The Charlie Shrem Show

My guest today is my friend Lou Kerner, a Partner at Flight VC where he manages the Israeli Founders Syndicate on AngelList. Lou is also the Founder and Managing Partner at The Social internet Fund, which invests in the primary or secondary shares of private social media or mobile companies. Lou started his career as a Wall Street analyst following media companies, spending four years at Goldman Sachs, before transitioning to operating tech companies. His first CEO role was at The .tv Corporation, which acquired the top-level domain .tv from the tiny island nation of Tuvalu. After .tv was acquired by Verisign in 2001, Mr. Kerner became the CEO of Bolt Media, the largest social media company before MySpace. After Bolt, Lou became an angel investor, best known for writing the first Wall Street style research report on Facebook, in 2010. Lou launched a small VC fund in 2012, and then joined Flight Ventures, where he focused on tech companies founded by Israeli teams. Since 2017, Lou has been focused on crypto as an analyst, investor, and advisor. Lou is one of the most followed crypto analysts (on Medium) and advises companies including Blockchain Co-investors (a crypto fund-of-funds), Casper (a layer one protocol), Props (an SEC-approved token used to drive loyalty programs), and Silver Castle (an institutional-grade digital asset manager). In addition, Mr. Kerner is a Partner in an AngelList Syndicate that actively invests in crypto projects. Furthermore, Lou started CryptoMondays, the largest crypto-focused Meetup group, with chapters in more than 50 cities around the world. Lou's passion and excitement for the space is contagious and he was a wealth of knowledge. In our conversation, we cover why crypto is the most important movement in the history of mankind, Crypto Mondays, Kerner's Law and DAOs, GameFi, the Everything Bubble, and much more. We begin our conversation by discussing what compelled Lou to start Crypto Mondays, their decentralized organizational structure, and the importance of Crypto Mondays to the fabric of the community. We continue our conversation by discussing the importance of community and how the strength of a crypto network can be derived from its network. Lou did an excellent job at explaining how to gauge the strength of the community by using Kerner's Law and the Value Delta. Another very interesting topic of conversation was GameFi. We discussed the emergence of GameFi and how MetaVerse will be all-encompassing. We finish our conversation by discussing the Everything-Bubble and why Bitcoin will become increasingly more important.--Ledn provides financial products to help you unlock the power of digital assets. With a secure and easy-to-use platform, it’s the simplest way to earn interest, borrow, and trade your BTC and USDC.For maximum accountability, Ledn offers Proof of Reserves attestations to give you peace of mind while you make the most of your Bitcoin.Untold Stories listeners can receive $50 in free BTC when you create a new loan. More info at https://untoldstories.link/LEDN--This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is Brandon Millman, Co-founder and CEO of Phantom. Phantom is best-known among the Solana community, where it has become the go-to wallet for applications on that blockchain. Phantom was founded by software engineers Brandon Millman and Francesco Agosti and product designer Chris Kalani. Since releasing its product in April for testing, Phantom has amassed over 600,000 users and secured funding from top-tier VCs. The startup’s ambition is to interface with more and more networks, currently building out compatibility with Ethereum and looking to embrace other blockchains, aiming to be a product built for a “multichain world.” Most recently Phantom integrated with FTX Pay, which allows users to transfer SOL, USDC, and USDT directly from FTX. Brandon has a degree in electrical and computer engineering. He started his career at Twitter as an engineer in 2013. He eventually made his way to 0x where he was the lead engineer until recently when he finally made the jump to start Phantom. He was at 0x from early 2017 all the way through 2021 so he was able to experience the highs of the 2017 bull run, the lows of the bear market and the vindication of the 2020/2021 bull market. Brandon is very thoughtful and provided so much insight into how our industry is changing. This is a conversation you're not going to want to miss. In our discussion, we cover Phantom, Phantom's exponential growth, multi-chain world, and much more. We begin our conversation by talking about Phantom and Brandon's experience hitting product-market fit and exponential growth with Phantom. We continue our conversation by discussing Phantom's future roadmap. We also talk about the deficiencies in both the end-user and developer crypto-wallet experience that drove Brandon to start Phantom. Brandon does an excellent job at discussing the importance of having an intuitive wallet experience for broad adoption. We finish our conversation by discussing why the future will be a multi-chain world and the importance of building systems that are interoperable to give users the best experience possible. Please enjoy my conversation with Brandon Millman.--ParaSwap:If you want to make a swap at the best price across the DeFi market, check out https://untoldstories.link/paraswap. ParaSwap’s state-of-the-art algorithm beats the market price across all major DEXs and brings you the most optimized swaps with the best prices, and lowest slippage.---This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is Jan Capek, Co-founder and co-CEO of Braiins. Braiins is the preeminent Bitcoin mining software company. Braiins offers a full-stack software solution by providing miners with everything from state-of-the-art mining firmware to a best-in-class mining pool. Braiin's is the company behind the legendary mining pool, Slush Pool. Slush Pool was the world’s first mining pool and continues to be an industry leader in transparency and innovation, with more than 1.25 million BTC mined since 2010. Braiins is also is the developer of Stratum V2, a next generation protocol for pooled mining with a focus on quality improvements including reduced data loads, empty block elimination, hash rate hijacking prevention and the Braiins OS / OS+, autotuning mining firmware, which boosts the efficiency of mining hardware with cutting-edge firmware that is natively integrated with Stratum V2 and mining software written from scratch in Rust language. At Braiins Jan, focuses on building out infrastructure architecture for Slush Pool where he aims to bring pool infrastructure to scale, build out more robust security, DDoS mitigation, and infrastructure configuration management, and provisioning. He also focuses on building the Braiins systems providing custom development consulting services in the following areas: applications for FreeRTOS and NuttX environment, embedded Linux BSP's, and infrastructure configuration management. If you are interested in learning more about the mining industry you have to listen to this conversation, Jan shares an immense amount of knowledge and details about Bitcoin and the mining industry. In our conversation, we cover the Braiins and Slush's history of innovating in the mining industry, scaling a Bitcoin mining company, the impact of ASICs, decentralizing the Bitcoin Network, and much more. Jan discusses how he got into Bitcoin and shares the origin story of Braiins and Slush Pool. Jan goes into depth about his experience bootstrapping Braiins into the first professionalized Bitcoin mining company. We go on to discuss the evolution of mining hardware and the impact of ASICs on the industry. We had a very thoughtful discussion about the dangers of blacklisting Bitcoin addresses and how there are censorship resistance redundancies within the Bitcoin Network. Another major discussion point in our conversation was the possible ramifications of Bitcoin's hardcoded rules coming into conflict with regulatory and legal institutions. We finish our conversation by discussing the importance of decentralizing manufacturing supply-chain for Bitcoin mining. Please enjoy my conversation with Jan Capek.--Ledn provides financial products to help you unlock the power of digital assets. With a secure and easy-to-use platform, it’s the simplest way to earn interest, borrow, and trade your BTC and USDC.For maximum accountability, Ledn offers Proof of Reserves attestations to give you peace of mind while you make the most of your Bitcoin.Untold Stories listeners can receive $50 in free BTC when you create a new loan. More info at https://untoldstories.link/LEDN--This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is John Stefanopoulos, CEO and Founder FutureBit. FutureBit develops cryptocurrency hardware solutions. It provides mining hardware for Bitcoin and Litecoin. It develops ASIC mining hardware for mining farms, facilities, and individual miners. Their products are designed from the ground up in their Brooklyn, NY office with industry-leading talent in the heart of Brooklyn's budding tech industry. Their philosophy is a simple one; every single person should benefit from the extraordinary opportunities blockchains provide. Their goal is to provide low-cost easy to use hardware aimed at educating, spreading awareness, and learning about the fundamental technology that runs this revolutionary system. They are committed to keep blockchains decentralized, and not another instrument very few in the world can take advantage of. They hope that by building and placing our future crypto platform in the hands of as many people as possible will be a step in the right direction to achieve that goal! John went to Boston College and majored in computer science. Prior to starting FutureBit, John was a serial entrepreneur starting various companies in the tech space. In our conversation we cover the mining industry, the importance of non-industrial mining, decentralizing the hash rate, and much more. We begin our discussion by talking about what led John to start FutureBit and the importance of non-industrial mining. We continue our conversation about mining by discussing the centralization of mining resulting from the industrialization of mining and the possible problems that may arise. We also discuss why China banning Bitcoin is the best thing for Bitcoin's long-term success. John stresses the importance of further decentralizing the hash-rate to non-industrial miners. A very interesting topic we covered was the blacklisting of Bitcoin/crypto hardware companies by payment processors. We finish our discussion by talking about the importance of getting as many people involved in the Bitcoin network as possible and how the Bitcoin community can strive to fulfill Satoshi's vision for Bitcoin. Please enjoy my conversation with John Stefanopoulos.--ParaSwap:If you want to make a swap at the best price across the DeFi market, check out https://untoldstories.link/paraswap. ParaSwap’s state-of-the-art algorithm beats the market price across all major DEXs and brings you the most optimized swaps with the best prices, and lowest slippage.---This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is Eric Weiss, the Founder and Chief Investment Officer at Blockchain Investment Group. Blockchain Investment Group is a hedge fund of funds that identifies, evaluates, makes and manages investments in hedge funds that invest exclusively in blockchain assets including, protocols, tokens, initial coin offerings (ICOs) and cryptocurrencies. Eric's background is uniquely suited to evaluate and make investments in hedge funds with a focus on blockchain-assets. Prior to forming BIG, Eric had careers as a proprietary bond trader; a technology venture capitalist and an internet entrepreneur. Eric started his career as a US Government bond trader at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. After earning his MBA from Columbia Business School, Eric was a Director in the Private Equity & Venture Capital arm of GE Capital and focused on making investments in internet related companies. While with GE Capital Eric made an investment in Internet Capital Group (ICG), and thereafter joined ICG were he made investments in business to business internet companies. Eric served as ICG’s board representative for a number of companies. Subsequent to ICG, Eric was a founding Principal at Stripes Group where he identified and lead investments in the online direct marketing space. Eric left Stripes Group to form a number of technology based online direct marketing companies focused on lead-generation, search engine marketing and social media. Eric has personally been an active investor in hedge funds and hedge fund of funds for over twenty years. In our conversation we discuss Bitcoin, path to decentralization, digital networks, and much more. We begin our discussion by covering how Eric's background and how he first entered the space in 2013. We go on to discuss his relationship with Michael Saylor and how he was the initial person to spark Michael Saylor's interest in Bitcoin. A very interesting part of our conversation was when we discussed digital networks and the mobile revolution. Eric did a great job at expanding on this point by demonstrating how Bitcoin is the best money network and why that is important. Another major discussion point in our conversation was a project's path to decentralization. We discuss how Bitcoin is not competing with the broader crypto ecosystem and how the other crypto-assets are developing into their own distinct asset class. We finish our conversation discussing the importance of sovereignty and the different levels of individual agency throughout the country. Please enjoy my conversation with Eric Weiss.--ParaSwap:If you want to make a swap at the best price across the DeFi market, check out https://untoldstories.link/paraswap. ParaSwap’s state-of-the-art algorithm beats the market price across all major DEXs and brings you the most optimized swaps with the best prices, and lowest slippage.