Sharing Secrets - Presented by Secret Network
49 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsSharing Secrets - a new series from the Secret Foundation - explores the biggest secrets of the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Hosted by Tor Bair, Sharing Secrets features everything from interviews, to monologues, to special guests, to technical explainers, to surprises, and beyond.
(Sharing Secrets is a reboot and expansion of Decentralize This!, an interview-driven podcast previously hosted by Tor Bair and presented by Enigma. Back episodes are available here!)
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Ep 14 - Dan Held - Kraken
December 23, 2020 15:59 - 50 minutes - 93 MBEpisode 14 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Dan Held, Growth Lead at Kraken. Tor asks Dan: What does it mean to have a growth mindset in the blockchain space, and what insights can it lead to? What does he believe are some of Satoshi's secrets that led to the growth and adoption of Bitcoin? How important is privacy to Bitcoin and other blockchains? And why is 2020's Bitcoin bull run fundamentally different from previous cycles? What happens next? Dan on Substack: https://danheld.subst...
Ep 13 - Charlie Lee - Litecoin
December 12, 2020 15:24 - 45 minutes - 84.6 MBEpisode 13 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Charlie Lee, the creator of Litecoin. Tor asks Charlie: What secrets has he learned as the creator of one of the most successful cryptocurrencies in the world? What has he timed well - or timed poorly? How is Litecoin implementing privacy, and why was that decision made? Why is privacy important for users and for fungibility? Why does he think we’re about to see a massive surge in cryptocurrency adoption? And crucially, what will make it be s...
Ep 12 - Bruce Pon - Ocean Protocol
December 06, 2020 14:57 - 49 minutes - 90.4 MBEpisode 12 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Bruce Pon, Founder of Ocean Protocol and Founder / CEO of BigchainDB. Tor asks Bruce: What secrets did he learn building data and blockchain-based solutions before Ocean Protocol? How did Ocean emerge from those learnings, and what are they building now? What is the importance of privacy and data for artificial intelligence? What are datatokens, and how can they revolutionize the data economy? And what is the biggest piece of advice he has fo...
Ep 11 - Josh Cincinnati - Formerly of Zcash Foundation
November 24, 2020 16:56 - 51 minutes - 94.8 MBEpisode 11 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Josh Cincinnati, the former Executive Director of the Zcash Foundation. Tor asks Josh: What secrets did he learn trying to bring privacy to the cryptocurrency space? Why is privacy education and communication so challenging? What are the biggest threats to privacy and our greatest opportunities to solve them? And what relationship is there between protecting privacy and decentralization? Do they go hand in hand - or are they at odds? Josh on...
Episode 11 - Josh Cincinnati - Formerly of Zcash Foundation
November 24, 2020 16:56 - 51 minutes - 94.8 MBEpisode 11 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Josh Cincinnati, the former Executive Director of the Zcash Foundation. Tor asks Josh: What secrets did he learn trying to bring privacy to the cryptocurrency space? Why is privacy education and communication so challenging? What are the biggest threats to privacy and our greatest opportunities to solve them? And what relationship is there between protecting privacy and decentralization? Do they go hand in hand - or are they at odds? Josh on...
Ep 10 - Brittany Kaiser - Cambridge Analytica & Own Your Data
November 06, 2020 14:38 - 52 minutes - 97.1 MBEpisode 10 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Brittany Kaiser, former Cambridge Analytica whistleblower and co-founder of the Own Your Data Foundation. Tor asks Brittany: How is our data being misused - and what are the consequences? What was it like to share her secrets for the acclaimed Netflix documentary “The Great Hack”? How can technologists and regulators work together to create better laws, educate the public, and fuel innovation that protects users and their data? Are blockchain...
Ep 9 - Jamie Burke - Outlier Ventures
October 31, 2020 16:16 - 38 minutes - 72.2 MBEpisode 9 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Jamie Burke, Founder and CEO of Outlier Ventures. Tor asks Jamie: What secrets has he learned as an investor? How does he learn from the experiences of other investors and founders? How has he developed his investment theses in the blockchain space? How does Outlier Ventures support projects and founders? And crucially, how can we achieve broader adoption of groundbreaking use cases like NFTs and DeFi? This is Part 2 of a two part episode. Pa...
