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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The Next Industrial Revolution Will be Tokenized with Mohamed El Masri, Founder of Permian Chain
October 20, 2020 15:15 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MBMohamed El Masri, Founder of Permian Chain, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Mohamed and Charlie discuss Permian Chain, capital markets, financial markets, corporate finance, growth equity strategies, fintech, the digital economy, Bitcoin, ICO’s, blockchain, private equity funds, digital securities, tokenized assets, network adoption, supply chains, and Bitcoin mining. ––– Bitpay Card The all new Bitpay card is chalked full of new features. It has contactless pa...
Reinventing Governance & Crypto Social Experiments: Ethan Buchman, Co Founder of Cosmos
October 15, 2020 11:00 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBEthan Buchman, Co Founder of Cosmos, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Ethan and Charlie discuss social cohesion, social experiments, political economics, institutions, governance, Defi, speculation, sushi swap, experimental finance, legacy systems, decentralization, digital life forms, biophysics, sustainability, and building the infrastructure of the future. ––– Coingaming was formed when one Australian professional poker player, who knew first-hand the importanc...
Community as an Asset: Speculators Vs Real World Users with Richard Ells, Founder of Electroneum
October 13, 2020 11:00 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBRichard Ells, Founder of Electroneum, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Richard and Charlie discuss community, Electroneum, anonymity, social contracts, crypto for good, utility tokens, gig economy, blockchain, speculation, real world transactions, global payment systems, any task platforms, equities, use cases for blockchain, and millions joining the crypto space. ––– Bitpay Card The all new Bitpay card is chalked full of new features. It has contactless pay, a ...
Crypto’s Double Edge and Going Cashless: Simon Harman, CEO of Loki
October 08, 2020 11:00 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MBSimon Harman, CEO of Loki, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Simon and Charlie discuss privacy, Bitcoin, anonymity, distributed systems, commerce, cash jobs, cashless societies, government systems, Loki Network, blockchain, socialism, crypto trading, Monero, masternode systems, off chain activities, private messaging, distributed products, centralized systems, the future of crypto, and decentralized messaging. ––– Coingaming was formed when one Australian professio...
Defi is an Explosion of Evolution with Diogo Monica, President of Anchorage
October 06, 2020 11:00 - 43 minutes - 39.8 MBDiogo Monica, President of Anchorage, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Diogo and Charlie discuss Square, Bitcoin, Bitinstant, centralization, early days of Bitcoin, distributed systems, proof of work, monetary policy, economic theory, self organizing, malicious nodes, Bittorrent, security protocols, adversarial nodes, public keys, economic incentive, hashing, computational resource tests, SIlvergate Bank, FDIC, verifiable delay function, Anchorage, quantum computing...
The Reputation Mechanism with Jenna Pilgrim, Founder of Streambed
October 01, 2020 11:00 - 51 minutes - 47 MBJenna Pilgrim, Founder of Streambed, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Jenna and Charlie discuss Bitcoin business, software development, connecting people, Bitcoin events, blockchain native, crypto careers, hyper connecting, building businesses, the digital economy, consuming media, early Bitcoin adoption, the reputation mechanism, Blockchain revolution, financial services, incentive mechanisms, fake news, and the future of media. ––– Coingaming was formed when one...
Gambling & Gaming with Crypto: Tim Heath, Founder of Coingaming
September 29, 2020 11:00 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBTim Heath, Founder of Coingaming, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Tim and Charlie discuss venture capital, gaming, global payment systems, KYC, sportsbooks, customer service, gaming fueling Bitcoin adoption, casinos, third party intermediaries, fighting fraud, poker, early adopters, easy payment methods, crypto gambling, Ethereum, BCH, and building a massive crypto gaming community. ––– Bitpay Card The all new Bitpay card is chalked full of new features. It has ...
