The Crypto Conversation

Sphere 3D - Bitcoin mining in the bear market

30 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Patricia Trompeter is the CEO of Sphere 3D Corp., a net carbon-neutral Bitcoin miner.  Why you should listen Patricia Trompeter is the CEO of Sphere ...

Stack - the Crypto App for Under 18s

28 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Will Rush is the founder of Stack, an app that goes where school curricula won't, and educates the next generation about personal finance. It does thi...

Haste Arcade - Playing games to earn money

27 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Haste Arcade is the world's first Instant Leaderboard Payout arcade. The arcade enables players globally to earn real-time, peer-to-peer rewards for s...

Kraken Australia - Expanding Downunder

22 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kraken is one of the OG global crypto exchanges, founded in 2011. In 2020 Kraken launched in Australia. Andy speaks to Kraken's Aussie MD, Jonathon Mi...

Gamma - the marketplace for Bitcoin NFTs powered by Stacks

20 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Gamma is the leading marketplace for creators and digital collectors to find, list, and sell NFTs, secured by the Bitcoin blockchain. Gamma also provi...

Stacked - Smart Crypto Investing

19 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Stacked Invest is a simple, easy-to-use platform for crypto investing. Equipped with ready-to-grow, personalized, and professionally managed portfolio...

Pollen - Building DeFi 2.0

15 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Pollen is a DeFi 2.0 asset management protocol that allows communities to curate fully optimized and dynamically rebalanced custom asset pools. Why yo...

goLance - Celsius tanks while remote work rises

13 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Brooks is the CEO and founder of goLance, an award-winning online freelance marketplace that's used to recruit, screen, hire, manage, and pay ...

Metalend - the lending protocol for fiat-backed stablecoins

13 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Anthony Ng is the Founder and CEO of Metalend, a decentralized lending and borrowing protocol for fiat-backed stablecoins. The future of Defi cannot b...

Umee - Surfing the DeFi Wave

09 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Brent Xu is the Founder and CEO of Umee, a Cross Chain DeFi hub designed to operate seamlessly across protocols. Brent has extensive experience in blo...

Powerledger - trading renewable energy

08 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Powerledger develops software solutions for the tracking, tracing, and trading of renewable energy. They believe in the democratization of power, for ...

Boto - the no-code platform for crypto bots

06 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Breno Araujo is the Founder and CEO of Boto - the no-code automation platform for creating and sharing bots that automate your crypto, NFT, and other ...

NFT Butler - Automating your NFT trading

02 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

NFT Butler is an automation tool to make mass bidding requests on OpenSea. Users can create multiple tasks for several collections on Opensea and conf...

Festival Pass - Web3 and live events

31 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Festival Pass is embracing the evolution of entertainment into Web 3. It is the world's first live events subscription service across music, film, foo...

Globe - Building the everything exchange

29 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

James West is the co-founder of Globe. A crypto exchange funded by Y Combinator and Pantera Capital, Globe's goal is to enable its customers to exchan...

Casa - The safe way to store your Bitcoin

26 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Nick Neuman is the founder of Casa – a provider of Bitcoin security services that enables users to have total self-custody over their crypto holding...

Fantom - Andre is back? The origin story, and what comes next

23 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Crypto dev Andre Cronje is back, advising the Fantom Foundation after publically turning his back on crypto earlier this year. We speak to Fantom Foun...

The Minke App - Wave hello to better savings

22 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Josh Reyes is the co-founder of the Minke, a DeFi platform that aims to be the easiest way to use DeFi via an app designed for mobile. Minke offers sa...

Sergey Nazarov - Building a world powered by cryptographic truth

20 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sergey Nazarov is the Co-founder of Chainlink, the industry-standard oracle network for connecting smart contracts to real-world data and off-chain co...

Anoma - Protect your privacy with zero-knowledge technology

18 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Adrian Brink is the founder of Anoma, a blockchain protocol that enables private, asset-agnostic cash and bartering. Adrian founded Anoma to fight sur...

Near Futures Far-Fetched - A Sci-Fi Story

15 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Andy Blood was executive creative director at Colenso BBDO and a creative strategist at Facebook. He is the creator of the multiverse series "Near Fut...

