Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell

Flori Marquez is a Founder and SVP of Operations at BlockFi. In this role she currently oversees institutional and retail operations, client service, project management, in addition to its APAC teams. At BlockFi, Flori has built and managed many critical functions including the Trading, Risk, Compliance, Marketing and People Operations teams. Flori has spent her career managing alternative lending...

Bill Pulte is an American philanthropist and entrepreneur. He created the Twitter Philanthropy campaign and hashtag to give away some of his fortune to people in need. So far he has given out more than $1 million on his social platforms directly to followers needing financial assistance. He has given out some of his donations in Bitcoin, hoping to spread awareness and adoption. Pulte believe Bitco...

Anthony Scaramucci is Founder and Co-Managing Partner of SkyBridge focusing on marketing and business development. In 2021, he launched the SkyBridge Bitcoin Fund LP, which provides mass-affluent investors with an institutional-grade vehicle to gain exposure to Bitcoin Prior to founding SkyBridge in 2005, Mr. Scaramucci co-founded investment partnership Oscar Capital Management, which was sold to...

Scott Melker is the Wolf of All Streets. He is a trader and investor, the host of the popular "The Wolf Of All Streets Podcast," the author of "The Wolf Den" newsletter, and a prolific writer and thought leader in the crypto space. He has been featured on Fox Business, in the New York Times, Forbes, Businessweek, The Wall Street Journal, Coindesk, CoinTelegraph, CCN and more.  Scott has been named...

Biography courtesy of hrf.org : Alex Gladstein is Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation. He has also served as Vice President of Strategy for the Oslo Freedom Forum since its inception in 2009. In his work, Alex has connected hundreds of dissidents and civil society groups with business leaders, technologists, journalists, philanthropists, policymakers, and artists to promote free...

Willy Woo is a leading Bitcoin on-chain analyst. Willy shares his origin story, career path, how he discovered Bitcoin and his insights into on-chain data. Willy describes this as the "Last Cycle" of Bitcoin before it skyrockets to mass adoption. Willy writes a paid market intelligence newesletter called The Bitcoin Forecast, which is available on Substack . You can follow him on Twitter under the...

Peter Schiff is an honorary chairman of SchiffGold, founder of Euro Pacific Asset Management, and host of The Peter Schiff Show. He is an economic forecaster & investment advisor influenced by the free-market Austrian School of economics. His best-selling book, "The Real Crash, "warns that the 2008 financial crisis was just the prelude to a larger sovereign debt crisis that may lead to a collapse...

In the last year, East Carolina University student Will Clemente quickly amassed a big following in the Bitcoin space as a sharp on-chain analyst and writer. His deep dives and insights into bitcoin's metrics have caught the attention of BTC greats like Willy Woo and Pomp, and now Will serves as the Lead Insights Analyst at Blockware Solutions and has his own newsletter you can subscribe to at htt...

Preston Pysh hosts one of the top-ranked investing podcasts on Apple Podcasts, We Study Billionaires. He's written numerous books on investing and leadership and has been ranked as a top 35 business author on Amazon. Preston also provides independent research of the stock market and central banking policy.  As the Founder and President of the Pylon Holding Company, he specializes in the acquisitio...

Nik Bhatia is a financial researcher, CFA charterholder, and Adjunct Professor of Finance and Business Economics at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business where he teaches Applied Finance in Fixed Income Securities. Previously, Nik worked the US Treasuries trading desk for a large institutional asset manager and has extensive trading experience in money markets and inter...

Lyn Alden is a full-time investor and independent financial analyst. She has been performing investment research for over fifteen years in various public and private capacities, and founded Lyn Alden Investment Strategy in 2016. Her goal is to provide institutional-level research in plain English, so that both institutional investors and retail investors can benefit from it. Her work has been edit...

Michael Saylor is an American entrepreneur, executive, inventor, author, and philanthropist. He is the Chairman and CEO of MicroStrategy (MSTR), a publicly traded business intelligence firm he founded in 1989.  Michael is an advocate for the Bitcoin Standard ( Hope.com ) and is the first CEO of a publicly listed company to make a long-term investment in Bitcoin. He founded and serves as the truste...

Natalie Brunell talks with leading Bitcoin proponent Dr. Saifedean Ammous. Saifedean is an Austrian economist and best-selling author of The Bitcoin Standard and its soon-to-be released sequel, The Fiat Standard. The Bitcoin Standard is a groundbreaking study of the economics of Bitcoin. The Fiat Standard digs deeper into central banks and government debt. Saifedean discusses both books and his ph...