Ep 8 - RAC - Grammy Winning Musician
October 24, 2020 15:35 - 47 minutes - 87.1 MBEpisode 8 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with RAC, grammy-winning musician and early adopter of Web3. Tor asks RAC: What secrets has he learned that other artists should know as they explore the new frontiers of blockchain? What are his favorite experiments that he and other artists have done in the blockchain space? How disruptive will decentralized technologies be to the business models of the legacy music world? And what might the music platforms of the future look like - or are they a...
Ep 7 - Josh Lee - Chainapsis
October 17, 2020 14:50 - 42 minutes - 27.7 MBEpisode 7 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Josh Lee of Chainapsis, makers of Keplr Wallet. Tor asks Josh: What secrets has he learned on his journey from journalism to building key infrastructure for Cosmos and beyond? What does it feel like to be successfully funded by a community proposal (like Keplr was by the Secret community)? What excites him the most about emerging DeFi products? And what will it take to achieve sustainable mass adoption of blockchain technology, including walle...
Ep 6 - Qiao Wang - DeFi Alliance
October 12, 2020 19:41 - 42 minutes - 78.6 MBEpisode 6 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Qiao Wang of the DeFi Alliance. Tor asks Qiao: What secrets has he learned trading, researching, and investing? What's the right way to measure growth for DeFi, and what will unlock the next phase of growth? Is there a close connection between privacy and liquidity? And what role can the DeFi Alliance play in helping scale decentralized finance from billions to trillions? DeFi Alliance: https://www.defialliance.org/ Qiao on Twitter: https://t...
Ep 5 - Jake Brukhman - Coinfund
October 06, 2020 19:17 - 46 minutes - 85.3 MBEpisode 5 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Jake Brukhman of Coinfund. Tor asks Jake: What secrets has he learned as an investor, builder, and artist in the blockchain space? Why are NFTs finally gaining traction after years of development - and what will the next phase of growth look like? How will the introduction of privacy impact both the NFT and DeFi spaces? And how close are we to "mainstreaming" NFTs and other blockchain-based applications? Coinfund: https://coinfund.io Jake on ...
Ep 4 - Mike Dudas - The Block
September 27, 2020 14:10 - 47 minutes - 87 MBEpisode 4 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Mike Dudas, Founder of The Block. Tor asks Mike: What brought him to the blockchain space, and what secrets did he learn along the way? What makes building a media company in the blockchain space particularly challenging? Will decentralized finance play a pivotal role in mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies? And how has the mainstream world already become more like the blockchain space - including the gamification of markets? The Block: ht...
Ep 3 - Zaki Manian - Iqlusion
September 23, 2020 16:51 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBEpisode 3 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Zaki Manian, cofounder of Iqlusion, formerly of Tendermint Labs. Tor asks Zaki: What brought him to the blockchain space, and what secrets did he learn along the way? What's the best way to develop products and processes in a decentralized ecosystem? How is DeFi on Cosmos manifesting with IBC and beyond? And importantly, what kind of role can Secret Network and privacy play in building more sustainable and more usable open economies? Iqlusion...
Ep 2 - Ed Moncada - Blockfolio + FTX
September 22, 2020 18:05 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBEpisode 2 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Ed Moncada, cofounder of Blockfolio, now with FTX after a $150M acquisition.. Tor asks Ed: What’s the biggest secret you learned while at Blockfolio? When did you know you had a hit? How does he feel about his transition to FTX and the opportunity to work with Sam Bankman-Fried? What's the future of DEXes and CEXes? And what is Ed excited to build next? Blockfolio: www.blockfolio.com FTX: www.ftx.com --- Sharing Secrets - a new series from ...
Ep 1 - Guy Zyskind - Enigma
September 21, 2020 21:00 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBEpisode 1 of Sharing Secrets is an interview with Guy Zyskind, CEO of Enigma. Tor asks Guy: Why is privacy important to him? What has he learned in the past few years of developing secret contracts? How does he feel now that they're finally launching to mainnet? What does he think of DeFi? And where does he see Secret Network playing a huge role in both our present and our future? Sharing Secrets - a new series from the Secret Foundation - explores the biggest secrets of the blockchain and c...
