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

Future Technologies are poised to transform our lives for better or worse for 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 around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,

3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, depending on where you are in the world.

This is Tracy on behalf of Richard Jacobs here at Future Tech Podcast.

Today I have a very special guest, Dr. Van Zudam, who is an entrepreneur and the owner of Dust Chain.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

I appreciate it.

Thank you for having me and appreciate being on the podcast.

Well, we are excited.

So let's just jump right in and why don't you tell me a little bit about yourself and the background of the company and how you got started in blockchain to begin with.

Well, it's actually a great moment we're talking because we did the largest blockchain hackathon in the world last weekend

so uh the dutch that's called the dutch blockchain hackathon it's uh blockchain hackathon

and basically um i started with with bitcoin in 2010 and just well finding out the nitty-gritty on how it works

and how you can basically use it for applying it in applications that weren't possible using a banking infrastructure.

So I didn't take a look on it from a currency point of view, but more like a payment system

point of view where you can build new things that weren't possible before.

And it works because of the blockchain.

And that's how the experiments started.

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