DownUnder The Cloak Volume 01, Issue 05

From long-haul flights to cruising the Mediterranean.

This month saw me heading overseas for my first international event representing CloakCoin. After a run of excellent interviews and strategic business opportunities, I found myself in the Mediterranean, rubbing shoulders with crypto’s heavyweights.

Nugget’s News YouTube & Podcast Interview

Alex Saunders is the host of Nugget’s News, Australia’s most popular cryptocurrency YouTube channel. He’s a well respected personality on the Australian scene, so when he invited me onto his channel to chat about privacy and share CloakCoin, I jumped at the opportunity.

The result was an insightful discussion around personal data, tech giants invading our privacy and ways in which you can protect yourself. Alex and his team are so well organised and he is a natural when it comes to conversational content. He even syndicates his YouTube content with his podcast, so if you’d rather just listen to our chat, he’s also got the audio ready to go.

Just How Private Is Your Data?In this episode Josh from CloakCoin joins us to discuss privacy, data, encryption and other important issues as we move our lives online. Date of Recording: Sep 18, 2018

Be sure to show Nugget’s News your support, Alex creates loads of high quality content. Plus at time of writing, he is one of the only 50 people that CZ, the CEO of Binance is following on Twitter. So you know he’s got the goods!

iTuber Interview For Russian Market With Igor Porokh

As we expand our coordinator program and aim to reach new markets, we are discovering many great content creators all around the globe.

The interview was great fun and was actually filmed some weeks prior to release. Being one of my earlier interviews, I’m proud to see progress since as I improve my public speaking and gain a deeper understanding of the problems we aim to solve.

Joined Bright Matter Advisory

Absolutely delighted to have been met with a fantastic opportunity to work alongside a really talented and respected team. Bright Matter have many years of combined experience in financial services, working within Australia’s biggest banks.

Just How Private Is Your Data?

In this episode Josh from CloakCoin joins us to discuss privacy, data, encryption & other important issues as we move our lives online. Date of Recording: Sep 18, 2018.

Bright Matter adopts the applicable segments of traditional Economic Theory and implements it into Blockchain business models. I’ve learnt alot from this bunch and am also very proud to consider them really good friends of mine.

Professional Photoshoot With Ciaffy

Adrian Ciaffoncini from Bright Matter hooked me up with some great new photos to use across social media and for speaking engagements. Really stoked with how they came out and how well they’ve been received.

Gotta be my fave, even makes my ugly mug look good!



Not only is Ciaffy a really smart young man, he’s also really creative and loves photography. Thanks again mate, I’ll get to use these for years to come.

Blockchain Cruise and Core Team Meeting

Big thank you to the team at Coinsbank for hosting such a well run event, onboard the Blockchain Cruise in the Mediterranean. I met so many incredible people , built lasting relationships and made lifelong friends.

I caused a bit of a stir in response to a distasteful bet that was proposed between Jimmy Song and Roger Ver. I wrote about that in detail in another post you can check out if you like:

Blockchain Cruise 2018: All Aboard The CensorShip! - Joshua 🤫💰 - Medium

Narcissists preaching censorship resistance... Our fatal flaw? I'm disappointed with the way that seasoned talking heads now seem to receive questions as proclamations. They're worse than politicians. They're not just doing their job. It's terminal and it's something worse. Narcissism.

One of the major highlights for me was meeting Omar from Crypt0’s News, which is one of my favourite YouTube channels. Had a great chat with him and his lovely partner Elle while catching a taxi boat from Monaco back to the ship after a day of exploring.

Here’s a link to the timestamp where my interview starts.

In fact, after my contribution to the Song/Ver debate, Elle and Omar pulled me aside for a quick interview as part of their documentary about the Blockchain Cruise. Also going to follow up and collaborate on some further content together.

What an absolute blast. Unlike anything I’ve ever done before!

Following my adventures atop the high seas, I spent some time in Barcelona working and then went to Munich in Germany. Got to hang out with a few guys from the core team at CloakCoin and even squeezed in a couple of visits to the wonderful Oktoberfest. We had some really productive meetings brainstorming new ideas and laying out some strategic plans for the coming months.

CloakCoin Getting Some Love On Crypt0’s News

Really cools to see Omar rocking some CloakCoin merch on his channel. The shirts look great, better get him a cap sorted too I reckon!

Looking good dude!

If you’re a fan of CloakCoin goodies then make sure you check out our official merch store.



Around The Cloak Episode 02

As I was travelling, I had to get creative with how I could deliver the Around The Cloak monthly video update. So I grabbed a selfie stick, makeshift mic setup and hit the pavement. Munich is such a beautiful city and all the activity of Oktoberfest provided the perfect backdrop.

A few lessons were learned in the process of putting this video update together. Mainly the fact that a selfie stick doesn’t exactly allow for smooth, stable shots. So I’ve invested in a DJI Osmo Mobile 2, that will allow me to keep filming in this format, but perfectly smooth.

New Coordinator Forthnightly Meetings

Upon my arrival home we locked in a fortnightly video call for our growing coordinator team. Minus a few technical hiccups getting started, the first meeting was a great success and really helped us align all of our goals.

We each share updates, review the tasks on our Trello board and brainstorm ideas for each of our respective markets. We’ve also decided on a CRM (Customer Relationship Manager) to further align our activities and keep track of progress with our adoption endeavours.

In the coming days I have some very exciting news to share and will also be heading to Las Vegas at the end of the month. I will be representing CloakCoin at World Crypto Con, the biggest event on the crypto calendar.

Blockchain Cruise 2018: All Aboard The CensorShip! - Joshua 🤫💰 - Medium

Narcissists preaching censorship resistance... Our fatal flaw? I'm disappointed with the way that seasoned talking heads now seem to receive questions as proclamations. They're worse than politicians. They're not just doing their job. It's terminal and it's something worse. Narcissism.

Much love to the CloakCoin fam and until next time, remember to

Pay With Crypto, Not Your Privacy!!!

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