---This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is my friend Dr. Adam J. Scheiner, a world-renowned Laser Eyelid and Facial Cosmetic Surgeon. He has expertise in many modern facial cosmetic surgery techniques, as well as non-surgical treatments, to improve your appearance with minimal downtime. Dr. Scheiner’s patients appreciate his friendly, approachable manner, as well as his advanced skills and attention to detail, a unique combination that places him among the top plastic surgeons in Florida. Dr. Scheiner received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania and completed his internship at St. Barnabas Medical Center. He completed his Ophthalmology residency at the University of Pennsylvania’s Scheiner Eye Institute. Dr. Scheiner is also respected for his skills and experience administering BOTOX Cosmetic. In fact, he is one of only a select few physicians in the U.S. chosen by Allergan, the maker of BOTOX Cosmetic, to be a National Education Faculty member. In this capacity, as well as for other groups, he trains other physicians in the safe and effective cosmetic use of the product. Dr. Scheiner’s other professional accomplishments include co-authoring book chapters on laser eyelid surgery, presenting original research in the use of lasers for cosmetic surgery at national and international scientific meetings, and lecturing for other physicians on the use of lasers for surgical procedures. Dr. Scheiner is also a Bitcoiner, he has been investing in Bitcoin since 2015 and accepts Bitcoin as a form of payment at this medical practice. In our conversation, we discussed the definition of true beauty, Bitcoin, the importance of the psycho-social relationship, how to avoid aging and wrinkles, and much more. We begin our conversation by discussing the definition of beauty, the golden ratio, and its presence throughout nature. We go on to discuss how Dr. Scheiner got into Bitcoin and our approaches to long-term investing. We discuss the importance of your psycho-social relationship to a person's psyche and the most common reason people seek out cosmetic surgery. Dr. Scheiner gives advice on how to best slow the aging process and avoid wrinkles. We discuss the effects of sun damage and Dr. Scheiner gives some best practices to avoid sun damage. He even discusses how he has developed a technique to help prevent and reverse sun damage. We finish our conversation by discussing the dangers of politicizing medical procedures. Dr. Scheiner gives advice to the listeners about general best practices for living a healthy life. This is an amazing conversation with so much to learn about how to optimize your health and the aging process. Please enjoy my conversation with Dr. Adam Schiener.--Kava connects the world's largest cryptocurrencies, ecosystems and financial applications on DeFi’s most trusted, scalable and secure earning platform. Built to scale on the largest decentralized PoS network, Kava lets you mint stablecoins, lend, borrow, earn and swap safely and efficiently across the world’s biggest crypto assets with a simple and intuitive user experience and the full confidence of institutional-grade security and quality . To learn more visit https://untoldstories.link/kava--Ledn provides financial products to help you unlock the power of digital assets. With a secure and easy-to-use platform, it’s the simplest way to earn interest, borrow, and trade your BTC and USDC.For maximum accountability, Ledn offers Proof of Reserves attestations to give you peace of mind while you make the most of your Bitcoin.Untold Stories listeners can receive $50 in free BTC when you create a new loan. More info at https://untoldstories.link/LEDN--This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is Mike Colyer, CEO of Foundry. Foundry was created to meet the institutional demand for better capital access, efficiency, and transparency in the digital currency mining and staking industry. As a Digital Currency Group company, Foundry taps unparalleled institutional expertise, capital, and market intelligence to provide North American bitcoin miners and global manufacturers with the resources to build, maintain, and secure decentralized networks. Foundry empowers miners with the tools they need to build tomorrow’s decentralized infrastructure. We are protocol-agnostic and seek to support like-minded blockchain entrepreneurs who share our mission to advance the industry. Mike joined Foundry as its founding CEO in October 2019. Previously, Mike led business development at Core Scientific, which, during his tenure, grew into North America’s largest cryptocurrency hosting company. He was the President and COO of Savage IO, a small, Western NY-based 3MW mining company, where he continues to serve as a Board member. Mike has spent the last 4 years navigating the large-scale mining space, building strong relationships with key industry participants. Before his pivot into the crypto industry, Mike was an operational and commercial executive for manufacturing and distribution firms for more than two decades, often serving at the behest of private-equity backers. Mike started his career at GE. In 2007, Mike and his wife, Lisa, co-founded the Clairebear Foundation, a non-profit that supports families with sick children. Mike graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and an MBA in Corporate Finance. In our discussion we do a deep dive into Bitcoin mining by discussing mining vs buying spot, mining infrastructure, the evolution of ASICs and the institutionalization of the space and much more. We discuss some best practices and some of the pitfalls when starting a mining operation. Mike does an excellent job at explaining why he believes the next big parties who will enter the mining space are going to be nation states and energy conglomerates. Mike stresses that he believes Bitcoin mining will become akin to most utility companies by the end of the century. We discuss the Bitcoin network and how pool infrastructure works. Mike also discusses how Foundry is empowering decentralized infrastructure. Another major topic of discussion is how efficiency drives all aspects of reality. We finish our discussion by talking about the importance of decentralization and how honest projects strive towards becoming more decentralized over time. Please enjoy my conversation with Mike Colyer.--ParaSwap:If you want to make a swap at the best price across the DeFi market, check out https://untoldstories.link/paraswap. ParaSwap’s state-of-the-art algorithm beats the market price across all major DEXs and brings you the most optimized swaps with the best prices, and lowest slippage.---This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is Donald E. Bullers, the founder of Tuum Technology. Tuum Technology is Tuum Technologies is the world’s leading Elastos software company. Tuum enables a global network of entrepreneurs, developers, academics, industry experts, and users to access the decentralized internet. Through their network, they empower teams with the necessary resources to build revolutionary applications and launch decentralized platforms. Elastos is the largest Web3 provider of open source solutions, employing not only blockchain technology, but a peer-to-peer network for communication, decentralized data storage services, and a decentralized ID system. With Elastos, Tuum aims to revolutionize the internet. Tuum is fully decentralized and serverless, all communication runs through Elastos Peer-to-Peer Network(Carrier). Prior to Tuum, Donald's career consisted of 10+ years of positive leadership in the field of technology that spans from a digital marketing agency to Vice President to Founder of a global software development company. With interest in data rights and personal cloud computing, he advances teams developing software for an entirely decentralized internet using Elastos Web 3.0 technology. You will find my conversation with Donald to be eye-opening and thought-provoking. In our discussion, we cover Tuum Technology, Elastos, the future of digital identities, building infrastructure for Web3.0, and much more. Donald explains what makes Elastos unique and how Tuum is building tools to empower people to become sovereign individuals. Donald dives deep into the suite of products Tuum is building to provide the infrastructure layer needed to bring Web3.0 to the mainstream. We also discuss the importance of digital identities (DID) and how identity is the killer app to unlock the true potential of crypto and Web3.0. Donald goes on to discuss real-world examples of how DIDs are being used and how they can be integrated into society. One of the most important topics discussed during my conversation with Donald was how Web3.0 tech will fundamentally disrupt the Web2.0 tech-stack leading to reorganization of value creation and society more broadly. Towards the end of our conversation, we discuss how the content one consumes influences their thoughts and actions. We finish our conversation by urging listeners to consciously curate the content they consume. Please enjoy my conversation with Donald Bullers.--Kava connects the world's largest cryptocurrencies, ecosystems and financial applications on DeFi’s most trusted, scalable and secure earning platform. Built to scale on the largest decentralized PoS network, Kava lets you mint stablecoins, lend, borrow, earn and swap safely and efficiently across the world’s biggest crypto assets with a simple and intuitive user experience and the full confidence of institutional-grade security and quality . To learn more visit https://untoldstories.link/kava--Ledn provides financial products to help you unlock the power of digital assets. With a secure and easy-to-use platform, it’s the simplest way to earn interest, borrow, and trade your BTC and USDC. For maximum accountability, Ledn offers Proof of Reserves attestations to give you peace of mind while you make the most of your Bitcoin. Untold Stories listeners can receive $50 in free BTC when you create a new loan. More info at https://untoldstories.link/LEDN --This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is Phil Geiger, the managing director of concierge services at Unchained Capital. Unchained Capital is a blockchain financial services company that lends cash to long-term crypto holders. It offers cash loans to long-term cryptocurrency holders in a secure, fast, and transparent manner, backed by multi-signature cold-storage custody solution. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Austin, TX. Phil is the managing director of concierge services at Unchained Capital. His team teaches clients how to hold the private keys to multisignature addresses in the personal, retirement, and business contexts. Prior to joining the Bitcoin space, Phil spent a lot of time in the healthcare space. Phil was a PM at Epic, a software and IT company focused on building products and services for the Healthcare industry. Phil is a Bitcoiner, before joining Unchained, he regularly helped curious people try Bitcoin by teaching the economics that describe it. He gave educational presentations for beginners, provided one-on-one consulting, wrote featured articles for publications, and contribute meaningfully to the discussion on social media. His technical contributions include running a full v0.17.1 BTC node plus LND (ran BIP148), contributing to BTC fork claimer python script testing, and testing Éclair and LND Lightning nodes. Phil even developed a safe process for claiming 25 Bitcoin forks, and advised where and how to sell most of them. My conversation with Phil is a must listen for anyone interested in understanding Bitcoin-native financial services or the philosophical aspects of Bitcoin. In our discussion we cover how Unchained Capital is building tools to empower Bitcoiners, why Bitcoin is the perfect money, the Cantillon Effect, why Central Banking is unAmerican and much more. Phil explains how Unchained Capital gives their clients access to self-custody Bitcoin Roth IRAs and how Unchained Capital structures their company to never be the single point of failure for their clients. Phil goes on to discuss the differences between Bitcoin Financial Services and DeFi. We get into a deep discussion about the growing impact Bitcoin and Bitcoiners are having on mainstream society. Another important topic we discussed is how the principles behind Bitcoin are fundamentally American and how principles of Central Banking are inherently communist. We finish our conversation by discussing how Unchained Capital's Bitcoin-backed Loan service works and how Unchained is building the safest Bitcoin native financial service platform for Bitcoiners. Please enjoy my conversation with Phil Geiger.--ParaSwap:If you want to make a swap at the best price across the DeFi market, check out https://untoldstories.link/paraswap. ParaSwap’s state-of-the-art algorithm beats the market price across all major DEXs and brings you the most optimized swaps with the best prices, and lowest slippage.---This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is Jason Les, CEO of Riot Blockchain. Riot Blockchain Inc., formerly Bioptix, Inc., is focused on gaining exposure to the blockchain ecosystem through its cryptocurrency mining operations, internally developed businesses, joint ventures, and targeted investments in the sector. The Company primarily focuses on Bitcoin and general blockchain technology. The Company has deployed approximately 8,000 application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) miners at its cryptocurrency mining facility in Oklahoma. The Company, through its subsidiary TESS Inc., seeks to develop a blockchain-based escrow service for wholesale telecom carriers. It holds a 13% interest in Coinsquare Ltd, which is a digital currency exchange in Canada. It also holds investments in Verady, LLC, which provides cryptocurrency accounting and audit technology services. Jason is the driving force behind the Company’s mission to become one of the most relevant and significant companies supporting the Bitcoin network. He has been deeply involved with Bitcoin since 2013, with significant experience in cryptocurrency mining, and as an engineer studying protocol development, and contributing to open-source projects. Prior to founding Riot, Jason was also a founding partner of Binary Digital, a software development company where he led the engineering team and coordinated project development for artificial intelligence, reverse engineering, and inter-software compatibility projects. Additionally, Jason’s background includes over a decade of unique experience as a former professional heads-up poker player during which he has successfully competed in high-stakes games online, in addition to the most prestigious, high-stakes tournaments in the world. In 2015 and 2017, he was selected as a human benchmark for testing the world’s best poker artificial intelligence in what was dubbed “Man vs Machine” at Carnegie Mellon University in 2015 and 2017. In our discussion we cover a variety of different topics related to the mining field including why we may be in the golden age of Bitcoin mining, how Bitcoin mining can help stabilize the energy grid, and the future of Bitcoin mining. Jason explains how the Bitcoin network is anti-fragile and where the hash rate is migrating to after the China Ban early this year. We go on to discuss we are currently living through the Gold Age of Bitcoin Mining. We finish our conversation talking about how poker applies to life and Jason gives some great life advice about how to get ahead in life. Please enjoy my conversation with Jason Les.