venezuela, Doctors Struggle to Access Aid From Crypto Platform By José Rafael Peña GholamDigital Euro Would Provide Alternative to Cryptos, ECB President Lagarde Says By Dan PalmerIran Is Ripe for Bitcoin Adoption, Even as Government Clamps Down on Mining By Sandali HandagamaThe Currency Cold War: Four Scenarios by Jeff WilserOcean Protocol and Balancer Want to Do for Data What Uniswap Did for Coins by Ian AllisonHow Small Business Can Achieve 'Economies of Scale' by 2030 by Paul Brody

Podcast host Myles Corson welcomes back Paul Brody, EY Global Blockchain Leader, to discuss the evolution of blockchain and how it is enabling seamless transactions and near real-time exchange of information, to evolve into an open, scalable, compliant and secure public transaction system. #betterfinance © 2020 Ernst & Young LLP.

Paul Brody, EY Global Blockchain Leader, joins the podcast to talk about his team's efforts to bring Ethereum to enterprise clients. We start by talking about the goals of the EY blockchain team and then move into discussing their privacy project, Nightfall. EY Nightfall was started over 3 years ago and is a protocol for private transactions on the Ethereum blockchain using zk-snarks. Paul then transitions into the recent announcement of Baseline Protocol, an effort to bring enterprise onto the public Ethereum chain.

Have you ever had a story you wanted to tell but you had no idea how to get it out to the masses? Have you ever felt like you didn’t know where to start? My guest today did it on his own and took his book Eat Less and Move More to the best sellers list along with two more books that also had the same level of success.  The journey made him realize that it's not easy to write a book, get it edited, published and marketed with limited resources. He thought why not do something that would help others in the same situation and so Brody Consulting Group was born. Paul Brody is the founder and CEO of Brody Consulting Group. He works with his clients to write, publish and market their books with a proven system he designed. He is also the host of the Get Published podcast.  We chat about his journey in writing his books and taking them to the best sellers list on his own steam and how that experience catapulted him into the business he leads today. Show Notes: [03:32] A health crisis caused Paul to reevaluate his life when his doctor told him if he didn’t lose weight and get his act together, he’d be dead in five years. [04:14] He lost the weight, kept the weight off and beat the odds, he wanted to tell the story about his own journey. [04:42] He had no idea how to get his story out there or get a book published. [05:02] Sitting by the pool at the Mirage in Vegas everything started to flow, opened up his notes app on his phone and sketched out the entire outline for the book. A week later he wrote 20,000 words and that became his first draft. [05:39] He spent 8 hours a day learning the publishing side but then he had to figure out the marketing side. He then spent more days learning how to launch a book successfully and how to evolve with a changing market. [06:08] A month later, in August he launched the book “Eat Less and Move More.” It became his very first bestseller. [06:24] Paul was also a motivational speaker and wanted to write a couple of books based on those seminars, he wrote Motivation 101 and Positivity Attracts. They both became best sellers. [06:31] He started having other authors ask to be shown what he did to become successful so early on, how to market and publish their books.  [06:52] He started coaching people one on one on writing, publishing and marketing their books. Within a year and a half, his company was up and running. [07:03] They then expanded into hybrid publishing where they do, done for your publishing services, done for your book marketing and this last year they have added executive ghostwriting. [07:31] One book from a health crisis completely changed his life. Everyone has a story you just have to get it out there. [08:53] The most typical mistakes that first time authors make is trying to edit their own book. [09:51] Always do a final proof even when you have an editor and always read the book out loud.   [11:06] Paul’s company takes a holistic approach with writers, they don’t pitch ideas, they just want to know about your book, your situation and what you want to get out of it. He tells his clients that it's not a book launch, it’s a product launch. [14:23] He tells people that he is a farmer because all he does is plant seeds. [15:20] His proven system is breaking down everything into bite-size portions, simplify. [18:05] Having a great looking professional book cover is very important for a successful book launch. [23.37] He never even thought about starting a podcast until people around told him he should spread his knowledge and that it would be a great medium to do that. [24:17] He started the podcast Get Published recording one episode a week, went to 5 episodes a week and at one point was doing four episodes a day. They have done 350 episodes in the year since the podcast was launched. [26:15] After authors build their platform, having a podcast to get the information out to more people is definitely a great way to get their brand out there. [27:33] Social media is a great way to drive brand awareness and push people towards your website to bring that traffic in. [30:22] LinkedIn’s sales navigator is something he recommends for the ability to reach out to people and send traffic your way. [31:30] The challenge he faces in his business is setting expectations early with clients, making it clear that they are not going to make millions of dollars on the front end with royalties. [34:01] You can not be an introvert as an author and expect to sell tons of books, you have to get out there to keep the momentum going. [36:24] Online speaking and virtual summits are great ways of getting out there without having to physically be in front of people.   [38:50] Paul always says he gives his information away for free, clients pay for implementation. Links: Eat Less Move More http://www.brodieedu.com/ Get Published Podcast MGM Resorts Motivation 101 Positivity Attracts Improve Positive Thinking https://www.linkedin.com/sales  

