Untold Stories presents Jeff Garzik, co-founder of Bloq this week to share his unique story. He previously worked for the open source software Linux and we use a lot of his work on our Android phones today. Jeff has been a ‘plumber’ for the crypto industry, always thinking of ways to develop the underlying infrastructure. He goes on to share his first hand experience dealing with Satoshi from the very start. He explains how he wrote the first CPU miner for Bitcoin. Jeff later discusses the incep...
Jan 21, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 52
This week on Untold Stories, Charlie interviews Andrew Kiguel, CEO of Hut8Mining, a publicly traded company that partnered with Bitfury to create one of the largest BTC miners worldwide. Andrew always focused on how to educate the traditional investor and provide safe exposure to BTC. He has raised $1B through Canada’s capital pool program for the likes of Mike Novogratz and more. Hut8Mining has mined over 12,000 bitcoins so far and the company made over $67M in the first 3 quarters of 2019. The...
Jan 16, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 51
Podcast Guru Peter McCormack, the famous host of “What Bitcoin Did” joins Charlie on Untold Stories for the 50th episode where he speaks in great detail about why podcasts are growing and why they are much better alternatives to mainstream media channels. He shares his Bitcoin purity test and how he has rejected over a million dollars so far in sponsorships from companies he doesn’t believe are ‘net good’ for BTC. Honest and impartial views are what podcasts intend to provide, claims Peter. We a...
Jan 14, 2020•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 50
The Mt. Gox hack was a blessing in disguise because of the many people who came to acknowledge this crypto space after the incident. David Wachsman explains the utmost importance of crypto literacy for the average Joe. He takes the mission on himself to clear up stereotypes and vanquish crypto illiteracy around the world. David is the founder of “Wachsman”, one of the oldest crypto public relation companies. Charlie and David get into an engaging conversation about how educating people about cry...
Jan 09, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 49
Bill Shihara spent 11 years at Microsoft working on the Windows XP Operating System and the Trustworthy Security team, 2 years as Security Engineering Manager at Amazon and Manager of Security Threat Analysis and Security Engineering at BlackBerry for 2 years. He placed it all on the line when his team at Gift BTC disclosed their identity against what was the norm for Bitcoin companies in the early formation stage of the crypto industry when they launched Bittrex Exchange. Days became weeks and ...
Jan 07, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 48
Maxine Ryan, Bitspark’s co-founder joins Charlie to share what’s really going on in Hong Kong and how the media is portraying it. Maxine talks about how crypto companies are responding and wonders about a new crypto focused country, such as Singapore or Taiwan. She mentions that the chaos in Hong Kong has led to the downfall of faith in the banking infrastructure and how people are preferring cash over using a banking facility. Maxine believes that in a scenario like this, Bitcoin could prove to...
Jan 02, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 47
Small and proud Slovenia will come to your mind when hard work in the tech and engineering space is mentioned. Vasja Veber COO & Co-founder of Viberate is a complete embodiment of all that Slovenia stands for. Vasja adopts a systematic approach to handling the chicken-and-egg challenge of building a healthy community and awesome features for the seemingly static music industry with blockchain technology to solve age old problems. Vasja believes in a one-step-at-a-time strategy in leading Vib...
Dec 31, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 46
From the Asian continent, now in America, Tim Byun spent all his professional life in the financial industry, making it through the heat of two turbulent seasons in the financial and crypto space ~ in America first, as a regulator, and next as head of compliance for a virtual asset firm. Tim Byun, CEO at OkCoin, Ex-financial regulator, & ex-Bitpay employee, shares stories of his workday and how he progressed all the way to being the CEO of a leading crypto company. Tim also talks about the g...
Dec 26, 2019•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 45
Starting in the early days of Bitcoin when trust was not in view, hard work, inner fulfillment and a sense of responsibility pushed Marshall Long, one of the pioneers of Bitcoin, founder of Bitcoin Classic, across diverse cultures exploring ways to improve the crypto industry. Standing against the rootless Bitcoin community, Marshall sustained his hard work ethic, enabling him to navigate through Bitcoin mining to found Mockit eSports, a highly competitive video gaming organization. This episode...
Dec 24, 2019•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 44
TradingView’s general manager, Pierce Crosby, shares about what inspired him to found the company and how it has been a super exciting journey since its inception. Charlie and Pierce discuss crypto trading in 2014 and highlights events and current trends shaping the crypto trading ecosystem. Pierce is committed to better retail trading and equity for crypto traders. --- BitPay gives you the tools to live life on crypto. Whether you want to send crypto to friends, use crypto to buy video games or...
