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Arif Khan is CEO and Co-Founder of Alethea AI. As inventor of the iNFT protocol, Arif is leading Alethea AI's mission of building an intelligent open metaverse, which is filled with intelligent and interactive NFTs. His main focus is preserving and evolving the culture and collective intelligence of the human species. --   Support our show with some ETH: showmethecrypto.eth Our "OG Fan" NFT i...

Michael Kong is CEO of Fantom Foundation. While studying IT and Finance at the University of Sydney, Michael researched smart contract security and eventually started a cryptocurrency fund with others from traditional finance called Token Capital Management, which assisted Fantom in raising funds in 2018. Michael's involvement in Fantom continued to evolve until he eventually became CEO of Fantom...

At the end of every episode of Show Me The Crypto, we ask our guests, "What will the price of Bitcoin be 10 years from now?" We compiled all of our guests' answer from 2021 and identified the three boldest Bitcoin price predictions for the year 2031. We hope you enjoy this recap; it'll be fun to see how close (or far off) these predictions end up being 10 years from now!   *Note: This video w...

Joe Sticco is Co-Founder and CEO of Cryptex. Prior to buying his first Bitcoin in 2014, Joe was a long-time trader and asset manager. With the realization the financial landscape was rapidly changing, Joe dove deeper into crypto in 2016. In October 2018 he began building Cryptex, which officially launched this past April. Cryptex's flagship product is $TCAP, which is a token that represents the to...

Sara Baumann is the founder and artist behind Women and Weapons. From photography to painting to ceramics, Sara is a multidisciplinary artist who jumped head first into the NFT space earlier this year. Women and Weapons is a collection of 10,000 diverse, beautiful and badass women, and 5% of all proceeds from the collection go to The Malala Fund Charity so that girls and women worldwide can gain a...

Hailey Lennon is a Partner at Anderson Kill law firm and Founder of Crypto Connect. With early career plans of being a traditional corporate litigation attorney, Hailey quickly realized that wasn't the path for her. Her career pivot and simultaneous discovery of crypto led her to provide regulatory counsel for Silvergate Bank, bitFlyer and Coinbase, while also being a regular contributor to Forbes...

Dennison Bertram is co-founder of Tally, which is a platform that provides governance tools for DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations). Dennison is an avid futurist, artist and serial entrepreneur with a keen eye for the future of technology and its social impacts. He has a vision that, long-term, DAOs will replace corporations as the primary entity that people will elect to use to organize...

Hugh Karp is the founder of Nexus Mutual. With 15 years of experience in traditional insurance, Hugh stumbled across Bitcoin in 2010, and was intrigued by the concept, but it wasn't until discovering Ethereum in 2016 that he began to grasp the potential of merging insurance with blockchain tech. Nexus Mutual is a decentralized alternative to insurance, which uses the Ethereum blockchain to create...

Tom Bilyeu — co-founder of Impact Theory — is Show Me The Crypto’s first ever returning guest. In our conversation with Tom last month, we discussed Impact Theory’s Founder’s Key NFT project; on this episode we chat about one of the first of many projects on Impact Theory’s slate, which is a holiday-themed generative NFT collection called MerryModz. Francisco Herrera is Tom’s partner-in-crime on t...

Sean Gardner is Co-Founder of Emanate and Founding Board Member of MODA Dao. For the past four years, Sean has found himself in the middle of the Venn diagram where the music industry and blockchain technology overlap. Sean's mission is to help the world's best technologists work with the world's most creative people with the goal of creating meaningful change. -- Our "OG Fan" NFT is here! There w...

Ethan Lou is the author of Once a Bitcoin Miner: Scandal and Turmoil in the Cryptocurrency Wild West. In 2019, Ethan attended a blockchain conference in North Korea along with only seven other foreign attendees, one of whom was Virgil Griffith of the Ethereum Foundation (Virgil was arrested for alleged conspiracy in late 2019). In his book, Ethan gives a deep dive into his own crypto journey, and...

Tom Bilyeu is co-founder of billion-dollar brand Quest Nutrition and co-founder/host of Impact Theory. From growing up in Tacoma Washington and working his first summer job at the age of 12 to building a unicorn business, millions have been inspired and empowered by Tom's ability to unlock their potential to make an impact in the world. Recently, Tom has expressed he feels a moral obligation to ex...