ALEX - Next gen DeFi on Bitcoin via Stacks

11 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chiente Hsu is the ex-Managing Director and Global Head of Quantitative Investment Strategy and Research at Morgan Stanley. She is the founder of ALEX...

IBEX - Taking Bitcoin to the World

10 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

IBEX believes that a well-developed system of financial markets is indispensable for the health and efficiency of a society. The combination of robust...

Bitcoin's Logarithmic Growth Curve - last model standing?

09 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dave the Wave is an investor, trader, and technical analyst. A contrarian, Dave is respected on Crypto Twitter for his objective, rational approach to...

BVNK - Combining crypto and fiat banking in one platform

06 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Harmse is the co-founder and MD of crypto financial services company, BVNK. The BVNK platform bridges fiat and crypto together. Combine your cry...

Dignity Gold - the gold reserve backed security token

03 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dignity Gold is a blockchain development company creating securities tokens to establish investment opportunities in the U.S. precious metals mining a...

Flipside Crypto - Get paid to learn about protocols

01 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dave Balter is the CEO of Flipside Crypto, the platform lets users get paid to learn about protocols and chains, and level up to become a crypto-SQL s...

Pool - Enabling users to monetize and share their data

28 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Shiv Malik is the CEO of Pool, a data platform and marketplace that wants to increase data privacy and enable individuals to monetize their own data. ...

250 episodes of the Crypto Conversation - Meet Brave New Coin's new CEO

26 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We're unofficially celebrating 250 episodes of the Crypto Conversation. To celebrate, Andy is joined by Rory Manchee, CEO at Brave New Coin. Why you s...

Ethernity - the NFT issuing platform and marketplace for notable personalities

25 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Nick Rose is the CEO and co-founder of  Ethernity Chain - the NFT issuing platform and marketplace for athletes and celebrities. Leveraging their own...

How Bitcoin Mining drives 70% renewable energy by 2030

21 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kiwi tech entrepreneur Daniel Batten has an intriguing thesis. He sees Bitcoin as an unexpected superhero - his view is that Bitcoin mining can drive ...

Fair Prediction Launches - SparkWorld is reinventing NFTs

20 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

SparkWorld is an innovative community-centric web3 ecosystem, powered by Fair Prediction Launches and underpinned by the SPRK token.   Why you shoul...

Octopus Network - Where Web3.0 Begins

18 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sheldon Dearr is technical lead at Octopus Network,  a multichain, interoperable crypto network and Web3 incubator designed to facilitate a new wave ...

Aventus - Building on Ethereum and beyond

13 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Alan Vey is the co-founder and CEO of Aventus Network, a layer-2 blockchain protocol that brings scalability, lower costs, and speed to Ethereum trans...

Big Town Chef - Cooking in Web3

12 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Big Town Chef is a play-to-earn, NFT farming, trading and cook-off Web3 game. Powered by $BURP, the game is in partnership with celebrity chef Gino D...

Bitcoin 2022 - Did it Deliver?

10 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Last week the Bitcoin 2022 conference took place in Miami with announcements coming from some of the most prominent Bitcoin speakers and companies. Di...

CasperLabs - Immutable history, unwritten future

07 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Medha Parlikar is the Co-Founder and CTO of CasperLabs, a blockchain built for enterprise adoption. The CasperLabs mission is to lead the era of distr...

Sommelier Finance - Increasing DeFi Liquidity

06 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Zaki Manian is the Co-Founder of Sommelier Finance, a DeFi platform and coprocessor for the EthereumVM. Why you should listen Zaki believes that regul...

Bitcoin is warming up the rockets

05 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

With Bitcoin holding steady at $46,000, and both whales and shrimps accumulating, is Bitcoin warming up again? Why you should listen The 19,000,000 Bi...

Bitcoin is the signal - Bitcoin 2022 is going to be epic

31 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Christian Keroles is Managing Director of Bitcoin Magazine and a passionate Bitcoiner who thinks Hyperbitcoinization is going to happen faster than an...

The Reality Oracle - Geospatial data on the XYO Network

31 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Arie Trouw is Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at XY Labs, building the XYO Network. The netw...

