The Crypto Conversation

Andy Pickering is here with a weekly crypto market update where we look through the volatile world of Crypto Twitter to tease out the most important narratives and data points. This week Bitcoin continues to fall and remains in danger of breaking the key US$40,000 price level. The latest bearishness was triggered by China's latest ban on crypto, and uncertainty across all markets. PlanB, creator o...

Joel Dietz is a technology entrepreneur and early contributor to Ethereum. The founder of Swarm Network Joel is researching blockchain network topologies, swarm intelligence, and holonic philosophy. Joel is working on Art Wallet, a smart wallet for NFTs. Why you should listen: Art Wallet is a one-stop solution for the NFT markets and the Metaverse. ArtWallet provides a solution for storing and own...

Andy Pickering is here with a weekly crypto market update where we look through the volatile world of crypto Twitter to tease out the most important narratives and data points. This week Bitcoin continues to fall and is now in danger of breaking the key US$40,000 price level. The fall was triggered by the China Evergrande crisis which has put traders into risk-off mode. Meanwhile, in the U.S. Gary...

Frank Miller is a legend in comics, graphic novels, and film. Known for his hard-boiled storytelling and gritty film noir aesthetic, Frank is the creative force behind iconic titles such as The Dark Knight Returns, Daredevil, 300, and Sin City. Frank is about to drop an NFT collection based on the Sin City universe. Why you should listen: The Sin City books have won numerous awards, including six...

Andy Pickering is here with a weekly crypto market update where we look through the volatile world of crypto Twitter to tease out the most important narratives and data points. This week Bitcoin is back at $48,000 and just posted a Golden Cross. Is Bitcoin warming up for a bullish Q4? Meanwhile, Gary Gensler is in a war of words with Coinbase, and OpenSea's head of product was caught insider tradi...

Chris Fortier is Vice President of Product at Rally, a project built on Ethereum that helps creators develop economic relationships with their audiences by launching their own crypto social tokens and NFTs. Why you should listen: Rally builds tools for creators to launch and grow their crypto economies. Rally started with social tokens but has always imagined a world where a creator's crypto econo...

Maestro Bignose is a co-founder of Elyseos, a decentralized ecosystem designed to support the evolving Sacramental Medicine space. Sacramental medicines include psychedelic plants and fungi. The Elyseos DAO supports the evolving ecosystem with compassionate feedback loops incentivizing collaboration and decentralization. Why you should listen: As people search for meaning, and alternative ways of...

Andy Pickering is here with a weekly crypto market update where we look through the volatile world of crypto Twitter to tease out the most important narratives and data points. This week Bitcoin crashed overnight dropping 10% to US$43,000. The dump happened on the same day that El Salvador made Bitcoin legal tender and became the first nation-state to buy Bitcoin.  Supporting links: Andy on Twitte...

Jules Urbach is the CEO of OTOY, a leading cloud graphics company that is pioneering technology to redefine content creation and delivery. The work of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is being cataloged in a new digital archive by OTOY.  Why you should listen: RNDR, whose partners include Amazon, Google, Apple, and HBO, developed a cutting-edge platform based on underlying OTOY technology that a...

DFX is an Ethereum-based decentralized exchange protocol with a dynamically tuned bonding curve optimized for fiat-backed stablecoins using real-world FX price feeds. Mainstream adoption of Web 3.0 requires assets that are protected from price volatility. By focusing on fiat-backed stablecoins on the Ethereum blockchain, DFX leverages the existing defi ecosystem to bootstrap humanity's next-genera...

Aaron McDonald and Brooke Howard-Smith are co-founders at Non-Fungible Labs, the team behind the FLUF World NFTs. FLUF World is home to 10,000 unique 3D animated rabbits. The FLUF metagame describes the emerging, expanding metaverse treasure hunt that the FLUFs exist in.  Why you should listen: FLUFs have been programmatically generated from 270 attributes across 14 categories to be entirely uniqu...

Konstantin is the founder and CEO of Vaulty Finance - a vault that bridges Defi and NFTs on the Binance Smart chain. The Vaulty platform is a yield aggregator that offers multiple strategies to optimize yield farming through regular auto-compounding. Why you should listen: Vaulty is a decentralized platform designed to enable automatic asset allocation across DeFi instruments. Every vault has its...

