The Charlie Shrem Show

Marc Fleury, Founder and CEO of Two Prime, joins Charlie Shrem on this week’s episode of Untold Stories. They begin by talking about the open source movement and why it is so attractive for developers. Marc continues with comparisons between crypto today and internet and software development in the 90's and makes an amazing alien reveal. Charlie and Marc agree that Bitcoin showed resilience surviv...

Ryan Selkis, CEO of Messari, joins Charlie Shrem on this week’s episode of Untold Stories. They begin by talking about what drew Ryan into researching Bitcoin in the first place and what led him to writing about it. Ryan talks a bit about Messari's mission to improve industry data standards which leads the discussion to his research into Mt. Gox just as it was unraveling in late 2013-2014. He reve...

David Bailey, CEO of BTC Inc, joins Charlie Shrem on this week’s episode of Untold Stories. Charlie and David begin with a discussion of the first wave of Bitcoin growth and the seminal San Jose Bitcoin Conference in 2013. David describes his company's evolution from yBitcoin to Bitcoin Magazine and it's place in the ecosystem as an archive of Bitcoin history. He further explains his recent refocu...

Clinton Donnelly, the Crypto Tax Fixer, joins Charlie Shrem on this week’s episode of Untold Stories. They begin by discussing a new question on this year's IRS forms asking everyone if they have owned, sent or received any crypto transaction. Clinton explains the importance of the question, potentially setting up the filer for past audits. Charlie and Clinton talk about big fish vs small fish and...

Ryan Taylor, CEO of Dash Core Group, joins Charlie Shrem on this week’s episode of Untold Stories. Charlie and Ryan begin by discussing the Dash focus on the user experience and how Dash has been working towards adoption, especially in Venezuela, and growing when other coins have not. The conversation flows into talk of the Dash block rewards, masternodes, security, and comparing to other networks...

Rodolfo Novak, CEO and Cofounder of Coinkite, joins Charlie Shrem on this week’s episode of Untold Stories. Charlie and Rodolfo begin with a discussion on value, comparing the value of domain names and squatting with the value of Bitcoin and the expansion of the altcoin markets. Rodolfo expounds on a 'winner takes most' concept and relates it all back to Bitcoin and its network effects. A discussi...

Tuur Demeester, Bitcoin thought leader and economist, joins Charlie Shrem on this week’s episode of Untold Stories. Tuur begins with a powerful comparison between Bitcoin today and the internet's Windows 95 moment when a critical threshold of people may begin to use and adopt it in 2020. He tempers his prediction with a warning that Bitcoin intolerance may arise as countries try to limit Bitcoin's...

David A Johnston, crypto pioneer and cofounder of BitAngels, joins Charlie Shrem on this week’s episode of Untold Stories. David begins by recounting the San Jose Bitcoin conference, a watershed event where he cofounded BitAngels. He gives his insights into the first attempts to put assets on Bitcoin with Mastercoin, Omni, and Tether. David recalls the early arguments around building on Bitcoin, w...

Arthur Breitman, founder of Tezos, joins Charlie Shrem on this week’s episode of Untold Stories. He explains how Tezos is trying to create a true digital commonwealth by incorporating liquid democracy and POS. Tezos has successfully completed two consensus votes so far and is preparing for its third, all in the span of a few years. Arthur describes his passion for self-amending systems, limited go...

Charlie Shrem interviews Jake Brukhman, the founder and managing director of Coinfund, the longest running VC fund in the crypto space operating since 2015. He shares how they didn’t even consider smart contracts in the beginning, only digital assets. Jake thinks we’re still very early in the crypto space and that radical innovation will require governance and regulation to get to market. He share...

Untold Stories presents Jeff Garzik, co-founder of Bloq this week to share his unique story. He previously worked for the open source software Linux and we use a lot of his work on our Android phones today. Jeff has been a ‘plumber’ for the crypto industry, always thinking of ways to develop the underlying infrastructure. He goes on to share his first hand experience dealing with Satoshi from the...

This week on Untold Stories, Charlie interviews Andrew Kiguel, CEO of Hut8Mining, a publicly traded company that partnered with Bitfury to create one of the largest BTC miners worldwide. Andrew always focused on how to educate the traditional investor and provide safe exposure to BTC. He has raised $1B through Canada’s capital pool program for the likes of Mike Novogratz and more. Hut8Mining has m...