Ep 33 - John Wolpert - Embracing the Boring to Build a Stateful, Decentralized Internet
November 22, 2019 19:25 - 46 minutes - 64.1 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our thirty-third episode features John Wolpert. John currently works at Consensys on the Web3Studio team, helping drive adoption of the decentralized web by identifying and building solutions using decentralized technologies. John has decades of entrepreneurial experience and previously co-founded IBM's blockchain business unit as well as Hyperledger Fabric. He also currently helps lead the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance's Mainnet Working Group, wher...
Ep 32 - Roneil Rumburg - Building a Decentralized Music Industry
October 25, 2019 18:06 - 48 minutes - 66.8 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our thirty-second episode features Roneil Rumburg. Roneil is the co-founder and CEO of Audius, a decentralized music streaming and hosting platform that’s hoping to disrupt the music industry for the benefit of artists. Audius allows artists to freely share their work or work-in-progress with a dedicated community. The platform already features a bunch of high profile DJs and artists, including deadmau5 and Zed’s Dead. Audius also recently raised a...
Ep 31 - Andreas M. Antonopoulos - Libra, Governments, and Other Threats to Decentralization
October 09, 2019 15:14 - 54 minutes - 75.4 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our thirtieth episode features Andreas M. Antonopoulos. Andreas is a best-selling author, speaker, educator, and one of the world’s foremost bitcoin and open blockchain experts. In 2014, he wrote the one of the foundational books of the blockchain space, Mastering Bitcoin. He is also the author of The Internet of Money as well as his most recent book, Mastering Ethereum. He is widely respected in the blockchain space for not only his knowledge and ...
Ep 30 - Kevin Owocki - Building a Sustainable and Decentralized Open-Source Ecosystem
July 24, 2019 15:35 - 42 minutes - 78.4 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our thirtieth episode features Kevin Owocki. Kevin is the founder and self-described chief janitor of Gitcoin, a blockchain-based incentivization layer for open-source software. Gitcoin helps connect developers eager to contribute to open source projects with projects offering bounties for development work. Kevin himself is an experienced developer and passionate about strengthening the foundations and expanding the impact of open-source software. ...
Ep 29 - John Egan - Creating, Selling, and Decentralizing Digital Artwork
July 02, 2019 13:17 - 44 minutes - 82 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our twenty-ninth episode features John Egan. John is the cofounder and CEO of Editional, an application where you can create and discover limited edition digital art. John is an experienced product builder and leader - he previously led Facebook’s Workplace product and founded Caffeinated Mind, a YCombinator-funded startup. John and Editional are helping show how blockchain and NFTs can shape the future of the digital art world - and perhaps much m...
Ep 28 - Nathaniel Whittemore - The Internal and External Narratives of Decentralization
June 05, 2019 17:00 - 56 minutes - 105 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our twenty-eighth episode features Nathaniel Whittemore. Nathaniel is a communications specialist in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space, and he is the mastermind behind Long Reads Sunday, where he curates the best content in the blockchain and decentralization space. He is deeply interested in how narratives evolve in our industry and the way these stories shape what we build, what we use, and what we believe. On this episode Nathaniel talks...
Ep 27 - Angela Walch - Difficult Definitions and the Veil of Decentralization
May 10, 2019 17:12 - 45 minutes - 83.8 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our twenty-seventh episode features Angela Walch. Angela is a Professor of Law at St. Mary's University School of Law. Her research focuses on money and the law, cryptocurrencies, blockchain technologies, and financial stability. She is a self-described skeptic of blockchain technology, and she's considered one of the leading legal experts on many of the complexities being created by decentralized technologies. Angela has presented her work at Harva...
Ep 26 - Jake Brukhman - Generalized Mining for Decentralized Networks
April 25, 2019 17:14 - 54 minutes - 101 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our twenty-sixth episode features Jake Brukhman. Jake is the founder of CoinFund, a cryptoasset-focused investment and research firm founded in 2015. CoinFund directly engages with decentralized networks and contributes support to companies designing blockchain protocols and applications - something they've referred to as "generalized mining." Jake himself has a technical background, previously studying mathematics and computer science and working a...
Ep 25 - Kyle Samani - What Will Drive Consumer Adoption of Decentralized Platforms
April 16, 2019 19:22 - 49 minutes - 92.4 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our twenty-fifth episode features Kyle Samani. Kyle is a managing partner at Multicoin Capital, a cryptoasset fund whose stated mission is “to accelerate the transition from the centralized institutions of the Industrial Age to the decentralized institutions of the Internet Age.” Kyle is a serial entrepreneur in the tech world, having previously founded a company in the cutting-edge field of augmented reality before it was acquired. He also frequent...
