Adrian Brink is the founder of Anoma, a blockchain protocol that enables private, asset-agnostic cash and bartering. Adrian founded Anoma to fight surveillance capitalism and the over-concentration of power in fiat currency, by protecting individuals’ privacy through zero-knowledge technology. Why you should listen Anoma is a proof-of-stake blockchain protocol that enables multi-asset privacy and bartering among any number of parties. Adrian is a passionate advocate for embedding privacy into bl...
May 18, 2022•53 min
Andy Blood was executive creative director at Colenso BBDO and a creative strategist at Facebook. He is the creator of the multiverse series “Near Futures. Far-Fetched” an intriguing series of NFTs that are available on the Lithoverse NFT platform. Why you should listen Near Futures. Far-Fetched is a collection of six short stories with one thing in common: somewhere in the multiverse these stories will be true. The themes explored range from The Last Bitcoin (set in the year 2139), to the socia...
May 15, 2022•1 hr
Chiente Hsu is the ex-Managing Director and Global Head of Quantitative Investment Strategy and Research at Morgan Stanley. She is the founder of ALEX, an open-source DeFi development company built on the Stacks Blockchain. Why you should listen ALEX is an open-source DeFi development company built on the Stacks Blockchain and modeled on the world’s financial markets. The ALEX mission is simple: to give customers the tools to become the masters of their own financial experience. On our platform,...
May 11, 2022•53 min
IBEX believes that a well-developed system of financial markets is indispensable for the health and efficiency of a society. The combination of robust and sophisticated markets and financial institutions, as well as diversity in instruments and financial products, supply the need for people and the general economy. There is a strong correlation between the development of financial markets and socioeconomic well-being. Bitcoin can help. Why you should listen IBEX CEO, Jose Lemus talks about Bitco...
May 10, 2022•44 min
Dave the Wave is an investor, trader, and technical analyst. A contrarian, Dave is respected on Crypto Twitter for his objective, rational approach to technical analysis. Dave’s thesis is that Bitcoin is following a Logarithmic Growth Curve model. Logarithmic growth suggests exponential gains at the beginning that slowly taper off towards a plateau in the long term. Why you should listen: Andy and Dave discuss Dave’s Logarithmic Growth Curve model. Dave says that Bitcoin is a nascent currency in...
May 09, 2022•58 min
Chris Harmse is the co-founder and MD of crypto financial services company, BVNK. The BVNK platform bridges fiat and crypto together. Combine your crypto and fiat banking into one place, with payments, trading, custody, and yield integrated into one account. Why you should listen BVNK launched in the UK last October and is primarily aimed at the massively underserved mid-market enterprise sector (high net worths, family offices, mid-sized companies) and offers treasury, payment and investment tr...
May 06, 2022•39 min
Dignity Gold is a blockchain development company creating securities tokens to establish investment opportunities in the U.S. precious metals mining and minerals sectors. Why you should listen Kent M. Swing is Chairman of Dignity Gold. Kent is an owner of several real estate operating companies as well as commercial and residential real estate properties throughout the United States. Steve Braverman is president and CEO of Dignity Gold. Steve has more than 30 years of experience in securities tr...
May 03, 2022•37 min
Dave Balter is the CEO of Flipside Crypto, the platform lets users get paid to learn about protocols and chains, and level up to become a crypto-SQL superstar. Why you should listen Flipside enables growth and strategic business insights for the blockchain industry through actionable market intelligence obtained from a community of highly skilled, highly motivated analysts. Flipside’s free-to-use platform gives analysts access to an unparalleled variety of bounty programs, distributing token inc...
May 01, 2022•38 min
Shiv Malik is the CEO of Pool, a data platform and marketplace that wants to increase data privacy and enable individuals to monetize their own data. Why you should listen Pool’s purpose is to redistribute power, value, and control in the data economy. Pool's platform supports organizations that enable ordinary people to monetize and share their data. These are called Data Unions. And because those people are positively engaged in sharing their information, data products on Pool’s platform are r...
Apr 28, 2022•44 min
We’re unofficially celebrating 250 episodes of the Crypto Conversation. To celebrate, Andy is joined by Rory Manchee, CEO at Brave New Coin. Why you should listen After spending six years as Head of Business Development for Brave New Coin and Techemy, Rory has been part of the global blockchain conversation at the highest level. Rory joins Andy to unofficially celebrate three years and 250 episodes of the Crypto Conversation podcast and his appointment as Brave New Coin CEO. Supporting links Mas...