Internet Friends - How to build a Crypto Community

28 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Brett Herskope aka Eliherf is a project lead for Stacks Parrots, a collection of Parrot NFTs on Stacks. Eliherf is also head of community for several ...

Brave - For Crypto-Native Internet Users

24 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Bondy is the co-founder, CTO, and lead developer for Brave Software, developer of Brave, the open-source, privacy-by-default web browser with a ...

The SKTL Space Token

21 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Cody Willard, an American investor and hedge fund manager and ex-anchor on the Fox Business Network is a co-founder of SKTLs ("Sky's The Limit"). The ...

Megapont - Building an NFT universe

16 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Megapont is a pixel art nft project on Stacks. Megapont is a fictional universe in which advanced scientific mutations accelerated the evolutions of e...

Byzantion - the #1 NFT Marketplace on Stacks

14 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Plutus and Obsidian are the co-founders of Byzantion, the #1 NFT Marketplace on Stacks. Users can buy, sell, auction, and discover Bitcoin-Secured NFT...

TokenTraxx - How Web3 evolves the music industry

10 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

TommyD is an award-winning multi-platinum selling music producer, songwriter, artist, DJ, and creator of 808 Whisky. He is the founder of TokenTraxx i...

Aera Force - addressing the climate and ecology crisis

09 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Aera Force is a Venture DAO focused on web3 x climate projects. The DAO is made up of climate investors, founders, scientists and civic leaders invest...

Unstoppable Domains - Building Web3

08 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sandy Carter is SVP at digital identity platform Unstoppable Domains. The Unstoppable domain names are minted as NFTs and allow users to replace awkwa...

Ukraine deploys NFTs, Memes, & Elon in War effort

03 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Andy Pickering is here with a weekly crypto market update where we look through the volatile world of Crypto Twitter to tease out the most important n...

Verite - Building open source identity protocols

02 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

David Puth is CEO, and Kim Hamilton Duffy is Director of Identity and Standards at Centre, an open-source technology project launched by founding memb...

King River Capital - Investing in Web3 and beyond

01 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Zeb Rice is a Co-Founder and Partner at King River Capital, in Surrey Hills, Sydney where he leads investments in companies that are redefining key se...

Smart Contract Philanthropy - Donate crypto with Endaoment

25 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Robbie Heeger is President and CEO of Endaoment, the first fully on-chain 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity providing a wide range of philanthropic ...

Haystack in a Hurricane - The Legal Risks of Depicting Real People in NFTs

24 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew Savare, a partner at the law firm Lowenstein Sandler, joins Andy to explore the important legal issues surrounding the use of someone's likene...

War - What is it good for?

21 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Andy Pickering is here with a weekly crypto market update where we look through the volatile world of Crypto Twitter to tease out the most important n...

Manifold - Enabling digital creative sovereignty

17 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Richerd is a professional NFT Degen, a smART contract artist, and the co-founder of Manifold. Manifold enables web3 creators to have true creative own...

KIRA - Connecting decentralized Web3 applications

15 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Milana Valmont and Mateusz Grzelak are the co-founders of KIRA, a financial hub connecting decentralized Web3 applications. Why you should listen: KIR...

Earn Yield with NZDS - the New Zealand Dollar stablecoin

15 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Fran Strajnar is the co-founder of Techemynt, the issuer of the NZDS, a New Zealand Dollar (NZD) Stable Coin backed 1:1 with physical New Zealand Doll...

Bitcoin Jumps - And the markets roar back into life

10 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Andy Pickering is here with a weekly crypto market update where we look through the volatile world of Crypto Twitter to tease out the most important n...

Lepricon - Accelerating the blockchain gaming revolution

09 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Phil Ingram is CMO of Lepricon, a community-governed games platform working to accelerate the blockchain gaming revolution.  Guest: Phil Ingram Why y...

Signal to Noise - Nansen provides radical transparency of blockchain analytics

08 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Svanevik is CEO of Nansen, an analytics platform for smart contract blockchains. Nansen combines on-chain data with a database of millions of wal...

Defactor - The gateway to DeFi

03 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Alejandro Gutierrez is Co-Founder and Operations Lead at Defactor, an integration layer and suite of tools for traditional businesses to leverage Defi...

