Opening Remarks from the Blockchain Ideas Summit hosted at Oklahoma State University on 9/28/22

On Wednesday, September 28, 2022, the Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise (ISFE) at Oklahoma State University hosted a Blockchain Ideas Summit in Stillwater, OK.

Several different videos from the Summit will be posted.

In this particular video, Dr. Steve Trost (Director of ISFE) introduces George Gilder (author of Life After Google) who then provides some opening remarks.

The Summit involved presentations of four projects, followed by questions and comments on each project, by a panel of experts.

The projects presented at the Summit were:

• Value for Value (v4v.app) and PodCasting 2.0 (podcastindex.org), by Dr. Brian Bishko (@brianoflondon)
• HiveAuth by @arcange
• SPK Network by Matt Starkey (@starkerz)
• Compensara Open Money Protocol (COMP) by David Trost

The panelists were:

• John Tamny: author of The Money Confusion: How Illiteracy About Currencies and Inflation Sets the Stage for the Crypto Revolution and 5 other books.
• George Gilder: author of Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy and Life After Capitalism and 22 other books.
• Jonathan Button: digital asset portfolio manager; consultant to FIFA on FIFA+ Collect.
• David Trost: cybersecurity engineer; founder of Compensara Open Money Protocol (COMP).
• Mike Trisko: CEO of Phore Blockchain project.
• Matt Starkey: co-founder of 3Speak and SPK Network.
• Dr. Jesse Reich: co-founder and CEO of Splinterlands; former chemistry professor.
• Dr. Brian Bishko: founder of v4v.app; inventor of Podping for Podcasting 2.0.
• arcange: founder and developer of HiveAuth.
• Dan Hensley: co-founder of 3Speak and SPK Network.

Separate videos will be posted for the first two projects. (Unfortunately, the audio quality of the remote presenters was limited by the setup of the room, and a memory card failure in the video camera resulted in the loss of video and audio for the final two projects.)