IPR: My Digital Self
The mixed blessing of the digital age has reached a turning point in what some have called the Fourth Industrial Revolution. My Digital Self, with host Matthew Foley, explores digital technology as it affects the interrelation of human rights, property rights, privacy, and money. Will emerging blockchain technologies enable us to take back our privacy, own our identity and use non-sovereign digital currency, known as cryptocurrency, to engage in commerce? Listen to discussions with guests who explain these cutting-edge technologies, tell us how they are currently being used and pull back the curtain to our possible futures. IPR Podcasts presents issues and analysis that matter to you from the world's thought leaders. The Institute for Policy Research [IPR] is an interdisciplinary policy research center of the Catholic University of America.
Episodes
The Place Between: The Analog City and the Digital City With L.M. Sacasas
The Analog City and the Digital City - How online life breaks the old political order
L.M. Sacasas
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-analog-city-and-the-digital-city
The Convivial Society
https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/
The Frailest Thing - Ten Years of Thinking About the Meaning of Technology
The Christian Study Ce...
The Digital City and the Curse of Ham: Looking Back to Move Forward, with Martin Gurri
Martin Gurri
https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-gurri-370a8216/
The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millenium
https://www.amazon.com/Revolt-Public-Crisis-Authority-Millennium/dp/1732265143
Discourse
https://www.discoursemagazine.com/
Mercatus Center of George Mason University
https://www.mercatus.org/scholars/martin-gurri
FROM...
The Distributed States of America: A Prologue to Remote Electronic Voting in the U.S.
Marten Kaevats
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marten-kaevats-80098990/?originalSubdomain=ee
E-estonia
https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-governance/
Estonia’s I-Voting - The Country of Estonia has successfully implemented nationwide internet voting since 2005
https://e-estonia.com/solutions/e-governance/i-voting/
America’s Federalist Government
Revolt Of The Public: Author, Martin Gurri, Says That The Digital Age is Sounding The Death Knell For Elite Institutions
Martin Gurri
https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-gurri-370a8216/
The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millenium
https://www.amazon.com/Revolt-Public-Crisis-Authority-Millennium/dp/1732265143
The Fifth Wave Blog
https://thefifthwave.wordpress.com/what-is-the-fifth-wave/
Mercatus Center of George...
Save and Invest Like The 1%: Zach Wildes Talks About Celsius Network’s Revolutionary Financial Services Business Model
Celsius Network
The Celsius Network Community
Zachary Wildes
Celsius Community Manager
zachary.wildes@celsius.network
2019 My Digital Self Interview with Alex Mashinsky, Co-Founder & CEO of Celsius Network
https://share.transistor.fm/s/8b913719
Alex Mashinsky
If Not Now, When? Voatz Strives To Bring The Ballot Box To The Smartphone
Voatz
Nimit Sawhney, Co-Founder & Ceo of Voatz
https://www.elev8con.com/speaker/nimit-sawhney/
https://cic.com/podcasts/founders-spotlight/voatz
Rock, Paper, Scissors - How We Used to Vote (2008 New Y...
From The Plains Of Nineveh To The Streets Of Beirut: How ChangeInEx Plans To Unlock Global Labor And Creativity
Stephen Hollingshead
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenhollingshead/
ChangeInEx
MERS (MERSCORP Holdings, Inc.) (1:35)
Ankawa Refugee Camp(1:50) (Story of Gali)
The Nordic X-Road: Bringing e-Governance to Our Digital Selves
Petteri Kivimäki
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pkivimaki/
Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS)
X-Road
Suomi.fi Data Exchange Layer (Finland’s X-Road environment)
https://palveluhallinta.suomi.fi/en/sivut/palveluvayla/esittely
X-tee (Estonia’s X-Road)
https://e-estonia.com/solutions/interoperability-services/x-road/
The...
