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Frontier Tech Radio
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Weekly podcasts from Barry E James explaining, exploring and answering your questions on the implications of frontier technology for people, Business and Businesses in this next wave of the Internet. A place to... get in the loop, or better still ask the question that has most puzzled or perplexed you about new and frontier technology, and their implications for you or your business.
Episodes
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S4 Ep. 4 - A Commissioner for Digital Money, A New Institution: Digital Pound Interview with Danny Kruger MP of Parliament's Treasury Select Committee
At the close of the Bank of England's consultation on the Digital Pound Barry interviews Danny Kruger MP, of the UK Parliament's Treasury Select Committee, who oversee the project, discussed the deep implications of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) on financial stability and liberty. While...
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S4 Ep. 3 - Interview with Jasmine Birtles on d£ and CBDCs
Summary Jasmine and Barry discussed the Bank of England's consultation on creating a digital pound. Jasmine expressed her concerns about central bank digital currencies, stating that they allow for too much control and monitoring by the government. Barry and Jasmine discussed the differences...
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S4 Ep. 2 - Central Banks, CBDCs and the rise and rise of DeFi
Barry talks to David Palmer, Blockchain Lead at Vodaphone and Jamiel Sheikh, Founder & CEO of Chainhaus - a leading advisory, education, events and app studio about the rapid rise of DeFi and the advent of 'Central Bank Digital Currencies' in the week that the Bank of England announced its…
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S4 Ep. 1 - DeFi and 3D Democracy - The future landscape
In this fascinating conversation with David Palmer, a visionary, who is also the blockchain lead for Vodafone, we range widely across digital transformation, including the fact that we're all increasingly cyborgs living in a digital, as well as physical environment. The potential to increase…
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Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring Ep 6 - Fintech Tackling the Poverty Trap with Fairer Finance Hackathon Winners Finexos
So, today we interview. Finexos, the winners of the fair finance hackathon about their solution to the mountain of stress and distress already at a peak before the pandemic and the mental health crisis it is driving. And what can be done. President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Dr Adrian...
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Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring Ep 5 - Why There's Still No End to Increasing Poverty & 'Runaway Inequality' and What We Can Do About it
What has gone wrong with capitalism? It seems it has taken a wrong turn. But how? Staring at the scenes of the redundant workers leaving Lehman Brothers in 2008 – followed by all the subsequent carnage - started, for me, a decade of thinking and research and that's yet to complete -seeking Humane...
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Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring Ep 4 - From Patients to Occupants: Turning the Health Service on Its Head
In this episode we will be talking to another big-thinker: Andy Wilkins, founder of Vision4Health about the future of health and health services post Covid. Working with leaders in the field his vision is of a revitalised service that, turned on its head, wraps itself around us as people (rather...
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Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring Ep 3 - This Time It Must Be Different
Professor Ronald MacDonald is a Research Professor in Macroeconomics and International Finance in the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow. His previous positions at the University were Bonar Macfie Chair of Economics (2005-2006), and the Adam Smith Chair of Political Economy...
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Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring Ep 2 - Predatory Capitalism in Action
Before we get fully into gear to explore the #CovidSpring and so the future let's take a glance at the past and the present Covid Winter with a look at the effects of predatory capitalism unleashed via the ongoing story of the Mortgage Prisoners. This is an extraordinary story of the toxic...
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Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring Ep 1 - An Introduction to Humane Economics & The #CovidSpring
Welcome to the #CovidSpring series in which we look through the Covid winter, which we are now enduring, to the coming spring beyond the crisis and harness some of the world's finest minds to together think about what kind of world we want to create. What kind of world we want and need - in…
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S2 Ep.15 - Teamblockchain's Blockchain Masterclass Jun 2020
As the masterclass moved online... Dan Green and Sarah Beaumont from Baker Botts explore cryptoassets and stablecoins. Maria Graza Vigliotti talking about her recently launched book - "Executive Guide to Blockchain"- using Smart Contracts and Digital Currencies in your Business. Taweh Beysolow…
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S2 Ep. 14 - What if Libra Existed Today?
What if Libra Was LiveToday? The world was in a different kind of uproar for months after Facebook and their alliance announced Libra. Then it was that senators were foaming at the mouth and it was the central banks that came close to rioting. Amid similar Trump-inspired scenes of protest on the...
