Flippening - For Crypto Investors: Recent Episodes
Clay Collins
Flippening is for cryptocurrency investors. Each week we discuss the cryptocurrency economy, new investment strategies for maximizing returns, and stories from the front lines of financial disruption. Flippening is for a new class of investors that were not part of the financial services world before bitcoin, but got into finance because of their passion for cryptoassets, blockchain, altcoins, and distributed ledger technology.
Welcome to this cryptocurrency podcast with JP Thieriot, CEO of Uphold, a platform that lets users hold, spend, and instantly exchange assets like cryptocurrencies, fiat, and gold. Uphold also serves as Brave’s default wallet for holding Basic Attention Token or BAT.
The interview covers several topics, including:
- How growing up in Argentina influenced JP’s views on money and inflation
- How JP discovered Bitcoin while searching for a better way to send money internationally
- The story of Bitreserve, the original Uphold
- How regulatory friction frustrates innovation in finance
- Uphold’s commitment to transparency
- How Uphold thinks about its product roadmap, services, and business operations
- The benefits of having a gold-denominated bank account
- Managing inflationary risk
Sponsors:
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo provides the world’s most advanced credit and lending services to retail and institutional clients. Nexo built its reputation in the blockchain industry with its Instant Crypto Credit Lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Recently, Nexo launched its Earn on Crypto product, which lets you earn up to 5% annually on BTC, ETH, XRP, XLM, LTC, BCH, EOS, and LINK. You can also park your stablecoins or cash to generate a whopping 10% annual return. Lastly, Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, crypto funds, and institutions, which deploy capital to earn interest, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto from Nexo. So if you're looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your GO-TO PARTNER. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting crypto market cap data from crypto exchanges? We offer the most accurate and transparent crypto data in the space. For examples, see our Litecoin / LTC price & OKEx pages.
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Welcome to this cryptocurrency podcast with Jesse Powell, co-founder and CEO of Kraken, a top-10 crypto exchange with an "A" transparency rating on Nomics.com and one of the first legitimate enterprises in the space. Jesse started Kraken after the 2011 Mt. Gox hack. He felt that for Bitcoin to go mainstream, exchanges would have to professionalize.
The conversation is split into 3 chapters:
- The state of crypto exchanges in 2020
- Behind the scenes at Kraken: services, acquisitions & relationship with regulators
- How Kraken differentiates itself
It also covers:
- How Kraken got its name and aesthetic
- Why Kraken never launched an exchange token
- Kraken’s upcoming retail mobile app & simplified desktop site
- Jesse’s views on NFTs
Sponsors:
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Institutional counterparties can earn up to 8% annually on their idle stablecoins, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto. Individuals can also park their cash and stablecoins at Nexo's Interest-Earning account to get an annual return of 8%. So if you are looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your GO-TO PARTNER. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Uphold
Uphold is the only app that lets you go from anything to anything in one trade. Bitcoin to Gold? No problem. Want to send euros to your sister using your XRP stash? One trade and two clicks. Trade instantly between cryptos, stablecoins, national currencies, metals, and more. Uphold just launched a physical and virtual debit card in the US – the first of its kind. Cardholders can pay with BTC, BAT, or even gold. You can spend any of the 50+ assets Uphold supports and earn 2% CryptoBack and 1% CashBack when you’re doing it. Go from anything to anything. To get started, visit uphold.com/clay. You can also download Uphold from any app store.
Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting crypto market cap data from crypto exchanges? We offer the most accurate and transparent crypto data in the space. For examples, see our Ethereum / ETH price & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to this cryptocurrency podcast with Mike Carson, founder of Park.io, which lets users backorder expiring domain names, and Gateway.io, which facilitates the sale of second-level domains off of Handshake top-level domains or TLDs. Handshake (HNS) is a blockchain-based protocol that enables anyone to own a TLD. As Mike explains, it "opens the floodgates to the TLD space."
The conversation is split into 3 chapters:
- The domain name industry
- Business opportunities for owners of Handshake TLDs
- TLD security, Gateway.io & Mike's hopes for the future of the space
It also covers:
- Mike’s journey from working in tech support to launching WizeHive
- ICANN’s role in managing the TLD system
- How the current system stifles innovation
- The story behind .io
- How top-level domains are like neighborhoods
Sponsors:
Uphold
Uphold is the only app that lets you go from anything to anything in one trade. Bitcoin to Gold? No problem. Want to send euros to your sister using your XRP stash? One trade and two clicks. Trade instantly between cryptos, stablecoins, national currencies, metals, and more. Uphold just launched a physical and virtual debit card in the US – the first of its kind. Cardholders can pay with BTC, BAT, or even gold. You can spend any of the 50+ assets Uphold supports and earn 2% CryptoBack and 1% CashBack when you’re doing it. Go from anything to anything. To get started, visit uphold.com/clay. You can also download Uphold from any app store.
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Institutional counterparties can earn up to 8% annually on their idle stablecoins, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto. Individuals can also park their cash and stablecoins at Nexo's Interest-Earning account to get an annual return of 8%. So if you are looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your GO-TO PARTNER. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting crypto market cap data from crypto exchanges? We offer the most accurate and transparent crypto data in the space. For examples, see our Litecoin / LTC price & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to this cryptocurrency podcast. Today’s guest is Flippening host and Nomics CEO, Clay Collins. The content is excerpted from Clay's recent presentation at Consensus: Distributed, a virtual version of CoinDesk’s annual blockchain conference.
In his talk, Clay covers a number of topics, including:
- What is quote currency dominance?
- How stablecoins became the dominant quote currencies in crypto trading
- Why Binance offers so many BNB trading pairs
- Why exchanges like FTX list so many altcoins
- Why most aggregators end up doubling their volume data
- Why it’s important to have a sound methodology when calculating trading volume
Sponsors:
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Institutional counterparties can earn up to 8% annually on their idle stablecoins, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto. Individuals can also park their cash and stablecoins at Nexo's Interest-Earning account to get an annual return of 8%. So if you are looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your GO-TO PARTNER. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting crypto market cap data from crypto exchanges? We offer the most accurate and transparent crypto data in the space. For examples, see our Ethereum / ETH price & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to this cryptocurrency podcast with Philip Gradwell, Chief Economist at Chainalysis, a provider of blockchain intelligence and compliance solutions to businesses and law enforcement. The interview covers a range of topics including how Bitcoin is used, how much might be lost forever, its concentration among top crypto exchanges, and the true scale of illicit activity occurring on the network.
