Speaking of Crypto podcast
95 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSpeaking of Crypto podcast is about inspiring people in Bitcoin, crypto + blockchain. This leading edge crypto podcast is hosted by Shannon Grinnell.
Join Shannon Grinnell in this inspiring crypto podcast with crypto + blockchain experts like Anthony Di Iorio, Co-founder of Ethereum, Alex Mashinsky, Pioneer of VoIP and CEO of Celsius Network, Sandra Ro, CEO of the Global Blockchain Business Council.
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SOC094. Connie Gallippi, Founder at BitGive, on Charitable Donations Revolutionized WCW009.
October 30, 2019 03:41 - 51 minutes - 56.3 MBToday I talk to Connie Gallippi, Founder at BitGive, about how she’s revolutionizing the charitable donations, why Bitcoin, and what her hope is for a better future. This is Episode 94 for the Speaking of Crypto podcast and the 9thepisode in our Women in Cyrypto Wed. series Please check out our show sponsors at speakingofcrypto.com/partners This show is sponsored by LEDN+ STARK+ LOLLI If you’re enjoying the podcast, please take a minute to rate, review and subscribe. This goe...
SOC093. Trekk, on Creating Better Crypto Content
October 29, 2019 02:15 - 1 hour - 83.5 MBTrekk, with two Ks, Podcast host, content creator and consultant in the crypto and blockchain space talks to me about establishing a personal brand, Bitcoin’s P2P beginnings to what it is today, and some of the who’s who in the space in 2019. This is Episode 93 for the Speaking of Crypto podcast. Please check out our show sponsors at speakingofcrypto.com/partners This show is sponsored by LEDN + STARK + LOLLI If you’re enjoying the podcast, please take a minute to rate, revie...
SOC092. Pascal Gauthier, CEO at Ledger - Saving Bitcoin with Ledger ESGS04.
October 25, 2019 22:57 - 50 minutes - 54.9 MBPascal Gauthier, CEO at Ledger, talks about how to save your Bitcoin using Ledger cold storage wallet, governance around the ownership of crypto in business, and why we need to be patient with where things are at with bitcoin + crypto. This is Episode 91 for the Speaking of Crypto podcast. We also talk about: -UX improvements still needed at Ledger + in crypto in general -bitcoin ownership + responsibility -SIM hacking -liquid + lightning networks facilitation of bitc...
SOC091. John Carvahlo, CCO at Bitrefill, on Spending Bitcoin with Bitrefill ESGS03
October 19, 2019 01:17 - 41 minutes - 46.9 MBJohn Carvahlo, CCO at Bitrefill talks about how to spend Bitcoin using Bitrefill, the cost of transacting using Bitcoin vs the lightning network, and using Satoshis to measure value. This is Episode 91 for the Speaking of Crypto podcast. We also talk about: -Bitcoin’s security vs increasing transaction fees - how living on bitcoin is still uncommon - bitcoin’s stock to flow ration - why he’s bullish on lightning Please check out our show sponsors at speakingofcrypto.com/partner...
SOC090. Dr. Jane Thomason, CEO at Fintech Worldwide, on Blockchain For Impact in Action WCW008.
October 17, 2019 00:25 - 58 minutes - 63 MBDr. Jane Thomason, Author of Blockchain Technology for Global Social Change, shares her thoughts on the importance of putting digital identity on a blockchain, how remittances, using blockchain, can aid in financial inclusion, and why being able to hold Bitcoin in emerging economies is empowering. This is Episode 90 for the Speaking of Crypto podcast. Episode #8 for our Women in Crypto Wednesday series. But before we get started a BIG SHOUTOUT and many THANK YOUs to our show spon...
SOC090. Dr. Jane Thomason, CEO at Fintech Worldwide, on Blockchain For Impact in Action WCW008.
October 17, 2019 00:25Dr. Jane Thomason, Author of Blockchain Technology for Global Social Change, shares her thoughts on the importance of putting digital identity on a blockchain, how remittances, using blockchain, can aid in financial inclusion, and why being able to hold Bitcoin in emerging economies is empowering. This is Episode 90 for the Speaking of Crypto podcast. Episode #8 for our Women in Crypto Wednesday series. But before we get started a BIG SHOUTOUT and many THANK YOUs to our show spon...