Paul Brody is spearheading enterprise blockchain development at EY, where he leads the company's push into a future built on public, open blockchains. Your browser does not support the audio element.

Paul Brody is spearheading enterprise blockchain development at EY, where he leads the company's push into a future built on public, open blockchains.

During the epic annual Zlatne Ustne Goldenfest, the crowd was worked into a frenzy by a rollicking set by LITVAKUS, Zisl Slepovich's klezmer band.  We get a chance to hang backstage with the maestro and renaissance man, Zisl Slepovich.   Zisl Slepovitch (Dmitri Zisl Slepovitch) is an internationally renowned multiinstrumentalist (clarinetist, saxophonist, flutist, pianist, keyboardist, singer), composer, arranger, translator, and music and Yiddish educator. Slepovitch is the founder and leader of the Litvakus klezmer band, Zisl Slepovitch Trio, Assistant Music Director / Music Director / Music Coordinator in many productions by the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, including the Drama Desk Award nominated operetta The Golden Bride (2015/16) and Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish directed by Joel Grey. Zisl Slepovitch has taught Yiddish language and culture The New School, served as educator and artist in residence at BIMA at Brandeis University, guest artist at University of Michigan, Indiana University, and Amherst College and Vassar College, a teaching fellow and performing artist at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (New York City), Vienna Klezmer Workshop (Vienna), The Moscow Sefer Center, and Eshkolot Project (both in Moscow). Some of Slepovitch’s theater, film, and TV contributions include consulting and acting in Defiance (Paramount), Eternal Echoes (Sony Classical), Rejoice with Itzhak Perlman and Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot (PBS),  original scores for the documentary Funeral Season, children’s musical The King of Chelm, ballet Di Tsvey Brider, and many more. See Zisl Slepovitch on     Zisl Slepovitch has performed/ recorded / collaborated / worked with / wrote for Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, Ron Rifkin, Joel Grey, Edward Zwick, Michael Alpert, Zalmen Mlotek, Paul Brody, Psoy Korolenko, Frank London, Lipa Schmeltzer, Yale Strom, Lev “Ljova” Zhurbin, Cantor Yaakov “Yanky” Lemmer, and many others. Slepovitch brought over from his home country Belarus a rich ethnographic collection of Belarusian Jewish music folklore collected together with Dr. Nina Stepanskaya. The collection was used in Slepovitch’s his multimedia concert program Traveling the Yiddishland. Some of Yiddish poetry by Zisl Slepovitch has been set to music and published in Israel, Russia, and the US. Over the years, Jewish music and Yiddish culture have remained the core elements of his creative inspirations. Get the music by Zisl’s LITVAKUS’ klezmer band: Bandcamp (also as CDs), iTunes, Amazon MP3, CDBaby, and more!

