Unchained: Your No-Hype Resource for All Things Crypto
By Laura Shin - Business Journalist Covering Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, ; Forbes Contributor
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Description
Crypto assets and blockchain technology are about to transform every trust-based interaction of our lives, from financial services to identity to the Internet of Things. In this podcast, host Laura Shin, an independent journalist covering all things crypto, talks with industry pioneers about how crypto assets and blockchains will change the way we earn, spend and invest our money. Tune in to find out how Web 3.0, the decentralized web, will revolutionize our world. Disclosure: I'm a nocoiner.
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CleanUnchained Live With Vitalik Buterin | In case you haven’t heard, I’m doing a live podcast recording with Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum. What is a live podcast recording? It's a podcast performed by me and the guest on a stage, in front of an audience. Vitalik and I... | 19 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhy Future Perfect Ventures Did Not Invest in ICOs - Ep.107 | Jalak Jobanputra, founder and managing partner of Future Perfect Ventures, talks about how, in 2014, her experience as an investment bank and VC, her global background, and her observation that new streams of data were becoming available led her to... | 19 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow Casa Makes It Harder for Someone to Steal Your Bitcoins - Ep.106 | Jeremy Welch of personal key security system Casa describes the company's various services and products, including its $10,000-a-year premium service for HODLers of at least $500,000 worth of cryptocurrency and the Casa node. He explains how he came... | 12 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRune Christensen of MakerDAO Part 2: How Dai Stayed at $1 While ETH Crashed From $1,400 to $85 - Ep.105 | Rune Christensen, CEO and cofounder of MakerDAO, explains how multicollateral Dai will work, what happens if one type of collateral fails, and what happens when someone's collateralized debt position with multicollateral Dai needs to be liquidated. He.. | 5 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRune Christensen of MakerDAO Part 1: How to Keep a Crypto-Collateralized Stablecoin Afloat - Ep.104 | Rune Christensen, CEO and cofounder of MakerDAO, explains the intricacies of the MakerDAO system, which includes the stablecoin Dai, which is pegged to $1, backed by collateral, and whose governance is managed by holders of the MKR token. He describes.. | 29 1 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTyler and Cameron Winklevoss on Being the 'Fastest Tortoise in the Race' - Ep.103 | Gemini's Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, who serve as chief executive and president, respectively, discuss their new ad campaign -- what they mean when they say crypto needs rules, why they agree in certain respects with some of their critics, and what... | 22 1 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAsia Edition: Mining, a Crypto Yuan and the Two Main Reasons the Chinese Are Interested in Crypto - Ep.102 | In this wide-ranging episode, Eric Meltzer and Dovey Wan of Primitive Ventures describe how Asia is weathering the crypto downturn: how have the low prices affected miners, how has this affected Bitmain's prospects for an IPO and how, despite a ban on.. | 15 1 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLedger on How Consumers and Institutions Should Be Safeguarding Their Private Keys - Ep.101 | Eric Larcheveque, cofounder and CEO of Ledger, and Demetrios Skalkotos, global head of Ledger Vault, describe the company's three main offerings: its hardware wallets, the new software-as-a-service product for institutions, and an Internet of Things... | 8 1 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean100th Episode: Past Guests and Listeners Take Over the Show - Ep.100 | To celebrate the 100th episode of Unchained, I talk a little about what this podcast means to me and thank everyone who's helped me with it. Then I let past guests and listeners take it away with their comments and predictions for 2019. Thank you to... | 1 1 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRERUN: Xapo's Wences Casares on How Bitcoin Makes a Fairer World - Ep.99 | Growing up in Argentina, Wences Casares saw his family lose all their money three times due to actions by the government. The so-called "patient zero" of Bitcoin in Silicon Valley explains why he believes that experience predisposed him to seeing the... | 25 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMike Novogratz on Why Bitcoin, "a Big FU to the System," Needs Institutions - Ep.98 | Mike Novogratz, founder and CEO of Galaxy Digital Holdings, describes the company's services and products, why it's launching a credit offering, and why he pivoted from his original intention to launch a crypto hedge fund and then pivoted again from... | 18 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow Crypto and Blockchain Technology Could Change Financial Services - Ep.97 | This is a special episode of Unchained from the CME Global Leadership Conference in Naples, Florida. There, I spoke with Arthur Hayes, CoFounder and CEO of Bitmex, Dan O’Prey, chief marketing officer of Digital Asset, and Alexis Ohanian, Co-Founder... | 16 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCoinbase's Listing Process: Why It's Adding Many More Coins and How It Decides - Ep.96 | Coinbase has departed from its conservative roots and begun adding many more coins. Dan Romero, vice president of Coinbase, explains how its listing process works, how it tries to prevent insider trading, and