Nicholas is a serial start-up master, super successful entrepreneur and a former banker who has raised over US$92B in the public and private equity capital markets. With a career that includes working at Robert Fleming where he was a director of equity capital markets and head of technology private placements, as well as being a vice president at JPMorgan, Nicholas is a guy who has been at the very top of his field for over 25 years. His work has seen him co-start Crescent, a bayesian machine learning technology company as well as AdAstra, a systematic CTA Hedge fund which was sold to Aspect Capital. As well as advising on a wide array of businesses, Nicholas is the founder of Arkeytyp Holdings, Valu.Earth and Advisor to Verus.io. He manages a portfolio of Intellectual Property, Digital Assets in Blockchain software and secure hardware. In this episode, we discuss how cryptocurrency and blockchain technology and how it can be a massive set forward for humanity. In this episode, you'll discover: How brands can use cryptocurrency to transfer value and strengthen consumer relationshipsHow blockchain can cut out the middlemen and give us full ownership of our information and identityThe Importance of information in the digital worldWhy we need to move toward decentralization and how blockchain technology can helpHow Verus aims to be a scalable public infrastructure for the worldWho is Satoshi, the creator of BitcoinSign up for the Some Future Day Newsletter here: https://marcbeckman.substack.com/ Nicholas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-lyons-20015230/ Verus: https://verus.io/ Valu. Earth: https://valu.earth/ To join the conversation follow Marc here: Youtube LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Marc is a Senior Fellow of Emerging Technologies at NYU, the CEO of DMA United, and is on the New York State Bar Association's Taskforce for Cryptocurrency and Digital Assets. Some Future Day is produced and edited by Jon Bumhoffer at Make More Media