Distributed Conversations

We're all gonna be using a crypto wallet in the next few years. It's being adopted like smartphones, like the internet, and other technologies. Encrypted digital money. Even governments are trying to figure out how they can do it. So it's coming, but we're here today to talk to George Kusher of H2cryptO about what that is and how we can accelerate adoption.

The arrest of Huawei's CFO in Canada has raised a lot of concern.  I was not clear what the charges are, and there seem to be many conflicting stories about how this situation should be approached by all parties. It seems like one side is trying to undermine the other from doing business outside its borders, but at the same time another country might want to protect its own people against espionage risks that come with using Chinese technology products in sensitive industries.

The conflict here is between protecting national security and ensuring economic development, but also keeping an eye on new technologies being developed which could potentially disrupt everything we know today when it comes to tech innovation. There may be very different opinions among governments as well as citizens when it comes to this.

I wanted to know, so I'm talking to Warren Vincent, a global banking expert, to learn the conflict and how it affects future business and investments.

Farming is not a guy with a hoe and some seed.  Agriculture and Agritech is a big part of our economy.

Much less is done by hand, and there we're seeing emerging technologies, like AI, satellites, IoT, blockchain for supply chain management, and better yields from fields in every region of the planet.

My friend and AgriTech specialist David Rockwood joined me for a live chat via Zoom. This episode is an edited version of that event, chock full of interesting information on where the money and tech are flowing into agriculture and a few great stories along the way.

See the YouTube version here: The Future of AgriTech

Creating tokens has become as easy as setting up a website, blog or TikTok account. But what good is this doing business?

We know about tokens for rewards programs or to keep track of things and we know that we won't need programmers creating currencies for everything. Fintech is going to be huge, but just a tiny part of the things we count in business.

Enter Telos and an easy way to create smart contracts through their platform. Telos is a blockchain tuned to handle transactions at super fast speed and has the ability to scale beyond any assessment of transactions happening today.

Douglass Horn and I will talk about the future and how platforms such as TELOS will accelerated the growth of blockchain in the next few years.

Full discloser, I own a small amount of TLOS and advise companies building on the platform. It's not the only way to add blockchain but the smart contracts make it a current favorite.

Do you see change as a problem or an opportunity?

Chris Brogan and Warren Whitlock take about rapid change and how adapting can bring new opportunities and faster growth for the future.

Listen in on the conversation, always great fun to hear from Chris.

Banks and mainstream payment institutions aren’t exactly very friendly to the notion of free trade when it comes to guns and other industries they consider to be red flag. Enter the TUSC Network, a blockchain payment processing solution that enables crypto payments for gun businesses and other retailers. TUSC stands for The Universal Settlement Coin, a decentralized, non-ICO cryptocurrency that was launched in 2018. Crypto entrepreneur and personal liberty activist Rob McNealy joins Warren Whitlock on the podcast to share the details of this crypto payment solution and the unique benefits that it offers to gun retailers. They also talk about how crypto entrepreneurs can get mass adoption of crypto products – a long overdue prospect that has the potential to solve pesky problems like what TUSC is doing for the gun industry.

First there was Bitcoin and it's blockchain.

Then there were alt-coins and many ideas to replace currency.

What we have now is a lot of blockchain that is not necessarily built for finance. And tools to make creating new tokens as simple as filling in forms at a web site.

Meet Jim and Michael from Aspire. On this episode of Distributed Conversations, we talk about the world of opportunities that are possible with tokens for anything you want to keep track of.

Language as we know it is messy and divisive. To transform it into a truly unifying factor, we need to create a new taxonomy that gets everyone on the same page. In this conversation with Warren Whitlock, copy director, writer and philosopher, Tomo Albanese argues that emerging technologies like machine learning, artificial intelligence and nanotechnology have the potential to help bring us closer to that reality. How exactly is this going to occur? Does this mean we are relinquishing our expression to machines? What does it mean for the future of contracts and agreements? Listen as Warren and Tomo engage in a deeply philosophical discussion about these questions and learn just how emerging technologies may hold the secrets to world peace.

Blockchain technology is known to be a modification-resistant method of storing data. GuniaryTM, the world’s first blockchain gun diary, is the first to leverage the anonymous power of this technology to help gun owners privately store and track their firearms maintenance information, ammo count, and even the location of their guns and ammo. Joining Warren Whitlock in this episode is Duane Jacobsen, CEO of Blocksafe Holdings Inc., a blockchain-as-a-service network that powers the Guniary platform. In this conversation, Duane explains how the platform helps gun owners become more private, secure and law-abiding with respect to their firearms and why blockchain technology is uniquely suited to do the task. He also shares how Guinary applications can be used to borrow money against, the platform’s future thrust towards a blockchain-powered gun marketplace and more.

It's fairly straightforward to make a realistic and good-looking avatar these days. Making that for millions of people is the tricky part. Luc Schurgers, the Founder of DNABLOCK, is an expert in creating avatars or what we call digital humans, a virtual representation of yourself. He chats with Warren Whitlock about their product called Replikant and how we got to the point of being able to create a digital human.