Dec 19, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 43
Pascal Gauther, Ledger’s CEO talks the origin of Ledger and how they revolutionized Bitcoin wallets, making a transformational leap from USB sticks to hardware wallets. He discusses in depth the French technology of Ledger. Pascal shows optimism for the future of crypto and emphasizes that they’re in it for the long run. The early players of crypto (Charlie and Pascal) believe there’s a long road ahead, and they discuss the idea of making the world a better place to live in. This episode of Unto...
Dec 17, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 42
The seeds sown at Sanford are still producing fruit in the crypto space. Coinlist CEO & founder Andy Bromberg narrates his blockchain journey from college to Coinlist. He unveils why ICOs died, screening criteria for good crypto projects, regulations, current state of token projects, new approach to crypto fundraising, security tokens, post-release token trade and uncertainty in the blockchain industry. --- BitPay gives you the tools to live life on crypto. Whether you want to send crypto to...
Dec 12, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 41
Kraken's CEO, Jesse Powell, reveals the idea behind how tokens are listed, exchange security, capital efficiency, self-regulation & government support for crypto in Japan. Powell believes more blockchain companies will move to countries with better pro-crypto legislation, adding that Kraken is set to acquire more blockchain companies to stay ahead of the competition. On an 11-year-old Bitcoin, Powell doesn’t see crypto taking over the world in 10 years, but rather sees more acceptance as a s...
Dec 10, 2019•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 40
Do you think you know a lot about crypto? 7 years ago, our guest, Dan Held, started his journey from multiple corporate jumps including Uber and other big corporate players. Dan finally found his passion with blockchain. Even though Dan had a non-technical background, it didn’t stop him from working with top blockchain players and owning his own crypto startup, ZeroBlock. Dan joins Charlie to share his interesting experiences and opinions in the crypto sphere. He breaks the media stereotype of P...
Dec 05, 2019•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 39
20 years ago, Kosovo fought for its liberation and won. My guest, Memli Krasniqi, Vice-President of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) since February 2013, recently spoke with Bill Clinton on the struggles Kosovo has overcome since it won its freedom. Kosovo, with an American friendly attitude and modern infrastructure allowed Memli Krasniqi to invest in Bitcoin early on when Bitcoin was less than $200. Memli Krasniqi, shares about Kosovo’s maximum tax rate of just 10% and how its economy is i...
Dec 03, 2019•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 38
Once a year there is a festival where people can truly be free from the oppression of government. This episode my guest George Mandrik shares how he made a living at the Porcupine Festival selling Baklava. Back in 2012 the Porcupine festival with guns, drugs, and wild parties I met George Mandrik and offered him a job with my company BitInstant. George Mandrik shares his work life with me at BitInstant and his first experience with ASIC mining making him sweat. After I closed my company George m...
Nov 28, 2019•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 37
We all know what the 3 properties of money are, but did you know there is a 4th property of money? Andreas M. Antonopoulos has been a Bitcoin champion since the beginning. In this episode of Untold Stories, Andreas explains what the 4th property of money is and how Bitcoin defeats it. In doing so, the IRS decided to make Bitcoin unusable for retail transactions. Andreas shares how States in the US are regulating more than the Federal government and the positives and negatives it causes for crypt...
Nov 26, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 36
Crypto trading has changed a lot since the beginning. Anyone who joins an exchange today really can’t appreciate how much trading Bitcoin back in the day was like the wild, wild west; full of scams and Ponzi schemes. In this episode, my guest Bitfinex CTO, Paolo Ardoino shares with me the innovations he’s used to improve the Bitfinex platform and prevent hacking. After the Bitfinex hack, I found their decision to spread the loss across their user base through an exchange created token morally qu...
Nov 21, 2019•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 35
Have you ever wondered what measures exchanges take to prevent or stop hacking? In this episode, my close friend Konstantin Gladych founder of Changelly & CEO of AtomicWallet gives us insights on what goes on behind the scenes when an exchange gets hacked. He talks about his decision to leave Changelly and create AtomicWallet and why AtomicWallet starts with an A. Kona explains why he has a Love/Hate for Libra and we both agree that government shouldn’t tell us what to think of other nations...
Nov 19, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 34
Do you feel like it’s too late to get into crypto? In this episode financial guru Kris Marszalek shares how he worked with Visa card from the financial technology sector in 2016 to bring fungibility to crypto currencies. I share my mistakes in trying to do the same in 2013. Starting in Hong Kong, Kris Marszalik talks about the phenomenal growth of crypto.com and the deep data insights user transactions show. As a financial and crypto expert Kris gives his view of how his products help bring priv...
