Gracy Chen became managing director of Bitget because she asked for the role. This simple fact marks her out as a woman of integrity and confidence. She knew she could do the job, simples. This confidence is what she wants to inspire in others and today we spoke about her career to date and how she is actively helping other women in this space. Ten years ago, Chen graduated in Applied Mathematics in Singapore but took a sideways move into a career as a TV anchor where she found herself interviewing celebrities such as Tom Hiddleson and Michelle Yeoh. She found the work interesting but not sa ..read more

New research has shown crypto ownership in Ireland has dropped by -35% over the past two years, one of the largest declines in owners globally. The study from Forex Suggest analysed a number of data points including crypto ownership, number of crypto ATMs, crypto website traffic, social engagement and more to determine where crypto sentiment is dropping and where it’s remaining strong post-crash.  New research has shown crypto ownership in Ireland has dropped by -35% over the past two years, one of the largest declines in owners globally. The 10 countries with the biggest drop in crypto ..read more

Blockchain ecosystem advisor and researcher Simon Brown from Consensys joins me this week to look at over-centralization in the context of Spot Crypto ETFs. Consensys is a leading blockchain and web3 software company whose products like MetaMask and Infura are well known to the blockchain and crypto community. Simon and I riffed on Spot Crypto ETFs, the Besu Outage, and the creation of the PBS Foundation in the context of the over-centralization of crypto. While overjoyed that spot Bitcoin ETFs finally launched, I felt like something was not quite right about it, and I wanted to go deeper. T ..read more

I’m joined this week by two of the great people I met at the Solana Breakpoint conference in Amsterdam last month: Amira Valliani, Head of Policy, and Nick Ducoff, Head of Institutional Growth, both at the Solana Foundation. Before my trip to Amsterdam in November for the Breakpoint conference, my engagement with the Solana community over the years had been lacking. At Breakpoint, I found a diverse community with a bunch of smart and engaging people building interesting projects, and I wanted to go deeper, hence this episode. In this conversation, Amira and Nick both tell their personal stori ..read more

Paul Smyth joins me as a guest co-host this week, and he is a specialist executive recruiter and executive coach within the fintech industry. As a founder of two startups, Paul has a unique view on the startup ecosystem. Paul and I met back in 2017, shortly before I photo-bombed his stand at a fintech event in Dublin, and we’ve collaborated quite a bit since then. He and his business partner and life partner, Laura Smyth, from Top Tier Recruitment, were the original sponsors of MoneyNeverSleeps back in 2018. Since then, Paul Smyth has also launched the Possible Coaching business, which count ..read more

The World Wide Web has gone through three iterations that introduced us to the internet and then evolving over the years bringing along new innovations. The latest version Web 3.0, incorporates concepts such as decentralisation, blockchain technologies, token-based economics, spatial computing and the spatial web. One startup that is taking full advantage of Web 3..0 and the spatial web is Spongelii and Ronan recently spoke to their C0-Founders Al Jones CEO and Julius Yls CCO. Al and Julius talk about their backgrounds, what Spongelii does, working with Steve ‘SPAZ’ Williams and ,more. More ..read more

The World Wide Web has gone through three iterations that introduced us to the internet and then evolving over the years bringing along new innovations. The latest version Web 3.0, incorporates concepts such as decentralisation, blockchain technologies, token-based economics, spatial computing and the spatial web. One startup that is taking full advantage of Web 3..0 and the spatial web is Spongelli and Ronan recently spoke to their C0-Founders Al Jones CEO and Julius Yls CCO. Al and Julius talk about their backgrounds, what Spongelli does, working with Steve ‘SPAZ’ Williams and ,more. More ..read more

Sean Lee is the senior advisor at the Crypto Council for Innovation, which is a global alliance of crypto industry leaders advocating for responsible and healthy regulations in the digital asset industry. Sean has conducted business in over 20+ countries and two continents across his career and networked with extraordinary professionals across many industries. As a technology enthusiast, his career started in Internet 1.0 during the mid ’90s, spanning across eCommerce, cloud computing, and digitalization with IBM, EMC, Pivotal, and Dell before moving into blockchain and crypto in the last fe ..read more

Lou Kerner is the founder of the Crypto Oracle Collective, a decentralized web3 advisory firm, and also the DAO for Crypto Mondays, which is the largest crypto meetup in the world with active chapters in 54 cities. In addition to Lou’s roles as founder of Crypto Oracle Collective and Crypto Mondays, he’s also a partner at Blockchain Coinvestors, a venture capital fund of funds focused on investing in blockchain since 2014. Lou has a great track record of recognizing emerging trends and doubling down on them, first on Wall Street, then onto media, venture capital, and now in crypto and blockc ..read more

Betting exchanges have been around for over twenty years and have adopted new technologies as they have come on stream. One such betting exchange is BetDex Exchange, a British blockchain-based betting exchange that has emerged as a pioneering player in the decentralised betting landscape. Ronan recently spoke to BetDex CEO Varun Sudhakar. Varun talks about his background, what BetDex does, how they use blockchain, their new Irish licence and more. More about BetDex: BetDex are on a mission to create the premier decentralized sports betting protocol. By building on the Solana blockchain, Bet ..read more