SOC089. Isaiah Jackson, Author of Bitcoin + Black America, on Why Bitcoin is Better Money
October 13, 2019 02:39 - 58 minutes - 62.8 MBIsaiah Jackson, Author of Bitcoin + Black America, shares why Bitcoin is better money, the education gap and advice is on building wealth by buying and using Bitcoin. Bitcoin + Black America is a book about sophisticated ideas, made simple. Instead of elaborating on Bitcoin as a philosophy, it’s like a practical action-oriented guide to Bitcoin. This is Episode 89 for the Speaking of Crypto podcast. But before we get started a BIG SHOUTOUT and many THANK YOUs to our show sponsors. Pl...
SOC088. Cory Klippsten, Founder at Give Bitcoin, GIVE Bitcoin with GiveBitcoin.io ESGS02.
October 11, 2019 11:00 - 51 minutes - 56.4 MBCory Klippsten, Founder at Give Bitcoin, talks about his new company Give Bitcoin, which allows us to give bitcoin to friends and family, using a time lock feature (for from 1-5 years) and include the gift of bitcoin education. This is Episode 88 for the Speaking of Crypto podcast - the second episode for our Earn, Save, Give, Spend Bitcoin Series. We also talk about: Some of the best books on Bitcoin How to measure Bitcoin’s value The growth of a monetary asset and a brief histor...
SOC087. Dominic Hrabe, Founder at EvolvEvents, on World Crypto Con and Vegas Blockchain Week
October 06, 2019 23:17 - 1 hour - 71.1 MBDominic Hrabe, Founder at EvolvEvents talks about organizing World Crypto Con and Vegas Blockchain Week.This is Episode 87 for the Speaking of Crypto podcast. Dominic’s a people person who believes that bringing people and talents together is how new ideas accelerate, proliferate and grow into projects that are greater than the sum of its parts. We talk about what’s broken in the American healthcare system, why he believes segmentation in blockchain is coming and we talk about wh...
SOC086. Alex Adelman, CEO at Lolli, EARN Bitcoin Free with Lolli ESGS01.
October 04, 2019 19:56 - 59 minutes - 67.3 MBAlex Adelman, CEO at Lolli, talks about how you can earn Bitcoin for free when you shop online, what he does to help with Bitcoin adoption and education and why he thinks we’re still in the early days in the crypto payments space. This is Episode 86 for the Speaking of Crypto podcast - the first episode for our Earn, Save, Give, Spend Bitcoin Series. Lolli’s one of our show sponsors. I’m a big fan of Lolli, the team, and what they’re up to and think that being able to earn Bitcoin by doing...
SOC085. Carolina Abenante, Founder at NYIAX, on Trading Advertising Contracts Using Blockchain Tech WCW007
October 02, 2019 19:02 - 57 minutes - 52.2 MBCarolina Abenante, Founder at NYIAX talks aboutbringing financial trading technology to the advertising and entertainment industries using blockchain technology.This is Episode 85 for the Speaking of Crypto podcast - the seventh episode in our Women in Crypto Wednesday Series. By using smart contracts and blockchain technology, NYIAX is able to leverage the transparency and efficiency that blockchain brings and marry it with the ability to trade advertising contracts. “The smart contract...
SOC084. Sheila Warren, Head of Blockchain + DLT at World Economic Forum, on Blockchain Policy, Projects + Possibilities WCW006.
September 25, 2019 23:26 - 36 minutes - 45.9 MBSheila Warren, Head of Blockchain + DLT at World Economic Forum talks about blockchain policy and some exciting projects in the social impact space. This is Episode 84 for the Speaking of Crypto podcast - the sixth episode in our Women in Crypto Wednesday Series. Sheila is based in San Francisco at the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution where the focus of the World Economic Forum at the Center is on four areas of technology - blockchain and DLT, AI, IoT and data policy where their...
SOC083. Rachel Siegel, CEO at Crypto Finally on Being a Female Influencer in the Crypto Space WCW005.
