Blockchain Journal Videos
If there was such a thing as Blockchain Journal TV, this would be its home page. Blockchain Journal’s journalists are out in the market with their video cameras interviewing domain experts, solution providers, regulators, lawmakers, founders, and other proponents of blockchain in the enterprise to gain new perspectives and insights into the unique value proposition of distributed ledger technology (DLT). And for kicks, we’ll also sprinkle-in a few videos that aren’t just about the enterprise. In realizing that many members of the Blockchain Journal community would prefer to consume our content in non-video formats, all of our video interviews are available as audio-only podcasts (from leading podcast sources like Apple and Spotify) and as full-text transcripts. Click through to any one of our interviews to learn more.
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Ledger CEO Gauthier and Etana CEO Russell Discuss Enterprise Crypto Wallets and Custody Services
During an after-hours event on the eve of Consensus 2023 in Austin, Texas, Blockchain Journal editor-in-chief David Berlind speaks with Pascal Gauthier, CEO of Ledger, and Brandon Russell, CEO of Etan...
By David BerlindPublished:May 9, 2023
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Ripple CTO David Schwartz: Proof of Identity Will Require Certificate Authority-Like Approach
In the virtual halls of Blockchain Journal (BCJ), we often talk about an elephant-in-the-room-like problem that we've nicknamed "The William Shatner Problem." It all started when our technical analyst...
By David BerlindPublished:May 5, 2023
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NodeReal Looks to Offer Amazon-Like Infrastructure Specific to Enterprise Blockchain Deployments
Blockchain Journal editor-in-chief David Berlind interviews Dr. Ben Zhang, the co-founder and chief operating officer of NodeReal, at Consensus 2023 in Austin, Texas. NodeReal claims to be a one-stop ...
By David BerlindPublished:May 5, 2023
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Compliance is Key Factor in Enterprise Choice of Crytpo-Capable Custodians Says FV Bank CEO
Blockchain Journal editor-in-chief David Berlind interviews Miles Paschini, CEO of FV Bank, at Consensus 2023, a blockchain and cryptocurrency conference in Austin, Texas. FV Bank aims to provide an e...
By David BerlindPublished:May 5, 2023
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Paris-Based Web3 Consultant Doors3 Helps Some of The World's Biggest Brands with Blockchain Strategy
While Blockchain Journal has been spending time connecting with some of the biggest consultancies (the so-called "Final Four") to understand how their blockchain practices — typically one of the multi...
By David BerlindPublished:May 5, 2023
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MetaZ Will Custody Your Collectible Sneakers In a Vault and Issue NFTs as Certificates of Ownership
One of the biggest conversations in the blockchain industry that tends to fly below the radar has to do with the custody of digital assets. It's so important that the word "custody" has actually becom...
By David BerlindPublished:May 4, 2023
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Why Enterprises Would Be Wise to Choose an EVM-Compatible Chain: Horizen Labs CEO
Of the many blockchains that are out there, only a handful are really thinking about how to satisfy the requirements of enterprises interested in public distributed ledger technology (DLT) for digital...
By David BerlindPublished:May 4, 2023
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Arculus Offers Enterprises Crypto Key Storage, Payments, 2FA System Access and More on One Smartcard
Blockchain Journal editor-in-chief David Berlind interviews Adam Lowe, the Chief Product Officer for Arculus, an exhibitor at Consensus 2023, about its digital asset and digital identity platform that...
By David BerlindPublished:May 4, 2023
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Consultancy EY's Enterprise Differentiator is Privacy on Public Blockchains: Global Lead Paul Brody
For many enterprises, the idea of venturing alone into the wilderness of blockchain is a frightening proposition. Not only is there a general lack of blockchain and cryptocurrency talent within their ...
By David BerlindPublished:May 4, 2023
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CEO of Blockchain Public Relations Giant Wachsman Sees Major Industry Pivot Towards Enterprises
Blockchain Journal editor-in-chief David Berlind interviews David Wachsman, CEO and founder of Wachsman Public Relations, one of the largest (if not the largest) PR firms in the blockchain industry. T...
