The Daily Stack

Katie the Russian, founder of Plan B Passport (recently acquired by Citizen X), joins the Bitcoin Economy podcast to explain flag theory, citizenship by investment, and why she sees second passports as a natural extension of self-custodied bitcoin. She covers El Salvador's 9.5 bitcoin citizenship program, capital flight from China, the UK and Australia, US immigration lotteries and taxation,...

Dhruv Patel, CEO of Arch Lending, explains why overcollateralized Bitcoin-backed loans are the lowest risk lending product. He covers Arch's CLO funding structure, its policy of never rehypothecating client collateral, and custody with Anchorage Digital. He also discusses lessons from BlockFi, Celsius and Genesis, client use cases, Bitcoin treasury companies, and Velocity, a Bitcoin annuity p...

Avi Mash interviews Votre founder J. Paul Meyer, a Harvard computer science grad and former Goldman Sachs employee, live in New York City about building a non-custodial lending protocol that uses $BTC as collateral. They cover what "institutions" means in crypto, how Votre uses smart contracts and a collar structure to offer up to 90% LTV loans with no margin calls for a fixed term, how...

Andrew Webley, CEO of The Smarter Web Company ($TSWCF), explains why holding Bitcoin through a UK public company makes sense, given that buying Bitcoin in size is difficult in the UK, capital gains tax is 24%, and many savers use pensions and ISAs. He covers the company's retail-friendly IPO, becoming the first company to reach a billion pound market cap on Aquis, holding roughly 500 bitcoin,...

Lee Winbush joins Jody Flournoy and a co-host on a market-holiday edition of the show to discuss Bitcoin treasury companies, including $MSTR (Strategy), Metaplanet, H100 and The Smarter Web Company. Lee describes his path from the Saylor series to Bitcoin, $MSTR and Metaplanet. He then covers what to ask when evaluating treasury companies, Metaplanet's tax questions, Jim Chanos sparring with...

Former U.S. Secret Service assistant director Jeremy Sheridan, now leading digital asset investigations at FTI Consulting, explains how crypto crime has evolved from the myth of untraceable Bitcoin to sophisticated obfuscation, pig butchering scams and social engineering. He is joined by the host and co-host Sean, and covers recent federal enforcement shifts, how agencies divide crypto cases, and...

Arkis CEO and co-founder Serhii Tyshchenko explains how Arkis works as a decentralized prime brokerage. Borrowers trade through smart contracts, and a margin engine provides CeFi and DeFi portfolio margin across Binance and Bybit sub accounts and DeFi venues like Uniswap, Curve and Pendle. He also covers how the margin engine pre-plans liquidations, who lends on the platform, why $ETH remains the...

Justin Doochin, head of events at BTC Inc, explains how the team organizes the Bitcoin Conference. He covers hosting Donald Trump, RFK Jr. and Howard Lutnick in Nashville in 2024 alongside the Secret Service, and why Bitcoin 2025 moved to Las Vegas, where over 30,000 attendees are expected. He also discusses the game theory theme, Industry Day, the Bitcoin only content policy, Bitcoin Asia and Bit...

Tyrone Ross, CEO of 401 Financial and founder of TurnKey Labs, joins the Block Fuel podcast to talk about how crypto is reaching financial advisors and RIAs. He and the host cover spot ETFs, Schwab naming a head of digital assets, weak custody and reporting infrastructure, skepticism about tokenization, compliance barriers, small account solutions, and Robinhood's TradePMR deal. This podcast...

Tony Acuña Rohter, CEO of EDX Markets, joins Jody Flournoy and Sean Ristau on the Block Fuel podcast to explain how EDX runs a US-based, institutional-only exchange and clearing house for spot crypto. The conversation covers his background at CME Group, once-per-day net settlement and trading on limits, the custody model with sub custodians, low latency market structure, the Trump meme coin frenzy...

Nathan Stump, director of platform sales at BitGo, joins the show live from Chicago at the Security Traders Association midwinter meeting. He explains how BitGo raced to support the $TRUMP meme coin for exchange clients after the inauguration, how Solana wallets onboarded a wave of retail users, and what institutions want from a regulated custodian. He also covers off exchange settlement, OTC and...

Jonté Harrell, CFO and CRO of ZenLedger, joins host Jody live at the Security Traders Association of Chicago's Midwinter Meetings to discuss crypto taxes under the Trump administration, stablecoins as a path to a digital dollar, and the industry mood after the inauguration and the Crypto Ball. They also cover the Trump meme coin, how ZenLedger works with the IRS and helps firms handle employe...