--Kava connects the world's largest cryptocurrencies, ecosystems and financial applications on DeFi’s most trusted, scalable and secure earning platform. Built to scale on the largest decentralized PoS network, Kava lets you mint stablecoins, lend, borrow, earn and swap safely and efficiently across the world’s biggest crypto assets with a simple and intuitive user experience and the full confidence of institutional-grade security and quality . To learn more visit https://untoldstories.link/kava--Ledn provides financial products to help you unlock the power of digital assets. With a secure and easy-to-use platform, it’s the simplest way to earn interest, borrow, and trade your BTC and USDC. For maximum accountability, Ledn offers Proof of Reserves attestations to give you peace of mind while you make the most of your Bitcoin. Untold Stories listeners can receive $50 in free BTC when you create a new loan. More info at https://untoldstories.link/LEDN --This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is Scott Stuart, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Kava Labs the team behind Kava and the Kava ecosystem. The Kava platform is a decentralized network purpose built for scalability and security. It provides access to high yield earning opportunities, inclusivity and no-limits in a de-risked DeFi model. At the center of this is a safe, intuitive and complete user experience that creates the base layer for financial service applications. Kava Lend, Kava Mint, and Kava Swap are built on the Kava Platform and come complete with interoperable cross-chain tooling, secure price feeds and institutional-grade safety and reliability. Kava Lend allows users to earn rewards by supplying and borrowing assets from money markets. Kava Mint allows users to take out USDX stablecoin loans using their assets as collateral. Kava Swap allows users to buy and sell tokens across the Kava Blockchain, and earn rewards by providing liquidity to pools. Scott is an experienced product-first entrepreneur. He graduated from Mathematics and Economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, while at school and for some time after Scott was professional internet poker player, where he found success growing to be ranked globally. He was first exposed to Bitcoin and crypto through poker tournaments. This was around the time when Bitcoin was trading around $50. He eventually made his way to Ad Tech where he founded and ran a mobile AdTech company. He made his way back to crypto in 2016 - 2017 around when he first heard about Ethereum and saw the opportunity to build decentralized financial services, which led him and his two co-founders to start Kava Labs. In our conversation we discuss Kava and the Kava ecosystem, the evolution of DeFi, the importance of security, and more. Scott explains how Kava approaches DeFi and crypto differently than other projects. Scott stresses the point that for DeFi to gain mainstream adoption security standards need to be dramatically improved. We go onto discuss some of the recent high profile DeFi hacks and how those are indicative of the lack security standards across DeFi. Scott also discusses Kava Swap and how the Kava ecosystem is a positioning itself to be verticalized DeFi ecosystem. We also touch on the importance of improving the user experience of DeFi for the average crypto user. We finish our conversation with a few pieces of advice for people looking to start a career in crypto/web 3. Please enjoy my conversation with Scott Stuart. --ParaSwap:If you want to make a swap at the best price across the DeFi market, check out https://untoldstories.link/paraswap. ParaSwap’s state-of-the-art algorithm beats the market price across all major DEXs and brings you the most optimized swaps with the best prices, and lowest slippage.---This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is Alex Thorn, Head of Firmwide Research at Galaxy Digital. Galaxy Digital is a diversified financial services company operating in the digital asset, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology sector. He manages a research team and platform that generates unique insights on the state of public blockchain networks for their clients. Prior to joining Galaxy Digital, Alex was an investor at Avon Ventures, the bitcoin and blockchain-focused venture capital fund affiliated with FMR LLC, the parent company of Fidelity Investments. Before Avon, Alex was the Dir. of Blockchain Research at Fidelity Center for Applied Technology, and before that held roles managing technical investigations for internal, litigation, and compliance inquiries. Alex spent a lot of time researching cryptocurrencies and applied cryptography, interrogating foreign policy, and producing hip hop music. He wants to build and help people access tools to increase self-sovereignty, privacy, security, and liberty. In our discussion, we cover a wealth of different topics including the grading and cataloging of blockchains and protocols, the path to decentralization, the importance of Bitcoin, and much more. Alex does an incredible job articulating why decentralization is an ideal a protocol should strive for and why decentralization is very hard to quantify. We go on to discuss the varying degrees of censorship resistance that exists within the crypto ecosystem. A very interesting topic that came up during conversation was the growth of NFTs. We discuss why Ether Rocks have become so valuable, the lack of liquidity in the NFT market, and future applications for NFTs. The second half of our conversation was centered around Bitcoin and Satoshi. We talk about the impact Satoshi being the richest entity in the world will have on society. Alex goes on to give various excellent points centered around why people should not be overlooking Bitcoin and Bitcoin as a medium of exchange. We finish our conversation by talking about where the space is headed and what areas of crypto we feel the most excited about. Please enjoy my conversation with Alex Thorn.--Kava connects the world's largest cryptocurrencies, ecosystems and financial applications on DeFi’s most trusted, scalable and secure earning platform. Built to scale on the largest decentralized PoS network, Kava lets you mint stablecoins, lend, borrow, earn and swap safely and efficiently across the world’s biggest crypto assets with a simple and intuitive user experience and the full confidence of institutional-grade security and quality . To learn more visit https://untoldstories.link/kava--This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is my friend Jeff Garzik. Jeff has long been at the center of developing and commercializing open source software related to Bitcoin and blockchain technology. Before co-founding Bloq to develop blockchain solutions for a multi-chain world, he spent five years as a Bitcoin core developer and ten years at Red Hat. His work with the Linux kernel is now found in every Android phone and data center running Linux today. Jeff serves on the advisory boards of BitPay, BitFury, Netki and WayPaver Labs. Jeff is currently the Chief Designer & the Co-founder of Vesper Finance. Vesper works as a "metalayer" for DeFi, routing deposits to highest yield opportunities within risk tolerance for the particular pool. Products are non-custodial and auto-compounding. Under-the-hood, Vesper enables a truly set-and-forget experience at scale through a unique approach that enables yield aggregating "strategies" to be upgraded, replaced, connected, and concurrent – all with no added burden on the end user. Jeff is also the CEO of Bloq, an enterprise blockchain solutions company he co-founded with industry investor Matt Roszak in 2015. The company’s solutions include end-to-end blockchain infrastructure service BloqEnterprise and tokenization venture studio BloqLabs. In our discussion, we cover Bitcoin's role within the broader crypto ecosystem, where innovation is headed in the space, regulation, and much more. Jeff discusses Bitcoin vs Ethereum debate, the sound money meme war over, and why Bitcoin's halving cycle is ingenious. We go on to discuss why cross-chain is the future, has innovation left Bitcoin, and the Path to Decentralization. Jeff goes on to analogize cryptocurrencies to social networks and discusses the importance of building tools that empower people. Jeff gives an excellent suggestion to regulators for dealing with the innovation within crypto. We finish our conversation discussing how Vesper empowers users and makes DeFi approachable and safe. Please enjoy my conversation with Jeff Garzik.--ParaSwap:If you want to make a swap at the best price across the DeFi market, check out https://untoldstories.link/paraswap. ParaSwap’s state-of-the-art algorithm beats the market price across all major DEXs and brings you the most optimized swaps with the best prices, and lowest slippage. ---This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is Will Reeves, Found and CEO of Fold. Fold is a rewards app where users can earn bitcoin back on every purchase. Fold offers bitcoin cashback via its Visa debit card and mobile application. Fold enables its customers to earn bitcoin on everything they do: spending, saving and investing. Cardholders can win up to 100% back on every purchase, or even a whole bitcoin. Fold is excited to open access to its bitcoin cashback debit card to all U.S. residents. Instead of offering points or airline miles typically found in most card programs, Fold provides bitcoin rewards through a gamified experience that emphasizes healthy financial habits. Fold Cardholders can earn variable rewards by spinning a rewards wheel after each qualifying purchase, like earning 100% of their purchase back in bitcoin, or even winning a whole bitcoin, which ten users have done to date. The Fold app, now available on Android and iOS, allows shoppers to earn bitcoin rewards back (up to 20%) on credit card and lightning purchases when shopping at merchants like Amazon, Target, Starbucks, Uber, Airbnb, and more. Users can spend these rewards on their next purchase, save for later use, or withdraw to a personal wallet. Will is a well known tech entrepreneur with expertise in developing payments solutions. Prior to founding Fold, Will worked as Head of Payments at Thesis. He has also worked as a Venture Lead at A3Ventures and Co-founder of Membo. Of note, Will also was part of the early team that brought the Google Store to market, and he led the vision for the cult project, Lightning Pizza, the first real-world service using the bitcoin Lightning Network that allows customers to order Dominos Pizza anywhere in the U.S. with bitcoin. This interview is a masterclass for anyone interested in product design and user experience. Will and I discuss how Fold is making Bitcoin more approachable, why earning Bitcoin is the best way to accumulate Bitcoin, building on lightning, and much more. Will discusses how he thinks about product design and the importance of UI/UX design in providing world-class experience to the end-user. We discuss the various features of Fold and how a couple of users have even won whole 1 Bitcoin. We also discuss the importance of sovereign money and financial agency. We finish our discussion talking about the philosophy and community behind Bitcoin. There is an absolute wealth of knowledge in this conversation. please enjoy my conversation with Will Reeves.--Kava:Kava connects the world's largest cryptocurrencies, ecosystems and financial applications on DeFi’s most trusted, scalable and secure earning platform. Built to scale on the largest decentralized PoS network, Kava lets you mint stablecoins, lend, borrow, earn and swap safely and efficiently across the world’s biggest crypto assets with a simple and intuitive user experience and the full confidence of institutional-grade security and quality . To learn more visit https://untoldstories.link/kava __Ledn:Ledn provides financial products to help you unlock the power of digital assets. With a secure and easy-to-use platform, it’s the simplest way to earn interest, borrow, and trade your BTC and USDC. For maximum accountability, Ledn offers Proof of Reserves attestations to give you peace of mind while you make the most of your Bitcoin. Learn more at https://untoldstories.link/LEDN. ---This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is Fernando Martinelli, Co-Founder and CEO of Balancer Labs. Balancer Labs is the company behind Balancer. Balancer is an automated market maker (AMM) that was developed on the Ethereum blockchain and launched in March 2020. It was able to raise a $3M seed round by Placeholder and Accomplice. Balancer protocol functions as a self-balancing weighted portfolio, price sensor and liquidity provider. It allows users to earn profits through its recently introduced token ($BAL) by contributing to customizable liquidity pools. Although Balancer isn’t the first DeFi protocol to make use of AMMs, however, it has brought a new face and approach to liquidity. The unique feature of the protocol is that it allows Liquidity providers to have up to eight assets per market which are weighted by percentage and rebalanced automatically. Fernando has been part of several startup companies before Balancer, which include PrepLounge in 2014, Brasil Mate also in 2014. Before these startups, Fernando worked at Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH in Frankfurt, Germany in 2010; and Bain & Company also in Germany in 2011. In our conversation, we cover Balancer, DeFi’s exponential growth, and Ethereum/EIP-1559. Fernando discusses the Eth/BTC flippening and why he believes it’s inevitable. Fernando goes on to explain the EIP-1559 upgrade and what it could mean for the Ethereum ecosystem. We go on to discuss how projects are on a path to decentralization and how decentralization is a spectrum. Fernando also discusses Balancer and how their liquidity pools function. We end our discussion talking about why the future of finance will be built on crypto rails and why building open source financial systems is important for humanity. Please enjoy my conversation with Fernando Martinelli --ParaSwap:If you want to make a swap at the best price across the DeFi market, check out https://untoldstories.link/paraswap. ParaSwap’s state-of-the-art algorithm beats the market price across all major DEXs and brings you the most optimized swaps with the best prices, and lowest slippage.---This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is my friend Aaron Gooding, Founder and CEO of F.I.T. CONCEPTS, a verticalized fitness company focused on helping people achieve their fitness goals. He was pushed to start a fitness company out of his immense passion for helping others overcome the difficulties associated with health, fitness, and lifestyle change. Aaron's journey is very inspiring and is clear why he is passionate about helping others build a better version of themselves. In 2007, he was involved in a horrific car accident that ended in the death of a completely innocent individual and his incarceration in the Florida Department of Corrections. It was here, in prison, that he says he found a passion and new direction in life. Aaron spent the majority of the nine years that he was incarcerated rebuilding himself by focusing his efforts to learn and put into practice as much as he could about Health, Fitness, and Personal Development. After Aaron was released from prison in 2017, he enrolled in various programs to become a certified personal trainer and nutritionist. His collective education allows him to provide an all encompassing service to his clients that bridges the gap between Personal Training and Nutritional Coaching. He has a thriving business and amazing personal life, his story is truly inspiring. In our discussion, we focus on the importance of accountability, starting from zero, the impact of COVID on society, and much more. Aaron talks about the importance of extreme ownership and why taking accountability is the first step to getting your life together. We go on to discuss the importance of being comfortable with being uncomfortable and fighting through adversity is a vital component of success. Aaron shares a list of books that have helped him on his personal development journey. Our conversation led us to discuss the impact of COVID on society and the current mental-health epidemic. We finish our conversation by discussing how ones attitude impacts your success but more importantly your daily life. This episode is full with so many great insights and a lot of awesome life advice. Please enjoy my conversation with Aaron Gooding.