Harsh Rajat is founder of Ethereum Push Notification Service, which is a decentralized protocol that allows Ethereum users to receive notifications for on-chain or off-chain activity. In 2010, Harsh became a mobile app entrepreneur, but four years later, after becoming bored of programming apps, he began exploring other areas of tech and came across Crypto. He created EPNS in 2020 with the goal of...

While some dream of making it on the cover of Fortune magazine, Pplpleasr literally made the August/September cover of Fortune magazine. What started with making cool DeFi-related animation videos quickly propelled Pplpleasr's reputation, and in January of this year, Uniswap approached her to create a video for their v3 launch.  The video was auctioned off as an NFT and the bidding war was wo...

Charlie Lee is the Creator of Litecoin and an OG Crypto Legend. On Oct. 13, 2011, nearly 10 years ago to this date, Charlie unveiled Litecoin to the world with the aim of creating the digital silver to Bitcoin's gold. A decade later, Litecoin continues to stand strong as a Top 15 cryptocurrency by market cap, and Charlie works as Managing Director of the Litecoin Foundation with a focus on Litecoi...

DeFi Dad is a decentralized finance educator, investor and super-user who, in 2017, fell deep into the crypto rabbit hole after reading Chris Burniske's Cryptoassets and listening to countless episodes of Laura Shin's Unchained Podcast. Later that year, he saved invested $600 to attend Ethereal San Francisco, and by July 2018, DeFi Dad was working full-time in Ethereum. -- Our "OG Fan" NFT is here...

Jeff Booth is a technology entrepreneur and the author of The Price of Tomorrow. He is passionate about looking at big problems, and solving those problems through the lens of technology. Inspired by his children's future, Jeff wrote The Price of Tomorrow to deeply explore how the deflationary nature of technology is bumping up against the world we've always lived in, which requires inflation to t...

Shahar Abrams is Founder and CEO of Road to Babylon. In 2017, on a flight to Alabama, Shahar began reading The Business Blockchain by William Mougayar, and by the time the plane landed, he knew that he wanted to spend his life focused on blockchain technology. From 2018 until early 2021, Shahar was IBM's Public Sector Blockchain Delivery Lead, and in January of this year he parted ways with IBM to...

Hudson Jameson, Co-Founder of Ethereum Cat Herders, is about as OG as it gets in the crypto space. Since discovering Bitcoin in 2011, Hudson has played an active role in various online communities in support of decentralized technology, including Ethereum and ZCash. From 2016 until April of this year, he worked with the Ethereum Foundation and he currently is a committee member of ZCash Open Major...

Travis Uhrig is the co-founder of Curio Cards, which is the oldest known NFT art project on Ethereum. Launching on May 9, 2017, well before "NFT" was a household acronym (and even before the launch of CryptoPunks), the goal of the project was to use Ethereum to create a new model for digital artwork ownership. The collection features 30 unique NFT cards from 7 different artists. Aside from being c...

Mack Flavelle is the co-founder and creative force behind game-changing NFT projects such as CryptoKitties and NBA Top Shot. Currently, Mack's company, Big Head Club, is working collaboratively with actress Mila Kunis on a revolutionary NFT animated collection called Stoner Cats.   -- Our "OG Fan" NFT is here! There will only ever be one of this version... and you can be the owner!  http...

Camila Russo is founder of The Defiant and author of The Infinite Machine. In 2013, while working for Bloomberg in Argentina, Camila wrote an article about how Argentines were using Bitcoin to protect against currency controls and double-digit inflation. Since then, crypto has been on Camila's radar and in 2019 she founded The Defiant — a media company focused on decentralized finance — with the m...

Natalie Brunell is an Emmy-winning journalist and host of two podcasts: Coin Stories and Career Stories. Natalie and her family immigrated to the United States from Poland when she was five years old and, at the time, they taught themselves English by watching news programs and movies on their television. Today, the tables have turned and Natalie is the one with the audience. Her latest project, C...

Damien King is co-founder and CEO/CTO of PUML Better Health. Earlier in his career, while working on a start-up side hustle and using Red Bull as a fuel source, Damien began to notice his own health deteriorating. That experience led to the discovery of PUML Better Health, which gamifies employee health and rewards users with a cryptocurrency called PUML Coin. Damien's goal is to make the wor...

Devon Bernard is a full-stack engineer and product manager who was recently involved in the first ever real estate property sale via a non-fungible token. For 36 ETH, Devon purchased Tech Crunch founder Michael Arrington’s 500-square-foot apartment in Kiev, Ukraine, or more specifically, an NFT that represents ownership of that property. The proof-of-concept sale was the first of its kind, and cre...