why it's listed coins that had ICOs, even... | 11 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAri Paul on Why Bitcoin Is a Good Value Buy Today - Ep.95 | Ari Paul, CIO of BlockTower Capital, explains why he likes how short-term trades concentrate risk in investment, why, "no matter what," he thinks Bitcoin is a good-value buy today, and how big university endowments investing in crypto now could... | 4 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow Donating Crypto Can Help You Save on Taxes - Ep.94 | Connie Gallippi, the founder and executive director for BitGive, and Joe Waltman, the executive director of GiveCrypto.org, discuss charitable giving in crypto -- what problems in philanthropy it solves, what level of transparency they can achieve and.. | 27 11 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMonero's Riccardo Spagni, aka Fluffypony, on How He Feels About Monero Being Used for Crime - Ep.93 | Riccardo Spagni, the lead maintainer for Monero, describes the four pillars of Monero's privacy, makes the case for why it would still be valuable even if BItcoin were to adopt privacy, and explains the ways in which its privacy is stronger and weaker.. | 20 11 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCoinFund's Jake Brukhman and Multicoin's Tushar Jain on Generalized Mining - Ep.92 | Jake Brukhman of CoinFund and Tushar Jain of Multicoin Capital discuss a new trend among crypto funds: generalized mining, also called mining 2.0, in which investors participate in the networks in order to seed activity on them. For instance, an... | 13 11 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDown 94% Since Winter, What Has Happened to ICOs? - Ep.91 | After the ICO craze of 2017, such offerings have raised extremely little so far this fall, with total sales in October down 94% since February, according to Token Data. Why? And where to next? Andy Bromberg, president of CoinList, and Marco Santori,... | 6 11 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanReflections on the 10-Year Anniversary of the Bitcoin White Paper - Ep.90 | For this episode on the eve of the Bitcoin white paper's 10-year anniversary, Nathaniel Popper and Paul Vigna, reporters who cover Bitcoin and crypto for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, respectively, and who have written books about... | 30 10 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNumerai's Richard Craib on How to Crowdsource Good Predictions - Ep.89 | While many companies like to use buzzwords like crypto, blockchain, AI and encryption, Numerai actually combines all these technologies in a novel way. Founder Richard Craib discusses how his hedge fund started off crowdsourcing good financial models... | 23 10 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanListener Mail: Laura Answers Your Questions on the Markets, Velocity, Privacy and More! - Ep.88 | This week, because I was busy with my TEDx talk and my book, I decided to do an episode in which I answer your questions. Thank you to everyone who submitted one, and I'm so sorry I didn't get to all your questions. In this episode, I talk about... | 16 10 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBarry Silbert on What Wall Street Says Privately About Crypto Vs. What It Says Publicly - Ep.87 | Barry Silbert, founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group, which has invested in 130 crypto ventures worldwide, describes his company, its strategy for investing in the crypto space, and how his perspective on the development of the space has changed... | 9 10 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow dYdX Allows You to Take a Short Position in One Token - Ep.86 | Antonio Juliano, founder of dYdX, explains how this protocol for derivatives will enable you to take a short position in a single token, why they are starting with protocols shorting and margin lending and how these protocols work vs. how shorting and.. | 2 10 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Oslo Freedom Forum in New York: Why Decentralization Matters - Ep.85 | In this fascinating and compelling panel on Why Decentralization Matters at the Oslo Freedom Forum in New York, I spoke with Alejandro Machado, a researcher at Zcash; Amber Baldet, founder and CEO of Clovyr, a decentralized software and developer... | 28 9 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow Binance Became the Most Popular Crypto Exchange in 5 Months - Ep.84 | In this fast-paced and exhilarating conversation, Changpeng Zhao, aka "CZ," tells the pivotal business decisions that led users to flock to the brand-new Binance in the summer and fall of 2017, catapulting it from obscurity to become the world's most... | 25 9 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSingularity University Global Summit: How Do We Get Consumer Adoption? - Ep.83 | This is a recording of the full "blockchain block" of the Singularity University Global Summit in late August. It features a talk by me on the power of decentralization, Abra CEO Bill Barhydt on the evolution of Bitcoin, and Atlas Holdings Group CEO... | 21 9 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow You'll Earn Interest on Your Crypto With Compound - Ep.82 | Robert Leshner, founder of Compound, describes how its protocol will enable people to earn interest on crypto assets, and why he thinks this will be crucial to crypto becoming mainstream. He also describes how the company is currently building an... | 18 9 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTuur Demeester on Why He's a Bitcoin Maximalist and Bearish on Ethereum - Ep.81 | Founder and CEO of Adamant Capital Tuur Demeester explains what factors he considers when valuing crypto assets, why this has led him to become a Bitcoin maximalist, and why he doesn't