My guest today is my friend, Jennifer Harding-Marlin, Partner at JH Marlin Law. JH Marlin is a leading St.Kitts & Nevis law firm, specializing in Citizenship by Investment & Corporate Commercial Law. Their clients range from individuals to major international corporations. Their team of highly qualified lawyers are committed to providing results oriented solutions by applying an integrated and innovative approach to assist their clients across different practices and industries. Jennifer...
May 04, 2021•32 min•Ep. 184
My guest today is my friend Antoni Trenchev, co-founder and Managing Partner of Nexo. Nexo is the world's leading regulated institution for digital assets. The company’s mission is to maximize the value and utility of cryptocurrencies by offering tax-efficient Instant Crypto Credit Lines, a high-yield Earn on Crypto & Fiat suite, Send & Pay capabilities, and sophisticated trading & OTC services, all while providing the top-tier custodial insurance and military-grade security of the N...
Apr 30, 2021•43 min•Ep. 183
My guest today is my friend Jason Blick, Director and CEO of EQIBank and the Chairman of EQIFI. EQIBank is a global, digital bank and financial services organization for corporations and High-Net-Worth Individuals. They serve clients through three global businesses: Private Banking, Commercial Banking, and Digital Asset Custody. With EQIBank, the clients are empowered to bank globally from one digital bank. EQIFI is a decentralized protocol for pooled lending, borrowing, and investing for ETH, E...
Apr 27, 2021•40 min•Ep. 182
My guests today are Fred Jin and Kenzi Wang the Co-founders of the Cere Network. Cere Network is the first Decentralized Data Cloud platform optimized for service data integration and data collaboration. Cere aims to be more ethical, more efficient and more interoperable than any of its centralized counterparts. Fred is the co-founder and CEO of the Cere Network. Prior to Founding Cere, Fred is a Silicon Valley vetern, being in the valley since ‘93, he most recently co-founded 50cubes, a Tencent...
Apr 15, 2021•49 min•Ep. 179
My guest today is my friend Shawn Owen, CEO of Equa. Equa is the leading one-stop-shop software solution for frictionless organization, integrated in a company's current workflow. From seed to fruition, Equa helps businesses form, raise, and grow by minimizing the chaos and pains of being an entrepreneur and business owner. Before founding Equa, Shawn has been heavily involved in the Crypto space. He is widely known for being an early Bitcoin advocate and pioneer in the crypto-backed lending spa...
Apr 13, 2021•56 min•Ep. 178
My guest today is my friend Peng Zhong, the CEO of Tendermint. Peng has a background in interaction design and front-end engineering, he focuses on guiding blockchain technology across the chasm to the mainstream. Tendermint is a core contributor to the Cosmos Network and they are building some of the most powerful tools for distributed networks. Cosmos is an ever-expanding ecosystem of interoperable and sovereign blockchain apps and services, built for a decentralized future. At Tendermint, Pen...
Apr 08, 2021•42 min•Ep. 177
My guest today is my friend Nic Carter, a partner at Castle Island Ventures and the cofounder of blockchain data aggregator Coinmetrics.io . Castle Island Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm exclusively focused on public blockchains. Prior to founding Castle Island, he served as Fidelity Investments’ first cryptoasset analyst. This is a must listen for everyone whether you are an OGs or a crypto noobie. In our conversation, we break down Bitcoin, Venture Investing in the Crypto Space...
Apr 06, 2021•49 min•Ep. 176
My guest today is Dovey Wan, one of the founding partners of Primitive Ventures. Dovey is an American investor, founder, mentor and advisor, crypto-analyst, and trader. She's currently the managing partner at Primitive Ventures and is on the n Advisory Board at CoinDesk. Dovey began her career at eBay, where she spent almost four years working as Data Science Engineer, Senior Business Analyst, and Product Manager. In our conversation, we discuss the concept of a currency and how the definition i...
Apr 01, 2021•50 min•Ep. 175
My guest today is David Gokhshtein. Davis is one of the leading marketers in the crypto space. David began Gokhshtein Media in 2012, the company behind Hodlgang, a community based platform that consists of fundamental market analysis, real time market updates and upcoming cryptocurrency events. He was also the host Gokhshtein Unfiltered and Blockchain Breakfast and is a member and contributing writer for the Forbes Finance Council. We discuss NFTs and various use-cases other than art, the growin...
Mar 30, 2021•39 min•Ep. 174
My guest today is Annabelle Huang, a Partner at Amber Group. Amber Group is a diversified crypto finance firm. The Amber Group helps clients buy and sell cryptocurrency products, earn yield, manage risk and access liquidity, with a presence in Asia and North America. Prior to the Amber Group, Ms. Huang was the Asia lead at AirSwap, a decentralized trading platform that enables peer-to-peer trading. Before transitioning into digital assets, she advised private equity funds, US corporates and hedg...
