My guest today is my friend Jacques Voorhees, the Founder and CEO of Icecap. Icecap is a Blockchain-Based Diamond Marketplace. Icecap uses Ethereum-based, non-fungible tokens to represent ownership of individual diamonds. Jacques Voorhees is a serial entrepreneur, prior to Icecap, founded and was the past president of Polygon, one of the most disruptive initiatives to hit the diamond industry in the last fifty years. We discussed the history of diamonds as an alternative asset, how diamonds are ...
Jan 05, 2021•38 min•Ep. 150
My guest today is Brandon Mintz, Founder and CEO of Bitcoin Depot. Brandon has spent his whole career in the crypto-space. He began his career by starting Cash To Crypto, which became one of the first professional OTC crypto trading companies in the world. Following the success with Cash to Crypto, in 2016 Brandon founded his current company, Bitcoin Depot. Bitcoin Depot currently has hundreds of Crypto ATMs across the U.S. and is the fastest growing as well as one of the most respected names in...
Dec 29, 2020•41 min•Ep. 149
My guest today is my friend Charles Silver, CEO of Permission.IO an e-commerce platform where instead of merchants paying centralized third-party platforms to engage consumers, merchants compensate consumers for their time and data directly with ASK cryptocurrency. The platform enables businesses to connect with individuals on a permission basis, building trusted, transparent, and interruption-free relationships. Prior to Permission, Charles has been a serial entrepreneur, in a wide range of ind...
Dec 22, 2020•40 min•Ep. 148
Graham Friedman is Director at Republic Advisory Service & Co-founder and Partner at TLDR Global, a global investment firm, focusing on tokenized assets and DLT technology. Prior to joing the crypto space, Graham spent over a decade of working in multimedia; shooting commercials for major brands and pioneering new media strategies, such as live-stream integration, vertical video, and more. We discuss his time at Vayner Media, the current regulatory framework for crypto, how far crypto as an ...
Dec 17, 2020•43 min•Ep. 147
My guest today is my friend, Spencer Bogart, General Partner at Blockchain Capital - a leading venture firm in the crypto and blockchain industry. Spencer has made over 90 investments in companies and protocols in the sector, across different stages, geographies and asset types. Prior to Blockchain Capital , Spencer was a part of the Internet Equity Research team at Needham & Company, an investment bank, where he led the firm's research efforts in all things crypto and blockchain. We discuss...
Dec 15, 2020•45 min•Ep. 146
My guest today is Edward Woodford, Co-founder and CEO of Zero Hash. Zero Hash offers a post-trade settlement utility to bridge a fragmented market of diverse execution platforms. Participants leverage Zero Hash’s innovative technology, regulatory compliance and operational excellence to settle confidently across the ecosystem. Prior to Zero Cash, Edward was working in the financial sector mainly in the hedge fund industry. In 2018, Edward along with Co-Founder were named to Forbes’ 30 under 30 f...
Dec 10, 2020•37 min•Ep. 145
My guest today is Chris Burniske, Co-founder of Placeholder, a New York venture capital firm that specializes in crypto-assets. Prior to Placeholder, Chris pioneered ARK Investment Management's Next Generation Internet strategy, leading the firm to become the first public fund manager to invest in bitcoin. Our wide-ranging conversation covers Satoshi Nakamoto & and try to understand why they decided to leave the crypto-space, what is the flow state and how to master it, ZCash and their uniqu...
Dec 08, 2020•46 min•Ep. 144
My guest today is Kyle Samani, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital. Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in blockchain and crypto companies with the purpose of making capital markets more efficient and accessible to everyone, helping enable Web3.0 and data emancipation, and the integration of global state-free money. Samani is one of the leading authorities in blockchain and cryptoeconomics. Our conversation covers a wide range of topics including th...
Dec 03, 2020•36 min•Ep. 143
My guest today is David Waslen, CEO of Rublix. Rublix is a software development company focused on Fintech fueled by blockchain technology, their first decentralized project is HedgeTrade. HedgeTrade is a crypto prediction social marketplace, where traders can post trading predictions and are rewarded if their information/prediction was accurate. HedgeTrade accomplishes this by holding forecasters accountable through immutable blockchain records and the unique smart contract staking model. David...
Dec 01, 2020•35 min•Ep. 142
My guest today is Pooja Shah, Product Lead at Filecoin. Filecoin is a decentralized storage network that turns the world’s unused storage into an algorithmic market, creating a permanent, decentralized future for the web. Prior to joining Filecoin, Pooja worked at Palantir, the leading Big data analytics company for Governments and Intelligence agencies, and started her own company Dagny, a virtual reality platform focused on improving the users productivity. Our conversation touched a wide rang...
