About the show
If you are interested in learning more about the blockchain industry and want to hear from some of the brightest thought leaders, tune into this bi-weekly podcast. R3’s Catherine Rutter hosts some of the biggest names in the blockchain world. Be sure to subscribe and rate the podcast!
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Episode List
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Episode 35: Satoshi plants a seed with BlockHash host Brandon Zemp!
August 15th, 2019 | 47 mins 31 secs
blockchain, brandon zemp, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, life in the fast chain, satoshi sequence
This week on Life in the Fast Chain, Catherine sits down with Brandon Zemp, author of The Satoshi Sequence and host of The BlockHash Podcast. Brandon fills us in on how he became interested in blockchain and what inspire him to write his book. In addition, we get his take on libra, cryptocurrencies, and what's next for blockchain. Listen on your favorite podcast app!
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Episode 34: Mariana Gomez de la Villa joins the pod for health shots and block talks. See what we did there.
August 1st, 2019 | 35 mins 22 secs
blockchain, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, ing, life in the fast chain, mariana gomez
Mariana Gomez from ING joins the podcast to talk about what projects ING is doing in the blockchain space and how she "accidentally" got into it! Listen on your favorite podcast app.
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Episode 33: Everybody loves a hairdryer with a sensor on it! 3D printing, cloud, logic apps, and more with Microsoft's Marc Mercuri
July 18th, 2019 | 43 mins 47 secs
blockchain, blockchain on cloud, catherine rutter, cloud, corda, corda enterprise, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, life in the fast chain, logic apps, marc mercuri, microsoft, microsoft azure
Marc Mercuri from Microsoft Azure comes on the podcast to talk to Catherine about a ton of topics. They cover blockchain implementation on the cloud, 3D printing, logic apps, Starbucks, supply chain, dating apps, Starbucks, farmers, apartments, and MORE. Listen on your favorite podcast app!
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Episode 32: Libra, Blockchain, AI, Ripe.io, and IoT (Internet of Tomatoes, duh).
July 8th, 2019 | 51 mins 1 sec
alisa dicaprio, blockchain, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, food on blockchain, life in the fast chain, raja ramachandran, ripe, ripe.io, todd mcdonlad
Todd McDonald is back on the podcast to give some background and thoughts on Facebooks recent announcement of Libra. Raja Ramachandran also joins us from Ripe to talk about what they are doing on blockchain, specifically Corda. We chat about IoT (internet of tomatoes) and AI working from farm to table and what they’ve done with Sweetgreen tomatoes and the Dairy Farmers of America. Alisa DiCaprio, Kate DeWinter, and Jackie Yang also sit in on the recordings. Listen on your favorite podcast app!
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Episode 31: Clinical Trials - Life or Death study with HSBlox, Q² Solutions, Microsoft Azure. Oh... and a fun game on Corda!
June 20th, 2019 | 32 mins 9 secs
azure, blockchain, catan, catherine rutter, clinical trials, corda, corda enterprise, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, games on blockchain, hsblox, life in the fast chain, microsoft, q2 solutions, settlers of catan, webinar
Catherine sits down with Lynn Carroll (HSBlox), Jian Wang (Q² Solutions), David Houlding (Microsoft Azure), and Stephanie Perez (R3) to discuss Clinical Trials and why blockchain tech is super important to their studies... as clinical trials really are life or death studies. She also chats with Nick Rogers, a Solutions Engineer at R3 who is porting the game Catan onto Corda! Listen on your favorite podcast app.
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Episode 30: TRIGGERED with Jesse Chenard from Monetago
June 7th, 2019 | 30 mins 41 secs
blockchain, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, jesse chenard, life in the fast chain, monetago
Catherine sits down with Jesse Chenard, CEO of Monetago for this episode of Life in the Fast Chain! Listen on your favorite podcast app!
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Episode 29: Serendipity with Alex Medana, CEO and Co-Founder of FinFabrik
May 17th, 2019 | 41 mins 38 secs
alex medana, blockchain, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, finfabrik, life in the fast chain
Catherine and Alex sit down to discuss how FinFabrik came to be, why he is interested in blockchain, how to get over jetlag, and more! Listen on your favorite podcast app and be prepared to hear lots of laughs.
