"The New Zealand Accounting Standards Board (NZASB) recently had the pleasure of receiving a presentation from Joni Pirovich on blockchain and digital assets. We appreciated the many years of experience and the depth of knowledge that Joni shared with us on this technical topic. Joni is an excellent presenter and spoke about this highly technical and ever-evolving subject in an informative, understandable, and thought-provoking manner. Joni’s presentation assisted us in considering the accounting implications arising from the increase use of blockchain and digital assets."
20 September 2021
“Joni has deep understanding of the practical applications of blockchain and digital assets. Coupled with her legal and tax expertise, she is able to share insightful and unique insights into this important and emerging field.”
2 September 2021
“I greatly enjoyed the session. As someone who is relatively new to the world of crypto and digital assets, the session provided a good foundation for me to undertake the digital asset regulatory related work that I was required to do in my first two weeks in the team. If we had more time, I would have loved to hear more about Joni’s insights into the legal / regulatory issues that arise from her work.”
2 September 2021
“Given the enormous attention that has landed on cryptocurrencies in recent times it's surprising that there is very little material available that considers their various legal issues and implications. For this reason I found Joni's session to be extremely insightful and unique in comparison to other sessions I attended or watched. I found interesting the discussions regarding governance at the blockchain/infra layer in comparison with the necessary governance at the application layer. Particularly when comparing Ethereum's Improvement Proposals with other less-sophisticated blockchains such as Cosmos. Additionally, it was interesting comparing the sophistication of different blockchains (and particularly their blockchain explorers). I found this really helped to understand what the current state of the market is (cutting through the noise and hype regarding newer blockchains). Lastly, I enjoyed the discussions concerning what Australia's regulatory framework for blockchains etc should look like moving forward. Particularly, the point regarding how capital markets have thus far enjoyed the benefit of 24/7 unimpeded capital flows through blockchains and how this may influence jurisdictions to either: collaborate together to have a common blockchain framework, or create certain safe harbours within their jurisdiction to allow developers to iterate and test their blockchains within a safe regulatory sandbox (so as to not miss out on the economic opportunity). Joni obviously knows a huge amount regarding blockchains etc. it was an absolute pleasure listening to the session.”
2 September 2021
“Thanks for a really great session – I liked that each aspect was coupled with a hands-on demos. I particularly valued the part on block explorers as I haven’t used them myself. I was very interested in your comment about how poking around on block explorers helps inform your understanding of regulatory issues, and how regulators should leverage/integrate into these tools. More broadly, if it had been a longer series of workshops, I’m sure we/legal audiences would love to hear more of these explicit connections drawn between your technical understanding and your regulatory work, given your unique depth of insight in both.”
2 September 2021
"I really enjoyed the presentation. I thought it was pitched at the right level but was too short! I liked that Joni was willing to depart from ‘script’ and deal with questions.”
“Very clear and straight to the point explanation of crypto and digital assets. Deep knowledge of the area. Very useful session.”
“I found the session very insightful. It was great to hear in-depth Joni's views on the practical issues in actually using cryptocurrency and performing staking actions on DeFi networks.”
2 September 2021
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