Of Health, Humans, and Blockchain
Episode 24 | 9/11/2018
Jose Arrieta, US Health & Human Services, "the Elon Musk of government," on using blockchain to make centralized government more efficient and decentralized. He breaks down: problems with delivering public services; combining blockchain tech stack with advanced analytics; and previews his blockchain class at Johns Hopkins. Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jose-arrieta-6064531/ …
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Cross Border Properties on Chain
Episode 25 | 09/18/2018
Are you a global citizen? Curious about buying or selling real estate in SanFrancisco, Rome, or London? Check out our interview with the CTO of Propy Inc, on how to do global deals on the blockchain. Co-hosts: Jeff Peterson and Dang Du Links: https://propy.com Follow A Bit Cryptic Podcast: Twitter.com/keepitcryptic Medium.com/@abitcryptic Facebook.com/abitcryptic…Continue reading » -
Incentive design for blockchain, lessons from the opioids crisis
Episode 33 | November 08, 2018
Tori Adams, DC-based blockchain innovator with ConsenSys Government, shares how her personal heartbreaks with opioid addiction fuels her passion for scaling back this public health crisis by connecting behavioral economics with decentralized systems. Tori sat down with us to help break down this problem down at the economics, cultural, and regulatory…Continue reading » -
Central Banker Decrypts Crypto
Episode 32 | Octuber 31, 2018
David Andolfatto, VP of Research at the St. Louis Federal Reserve is a thought leader on cryptocurrency and the new market places popping around it. Central bankers have often been hesitant to speak about crypto, but David has been crypto-educator since 2014. His community policy briefings usually are usually packed…Continue reading » -
My Body, My Data!
Episode 32 | November 20, 2018
At Coinvention (Philadelphia), Raj Sharma, CEO of Health Wizz, chats about their mobile app helping people to aggregate, organize, own, and share their health data. He goes over their vision for a market where people can share health info directly with a health orgs. and caregivers without the web of…Continue reading » -
Blockchain Media and Tech Reporting — Why Words Matter
Episode 31 | Octuber 25, 2018
Today we discuss everything from the tech scene in Russia and intermittent fasting, to entrepreneurship and fake Amazon product reviews. We wax about how little changes in wording makes a big difference in public perception and how general public perception of blockchain/crypto is still pretty goofy. Ari believes the general…Continue reading » -
World Bank Blockchain Lab, Fighting Poverty With New Tech
Episode 1 | 09/26/2018
Washington DC — Recent headlines have touted the World Bank’s achievement in issuing “the first global bond” on the blockchain. But you may not know the backstory to how the World Bank’s blockchain innovations lab got started. I visited the lab to see how this global development institution is ramping up its…Continue reading »