-Kava:Kava connects the world's largest cryptocurrencies, ecosystems and financial applications on DeFi’s most trusted, scalable and secure earning platform. Built to scale on the largest decentralized PoS network, Kava lets you mint stablecoins, lend, borrow, earn and swap safely and efficiently across the world’s biggest crypto assets with a simple and intuitive user experience and the full confidence of institutional-grade security and quality . To learn more visit https://untoldstories.link/kava---This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is Ryan Condron, CEO and Co-Founder of Titan. Titan is a leading developer of software and services for advancing Bitcoin mining at scale. Built by miners for miners, Titan makes mining easy, profitable, and scalable through advanced mining management software and North America’s first enterprise-grade mining pool. Titan was formed and founded in September 2018 by Ryan Condron, Jeff Garzik and Matthew Roszak. Most mining management software options are either incomplete or difficult to scale. The Titan software makes management and optimization easy for cryptocurrency mines of any size. Titan's Next Generation Mining Pool offers a powerful North American alternative and a way for the continent’s Bitcoin miners to achieve the efficiency and scale enjoyed by miners in other regions. Ryan is an OG, he was introduced to the crypto space in late 2012 and quickly got plugged into the mining community. Some of his early contributions include helping to launch the profitability calculator site Coinwarz.com in early 2013. He went on to launch several other high profile projects in the space throughout 2013 and 2014 including a hardware comparison site, a cloud mining service, and a customize-able profit switching platform with 80 different alt-coin mining pools. In 2017 he joined the company Bloq as a principal engineer and in late 2018 co-founded a new mining software startup inside Bloq Labs called Titan Industries. He has been a software engineer for over 15 years and was a CTO at multiple software startups, and ran his own software company for over 5 years. In our discussion we cover the evolution of the mining space, Titan, Coinwarz and the early days of Bitcoin mining, and much more. We do a deep dive into how the mining space has evolved and Ryan's personal experience being an early minner. We also discuss how Satoshi would view the current state of the mining industry. Ryan explains Titan and how they are democratizing mining/hashpower. ParaSwap:If you want to make a swap at the best price across the DeFi market, check out https://untoldstories.link/paraswap. ParaSwap’s state-of-the-art algorithm beats the market price across all major DEXs and brings you the most optimized swaps with the best prices, and lowest slippage. Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is Dean Tribble, Agoric CEO. Agoric is an open-source development company launching an interoperable Proof-of-Stake chain and economy. Our JavaScript-native smart contract platform offers developers a safe, reusable library of DeFi components to rapidly build and deploy on-chain. Dean is an OG cypherpunk, he co-designed the negotiation process and contract for the first smart contracting system, AMiX. As a Principal Architect at Microsoft, he co-designed the Midori distributed object-capability operating system. As founder and CTO for Agorics (acquired by Microsoft), he architected the brokerage information system for Schwab’s active traders and the WebMart electronic contract system for SunLabs. As CTO of VerifyValid and VP of Deluxe, his echeck systems have carried billions of dollars. This was such a fun discussion, we cover Agoric, the history of smart contracts and who satoshi could be. We dive deep into the problem with smart contracts written in Solidity and why Javascript may be the solution for the the security issues facing smart contract platforms. We talk about the struggle between cryptography/privacy and the government. Dean discusses the optimization and tradeoffs of building systems in crypto, tech and life. Dean explains how checks work and the payment infrastructure that makes checks possible. Please enjoy my conversation with Dean.---Bitcasino: This episode was brought to you by Bitcasino, a leading online BTC casino & crypto-gaming platform. Discover 2500 themed slots, tables and live casino experiences. From July 21 - August 8, 2021, my listeners can unlock rotating prizes such as free spins, cash incentives, and Bitcoin bonuses when you complete daily missions. Head over to https://untoldstories.link/bitcasino and you’ll get a special incentive! ParaSwap:If you want to make a swap at the best price across the DeFi market, check out https://untoldstories.link/paraswap. ParaSwap’s state-of-the-art algorithm beats the market price across all major DEXs and brings you the most optimized swaps with the best prices, and lowest slippage. Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is my friend Luke Lango, the Senior Investment Analyst at InvestorPlace. InvestorPlace is an investment and financial news website that provides millions of individual investors with access to free stock picks, options trades, market news, and actionable commentaries. Luke jumped into the startup world while in college. He began his career at Scoutables, a Sports data analytics business founded by Mark Goodstein, a former Dodgers GM. He has also worked in voice AI research and consumer social. When he discovered fintech and finance, he found his true passion and decided to go all in and began his time at InvestorPlace. Luke regularly rates as one of the top stock pickers in the world by numerous outlets, and has developed a strong reputation for leaning into his technology background and “big picture” investment philosophy to regularly identify next-generation, small-cap stocks with huge upside potential. Indeed, over the past few years, he has identified many up-and-coming growth stocks well before they were household names, like Advanced Micro Devices (1000%-plus returns), Shopify (1,000%-plus returns), Tesla (1,000%-plus returns), NIO (1,000%-plus returns) and Chegg (2,000% returns). Luke measures success by uncovering at least one explosive, uncovered small-cap stock with 10X upside potential every day the markets are open— picking the fastest-growing stocks in the world’s strongest wealth-generating megatrends. Technology plays a major role in Luke’s life. He believes that technology – whether it is around us today or being developed from current technology – can compound exponentially, change lives and alter generations of wealth. In our conversation, we discuss how to approach long term value investing to generate outsized returns and generational wealth. We cover how someone with a long investing horizon should approach the crypto industry and the benefit of structuring your portfolio to have asymmetric returns is key to make outsized returns. We discuss the importance of letting your winners ride and his advice for stomaching the volatility. This conversation is packed full with so much alpha, so please enjoy my conversation with Luke Lango.---Bitcasino: This episode was brought to you by Bitcasino, a leading online BTC casino & crypto-gaming platform. Discover 2500 themed slots, tables and live casino experiences. From July 21 - August 8, 2021, my listeners can unlock rotating prizes such as free spins, cash incentives, and Bitcoin bonuses when you complete daily missions. Head over to https://untoldstories.link/bitcasino and you’ll get a special incentive! ---ParaSwap:If you want to make a swap at the best price across the DeFi market, check out https://untoldstories.link/paraswap. ParaSwap’s state-of-the-art algorithm beats the market price across all major DEXs and brings you the most optimized swaps with the best prices, and lowest slippage.---This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is Steve Gregory, CEO of the US Branch of Currency.com. Currency.com is a high-growth, crypto-asset platform helping everyone securely connect with the booming world of cryptocurrencies to buy, sell or trade digital assets. Steve has extensive working experience in the digital currency space and is an expert in the legal area. Before joining Currency.com, he was previously the Chief Compliance Officer and Corporate Counsel at CEX.IO, another crypto exchange. Based in New York, he also spent more than two years as a Compliance Officer at the Winklevoss-twins established crypto exchange and custodian Gemini and played a crucial role in the company’s US expansion. He started his legal practice in 2007 and spent time with several law firms. Steve is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the US branch of Currency.com. In our conversation, we discuss with a wide range of topics including the regulatory nuances of digital assets domestically and abroad, DeFi, and the growth of industry. Steve discusses the transformation of the industry from when joined in 2016 to now and he gives advice for people aspiring to make the jump into the crypto industry. We discuss why crypto startups face larger regulatory burdens in the United States than in other parts of the globe. We also discuss the growth of DeFi and how crypto has found product market fit with DeFi. We finish our conversation discussing how Currency.com is making it easier for the average person who is not crypto-native interact and trade crypto. Steve explains why UI/UX experience for the average user is still not ideal and how solving these issues will help onboard the next billion users. Please enjoy my conversation with Steve Gregory.---Shopping.io: Shopping.io is the leader in mainstream Crypto E-commerce solutions. This is the first time Crypto E-commerce has ever gone international, building the bridge behind Crypto and retail.My listeners get an additional 2% off on top of all loyalty program discounts, so be sure to check them out at https://untoldstories.link/shopping.io ---Kava:Kava connects the world's largest cryptocurrencies, ecosystems and financial applications on DeFi’s most trusted, scalable and secure earning platform. Built to scale on the largest decentralized PoS network, Kava lets you mint stablecoins, lend, borrow, earn and swap safely and efficiently across the world’s biggest crypto assets with a simple and intuitive user experience and the full confidence of institutional-grade security and quality . To learn more visit https://untoldstories.link/kava ---This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is Stephen Tse, Founder of Harmony. Harmony is a blockchain platform designed to facilitate the creation and use of decentralized applications (DApps). The network aims to innovate the way decentralized applications work by focusing on random state sharding, which allows creating blocks in seconds. According to the project’s website, Harmony is expected to introduce cross-shard contracts and a cross-chain infrastructure by the end of 2021. Stephen's been obsessed with protocols and compilers since high school. He reverse-engineered ICQ and X11 protocols, coded in OCaml for more than 15 years, and graduated with a doctoral degree in security protocols and compiler verification from the University of Pennsylvania, where he specialized in cryptographic protocols and type theory. Stephen was a researcher at Microsoft Research, a senior infrastructure engineer at Google, and a principal engineer for search ranking at Apple. He founded the mobile search Spotsetter with institutional venture capital; Apple later acquired the startup. He is currently the Founder of Harmony Protocol, which he founded in 2017. The Harmony founding team comprises twelve people, with seven of them being former employees at Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon. In our conversation, we discussed reverse engineering a new financial system that is transparent and fair. We also discuss Harmony's role in the crypto-ecosystem, Harmony's Effective Proof-of-Stake, DAOs, Decentralization and much more. Stephen explains sharding and why horizontal sharding will be the solution for scaling. Additionally, Stephen gives great advice about how to learn new skills and how to tackle complex problems. This conversation is filled with so much knowledge, please enjoy my conversation with Stephen Tse.---Bitcasino: This episode was brought to you by Bitcasino, a leading online BTC casino & crypto-gaming platform. Discover 2500 themed slots, tables and live casino experiences. From July 21 - August 8, 2021, my listeners can unlock rotating prizes such as free spins, cash incentives, and Bitcoin bonuses when you complete daily missions. Head over to https://untoldstories.link/bitcasino and you’ll get a special incentive! ParaSwap:If you want to make a swap at the best price across the DeFi market, check out https://untoldstories.link/paraswap. ParaSwap’s state-of-the-art algorithm beats the market price across all major DEXs and brings you the most optimized swaps with the best prices, and lowest slippage.---This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is my friend Luke Stokes, Managing Director for the Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO). FIO is a decentralized service layer that removes the risk, complexity, and inconvenience of sending and receiving tokens and coins identically across every blockchain and near error-free by providing a decentralized human-readable address (NFT). Luke is passionate about voluntary systems of governance and has been involved in bitcoin since early 2013. He's been a consensus witness for the Steem blockchain since early 2018 and a custodian for eosDAC, a community-owned EOSIO Block Producer and DAC Enabler, since its inception. With a computer science degree from UPENN, he built, bootstrapped and co-founded the shopping cart software company FoxyCart over a ten year period and is now focused on blockchain technology as a means to create a world we all want to live in. Our discussion covers a range of topics from creating resilient systems, to personal discovery, to normie fomo. We discuss the appeal of the Bitcoin/Crypto community and the ethos of "Fix the Money, Fix the World." We also have an existential conversation about the meaning of life. A few other topics we address on the episode include: building tools for freedom, best practices for building communities, and Puerto Rico (the major crypto Mecca). Please enjoy my conversation with Luke Stokes.