Ep 24 - Alexis Gauba - How We Can Build an Inclusive Decentralized Future
March 27, 2019 15:46 - 50 minutes - 94.8 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our twenty-fourth episode features Alexis Gauba. Alexis is the cofounder of Mechanism Labs, an open-source research lab focused on studying consensus, scalability, usability, and other aspects of decentralized systems. She is also the cofounder and executive director of SHE256, a non-profit focused on increasing diversity and breaking down barriers to entry for the blockchain and decentralization space. Alexis is currently a student at UC Berkeley ...
Ep 23 - Fabian Vogelsteller - Decentralizing Identity, Ownership, and the World of Fashion
March 14, 2019 16:17 - 53 minutes - 99.3 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our twenty-third episode features Fabian Vogelsteller. Fabian is the co-founder and CTO of LUKSO, an open blockchain ecosystem for the fashion and lifestyle industry. Fabian has been a mainstay in the Ethereum ecosystem, having previously worked at the Ethereum Foundation and having built foundational products and libraries such as the Mist Browser, Ethereum Wallet, and web3js. In 2015 he proposed the ERC-20 token standard, which became the founda...
Ep 22 - Loi Luu - Inter-token Liquidity and the Rise of the Decentralized Finance Ecosystem
March 05, 2019 20:45 - 48 minutes - 89.8 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our twenty-second episode features Loi Luu. Loi is the CEO and co-founder of Kyber Network, an on-chain liquidity network for inter-token transactions. Kyber is focused on providing and creating liquidity across the entire decentralized finance ecosystem, and they've integrated with dozens of projects to facilitate use cases from token-based payments to portfolio rebalancing. Loi previously earned his PhD in Computer Science at the National Universi...
Ep 21 - Josh Cincinnati - Transactional Privacy and How Foundations Help Decentralization
February 26, 2019 21:55 - 52 minutes - 96.6 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our twenty-first episode features Josh Cincinnati. Josh is the executive director of the Zcash Foundation, a non-profit focused on financial privacy and in particular serving users of the Zcash protocol. Zcash itself is a digital currency that provides enhanced privacy for users. Neither the foundation or the currency is to be confused with Zcash the company, which recently rebranded itself as the Electric Coin Company (but not quite in time for thi...
Ep 20 - Tony Sheng - Building Virtual Worlds and Valuing Decentralization
February 19, 2019 16:58 - 51 minutes - 94.6 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our twentieth episode features Tony Sheng. Tony is currently leading product at Decentraland, an open virtual world running on Ethereum. He's also a prolific writer in the decentralization space, and he publishes weekly on topics ranging from in-game economies and growth models to investment valuations, governance, and censorship. Previously Tony worked on products at companies like Google and AltspaceVR, and he remains very interested in virtual re...
Ep 19 - Max Brody - Decentralizing Social Media and Creating New Income
February 12, 2019 19:22 - 53 minutes - 99 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our nineteenth episode features Max Brody. Max is the co-founder and CEO of Cent, a social network built on Ethereum that aims to get creators paid directly for sharing their work and wisdom. Cent is another example of a “hybrid dApp”, where parts of the product are decentralized (and other parts centralized) for the ultimate benefit of users. Max himself is an experienced designer as well as a musician and writer, so he understands how to build pro...
Ep 18 - Jameson Lopp - Protecting Privacy and People in a Decentralized World
February 05, 2019 18:53 - 52 minutes - 97.5 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our eighteenth episode features Jameson Lopp. Jameson is an experienced engineer who has been working full-time in the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency space since 2015, contributing to a number of different projects. He is currently the CTO of Casa, which builds best-in-class key management solutions as well as Casa Node, a Bitcoin and Lightning node that can be used in your home. He is also the creator of Statoshi, a fork of Bitcoin Core aiming to analy...
Special Ep 1 - Bruce Schneier - The Existential Threat of Hyper-connecting the World
January 29, 2019 18:03 - 41 minutes - 77 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our first special episode features Bruce Schneier. Bruce is one of the world's foremost security experts and researchers, having authored hundreds of articles, essays, and papers as well as over a dozen books. He is a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, a lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), AccessNow, and the Tor Project....