Nov 14, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 33
Going to federal prison was one of the toughest things I’ve ever done. Fortunately, my guest on this episode, Michael Kimelman, had already experienced it and was able to give me sound advice. We both discuss the path that led us to prison and our different strategies of fighting through trial vs. admitting guilt. Michael exposes the corruption in the federal court system and how he was targeted because of political motivations. Having a higher education Michael tried to make good use of his tim...
Nov 12, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 32
In this episode Vinny Lingham gives an outline of how Bitcoin could collapse the world economy and be banned forever. As the founder of Gyft, he shares how allowing gift card purchases using Bitcoin gave him deep metrics and insights into the usage and movements of Bitcoin. Charlie and Vinny discuss how Vinny’s creation of Civic Coin affects privacy and what’s the difference between privacy and anonymity. Vinny shares his critical points on entrepreneurship grit and how to be successful over the...
Nov 07, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 31
Have you met someone who has fundamentally changed your worldview? In this episode of Untold Stories, Charlie Shrem talks with Erik Voorhees, who was the poster boy for bitcoinism before he launched Shapeshift. With a goal to change the financial system of the world, Erik knows that bitcoin is going to take over the world... and when it does, the federal reserve is going away. However, Erik also knows that world with multiple cryptocurrencies that compliment each other or compete with each other...
Oct 29, 2019•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 29
Satoshi may have invented Bitcoin, but it was trailblazer and BnkToTheFuture Founder Simon Dixon who laid the groundwork for crypto-innovators to raise capital in the emerging space. But Simon isn’t doing battle with the traditional banking system as much as he is helping to create a way around it to a better monetary future. Early on, he saw clearly how Bitcoin could solve the problems he was, at the time, writing about in his book “Bank to the Future.” In it, he detailed traditional monetary p...
Oct 15, 2019•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 28
Join Charlie and BitPay Founder and CEO Stephen Pair, who gave up a brilliant career with IBM to found BitPay, the oldest crypto payment company. They share their unique perspectives on Satoshi, the gorgeous simplicity of the white paper and how it gave rise to Bitcoin, using existing technology and coding language. They tackle the role of banks in crypto and the pros and cons of mining Bitcoin versus buying it. Stephen also talks about the thinking behind BitPay, building the platform and the l...
Oct 08, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 27
Join Charlie and eToro CEO Yoni Assia, who at 25, founded the company that leveled the playing field for investors, eliminating the need for middlemen and giving regular people the tools to grow wealth. Yoni has an idea and a vision for a new future of wealth in which blockchain and a crypto-backed universal basic income play a role. He is an oracle on the topic of global wealth and income, having seen the current state of the global economy long before others. In 2008, he wrote about a transpar...
Oct 01, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 25
Few Crypto OGs have the chops of Charlie Lee. He founded Litecoin and spent his early career at Google and Coinbase. These days, he spreads the gospel of Litecoin through the Litecoin Foundation and is a respected voice on Crypto Twitter. -----This episode of Untold Stories is sponsored by Scott Offord, a broker of ASIC mining gear and the creator of CryptoMining . You can find him on twitter @offordscott . -----This episode of Untold Stories is sponsored by eToro , the smartest crypto trading p...
Sep 24, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 24
Bobby Lee, Genuine Bitcoin OG and Founder of Bitcoin China Introduces Ballet Wallet, the first non-electric wallet for the tech novices to geeks. He talks to Charlie about its unique features and functionality as well as diving into China’s unique and evolving relationship with Bitcoin. -----This episode of Untold Stories is sponsored by Scott Offord, a broker of ASIC mining gear and the creator of CryptoMining . You can find him on twitter @offordscott . -----This episode of Untold Stories is s...
Sep 17, 2019•56 min•Ep. 23
Rajeev Chandrasekhar is a member of the Indian Parliament and a billionaire. Five years into helping retool the Indian government, Rajeev talks about how technology is changing life in India and the world, including: How the crypto revolution is well underway, parallels between the 1980s early internet and early crypto, dealing with “anti-innovators,” the benefits of self-regulation before government regulation, and how India is moving toward regulatory and legal frameworks for crypto and privac...
Sep 10, 2019•54 min•Ep. 22
Charlie and Blockstream’s Samson Mow discuss Bitcoin surviving China’s attempts to stifle it and the quirkiness of the crypto space, including:The Bitcoin Deep StateFees and Network SecurityTroll Armies and Why There’s Not One for Bitcoin Bitcoin Blockchain, Liquid and LightningThe False Narrative Around Bitcoin Energy UseThe Uncalculated Energy Use of Gold and FiatThe Trade Off Between Privacy and ConvenienceThe Big Block BandwagonBitcoin.com Bait and SwitchBags, Hope and Maintaining the Party ...
Sep 03, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 20