Beyond VR - Building Fluf Burrows and other metaverses

02 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jessica Manins and Anton Mitchell are co-founders of Beyond a VR studio in Wellington, New Zealand. Beyond has worked with Weta Workshop, and now Fluf...

The Bitcoin Bond - El Salvador's Volcano Bond is here

01 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Paolo Ardoino is CTO at Bitfinex and Tether. Paolo and the team at Bitfinex Securities have worked with Blockstream and Nayib Bukele, President of El ...

Building Web3 - Why a Meta team left to found Mysten Labs

27 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Evan Cheng is co-founder at Mysten Labs. Mysten is building the foundational infrastructure to accelerate Web 3.0 adoption. The founding team recently...

Superalgos - Trading bots empower the decentralized future of trading

25 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Luis Molina is co-founder at Superalgos, a trading bots platform that aims to empower a decentralized trading community like WallStreetBets - but bei...

Crypto Coral Tribe NFT Competition winners announcement!

23 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On our most recent episode, we offered regular listeners the chance to win a Crypto Coral Tribe NFT.  Did you win? Listen to find out! Crypto Coral T...

Crypto Coral Tribe - NFTs for good!

20 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Crypto Coral Tribe is a creative hub and NFT project leveraging art and tech to protect the natural world - the Crypto Coral Tribe invests 50% of ...

The School of Bitcoin - Teaching the next generation

18 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kieran Nolan is a Melbourne-based educational technologist and blockchain expert. Based on the concept of a DAO, Kieran is building a decentralized au...

Exodus makes crypto a delightful experience

17 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

JP Richardson is the CEO and co-founder of Exodus, one of the crypto ecosystems' most popular crypto wallets with over 2.3 million users. The Exodus t...

Bitcoin Bounces - Inflation rise fuels the crypto rally

12 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

After a gloomy start to 2022 that saw the crypto markets in the doldrums, high inflation figures helped fuel a minor rally in the markets today. Why y...

Jules Urbach is the Elon Musk of Rendering

10 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We're revisiting the best Crypto Conversation podcast episodes of 2021. Jules Urbach is the CEO of OTOY, a leading cloud graphics company that is pion...

Tom Bilyeu is going HARD on NFTs & the Metaverse

06 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We're revisiting the best Crypto Conversation podcast episodes of 2021. Tom Bilyeu is the CEO of Impact Theory and one of the world's leading motivati...

Bobby Lee - The Promise of Bitcoin and how it can work for you

03 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We're revisiting the best Crypto Conversation podcast episodes of 2021. Bobby Lee is the Founder of Ballet Crypto, co-founder of BTCChina, and he is t...

Sergey Nazarov - How Decentralized Finance goes mainstream

31 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We're revisiting the best Crypto Conversation podcast episodes of 2021. Sergey Nazarov is the co-founder of Chainlink where he is spearheading the sma...

Anthony Scaramucci - Why Bitcoin is the Monetary Network of the Future

28 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We're revisiting the best Crypto Conversation podcast episodes of 2021. Anthony "The Mooch" Scaramucci is best known for his short-lived, but very ent...

Axie Infinity & the play to earn revolution

24 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We're revisiting the best Crypto Conversation podcast episodes of 2021. In this episode, we talk to Jeff Zirlin, co-founder Axie Infinity, a Pokémon-...

Merry Crypto Xmas - the market sentiment report

21 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We're a few days out from Xmas and it's time for this week's crypto market sentiment report. Plus, Jack Dorsey is not a fan of Web3. Why not? Why you ...

The Money Game - How to make money, how to keep money

19 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Cordle is an American entrepreneur,  wealth strategist, and in-demand speaker. Andrew is the founder and CEO of Money Is, a company and show d...

Party Time - Party Bears bring the party to the metaverse

16 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron McDonald and Brooke Howard-Smith are leading the teams behind some of 2021's biggest NFT projects. Fluf World, Altered State Machine, Thingies, ...

Easy Crypto - Vault Digital Funds bring Bitcoin to the mainstream

15 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Janine Grainger is the CEO and co-founder of Easy Crypto, a New Zealand-based digital currency retailer, and Vault International Bitcoin Fund (VIBF) a...

