Jeth Soetoyo (Pintu) on building a cryptoasset brokerage in a frontier market (EP.202)
Jeth Soetoyo, the founder and CEO of Pintu, a cryptoasset brokerage based on Indonesia joins the show. In this episode we discuss: Jeth’s path to the cryptoasset industry and his journey from Consensys to business school to founding Pintu Views on stablecoin adoption and how Jeth and team are approaching this with their Rupiah Token […]
Matthew Mežinskis (Crypto Voices) on How to Compare Bitcoin with Fiat (EP.203)
Matthew Mežinskis, creator of the Crypto Voices Global Monetary Base project joins the show to discuss how Bitcoin stacks up against sovereign currencies. In this episode: The difference between base money and broad money Why Bitcoin should be compared to base money and not the broad money supply How exchanges are serving as proto free […]
Weekly Roundup 04/09/21 (Coinbase Q1 Earnings, TB12 gets into NFTs, GBTC ETF update) (EP.204)
Matt and Nic are back for deals and news of the week. In this episode: Nic ‘debates’ Steve Hanke Update on the FUD Dice Nic attempts to send a wire to Poland NYDIG raises more capital and adds more insurance companies to their roster Coinbase Q1 earnings are out Grayscale wants to roll GBTC into […]
Larry Cermak and Mike Rogers (The Block) on the Stablecoin Market (EP.205)
The Block’s Director of Research Larry Cermak and Research Analyst Mike Rogers join the show to talk through their latest report on stablecoins. In this episode: Why the Block chose to focus on stablecoins for this report Larry and Mike’s opinion on why stablecoins are so disproportionately dollar-based China’s influence in the Tether market The […]
Dmitry Tokarev (Copper) on building crypto settlement infrastructure (EP.206)
Dmitry Tokarev, the cofounder and CEO of Copper joins the show. In this episode we discuss: Dmitry’s path to crypto and the pain points that led him to starting Copper How Dmitry sees the competitive landscape and how legacy financial firms are reacting How MPC enables Copper to quickly add support for new blockchain platforms […]
Weekly Roundup 04/23/21 (Estimating hashrate, mining Bitcoin with solar, capital gains hike?) (EP.209)
Matt and Nic return for news and deals of the week. In this episode: 43% capital gains taxes? Are decentralized storage networks reaching fruition Binance US hires ex-Comptroller Brian Brooks Matt’s Turkey problem A Turkish exchange apparently exit scams Scott Minerd has a new target for Bitcoin Bernstein isn’t worried about Bitcoin’s energy consumption Ark […]
Weekly Roundup 04/16/21 ($COIN lists, NYT FUD, Hester’s Safe Harbor 2.0, Gensler confirmed) (EP.207)
Nic and Matt return for another week of news and deals. In this episode: Nic’s feud with the NYT How Lysenkoism fits in Issues with the contemporary press Coinbase does the biggest direct listing of all time Is COIN a trojan horse for Bitcoin? Coinbase mafia? The best thing about Coinbase being public Gary Gensler […]
Andrew Steinwold on Investing in the Metaverse (EP.210)
Andrew Steinwold, the founder of Sfermion, an investment fund focused on investing in themes surrounding the metaverse joins the show. In this episode we discuss: Andrew’s journey in the cryptoasset industry and how we came to see the Metaverse as an investable theme How NFTs are a critical infrastructure component for the metaverse Views on […]
Weekly Roundup 04/30/21(Matt’s Turkey Jerky, Elon ‘proves’ Bitcoin liquidity, Nexon’s BTC buy) (EP.210)
Matt and Nic return for deals of the week, joined for the first time by new member of CIV Ria Bhutoria. In this episode: An update on Matt’s Turkey problem Will Matt create OTB Turkey Jerky? Will Matt tase the Turkeys? Is monetizing stranded natural gas good for the environment? Elon ‘proves Bitcoin’s liquidity’ Elon […]
Nicholas Gregory (CommerceBlock) on statechains for scalability and privacy (EP.211)
Nicholas Gregory, CEO of CommerceBlock, joins the show to talk about their new statechain implementation, Mercury. In this episode: Origins of CommerceBlock Nicholas’ prior career in martial arts Nicholas’ underground MMA club in NY Did Roger Ver take the most expensive BJJ lesson ever? The purpose of CommerceBlock’s Mainstay system The difference between OpenTimestamps and […]