Podcast Guru Peter McCormack, the famous host of “What Bitcoin Did” joins Charlie on Untold Stories for the 50th episode where he speaks in great detail about why podcasts are growing and why they are much better alternatives to mainstream media channels. He shares his Bitcoin purity test and how he has rejected over a million dollars so far in sponsorships from companies he doesn’t believe are ‘n...

The Mt. Gox hack was a blessing in disguise because of the many people who came to acknowledge this crypto space after the incident. David Wachsman explains the utmost importance of crypto literacy for the average Joe. He takes the mission on himself to clear up stereotypes and vanquish crypto illiteracy around the world. David is the founder of “Wachsman”, one of the oldest crypto public relation...

Bill Shihara spent 11 years at Microsoft working on the Windows XP Operating System and the Trustworthy Security team, 2 years as Security Engineering Manager at Amazon and Manager of Security Threat Analysis and Security Engineering at BlackBerry for 2 years. He placed it all on the line when his team at Gift BTC disclosed their identity against what was the norm for Bitcoin companies in the earl...

Maxine Ryan, Bitspark’s co-founder joins Charlie to share what’s really going on in Hong Kong and how the media is portraying it. Maxine talks about how crypto companies are responding and wonders about a new crypto focused country, such as Singapore or Taiwan. She mentions that the chaos in Hong Kong has led to the downfall of faith in the banking infrastructure and how people are preferring cash...

Small and proud Slovenia will come to your mind when hard work in the tech and engineering space is mentioned. Vasja Veber COO & Co-founder of Viberate is a complete embodiment of all that Slovenia stands for. Vasja adopts a systematic approach to handling the chicken-and-egg challenge of building a healthy community and awesome features for the seemingly static music industry with blockchain tech...

From the Asian continent, now in America, Tim Byun spent all his professional life in the financial industry, making it through the heat of two turbulent seasons in the financial and crypto space ~ in America first, as a regulator, and next as head of compliance for a virtual asset firm. Tim Byun, CEO at OkCoin, Ex-financial regulator, & ex-Bitpay employee, shares stories of his workday and how he...

Starting in the early days of Bitcoin when trust was not in view, hard work, inner fulfillment and a sense of responsibility pushed Marshall Long, one of the pioneers of Bitcoin, founder of Bitcoin Classic, across diverse cultures exploring ways to improve the crypto industry. Standing against the rootless Bitcoin community, Marshall sustained his hard work ethic, enabling him to navigate through...

TradingView’s general manager, Pierce Crosby, shares about what inspired him to found the company and how it has been a super exciting journey since its inception. Charlie and Pierce discuss crypto trading in 2014 and highlights events and current trends shaping the crypto trading ecosystem. Pierce is committed to better retail trading and equity for crypto traders. --- BitPay gives you the tools...

Pascal Gauther, Ledger’s CEO talks the origin of Ledger and how they revolutionized Bitcoin wallets, making a transformational leap from USB sticks to hardware wallets. He discusses in depth the French technology of Ledger. Pascal shows optimism for the future of crypto and emphasizes that they’re in it for the long run. The early players of crypto (Charlie and Pascal) believe there’s a long road...

The seeds sown at Sanford are still producing fruit in the crypto space. Coinlist CEO & founder Andy Bromberg narrates his blockchain journey from college to Coinlist. He unveils why ICOs died, screening criteria for good crypto projects, regulations, current state of token projects, new approach to crypto fundraising, security tokens, post-release token trade and uncertainty in the blockchain ind...

Kraken's CEO, Jesse Powell, reveals the idea behind how tokens are listed, exchange security, capital efficiency, self-regulation & government support for crypto in Japan. Powell believes more blockchain companies will move to countries with better pro-crypto legislation, adding that Kraken is set to acquire more blockchain companies to stay ahead of the competition. On an 11-year-old Bitcoin, Pow...

Do you think you know a lot about crypto? 7 years ago, our guest, Dan Held, started his journey from multiple corporate jumps including Uber and other big corporate players. Dan finally found his passion with blockchain. Even though Dan had a non-technical background, it didn’t stop him from working with top blockchain players and owning his own crypto startup, ZeroBlock. Dan joins Charlie to shar...

20 years ago, Kosovo fought for its liberation and won. My guest, Memli Krasniqi, Vice-President of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) since February 2013, recently spoke with Bill Clinton on the struggles Kosovo has overcome since it won its freedom. Kosovo, with an American friendly attitude and modern infrastructure allowed Memli Krasniqi to invest in Bitcoin early on when Bitcoin was less th...