think Ethereum can scale. We also discuss why he doesn't have much.. | 11 9 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNadav Hollander on How Dharma Could Create New Forms of Debt - Ep.80 | Nadav, founder of Dharma protocol, explains how it enables the borrowing and lending of crypto assets, what would happen in the case of default, and why it would make sense to do it in a decentralized fashion rather than using one of the many fintech... | 4 9 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJoey Krug on How Augur Is Like Any Other Tool - Ep.79 | Joey Krug, cofounder of Augur and co-chief investment officer at Pantera Capital, talks about what Augur is and is not, why it’s difficult to create new financial markets today and whether or not Augur markets could curb fake news. He explains why... | 28 8 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDfinity's Dominic Williams on How Its Blockchain Nervous System Is Not an AI - Ep.78 | Dfinity's Dominic Williams talks about how Dfinity is an internet computer that can host our software and data, instead of it being held by centralized services. He describes the consensus algorithm, threshold relay, and why he believes Dfinity will... | 21 8 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHarbor and TrustToken on Why They Don't Mind Being Unsexy - Ep.77 | Josh Stein, CEO of Harbor, and Danny An, cofounder and CEO of TrustToken, talk about security tokens and tokens backed by real-world assets, often called an unsexy area of crypto. They explain the strategies their teams are using to tackle the... | 14 8 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLive From Distributed: Amber Baldet, Matthew Roszak and Lily Liu on 'Innovate or Reinvent?' - Ep.76 | In July in San Francisco, I moderated a panel at "Distributed 2018: Unlocking the Global Power of Decentralized Business." The title of our discussion was "Innovate or Reinvent?" and the panelists were Amber Baldet, cofounder and CEO of Clovyr, Matt... | 8 8 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat Makes a CryptoKitty Worth $140,000? - Ep.75 | Roham Gharegozlou, CEO of Dapper Labs, the company behind CryptoKitties, and Benny Giang, Dapper Labs’ head of Asia, describe how employees at venture studio AxiomZen came up with the idea for CryptoKitties, what problems it exposed in crypto... | 7 8 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMeltem Demirors and Jill Carlson on the Sh*tcoin Waterfall - Ep.74 | In this hilarious skeptics' episode, Meltem Demirors, chief strategy officer of CoinShares, and Jill Carlson, an independent consultant, explain why they think crypto needs fewer moral arguments and more empirical evidence, and how there's too much... | 31 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanKathleen Breitman and Ryan Jesperson of Tezos on Why They Wouldn't Do Its Token Sale Differently - Ep.73 | Kathleen Breitman, CEO of Dynamic Ledger Solutions, the company behind the Tezos protocol, and Ryan Jesperson, president of the foundation, discuss the Tezos initial coin offering, which was the largest ICO at the time of sale. Kathleen explains why... | 24 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow Widespread Is Money Laundering in Crypto? - Ep.72 | Yaya Fanusie, director of analysis at the Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and Tom Robinson, chief data officer and cofounder of blockchain analytics firm Elliptic, discuss how common money... | 17 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCircle's Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville on Why Crypto Will Be Bigger Than the Web - Ep.71 | Jeremy Allaire, cofounder and CEO of Circle, and Sean Neville, cofounder and president, discuss why they think the internet of value will be even bigger than the internet of information and how all assets will be tokenized. They also talk about why... | 10 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanChris Dixon on How Trust Is the Best Lego Block - Ep.70 | Chris Dixon, partner at Andreessen Horowitz, talks about the new $300 million crypto fund he is leading with Kathryn Haun, the new general partner of Andreessen, and how a16z came to hire its first female GP. The long-time crypto entrepreneur also... | 3 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJimmy Song on Why Bitcoin Will Be the Winning Cryptocurrency - Ep.69 | In an episode of strong positions, Blockchain Capital partner and Bitcoin educator Jimmy Song explains why private blockchains will never work, why smart contracts will never work, and why Bitcoin will be the one and only valuable... | 26 6 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLive From the World Economic Forum Industry Strategy Meeting: Breaking the Blockchain Hype - Ep.68 | This is a live recording from a panel I moderated at the World Economic Forum Industry Strategy Meeting. The speakers included Shwetha Shetty Senior Director, Corporate Strategy Group, of SAP, Adam Ludwin, CEO of Chain, Brian Behlendorf, executive... | 20 6 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhy ASICs May Be Better Than GPUs Even if They Tend Toward Mining Centralization - Ep.67 | David Vorick, CEO of Nebulous, which operates Siacoin and a new subsidiary, Obelisk, describes what he's discovered in his exploration of the mining industry, including why he's decided that specialized chips like ASICs are preferable to generalized... | 19 6 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLive From Consensus: What the Media Really Thinks About Crypto - Ep.66 | This is a recording of a panel discussion I participated in with a couple other reporters and crypto PR people at Consensus. (It was at the same time as Jack's talk, so it's totally understandable if you missed it. Also, the room was freezing. I