In this episode, I talk with Erik Voorhees, the CEO of Shapeshift. We discuss why Erik believes in a multi-coin world, the pressures of KYC/AML on his business, the flaws in the Wall Street Journal hit piece and the future for Shapeshift.
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In this episode, I talk with Andrew Poelstrsa, Director of Research at Blockstream. We talk about math, signature technology, Bitcoin fungibility and his role researching Bitcoin.
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In this episode, I talk with Amber Baldet from Clovyr. We talk about surveillance capitalism and the increasing hunger for data by Silicon Valley behemoths, the impact on society as well as question recent Coinbase decisions and Web 3.0.
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In this episode, I talk with Zooko Wilcox, Founder & CEO of Zcash. We discuss his history with Digicash, how he discovered Bitcoin, why he created Zcash and whether Zcash is a company, the founder's reward and user adoption.
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In this episode, I talk with Michael Cordner, a developer working on Grin's implementation of Mimblewimble. We discuss the mysterious creator of the Mimblewimble whitepaper, Grin's monetary and governance policies and mining Grin.
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In this episode, I talk with Nathaniel Whittemore, producer of Long Reads Sunday, a curated list of the best content in crypto. We discuss the problems with crypto marketing, the ills of the advertising industry and the broken model of the Internet.
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In this episode, I talk with Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript and founder of Brave and the Basic Attention Token. We talk about how Brave is attempting to change the broken online advertising model.
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I welcome back Jameson Lopp to talk about his approach to privacy, and his recent Medium post on the subject: A Modest Privacy Protection Proposal - How to reclaim your privacy in the surveillance age - as well as Jameson updating me on progress at Casa.
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In this episode, I talk with Nic Carter, a partner at Castle Island Ventures. We question the obsession with blockchains, the web 3.0 stack and on-chain governance as well as Bitcoin mining, economic models and realised cap.
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In this episode, I talk with the author of The Bitcoin Standard, Saifedean Ammous and Wall Street veteran, Caitlin Long. We discuss the state of the global economy, rising debt, negative interest rates and Wall Street adoption of Bitcoin.
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In this episode, I talk with Jake Chervinsky, associate lawyer with Kobre & Kim. We deep dive into who the SEC is, their remit and powers, what a security is, ETFs, Bakkt, The Banking Secrecy Act, Shapeshift, KYC/AML, manipulation, Bitcoin privacy & XRP
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In this episode, I talk with Riccardo "FluffyPony" Spagni, core team member at Monero and co-founder of Tari. We discuss the importance of privacy, his new project Tari and the latest on Monero.
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