Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWeekly News Roundup feat. Lucas Nuzzi 08/14/20 (Asteroid gold mining, Microstrategy, Ethereum's "supplygate")
Episode 112
Coin Metrics network data product lead Lucas Nuzzi joins the show to help explain how to audit the supply of Ethereum – and other, even more challenging blockchains. Also covered in this episode:
D…Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
James Lovejoy on detecting and mitigating double-spends
Episode 111
James Lovejoy, recent MEng MIT grad and former graduate researcher at the MIT Digital Currency Initiative, joins the show to talk about his masters thesis and associated project focusing on detecting…
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
Weekly News Roundup 08/07/20 (Microstrategy's Bitcoin position, Square's big Q2, ETC reorgs)
Episode 110
Nic and Matt cover deals and the news of the week. In this episode:
Are we in a bull run or is fiat devaluating? Africa volumes growing on Paxful BCH contemplating redirecting block rewards to fund …Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
Ray Youssef (Paxful) on building the world's largest Bitcoin p2p market
Episode 109
Ray Youssef, founder and CEO of Paxful, joins the show to talk his journey with Paxful and his mission to bring Bitcoin to Africa. Paxful is a wholly bootstrapped startup that has recently taken the …
Published on 5 years, 4 months ago
How Canaccord Genuity is approaching the cryptoasset market
Episode 108
Michael Graham and Pat McEvoy of Canaccord Genuity join the podcast to discuss how their firm has approached the blockchain/cryptoasset sector. In this episode we discuss:
Michael's perspective on b…Published on 5 years, 5 months ago
Weekly News Roundup 07/31/20 Feat. John Collins of FS Vector (The OCC letter, Plustoken apprehended, Bitcoin's patronage system)
Episode 107
Matt and Nic review the stories of the week, featuring John Collins, partner and cofounder of FS Vector, to cover the OCC letter and its implications. Covered in this episode:
Our Plustoken conspira…Published on 5 years, 5 months ago
Jesse Walden (Variant) on the Crypto Ownership Economy
Episode 106
Jesse Walden, founder of Variant joins the show. In this episode we discuss:
Jesse's journey in the crypto industry, from founding Mediachain, to being an investor at A16Z, to founding Variant The c…Published on 5 years, 5 months ago
Weekly News Roundup 07/24/20 (the bombshell OCC letter, the custodian gold rush, Ampleforth mania)
Episode 105
Matt and Nic review the stories of the week. Covered in this episode:
Why holding Bitcoin in banks isn't necessarily contrary to the nature of Bitcoin VALR, a South African exchange, raises $3.45m f…Published on 5 years, 5 months ago
Sam Wyner and Sal Ternullo (KPMG) on making blockchain data intelligible for institutions
Episode 104
Sam Wyner and Sal Ternullo, cryptoasset services co-leads at KPMG, join the show to talk about KPMG's newly-released analytics capabilities dubbed Chain Fusion. Chain Fusion is a patent pending suite…
Published on 5 years, 5 months ago
Nate Maddrey (Coin Metrics) on the rise of stablecoins
Episode 103
Nate Maddrey, senior research analyst at Coin Metrics, joins the show to discuss a recent report published by CM in collaboration with Bitstamp, The Rise of Stablecoins. We talk through the report an…
Published on 5 years, 5 months ago