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July 5, 2022 BlockchainNZ

BlockchainNZ Pod E03 with Liz Izmailova

Hi folks, and welcome to the Blockchain New Zealand Podcast. I’m Jeff Nijsse and today I’m talking to Liz Izmailova. Liz is a Ukrainian New Zealander that has been working in blockchain for the past five years, she is a marketing manager at CENNZnet which is part of the Centrality ecosystem.

In this conversation we talk about:

  • Financial Inclusion and the monetary situation in Ukraine, both before the war and presently.
  • Ukraine has been ranked 4th in global per capita crypto adoption by Chainalysis and are likely the first to have a government directly accept crypto donations and provide transparency on where those donations are going.
  • We cover a lot in the crypto-donation space in general, and some local New Zealand based projects.

I hope you enjoy my conversation with Liz Izmailova.

Timestamps:

  • 00:00 Ukrainian background, financial independence at an early age, coming to New Zealand
  • 04:18 Financial privilege in the West
  • 09:39 Crypto donations and the currency situation in Ukraine
  • 15:05 New crypto legislation in Ukraine
  • 19:02 War donation transparency
  • 23:00 FlufWorld F*ck the War campaign & Universe.xyz
  • 28:27 How are NFTs helping?
  • 32:38 Crypto & NFTs for gen-Z’ers
  • 35:33 Crypto friendly New Zealand charities
  • 39:12 How can BCNZ help with education?
  • 41:22 Rapid fire
  • 43:35 fin

Some notes from the show:

Charitable Donations with cryptocurrency

Ukrainian NFT projects

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