In this episode, we meet, Jürgen Michels, the Chief Economist of the German BayernLB bank. The bank research team recently published a model that suggests the price of BTC to reach $90K after the halving in 2020. This estimation comes not from some random person, but from a state-owned German Bank. The moment I read the paper I instantly reached out to Jürgen and here he is on the Borderless Crypto.

This is an insightful conversation with Matt Houghan, the head of research at Bitwise Asset Management. Bitwise is the first provider of cryptoasset index funds. Matt and I discuss tokenized gold coins. Matt explains why he doesn’t hold gold in his portfolio but instead he does hold bitcoin. He further outlines the characteristics which make Bitcoin an emerging store of value and he draws some fascinating similarities between the history of gold and the history of bitcoin.

While studying physics at MIT Sam decided that he can have the biggest impact in solving these problems by making money as a trader and donating it to important causes. In 2017, he launched Alameda Research to address the liquidity problems he saw in the growing crypto industry. Two years later, his team is trading an average of $1B a day and they are among the top 3 most profitable traders on BitMex. The team has already donated $4M to save human lives, prevent animal suffering, and research...

Currency.com is the first regulated tokenized securities exchange which allows crypto holders to get price exposure to more than 1000 securities such as Apple, Facebook, and Telsa stock, governmental bonds, and industry indices like the S&P500 and the DAX. Ivan explains in detail how Currency.com work, why the company based its operations in Belarus, what are its most sought investment products, why they are determined to move to a completely decentralized trading engine and much more.

This crypto shot features Clay Collins, the founder and CEO of Nomics. This episode covers: 1. How exchanges create fake volumes out of thin air. 2. What makes Nomics different from other pricing trackers and API providers. 3. Why Nomics classifies crypto assets as actively traded, inactive and deadcoins. And we finish off with some valuable insights from Clay on building a successful company.

In this episode, I am talking to Preethi Kasireddy, the founder of TruStory - the only place on the internet where you can have truly constructive debates on crypto topics. This is a place where you go to not to argue and prove how smart you are, but to genuinely look for the truth or at least all sides of a particular story. What’s more, you can make money by debating on the platform.

Daniel Shin, the co-founder of Terra, presents the fascinating stablecoin and payments network. Terra is unlike any other stablecoin. They are not about trading. They are about spending in the real world. In this talk you will learn: - How you can save 10% on online purchases with Terra? - How Terra achieves stability, without the banking of real-world assets. - How Terra is better than Facebook’s Libra. - How you will be able to get a high-yield interest with Terra on Nexo’s interest-earning...

This crypto shot features Daniel Shin, the co-founder of the Terra stablecoin and payments network, who explains how Terra compares to Facebook’s Libra, and what gives Terra a powerful advantage over Libra.

This crypto shot features Daniel Shin, the co-founder of the Terra stablecoin and payments network, who explains why all e-commerce platforms are super enthusiastic to start accepting payments in Terra.

This crypto shot features Daniel Shin, the co-founder of the Terra stablecoin and payments network, who explains what makes Terra fundamentally different from all established stablecoins.

This talk consists of 3 distinct parts. First, we discuss what is narrative marketing and why your crypto project needs a narrative. This is a must listen for founders. Second, we discuss what makes building a decentralized Facebook or Twitter so hard. And lastly, we discuss how Apple's move to defend privacy can be a catalyst for new privacy first online standards. Nathaniel also shares who are the two types of investors he thinks will benefit the most from Bitcoin's growth.

Тhis crypto short features Nathaniel Whittemore, the author of the popular crypto newsletter Long Reads Sunday, with whom we discuss privacy. Today, for the most part, you don’t have privacy. Google and Facebook probably know more about you than you know about yourself. But that might change as Apple recently started to care, respect and fight for your privacy. Nathaniel analyzes why Apple’s move may be the catalyst to make you a sovereign of your data.

Аpart from my long-form interviews, I am starting the Borderless Crypto Shots - 5 to 20-minute excerpts from my regular talks. Тhis crypto short features Nathaniel Whittemore, the author of the popular crypto newsletter Long Reads Sunday, with whom discuss decentralized social media. What keeps us attached to the centralized Facebook, Twitter and what is the key ingredient that could make us switch to a decentralized alternative? This shot presents an absolutely brilliant analysis from...

Аpart from my long-form interviews, I am starting the Borderless Crypto Shots - 5 to 20-minute excerpts from my regular talks. Тhis short features Nathaniel Whittemore, the author of the newsletter Long Reads Sunday. We discuss narrative marketing. Why companies must employ it as a foundational layer of their marketing and communication activities? What are some prime examples of crypto business utilizing narrative marketing? And how Nathaniel can help you build your company narrative.

Minds.com is 100% open source - meaning their software code is completely public. That’s right anyone can read their code and see what data Minds gathers and how they use it. Among many things Bill shares 1) how to reach more people with your content; 2) the recipe to build a profile on Minds.com; 3) the list of open-source alternatives of your daily apps; 4)how privacy and convenience can co-exist.

Nathan Worsley presents LocalCoinSwap - a P2P crypto exchange, allowing anyone globally to buy and sell crypto assets directly with each other securely, privately, using over 250 different payment methods. Nathan shares his story of entering crypto in 2011, how he traded crypto in the early days, how he and his team raised a $12M ICO and everything around LocalCoinSwap and its company challenges. Nathan also shares his investment philosophy, which stands out from what most investors in the...

This time I talk with Clay Collins about professional-grade market data APIs. This may sound boring, but you will be surprised how entertaining this talk gets. We cover 1) how Nomics sets the data foundations of the crypto industry, 2) how Nomics fosters best practices among exchanges, 3) how Nomics compares to CoinMarketCap, CryptoCompare, OnchainFX, etc. Last but not least, we discuss Clay’s podcast, his 4AM morning routine, and how Bitcoin will overtake the US dollar as the world’s reserve...

This time I present you Hart Lambur, the CEO of Universal Market Access, which allows anyone with access to the internet to participate in the US stock market. UMA is building the infrastructure that will allow even people in the lowest income bracket to build a diverse investment portfolio or to get exposure to assets that are today accessible only to institutional investors. This conversation was super interesting for me. Hart is an extremely intelligent person on a mission to break...

If you google about “trading altcoins” the top result you get is Nik Patel and his “Altcoin Trader’s Handbook, an extremely practical and entertaining guide on how to analyze, trade, and profit from altcoins. In this talk Nik shares: 1. How he discovered crypto via Dogecoin. 2. How he generated 43X returns. 3. How to trade altcoins profitably as a side hustle as a full-time job. 4. What is the relation between the price of bitcoin and altcoins, 5. Why even the world’s wealthiest cannot destro

This time Tory Reiss, co-founder of the TrustToken Platform, shares how you can use TrueUSD to easily transact internationally or to simply earn passive income with Nexo. Among other things Tory explains 1) how fiat-pegged stablecoins can replace traditional digital money, 2) what sets TrueUSD apart from other stablecoins, 3) how to convert your USD into TUSD, 4) what is the business model of TUSD, 5) why Tory sees DAI as a partner instead of a competitor 6) and how TUSD combats money...

Jamie Finn is a seasoned executive, who is currently President at Securitize.io - one of the world’s leading asset tokenization platforms. In this talk, Jamie shares 1) how Meyer Malka and Wences Casares got him into crypto, 2) why he decided to build Securitize along with the DS protocol, 3) why all securities will inevitably become digital securities that are traded globally 24/7/365, 2) how STOs can replace IPOs, and 4) how Nexo and Securitize will enable tokenized securities to be...