Jessica Levesque is the Executive Director for the Crypto Currency Certification Consortium and Vice President of Education for Empowered Law. Jonathan Reichental is the CEO of Human Future, a professor at a number of universities, the former Chief Information Officer for both O’Reilly Media and the City of Palo Alto as well the author of Smart Cities for Dummies Today, we discuss Blockchain and Government and how this mysterious technology can help track your tax dollars, publish research papers, authenticate art, and prevent voting fraud. Time stamps: 1:20 – Salespitch… How can Blockchain Technology help governments? 10:37 – When will Blockchain Technology start working like magic? 22:42 – What are the advantages for the government to use Blockchain Technology instead of simply using a database? 25:06 – Blockchain is “Trustless,” but not in the way you think. 29:37 – How Blockchain Technology can accurately track tax dollars 33:52 – Blockchain and voting 39:36 – How do you teach an old dog new tricks? Crypto Currency Certification Consortium Twitter account twitter.com/LearnMoreWithC4 Jonathan Reichental Twitter Account twitter.com/reichental Jessica Levesque Twitter account n/a Richard Pietro Twitter account twitter.com/richardpietro ReOpenGov Twitter account twitter.com/re_open_gov ABOUT Stories from the Open Gov is a podcast published by www.reopengov.org and is dedicated to telling the stories about what Open Government & Open Data look like. Your host is Richard Pietro, an Open Government & Open Data practitioner for the past 10 years. Listen and learn how Open Government & Open Data are becoming a reality! MUSIC ATTRIBUTION - Introduction & conclusion Singing Sadie - I Can't Dance https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Singing_Sadie/Songs_for_Swingers/03_I_Cant_Dance Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Royalty free Music by Giorgio Di Campo for FreeSound Music http://freesoundmusic.eu https://www.facebook.com/freemusicfor... https://youtube.com/freesoundmusic original video: https://youtu.be/EgqcGo7ha9A https://linkvertise.com/49870/StrollinDownBigBandMp3