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Episode 28: Grow is the way to go with Crocodile Dundee...er, I mean Josh Wilson ;-)
May 3rd, 2019 | 28 mins 18 secs
blockchain, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, grow super, josh wilson, life in the fast chain, superannuation, superannuation fund, tina
Josh and Catherine hang out in the studio so Josh can explain to Catherine what a superannuation fund is, why blockchain is a good fit for Grow, and what their platform Tina is! Listen on your favorite podcast app!
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Episode 27: NO ES UN BLOCKCHANGE
April 19th, 2019 | 48 mins 54 secs
blockchain, carlos arena, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, life in the fast chain, marco polo, mezcal, olympics, tradeix
Catherine has Carlos Arena, head of Americas business development at R3. He talks about how Latin America is adopting blockchain, cryptos, AI & IoT, the Olympics, and why he likes to drink Mezcal. Listen on your favorite podcast app!
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Episode 26: Cheers to blockchain and cheers to the future! Warm rum, support engineers, and stablecoins
April 5th, 2019 | 46 mins 3 secs
blockchain, booze and blockchain, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, developer, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, engineer, george calle, life in the fast chain, stablecoins
Catherine has George Calle from R3's Market Intelligence team to discuss his recent paper "Will Businesses Ever Use Stablecoins" and Lamar Thomas a support engineer here at R3 joins for booze and blockchain to talk about what his role entails, Corda Enterprise, how he got into blockchain, and more. Listen on your favorite podcast app!
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Episode 25: Leggo my Eggo, blockchain style with Jorge Lesmes
March 22nd, 2019 | 38 mins 50 secs
blockchain, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, everis, life in the fast chain, ntt data
Jorge and Catherine have a funny chat about how Everis and NTT Data are involved in the blockchain space, the value of open source & enterprise blockchains, 1337, why Catherine thinks she is psychic, Stampchain, why banks care about blockchain. This episode is filled with laughs! Listen on your favorite podcast app.
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Episode 24: It all starts with Schrute Bucks... plus Stephanie Perez talks about how the healthcare industry can use blockchain
March 8th, 2019 | 27 mins 56 secs
blockchain, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, life in the fast chain
Stephanie Perez is on the pod to talk about healthcare and how the industry could use this tech. Nick Rogers also joins us to talk about how he got into the blockchain space... it all starts with Schrute Bucks... if you know, you know. Listen on your favorite podcast app!
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Episode 23: Dave Hudson mic drops about 5 times
February 20th, 2019 | 46 mins 56 secs
blockchain, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, life in the fast chain
Todd McDonald and Dave Hudson are on the podcast! Todd discusses stablecoins, Corda settler and the news about JPM Coin. Dave Hudson then joins to talk about why enterprise blockchains are important, why the open source community is important, what it means to shrink nodes (and why thats valuable), business network tools, Corda trials, why choose Corda over other platforms, scalability, privacy, and much more. Listen on your favorite podcast app!
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Episode 22: The Institutes RiskBlock Alliance's Christopher McDaniel on insurance use cases on blockchain (specifically Corda). We aren't biased thoooo
February 1st, 2019 | 24 mins 10 secs
blockchain, catherine rutter, christopher mcdaniel, corda, corda enterprise, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, life in the fast chain
RiskBlock's Christopher McDaniel joins the podcast to talk about what he's doing with blockchain (Corda, specifically) and Ryan Rugg joins the podcast to discuss the Insurtech Challenge! Interestingly enough, they started out building their blockchain application using Ethereum, then decided to switch to Corda after realizing Ethereum wasn't a good fit! Listen on your favorite podcast app!
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Episode 21: Announcing Corda Network.... anddddd James Carlyle was lost at sea for a month. Say what?!
January 16th, 2019 | 34 mins 26 secs
blockchain, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, corda network, corda network foundation, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, james carlyle, life in the fast chain
Listen on your favorite podcast app!
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Episode 20: What is blockchain famous? Ft. James Graham
January 10th, 2019 | 40 mins 46 secs
blockchain, catherine rutter, corda, corda enterprise, distributed ledger, distributed ledger technology, dlt, emerging technology, life in the fast chain
James Graham, CEO and President of GuildOne is on and he talks about royalty ledger, oil & gas and the music industry, how Canada is adapting to blockchain, and many other blockchain, related topics. Then we have an announcement for graduate students. Listen on your favorite podcast app!