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This is our first CryptoGoss since September 2016. We had an unscheduled hiatus due to my (Peter's) health issues which resulted in me being unable to speak for more than a couple of minutes without coughing, unconducive to podcast recording. Fortunately, things have taken a turn for the better and we're confident of a strong podcasting season in 2017 at Crypto Studios, Blockchain Centre, Level 1, 89 - 91 City Road, Southbank, Victoria, 3006. This episode, we were fortunate to catch up with...

This episode, we look at Steem and how it can apply to learning in schools. Katherine Noall, Scott Phillips and Peter Robertson are joined in Crypto Studios at the Melbourne Bitcoin Technology Centre by Kieran Nolan, Educational Technologist and Janet Whittle, Assistant Principal from Wooranna Park Primary School. We discuss Steem and how Wooranna Park Primary is planning to use the Steem platform for collaborative learning. Inspired by an article on steem, Kieran Nolan and Tom Mcgann...

Rafael Taylor is a freelance journalist, contributor to ROAR Magazine and campaigner with Australians for Kurdistan, building solidarity networks with the Rojava Revolution. Based in Melbourne, he is a freethinker, transhumanist and libertarian socialist passionate about supporting new value-systems and social institutions. Grant Lenaarts is a digital entrepreneur and software developer whose main interest is in the evolution of consumer civilization. This episode features an excellent Peter...

Scott, Julian and Simon discuss the DAO, Ethereum and the hard fork. Music: Air (R3z) - e a r t h s p a c e RMX 0.2 fantasytripp https://allihoopa.com/s/sY2vbm3r C A T C H Y Monsinho https://allihoopa.com/s/7NLtwpXD Left or Right skyfitsheaven https://allihoopa.com/s/RwnfgbuB Back to the MF Beat BobMaurice https://allihoopa.com/s/TBvxIxLm

This episode we feature two exciting new projects operating from here at Melbourne Bitcoin Technology Center and are very pleased to have Sam Lee, CEO of Bitcoin Group http://www.bitcoingroup.com.au/ also join us on the show. Paul Ayling tells about his Ant Stand project along with the dramas he experienced trying to set up an Amazon store and how easy, by contrast, his experience with https://openbazaar.org/ was. Find out more about Paul's project at www.antstand.com,...

In this episode of Cryptogoss Katherine Noall and Peter Robertson speak with Fran Strajnar, CEO and co-founder of Brave New Coin, a data and research company focused on the Blockchain and Digital Equities industry. Fran helps us tease out some of the thorny issues around the DAO “attack” and what this might mean for the world's view on Ethereum and blockchain technologies as general. Fran was also able to share some insights on views held at the big end of town that he gathered from the...

Peter, Katherine, Scott, and Warwick talk about the latest news within the world of crypto. The new DAO launched and beautifully explained by Scott. Hermits can live in peace. Fermat.org has big dreams of a bright crypto future. Warwick talks trading. Miami is known for good looking people, so it's no surprise you can get a butt lift with bitcoin in the glossy city. 2:15 http://www.fermat.org/ 3:58 A Florida man sells bitcoin to undercover agents, and is looking at jail time. This Miami...

Warwick, Scott and Dale take the mics today while Peter recovers from the flu. Craig Wright makes the news again, Scott and Warwick are swinging on the issue "he's part of many" #TeamSatoshi "there's a little bit of bitcoin in all of us". We cover the very basics of the story. #VoteFlux get another mention, because we love them... and as Scott says "besides politicians don't want to be making decisions anyway", we'll do the work for them. Hot topics of the week Ethereum, TOR, encryption and...

In this special episode, Scott Phillips, Grant Lenaarts and Peter Robertson discuss the present and future of electronic voting systems with Dr. Vanessa Teague, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Dr. Teague's work has included detailed studies of two instances where electronic voting systems have been used in Australia, and the news isn't always good. It turns out that online voting systems delivering privacy,...

In this episode we interview Nathan and Max, the founders of Flux, an online voting system and political party, aimed at disrupting and fixing representative democracy. It's the political party where YOU create the policies. Any issue that people care about will have an avenue to be addressed via Flux. They have AEC accrediation and are fielding candidates in the upcoming Australian federal election. Take the power back and vote for Flux... if you want any further information add your...

