Lay of the Land Kiersten Jowett

This week’s The Lay of the Land proof-of-location podcast is with Ariel Seidman, CEO and co-founder of Hivemapper. Listen to the podcast to find out what problem Hivemapper is solving, how it got started and how it’s going. Hivemapper’s goal is to provide higher quality maps at an affordable price. In our conversation, Hivemapper explains their formula for achieving this goal.TL;DRHivemapper plans to go live at the end of 2022. Hivemapper’s outward-facing dash cams (currently on pr...

Chief Technical Officer, Lucas Henning, (formerly of Deloitte Blockchain Lab) speaks about SUKU's solution, their partnership with Avery Dennison and their multi-frequency radio frequency tags to track product, like Covid-19 test kits and PPE, through the supply chain. SUKU are also working to provide decentralized finance and open finance solutions for individuals in remote locations.www.suku.worldtelegraph: sukuecosystemSupport the Show.

Michele Amoretti, Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Parma in Italy, walks us through his academic paper on Proof of Location. He explains how he and his colleagues designed a peer-to-peer proof of location system and shares cutting edge research in both blockchain location based systems and quantum computing.A brilliant episode!Link to the paper:https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.00174.pdfMichele's Twitter handle: @_oldville_Michele's Google Scholar Account: https://sch...

Streetcred is a gamified mapping app that leverages a dedicated community to create accurate, real-time place data in exchange for bitcoin prizes.Chief Technical Officer of Street Cred, Diana Shkolnikov, walks us through the inspiration, the founding and the focus of StreetCred's fun, new mapping game.website: streetcred.coblog: streetcred.co/bloginstagram: streetcredappemail: hello@streetcred.co, diana@streetcred.coSupport the Show.

Tyler Mulvihill, co-founder of Consensys company Treum, discusses the proof-of-location solutions being built at ConsenSys. ConsenSys, founded in 2014 by Joseph Lubin, is the world's largest pure-play blockchain company on the planet. Treum brings transparency, traceability and tradability to supply chains, agtech, auctions and non-fungable tokens using the permissionless, ethereum blockchain or a permissioned ethereum instance. Listen as Tyler recounts stories of the World Wildlife Fun...

Bridie Ohlsson shares how the free and open source software solution, Geora, provides agriculture supply chain participants with the lowest-cost digital infrastructure.Support the Show.