Mar 25, 2021•44 min•Ep. 172
My guest today is my friend Adam Goldman, the co-founder and president of BitBUY.ca , a cryptocurrency brokerage firm. Prior to BitBuy, Adam was an entrepreneur with several startups under his belt and spent time working at Yahoo! as an IT business analyst. Bitbuy is the leading Canadian digital currency trading platform. The company's mission is to provide convenient, dependable and secure access to Bitcoin and other digital currencies. Currently, Bitbuy offers deep liquidity across 10+ spot tr...
Mar 23, 2021•48 min•Ep. 172
My guest today is my friend, William Noble, the Chief Technical Analyst at Token Metrics. Token Metrics is a data-driven cryptocurrency investment research platform that leverages artificial intelligence to build indices, rankings, and price predictions to help crypto investors build profitable portfolios. Bill is also the host of Token Metrics's podcast and Youtube channel. Prior to Token Metrics, Bill was a former Goldman Sachs Analyst for 12 years, where he was widely considered a thought lea...
Mar 18, 2021•49 min•Ep. 171
My guests today are Medha Parlikar, CTO of CasperLabs, and Cliff Sarkin, COO of CaperLabs. Medha is a product and engineering leader with a wealth of experience delivering leading software projects at marquee companies including Adobe, Omniture, Avalara, MP3.com , and DivX. Her first formal involvement with Blockchain came in 2017 with the RChain project where she served as the tech manager before co-founding CasperLabs in the fall of 2018. Before joining CasperLabs in January 2019, he was VP of...
Mar 16, 2021•51 min•Ep. 170
My guests today are my friends Steven Capone, the VP, Marketing at Fidelity Digital Assets, and Phil Leibovski, who runs a concierge trading desk. Steven has a wealth of experience: he has Voyager's first hire as their CMO, he has worked Microsoft as a Senior Strategist / Senior Business Development Mgr. Phil has been trading professionally in the crypto space for over 5 years and brings a deep understanding of the carypto market. We discuss the institutional adoption of bitcoin, the hype around...
Mar 11, 2021•55 min•Ep. 169
My guest today is Diego Gutierrez, CEO of IOVLabs. IOVLabs builds low-cost, highly secure, easy-to-use platforms for the new global economy. Diego is a pioneer of web development in Argentina and Latin America since 1995, Diego was also one of the first persons to foster and develop Bitcoin and blockchain technology in Latin America, which he has done since 2012. In addition to IOVLabs, he also has co-founded Koibanx, another blockchain company that is aiming to transform the potential of Bitcoi...
Mar 09, 2021•35 min•Ep. 168
My guests today are Luca Cosentino the Product Lead at Oasis Labs and Viktor Bunin a Protocol Specialist at Bison Trails. Oasis Labs is a privacy-first cloud computing platform on blockchain technology and Luca focuses on creating the infrastructure for privacy-preserving applications. Bison Trails is a technology platform providing enterprise-grade security, multi-cloud and multi-region distribution, and a 99.99% uptime guarantee for node operators and Viktor researches emerging technologies an...
Mar 04, 2021•40 min•Ep. 167
My guest today is Tom Albright, CEO of Bittrex Global. Bittrex Global is a secure, reliable and advanced digital asset trading platform developed for international customers and built on Bittrex’s cutting-edge technology. Before becoming CEO in February 2020, Tom served as general counsel of Bittrex in the United States, where he supervised all legal matters and managed all legal operations. This is a must listen for anyone interested in understanding the inefficiencies in traditional finance an...
Mar 02, 2021•36 min•Ep. 166
My guest today is my friend Steve Ehrlich is the co-Founder and CEO of Voyager, a retail-first publicly-traded, licensed crypto-asset broker that provides investors with a simple solution to trade crypto assets. Steve has a long history in the brokerage and market structure industry, he founded Lightspeed Financial, a retail broker-dealer where he was responsible for eight major transactions. This is a must listen for anyone interested in the future of capital markets. We discuss Voyager and its...
Feb 25, 2021•42 min•Ep. 165
My guests today are Russell Cann, Chief Customer Success Officer, and Taras Kulyk, the Senior Vice President of Blockchain Business Development from Core Scientific. Our conversation focuses on the Digital Mining Industry. We discuss the role of mining within the Bitcoin Network, debunking the myths and false narratives centered around the environmental impact of Digital Asset Mining, how the market cycle effects the mining industry, and why it’s important to ensure America is the leader in the ...
Feb 18, 2021•39 min•Ep. 163
My Guest today is my friend Michael Terpin an American investor, entrepreneur and public relations (PR) agency manager. Terpin in 2013 co-founded BitAngels, an investment network for blockchain technology startups, and Transform Group, a PR firm for the digital currency industry, in 2014. BitAngels was the first angel network for bitcoin and digital currency startups. The Transform Group is a bitcoin and blockchain marketing firm headquartered in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The company has four major...
