CryptoNews Podcast

Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee is the Founder of DIGITALAX, the first NFT live market that brings your unique personality and style into native digital realms –– with layers of verifiable utility. In this conversation, we discuss: - Living in New York - Emma’s year end twitter thread - snapshot.org - Onboarding designers - 2022 being a good year for ETH - How the metaverse will impact our health - Import...

Andras Kristof is the CEO and Founder of Ether Cards, who work to gamify & supercharge NFTs. Andras is an entrepreneur and blockchain veteran. After a successful exit with viki.com he entered the blockchain space in 2013, when he and his team built and deployed the first bitcoin ATM in Asia. In this conversation, we discuss: - Crypto scene in Singapore - NFTs in 2022 - Utility - Momentum in co...

Nikolaj Rosenthal is the CEO of Evonax and played professional hockey for 9 years. Nikolaj was also the first professional athlete in the world to accept bitcoin as salary. In this conversation, we discuss: - Being the first pro athlete to take salary in BTC - Building an exchange - Hockey talk - Current market sentiment - Transition from pro athlete to business - NFTs, Web3, Metaverse Evonax Webs...

Justin Chapman is the Global Head of Market Advocacy & Innovation Research for Northern Trust.  In this conversation, we discuss: - Synergies between banks and crypto - Current market sentiment - How Traditional Finance (Trad-Fi) views crypto - Inflation - NFTs - Banks treading the fine line - Cash links vs securities links - Zodia Custody Northern Trust Website: northerntrust.com Twitter: @No...

Jordan Anderson is the COO at Bitbuy, Canada’s largest exchange that just got acquired for $200 million. In this conversation, we discuss: - $200M acquisition of Bitbuy - New digital assets - OSC approval - International expansion - .com domain purchase  - Canadian crypto landscape - Golf talk - Crypto x Sports  Bitbuy Website: bitbuy.ca Twitter: @bitbuy LinkedIn: Bitbuy Jordan Anderson Twitter: @...

Darren Smith is the Vice President of Product at Epik.  In this conversation, we discuss: - Stories from the early nintendo games - The origin story of Epik - NFTs in the metaverse - UX in crypto - P2E gaming  EPIK Prime Website: epikprime.com Twitter: @EpikPrime Instagram: @epikprime_official Darren Smith LinkedIn: Darren Smith ---------------------------------------------------------------------...

Christopher Harding, Director of Risk & Compliance, Compliance Officer at Civic In this conversation, we discuss: - What are the rules?  - The travel rule in crypto - Bitcoin spot ETF - Stable coins - Defi - Timeline for regulation - Civic Pass  Civic Website: civic.com Twitter: @civickey Facebook: @civictechnologiesinc LinkedIn: Civic Technologies Chris Harding Twitter: @ChrisHarding_US -----...

Paolo Ardoino is the CTO of Bitfinex and Tether. In this conversation, we discuss: - Micro crashes - Day in the life of CTO - Tech stacks - Tether - El Salvador's Bitcoin Bond - Coding in crypto for beginners - Lightning network Bitfinex Website: bitfinex.com Twitter: @bitfinex Instagram: @bitfinex Paolo Ardoino Twitter: @paoloardoino GitHub: @prdn LinkedIn: Paolo Ardoino --------------------...

Bill is the co-founder and CEO of Minds, a leading alternative social network with over 5M users. They are building an open-source and decentralized app that shares revenue and crypto with the community. Bill himself is extremely passionate about addressing privacy concerns surrounding big tech platforms. In this conversation, we discuss: - Social media censorship - Big Tech companies and free spe...

Jordan Fried is a blockchain evangelist and crypto-capitalist. He’s currently the Chairman and CEO of Immutable Holdings (NEO:HOLD), the publicly-traded blockchain holding company that owns and operates NFT.com, 1800Bitcoin.com, CBDC.com, Immutable Asset Management, HBAR.com, and more. In this conversation, we discuss: - VPNs - HBAR - Buying domains - Going public vs DAOs - Unstoppable domains - B...

Warren Leow is the Group CEO of Inmagine Group, a leading creative ecosystem which owns 123RF, Pixlr and Designs.ai. Pixlr Genesis is a cornerstone NFT project for Pixlr, used by millions of creators monthly, to create the world's largest digital art metaverse. In this conversation, we discuss: - Pixlr & Pixlr Genesis - Empowering the community through art - The future of digital art - Ev...

Jonathan Schemoul is the Founder and lead developer of Aleph.im, which simplifies cloud computing for DeFi & web3. Aleph.im allows your blockchain enabled app to securely access trusted off-chain data or computation within a couple lines of code. In this conversation, we discuss: - Solana conference in Lisbon - Solana's crazy growth - Differences between ETH and SOL - NEON Lab - Amazon La...