High Risk High Reward: CZ of Binance on the Bull Market Trigger
September 24, 2020 11:00 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBCZ, Founder of Binance, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. CZ and Charlie discuss finance, decentralization, Bitcoin, private keys, defi, centralization, mass adoption, Binance, staking, earning interest in crypto, counterparty risks, smart contracts, DAO’s, publicly traded companies, ICO’s, yield farming, issuing tokens, high yields, liquidity swap, launch pool, bull markets, bear markets, and building the future of decentralized finance. ––– Coingaming was formed...
From Parliament to Crypto with Antoni Trenchev, Co Founder of Nexo Finance
September 22, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBAntoni Trenchev, Co Founder of Nexo Finance, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Antoni and Charlie discuss protesting, Parliament, Bitcoin, corporations, crypto reality, philosophy, government, decentralization, capital markets, socialism, banking on crypto, earning interest in crypto, stable coins, financial greed, Covid19, global crypto merchants, self sovereignty, antifragility, studying law, crypto backed mortgages, and building for a decentralized future. ––– B...
Crypto Podcasts Disrupt Traditional Media with Sebastien Couture, Founder of Epicenter Podcast
September 17, 2020 11:00 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBSebastien Couture, Founder of Epicenter Podcast, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Sebastien and Charlie discuss podcasting , early days of Bitcoin, building Bitcoin communities, media in crypto, cryptos future, running startups, Bitcoin conferences, monetary policy, early crypto podcasts, regulation, disrupting Wall Street, money printing, the crypto boom, quality projects, working in crypto, traveling around the world, crypto conferences, podcasting as the medium o...
The Story of BitcoinCash, Bitcoin and Her Forks by Amaury Séchet, Lead Developer of BitcoinABC
September 15, 2020 11:00 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBAmaury Sechet, Lead developer of Bitcoin Cash, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Amaury and Charlie discuss BCH development, Bitcoin Cash, Satoshi Roundtable, Bitcoin, The Cyprus Crisis, hash wars, selling out to banks, Satoshis Vision, socioeconomics, The Bitcoin community, decentralization, Bitcoin resiliency, adversarial balance, the scaling debate, Bitcoin SV, splitting communities, block size, Blockstream, Bitcoin security, and losing crypto adoption. ––– Bitp...
The Innovation of Money, Founder of Sögur Currency, Ido Sadeh Man on Gaining Purchasing Power
September 10, 2020 11:00 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBIdo Sadeh Man, Founder of Sögur Currency, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Ido and Charlie discuss , jazz, venture capital, social paradigms, blockchain, running startups, political science, philosophy, monetary policy, being humble, changing people lives, ability to earn a yield, Ethereum, concept of central banking, money printing, innovation vs compliance, fiat currencies, manipulated markets, smart contracts, herd mentality, block producers, trade wars, global c...
Dan Larimer: Creator of EOS & BitShares on the Fall of the Dollar, Independence and Manipulated Markets
September 08, 2020 11:00 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBDan Larimer, Creator of BitShares, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Dan and Charlie discuss the government , crypto solving world peace, creating a free world, discovering Bitcoin, using money to buy the world, E Gold, 100% reserve banking, digital currencies, monetary policy, Satoshi, scalability of Bitcoin, centralized systems, socioeconomics, money printing, centralized authority, smart contracts, privatizing profits, undermining the economy, debt creation, destr...
Crypto Investigative Journalism with Samantha Yap, Founder of Yap Global
September 03, 2020 11:00 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MBSamantha Yap, Founder of Yap Global, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Samantha and Charlie discuss running a PR firm, telling stories, being genuine, taking companies advantage of narratives, proof of work, false data, Defi, emerging technologies, making a difference in crypto, ponzi schemes, investigative journalism, escaping the normal, ICO’s, Ethereum, Crypto Regulation, MyEtherWallet, BitPay, regulating ourselves, living all over the world, digital assets, Decry...
Exploring Bitcoin's Dark Days with Cedric Dahl, Creator of Early 2013 Crypto Exchange Buttercoin, & CEO of 1000x Group
September 01, 2020 11:00 - 58 minutes - 54 MBCedric Dahl, CEO of 1000x group & Creator of Buttercoin in 2013, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Cedric and Charlie discuss manifesting your destiny, money as an ancient concept, the broken financial system, crippling student debt, finding a way to safeguard your wealth, finding Bitcoin in 2011, trading stablecoins, losing everything, living in a simulation, thinking for yourself, oracles, escaping the box, the crypto ecosystem, starting Buttercoin in 2011, trackin...
