Future Signal

Since the beginning of computing and then the internet, connection speed and our desire to improve it has been an ongoing narrative. As a kid, I can remember dial up, living abroad in Central America in my early 20s it was a USB-like thumb drive that I loaded up like a prepaid phone card which then allowed me to keep in touch with friends and family stateside and while the speed wasn’t great - it...

I’ve often said that crypto is community because anytime you meet another person who’s also into crypto- there’s often an immediate connection and energy around something that, well, is still fairly underground. So, it was great to finally connect with this episode’s guest, Jose Pichardo-Eve, and learn more about his crypto  journey and what he’s excited about in the space moving forward. On...

Season 3 is here and it's time to expand the brand of More Than Blockchain beyond just being a podcast. On this episode, Jarrett shares about how he's working to build out more audio with Not Crypto Bros, a curated video playlist, and share written institutional grade content all via the MTB website (https://www.morethanblockchain.xyz/) . He also discusses building out educational online courses a...

As buzzwords like crypto, bitcoin, and NFT become ever more imbedded in our daily lives and society as a whole, it’s no surprise that academic institutions would be some of the first to consider how blockchain might impact their faculty, students, alumni and communities in general. On our 40th episode, I sit down with a member of Bentley University who will share how Bentley is currently accepting...

Imagine playing an arcade style game like Tetris and getting paid in cryptocurrency for being a top scorer after only paying a penny to play and with the potential of even winning tokens for participation. Well, this isn’t part of a potential future - it’s already happening today by leveraging blockchain and micropayments. My guest on this episode, Joe De Pinto, is a former professional baseball p...

Traditionally, real estate has been thought of in terms of either physical residential or commercial properties - everything from the single family home to a massive office park. The internet, however, made us rethink real estate and brought to the forefront the idea of "digital real estate" - you know where domains, like physical addresses, were coveted as they were unique and non-fungible. An ex...

As web3 and crypto mature, there’s likely going to be increased demand from both creators and users for insurance. You know the thing you pay monthly for your car, home, apartment, even for your life with life insurance. Insurance is seemingly a natural part of any sector’s evolution where there’s a lot of money being exchanged for the sale and purchase of good and services. And even in a landscap...

There are a 1,000 reasons not to own Bitcoin. Although, I argue on this episode that people, maybe even you, don't own due to your/the fear of its "newness". What if you were to view Bitcoin as a avant-garde technology, like the rotary engine, an airplane, the automobile, the internet or even Facebook, would that change your view of it? Bitcoin is much more than just a potentially sound financial...

Calcio is Italian for football or soccer, and to be honest there are a lot of different names for the beautiful game around the world. On today’s episode, I catch up with Mark Anthony De Francesco and we chat about how blockchain, crypto, NFTs and tokenization will likely change the world of sports for fans, players, owners and anyone tied into the ecosystem of entertainment that is professional s...

Yesterday, I ran into someone I’ve known since high school and when she asked about my podcasts, the topic of the metaverse came up. If you check out some earlier More Than Blockchain episodes, you’ll know that I’m very bullish on the potential of the metaverse and really feel that it will eventually be the place where we spend a lot of our time. In episode 15, I outline multiple ways in which I t...

In episode 29, I outlined what I wanted to build during this crypto winter, and on this episode I’m going to share with you some audio from the inaugural episode of Not Crypto Bros which is a new podcast I helped to co-found. Not Crypto Bros features Co-Hosts Grant Nieddu, Jay Harris and Jarrett Carpenter. To listen and learn more about Not Crypto Bros find us on:  Spotify - https://open.spot...

The future is here and it’s web3. However, people need more direction and as I discuss with my guests today some people entering the space interested to create don’t even know what to google or what questions to ask which is truly a sign that while web3 is here it’s extremely new. On this episode, I chat with Tomas Pansini and Adam Vallejo two of the cofounders of Co-Labs which is a full stack web...

In 2017, I remember being up in crypto, then by the end of the first quarter of 2018 I was down. In 9 months I had seen my initial investment peak around 15x and then tumble back down to below my initial investment entry prices and that's crypto - it's brutal! The highs are higher than you can fathom and can make even Everest look small and the lows are the Mariana trench and then some. On this ep...

