Dan 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, destroying...
Sep 08, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 118
Samantha 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, Decrypt Me...
Sep 03, 2020•45 min•Ep. 117
Cedric 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, tracking...
Sep 01, 2020•59 min•Ep. 116
Carylyne 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 rewards,...
Aug 27, 2020•50 min•Ep. 115
Tyler 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 crypto ...
Aug 25, 2020•50 min•Ep. 114
Bart 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 fair, t...
Aug 20, 2020•56 min•Ep. 113
Stina 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 card is c...
Aug 18, 2020•46 min•Ep. 112
Roger 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 professiona...
Aug 13, 2020•53 min•Ep. 111
Chrissa 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 contactl...
Aug 11, 2020•39 min•Ep. 110
Will 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. ––– Bitpay...
Aug 04, 2020•58 min•Ep. 108
David 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 chip, a...
Jul 28, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 106
Tron 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 fun, f...
Jul 23, 2020•56 min•Ep. 105
Jonathan 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. It has ...
Jul 21, 2020•46 min•Ep. 104
Bobby 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, m...
Jul 16, 2020•53 min•Ep. 103
Amos 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. It has...
Jul 14, 2020•54 min•Ep. 103
BlockFi 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 profess...
Jul 09, 2020•58 min•Ep. 101
CoinCorner 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 new featu...
Jul 07, 2020•59 min•Ep. 100
JP 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 knew fi...
Jul 02, 2020•52 min•Ep. 99
Beni 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 of ne...
Jun 30, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 98
Jonathan 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 has conta...
Jun 25, 2020•49 min•Ep. 97
Bad 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 features. It ...
Jun 23, 2020•58 min•Ep. 96
Dr. 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. ––– Bitpay...
Jun 18, 2020•51 min•Ep. 95
1st 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, long ...
Jun 16, 2020•47 min•Ep. 94
Francis 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 with y...
Jun 11, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 93
Ray 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 with you...
Jun 09, 2020•51 min•Ep. 92
Brittany 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 as a p...
Jun 04, 2020•51 min•Ep. 91
Catherine 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 you enj...
Jun 02, 2020•54 min•Ep. 90
Jed 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 YouTube . -...
May 28, 2020•47 min•Ep. 89
Gabriel 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 Bitpanda is...
May 26, 2020•59 min•Ep. 88
Mate 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 want to s...
May 21, 2020•51 min•Ep. 87
