As marketing technologists and futurists, we attempt to see pinpoint the trends that are going to impact the masses. With the current social media landscape being in a constant state of controversy, it seems that the market is primed for disruption. We think the newest attempt by Block.one may be the social media site that finally brings social media to blockchain in a significant way. In fact, we’re so down with this that we are starting a new show based on what Block.one is calling EOS Voice. ...
Jul 13, 2019•36 min
Today we welcome our favorite Irish crypto enthusiast, Jillian Godsil, to the show. Known to some as the Crypto Queen, Jillian has made a mark in the crypto world through her writings, speeches and leadership. We discuss the importance of having women in blockchain and toss in a few bad Irish accents. Ours are bad. Hers is real. It’s the top o’ the morning and kiss our blarney stones episode #284 of The Bad Crypto Podcast. Full Show Notes at: http://badco.in/284 SUBSCRIBE, RATE, & REVIEW: Ap...
Jul 11, 2019•41 min•Season 1Ep. 284
Crypto wallets. What once started as storing your Bitcoin on a piece of paper has evolved into using apps and hardware to become the new secure storage facilities. Some software wallets are pretty basic, but others are upping their game by providing the ability to store multiple assets, swap cryptos on the fly and to facilitate the buying and selling of cryptos. Paul Puey has created one such wallet and it’s called Edge. Today we welcome Paul to the show to discuss not only his product, but also...
Jul 08, 2019•51 min•Season 1Ep. 283
Swapping cryptos should be as easy as clicking a button, right? Well with services like Changelly, that’s the point. And Eric Benz, the CEO of Changelly is with us today to discuss making crypto easy-to-use for the masses. We’re also super pumped to be welcoming Eric Tippetts of NASGO to the show today. A platform designed to help artists, influencers, small businesses and small-to-medium enterprises, retail chains, government entities and even sovereign nations become tokenized, this is one cry...
Jul 04, 2019•58 min•Season 1Ep. 282
It was way back on episode #100 that we first encountered John McAfee. It was… interesting. And then on episode #200 we welcomed Sir Mac back to the show for a second go around. It was interesting and entertaining. Well guess what? It’s time for a third go around with crypto’s wacky truthsayer. Does that mean this is episode #300? In our hearts it is, but we’re not quite there yet. But John has so much to say, and let’s face it, with him on the run from the US government there’s no telling where...
Jul 01, 2019•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 281
Blockfolio. It’s the addictive app that has us swiping down many times each day to see the current price of cryptocurrencies. 5 million users track more than 8000 coins and tokens in the app every day. You are likely one of them. Today we welcome Edward Moncada, the CEO and co-founder of Blockfolio, to the show. From Blockfolio’s unprecedented growth to Travis’ Nintendonitis, we’ve got an informative and entertaining discussion to bring your way. Also, we discovered a unique application of block...
Jun 27, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 280
If you aren’t into gaming, you might not be aware that every year millions of people buy, sell and trade virtual items online. In-game currency, virtual weapons or armor and character skins are some just of the digital items that people buy with real-world currency. The Worldwide Asset eXchange gives people access to a global community of collectors and traders, buyers and sellers, creators and gamers, merchants, dApp creators, and game developers. Today we welcome William Quigley of WAX to the ...
Jun 24, 2019•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 279
Just when you thought you were dealing with game-changing, cutting-edge technology with Blockchain, someone has to come along and say “wait a minute.. We can do better.” And that’s exactly what the folks at Hedera believe. Inventors of the Hashgraph tech, Hedera intends to make distributed concensus fast, fair and secure. And in case that’s not enough nerdiness for you, we’re going to kick it up a notch by introducing you to Nigel Smart. A Professor of Cryptography, Nigel lives up to his name an...
Jun 20, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 278
Old McToshi had a startup, EIEIO. And for that startup he needed cash, EIEIO. With a crowdfund here and a crowdfund there, here a block, there a chain, everywhere a blockchain. Yes, Old McToshi needed cash, but how to raise you know? In the past we’ve discussed ICOs and STOs, but today we enter the realm of the IEO, the Initial Exchange Offering. And we’re joined by Lionel Iruk, Managing Partner at Empire Global Partners, to help make sense of this latest form of crypto crowdfunding. Remember, i...
Jun 17, 2019•42 min•Season 1Ep. 277
Cryptocurrency. The promise of decentralized money that would bring power back to the people. Just imagine how much good can take place as a result? Unfortunately, anywhere financial gain makes an appearance, people with only their own profit in mind show up to capitalize on it. There’s nothing wrong with making profit. But what if you could do good by helping non-profits prosper in the new crypto world? We’ve invited Alex Wilson and Patrick Duffy from The Giving Block to join us at the mic. The...