Apr 26, 2022•51 min
Nick Rose is the CEO and co-founder of Ethernity Chain - the NFT issuing platform and marketplace for athletes and celebrities. Leveraging their own IP Ethernity has launched verified artwork from Shaq, Bruce Lee, Lionel Messi, the James Dean and Marilyn Monroe estates, Nas, and Muhammed Ali. Why you should listen Earlier this year, Ethernity raised a $20 million funding round - led by Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin and founder of League of Legends Thomas Vu - and announced the launch of Ethernal La...
Apr 25, 2022•35 min
Kiwi tech entrepreneur Daniel Batten has an intriguing thesis. He sees Bitcoin as an unexpected superhero - his view is that Bitcoin mining can drive us to 70% renewables-based energy consumption by 2030. Why you should listen If we’re unable to transition to 70% renewable energy by 2030 the earth will face runaway climate change. Bitcoin mining could be the catalyst to drive the increased adoption of renewable energy this decade. Bitcoin miners are location agnostic, time-of-day-agnostic, and h...
Apr 21, 2022•53 min
SparkWorld is an innovative community-centric web3 ecosystem, powered by Fair Prediction Launches and underpinned by the SPRK token. Why you should listen Jolyon Horsfall is the founder of SparkWorld, an innovative community-centric web3 ecosystem on a mission to creatively overcome the challenges of whitelisting, randomized minting, and prelaunch NFTs through a gamified trustless marketplace that creates value for everyone. Spark facilitates Fair Prediction Launches (FPLs) through a new mechani...
Apr 20, 2022•39 min
Sheldon Dearr is technical lead at Octopus Network, a multichain, interoperable crypto network and Web3 incubator designed to facilitate a new wave of web innovation. Why you should listen Sheldon is a security engineer who was referred to as the "King of Major Incidents" during his time at HP due to his ability to solve problems. Sheldon has a keen understanding of the complex world we all operate in. Octopus Network is a multichain crypto network for launching and running Web3.0 application-sp...
Apr 18, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Alan Vey is the co-founder and CEO of Aventus Network, a layer-2 blockchain protocol that brings scalability, lower costs, and speed to Ethereum transactions. Why you should listen The Aventus Network (AvN) is a layer-2 blockchain protocol that brings scalability, lower costs, and speed to Ethereum transactions. It enables digital asset issuance, management, and ownership, bringing the scale of permissioned blockchains and the security and interoperability of public blockchains — without the sho...
Apr 13, 2022•36 min
Big Town Chef is a play-to-earn, NFT farming, trading and cook-off Web3 game. Powered by $BURP, the game is in partnership with celebrity chef Gino D’Acampo . Why you should listen Big Town Chef is a metaverse game that enables players to farm, trade virtual ingredients, and compete in cook-off battles. All in-game activity will take place in an immersive and engaging 3D Metaverse environment called Big Town. Big Town Chef is built on blockchain technology and allows users to earn tokens that ca...
Apr 12, 2022•47 min
Last week the Bitcoin 2022 conference took place in Miami with announcements coming from some of the most prominent Bitcoin speakers and companies. Did it deliver? Why you should listen The Bitcoin 2022 Conference in Miami took place April 6-9 with speakers including Jordan Peterson, Jack Malles, Adam Back, Cathie Wood, and Peter Thiel. Supporting links Masterworks Bitcoin 2022 Andy on Twitter Brave New Coin on Twitter Brave New Coin If you enjoyed the show please subscribe to the Crypto Convers...
Apr 10, 2022•20 min
Medha Parlikar is the Co-Founder and CTO of CasperLabs, a blockchain built for enterprise adoption. The CasperLabs mission is to lead the era of distributed computing by giving every organization access to state-of-the-art technologies and services. Why you should listen CasperLabs is the team behind the development of the Casper Network. It provides services and support for organizations of all sizes, from enterprise to startup. Guided by open source principles, CasperLabs is committed to suppo...
Apr 07, 2022•31 min
Zaki Manian is the Co-Founder of Sommelier Finance, a DeFi platform and coprocessor for the EthereumVM. Why you should listen Zaki believes that regulators can be supportive of the incredible innovation going on in the DeFi space by developing a regime of awards rather than punishments for DeFi projects that move the industry towards reasonable integration with financial safeguards that regulators are bound to pursue. Sommelier is a bet that Ethereum will be a dominant player in the global econo...
Apr 06, 2022•34 min
With Bitcoin holding steady at $46,000, and both whales and shrimps accumulating, is Bitcoin warming up again? Why you should listen The 19,000,000 Bitcoin has been mined, whales and shrimps are accumulating, and anticipation is mounting that we’ll hear some big Bitcoin news out of this weeks Bitcoin 2022 conference. Supporting links Masterworks Bitcoin 2022 Andy on Twitter Brave New Coin on Twitter Brave New Coin If you enjoyed the show please subscribe to the Crypto Conversation and give us a ...