Blockchain technology stretches across a wide selection of corporate industries. This ever-evolving digital ledger chronologically and publicly records transactions, and now has anti-corruption compliance professionals asking how blockchain fits into a broader corporate compliance strategy. Tom welcomes two thought leaders from Ernst and Young: Paul Brody and Alexander Perry. The three of them discuss the power of blockchains and how they can be effectively implemented in a compliance practice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1914, Canadian Army veterinarian Harry Colebourn was traveling to the Western Front when he met an orphaned bear cub in an Ontario railway station. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll follow the adventures of Winnie the bear, including her fateful meeting with A.A. Milne and his son, Christopher Robin. We'll also marvel at some impressive finger counting and puzzle over an impassable bridge. Intro: At least two British television series have included Morse code in their theme music. A map of the American Midwest depicts an elf making chicken. Sources for our feature on Winnie the bear: Ann Thwaite, A.A. Milne, 1990. Val Shushkewich, The Real Winnie, 2005. Christopher Milne, The Enchanted Places, 1974. A.R. Melrose, ed., Beyond the World of Pooh, 1998. Paul Brody, In Which Milne's Life Is Told, 2014. Jackie Wullschläger, Inventing Wonderland, 1995. Gary Dexter, Why Not Catch-21?, 2008. Anna Tyzack, "The Story of Winnie the Pooh Laid Bare," Telegraph, Dec. 20, 2015. Lindsay Mattick, "The Story of How Winnie the Pooh Was Inspired by a Real Bear -- in Pictures," Guardian, Nov. 24, 2015. Tessa Vanderhart, "Winnie The Pooh Story Turns 99," Winnipeg Sun, Aug. 25, 2013. Jim Axelrod, "The Story of the Real Winnie the Pooh," CBS News, March 21, 2016. The Real Winnie, Ryerson University (accessed Oct. 22, 2017). "The True Tale of Winnie the Pooh, an Unlikely First World War Legacy," CBC Radio, Nov. 11, 2015. Christopher Klein, "The True Story of the Real-Life Winnie-the-Pooh," history.com, Oct. 13, 2016. Sean Coughlan, "The Skull of the 'Real' Winnie Goes on Display," BBC News, Nov. 20, 2015. "Winnie and Lieutenant Colebourn, White River, 1914," Canadian Postal Archives Database (accessed Oct. 22, 2017). Michael Palmer, "Artefact of the Month: Winnie the Bear and Lt. Colebourn Statue," Zoological Society of London, Nov. 28, 2014. "Winnie-the-Pooh: Inspired by a Canadian Bear," Canada Post Corporation (accessed Oct. 22, 2017). "Major Harry Colebourn," Canadian Great War Project (accessed Oct. 22, 2017). "The Real-Life Canadian Story of Winnie-the-Pooh," CBC Kids (accessed Oct. 22, 2017). Christopher Robin Milne feeding Winnie in her enclosure at the London Zoo in the 1920s. Listener mail: A demonstration of a binary or base 2 finger-counting method. Wikipedia, "Benford's Law" (accessed Nov. 3, 2017). "Counting," QI (accessed Nov. 3, 2017). "Sumerian/Babylonian Mathematics," The Story of Mathematics (accessed Nov. 3, 2017). Wikipedia, "Sexagesimal" (accessed Nov. 3, 2017). Wikipedia, "Chisanbop" (accessed Nov. 3, 2017). "Math Lesson Plan: Chisanbop (Korean Counting to 99)," LessonThis (accessed Nov. 3, 2017). A 3-year-old doing arithmetic using the Chisanbop method. A kindergartener doing more complicated arithmetic using the Chisanbop method. Older kids doing very fast, advanced arithmetic using a mental abacus. Wikipedia, "Mental Abacus" (accessed Nov. 3, 2017). Alex Bellos, "World's Fastest Number Game Wows Spectators and Scientists," Guardian, Oct. 29, 2012. This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Jack McLachlan. You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on iTunes or Google Play Music or via the RSS feed at http://feedpress.me/futilitycloset. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- on our Patreon page you can pledge any amount per episode, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!

Blockchain technology is poised to transform the finance function and has the potential to solve real business issues facing many companies today, tightly redefining the relationship between business operations and finance in ways that have never been possible before. EY's Myles Corson and Paul Brody discuss blockchain's revolutionary impact.

