The Charlie Shrem Show

My guest today is my friend Adam Goldman, the co-founder and president of  BitBUY.ca , a cryptocurrency brokerage firm. Prior to BitBuy, Adam was an entrepreneur with several startups under his belt and spent time working at Yahoo! as an IT business analyst. Bitbuy is the leading Canadian digital currency trading platform. The company's mission is to provide convenient, dependable and secure acces...

My guest today is my friend, William Noble, the Chief Technical Analyst at Token Metrics. Token Metrics is a data-driven cryptocurrency investment research platform that leverages artificial intelligence to build indices, rankings, and price predictions to help crypto investors build profitable portfolios. Bill is also the host of Token Metrics's podcast and Youtube channel. Prior to Token Metrics...

My guests today are Medha Parlikar, CTO of CasperLabs, and Cliff Sarkin, COO of CaperLabs. Medha is a product and engineering leader with a wealth of experience delivering leading software projects at marquee companies including Adobe, Omniture, Avalara,  MP3.com , and DivX. Her first formal involvement with Blockchain came in 2017 with the RChain project where she served as the tech manager befor...

My guests today are my friends Steven Capone, the VP, Marketing at Fidelity Digital Assets, and Phil Leibovski, who runs a concierge trading desk. Steven has a wealth of experience: he has Voyager's first hire as their CMO, he has worked Microsoft as a Senior Strategist / Senior Business Development Mgr. Phil has been trading professionally in the crypto space for over 5 years and brings a deep un...

My guest today is Diego Gutierrez, CEO of IOVLabs. IOVLabs builds low-cost, highly secure, easy-to-use platforms for the new global economy. Diego is a pioneer of web development in Argentina and Latin America since 1995, Diego was also one of the first persons to foster and develop Bitcoin and blockchain technology in Latin America, which he has done since 2012. In addition to IOVLabs, he also ha...

My guests today are Luca Cosentino the Product Lead at Oasis Labs and Viktor Bunin a Protocol Specialist at Bison Trails. Oasis Labs is a privacy-first cloud computing platform on blockchain technology and Luca focuses on creating the infrastructure for privacy-preserving applications. Bison Trails is a technology platform providing enterprise-grade security, multi-cloud and multi-region distribut...

My guest today is Tom Albright, CEO of Bittrex Global. Bittrex Global is a secure, reliable and advanced digital asset trading platform developed for international customers and built on Bittrex’s cutting-edge technology. Before becoming CEO in February 2020, Tom served as general counsel of Bittrex in the United States, where he supervised all legal matters and managed all legal operations. This...

My guest today is my friend Steve Ehrlich is the co-Founder and CEO of Voyager, a retail-first publicly-traded, licensed crypto-asset broker that provides investors with a simple solution to trade crypto assets. Steve has a long history in the brokerage and market structure industry, he founded Lightspeed Financial, a retail broker-dealer where he was responsible for eight major transactions. This...

My guests today are Russell Cann, Chief Customer Success Officer, and Taras Kulyk, the Senior Vice President of Blockchain Business Development from Core Scientific. Our conversation focuses on the Digital Mining Industry. We discuss the role of mining within the Bitcoin Network, debunking the myths and false narratives centered around the environmental impact of Digital Asset Mining, how the mark...

My Guest today is my friend Michael Terpin an American investor, entrepreneur and public relations (PR) agency manager. Terpin in 2013 co-founded BitAngels, an investment network for blockchain technology startups, and Transform Group, a PR firm for the digital currency industry, in 2014. BitAngels was the first angel network for bitcoin and digital currency startups. The Transform Group is a bitc...

My guest today is my friend Anthony Di Iorio, a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, community organizer, and thought leader in the field of digital currencies, blockchain and decentralized technologies. I didn't know where this conversation would take us given Anthony's wide range of activities and influence in the digital asset space but I think this conversation provides a glimpse into the...

My guests today are John Sarson, CEO and Founder of Sarson Funds, and Jason Penner, Senior Trader and General Partner at Sarson Funds. Sarson Funds is an independent provider of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency marketing and educational services focusing on the financial professional community and their clients. Sarson Funds was among the first US cryptocurrency managers to directly addres...

My guest today is Pablo Gonzalez, Co-Founder and Chief Design Officer of Bitso, the leading cryptocurrency exchange platform in Latin America boasting 1 million users. Before venturing into the crypto space, Pablo founded his own design and animation firm where he worked on high profile games like FIFA and Resident Evil. I found this conversation fascinating and think it will be essential for anyo...

