From the Front Page - Chain Reaction
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Chain Reaction - Jason Williams: Selling FastMed For $500M to Deploying $130M in Crypto
April 22nd, 2020 by
BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy talks to Jason Williams, co-founder of Morgan Creek Digital - a fund in the crypto space. Jason previously grew and sold FastMed, an urgent care provider for $500M and started Full Tilt Capital, a Venture Fund that deployed $18M into 63 deals. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Sia’s David Vorick: Outcompeting Amazon Web Services, a $35B Revenue Giant
April 20th, 2020 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy talks to David Vorick, CEO, Co-Founder, and Lead Developer of Sia and Skynet. They discuss the benefits of a decentralized, free Internet, competing with Amazon Web Services, cloud storage pricing, security, privacy, and more. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Framework Ventures’ Vance and Michael: Redefining Active Management
April 13th, 2020 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy talks to Vance Spencer and Michael Anderson, the GP's of Framework Ventures. On this episode we discuss * Why the fund doesn't invest in Ethereum killers. * Their investments in Synthetix, Chainlink, Edgeware and Futureswap. * Paths to decentralization with founders and leading teams. * Taking involvement as a fund to the next level with investments. Not just offering advice and connections and capital, but resources (developer resources and financial such as liquidity into protocol investments). Read More -
Chain Reaction - Casperlabs CEO Mrinal Manohar: How Wall Street Wealth Matures To Blockchain
April 8th, 2020 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy talks to Mrinal Manohar, the CEO of Casper Labs. I really enjoyed speaking with Mrinal since he brings an extensive amount of professional experience at major firms such as Bain Capital and Sagard Holdings to now leading Casper Labs. Mrinal has a real understanding of how the world works, how major firms with tens of billions make their investment decisions and where blockchain fits into the world. Mrinal covers everything about Casper Labs, the blockchain's roadmap, its relationship with Ethereum's community, how they are attracting developers and so much more. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Dan Held and Paul Sztorc: Debating Bitcoin’s Security
April 6th, 2020 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy talks to Dan Held, Director of Business Development for Kraken Digital, and Paul Sztorc, an independent Bitcoiner. They debate the Bitcoin security model, with Paul feeling skeptical that fee rates will climb and Dan believing that fees are already growing and could subsidize Bitcoin security solutions. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Kathleen Breitman: From Founding Tezos to Building One of the Most Highly Anticipated Blockchain Games
April 1st, 2020 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy talks to Kathleen Breitman, the co-founder of Tezos and Coase, whose first game is Emergents, a highly anticipated blockchain base game. Read More -
Chain Reaction - ZenLedger’s Pat Larsen: Navy Pilot To Crypto Startup CEO
March 30th, 2020 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy talks to Pat Larsen, CEO, and co-founder of ZenLedger. They discuss the issues with filing taxes when you have cryptocurrencies, what gaps ZenLedger fills, possible future use cases, and more. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Delta Exchange’s Pankaj Balani: Building a Crypto Derivatives Exchange for Global Scale.
March 25th, 2020 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy talks to Pankaj Balani, CEO and co-founder of Delta Exchange. They discuss the differences between derivatives exchanges vs traditional exchanges, market stability, current engineering challenges, and more. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Catherine Coley: From Morgan Stanley to Relentlessly Running Binance U.S.
March 21st, 2020 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy talks to Catherine Coley, CEO of Binance.US. They discuss Binance.US’s origin story, how Catherine made the switch from traditional finance to digital assets, how she sees them differing, and more. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Eli Ben-Sasson, Uri Kolodny and Will Harborne: A STARK Powered DEX Capable of 9,000 TPS
March 18th, 2020 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy talks to Uri Kolodny and Eli Ben Sasson of StarkWare, and Will Harborne from DeversiFi. They discuss the pros and cons of centralized and decentralized exchanges, the development of Layer 2 technologies, scalability, and more. Read More -
Chain Reaction - The Graph’s Yaniv Tal: Indexing DeFi, Web3 and The Decentralized Future
March 14th, 2020 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy talks to Yaniv Tal, project lead at The Graph to discuss how the Graph is a decentralized protocol for querying data from blockchains, starting with Ethereum. We discuss indexing DeFi, Web3 and the decentralized future. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko: A Trustless Clock To Rethink Time
March 11th, 2020 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy talks to Anatoly Yakovenko, Founder of Solana. They discuss how to make blockchain technology faster, its use cases, and how to accrue value in this space. They also discuss the philosophy behind where blockchain, math, and time intersect. Read More -
Chain Reaction - SKALE Labs’ Stan Kladko: Building A Decentralized Amazon Web Services
March 7th, 2020 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy talks to Stan Kladko, Co-Founder and CTO of SKALE Labs. They discuss the evolution of SKALE Labs, the decentralization of finance and social networks, and the current state of artificial intelligence. This builds on our previous episode with SKALE's CEO and Co-founder Jack O'Holleran. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Oliver Renick and Guest Host Kevin Kelly: Macro Matters Series
March 4th, 2020 by BTCMedia On this exclusive Macro Matters Series, guest host Kevin Kelly talks to Oliver Renick, lead anchor for TD Ameritrade Network, about his outlook for markets and the way Oliver and his team integrate Bitcoin & crypto into their day-to-day coverage. Oliver discusses his philosophy for covering markets and the move away from “momentum news”, the growing importance of bitcoin as a macroeconomic indicator, consensus expectations for monetary policy and the “Fed fulcrum”, what we can expect... Read More -
Chain Reaction - Eric Feigl-Ding: The Coronavirus Pandemic is Inevitable
March 1st, 2020 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy sat down to speak on short notice with Eric Feigl-Ding, PhD, an epidemiologist, health economist, and nutrition scientist at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health to discuss the Coronavirus (COVID-19). Read More -
Chain Reaction - Brooke Pollack: From A $8B Venture Capital Platform To A Crypto Fund of Funds
February 26th, 2020 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy talks to Brooke Pollack, Founder and Managing Partner of Hutt Capital. They discuss the differences between traditional VC funds and VC within the blockchain market, how Hutt Capital chooses investments and more. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Celsius’s Founder Alex Mashinsky: Interest Income Is Crypto’s Killer App
February 15th, 2020 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy talks to Alex Mashinsky, CEO of Celsius Network. Alex discusses the impetus for creating MOIP (Money over IP) and Celsius Network, what has prevented blockchain from becoming mainstream thus far, and his predictions for the future of MOIP technology. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Camilla Russo on Ethereum's Inception
February 12th, 2020 by BTCMedia On this episode, Shaughnessy is joined by Camila Russo, founder of the Ethereum based newsletter The Defiant and author of the coming book on the birth of Ethereum titled, The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum. We dive into why Camila decided to research Ethereum's early life, how she has been tirelessly researching the protocol for months and what to expect from her new book. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Fidelity Digital Assets’s Ria Bhutoria: The Paperwork Crisis to Crypto Custody Today
February 8th, 2020 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy talks to Ria Bhutoria, Director of Research at Fidelity Digital Assets. Ria discusses her recent article about Omnibus model, the importance of proof of solvency, technological developments in crypto and DeFi in financial institutions, and more. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Blockchain Capital’s Spencer Bogart: A Bold Outlook for 2020
February 5th, 2020 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy talks to Spencer Bogart, general partner with Blockchain Capital. Spencer discusses the current state of crypto, his predictions for its future, and more. Read More
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