Blockchain Association of Canada – No Taxation Without Representation

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

As the Blockchain space has grown, it's started to be noticed by national governments. There's more money at stake than ever before. More people involved. Is the Blockchain a state-level concern? More specifically, Should cryptocurrencies like BitCoin be regulated? For some yes; for others, no; and from this, the debates begin. For the Canadian government, the question is whether or not to introduce a general, 5% sales tax into the sale of BitCoin.

And this is where the Blockchain Association of Canada (BAC) comes in.
The BAC is a non-profit interfacing between government and heads of industry to showcase the potential of Blockchain technology, including—and especially—BitCoin. BAC Executive Director Kyle Kemper explains: "It's really important that companies can focus on building and know that they have some representation at the industry level." The BAC lobbies for the interests of Blockchain companies as a whole, pushing an industry-wide agenda with Canadian policymakers and officials.
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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:07.9	Future Technologies always to transform our lives for better or worse are the focus of this podcast.
0:13.6	Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.
0:17.7	We're just around the corner.
0:19.7	From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,
0:22.0	3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:26.1	Hi, this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast.
0:29.3	I'm talking with Kyle Kemper.
0:31.0	He's the director of the Blockchain Association of Canada.
0:35.1	Kyle, how are you doing?
0:36.3	I'm doing great, Richard. How are you doing today?
0:38.6	Getting there. Getting there. Thanks for taking the time. Appreciate it. So what does the blockchain
0:43.3	association do? It may sound like an obvious question, but, you know, listeners may not know.
0:48.3	Yeah, no doubt. So the blockchain association of Canada is an industry association around blockchain technology.
0:56.8	So we are interfacing with government and heads of industries to showcase the potential
1:05.7	of blockchain technology, Bitcoin included, and, you know, facilitate the discussion and, you know, respond
1:15.8	to media requests and act as a bit of a matchmaker as well. So, you know, with all the enthusiasm
1:22.2	and opportunity in the blockchain space, it's really important that, you know, the companies
1:26.8	are able to kind of
1:27.5	focus on building and know that they have some representation at an industry level to, you know,
1:34.6	to push forth the agenda of blockchain with policymakers and officials.
1:43.8	Yeah, it seems like there's two camps. There's the Bitcoin. with policymakers and officials.
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