The conversation is split into 3 chapters:
- How Bitcoin is held, traded and spent
- Bitcoin and crime
- A deep dive on exchanges
It also covers:
- Philip’s role as Chief Economist at Chainalysis
- How a relatively small group of traders influence Bitcoin’s price
- How Chainalysis ties addresses to particular exchanges
- Bitcoin’s concentration among the top 14 crypto exchanges
- The role of fiat in the crypto ecosystem
- How Tether became the dominant quote currency in crypto trading
Sponsors:
Uphold
Uphold is the only app that lets you go from anything to anything in one trade. Bitcoin to Gold? No problem. Want to send euros to your sister using your XRP stash? One trade and two clicks. Trade instantly between cryptos, stablecoins, national currencies, metals, and more. Uphold just launched a physical and virtual debit card in the US – the first of its kind. Cardholders can pay with BTC, BAT, or even gold. You can spend any of the 50+ assets Uphold supports and earn 2% CryptoBack and 1% CashBack when you’re doing it. Go from anything to anything. Download Uphold from any app store.
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Institutional counterparties can earn up to 8% annually on their idle stablecoins, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto. Individuals can also park their cash and stablecoins at Nexo's Interest-Earning account to get an annual return of 8%. So if you are looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your GO-TO PARTNER. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting crypto market cap data from crypto exchanges? We offer the most accurate and transparent crypto data in the space. For examples, see our Litecoin / LTC price & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to this cryptocurrency podcast with Bradley Miles and Sid Kalla, co-founders of Roll, an Ethereum-based social money platform that enables influencers and creators mint social money to incentivize and reward their communities. Thanks to Roll, social money economies are springing up across a range of categories. Individuals have even used Roll to tokenize themselves, enabling believers to invest in their social capital.
The conversation is split into 5 chapters:
- Introduction
- A deep dive into social money
- Getting started with Roll – using Nomics' NOM token as an example
- Prehistory of social money
- Operations at Roll & the future of social money
It also covers:
- Tingles, the first social money on Roll
- The mechanics of distributing social money
- Using social money to crowdfund and kickstart communities
- How digital artists use social money
- The Roll tech stack
- Why Roll standardizes economics across creators
Sponsors:
CryptoTrader.Tax
CryptoTrader.Tax makes the excruciating task of reporting your cryptocurrency gains and losses a breeze. Sorting through transaction records from exchanges and reporting each trade in USD terms is not how most crypto investors want to spend a weekend. CryptoTrader.Tax is a software platform that automates the entire cryptocurrency tax reporting process. It's basically TurboTax for cryptocurrency investors. Just connect your exchanges and import your trade history and CryptoTrader.Tax will do all of the number-crunching and spit out your auto-filled tax reports with the click of a button. Tell them that Clay from the Flippening Podcast sent you to get a discount.
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Institutional counterparties can earn up to 8% annually on their idle stablecoins, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto. Individuals can also park their cash and stablecoins at Nexo's Interest-Earning account to get an annual return of 8%. So if you are looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your GO-TO PARTNER. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting crypto market cap data from crypto exchanges? We offer the most accurate and transparent crypto data in the space. For examples, see our Litecoin / LTC price & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to this cryptocurrency podcast with Hart Lambur, co-founder of UMA, and Michael Oved, co-founder and CEO of Fluidity, the company behind AirSwap. The discussion is from a live panel titled Tokenizing Traditional Assets, which took place at 0xpo, a February 2020 conference hosted by 0x (ZRX).
The conversation spans 3 main topics:
- The state of asset tokenization
- Security token exchanges
- The future of tokenization
It also covers:
- The evolution of tokenization – from ERC20 to today
- Custodial vs. synthetic representations of assets
- How blockchain enables secondary markets for almost any asset
- Why Hart and Michael are excited about Libra
- Why many consumers choose centralized exchanges over DEXs
Sponsors:
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Institutional counterparties can earn up to 8% annually on their idle stablecoins, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto. Individuals can also park their cash and stablecoins at Nexo's Interest-Earning account to get an annual return of 8%. So if you are looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your GO-TO PARTNER. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
CryptoTrader.Tax
CryptoTrader.Tax makes the excruciating task of reporting your cryptocurrency gains and losses a breeze. Sorting through transaction records from exchanges and reporting each trade in USD terms is not how most crypto investors want to spend a weekend. CryptoTrader.Tax is a software platform that automates the entire cryptocurrency tax reporting process. It's basically TurboTax for cryptocurrency investors. Just connect your exchanges and import your trade history and CryptoTrader.Tax will do all of the number-crunching and spit out your auto-filled tax reports with the click of a button. Tell them that Clay from the Flippening Podcast sent you to get a discount.
Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting crypto market cap data from crypto exchanges? We offer the most accurate and transparent crypto data in the space. For examples, see our Litecoin Price / LTC & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2018 conversation with Sam McIngvale, Head of Product at Coinbase Custody, the world’s largest cryptocurrency custody service. We discuss why Coinbase chose to partner with an SEC-regulated broker-dealer. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 28.
Sponsors
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For examples, see our Ethereum Price / ETH & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2019 conversation with Jordan Clifford, co-founder and Managing Director at cryptoasset fund Scalar Capital. We discuss how his experience working at Coinbase reinforced his beliefs in privacy and that crypto should be as fungible as cash. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 41.
Sponsors
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For examples, see our Litecoin Price / LTC & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2019 conversation with Stephen McKeon, finance professor at the University of Oregon and partner at Collaborative Fund, where he heads up Collab Crypto, a group dedicated to blockchain and cryptoassets. We discuss the state of crypto venture capital and Stephen’s observation that as investors gain sophistication, they’re less content with exposure to crypto and more interested in following narrow investment theses. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 43.
Sponsors
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For examples, see our Ethereum Price / ETH & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2019 conversation with Ed Tolson, founder of kbit, a high-frequency cryptocurrency trading firm. We discuss how his background in computer science and hedge fund trading tech led him to high-frequency crypto trading. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 49.
Sponsors
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For examples, see our Litecoin Price / LTC & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to this cryptocurrency podcast with Pete Rizzo, Editor At Large at Kraken and former Editor In Chief at CoinDesk. It's a wide-ranging interview that begins with a quick history of crypto journalism and a review of Pete's career before shifting to the fascinating report from Kraken Intelligence entitled "Inheriting USDs & Acquiring BTCs: How The Great Wealth Transfer Will Fuel The Great Bitcoin Adoption."
