The Charlie Shrem Show
436 episodes - English - Latest episode: 21 days ago - ★★★★★ - 132 ratingsBitcoin pioneer Charlie Shrem peels back the layers on the lives and backgrounds of the world's most impactful innovators. Centering around intimate narratives, Shrem uncovers a detailed, previously unspoken story of the genesis and evolution of bitcoin, cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, and the web3 movements. Join Shrem as he journeys through the uncharted territories of tech revolutions, revealing the human side of the stories that shaped the digital world we live in today.
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Digitizing Real World Assets with Kieren James-Lubin
October 24, 2022 21:40 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBToday’s guest is Kieren James-Lubin, the Founder, President & CEO of BlockApps, an enterprise blockchain platform company whose mission is to connect individuals, businesses, and industries through global cooperation and trust. BlockApps is a blockchain-as-a-service company that develops enterprise blockchain platforms with customers ranging from startups to Fortune 500 organizations. The company's mission is to drive the adoption of blockchain technology through its platform, BlockApps STRA...
Cardano’s Growing Ecosystem with Frederik Gregaard
October 19, 2022 11:00 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MBToday’s guest is Frederik Gregaard, the CEO of the Cardano Foundation. The Cardano Foundation acts as a custodian for the Cardano protocol; the Cardano Foundation is a Swiss nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering innovators and changemakers within the blockchain industry. The Cardano Foundation strives towards enabling a blockchain future based on inclusiveness and transparency. An independent entity, the Foundation’s ambition is to empower the architects of the decentralized era, se...
Why Yield is Crypto’s Killer App with Derek Barrera
October 11, 2022 11:00 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBToday’s guest is Derek Barrera, Founder and CEO of Steer Protocol. Steer Protocol is a platform for cross-chain automated strategies with secure on-chain executions with minimal fees to users, providing maximal yield on earned fees for participating in the protocol. Steer enables users to create/use/upload yield-generating models called Strategies from complex algorithms to recurring tasks with zero computation cost and on any blockchain. Steer infrastructure offers endless possibilities lik...
The Power of Storytelling with Tom Malloy, David Josh Lawrence, and Courtney Warner
October 07, 2022 11:00 - 41 minutes - 38 MBToday’s guests are a few of the stars of the upcoming movie, Ask Me To Dance, Tom Malloy, David Josh Lawrence, and Courtney Warner. Tom is a critically acclaimed Actor/Writer/Producer/Director. David is an actor and writer known for writing, acting, and producing Trauma Therapy. Courtney is an actor whose break-out role is Ask Me To Dance. We discuss various topics, including Ask Me To Dance, the importance of movies, how to break into entertainment, mastering your craft, and much more. We d...
The DAO Truth and The Invasion of Ukraine with Alona Shevchenko
October 05, 2022 15:00 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MBAlona Shevchenko is the Co-founder & Operational Lead of Ukraine DAO. The UkraineDAO is a DAO organized to help Ukrainian organizations and people to fight the war against Russia. The UkraineDAO has donated over $7 million, including to the Ukrainian government and NGOs. They have organized both online and offline to serve Ukraine, showing how charity, war relief, and evacuation efforts can be organized through DAOs. The Ukrainian flag NFT auctioned by Ukraine DAO is the tenth most expensive...
The Future of Security Tokens with Alan Silbert and Itai Avneri
September 20, 2022 11:00 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBToday's guests are Alan Silbert, North America CEO of INX, and Itai Avneri, COO of INX. INX aims to offer a fully-licensed and regulated cryptocurrency, security token, and derivatives trading platform. They also endeavor to be a leader in the regulated security token platform space. INX announced in January 2018 its submission of a confidentially-filed draft registration statement to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an initial public offering of the INX Token. INX is one ...
