BL010 - INTERVIEW w/ Manfred Karrer on BitSquare the decentralized open-source exchange

This is a mivestream discussion with Manfred Karrer. An Austrian software developer who lives in Barcelona, working on Bitsquare since early 2014. When he first heard about Bitcoin early 2011 he fell instantly into the infamous rabbit hole of Bitcoin and thought that Bitcoin is the most important and disruptive innovation since the internet (and still believes that).

In the search for becoming active in the Bitcoin field he tried to find a solution for something what most people said it is impossible: A decentralized Bitcoin-Fiat exchange. After a few months of research he started to implement a prototype which has evolved later into a fully functional trading application.

More details about his project can be found on
http://www.bitsquare.io

BL009 - INTERVIEW w/ Thomas Goemare - Discussing Bitcoin Merchant adoption in Ypres city

Thomas' ultimate goal is living independently from centralised services like banks. Though he is a developer, he chose to leave the computer what it is in his free time, and went 'on the road'. 

Inspired by the Ghent Bitcoinstad project, he kicked off his own project 'ieper bitcoinstad', his hometown Ieper located in Flanders Fields in a remote corner of the country. 

Ypres (aka leper), is a town in the Belgian province of West Flanders. It's surrounded by Ypres Salient battlefields, where many cemeteries, memorials and war museums honor the German-Allied battles that unfolded in this area during World War I.

Topcis covered during this Blab are : 
- Thomas' real life experiences of promoting Bitcoin for retailers.
- How to spread the word about Bitcoin Ieperstad.
- What is there to win when merchants in town accept bitcoin?

Website
http://www.ieperbitcoinstad.be/

Project description (Dutch) 
http://www.ieperbitcoinstad.be/bitcoi...


Handouts - flyers for merchants
http://www.ieperbitcoinstad.be/folder...

Planning to accept bitcoin as merchant ? Checklout 
https://www.bitkassa.nl/

BL008 - INTERVIEW w/ Alois Belaska Discussing Innovative Social Media Apps

Alois Bělaška is an experienced software developer working as from his hometown working from Zlín in the Czech Republic. It was by questioning the increasingly hard and time consuming workload with regarding to social interactions and social sharing that he started out with Friends+Me, a cross-promotion and content scheduling solution.

More details about Friends+Me website can be found here
https://friendsplus.me/