The conversation is split into 4 chapters:
- Pete's time at CoinDesk
- His current role as Editor At Large at Kraken
- The Kraken report
- The cryptocurrency canon
It also covers:
- The early days of crypto content
- How everyday language can fail technological innovations like Bitcoin
- How the internet & social media disrupted the old media monopolies
- Kraken’s recent acquisitions and plans for the future
- Why crypto needs a definitive, in-depth explanation of Bitcoin mining
Sponsors:
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Institutional counterparties can earn up to 8% annually on their idle stablecoins, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto. Individuals can also park their cash and stablecoins at Nexo's Interest-Earning account to get an annual return of 8%. So if you are looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your GO-TO PARTNER. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
CryptoTrader.Tax
CryptoTrader.Tax makes the excruciating task of reporting your cryptocurrency gains and losses a breeze. Sorting through transaction records from exchanges and reporting each trade in USD terms is not how most crypto investors want to spend a weekend. CryptoTrader.Tax is a software platform that automates the entire cryptocurrency tax reporting process. It's basically TurboTax for cryptocurrency investors. Just connect your exchanges and import your trade history and CryptoTrader.Tax will do all of the number-crunching and spit out your auto-filled tax reports with the click of a button. Tell them that Clay from the Flippening Podcast sent you to get a discount.
Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting crypto market cap data from crypto exchanges? We offer the most accurate and transparent crypto data in the space. For examples, see our Litecoin Price / LTC & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2019 conversation with Ivan Poon, co-founder and CEO of Switcheo, a decentralized, multi-chain crypto exchange. We discuss the mechanics of trading across the Ethereum, EOS & NEO blockchains and the pros and cons of working with each. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 51.
Sponsors
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For examples, see our Ethereum Price / ETH & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2019 conversation with Changpeng Zhao (CZ), founder and CEO of Binance, one of the world’s top crypto exchanges. We discuss the built-in advantages that helped Binance launch just 12 days after their ICO and survive an early lawsuit by a major venture capital firm. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 52.
Sponsors
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For examples, see our Litecoin Price / LTC & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2019 conversation with Tuur Demeester, founder of Adamant Capital, a Bitcoin alpha fund. We discuss Bitcoin’s value as a hedge against systemic risk and the chances of it becoming an everyday unit of account. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 44.
Sponsors
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For examples, see our Ethereum Price / ETH & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to this cryptocurrency podcast with Felix Feng, co-founder and CEO of Set, the company behind Set Protocol and TokenSets, an Ethereum-based platform that lets users invest in crypto via automated “Robo” strategies or social trading strategies authored by experienced human traders. All are sortable by performance, which, in some cases, has been exceptional.
The conversation is split into 4 chapters:
- Set Protocol and TokenSets
- A quick history of social trading
- How to get started with TokenSets
- Set's plans for the future
It also covers:
- How Felix first got into Bitcoin back in 2013
- The technology that powers TokenSets
- How traders update sets and initiate rebalancing
- How Set facilitates rebalancing through Dutch auctions
- Set as an alternative to setting up a hedge fund
- The explosive growth of decentralized finance or DeFi
Sponsors:
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CryptoTrader.Tax makes the excruciating task of reporting your cryptocurrency gains and losses a breeze. Sorting through transaction records from exchanges and reporting each trade in USD terms is not how most crypto investors want to spend a weekend. CryptoTrader.Tax is a software platform that automates the entire cryptocurrency tax reporting process. It's basically TurboTax for cryptocurrency investors. Just connect your exchanges and import your trade history and CryptoTrader.Tax will do all of the number-crunching and spit out your auto-filled tax reports with the click of a button. Tell them that Clay from the Flippening Podcast sent you to get a discount.
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Institutional counterparties can earn up to 8% annually on their idle stablecoins, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto. Individuals can also park their cash and stablecoins at Nexo's Interest-Earning account to get an annual return of 8%. So if you are looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your GO-TO PARTNER. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting crypto market cap data from crypto exchanges? We offer the most accurate and transparent crypto data in the space. For examples, see our Ethereum / ETH price & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2019 conversation with Mario Lozada, co-founder, President, and Chief Technology Officer at Liquid, a Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange. We discuss IEO regulations, how Liquid approaches IEOs, and why cryptoasset projects trust Liquid to manage theirs. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 60.
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Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For examples, see our Litecoin Price / LTC & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2018 conversation with Dhruv Bansal, co-founder and CSO of Unchained Capital, a company that provides cash loans to holders of cryptoassets. We discuss why, as a form of collateral, Bitcoin is no more risky than traditional assets. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 8.
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Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For examples, see our Ethereum Price / ETH & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2018 conversation with Ari Nazir, founder and managing partner at Neural Capital, a hedge fund focused on cryptoassets. We discuss self-styled crypto thought leaders who don’t add value and why he’s focused on building the best fund you’ve never heard of. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 14.
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Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For examples, see our Litecoin Price / LTC & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2017 conversation with Taylor Pearson, entrepreneur and author of The End of Jobs. We discuss why it’s unwise to consider blockchain and crypto in terms of existing business models or products. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 4.
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Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For examples, see our Ethereum Price / ETH & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2017 conversation with Kyle Samani, co-founder and managing partner at Multicoin Capital, a crypto hedge fund based in Austin, TX. We discuss Kyle’s concept of managing a liquid venture portfolio. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 2.
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Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For examples, see our Litecoin Price / LTC & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2017 conversation with Benjamin Roberts, co-founder of Citizen Hex, an Ethereum liquidity company. We discuss how he got involved with fintech and why he’s focused on providing liquidity to the Ethereum ecosystem. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 5.
Sponsors
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For examples, see our Ethereum Price / ETH & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a January 2018 conversation with Dhruv Bansal, co-founder & CSO of Unchained Capital, a company that provides cash loans to holders of cryptoassets. We discuss why it’s better to borrow against Bitcoin than to sell it. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 8.
Sponsors
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For examples, see our Litecoin Price / LTC & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2018 conversation with Troy Wong, co-founder and former CFO of Neptune Dash, a publicly-traded masternode company. We discuss why investing in a masternode company is a cryptocurrency pure-play while mining offers only indirect exposure. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 12.
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Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For examples, see our Ethereum Price / ETH & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today we hear from Nomics CEO Clay Collins. It’s an excerpt from a 2018 interview recorded with Vortex of Crypto Cast Network. Clay lists some of the challenges to getting good crypto market data – namely decentralization, inaccessibility, and inconsistency – and explains how Nomics deals with each. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 27.
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Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For examples, see our Litecoin Price / LTC & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
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Today's guest is Joyce Yang, founder & CEO of Global Coin Research, a content and advisory platform focused on the Asian cryptocurrency space. Drawing on first-hand knowledge, Joyce will highlight the most important crypto-related developments taking place in Asia to help us predict how the local market might rebound from Coronavirus.
The conversation is split into 3 chapters:
- The Asian cryptocurrency ecosystem
- Recent developments in the region
- Crypto’s future in Asia
It also covers:
- The state of DeFi in Asia
- How Chinese Bitcoin miners spurred a dedicated crypto lending market
- Why India is crypto’s “sleeping giant"
- The explosive growth of Asian derivatives trading
- How miners survived China’s crypto crackdown
- Why everyone in crypto should learn Chinese
Sponsors:
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Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Institutional counterparties can earn up to 8% annually on their idle stablecoins, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto. Individuals can also park their cash and stablecoins at Nexo's Interest-Earning account to get an annual return of 8%. So if you are looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your GO-TO PARTNER. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting crypto market cap data from crypto exchanges? We offer the most accurate and transparent crypto data in the space. For examples, see our Ethereum / ETH price & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2018 conversation with Ari Nazir, founder and managing partner at Neural Capital, a hedge fund focused on cryptoassets. We discuss how a general lack of experience and sophistication among cryptocurrency investors makes it profitable to trade against popular opinion. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 13.