Homes onChain with Geoffrey Thompson and Sanjay Raghavan
September 15, 2022 11:00 - 46 minutes - 43 MBToday’s guests are Geoffrey Thompson, Roofstock’s Chief Blockchain Officer, and Sanjay Raghavan, Head of Web3 Initiatives at Roofstock. Roofstock is an online marketplace for investing in leased single-family rental homes in a transparent and low-friction way. The company provides its clients with research, analytics, and insights to evaluate and purchase independently certified properties at set prices. Roofstock onChain is building an Ethereum-based web3 platform to simplify how single-fam...
Protecting Privacy with Dr. Sebastian Burgel
September 13, 2022 11:00 - 40 minutesSebastian is the founder of the web3 privacy project HOPR. HOPR is a blockchain-based protocol aiming to solve data and privacy issues on a global scale. HOPR’s goal is to decentralize private data exchanges completely. HOPR is a next-generation privacy solution, allowing private and enterprise users to decide who has access to their online and personal data. The HOPR protocol uses “mixnets,” or routing protocols, to shuffle around data and make it extremely hard to track. While mixing data m...
The Future of Capital Formation with Ian Lee
September 08, 2022 11:00 - 48 minutes - 44.9 MBToday’s guest is Ian Lee, the Co-Founder of Syndicate. Syndicate is a decentralized asset management platform and social network. It creates an investing syndicate for 1000x less time and money. Syndicate is a decentralized investing protocol and social network transforming how the world creates value. Previously, Ian was Managing Partner of IDEO CoLab Ventures, a crypto venture fund backed by IDEO focused on web3, crypto, and blockchain startups. From 2017-2021, Ian led investments and help...
Crypto’s App Store with Andrey Nayman
September 06, 2022 13:48 - 33 minutes - 31 MBToday’s guest is Andrey Nayman, Founder, and CEO of the Magic Store. Magic Square is a unified, integrated, interoperable space for users to discover and experience community-vetted crypto apps, NFTs, DeFi, and GameFi, and for app creators to market and monetize quality crypto apps. Magic Square is a multifaceted system that covers all UX bases: The Magic Store guides users to discover community-vetted crypto apps with built-in integrated DeFi. Users sign in to all their apps with one SSI-se...
Community and Web 3 Marketing Strategies with Amanda Cassatt
September 01, 2022 11:00 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBToday’s guest is Amanda Cassatt, Founder and CEO of Serotonin. Serotonin is the leading crypto marketing practice, with over 40 employees worldwide, supporting the top teams pushing the decentralization movement forward. With expertise spanning DeFi, DAOs, and NFTs, Serotonin supports premier projects like IPFS, major brands like Sotheby's, and everything in between. Serotonin is the leading web3 marketing firm specializing in companies both native and new to web3. Their services take produc...
Let's Talk Bitcoin with Adam B. Levine
August 30, 2022 11:00 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MBToday's guest is my friend Adam B. Levine, the founder and CEO of Tokenly and 330 AI. Tokenly is a leading innovator and developer of turnkey blockchain and token solutions. They have launched five blockchain applications, including turnkey solutions for blockchain eCommerce, auctions, secure multi-sig wallets, token creation, token crowd sales, and more. 330 AI Innovations is a technology company that creates unique text-to-image generator products utilizing a vast tool kit of artificial in...
How to get a Crypto Job with Lacey Kaelani
August 26, 2022 11:00 - 42 minutes - 39 MBToday’s guest is Lacey Kaelani, the founder of Metaintro. Metaintro is a professional resume wallet for web3. Utilising the Flow Blockchain and NFT technology, users can access their wallets through a browser extension, which can then be used to interact with web3 job applications. The wallet holds certifications, proof of work, and credentials, reducing the hiring time. Lacey is a two-time founder, previously co-founding a professional network for media & entertainment called Casting Depot....
