{"id":2940,"date":"2021-05-24T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/?p=2940"},"modified":"2021-09-07T13:19:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T01:19:38","slug":"a-catch-up-with-bryan-ventura-mackie-from-blockchainnz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/2021\/05\/24\/a-catch-up-with-bryan-ventura-mackie-from-blockchainnz\/","title":{"rendered":"A catch up with Bryan Ventura"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bryan Ventura is a senior lawyer at MinterEllisonRuddWatts. He specialises in financial regulation, investment law, commercial law, FinTech and virtual assets (cryptocurrencies). His work history includes working as an in-house lawyer at NZX (NZ\u2019s only licensed securities exchange) as well as various business and investment endeavours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bryan discovered his passion for blockchain technology several years ago when he read the Bitcoin whitepaper. He has since advised or worked on various blockchain and virtual asset (cryptocurrency) projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bryan is currently the interim-Chair of the Executive Council of BlockchainNZ. In a short time, he has driven the passion projects of (1) virtual asset service provider regulation (2) virtual asset service providers\u2019 access to banking and (3) digital identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"A chat with Bryan Ventura\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ulK_BP0xz3g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Ventura is a senior lawyer at MinterEllisonRuddWatts. 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