---Bitcasino: This episode was brought to you by Bitcasino. The world's leading Bitcoin-led online casino and crypto-centric gaming destination. Wager your way into a world of opportunity, with the ultimate Fun, Fast and Fair crypto-casino experience.Deposit, wager, and withdraw in real-time with a host of top cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), LiteCoin (LTC), Tether (USDT), TRON (TRX), Ripple (XRP), and more!Use the promo link https://untoldstories.link/bitcasino, to unlock your 200 FREE SPINS in the Legacy of Dead Promotion.ParaSwap:If you want to make a swap at the best price across the DeFi market, check out https://untoldstories.link/paraswap. ParaSwap’s state-of-the-art algorithm beats the market price across all major DEXs and brings you the most optimized swaps with the best prices, and lowest slippage.---This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is Michael O'Rourke, Founder of the Pocket Network. Pocket Network is a blockchain data platform built for applications that uses cost-efficient economics to coordinate and distribute data at scale, enabling seamless interactions between blockchains and applications. With Pocket, the use of blockchains can be simply integrated into websites, mobile apps, IoT and more, giving developers the freedom to put blockchain-enabled applications into the “pocket” of every mainstream consumer. Before starting Pocket, Michael was an IOS developer and solidify dev. He also is the founder of the Tampa Bay Blockchain Developer Meetup. Our conversation contains a wealth of knowledge on the plumbing and infrastructure of digital assets. We discuss how nodes work, how Pocket incentivizes people to run full nodes, and the role nodes play in decentralizing a protocol. We also discuss how to do due diligence on projects and what metrics to look at when doing research on a project. A few other topics we touched on were the Tampa Blockchain scene, the evolution of Ethereum, protocol governance, and much more.---Shopping.io: Shopping.io is the leader in mainstream Crypto E-commerce solutions. This is the first time Crypto E-commerce has ever gone international, building the bridge behind Crypto and retail.My listeners get an additional 2% off on top of all loyalty program discounts, so be sure to check them out at https://untoldstories.link/shopping.io ---Kava:Kava connects the world's largest cryptocurrencies, ecosystems and financial applications on DeFi’s most trusted, scalable and secure earning platform. Built to scale on the largest decentralized PoS network, Kava lets you mint stablecoins, lend, borrow, earn and swap safely and efficiently across the world’s biggest crypto assets with a simple and intuitive user experience and the full confidence of institutional-grade security and quality . To learn more visit https://untoldstories.link/kava ---This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is my friend Omer Ozden, CEO and Founder of RockTree Captial. RockTree Capital is a pioneer in international merchant banking with expertise in cross-border transactions, mergers and acquisitions, blockchain and technology, energy, investment, and real estate between China, North America, the Middle East, and Central. Omer is also co-founder and International Expansion Partner of UCommune, China’s largest co-working company with over 200 locations globally, Partner of DGroup, and its investment arm, DFund, one of the most active Blockchain cryptofunds in Asia, currently invested in over 70 blockchain projects, as well as International Partner of ZhenFund, China’s top Angel investment fund. Omer is an international securities lawyer and former Partner with Baker & McKenzie LLP in New York and associate with Morrison & Foerster LLP in Hong Kong. His career spans over 450 transactions totaling over $30 Billion and includes venture capital investments, initial public offerings and other transactions for such companies as NetEase, Alibaba, Baidu, New Oriental and Facebook. Omer was on the legal team that invented the Variable Interest Entity (VIE) structure, which opened up China’s internet industry to foreign investment and overseas public listings. In our discussion we cover China's Red Line Policy and how it has fostered blockchain's largest regulatory sandbox, China's BSN and their blockchain initiative, and the lack of regulatory clarity and a blockchain initiative in the United States. We also touch on the mining exodus and why it was a byproduct of the energy mandate given by the CCP to stop the curbing of energy consumption with the only exception being national priorities. We go on to discuss how RockTree helps crypto startups break into the Chinese Market by helping them navigate the regulatory barriers but more importantly helping them bootstrap their community and branding/marketing efforts within China. We finish our conversation by discussing that even though there are cultural differences between the West and the East, if we are able to see past those differences we would realize that our similarities greatly out way those differences. Please enjoy my conversation with Omer Ozden.---Bitcasino:This episode was brought to you by Bitcasino. The world's leading Bitcoin-led online casino and crypto-centric gaming destination. Wager your way into a world of opportunity, with the ultimate Fun, Fast and Fair crypto-casino experience.Deposit, wager, and withdraw in real-time with a host of top cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), LiteCoin (LTC), Tether (USDT), TRON (TRX), Ripple (XRP), and more!Use the promo link https://untoldstories.link/bitcasino, to unlock your 200 FREE SPINS in the Legacy of Dead Promotion.---ParaSwap:If you want to make a swap at the best price across the DeFi market, check out https://untoldstories.link/paraswap. ParaSwap’s state-of-the-art algorithm beats the market price across all major DEXs and brings you the most optimized swaps with the best prices, and lowest slippage.---This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is Latif Peracha, General Partner (GP) at M13. M13 is a venture capital firm focused on building a team of industry-leading operating executives to help founders make better decisions and win in their category. They believe founders deserve an investor who propels them on their mission of transforming an idea into a successful company, while staying out of their way. This is why they are building a Venture Engine, a full-service venture firm that provides the right people, platform, and partnerships for founding teams to build high-velocity businesses. Latif spent 8 years working for Sir Richard Branson and during this time he developed a clear understanding of how a single brand and visionary was able to scale 8 companies in disparate industries and geographies to a billion dollars or more of enterprise value. Specifically, Virgin’s approach at entering markets is driven by its focus on creating a sustainable value proposition to the consumer — anchored in rapid product development, creative marketing strategies, and the power of brand. He has bought these same lessons with him to M13, and where he searches for entrepreneurs who are attacking markets with the same perspective. The crypto focused companies in M13's portfolio include Lightning Labs, River Financial, The Fold App, and CoinMine. In our discussion, we cover venture investing in Web3, ideal characteristics for startup founders, and advice for entrepreneurs. We also discuss the space industry and what Latif learned leading Virgin's Venture arm. We go on to talk about the importance of El Salvador's decision to make Bitcoin legal tender and scaling Bitcoin. Please enjoy my conversation with Latif Peracha.---Shopping.io: Shopping.io is the leader in mainstream Crypto E-commerce solutions. This is the first time Crypto E-commerce has ever gone international, building the bridge behind Crypto and retail.My listeners get an additional 2% off on top of all loyalty program discounts, so be sure to check them out at https://untoldstories.link/shopping.io ---Kava:Kava connects the world's largest cryptocurrencies, ecosystems and financial applications on DeFi’s most trusted, scalable and secure earning platform. Built to scale on the largest decentralized PoS network, Kava lets you mint stablecoins, lend, borrow, earn and swap safely and efficiently across the world’s biggest crypto assets with a simple and intuitive user experience and the full confidence of institutional-grade security and quality . To learn more visit https://untoldstories.link/kava ---This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is Konstantin Richter, CEO and Founder of Blockdaemon. Blockdaemon is a provider of a node management platform designed to empower businesses to simply and efficiently manage blockchain applications. The company's platform offers a multi-chain multi-cloud network management tool that can deploy nodes and connect them to blockchains within minutes and also offers its own infrastructure for select projects to offer faster deploy times and lower costs, enabling businesses to quickly deploy and iterate blockchain applications and simplify peer-to-peer network management. Konstantin is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He has led several SaaS B2B companies towards meaningful exits in the media/advertising space, including Audiotube, Lookbooks and Wiredrive. He also is an advisor to blockchain company Gem, and serves on the board of MadHive, a media/advertising blockchain business, Genymobile, the android dev tool and DNAstack.com, the genomic search-engine. He currently serves as the CEO and founder of Blockdaemon, a hybrid cloud middleware platform for major blockchain protocols. Konstantin delivers a masterclass in blockchain infrastructure and node operation. We discuss the importance and role that nodes play in the ecosystem, the process of decentralization, and how projects work with node providers to build towards decentralization. We also talk about the Bitcoin Scaling Wars and Ethereum migrating to Eth 2.0. This is an amazing conversation, it's a must listen for anyone interested in understanding how blockchains work. Please enjoy my conversation with Konstantin Richter.---Bitcasino: This episode was brought to you by Bitcasino. The world's leading Bitcoin-led online casino and crypto-centric gaming destination. Wager your way into a world of opportunity, with the ultimate Fun, Fast and Fair crypto-casino experience.Deposit, wager, and withdraw in real-time with a host of top cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), LiteCoin (LTC), Tether (USDT), TRON (TRX), Ripple (XRP), and more!Use the promo link https://untoldstories.link/bitcasino, to unlock your 200 FREE SPINS in the Legacy of Dead Promotion.---This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is Pat Duffy, co-founder of The Giving Block. Pat began as a federal consultant for pharmaceutical companies, focused on collaboration with nonprofits. He then shifted to the nonprofit sector, focusing on executive leadership and fundraising. Leading to eventually starting The Giving Block with his co-founder Alex Wilson by merging their passion for Nonprofits and Bitcoin. The Giving Block makes it easy for nonprofits to accept bitcoin and other crypto donations while giving donors a more tax efficient way to support their favorite causes. They've developed the first solution specific to the nonprofit ecosystem. We have an incredible conversation where we go deep on crypto and charity. Pat explains the tax incentives for crypto investors to donate their crypto and why charities' are embracing crypto. We discuss the charitable culture within crypto and The Crypto Giving Pledge. We also touch on the Pineapple Fund and much more. Please enjoy my conversation with Pat Duffy---Shopping.io: Shopping.io is the leader in mainstream Crypto E-commerce solutions. This is the first time Crypto E-commerce has ever gone international, building the bridge behind Crypto and retail.My listeners get an additional 2% off on top of all loyalty program discounts, so be sure to check them out at https://untoldstories.link/shopping.io ---Kava:Kava connects the world's largest cryptocurrencies, ecosystems and financial applications on DeFi’s most trusted, scalable and secure earning platform. Built to scale on the largest decentralized PoS network, Kava lets you mint stablecoins, lend, borrow, earn and swap safely and efficiently across the world’s biggest crypto assets with a simple and intuitive user experience and the full confidence of institutional-grade security and quality . To learn more visit https://untoldstories.link/kava ---This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is Peter Wall, CEO of Argo. Argo is a publicly-traded blockchain technology company focused on large-scale cryptocurrency mining. Headquartered in London, England, Argo is the only cryptocurrency mining company listed on the London Stock Exchange. Their energy-efficient, powerful mining operations are strategically located throughout North America. Peter was a member of the management team that founded Argo, and was the vice president of operations since the group's beginning - responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the mining organization as well as the management of the software development team. He became CEO in Jan 2020. In addition to his work with Argo, Peter has had a varied career including working as a technology entrepreneur, journalist, and filmmaker. In our discussion, we cover the mining industry from a high level. We discuss the mining ban in China and the immediate/possible long-term ramifications from the ban. Peter explains immersion mining and the financialization of the mining industry. We go on to discuss why Texas is becoming a huge mining hub and various nuances of the Texas power grid. We finish our conversation with a philosophical conversation about proof-of-work. Please enjoy my conversation with Peter Wall.---Bitcasino: This episode was brought to you by Bitcasino. The worlds leading Bitcoin-led online casino and crypto-centric gaming destination. Wager your way into a world of opportunity, with the ultimate Fun, Fast and Fair crypto-casino experience.Deposit, wager, and withdraw in real-time with a host of top cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), LiteCoin (LTC), Tether (USDT), TRON (TRX), Ripple (XRP), and more!Use the promo link https://untoldstories.link/bitcasino, to unlock your 200 FREE SPINS in the Legacy of Dead Promotion.