From the Front Page - Chain Reaction
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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 -
Chain Reaction - Tavi Costa and Guest Host Kevin Kelly: Macro Madness Series
February 1st, 2020 by BTCMedia On this exclusive Macro Matters Series, guest Host Kevin Kelly talks to Octavio “Tavi” Costa, Global Macro Analyst at Crescat Capital. Tavi discusses Crescat’s top investment themes, the favorable backdrop for precious metals, how the macro environment could impact Bitcoin, and much more. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Blockchain Capital's Aleks Larsen: The Tsunami Of DeFi Innovation
January 30th, 2020 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy talks to Aleks Larsen, part of the Investment team at Blockchain Capital. Aleks discusses issues with decentralization, DeFi growth and opportunities, what place security tokens hold in the DeFi space, and more. This episode builds on a recent episode we hosted with Blockchain Capital's Spencer Bogart. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Multicoin’s Kyle Samani: The Evolution Of the Web3 Stack
January 25th, 2020 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy talks to Kyle Samani, Founder and Managing Partner of Multicoin Capital. Kyle discusses his predictions for the middle layer and full-stack development, attracting developers to the crypto space, how competition in the industry will develop, and a complete discussion on the Web3 Stack. Read More -
Chain Reaction: Tradecraft's Jake Ryan: the Age of Autonomy
January 22nd, 2020 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy talks to Jake Ryan, Founder and general partner of Tradecraft Capital and author of an upcoming book on crypto investing. Jake discusses his prediction for the Age of Autonomy, the challenges of predicting where crypto will go, and more. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Yan Liberman, Phil Bonello and David Puell on Tokeneconomics and Valuation
January 15th, 2020 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy leads a roundtable discussion with Yan Liberman (co-founder of Delphi Digital), Phil Bonello (former Head of Research at Ikigai), and David Puell (Head of Research at Adaptive Capital). They discuss the difficulties of crypto valuation, productive vs. unproductive assets, the differences between some projects, and more. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Decred's Akin Sawyer: Governance Reimagined
January 9th, 2020 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy talks to Akin Sawyerr a Strategy and Governance Lead for Decred. Akin discusses getting involved with the Decred platform, governance, and community-building. Read More -
Chain Reaction - IDEX’s Alex Wearn: Scaling A Decentralized Exchange Through Optimized Optimistic Rollups
December 26th, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by Alex Wearn, the co-founder and CEO of IDEX, a decentralized exchange built on Ethereum, to discuss the next version of the exchange and using optimized optimistic rollups to scale the exchange. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Zaki Manian and Dean Tribble: No Blockchain Is An Island
December 21st, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by Zaki Manian, the Director of Research at Tendermint Inc and Dean Tribble, the CEO of Agoric. On this episode we dive into into how IBC (inter-blockchain communication) will connect blockchains to enable new use cases. On this episode we discussed a lot of philosophical questions around a multi-chain vs few chain world, chain sovereignty, Agoric's targeting the world's 20M javascript developers for its smart contract platform, the use cases IBC enables across chains, the status of IBC and so much more. The discussion involves how Cosmos plays into IBC, and how eventually IBC will be a part of Cosmos' SDK. Read More -
Chain Reaction Podcast: NEAR’s Alex and Illia: Since 2018 Everything Has Changed
December 18th, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by NEAR Protocol's co-founders Alex and Illia to discuss the project. We previously had Alex and Illia on in November of 2018 when the podcast was first starting out so on this episode we discuss what has changed since then, the progress the project has made and much more. Specifically we dive into how NEAR plans to attract developers across three key areas, smart contract wars between layer-1's, governance for NEAR, and what to expect from the protocol's coming Mainnet launch. Read More -
ChainReaction Podcast: Matic's Sandeep Nalwail: Leveraging Plasma To Top Layer-2 Scaling Projects
December 13th, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by Sandeep Nailwal, the co-founder and COO of Matic Network. On this episode we discuss how Matic is using Plasma and proof-of-stake based sidechains to scale Ethereum, how he thinks the landscape of dozens of layer-2 scaling projects will shake out, building on Matic, Bitcoin's lightning network and so much more. Matic Network's token recently crashed on FUD and while this episode was recorded before the news, its a deep dive into the project itself. The audio came out a little low on this episode, apologies on that. Read More -
Chain Reaction Podcast - Luke Martin: The Truth About Technical Analysis and The Bitcoin Thesis
December 11th, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by Luke Martin, an analyst, trader and host of the Coinist podcast. Luke has gained a massive following for his keen ability to spot trends and opportunities early, especially in crypto. On this episode we dive into his story of leaving graduate school for crypto, the merits of technical analysis, the BTC thesis and so much more. Luke is an incredible guy, and this episode is worth the listen. Read More -
Chain Reaction Podcast - Helium’s Amir Haleem: The Grand Vision of a Crypto Incentivized Mobile Network
December 6th, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by Amir Haleem, the CEO & Co-Founder of Helium. On this episode we discuss how Helium is creating a crypto incentivized, decentralized telecommunications network. Read More -
Chain Reaction Podcast - GK8’s Lior Lamesh: The Rising Crypto Custodian Technology Provider Whose Clients Manage $1B+
December 4th, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by Lior Lamesh, Co-Founder & CEO at GK8. Lior is a cyber security expert and on this episode we discuss GK8's crypto security offering that the company believes is the most secure on the market for enterprises, firms and funds. Read More -
Chain Reaction Podcast - bZx’s Kyle Kistner: Exploring The Protocol for Tokenized Margin Trading and Lending
December 1st, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by Kyle Kistner, co-founder of bZx Protocol. For the podcast, we try our best to locate early stage projects in the space. We noticed bZx's total value locked on DeFi pulse grew from $1M in September to near $3.5M in late November. While small in absolute numbers, the increase is notable, and with the launch of Fulcrum and Torque, we believed having the team on the podcast would be worthwhile for our listeners. Read More -
Chain Reaction Podcast - Invictus’ Matthew Finlayson: Tokenized Funds and Financial Inclusion
November 25th, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by Matthew Finlayson, Head of Product and a co-founder of Invictus Capital. On this episode we discuss how Invictus Capital is democratizing access to investment opportunities through its blockchain-based asset management platform. The platform already supports 4 tokenized funds (ERC-20 tokens), with two more planned (emerging markets solar fund and a real estate fund). Read More -
Chain Reaction Podcast - Digital Assets Data's Mike Alfred: Enterprise Grade Crypto Data and Running 100 Mile Ultramarathons
November 21st, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by Mike Alfred, the CEO and Co-Founder of Digital Assets Data. On this episode we discuss Mike's journey from a successful exit of BrightScope to founding Digital Assets Data and how he runs 100 mile marathons. We also dive into what separates Digital Assets Data from other data providers, and the answers are compelling. Read More
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