Around The Coin

Everex is a blockchain technology provider offering global money transfer, payment and currency exchange solutions to financial and non-financial institutions worldwide. Everex technology enables its partners to usher individuals and SMEs, with or without access to banking services, into the new global economy with real-time fiat payments using distributed ledger technology. Fiat currency transact...

In a quest to best demonstrate the real-world challenges of everyday transactions, using nothing but bitcoin, Amelie’s challenge is to purchase everything from food to travel to accommodation during the five-day race, beginning in Hong Kong on 10th March 2018. Amelie must complete a series of daring challenges on route to win points along the way; competing with more traditional payment method inc...

For the past 10+ years, Thomas worked with countless clients – global corporations, SMEs, and startups – on their digital strategy and transformation efforts. His main subjects are internet business models and antifragile organizations. Due to his long-standing interest in decentralized systems, he researched the blockchain space from early on. These days, Thomas is working in the blockchain space...

It's just as important for us to discuss the reasons WHY we believe Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain as it is to discuss HOW to participate in it. The WHYs are the only reason you'll be able to withstand the huge volatility in the market. The goal is to shed some light on the world of crypto for you to understand the WHY and the HOW (to participate)Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter...

In this episode, we talk about the tens of trillions of dollars of problems faced in moving money around the world by the banking system. What is the challenge with money moving through the banking system today. Why is it so expensive to do a wire transfer today. How complex does it get? How might Ripple solve this problem and will it be successful? Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire grea...

Behind The Coin (BTC) in a brand new weekly podcast series that is focused towards the world of crypto! Be it bitcoin or an Alt-coin you've not heard of, from mining to trading to proof of stake. From ICOs to how-tos, the aim of this podcast is to cover it all. Let's not forget the movers and shakers from the crypto world we intend to interview! This pilot episode, sets the stage was to...

In this episode we decode the often quoted figure of $600 billion annual remittances in 2017, to understand where this number comes from and how it’s calculated. We also cover the informal money transfer industry or ‘hawala’ system and discuss how to interpret the global cost of remittances. Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through...

Pilot Episode of a new series called "Money on the Move" on Around The Coin. Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter. Redeeem https://redeeem.click/qdza- Redeeem is a decentralized peer-to-peer exchange that lets you save 15% or more on gift cards using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Learn more about your ad c...

Take game theory, throw a lil' bit of real-money, add the stock markets of the world, squeeze some incentives and don't forget a pinch or two of the crypto-world and shake it (or stir it) - what do you get? You get daily fantasy trading! Trade against your peers and not the professionals. Listen to our interview with Lawrence Richardson, CEO Founder of ZeroSum Markets. Sponsors:Otter Lab...

This week the three co-hosts, Brian Roemmele, Mike Townsend and Faisal Khan are back on the air, discussing what is proverbial $64 Million Question: Is Bitcoin A Bubble? (or is this the real deal?) For the last couple of years bitcoin has seen almost no sharp rise, until this year, from August onwards, the price of bitcoin has been sky-rocketing. Famed economists tell us we are in a bubble. Invest...

Our guest today holds a Ph. D. in economics from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, better know as RMIT University (Australia) His thesis was titled "Safety and Soundness: An Economic History of Prudential Bank Regulation in Australia, 1893-2008", and offered the first comprehensive history of the politics and economics of prudential bank regulation in Australia. Fair to say, my gu...

Bitcoin recently experienced a hard fork which resulted in Bitcoin classic if you will and Bitcoin Cash. This was because of Segwit. Now there is Segwit2X coming up and the possibility to have perhaps another form of bitcoin - i.e. there will be 3 different versions of bitcoin out to trade and use. To explain all this, we needed to bring an expert in. Ryan Charles is the Cofounder and CEO of Yours...

The duo is back: This week Faisal Khan & Brian Roemmele are back together on the air after a brief break. We discuss the gold-rush behind ICOs and the move by China to ban ICOs (or Token Sales) and what impact will that have on the ICO industry. Will it get worse before it gets better or will we see a strong regulation clamp down? In other news the recent breach at Equifax, of the three leadin...