---This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is my friend, Jeremy Gardner. Jeremy is an American serial entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist based in Beverly Hills, California. He is primarily known for his early investments in Bitcoin, Crypto Castles brand, and as a co-founder of Augur. Before Augur, he founded the Blockchain Education Network, a global educational nonprofit, and afterwards founded Distributed magazine, SAAVHA, an enterprise security startup. He continues to advise and invest in startups in the blockchain industry as the co-founder of Ausum Ventures, a hybrid venture-hedge fund comprised of startups and crypto-assets for social good. He is currently the founder and CEO of MadeMan, a men's skincare cosmetic company featured in publications Maxim, The Daily Front Row, and Wealth Magazine. This conversation is full of incredible insights about success, dealing with hardship, the crypto space, and much more. We discuss Augur and how it transformed the crypto landscape, the difficulty of bootstrapping a crypto startup, and the origin story of the OG Crypto Castle. We also dismiss the Energy FUD and talk about the various narrative battles Bitcoin has had to endure throughout its history. We end our conversation by discussing the importance of personal care and why everyone should focus on personal development. Please enjoy my conversation with Jeremy Gardner.---Shopping.io: Shopping.io is the leader in mainstream Crypto E-commerce solutions. This is the first time Crypto E-commerce has ever gone international, building the bridge behind Crypto and retail.My listeners get an additional 2% off on top of all loyalty program discounts, so be sure to check them out at https://untoldstories.link/shopping.io ---This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is my friend Michael Kimelman. Michael is an expert on disruptive innovation and personal disruption; he uses the lessons of his own life to offer inspiration and insight to others — from formerly incarcerated youth to global CEOs — on overcoming personal and professional challenges. His mission is to empower people with the skills and mindset to become resilient and prosper in the face of adversity. Michael was a lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell and then founded Incremental Capital, a New York-based hedge fund. He led Blockchain Strategic Development at Loop Media, Inc., and co-founded Crypto.IQ, a strategic advisory and media firm with a focus on digital assets. Michael is currently focused on providing value and insights to his clients through one-on-one coaching, mastermind groups, and speaking events. I also highly recommend Michael's newsletter: Sovereign Sundays. Michael provides weekly informative and thought provoking content about the markets, politics, and personal disruption. In our discussion, we cover the importance of independent thinking, the erosion of American liberties, and the Great American Schism. We also discuss Bitcoin and the need for sovereign money. Another major talking point in our discussion was the eroding belief of achieving the American dream and a cultural shift toward a society that embraces a victim mentality. This is a must listen. Please enjoy my conversation with Michael Kimelman and check him out on Substack at https://michaelkimelman.substack.com/.---Bitcasino:Now until June 27th Untold Stories listeners will have the chance to WIN 1 of 3 Teslas! A 0.05 mBTC wager gets you in on the action and enters you to win a Tesla Model 3 Performance Vehicle!Start playing today for your chance to WIN. Be sure to use my personal URL for each upcoming tournament to be entered https://untoldstories.link/bitcasino---This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is my lovely wife, Courtney Warner. Courtney recently finished filming her first feature length film, Ask Me To Dance, co-starring Tom Malloy, Briana Evigan, Mario Cantone, Joyce DeWitt, and Kurt Angle. Our discussion centers around pursuing your passion and achieving success. We specifically touch on Courtney’s journey to becoming an actor, the commitment and sacrifices she needed to do to achieve her goals, her experience filming a feature length film, and how she landed the role of Amy on Ask Me To Dance. We also go on to talk about our experience at Bitcoin 2021 and the craziness, we also touch on NFTs and the film industry and much more. Please enjoy my conversation with Courtney Shrem.---Kava: Kava is a leading DeFi platform trusted by Binance, Huobi, Kraken, Okex and Chainlink. Learn more about them at https://untoldstories.link/kava ---ParaSwap:If you want to make a swap at the best price across the DeFi market, check out https://untoldstories.link/paraswap. ParaSwap’s state-of-the-art algorithm beats the market price across all major DEXs and brings you the most optimized swaps with the best prices, and lowest slippage. *terms and conditions apply---This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is John Burris, the Chief Strategy & Blockchain Officer at Together Labs. Together Labs aims to redefine social media as a catalyst for authentic human connection through the development of a family of products grounded in this core value. Together Labs are the makers of IMVU, a social gaming space that has been around since the early 2000s. It’s similar to Second Life, where players gather with virtual avatars and items you can buy. The service operates in over 140 countries, and it’s best thought of as an adult-oriented version of Roblox. Prior to joining Together Labs, John spent the bulk of his 20 year career working in very high growth industries: he began his career at Netscape as an engineer, he spent time at Sprint where he helped lead product, business development and marketing teams across a number of quickly transforming industries: media, music, sports, gaming, social, messaging, data plans, etc. He would later go on to be one of the founders of Silver Chalice, a capital deployment firm focused on building high-tech, sports and media businesses. In our discussion, we go deep on the Metaverse and how socio-economics present within the Metaverse. We also touch on why internet-first friendships are empowering, the future of live events, and why NFTs and the Metaverse will be a major sector in crypto. We also discuss IMVU, how they hosted the first metaverse fashion show, how they integrated crypto into a non-crypto native business and much more. Please enjoy my conversation with John Burris.---Kava: Kava is a leading DeFi platform trusted by Binance, Huobi, Kraken, Okex and Chainlink. Learn more about them at https://untoldstories.link/kava ---ParaSwap:If you want to make a swap at the best price across the DeFi market, check out https://untoldstories.link/paraswap. ParaSwap’s state-of-the-art algorithm beats the market price across all major DEXs and brings you the most optimized swaps with the best prices, and lowest slippage. *terms and conditions apply---This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is my friend, Tom Malloy, a critically acclaimed Actor/Writer/Producer. Tom as a critically acclaimed actor, wowed Hollywood with his stunning turn in the indie-cult favorite Gravesend in 1998, which was produced by Oliver Stone. Tom became a trend setter as one of the first successful triple-hyphenate Actor/Writer/Producers. Tom starred in the 2019 thriller Trauma Therapy opposite Brian Krause (Charmed) and Chase Coleman (The Originals). Prior to that, Malloy starred in the found footage horror/thriller #Screamers, which was in theaters via Dread Central in 2018. Some of his other previous roles include the lead male role opposite Ray Wise in the drama Shattered and Hero of the Underworld, directed by John Vincent, starring Malloy, Nicole Fox and Quinton Aaron. In addition to his work as a filmmaker, Tom is an accomplished author whose book Bankroll: A New Approach to Financing Feature Films was considered the "gold standard" of indie film financing instruction. In our discussion, we cover films influence on society, the film business, and we compare crypto and the film industry. We also talk about Tom’s career, how the demand for multidisciplinary thinkers has grown exponentially, and the importance of staying humble. We also discuss the blueprint for success, how to train your brain into having an abundance mindset, and much more. Please enjoy my conversation with Tom Malloy---Kava: Kava is a leading DeFi platform trusted by Binance, Huobi, Kraken, Okex and Chainlink. Learn more about them at https://untoldstories.link/kava ---ParaSwap:If you want to make a swap at the best price across the DeFi market, check out https://untoldstories.link/paraswap. ParaSwap’s state-of-the-art algorithm beats the market price across all major DEXs and brings you the most optimized swaps with the best prices, and lowest slippage. *terms and conditions apply---This podcast is powered by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is Lina Seiche, the Managing Director of the BTC Times. The BTC Times delivers high quality coverage focused on Bitcoin from an economic, technical, social, and political angle. The BTC Times counters the news that prioritize clicks over accuracy, with the facts that set the record straight. In comprehensive, authentic coverage, we seek to capture the impact of Bitcoin and how it is transforming the future of money. Lina is not only the Managing Director of the BTC Times but she’s also on the editorial board. In our conversation, we cover being an open Bitcoiner and the constant debate around Bitcoin in the mainstream media, the allure and dangers of CBDCs for the general public, why Bitcoin’s origin story cannot be recreated, and the importance of Satoshi’s anonymity. We also discuss The BTC Times and their mission to provide quality journalism to the Bitcoin space, how to find credible sources in Crypto, and Elon’s feud with Crypto Twitter. We end out discussion on how everyone has a unique journey to Bitcoin, the Bitcoin community, and how everyone can play a role in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Please enjoy my conversation with Lina Seiche---Bitcasino: Now until June 27th Untold Stories listeners will have the chance to WIN 1 of 3 Teslas! A 0.05 mBTC wager gets you in on the action and enters you to win a Tesla Model 3 Performance Vehicle!Start playing today for your chance to WIN. Be sure to use my personal URL for each upcoming tournament to be entered https://untoldstories.link/bitcasino --Shopping.io: Shopping.io is the leader in mainstream Crypto E-commerce solutions. This is the first time Crypto E-commerce has ever gone international, building the bridge behind Crypto and retail.My listeners get an additional 2% off on top of all loyalty program discounts, so be sure to check them out at https://untoldstories.link/shopping.io ---This podcast is powered by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is Mark Lamb, CEO and Co-Founder of CoinFLEX. CoinFLEX (Coin Futures and Lending Exchange) is the world’s first physically delivered cryptocurrency futures exchange, developed to provide avenues for investors to hedge cryptocurrency exposure with minimal index or price settlement risk, Mark has also been a longtime advocate for physically delivered futures over cash settlement as a way to prevent manipulation. For their traders, CoinFLEX prioritizes user education, advanced order types and frequent competitions, CoinFLEX aims to bring a culture of risk management and professional trading techniques to the crypto community. Their partnership with Trading Technologies brings a pioneer in the futures trading space into the cryptocurrency world. For institutions, CoinFLEX provides a robust matching engine coupled with physical settlement. Their best-in-class API performance allows high throughput with low latencies. Mark’s vision is for crypto derivatives is to grow the industry beyond speculation into real commercial use for lending, borrowing, hedging and payments. Mark Lamb has been in bitcoin since 2012 and previously co-founded Coinfloor, the UK’s first cryptocurrency exchange back in 2013. Our discussion focuses on the crytpo's derivatives market, we touch on the structure of the futures market, why Mark envisions the derivatives market in crypto to grow exponentially as the industry matures, and why crypto is the perfect collateral. We also discuss why Mark prefers physically delivered futures over cash settlement, how CoinFLEX is building a DeFi native derivatives platform, and how CoinFLEX is able to offer crypto derivative products to US clients. We also compared how the exchange sector has evolved over the years and what we should expect in the future. Please enjoy my conversation with Mark Lamb.---Cosmos: Visit https://untoldstories.link/cosmos to learn about the Cosmos Hub, the port city for blockchains across the world. With Cosmos, you can ensure you can access and use liquidity across chains, including Bitcoin and Ethereum.Find new staking opportunities and applications, or build your own chain at https://untoldstories.link/cosmos---ParaSwap:If you want to make a swap at the best price across the DeFi market, check out https://untoldstories.link/paraswap. ParaSwap’s state-of-the-art algorithm beats the market price across all major DEXs and brings you the most optimized swaps with the best prices, and lowest slippage. *terms and conditions apply---This podcast is powered by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is my friend, Graham Friedman, a Director at Republic & Co-founder and Partner at TLDR Global. Republic is an investment platform for everyone to invest in private deals, including startups, real estate, video games, and crypto. TLDR Global is a global investment firm focusing on tokenized assets and DLT technology.Our conversation covers a wide range of topics including the importance of Memetics in crypto and the rise in popularity of meme-coins, ethereum's incredible Q1 performance and it's growing network effect, and why cross-chain is the future. We also touch on Coinbase's recent announcement that they are launching their own media-arm and crypto's possible future addressable industries. Other topics we discussed included the best way to onboard normies to crypto and contextualizing bitcoin's energy usage and dismissing the energy FUD. Please enjoy my conversation with Graham Friedman.