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This interview with Amanda Alexiuc from Living Room of Satoshi (LROS) was long anticipated and still gives us warm fuzzies.  Not just because Amanda is our friend but because the Living Room of Satoshi was our first paid sponsor when we were so small, even our family had to be reminded about that podcast thing we were doing. The Living Room of Satoshi took a leap and trusted we knew a little bit about what we were doing and jumped in with us. For this we are forever grateful. Amanda reminded us that the first moment we dip our toes into crypto waters can be  daunting, overwhelming and can often lead to a lifetime of learning: such a raw and volatile new space. “I'm still a newbie,” she said. “I've only been doing this for 12 months, so there is so much to learn, but I think it's an evolving space. So it was kind of in a continual learning environment at the same time.”Something most of us can agree on is the sheer awesomeness of LROS and what it has done for crypto in Australia. With a brand ne

Alex Saunders of Nuggets News on Crypto Clothesline If you are wondering where the most untapped crypto community is in Australia… this episode is for you. Alex Saunders, Australia’s most influential crypto star and the man behind Nuggets News shares with us the climate of crypto in Tassie.  The cricketer, pharmacist and YouTube sensation shares some refreshing stories around starting the Tasmanian crypto meetup in 2012 with just two members and the merchants who were accepting crypto long before many of us heard even a twinkle of the word Bitcoin. Alex has been around through most of the ups and downs in crypto and has learnt of the many risks, scams and pitfalls our beginners face when diving into the crypto sphere.  With most crypto communication happening on Telegram the scammers are rife and with fake profiles being created daily and many of us being forced to block other users.  But Alex explains even this isn’t enough to stop the scammers “The thing is, they will be blocked and

A Human Blockchain Bridge Between Theory And PracticeNavroop is a dynamic and positive force in blockchain technology, and possibly even more importantly, in seeing our present unfolding into the future, she’s effecting change also through emerging technology in its various manifestations, layered over a fundamental foundation of blockchain.She's in a fairly unique position, being representative of both the fields of academia, where blockchain technology is being researched and developed, and as an industry professional actually building out these blockchain platforms in business. It’s the discovery at this grass-roots level of the day-to-day challenges, which then effectively dictates further studies of what’s needed on the ground and how best to develop the tech to meet those needs.While being far from optimal, with only 5-6% of people in the blockchain industry being women currently, Navroop is optimistic about encouraging more to join in.  Apart from ignoring those occasional heavy-handed keyboard wa

Roman Light Visionary of the French Yellow Vest Movement on the Crypto ClotheslineThis first week of season two is a showstopper comprising of two episodes interviewing the trailblazers behind the Yellow Vest Movements (YVM) in both France and Australia. Roman Light, the visionary behind the French YVM reports on the motives behind the movement and the current volatile situation in France. The peaceful French YVM protestors began their campaign in just weeks ago in November 2018.  The mainstream media was quick to sensor and distort the demonstrations to the rest of the world making it difficult for many of us on the outside to hear the reality of what was happening on the ground….. Until now.Roman describes the injuries and deaths as a result of force from the government with nine deaths to date and hundreds wounded.  “French people, citizens have decided to go against the government and the government is killing them. Literally the world doesn't talk about it.”  He said.  With the YVM heating up Roman

Mike Holt Visionary of the Australian Yellow Vest Movement on the Crypto ClotheslineMike Holt is a force to be reckoned with and the man behind one of the Australian Yellow Vest Movements (YVM).  As a Vietnam Vet and a patriotic Australian, Mike has nothing more pressing to achieve in his life than making Australia great again. This episode is a bonus episode in support of our interview with Roman Light the visionary behind the French YVM (Episode with Roman Light can be found here).  The YVM began in France just 6 weeks ago and has spread to over 25 countries with thousands of protestors flocking to the streets and to the Facebook Pages. Mike Holt, a long term believer in the Citizens Initiated Referendum (CIR) chats with us about the purpose of the YVM in Australia and the founding principles behind the movement. Mike shares with us the incredibly significant impact that a CIR could have on Australia with respect to voting for the laws we want and voting out those laws we don’t want. Mik

This week we interview Lucas Cullen, often referred to as ‘Brisbane’s Bitcoin Grandpa’.  We could write a whole blog just on his achievements alone but it is safe to say that this would not tie in well with his humble and grounded approach to life. But to summarise, Lucas is a dad, a blockchain developer, a contributor to the Standards Australia blockchain standardisation project and a founding Board Member of Blockchain Australia.  One journey however, (and one that the Brisbane crypto community are glad Lucas embarked on) was the founding of the Brisbane Bitcoin and Blockchain meetup which is now home to over 1700 members including the Crypto Clothesline Podcast.It did take us three attempts to tie this man down but it was a pleasure to finally chat with him about his life, observations, thoughts and predictions on the future of crypto and blockchain.  Anyone with skin in the crypto game can tell you that the infancy of the space fosters collaboration and innovation but we have also seen the