Jun 13, 2019•49 min•Season 1Ep. 276
North America, South America, Europe, Australia, Asia and Africa. Yes, cryptocurrency is the revolution heard around the world. Ok, Antarctica too. And today we’re pleased to welcome our friend Ran Neuner to the show. Host of CNBC Africa’s wildly popular The Crypto Trader Show, Ran has a great story to tell. And a great accent with which to tell it. No matter what time of day you are listening, we’re about to have a Neuner. See, we’re always thinking of you. It’s episode #275 of The Bad Crypto P...
Jun 10, 2019•54 min•Season 1Ep. 275
What’s one way to know that mainstream crypto adoption is on the way? Not only does mainstream news report on it more frequently, but some filmmakers find it fascinating and begin documenting the industry. There are a number of blockchain-related documentaries now in the works and today we welcome Shannon Grinnell to the show to discuss her project, The New Internet. Twenty years from now a public completely used to using crypto will be viewing these documentaries and saying “remember when they ...
Jun 06, 2019•39 min•Season 1Ep. 274
What does decentralized governance mean for the future of humanity? How will blockchain upgrade Web 2.0 to Web 3.0? And is Coke really better than Pepsi? Today we welcome Jeremy Musighi of Immutable Capital to the show to discuss two out of three of the questions I just asked. He knows quite a bit about blockchains, but we’re not sure if he is a soda expert. As for us, well we’re just two dudes talking crypto and we’re going off the blockchain for episode #273 of The Bad Crypto Podcast. Full Sho...
Jun 03, 2019•38 min•Season 1Ep. 273
You don’t get the title futurist by doing what everyone else is doing. You get it by trying new things and playing with the new toys before all the other kids. So in the spirit of trying something new, today’s episode was recorded live on a very cool podcast app called Castbox.fm. Their new Livecast feature allowed us to cover the news for the week with a live studio audience. And it was super fun to read people’s comments and receive call-ins for this show. We talked about Bitcoin hitting new h...
May 31, 2019•50 min
Money can buy a lot of things. Many financial advisors will tell you to diversify and invest some of your funds in precious metals. Both Travis and I like gold, as does Andreas Kalteis, CEO of NovemGold. They are seeking to change how gold is bought, sold and stored around the world. Another thing money can buy can be purchased legally in some places… and not so much in others. While I was away in Toronto, Travis commandeered the mic and interviewed Michael Wagner and Gabriel Allred from Tokes P...
May 30, 2019•52 min•Season 1Ep. 272
Building blockchains ain’t easy. There’s programming to be programmed. There’s coding to be coded. There’s blocking to be blockified. The truth is, I don’t understand that part of it all that well. But Ark.io does. And they’ve developed a new push-button system that allows anyone to deploy their own blockchain quickly and easily. We met with Travis Walker and Justin Renken of Ark at Consensus in New York, and today we will share that discussion with you. We knew a little about Ark before the int...
May 27, 2019•47 min•Season 1Ep. 271
It’s a cold and rainy day in New York City, but crypto and blockchain enthusiasts from all over the world are here for the continents’ biggest crypto event of the year, Consensus 2019 We’re encased in a see-through podcast booth, almost like animals in a zoo. And we’ve got a number of fantastic guests here to discuss their blockchain projects. You’ll learn about Bravocoin.com, a blockchain-based alternative to Yelp. Nick Saponora from DIVI Project pops in for a quick update. And we’ve finally ha...
May 23, 2019•49 min•Season 1Ep. 270
Advertising, content marketing, social media marketing, e-commerce and data. What do these marketing technologies have in common? All of them are poised for serious disruption as their blockchain equivalents are beginning to surface. Today, we welcome Donny Dvorin of NeverStopMarketing to the show to examine the blockchain mar-tech landscape. We’ll also recap our experience at Consensus 2019 and perhaps sing a lyric or two from a Beatles’ song. It’s all in a day’s work in the Republic of Bad Cry...
May 21, 2019•46 min•Season 1Ep. 269
It's actually a cool sunny day in New York City and Mr. Travis Wright and what's left of his voice and I are in New York for consensus. The continent's largest blockchain event and we are talked out and yet we love you so much that we're here to present an episode. Get ready for a great interview with the folks from Blueshare.io all about security tokens in this episode number 268, of The Bad Crypto Podcast. Full Show Notes at: http://badco.in/268 SUBSCRIBE, RATE, & REVIEW: Apple Podcast: ht...
May 16, 2019•31 min•Season 1Ep. 268
When you think of crypto exchanges, which do you think are the best? Binance? HITBtc? Bittrex? Gemini? Wouldn’t it be good to have objective data on which crypto exchanges get the highest ratings for legitimacy and which are more on the questionable side? On Yavin of Cointelligence has some great data that will open your eyes. They’ve done some great work evaluating exchanges in some key metric areas. As they say, “knowledge is power.”We’re going to open the firehouse of crypto info and sillines...