September 18, 2019 00:17 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MBRachel Siegel, Founder at Crypto Finally talks about Bitcoin + crypto adoption, a new age of feminism and what it means to be a woman in the crypto space. This is Episode 83 for the Speaking of Crypto podcast - the fifth ep in our Women in Crypto Wednesday Series. Rachel’s been met with strong emotional responses on Crypto Twitter to a recent tweet of hers about the fact that she posts bikini selfies and she’s also a crypto conference speaker. The response from a lot of the community w...
SOC081. Samantha Radocchia on Decentralized Friend Groups, Virtual Workouts + a New Work Model WCW003.
September 04, 2019 17:19 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBSamantha Radocchia, Author of Bitcoin Pizza and a Forbes 30 Under 30 Enterprise Tech inductee talks about writing her book on Bitcoin and blockchain tech, virtual living, and a new work model. Samantha is a tech entrepreneur who launched into the startup world with her first company when she was 20 years old. With a background in technology and anthropology, Samatha has been able to dive deep into the bowels of blockchain technology, while maintaining a big picture perspective enabling her...
SOC080. Emma Todd on Crypto Tribalism + Digital Community WCW002.
August 29, 2019 00:36 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBEmma Todd, Executive Board Member & Co-Chair of Blockchain for Impact and CEO at MMH Blockchain Group talks about Crypto Tribalism and Digital Community. Emma is an expert blockchain marketer with extensive marketing experience in the banking sector. She shares what advice she gives to blockchain companies. She also talks about how important it is for entrepreneurs to know what problem their solving, who their targeting and how to explain their idea clearly before they pour money into ...
SOC079. Jenny Shaver, COO at SALT Lending, on Crypto Backed Lending vs Traditional Banking WCW001.
August 21, 2019 23:44 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBJenny Shaver, COO at SALT Lending talks about her tech background in finance at American Express, what the culture is like working in New York City, and how entering the startup world in the crypto space at the bottom of a bear market, is like participating in an extreme sport. She shares valuable advice that she received from a mentor that she carries with her to date and explains what’s important to her now that she’s in a leadership role. Jenny and I have a fantastic conversation abou...
078. Robert Beadles, President at Monarch, on Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash + the Future of Crypto
August 18, 2019 23:24 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBRobert Beadles, aka Crypto Beadles, is the President of Monarch, which is a non-custodial wallet as well as a payment solution. Not only is he president of one of the most successful wallets in the crypto space, but he’s also a YouTuber and share’s great interviews with some of incredible frontrunners in the space. I urge you to check out his YouTube channel, too, because with every video they post, they also give away $100 in Bitcoin cash. So check out Crypto Beadles on YouTube. Robert ...
077. Amber Scott, CEO at Outlier, on Facebook’s Libra + Crypto Regulation
August 06, 2019 00:22 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBAmber D. Scott is CEO at Outlier, and a compliance ninja. She’s an expert in regulation around cryptocurrencies, custody, privacy and in keeping with all of the latest changes. She’s a guru at the intersection of compliance and blockchain technology and as an MBA grad she also understands where businesses are coming from. Amber sits down with me at my home office in Toronto. We recorded this episode on video as well. Check out YouTube Channel. Speaking of Crypto – The New Internet. This c...
076. Coldie on Crypto Art: Rare, Unique and Valuable
July 30, 2019 20:40 - 1 hour - 63.5 MBColdie is an innovative, creative, clever, bold Crypto Artist. He works with crypto themes and tokenizing his artwork. We talk about what crypto art is and why it’s intriguing. We discuss his completely original clothing art idea - the Split Cut Shirt, his tokenized digital art, and some of his pieces specifically, including: Decentral Eyes – Vitalk Buterin Andreas Antonopoulos Proof of Work http://www.coldie3d.com/crypto-art/ Coldie talks about his art school background and his i...
075. Austin Davis on Bitcoin, Blockchain – Why Community Is Key
July 22, 2019 23:54 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBAustin Davis, Founder at Blockchain Beach and Co-founder and CEO at The Global Hackathon, has been in Bitcoin space since 2012. His energy is contagious, and he isn’t just talking about the technology, he’s building with it. Austin has an engineering background so he’s understands blockchain from the code up. He’s actively creating community through hackathons and meet-ups and he’s working with great teams of people to help drive the space forward. When it comes to crypto, those ...