The Death of Maximalism with George Harrap
August 16, 2022 11:00 - 51 minutes - 47.6 MBToday’s guest is George Harrap, co-founder of Step Finance, the front page of Solana, whose mission is to take the currently disjointed and hard-to-understand Solana DeFi ecosystem and distill it into a single platform. Step Finance is a portfolio visualization platform aggregating all LPs, tokens, farms, and positions a user may have associated with their wallet and displays them on a seamless dashboard. Step aims to be the page that DeFi users have open perpetually, with all the functions ...
Building an Army of Fans with Sarah Figueroa
August 11, 2022 11:00 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBToday’s guest is Sarah Figueroa, CEO, and co-founder of Geojam. Geojam is a social engagement platform that generates meaningful and passion-fueled engagement between fans and creators. Their vision is to build the creator economy of the future that redirects the flow of incentives back into the hands of the creators and users themselves. Geojam has been a bridge for fans to engage directly with artists, athletes, and influencers such as Mariah Carey, Machine Gun Kelly, and Nyjah Huston. Wit...
Bringing DeFi to Bitcoin with Chad Barraford and Erik Voorhees
August 09, 2022 11:00 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBToday’s guests are Chad Barraford and Erik Voorhees. Chad Barraford is the technical lead at Thorchain, a decentralized liquidity network. Before this, he served as Chief Technology Officer at the Skyy Network, where he designed and built air traffic management on a blockchain. Barraford was also the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cryptocades, an online gaming site that utilizes a device’s spare computing to mine Monero. THORChain is a decentralized liquidity protocol that allows use...
A Celebration of Bitcoin and Sarasota with Bob Williams
August 03, 2022 11:00 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MBToday we have a special episode where I am sharing my conversation on Sarasota Stories hosted by Bob Williams. Bob hosts me to discuss the early days of Bitcoin, my love for Sarasota, how to navigate the crypto winter, my passion for film production, and much more. In each episode, Bob conducts in-depth interviews with a local Sarasota business owner, civic leader, entrepreneur, artist, or philanthropist to find out who they are, what they're doing now, and the impact they hope to make on th...
Building the Web3 AWS with Jesse Berger
July 28, 2022 10:00 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBToday’s guest is Jesse Berger, serial Entrepreneur/technologist. Jesse is a Founding PKT community member and has raised over $300 million for films that generated over $850m in global revenue. PKT is a decentralized high-speed data network that enables anyone to monetize their unused internet bandwidth. Powered by PacketCrypt, the world’s first bandwidth-hard proof-of-work, people who connect to the PKT Network are paid in PKT Cash (PKT) every 60 seconds. PKT provides an economic incentive ...
The Gravity of Decentralization with Jesse Pollak
July 26, 2022 11:00 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBToday’s guest is Jesse Pollak, Senior Director of Engineering at Coinbase. Coinbase is the premier platform for buying, selling, transferring, and storing cryptocurrency. Jesse is currently working on protocols, public goods, cities, and currencies at Coinbase. Jesse previously led all Retail engineering at Coinbase, including building Coinbase, Coinbase Pro, and Coinbase Wallet. We discuss various topics, including Ethereum, the Merge, Smart Scaling, the gravity of Decentralization, Public ...
For the Love of Bitcoin with Courtney Warner Shrem
July 22, 2022 11:00 - 43 minutes - 40 MBToday we have a very special episode; we are celebrating our 300th episode. I am joined by my lovely wife, Courtney Warner Shrem. Thank you so much to everyone who has been on this incredible journey with me, from the listeners to our team that make this amazing show possible; thank you from the bottom of my heart. We discuss various topics and stories, including how we met, the early days of Bitcoin, advice for people pursuing a career in the arts, our love for Bitcoin and crypto, perseveri...
High Stakes Protocol Development with Wil Barnes
July 20, 2022 11:00 - 47 minutes - 44 MBToday’s guest is Wil Barnes, CEO, and Co-founder of Jet Protocol. Jet is a borrowing and lending protocol built on the Solana blockchain focused on innovative lending products and cross-chain interest rate arbitrage. Most of the widely used DeFi protocols used up until this point have been built on top of and supported by the Ethereum ecosystem. Jet is ready to take borrowing and lending to the next level using Solana’s bleeding edge tech, low transaction costs, speed, and scalability. Users...