Year of the Yield: CEO of CoinMarketCap, Carylyne Chan, on What is Driving the new Bull Rally
August 27, 2020 11:00 - 50 minutes - 46 MBCarylyne Chan, CEO of Coin Market Cap, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Carylyne and Charlie discuss Coin Market Cap, transparency in markets, stimulus checks into Bitcoin, user psychology, factors of a tokens price, life cycle of a cryptocurrency, the year of the yield, the crypto inflection point, the defi craze, speculation, oracles, stable coin governance, the crypto ecosystem, the 2017 crypto craze, the economies of a credit card, loyalty rewards, tokenized rew...
Crypto Politics 2020: CEO of HODLpac, Tyler Whirty on the Evolution of Policy
August 25, 2020 11:00 - 49 minutes - 45.8 MBTyler Whirty, CEO of HODLpac, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Tyler and Charlie discuss HODLpac, Bitcoin Foundation, political fundraising, policy making, Hodl origin story, crypto Reddit, Bitcoin price fluctuations, political action committees, building the crypto community, anarcho capitalism, voting blocks, reforming taxes, the crypto ecosystem, crypto ideology, Proof of Stake Alliance, state of the crypto industry, the regulatory climate around crypto, using cr...
Crypto Cannot be Uninvented: Co-Founder of Blockchain Capital, Bart Stephens
August 20, 2020 11:00 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBBart Stephens, Co Founder of Blockchain Capital, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Charlie and Bart discuss early fintech, full service brokerages, hedge funds, video game investing, genomics, virtual worlds, digital assets, founding Blockchain Capital, in game currencies, growing up playing video games, provable scarcity, the pre crypto world, discovering Bitcoin, the medical industry, regulation challenges, government surveillance capabilities, making capitalism fa...
Pioneering Internet Security with Stina Ehrensvard, CEO of Yubico on Building an Encrypted Future
August 18, 2020 11:00 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBStina Ehrensvard, CEO of Yubico, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Charlie and Stina discuss cyber security, Yubico, making the internet a safer place, security devices, preventing hacks, simplifying security, smart cards, working with google, Yubikey, double authentication, encrypting data, built in security, cloud companies, google hacks, government intervention, distributing trust with blockchain, and global crypto security. ––– Bitpay Card The all new Bitpay c...
Former IRS Special Counsel Roger Brown & CEO Robert Materrazi of Lukka Tax on Simplifying Crypto Taxes
August 13, 2020 11:00 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MBRoger Brown & Robert Materrazi of Lukka Tax, join Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Charlie and the Lukka Tax team discuss simplifying crypto taxes, revenue acts, tax laws, virtual currencies, systemic issues, rewriting tax codes, tax amendments, government stifling innovation, how Lukka Tax started, incomplete data on exchanges, utilizing crypto payments, buying a house with Bitcoin, and proper reporting techniques. ––– Coingaming was formed when one Australian professi...
Blockchain Fixes Healthcare: Patientory CEO, Chrissa McFarlane on the Digitization of Health Records
August 11, 2020 11:00 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBChrissa McFarlane, CEO of Patientory, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Charlie and Chrissa discuss Patientory, owning your data, healthcare consulting, digitization of health information, virtual doctors, EMR systems, telemedicine, HIPAA, effects of Covid19, blockchain for health, the post covid19 world, how Patientory started, quality metrics, and building healthcare for the future. ––– Bitpay Card The all new Bitpay card is chalked full of new features. It has ...
Rebuilding Wall Street: CEO of Celsius Network, Alex Mashinsky Reveals his Plans for the 99%
August 06, 2020 11:00 - 56 minutesAlex Mashinsky, CEO of Celsius Network, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Charlie and Alex discuss Celsius Network, Covid19 effects on the global market, bail outs, creating Celsius Network, onboarding thousands of new crypto users, creating a great user experience, rebuilding Wall Street, securities lending, earning Bitcoin on Bitcoin, doomsday insurance, coin lending, giving 80% back to the community, replacing the banks, stable coins, earning yield on your assets, i...