was... | 13 6 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPlaceholder's Joel Monegro on the Fat Protocols Thesis Today - Ep.65 | Joel Monegro, partner at crypto VC firm Placeholder Ventures, describes how well his seminal blog post, "Fat Protocols," is holding up, why he and his partner Chris Burniske opted to found a crypto VC firm as opposed to a hedge fund, and what main... | 12 6 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFrom the Oslo Freedom Forum: Blockchain vs. the Surveillance State - Ep.64 | This recording is of Blockchain vs. the Surveillance State, a series of talks and a panel from the Oslo Freedom Forum put on by the Human Rights Foundation. In this session, hear presentations from Ryan Shea of decentralized technology platform... | 6 6 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanArthur Hayes of Bitmex on Why Countries Will Turn to Digital Cash - Ep.63 | Arthur Hayes, CEO of Bitmex, describes how traders on his platform can make great gains but experience limited losses, how Asia's crypto markets differ from those in the U.S., and why he makes money whether or not crypto prices go up or down. He also... | 5 6 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow Chainalysis Helps Solve Crimes: Jonathan Levin Tells All - Ep.62 | Jonathan Levin, cofounder and chief operating officer for blockchain analytics company Chainalysis, describes how the company was born out of questions he had while a grad student, how they began mapping the Bitcoin blockchain to certain entities, and.. | 29 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJesse Powell, CEO of Kraken, on Drawing a Line With Regulators - Ep.61 | Jesse Powell, CEO of crypto asset exchange Kraken, explains why he publicly rejected then-Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's request for information from crypto exchanges, why he felt it was a publicity stunt and why Kraken, which stopped serving... | 22 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitLive From Ethereal: Eep! How Should Ethereum Be Governed? - Ep.60 | This recording of a panel I moderated at Ethereal with Ethereum researcher Vlad Zamfir and GovernX founder Nick Dodson covered the topic that it seems everyone in crypto is discussing these days: governance. We talk about how the community should... | 20 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAya Miyaguchi, of the Ethereum Foundation, on Who Makes the Final Call - Ep.59 | The newly appointed head of the Ethereum Foundation, Aya Miyaguchi, talks about her background as a teacher, at Kraken, helping the Mt. Gox trustee unwind that mess, and the closed process by which she was plucked for her current role. She also... | 15 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRipple's XRP: Why Its Chances of Success Are Low - Ep.58 | In this show, recorded without the participation of Ripple (explanation included in the show), Ryan Selkis, CEO and founder of Messari and Matt Leising, Bloomberg reporter, discuss Ripple's XRP, the third-largest coin by market cap. We go over whether.. | 8 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow Institutional Investors Can Do Due Diligence in the Crypto Space - Ep.57 | Here is the second special episode from the Time Summit, a Bridge Alternatives event, on how institutional investors can do operational due diligence. Suna Said, founder and CEO of family office Nima Capital, Eddie Duszlak of Texas Children's... | 6 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat Will Make Institutional Players Comfortable Entering Crypto? - Ep.56 | This talk is from a panel I led on infrastructure in the crypto space at the Time Summit, by Bridge Alternatives, featuring Kayvon Pirestani of director of institutional sales at GDAX, Tim McCourt, CME Group’s managing director and global head of... | 5 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMulticoin on the 1 Thing Crypto Teams Miss in Their Quests for Success | Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain, cofounders of Multicoin Capital, dive deeply into their sometimes controversial and unpopular opinions on how the crypto revolution will play out. They describe why they don't think the technology that a team develops... | 1 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPaul Walsh of MetaCert on How Not to Get Scammed Out of Your Crypto | Paul Walsh had long ago predicted that internet scams would migrate from email to private messaging platforms, but it wasn't until crypto mania took off that his thesis was proved right -- in a big way. In the summer of 2017, the founder and CEO of... | 24 4 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTrends in Crypto: Marco Santori, Michael Sonnenshein and Barbara Minuzzi on 2017 and What's Next | In this live recording of a panel discussion at the CoinAlts Fund Symposium, Marco Santori, president and chief legal officer of Blockchain, managing director at Grayscale Investments, and Barbara Minuzzi, cofounder and managing partner of Ausum... | 22 4 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Chamber of Digital Commerce's Perianne Boring and Amy Kim on Why U.S. Crypto Regulation Is Complicated and Confusing | If U.S. crypto regulation seems incredibly convoluted, this is the episode for you. Perianne Boring, the founder and president of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, and its global policy director and general counsel Amy Kim, discuss why U.S. regulation... | 17 4 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLive From Inforum at the Commonwealth Club: Blockchain and Cryptocurrency: The Basics, With Kathryn Haun | Through Inforum at the Commonwealth Club, I recently moderated a sold-out discussion on the basics of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. My guest was