My guest today is my friend Chris Spadafora, founder of Badger DAO, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that has a single purpose: build the products and infrastructure necessary to accelerate Bitcoin as collateral across other blockchains. Chris is highly involved in the Crypto ecosystem; he organized Crypto After Dark, a Crypto COVID19 Charity Poker Tournament, he is a partner at Angel...

My guest today is my friend Tim Frost, CEO and Co-Founder of Yield App, a fintech app making DeFi accessible to everyone. Prior to founding Yield, Tim helped build 2 previous digital banks, Wirex and EQIBank. Tim has also helped accelerate early-stage blockchain startups QTUM, NEO, Paxful, Polymath, and many others. I found this conversation fascinating and think it will be essential for anyone wh...

My guest today is Mikk Maal, CEO of Comistar. Comistar offers smart corporate governance solutions, including company incorporation, accounting, tax & legal advisory to help foreign entrepreneurs to do business in Estonia. Our conversation focuses on Estonia's E-Residency and how Estonia's institutions are all digitized. Mikk discusses the benefits of becoming an E-Resident of Estonia, the entrepr...

My guest today is Patrick Stanley, Founder & CEO of Freehold. Freehold is a community of cryptocurrency stakeholders focused on furthering the reputation, usefulness, and mission of their respective holdings. The Freehold model rewards hodlers who take an active role in educating, building, and growing within their community, and is designed so technical and non-technical holders can become real s...

My guest today is Gilbert Hill, CEO of TapMyData. TapMyData is a decentralized data protocol enabling people to own their digital identity and for companies to rebuild trust. Prior to becoming CEO of TapMyData, Gilbert founded Optanon and as the MD grew it to become the market leader in the provision of website auditing and cookie compliance solutions in the UK and EU. This is a must listen for th...

My guest today is Kevin Wang, Co-Founder and of the Nervos Network. The Nervos Network is an open source public blockchain ecosystem and collection of protocols focused on solving the biggest challenges facing blockchains today. The design of the Nervos Network is a sustainably secure, permissionless and decentralized Layer 1 blockchain that is built to scale with Layer 2 solutions, making Nervos...

My guest today is Joe Yu, is the Tech Coordinator for Sperax. Sperax is a blockchain infrastructure platform focused on enabling decentralized financial services. Joe helped Prof. Wang design the Sperax consensus protocol as his chief research assistant. He was also the co-author and presenter of Sperax's IEE paper — "Sperax: An Approach to Defeat Long Range Attack." We dive deep into the Consensu...

My guest today is my friend Jacques Voorhees, the Founder and CEO of Icecap. Icecap is a Blockchain-Based Diamond Marketplace. Icecap uses Ethereum-based, non-fungible tokens to represent ownership of individual diamonds. Jacques Voorhees is a serial entrepreneur, prior to Icecap, founded and was the past president of Polygon, one of the most disruptive initiatives to hit the diamond industry in t...

My guest today is Brandon Mintz, Founder and CEO of Bitcoin Depot. Brandon has spent his whole career in the crypto-space. He began his career by starting Cash To Crypto, which became one of the first professional OTC crypto trading companies in the world. Following the success with Cash to Crypto, in 2016 Brandon founded his current company, Bitcoin Depot. Bitcoin Depot currently has hundreds of...

My guest today is my friend Charles Silver, CEO of  Permission. IO  an e-commerce platform where instead of merchants paying centralized third-party platforms to engage consumers, merchants compensate consumers for their time and data directly with ASK cryptocurrency. The platform enables businesses to connect with individuals on a permission basis, building trusted, transparent, and interruption-...

Graham Friedman is Director at Republic Advisory Service & Co-founder and Partner at TLDR Global, a global investment firm, focusing on tokenized assets and DLT technology. Prior to joing the crypto space, Graham spent over a decade of working in multimedia; shooting commercials for major brands and pioneering new media strategies, such as live-stream integration, vertical video, and more. We disc...

My guest today is my friend, Spencer Bogart, General Partner at Blockchain Capital - a leading venture firm in the crypto and blockchain industry. Spencer has made over 90 investments in companies and protocols in the sector, across different stages, geographies and asset types. Prior to Blockchain Capital , Spencer was a part of the Internet Equity Research team at Needham & Company, an investmen...