Nov 26, 2020•47 min•Ep. 141
My guest today is CryptoBirb, Founder and CEO of The Birb Nest. The Birb Nest is one of the most successful crypto educational and trading community platforms, with hundreds of clients powered by a top notch team with proven expertise in technical analysis, fundamental analysis and IT. CryptoBirb is a Chemical Engineer turned Crypto and Legacy market trader. Our conversation covers the 2020 Crypto market runup, Bitcoin approaching All Time Highs, how the retail investor is buying crypto, singula...
Nov 24, 2020•32 min•Ep. 140
My guest today is Fan Long, co-founder of Conflux, founder and president of Tree-Graph Blockchain Research Institute and currently an Assistant Professor at University of Toronto. Conflux is a next generation blockchain protocol with a focus on scalability, security and extensibility. Fan holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from MIT. His research interests included systems security, programming language, and blockchain. He was awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Dissertation Award and MIT Best Diss...
Nov 19, 2020•46 min•Ep. 139
Gabriel Abed is an expert on Central Bank digital currencies, blockchain technology, and is a pioneer and a leader within the Caribbean blockchain and crypto industry. Gabriel co-founded and was the Vice Chairman at Bitt, the leading Caribbean-based digital asset exchange. Gabriel has given presentations on digital currencies and blockchain technology to the leading economic and political institutions, including but not limited to the United Nations (U.N.), the World Bank, International Monetary...
Nov 17, 2020•42 min•Ep. 138
Greg Isenberg, Founder of Late Checkout, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Greg and Charlie discuss Late Checkout, web design, communities, design tools, product marketing, early internet, engineering, social internet, crypto, art, intuition marketing, tokens, incentives, and building massive communities. ––– Coingaming was formed when one Australian professional poker player, who knew first-hand the importance of fun, fast and fair gaming, met two Estonian tech whizzes w...
Nov 12, 2020•36 min•Ep. 137
Koroush AK, Founder of Market Meditations, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Koroush and Charlie discuss trading, meditation, defi, Bitcoin, blockchain, podcasting, therapy, master classes, decentralization, youtube, social media, world economics, philosophy, delivering value, and shedding light on crypto markets. ––– Bitpay Card The all new Bitpay card is chalked full of new features. It has contactless pay, a new EMV chip, added in-app security where users can lock thei...
Nov 03, 2020•40 min•Ep. 134
Tatiana Moroz, Founder of the Tatiana Show, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Tatiana and Charlie discuss art, cryptocurrency, libertarians, elections, speculation, blockchain, Bitcoin, chat rooms, crypto culture, decentralization, principles, tokenomics, Defi, crypto museums, Coinbase, and discoverings Bitcoin history. ––– Coingaming was formed when one Australian professional poker player, who knew first-hand the importance of fun, fast and fair gaming, met two Estonian...
Oct 29, 2020•43 min•Ep. 133
Yanislav Malahov, Founder of Aeternity, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Yanislav and Charlie discuss Aeternity, Ethereum, mass adoption, decentralization, smart contracts, speculation, blockchain, Vitalik, early days of Bitcoin, alt coins, Master Coin, Bitcoin Forks, Bitcoin nodes, and building unstoppable crypto scripts. ––– Bitpay Card The all new Bitpay card is chalked full of new features. It has contactless pay, a new EMV chip, added in-app security where users can...
Oct 27, 2020•34 min•Ep. 132
Rob “Crypto Bobby” Paone, Founder of Proof of Talent, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Rob and Charlie discuss Proof of Talent, bull markets, crypto talent pool, crypto jobs, digital securities, hiring potential, Bitcoin, centralized organizations, Microstrategies, corporate strategies, youtube growth, market research, and building a company in crypto. ––– Coingaming was formed when one Australian professional poker player, who knew first-hand the importance of fun, fast...
Oct 22, 2020•37 min•Ep. 131
Mohamed 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 pay, a new ...
Oct 20, 2020•39 min•Ep. 130
Ethan 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 importance of fu...
Oct 15, 2020•36 min•Ep. 129
Richard 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 new EMV c...
Oct 13, 2020•40 min•Ep. 128
Simon 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 professional pok...
Oct 08, 2020•37 min•Ep. 127
Diogo 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, and...
Oct 06, 2020•43 min•Ep. 126
Jenna 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 Austra...
Oct 01, 2020•51 min•Ep. 125
Tim 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 contactl...
Sep 29, 2020•50 min•Ep. 124
CZ, 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 when on...
Sep 24, 2020•33 min•Ep. 123
Antoni 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. ––– Bitpay C...
Sep 22, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 122
Sebastien 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 of cho...
Sep 17, 2020•45 min•Ep. 121
Amaury 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. ––– Bitpay Card...
Sep 15, 2020•47 min•Ep. 120
Ido 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 commer...
Sep 10, 2020•48 min•Ep. 119