Jeff Booth is an entrepreneur, technology Leader, author, and strategic advisor. He wrote the best-selling book The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation Is The Key To An Abundant Future . In an economic system built on debt and inflation, Jeff believes we need to take advantage of the deflationary nature of technology, embrace it, and use it to build an abundant and hopeful future. He shares how Bitco...

Jimmy Song is a Bitcoin advocate, developer, educator, and author.  He has been contributing to open-source Bitcoin projects since 2013 and has written several books on the digital asset and its underlying technology, including The Little Bitcoin Book: Why Bitcoin Matters for Your Freedom, Finances, and Future  , Thank God for Bitcoin: The Creation, Corruption and Redemption of Money and Programmi...

Raoul Pal leads Real Vision to provide unparalleled access to the very best insights and analysis from the brightest financial minds. He prides himself on being a Business Cycle Economist, Investment Strategist, and Economic Historian. -- Real Vision is a disruptive financial media brand, created to help investors understand the complex world of finance, business and the global economy, with in-de...

Pierre Rochard has been involved with Bitcoin as a researcher, investor, and software developer since February 2013. He co-founded the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute  to curate the best primary source literature on Bitcoin and cryptography. In addition to developing Bitcoin software, Pierre is an outspoken advocate  for Bitcoin's decentralized governance. In 2017 he began co-hosting the Noded Bitcoin...

Max Keiser is a financial broadcaster, filmmaker, podcaster and former stockbroker who hosts the popular Keiser Report on RT. He is the founder of Bitcoin Capital & Heisenberg Capital. Keiser's background is in brokerage, banking, and financial technology innovation. Keiser created the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX.com) and was awarded a US patent for his Virtual Specialist tech in 1996. In additi...

Dan Held is the Director of Growth Marketing at Kraken . His former company Interchange, a portfolio reconciliation tool for crypto institutional traders, was acquired by Kraken in 7/2019. Prior to that, he was at Uber on Rider Growth/Global Data. Before Uber, Dan built some of the most popular early crypto products including ChangeTip (acquired by AirBnB), and ZeroBlock (acquired by Blockchain.co...

Jason Williams  (aka "Parabolic Guy") is an entrepreneur and Bitcoin investor with multiple investment exits in excess of $500 million. He is the founder of FastMed and also built the world's first waste-to-energy cryptocurrency mine, which ran mainly on car tires. Jason is also a founding partner of Morgan Creek Digital Assets, the crypto-focused investment arm of Morgan Creek Capital, which is i...

Anthony Pompliano is an entrepreneur, investor and U.S. Army Veteran. He has built and sold numerous companies, ran Product & Growth teams at Facebook, and manages a portfolio valued at more than $500 million in early-stage tech companies. Anthony hosts the popular " Pomp Podcast ," which has been downloaded more than 20 million times, and writes a Daily Newsletter   that is read by more than 170,...

PlanB ( @100trillionUSD ) is a former Dutch institutional investor with 25 years of experiences in financial markets. He has a legal and quantitative finance background and has always been fascinated by modeling risk & return. In March 2019 he created the Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow (S2F) model where he uses scarcity to quantify Bitcoin value. A year later he introduced the Stock-to-Flow Cross Asset (S2...

Robert Breedlove is the Founder and CEO of Parallax Digital, a global Bitcoin-focused hedge fund and consultancy firm. He is a freedom maximalist, a philosopher, writer, and podcaster who is eager to spread the message that Bitcoin is Honest Money.  His essay on The Number Zero and Bitcoin  is a must-read and is among dozens of his profound writings in the space. Robert believes Bitcoin will profo...

Peter McCormack is a former advertising guru turned podcast presenter. In this episode of Coin Stories Peter shares his career back story, how he came to discover Bitcoin, his philosophy on the cryptocurrency and how he grew his popular show into a go-to source for Bitcoin news. The What Bitcoin Did Podcast is a twice-weekly podcast where Peter interviews experts in the world of Bitcoin developmen...

The purpose of this episode is to go over the fundamental concepts and terms associated with Bitcoin and its network. Click here to download a PDF version of this audio glossary. If you want to learn more, I highly recommend reading Saifedean Ammous 's book The Bitcoin Standard and visiting his website for more learning tools. ----------   Bitcoin is a scarce, digital currency that is decentralize...