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S2 Ep. 13 - It's Time to Launch the Fintech Lifeboat - not Sink it!
Today, mid covid-crisis and with banks under increasing criticism I interview Lee Birkett, founder and CEO of P2P platform JustUs who today wrote to the UK Prime Minister, the Chancellor and the Business Secretary, asking they open the doors to #Fintech so that business can be helped now, when…
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S2 Ep. 12 - A HiveMind Explores the #NewNormal #BeyondCovid2020
A HiveMind Explores the #NewNormal #BeyondCovid2020 On the 20th of March 2020 life in the UK changed forever when the government, a conservative government to boot, created a safety net for the population as well as for businesses and began to pay the wages of a significant proportion of the...
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S2 Ep. 11 - The #GuildfordCrowd: Crowdfunding Together - Council & University
Surrey University have launched an exciting new crowdfunding initiative in concert with the local council and local charities. Surrey's crowdfunding platform Gaggle Connect is hosting a raft of campaigns including one to expand the 'Library of Things' service - which brings a new dimension to the...
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S2 Ep. 10 - Ray Sylvain SignOnTheGo
SignOnTheGo is a new Blockchain-Based e-Signature Platform designed for ease of use by SME's and individuals. Bringing simplicity to a service previously only available at a high cost to corporates. Currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter:...
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S2 Ep. 9 - Teamblockchain's Blockchain Masterclass Feb 2020
This episode covers. The team blockchain. Masterclass for February, held on the 17th of February. Where I talk with Anthony Abell. Director and co-founder of Trust Me and T-P X about the property exchanges due to launch this year, which will revolutionise the ownership of property by making it...
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S2 Ep. 8 - Teamblockchain's Blockchain Masterclass Jan 2020
Barry E James & Jonny Fry talk with Vy Pettit of Vizidox, Phil Cambell of Pepo and Bridget Greenwood from The Bigger Pie
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S2 Ep. 7 - Teamblockchain's Blockchain Masterclass Dec 2019
December's TeamBlockchain Masterclass is an eclectic mix with lawyer Charley Kerrigan, who played a role in a milestone-making report that confirms the backing of English law for crypto-assets, digital signatures and smart contracts. Technologist Hock Law, CEO of Ethernom talks about a computer…
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S2 Ep 6 - TeamBlockchain Masterclass Nov. 2019 with Lee Birkett, Liliana Reasor & On Yavin
BiPS are breaking new ground streets ahead of Libra and the field and I speak with CEO Lee Birkett about the latest from Moneybrain. With Liliana Reasor founder of SupraFin about opening investing & diversification to all & On Yavin about the Cointelligence Academy - which is now open & free!
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S2 Ep 5 - Commonwealth Finance Ministers at the IMF & the Future of Sovereign Debt
BBFTA cofounder Dr Jane Thomason addressed this months meeting of Commonwealth Finance Ministers in Washington DC, presenting a paper on #Blockchain and Sovereign Debt. She discussed the potential and benefits including cutting out 10 intermediaries and moving Sovereign Debt transactions from 5...
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S2 Ep 4 - Teamblockchain's Blockchain Masterclass Oct 2019
Tom Mason is Koodoo's Technical Director, a tech entrepreneur, technical architect and business strategist. In 2008 Tom founded the software agency YouSoft, providing award-winning development services to best-in-class firms, including Porsche and Mercedes. Koodoo is a global equity crowdfunding...
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S2 Ep 3 - Frontier Insights: This Weeks Analysis
Frontier Insights are a weekly analysis of the latest advances and setbacks, use cases and major case studies and game changers in frontier tech. Published weekly to BBFTA.org members - here're this weeks highlights: How Blockchain technology is being used by vehicle manufacturers Central Banks...
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S2 Ep 2 - A New 'Cryptobank', Due Diligence on Crypto Assets & Who Takes the Blame When a Decentralised System Goes Wrong?
On the fringe of TeamBlockchain's September Blockchain Masterclass Barry interviews the speakers: Sean Kiernan. CEO and cofounder of DAG Global - the first UK bank created precisely to serve the blockchain and digital assets space - while all the other banks seem to be running in the opposite...
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S2 Ep 1 - Global Money, Global Gamechanger. Libra, China's Digital Currency and Beyond
Kicking off season two Barry talks to Jonny Fry, CEO of TeamBlockchain and cofounder of the BBFTA.org about how the global landscape has changed so very fast. First the shift in the zeitgeist resulting from Libra coin, backed by Facebook and a consortium including Mastercard and Visa - plus the...