Trey Sellers, VP of Sales at Unchained, joins hosts Sean and Jody on the Block Fuel podcast to talk about his path from banker to bitcoiner and Unchained's collaborative custody model. The conversation covers 2 of 3 multisig vaults, succession planning, Bitcoin IRAs, bitcoin backed loans, the regulatory shift under the Trump administration including SAB 121, and the hardware wallets Unchained...

Natalie Brunell, host of Coin Stories, joins Block Fuel hosts Jody Flournoy and Sean Ristau to discuss her Bitcoin dress at the inaugural Crypto Ball and how she would talk about Bitcoin with AOC. She shares the Bitcoin community's reaction to the Trump and Melania memecoins, the national digital asset stockpile executive order, the Ross Ulbricht pardon, the SAB 121 repeal and MicroStrategy....

Giovanni (Gio) Everduin, chief strategy and innovation officer at Commercial Bank International in Dubai, joins host Sean and a co-host on the Block Fuel podcast to explain why Dubai and the UAE are attracting crypto founders and how that compares with the US after the election. They cover how UAE banks are approaching crypto, stablecoins and CBDCs, AI and compute as national security, onchain aut...

Amanda Wick, founder and CEO of the Association for Women in Cryptocurrency and a former federal money laundering prosecutor at the DOJ, joins Gabby Kusz in her first episode as guest host. Jody Flournoy and Sean also take part. Amanda explains how Silk Road era cases led her into crypto and how her time at Chainalysis shaped her view of responsible innovation. She also tells how she founded the a...

Ari Redbord, Global Head of Policy at TRM Labs and a former federal prosecutor and US Treasury senior adviser, explains how law enforcement uses blockchain intelligence to trace illicit crypto flows. He covers Hamas fundraising, North Korean hacks and laundering, OFAC sanctions and seizures, Tether on Tron, CBDCs, the Binance case, Bitcoin ETFs and how TRM uses machine learning. The hosts, includi...

Andrew Saunders, CMO at SKALE and former CMO at Arbitrum, joins the Block Fuel podcast to explain how his Web2 career at Amazon, NBCUniversal and CAA shapes his approach to Web3 marketing, brand building and community. He covers blockchain gaming on the Epic Games Store, SKALE's no gas fee, high throughput architecture, why he tracks unique active wallets over TVL, and what he thinks will dri...

Augie Ilag, an investment partner at CMT Digital who also oversees the firm's business in Asia, joins host Avi Mash on the Block Fuel podcast to discuss his path from McKinsey in Manila to Sequoia's seed team in Southeast Asia to CMT Digital. They cover how CMT evaluates early stage founders, how market cycles and regulation affect venture investing, and what meme coins and prediction ma...

Seth Wilks, executive director of the IRS office focused on digital assets, explains how the IRS is approaching crypto taxation in an interview recorded live at Permissionless in Salt Lake City, with host Jody Flournoy among the interviewers. He covers the new custodial broker 1099 rules starting with 2025 transactions, the stablecoin reporting threshold and aggregation rule, how NFTs and meme coi...

Alex Botte, a partner at Hack VC, explains how a Two Sigma research paper that ran $BTC through a traditional risk factor model brought her into crypto. She also outlines Hack VC's early stage infrastructure thesis and discusses spot $ETH ETFs, BlackRock's BUIDL tokenized fund, real world assets, modular blockchains and Berachain. She is joined by Block Fuel hosts Avi Mash, Jody Flournoy...

A short Christmas week episode on the Wall Street Journal article calling the $MSTR following an "investing cult," MicroStrategy's first day in the Nasdaq 100, its latest bitcoin purchase, and the bull and bear debate around the stock. Jody and Sean, with a third co-host addressed as Obi, also cover BlackRock's note about the 21 million bitcoin cap, rumors that North Korea stre...

Tim Kotzman, host of the new Bitcoin Treasuries podcast, talks with co-host Jody about his path from oil and gas mineral rights into Bitcoin, how covering MicroStrategy ($MSTR) grew into his own show, and his plans to interview public company executives and everyday bitcoiners. He also expects a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve executive order early in Donald Trump's term and stands by his December...

Prakash Neelakantan, VP of blockchain strategy at Broadridge, joins hosts Avi and Sean on Block Fuel to explain how Broadridge uses a private permissioned blockchain built on DAML and Canton for repo trading of tokenized US Treasuries. He also covers its Europe-based shareholder disclosure ledger, the 605 Studios crypto disclosure project, decentralization tradeoffs, slow legacy adoption in financ...

This Block Fuel roundtable features Maple Finance co-founder Sid Powell with Membrane Labs head of product Craig Birchall and head of partnerships James Roth. They discuss how the post-election regulatory outlook is shaping institutional crypto lending, the growing number of stablecoins, collateral beyond $BTC such as $ETH and $SOL, rebuilding trust through on-chain transparency, and AI agents man...