Blockchain 2025

For less than 1 Euro, Blake booked a coworking hot desk for 1 day in Berlin. He used crypto and purchased through a blockchain coworking startup. Could this be a thing? Invented in 2005 by Brad Neuberg, coworking is a worldwide phenomenon.  Many are familiar with WeWork, the largest coworking operation in the world with a multi billion dollar play. It can be a fantastic real estate play and a valuable service for startups and freelancers. We do a deep dive on coworking and two blockchain industry startups.  00:42 - BCH Hard Fork. 02:26 - What is coworking? 04:00 - How Brad Neuberg changed the way humans interact. 5:55 - Why should I go to the office? 07:20 - Pros and cons of coworking. 09:38 - Coworking and Real Estate 10:50 - How Blockchain can help coworking spaces? 11:35 - Tokenization of coworking Space 12:34 - What is Primalbase? 13:54 - Coffee shops vs coworking spaces. 17:06 - Is Primalbase sustainable as a business model? 19:05 - rent24: A global coworking operation. 19:40 - Coliving: Taking coworking

Led by Jack Ma's protege, Justin Sun, Tron is going big.  Social media, decentralized exchange, prediction markets, anything you can think of that we have covered on Blockchain 2025, they plan to have on their platform. Like ANY project in this space, you have to have some skepticism. And there are a few areas of concern. But they have done two things that most projects have not: A) They bought a real company - BitTorrent. B) Tron has live a dApps and an exchange for tokens bulit on top of their blockchain. We explore this fascinating project.  

Roughly a 3 billion dollar industry in the United States alone. An industry that many people are part of as a producer or consumer, but few talk about. Blake and Matt analyzed the many problems that plague the adult entertainment industry and found many opportunities for crypto and public blockchains to help. Plus we do a deep dive on SpankChain, a blockchain ecosystem for the adult entertainment industry built on Ethereum. Timestamps: 3:14 - What happens to your brain on porn? 6:02 - The power of the industry 8:05 - Use cases for blockchain - privacy, censorship resistance 11:03 - The difficulties of working and running a business in the adult industry 14:01 - Brenna Sparks and gentleman's club 16:14 - Cutting out middlemen 17:30 - SpankChain    

In Part 2, Blake and Matt debate whether stablecoins will be a contribution or detriment to the cryptocurrency space. They seem to be a hot VC investment, but whether it is good for the ecosystem remains to be seen. Timestamps: 1:35 - Are stablecoins helping? 5:00 - Legal compliance 6:31 - Bitfinexed 9:42 - Deep dive into USDT 11:15 - Are stablecoins even a cryptocurrency? And much more!

As the first of a two part episode, Matt and Blake take an in depth look at Stablecoins, their use and comparison within the cryptocurrency universe. Stablecoins have raised over $350m in investment. There are over 45 projects fighting to knock down Tether and become the stablecoin of choice.

Matt Aaron and new co-host Blake Moore go over the sometimes underlooked importance of mining, exchange tokens, their use within the mining spectrum, and finally take and in-depth look at VIAT Tokens, fresh off a 30 million dollar ICO. During our discussion, you'll discover: 0:41 - Presenting new co-host Blake Moore 2:55 - What does peer to peer electronic cash for the world mean? 3:58 - Mining and how it is often overlooked. Why is it so important? 6:16 - Kevin Zhang - The Tibet story - Cleaner energy used for Mining 9:30 - American Express and the payment of anti-mining propaganda 10:58 - Viat mining token and Binance exchange token 15:09 - A clearer imagery on B&B tokens 17:17 - A sum-up and the “burn” of tokens 18:30 - Back to ViaBTC and payouts within the mining pool 22:02 - Lowering supply of tokens within the long term payout scheme  

Matt and Kelso examine the new documentary yet to be released, Trust Machine: The Story of Blockchain. It’s from Alex Winter, who produced popular documentaries Downloaded and Deep Web, covering outlier aspects of the digital space. He’s back to take on blockchain, and if the press release and trailer are any guide, it too looks pretty compelling. Narrated by Rosario Dawson with Ethereum's Joe Lubin as exec producer. The Los Angeles screening happens in less than 48 hours. And guess who will be in attendance ...