---BitcasinoNow until June 27th Untold Stories listeners will have the chance to WIN 1 of 3 Teslas! A 0.05 mBTC wager gets you in on the action and enters you to win a Tesla Model 3 Performance Vehicle!Start playing today for your chance to WIN. Be sure to use my personal URL for each upcoming tournament to be entered https://untoldstories.link/bitcasino ---Kava:Kava is a leading DeFi platform trusted by Binance, Huobi, Kraken, Okex and Chainlink. Learn more about them at https://untoldstories.link/kava ---Shopping.ioShopping.io is the leader in mainstream Crypto E-commerce solutions. This is the first time Crypto E-commerce has ever gone international, building the bridge behind Crypto and retail.My listeners get an additional 2% off on top of all loyalty program discounts, so be sure to check them out at https://untoldstories.link/shopping.io---This podcast is powered by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is my friend, Joel Edgerton, the COO of BitFlyer USA. BitFlyer is a Bitcoin exchange and marketplace that enables its customers to buy, sell, and spend bitcoins. The site offers an Application Programming Interface which allows their clients to access and control their accounts, using custom-written software. In addition, it offers businesses e-commerce payment services that can transfer Bitcoin inorder to provide users with secure trading by all possible measures of security as a comprehensive platform of Bitcoin. Prior to joining bitFlyer, Joel spent his career in traditional finance, most recently he worked for BNP Paribas Cardif as their COO, where he was leading the charge to pivot the company to a digital insurance company. He built a closed-loop customer experience program, supported by data-oriented system architecture, and data-driven process optimization. In our conversation, we discuss the differences in regulation between the west and Japan, the general sentiment towards crypto by the Japanese people, and how crypto is being implemented within Japanese society. We also discuss why the crypto industry needs clear and explicit regulation, advice for TradFi people looking to make the jump to crypto, is Satoshi Japanese, and much more. Please enjoy my conversation with Joel Edgerton.---BitcasinoFrom May 10 to May 22, 2021 (GMT), you could win $500 worth of Bitcoin prizes from a $10,000 Bitcoin prize pool, all you have to do is tweet the story behind your Bitcoin “Pizza” and include the unique hashtag #pizzaio and tag @BitcoinPizza_io Check it out at https://untoldstories.link/bitcasino ---KavaKava is a leading DeFi platform trusted by Binance, Huobi, Kraken, Okex and Chainlink. Learn more about them at https://untoldstories.link/kava --Shopping.ioShopping.io is the leader in mainstream Crypto E-commerce solutions. This is the first time Crypto E-commerce has ever gone international, building the bridge behind Crypto and retail.My listeners get an additional 2% off on top of all loyalty program discounts, so be sure to check them out at https://untoldstories.link/shopping.io ---This podcast is powered by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is Jamie Thomson, Co-founder and CEO of Vulcan Verse. Vulcan Verse is a fantasy decentralized universe that bridges the gap between normal blockchain sandbox games to MMO (massively multiplayer online) game functionality. It offers complex building tools as well as fight, forage and spy mechanics embedded into the game world. VulcanVerse encompasses a 3km by 3km virtual environment set in a Greco-Roman fantasy theme. Jamie has extensive experience building web projects by building multiple web projects for schools, NGOs, personal profiles, but now he's creating Vulcan Forged, which has now reached the top 5 marketplace volume in the blockchain space, houses 10 blockchain games and of course VulcanVerse! In our conversation we discuss the MetaVerse, Vulcan Verse, the lore behind Vulcan Verse, the appeal of digitally native scarce goods, social dynamics in cyberspace, and much more.---CosmosVisit https://untoldstories.link/cosmos to learn about the Cosmos Hub, the port city for blockchains across the world. With Cosmos, you can ensure you can access and use liquidity across chains, including Bitcoin and Ethereum.Find new staking opportunities and applications, or build your own chain at https://untoldstories.link/cosmos---ParaswapIf you want to make a swap at the best price across the DeFi market, check out https://untoldstories.link/paraswap. ParaSwap’s state-of-the-art algorithm beats the market price across all major DEXs and brings you the most optimized swaps with the best prices, and lowest slippage.*terms and conditions apply---This podcast is powered by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is my friend, Nicholas Chan, co-founder of Refinable, the first major NFT marketplace on BSC, empowering both individual creators and beloved brands to easily and affordably create, discover, trade, and leverage NFTs. As one of the first NFT marketplace on Binance Smart Chain, the Refinable ecosystem allows Creators, Collectors, and Traders to engage with rare tokenized content on an ultra-fast and low-cost network. By leveraging NFT's provable scarcity and transferability, Refinable provides its users with an intuitive and no-code trading experience for all digital goods. Nick has been a crypto enthusiast since early 2015, previously, he has worked on ecommerce and tech startups from hospitality to gaming. He also helped launch the first 3D fashion management system at Li & Fung, the world’s largest sourcing agent. After taking more of a role in the crypto space in 2017, Nick got involved and even organized the first Binance PreHack in Hong Kong a few years ago. However, it wasn’t until last year that he started thinking about NFTs and its potential in the digital commerce space as a global medium for digital transactions. In our discussion we define NFTs and the exponential growth in interest in NFTs. We also discuss Refinable and their mission to democratize the NFT industry, why Refinable chose to go to market on the Binance Smart Chain, the future of NFTs, and much more. Please enjoy my conversation with Nick Chan.---BitcasinoNow until June 27th Untold Stories listeners will have the chance to WIN 1 of 3 Teslas! A 0.05 mBTC wager gets you in on the action and enters you to win a Tesla Model 3 Performance Vehicle! Start playing today for your chance to WIN. Be sure to use my personal URL for each upcoming tournament to be entered https://untoldstories.link/bitcasino ---KavaKava is a leading DeFi platform trusted by Binance, Huobi, Kraken, Okex and Chainlink. Learn more about them at https://untoldstories.link/kava --Shopping.ioShopping.io is the leader in mainstream Crypto E-commerce solutions. This is the first time Crypto E-commerce has ever gone international, building the bridge behind Crypto and retail.My listeners get an additional 2% off on top of all loyalty program discounts, so be sure to check them out at https://untoldstories.link/shopping.io---This podcast is powered by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is my friend, Mounir Benchemled, the founder and CEO of ParaSwap. ParaSwap aims to solve the liquidity problem in crypto markets by bringing every exchange protocol into one platform. Their goal is to empower users with the most competitive market prices and the highest liquidity. Currently, they exclusively handle Ethereum and ERC-20 tokens, but they have stated their goal is to handle most major blockchains. Mounir's a tech/ product guy. He started as a software engineer in 2007. Since then, he's mostly worked in startups as a developer, product manager, or as a CTO. He got interested in crypto back in 2013 when he realized that Bitcoin is only the beginning of a great financial shift. In our conversation we discuss Paraswap and their goal to become an integral part of the infrastructure layer of the digital asset industry. We also touch on the importance of liquidity within a market, the history of decentralized exchanges, the benefits of a system that is decentralized trustless, and much more. Please enjoy my conversation with Mounir Benchemled.---YieldWith a market so new and so powerful, it goes without saying that investment opportunities are everywhere, with sometimes the potential for astonishing returns.Yield filters through all defi investments, consolidated gas fees, and only invests in a select few to generate up to 20% APY, which more than double what you could earn from the top lending services in the space.Check them out at https://untoldstories.link/yield---CosmosVisit https://untoldstories.link/cosmos to learn about the Cosmos Hub, the port city for blockchains across the world. With Cosmos, you can ensure you can access and use liquidity across chains, including Bitcoin and Ethereum.Find new staking opportunities and applications, or build your own chain at https://untoldstories.link/cosmos---ParaswapIf you want to make a swap at the best price across the DeFi market, check out https://untoldstories.link/paraswap. ParaSwap’s state-of-the-art algorithm beats the market price across all major DEXs and brings you the most optimized swaps with the best prices, and lowest slippage.*terms and conditions apply---This podcast is powered by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is my friend, Jennifer Harding-Marlin, Partner at JH Marlin Law. JH Marlin is a leading St.Kitts & Nevis law firm, specializing in Citizenship by Investment & Corporate Commercial Law. Their clients range from individuals to major international corporations. Their team of highly qualified lawyers are committed to providing results oriented solutions by applying an integrated and innovative approach to assist their clients across different practices and industries. Jennifer Harding-Marlin is a lawyer in Canada and the Federation of St.Christopher & Nevis. Prior to founding the Nevis Law Firm JH Marlin, Jennifer worked at Stuarts Walker Hersant Humphries in the Cayman Islands as a member of the corporate and specialist investment funds team. She has prior work experience from Higgs & Johnson Bahamas and at another local law firm in Nevis. In our discussion we cover what is citizen investment and the benefits of a second citizenship, and the process of how to obtain a second citizenship. We also discuss the rise of the global citizen and self sovereignty and its implications. Please enjoy my conversation with Jennifer Harding-Marlin.---Bitcasino: February 9, 2021 - May 25, 2021Now until June 27th Untold Stories listeners will have the chance to WIN 1 of 3 Teslas! A 0.05 mBTC wager gets you in on the action and enters you to win a Tesla Model 3 Performance Vehicle! Start playing today for your chance to WIN. Be sure to use my personal URL for each upcoming tournament to be entered https://untoldstories.link/bitcasino ---Nexo: February 9, 2021 - May 4, 2021 (this one we aren't using an updated link since they end so soon)Crypto banking just got real with Nexo. Get cryptо credit from just 5.9% APR, earn up to 12% interest on crypto, stablecoins & fiat, swap assets on their brand new integrated exchange, and much more all conveniently wrapped in a single wallet interface. Sign up for free at nexo.io. Download the Nexo Wallet App on Google Play or the App Store.---Kava: March 23, 2021 - June 15, 2021Kava is a leading DeFi platform trusted by Binance, Huobi, Kraken, Okex and Chainlink. Learn more about them at https://untoldstories.link/kava---This podcast is powered by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is my friend Antoni Trenchev, co-founder and Managing Partner of Nexo. Nexo is the world's leading regulated institution for digital assets. The company’s mission is to maximize the value and utility of cryptocurrencies by offering tax-efficient Instant Crypto Credit Lines, a high-yield Earn on Crypto & Fiat suite, Send & Pay capabilities, and sophisticated trading & OTC services, all while providing the top-tier custodial insurance and military-grade security of the Nexo Wallet. Prior to starting Nexo, Antoni was the chief Legal Officer at MDL, the leading company in the Bulgarian Fashion industry, and a member of the Bulgarian Parliament. Anotni returns to the show to celebrate Nexo's third birthday. In our conversation we discuss everything Nexo including what's next for Nexo's, the regulatory and organizational complexities that come with running the leading institutions in the digital asset space, the positive implications of Biden's tax law, Nexo's commitment to excellence and much more! Please enjoy my conversation with Antoni Trenchev.---Yield:With a market so new and so powerful, it goes without saying that investment opportunities are everywhere, with sometimes the potential for astonishing returns. Yield filters through all defi investments, consolidated gas fees, and only invests in a select few to generate up to 20% APY, which more than double what you could earn from the top lending services in the space. Check them out at https://untoldstories.link/yield ---Nexo:Crypto banking just got real with Nexo. Get cryptо credit from just 5.9% APR, earn up to 12% interest on crypto, stablecoins & fiat, swap assets on their brand new integrated exchange, and much more all conveniently wrapped in a single wallet interface. Sign up for free at nexo.io. Download the Nexo Wallet App on Google Play or the App Store.---Kava:Kava is a leading DeFi platform trusted by Binance, Huobi, Kraken, Okex and Chainlink. Learn more about them at https://untoldstories.link/kava ---This podcast is powered by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is my friend Jason Blick, Director and CEO of EQIBank and the Chairman of EQIFI. EQIBank is a global, digital bank and financial services organization for corporations and High-Net-Worth Individuals. They serve clients through three global businesses: Private Banking, Commercial Banking, and Digital Asset Custody. With EQIBank, the clients are empowered to bank globally from one digital bank. EQIFI is a decentralized protocol for pooled lending, borrowing, and investing for ETH, ERC-20 tokens including wBTC, Stablecoins, and select fiat currencies. It provides a single uniform platform for DeFi products with access to bank accounts, custody, debit and credit cards, OTC, and wealth management. Jason Blick is a qualified UK attorney who went on to manage legal and compliance in over 90 countries for Sun Microsystems, overseeing upwards of €1.5 billion per year in transactions. He later became the CEO of Financial Partners Bank, with over 12,000 clients and $1.2 billion AUA. He is also the founder of Cayman Enterprise City, the Cayman Commodities and Derivative Exchange, and served on the board of the Cayman Islands Government Special Economic Zone Authority. In our discussion, we cover how legacy financial system is structured and the inherent systemic risks that exist within the system, how DeFi is building a more fundamentally sound financial infrastructure, how will Banks interact with DeFi, why DeFi will continue to grow exponentially, the moral obligation within crypto and much more.