Episodes
Frank Mong is COO at Nova Labs, formerly Helium Inc. Helium is providing internet connectivity through blockchain technology.  Frank explains how this works, the next phase of the Helium Network, and the rapid growth and success of the Helium Blockchain.  Similar to how Helium's co-founder created the first decentralized media company at scale, Napster, Helium is also changing the mind set of how internet service providing can be done.
Published 06/06/22
Seth Wunder, CFA, is the Chief Investment Officer of Acorns. Previously, Seth founded Los Angeles based black-and-white Capital LP as it's sole Portfolio Manager in May 2016, with assets at peak greater than one billion dollars. black-and-white Capital's investment mandate centered on innovation, including a concentration in software, internet, fintech, e-commerce and other disruptive trends. Before black-and-white Capital, Seth was a founding partner and portfolio manager at Contour Asset...
Published 05/21/22
Martin Fiore is Managing Partner for the EY US East Region Tax practice. We talk about recent tax policies for crypto, DeFi, and metaverse assets, and speculate on the future implications of these technologies. Links referenced in the episode: EY TaxChat US Blockchain solutions | Platforms, insights & services | EY - US EY Blockchain Cryptocurrency: compliance and controls | EY - US
Published 04/28/22
Katie Chonacas is an international actor, NFT artist, and podcaster. The Hey Layer platform for women in blockchain recently released her latest NFT collection, 11 Pillars of Katie Chonacas. She released her Dreamland 1111 Album on Opensea last year. https://www.chonacas.com/
Published 04/20/22
Alex Paley is the co-founder of Faraway, a new gaming studio leveraging blockchain technology to unlock the potential for truly player-driven and decentralized game economies. Faraway’s debut title, Mini: Royale Nations, is the first live multiplayer game to launch on the Solana blockchain platform.
Published 04/03/22
Steven Walbroehl is the Chief Security Officer and cofounder of Halborn. He's also a Blockchain Course Author and Instructor at SANS, one of the top cybersecurity education organizations. In this episode we cover the following: Key vulnerabilities with blockchains and how hackers exploit them to steal crypto; private keys, code vulnerabilities, and financial vulnerabilities Regulation of crypto security Security for dApp and DeFi developers Blockchain and Cybersecurity education How...
Published 03/24/22
Tomer Weller is the Vice President of Tech Strategy at the Stellar Development Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports the development and growth of Stellar, an open-source network that connects the world's financial infrastructure. Founded in 2014, the Foundation maintains Stellar’s codebase, supports the technical and business communities building on the network, and serves as a voice to regulators and institutions. The Foundation seeks to create equitable access to the global...
Published 03/16/22
Evan Kuo is CEO and Co-Founder of Ampleforth. Founded in 2018, Ampleforth is a digital currency, like Bitcoin, but with elastic-supply. The company was founded with a mission to introduce an “ideal money” that would have properties similar to Bitcoin, be able to be used to denominate smart contracts long-term, and act as a hedge against inflation.
Published 03/11/22
Josh Rogers is CEO and Founder of Minterest, a value-capturing lending and borrowing protocol designed to make DeFi fairer for users. 
Published 02/27/22
Venn joins Ethan for a look at the "Crypto Bowl" ads as well as some other pop culture blockchain references.  Ethan interviews Brian Platz Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Fluree and Dmitri Safine CTO of Ikigai Technologies at the 21:00 minute mark. 
Published 02/16/22
Ed DeLeon is the founder and CEO of Anatha, an ethos driven decentralized financial ecosystem. 
Published 02/12/22
Brian Bondy is CTO and co-founder of Brave, a privacy browser with a blockchain based digital advertising platform. If you've heard us talk about BAT tokens, then you've probably heard us talk about Brave. Brian gives us a look back at how Brave came to be, their core features, what's new, and what's to come.  Brave recently partnered with Solana for Dapps, and also introduced the Brave Wallet. 