Kathryn Haun, a former federal prosecutor who is now teaching a class on cryptocurrency at the.. | 15 4 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBitfury on the Ways It Collaborates With Governments and Why It's Partnered With a Public Company | Valery Vavilov and George Kikvadze of Bitcoin mining and blockchain software company Bitfury discuss why the firm has partnered with the publicly traded Hut 8, how it plans to branch out into mining other crypto assets, and how it chooses where to... | 10 4 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAll Things Cryptoeconomics, Pt. 1, With Olaf Carlson-Wee and Ryan Zurrer of Polychain Capital | In an intermittent series on cryptoeconomics, Olaf Carlson-Wee and Ryan Zurrer of crypto hedge fund Polychain Capital describe what cryptoeconomics is, what goals it typically helps networks accomplish and what behaviors token systems might someday... | 3 4 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanZcash's Zooko Wilcox on Why He Believes Privacy Coins Will Be Used More for Good Than Bad | Zooko Wilcox, the founder and CEO of the Zcash company, explains why he wanted to create the privacy coin Zcash, why he believes privacy is essential to decentralization, and how encryption is the way censorship-resistance can be created on a... | 27 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanUnconfirmed - Ep.008 - Arianna Simpson of Autonomous Partners on Privacy, Cryptokitties and Crypto Regulation | Arianna Simpson, managing partner of investment firm Autonomous Partners, discusses this week's news that Cambridge Analytica had used data from Facebook to perhaps manipulate the 2016 election and whether that could create an opening for... | 23 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMike Belshe on What BitGo's Kingdom Trust Acquisition Means for Crypto and How Security Will Develop in the Future | Mike Belshe, the founder and CEO of BitGo, talks about one of the biggest problems facing crypto today: security. We discuss some of the ways BitGo has resolved this issue, whether that still leads to single points of failure, and what the company's... | 20 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLive from SXSW: Michael Casey and Paul Vigna, Co-Authors of The Truth Machine, on Why the SEC Has Issued Subpoenas to ICOs | At the Founders Organization's Initial Taco Offering, an unofficial SXSW event, the co-authors of the recently released Truth Machine, talked about a wide range of regulatory issues from what the SEC subpoenas mean to whether or not the SEC is... | 18 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanUnconfirmed: Caitlin Long on How 'Utility Tokens' Are Now Legal In Wyoming | Wyoming now has five blockchain-specific laws. Caitlin Long, cofounder of the Wyoming Blockchain Coalition, describes what these laws are, what they mean, and how our least populous state became a crypto leader. The former chairman and president of... | 16 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSXSW Episode: Amber Baldet, Blockchain Program Lead at JPMorgan, on the Potential Clash Between Blockchains and the Right to Be Forgotten | Amber Baldet, JPMorgan Chase blockchain program lead, talks about what she was discussing at SXSW with Hyperledger executive director Brian Behlendorf and what themes she heard at the Ethereum Community Conference in Paris. She talks about privacy in... | 15 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanUnconfirmed: SXSW Episode: Former DOJ Prosecutor Kathryn Haun on What the SEC Subpoenas and FinCen Letter Likely Mean | As a former government official, current board member of Coinbase and professor at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Kathryn Haun has a unique and varied view of the crypto space. She doesn't necessarily see the SEC subpoenas as a... | 14 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Skeptics' Episode: Preston Byrne and Angela Walch on What the Industry and Regulators Get Wrong in Crypto | Preston Byrne, an independent consultant and English lawyer, and Angela Walch, an associate professor at St. Mary’s University School of Law who focuses on blockchain technology, both explain their criticisms of the crypto space, give grades to... | 13 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanUnconfirmed: Spencer Bogart on Bitcoin's Maturation and the SEC Overhang on Crypto | Spencer Bogart, partner at Blockchain Capital, discusses why he think Bitcoin's growing pains are a sign of success, how the SEC regulatory gloom could affect the development of crypto and how a liquidity crunch could affect crypto hedge funds. We... | 9 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWill Warren of 0x on Why Decentralized Exchanges Are the Future | Will Warren, cofounder of decentralized exchange protocol 0x, was working on building tokenized derivatives for Ethereum when he and his cofounder realized there would be no place to trade them. They ended up pivoting to create a decentralized... | 6 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanUnconfirmed - Ep.003 - The Gender Imbalance in Crypto: Jalak Jobanputra on Why It's a Problem and Her Effort to Fix It | Future Perfect Ventures' founder and managing partner Jalak Jobanputra and I discuss the New York Times article earlier this week about how few women there are in crypto. We discuss some of the surprising comments we saw from women in the space who... | 2 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhy It's so Hard to Keep Stablecoins Stable | Rune Christensen of MakerDAO and Philip Rosedale, founder of Second Life and High Fidelity, discuss why stablecoins are called crypto's holy grail, why they may be what's necessary for mainstream adoption, and all the ways a stablecoin can be... | 27 2 