074. Alan Wunsche on Tokenization as Investment + Opportunity
July 16, 2019 23:28 - 1 hour - 61 MBAlan Wunsche, CEO at Token Funder, talks about why tokenization is an opportunity and where the industry is heading? Why would the average person want to buy into a fraction of an asset? “It's actually not that complicated you because you believe you're going to be getting some cash flow from it from the rent, or because you're going to get capital appreciation. Otherwise, you're being very generous and letting someone live in your asset.” Are we going to be living in a Ready Player On...
073. Mauricio Di Bartolomeo on Hyperinflation in Venezuela: Is Bitcoin A Solution?
July 09, 2019 00:09 - 1 hour - 66.3 MBMauricio Di Bartolomeo, Co-founder of Ledn, shares his perspective of growing up in Venezuela. We talk about what the culture, and economic and political sentiment was like when Hugo Chavez became president rewrote the constitution, renamed the country, changed the flag and and changed the entire economic landscape that ultimately created the devastating state of hyperinflation that there is today, which, in 2019, is estimated to be 10 million per cent. We talk about the oil boom instigat...
073. Mauricio Di Bartolomeo on Hyperinflation in Venezuela: Is Bitcoin A Solution?
July 09, 2019 00:09 - 1 hour - 66.3 MBMauricio Di Bartolomeo, Co-founder of Ledn, shares his perspective of growing up in Venezuela. We talk about what the culture, and economic and political sentiment was like when Hugo Chavez became president rewrote the constitution, renamed the country, changed the flag and and changed the entire economic landscape that ultimately created the devastating state of hyperinflation that there is today, which, in 2019, is estimated to be 10 million per cent. We talk about the oil boom instigat...
072. Matias Nisenson on Why Blockchain Gaming with NFTs is changing the gaming industry
July 02, 2019 23:46 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MBThe crypto space often asks what is the killer app? What is it that’s going to catapult crypto into the mainstream? The killer app might be gaming. Gaming is huge. Worldwide, it’s expected to be a 152 Billion Dollar market in 2019. And it’s only getting bigger… fast. “Fortnight is registering half a million users per day… and that's exactly 20 times the total amount of wallets with dai on them.” Matias Nisenson and his co-founder Luciano Bertenascotook a leap of faith...
070. Eric Tippets on Tokenization, Monetization of Content, and Lessons from China
June 19, 2019 20:00 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBEverything changed for Eric Tippets when he went to China about 10 years ago. He started to see what business looked like in a country with 1.3 billion people. And he could see how technology increased efficiency, scaling and opportunity. “In China, the velocity of things just moves extremely quick, but their technology… it's funny how the culture was behind, but the technology was way advanced. And they were way, way ahead of us.” Eric talked about how processes were so streaml...
070. Kevin Owocki on Gitcoin, Open Source, and Earning Crypto on the New Internet
June 11, 2019 00:51 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBOpen Source Technology and Blockchain Technology have created these base layer technologies with billions of dollars’ worth of value. Like what happened open source and the internet, now with blockchain, a few large players with buckets of money are going after only a small segment of developers to maximize profits for their investors. But what about developers? Shouldn’t they be able to capture some of that value – whether they’re building on open source or blockchain platforms? “Open sou...
069. Brian Behlendorf on Hyperledger, Open Source, and Blockchain for Good
June 05, 2019 18:45 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBBrian Behlendorf, Executive Director of The Hyperledger Project at The Linux Foundation, previously worked at the White House under the Obama Administration and also as CTO for the World Economic Forum. When he read the Bitcoin White Paper and saw what some people were doing in the crypto and blockchain space, he recognized that open source technology was a way out of the top down hierarchical structure that he’d been a part of. “I saw a lot of determined technologists trying to answer thi...
068. Riccardo Spagni aka FluffyPony on Financial Privacy with Monero and Tari
May 29, 2019 00:58 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBI talk with Riccardo Spagni also known as FluffyPony about concerns over Monero’s privacy model and why financial privacy is something healthy, rather than something that should be looked at as deceitful or nefarious. Our society believes in privacy, but it’s interesting to see where it’s accepted and where it’s challenged. Riccardo uses the analogy of going to a public restroom. We don’t argue with someone who wants to close the door when they’re going to the bathroom in a public place. ...