Sponsors
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For examples, see our Ethereum Price / ETH & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2017 conversation with Aaron Brown, crypto derivatives expert and former Managing Director at AQR Capital Management, one of the world’s largest hedge funds. We discuss the differences between the CFTC, the SEC, and the rest of the government when it comes to regulating Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 3.
Sponsors
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For examples, see our Litecoin Price / LTC & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2019 conversation with Katya Kovalenko, partner at P2P Capital, a private investment firm focused on blockchain-based digital assets. We discuss smart contracts - what they are, their role in ICOs, and their uses in decentralized finance. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 36.
Sponsors
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For examples, see our Ethereum Price / ETH & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
This crypto podcast is the second of a two-part conversation with Tieshun Roquerre, co-founder and CEO of Namebase, an exchange and registrar for Handshake (HNS) domain names. Handshake domains can be used for websites, apps, or crypto wallet addresses. Namebase facilitates their auction and registration on blockchain, where they are resistant to censorship and other forms of tampering.
The conversation is split into 5 chapters:
- The origins of Handshake and Namebase
- Handshake's ecosystem
- Handshake from an investor’s perspective
- How to acquire a Handshake domain
- Namebase’s future
The first two chapters were covered in Part 1. This part covers Chapters 3, 4, and 5.
It also covers:
- How HNS is like an index fund & buying domains is like picking stocks
- How Handshake enables full-stack decentralized applications
- Strategies that bidders have employed to win name auctions
- Why Namebase surfaces mempool information
- How lockups work: the bid and the blind
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Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Institutional counterparties can earn up to 8% annually on their idle stablecoins, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto. Individuals can also park their cash and stablecoins at Nexo's Interest-Earning account to get an annual return of 8%. So if you are looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your GO-TO PARTNER. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
CryptoTrader.Tax
CryptoTrader.Tax makes the excruciating task of reporting your cryptocurrency gains and losses a breeze. Sorting through transaction records from exchanges and reporting each trade in USD terms is not how most crypto investors want to spend a weekend. CryptoTrader.Tax is a software platform that automates the entire cryptocurrency tax reporting process. It's basically TurboTax for cryptocurrency investors. Just connect your exchanges and import your trade history and CryptoTrader.Tax will do all of the number-crunching and spit out your auto-filled tax reports with the click of a button. Tell them that Clay from the Flippening Podcast sent you to get a discount.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
This crypto podcast is the first of a two-part conversation with Tieshun Roquerre, co-founder and CEO of Namebase, an exchange and registrar for Handshake (HNS) domain names. Handshake domains can be used for websites, apps, or crypto wallet addresses. Namebase facilitates their auction and registration on blockchain, where they are resistant to censorship and other forms of tampering.
The conversation is split into 5 chapters:
- The origins of Handshake and Namebase
- Handshake's ecosystem
- Handshake from an investor’s perspective
- How to acquire a Handshake domain
- Namebase’s future
Chapters 3, 4, and 5 are covered in Part 2. This part covers the first two chapters.
It also covers:
- How Handshake improves internet security
- How resolvers work
- The relationship between top-level domains (TLDs) and 2nd-level domains
- How TLDs make money
- How Namebase makes money (now and in the future)
- The importance of backward compatibility
Sponsors:
CryptoTrader.Tax
CryptoTrader.Tax makes the excruciating task of reporting your cryptocurrency gains and losses a breeze. Sorting through transaction records from exchanges and reporting each trade in USD terms is not how most crypto investors want to spend a weekend. CryptoTrader.Tax is a software platform that automates the entire cryptocurrency tax reporting process. It's basically TurboTax for cryptocurrency investors. Just connect your exchanges and import your trade history and CryptoTrader.Tax will do all of the number-crunching and spit out your auto-filled tax reports with the click of a button. Tell them that Clay from the Flippening Podcast sent you to get a discount.
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Institutional counterparties can earn up to 8% annually on their idle stablecoins, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto. Individuals can also park their cash and stablecoins at Nexo's Interest-Earning account to get an annual return of 8%. So if you are looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your GO-TO PARTNER. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting crypto market cap data from crypto exchanges? We offer the most accurate and transparent crypto data in the space. For example, see our Ethereum / ETH price & OKex pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2018 conversation with Ari Nazir, founder and managing partner at Neural Capital, a hedge fund focused on cryptoassets. We discuss how he manages his portfolio in a space that is still marked by speculation and dishonesty. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 13.
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Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For examples, see our Litecoin Price / LTC & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2018 conversation with Eric Meltzer, partner at INBlockchain, a Chinese cryptoasset fund. We discuss his preference for relationships and business opportunities over a rigid investment thesis. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 17.
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Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For example, see our Ethereum Price / ETH & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2018 conversation with Ateet Ahluwalia, former partner and Managing Director at CoVenture Crypto, a cryptocurrency asset management firm. We discuss why developed countries will be last to adopt crypto and why Bitcoin is a cheap or accessible form of trust. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 15.
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Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For example, see our Litecoin Price / LTC & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2018 conversation with Troy Wong, co-founder and former CFO of Neptune Dash, a publicly-traded masternode company. We discuss why Neptune went public, what Dash masternodes are, and some of the benefits that accrue to masternode operators. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 12.
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Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For example, see our Ethereum Price / ETH & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2018 conversation with Hunter Horsley, co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Asset Management, operator of the world’s first crypto index fund. We discuss Bitcoin, the role that social media played in its rise, and why investors in today’s multi-token market need a diversified portfolio of cryptoassets. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 10.
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Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For example, see our Litecoin Price / LTC page.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2018 conversation with Alex Wearn, co-founder and CEO of IDEX, one of the top decentralized exchanges on Ethereum. We discuss decentralized exchanges – what they are, how they benefit users, and the challenge of transitioning users to a mental model that doesn’t include a signup or password. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 33.
Sponsors
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For example, see our Ethereum Price / ETH page.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2018 conversation with Kevin Zhou, co-founder and Head Trader at Galois Capital, a high-volume US-based OTC desk. We discuss why a crypto investor might place an OTC or over-the-counter trade, how desks make money, and how they manage risk. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 30.
Sponsors
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For example, see our Litecoin Price / LTC page.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our Popular Crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2018 conversation with Sam McIngvale, Head of Product at Coinbase Custody, the world’s largest cryptocurrency custody service. We discuss common custody options and their respective trade-offs. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 28.