Rekt Capital returns - is the bull market over?

13 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Rekt Capital, a Forbes featured crypto technical analyst and trader returns to the Crypto Conversation. With Bitcoin dumping to $46,000 REKT and Andy ...

Degen Data - Building analytics for NFTs and Options Trading

12 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Pat Doyle is the co-founder of Pink Swan Trading, the holding company of Genesis Volatility and Degen Data. The former caters for sophisticated option...

Bitcoin Dumps - Is the Bull Market Over?

06 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On Friday Bitcoin dropped 25% in one day, one of the steepest drops since March 2020. With the market sentiment now in extreme fear, is the bull marke...

Minds - An anti-Facebook that pays you for your time

02 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Bill Ottman is CEO and founder of Minds - an alternative social network with over 5M users. Minds is building an open-source and decentralized app tha...

Ether Cards - Creating NFTs that have super powers

01 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Andras Kristof is CEO and founder of Ether Cards - a platform that provides tools for gamifying and supercharging your NFTs. Ether Cards are advanced ...

Hoverboards - Jadu is building the Mirrorverse, an AR layer for metaverse avatars

25 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jake Sally is the COO of Jadu, an AR platform and narrative layer for Web3 and the metaverse. Jadu is pioneering the functionality of digital assets i...

Bitcoin Volcano bonds - A Crypto Market Sentiment Report

24 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Bitcoin price action is subdued this week with Mt Gox jitters spooking the market. Blockstream has partnered with El Salvador to issue $1B in Volcano ...

Snow Crash - Crash Punks is inspired by sci-fi, anime & Neal Stephenson

23 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Artist Grace Ng is about to launch Crash Punks - an NFT collection on Stacks/Bitcoin. Crash Punks is inspired by sci-fi, anime, and Snow Crash, the ic...

Meet The Arties - An Open Art Source Movement

19 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Cecil Pang and IIan Klein are co-founders at Open Art Source, a blockchain-supported marketplace where artists can sell their works. It provides the ...

SubQuery - Connecting the dots on Polkadot

17 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Zou and James Bayly head the team at SubQuery, a decentralized data aggregation, indexing, and querying layer between Layer-1 blockchains and dece...

Web3 on Bitcoin - How Stacks makes Bitcoin programmable

15 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Stacks 2.0 (formerly Blockstack) is a layer-1 blockchain that connects to Bitcoin and brings smart contracts, DeFi, NFTs, and decentralized apps to Bi...

The ENS Airdrop - A public utility that belongs to the community

11 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Nick, the lead developer at ENS, the Ethereum Naming Service joins Andy for a wide-ranging discussion on ENS, DAOs, Proof of Stake Vs Proof of Work, a...

Crypto on the edge - Inflation Jitters, Evergrande Wobbles

11 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Markets are on the edge, torn in opposite directions by two big news events. Inflation hit 6.2% hitting earners and shoppers in their wallets. In resp...

Shiba Inu - the little dog that could!

08 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Shiba Inu (SHIB), a dog-based crypto memecoin, has defied all expectations to become the best-performing asset of 2021. In the last year, the token is...

Memecoins, ETFs, & Metaverses - A Crypto Market Update

04 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Memecoins are dominating the crypto markets while Bitcoin takes a breather. U.S. politicians from all sides are warming up to Bitcoin, with some even ...

There is no top - Bitcoin on-chain analysis with Glassnode

03 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Checkmate is the lead on-chain analyst at Glassnode, an on-chain data and intelligence platform for the crypto markets. Checkmate joins Andy to discus...

Bitcoin ETFs - What happens next?

02 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

After the approval of a long-awaited Bitcoin ETF U.S. investors finally have an easy means to invest in Bitcoin. What is the likelihood that a Bitcoin...

Battle Drones - The NFT project taking crypto games to console

29 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Battle Drones is a collection of 10,000 programmatically generated collectible artworks, hovering on the Solana blockchain. Each Battle Drone provides...

Ride the Wave - Building the first NFT Fund

27 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Les Borsai is the Chief Strategy Officer at Wave Financial Group. Les began his career as a rave promoter in the Southern California underground scene...