It has been a while fellow hashers! With Neal and Nathan both taking care of family life, the end of 2019 rolled by with no new recordings, but that doesn't mean the crypto scene has been quiet!  In this special holiday episode Neal and Nathan get back together to look over the crypto developments in 2019 and speculate on what 2020 will hold.     --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that the speakers in this podcast are not financial experts and are not offering financial advice We hope you enjoy our show and feel free ..read more

Today I have a chat with Dennis Lewis, author of the new book Behold the Cryptopreneurs. Dennis cut his teeth in ICO marketing and saw the rise and fall of many crypto projects.  In the past few years we have seen the rise and fall of an ICO bubble and it opens the question of how we as blockchain and crypto entrepreneurs could do better in the future.  What went right, and what went wrong in the last cycle and what should we do differently if we want a healthy blockchain industry going forward ..read more

Trading and speculation are the engine that drives interest in blockchain technology, and the huge swings in value have captured the attention of wall street.  This brave new world of digital asset trading lured Sam Bankman-Fried from his high-powered wall-street job to found two companies, FTX and Alameda Research, which bring a derivatives exchange and quantitative trading to the blockchain world.  Everyone has been on tenterhooks waiting for the influx of institutional money into the blockchain space, and FTX is waiting for them, but Sam notes that there are many hurdles that have to be ove ..read more

When Neal and I started this podcast 2 years ago, one of our goals was to discover interesting projects and uses of blockchain that we hadn't considered before. The Internet is core to all of our lives to the point where we take it for granted that it will just work. Blockchain is great for payment systems, trading platforms, supply chain traceability... but can blockchain make the Internet more efficient? In today's episode I interview Dom Povilauskas, the CEO of NOIA. His team has created a more efficient way to route Internet traffic around the world and incentivizes owners of routers to pa ..read more

Did ever you try To build an AI That would tinker with clouds And make them more spry? Well one person did. And his name is Max Rye And he is the founder Of DeepCloud AI.     We take cloud services for granted in North America and Europe, however in many parts of the world it is difficult to get reliable access to cloud services for your business.  Today I speak with Max Rye, founder and CEO of Deepcloud AI, who are using a blockchain and AI driven framework to incentivize the crowd to provide cloud services in decentralized way that minimizes latency so that companies who don't have easy acce ..read more

Hey everyone! This week I'm going to be speaking at Tech Open Air in Berlin. I was invited because my company, Minespider, is involved with an interesting blockchain use case of tracking responsibly sourced minerals and metals in the supply chain. We're working to eliminate human rights abuses in the products we buy.  One of the things I learned from running Minespider is that much of the reason there are atrocities going into our products in the first place has to do with the way our economy is structured.  It always comes back to the incentives.  Is there a way to change the rules of the eco ..read more

Greetings, hashers! Everyone is talking about Libra. Is it a coin for good or for evil? Should we trust Facebook to create a cryptocurrency? Take a listen and I'll give my 2 cents. Plus, the main segment today is an interview with Paul Riegle and Yossi Gilad from Algorand. Generally, primary layer blockchains want to be secure, scalable, and decentralized, but can only choose 2 of those three.  Algorand believes they've come up with a way to get all three. Will this change the crypto scene? Join us to explore ..read more

  One of the beautiful aspects of blockchain and cryptocurrencies is the ability to experiment with new economic models without the need for a bloody revolution. We can try a different way of maneuvering wealth, managing incomes, and tweaking how currency is created, destroyed, and how the rules are set, all without a civil war.   Enter Evan Kuo, Founder and CEO of Ampleforth.  After seeking the advice of many career economists, Evan created Ampleforth.  In most token systems, there are a fixed number of tokens and when demand goes up the price goes up.  In Ampleforth, when demand goes up, you ..read more

Bitcoin hits 9000, and it feels like the crypto winter may be giving way to the crypto spring.   And as the crypto winter turns into spring, the show will also change.  Neal will be taking an indefinite hiatus to focus on his family life. Nathan will continue the show, but on a less regular schedule to focus on his company, Minespider.     With these changes, Neal and Nathan take time and reflect on key moments and highlights of the show over the past 2 years.  Thanks for joining us on our crypto journey ..read more

Everyone is excited!  Crypto is on the up.  What's going on?     Today Neal and Nathan have a chat about the factors that have led to this parabolic time of joy in the crypto price and look at wallet options if you want to dare to believe again.   Then Nathan dives in to a talk with our good friend and CEO of Demand.Film, David Doepel.  Demand.Film is the AirBnB of movie theaters who has a blockchain-based loyalty program called ScreenCreds. We spoke about the recent change in Australian regulations allowing companies to do crowdsourced equity funding, what that means for blockchain companies ..read more