The Blockchain New Zealand Podcast

Brandon Bucher is an engineer and the co-founder of LightningPay.nz. Brandon and I talk about the recent indictments against the Samourai founders whose wallet was operating a bitcoin mixing service. They are charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmission business which echo with the privacy battles in the 90s over encryption. We get into lightning network adoption, privacy, and the future outlook of your UTXO. Timestamps: 00:00 Samourai indictment08:22 moving the goal posts16:26 privacy as choice21:37 privacy long game26:11 cypherpunks and the battle  32:26 lightning network 38:04 public info on lightning41:09 adoption in lighting49:12 UTXO scarcity54:25 LightningPay.nz1:02:25 rapid fire1:05:24 fin Some notes from the show: Samourai indictment  coin-join/whirlpool  Bitcoin fog  Tornado Cash founder sentenced to prison   Coin Centre post by Peter Van Valkenburgh  unannounced lightning channels  Lighting charts  River Reports  eCash  Lightning Pay  Contact Brandon: X LinkedIn Find Jeff: X LinkedIn  The BCNZ Pod: Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/ YouTube  Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify  iHeartRadio  Media & Sponsorship Enquires: [email protected]  Recorded at blockheight 842607. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.

Ian Woolford has made a career working at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and presently he's the director of money and cash which is overseeing the CBDC or Digital Cash program. The RBNZ is partway through a series of consultations to get public feedback and opinion on a Reserve Bank issued digital currency.  In this conversation Ian makes it very clear that the Reserve Bank wants cash to remain as close to regular cash as possible meaning that anonymity is preserved, and activity is not tracked. Ian also highlights that innovation in banking by banks has been woeful and they hope to encourage non-bank players to innovate here to provide more options for Kiwis. Timestamps: 00:00 intro03:05 rural access to cash & services08:24 balancing physical and digital cash10:56 is this a CBDC?12:21 blockchain?15:14 benefits of digital cash19:36 innovation in cash 24:54 privacy28:40 banking access for startups30:22 rapidfire33:02 fin Some notes from the show: rural cash trial program  cyclone Gabrielle cash shortage  ESAS settlement  Northern Rock's trouble  Nigeria's CBDC failure  Sweden's e-krona  Ecuador's Dinero Electronico   RBNZ privacy support paper  RBNZ Digital Cash Feedback  Contact Ian: LinkedIn RBNZ Find Jeff: X/Twitter LinkedIn  The BCNZ Pod: Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/ YouTube  Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify  iHeartRadio  Media & Sponsorship Enquires: [email protected]  Recorded at blockheight 842510. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.

Brooke Howard-Smith is the founder of Otterfish that is at the heart of the creator economy and influencer marketing. He's also a cofounder of Non-Fungible Labs which is now a part of Futureverse. Brooke and I broadly cover what's happening with AI and how its affecting everything digital and where Web3 fits in. We jump right in Brooke is talking about everyone leveraging what they love, being commercial and non commercial at the same time in the creator economy. Timestamps: 00:00 intro 00:56 monetizing & creator economy05:15 web312:26 spotify, superapps, & AI18:15 instagram & influence marketing23:08 client AI tools in the creator economy 28:40 personal AI use 38:46 non fungible labs41:55 fluf launch & futureverse46:22 gemini's mis-launch51:58 rapidfire1:02:31 fin Some notes from the show: Gino the Ghost on music https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb2NG6NWyhjisymBWg8aSXQ  Kurzweil's singularity https://www.singularity.com/  Otterfish https://otterfish.com/  Brian Armstrong AI use https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1779946210226577913  Futureverse https://www.futureverse.com/  unstoppable art machine https://www.instagram.com/unstoppableartmachine/?hl=en  fluf launch https://nfts.wtf/what-the-fluf-3d-bunnies-break-the-blockchain/  Gemini's mis-launch https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-woke-ai-image-generation/  Asian shopping https://youtu.be/p3RhRB3YJks?si=M-y5cZab34sQ3Q5G  Ready Player One announcement https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/ready-player-one-metaverse-warner-bros-discovery-1235862190/  Golden https://heresgolden.com/  Contact Brooke: X/Twitter LinkedIn Find Jeff: X/Twitter LinkedIn  The BCNZ Pod: Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/ YouTube  Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify  iHeartRadio  Media & Sponsorship Enquires: [email protected]  Recorded at blockheight 839555. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.

Leo Clark is a documentary filmmaker that is presently working with the Nouns DAO community. His latest film, NON-FUNGIBLE AOTEAROA, is debuting at the American Documentary and Animation Film Festival in Palm Springs with the tagline: See how NFTs and Nouns DAO are transforming people’s lives in New Zealand. In this conversation Leo and I talk about the Nouns project and what the community is doing with NFTs and funding artists, we get into Farcaster and decentralised social media and touch on CC-zero (CC0) licensing and how it aligns with web3. Timestamps: 00:00 intro & doco12:13 NFT art14:46 Nouns20:58 community funding26:06 Farcaster31:46 Warpcast35:50 incentives39:59 mint everything42:41 nouns cafe46:42 CC0 no copyright50:43 rapid-fire52:13 fin Some notes from the show: The Doco  The Festival Nouns  Prophouse  Nouns names a new species of frog  Farcaster  Warpcast  Frames  CC0 No Copyright Contact Leo: X/Twitter Warpcast Find Jeff: X/Twitter LinkedIn  The BCNZ Pod: Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/ YouTube  Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify  iHeartRadio  Media & Sponsorship Enquires: [email protected]  Recorded at blockheight 834418. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.

Sam Kamani has lots of experience in tech, from being a founder to a VC, an advisor, and an author. We talk about 3 important aspects to entrepreneurship: talent, ability to raise capital, and access to market. In the back third we get into trends in Web 3 including decentralised physical infrastructure (DePIn) and ETFs. Timestamps: 00:00 intro01:12 realestate/density/Dubai 05:22 web3 in Dubai09:29 capital & market access15:57 New Zealand's rating17:18 Sam's background22:47 Kiwi access to capital27:28 no-code tools31:52 the 30 day startup 37:22 post covid 37:40 trends in web3 - stablecoins46:52 DePIn50:13 ETFs56:45 rapid fire1:00:20 fin Some notes from the show: Norway's Oil Fund  autowhale  Cookbook.dev  Remix IDE  The 30 Day Startup  PayPal stablecoin  Chris Rothfuss in Wyoming  Contact Sam: X/Twitter LinkedIn Find Jeff: X/Twitter LinkedIn  The BCNZ Pod: Website https://podcast.blockchain.org.nz/ YouTube  Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify  iHeartRadio  Media & Sponsorship Enquires: [email protected]  Recorded at blockheight 832462. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.