Liz Izmailova is a Ukrainian New Zealander that has been working in blockchain for the past five years, she is a marketing manager at CENNZnet which is part of the Centrality ecosystem.
In this conversation we talk about:
- Financial Inclusion and the monetary situation in Ukraine, both before the war and presently.
- Ukraine has been ranked 4th in global per capita crypto adoption by Chainalysis and are likely the first to have a government directly accept crypto donations and provide transparency on where those donations are going.
- We cover a lot in the crypto-donation space in general, and some local New Zealand based projects.
Timestamps:
- 00:00 Intro
- 01:06 Ukrainian background, financial independence and entrepreneurship at an early age, coming to New Zealand
- 05:20 Financial privilege in the West
- 10:45 Crypto donations and the currency situation in Ukraine
- 16:07 New crypto legislation in Ukraine
- 20:04 War donation transparency
- 24:02 FlufWorld F*ck the War campaign & Universe.xyz
- 29:29 How are NFTs helping?
- 33:40 Crypto & NFTs for gen-Z'ers
- 36:35 Crypto friendly New Zealand charities
- 40:15 How can BCNZ help with education?
- 42:25 Rapid fire
- 44:37 fin
Some notes from the show:
- Letter criticizing financial innovation https://concerned.tech/
- Rebuttal for financial inclusion https://www.financialinclusion.tech/
- Ukrainian Government crypto donation https://donate.thedigital.gov.ua/
- Ukrainian Government Bitcoin address visible in a block explorer: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/357a3So9CbsNfBBgFYACGvxxS6tMaDoa1P
- National Bank of Ukraine partners with FTX https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/03/14/ukraine-partners-with-ftx-everstake-to-launch-new-crypto-donation-website/
- USD $100m raised so far https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/03/09/ukraine-has-received-close-to-100-million-in-crypto-donations/
- Ukraine legalises Bitcoin https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/03/17/ukraine-war-zelenskyy-signs-a-new-law-officially-legalising-bitcoin-and-other-cryptos
- $411k raised and donated to Ukraine by Auckland based FLUF & NonFungible Labs: https://luckytrader.com/nft/fluf-world/news/fluf-world-finalizes-400000-donation-to-ukraine
- Michael Chobanian, president of the Blockchain Association of Ukraine https://www.theverge.com/23138465/decoder-ukraine-war-cryptocurrency-michael-chobanian-interview-bitcoin-usdt
- Charitable Donations with cryptocurrency
- Ukrainian NFT projects
- https://metahistory.gallery/
- https://www.avatarsforukraine.com/
- Ukraine DAO’s Flag NFT Sells for $6.75 Million https://decrypt.co/94353/ukraine-daos-flag-nft-sells-for-6-75-million
- Fidelity Charitable Study Insights https://www.fidelitycharitable.org/insights.html
- NFT marketplace https://lithoverse.xyz/
- FLUF World https://www.fluf.world/
- ASM/Non-Fungible Intelligence https://www.alteredstatemachine.xyz/
- BCNZ https://blockchain.org.nz/
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