Celsius and Monetary Cycles with Simon Dixon
July 15, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBMy guest today is Simon Dixon, CEO & Co-Founder of the online investment platform BnkToTheFuture.com who has invested over $1.7 billion in FinTech companies. Bnk To The Future is a global online investment platform that allows qualifying investors to invest in financial innovation, including fintech (Financial Technology) companies, funds, and other new alternative financial products. He is also the Fund Manager of Bitcoin Capital & author of the book 'Bank to the Future.' An active FinTech ...
The Death of Info Slaves with Shiv Malik
July 13, 2022 11:00 - 44 minutes - 41 MBMy guest today is Shiv Malik, CEO, and Co-Founder of the Pool Foundation. The Pool Foundation is the company behind Pool Data, a platform and associated services to support Data Unions to develop, scale, and monetize. They have studied existing Data Union frameworks in the Web3 space, seeking to simplify the complex technology required to scale. The pool is not only generating products and a technology offering for Data Unions but also the fabric by which the entities are connected to aggreg...
Decentralization Maximalism with Pod of Jake
July 07, 2022 11:00 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBToday we have a special episode where I am sharing my conversation on the Pod of Jake. Jake hosts me to discuss various topics, including Bitcoin, the early days of Bitcoin, the evolution of the Bitcoin and crypto space, and much more. Pod of Jake is an excellent podcast where Jake brings on guests from various industries to discuss technology, innovation, big ideas, and much more. This podcast is a must-listen-to anyone interested in learning more about myself, the early days of Bitcoin, an...
Finding Meaning in Crypto with Kyle Kemper
July 05, 2022 11:00 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBToday's guest is my friend, Kyle Kemper, a self-starting entrepreneur, bitcoin, crypto evangelist, and author. He is currently Chief Alchemist at Raze. The RAZE fintech platform enables users to tokenize and fractionalize shares, royalties, and distributions empowering you to self-fundraise quickly and safely using our flagship Dynamic Security Tokens (DSTs). He is also the co-host of the Miami Crypto Experience. He is known to be intellectually curious with a strong understanding of the cry...
Lessons from the Bull Market with Michael O’Rourke
June 29, 2022 11:00 - 37 minutesToday’s guest is my friend Michael O’Rourke, Founder of the Pocket Network. Pocket network is a decentralized infrastructure for developers who want to build peer-to-peer applications. So the idea is you could connect any app to any blockchain through decentralized infrastructure. And the idea is that Pocket can allow for the exponential growth of cryptocurrencies and a more accessible environment for people worldwide. More specifically, Pocket is a blockchain relay network for decentralized ...
Maximizing Time and Ikigai with Ben Tse
June 23, 2022 11:00 - 42 minutesToday’s guest is Ben Tse, the co-founder of GenoPets and their Chief Product Officer. GenoPets is a free-to-play mobile NFT RPG that turns your real-life daily activity into captivating gameplay, making it fun and rewarding to live an active lifestyle. Users imbued their personality and formed in their likeness, are as rare and unique as the users are. Every step a user takes unlocks new in-game features, story advancement, aesthetic customization, performance upgrades, and, of course, the ev...
The Early Days of Bitcoin with Jered Kenna, Jonathan Mohan, and Adam B. Levine
June 21, 2022 11:00 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBToday we have a special episode; I am sharing the panel that I was a part of at Consensus 2022, titled: 10 Years Later: Bitcoin's Commercial Beginnings from Those Who were There. The panel included Jered Kenna, Jonathan Mohan, and Adam B. Levine. Jered Kenna was the Founding CEO of the first US Bitcoin exchange, Tradehill / Bitcoin.com. Jered is an investor and former Marine. Jered Kenna is currently the Founder and CEO of 20mission Co-living / 20mission Cerveza, an investor specializing in ...
