I recently ran into Tatiana Moroz, of Crypto Media Hub while we were in Las Vegas together for the Unconfiscatable conference. Tatiana is one of the coolest people in the Bitcoin ecosystem. She throws great dinner parties with awesome guests. If she's not the one throwing the party, she always knows where the best one is. Oh, did I mention she can sing and play guitar. On top of all this, she's a great person and a pleasure to speak with too. On this occasion, we got to chat about maximalism and...
Feb 08, 2019•15 min
Of all the people to run into during the Unconfiscatable conference in Las Vegas, it was awesome to see Scott Bambacigno. Alphapoint Scott, as he's known, is one of the first people I remember being involved in a crypto company as early as 2014. Not only is he a rockstar amongst his peers, he is a founding member of Alphapoint. Alphapoint is one of those companies that you probably don't know exists. It's a software company with one of its main focuses on helping its clients build crypto exchang...
Feb 07, 2019•16 min
Ep 53 - Unconfiscatable with Gabe Higgins - BlockSpaces Here we are at the Unconfiscatable conference in Las Vegas. I've been pleasantly surprised with the venue, quality of content and the the number of familiar faces. One of those faces belonged to Gabe Higgins. Gabe and I have been crossing paths since 2013 on twitter and 2015 at events and through the Edge Slack channel as Ambassadors. Gabe is such a great guy. He has the type of values and big picture vision that make him someone you want t...
Feb 06, 2019•17 min
On this episode of LAB Radio we talked global remittances, markets, market making and how to use the Blockchain to help the cash-in and cash-out businesses. We brought on George Harrap, CEO and co-founder of Bitspark, a bank-less money transfer ecosystem. Bitspark enables businesses and people to cash in and cash out of cryptocurrencies and fiat across developing nations (and is enabling liquidity for 150+ foreign currencies) George Harrap, CEO and co-founder of Bitspark "A Cryptocurrency and Bl...
Feb 05, 2019•1 hr 18 min
On this inaugural OG Crypto Series episode, I, Chris Groshong sit down with Managing Partner at Stillmark Capital, Alyse Killeen to discuss what it takes to have longevity in the Crypto and Blockchain industry. This is a new series we're launching called The "Crypto OG Series" where I tap into my rolodex of VIPs, movers and shakers from the Blockchain space that have been around the industry and share their knowledge, perspective and philosophies. In this one, we talk about Venture Capital in Cr...
Jan 30, 2019•54 min
This episode of LAB Radio was a part of our coverage of CryptoBlockcon where Chris Groshong interviewed Erin Nakamoto. As described on Erin's website , here's a brief bio: "My story is a relatively short one. I was working in DTLV in the group sales department of the D Las Vegas in 2014 when they announced to the staff that they were now accepting bitcoin for payment. They had us open a Blockchain wallet, told us not to lose our passwords (private keys) and gave us all a small amount. That same ...
Jan 16, 2019•13 min
This episode of LAB Radio was a part of our coverage of CryptoBlockcon where Chris Groshong interviewed Adam Koltun, Lead Business Strategist of Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL). Chris Groshong (left), CEO of CoinStructive Inc, and Adam Koltun (right), Lead Business Strategist of Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL) As Adam so eloquently put it in their recap blog post , the conference itself was a cornucopia of very different industries squished together in an expansive venue: "The event was held at th...
Dec 28, 2018•30 min
On this LAB Radio , episode Aaron Mangal and Chris Groshong talk security, the Internet and origin story of how MetaCert helps protect users from malicious links with CEO and founder, Paul Walsh. Paul Walsh, CEO and founder of MetaCert and co-founder of W3C Mobile Web Initiative Paul is an early web pioneer in security and safety for users having helped create projects like the W3C Mobile Web Initiative who's mission includes "ensuring that the Web be available on as many kind of devices as poss...
Dec 04, 2018•1 hr 8 min
On this LAB Radio , episode Aaron Mangal talks technology, Blockchain and BUIDLing with Barbara Bickham , founder of Trailyn Ventures and the International Blockchain Accelerator . Barbara Bickham is a CTO, Investor and Entrepreneur and founder of the International Blockchain Accelerator Barbara is a Berkley, University of Chicago Alumni, coder, CTO and Technology Advisor with extensive experience across industries like: FinTech, Fashion, Wearables, Wireless, Security, Media and Entertainment, A...
Nov 28, 2018•1 hr 2 min
On this LAB Radio , episode Chris Groshong talks shop with Jeff Zhou, founder of TrustNote , a mineable public DAG ledger with a two-tier consensus mechanism. (Cryptographic Algorithms: BLAKE2, BIP32-Ed25519) The architecture is designed for high concurrent transactions and confirmation times. Jeff Zhou, Founder of TrustNote Jeff's background began with chip making and eventually led him to realizing the lack of scalability with Bitcoin: "A few years back Jeff Zhou started working on blockchain ...
