The Pomp Podcast

Chris Hutchins is the founder & CEO of Grove, a personal financial planning product. In this conversation, Chris and Anthony Pompliano discuss the biggest mistakes people make in financial planning, how Bitcoin compares to other assets, and where Bitcoin should fit in your portfolio. -----If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and subscribe. This p...

Ben Askren is an olympic wrestler, and current UFC fighter with a 19-0 record in his MMA career. He is joined on the podcast with Martin Floreani, the founder and CEO of RokFin. In this conversation, Ben, Martin, and Anthony Pompliano discuss what it takes to be a UFC fighter, what drew Ben to Bitcoin and crypto, what the current issues with content platforms are today, how RokFin is attempting to...

Frederic Chesnais is the CEO and Chairman of the Board at Atari. In this conversation, Frederic and Anthony Pompliano discuss the history of Atari's brand, how cryptocurrencies can incentivize new types of work, why gaming is finding product/market fit in crypto, and what Atari plans to do to capitalize on the crypto opportunity. -----BlockFi allows you to keep your crypto, put it up as collateral...

Andrew Keys is the Co-Founder of ConsenSys Capital, and current Managing Partner at DARMA Capital. In this conversation, Andrew and Anthony Pompliano discuss the early days of ConsenSys, the reason why Blockchain technology is ultimately about automation, what Andrew's derivative of the Fat Protocol thesis is, and what it's like to live in Puerto Rico. -----If you enjoyed this conversation, share...

Misir Mahmudov is an analyst at Adaptive Capital, and recently graduated from Columbia University. In this conversation, Misir and Anthony Pompliano discuss the importance of understanding money, scarcity as a driver of value, why gold used to be money, why Bitcoin is the digital gold, an analysis of Bitcoin's future market cap, and the idea of Bitcoin as stored time. You can find the Bitcoin modi...

Jesse Powell is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kraken Exchange. In this conversation, Jesse and Anthony Pompliano discuss the founding story of Kraken, what it means to build a company based on principles and ethos, the current regulatory environment, and why the work being done in Wyoming is compelling. -----If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and s...

Dmitry Tokarev is the CEO of Copper. In this conversation, Dmitry and Anthony Pompliano discuss the buy-side problems with legacy markets, what financial infrastructure actually entails, how custody and prime brokerage in crypto is evolving, and why LPs drive decision making in investing. -----Curious about Cryptocurrency but don’t know where to begin? Storm Play is a free and fun way to start ear...

Ben Mezrich is the author of Bitcoin Billionaires, a story about Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss' foray into digital money. Ben has also written multiple books, including the books that became The Social Network movie and 21. In this conversation, Ben and Anthony Pompliano discuss how he found the Bitcoin Billionaires story, what he learned while writing the book, why he's fascinated by Bitcoin, and...

Jake Yocom-Piatt is the project lead for Decred. In this conversation, Jake and Anthony Pompliano discuss how he was early in Bitcoin, why he stepped away, how Decred works, how different people in the Decred ecosystem make money, why experts shouldn't be deferred to, and why managing ego is so important in the cryptocurrency industry. -----If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your coll...

David Fauchier is the founder of Cambrial Capital. In this conversation, David and Anthony Pompliano discuss why he chose to create a fund of funds, why he's so interested in the intersection of DeFi, generalized mining, Quant, and VC, where the current investment opportunities are for professional LPs, and some of the bad things he's seen people do already. ----- If you enjoyed this conversation,...

Haseeb Qureshi is an advisor to Metastable Capital. In this conversation, Haseeb and Anthony Pompliano discuss how success metrics for blockchain protocols are different from traditional companies, why narratives follow rather than lead, how to think about the smart contract wars, and why Bitcoin holders are so important. -----BlockFi allows you to keep your crypto, put it up as collateral, and re...

Mason Borda is the CEO of TokenSoft. In this conversation, Mason and Anthony Pompliano discuss the framework he uses to think through digital securities versus non-securities, what TokenSoft does, what it means for a security to be programmable, and what most people don't understand about digital securities. ----- Curious about Cryptocurrency but don’t know where to begin? Storm Play is a free and...