Building in a Bear Market with Bobby Zagotta
June 16, 2022 11:00 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBToday’s guest is Bobby Zagotta, the Chief Executive Officer of BitStamp. Bitstamp is a cryptocurrency exchange based in Luxembourg. It allows trading between fiat currency, bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies. Bitstamp is the world’s longest-running cryptocurrency exchange, continuously supporting the Bitcoin economy since 2011. With a proven track record and mature approach to the industry, Bitstamp provides a secure and transparent venue to over four million customers and enables partners ...
Into the Deep Waters of Crypto Trading with 0xDorsal
June 14, 2022 11:00 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBMy guest today is 0xDorsal, Co-founder and core contributor of Integral. Integral is a new DeFi primitive that efficiently executes large orders. It is the only such primitive with a functional product to date and is poised to capture the exact segment of large client trading volume for DeFi. Integral is the pioneer in executing large orders in DeFi. It works smart by executing an order according to an oracle’s average price over time (currently, it’s Uniswap’s 5-min TWAP). To offer a compet...
Enabling Endogenous Trust with Eric Tung
June 09, 2022 11:00 - 46 minutes - 43.2 MBToday, my guest is Eric Tung, Founder and CEO of Themelio Labs, the company behind Themelio, a public blockchain that enables open, secure, and resilient decentralized apps. Themelio is pitched as a radically simple, stable, and long-term foundation that can power a vast and diverse ecosystem. Themelio plans to play a fundamental and ubiquitous role in the security infrastructure of a new and decentralized Internet, much like how IP, “immutable” since 1983, still underpins Internet communica...
Accelerating Crypto Adoption with Michael Shaulov
June 07, 2022 11:00 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBToday, my guest is Michael Shaulov, the CEO and co-founder of Fireblocks, a secure digital asset infrastructure company. Fireblocks is an enterprise-grade platform delivering a secure infrastructure for moving, storing, and issuing digital assets. Fireblocks enables exchanges, lending desks, custodians, banks, trading desks, and hedge funds to securely scale digital asset operations through the Fireblocks Network and MPC-based Wallet Infrastructure. Fireblocks serves over 1,200 financial ins...
Live from Monaco! From Bitcoin OG’s to NFT’s! with Michael Terpin
May 31, 2022 12:33 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MBToday we have a special episode where we share my various discussions from CoinAgenda. This episode includes a Fireside Chat with myself and Michael Terpin and a panel discussing how crypto and NFTs will disrupt the film industry. The first half of the episode is the Fireside Chat with Michael Terpin. Michael and I reminisce about the early days of Bitcoin. We discuss the experience of going through your first crypto cycle. We also touch on the benefits of building during a bear market. Our ...
The Secret Sauce of NFTs with Rob Richardson
May 24, 2022 11:00 - 40 minutes - 37.7 MBMy guest today is Rob Richardson, the CEO, and co-founder of Disrupt Art, a Global marketplace created to revolutionize the impact of Art, Music, Fashion, and Film. DisruptArt aims to curate an interactive space for artists, collectors, and activists to revolutionize the impact of art. Artists sell their pieces as digital creations through blockchain technology. Their vision is to create a community where spoken word artists, musicians, entrepreneurs, photographers, and crypto artists inters...
The Evolution of Web3 with Halsey Minor
May 17, 2022 11:00 - 36 minutes - 34 MBMy guest today is Halsey Minor, CEO of Vivid Labs. VIVID enables anyone to create, manage, and sell multimedia NFTs, enabling new use cases and business models and evolving NFTs into complete media experiences. Compatible across all significant blockchains, VIVID offers advanced NFT + features that transform simple NFTs into rich media experiences that are multi-format, multi-asset, permissioned, updateable and resilient. Halsey is a technology founder behind some of the greatest successes i...