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIntroducing Unconfirmed - Brian Kelly on Token-Curated Registries, Robinhood Crypto Trading and the Petro - Ep.002 | Subscribe to my new show, Unconfirmed! Here's a sample: Brian Kelly of BKCM talks about token-curated registries, such as the proposal for Messari, by Ryan Selkis, formerly of Digital Currency Group and CoinDesk, and why such TCRs are probably a good... | 23 2 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMyCrypto's Taylor Monahan on Why She's Not a Fan of ICOs | The cofounder of MyEtherWallet and CEO of newly launched MyCrypto walks us through the nuts and bolts of how MyCrypto works, how it differs from a company like Coinbase, why the keys you get from the site even enable to work offline -- and how the... | 20 2 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanUnconfirmed's First Episode: Olaf Carlson-Wee of Polychain Capital on Governance | Check out the first episode of Unconfirmed, in which Olaf Carlson-Wee, CEO and founder of Polychain Capital, discusses why an issue facing the Ethereum community right now has him thinking about on-chain governance. If you enjoy the episode, subscribe.. | 18 2 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGo Check Out My New Podcast, Unconfirmed! | Unconfirmed: Insights and Analysis From the Top Minds in Crypto drops today! The first guest is Olaf Carlson-Wee, CEO and founder of crypto hedge fund Polychain Capital. We discuss the week's news and what is on Olaf's mind these days. It's available... | 16 2 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanShapeshift's Erik Voorhees on How Crypto Will Separate Money and State | Erik Voorhees says the greatest scam perpetrated on mankind is currency debasement -- and that crypto will change all that. In this wide-ranging interview, the CEO of crypto-to-crypto exchange Shapeshift talks about how crypto will take away power... | 13 2 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanXapo's Wences Casares on How Bitcoin Makes a Fairer World | Love Unchained? Please take this extremely brief survey to help us find more sponsors: https://survey.libsyn.com/unchained Growing up in Argentina, Wences Casares saw his family lose all their money three times due to actions by the government.... | 6 2 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Tax Rules That Have Crypto Users Aghast | Love Unchained? Please take this extremely brief survey to help us obtain more sponsors: https://survey.libsyn.com/unchained Tax attorney Tyson Cross and CPA Jason Tyra discuss all things crypto and taxes, including what types of crypto... | 23 1 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanVitalik Buterin, Creator Of Ethereum, On The Big Guy Vs. The Little Guy | Love Unchained? Please take this extremely brief survey to help us obtain more sponsors: https://survey.libsyn.com/unchained The 23-year-old whiz dives into who blockchains will someday help, how we transition from Ethereum for digital cats to... | 9 1 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCrypto 101: Everything You Need To Know About Bitcoin, Ethereum, Blockchains, ICOs, And More | Love Unchained? Please take this extremely brief survey to help us obtain more sponsors: https://survey.libsyn.com/unchained In this special bonus episode, Laura cover all your basic questions about crypto. What is Bitcoin? What is... | 26 12 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow Crypto And Blockchain Technology Should Be Regulated | Love Unchained? Please take this extremely brief survey to help us obtain more sponsors: https://survey.libsyn.com/unchained Marco Santori, who leads the blockchain technology team at Cooley, and Joshua Ashley Klayman, who leads the blockchain... | 12 12 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNaval Ravikant On How Crypto Is Squeezing VCs, Hindering Regulators And Bringing Users Choice | Love Unchained? Please take this extremely brief survey to help us obtain more sponsors: https://survey.libsyn.com/unchained The executive chairman of AngelList and partner at crypto hedge fund MetaStable explains how blockchains are changing the... | 28 11 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat Bitcoin's History Says About Its Future | Love Unchained? Please take this extremely brief survey to help us obtain more sponsors: https://survey.libsyn.com/unchained Days after the SegWit2x fork was called off, Nathaniel Popper, New York Times tech reporter and author of the book... | 14 11 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat Will Happen At The Time Of The Bitcoin Hard Fork? | As Bitcoin faces the biggest test in its nine-year history, two players on opposing sides -- Mike Belshe of BitGo and Bitcoin protocol developer Matt Corallo -- debate how the community got here and what the definition of Bitcoin is -- whether the... | 31 10 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow To Value A Crypto Asset | Love Unchained? Please take this extremely brief survey to help us obtain more sponsors: https://survey.libsyn.com/unchained Chris Burniske of Placeholder Ventures has recently come out with a new book, "Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investors'... | 17 10 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow To Explain Cryptocurrencies And Blockchains To The Average Person | Love Unchained? Please take this extremely brief survey to help us obtain more sponsors: https://survey.libsyn.com/unchained Tired of having your friends and family say cryptocurrencies are a Ponzi scheme, nothing backs them, they're in a bubble... | 3 10 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFrom Blockchains To Mooncakes: Two Chinese Crypto Founders On The ICO And Bitcoin Exchanges Ban | Da Hongfei of NEO and Patrick Dai of Qtum