In Early Podcast

S2E2: Professor Sarah Green, Law Commission and D2 Legal Technology

This episode features Professor Sarah Green who has just finished a four year tenure as Law Commissioner for Common and Commercial Law.
During that time Sarah’s law reform work included the Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023, Advice to the Government on Smart Contracts, updating the Arbitration Act 1996, scoping reforms to the law of Intermediated Securities and drafting guidance and a bill to ensure that English Law is well suited to accommodate Digital Assets.
 
We speak about the journey of crypto assets becoming property at common law and why that was important, to where we are now, with legislation looking to define "things" as property, using a negative definition proposed by the Judiciary. 
 
Sarah is now the head of Digital Assets and Trade Finance at D2 Legal Technology, and a Professor of Law at Bristol University.

S2E1: Marco Morazzoni, Semoto

This episode features Marco Morazzoni, the Founder and CEO of Semoto, a market place for service providers in blockchain, from natives and tokenisation experts, to more traditional services like law, insurance, banking and consulting, looking to service this nascent industry.
Previously a sales director at Elliptic, a leader in blockchain analytics, and with experience at Britannia Global Markets, IBP Markets and Valbury Capital, Marco has been working in the blockchain technology industry for a number of years, setting up Semoto to ensure the industry’s growth is facilitated by legitimate and proven experts in a simple and cross border eco-sphere.

S1E22: Rob Moore, Arrowgate

This week Matt speaks to Rob Moore, the director and founder of blockchain and open source investigations firm Arrowsgate.
Rob, previously of the British army, talks about his move from jumping out of planes into open battlefields to chasing criminals laundering money through blockchain analytics and helping victims of fraud get their money back.
They speak about the state of play including the sad instances of human trafficking, and modern slavery, the roles crypto exchanges may play in the movement of money as well as considering how the sector can clean up its act.

S1E21: Jennifer Zegel of STEP

ORIGINALLY RELEASED 10/12/23 This week I speak to Jennifer Zegel a trust and estate practitioner, member of STEP’s Digital Assets Special Interest Group’s Steering Committee, an attorney at Kleinbard LLC, author of “Digital Asset Entanglement: Unraveling the Intersection of Estate Laws & Technology” and creator and host of the Digital Planning Podcast. We speak about digital assets beyond merely crypto and the role STEP is playing to educate and drive policy worldwide., how they do it and what the market looks like as the technology continues to be vital infrastructure.

S1E20: Bob Williams from Lockton

ORIGINALLY RELEASED 31/10/23
This episode features Bob Williams, the Vice President for Fintech, Digital Assets and Blockchain Technologies at Lockton, the world’s largest independent insurance brokerage.
We speak about how to insure crypto assets, the types of coverage needed to cover all bases, the LEAP team's development of a custody policy and what role that plays in the wider market, and why insuring tokenised real world assets has its own unique challenges.
We also look at the biggest risks in dealing in crypto, as well as global trends and how the insurance market has had to cater to trad-fi clients looking to play catch up, amongst other things.

S1E19: Jonny Fry from Digital Bytes

ORIGINALLY RELEASED 13/09/23
Episode 19 features Jonny Fry, the Crypto AM Influencer of the year 2022.
With a wealth of knowledge in this sector, Jonny runs Digital Bytes, which creates and distributes a weekly roundup of the biggest stories in the world of digital assets and is the CEO of Team Blockchain.
Matt and Jonny speak about a huge array of topics, from how the technology helps regulated markets with transparency and security, how a digitised and DLT led funds market might benefit from assuring accuracy of price and speed of transacting, alternative use cases for the metaverse, his view on the declining global use of the US dollar and what might replace it, CBDCs and their role in inter banking transactions, as well as the Digital Bytes brand as a research and publishing outfit, via digital media content and podcasting and much more.

S1E17: Korby Hayre from House of Block

ORIGINALLY RELEASED 02/08/23
This week’s episode features Korby Hayre the founder of House of Block, a boutique event agency that caters for Web3, Blockchain and crypto currency.
Korby, a veteran event organiser, speaks to Matt about her journey in the space, some of the events that she's worked on and how to engage sponsors and delegates in the Blockchain industry.

S1E16: Nanda Khiara, Fine Art and NFTs

ORIGINALLY RELEASED 12/07/23
This week’s episode features Nanda Khiara, a fine art and NFT artist, who has been featured at the UNESCO Paris 2022, the World Economic Forum 2023, and at NFT.NYC 2023.
We speak what NFTs are, about the value of art as NFTs, both to the artist and to the buyer, and why some fine art purchasers ado not want the corresponding the NFT version.
We also look at copyright, ownership and authorship, and looking at Artificial Intelligence in art making, the role of the metaverse and where we as an industry can grow, including how ASMR plays a role in helping people interact with digital art.

S1E15: Erica Stanford, author of “Crypto Wars: Faked Deaths, Missing Billions and Industry Disruption”

ORIGINALLY RELEASED 27/06/23
This week’s guest is Erica Stanford, the best-selling author of “Crypto Wars: Faked Deaths, Missing Billions and Industry Disruption”.
We look at the history of crypto scams, from initial coin offerings to collapses of entire exchanges like Mt Gox, and hear her thoughts on where we are today, with recent SEC actions in the industry to what might happen next and the future of scams, like murder for hire.
Erica considers how notable frauds have shaped today’s market and why major players have adapted to ensure they are best positioned to mitigate risks.
Erica also runs the Crypto Curry Club, is a speaker and commentator on all things blockchain and is a Fintech expert at CMS

S1E14: Katharine Wooller of Coincover

ORIGINALLY RELEASED 13/06/23
This week’s episode features Katharine Wooller the Business Unit Director at Coincover, a market leader in protecting cryptocurrency from hackers and human error, providing services like key retrieval and re-access to crypto assets, which has led to a partnership with hard wallet storage solution provider Ledger.
We talk about what Coincover does, as well as how it can play a key role in ongoing US litigation Ferguson v. Coinbase as an expert- rebutting Coinbase’s allegations on control of assets.
We also look at Coincover’s response to the treasury’s “future financial services regulatory regime for crypto assets”, as well at thoughts on the Digital Pound and CBDC’s generally, contributions to Crypto UK and Katharine’s recent feature in Forbes considering the rising value of crypto assets despite a tough period for the industry.