Bitcoin and The Age of Lies with Jeffery Tucker
May 12, 2022 11:00 - 1 hourToday’s guest is my friend Jeffery Tucker, an American economics writer of the Austrian School, an advocate of anarcho-capitalism and Bitcoin, a publisher of libertarian books, a conference speaker, and an internet entrepreneur. He is currently the Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of Mises. He speaks...
Legally Protecting Bitcoin with Jason Brett
May 06, 2022 12:37 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MBToday, my guest is Jason Brett, Founder and CEO of Value Technology Foundation. Value Technology Foundation is a DC nonprofit think tank dedicated to blockchain advocacy, education, research and development, and advocacy. Jason has extensive experienced with blockchain and has made presentations to several U.S. government agencies and regulatory bodies. Prior to becoming the founder of Value Technology Foundation, Jason was the Director of Operations at the Digital Chambers of Commerce. He w...
The Cryptopian Craze with Laura Shin
May 03, 2022 11:00 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBMy guest today is Laura Shin. Laura is a crypto/blockchain journalist covering Bitcoin, Ethereum, Defi, NFTs, DAOs, stablecoins, etc. She is the host of the podcast Unchained; and author of "The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze." During the course of writing her book, Laura and her sources uncovered who they believe was behind the 2016 DAO attack on Ethereum. Laura is a former senior editor at Forbes. She is the first mainstream journal...
Cooking Up Crypto Cashflow with Dr. Julian Hosp
April 28, 2022 11:00 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MBToday, my guest is Dr. Julian Hosp, the CEO, and Co-Founder of Cake DeFi. Cake DeFi is a fintech platform that manages over $1 billion in customer assets. It focuses on creating DeFi (decentralized finance) services and applications like liquidity mining, staking, and lending, which generate cryptocurrency returns for users. The company recently announced a $100 Million raise to start a venture fund. The venture arm will be led by the company’s co-founders, Julian Hosp, CEO, and U-Zyn Chua, ...
Mortgage NFTs and the Bacon Protocol with Karl Jacob
April 26, 2022 11:00 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBToday, my guest is Karl Jacob, the co-founder, and CEO of LoanSnap. Karl is a serial entrepreneur who has been building, advising, and investing in companies for the last 20 years. LoanSnap invented the world’s first smart loan technology that uses AI and machine learning to analyze a person’s entire financial picture and show them how to benefit from a smart home loan. LoanSnap is the parent company that built the Bacon Protocol, a decentralized mortgage lending protocol created using smart...
Crypto Bridges and Payment Rails with Tyler Spalding
April 21, 2022 11:00 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBMy guest today is Tyler Spalding, a Co-Founder of Flexa, a blockchain payments company based in New York City. Flexa is a versatile digital payments platform that offers several key features. Flexa has point-of-sale (POS) hardware compatibility as a merchant-focused app and is designed to reduce costs, settlement times, and fraud. Payments are collateralized by Flexa’s ERC-20 token Amp, which can be staked as collateral that receives additional Amp as a staking incentive. Flexa is accepted a...
The Soul of Bitcoin with Aaron Koenig
April 19, 2022 11:00 - 53 minutesMy guest today is my good friend Aaron Koenig. Aaron is a Bitcoin pioneer, entrepreneur, consultant, writer and film producer, specialising in Bitcoin and Blockchain technology. His company Bitfilm creates short commercial films for clients, most of them Bitcoin and Blockchain start-ups. He has been actively promoting Bitcoin and Blockchain technology since June 2011 by writing about it and by organising events and meetups. He has also been a speaker and panelist at numerous conferences. Aaro...
Self Sovereignty and Self Custody with Charles Guillemet
April 14, 2022 11:00 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBMy guest today is Charles Guillemet, CTO of Ledger. Ledger provides security and infrastructure solutions to critical digital assets for consumers and institutional investors. Launched in 2014, Ledger has designed an acclaimed line of hardware security devices, quickly placing the company as a global leader in the market, with 1,000,000 units sold in more than 165 countries. Ledger introduced the Vault for enterprises and corporations: a fully managed SaaS solution addressing the need to saf...