Published 01/31/22
Ethan talks with Wesley Thysse about some upcoming changes that may be coming to the crypto community. We talk about the focus on peer-to-peer transactions, stable coins, privacy coins, and more and how individuals and businesses could be effected. Click here to read Wes's full article.
Published 12/29/21
Ryan Worsley is CTO at iov42 and has a love for formal Computer Science approaches and techniques. His career has charted a course in which he developed one of the first retail, customer-facing live FX trading portals; rebuilt an “unfixable” bespoke in-memory database for an investment bank; designed and built a big-data Bitemporal Graph Database; and architected a Non-Repudiation Database for the UK tax authority. Ryan’s love of big-data distributed systems engineering, complex problem...
Published 12/06/21
Adrian Kolody is Founder of Domination Finance, the first decentralized exchange for dominance trading. It's built on the Universal Market Access protocol and available on Ethereum and Polygon. DomFi’s platform tracks the market cap of bitcoin relative to the market cap of altcoins, allowing users to analyze shifts in relative coin prices and to trade on the overall market dominance of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tether. Last month, the DomFi team announced the close of a $3.2 million seed round,...
Published 12/02/21
Matthew Niemerg, Ph.D., is the co-founder and president of Aleph Zero Foundation—a Swiss non-profit offering a new infrastructure layer with a scalable plug-and-play privacy solution leveraging zero-knowledge proofs (zk-SNARKs) and Secure Multiparty Computation (sMPC). Mathew is also a Ph.D. in Mathematics in the area of numerical algebraic geometry, a Simons-Berkeley Fellow, and an IBM Center of Excellence Fellow in High-Performance Computing. Aleph Zero is a new infrastructure PoS...
Published 11/10/21
We've been using Coinbase for a while now and decided to share some tips for newcomers who'd like to start investing for their future. Please use the code in the show notes to help support the show or share this episode with a friend who could use it.
Published 11/01/21
Dr. Markus Franke is a partner at cLabs working on Celo, an open source, global platform that aims to facilitate secure and efficient cross border payments to anyone with a mobile device.
Published 10/24/21
Zach Bradford is CEO at CleanSpark. In this episode we identify some problems with electricity production in relation to Bitcoin mining but also society as a whole. CleanSpark has several solutions to address these problems and some innovative ideas for   renewable energy beyond the blockchain space. 
Published 10/10/21
Published 09/10/21
James Wo is an experienced investor and entrepreneur in blockchain technology and digital assets; delivering a 200% return on investment in less than 2 years. Mr. Wo is also the Chairman of Matrix, the first regulated virtual assets multilateral trading facility (MTF) & custodian under the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) VA policy framework. He is a board member of LedgerX, and an Executive Committee member of the Chamber of Digital Commerce.  DFG is a global blockchain and digital asset...
Published 09/04/21
A lot has changed since Alexander Blum bought his first Bitcoin for $9 in 2012. Alex has been professionally involved with the industry ever since. He previously founded digital investment group Atomic Capital, worked as a technology advisor for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and The World Economic Forum, and served as an economic development specialist for the Peace Corps. He is also a Fellow at the University College London Centre for Blockchain Technologies and Chair of the Nexus...
Published 07/23/21
Learn how Cent is building a digital economy based on ownership, community, and identity through the use of NFTs
Published 07/11/21
Dr. Kruse is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons and Age Management Medicine Group.  He has helped pioneer a totally new medical field - Quantum Mitochondrial Health. Building on his deep medical expertise, he has also built a vibrant community while being a bitcoin maximalist; he is dedicated to helping people build critical thinking skills. He continues to challenge our currently implemented systems and look for more feasible...
Published 06/23/21
Jack Ottman is Chief Operating Officer at Minds. Jack is welcomed back for a look into recent updates on the Minds social network platform.    Get 20% OFF + Free Shipping with promo code BLOCKCHAIN at MANSCAPED.com
Published 06/18/21