Sometimes people can be lighthouses – and shine light onto other topics rather than themselves. This was the case when I interviewed Jonha Richman who explained to me about a famous NPR podcast, or rather two podcasts, recorded five years apart. This is the story of the future of money.
Daisy Ozim will be sharing with us her thoughts on how blockchain can be used to attain social justice, after all, the thin fabric holding the world in seeming order is that everyone treats their neighbours as themselves. Otherwise, society would be immersed in unimaginable chaos. Life would be brutish and short.
Fighting the monopolies which dominate our lives is not a new game for Alex Mashinsky, As an immigrant to the US, he decided to take on AT&T which was the most profitable company in the US back then. Almost all of its profit came from international voice call settlements. Mashinsky proposed to replace the decade-old practice of charging users $3 a minute to call relatives abroad with a free internet-based service he called Voice Over Internet Protocol. Few believed such service could even work, as the entire internet was a slow and cumbersome dial-up system that used the phone network as its backbone. Mashinsky persevered though, and today over 3.bn people all over the world freely use the technology he helped pioneer.
Block Leaders’ Demi Oye talks to Adewale Joseph Daramola about his works and journey as a technology savant and his experience in advanced product development across several fields including the blockchain space.
Follow your dream – whether it is swimming, coaching or blockchain – but know what you want to do. Read this interview where love overcomes adversity with Mihai Herman and his irrepressible energy.
Blakely Jones is motivated primarily by his “loved ones”, which includes his ”father, mother, brothers and significant other.” A Knoxville, Tennessee resident, Blakely is most inspired by his family’s achievements.
Michael Jacob at the tender age of 26 has lived more lives than many do at three times his age and he has a purpose. Read this article to learn how partying, golfing and being a hippy has made a difference.
Stephanie So spoke candidly to Blockleaders about using Economics to bestow a whole generation of studens with the necessary life skills to excel in life, and also about her innate desire to build a better future for the next generation through the power of blockchain technology.
The Melbourne based Doctor of Psychiatry turned crypto-broker tells Blockleaders about his fascinating journey from medicine to blockchain, life as an immigrant in Australia and his hopes for the future of digital money.
How can a young man on a gap year make a difference? Check out this interview with Stefen from the Bahamas who is dreaming big for the blockchain in the Caribbean.