Matt and Kelso examine crazy amounts of money thrown at blockchain projects. Warranted or not, blockchain is officially a multi billion dollar industry, and it has achieved that status during what’s now known as the extended Crypto Winter -- a bear market closing in on a year long. And estimates by industry insiders claim 2018 is on pace to break investing even during the bull run of late last year. Timestamps: 1:30 - Elon Musk vs. the SEC 5:28 - The ecosystem health outside of tokens (Coinbase, Bitcoin.com) 7:09 - The bear market 9:04 - Wealth transfer and ICOs 11:26 - Are token sales for the people? 13:37 - Major investments outside of ICO’s, Dow Jones, and Fundamentals 15:18 - Gearing up for the next bull run 17:56 - Going back to Bitcoin in 2013 to provide perspective for today Mentioned in the show: https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/20/with-at-least-1-3-billion-invested-globally-in-2018-vc-funding-for-blockchain-blows-past-2017-totals/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-08/crypto-growth-nears

The current state of credit scores worldwide is miserable. In each country, the system is flawed and subjective in how you are evaluated. Move to a new country? You have to start over. No credit card? you may not have credit in the United States. Not registered to vote? This will hurt your score in the U.K. Then there is the lack of privacy. Centralized agencies like Equifax cannot keep your info safe. So we discuss how blockchain could fundamentally change it. And a group of bright, young minds is working on just that at Bloom. Timestamps 3:05 - The current credit score structure in the United States 6:00 - Access to the financial system 7:28 - Centralized data interpretation across the world 9:04 - The Equifax hack 11:32 - Hypocrisy in the current financial system 14:22 - Blockchain disrpuption / free market competition 15:49 - Examples of credit score limitations 17:21 - Can Bloom take down the powers that be?

At listeners request, we will periodically highlight some of the world's goofiest ICOs. Like a really bad episode of Shark Tank. EyeGlob.net is using blockchain to make healthier eyes. Yeah, that's right! They are pro eyes; pro vision, and so are we! EyeGlob.net is in their ICO looking for 33 million dollars for 40% of their company, meaning a valuation of 82.5 million. That is quite a lot of money for a company with no working product.

A male-dominated space, adoption of crypto depends on both men and women. We talk about females in blockchain culture and highlight 3 underrated women who are making a big difference in the blockchain world. During our discussion, you’ll discover: 2:00 How we’re pissing off entire blockchain ecosystem 3:30 How can we bring more women into the space? Why is it predominantly male? 5:25 The mission at bitcoin com and why we need women to achieve that 7:30 Why businesses need to be able to speak women's language and meet their needs 8:51 Are men more likely to take risks? 9:59 Instagram appeal to women …should we use customization in blockchain more? 11:56 Using blockchain can give women more freedom 15:50 Alena Vranova - co-founder of the Trezor hardware wallet 17:41 Taylor Monahan- MyCrypto Previous Co-Founder of MyEtherwallet 24:47 XDite Founder of OTCBTC in Taiwan & also running for Mayor of Taipei 27:46 Why women will help adoption of crypto & much more!

"Whatever controls the courts, controls the state." An intriguing use case. What if disputes could be solved via a decentralized platform? Kleros is working on it. We speak with their cryptoeconomics expert.   What an exciting interview. William George is part of Kleros, a dispute resolution layer built on top of the Ethereum blockchain. In layman's terms, we go from traditional small claims court, centralized dispute resolution like PayPal and Amazon to the Kleros alternative and paint a picture for the future.

Like many blockchain plays, sports startups could work, but will require a ton of serendipitous marketing. If athletes are broadcasting games, they better be really into it and promoting it, because they are getting paid in these new tokens, so a lot depends on the market perception that these tokens hold value. Interesting concepts that will be tough to turn into a sustainable, prosperous business. We talk about: The blockchain project that the NFL Players Association invested in The rise of e-sports Tokenizing athletes Gambling and it's fundamental importance to fan interaction    

You've heard of the advantages of blockchain: *Trustless *Saves time and money *Traceability / Immutability *Accountability Well this industry needs all of the above. The international food and pharma supply chain is a giant ... mess. We speak with the CEO of Ambrosus, Angel Versetti. Whether it's making product recalls more accurate and less costly, understanding where in the supply chain things went wrong, or helping consumers understand where their food really comes from, there is giant potential here.