Ep 17 - Alex Wearn - The Opportunities and Challenges of Decentralized Exchanges
January 22, 2019 19:39 - 49 minutes - 92.1 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our seventeenth episode features Alex Wearn. Alex is the co-founder and CEO of Aurora, the creators of IDEX. IDEX is a hybrid decentralized token exchange built on Ethereum, combining decentralized elements (such as custody) with off-chain infrastructure that keeps IDEX fast, liquid, and a high-quality trading experience for users. As a result, IDEX is one of the most used applications built on Ethereum. IDEX’s hybrid model could provide a blueprint...
Ep 16 - Andrew Keys - Building a Stronger ConsenSys in a Decentralized World
January 15, 2019 15:47 - 53 minutes - 98.9 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our sixteenth episode features Andrew Keys. Andrew works at ConsenSys, where he leads their financial services arm, ConsenSys Capital. He was previously head of global business development for ConsenSys and started the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA). He has extensive experience with entrepreneurship and capital markets, and he has seen first hand what it really takes to drive the adoption of decentralized technologies by businesses around the wo...
Ep 15 - Don Gossen - Data Provenance and Building Bridges to Decentralization
January 08, 2019 18:07 - 50 minutes - 93.1 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our fifteenth episode features Don Gossen. Don is the co-founder of Ocean Protocol, a decentralized data exchange protocol and one of Enigma’s launch partners. Don has spent his entire career focused on data, analytics, and business intelligence, working in many different countries around the world. He is an expert in how organizations use and consume data — and he has seen first-hand the challenges they face in doing so. On this episode Don talks...
Ep 14 - Glen Weyl - Radically Creating a More Equal and Decentralized World
December 18, 2018 17:25 - 53 minutes - 98.7 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our fourteenth episode features Glen Weyl. Glen is a political economist and social technologist who is focused on how new technologies and markets can create a more equal, cooperative society. He’s best known in the blockchain space for his work with Vitalik Buterin on their paper “Liberal Radicalism” (coauthored with Zoë Hitzig), and he’s deeply passionate about building a global movement for change. Glen is also the coauthor of “Radical Markets”,...
Ep 13 - Erick Pinos - How to Inspire and Empower the Next Generation of Decentralizers
December 11, 2018 15:47 - 46 minutes - 86.2 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our thirteenth episode features Erick Pinos. Erick is currently the executive director of the Blockchain Education Network, or BEN. BEN's mission is creating a more open world by promoting technological literacy and decentralization. They focus on building and supporting communities of students around the world who are interested in decentralized technologies and their applications. Previously Erick was the president of the MIT Bitcoin Club, and he'...
Ep 12 - Luis Cuende - Realizing The Promise of Decentralized Organizations
December 04, 2018 17:41 - 45 minutes - 84.5 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our twelfth episode features Luis Cuende. Luis is the cofounder of Aragon, a platform that allows anyone to create and manage decentralized organizations. He’s an incredible thinker and builder, having published his first book at 18 and having been named to Forbes 30 under 30. Aragon also recently released a new version of their platform on the Ethereum mainnet, which Luis and Tor discuss. On this episode we’ll also talk why Luis got into the block...
Ep 11 - Alison Macrina - Protecting Privacy with Decentralization
November 27, 2018 16:47 - 49 minutes - 91.6 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our eleventh episode features Alison Macrina. Alison is the Community Team Lead at the Tor Project. The Tor Project primarily maintains the Tor anonymity network, which allows users to browse the internet while preserving their privacy. Tor is decentralized by design, utilizing a principle called "onion routing," and they have nodes all over the world. Alison is also the founder of the Library Freedom Project, which helps educate librarians about th...
Ep 10 - Ari Paul - Creating and Capturing the Value of Decentralization
November 20, 2018 16:00 - 52 minutes - 97 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our tenth episode features Ari Paul. Ari is a managing partner and CIO at BlockTower Capital, which is one of the leading cryptoasset investment firms. He has a fairly traditional finance background, having worked previously as a portfolio manager for the University of Chicago as well as a derivatives marketmaker and trader, and he holds an MBA from the University of Chicago. However, Ari has fully embraced the potential of cryptoassets and you’ll ...