Nov 19, 2018•54 min
On this LAB Radio , episode Aaron Mangal chats with Kylan Hurt about the life as a developer at Edge wallet, a multi-currency wallet with baked in secure Single Sign-On (SSO) functionality. We discuss how he became a developer, building a wallet, programming various code bases (like Javascript) and other topics from a dev's perspective. Kylan Hurt, Software Engineer at Edge Kylan is a Software Engineer for Edge Wallet, a team that develops a multi-cryptocurrency wallet software and application. ...
Nov 13, 2018•53 min
On this LAB Radio , episode Chris Groshong chats with Will McDonough, founder of iCash which provides a Proof of Trust Protocol (PoT). This enables powerful use cases like smart contract validation, settlement and Blockchain insurance. Will McDonough, founder of iCash Will McDonough is an investor and entrepreneur whose storied career ranges from sports and entertainment management to the world of global finance. In 2014, McDonough led the Initial Public Offering for Atlas Mara (ATMA:LSE) with c...
Nov 06, 2018•48 min
On this LAB Radio , episode Aaron Mangal discusses Blockchain Regulation and the legal side of things with Morvareed Salehpour. Morvareed Salehpour, Attorney and Speaker Morvareed Z. Salehpour specializes in handling a diverse range of complex legal matters both in and outside the courtroom. She is experienced in negotiating a variety of contracts and legal agreements and litigating cases from inception to trial and appeal. She has represented companies and individuals in a variety of industries...
Oct 25, 2018•53 min
On this LAB Radio , episode Aaron Mangal discusses creating rare digital art on the Blockchain as well as the myriad of platforms out there for artists. Our guest this week is Joe Chiappetta, cartoonist, comic book author and artist. Joe Chiappetta, Author, Cartoonist, Blockchain Art Creator Joe Chiappetta has been involved in cartooning and publishing since the mid-1980s, creating comics and art that reflect something positive about life. As an author, Chiappetta has won many awards, including ...
Oct 17, 2018•57 min
On this LAB Radio , episode Aaron Mangal discusses Spark, a web and mobile payments platform and decentralized exchange (DEX) powered by Graphene and built on BitShares. Maxine Ryan, Spark's Chief Operations Officer, discusses the platform and a variety of concepts including the components of a DEX and the process of moving from Spark from Bitcoin to BitShares. Maxine Ryan, COO and co-founder of Spark Maxine Ryan is a Hong Kong-based entrepreneur who is passionate about the freedom of financial ...
Oct 09, 2018•47 min
On this LAB Radio , episode Aaron Mangal discuss Blockdaemon, a three-click Blockchain node deployment and cloud platform with Konstantin Richter, the CEO and founder. Konstantin is a technology Entrepreneur in the Telecom, SaaS, and the B2B space. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, he was an executive at Deutsche Telekom and Nokia in software/services strategy and business development. He is also fluent in 4 languages. Konstantin Richter, CEO and founder of Blockdaemon Blockdaemon is a node dep...
Oct 03, 2018•47 min
In this episode of LAB Radio , Chris Groshong and Aaron Mangal discuss the NEO Global Capital fund, investing in Asia, emerging markets and the Blockchain. Roger Lim, Partner at NEO Global Capital Roger is an experienced angel and blockchain investor, entrepreneur and technologist. He previously founded Webvisions, a managed cloud hosting company which he sold to a private equity firm. He is an advisor for Bluzelle, Qlink, CoinFi, Selfkey, TheKey, Tomocoin, 0Chain, nOS, Open Platform. Roger is n...
Sep 26, 2018•42 min
In this episode of LAB Radio , Aaron Mangal discusses the Bitshares ecosystem, the Graphene engine that underlies it and algorithms like Delegated Proof of Stake (DPOS) with Kevin Messerly. Graphene was originally designed by Daniel Larimer who also founded Steemit and EOS. Kevin Messerly, Proxy and DEXBot Team Manager "I have six years experience as a cryptocurrency investor and advocate. Additionally, I have four years experience as a sales executive/account manager with a track record of high...
Sep 19, 2018•1 hr 1 min
In this episode of LAB Radio , Aaron Mangal discusses Interactive and Tokenized Television with Gavin Douglas, CEO and co-founder of iPowow. "Our early vision was conceived on a surf beach in Australia, ‘… to give millions of television viewers the power to interact with their favorite TV show and to affect the story, second by second’. Since then we’ve been expanding around the world, transforming tens of thousands of hours of live TV, taped TV and live stream shows into exciting participation ...
Sep 12, 2018•47 min
In this episode of LAB Radio , Aaron Mangal discusses Spl.yt , a decentralized marketplace protocol, with CEO and founder Cyrus Taghehchian. Cyrus Taghehchian, CEO and Founder at Spl.yt Cyrus Taghehchian is the co-founder and CEO of Spl.yt, a decentralized marketplace protocol. Cyrus, a Deloitte Consulting alum, is a world-class consultant, co-active coach and Lean-Agile thought leader who has helped C-level and executives improve their organizations’ product management processes, development pr...