Dirk Hartig is a professional crypto trader and partner of PRIME XBT, where he offers state-of-the-art educational content for their clients. In this conversation, we discuss: - 2022 Market Outlook - Importance of liquidity - How to treat trading like a business - Rookie mistakes - Removing emotion from trading - Choosing the right shitcoins - End of year price predictions - The fear and greed ind...

Nick Saponaro is the CEO of Divi, where he and his team are developing a decentralized solution that makes cryptocurrency faster, more secure and accessible to people at all levels of technical expertise.    In this conversation, we discuss: - Partnering with LaLiga - Divi Wallet - Regulation - Staking - Inflation - Crypto in sports - Bitcoin ETFs - Current market sentiment Divi Project Website: d...

Joshua Barraclough is the CEO of Bitpanda Pro (Bitpanda's fully-regulated digital asset exchange). Before joining Bitpanda Pro, Josh was at J.P. Morgan, where he held key positions such as Co-Head of Digital Innovation and Global Head of the Fintech team. In this conversation, we discuss: - Moving from JP Morgan to Bitpanda - Traditional banking vs. crypto - Corporate culture - Bitpanda vs. B...

Mateusz Mach is the Director of NFT Marketplace at Kinguin, the world’s first digital marketplace for gamers. Mateusz is also an economist, entrepreneur and investor. In this conversation, we discuss: - Building FiveApp - NFT infrastructure and solutions - L1s vs L2s - Kinguin's NFT marketplace - Creating a new revenue streams - VR in the metaverse - Stablecoins - The future of crypto media K...

Emma-Jane MacKinnon-Lee is the Founder of DIGITALAX, the first NFT live market that brings your unique personality and style into native digital realms –– with layers of verifiable utility.  In this conversation, we discuss: - Digital Fashion Operating Systems - Fashion in the metaverse - Wear-to-earn - Virtual land - Buy-copy-kill - FB & Meta in Web3 - ENS domains - $MONA token DIGITALAX Webs...

Jack O'Holleran is the co-Founder and CEO of SKALE Networks, a multi-chain network composed of an unlimited number of secure, decentralized, high-performance ethereum blockchains. In this conversation, we discuss: - NFT.NYC Event - dApps + NFTs - Ethereum gas fees - Play to earn (P2E) - SKALE Labs - Partnership with Ruby. Exchange - SKALE x Wharton School of Business - Maslow's hierarchy...

Jay El-Anis is the CMO of Uhive, a decentralized British social media start-up with over 1m+ users.  In this conversation, we discuss: - Uhive - Scaling to 1mil users in 1.5yrs - Competing against Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tiktok - Growing a company in Europe - Uhive KPIs and metrics  - 4D space vs 3D space in virtual land  - Advice to new crypto companies - Marketing in crypto  Uhive Website:...

Krista Kim is a contemporary artist and founder of the Techism movement (2014), whose work explores the concept of digital consciousness. Krista created the first "Metaverse home", Mars House. Currently, Krista is the Creative Director for the Utah Jazz's "JazzXR", the first Sports Team Metaverse NFT in history. Riley Demps is a young visionary from New Orleans and has col...

Mike Germano is a Publisher at BTC Media Inc, the creators of Bitcoin Magazine and the Bitcoin event series. Previously, Mike worked for Vice Media as its Chief Digital Officer, after the media house acquired his company, Carrot, regarded as the first-ever social media agency in the world. In this conversation, we discuss: - Creating the world's first social media agency - Working for Vice Me...

Michael Shinall is the Design and Development Manager for CMON Inc, one of the largest and most successful board game companies in the world. Micheal also has over a decade of experience in the professional board game world, with a special focus on IP-related games. In this conversation, we discuss: - Moving from board games to NFTs - Why CMON chose to build on FLOW blockchain - How Play-To-Earn (...

Dirk Hartig is a professional crypto trader and partner of PRIME XBT, where he offers state-of-the-art educational content for their clients. In this conversation, we discuss: - 2021 Q4 crypto outlook - Crypto market predictions - BTC & ETH - How to choose altcoins - Common rookie mistakes in trading - Daily routines and rituals of a full-time day trader - Dos and don'ts of technical anal...

Joshua Goldbard is the Founder and CEO of MobileCoin -- a fast, safe, and easy-to-use payment technology that gives everyone the ability to digitally transact from nearly anywhere around the world. In this conversation, we discuss: - MobileCoin's growth story - Signal Messenger  - Series B announcement - Partnership with SBF - Daily routines and rituals - $MOB - MobileCoin privacy - Carbon-ne...

Michael Stockwell is the Founder of FizzPow Games and Creator of the hit Bitcoin Billionaire mobile game, now launching their very own Bitcoin Billionaires NFTs. In this conversation, we discuss: - Blockchain gaming studios - AAA game studios dabbling in crypto - Bitcoin Billionaires growth to 10 million downloads - P2E gaming - NFT utility - Bitcoin Billionaire NFT Pre-sale - Building community i...