Finance leader Mary Kauffman shares her journey through traditional accounting at Deloitte to companies like Facebook, OpenSea, and crypto startup Lightspark. She discusses the intricacies of crypto accounting, how enterprises should approach crypto, and her career advice for accountants interested in working on crypto projects.

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• (00:34) - Welcome Mary to the show
• (02:02) - Background of Mary Kauffman
• (10:45) - What hard technical accounting problems have you encountered?
• (12:18) - Did you have any issues or questions that came up when looking at deferred revenue?
• (13:40) - What challenges from an audit perspective were occurring when accounting with digital assets?
• (17:07) - What is interesting in NFTs right now and what's it going to take to get us there?
• (22:24) - What is wrong with today's payment infrastructure in crypto?
• (30:15) - What is the Lightning Network and what does Light Spark do?
• (41:10) - Let's talk streaming payments
• (50:46) - If you could share one message with enterprises that are exploring the use of blockchain and digital assets. What would it be?
• (52:35) - What advice do you have for accountants interested in crypto accounting
• (54:18) - Where can you find Mary?

Blockchain is far more than crypto! We interviewed Niamh O'Connell of Casper Labs about how enterprises can take advantage of blockchain for data integrity, automation, transparency and more. We discussed supply chain, healthcare, financial services use cases and why combining blockchain and AI makes sense.

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• (00:33) - Welcome Niamh to the show
• (01:53) - Can you tell us a little about Casper Labs
• (03:44) - What specific problems is Casper solving?
• (06:12) - Can you explain a little more of the mechanics of being both public and private?
• (07:12) - What are some examples of the use cases for this?
• (08:08) - Quick 101 on smart contracts
• (12:17) - Can you tell us about some customers and what they've built on Casper?
• (15:30) - Why would someone want to tokenize a lease agreement?
• (17:08) - How should businesses think about network types?
• (21:20) - How do the economics work with these hybrid blockchains?
• (24:26) - Does Casper focus more on one side than the other? Permissioned vs permissionless
• (26:12) - How does Casper approach the common blockchain trilemma
• (33:38) - How are you seeing businesses use NFT's?
• (37:00) - What are you thoughts on the broader crypto market?
• (38:46) - Are you seeing anything interesting in the AI and blockchain space?
• (45:18) - Final thoughts and where to reach Niamh and Casper Labs

Pat White and Trevor Ward chat with crypto expert Libby Schultz about the evolution of digital assets from gaming microtransactions to NFTs, the regulatory challenges facing the crypto industry, and Libby's upcoming sci-fi book exploring the future of crypto and blockchain technology. They discuss the SEC lawsuits against Coinbase and Binance, tips for accountants entering the web3 space, and the launch of Bitwave University.

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• (00:00) - Welcome Libby to the show and some of her background
• (01:51) - What got you into crypto?
• (06:49) - Is there a future with micro-transactions in crypto?
• (11:42) - How does accounting work for micro-transactions in the gaming industry?
• (18:30) - What has changed with micro-transactions over the years?
• (34:11) - What is an NFT?
• (35:47) - Wha other projects have you worked on?
• (42:02) - What are your thoughts on the SEC lawsuits towards Binance and Coinbase?
• (50:41) - What are some practical tips for accountants looking to get into Web3?
• (53:59) - What prompted to Libby create courses for Bitwave University?
• (56:04) - What is Libby's new book about and where to reach her?