By David BerlindPublished:May 3, 2023
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Bitwave Looks to Bridge the Chasm Between Traditional ERP and Enterprise Cryptocurrency Accounting
Of the many barriers to blockchain adoption that enterprises must contend with, one of them has to do with basic record-keeping issues. If you've ever studied the details of just a single blockchain t...
By David BerlindPublished:May 3, 2023
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XRPL Commons President David Bchiri: Education is a Prerequisite to Enterprise Blockchain Adoption
David Berlind, the host of the Blockchain Journal Podcast, interviews David Bchiri, President of XRPL Commons, an independent non-profit organization that helps to drive the success of the XRP ecosyst...
By David BerlindPublished:May 3, 2023
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Decentralization of Trust Still Not Fully Solved by Blockchain says Co-Founder of Tether and Wax
Here in the halls of Blockchain Journal's virtual offices, we've come up with a name for an unsolved blockchain identity problem for which no scalable, technological solution exists as far as we know....
By David BerlindPublished:April 23, 2023
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GuardianLink CEO Discusses NFT Strategy and Execution Work it Does for Pepsi, Cadbury, and LA Times
When it comes to NFT marketplaces in Asia, they don't get much bigger than Jump.trade which claims to be the biggest of them all. Jump.trade is just one of the businesses operated by the site's parent...
By David BerlindPublished:April 20, 2023
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Big Event Ticketing is the Next Phase of How NFTs Will Be Used: Dapper Labs' O'Hagan
When it comes to concerts and professional sports, two of the biggest brands experimenting with NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are the National Football League (NFL) and Ticketmaster. NFL Sr. Director Eme...
By David BerlindPublished:April 19, 2023
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Niftmint Looks to Take The Friction Out of Enterprise NFT Deployment
As buzz phrases go, "the NFT is the new cookie" is getting some traction in enterprise blockchain circles because of the incredible shrinking usefulness of cookies; bits of data that, when allowed int...
By David BerlindPublished:April 18, 2023
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Use Non-Blockchain Precedents as a Guide To Self-Regulation Say Perkins Coie's Crypto Lawyers
Many companies are in a catch-22 when it comes to working with blockchain. On the one hand, organizations are fearful of doing nothing with blockchain because they know how, in the hands of a clever c...
By David BerlindPublished:April 18, 2023
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Why LayerZero Might Be a Contender for Enterprises In Need of Cross-Chain Bridges
Apart from the many instances where cryptocurrency holders get socially engineered (hoodwinked) into turning over their crypto or their account credentials to extremely clever and tenacious hackers (e...
By David BerlindPublished:April 11, 2023
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Using Blockchain, MintStars Hopes to Give Sex Workers A Better Deal Than OnlyFans
While it’s not necessarily an enterprise application of blockchain, MintStars.com perfectly exemplifies the degree to which blockchain is not only the basis for disrupting existing businesses (even re...
By David BerlindPublished:April 11, 2023
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Decentralized Pictures Looks To Democratize Hollywood's Ideations With Blockchain
While at the Outer Edge LA 2023 Conference in Los Angeles, Blockchain Journal technical analyst Bob Reselman interviewed the co-founder and CEO of Decentralized Pictures, Leo Matchett. Decentralized P...
By Bob ReselmanPublished:April 3, 2023
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Fox Media is Doubling Down on Blockchain with 9 Franchise-Related Web3 Projects
In an effort to disrupt the TV industry and leverage distributed ledger technology (DLT) for game-changing fan engagement, Fox Media has launched a blockchain-specific division called Blockchain Creat...
By Bob ReselmanPublished:April 3, 2023
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Skale Co-Founder Jack O'Holleran Explains Why Blockchain Beats Mongo or Oracle for Enterprise Usage
Jack O'Holleran is the co-founder and CEO of Skale Labs, a 5-year-old scaling solution provider that not only solves for Ethereum's slow settlement times but, for Skale's customers, also changes Ether...
