In this episode we chat with Henrijs Jansons about the relaunch of the Debitum platform, and why investors should consider investing in this regulated platform. Links * Debitum * Jean's review of Debitum

In this episode, Jean and Joe interview the founder and CEO of Lonvest, Roman Katerynchyk. We dig into how P2P lending for consumer loans works, and what kind of models power the decisions to give loans or not to new customers. We discuss the ethical side of P2P lending, and the big issue with millions of unbanked people in developing countries. For example: 44% of Vietnam's population was unbanked in 2022, but a higher percentage remains under-banked. Only 6% of the population...

Welcome to another exciting episode of the Mastermind.fm podcast, where we explore the latest trends, ideas, and innovations shaping the world. In today's episode, we're diving deep into the fascinating realm of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its transformative impact on the way we work. We're thrilled to have with us a special guest, Martin Slaney, the visionary behind ProductPrompts.com. Martin is a thought leader in the AI space and has extensive experience in harnessing the power of...

In this episode Jean and Joe speak with Shehan Chandrasekera from Cointracker about the intricacies of NFT taxation. Links * Cointracker

In this episode, Jean hangs out with Tinbane and Astamcloud/P to discuss the experience of collecting, creating and curating in the generative art space. Links * Jean's post about embarking on his artistic journey * Jean's generative art resources * DCinvestor on-chain gen art collector thesis * The rise of long-form generative art * Mandelbrot set * Picasso's The Bull * Featured image art by Tinbane

In this episode, Jean speaks to Eric Rubens, a successful professional photographer and founder of Collective Strangers, an NFT community focused on photography. We go through Eric's journey into photography, why he created Collected Strangers, and what pass holders can expect in the coming months. We also touch on the photography NFT space as I'm quite excited about the future prospects of this niche. Links * Eric Rubens on Instagram * Collective Strangers * Justin Aversano *...

In this episode, Jean speaks to the founder and CEO of NFTfi, Stephen Young. We talk about all the use cases for borrowing and lending in the NFT space. I found this talk fascinating and learnt some new use cases I wasn't aware of. Whether you're on the borrowing or lending side, you should listen to this. Links * Stephen's Twitter * NFTfi

In today's episode, Jean speaks with the artist ZAR, who he had the pleasure of meeting for the first time during his recent trip to New York for NFT NYC. We delve into many different topics, for an overall fascinating talk where topics like minimalism, utility for NFT art, community building, and the process for building Classicality are discussed. Links * Classicality * ZAR's Twitter

Jean and Evan Medeiros team up to recap their action-packed week at NFT NYC, discussing their favorite projects such as Doodles, PROOF, Moonbirds, Coolmans, Cool Cats, Cyberbrokers etc. They share what they loved about the events and what was a bit of a letdown. If you haven't been to NFT NYC, this is a great way to catch up on the past week's events. Links * Evan's Twitter * Thetraderisk.com

I recently started collecting generative art NFTs, and one of the collections that I fell in love with was Hōrō (meaning wandering in Japanese), from Lionel Radisson, known in the art world as makio135. In today's show, I connect with Lionel to talk about his journey as an artist and how he got into NFTs. We speak about the challenges and also big wins that ultimately helped Lionel transition into working as a generative artist full-time. I am extremely bullish on the potential of NFTs to...

In this episode, Jean talks to Hanif Perry about his experience as a collector of generative art NFTs and member of various communities that formed around this movement. This is a great primer for those who are interested in NFTs and want to know what to look for and where when buying their first pieces. Links * Hanif's Twitter * Jean's article on generative art NFTs * Picasso Punks * GrailersDAO * Fidenza by Tyler Hobbs * Chromie Squiggles * Dmitri Cherniak *...

In this episode, I sit down with Danny Greene, the general manager of the MeebitsDAO. We have a wide-ranging conversation about the significance of NFTs, the analogies that can be used to onboard new users into the NFT space, and of course, we also focused on Meebits in particular. I really like the MeebitsDAO initiative in favor of an open metaverse, so if you'd like to learn more about the metaverse and how you can start participating in this space you should definitely give this one a...

In this episode, we speak to Robin Copernicus (real name Robin Kabir) from Metaverse Land Club. It was a real pleasure speaking with Robin, his passion for futuristic technologies and the ways that they can help human betterment really comes through in our conversation. Join us as we explore the many facets of the metaverse and how it will impact humanity in this wide-ranging episode. Links * Metaverse Land Club * Robin on Twitter * Gaia Forums * Nano reef tanks (I was also...