Paul Brody is a Global Innovation Leader in BlockChain Technology and a Solution Leader in the Industrial Internet of Things at EY. Paul has spent more than 15 years in the electronics industry and has done extensive research for his clients on technology strategy. Paul understands that technology is deeply rooted in strategy, but it gets complex as new technologies and disruptions arise in our modern world. For example, the moment self-driving cars are perfected, it will cause a huge disruption in our economy, so how can we navigate through it? Find out more on this week's episode. 03:15 - How would Paul characterize the impact technology is having on established businesses today? 04:25 - How does Paul get his clients to recognize that technology plays an important role in business strategy? 06:10 - Failure is still seen as a taboo in large organizations, but we need a bit of failure in order to create innovation. 07:35 - Large organizations have not been able to differentiate between good failure and bad failure. 08:15 - What insights does Paul have on companies who try to encourages a ‘failure culture'? 11:15 - In Silicon Valley, it's quite common for entrepreneurs to fail and then go back to traditional businesses. Businesses even welcome them with open arms! 16:20 - What kind of industries is Paul paying close attention to? 21:40 - What are some of the warning signs that show a company is not ready to handle a complete 10x in productivity of their industry? 22:50 - It's getting harder to tell whether companies are prepared for drastic change in their market. 22:52 - For companies that are serious in getting ahead, there are two factors they have to consider and follow through on. Paul explains further. 24:00 - Most people became interested in BlockChain due to Bitcoin, but Paul got involved with BlockChain for different reasons. 27:15 - Paul is not a big believer in big data or in the data-mining model. 29:50 - What advice would Paul give to intrapreneurs listening to this show? 34:30 - Are business models really evolving or is it just a repeat of a tried-and-true method? 37:35 - Bank crises have been a staple of Western economies. This is way technology like BlockChain and trust in the Bitcoin have become rampant. 39:00 - What advice would Paul give to his kids on how they should position themselves in such a dramatically changing world? 41:40 - Machines will do a lot of the leg work for us, but they can not replace that very intimate and personal human interaction. 44:35 - What has Paul changed his mind about recently? 45:55 - What does Paul do to remain creative? 48:20 - What does Paul attribute his success to in life? FULL SHOW NOTES: http://innovationecosystem.com/high-stakes-industrial-innovation:-a-view-from-silicon-valley-with-paul-brody/

The cryptocurrency Bitcoin is changing the way people think about operating financial markets and banking systems. Meanwhile, distributed energy is changing the way people think about running grids. Can the two influence one another? Many experts believe that the blockchain -- the public database that tracks Bitcoin -- will be the catalyst for the distributed, transactive grid. This week, we'll talk with Paul Brody of Ernst & Young about how the blockchain can be applied to energy and the internet of things. We'll describe how blockchains work, why they're useful, and when they'll start influencing the energy business. In the second half of the show, we'll discuss concerns about rolling blackouts and too much renewable energy in California. We'll end the show by talking about a controversial proposal to give away millions of free solar kits in Kenya.

As the cost of computing continues to plummet, the number of connected devices is increasing dramatically. In the future powerful computing capacity will be in billions of devices ranging from the lightbulb to the car door to new wearables. This new internet of things (IoT) will dramatically change our lives. Paul Brody, a Technology Strategist and the former VP of Mobile and IoT at IBM, joined us for a discussion of where the IoT is going. We discussed their white paper on why a decentralized, blockchain-based internet of things could solve the problems of the current IoT in terms of privacy, scalability, and business models. Topics covered in this episode: What the Internet of Things and its core value proposition is Why the current IoT business models are broken How a decentralized IoT infrastructure would be more secure, scalable and economically feasible What role the blockchain could play in a decentralized IoT The three components of IBM’s ADEPT proof-of-concept Episode links: IBM Democracy of Devices Whitepaper Paul Brody IFA Talk IBM Empowering the Edge Report IBM Empowering the Edge Use Cases IBM & Samsung ADEPT Demo at CES This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain and Sébastien Couture. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/075

Chaim ALefski from Chabad of West side and Dr. Paul Brody and Rabbi Yizhak Hanoka Tristate Rabbinic Coordinator for OK