In Early: The Crypto Podcast

ORIGINALLY RELEASED 04/04/23 This week episode features Peter Shekleton, a director of sales at BitGo, a regulated provider of (i) custody, (i) financial services and (i) core infrastructure for investors and builders alike. We talk about what holders of crypto assets should consider, why BitGo, have been making positive headlines for safekeeping funds previously held by FTX and associated with Mt...

ORIGINALLY RELEASED 14/03/23 This week Matt speaks to Aidan Larkin the Co-Founder and CEO of Asset Reality, a tech stars backed firm providing digital asset recovery as a service, to both the private and government agencies alike. Aidan and Matt have known each other for some years and have worked together to assist parties trace, locate, ringfence, freeze, return and realise their crypto funds an...

ORIGINALLY RELEASED 27/02/23 This week is all about Bitcoin and one of the biggest threats to the integrity of the Bitcoin blockchain - the case of Tulip Trading (recently in the Court of Appeal), in which the Claimant (Craig Wright's trust), seeks to transfer his misappropriated Bitcoin without a private key, looking for the developers of the blockchain to do it for him. It is worth considering w...

ORIGINALLY RELEASED 22/02/23 This week Matt Green speaks to Lavinia Osbourne, the Founder of Women in Blockchain Talks, who has been credited as a Linkedin top voice 2021 and on Wirex's rising women in crypto power list 2021, and is the claimant in a widely known High Court litigation confirming NFTs as property. They speak about why this sector needs diversity, Lavinia's mission and how it can be...

ORIGINALLY RELEASED 05/02/23 Episode 6 features Ryan Winchester, the founder of the Goofy Gophers Mining Club, an NFT project that mines multiple coins using a variety of ASIC miners, to make mining (or fractionalised mining) more accessible to the public.

ORIGINALLY RELEASED 15/12/22 This episode features Dhivyan Kandiah, the Co-Founder and COO of the HoT DAO, or House Token Decentralised Autonomous Organisation, which utilises London real estate to back its stablecoin called HGBP, and keeps it pegged to the GBP. We speak about how DAOs work, his response to the Law Commission's call for evidence around DAOs, hacks and legal issues around liability...

ORIGINALLY RELEASED 02/12/22 This episode features Brian Mondoh, who talks about how and where crypto sits in the world of academics, alternative use cases of blockchain technology along with more about Brian himself, a dual qualified barrister, originally from Kenya with deep roots in Trinidad and Tobago and current resident of Nottingham where he is studying his PhD.

ORIGINALLY RELEASED 21/11/22 The third episode of “In Early- The Crypto Podcast” goes through the fundamentals of Bitcoin from a base level, detailing what both Bitcoin and money really are, why Bitcoin has value and how it compares to other assets, what proof of work is and why “decentralised digital money” is so important right now. Huge thanks to Andrew Howard, the Chief Business Development Of...

ORIGINALLY RELEASED 08/11/22 This week we learn how the recovery of land in Panama and mines in Zambia led to the development of a specialised digital asset recovery practice, how Carmel's team trace crypto funds on blockchains and identify fraudsters using specialist intelligence, how they enforce orders around the world and realise crypto assets, the role of litigation funding and class actions,...

ORIGINALLY RELEASED 02/11/22 This inaugural episode features Ben Appleby, Founder and CEO of The CAKE, a "decentralised support platform form the crypto ecosystem". We find out more about Ben, who says he was the first person in Europe to use a Bitcoin ATM, what he got up to in Parliament, his position on DAOS and decentralised apps, and what they are, as well as why he set up the CAKE, what it st...