The Crypto Conversation

Intergalactic - Star Atlas is a Metaverse for the Crypto Generation

27 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Wagner is the CEO and co-founder of Star Atlas, a next-gen gaming metaverse emerging from the confluence of state-of-the-art blockchain, real-...

The Witchz - It's a Spooky Halloween episode!

22 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

ArrowHaven and OpalAbyss from the Witchz NFT project join Andy for a Crypto Conversation Halloween special. The 6666 Witchz pay homage to the Witches ...

Titan Tiki - Māori culture enters the Metaverse

21 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Luke Ryan is the founder of the Titan Tiki Tribe - an NFT collection taking Māori culture to the metaverse. The Titan Tiki team has an indigenous Mā...

Bitcoin ETFs go live - Bullish for Bitcoin?

18 Oct 2021

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...

Scandal and Turmoil - The Cryptocurrency Wild West

14 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ethan Lou is a Canadian journalist and the author of a new book called Once a Bitcoin Miner: Scandal and Turmoil in the Cryptocurrency Wild West. The ...

DeFi on Bitcoin - Sovryn is a decentralized Bitcoin trading & lending platform

11 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

John Light is head of product at Sovryn, a decentralized Bitcoin trading and lending platform. Sovryn is one of the first platforms to bring decentral...

100K by December - Josh Olszewicz is bullish!

07 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Josh Olszewicz is the lead analyst at Brave New Coin. Josh joins Andy to discuss Bitcoin's bullish start to Q4 and the likelihood that the bull trend ...

Persistence - Building next-gen financial products

06 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Tushar Aggarwal is the CEO of Persistence, an interoperable protocol built to facilitate the creation of next-gen financial products. Tushar is a memb...

A Bullish Q4 - Uptober begins with Bitcoin $50k+

05 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

After a bearish September, Uptober has begun and in the first week of Q4 Bitcoin has soared 20% in one week to $51,000. Technical analyst Rekt Capital...

Virtual Worlds - Decentraland + NFTs = Metaverse

30 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Adam De Cata is the head of partnerships at Decentraland, a virtual social world, created and owned by its users. Decentraland is an early version of ...

Bullish or Bearish? Markets on the edge as Q4 looms

28 Sep 2021

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...

Metaverse Topologies - Art Wallet, NFTs, Swarm intelligence, and holonic philosophy

23 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Joel Dietz is a technology entrepreneur and early contributor to Ethereum. The founder of Swarm Network Joel is researching blockchain network topolog...

The Crypto Crash continues - Evergrande and Gary Gensler cause market jitters

22 Sep 2021

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...

Frank Miller interview - The Sin City NFT collection

20 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Frank Miller is a legend in comics, graphic novels, and film. Known for his hard-boiled storytelling and gritty film noir aesthetic, Frank is the crea...

A Bullish Q4 - Bitcoin warms up and Coinbase picks a fight with the SEC

16 Sep 2021

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...

The Creator Economy - Rally uses Social Tokens & NFTs to monetize Creators

14 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Fortier is Vice President of Product at Rally, a project built on Ethereum that helps creators develop economic relationships with their audienc...

The Shaman - Elyseos is an ecosystem for the sacramental medicine movement

09 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Maestro Bignose is a co-founder of Elyseos, a decentralized ecosystem designed to support the evolving Sacramental Medicine space. Sacramental medicin...

The Crypto Crash - BTC is legal tender in El Salvador, the President buys the dip

07 Sep 2021

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...

Star Trekking - Jules Urbach is the Elon Musk of Rendering

07 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jules Urbach is the CEO of OTOY, a leading cloud graphics company that is pioneering technology to redefine content creation and delivery. The work of...

The Future of FX - DFX is a DEX for stablecoins

02 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

DFX is an Ethereum-based decentralized exchange protocol with a dynamically tuned bonding curve optimized for fiat-backed stablecoins using real-world...