Sponsors
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For example, see our Ethereum Price / ETH page.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our Popular Crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements, with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2018 conversation with Nadav Hollander, co-founder and CEO of Dharma, a decentralized finance platform. We discuss how companies like Lending Club and Prosper are neither peer-to-peer nor very helpful to the world's unbanked. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 24.
Sponsors
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For example, see our Litecoin Price / LTC page.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our Popular Crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements, with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2018 conversation with Stephen McKeon, professor of finance at the University of Oregon and partner at Collaborative Fund. We discuss use cases for stablecoins and Stephen’s view that they represent the clearest path to mass cryptocurrency adoption. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 19.
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Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For example, see our Ethereum Price / ETH page.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our Popular Crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements, with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2018 conversation with Dhruv Bansal, co-founder and CEO of Unchained Capital, a company that provides cash loans to holders of cryptoassets. We discuss what happens when the market tanks and shrinks a customer’s collateral. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 8.
Sponsors
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For example, see our Litecoin Price / LTC page.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our Popular Crypto newsletter.
This crypto podcast was recorded live. To attend a recording and submit interview questions to guests, enter your email address here & subscribe.
Today's guest is Hasu, an anonymous cryptocurrency researcher who writes for Uncommon Core and Deribit Insights. He used to be a professional poker player, an experience that informs his current work. As he explains, there is overlap between poker and cryptoeconomics. Both can be understood through game theory.
This conversation is split into 4 chapters:
- Hasu's background
- Proof-of-Work & Nakamoto Consensus
- Game theory and the incentives behind Proof-of-Work
- A Q&A covering Bitcoin maximalism, declining block rewards, and how China dominated crypto mining
The episode also covers the following:
- Mining as a way to establish consensus & distribute currency
- The limits of centralized solutions to the double-spend problem
- How to launch a 51% attack
- The case for uncapping Bitcoin’s supply
- The hidden benefits of specialized mining tech
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Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Institutional counterparties can earn up to 8% annually on their idle stablecoins, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto. Individuals can also park their cash and stablecoins at Nexo's Interest-Earning account to get an annual return of 8%. So if you are looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your GO-TO PARTNER. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
CryptoTrader.Tax
CryptoTrader.Tax makes the excruciating task of reporting your cryptocurrency gains and losses a breeze. Sorting through transaction records from exchanges and reporting each trade in USD terms is not how most crypto investors want to spend a weekend. CryptoTrader.Tax is a software platform that automates the entire cryptocurrency tax reporting process. It's basically TurboTax for cryptocurrency investors. Just connect your exchanges and import your trade history and CryptoTrader.Tax will do all of the number-crunching and spit out your auto-filled tax reports with the click of a button. Tell them that Clay from the Flippening Podcast sent you to get a discount.
Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting crypto market cap data from crypto exchanges? We offer the most accurate and transparent crypto data in the space. For example, see our Ethereum / ETH price page.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our Popular Crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements, with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2018 conversation with Rick Marini, founder and managing partner at Protocol Ventures, the first fund-of-funds to focus exclusively on cryptoassets. We discuss how Rick manages his fund and adds value for clients but also why an investor might choose to go it alone. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 7.
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Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For example, see our Litecoin Price / LTC page.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our Popular Crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements, with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2017 conversation with Benjamin Roberts, co-founder of Citizen Hex, an Ethereum liquidity company. We discuss Ben’s vision of a future in which decentralized exchanges shift power from centralized exchanges to companies like Citizen Hex. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 5.
Sponsors
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For example, see our Litecoin Price / LTC page.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our Popular Crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements, with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today's episode is from a 2017 conversation with Kyle Samani, co-founder and managing partner at Multicoin Capital, a crypto hedge fund based in Austin, TX. We discuss how Kyle manages risk and how he positions his portfolio to profit from long-term trends without the benefit of a long time horizon. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 2.
Sponsors
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For example, see our Litecoin Price / LTC page.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our Popular Crypto newsletter.
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a crypto podcast from The Flippening, published each weekday. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements, with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today's episode is taken from a 2019 conversation with Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of FTX (which publishes the FTT token), one of the world’s fastest-growing crypto derivatives exchanges. We discuss the Asian cryptocurrency market and how cities like Hong Kong and Singapore have become hubs for exchange activity. For the full conversation, check out Flippening Episode 55.
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Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For example, see our Litecoin Price / LTC page.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our Popular Crypto newsletter.
This crypto podcast was recorded live. To attend a recording and submit interview questions to guests, enter your email address here & subscribe.
Today's guest is Mike Dudas, CEO of The Block, one of the top research, analysis and news brands in the digital asset space. We discuss The Block's origins, its incredible growth, and what it’s like to lead a crypto-focused media and information organization.
This conversation is split into 3 chapters:
- Mike's career before The Block
- The Block’s founding, staff, and revenue
- Key moments in The Block’s history & its main sources of traffic
The episode also covers the following:
- Mike's discovery that crypto has an “information” problem
- How mainstream journalism became anti-tech
- The Block’s business model and plans for the future
- Stories that established The Block as a serious journalistic organization
- The importance of transparency and not playing favorites
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Today's guest is Camila Russo, founder of The Defiant, a daily newsletter focused on decentralized finance or DeFi. We discuss how DeFi has become the top use case for the Ethereum network.
This conversation is split into 3 chapters:
- The early days of Ethereum
- Recent developments in decentralized finance
- The future of DeFi
The episode also covers the following:
- The historical importance of ICOs
- How blockchain enables an “Internet of value”
- The success of decentralized derivatives trading
- Exciting DeFi projects like PoolTogether, Sablier & DeFiZap
- How undercollateralized loans could drive mass DeFi adoption
- The promise of zero-knowledge proofs
- The need for a decentralized identity system
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CryptoTrader.Tax
CryptoTrader.Tax makes the excruciating task of reporting your cryptocurrency gains and losses a breeze. Sorting through transaction records from exchanges and reporting each trade in USD terms is not how most crypto investors want to spend a weekend. CryptoTrader.Tax is a software platform that automates the entire cryptocurrency tax reporting process. It's basically TurboTax for cryptocurrency investors. Just connect your exchanges and import your trade history and CryptoTrader.Tax will do all of the number-crunching and spit out your auto-filled tax reports with the click of a button. Tell them that Clay from the Flippening Podcast sent you to get a discount.
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Today's guest is Ricky Tan, founder of TokenData, a research organization focused on token sales and crypto mergers and acquisitions. Ricky gives us the state of crypto M&A then considers the future of crypto M&A markets.
This conversation is split into 3 chapters:
- The state of crypto M&A
- Driving forces behind crypto M&A activity
- A Q&A on acquihires, TokenData’s business model etc.