The Future of Defi: CEO of DeversiFI, Will Harborne Exposes Yield Farming and the ICO Boom
August 04, 2020 11:00 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MBWill Harborne, CEO of DeversiFI, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Charlie and Will discuss DeversiFI , decentralization, meeting Vitalik at Cambridge, leaving IBM for Bitfinex, the ICO boom, open source communities, yield farming, trading Bitcoin in his bedroom, writing smart contracts, stable coins, getting paid in crypto, regulatory pressure from governments on crypto, Defi use cases, permissionless systems, wrapping synthetic assets, and building DeversiFI. ––– ...
MyEtherWallet Founder Kosala Hemachandra on the Future of Ethereum and World Crypto
July 30, 2020 11:00 - 56 minutesKosala Hemachandra, Founder of MyEtherWallet, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Charlie and Kosala discuss MyEtherWallet, money as a form of control, what is MyEtherWallet, effects of Coronavirus on crypto, what are hardware wallets, onboarding new crypto users, creating a great user experience, tools to help people, origins of MyEtherWallet,Bitcoin being battle tested, global crypto users, and keeping your private key safe. ––– Coingaming was formed when one Australia...
The Ripple Story: CTO David Schwartz on the Founding, Ledger & XRP
July 28, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 67.3 MBDavid Schwartz, CTO of Ripple, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Charlie and David discuss Ripple, money as a form of control, what is XRP, decentralized applications, banks adopting crypto, how he got the name Joel Katz, financial inclusion for everyone, pitching the idea of crypto to banks, crypto scams, where crypto is headed, and peer to peer transaction. ––– Bitpay Card The all new Bitpay card is chalked full of new features. It has contactless pay, a new EMV...
The Ramifications of Printing Money: Tron Black of Ravencoin on Early Overstock Days
July 23, 2020 11:00 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBTron Black, of Medici Ventures, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Charlie and Tron discuss Ravencoin, growing organically, Bitcoin scams,ramifications of printing money,the early internet, early days of Bitcoin, peer 2 peer transactions,getting the dream job,launching shares on blockchain,working for T0,open source software, Overstock, and Medici Ventures. ––– Coingaming was formed when one Australian professional poker player, who knew first-hand the importance of...
Crypto Scams & Investigations: Chainalysis CSO Jonathan Levin Reveals Bitcoin’s Secrets
July 21, 2020 11:00 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBJonathan Levin, CSO of Chainalysis, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Charlie and Jonathan discuss the Chainalysis industry, investigations in crypto, Bitcoin bear market, tracing Bitcoin, training lawyers on crypto, what is Chainalysis, crypto analytics, national security issues, stable coins, 2 million Bitcoin weekly moves, Is Bitcoin ready for a bull run, the Pet Scam, and on chain volume. ––– Bitpay Card The all new Bitpay card is chalked full of new features....
Transparency and Trading: Coin Gecko CEO Bobby Ong on Building a Business with Morals
July 16, 2020 11:00 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MBBobby Ong, CEO of Coin Gecko, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Charlie and Bobby discuss how Coin Gecko started,transparency in crypto, the revolution of crypto, spotting fake volume, mining Dogecoin, largest M&A in crypto history, crypto subcultures, How To Defi Book, educating the masses on crypto, people tokenizing themselves. ––– Coingaming was formed when one Australian professional poker player, who knew first-hand the importance of fun, fast and fair gaming...
The Trojan Horse of Crypto – Colu CEO Amos Meiri Reveals a Private Key for All Solution
July 14, 2020 11:00 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MBAmos Meiri, CEO of Colu, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Charlie and JP discuss how Colu started, Vitalik in the early days of Bitcoin, future of finance, everyone having a private key, the limitations of Bitcoin,launching a trojan horse for cities to accept crypto,where decentralization is needed, culture and ideology of Bitcoin, Colu working with cities, and innovating in the crypto space. ––– Bitpay Card The all new Bitpay card is chalked full of new features...