May 13, 2019•45 min•Season 1Ep. 267
Binance is the latest crypto hack victim, with over $40 million in Bitcoin stolen. Fidelity is really close to rolling out institutional Bitcoin trading. And Facebook continues to work on their own crypto. We’ve got the latest blockchain news you need to know. Regardless of your politics, religion, race, creed or hamburger preference, we welcome all to the Republic of Bad Cryptopia. It’s a happy, shiny crypto Utopia where all join hands and sing KumByBitcoin. Except for Roger Ver. He sings KumBy...
May 09, 2019•41 min•Season 1Ep. 266
Imagine believing in Bitcoin so much that you sold everything you had and pledged to live the truly decentralized life. That describes Didi Taihuttu perfectly. Sell the house! Sell the car! Sell the kids! Wait, don’t sell the kids! Today, we’ll speak with Didi about what motivated him to sell all the things and live the bitcoin life. We’ll also hit you up with a BADcoin update, and maybe we’ll burst into song. You never can tell. You don’t have to sell everything to listen to this show. In fact,...
May 06, 2019•47 min•Season 1Ep. 265
What if domain names were truly useful in the blockchain space? If Brad Kam of Unstoppable Domains has his way, we’ll be sending crypto to domain names, as easy as email, instead of super-long and confusing wallet addresses.And what happens when research on exchanges reveals questionable trades? It makes the crypto markets look icky. And Dmitry of Cryptointegrity isn’t pulling any punches.In other words, it’s about to get all real here my friends. Just remember, we are but two humble podcast hos...
May 02, 2019•32 min•Season 1Ep. 264
How long have you been listening to Bad Crypto? Are you a card-carrying member of the Republic of Bad Cryptopia or are you new to show?We thought it would be a good time to do a refresher on some blockchain basics. And to help us out, we’ve invited Peter Kent, author of Cryptocurrency Mining for Dummies” book, to the show. We think Peter explains blockchain better than we do, so we’re going to let him do a lot of talking. And besides, he’s British, so his accent is fabulous.Grab your tea and cru...
Apr 29, 2019•36 min•Season 1Ep. 263
It started as token designed to serve our community. It was worthless. And people trading Badcoin on the bitshares exchange quickly discovered that when we said worthless… we meant it. But what started as a joke, soon became the seed of an idea that has now come to fruition. The BADcoin blockchain has officially launched, and we’re pleased to announce that it is a mineable token that you can start mining right now! Today we will discuss how to get your BAD wallet, swap out your old Bitshares Bad...
Apr 26, 2019•44 min
There’s nothing like surrounding yourself with people smarter than yourself. And that’s exactly what we are experiencing now as we are onstage at the Paris Blockchain Week Summit!Attended by over 1500 people at the incomparable Station F, the team has done a great job of putting together a first-rate event packed with knowledge.Today we’re pleased to show you the future of trading crypto futures, as we welcome Adam Todd of Digitex Futures to the show. We’re just two Americans in Paris, spreading...
Apr 25, 2019•56 min•Season 1Ep. 262
Mass crypto adoption will take place when it become simple and easy to buy, sell and store tokens. Viktor Radchenko, founder of Trust Wallet, intends to play a role in making this happen. Now owned by Binance, Trust Wallet is helping the massive crypto exchange continue its mission to make cryptocurrency easy to use and give users full control over their digital assets. What’s in your wallet? Hopefully lots of shiny tokens. Join us for episode #261 of The Bad Crypto Podcast. Full Show Notes at: ...
Apr 22, 2019•33 min•Season 1Ep. 261
While United States citizens await official approval of ETFs by the securities and exchange commission and rulings on the future of cryptos from other government agencies, some states are taking matters into their own hands. The great state of Wyoming is leading the way by passing pro-blockchain legislation that the governor is signing.Today we welcome Caitlin Long to the show. She’s been leading the charge to make Wyoming a haven for blockchain companies and she’s having an impact.The social me...
Apr 18, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 260
Do we have fans of the hit TV show Shark Tank in the house? If so, you’re going to be as excited as we are today. We have the pleasure of welcoming one of the original sharks to the show. Kevin Harrington has gone down the crypto rabbit hole and is an advisor on a number of blockchain projects.As the pioneer of the television infomercial and an entrepreneur who has launched more than $5 billion dollar in products, you’ll want to lean in and listen closely as Kevin shares his thoughts.We’ve also ...
Apr 15, 2019•41 min•Season 1Ep. 259
Are the robots going to take over? Or can AI and blockchain calm our fears about this? Jen Greyson has thoughts on this and more. As one of the Top 8 women in Crypto, Founder of the Blockchain Sisterhood, and CEO/Founder of CO.CO--the "Airbnb" of office space, Jen proposes that women are the answer to crypto adoption. We’ll discuss why, and you aren’t likely to get an argument from us. We’re packing our bags for Paris, but here’s a show before we go. Ooh la la! It’s episode #258 of the world’s m...
Apr 11, 2019•40 min•Season 1Ep. 258