This week, in our interview with the dynamic and ground-breaking Nataliya Hearn of Cryptochicks, we learn about the myriad of ways that Nataliya and her committed female (and male) crew, are bringing blockchain technology and related technologies to the front for women all over the world from the US and Canada, where Cryptochicks first started, to Hackathons for women from Asia, Africa and beyond.Nataliya truly resonates with us being a mother of three boys, an engineer, a dancer and sometimes a painter. She was born in the former USSR and came to Canada at the age of 11. What we love about Natalyia is that she is always exploring technologies and opportunities that can have multi-level impact on individuals and society as a whole.  CryptoChicks organization was initially formed by a group of friends (men and women) to help women understand the impact of blockchain and crypto.  CryptoChicks has made the friendship stronger and more focused, as we are all working, laughing and growing together towards providin

Tone Vays is a well versed crypto trader and influencer with nearly 80,000 YouTube subscribers and is a former Wall Street trader and vice president of JP Morgan Chase.  We are absolutely honoured to have Tone on the show to chat with us about the skills everyone needs in crypto trading to minimise risk and to grasp the fundamentals to stay safe in the space.  We try not to stop at the basics of crypto trading as the pressing question on the lips of many women in crypto lingers – What happened on the Crypto Cruise?  Tone explains his observations as to why the women were hired to be on the ship and goes on to say that “There was a lot more men than women on the last cruise and because on this cruise, the entire boat was being rented out and the entire boat was charted, I guess the organizers felt that there would be a huge disparity between the number of men and the number of women. So the women that were hired to kind of help on the cruise and provide some kind of balance between the male fema

Naomi Brockwell, our guest this week, is like a crypto-chameleon, moving through life metamorphoses with amazing projects including: working as an actress, musician and dancer; co-founding The Soho Forum where there are monthly debates on topics of interest to libertarians; emceeing various international events including Consensus18 and traveling the world; creating Bitcoin Girl and other funky pop takes on the crypto world from Bitcoin Girl to Satoshi’s whitepaper; having her own extremely successful quirky techy YouTube channel where she chats with the geekiest to the slickest; humanitarian interviews and a heap of really interesting other stuff.Find out more:TwitterNaomi Brockwell TV on YouTubenaomibrockwell.comTelegram“Bitcoin Girl”My Favorite Coins - The Sound of MusicOther:Did Hayek predict bitcoin? Hayek InterviewKieran Mesquita - Early Bitcoin Developer on Crypto ClotheslineBrisbane BLOCKConscious Summit Subscribe and make a pledge to our Patreon page so we can continue bringing you real conversa

In the third installment of our three part series on the Free Ross Campaign (www.freeross.org) we chat with Roger Ver about Ross Ulbricht.  This 3 part series is dedicated to Ross Ulbricht, the man behind the Silk Road eCommerce website who is serving a double life sentence plus 40 years for victimless crimes. Roger Ver is the founder of Bitcoin.com, he is a libertarian and a loyal supporter of the Free Ross campaign. The interview with Roger revealed that the fundamental reasons behind his support of Ross stems from their shared beliefs. “The vast majority of us are philosophically aligned with the idea that we own ourselves and we own our own bodies and we don't need a bunch of people bossing us around in regards to what we can or can't put in our own bodies. And I think Ross is of a similar mindset there.  As someone who's been in federal prison myself, I saw exactly how these people get treated but somewhere between 70 and 80 percent of the people were there for victimless crimes, which for

In the second installment of our three part series on the Free Ross Campaign (www.freeross.org) we share the second half of our interview with Lyn Ulbricht and we rally further momentum with the support of Roger Ver revealing the physical effects the campaign is having on Lyn and her family. Our conversation deepens almost immediately when we ask about the emotional, financial, psychological and mental impact on her life.“Mental. Yes, absolutely. You're right. I mean literally I almost died, my heart just gave out because I was so stressed. Well they said it was this thing called broken heart syndrome, which affects the left ventricle of your heart. It was after the trial and the sentencing and I mean, my heart gave out.  I'm okay now, but yeah, it's, you know, it's like seeing your child killed in front of you, murdered in front of you.”Ver speaks not only on the thoughts behind the extreme sentencing but also his thoughts on the hypocrisy of the state:“And from my point of view, if there's no victim, t

In the first instalment of our three part series on the Free Ross Campaign (www.freeross.org) we introduce Lyn Ulbricht, the dedicated mother of Ross Ulbricht.  Lyn’s heartbreaking and tragic journey with her son began when Ross was convicted of seven charges and a double life sentence plus 40 years condemning Ross to die behind bars. We chat to Lyn about the site created by her son – ‘Silk Road’ once found on the dark web (and which is no longer online).  We discuss the extreme sentencing Ross has been subjected to for creating the site and the harsh reality that Ross never committed any violent crimes, never harmed another person and simply created an ecommerce site.   Lyn also explains the many irregularities in the case as well as the impact on her health, her family and most of all, her son.“So he turned to the Internet and created this website and the purpose of it was not to sell drugs, which is what you will read in much of the media. It was to provide an open market that protected