Is Your Security at Risk? BlockFi CSO Adam Healy on Bitcoin's Weakest Security Link
July 09, 2020 11:00 - 57 minutes - 53.2 MBBlockFi Chief Security Officer Adam Healy joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Adam and Charlie discuss Adam's government security work, government employees and the privacy spectrum, risk levels and security hygiene, institutional custody of Bitcoin, multi party computation, are government employees ideal for the crypto industry?, Bitcoin's weakest link from a security perspective, mesh networks, and security at BlockFi. ––– Coingaming was formed when one Australian ...
Growing With the Industry: CoinCorner Cofounder Daniel Scott on Bootstrapping vs VC Money
July 07, 2020 11:00 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBCoinCorner Cofounder Daniel Scott joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Charlie and Danny discuss bootstrapping vs taking VC investment money, the advantages of relocating to the Isle of Man, banking and regulations in the UK, how CoinCorner came together, Mt. Socks, changing Bitcoin's base layer, the scaling debate then and now, the Lightning Network, and the importance of not growing ahead of the industry. ––– Bitpay Card The all new Bitpay card is chalked full of n...
The Limits of Sovereignty and Surveillance: Uphold CEO JP Thieriot Reveals a Free Market Solution
July 02, 2020 11:00 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MBJP Thieriot, CEO of Uphold, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Charlie and JP discuss the beef industry, understanding Argentina's history with money, crypto in Latin America, Bitcoin's relationship with gold and the dollar, the state of the world financial system, democratizing money and investment, the need for a single global ID, the Brave browser, Uphold, and denationalized currencies. ––– Coingaming was formed when one Australian professional poker player, who ...
Israel's Survival Mindset – LiquidApps CEO Beni Hakak on EOS, Scalability, and DApps
June 30, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBBeni Hakak, CEO & Co‑founder of LiquidApps, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Beni and Charlie discuss the effect of COVID19 on tech development, Beni's finance and tech history, how he got into crypto, the Israeli entrepreneur mindset, founding LiquidApps, how a multicoin world might work, being an EOS block producer, the EOS governance model, how oracles work with LiquidChain, and building a COVID19 Dapp. ––– Bitpay Card The all new Bitpay card is chalked full o...
Is Crypto's Infrastructure Completed? BTSE.com CEO Jonathan Leong Claims Gold is Bitcoin's Biggest Competitor
June 25, 2020 11:00 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MBJonathan Leong, cofounder and CEO of BTSE.com, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Charlie and Jonathan discuss the derivatives markets, Jonathan's background in coding, building high performance platforms, and as a serial entrepreneur, high frequency trading and retail traders, Singapore's capitalist model, Bitcoin and gold, Ethereum, crypto infrastructure, scaling, and building BTSE.com. ––– Bitpay Card The all new Bitpay card is chalked full of new features. It h...
Branding an Empire? Bad Crypto's Joel Comm and Travis Wright on Podcasting, Networking, and Virtual Events
June 23, 2020 11:00 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MBBad Crypto Podcast's Joel Comm and Travis Wright join Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Charlie, Joel, and Travis discuss how the Bad Crypto Podcast show idea came together, how Joel and Travis got into broadcasting and Bitcoin, branding, creating a media empire, learning through podcasting, networking and making a virtual conference event, being authentic, and how we're all on a spectrum of some kind. ––– Bitpay Card The all new Bitpay card is chalked full of new featu...
Who is Really Driving Cannabis Demand? Dr. Daniel Stein on Regulation & the Business of Cannabis
June 18, 2020 11:00 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBDr. Daniel Stein, neurologist and medical cannabis expert, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Dr. Stein and Charlie discuss who's using medical cannabis and why, how to get the most out of CBD without being a medical cannabis patient, how it is cultivated, the ups and downs of vertical integration, regulation, how Dr. Stein got into the industry, banking challenges, addiction, how the industry can be mainstream, social inequity, and the demographics of cannabis. ––– ...