---BitcasinoNow until June 27th Untold Stories listeners will have the chance to WIN 1 of 3 Teslas! A 0.05 mBTC wager gets you in on the action and enters you to win a Tesla Model 3 Performance Vehicle! Start playing today for your chance to WIN. Be sure to use my personal URL for each upcoming tournament to be entered https://untoldstories.link/bitcasino ---CosmosVisit https://untoldstories.link/cosmos to learn about the Cosmos Hub, the port city for blockchains across the world. With Cosmos, you can ensure you can access and use liquidity across chains, including Bitcoin and Ethereum.Find new staking opportunities and applications, or build your own chain at https://untoldstories.link/cosmos---ParaswapIf you want to make a swap at the best price across the DeFi market, check out https://untoldstories.link/paraswap. ParaSwap’s state-of-the-art algorithm beats the market price across all major DEXs and brings you the most optimized swaps with the best prices, and lowest slippage. *terms and conditions apply–––This podcast is powered by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guests today are Fred Jin and Kenzi Wang the Co-founders of the Cere Network. Cere Network is the first Decentralized Data Cloud platform optimized for service data integration and data collaboration. Cere aims to be more ethical, more efficient and more interoperable than any of its centralized counterparts. Fred is the co-founder and CEO of the Cere Network. Prior to Founding Cere, Fred is a Silicon Valley vetern, being in the valley since ‘93, he most recently co-founded 50cubes, a Tencent backed gaming company. He was also early at Bebo, and was instrumental in them being acquired for $850 million by AOL. Prior to co-founding Cere, Kenzi Wang was Partner at AU21 capital, a US VC investment firm, before jumping all into crypto by working for Huobi as their Vice-President. Our conversation focuses on how data integration and data collaboration leads to actionable insights for your business, regardless of what sector it is in. We discuss how the Cere Network helps brands build direct relationships with their supporters, why decentralizing Data storage is an ideal way to remove friction within the system, how Cere's DDC platform will help unlock the true potential of social tokens and digital collectibles by integrated them within fan experiences in novel ways, Data Privacy and Data Emancipation, the digitization of society, if we are living through an inflection point in the industry, and much more. I hope you enjoy my conversation with Fred Jin Kenzi Wang.–––YIELDWith a market so new and so powerful, it goes without saying that investment opportunities are everywhere, with sometimes the potential for astonishing returns. Yield filters through all defi investments, consolidated gas fees, and only invests in a select few to generate up to 20% APY, which more than double what you could earn from the top lending services in the space. Check them out at https://on.yield.app/charlie–––COSMOSVisit Cosmos to learn about the Cosmos Hub and how it's the port city for blockchains across the world. Cosmos can bridge the siloed blockchains, like Bitcoin and Ethereum, to ensure your liquidity on any chain can be used anywhere. Find new staking opportunities and applications, or build your own, at cosmos.network–––ParaswapIf you want to make a swap at the best price across the DeFi market, check out paraswap.io/untold-stories. ParaSwap’s state-of-the-art algorithm beats the market price across all major DEXs and brings you the most optimized swaps with the best prices, and lowest slippage. *terms and conditions apply–––This podcast is powered by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is my friend Shawn Owen, CEO of Equa. Equa is the leading one-stop-shop software solution for frictionless organization, integrated in a company's current workflow. From seed to fruition, Equa helps businesses form, raise, and grow by minimizing the chaos and pains of being an entrepreneur and business owner. Before founding Equa, Shawn has been heavily involved in the Crypto space. He is widely known for being an early Bitcoin advocate and pioneer in the crypto-backed lending space, which was deployed in 2017 as the company SALT launched the first Bitcoin-backed loan products. Shawn is a proven business founder with two decades of experience in leadership and enterprise operations, focused on innovation, product delivery, and consumer satisfaction. In our conversation, we discuss the evolution of the crypto community, Shawn's journey in the crypto space, Proof-of-Brain, what is true decentralization, DAOs, new ways of building trust and much more.----Legacy of Dead This episode was brought to you by Bitcasino. The worlds leading Bitcoin-led online casino and crypto-centric gaming destination. Wager your way into a world of opportunity, with the ultimate Fun, Fast and Fair crypto-casino experience. Deposit, wager, and withdraw in real-time with a host of top cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), LiteCoin (LTC), Tether (USDT), TRON (TRX), Ripple (XRP), and more! Use the promo link https://Bitcasino.io/Shrem, to unlock your 200 FREE SPINS in the Legacy of Dead Promotion.----NEXOCrypto banking just got real with Nexo. Get cryptо credit from just 5.9% APR, earn up to 12% interest on crypto, stablecoins & fiat, swap assets on their brand new integrated exchange, and much more all conveniently wrapped in a single wallet interface. Sign up for free at nexo.io. Download the Nexo Wallet App on Google Play or the App Store .–––KAVAKava.io is a leading DeFi platform trusted by Binance, Huobi, Kraken, Okex and Chainlink. Learn more at kava.io–––This podcast is powered by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is my friend Peng Zhong, the CEO of Tendermint. Peng has a background in interaction design and front-end engineering, he focuses on guiding blockchain technology across the chasm to the mainstream. Tendermint is a core contributor to the Cosmos Network and they are building some of the most powerful tools for distributed networks. Cosmos is an ever-expanding ecosystem of interoperable and sovereign blockchain apps and services, built for a decentralized future. At Tendermint, Peng mentors an incredible team that builds tools that improve the UX of blockchain for both developers and end-users. He also advises founders on building sustainable blockchain businesses.We do a deep dive into Cosmos and Cosmosland. In our conversation, we cover L1 maximalism vs pluralism, the importance of interoperability and recent launch of the IBC on Cosmos Hub, and how crypto has found product market fit and it's about scaling. I hope you enjoy my conversation with Peng Zhong.–––YIELDWith a market so new and so powerful, it goes without saying that investment opportunities are everywhere, with sometimes the potential for astonishing returns. Yield filters through all defi investments, consolidated gas fees, and only invests in a select few to generate up to 20% APY, which more than double what you could earn from the top lending services in the space. Check them out at https://on.yield.app/charlie–––COSMOSVisit Cosmos to learn about the Cosmos Hub and how it's the port city for blockchains across the world. Cosmos can bridge the siloed blockchains, like Bitcoin and Ethereum, to ensure your liquidity on any chain can be used anywhere. Find new staking opportunities and applications, or build your own, at cosmos.network–––ParaswapIf you want to make a swap at the best price across the DeFi market, check out paraswap.io/untold-stories. ParaSwap’s state-of-the-art algorithm beats the market price across all major DEXs and brings you the most optimized swaps with the best prices, and lowest slippage. *terms and conditions apply–––This podcast is powered by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is my friend Nic Carter, a partner at Castle Island Ventures and the cofounder of blockchain data aggregator Coinmetrics.io. Castle Island Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm exclusively focused on public blockchains. Prior to founding Castle Island, he served as Fidelity Investments’ first cryptoasset analyst. This is a must listen for everyone whether you are an OGs or a crypto noobie. In our conversation, we break down Bitcoin, Venture Investing in the Crypto Space, Nic's experience being Fidelity's first crypto analyst, Nic's dispels the environmental FUD surrounding Bitcoin and much more. I hope you enjoy my conversation with Nic Carter.----Legacy of Dead This episode was brought to you by Bitcasino. The worlds leading Bitcoin-led online casino and crypto-centric gaming destination. Wager your way into a world of opportunity, with the ultimate Fun, Fast and Fair crypto-casino experience. Deposit, wager, and withdraw in real-time with a host of top cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), LiteCoin (LTC), Tether (USDT), TRON (TRX), Ripple (XRP), and more! Use the promo link https://Bitcasino.io/Shrem, to unlock your 200 FREE SPINS in the Legacy of Dead Promotion.----NEXOCrypto banking just got real with Nexo. Get cryptо credit from just 5.9% APR, earn up to 12% interest on crypto, stablecoins & fiat, swap assets on their brand new integrated exchange, and much more all conveniently wrapped in a single wallet interface. Sign up for free at nexo.io. Download the Nexo Wallet App on Google Play or the App Store .–––KAVAKava.io is a leading DeFi platform trusted by Binance, Huobi, Kraken, Okex and Chainlink. Learn more at kava.io–––This podcast is powered by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is Dovey Wan, one of the founding partners of Primitive Ventures. Dovey is an American investor, founder, mentor and advisor, crypto-analyst, and trader. She's currently the managing partner at Primitive Ventures and is on the n Advisory Board at CoinDesk. Dovey began her career at eBay, where she spent almost four years working as Data Science Engineer, Senior Business Analyst, and Product Manager. In our conversation, we discuss the concept of a currency and how the definition is changing, we also cover the rise of information arbitrage, the growth of innovation in Asia, the Blocksize Wars, and much more. I hope you enjoy my conversation with Dovey Wan. –––YIELDWith a market so new and so powerful, it goes without saying that investment opportunities are everywhere, with sometimes the potential for astonishing returns. Yield filters through all defi investments, consolidated gas fees, and only invests in a select few to generate up to 20% APY, which more than double what you could earn from the top lending services in the space. Check them out at https://on.yield.app/charlie–––COSMOSVisit stargate.cosmos.network to learn about the Cosmos Hub and how it's the port city for blockchains across the world. Cosmos can bridge the siloed blockchains, like Bitcoin and Ethereum, to ensure your liquidity on any chain can be used anywhere. Find new staking opportunities and applications, or build your own, at stargate.cosmos.network.–––ParaswapIf you want to make a swap at the best price across the DeFi market, check out paraswap.io/untold-stories. ParaSwap’s state-of-the-art algorithm beats the market price across all major DEXs and brings you the most optimized swaps with the best prices, and lowest slippage. *terms and conditions apply–––This podcast is powered by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is David Gokhshtein. Davis is one of the leading marketers in the crypto space. David began Gokhshtein Media in 2012, the company behind Hodlgang, a community based platform that consists of fundamental market analysis, real time market updates and upcoming cryptocurrency events. He was also the host Gokhshtein Unfiltered and Blockchain Breakfast and is a member and contributing writer for the Forbes Finance Council. We discuss NFTs and various use-cases other than art, the growing hype surrounding digital collectibles and art, the parallels it has to the 2017 ICO bubble, the influence of social media on crypto's culture, and much more. I hope you enjoy my conversation with David Gokhshtein.----Legacy of Dead This episode was brought to you by Bitcasino. The worlds leading Bitcoin-led online casino and crypto-centric gaming destination. Wager your way into a world of opportunity, with the ultimate Fun, Fast and Fair crypto-casino experience. Deposit, wager, and withdraw in real-time with a host of top cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), LiteCoin (LTC), Tether (USDT), TRON (TRX), Ripple (XRP), and more! Use the promo link https://Bitcasino.io/Shrem, to unlock your 200 FREE SPINS in the Legacy of Dead Promotion.----NEXOCrypto banking just got real with Nexo. Get cryptо credit from just 5.9% APR, earn up to 12% interest on crypto, stablecoins & fiat, swap assets on their brand new integrated exchange, and much more all conveniently wrapped in a single wallet interface. Sign up for free at nexo.io. Download the Nexo Wallet App on Google Play or the App Store .–––KAVAKava.io is a leading DeFi platform trusted by Binance, Huobi, Kraken, Okex and Chainlink. Learn more at kava.io–––This podcast is powered by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

My guest today is Annabelle Huang, a Partner at Amber Group. Amber Group is a diversified crypto finance firm. The Amber Group helps clients buy and sell cryptocurrency products, earn yield, manage risk and access liquidity, with a presence in Asia and North America. Prior to the Amber Group, Ms. Huang was the Asia lead at AirSwap, a decentralized trading platform that enables peer-to-peer trading. Before transitioning into digital assets, she advised private equity funds, US corporates and hedge funds on structured solutions and risk management as an FX structurer at Deutsche Bank. Her deep understanding in traditional finance markets, in combination with her expertise on how institutions and macro markets work, has played a key role in helping develop the product strategy and solutions delivered through Amber Group. This is a must listen for anyone interested in how capital markets are evolving. We discuss the market structure within crypto such as the reasons for the high yield on stable coins, how to capitalize on the high volatility in the crypto market, and the growth of crypto adoption in areas like Africa, India and Latin America. We also do a deep dive into Central Bank digital currencies, the dollar as the global reserve currency, and the sentiment outside of America of US monetary policy. I hope you enjoy my conversation with Annabelle Huang.–––YIELDWith a market so new and so powerful, it goes without saying that investment opportunities are everywhere, with sometimes the potential for astonishing returns. Yield filters through all defi investments, consolidated gas fees, and only invests in a select few to generate up to 20% APY, which more than double what you could earn from the top lending services in the space. Check them out at https://on.yield.app/charlie–––COSMOSVisit stargate.cosmos.network to learn about the Cosmos Hub and how it's the port city for blockchains across the world. Cosmos can bridge the siloed blockchains, like Bitcoin and Ethereum, to ensure your liquidity on any chain can be used anywhere. Find new staking opportunities and applications, or build your own, at stargate.cosmos.network.–––ParaswapIf you want to make a swap at the best price across the DeFi market, check out paraswap.io/untold-stories. ParaSwap’s state-of-the-art algorithm beats the market price across all major DEXs and brings you the most optimized swaps with the best prices, and lowest slippage. 50% GAS FEES WILL BE REFUNDED* for 1 ETH minimum trades done before May 1st, 2021, 00:00 CET.* It applies to the first swap only. Refunds will happen every Friday starting April 9th.–––This podcast is powered by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.