FLUF Metagame - Supercharging NFTs with the Altered State Machine

01 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron McDonald and Brooke Howard-Smith are co-founders at Non-Fungible Labs, the team behind the FLUF World NFTs. FLUF World is home to 10,000 unique ...

Yield Aggregator - Vaulty enables automatic asset allocation across DeFi

30 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Konstantin is the founder and CEO of Vaulty Finance - a vault that bridges Defi and NFTs on the Binance Smart chain. The Vaulty platform is a yield ag...

Mass Adoption - Abra, the Crypto Bank for everyone

26 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Bill Barhydt is the CEO of Abra, a platform that enables crypto banking services for consumers and institutions in over 100 countries. Abra's mission ...

Morgan Stanley buys Bitcoin, Only Fans Nudes are back, and Generative Art booms

25 Aug 2021

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...

Gasless Minting - How Mintable is building Amazon for NFTs

23 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Zach Burks is the CEO and founder of NFT marketplace Mintable. Mintable is the first NFT platform to pioneer 'gasless minting', enabling content creat...

Solar Punk - The DoinGud Platform

19 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Manu Alzuru is a humanist, a solarpunk, and the founder of DoinGud - a next-gen NFT platform designed to empower creators and collectors to create mea...

The Epikverse - How NFTs connect brands to digital worlds

11 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Victor David is co-founder and CEO of Epik, a global agency that connects brands with video games to offer unique and immersive digital experiences us...

U.S. Senate rules against Crypto and ETH is ultra sound money

10 Aug 2021

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...

Dave the Wave - Bitcoin & the Logarithmic Growth Curve

04 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Open Metaverse thesis - Designing the Future

02 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jamie Burke is the Founder & CEO of Outlier Ventures. Jamie and his team are investors in and authors of The Open Metaverse thesis which explores how ...

Perpetual Utility Machines - APEcoin, MemeFarm & BustaBNB

01 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Berisha is the CEO of APEcoin and MemeFarm, and a founding member of the BustaBNB DAO. APECoin embraces the viral nature of memes and builds DAO-...

Gateway to Web3 - Why Ledger is more than a hardware wallet

29 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Iqbal V Gandham is VP of Payments & Transactions at Ledger. One of the best-known companies in crypto, Ledger has sold more than 3 million hardware de...

Stonercats clog Ethereum, shadowy super coders & Bitcoin is $40k - A Crypto Market Update

28 Jul 2021

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...

Tom Bilyeu is building the next Disney with NFTs in the Metaverse

28 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Tom Bilyeu is the CEO of Impact Theory and one of the world's leading motivational speakers. Tom is committed to pulling people out of the matrix. A s...

Tendermint Core - Building the internet of blockchains

23 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Tess Rinearson is VP of Engineering at Interchain where she leads the team responsible for Tendermint Core, the leading BFT engine for building blockc...

Markets down, inflation up, & Elon and Kanye's next moves - A Crypto Market Update

20 Jul 2021

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...

Agoric - building technology that helps humans cooperate better

19 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dean Tribble is the CEO of Agoric, the JavaScript-native smart contract platform with backing from Naval and Polychain Capital. Dean co-designed the n...

Shapeshift airdrops to a million people, AXIE Moons & the Metaverse emerges - A Crypto Market Update

15 Jul 2021

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...

Protocol Labs - Building Filecoin & the InterPlanetary File System

14 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Molly Mackinlay is Network Lead at Protocol Labs, an open-source research, development, and deployment laboratory. Protocol Labs projects include IPFS...

FINXFLO - the world's first Regulated Hybrid Liquidity Aggregator

12 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

James Gillingham is the Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of FINXFLO, the world's first Regulated Hybrid Liquidity Aggregator. The platform is laun...

Web3 - The Status wallet, Web3 browser, & secure messaging app

09 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Simona Pop is Head of Community at Status, a secure messaging platform that also functions as a crypto wallet and Web3 browser. Status is designed to ...

Bitcoin's Antifragility put to the test - A crypto Market Update

06 Jul 2021

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...

