Mint & Burn Podcast Series

The RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub podcast ‘Mint & Burn’ limited series was produced from 2020 to 2023 to provide an academic analysis of the decentralised digital economy, including blockchain and other decentralised technologies

Hosted by researcher (now Dr) Kelsie Nabben, this limited series includes 48 episodes which ran from November 2020 to February 2023 and features guests, publications, and experts testing frontier ideas. It was created for academics, industry, policymakers, and anyone interested in a deeper understanding of the digital age. 

Episodes

See below for episodes and links to show notes, as well as other podcast appearances from the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub team.



Listen to this episode from Mint & Burn on Spotify. In this episode, we discuss decentralised finance and the future of data markets with Luca Cosentino, early hire at Oasis Labs project, from Berkeley University. We talk about data tokens, the user control web, privacy, and regulation.


Listen to this episode from Mint & Burn on Spotify. In this NFTs special episode, members of the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub explore the legal and taxation treatment of these digital assets, including classification, questions, and issues. Are they property? Are they capital gains tax events?


Listen to this episode from Mint & Burn on Spotify. "Non-fungible tokens" or "NFTs" have exploded as a new market in terms of adoption and mainstream awareness in recent weeks.


Listen to this episode from Mint & Burn on Spotify. In this fantastic conversation, Eric describes the practice of constitutional design and how blockchain-based systems can operate as constitutions. We cover constitutional amendments in this context, entry and exit costs, 'permissionless' blockchains, and some of Ostrom's approach to governing the commons for an approachable, insightful discussion on blockchain governance.


Listen to this episode from Mint & Burn on Spotify. In this episode, we speak with "identity woman" Kaliya Young, who has been working on decentralised identifiers for over 15 years, a more expressive data type for self-certification on the web.


Dan is a researcher at Paradigm, a lawyer, and a software developer. In this episode, we partner him up with economist Vijay to discuss the state of Ethereum 'as a dark forest', Uniswap's financial alchemy, and coming developments in DeFi; including decentralised exchanges (DEXs) and automatic market makers (AMMs).


This episode takes a deep dive into the "Agoric papers" of the 1980s, the computational and market mechanisms behind Agoric markets, cryptoeconomic design, and blockchain security with incredible insights from early cypherpunk and computer programmer Mark Miller, and economist Bill Tulloh.


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