The word "phygital" is the blending of the words physical and digital and refers to a product, service or experience that's a blend between both the physical and digital. For this episode’s guest, Victor Rivera, phygital is the best way to describe the way in which he’s blending the physical with the virtual world. Victor is a veteran collector of African art and one visit to his Opensea page (htt...

With the crypto winter here, it's time to build. In the last episode, I outlined how I'm planning to navigate the crypto winter from a financial standpoint - even though it wasn't financial advice.  On this episode, I candidly share what I'm going to build with More Than Blockchain and how I’d like to transform the brand into a media agency with a variety of content from podcasts, videos, blogs, a...

Discords have gone quiet. Twitter has become less optimistic and full of apocalyptic memes.  Bitcoin’s price has dropped below the 2017 previous ATH of $20k.  And, NFT floor prices are dropping even as Ethereum’s price drops with the rest of the crypto market.  That’s right the bear market is here or crypto winter, a phrase used to speak more specifically about the cryptocurrency market.  On this...

Crypto and NFTs are new, so there’s a lot of demand for informative and easily digestible educational content. The need for educational content around crypto is so great that rapper Jay Z and ex Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey just created the bitcoin academy to support Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn community members in their understanding of Bitcoin. This demand for digestible content aligns perfectly with my guest...

When I think about a day trader, I often picture the character of Bud Fox who was played by Charlie Sheen in the 1987 movie Wall Street. If you haven’t seen the movie that’s okay because the imagery portrayed throughout the film is likely what you think of when you imagine a day trader — fresh suits, expensive shoes, big mansions in the Hampton’s, fancy apartments in mid town Manhattan. But, this...

In episode 23, I laid out 3 reasons why I feel that 99% of current NFT projects will flop by 2024. To build upon that episode, and focus on the 1% of NFTs that won’t flop, I’d like to lay out 3 reasons why I think GaryVee’s VeeFriends NFT will not only be in the 1% of NFT projects that will survive but will thrive and be a successful case study for other NFTs to emulate moving forward. To learn mo...

On this podcast, I often talk with guests about the waves they’re making in web3 and yet, it always feels a little off as 99% of my day is spent on web2 even if I am talking about web3. LinkedIn and Twitter, while major hubs for web3 chatter and community, are very much web2, so it was refreshing to have a guest speak to this dichotomy and share the idea that not everything needs to be web3. And t...

Since the crypto bull run of 2020 started and flowed into 2021 and now into 2022 , it seems like there’s a new NFT project every hour or a new discord to join and grind in the hopes of getting a coveted WL spot to then mint an NFT.  I must admit, I totally partook in the whole NFT madness of 2021 and now have a nice little portfolio of NFTs. However, on this episode I want to briefly share 3 reaso...

According to coinmarketcap.com there are currently more than 19 thousand cryptocurrencies that can be bought and sold either through centralized or decentralized exchanges, however there is only one Bitcoin. But, this idea often gets lost among the newly created DAO and DeFi projects and the literal open sea of NFTs where seemingly every brand is about to drop their own NFT project. The more I div...

As a kid, I, like many, ripped music off Napster and Limewire, downloaded it to my desktop and then burned it onto CDs. Since Sean Parker disrupted the music industry with Napster, the distribution of music has evolved greatly and landed us in a world of subscription services which give listeners unlimited access to millions of songs whenever they want to hear them - there’s Apple Music, Amazon mu...

I was raised in the world of Web1, went to High School and College in web2 and more recently have found myself not only immersed but fascinated daily by the people I meet via web3, NFTs and the metaverse. The metaverse especially is maturing seemingly weekly as more and more funding is allocated towards the space. Citi bank has high expectations for the metaverse, with its analysts projecting the...

In a more candid approach, Jarrett discusses the simple idea that 1 Bitcoin could eventually be worth 1 million US dollars. It's something that may sound wild but many within the bitcoin, investing and hard-money community think this number may be conservative even within the next decade. With inflation, money printing or what governments now call "quantitative easing", supply chain shocks, war an...