Protect Yourself - Crypto holders should prepare for aggressive U.S. Government enforcement tactics

02 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Benjamin Sauter is a partner at Kobre and Kim, a legal firm that specializes in International Disputes and Investigations. The firm prides itself on i...

ASK Permission - How to monetize your data

30 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Charlie Silver is the founder and CEO of Permission, a crypto startup that gives individuals a way to monetize their data and get paid in ASK, the cry...

BTSE Crypto Futures - Swaps, Indices, & the future of trading

23 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

BTSE is a crypto asset exchange and futures trading platform. BTSE has partnered with Brave New Coin to create two indices - the BBCX and BBAX, around...

China Bans Bitcoin for Real - A Crypto Market Update

22 Jun 2021

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...

Surprise & Delight - The Exodus digital wallet

16 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sebastián Milla is Chief of Special Projects at Exodus, one of the most popular blockchain wallets in the world. Exodus has 1.6 million users and com...

Crypto Market update - Bitcoin is legal tender in El Salvador, Elon warms up...

13 Jun 2021

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...

Panther Protocol - Bringing privacy to DeFi

11 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oliver Gale is the CEO and co-founder of Panther Protocol, an end-to-end privacy protocol for digital assets, which can be deployed in a compliant way...

UnF**K the World - Building a better future with Centrality

10 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron McDonald is the CEO and co-founder of Centrality, a tech ventures ecosystem building the infrastructure for the emerging decentralized web. Why ...

Memecoin - The story layer of the internet

08 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Johan Unger is the CEO of Meme.com, a memetic asset protocol that acts as a story layer of the internet. Operating at the intersection of memes, NFTs,...

Matthew Graham Returns - China FUD, DeFi, SizeChad & Elon the LARPer

04 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew Graham is the CEO of Beijing-based Sino Global Capital. Matthew is a prominent personality on Crypto Twitter, an authority on China's ever-shi...

OneOf - The green NFT music platform backed by Quincy Jones

02 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Lin Dai is the CEO and co-founder of OneOf, a green NFT platform for music NFTs, built on Tezos, with backing by Quincy Jones. Why you should listen: ...

Crypto Market update - Elon, Saylor, China FUD, Volatility, price action!

25 May 2021

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...

Crypto Scams - Faked Deaths, Missing Billions and Industry Disruption

25 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Erica Stanford is the founder of the popular Crypto Curry Club in the UK and the author of a new book called Crypto Wars: Faked Deaths, Missing Billio...

Presearch - Building a sustainable decentralized search platform

20 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Colin Pape is the founder of Presearch, a community-powered, decentralized search engine that provides better search results while protecting privacy ...

Crypto's marketing challenge - Bitstamp is making moves in the U.S.

18 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Pousty is the US Marketing Lead for Bitstamp, a crypto exchange with offices in Luxemburg, London and New York. We talk to Ben about Bitstamp's ne...

Elon Musk Vs Bitcoin part 2 - Crypto market sentiment check

18 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Last week Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin. He said that Tesla is concerned about the increasing use of foss...

Elon crashes Bitcoin - The Bitcoin mining energy debate begins

13 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Elon Musk tweeted today that Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin. He said that Tesla is concerned about the rapidly increasing use of ...

0x_nodes - DeFi's cross chain yield aggregation network

12 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Owl is the cofounder of 0x_nodes, a cross-chain yield aggregation network. 0x_nodes is a network of deployed systems that allow users to move, acquire...

Acala - The DeFi Hub of Polkadot

11 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Bette Chen is the co-founder of Acala - the DeFi hub of Polkadot, powering open finance applications and removing the need for financial intermediarie...

Dogecoin - How a whimsical meme became the best performing asset of 2021

07 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dogecoin, a memecoin that was abandoned by its founders, is the best performing crypto asset of 2021, appreciating more than 12,000% YTD. With high-pr...

The IDEX DEX - Hybrid Liquidity and the future of decentralized exchanges

06 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Wearn has a background in product development for tech companies such as Amazon. He now brings a user-first product lens to decentralized exchang...