Peter, Dale and Scott are in the studio for this ep, extending the 'grown up' theme with a new decentralised bitcoin/crypto exchanged called BitSquare. They read thru the whitepaper and discuss how this exchange differs from existing centralised crypto currency exchanges. And other centralised projects like the one that Peter Todd discovered was intending to force miners into collecting personal data, quite sneaky we thought. We also looked at how AI is joining the battle with the blockchain...

In the Blockchain Imaginarium, Dale and Scott discuss and imagine the future of #blockchain technologies. In this, our third episode, we chat with @LovelyCorrine about whether the sex industry has parallels with the blockchain, it is after all a decentralised network based on trust - and agreements. Can the blockchain learn from this age old industry, or will the this tech provide the sex industry with more than just automated sex robots?? Shove your earbuds in to hear salacious discussion...

Warwick, Peter and Dale do their due diligence and get down and dirty with the scams rocking Australia's media this week. iGot got their name (deservedly) smeared by ABC, Australia's national broadcaster affectionately known as Aunty. Of course the message got messed up and some people were left thinking that there is indeed somebody who "runs bitcoin". Mainstream just don't get it, so Cryptogoss set them straight! Well, as straight as we could with another acronym wielding usurper claiming...

In the Blockchain Imaginarium, Dale and Scott discuss and imagine the future of #blockchain technologies. In this, our second episode, we discuss the Panama Papers, Flux (voteflux.org), Tesla Model 3 and electric vehicle charging using smart contracts, ZeroNet (for open, free and uncensorable websites, using Bitcoin cryptography and BitTorrent network) and the decentralised Ebay competitor that has just been launched, OpenBazaar. For those playing at home, this is what a trillion dollars...

Peter and Dale introduce Scott Philips aka Dr. Splot in this episode to give you more of an idea of who he is and why he's another important asset in MBTC's space. Julian Smith also joins us with BitPay's adaptive solution to the block debate. He provides evidence for why he thinks this approach makes sense - we're leaving it for you to do your homework and decide for yourself. Our headlines cover some very basics, RichardBranson has declared Bitcoin is working... and Blythe the Masters of...

The whole point of this imaginarium is for me, Dale, and Dr Splott of Melbourne's Bitcoin Technology Center (mbtc) to discuss and imagine the future of #blockchain technologies. We'll be talking about existing projects and then stretching those ideas out to the universe and back with probabilities that we imagine will rock the world, from Melbourne the supernode of all things crypto. In this first episode we cover the very basics - what is the blockchain, how does it work? What does...

Katherine Noall (mbtc’s favourite RMIT University lecturer) dropped into the studio to catch Peter, Dale and Warwick up on her European bitcoin blockchain tour. A rich conversation with many questions, we talked about why bitcoin vending machines (BTMs) are disappearing, and touched on some of the projects taking their place. It sounds like letting go of the machines has allowed for some ingenuity to shine through. Stepping into negative interest rates is a first for the world and we...

The Safenetwork is up for testing and Peter’s clearly excited he was given the chance to add cryptogoss to their network. We talked about the implications of working from an encrypted decentralised network, one that gives us the choice to keep matters private, how does a platform that provides security affect how we relate to each other? Peter uncovered an encrypted coin in a mailbox leaflet and reads out claims that lead him to think it’s a scam - ‘insert claims here’ watch for an s coin in...

Dale and Peter alone in the studio discuss headlines, starting with ACCC's decision regarding banks colluding with #Bitcoin, the Bitcoin Association of Australia knows a new strategy is needed. Dale thinks Australia's VoteFlux is that strategy, she thinks politicians are going to get with this program one way or another, it might have to be that our voting system is the way. (She also gave incorrect information on VFlux they're working from the Bitcoin blockchain with Ethereum as a backup.)...

Kieran Nolan from Wooranna Park Primary School dropped in to the bitcoin center today to chat with us about some of the many projects his school is involved in. He focuses on fun ways to include students in relevant technologies like cryptocurrencies, his school has a spaceship, and the students are involved in global minecraft projects. Together with Paul Ayling we chatted about potential uses for the blockchain in education and the difference it's already making in Australia's education...