If you think the point of sale terminal is just this static old machine through which you swipe your card, well, I've got news for you. Times-a-changing. On this show we have Nelson Holzner CEO of AEVI from Germany and he is here to tell us, the new POS is not your grandfather's POS anymore. Innovation has come knocking on the merchant's door. Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com-...

It is not every day you get to interview great people. Mike Jones who is the Co-Founder and CEO of Science Inc., a very successful VC firm based out of Los Angeles. We get to talk to Mike about his past success (Dollar Shave Club, Famebit, HelloSociety to name a few), and how the idea behind Science came about and what is it that they do differently. Also, we have Mike open up a bit about their up...

This week co-hosts Faisal Khan and Nako Mbelle interview CEO of Prasos, Henry Brade who is has been involved in cryptocurrency since 2011 to get his take on Segwit and Segwit2X, what is the difference between the two? What does it mean for the rest of us. Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter. Redeeem https://redeeem.click...

In this episode of Around The Coin, Faisal Khan and one of our new co-hosts Nako Mbelle discuss the world of crypto and blockchain, specifically from the employment point of view. Nako is the CEO/Founder of Fintech Recruiters based in Toronto, Canada and she has first hand experience on all things employment in the bitcoin, blockchain, ethereum, crypto-coin space. We ask Nako what is working (and...

Brian Roemmele & Faisal Khan are back on the air this week. With the meteoric rise in the price of bitcoin and the added fear of an economic correction that is due, we discuss the power of Bitcoin and how it can be an avenue where wealth could get parked in the next financial crisis. Whether it will happen or not, remains to be seen. Brian does dwell on the dystopian society that we might be h...

This week Faisal Khan interviews Jordan Lampe who is the Head of Strategic Projects at Dwolla. Dwolla is payments related financial services company in Des Monies, Iowa. Dwolla also is one of the members of the Federal Reserve Task Force on Faster Payments initiative. We had interviewed Jordan earlier on this (See Episode 113). Reconnecting again with Jordan, we ask him on the Faster Payment Task...

This week, Faisal Khan interviews Scott Robinson is the founder and VP of Plug and Play FinTech, the financial technology focused startup innovation platform in partnership with BNP Paribas, Santander, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, TD Bank, Sberbank, USAA, Mitsubishi, Capital One, Sumitomo, Intuit and many more global financial institutions. Listen to how a UCLA History major finds his calling and...

The duo is back on the air after a short break. This week Brian Roemmele and Faisal Khan discuss the impending hard fork for Bitcoin. The Bitcoin Classic versus Bitcoin Cash. Not many people truly understand why it is happening and what it means for the average consumer/user of bitcoins like you and me. Brian very eloquently explains the whole scenario about the fork and some of the players who ar...

This week, Faisal Khan interviews the Co-Founder of Innovate Finance, Abdul Haseeb Basit. We discuss what Innovate Finance is all about, how they are acting as a catalyst for the UK Fintech scene and above all we hear Abdul's viewpoint on a recent article which was published in the New York Times. The article cites that as per the numbers published by Innovate Finance, that "Investment i...

This week Brian Roemmele & Faisal Khan discuss the philosophical questions on the right of individuals to hold on to their own wealth. For centuries now, monetary value has been controlled by the Crown/Government. Today, with the disruption in the wealth creation, distribution, storage and payment verticals, a consensus based currency (or currencies) could very well be the de facto method of v...

This week, Kathleen Breitman, CEO of Tezos was interviewed by Faisal Khan for Around The Coin. We were very grateful for Kathleen to take time out from her busy schedule and update us on what tezos is all about and its upcoming initial coin offering. Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter. Redeeem https://redeeem.click/qdza...

This week Brian Roemmele and Faisal Khan discuss the epic rise of Bitcoin. Once termed as a fad or tulip mania, it is fair to say, Bitcoin has reached critical mass and there is no way the genie can be put back into the bottle now. Brian also discusses attending Apple WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference) that happened last week. In addition, ICO or Initial Coin Offering is all the rage these da...