The episode also covers the following:
- How TokenData got started in crypto M&A
- The history of crypto M&A
- Acquihires vs. asset acquisitions
- Why 2018 was such a big year for crypto M&A
- M&A as a way to overcome regulatory hurdles
- When exchanges like Coinbase acquire crypto startups
- The first token mergers
- The global nature of crypto M&A
- Why crypto exchanges haven’t consolidated – yet
- Where TokenData gets its information
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Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Institutional counterparties can earn up to 8% annually on their idle stablecoins, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto. Individuals can also park their cash and stablecoins at Nexo's Interest-Earning account to get an annual return of 8%. So if you are looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your GO-TO PARTNER. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
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Today's guest is Rob Paone, founder of Proof of Talent, a recruiting firm focused on the blockchain and crypto industries. Because he specializes in blockchain and crypto hiring, Rob is able to offer precise insight into recruiting top talent and getting hired in these verticles.
This conversation with Rob is split into 3 chapters:
- The state of hiring and recruiting in the blockchain/crypto space
- How to get hired by a crypto company
- A Q&A covering networking, trends in remote hiring, and Rob's competition
The episode also covers the following:
- How blockchain-related job searches tend to be correlated with Bitcoin
- Hiring in a competitive market
- Rob’s concept of risk squared: startup risk + technology risk
- Where the blockchain/crypto jobs are
- The benefits of networking – both online and in-person
- How to stand out as a job-seeker
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Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Institutional counterparties can earn up to 8% annually on their idle stablecoins, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto. Individuals can also park their cash and stablecoins at Nexo's Interest-Earning account to get an annual return of 8%. So if you are looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your GO-TO PARTNER. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
CryptoTrader.Tax
CryptoTrader.Tax makes the excruciating task of reporting your cryptocurrency gains and losses a breeze. Sorting through transaction records from exchanges and reporting each trade in USD terms is not how most crypto investors want to spend a weekend. CryptoTrader.Tax is a software platform that automates the entire cryptocurrency tax reporting process. It's basically TurboTax for cryptocurrency investors. Just connect your exchanges and import your trade history and CryptoTrader.Tax will do all of the number-crunching and spit out your auto-filled tax reports with the click of a button. Tell them that Clay from the Flippening Podcast sent you to get a discount.
Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
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Welcome to this conversation with Matt Chwierut, co-founder and Director of Research at Smith + Crown (S+C), a blockchain research organization that regularly publishes on cryptoassets and cryptoeconomic systems. This episode is special because it’s one of the few times that Matt has shared his thoughts in public. Much of what S+C does takes place behind the scenes.
This conversation with Matt is split into 3 chapters:
- An intro to cryptoeconomic design
- How S+C applies cryptoeconomic design principles
- A Q&A covering S+C's advisory work, the evolving case for Bitcoin & more
The episode also covers the following:
- Today’s BTC-dominated market
- Why cryptoeconomic design goes unappreciated
- How a utility token can become valuable
- Cryptoeconomics and stablecoins
- Ethereum and the Fat Protocol thesis
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Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Institutional counterparties can earn up to 8% annually on their idle stablecoins, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto. Individuals can also park their cash and stablecoins at Nexo's Interest-Earning account to get an annual return of 8%. So if you are looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your GO-TO PARTNER. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting crypto market cap data from cryptoasset exchanges, then check us out. We offer the most accurate and transparent crypto data in the space; see for example our Litecoin Price / LTC page.
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Welcome to this conversation with Brantly Millegan, Director of Operations at Ethereum Name Service (ENS), a non-profit that allows users to register human-friendly addresses for sending money and interacting with smart contracts. For example, ENS lets Alice shorten her 0x-prefixed Ethereum address (something like “0x4cbe58c50480…”) to “alice.eth."
This conversation with Brantly is split into 3 chapters:
- An explanation of what naming systems are
- How ENS works and what users can do with it
- A Q&A covering ENS' competitors, future use cases & more
The episode also covers the following:
- How blockchain makes ENS censorship-resistant
- Programming ENS names with smart contracts
- The difference between .eth and ENS
- Why ENS is no longer creating new TLDs
- How ENS is funded
- Trading a .eth name like any other NFT
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Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Institutional counterparties can earn up to 8% annually on their idle stablecoins, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto. Individuals can also park their cash and stablecoins at Nexo's Interest-Earning account to get an annual return of 8%. So if you are looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your GO-TO PARTNER. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
CryptoTrader.Tax
CryptoTrader.Tax makes the excruciating task of reporting your cryptocurrency gains and losses a breeze. Sorting through transaction records from exchanges and reporting each trade in USD terms is not how most crypto investors want to spend a weekend. CryptoTrader.Tax is a software platform that automates the entire cryptocurrency tax reporting process. It's basically TurboTax for cryptocurrency investors. Just connect your exchanges and import your trade history and CryptoTrader.Tax will do all of the number-crunching and spit out your auto-filled tax reports with the click of a button. Tell them that Clay from the Flippening Podcast sent you to get a discount.
Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting crypto market cap data from cryptoasset exchanges, then check us out. We offer the most accurate and transparent crypto data in the space; see for example our Litecoin Price / LTC page.
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Welcome to this conversation with Antoni Trenchev, co-founder and Managing Partner at Nexo, a provider of instant cryptoasset-backed loans and high-yield savings products. Since the April 2018 ICO of their NEXO token, the company has processed over $1 billion dollars in transactions.
My conversation with Antoni is split into 5 chapters:
- Chapter 1: Nexo’s business model and some of its products
- Chapter 2: The lifecycle of a Nexo loan
- Chapter 3: A history and evolution of cryptoasset-backed lending
- Chapter 4: The present state of crypto-backed lending
- Chapter 5: The future of the space
In this episode, we discuss:* Antoni’s background prior to Nexo * Nexo's origin as a hand-drawn graphic on a piece of paper * Bitcoin (BTC) forums & the early days of crypto-backed lending * The mechanics of serving customers in 200+ jurisdictions * The challenge of complying with diverse US state laws * Nexo's zero-fee model – they only make money from loan interest * Why Nexo doesn't pay interest on crypto – yet * The fortuitous timing of the NEXO token sale * Common uses cases for cryptoasset-backed loans * Pledging crypto as collateral to minimize taxes * How to apply for a Nexo loan * Consumer benefits of dynamic credit lines * The Nexo credit card * The size of the cryptoasset-backed lending space * Extending loans against tokenized physical gold * KYC and AML for crypto-backed lending * Why Antoni sees Nexo as a financial institution and a software company * The importance of simple, transparent regulation
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This episode is the second of a two-part conversation with Will Warren and Amir Bandeali, co-founders of 0x (which issues the ZRX token), an open-source protocol that powers the decentralized exchange of tokens on Ethereum.