Separation of Money and State: Andreas Antonopoulos Talks Bitcoin
Andreas Antonopoulos
https://aantonop.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/aantonop
https://twitter.com/aantonop
Andreas' Interview with Peter McCormack on the Defiance podcast
(In our interview, I mistakenly referred to Peter's other podcast, "What Bitcoin Did")
https://www.defiance.news/podcast/why-we-need-bitcoin-andreas-m-antonopoulos
Bitcoin Mining Explain...
The Lifeblood of Human Rights: Alex Gladstein Explains Why Bitcoin Matters For Freedom
Alex Gladstein
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-gladstein-283b968
The Human Rights Foundation
Bitcoin
Human Rights - HRF focuses its work on the founding ideals of the human rights movement, those most purely represented in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), and the 1976 International Covenant...
The Road From Serfdom: Evernym Brings Self-Sovereign Identity To Our Digital Selves
Jamie Smith - Strategic Engagement Director of Evernym
https://www.evernym.com/blog/team/jamie-smith-strategic-engagement-director/
Evernym
The best way for organisations to get started with Self Sovereign Identity (SSI), fast
Self Sovereign Identity Resources
https://www.evernym.com/resources/
The Albe...
Our Once and Future Selves: David Birch Thinks Digital Money and Identity Can Take Humankind Back to its Roots
David Birch
https://www.dgwbirch.com/biography/
Babylonian Money
https://encyclopedia-of-money.blogspot.com/2010/01/babylonian-grain-and-silver-standard.html
Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapiens:_A_Brief_History_of_Humankind
Jack Weatherford - “The Future of Money Looks Muc...
Snow’s Linkedin Profile & Personal Webpage
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vongohren/
Snows’ Javazone talk
Diwala
https://medium.com/diwala/the-story-of-diwala-5f8567ae71d1
https://medium.com/diwala/diwalas-ecosystem-76b35037a4c2
Zero Knowledge Proofs - Wired article
https://www.wired.com/story/zero-knowledge-proofs/
Hawala - Snow Describes Diwala as “Digital Hawala” insofa...
Yael Tamar
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaeltamar
Terramaal
http://www.terramaal.com/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14ROXCjATUsPXHo9fLDSNSq53kNfxjTYJ675FrlPGz2A/edit
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1L_HTcJINwyI2UjdCXokeAdHVBfHt9I3uB6rV2hP9weE/edit#slide=id.p1
SolidBlock
Somaliland
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-14115069
What is a REIT, referenced by Yael in the show?
Ziv Keinan
https://zivkeinan.com/digital-assets-lawyers/
Facebook's Project Libra (I mistakenly stated several times that Libra’s digital currency is “backed by a basket of securities”. Ziv correctly reminded me that the current plan is for Libra’s token to be backed by a “basket of currencies”, not securities.)
https://libra.org/en-US/association/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libra_(cryptocurrency)
etoro Trading Platform
Useful Links:
Tobias Koch
https://e-estonia.com/wp-content/uploads/eas-bio-tobias-jkoch.pdf
e-Estonia Briefing Center
https://e-estonia.com/about-us/
e-Estonia
https://e-estonia.com/
An Article by Estonia's President, Kersti Kaljulaid
https://qz.com/1535549/living-on-the-blockchain-is-a-game-changer-for-estonian-citizens/
This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.
Based in Tel Aviv, Israel, Ziv Keinan is a GDPR-f certified commercial-tech attorney experienced in corporate, securities, blockchain, cybersecurity, and privacy laws. Ziv has been advising publicly traded companies and IPOs for over a dozen years and is fluent in securities laws applicable to Digital Assets.
Ziv is also a trailblazer in the nascent SECURITY TOKEN space, where traditional paper securities are represented by electro...
Episode 1:
Foley is joined by Alex Mashinsky, CEO of Celsius Network to discuss the emerging fourth economic system of the blockchain.
Born into communism, reared under socialism and having thrived as a serial entrepreneur under American capitalism, Mashinsky explains how capitalism has failed most Americans and how the emerging blockchain economy can fix it.
Celsius Network’s platform shares most of its profits earned in the futures...
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