The Charlie Shrem Show

My guest today is Edward Woodford, Co-founder and CEO of Zero Hash. Zero Hash offers a post-trade settlement utility to bridge a fragmented market of diverse execution platforms. Participants leverage Zero Hash’s innovative technology, regulatory compliance and operational excellence to settle confidently across the ecosystem. Prior to Zero Cash, Edward was working in the financial sector mainly i...

My guest today is Chris Burniske, Co-founder of Placeholder, a New York venture capital firm that specializes in crypto-assets. Prior to Placeholder, Chris pioneered ARK Investment Management's Next Generation Internet strategy, leading the firm to become the first public fund manager to invest in bitcoin. Our wide-ranging conversation covers Satoshi Nakamoto & and try to understand why they decid...

My guest today is Kyle Samani, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital. Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in blockchain and crypto companies with the purpose of making capital markets more efficient and accessible to everyone, helping enable Web3.0 and data emancipation, and the integration of global state-free money. Samani is one of the leading author...

My guest today is David Waslen, CEO of Rublix. Rublix is a software development company focused on Fintech fueled by blockchain technology, their first decentralized project is HedgeTrade. HedgeTrade is a crypto prediction social marketplace, where traders can post trading predictions and are rewarded if their information/prediction was accurate. HedgeTrade accomplishes this by holding forecasters...

My guest today is Pooja Shah, Product Lead at Filecoin. Filecoin is a decentralized storage network that turns the world’s unused storage into an algorithmic market, creating a permanent, decentralized future for the web. Prior to joining Filecoin, Pooja worked at Palantir, the leading Big data analytics company for Governments and Intelligence agencies, and started her own company Dagny, a virtua...

My guest today is CryptoBirb, Founder and CEO of The Birb Nest. The Birb Nest is one of the most successful crypto educational and trading community platforms, with hundreds of clients powered by a top notch team with proven expertise in technical analysis, fundamental analysis and IT. CryptoBirb is a Chemical Engineer turned Crypto and Legacy market trader. Our conversation covers the 2020 Crypto...

My guest today is Fan Long, co-founder of Conflux, founder and president of Tree-Graph Blockchain Research Institute and currently an Assistant Professor at University of Toronto. Conflux is a next generation blockchain protocol with a focus on scalability, security and extensibility. Fan holds a Ph. D in Computer Science from MIT. His research interests included systems security, programming lang...

Gabriel Abed is an expert on Central Bank digital currencies, blockchain technology, and is a pioneer and a leader within the Caribbean blockchain and crypto industry. Gabriel co-founded and was the Vice Chairman at Bitt, the leading Caribbean-based digital asset exchange. Gabriel has given presentations on digital currencies and blockchain technology to the leading economic and political institut...

Greg Isenberg, Founder of Late Checkout, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Greg and Charlie discuss Late Checkout, web design, communities, design tools, product marketing, early internet, engineering, social internet, crypto, art, intuition marketing, tokens, incentives, and building massive communities. ––– Coingaming was formed when one Australian professional poker play...

Koroush AK, Founder of Market Meditations, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Koroush and Charlie discuss trading, meditation, defi, Bitcoin, blockchain, podcasting, therapy, master classes, decentralization, youtube, social media, world economics, philosophy, delivering value, and shedding light on crypto markets.  ––– Bitpay Card The all new Bitpay card is chalked full of...

Tatiana Moroz, Founder of the Tatiana Show, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Tatiana and Charlie discuss art, cryptocurrency, libertarians, elections, speculation, blockchain, Bitcoin, chat rooms, crypto culture, decentralization, principles, tokenomics, Defi, crypto museums, Coinbase, and discoverings Bitcoin history. ––– Coingaming was formed when one Australian professi...

Yanislav Malahov, Founder of Aeternity, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Yanislav and Charlie discuss Aeternity, Ethereum, mass adoption, decentralization, smart contracts, speculation, blockchain, Vitalik, early days of Bitcoin, alt coins, Master Coin, Bitcoin Forks, Bitcoin nodes, and building unstoppable crypto scripts.  ––– Bitpay Card The all new Bitpay card is chalke...