How to Create an Open Web with Evan Chang
April 08, 2022 11:00 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBMy guest today is Evan Cheng, co-founder & CEO of Mysten Labs. Mysten Labs is a team of leading distributed systems, programming languages, and cryptography experts whose founders led Meta’s Novi Research and helped develop the Diem blockchain and Move programming language. The mission of Mysten Labs is to create foundational infrastructure for Web3. They partner with crucial ecosystem builders to make step-change improvements to their networks. Before co-founding Mysten Labs, Evan helped le...
Exploring Cosmosland with Billy Rennekamp
April 05, 2022 11:00 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBMy guest today is Billy Rennekamp, Grants Manager of the Interchain Foundation. Interchain Foundation develops and maintains foundational decentralized protocols, and supports organizations in building an internet of shared resources, security, and value creation. Their goal is to responsibly shape a new technological paradigm that is open-source, interoperable, and community-owned. Billy is an artist and developer from Louisville, KY living in Berlin, Germany. Billy is the Grants Manager of...
Bitcoin & Crypto in a Post-Zero-Interest World with Ryan Sheftel
March 31, 2022 11:00 - 39 minutesMy guest today is Ryan Sheftel, co-founder and CEO of Radkl, a new quantitative trading firm that brings institutional-grade experience from Wall Street to crypto markets everywhere. Ryan is also a Partner GTS, where he is responsible for building and running the fixed income business across the futures, cash bonds, and derivatives markets for all trading activities on public exchanges and bilateral dealing with the financial community. Prior to GTS, Ryan was the Global Head of Electronic Mar...
Bitcoin is an Institution with John deVadoss
March 29, 2022 11:00 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBMy guest today is John deVadoss, the founder of NGD Enterprise Inc. NGD Enterprise focuses on the blockchain developer experience and tooling for the NEO blockchain. Neo bills itself as a “rapidly growing and developing” ecosystem that has the goal of becoming the foundation for the next generation of the internet — a new economy where digitized payments, identities, and assets come together. Initially known as Antshares, this project was believed to be China’s first-ever public blockchain w...
Finding Your Tribe with Nea Anna Simone
March 25, 2022 11:00 - 45 minutesMy guest today is Nea Simone, Founder & CEO of Melanated Studios, the first black, woman-owned, and operated blockchain technology services company in the NFT and Metaverse space focused on empowering creators from the Global Diaspora of Afro-Descendants. Melanated Studios was born out of a shared passion for the global culture of Afro-Descendants and an understanding of the benefit of NFTs to creators through the smart contract to control their art and build generational wealth through a roy...
Relationship mapping enabled by NFTs with Fred Jin and Kenzi Wang
March 23, 2022 11:00 - 42 minutes - 39.4 MBMy guests today are Fred Jin and Kenzi Wang, the Co-Founders of the Cere Network. Cere Network is the first Decentralized Data Cloud platform optimized for service data integration and data collaboration. While most blockchains are simply distributed ledgers, the Cere network of blockchains allows for turnkey hyper-customization of enterprise data ecosystems. Cere Network is the first Decentralized Data Cloud platform optimized for service data integration and data collaboration. Cere aims t...
Bitcoin and Democratizing Real Estate with Josip Rupena
March 18, 2022 11:00 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MBMy guest today is Josip Rupena, the Founder and CEO of Milo. Milo is a financial technology company reimagining the way globally and crypto consumers access financial solutions to 'Unlock what's possible.' By building a proprietary technology stack from the ground up and bringing on a world-class team, the company has enabled millions of dollars in US home loans. Milo is passionate about driving the digital transformation of financial services, solving real problems, and making a meaningful ...