Feb 16, 2021•30 min•Ep. 162
My guest today is my friend Anthony Di Iorio, a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, community organizer, and thought leader in the field of digital currencies, blockchain and decentralized technologies. I didn't know where this conversation would take us given Anthony's wide range of activities and influence in the digital asset space but I think this conversation provides a glimpse into the history of our industry and gives a road map to how to move forward as crypto begins gaining mainstr...
Feb 11, 2021•42 min•Ep. 161
My guests today are John Sarson, CEO and Founder of Sarson Funds, and Jason Penner, Senior Trader and General Partner at Sarson Funds. Sarson Funds is an independent provider of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency marketing and educational services focusing on the financial professional community and their clients. Sarson Funds was among the first US cryptocurrency managers to directly address the concerns of Financial Advisors by focusing on education for both the advisor and the client. O...
Feb 04, 2021•30 min•Ep. 159
My guest today is Pablo Gonzalez, Co-Founder and Chief Design Officer of Bitso, the leading cryptocurrency exchange platform in Latin America boasting 1 million users. Before venturing into the crypto space, Pablo founded his own design and animation firm where he worked on high profile games like FIFA and Resident Evil. I found this conversation fascinating and think it will be essential for anyone who wants to understand the extent of the inefficiencies of the legacy financial markets or crypt...
Feb 02, 2021•43 min•Ep. 158
My guest today is my friend Chris Spadafora, founder of Badger DAO, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that has a single purpose: build the products and infrastructure necessary to accelerate Bitcoin as collateral across other blockchains. Chris is highly involved in the Crypto ecosystem; he organized Crypto After Dark, a Crypto COVID19 Charity Poker Tournament, he is a partner at Angelrock, a boutique consulting firm focused on helping large digital assets hodlers navigate the crypto...
Jan 28, 2021•41 min•Ep. 157
My guest today is my friend Tim Frost, CEO and Co-Founder of Yield App, a fintech app making DeFi accessible to everyone. Prior to founding Yield, Tim helped build 2 previous digital banks, Wirex and EQIBank. Tim has also helped accelerate early-stage blockchain startups QTUM, NEO, Paxful, Polymath, and many others. I found this conversation fascinating and think it will be essential for anyone who is interested in DeFi and where fintech is headed. In our conversation we cover what is DeFi, the ...
Jan 26, 2021•38 min•Ep. 156
My guest today is Mikk Maal, CEO of Comistar. Comistar offers smart corporate governance solutions, including company incorporation, accounting, tax & legal advisory to help foreign entrepreneurs to do business in Estonia. Our conversation focuses on Estonia's E-Residency and how Estonia's institutions are all digitized. Mikk discusses the benefits of becoming an E-Resident of Estonia, the entrepreneurial/start up culture of Estonia, the benefits and drawbacks of living in a country whose in...
Jan 21, 2021•33 min•Ep. 155
My guest today is Patrick Stanley, Founder & CEO of Freehold. Freehold is a community of cryptocurrency stakeholders focused on furthering the reputation, usefulness, and mission of their respective holdings. The Freehold model rewards hodlers who take an active role in educating, building, and growing within their community, and is designed so technical and non-technical holders can become real stakeholders in the rise of a movement. This is a must listen for those interested in understandi...
Jan 19, 2021•39 min•Ep. 154
My guest today is Gilbert Hill, CEO of TapMyData. TapMyData is a decentralized data protocol enabling people to own their digital identity and for companies to rebuild trust. Prior to becoming CEO of TapMyData, Gilbert founded Optanon and as the MD grew it to become the market leader in the provision of website auditing and cookie compliance solutions in the UK and EU. This is a must listen for those interested in Data and the Data economy. In our conversation we cover the GDPR, the evolution of...
Jan 14, 2021•42 min•Ep. 153
My guest today is Kevin Wang, Co-Founder and of the Nervos Network. The Nervos Network is an open source public blockchain ecosystem and collection of protocols focused on solving the biggest challenges facing blockchains today. The design of the Nervos Network is a sustainably secure, permissionless and decentralized Layer 1 blockchain that is built to scale with Layer 2 solutions, making Nervos the only PoW, multi-asset, store of value, smart contract platform. Our discussion centers around th...
Jan 12, 2021•38 min•Ep. 152
My guest today is Joe Yu, is the Tech Coordinator for Sperax. Sperax is a blockchain infrastructure platform focused on enabling decentralized financial services. Joe helped Prof. Wang design the Sperax consensus protocol as his chief research assistant. He was also the co-author and presenter of Sperax's IEE paper — "Sperax: An Approach to Defeat Long Range Attack." We dive deep into the Consensus Models and their benefits and their drawbacks, how blockchains enable trust and why that's importa...
Jan 07, 2021•38 min•Ep. 151