Brandon Iles’ Journey from Creating the 1st Bitcoin Android Wallet to Launching Ampleforth
June 16, 2020 11:00 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MB1st Bitcoin Android Wallet Creeator Brandon Iles, Cofounder of Ampleforth, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. In 2011 Brandon Iles launched the first Bitcoin Android Wallet and today joins Charlie to discuss why Brandon initially chose working in machine learning at Google and Uber over Bitcoin, what brought him back to crypto, decentralized monetary policy, economic experimentation, internet rights, open finance, how Ampleforth works, its elastic supply and oracles, ...
Do We Need Bitcoin? Francis Pouliot on Advocacy, Wealth Inequality and a Massive Bubble of Fragility
June 11, 2020 11:00 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBFrancis Pouliot, Bitcoin advocate and CEO of Bullbitcoin.com, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Charlie and Francis discuss becoming a regulated virtual currency dealer, banking challenges, the Bitcoin Embassy, Francis' introduction to Bitcoin, advocating for Bitcoin before the Canadian senate, representing the Bitcoin community, wealth inequality in Canada, sex workers, Backpage, and the cost of censorship resistance. --- If you enjoyed this conversation, share it...
Is Africa a Banking Desert? Paxful CEO Ray Youssef on Why Africa is Financial Freedom's Front Line
June 09, 2020 11:00 - 51 minutes - 47 MBRay Youssef, CEO and Co-Founder of Paxful, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Ray and Charlie discuss Ray's belief that social good should be a central pillar of a company, his goal of building a hundred schools in Africa, the stigma of Nigerian scammers, how Paxful works, Rwanda's success, corruption in Africa, unique KYC and banking challenges in Africa, Paxful's 20 year plan, and how Bitcoin fulfils the p2p vision. --- If you enjoyed this conversation, share it w...
Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Brittany Kaiser on Weaponized Data, Privacy, and Digital Literacy
June 04, 2020 11:00 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBBrittany Kaiser, Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower and Own Your Data co-founder, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Charlie and Brittany discuss our society's apathy toward surveillance and privacy issues, explaining anonymity and privacy to people, the balance of privacy and practicality, Cambridge Analytica's intentions, our data illiteracy as a culture, data and elections, voting on the blockchain, the Own Your Data Foundation, digital literacy and data ownership a...
Is the US Falling Behind in Crypto? BinanceUS CEO Catherine Coley on Her 25 Year Vision
June 02, 2020 09:00 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MBCatherine Coley, CEO of BinanceUS, joins Charlie on today's episode of Untold Stories. Charlie and Catherine discuss the male-dominated culture of traditional markets, her first reactions to crypto markets, Catherine's experience with Ripple as a springboard into crypto, what she thinks the US needs for the next wave of growth, her 25 year vision for crypto, her thoughts on KYC and how so many people still can't access crypto. Watch the video version of this interview on YouTube. --- If ...
The Jed McCaleb Story: Founding Stellar, Ripple & the Journey from eDonkey to MtGox
May 28, 2020 09:00 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBJed McCaleb, founder of Mt Gox, Ripple, and Stellar, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Charlie and Jed discuss what has motivated Jed to found pivotal projects in crypto, his work on the file-sharing network eDonkey in the 1990's, other industries that interest Jed such as AI, the spectrum of decentralization, the scaling debate, privacy and fungibility, and Stellar, its validators, partners, and what's up for 2020. Watch the video version of this interview on YouTu...
Petro Dollar Creator Gabriel Jiménez on Revolution and how the Petro Nearly Saved Venezuela
May 26, 2020 11:00 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MBGabriel Jiménez, creator of the Petro Dollar, joins Charlie on today's episode of Untold Stories. Charlie and Gabriel discuss Venezuelan dictator Maduro's interest in cryptocurrency, how Venezuela's economy has floundered and how the dictatorship works, Gabriel's entry into crypto as an entrepreneur in Venezuela, his plan to make crypto legal, how the Petro project started and how it became usurped by the government, and what Venezuela must do to turn around its economy. --- BitPanda Bit...
