E21 - Janine Grainger on Growth, & Launching a Wallet and Stablecoin

Janine Grainger is the cofounder and CEO of Easy Crypto which is coming up on their 6th anniversary and very well known in New Zealand. In this conversation we talk about growing a crypto company, competition in the New Zealand market, building a wallet and some of the security issues that come with it, and deploying an NZ dollar stablecoin on the main chains. 

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Timestamps:

00:00 intro
01:17 hi-tech awards  
05:35 WTF is crypto documentary
08:20 long term goals 
11:46 competition in the NZ market
15:00 exchange vs swaps  
18:43 building a wallet
22:50 seed phrases & security
30:07 NZDD stablecoin
42:00 rapidfire
45:25 fin
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Some notes from the show:

• NZ Hi-Tech awards 
• WTF is Crypto 
• MPC for crypto wallets 
• account abstraction 
• social recovery 
• DFX exploit (affected NZDS) 
• AUDD 

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Recorded at blockheight 817074. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.