We chat with Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano, Founder & Partner at Morgan Creek Digital Assets, a blockchain-centric subsidiary of investment firm Morgan Creek Capital.

Follow host Jason Choi on Twitter @MrJasonChoi

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As the various parts of SAFE Network development come together, facility for mobile access to and use of the network becomes a greater priority. Most individuals now use mobile devices for a large part, if not all, of their internet access.

Our guest is Lionel Faber, a front-end developer with MaidSafe's remote office in Chennai, India.

We talk about mobile development for SAFE in general and the new developer tools for native Android apps in particular. The SAFE Network offers something ...

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Today we have John McAfee joining in to discuss his recent statements about not paying his taxes for 8 yrs. and counting. #TaxationIsTheft Lyn Ulbricht joins in as guest host for the day as we cover several topics including Grand Jury's, Intellectual Property, privacy coins and more.

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This week, we look back on the early days of Epicenter and how the podcast has evolved over the years. We also answer your questions in our first ever AMA.

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Projects like MakerDao, dYdX and Dharma are creating a future of decentralized finance. Beyond the ideology and tech - how likely is "DeFi" to succeed?

Marc Weinstein and Roy Lerner - investors from Wavemaker Partners, a VC fund with over $265M in AUM - to discuss:

An honest critique of DeFi today How DeFi may be recreate the same problems we have in our legacy financial system What institutions think of DeFi projects  Not finance advice. Host: Jason Choi (@MrJasonChoi)

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“Shitcoins are called shitcoins because they are shit compared to Bitcoin.”

— John Carvalho

Interview location: Skype

Interview date: Wednesday 2nd Jan, 2018

Company: Bitrefil

The Bitcoin protocol is now over 10 years old and in that time Bitcoin has been attacked on numerous fronts:

• Government crackdowns

• Mt Gox collapse and breakdown of investor confidence

• The closing of the Silk Road

• Blockchain, not Bitcoin narrative

• S2X attempted ...

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"A medicine you get in the US is not a medicine manufactured in the US, it's actually many components of a very diverse supply chain that includes many different countries, many different actors, and because of that, there's opportunities to infiltrate the supply chain."

— Dr. Tim Mackey

Counterfeit drugs in the pharmaceutical supply chain are a serious issue, with 1 in 10 medical products in lower or middle income countries being counterfeit. In this episode, we explore how ...

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On this week’s episode, we bring back Tom Woods for a bit of history, free market solutions, and the latest news on the Contra Krugman cruise to Alaska in 2019 (use code Tatiana and get a free download of one of my albums).  The last one was a lot of fun, but Alaska is a once in a lifetime kind of place to visit, so I know I will be there!  Tom has a free E-book called “Our Enemy, the Fed” that we talked about, which was especially cool since when I learned about the ... Read More

“These types of markets attract the worst types of people.”

— Mike Dudas

Interview location: Skype

Interview date: Tuesday 18th Dec, 2018

Company: The Block

Role: Founder & CEO

Crypto journalism has a questionable past, from mainstream media misreporting on Bitcoin with sensationalist headlines to crypto specific publications exposed as accepting payment for positive stories.

With so many people losing money to scams and poor projects, it is often difficult...

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Today Dr Ron Paul joins us to talk about Crypto and Competing Currencies as well as Syria, The Fed and much more. Lyn Ulbricht also sits in with us to talk about criminal justice reform and the latest with her battle for Ross.

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John and Robert probe questions regarding the level of technology appropriate to different situations, and we try to isolate some touchstones for selecting the right type, level and amount technology to employ.

As fodder we talk a lot about Robert's different situations as simple farmer on the one hand, and as a writer, publisher and internet marketer on the other.

We'd really like the input from the listeners on what you think about and how you find the balance. Email at [email protected]

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“I do not believe altcoins are a threat to Bitcoin, they are a threat to individuals who speculate on them.”

— Matt Odell

“It is not a cryptocurrency industry, it is a Bitcoin industry.”

— Neil Woodfine

Interview location: Skype

Interview date: Wednesday 2nd Jan, 2019

Matt Odell: Co-host of Rabbit Hole Recap podcast

Neil Woodfine: Marketing Director at Blockstream

2018 was quite the year for the cryptocurrency space, a space which many maxi...

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We're joined by Joseph Lubin, Founder and CEO of ConsenSys. Since founding ConsenSys in 2014, the company has since grown to a distributed organization of over 1,000 people.

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Hosted by crypto researcher Jason Choi, The Blockcrunch is a podcast targeting investors, builders, and people who are interested in pursuing a career in the crypto space.

Currently, many existing podcasts in the blockchain space are recorded conversations lasting 50–90 minutes, which far exceed the length of the average work commute. For Blockcrunch, we decided to capture the most important ideas championed by prominent founders and investors within 20 minutes, targeting busier people ...

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Ray Yousef CEO of Paxful.com joins the show to discuss the history of Paxful.com and where it's going. With it's rapid growth in Africa and other economically depressed nations recently including Venezuela and Turkey Paxful hopes to be the low tech on ramp for bitcoin in area's where bitcoin is not understood. With the learning curve of using bitcoin being it's biggest barrier to mass adoption I'd say thats a good thing.

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A little late to post, but here it is:

Lyrics by John Barrett
Copyright 2018 RJM Publishing – BMI Nashville
[To the tune of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas]

Get Yourself a Little Bit of Bitcoin
Let your heart be light
And in time the value will be out of sight

Get Yourself a Little Bit of Bitcoin

Make your Yuletide cool
Those who hesitate will be the only fools
Here we are with the markets down
Don’t you wear a frown my friend
For in time yes it...

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“With Ethereum there is a culture of recklessness and not keeping to promises.”

— Tuur Demeester

Interview location: Skype

Interview date: Sunday 30th Dec, 2018

Company: Adamant Capital

Role: Founder/CEO

What is Ethereum? Is it money? Is it a platform for building decentralized applications? Is it a world computer? Is it all of this?

The bull run of 2017 was kind to Ethereum, ICO mania led to the issuance of countless tokens, and the price rose from $9 to n...

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Cleveland, Ohio is on fire.  That’s right, I said it! What an incredible scene for Blockchain.  I have always been curious about mining, but as it’s highly technical, I haven’t really felt comfortable discussing it.  However, everyone wants to know how they can essentially print money with a little machine. I didn’t know the history of Coin Miner, but Jon was kind enough to fill me in.  He also gave me a good overview of options available to the average enthusiast, but also for the m...

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Our regular guest/co-host, Robert Worstell, and I talk about the year-long project he just completed to train himself in fiction writing, and documenting the process for others who are interested in writing, especially professionally.

We go over what he set out to do, what he did, his statistics, and what he learned. There is so much here that is applicable to learning any subject or technology professionally that it is useful to anyone.

Enjoy.

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CoinList President and Co-founder Andy Bromberg joined us to discuss the history of CoinList, the state of token sales, the regulatory environment around token sales and the potential of security tokens.

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