Medium of Exchange or Store of Value? Bitcoin.com's Mate Tokay Talks a Multi-Coin Future
May 21, 2020 11:00 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBMate Tokay, CEO of Bitcoin.com, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Mate and Charlie discuss Mate's entry into crypto and his founding of Bitcoinist, spending Bitcoin versus saving it, Medium of Exchange or Store of Value, corruption in Hungary, government responses to Coronavirus, the aftermath of the New York Agreement and the Big Block debate, Bitcoin.com, and the future multi-coin world. --- BitPay BitPay gives you the tools to live life on crypto. Whether you ...
Pay Your Rent With Tesla Stock? Steve Ehrlich Voyager CEO on Tokenization and Fungibility
May 19, 2020 11:00 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MBSteve Ehrlich, CEO Of Voyager, joins Charlie Shrem on this episode of Untold Stories. Steve and Charlie discuss the market crash of October 1987 and the trading environment at the time, Steve's transition to crypto, the parallels between online brokerages in the 1990's and the crypto industry, the importance of price discovery, Voyager's culture and technology, their merger with Ethos and going public, tokenization and the maturation of the industry. --- BitPanda Bitpanda is a fintech ba...
What Did Satoshi Get Wrong About Banking? Journalist Ken Kurson Talks Human Psychology
May 14, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 59.4 MBJournalist and Author Ken Kurson joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Ken and Charlie discuss political and financial journalism, Ken's interest in money and finance, the role of institutions in crypto, Ken's links to the President and conversations with people in government about crypto, Ripple and its perception in the crypto community, Ken's history writing about financial literacy, the crypto media, and the 2020 US election. --- BitPay BitPay gives you the tools ...
Too Early or Too Late? Brock Pierce Talks How to Get Market Timing Right
May 12, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBBrock Pierce joins Charlie on this episode of Untold Stories. Brock and Charlie discuss Brock's life as a child actor, growing up with the internet and an entrepreneurial attitude, the lessons learned being a young entrepreneur during the rise of the internet, how to hire and get market timing right, finding his way from managing a large company to creating, moving to Puerto Rico and making an impact, the economic damage caused by Coronavirus and what positive changes can come from it. ---...
Too Early or Too Late? Blockchain Capital's Brock Pierce on How to Get Market Timing Right
May 12, 2020 11:00 - 1 hourBrock Pierce of Blockchain Capital joins Charlie on this episode of Untold Stories. Brock and Charlie discuss Brock's life as a child actor, growing up with the internet and an entrepreneurial attitude, the lessons learned being a young entrepreneur during the rise of the internet, how to hire and get market timing right, finding his way from managing a large company to creating, moving to Puerto Rico and making an impact, the economic damage caused by Coronavirus and what positive changes ca...
COVID Power Grab? Komodo CTO Kadan Stadelmann on Govt Abusing Crisis to Centralize Authority
May 07, 2020 11:00 - 50 minutes - 46.8 MBKadan Stadelmann, CTO of Komodo, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Kadan and Charlie discuss governments focusing on Coronavirus but neglecting cybersecurity, the pandemic challenging ideals of decentralization and free speech, Kadan's early work in crypto and beginning with Komodo, the Bitcointalk forum and its community, growing up in cyberspace and IRC, life with the Coronavirus lockdown, and the Komodo platform's technology. --- BitPay BitPay gives you the too...
Satoshi's Identity in the Bitcoin Code? Ava Labs' Emin Gün Sirer on Bugs, Forks, and Dapps
May 05, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBEmin Gun Sirer, Founder and CEO Ava Labs, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. The professor and Charlie discuss the cryptocurrency the professor worked on in 2002, years before Satoshi Nakamoto, the 2008 financial crisis as the context in which Satoshi released Bitcoin, the events surrounding the DAO hack, criticisms of the scaling wars, tribalism and trolling, what Satoshi's code reveals about his identity, Ava Labs and Avalanche, and Bitcoin-NG. --- BitPanda Bitpa...