Bobby Lee & The Promise of Bitcoin, the future of money and how it can work for you

05 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Bobby Lee is the Founder of Ballet Crypto, co-founder of BTCChina, and he is the author of a superb new book called The Promise of Bitcoin: The Future...

The Crypto Bank - The rise of Celsius Network

04 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Camilla Churcher is the Global Head of Business Development at Celsius Network. Why you should listen: After a successful career in traditional financ...

Josh Olszewicz - How to invest in Techemy Capital's non-custodial portfolios on Enzyme

29 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Techemy Capital has launched two actively managed portfolios that allow investors to gain exposure to BTC/ETH price action and the DeFi sector. Trades...

EIP 1559 - What it means for Ethereum users, investors, and miners

27 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Market optimism around the soon-to-be-implemented Ethereum Improvement Proposal, EIP1559, is high. The Ethereum EIP will arrive as a part of the Londo...

Viberate - Are NFTs & Tokens the future of music?

22 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Vasja Veber is the co-founder of music tech company Viberate. Vibrate has been building blockchain solutions for the music industry since 2017 and are...

Immutable X - The first Layer 2 for NFTs on Ethereum

19 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Robbie Ferguson is the co-founder of Immutable, best known for launching the Gods Unchained blockchain game, one of the most successful blockchain gam...

Sergey Nazarov on Chainlink 2.0 - The next generation of hybrid smart contracts

18 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Chainlink has released a new whitepaper called Chainlink 2.0: Next Steps in the Evolution of Decentralized Oracle Networks. The new whitepaper outline...

The Wall Street Bets Dapp - YOLO together as one

16 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jaime Rogozinski was the original founder of the r/wallstreetbets subreddit. WSB is notorious for its community of young traders who executed risky tr...

How Framework Ventures became one of the biggest DeFi funds

14 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Anderson is a co-founder and partner at Framework Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on building the value of blockchain networks throug...

The problem with NFTs and the Aleph NFT backup dApp

13 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan is the lead developer and ceo of Aleph - Aleph is a cloud computing platform that makes it easy for DeFi and Web3 dapps to securely access tr...

Self-Sovereign - Ontology is building a decentralized identity solution

08 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Li Jun is the founder of Ontology, a decentralized system that protects data integrity and security. After launching its mainnet in June 2018, Ontolog...

YIELD - Bridging FinTech and DeFi

06 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Frost is the CEO of YIELD App. The YIELD mission is to provide anyone with access to the best investment opportunities, regardless of their financ...

Is Binance Smart Chain an Ethereum killer?

29 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Binance Smart Chain is a fork of Ethereum. However, BSC transactions are much faster and cheaper than Ethereum. As a result, it is onboarding mill...

Unslashed Finance - Insuring crypto to hedge risk

28 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Marouane Hajji is the protocol lead at Unslashed Finance, a decentralized insurance protocol built on Ethereum. Insurance is a part of the decentrali...

The Crypto Tax solution for Kiwi Crypto Traders

25 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Craig MacGregor is the founder of Taxoshi, a cryptocurrency tax calculator that helps Kiwis understand their crypto tax position. Taxoshi's algorithms...

BitClout, ATMs, & Crypto Security with Rich Sanders

23 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Sanders is a co-founder and lead investigator at CipherBlade, an elite blockchain investigation agency that works closely with top crypto exch...

Samson Mow on Blockstream, Seetee, Bitcoin Mining, NFTs & Infinite Fleet

22 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Andy is joined by Samson Mow, CSO at Blockstream. Samson discusses the partnership between Blockstream and Seetee, a new Bitcoin company started by a ...

Mintable - An NFT auction of a 96 year-old painting by Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine

19 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Andy is joined by Zack Burks, CEO at the Mintable NFT marketplace, and Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine, grandson of the legendary Ukrainian, Russian and Fre...

Building a better Internet with Syntropy

18 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jonas Simanavicius is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Syntropy. Syntropy, based in San Francisco, transforms the public internet into a...

Alex Mashinsky (Celsius) returns - Unbank Yourself again!

16 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Mashinsky is the CEO and founder of Celsius, the platform that lets you earn interest on your crypto and use it as collateral to get fiat loans. ...

Hold, Yield, & Hedge - How professional investors catch the upside & protect the downside

16 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Marc Fleury is the founder and CEO of Two Prime, a digital assets investment firm that invests in BTC and ETH. Marc has a PHD in theoretical physi...

MemeFarm is bringing the memes to NFTs & DeFi

11 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Berisha is the CEO of APECoin and the MemeFarm and BustAbnb ecosystems. APECoin embraces the humor and viral nature of memes to bring new partici...

Why a Norwegian billionaire wrote 2021's most bullish Bitcoin letter

10 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Norwegian Billionaire Kjell Inge Røkke says that Aker ASA, his Norwegian fishing, oil, and engineering company has established Seetee, a new company ...

Why the NFT frothiness is good for crypto

08 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) is one of the most exciting narratives in crypto in 2021. The collectible digital art world has exploded with some pieces s...

CME Ether Futures - The Institutional Futures Market

03 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

CME Group has launched its Ether Futures product offering. The new contract is cash-settled, and based on the CME CF Ether-Dollar Reference Rate. Tim ...

REKT Capital - Bitcoin, Altcoins, and Number Go Up

03 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Rekt Capital, a Forbes featured crypto technical analyst and trader returns for his third appearance on the Crypto Conversation. With Bitcoin and Ethe...

The Bull Market is Back - Bitcoin's Strength Continues

01 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Josh Olszewicz, lead analyst at Brave New Coin joins Andy to discuss the recent crypto correction and today's recovery. Is the correction over? Will t...

Techemy Capital launches DeFi ETP on Balancer

25 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Techemy Capital has launched Decentralized Exchange-Traded Portfolios (ETPs) on Balancer, starting with a DeFi ETP. We're joined by Techemy Capital CE...

TOKES - How Blockchain helps the Cannabis Industry

22 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Multichain Ventures is the parent company of The Tokes Platform. Multichain produces blockchain-focused products including cryptocurrency-based paymen...

The DeFi Inflection Point - How Decentralized Finance goes mainstream

15 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sergey Nazarov is the co-founder of Chainlink where he is spearheading the smart contract oracle revolution. In this podcast, Sergey lays out his curr...

On-chain asset management with Enzyme Finance & Techemy Capital

11 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Enzyme Finance is an Ethereum-based protocol for decentralized on-chain asset management. Enzyme empowers anyone to set up, manage and invest in custo...

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

28 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Anthony "The Mooch" Scaramucci is best known for his short-lived, but very entertaining tenure as the White House communications director under Presid...

The Identity Dilemma - Selfkey is empowering individuals to take back ownership of their identity data

19 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Edmund Lowell is the CEO of KYC-chain and the Selfkey network - a blockchain startup developing digital identity solutions that empower individuals to...

Axie Infinity & the blockchain gaming play to earn revolution

12 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Axie Infinity is a Pokémon-inspired blockchain-based digital pet universe where players can earn tokens through gaming. Players can battle, collect, ...

Andreas Antonopoulos - Why decentralized protocols are a force for good

06 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The legendary Bitcoin evangelist, educator, and advocate Andreas M. Antonopoulos returns for his second appearance on the Crypto Conversation. Topics ...

Best of 2020 - Why LEVERJ is the next big thing in DeFi

04 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We're revisiting some of the best Crypto Conversation podcast episodes of 2020. In this episode, we talk to Bharath Rao and Swapman from LEVERJ, the w...

Best of 2020 - Sound Money - A hip-hop story about Bitcoin

26 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We're revisiting some of the best Crypto Conversation podcast episodes of 2020. In this episode, we talk to DJ J-SCRILLA, a critically acclaimed hip-h...