Blockchain NZ Podcast Series

Kia Ora and welcome to the very first episode of the Blockchain New Zealand Podcast. I’m Jeff Nijsse and today I’m talking to Jonty Kelt. Jonty is the Founder of Fantail Ventures, a venture capital business that has invested in some of the biggest names in crypto, including Kraken, Ledger, Stacks, Yield Guild Games, and Uniswap, just to name a few.

In this conversation we talk about: 

Jonty coming out of Otago University and getting his start in finance; and the role of education in tech; He was building an online advertising business in the early days of the internet and his business was eventually acquired by google and we discuss the work culture at google in those days; Jonty has strong feelings about blockchain adoption providing a financial lifeline to the underbanked, and how digital ownership is just getting started; He’s an advisor for the teams behind VeVe–the NFT marketplace and Altered State Machine, the non fungible intelligence protocol; We wrap up with Jonty’s views on blockchain regulation in New Zealand and he gives us his thoughts on who Satoshi is.

I hope you enjoy my conversation with Jonty Kelt.

Some notes from the show:

• Peter Thiel Fellowship
• No college degree required
• Google is ten years old
• Jonty’s talk at Kea New Zealand
• NFTs with your bank account (Tweet)
• Crypto Kitties
• Ecomi & VeVe
• Immutable Layer 2 for Ethereum NFTs
• BCNZ

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