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Ep. 54 - Can Blockchain startup IndieOn take on the Film and Music Industries?
Apple famously remade to music landscape - can this blockchain startup help to cut out the middlemen enable help musicians and artists to earn a living from their work? Nigel Rudlin is one of the cofounders of IndieOn.com - the blockchain startup that is seeking to remake the landscape for...
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Ep. 53 - Frontier Insights: Mapping the Future
This week, Barry E James speaks with Jonny Fry of Team Blockchain about Frontier Insights. Everyone is struggling to stay on top of the fast moving frontier of new technologies, especially Blockchain/DLT, AI and IoT. Every day there's an incredible avalanche of stories published online, some fake...
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Ep. 52 - 'Blockchain Rookies' Explain Blockchain - Clearly...
'Blockchain Rookies' Explain Blockchain, Clearly, to Rookies (and others) Saying that blockchain technology is the result of a paradigm shift while true is not much help in understanding it. In fact it just points to the difficulty for most people in understanding it. People who can articulated...
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Ep. 51 - The British Blockchain & Frontier Technologies Association Launches
We are now launching the first Association globally, the first network globally, for frontier Technologies But it's not just an Association for technologists at the Frontiers of AI, bots, robots, iot, autonomous vehicles, alternative reality, augmented reality, DLT and blockchain. Nor is it just...
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Ep. 50 - Countdown to London Blockchain Week
London blockchain week has grown into one other major annual fixtures for the ecosystem. Barry interviews founder Luis Carranza, about how came about, this year's highlights and a vision for the future, not to mention all the good reasons to join the community as part of this year's London...
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Ep. 49 - The BiPS Have Landed - A Giant Leap for Fintech?
Lee Birkett describes what just happened as a world first and for them something akin to landing a mission to Mars. It's certainly hugely significant because this is the very thing that we were talking about with Mike Barrell the founder of the Security Tokens Realised conference: the…
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Ep. 48 - Security Tokens Taking the City of London by Storm?
Tokens That're Set to Take City by Storm? Security Tokens: Rising rapidly into the Billions? Security Token Offering (STO) investor Mike Barrell says that security tokens represent "a massive tidal wave of opportunity" for not just geeks but those in the city in 2019. Now he's putting his money...
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Ep. 47 - Tokenisation: 'Crowdfunding on Steroids'
Following three decades as an entrepreneur and eight or so years specialising in equity crowdfunding, today's guest Oscar Jofre explains why he firmly believes 2019 will be the year of the Security Token. Along the way, he discusses his own lightbulb moment about the democratisation of capital...
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Ep. 46 - Making Investing Accessible For Everyone
Scott Picken has been an entrepreneur since his teens, passionate both about property and technology and the wealth that they can and do create. He created Wealth Migrate as a global enterprise five years ago and this now boasts 20k members from 125 countries, $80m in equity and over $520m in…
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Ep. 45 - Blockpass on Owning Your Identity
Fed up scanning your passport, driving licence and all the rest to prove who you are? Imagine a world where you only have to input your identity details just once; imagine the time and the hassle that would save. Imagine not having to drag out your passport and your ID documents every time you…
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Ep. 44 - As Attenborough Warns Decision Makers, Could This Tech Help?
This is no time for making plans for 2050 - people are dying - today! It was while studying at Cambridge university that today's guest Nat Rich realised quite what a state the world is in – and that if people knew some of the stuff she was finding out, they'd be horrified. The problem of carbon...
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Ep. 43 - Why The UK Needs A Blockchain Enabling Bill - Now
Why We Need A Blockchain Bill The answer is simple: We want to lead the world, not fall behind. Once we put the same legal weight behind blockchain technology we long ago did behind paper and 'wet signatures' we can help lead the world ...replace many of our digital (banking, payments and other)...
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Ep. 42 - On the cusp of remaking the world: unlearning everything you learnt at school
On the cusp of remaking the world: unlearning everything you learnt at school Or: throwing down the digital gauntlet Global Nomad – 'Glomad' - Jane Thomason has been working in international development most of her life, helping developing nations cope with enormous problems - poverty…
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Ep. 41 - Satoshi Day 10 Years On: Blockchain Revolution - How're We Doing, Where're We Going
It's 10 years now since Satoshi wrote the white paper that sparked a revolution and is set to change the Internet, money and so the world A look back at the first ten years, where we're going and how we are doing from the perspective of that original vision. Not least though the choices that lie...