In this episode, we have Igors Puntuss, CEO of Bulkestate, as our guest. Together with Igors, we discuss Bulkestate's journey over the past five years, and the main things that investors should expect going forward. Bulkestate is one of my favorite platforms. Contrary to other players in the market, they have an understated approach and focus on delivery rather than hype. Here are some of the main numbers from Bulkestate's performance over the past years. * Total funding volume...

We are glad to welcome Hearsay to our show. It's a really special episode covering a quiet unspoken topic of law and NFTs. We started discussing uncertainties of crypto taxation and what is crypto from a legal standpoint. A big part of the discussion ahead was about the traditional art industry and legal backbone, as well as the concepts of authenticity, derivatives, and value compared to the digital NFT world. The other important topic we touched upon were DAOs from the legal perspective...

In this episode, we welcome back Jalil from PunkScape for another round of NFT knowledge drops. Following our more introductory first episode with Jalil, in this episode, we continue evolving some of the topics we touched upon previously as well as introduce some other very important concepts and guidelines that all NFT investors or creators should know about. Some of the topics discussed: * An exploration of NFT contracts on Etherscan. * How metadata and images are stored on...

In this episode, we welcome the founder of Kumo's World, Kumo, who shares with us her journey and motivations for creating this collection of extremely cute characters, as well as the new features that are on the roadmap for the next few months. About Kumo's World Kumo’s World is a fantastical place where you control the story. Go on adventures with the other explorers and discover the hidden gems the world of Kumo! Here, you can let your inner child free and just be yourself without...

In this episode, we welcome Jalil Wahdatehagh, the founder and artist behind the PunkScape NFT project to guide us through the remarkable world of non-fungible tokens. How do we visualize value, what are and why digital identities are important, how NFTs can be used not only for visual art? These are just minor parts of the topics we discussed with Jalil. Of course, we covered the basics (well, they are not so basic after all): * NFT minting process and ownership * Algorithms and...

In this episode we’ve met Liza Aizupiete, managing director of Fintelum. Fintelum is a crowdfunding platform, which offers assets tokenization. With Fintelum investors can invest in businesses, who are tokenizing their equity, and then receive dividends. We've talked about how Fintelum works, new ways of investments and why you should make your crypto work. Also, we've touch next topics: * how investing in crypto and in traditional currencies differs; * why Fintelum is not a...

In this episode of Mastermind.fm we've met with Arnab Naskar, co-founder and business lead of STOKR. It's a digital marketplace which allows to invest into new and existing business with no middle man. STOKR is built on blockchain to keep things transparent and secure. Arnab introduced us to the story behind STOKR and how it operates. And we've discussed lots of interesting topics including:  inefficiencies of capital market, equity vs. crowdfunding, hybrid IPOs and Liquid Network of...

In this episode we've met Jameson Lopp, CTO and co-founder of Casa. We talked all about Bitcoin security, starting from the basics of managing private keys to how Bitcoin transactions work. It's an essential episode for anyone planning to keep crypto assets in self-custody securely. That's not all, we've discussed more: * how bank authentication is different from crypto wallets * trusting 3rd parties vs managing your own private keys * security vs convenience * how multi...

In this episode we've met with Pavel Klema, the CEO of Bondster. It is a Czech FinTech start-up that offers investments in loans. What is interesting about Bondster is that offer a huge potential for diversification, listing both short and long term loans from the broad selection of regions. To help us dig deep into the topic we were joined by Andrew Farrugia, blogger, fitness instructor and an starting investor. We've discussed how COVID-19 impacted loans landing companies, investors...

In this episode we met Michael Bereslavsky, CEO and founder of Domain Magnate to discuss all the nuances of buying and selling sites. To help us dig deep into the topic we were joined by Andrew Farrugia, blogger and fitness instructor who ran into the issues of the content business himself covering fitness and lifestyle topics. Listening to the podcast you will know more about: * Things you need to check before buying a website * Challenges of the industry * How does the...

In this episode, we welcome Fernando and Juancho, co-founders of Brickfy.com. Brickfy can be called a platform of platforms allowing investors to join real estate crowdfunding projects from a single marketplace with no need to register on a variety of platforms. We've discussed how Brickfy operates and their development plans. Apart from that, we touched on the future of real estate crypto tokenization and the frictions behind government and crypto adoption in the real estate loans...