The Blockchain Show

Jack Ottman is Chief Operating Officer at Minds. Jack is welcomed back for a look into recent updates on the Minds social network platform.    Get 20% OFF + Free Shipping with promo code BLOCKCHAIN at MANSCAPED.com

Dan Edlebeck is Co-founder and CEO of Exidio , Sentinel 's development arm. He joins host Ethan for an informative episode concerning the need for decentralized virtual private networks, or dVPNs. With recent hacks into centralized VPNs, this development comes at a crucial time for internet freedom. Dan outlines how they are building on the Cosmos blockchain and how individuals can get involved an...

Steve and Ethan look back at the last five years of the podcast.  Other topics include: the switch to Ethereum 2.0, staking, Elon Musk's tweets, committing to crypto, and what we're looking forward to in the near future.

Nick Saponaro is an entrepreneur, crypto enthusiast, and keynote speaker who is passionate about helping Crypto achieve its vision to deliver a truly decentralized financial services paradigm that benefits everyone. As Divi's CIO, he deploys his programming and functional design skills to achieve the company's core aim; to make crypto easy and drive its mainstream adoption. Media appearances inclu...

We hosted Jack O'Holleran, SKALE's CEO back in February of 2019. We discussed Proof of Stake Blockchains and SKALE. A lot has happened at since then. SKALE is currently going through a big and exciting network upgrade that will bring multichain to Ethereum.  Jack talks about the Ethereum Ecosystem Development and the role of L2s like SKALE - which is a center of the conversation at the moment. Jac...

Prabhakar is the Co-Founder of FalconX. He exited his last venture to an Accel Partners portfolio company, prior to joining Accel as an investor. At Accel, one of the largest and most successful VC firms in the world, Prabhakar focused on Blockchain, B2B, and Enterprise SaaS investments. Prabhakar is a serial entrepreneur with over nine years of experience running successful digital media and onli...

William Quigley is co-founder of the first-ever stablecoin and most traded cryptocurrency in the world, Tether . He is also the co-founder of WAX , the world's leading decentralized NFT ecosystem. NFTs are very popular currently, and have moved  into sports, art, design, and more. William explains to host Ethan how NFTs and the blockchain will completely transform the way we do modern business and...

Aaron Kaplan is the founder and co-CEO of Prometheum , Inc., a NYC based fintech company building a Federal Securities Law compliant, blockchain native, public market infrastructure servicing the entire digital asset lifecycle. Aaron is also of counsel at Gusrae Kaplan Nusbaum, where since 2013 he has focused his practice on the applications of distributed ledger technology in the securities indus...

Lihan Lee is the Co-CEO / Founder at Xangle.io . We talk about the need for standardized disclosure practices in blockchain projects, investor relations best practices for crypto startups, what South Korean crypto investors are looking for, how they're helping expose and avoid scams, and the state of the crypto market in South Korea.

Marc Grens is the Co-Founder & President of DigitalMint . He is a serial entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience in the investment industry. Prior to DigitalMint, Grens held senior positions at Charles Schwab, HighTower Advisors, and Alpha Strategies. He received his M.B.A. from the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University in 2010, and a B.A. from Illinois State Univer...

Justin Rice is the Head of Ecosystem for the Stellar Development Foundation , the nonprofit supporting Stellar's growth, and has a wide variety of topics that interest him. Some of those topics include: Community Development - As Head of Ecosystem, Justin specializes in working closely with the developers that are building on Stellar's network. Stellar Ecosystem - Another key focus of Justin's rol...

Steve interviews Jack Leahy from the  Enterprise Ethereum Alliance . The EEA enables organizations to adopt and use Ethereum technology in their daily business operations.  Visit https://entethalliance.org/news/  to find current news and upcoming events

Christian Kameir is Managing Partner at Sustany Capital. He brings Ethan up to speed on current blockchain venture capital insights. His last appearance on The Blockchain Show was episode 78 . Topics covered include: Why Bitcoin failed to deliver on internet cash. What his recommendations for startups would be to raise money. The impact of regulation in the blockchain space. Some core criteria for...

Adam Jackson is the CEO of Braintrust , the world's first user controlled network that connects organizations to highly skilled tech talent. Their company shares have been tokenized and distributed as cryptocurrency amongst the freelance talent that uses the network. A huge leap forward for the gig economy especially during the era of working from home. 

Utopia Genesis Foundation is creating a base for the music industry that benefits artists and creators and streamlines the business. By harnessing big data and the power of blockchain, Utopia will provide the UOP with the needed data to usher in a new ecosystem thereby addressing current problems. Thus promoting growth, innovation, and a new stream of creativity in the music industry.

Michael Beches is the Growth Manager for VAIOT, the developer of AI-powered services for businesses. They are leveraging both AI and blockchain technology to offer B2C businesses an intelligent virtual assistant with a seamless user interface for convenient communication with customers.

Fred Chesnais is the CEO of Atari. You can learn more about their blockchain gaming initiative at atarichain.com Mass adoption of blockchain technology has been a central theme of this podcast since 2016. Fred helps explain to Blockchain Show host Ethan how Atari is making it happen. This includes the Atari Token, Exchange, Casino, and Betting with more to come including a new Atari PC / console h...

INVIZION is a decentralized Digital Token for funding green renewable energy projects, along with waste tracking, that utilizes blockchain technology. Russ Lema and Daryl Taylor join Blockchain Show host Ethan for an innovative look into how the NVZN token is fixing the waste and renewable energy industry.   

Mythical is a next generation game technology studio utilizing a digital and open standard for virtual items on blockchain with dGoods. Rudy and Cameron from the team join Blockchain Show host Ethan for a look into the upcoming Blankos Block Party game and the changes to the gaming industry that will surely follow.

Easy Crypto Hunter is the UK's largest manufacturer and supplier of GPU mining. They're helping to build the renewable energy sector by encouraging more sites to be built. The excess energy generated powers mining rigs and gives the miners a far greater return than the traditional model of selling the electricity back to the grid. What may seem too good to be true is actually possible and CEO Josh...

Helen Hai is heading Binance's Blockchain Charity initiative which concentrates on using blockchain for social good. Helen is the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Goodwill Ambassador for industrialization in Africa among many other accolades. She joins host Ethan and reveals how donating with blockchain technology is superior to legacy systems and the remarkable progress...

Danny Oyekan is the founder and CEO of Dan Holdings - Africa's leading fintech, blockchain, artificial intelligence and emerging technologies firm. They're developing new blockchain-powered products and services, including Telechat - a chat application with a built in social payment application for cryptocurrency, Coins App - an all-in-one social payment application for global digital currencies,...

Tito Titov is the CEO of JellySwap , a DEX working on several blockchains aiming to solve the interoperability issues between the different networks. In addition to swapping coins, users can provide liquidity and become market makers thereby enabling them to make profit. Tito is joined accompanied with CTO Krasimir Raykov for an interview with Blockchain Show host Ethan for a look into JellySwap's...

Nadav Zeimer has worked in technology and education for decades, from software engineering in the Silicon Valley to serving as a principal in NYC. Thus, Nadav has unique insights into how blockchain technology can help students. He's been recognized for his digital media centered approach to reforming schools by integrating podcasting into his curricula.  In his book  Education in the Digital Age:...

Michelle O'Connor is VP of Marketing and Community at  Uphold , an "anything-to-anything" digital money platform, serving two million customers in more than forty countries, with access to fifty-five currencies, including commodities, digital assets and precious metals.  Michelle is passionate about building the future of inclusive finance through emerging technologies and was recently recognized...