067. Paul Puey – Facebook’s GlobalCoin Stablecoin and Payment Network
May 24, 2019 22:35 - 39 minutes - 40.8 MBPaul Puey, Co-founder and CEO at Edge, and I sat down for a live podcast at Consensus 2019 in NYC last week and one of the first things we talk about is the Facebook Coin. Today in crypto news we learned the Facebook coin is going to be called GlobalCoin and that this cryptocurrency will be coming out in early 2020. Facebook is so huge, with billions of users, about a third of the population of the entire planet, so what will this mean for crypto? And what will in mean for the value of t...
066. Alex Mashinsky on Bitcoin in 2019 and Beyond
May 21, 2019 23:42 - 20 minutes - 23.8 MBAlex Mashinksy, Founder and CEO at Celsius Network, and I sat down for a live podcast at Consensus 2019 in NYC last week. This is a short episode, but meaty. Mashinsky always comes prepared with some killer ideas that help to clarify why crypto is important, what’s wrong with the way things are and where the markets are headed. And this conversation is no exception. Bitcoin’s been going up, steadily and easily, Mashinsky says “like butter” in the last few weeks. Find out why he thinks Bitc...
065. Michael Terpin + Mitesh Rao at Elev8 – Los Angeles
May 14, 2019 19:19 - 39 minutes - 41.1 MBI attended Elev8 in Los Angeles and talked with a few presenters from the event. Some of these will be featured in our documentary project The New Internet that will be released in 2020. Today's conversation features Michael Terpin, CEO of Transform Group. Michael is an early crypto investor, advisor, and thought leader who has built companies, sold companies and advised both companies and investors. He understands crypto markets and we have a great conversation about getting hacked for ...
064. Paul Puey on Skin in the Game and Levelling the Pyramid of Power
May 07, 2019 16:01 - 58 minutes - 58.6 MBWhen Paul Puey, CEO at Edge, first learned about Bitcoin, what got him hooked was our ability to use a phone, without any personal information to “create, basically what amounts to a bank account” and send any amount of currency to anyone anywhere in the world. “You start digging further you realize that there's actually an economic policy behind Bitcoin and it actually has a certain issuance curve that is drastically different than what other currencies typically have or have had in the p...
063. Bullish on Bitcoin with Misha Yurchenko
May 01, 2019 00:18 - 1 hour - 64.3 MBWhat motivates us to change? Often, it’s failing or falling down or experiencing a loss or going through something unexpected. In Misha’s case, it was learning about Bitcoin, making a lot of money quickly and then losing it just as fast. He had no experience trading, but after the fact, joined a community of online investors where he learned from experienced investors about how they made decisions and what their motivations were. He listened and learned and experimented. Then he blogged...
062. Max Keiser on Collusion of Central Banks, Debt Monetization, and Bitcoin as Hard Money
April 24, 2019 01:06 - 50 minutes - 51.3 MBMax Keiser has some opinions. He has some very valuable, educated, and probably controversial ideas on what’s wrong with the economy, but there’s no disputing the facts. Our financial system right now is completely messed up. “The central banks were created to be a backstop to the banking system. When a bank when was in trouble, the central bank could protect deposits. So it was a lender of last resort. And so over the past 40 years now, due to political corruption, the central banks ha...
061. Bitcoin, Books + the Global Economy with Mark Jeffrey from Guardian Circle
April 16, 2019 23:04 - 51 minutes - 52.4 MBMark Jeffrey’s been in the space since 2013 and his perspective on what makes Bitcoin so revolutionary is very clear. “Peer to peer digital scarcity… doing digital scarcity with a centralized database, super easy… doing something like a Napster or a Bit Torrent like environment where there is no center, and yet objects are digitally scarce, and only one person can have ownership over one object at one time. That's totally new.” He shares what he was thinking, in 2013, when he first heard...
