040: Emerging Trends Pt 3/3: CRYPTO, NFTs and What the Hell is going on in CHINA? w/ Analyse Asia's Bernard Leong

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Welcome to the final episode of our 3 part series on Emerging Tech Trends with our guest, Analyse Asia’s Bernard Leong.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In part 2, we covered the latest developments in Drones, AI and digital transformation.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For this final episode, we’ll dig deep into what’s going on with Crypto, what are NFTs, why have they become so popular and how can they be used - and then we’ll close out by addressing the big one - what the hell is going on with China. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">(note: this podcast was recorded prior to China’s recent announcement that declares all crypto-currency transactions illegal - amazing how fast things change!)</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Show Notes:</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">00:40 What’s the latest trends we need to know about Crypto & Blockchain?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Private blockchains are just databases - and they have failed</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">02:10 The latest killer apps - Decentralized Finance (DeFi) & Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs)</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- NFT use cases beyond memes</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Creating a syndicate - Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO)</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Countries issuing their one cryptocurrency - like the Digital Chinese Yuan </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">07:40 Bitcoin / crypto and the Sustainability issues</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">11:00 The latest on the US / China trade war</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- There will be two supply chains - China and the rest of the world</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">15:40 China’s crackdown on its own consumer tech vendors </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- China’s trying to avoid the demographic time bomb that the US, Japan and S