Streamr founder Henri Pihkala isn’t just the company’s technical figurehead, his ideas, enthusiasm and experience are a key way for us to spread the word about what it is we’re doing, why we’re doing it and who we’re doing it for.

It seems barely a week goes by without Henri being interviewed by someone, and unless you’re a Streamr superfan you’re probably not going to listen to them all. So what’s unmissable? We’ve hand-picked Henri’s best five interviews from 2018. Whether you want an overview of Streamr, crave details on the project, or just want to know more about Streamr’s CEO, there’s something for you here.

Democratising data: Streamr in a nutshell

Want a concise overview of what Streamr is, who it’s for and how it works? Look no further than this five-minute interview by Bitcoin Magazine NL. Filmed in our beautiful home of Zug, Switzerland, a surprise rainstorm helps keeps the questions to the point, and Henri’s answers especially focused.

And if that whets your appetite for Streamr (see what we did there?), why not watch part two. Here Henri gets into use cases, discussing how partners including Nokia and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are using Streamr to support advanced data-gathering and sharing prototypes. There’s also a high-level look at how crypto fits into the project, and a quick talk through Streamr’s roadmap.

“Rain! We could have got a realtime warning of the rain if the cars that are driving around could share this information they can detect.”

The rain in Switzerland falls mainly on the lake. Not quite as catchy.

On the Crypto 101 podcast

The Streamr project has many facets. The crypto community likes to geek out about DATAcoin, the cryptographic token that powers micropayments in the Streamr ecosystem, but everyone is drawn in by our vision of a new data economy, and our plans for Streamr to be the fundamental platform on which it runs.

In July, founder and CEO Henri Pihkala got into a fascinating discussion with Matthew Aaron, host of the Crypto 101 podcast, as the two explored a near future Smart City in which data — and our lives — flow automatically and effortlessly. In the background, our devices, cars and things trade the data we create and the data we need, all without friction, and without us ever ceding control.

You can listen to the podcast on SoundCloud. Best quote: