The Crypto Conversation
Episodes
Best of 2020 - Zero to One - Why Bitcoin is an unstoppable idea
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're revisiting some of the best Crypto Conversation podcast episodes of 2020. In this episode, we talk to Robert Breedlove, one of the deepest and m...
Best of 2020 - Cryptopia the movie - Bitcoin, Blockchains & the Future of the Internet
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're revisiting some of the best Crypto Conversation podcast episodes of 2020. In this episode, we talk with Torsten Hoffmann a documentary filmmaker...
Bitcoin is above $20k - Bull market price discovery mode activated
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bitcoin achieved a new all-time high today of USD $20,800. Bitcoin is now in full price discovery mode and looks set to continue as the bull market he...
Sim Swap Attacks - Why it's time to review your crypto security
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Haseeb Awan is a cellphone security expert and the CEO of efani - America's most secure & private cellphone service. Haseeb was the creator of the 1st...
The Blockchain Detective - Taking on elite cybercriminals & owning them
02 Dec 2020
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...
Radical Transparency - How Nansen surfaces the signal on the Ethereum blockchain
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nansen is an analytics platform for the Ethereum blockchain. Nansen combines on-chain data with a massive database of millions of wallet addresses. Na...
Get Off Zero - Why Bitcoin is the best savings technology ever invented
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Yusko is the CEO of Morgan Creek Capital. Mark is one of the most insightful investors and most articulate Bitcoin bulls on the planet. Mark's in...
The Decred Dex - Decred plans to disrupt the crypto exchange market
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Decred is a hybrid proof-of-work/proof-of-stake store of value crypto asset for the digital age. It has strong governance, good security, privacy, and...
Connect the world - How Stellar is connecting the global financial system
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jed McCaleb is the co-founder and Chief Architect of the Stellar Development Foundation, an open network working to connect the world's financial infr...
Bitcoin hits $15K - What to expect from the 2021 bull cycle
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rekt Capital, a Forbes featured crypto technical analyst and trader returns for his second appearance on the Crypto Conversation. As Bitcoin surges th...
Algorithmic Trading - Trality is the App Store for Crypto Trading Bots
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Trality is building a marketplace where creators can publish crypto trading bots and get paid rent by anyone wanting to piggyback on their trades. The...
Data is the new oil - Ocean Protocol is building the data economy
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bruce Pon is the founder of Ocean Protocol. Ocean helps developers build marketplaces so that organizations can privately and securely publish, exchan...
Bitcoin Bull Run - Targeting 20K by January
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Olszewicz is a professional crypto trader and analyst. In this episode Josh explains why he thinks a Bitcoin price target of $20K by January is r...
Smart Pools - Balancer is Uber for liquidity pools
18 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Fernando Martinelli is the founder and CEO of Balancer, an automated asset management platform for programmable liquidity. Balancer allows anyone to c...
DeFi's DEX Aggregator - 1inch finds the best rates by splitting orders across multiple DEXes
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Anton Bukov is the co-founder and CTO of the 1inch exchange. 1inch is a DEX aggregator that executes a swap of tokens at the best price in one single ...
The Information Market - Polymarket lets traders bet on real-world events
04 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Shayne Coplan is the founder of Polymarket, an information markets platform. Speculators can bet on the world's most highly-debated topics like the up...
Algorand is building solutions for the future of economic exchange
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Kokinos is the CEO at Algorand. Algorand is an open, permissionless, pure proof-of-stake blockchain protocol that wants to usher in a new era of...
What Bitcoin Did - How Peter McCormack turned his hobby into the world's biggest Bitcoin podcast
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Peter McCormack is the host of the popular What Bitcoin Did podcast and the new Defiance podcast. After starting the podcast in late 2017, What Bitcoi...
Scaling DeFi - Radix is a protocol for building DeFi applications
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Piers Ridyard is the CEO of Radix, a layer-one protocol built for DeFi. DeFi applications are currently built on protocols that were not designed to s...
The Tokenized Economy - INX is pioneering the democratization of security token trading
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Douglas Borthwick is Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer at INX. INX is building a regulated cryptocurrency, security token, and derivati...
Why LEVERJ is the next big thing in DeFi
03 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The next big thing in DeFi is LEVERJ - the world's first scalable decentralized derivatives exchange. LEVERJ is a trading platform created to perfo...
Start your own fund - Melon is the infrastructure for asset management 3.0
24 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mona El Isa is the founder of the Melon protocol. Melon is an Ethereum-based protocol for decentralized on-chain asset management. Melon empowers anyo...
DeFi & ETH 2.0 - Building the Ethereum ecosystem with MEW
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kosala Hemachandra is the founder and CEO of MyEtherWallet, one of the original and most popular Ethereum wallets. MEW is now at the center of a fast ...
Return of the Bulls - Are we set for a multi-year crypto bull run?
10 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Olszewicz is a professional crypto trader at Techemy Capital and the lead analyst at Brave New Coin. On this episode of the Crypto Conversation J...
tFOSE - Brave New Coin is building crypto indices for the Toronto Futures Options Swaps Exchange
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
James Beattie is the CEO of the Toronto Futures Options Swaps Exchange (tFOSE), a new Canadian-based derivatives exchange and clearinghouse. tFOSE is ...
Kyber Network - building the liquidity infrastructure for DeFi
27 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Loi Luu is the CEO and Co-Founder of Kyber Network - one of the best used Defi protocols in the world. Kyber is an on-chain liquidity protocol that po...
A DeFi Hedge - The people-powered alternative to insurance
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hugh Karp is the founder and CEO of Nexus Mutual - a people-powered alternative to insurance. Nexus Mutual uses the power of Ethereum so individuals c...
Blockchain Australia - Steve Vallas is Australia's Mr. Blockchain
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Why you should listen: Vallas says "the promise of the Blockchain industry is extraordinarily expansive. Before we build out that capability we need a...
Building Web 3.0 - Why Conflux Network is endorsed by China
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eden Dhaliwal is the Global Managing Director at Conflux Network, a high-performance, layer-1 blockchain protocol designed for scalability, security, ...
Money Lego - Techemy Capital launches investable DeFi portfolios on TokenSets
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Techemy Capital and TokenSets have collaborated to launch a suite of DeFi-based investable products to help investors tap into the open finance ecosys...
Cryptopia the movie - Bitcoin, Blockchains & the Future of the Internet
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Torsten Hoffmann is a documentary filmmaker who has completed two full length blockchain films. Bitcoin: The End Of Money As We Know It from 2015, and...
Stack Sats - How Vimba makes it easy to Dollar Cost Average into Bitcoin
15 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A New Zealand software engineer, Sam Blackmore is the CEO and co-founder of Vimba, a platform that makes it easy for users to save Bitcoin using an au...
Crypto Oceania - Why Bittrex and Dasset have joined forces
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An OG Bitcoiner from Colorado with a background in precious metals, Stephen Macaskill is the co-founder and CEO of the Dasset digital asset exchange. ...
The DeFi bull case for Chainlink and Synthetix
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Framework Ventures is a San Francisco based venture firm with a strong DeFi thesis. Framework believes a new age of venture capital is upon us, known ...
Zero to One - Why Bitcoin is an unstoppable idea
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Breedlove wrote The Number Zero and Bitcoin. Robert says Satoshi gave the world Bitcoin, a true "something for nothing." This discovery of abso...
Bittrex Global - Building a regulated altcoin exchange
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Stonberg is the COO/CFO at Bittrex Global, a digital asset exchange based in Liechtenstein. Bittrex Global is a spin-off from one of the OG cr...
NEM 2.0 - Launch the Catapult, Symbol is coming
07 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff McDonald is the co-founder of the NEM Foundation. Jeff was one of the first members of the NEM community and has helped build the NEM project to ...
Safe Havens - How gold and Bitcoin can adapt to the new paradigm
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Brookins is the founder of Valiendero Digital Assets, a quantitative cryptocurrency investment fund. Chris is the co-author of a new report titl...
Sound Money - A hip-hop story about Bitcoin
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
DJ J-SCRILLA is a critically acclaimed hip-hop producer and illustrator from Washington DC. His discography includes hall of fame rappers Killer Mike,...
Capital Markets 2.0 - Fixing the Bitcoin Market's fragile infrastructure
17 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hugo Renaudin is the CEO and co-founder of LGO Group, a digital asset exchange for institutions. Hugo says that Bitcoin has a fascinating market infra...
Connecting the Unconnected - How REN is solving DeFi interoperability
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Loong Wang is the CTO and co-founder of Ren, a DeFi protocol that enables the private, permissionless transfer of value between any blockchain. Ren is...
Game of Attrition - Bitcoin Mining & the Bitcoin Halving during the pandemic
03 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Marco Streng is the CEO of Genesis Mining, one of the largest Bitcoin cloud-mining companies. Genesis has mining locations in Iceland, Greenland, Norw...
Continuous Custody - Speed and stability in uncertain times
26 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Diogo Monica is the president and co-founder of Anchorage, the leading crypto custodian for institutional investors. Anchorage was selected as a found...
Snow Crash - Why Blockstack is the inverse of the world computer
19 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Muneeb Ali is the co-founder and CEO of Blockstack, a decentralized computing network that gives users control of their data. Muneeb talks about the l...
COVID-19 is spreading - How to bound the downside
13 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Trent McConaghy is a data and statistical modeling expert. Alarmed at the exponential spread of COVID-19, Trent became concerned that if the virus fol...
American Crypto - Binance.US is making moves
09 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine Coley is the CEO of Binance.US - the San Francisco based digital asset marketplace that serves American traders under the blue-chip Binance ...
Inflection Point - Did the Coronavirus kill the Everything Rally?
28 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Kelly is a co-founder and macro strategist at Delphi Digital, an independent research boutique providing institutional-grade analysis on the dig...
Flash Loans - Mapping the esoteric landscape of DeFi
24 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Andy talks with self-described 'flash loans maximalist' Stani Kulechov, founder and CEO of the Aave Protocol. We explore the increasingly exotic and e...
Proof of Space - Chia is a green, environmentally-friendly cryptocurrency
19 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In part 2 of our conversation with Bram Cohen, Bram outlines the flaws in the financial system, and how Bitcoin was supposed to address them. Bram the...
Information wants to be free - Bram Cohen on BitTorrent, content, copyright & crypto (part 1)
17 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is part one of a two-part conversation with Bram Cohen. Bram is the inventor of the peer to peer BitTorrent protocol that changed the world in th...
Deepfakes - AI, synthetic media, and the rise of virtual influencers
12 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Crypto Conversation Andy is joined by Arif Khan, CEO of Alethea AI, a decentralized Synthetic Content Network that allows users...
The Bitcoin Halving - price-performance, past, present, & future with Rekt Capital
05 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Crypto Conversation Andy is joined by Rekt Capital, a trader and technical analyst who has been studying Bitcoin's price histor...
The Bitcoin Halving - the countdown begins
04 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Crypto conversation I'm joined by Pierre Ansaldi and Paul Salisbury from Brave New Coin to discuss the Bitcoin halving, and the...
The Market Maker - Coronavirus & Bitcoin halving lead the macro news cycle
30 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Freeman, a former prosecutor with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, is the co-founder of JST Capital, a firm specializing in providing a...
Maximum Bitcoin - Samson Mow on Blockstream's vision for the future of finance
22 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Samson Mow is the Chief Strategy Officer at Blockstream, a company dedicated to building the financial infrastructure of the future on the Bitcoin blo...
Digital Gold - How CoinShares is positioning to become the crypto JP Morgan
16 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Masters is the Executive Chairman at Coinshares, a leading digital asset management firm. The Coinshares Group manages nearly $700 million of a...
China and Blockchain - Why China sees blockchain as a strategic pillar for the next decade of growth
07 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Graham is the CEO of Sino Global Capital, a team of Beijing-based investment bankers. China sees blockchain as a key strategic technology pill...
Bitcoin 2020 - Andreas M. Antonopoulos reflects on the first decade of Bitcoin
26 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Andreas M. Antonopoulos has spent the last decade traveling the world, delivering hundreds of live talks on Bitcoin. Combining his knowledge of econom...
Smart Contracts - How Sergey Nazarov & Chainlink are solving the oracle problem
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sergey Nazarov is the CEO at Chainlink where he is spear-heading the smart contract oracle revolution. Sergey believes that blockchain technology has ...
Ethereum 2020 - A price forecast based on a data first approach
14 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Brookins is the author of a new report - Ethereum Price Forecast into 2020 - a data first analysis. The report assess Ethereum's tumultuous 2019...
Atomic DEX - How the Komodo Decentralized Exchange enables atomic swaps
09 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kadan Stadelmann is the Komodo Platform's Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Kadan's background includes coding from an early age which led to him becomi...
Notsofast - How putting on a mask gives you crypto superpowers
28 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Notsofast is the pseudonymous Twitter persona of a crypto OG. Notsofast was a prolific early altcoin spec miner, a dogecoin enthusiast and one of Cryp...
Unbank Yourself - How DeFi & Crypto Banking help Bitcoin cross the chasm
24 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Mashinsky is a successful entrepreneur best known for inventing VOIP which enables 1B people to talk over the internet for free. VOIP disrupted t...
Institutional Infrastructure - How crypto prime dealers access liquidity for Bitcoin whales
20 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Danny Kim is Head of Growth at SFOX, a crypto trading platform and prime dealer for whale traders and institutional investors. SFOX is connected to 20...
Josh Olszewicz - Bitcoin's Stock to Flow, Boomers & Millennials, Libra & Facebook
15 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Professional trader and market analyst Josh Olszewicz joins Andy Pickering for a brain dump on the crypto news cycle. Bakkt's volume hit a new all-tim...
Crypto Futures - a crypto index for futures trading with Brian Wong & Lina Seiche
08 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
BTSE is a crypto asset exchange and futures trading platform. BTSE has partnered with crypto data company Brave New Coin to create two indices - the B...
Startup Nation - Israel's tech culture, Dapps are doomed, and can blockchain solve corruption?
04 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tal Kol is the co-founder of Orbs, a public blockchain for enterprise. Tal is a veteran of Israel's 8200 unit, a military intelligence agency comprise...
The Pirate Portal - John McAfee on Bitcoin price predictions, the McAfee DEX & life as an outlaw
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
John McAfee speaks to us from inside a Faraday cage. At the height of the 2017 crypto bull run John made a wild Bitcoin price prediction and bet his m...
Brave New World - Science fiction and the future of crypto, bitcoin, and blockchain
22 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A crypto entrepreneur and blockchain evangelist, Fran Strajnar is the founder and CEO of Brave New Coin. Fran says his mission is to "terraform the di...
Mark Yusko on creating wealth by being an early investor in innovation
14 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Yusko is the CEO of Morgan Creek Capital. Mark is one of the most insightful investors and most articulate Bitcoin bulls on the planet. Mark's in...
Decred's Privacy Flow - Building a better Bitcoin & the legend of Satoshi Nakamoto
06 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jake Yocom-Piatt, Decred co-founder and project lead talks about the mysterious Decred origin story and how it relates to Satoshi Nakamoto. A hybrid ...
Hello Future - Is Hedera Hashgraph a blockchain killer?
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hedera Hashgraph is an enterprise-grade distributed ledger platform. After years of development, Hedera came out of stealth mode and launched the publ...
Secrets of an altcoin trader - Why the altcoin market cycle is a pure expression of human emotion
26 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Bitcoin price has risen 300% in 2019 but the long-suffering altcoin markets have not been able to keep pace. Earlier this month, while BTC was in ...
Bitcoin and beyond - The innovative investor's guide to crypto assets with Jack Tatar
15 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bitcoin is the best performing asset on the planet across the last ten years. Modern Portfolio Theory suggests that by allocating 5% of an investment ...
Europe Vs The U.S. Who wins the coming wave of Security Token Offerings?
04 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
While the SEC drags its feet, the EU is embracing blockchain and the emerging Security Token Offering model. Monique Bachner, a Luxembourg based compa...
The problem with Ethereum. ETH 2.0 & the Istanbul hard fork. Bullish or bearish?
26 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Despite a compelling 'world computer' narrative, Ethereum has failed to deliver market-ready applications at scale. With its future no longer a forego...
Technology transitions - with Princeton professor and Obama advisor Ed Felten
15 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ed Felten, a founder at Offchain Labs and Professor of Computer Science at Princeton who served as Deputy Chief Technology Officer to President Obama,...
Why interoperability is the future of blockchain
02 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
NEM Ventures director Dave Hodgson speaks to NEM's investments in Vimba and IoDLT and how its Catapult upgrade will accelerate the coming wave of int...
Brittany Laughlin on Blockstack's token offering securing SEC approval
19 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Blockstack's Brittany Laughlin joins Andy to explore Blockstack's historic SEC approval and why it's a game-changer for crypto investors around the wo...
FOMO and euphoria - crypto trading insights with pro-trader Josh Olszewicz
30 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Olszewicz reveals the secrets behind successful crypto trading — and explains why most who attempt it end up losing their shirts. Josh also ana...
Investing - Bitcoin as a hedge in zero inflation economies
20 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Researcher Andrew Gillick talks about 2 new investment reports that examine negative interest rates and their effect on the economy, plus Modern Monet...