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Ep. 40 - BiPS: Crowdlending Tokens Readying to Go Global
When Lee Birkett launched his online P2P lending and financial product comparison sites on the internet, he says it was a whole new world. Now, he says, Blockchain has the capacity to plug the leaky plumbing in the banking world, globally. Having managed portfolios of £5bn in loans and mortgages...
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Ep.39 - Special UK Edition on Why We're Driving Innovators Away & What we Should be Doing
Why Blockchain and Cryptoassets are "The biggest gift to the Regulator - possibly ever - certainly in a generation!" Why Barry E James saw fit to write an open letter to Philip Hammond, Chancellor of the Exchequer, titled 'Britain Leading the World – or Losing a Historic Opportunity Forever'…
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Ep. 38 - The Evolution of Disruption
A Mindset Shift Among Incumbents! Those in the fintech and crypto space have gone from being the problem wild child to the cool kid on the block according to Martin Bartlam who shares some of the insights from DLA Piper's recent report 'Digital Transformation in Financial Services' - which throws...
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Ep. 37 - Could a self-policing code of conduct shake the bad apples from the ICO tree?
Shaking the bad apples from the ICO tree, self-policing code of conduct changing the world. Global regulation of the ICO sector has proved contentious, with individual jurisdictions reacting differently to the rise of tokenisation and the need to deal with bad actors and the potential for fraud....
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Ep. 36 - SPECIAL: Global Blockchain Ventures Scheme - A Leap Forward For Transparency
In the face of a plethora of 'Wild West' references around the ground-breaking innovation of the blockchain space, is the old way of doing business, the old way of making money, facing its final frontier? Does the battle to keep this space regulated end up like Tombstone, Arizona? Or, making…
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Ep. 35 - How is Blockchain Changing Big Business?
Cryptocurrency: a new kind of Clubcard? As a traditional asset manager with an interest in new technology, Jonny Fry of Team Blockchain came to this ecosystem thinking (as many still do) that cryptocurrency and blockchain were somehow inextricably linked with Ponzi schemes, drugs and crime. But…
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Ep. 34 - Could 'Find Engine' Zwoop Disrupt Amazon to Become the Consumer's Best Friend?
Zwoop: The new consumer champions, looking to make money out of the customer without cheating them, share the proceeds from their data, and blow Amazon out of the water! In today's world of online shopping, the odds are very much stacked in favour of the retailer - never the consumer. There's no...
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Ep. 33 - From Grainy Snapshots to HD Video: Continuous, Transparent, Blockchain Audit
With regulators around the world scrambling to get to grips with Blockchain tech could the technology itself, and continuous audit, be part of the answer? When I spoke to Auditchain™ founder Jason Meyers this week, it felt a little like talking to blockchain royalty – at once removed anyhow…
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Ep. 32 - Reinventing Money: What Happens When the Gold Standard Collides with Crypto & Debit Cards?
What if your money was backed by real gold yet could be spent via an ordinary-looking debit card, same as any other. With much lower transaction costs than you're used to - by a factor of around 10. Plus you got a 'yield' too? We've featured asset-backed cryptocurrency raises before, including...
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Ep. 31 - Why We Need More Women in Blockchain - Meet the Crypto Diva!
If you want a thing to happen – get a woman in! Says the Crypto Diva! When Barry met Jillian Godsil, journalist, fintech expert, commentator and champion of Women in Blockchain, he described the meeting as a whirlwind that knocked him off his feet. Jillian is undoubtedly a force of nature –...
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Ep. 30 - Brains, Chains & AI - Can they ever work together?
This episode is less an interview, more a conversation between host Barry E James and someone steeped not in the world of Blockchain, but AI, chatbots and machine learning: Tania Peitzker founder and CEO of 'Bots as a Service' Billions of dollars have been invested in AI by Google, Amazon,...
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Weekly podcasts from Barry E James explaining, exploring and answering your questions on the implications of frontier technology for people, Business and Businesses in this next wave of the Internet. A place to... get in the loop, or better still ask the question that has most puzzled or perplexed you about new and frontier technology, and their implications for you or your business.
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