Crypto Girls

Happy International Women's day!!! We recorded this episode in light of International Women's day during Fintech week in Japan. Although I could genuinely speak to her for hours about her career as a US federal prosecutor and chief of legal at Chainalysis (!), I wanted to talk about something related to #CryptoGirls and #WomenInCrypto. I hope this conversation shines a light on some of the...

On February 6, 2024, there was a Solana blockchain outage that lasted 5 hours. Transactions completely stopped during this time. The outage was fixed with an update to the Solana Labs validator code to version 1.17.20. There were a few things we noticed that were astray, some things that have been obviously going on for years, but things that Nikita thinks shouldn't be happening in 2024. Show...

60 cents out of every dollar goes towards running the costs of a charity. What if we could make something that could radically change that and ensure that over 99% over our donation would directly help those in need? It was a delight to speak to Mark Pascall from The Wellbeing Protocol, a long-time enthusiast in the DAO space. The Wellbeing Protocol (TWP) is a not-for-profit organisation building...

On today’s episode, Nikita welcomes Matthew Ketchum, one of Tokyo's most well-known business consultants across real estate, technology and music. We explore why and how crypto has become so useless as a payment mechanism, the crypto industry carrying over exploitative norms from the finance industry, and the crypto bro culture surrounding so much of the industry. Hopefully by grounding oursel...

Welcome to Part 2 of Crypto Girls’ Janine Grainger Interview. We’ll be covering some of the more technical sides to her exchange business, including wallets, blockchain, privacy, and AML. Janine Grainger from Easy Crypto is one of New Zealand’s biggest tech CEO and founders, running the Easy Crypto New Zealand, Australia and now South Africa. The CryptoGirls co-hosts are Sophie and Nikita, who spe...

Janine Grainger from Easy Crypto is one of New Zealand’s biggest tech CEO and founders, running the Easy Crypto New Zealand, Australia and now South Africa. In this episode, we are thrilled to be talking to her about her business, career path and entrepreneurship tips. The CryptoGirls co-hosts are Sophie and Nikita, who specialise in Law and Market Design respectively. Stay tuned for Part II: The...

Nikita and Sophie deep dive into the SEC suit against Binance (and Coinbase)... will this be the end for CZ?

The DAO attack is a piece of blockchain history that you probably want to know.  On the 17th of June, 2016, an unknown attacker started syphoning out thousands of dollars worth of ETH every second out of "The DAO".  The attacker managed to take 3.5 ETH (back then worth ~$50m), which eventually pressured the lead Ethereum community to hard fork the Ethereum blockchain on July 20, 2016. So...

Sophie and Nikita talk about the Mount Gox bankruptcy, which was the first major crypto-industry bankruptcy that really shook the world to its senses about how cryptocurrency would change the financial and legal industries. About the hosts: Nikita is a Master's student at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Economics, and Sophie is a lawyer practising at one of New Zealand's top law...

CryptoGirls podcast hosts Sophie & Nikita take a deep dive into the 2022 Celsius bankruptcy - one of the many bankruptcies in 2022 that shook the crypto industry and sent token prices plummeting. Timestamps 💙 1:25 - What was Celsius? 3:10 - Alex Mashinsky 3:30 - How did Celsius work? 8:35 - Alex Mashinsky's past in VOIP, GroundLink 13:35 - Parallels to "The CryptoQueen", Dr. Ruj...

Sophie & Nikita scratch the surface of what is the 2023 bank run fiasco that's been on the news the past couple of weeks. Blog: https://cryptogirlshq.com/blog/we-love-a-bank-run Newsletter: https://cryptogirlshq.com/newsletter-sign-up Instagram:  @cryptogirlshq  Lots of love!! CGHQ

We asked our community what their most burning crypto questions were. We cover the top 5 in this video! If you want to see more of this content, please hit subscribe so we can continue making more videos like this for you!   Timestamps:     ⭐️ 00:35 What is the best crypto to buy?  ( 1:15 Blockchain trilemma) ⭐️ 4:53 When do you think that crypto will bounce back? ⭐️ 13:00 W...

In 2022, the day after Christmas, Avi Eisenberg was arrested in Puerto Rico on market manipulation and fraud charges. Avi, whose full name is Avraham Eisenberg, schemed to steal approx. $110 million USD worth by manipulating the price of the Mango cryptocurrency Token, MNGO.   In this episode, Sophie and Nikita from CryptoGirlsHQ, chat about what happened and the legality of the case, includi...

What happens when your ex-husband or ex-wife lies about their crypto keys and you have no way of accessing crypto that should be divided under matrimonial common law? Experienced lawyers Kesia & James discuss the various issues surrounding crypto in every-day issues, including insolvency - citing the FTX and cryptopia (an NZ crypto exchange) cases - and what happens to crypto during breakups a...

So, 2022, that was a little off the chain. In this episode, Sophie & Nikita explore their personal achievements/"failures"(for lack of a better word), and then get down to covering the world's headlining events from crypto this year 20 minutes (20:00) into the episode. We cover: Terra/Luna, Kim K SEC lawsuit, Three Arrows Capital (3AC), FTX, BlockFi, Voyager Capital, underpaid SEC officials, L...

We discuss the chaos surrounding FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, and some of the Alameda research / FTX execs, Sam Trabucco and Caroline Ellison. We cover why customer funds used to fuel extravagant personal purchases, and why did Sam Bankman-Fried, aka "SBF", fake caring about altruism? We hope you enjoy our chat about the latest crypto goss. -- CryptoGirlsHQ podcast is a show created by Sophie, a...

We discuss the recent FTX bankruptcy - the latest financial drama, the founder of FTX Sam Bankman-Fried, and Sophie helps us understand the need for regulation. -- CryptoGirlsHQ podcast is a show created by Sophie, a recent Law graduate & soon-to-be lawyer, and Nikita, an Economics graduate student & computer programmer. CryptoGirlsHQ is intended to distribute accurate information to women...

Alex Sims is an Associate Professor at the University of Auckland’s Department of Commercial Law, which is part of the University of Auckland’s Business School. Before switching her research focus to blockchain technology, her research was primarily based on intellectual property law and consumer law. She is considered a world-class expert on DAOs, NFTs, cryptocurrency regulation and legal issues...

Alison Mackie is the current Executive Director of LocationTech, BlockchainNZ, IoT Alliance, and EdTech New Zealand. She oversees the business to turn New Zealand into a tech hub and prosperous digital nation, whilst also educating governments and corporations on blockchain practices and solutions. In 2018 she co-founded MeterMe, a blockchain solution to council water management. Alison holds a Ba...

Cryptocurrency is pretty cool but getting your head around the terms "decentralised" and "cryptography" can make our heads spin and wonder if this currency was only designed for super-nerds. Short answer: it's not. Cryptocurrency, and in particular the "OG" bitcoin, was designed to be used by everyone, and the people who designed cryptocurrency in the '90s and early '00s would be elated to see us...

In this pilot episode, Sophie & Nikita talk about their crypto journeys as millennial women. Crypto can be a challenging space to navigate, especially when crypto-fanatics tend to use complicated or vague terms that can hinder learning instead of help.  Sophie & Nikita dive into how they have overcome these learning challenges, and explore the possible applications of crypto technolog...