Sep 04, 2018•1 hr 8 min
In this episode, Aaron Mangal discusses the Coinigy platform with Derek Urben, CFO of Coinigy, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Coinigy is a cross-exchange charting, portfolio management, trading, and research platform. Using a monthly subscription model, Coinigy allows users a wide cornucopia of data sets and access to exchanges including the possibility to execute trades through a secure Application Programming Interface (API). Derek Urben, CFO, Coinigy Coinigy's reach stretches across m...
Aug 29, 2018•39 min
In this episode, Aaron Mangal explores the concept of User Experience (UX) with Vitalik Demin, Software Program Manager, and Information Architect at ZenCash. Vitalik Demin, Software Program Manager, Information Architect at ZenCash "My passion is to fix and improve processes and technologies that are broken and not intuitive to use. I see process end-to-end and drive inefficiencies out by re-engineering the flow, building technology solutions, and ensuring the user experience is impeccable." Us...
Aug 14, 2018•1 hr 1 min
In this episode, Aaron Mangal and Tim Francisco of CoinStructive, caught up with Paul Puey, co-founder and CEO of Edge (formerly AirBitz), a security platform and multi-coin wallet and key management system. Paul Puey, co-founder of Edge (formerly AirBitz) "Paul is a proud Electrical Engineering and Computer Science graduate of UC Berkeley with a wide range of technical skills from low-level 3D graphics engineering to development of custom web CMS systems, even before people knew what a CMS was....
Aug 08, 2018•1 hr 43 min
In this episode, we’re at the Beyond Blocks in Seoul (the "capital city"), Korea. Chris Groshong, CEO of CoinStructive, caught up with Jack Tan of Kronos Token, a platform aimed at allowed token holders to access to elite trading strategies through a built-in trading desk. Kronos helps to bridge the gap between retail untrained investors and the elite 1% who have unfair access to the majority of global wealth, where they just get richer. Kronos disagrees with this premise. To solve this problem,...
Aug 02, 2018•1 hr 2 min
In this episode, we’re at the RISE conference at Asia's World City, Hong Kong. We caught up with a company called Bucket Technologies that aims to help us deal with the issues and costs of handling physical change. Francis Hwang, Daniel Kam, Mac Ling (left, Bucket Technologies) and Chris Groshong (right, CoinStructive Inc.) Bucket is a "digital piggy bank platform" which aims to bridge the worlds of coinless cash transactions. Bucket alleviates the stress and significant costs associated with th...
Jul 27, 2018•1 hr 2 min
In this episode, we’re in the thick of Korea Blockchain week for our roadshow and we wanted to introduce you to one of the top movers, shakers and connectors, named Andrew Lee. Andrew Lee (pictured left) and Chris Groshong (pictured right) Andrew has an MBA and Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting and Economics from The Wharton School | University of Pennsylvania. He's built an extensive professional and personal network worldwide, having spent 15 years in Asia and the rest in the U.S. In th...
Jul 25, 2018•34 min
Today we are exploring a fascinating intersection of disciplines, Cryptocurrency and Economics, called Cryptoeconomics (aka Cryptonomics or Tokenomics). To help dig deeper into these concepts we brought on Stephanie Hurder, a Harvard educated PhD economist, who is also a founding economist of the Prysm Group, a consulting firm focused on economic and governance. Stephanie is a Harvard-educated economist specializing in human capital, market design, and the future of work. While at the Boston Con...
Jul 17, 2018•53 min
In today's episodes, we are going to explore some of the complexities of a Security vs. Utility token which are fresh on our minds after the recent SEC announcement about Ether and Bitcoin not being considered securities. William Hinman, the SEC's Director of Corporate Finance made the announcement: “Strictly speaking the token, the coin, whatever the digital information packet is being called all by itself, we don’t think is a security. Just as oranges in the Howey case were not securities. Ess...
Jul 11, 2018•1 hr 7 min
David Bleznak is the founder and CEO of Totle, a Cryptocurrency Portfolio Manager and Decentralized Exchange (DEX) aggregator. David grew up in Michigan with a background in real estate and business management. Totle searches for the best prices across a variety of exchanges and executes on your behalf Totle is a DEX Aggregator that pools the liquidity of the top ERC-20 token decentralized exchanges (DEX) by finding and executing a buy or sell at the best price in real time. After listening to t...
Jul 03, 2018•32 min
Kelley Weaver is a young entrepreneur and founder of Melrose PR, a leading crypto and blockchain public relations and content marketing agency based in Los Angeles, California. Kelley has been featured and quoted by the LA Times, Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, Inc, LA Business Journal, Business Rockstars, and many more. Kelley routinely writes thought leadership pieces about blockchain for Forbes and The Huffington Post. She is the host of Crypto Token Talk, a podcast for those looking to enter ...
Jun 26, 2018•55 min