This interview is part of a series with exchange operators. We've interviewed Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ), Binance CFO Wei Zhou, Ivan Poon from Switcheo, Alex Wearn from IDEX, Sam Bankman-Fried from FTX, John Jansen from Deribit, and Mario Lozada from Liquid.
My conversation with Will and Amir is split into 4 chapters:
- Chapter 1: Decentralized exchange before DEXs
- Chapter 2: A short history of DEXs and 0x
- Chapter 3: The current state of DEXs and 0x
- Chapter 4: An exploration of the future
In this episode, we finish chapter 3 and cover chapter 4.
We discuss:
- Ways that 0x relayers can compete for users
- How 0x Mesh enables a more efficient marketplace
- KYC and AML on DEXs
- The introduction of bridge contracts in v3
- Lesser-known use cases for 0x
- Why DEXs are suited for security tokens
- The potential of prediction markets like Augur and Gnosis
- Launching a 0x relayer in just a couple of minutes
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Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. And Nexo has a BIG announcement related to credit lines: annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Institutional counterparties can earn up to 8% annually on their idle stablecoins, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto. Individuals also park their cash and stablecoins at Nexo’s Interest-Earning account to get an annual return of 8%. What’s more - interest is paid out daily and you can add or withdraw funds at ANY time. So if you are looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your GO-TO PARTNER. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
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This episode is the first of a two-part conversation with Will Warren and Amir Bandeali, co-founders of 0x. 0x is an open-source protocol that powers the decentralized exchange of tokens on Ethereum.
This interview is part of a series with exchange operators. We've interviewed Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ), Binance CFO Wei Zhou, Ivan Poon from Switcheo, Alex Wearn from IDEX, Sam Bankman-Fried from FTX, John Jansen from Deribit, and Mario Lozada from Liquid.
My conversation with Will and Amir is split into 4 chapters:
- Chapter 1: Decentralized exchange before DEXs
- Chapter 2: A short history of DEXs and 0x
- Chapter 3: The current state of DEXs and 0x
- Chapter 4: An exploration of the future
In this episode, we cover chapters 1, 2, and part of chapter 3. In the next episode, we finish chapter 3 and cover chapter 4.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How Amir and Will got into cryptocurrency
- Why Ethereum needed a protocol like 0x
- Why 0x decided to open source
- The early days of decentralized exchange
- The benefits of moving order books off-exchange
- Obstacles to the mass adoption of DEXs
- Present-day DeFi vs. ICO Mania
- 0x's corporate structure
- Changes to token economics in v3
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Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. And Nexo has a BIG announcement related to credit lines: annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Institutional counterparties can earn up to 8% annually on their idle stablecoins, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto. Individuals also park their cash and stablecoins at Nexo’s Interest-Earning account to get an annual return of 8%. What’s more - interest is paid out daily and you can add or withdraw funds at ANY time. So if you are looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your GO-TO PARTNER. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
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I'm joined by Patrick Meenan, General Partner at Arthur Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in B2B software companies located outside of San Francisco. Patrick has been with Arthur Ventures since 2012. He's also a board member at Nomics, the company that produces this podcast.
This interview is relevant to blockchain startups. Indeed, most blockchain startups are not in the Valley and even if they were, the standard playbooks wouldn’t apply to many of them because of the unique dynamics of this space. In this episode, we discuss methods and approaches for funding, growing, and operating a company outside Silicon Valley or even the United States.
As a side note, Patrick and I go back quite a bit. He was involved in the first round of funding for my previous company, LeadPages, which went on to acquire an email service provider called Drip. We’ve sat on a board together for over six years.
My conversation with Patrick is split into 4 chapters:
- Chapter 1: Lessons learned investing outside the Valley
- Chapter 2: Business operations
- Chapter 3: Fundraising outside the Valley
- Chapter 4: Blockchain-based investment opportunities
In this episode, we discuss:
- Patrick's background prior to joining Arthur Ventures
- The origin of Arthur Ventures
- The first thing Patrick learned about early-stage investing
- The danger of using a Bay Area playbook outside the Valley
- How good companies share common characteristics
- How Patrick finds opportunities outside of San Francisco
- Different reasons why companies take capital
- How Patrick evaluates a company's growth prospects
- Why Arthur Ventures prefers to be the lead - or only - investor
- Mistakes that can derail a company's growth
- The right and wrong times to take liquidity
- How entrepreneurs can find VCs outside the Valley
- What to pay attention to in a term sheet
- How to run an effective board meeting
- Why it's an encouraging time to be in blockchain
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Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. And Nexo has a BIG announcement related to credit lines: annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Institutional counterparties can earn up to 8% annually on their idle stablecoins, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto. Individuals also park their cash and stablecoins at Nexo’s Interest-Earning account to get an annual return of 8%. What’s more - interest is paid out daily and you can add or withdraw funds at ANY time. So if you are looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your GO-TO PARTNER. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
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Welcome to this conversation with Mario Lozada, co-founder, President, and CTO at Liquid , a cryptocurrency exchange .
Liquid launched in 2014. In 2017, they raised over $100 million in an ICO for their utility token, QASH . In the past year, they've done nearly $100 billion in real volume.
This interview is part of a series with exchange operators. We've interviewed Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) , Binance CFO Wei Zhou , Ivan Poon from Switcheo , Alex Wearn from IDEX , Sam Bankman-Fried from FTX , and John Jansen from Deribit .
My conversation with Mario is split into 5 chapters:
- Chapter 1: The current state of Liquid
- Chapter 2: Revenue sources
- Chapter 3: Liquid’s product roadmap
- Chapter 4: Branding
- Chapter 5: The future for Liquid and the crypto space
In this episode we discuss:
- Mario’s background
- Working with Japanese regulatory agencies
- The value of customer feedback
- Why spot markets outnumber derivatives platforms
- Exciting new products
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Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. And Nexo has a BIG announcement related to credit lines: annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Institutional counterparties can earn up to 8% annually on their idle stablecoins, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto. Individuals also park their cash and stablecoins at Nexo’s Interest-Earning account to get an annual return of 8%. What’s more - interest is paid out daily and you can add or withdraw funds at ANY time.
So if you are looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your GO-TO PARTNER. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io .
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My guest today is actually me, Clay.
In this episode, I am interviewed by Rob Paone. Rob is the host of the Crypto Bobby Podcast. He’s also the founder of Proof of Talent, a boutique recruiting firm that helps companies fill positions in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space.
A few months ago, Rob interviewed me for his podcast and I liked the content so much that I asked Rob if I could air a modified version of that conversation here on the Flippening. He generously said yes, so here we are. By the way, this is the second time I’ve been on Rob’s show. You can listen to my first interview with Rob at episode #11.