Ep 9 - Nathan Schneider - Platform Cooperativism and the Meaning of Decentralization
November 13, 2018 20:00 - 51 minutes - 95.7 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our ninth episode features Nathan Schneider. Nathan is a journalist and author as well as a professor of media studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He’s written some really interesting books, including one about the Occupy movement and another about God, so he has some experience tackling fairly complex topics. His latest book is called “Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition that is Shaping the Next Economy,” and it focuses on ...
Ep 8 - Michael Casey - Data, Privacy, and Decentralization
November 06, 2018 15:36 - 50 minutes - 93.4 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our eighth episode features Michael Casey. Michael Casey is a hugely influential voice in the blockchain and decentralization space, as a writer, educator, advisor, and many other roles. He spent over 18 years at the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires before joining the MIT Digital Currency Initiative, where he is now a senior advisor. He is the author of multiple books, including The Age of Cryptocurrency and his most recent book, The Trut...
Ep 7 - James Duffy - Scaling Decentralized Apps and Games
October 30, 2018 14:27 - 51 minutes - 95.6 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our seventh episode features James Duffy from Loom Network. James is the the CMO and co-founder of Loom, where they're building a scaling solution for decentralized applications. Loom Network is particularly focused on games and social applications. James and Tor talk about scalability, why Loom is building for the Ethereum ecosystem, why user experience is the real blocker to adoption of decentralized applications, and how blockchain games can be b...
Ep 6 - Nevin Freeman - Stablecoins and Decentralizing Money
October 25, 2018 16:14 - 44 minutes - 81.8 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our sixth episode features Nevin Freeman from Reserve Protocol. Nevin is the co-founder of Reserve, which is producing a stablecoin pegged to the US Dollar. Stablecoins have become a hot topic of conversation around the decentralization space as more and more stablecoins have recently launched - but due to their complexity and novelty, stablecoins remain poorly understood. On this episode, Nevin and Tor talk about how stablecoins are critical to t...
Ep 5 - Anthony Pompliano - How to Grow, for Decentralizers
October 22, 2018 15:23 - 55 minutes - 103 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our fifth episode features Anthony Pompliano from Morgan Creek Digital Assets. Anthony is an investor and entrepreneur who has built a large audience for his wisdom about the decentralization space and digital asset markets, from his daily newsletter to his podcast Off the Chain to his large Twitter following. On this episode, we talk about Anthony's journey to his present role, from the military, to his time at Facebook, to his VC firm Full Tilt Ca...
Ep 4 - Marguerite deCourcelle (coin_artist) - Art, Games, and Decentralization
October 16, 2018 13:13 - 55 minutes - 103 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our fourth episode features Marguerite deCourcelle, aka coin_artist. Marguerite is the CEO and co-founder of Blockade Games, where she is helping design and build games that integrate blockchain and alternate reality components. Their first game is Neon District, an RPG set in a futuristic tech-noir landscape. On this episode, we talk about Marguerite's history designing puzzles and creating art, the role of games in driving blockchain adoption, the...
Ep 3 - Richard Craib - How to Decentralize Investing
October 11, 2018 14:24 - 47 minutes - 87.3 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our third episode features Richard Craib, Founder of Numerai - a decentralized hedge fund with a really interesting model. He recently announced Erasure, an unstoppable decentralized data marketplace. Richard talks about how and why he started Numerai and Erasure, the importance of protecting data, what other kinds of organizations blockchain and decentralized tech can enable, and what it might take for people to actually leave traditional jobs and ...
Ep 2 - Ryan Selkis - Transparent Data for Decentralization
October 08, 2018 15:27 - 54 minutes - 101 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our second episode features Ryan Selkis, CEO and founder of Messari. Ryan talks about how his different experiences - from Digital Currency Group to Coindesk to Messari - have shaped his perspective on the potential of decentralized technologies, why journalism in this space is so challenging (and who is succeeding), and how decentralized tech can be used for good, but also misused. We also discuss what Ryan believes are the largest barriers to buil...
Ep 1 - Joey Krug - Predicting the Decentralized Future
October 08, 2018 15:19 - 52 minutes - 71.4 MBHosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our very first episode features Joey Krug. Joey is the co-chief investment officer at Pantera, a blockchain-focused investment firm and hedge fund, as well as the co-founder of Augur, which is a decentralized prediction market. We talk about biotech and self-driving cars, how liquidity and democratizing adoption will drive Augur's success, why blockchain investors might need to adjust their time horizons, and we get Joey to put odds on a prediction ...