060. Empowering Social Impact Through Blockchain Technology with Susan Oh
April 09, 2019 11:00 - 25 minutes - 28.2 MBWant to earn Bitcoin doing things we do now for free? Check out our Earn Crypto page. Watch a video and earn crypto, deposit crypto to earn interest in crypto, shop online and earn Bitcoin back. Anyone can get into crypto now. https://speakingofcrypto.com/earncrypto/ This is the second podcast for Speaking of Crypto that we’ve recorded with Susan Oh. Episode #32 was recorded in September 2018. https://speakingofcrypto.com/032-susan-oh/ Susan shares how the crypto community was ...
059. Earn Free Bitcoin. Shop with Lolli. Interview with Co-Founder and CTO Matt Senter
April 05, 2019 11:30 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBMatt Senter, Co-founder and CTO at Lolli is an experienced founder who’s learned a lot of lessons along the way that he’s bringing to his current role. Lolli’s is an e-commerce shopping platform where instead of shoppers getting cash back, they get Bitcoin back. So essentially you can get free Bitcoin for shopping online. Matt and his Co-founder Alex Adelman have joined the crypto community and are helping to grow Bitcoin adoption and bring it to people who are brand new to Bitcoin. “W...
058. The Case for Stablecoins and Crypto Asset Management with Alon Muroch from Blox
April 02, 2019 19:11 - 41 minutes - 43.3 MBAlon Muroch, CEO at Blox, shares with me the fact that one great thing about crypto is that there is no barrier to entry. Anyone with a computer can start using it. This, he explains is opposite to the traditional financial world where the cost or barrier to entry keeps rising. We have a thought-provoking conversation around stablecoins, crypto assets and security tokens. In comparing Bitcoin to Ethereum, he notes advantages and disadvantages of each. Bitcoin is more decentralized and no...
057. Tokenizing the World with Galia Benartzi at Bancor
March 29, 2019 23:26 - 1 hour - 61 MBGalia Benartzi is Co-Founder of Bancor. She’s a forward-thinking entrepreneur who grew up in Silicon Valley and is currently based Israel, which is one of the largest tech hubs in the world and even referred to as StartUp Nation. We talk about Bancor’s pilot programs – one in Israel and another in Kenya that fuel a community with exchangeable tokens and allow users to trade an interact with a community currency. Bitcoin had challenged the idea of what money is, how we use it and why we c...
056. Bitcoin vs The Banks with Sunny Ray
March 26, 2019 23:47 - 1 hour - 80.2 MBSunny Ray’s company Unocoin, along with the Internet + Mobile Association of India, is in a legal battle with the Reserve Bank of India. The RBI is India’s national central bank. Almost a year ago, the RBI banned all banks in the country from working with crypto or with crypto companies. What does this lawsuit mean for India? What does it mean for the banks andthe crypto companies? And, what does it mean for crypto around the world? This case will set a precedent. Sunny shares a few de...
055. FinTech in Tennessee at the Women 4 Blockchain Hackathon in Nashville
March 19, 2019 23:45 - 1 hour - 64.8 MBI attended the Women 4 Blockchain Hackathon and Learning Hub in Nashville, Tennessee and talked with a few of the presenters who were there as well. Anna Vladi, COO of Everex Global and the Founder of Women 4 Blockchain talks to me about centralization, the crypto community, her hackathon event in Nashville, and what’s going on in the payments space. https://www.everex.io https://www.women4blockchain.com Stuart Lackey, Co-Founder and CEO at Solaster, shares his perspective on the sta...
054. Trent Lapinski. Crypto Visionaries, Tech for Trump, and Why Apple Bites
March 12, 2019 21:46 - 1 hour - 76.9 MBWhat happens when Bitcoin startups are in the same space as big businesses creating enterprise Blockchain solutions? Trent Lapinski, host of the HackerNoon podcast, believes in the visionaries and the vision of those who are on the leading edge of this technology, but he’s worried about what might come of that vision as big businesses enter the space. “These are some of the most forward thinking like visionary people in the world that are working on these things. The problem is, I'm afraid...