By Bob ReselmanPublished:April 2, 2023
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Enterprise Tech Veteran Sandy Carter Discusses Enterprise Use Cases for Blockchain Technology
Having originally cut her enterprise technology teeth at Tivoli and IBM (and then later at Amazon Web Services), Unstoppable Domains Chief Operating Officer Sandy Carter is no stranger to IT. Now, she...
By Bob ReselmanPublished:April 2, 2023
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Ecosapiens Uses NFT Collectibles to Drive Soil-Base Carbon Sequestration
While at the Outer Edge LA 2023 Conference in Los Angeles, Blockchain Journal technical analyst Bob Reselman spoke with Ecosapiens co-founder and CEO Nihar Neelakanti who believes that one of the keys...
By Bob ReselmanPublished:April 2, 2023
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Using Blockchain, Ultimate Digits Hopes to Disrupt the Mobile Carrier Industry
One of the lesser-understood aspects of the smartphones we use and the mobile carrier accounts to which they’re connected is the fact that a phone’s user does not “own” the phone number to which his o...
By Bob ReselmanPublished:April 2, 2023
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Deloitte: Businesses That "Sit on the Sidelines" While Others Pilot Blockchain Will Be Left Behind
Wendy Henry is the Global Practice Lead for Deloitte's Digital Assets and Cryptocurrency Consultancy; one of the firm's four business units dedicated to helping its business clients get the most out o...
By David BerlindPublished:April 1, 2023
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Overall Trust in Businesses Is at Record Lows. Can Blockchain Help to Bring it Back?
According to the Principal Leader of Deloitte's global Enterprise Trust Practice Michael Bondar, businesses are facing an unprecedented erosion of trust when it comes to their stakeholders (customers,...
By David BerlindPublished:April 1, 2023
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How Cryptocurrency is Funding Ukraine's Battle for Itself and the Soul of Democracy
While at DC Blockchain Summit 2023 in Washington, DC, Blockchain Journal editor-in-chief David Berlind got the chance to interview Open Dialogue Foundation President Lyudmyla Kozlovska about her organ...
By David BerlindPublished:March 30, 2023
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CFTC Commissioner Mersinger Invites Nervous Enterprises To Come Chat About Blockchain Regulations
When it comes to working with distributed ledgers and cryptocurrencies, one of the most significant barriers to enterprise adoption is the significant regulatory uncertainty that enshrouds the blockch...
By David BerlindPublished:March 29, 2023
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How SMS Messages and Other Carrier-Grade Services Could Be Moving to Enterprise-Grade Blockchain
As enterprises begin to adopt blockchain technology in order to optimize their systems and processes in ways that simply cannot be done with other technologies, the likelihood that their customers wil...
By David BerlindPublished:January 23, 2023
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Top 3 Global Law Firm Seizes First Mover Advantage to Tokenize Almost Everything with Blockchain
Law firm DLA Piper operates in over 40 countries and is one of the three biggest law firms in the world. But just because it's an old-school company in an old-school industry doesn't mean that it (or ...
By David BerlindPublished:January 22, 2023
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Hyperledger Exec Director Waxes on Linux Foundation's Role in Driving Enterprise Blockchain Adoption
Hyperledger Executive Director Daniela Barbosa is no stranger to the need for, and the importance of, open standards and open source in driving technology adoption. Especially among enterprises. In fa...
By David BerlindPublished:January 20, 2023
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Hedera Describes Criteria That Enterprises Should Consider When Investigating Blockchain Technology
Hedera is one of several Layer 1 public Distributed Ledgers talking to world and business leaders at World Economic Forum 2023 about the benefits and use cases for blockchain technology. But, accordin...
By David BerlindPublished:January 20, 2023
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Filecoin Looks to Move Upstack From Just Archival of Enterprise Data to Database-Like Functionality
The business of storing enterprise data has gone through several technological revolutions over the last two decades. After on-prem storage came cloud storage (which enterprises initially resisted) an...