Cody Wilson. 30 years old. Law school dropout. About five years ago, on a lark, decided to create world’s first 3D printable gun. Succeeded. Media went nuts.  Defense Distributed, his website, was effectively shut downe State Department said having downloadable gun files violated international arms law. Wilson complied. Wilson would later take the fight directly to the federal government. Wilson sued them. He basically lost all early court challenges. But feds feared he would ultimately win. Based his case on 1st and 2nd amendments. Feds cut a deal with Wilson this year. He was allowed to have files for download on his site. Now states are getting into the act. This all relates back to blockchain and bitcoin. Really.

The use of blockchain in the public sector reached another milestone this month when West Virginia became the first U.S. state to allow internet voting by blockchain in primary elections. While the voter participation through this platform was estimated to be small, the intention of the administrators was to test the technology in a pilot project with no immediate plans to implement it at a larger scale. Matt and Kelso review the current challenges of voting, the potential for blockchain to revolutionize, and a few projects that are already operating in the U.S., Africa, and South America. Mentioned in the episode: Voatz - Voatz.com Agora vote - https://www.agora.vote/ Democracy Earth - https://www.democracy.earth/  Follow My Vote - https://followmyvote.com/ Democracy OS - http://democracyos.org/ Vote Watcher - http://votewatcher.com/ Voto Social - http://votosocial.github.io/ Skepticism - http://www.govtech.com/GT-OctoberNovember-Securing-the-Vote.html?flipboard=yes

"We propose that blockchain technologies can become a new framework not only for the production (distribution and financing) of stories but also their creation.” Kelso covered the humongous ComicCon conference a few weeks back. In between meeting celebrities from top comic-book movies like AquaMan, he had the chance to interview a ConsenSys startup, Cellarius. Mentioned in the episode: ApolloBros interview: https://youtu.be/JZSsud-hyXgApolloBros interview: https://youtu.be/JZSsud-hyXg ComicCon 2018: https://comiccon2018.sched.com/event/FSjy ConsenSys:  https://new.consensys.net/ Cellarius: https://cellarius.network/  Transmedia Cyberpunk Franchise 2:26 - 2:36 https://blackgirlnerds.com/bgn-review-cellarius-a-collaborative-sci-fi-universe/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/cellarius2084

Encouraging governments to use and implement blockchain, the theory goes will lead to more transparency, data security, streamlined communication and reporting. All around the world, there are billions of hours and dollars wasted on tedious bureaucratic processes. Blockchain for government is providing a public audit. This public audit log has the potential to be free from manipulation and immutable. Forgeries and outright fraud can be made more difficult. Audit logs rest upon nodes, which carry copies of the distributed ledger. One criticism, for example, of the federal security apparatus within the United States prior and during 9/11 was the lack of departmental communication. Blockchain could streamline that. Whichever agency drops the ball in terms of protecting the public would be clearer from an audit log standpoint.  

Today's special guest is none other than Taylor Pearson, author of The End Of Jobs.  He has emerged as a thought leader around blockchain's impact on our future. This episode is centered around you, the individual. The 1950's 9-to-5 company man is a thing of the past. Taylor explains: "The Organization Man was defined by the Social ethic which emphasized the individual as subordinate to the group, the importance of belongingness, and The Organization as the means to achieve belongingness and achieve the proper subordination of the individuals to the group. The Blockchain Man’s world will be defined by the three tenets of the Protocol Ethic. a belief in the individual as the source of creativity a belief in serving the needs of the protocol as the ultimate purpose of the individual and a belief in the application of blockchains to achieve an individual’s highest potential. The Blockchain Man exists as a unit of the blockchain. Of himself, he is isolated, meaningless; only as he collaborates with the blockch

In the mainstream press and the global corporate world, cryptocurrency is reviled. It is hated. Its users are thought to be straight trash. Don’t ever forget that. That it derives from distinctly polemical anarchists who were bent on leaving government forms of money makes it all the worse. There is absolutely no reason for the financial system undergirding media and business, insulated and protected by the status quo, to do anything other than what they’re doing: portray cryptocurrency as a plaything for geeks, drug losers, and terrorists. And they have some legitimate arguments: 90% of the projects taking advantage of the buzzword "blockchain" in order to make money. Despite triggering a quick pump in the share price of several companies, the practice of companies attempting to cultivate an exaggerated or fraudulent association with distributed ledger technology has resulted in little more than an increase in the scrutiny and suspicion with which the mainstream markets treat publicly listed crypto companies