Rob “Crypto Bobby” Paone, Founder of Proof of Talent, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Rob and Charlie discuss Proof of Talent, bull markets, crypto talent pool, crypto jobs, digital securities, hiring potential, Bitcoin, centralized organizations, Microstrategies, corporate strategies, youtube growth, market research, and building a company in crypto. ––– Coingaming was f...

Mohamed El Masri, Founder of Permian Chain, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Mohamed and Charlie discuss Permian Chain, capital markets, financial markets, corporate finance, growth equity strategies, fintech, the digital economy, Bitcoin, ICO’s, blockchain, private equity funds, digital securities, tokenized assets, network adoption, supply chains, and Bitcoin mining.  ––...

Ethan Buchman, Co Founder of Cosmos, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Ethan and Charlie discuss social cohesion, social experiments, political economics, institutions, governance, Defi, speculation, sushi swap, experimental finance, legacy systems, decentralization, digital life forms, biophysics, sustainability, and building the infrastructure of the future. ––– Coingamin...

Richard Ells, Founder of Electroneum, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Richard and Charlie discuss community, Electroneum, anonymity, social contracts, crypto for good, utility tokens, gig economy, blockchain, speculation, real world transactions, global payment systems, any task platforms, equities, use cases for blockchain, and millions joining the crypto space.  ––– Bit...

Simon Harman, CEO of Loki, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Simon and Charlie discuss privacy, Bitcoin, anonymity, distributed systems, commerce, cash jobs, cashless societies, government systems, Loki Network, blockchain, socialism, crypto trading, Monero, masternode systems, off chain activities, private messaging, distributed products, centralized systems, the future of...

Diogo Monica, President of Anchorage, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Diogo and Charlie discuss Square, Bitcoin, Bitinstant, centralization, early days of Bitcoin, distributed systems, proof of work, monetary policy, economic theory, self organizing, malicious nodes, Bittorrent, security protocols, adversarial nodes, public keys, economic incentive, hashing, computational...

Jenna Pilgrim, Founder of Streambed, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Jenna and Charlie discuss Bitcoin business, software development, connecting people, Bitcoin events, blockchain native, crypto careers, hyper connecting, building businesses, the digital economy, consuming media, early Bitcoin adoption, the reputation mechanism, Blockchain revolution, financial services,...

Tim Heath, Founder of Coingaming, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Tim and Charlie discuss venture capital, gaming, global payment systems, KYC, sportsbooks, customer service, gaming fueling Bitcoin adoption, casinos, third party intermediaries, fighting fraud, poker, early adopters, easy payment methods, crypto gambling, Ethereum, BCH, and building a massive crypto gaming...

CZ, Founder of Binance, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. CZ and Charlie discuss finance, decentralization, Bitcoin, private keys, defi, centralization, mass adoption, Binance, staking, earning interest in crypto, counterparty risks, smart contracts, DAO’s, publicly traded companies, ICO’s, yield farming, issuing tokens, high yields, liquidity swap, launch pool, bull market...

Antoni Trenchev, Co Founder of Nexo Finance, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Antoni and Charlie discuss protesting, Parliament, Bitcoin, corporations, crypto reality, philosophy, government, decentralization, capital markets, socialism, banking on crypto, earning interest in crypto, stable coins, financial greed, Covid19, global crypto merchants, self sovereignty, antifra...

Sebastien Couture, Founder of Epicenter Podcast, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Sebastien and Charlie discuss podcasting , early days of Bitcoin, building Bitcoin communities, media in crypto, cryptos future, running startups, Bitcoin conferences, monetary policy, early crypto podcasts, regulation, disrupting Wall Street, money printing, the crypto boom, quality projects...

Amaury Sechet, Lead developer of Bitcoin Cash, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Amaury and Charlie discuss BCH development, Bitcoin Cash, Satoshi Roundtable, Bitcoin, The Cyprus Crisis, hash wars, selling out to banks, Satoshis Vision, socioeconomics, The Bitcoin community, decentralization, Bitcoin resiliency, adversarial balance, the scaling debate, Bitcoin SV, splitting...

Ido Sadeh Man, Founder of Sögur Currency, joins Charlie Shrem on today’s episode of Untold Stories. Ido and Charlie discuss , jazz, venture capital, social paradigms, blockchain, running startups, political science, philosophy, monetary policy, being humble, changing people lives, ability to earn a yield, Ethereum, concept of central banking, money printing, innovation vs compliance, fiat currenci...