Dave Hendricks is the Co-Founder & CEO of Vertalo. In this conversation, Dave and Anthony Pompliano discuss the structural issues in the legacy system, how we can fix them, what it means to tokenize venture funded companies, and how you at home could benefit from this movement. -----BlockFi allows you to keep your crypto, put it up as collateral, and receive a USD loan funded directly to your bank...

Camila Russo is an author and a former Bloomberg News reporter. In this conversation, Camila and Anthony Pompliano discuss how she discovered Bitcoin while covering the Argentina's financial markets, why crypto has captured her interest, how traditional journalists view crypto and Bitcoin today, why she is writing the book on Ethereum, and what stories she has learned along the way. ----- If you e...

Clay Collins is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nomics, a company focused on crypto market data. In this conversation, Clay and Anthony Pompliano discuss how crypto market data works, what the biggest challenges are, why exchange data transparency, and identification of fake volume is so important, and how the price you see on most crypto websites gets there. ----- If you enjoyed this conversation, shar...

Zooko Wilcox is the CEO of Zcash, and one of the most experienced people in crypto. In this conversation, Zooko and Anthony Pompliano discuss all things privacy, freedom, decentralization, the original battle between governments and technologists for encryption, and how the current privacy technology for crypto is likely to evolve moving forward. ----- If you enjoyed this conversation, share it wi...

Simon Yu is the CEO & Co-Founder of Storm. In this conversation, Simon and Anthony Pompliano discuss cryptocurrency adoption, incentives, and where crypto is headed over the next few years. ----- Curious about Cryptocurrency but don’t know where to begin? Storm Play is a free and fun way to start earning in exchange for you time. Simply download, register and discover microtasks that meet your int...

Mike Cagney is the Co-Founder & CEO of Figure, a financial technology company leveraging Blockchain and analytics to deliver better financial products. In this conversation, Mike and Anthony Pompliano discuss how Figure works, why it is growing so quickly, where Blockchain makes sense in the traditional financial system, and why Mike thinks there is such a big opportunity for automation in finance...

Joseph Weinberg is Co-Founder of Shyft Network and CEO of PayCase Financial. In this conversation, Joseph and Anthony Pompliano discuss mining Bitcoin in 2010, moving to live with a tribe in the Amazon forest, plant based medicine, and the idea of building an interoperable, permissioned blockchain. ----- If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and s...

Ted Livingston is the CEO of Kik. In this conversation, Ted and Anthony Pompliano discuss building one of the most popular messaging apps in the world, the challenges with creating sustainable business models for these products, how cryptocurrencies could be a solution, where Kik is with the regulatory battle they're currently in. Pomp plays devil's advocate to throw Ted every negative argument ab...

Yoni Assia is the Founder & CEO of eToro. In this conversation, Yoni and Anthony Pompliano discuss their backgrounds in the military and what they learned from those experiences, how eToro started and why Yoni got them into crypto, DAOs, and the future of eToro's US expansion. ----- If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and subscribe. This podcast...

Richard Muirhead is the Managing Partner at Fabric Ventures. In this conversation, Richard and Anthony Pompliano discuss privacy by design, rational optimism, data sovereignty, the importance of encouraging experimentation, the key components of Web 3.0, and modern monetary theory. ----- Curious about Cryptocurrency but don’t know where to begin? Storm Play is a free and fun way to start earning i...

Tom Teman is the Co-Founder & CEO of Portis. In this conversation, Tom and Anthony Pompliano discuss the usability issues in the cryptocurrency industry, how those issues could potentially be fixed, what Portis does, and why it's so essential to gaining user adoption across crypto. ----- If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and subscribe. This po...

Anatoly Yakovenko is the CEO and Co-Founder of Solana. In this conversation, Anatoly and Anthony Pompliano discuss underwater hockey, Iron Man triathlons, self-custody of identity, the current use cases for high performing Blockchains, the complexities around sharding, and where we are with staking and validating. ----- If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rat...

Bitcoin Sign Guy is known as the Bitcoin Sign Guy. In this conversation, BSG and Anthony Pompliano discuss crypto anarchy, Bitcoin art, privacy, freedom, rule of law, code as free speech, and Bitcoin's macro trends. ----- If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and subscribe. This podcast is presented by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and e...