tell us just how crazy China's ICO craze was getting, with mooncake companies, celebs and Ponzi schemers all jumping on the blockchain train. They also explain what the reaction was to the ICO and bitcoin... | 19 9 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBlockstack On Getting Independence From Google, Facebook And Amazon | Ryan Shea and Muneeb Ali, the cofounders of Blockstack, on how their tools enable users to control their own data, why the internet should have universal usernames but no company should control that, and why Blockstack’s storage system still allows... | 5 9 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe High-Speed World Of ICOs: Smith and Crown Discuss Cryptoeconomics And The Future Of Tokens | Brian Lio, CEO of cryptofinance research site Smith and Crown, and head of research Matt Chwierut discuss how they do their research, how they decide which projects to cover in-depth rather than just list and when they provide advisory services for... | 22 8 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow Bitcoin Solved This Serial Entrepreneur's Problems | Afghan entrepreneur Roya Mahboob has launched numerous companies, but it was a blogging platform that presented her with the problem of how to pay her (mostly female) users, 99% of whom did not have bank accounts. And even if they did get paid, their... | 8 8 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhy November Will Be The Real Test For Bitcoin | Bitcoin core developer Eric Lombrozo and OB1 CEO Brian Hoffman debate whether SegWit2x is the best path forward, discuss who supported it and why, and whether the potential for a hard fork harms the price. They also discuss what happens to the power... | 25 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanListener Qs: Laura On Ponzi Schemes, Bubbles, Greed And More | In this episode, coming one day after the release of my Forbes cover story online, I answer listener questions, starting with my background, the history of the podcast, whether or not I trade or invest in crypto, and what tokens I think have the... | 11 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhy Digital Currency Group's Meltem Demirors Is Concerned About The ICO Craze | The DCG director of development talks about why she thinks identity will be the first tangible application of blockchain technology that consumers experience, why DCG supports Ethereum Classic as an investment vehicle and yet still supports Ethereum... | 13 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean'Bitcoin Oracle' Vinny Lingham On Why Bitcoin Is Overpriced | The Civic CEO and cofounder explains how his upbringing in South Africa and his experience at former company Gyft led him to launch a startup focused on identity. It was also at Gyft that he realized how enthusiastic the bitcoin and cryptocurrency... | 30 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanICOs: Why People Are Investing In This $380 Million Phenomenon | Don't forget to take the Unchained podcast survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/unchained Developers of new cryptocurrencies are raising gobs of money with little more than a white paper. Though real advances are likely to emerge from the trend, the.. | 16 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIBM's Jerry Cuomo On Everything From Blockchain Security To Hyperledger To The Internet Of Things | Thanks to all the listeners who've let me know what you want to hear more of, what you like about the show, and who you want to see as guests. If you haven't yet, have a say in the direction of the show -- tell me what you like, what the podcast... | 2 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThis VC Is Sure Venture Capital Is About To Be Disrupted | Don't forget to take the Unchained Podcast survey! http://surveymonkey.com/r/unchained Blockchain Capital's recent BCAP token offering is a harbinger of things to come in venture capital and private equity, says the firm's managing director... | 18 4 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhy Bitcoin May Split In Two And How To Prevent It | Please take the Unchained podcast survey! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/unchained The bitcoin community is mired in a civil war. In this episode of the Unchained podcast, supporters of opposing sides -- former Bitcoin Core developer Jeff Garzik... | 4 4 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBobby Lee, CEO Of BTCC, On Why The Chinese Probably Aren't Using Bitcoin To Evade Capital Controls | Bobby Lee, CEO of BTCC, one of the world's longest-running cryptocurrency exchanges, talks about whether Chinese people are using bitcoin to evade capital controls, how bitcoin trading in China has changed since a government crackdown in early... | 21 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhy The First Employee Of Coinbase Launched A Hedge Fund | Olaf Carlson-Wee is the founder of Polychain Capital, a hedge fund that has invested $15 million into digital assets and has gotten backing from storied venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures. In this episode, Carlson-Wee... | 7 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhy Nasdaq Is Even More Optimistic About Blockchain Than It Was 3 Years Ago | Fredrik Voss, Nasdaq's head of blockchain initiatives, discusses what the company has accomplished with the technology and how his firm evaluates whether potential projects could benefit from a blockchain solution. He also reveals what is likely to... | 21 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWith Deadline Looming, Will The SEC Approve A Bitcoin ETF? | The SEC will make a decision on a proposed bitcoin ETF by March 11. Will it approve? An optimist and pessimist weigh in, touching upon bitcoin’s