One Dozen Rabbits
17 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” – John Steinbeck
Coming to you from deep in The Rabbit Hole: blockchain and cryptocurrency. Start here! Before you know it, you'll have more answers and better questions.
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Episode 17 - Tamara Zubatiy, Vericrypt
August 11, 2019 19:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBVericrypt uses machine learning and AI to help identify the emotional content and bias of news. The plan is for it to run autonomously on a distributed system so it will be a completely independent guidepost to news trust. We spoke to Tamara Zubatiy, CEO of Vericrypt, about how her team is building tools to fight back against media and data manipulation. To do this, they've studied objective language, and figured out how to separate information from stylistic overlays that are designed to ma...
Episode 16 - Tim Coulter, Founder & CEO of TruffleSuite
August 08, 2019 04:00 - 20 minutes - 14.4 MBWe went deep into the rabbit hole of Ethereum development at Trufflecon 2019! Kseniya Lifanova and Jan Young sat down with Tim Coulter, Founder & CEO of TruffleSuite, to talk about new directions for the company, how private enterprise blockchains may interoperate with public chains in the near future, and what's at the core of a truffle (Ganache, of course.) LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE Tim Coulter on Twitter TruffleSuite on Twitter Trufflecon2019 Truffle Teams ConsenSys Microsoft Azure ...
Episode 15 - Vic Cooper, HearRo
August 02, 2019 02:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBVic Cooper thinks that self-sovereign identity is not only an essential aspect of Web 3.0, it is a matter of human dignity. Ann Willmott sat down with him at The Global Hackathon in April 2019 to understand his vision. LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE Vic Coooper on LinkedIn Self-sovereign identity Sovrin The Global Hackathon Ann Willmott on LinkedIn One Dozen Rabbits is a podcast of The Rabbit Hole, a woman-powered blockchain community. We are building the community we want to see for the suc...
Episode 14 - Jory Des Jardins
July 07, 2019 22:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MBJory Des Jardins spoke to us as the global head of community at ConsenSys. She previously cofounded BlogHer, a media marketplace representing thousands of digital influencers. She's advised startups and focused on female entrepreneurs. In this episode she talks with Rabbit Hole board members Jan Young and Horecee St. Cyr about her work in global marketing and the mainstreaming of blockchain. She's recently taken a position as head of global startup marketing at Amazon Web Services (AWS). LI...
Episode 13 - Emily Williams
July 05, 2019 20:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBSoftware engineer Emily Williams sits down with Zayi Reyes to talk about how a chance encounters (with Joe Lubin and Andreas Antonopoulos) led her further down the rabbit hole after she took a year off work. She and Zayi talk about token-curated registries, cryptoeconomic primitives, and futarchy prediction markets. She explains these things - but as always when listening to our podcast, look for ideas that spark you, and do some research to learn more. That's what we do, and we try to do i...
Episode 12 - Piper Moretti, Crypto Realty Group
June 03, 2019 17:00 - 22 minutes - 10.4 MBHost Virginia Reyna says “So many people don’t even believe you can buy real things with crypto.” Real estate agent Piper Moretti of Crypto Realty Group tells how you can, and her experience helping clients do it. There’s a Lambo in the story, of course. LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE Piper Moretti on Twitter Crypto Realty Group Crypto Realty Group on Instagram Crypto Realty Group on YouTube @VirginiaReyna One Dozen Rabbits is a podcast of The Rabbit Hole, a woman-powered blockchain communit...
Episode 11 - Greg Skerry
May 13, 2019 03:00 - 24 minutes - 11.3 MBGreg Skerry is a blockchain solutions architect. He talks about trying to solve for a client’s pain points without introducing more…pain points. We dig into supply chain and the issues and risks that arise when the real world interacts with data on the blockchain. We talk about the different mindsets involved in permissioned vs. open chains, and how there is balance in the Force, uh, ecosystem. LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE Greg Skerry on LinkedIn Altoros Altoros on Twitter Hyperledger The L...
Episode 10 - Robin Hauser continued
May 12, 2019 18:00 - 12 minutes - 5.72 MBWe continue our conversation with filmmaker Robin Hauser about her film, Bias. In this episode, she talks about how to work around the biases we may not even know we have, how VR can help, and how women can educate men and recruit them as allies. She also asks the rhetorical question, why are we still talking about the gender gap? LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE Robin Hauser on Twitter Biasfilm.com Code: Debugging the Gender Gap Implicit Association Test Robin Hauser Ted Talk on bias & AI One...
