Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

Future Technologies Boys to Transform Our Lives, for better or worse, are the focus of this podcast. Almost here

means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. We're just around the

corner from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

This is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcasts and today my guest is Dean Masley.

Dean works with blockchainedU.org.

So it's an educational non-profit whose goal it is to spread the use of blockchain, particularly amongst students.

Do I have that right, Dean?

Yeah, absolutely.

It's pretty on point.

Yeah, tell me more about you guys' mission and where you came from and what your role is.

Yeah, so I guess our basic story is that like back in 2014, there's a few schools like

Michigan, Harvard, Stanford, and they're creating some

blockchain clubs on the university campuses. And so students from the

University of Michigan, Daniel Bloch and Jeremy Gardner, actually, we're thinking

why not try to organize some of the efforts of

some of these students or at least just kind of get in contact to see what other

kids are doing. This at the time when you know this technology was still super

nation not a lot of people knew about it so it was like really valuable to like kind of reach out to other leaders

that are taking on the task of creating a blockchain club on the University campus and what began

is just like a Facebook Messenger group that connects to a few kids like immediately began what began

expanding

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