Bill Barhydt is the CEO of Abra, a platform that enables crypto banking services for consumers and institutions in over 100 countries. Abra's mission is to become a crypto bank that replaces the need for legacy banking services. Bill was a member of the Cryptography Mailing List where Satoshi first released the Bitcoin White Paper. Bill started his career working in cryptography for the CIA.  Why...

Andy Pickering is here with a weekly crypto market update where we look through the volatile world of crypto Twitter to tease out the most important narratives and data points. This week Morgan Stanley's SEC Filings reveal it has purchased a large holding of Bitcoin via the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust. Only Fans has reversed its decision to ban sexually explicit content, and the NFT market continues t...

Zach Burks is the CEO and founder of NFT marketplace Mintable. Mintable is the first NFT platform to pioneer 'gasless minting', enabling content creators to mint NFTs without prohibitive transaction fees. Zach says he is building Mintable with Mom in mind. If his Mom finds it easy to use Mintable to mint and trade NFTs, then anyone can use Mintable. Zach is applying the best features from e-commer...

Manu Alzuru is a humanist, a solarpunk, and the founder of DoinGud - a next-gen NFT platform designed to empower creators and collectors to create meaningful impact.  Why you should listen: DoinGud is an NFT ecosystem where passion has the ability to create social impact. NFT creators can donate at least 5% of their profits from every sale to charitable causes benefiting the United Nations' Sustai...

Victor David is co-founder and CEO of Epik, a global agency that connects brands with video games to offer unique and immersive digital experiences using NFTs. Why you should listen: Epik is putting brands into video games to offer unique and immersive digital experiences to more than a billion fans worldwide. Epik is solving the problem of building interconnectivity between metaverses so that met...

Andy Pickering is here with a weekly crypto market update where we look through the volatile world of crypto Twitter to tease out the most important narratives and data points. This week Bitcoin breaks US$46,000 while the U.S. senate has included draconian restrictions on the crypto ecosystem in the infrastructure bill. On the positive side, the last week has seen an awakening of political support...

Dave the Wave is a pseudonymous investor, trader, and technical analyst. A contrarian, Dave is respected on Crypto Twitter for his objective, rational approach to technical analysis. Dave's thesis is that Bitcoin is following his Logarithmic Growth Curve model. Logarithmic growth suggests exponential gains at the beginning that slowly taper off towards a plateau in the long term. Why you should li...

Jamie Burke is the Founder & CEO of Outlier Ventures. Jamie and his team are investors in and authors of The Open Metaverse thesis which explores how the Web 3.0 Stack extends beyond financial services into virtual worlds, gaming and decentralized economies.  Why you should listen: Outlier has created a framework to assess and interrogate Metaverses, and a toolkit to design alternatives based on t...

Mark Berisha is the CEO of APEcoin and MemeFarm, and a founding member of the BustaBNB DAO. APECoin embraces the viral nature of memes and builds DAO-based perpetual utility machines . Apecoin is developing BustaBNB for the Binance Smart Chain and they have just launched a new NFT marketplace and NFT-OTC solution.  Why you should listen: APEcoin is an ecosystem for crypto enthusiasts and entrepren...

Iqbal V Gandham is VP of Payments & Transactions at Ledger. One of the best-known companies in crypto, Ledger has sold more than 3 million hardware devices and secures an estimated 15% of all crypto assets. Ledger is now preparing to make inroads into Web3. Why you should listen: As we move towards a world where all types of assets will be digitized, providing users with the most complete and secu...

Andy Pickering is here with a weekly crypto market update where we look through the volatile world of crypto Twitter to tease out the most important narratives and data points. This week markets are up as Amazon rumors and a short squeeze pump Bitcoin. Plus Elizabeth Warren says shadowy super coders are threatening the financial system, Tether is in the regulatory firing line, and CZ is ready to w...

Tom Bilyeu is the CEO of Impact Theory and one of the world's leading motivational speakers. Tom is committed to pulling people out of the matrix. A successful multi-business entrepreneur, Tom's goal is to impact culture at scale. He plans to do this by building the next Disney. Impact Theory produces comics, graphic novels, books, television, film, interview talk shows and more. Tom is building a...

Tess Rinearson is VP of Engineering at Interchain where she leads the team responsible for Tendermint Core, the leading BFT engine for building blockchains. Why you should listen: Interchain is responsible for stewarding foundational infrastructure for blockchain ecosystems. Their work helps secure billions of dollars in value across a variety of major blockchain projects, including Cosmos. The te...