One thing in life we accept however disgruntled is the price is fuel while we kick ourselves for missing that "low" day for filling up and continue to pay the premium regardless. This week we jump back in our time machine to the Block Conscious summit where we held live interviews with Luigi and Jitender from Refueler.  Refueler is an app putting fuel on the blockchain.  Thanks to these guys we are about to have an app that lets us see the prices of fuel in real-time before being able to pre-purchase it online at the service station.  Something us girls absolutely LOVE about this app is that we can buy our fuel on the app while it is super low and fill up with that 'locked in' price at at any time over the next week.  These boys have added a reward system with your points known as 'Fumes' and fuel sharing capabilities  where you can share your 'droplets' and it doesn't stop there. All those independent service stations who struggle to compete with the big conglomerates can now en

This week we interview Jerry Farsoun the founder of Leelou, an app designed to keep our kids safe. Brace yourself as we travel through the conversation with some warm and fuzzies as well as some reality shocks around the story behind this incredible new application. Ironically, this episode was recorded on R U OK day in Australia, a day in which we recognize the need for a conversation and the necessary support required for those considering suicide. The story unfolds as Jerry speaks candidly about his suicide attempt and how he was physically and mentally alone. In the months following his attempt he finds that there was a 500 percent increase in calls to a suicide telephone counseling service.  Jerry picks himself up and decides instead to embark on this incredible journey.Jerry is now a renowned entrepreneur, speaking at events and mingling with the elite. The LeeLou app is a project that as mothers we welcome and as a community we need. Join us for an inspiring chat with the man behind the

This week we chat with Katrina Donaghy Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Civic Ledger about blockchain applications and everyday life. With a buzzing Brisbane airport in the backdrop of this interview Katrina explains her journey into blockchain technology and her call to action: "If we're going to realise this potential, got to look back and start educating... How do we actually put this technology into schools so kids can start understand solidity programming?"Katrina is a mother, business woman and one of our personal heros who has paved the way for women in blockchain.  We want to say a big thank you to Katrina for sharing her time with us and for supporting girls, teen and women in tech. 

TRUE or FALSE? Bitcoin (with thanks to blockchain) is unbreakable, unhackable and without fault because blockchain technology is the next biggest thing since sliced bread and the internet. False. This week we interview Kieran Mesquita, a Blockchain developer at Blockboxx and an early adopter of cryptocurrency. Kieran was one of the few developers with the skills to tackle a recently found bug in the Bitcoin source code. Kieran being a first mover has an insight into the world of Bitcoin beyond most of us in the community and was generous enough to share with us his experiences and time. Join us as we follow Kieran through his experiences swatting the bugs in the Bitcoin Blockchain, giggling about being a rebel and the continued discussion on Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash. 

This week we head back in time to the greatest fun we have had together at the BlockConscious Summit 2018, in Brisbane. Here we were blessed to have seen over 50 speakers during the course of three days. We enjoyed amazing after-parties and rubbed shoulders with some of the biggest names in the industry BUT the best part was the Clothesline Couch hidden away at the conference centre. Our little lounge room was walled with banners and softened with a coffee table and magazines: just like home. In this episode, we welcome some of the women of the conference (not all could be there) to join us on the lounge and chat about their experiences and share with us a little about cryptocurrency and blockchain. It was an absolute honour to sit with these women and we extend our gratitude to them for being who they are, doing what they do and sharing their time with us. Links to each in the blog.

Shireen Yip. COO of Travel By Bit is a kite surfer and traveller... She found that one of the problems with travelling was the complexity that comes with exchanging currencies. Shireen and her partner Caleb built Travel By Bit from the ground up and have made travelling with crypto easy using their technology. Join us for for this inspiring episode with Shireen as we learn all about the town of 1770, paying for our holidays with crypto and how this incredible woman is paving the way for the mass adoption of cryptocurrency.

This week is a biggie, we interview Zia Word from Chozun. We have two sides of this coin where Abheeti is a travel bug and Amy-Rose needs to be pried out of the country if you want her to travel. Chozun was created by two amazing women Zia Word and Teresa Truda who are two friends who share a love of travel and blockchain. This week take a journey of your own with us as we hear how Chozun is disrupting the travel industry.

The building and construction industry is riddled with points of failure from the speed with technology adoption, environmental sustainability all the way to lack of communication between key players in a project. This week we interview Chris Dorian the co-founder of Buildsort and the man behind the software. On the clothesline we promote projects that are going to positively impact on the planet and women who are making waves in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry. Buildsort is set to incredibly disrupt the construction industry with the software that will put every detail including the colour of paint on your bathroom walls into their software which is utilising blockchain technology. Buildsort aims to tackle multiple issues in the industry including the ever increasing amount of construction waste heading to landfill. The construction industry is continuing to face the result of their adverse effects on the environment due to the industry producing 25-40% of the world’s carbon emissions. The