Apr 05, 2022•19 min
Christian Keroles is Managing Director of Bitcoin Magazine and a passionate Bitcoiner who thinks Hyperbitcoinization is going to happen faster than anyone thinks. Why you should listen Founded in 2012, Bitcoin Magazine was the first ever magazine dedicated solely to covering the cryptocurrency space. Its reporting focus is on Bitcoin, its underlying blockchain technology and the industry that has built up around it. The team is organizing the Bitcoin 2022 Bitcoin Conference in Miami. This takes ...
Mar 31, 2022•41 min
Arie Trouw is Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at XY Labs, building the XYO Network. The network is described as a reality oracle that empowers people to participate in the world's data economy through the validation of anonymous and secure geospatial data. Why you should listen The XYO Network is a reality oracle that empowers people to participate in the world's data economy through the validation of anonymous and secure geospatial data....
Mar 31, 2022•46 min
Brett Herskope aka Eliherf is a project lead for Stacks Parrots, a collection of Parrot NFTs on Stacks. Eliherf is also head of community for several NFT communities in the Stacks ecosystem. Why you should listen Eliherf has a background in education, and he has found that these skills have helped him to become a strong advocate for NFT communities. He says the best community managers are like a concierge or a barista. They are welcoming and know eveyone’s name. Stacks Parrots is a collection of...
Mar 28, 2022•45 min
Brian Bondy is the co-founder, CTO, and lead developer for Brave Software, developer of Brave, the open-source, privacy-by-default web browser with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform and crypto wallet. Why you should listen Brave is an open-source, privacy-by-default web browser with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform and crypto wallet. Brave Wallet, a crypto wallet built into the Brave desktop browser, and mobile apps, enables Brave users to store, manage, grow, and sw...
Mar 24, 2022•38 min
Cody Willard, an American investor and hedge fund manager and ex-anchor on the Fox Business Network is a co-founder of SKTLs ("Sky's The Limit"). The SKTL Space Tokens will be airdropped free-of-charge to U.S. and Canadians on May 6th, Space Day, 2022. Why you should listen The SKTL ERC20 token project is a cryptocurrency token for space enthusiasts. SKTL tokens are designed to capitalize on the future of the space economy while at the same time providing funds to clean up space debris. Space de...
Mar 21, 2022•39 min
Megapont is a pixel art nft project on Stacks. Megapont is a fictional universe in which advanced scientific mutations accelerated the evolutions of every species on Earth. Earth is currently a thriving, bustling paradise that has been at peace for a generation. Megapont Ape Club is a celebration of the more scenic members of the Megapont world. Why you should listen Stacks is an open-source network of decentralized apps and smart contracts built on Bitcoin. Stacks unleashes Bitcoin's full poten...
Mar 16, 2022•48 min
Plutus and Obsidian are the co-founders of Byzantion, the #1 NFT Marketplace on Stacks. Users can buy, sell, auction, and discover Bitcoin-Secured NFTs on the Byznation Universal Marketplace. Why you should listen Stacks is a layer-1 blockchain that connects to bitcoin and brings smart contracts to it and decentralized apps to it. Because Stacks enables smart contracts, it gives the ability to create NFTs and gives them the security of the bitcoin network. Provenance is key when it comes to art ...
Mar 14, 2022•52 min
TommyD is an award-winning multi-platinum selling music producer, songwriter, artist, DJ, and creator of 808 Whisky. He is the founder of TokenTraxx is a British tech company that uses Web3 tools to innovate how we all engage with music. Why you should listen TokenTraxx is built by musicians for the music community, providing a whole new way to create, curate and collect music. Token||Traxx provides a powerful opportunity for Creators to engage on every level with fans using NFT technology, whil...
Mar 10, 2022•53 min
Aera Force is a Venture DAO focused on web3 x climate projects. The DAO is made up of climate investors, founders, scientists and civic leaders investing in accelerating towards a regenerative world through web3. Why you should listen Aera Force is a Venture DAO focused on web3 x climate projects. Aera Force is a learning experiment co-founded by Gotham Labs, New York-based creator of the DreamDAO and Auckland-born global climate venture fund Aera VC founded by Derek Handley. The DAO is made up ...
Mar 09, 2022•39 min
Sandy Carter is SVP at digital identity platform Unstoppable Domains. The Unstoppable domain names are minted as NFTs and allow users to replace awkward cryptocurrency addresses with a single human-readable name that simplifies crypto transfers. The domains can also host decentralized websites, act as a chat ID and more. NFT Domains are user owned and controlled, and have no renewal fees. Why you should listen Unstoppable Domains is on a mission to return the power of the internet to people. To ...
Mar 08, 2022•33 min