Episode 9 - Robin Hauser
May 12, 2019 18:00 - 18 minutes - 8.31 MBFor two episodes in a row, we are not going to talk about blockchain at all! We hear about implicit bias, also known as unconscious bias, and how it affects both men and women. We talk about bias in technology, and how technology, specifically VR, can help. LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE Robin Hauser on Twitter Biasfilm.com Code: Debugging the Gender Gap Implicit Association Test Robin Hauser Ted Talk on bias & AI One Dozen Rabbits is a podcast of The Rabbit Hole, a woman-powered blockchain...
Episode 8 - BitSavage at The Global Hackathon LA
May 06, 2019 18:00 - 16 minutes - 7.38 MBWe talked with BitSavage at the Global Hackathon in April 2019. He takes us deep into the rabbit hole, where non-fungible tokens – NFTs – are being bought and traded as collectibles. We do a lightning round on his new business model – already several weeks old! And Zayi gives us a quick explanation on the meaning of "non-fungible tokens." LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE BitSavage on Twitter - hit up BitSavage here if you want to join P.C.D.C. Auction House BitSavage YouTube Channel Enjin Enjin ...
Episode 7 - Morvareed Salehpour
April 21, 2019 04:00 - 19 minutes - 8.89 MBBlockchain attorney Morvareed Salehpour takes us into the rabbit hole on the Uniform Regulation of Virtual Currency Businesses Act. Why is this important? After all, crypto is borderless! That is true, but U.S. businesses have to comply with federal and state laws – which can be a patchwork of different regulations, sometimes without much guidance as to how they should be applied. We talk about the Uniform Law Commission, a non-profit organization that was established in 1892 to look at va...
Episode 5 - Pamela Norton, Borsetta
March 31, 2019 07:00 - 29 minutes - 13.5 MBPamela Norton chats with Kseniya Lifanova and Jill Carrigan. Borsetta started out as a blockchain-based platform to certify diamonds and fine jewelry, but has grown into so much more, including a project for the Department of Defense. We talk about Borsetta's breakthrough invention of a microchip, as well as roadblocks she's faced and how she;s overcoming them. She discusses their patent-pending process for securing the supply chain using a new, highly secure chip. (It's so scifi that it sel...
Episode 6 - Pamela Norton, Borsetta
March 31, 2019 07:00 - 28 minutes - 12.9 MBIn this episode we talk more about the sharing economy, and the fractionalization of assets - instead of producing so many consumer products, we can reduce our carbon footprint and create a new economy. We touch on terrorism, and some of the insecurities inherent in our technology. Pamela advises investing in yourself and being guided by your passions and curiosity. She tells a story about a young man who invested in her company at a critical moment She praises the "curiously faithful" and t...
Episode 4 - Austin Davis & The Global Hackathon
March 24, 2019 04:00 - 25 minutes - 11.9 MBThis week’s episode is all about The Global Hackathon and we talk with Austin Davis about his big vision. These will be held around the world and the next one is in Los Angeles on April 8, 2019 during Los Angeles Blockchain Week. We get the inside track on the prizes, the challenges, and the programmable robot. Austin Davis is the co-founder and CEO of The Global Hackathon, the founder of Blockchain Beach, and a co-founder of Gox Rising, as well as other ventures. We talk about: structur...
Episode 1 - Eva Beylin
March 17, 2019 07:00 - 27 minutes - 12.5 MBIn this episode of One Dozen Rabbits, Zayi Reyes and Ann Willmott chat with Eva Beylin about all things Ethereum, her economics research, and why she doesn't regret rage-quitting her job in the financial sector. Eva Beylin is currently contributing to the Ethereum Foundation, and conducting research on consumer payment behaviors. Early on, she used her business school training in economics to get a job in management consulting. Finding herself bored - and angry - she quit her job, and inves...
Episode 3 - Katrina Too of ScanTrust
March 17, 2019 07:00 - 27 minutes - 12.6 MBKatrina Too is head of marketing at ScanTrust, a smart packaging company. ScanTrust recently completed a project with Cambio Coffee, an ethical coffee trader. Cambio's customers care about the product they're buying, so in order to ensure integrity, they set out to track the coffee supply chain from the farms in South America to the point of sale in Shanghai. ScanTrust used their smart QR codes, along with Hyperledger Sawtooth, for supply chain tracking. We discussed why a permissioned bloc...
Episode 2 - Eva Beylin and CryptoWendyO
March 17, 2019 07:00 - 27 minutes - 12.6 MBWe continue our conversation with Eva Beylin. We discuss her rhyming tweets, like this one: "This means we can bank the unbanked, spank the unspanked, thank the unthanked." We touch on #DopeFi and talk about the kinds of jobs available in crypto and blockchain. We ask her to define a blockchain buzzword, and find out that it's a word she doesn't use anymore. CryptoWendyO lays out some mass adoption strategies and gets us ramped up on MonetaryUnit (MUE) and Flubit, where people get discounts...