By David BerlindPublished:January 20, 2023
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MobileCoin Looks to Disrupt Venmo, Cash App, Paypal with Frictionless Blockchain-Enabled Payments
At World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Blockchain Journal editor-in-chief David Berlind met with Mobilecoin Head of Business Development Brady Forrest who talked about how Mobilecoin's global ...
By David BerlindPublished:January 19, 2023
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After 10 Years of Working With Blockchain, Deloitte is In Position To Help Enterprises on DLT Plans
The way Deloitte Blockchain Practice Leader Rob Massey tells the story, there weren't a whole lot of enterprises interested in distributed ledger technology a decade ago. But despite Deloitte's reputa...
By David BerlindPublished:January 18, 2023
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In the Wake of FTX, Deepwaters Claims its Hybrid Exchange Is the Best of Both the CEX and DEX Worlds
There are two types of cryptocurrency exchanges in the cryptocurrency world; centralized exchanges (CEX) and decentralized exchanges (DEX). Both models have their pros and cons and while at World Econ...
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By David BerlindPublished:January 18, 2023
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Amid Daily Bombings, Ukraine's Plans to Transform Government Services with Blockchain Surge Forward
Judging by the incredibly stoic demeanor of Yulia Parkhomenko, one of the directors within Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation, you would never guess that she and her colleagues are forging a...
By David BerlindPublished:January 18, 2023
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Blockchain Journal's David Berlind Stumbles Across a Bitcoin Mercedes at World Economic Forum
While moving from meeting to meeting at the World Economic Forum in snowy Davos, Switzerland, Blockchain Journal's David Berlind came across a Mercedes AMG GT. At least that's what he thinks it is. Al...
By David BerlindPublished:January 17, 2023
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Why Blockchain is Perfect for Documenting Open, Traceable Proof of Enterprise Sustainability Efforts
While at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Blockchain Journal editor-in-chief David Berlind interviewed HBAR Foundation Sustainable Impact Fund Director Hania Othman to find out why publ...
By David BerlindPublished:January 17, 2023
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Full-Stack Blockchain Consultancy Casper Labs Helps Enterprises With Distributed Ledger Deployments
Blockchain Journal's editor-in-chief David Berlind meets up with Casper Labs CTO Medha Parlikar at the World Economic Forum in Davos to find out more about how enterprises can outsource their distribu...
By David BerlindPublished:January 17, 2023
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How IBM is Sprinkling Blockchain Into The Solutions It Builds and Maintains For Enterprise Customers
While at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Blockchain Journal editor-in-chief David Berlind sat down with the leader of IBM Consulting's Blockchain and Web3 Practice Shyam Nagarajan to f...
By David BerlindPublished:January 17, 2023
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How the $8B Multinational Avery Dennison Leverages Blockchain Across its Supply Chain
At World Economic Forum 2023 in Davos, Switzerland, Blockchain Journal editor-in-chief David Berlind catches up with Avery Dennison market development manager Neil Hay who describes how the $8B multin...
By David BerlindPublished:January 17, 2023
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Tired of Imposters on Social Networks? Here's EnoughTea; a Version of Instagram Built on Blockchain
While at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Blockchain Journal editor-in-chief David Berlind met with Max Lurya, founder and developer of EnoughTea; an Instagram look-alike application th...
By David BerlindPublished:January 17, 2023
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LCX CEO Monty Metzger Literally Wrote the Book on Blockchain Banking
Monty Metzger is the CEO of enterprise blockchain consultancy LCX, based in the country of Liechtenstein, where many of the nation's regulations regarding blockchain are already in place (creating som...
By David BerlindPublished:January 16, 2023
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Blockchain Journal's David Berlind Arrives in Davos for World Economic Forum 2023
Blockchain Journal's editor-in-chief David Berlind is at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to find out more about how blockchain and distributed ledger technology will revolutionize ever...
By David BerlindPublished:January 16, 2023
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AY Young: One of the UN's 17 Young Leaders at the World at World Economic Forum
While at World Economic Forum 2023, Blockchain Journal's editor-in-chief David Berlind caught up with AY Young, one of 17 young people taking part in a United Nations program that looks to connect the...
By David BerlindPublished:January 16, 2023