053. Beyond Traditional Financial Systems and Bitcoin as an Alternative with Sandra Ro
March 05, 2019 20:19 - 48 minutes - 49.9 MBSandra is the CEO of Global Blockchain Business Council and throughout this conversation it becomes apparent two of the things that I believe are extremely important to her are: leveling the playing field by being able to provide financial opportunity for all a desire to bring people together toward a common goal, in part through education and for the purpose of empowerment This is the second podcast Sandra has done with Speaking of Crypto. The first one was recorded in August 2018. It’s...
052. VoIP and Breaking Boundaries with Jeff Pulver
February 27, 2019 01:37 - 1 hour - 62.6 MB*Special thank yous to StationHead radio in Brooklyn, New York for hosting Jeff Pulver and me for this very deep conversation.* Although we didn’t get into blockchain technology or crypto, we did talk a lot about technology and the early days of the internet. And I think that if you want to know where you’re going, it’s important to know where you’ve been. Jeff creates an amazing picture of what life was like in those early days… when he was experimenting with Voice over the internet. H...
051. Investment, Entrepreneurship + Empathy with Parul Gujral
February 20, 2019 01:00 - 1 hour - 62 MBI saw Parul Gujral at a talk he gave at Go Block Con in Los Angeles last October where he shared an amazing story about his uncle Sarwan’s journey and how it has shaped his life and inspired him in all that he does. Sarwan, the oldest of 13 children, comes from a farming family in India. Not knowing how he would pay for it he applied to Berkeley University in California, and to much of his surprise was accepted. A thousand villagers came together to pull their money to make his dream come tr...
050. Never Stop Learning. In Blockchain. In Life with Ameer Rosic
February 13, 2019 00:06 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MBAmeer Rosic knows technology and what’s even more apparent throughout this conversation is that he really knows learning. He knows how to learn. He knows how to retain knowledge and he knows how to use it to keep growing and learning and challenging himself to do better. Ameer is the Co-founder of Blockgeeks, an online learning hub for developers and non-developers wanting to acquire and update their skills and knowledge around crypto and blockchain technology. He also hosts a popular YouT...
049. More Profit to the People with VoIP to MoIP w/ Alex Mashinsky
February 06, 2019 02:21 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBWhen the internet was in its infancy, Alex Mashinsky anticipated that one day, our voice, through phone calls at the time, would become an application on the internet – and now it is. Alex is one of the original creators of Voice over IP or VoIP. These days he’s forecasting that the internet we use today will become application on a blockchain. So now Alex has moved from VoIP to MoIP from Voice over IP to Money over IP. He founded a company called Celsius Network that is reinventing fin...
048. First There Was Wikipedia, Now There’s Everipedia with Larry Sanger
January 30, 2019 01:06 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBLarry Sanger is one of the Co-Founders of Wikipedia He came up with the idea. He named it. And it was his concept to turn wikis into an online encyclopedia that blossomed into what Wikipedia is today. But how do you make Wikipedia better? How about joining the guys who are already doing it! Now Larry works as the Chief Information Officer for Everipedia -- the world’s largest encyclopedia on a blockchain where you get paid to contribute. Some have called it the Fork of Wikipedia or Wiki...
047. Building EOS, Discipline and Resilience with David Moss
January 25, 2019 14:30 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MBDavid Moss, recently worked as the Senior Vice President of Tech Operations at Block.one. He has experience as a CEO and entrepreneur as well at CTO for several technology companies and currently his is Founder of StrongBlock, and shares in this podcast the basic idea around what he and his team are creating now. In a talk he gave at a conference last year David had shared a story of telling Dan Larimer that he didn’t like the White Paper for EOS. Dan Larimer is the creator of some of the ...
046. Leading Information Democratization w/ Anthony Di Iorio
January 15, 2019 20:21 - 33 minutes - 35.8 MBAnthony Di Iorio is co-founder of Ethereum, an award-winning entrepreneur, and CEO of Decentral. He was named one of Toronto Life’s 50 Most Influential People in 2018. He is an advisor to 15 different companies and was the Chief Digital Officer for the TMX Group, the parent company of the TSX, the 12th largest stock exchange in the world. Anthony shares the story of how he found out about Bitcoin. It all started with a podcast called Free Talk Live that talked a lot about freedom and li...