liquidity, the impact recent events in China have had on its trading, as well as proposals for bitcoin... | 7 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIs The IRS Justified In Demanding Information On Millions Of Bitcoin Users? | The IRS found three entities using bitcoin to evade taxes and has now demanded the records of millions of users at Coinbase, the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange. An accountant and an attorney specializing in cryptocurrency discuss whether the IRS.. | 24 1 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat Is One Of The World's Largest Derivatives Exchanges Doing With Bitcoin? | CME Group handles three billion contracts worth about $1 quadrillion annually. So why is it making a foray into bitcoin, whose market capitalization is a mere $16 billion? Sandra Ro, CME's head of digitization, explains its first cryptocurrency... | 10 1 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFederal Prosecutor Kathryn Haun On How Criminals Use Bitcoin -- And How She Catches Them | Kathryn Haun put away the DEA and Secret Service agents who tried to make off with more than $800,000 in stolen bitcoin while investigating the darknet Silk Road marketplace. She talks about how the blockchain technology underlying Bitcoin made it... | 1 11 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow Coin Center Is Helping Define The 'Big Fuzzy Gray Area' Of Blockchain And Cryptocurrency Law | As blockchains and cryptocurrencies evolve, there are times when the technology outpaces the law. That's when Coin Center steps in. The non-profit, which represents the technology, not the industry, and aims for regulators to keep a mostly hands-off... | 18 10 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat Does Cornell’s Emin Gun Sirer See As The Main Security Threats In Cryptocurrency? ‘Everything’ | Cornell University computer science professor Emin Gun Sirer, an influential figure in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space, describes his ideas for improving security in the space, his skepticism about how to scale these networks, and how the last.. | 4 10 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhy A Wall Street Journal Currency Reporter Didn't Understand Money Until He Learned About Bitcoin | Michael Casey, senior advisor at MIT's Media Lab and author of the Age of Cryptocurrency, spent 18 years at the Wall Street Journal -- a good portion of that covering currency markets. But he says it wasn't until he learned about Bitcoin that he... | 20 9 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhy Tyler And Cameron Winklevoss Fell In Love With Bitcoin | Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, CEO and President, respectively, of cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, talk about the importance of regulation in a sector once associated in popular culture with illicit activity. The twin brothers, who were the first to... | 6 9 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBlockchain 101 With Andreas Antonopoulos: How Bitcoin Makes Each Of Us As Powerful As A Bank | “Shifting from a perspective of 'only humans control money' to 'machines and software control money' is really radical and it changes a lot of things,” says the popular blockchain and Bitcoin author and speaker Andreas Antonopoulos. Antonopoulos... | 23 8 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow The Blockchain Alliance Helps Law Enforcement With Bitcoin Crime And Developments Like The DAO | Jason Weinstein and Alan Cohn, partner and of counsel, respectively at law firm Steptoe & Johnson, discuss their work with the Blockchain Alliance, a coalition of both blockchain and cryptocurrency companies as well as law enforcement agencies... | 9 8 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanChain's Adam Ludwin On Who Is Best Poised To Benefit From Blockchain Technology | As blockchain technology remakes financial services, some companies will be better positioned than others, says Adam Ludwin, CEO of Chain, which has partnered with incumbents like Visa, Citi and Nasdaq. Ludwin describes which types of firms will... | 26 7 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWant to Diversify Your Portfolio? Try Bitcoin, Say ARK's Chris Burniske And Coinbase's Adam White | Invest in oil and gold? In this episode, the co-authors of a compelling white paper explain the four reasons why they believe you may soon be investing in digital oil and digital gold instead. Find out why their analysis prompted Burniske to say of... | 12 7 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMaiTai Global's Bill Tai On Why Blockchain Is The 6th Wave Of Technology | Bill Tai, a venture capitalist who got his start as a computer chip designer in the 1980s, places blockchain in the context of the broader technological revolution of the last three decades. He also reveals how Bitfury, a company in which he's an... | 28 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBloq's Matt Roszak on Necker Island: Connecting Multiple Blockchains, China and Tech Cooperatives | Matt Roszak, a venture capitalist for 20 years, discusses how his new company Bloq, cofounded with former Bitcoin core developer Jeff Garzik (from talks they began on Necker Island last year), serves enterprise clients and envisions a multi-chain... | 14 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBitPesa's Elizabeth Rossiello on Necker Island | Elizabeth Rossiello talks about how she went from being a credit ratings analyst for microfinance investors to heading up an "international mobile money" company for sub-Saharan Africa that uses Bitcoin's rails. Along the way she reveals how... | 14 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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