In this conversation, Rob and I explore:
- How and why crypto exchanges spam aggregators like CoinMarketCap
- What ticker stuffing is and how it works
- Why referring to fake volume as wash trading is an inaccurate description of the problem
- Why liquidity providers that are really just providing volume as a service to exchanges and crypto projects are hurting the space
- What the crypto data ecosystem needs if it really wants to grow up
In this episode we discuss:
- The impact of the BitWise report
- What is driving fake volume on exchanges
- The difference between exchange spamming, volume spamming, and ticker stuffing
- Why fake volume matters and who it impacts the most
- How retail traders can protect themselves from fake volume
- How Nomics is combatting exchange spam with transparency ratings
- Why keeping up with exchange spam will be an ongoing battle
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Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins.
Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Institutional counterparties can earn up to 8% annually on their idle stablecoins, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto.
Individuals can also park their cash and stablecoins at Nexo’s Interest-Earning account to get an annual return of 8%. What’s more - interest is paid out daily and you can add or withdraw funds at ANY time.
So if you are looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your GO-TO PARTNER. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
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This episode is the second and final installment of our two-part series on the history of crypto exchanges. Once again, I'm joined by Nathaniel Whittemore, a freelance crypto communications strategist.
This conversation is part of a larger series we’re doing on crypto exchanges. As part of this series, we’ve already interviewed Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao and John Jansen from Deribit, among others.
Nathaniel and I are teaming up to write an article about the history of cryptocurrency exchanges. In this two-part series, we explore the main ideas from that article and share our understanding of how the crypto exchange ecosystem has evolved over time.
This conversation is broken up into 5 chapters:
- Chapter 1: The pre-history of Bitcoin and how regulation from that era still affects us today
- Chapter 2: An exploration of the first crypto exchange that launched only a year after Bitcoin went live
- Chapter 3: The Mt. Gox story and the fallout caused by that hack
- Chapter 4: The rise of ICOs and how that led to the ascendancy of Binance
- Chapter 5: Current trends in the crypto exchange ecosystem
In last week's episode (#57), we covered chapters 1 through 3. In this episode (#58), we cover chapters 4 through 5.
In this episode we discuss:
- The ICO boom
- How tokens allow you to bootstrap the value of the network
- The rise of BitMEX and derivatives trading
- Initial Exchange Offerings (IEOs)
- How custody and trading are being centralized
- Why exchanges are spamming aggregator sites like Nomics and CoinMarketCap
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Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins.
Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Institutional counterparties can earn up to 8% annually on their idle stablecoins, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto.
Individuals can also park their cash and stablecoins at Nexo’s Interest-Earning account to get an annual return of 8%. What’s more - interest is paid out daily and you can add or withdraw funds at ANY time.
So if you are looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your GO-TO PARTNER. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics’s Cryptocurrency Market Data API
If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting market cap data, then check us out.
This episode is the first installment of our two-part series on the history of crypto exchanges. I’m joined by Nathaniel Whittemore, freelance crypto communications strategist and curator of Long-Reads Sundays on Twitter.
This conversation is part of a larger series we’re doing on crypto exchanges. As part of this series, we’ve already interviewed Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ), Ivan Poon from Switcheo, & John Jansen from Deribit, among others.
Nathaniel and I are teaming up to write an article about the history of cryptocurrency exchanges.
In this two-part series, we explore the main ideas from that article and share our understanding of how cryptocurrency exchanges and the crypto exchange ecosystem have evolved over time.
This conversation is broken up into 5 chapters:
- Chapter 1: The pre-history of Bitcoin and how regulation from that era still affects us today
- Chapter 2: An exploration of the first crypto exchange that launched only a year after Bitcoin went live
- Chapter 3: The Mt. Gox story and the fallout caused by that hack
- Chapter 4: The rise of ICOs and how that led to the ascendancy of Binance
- Chapter 5: Current trends in the crypto exchange ecosystem
In this episode, we cover chapters 1 through 3. In the next episode, we cover chapters 4 through 5.
In this episode we discuss:
- How Binance has continued to innovate even at the risk of self-disruption
- Patterns in the history of exchanges
- How decentralization will change regulation
- What Mt. Gox was and how it got hacked
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Welcome to this conversation with John Jansen, CEO of Deribit.
Deribit launched in 2016 and is one of the first futures and options crypto exchanges. At the time of this recording, Deribit does half a billion dollars of (real) volume per day.
I should also note that Deribit has completed a “deep data integration” with Nomics.com. With this integration, Deribit receives an A+ crypto exchange rating.
This interview is part of a series of interviews I’m doing with exchange operators. As part of this series, we’ve already interviewed Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ), Binance CFO Wei Zhou, as well as Ivan Poon from Switcheo, Alex Wearn from IDEX, and Sam Bankman-Fried from FTX.
If you run a top 50 crypto exchange by volume, I want to speak with you as part of this series. Please reach out to set that up.
My conversation with John Jansen is broken up into 5 chapters:
- Chapter 1: What derivatives options and futures are
- Chapter 2: The current state of crypto derivatives exchanges
- Chapter 3: The current state of Deribit
- Chapter 4: Brand differentiation and growth hacking for crypto exchanges
- Chapter 5: An exploration of the future
In this episode we discuss:
- Deribit’s origin story
- How Deribit is funded
- Why most exchange operators don't really use social media
- How leverage changes as your position increases
- How crypto derivatives exchanges differ from derivatives exchanges in traditional finance
- Why more people have started spot exchanges versus derivatives exchanges
- How Deribit differentiates itself from the rest of the market
- How the crypto derivatives space has evolved over time
- Derivatives contracts volume versus spot exchange volume
- Why Deribit attracts institutional investors
- The number of Deribit users
- Deribit’s revenue figures
- Why Deribit uses geofencing
- Deribit’s future developments
- What Mass Quote Protections (MQP) are
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Welcome to part two of this series on crypto derivatives trading. Once again, I'm joined by Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of FTX, one of the fastest-growing crypto derivatives exchanges in the space. FTX launched in April of 2019, and at the time of this recording, does around $100 million dollars in daily volume.
Sam is also CEO of Alameda Research, a quantitative trading firm that provides liquidity to crypto markets worldwide. Alameda manages over $100 million in digital assets and trades $600 million to $1.5 billion dollars per day across thousands of products. They are responsible for approximately 5% of all (legitimate) crypto exchange volume.
This deep-dive is broken up into 7 chapters:
- Chapter 1: Quantitative trading
- Chapter 2: The relationship between Alameda Research and FTX
- Chapter 3: The current state of crypto derivatives trading
- Chapter 4: The similarities and differences between leveraged volume and spot market volume
- Chapter 5: The current state of FTX
- Chapter 6: Growth hacking and brand differentiation in the crypto derivatives exchange space
- Chapter 7: An exploration of what the future might look like
Chapters 1 through 3 were covered in episode 54. In today’s episode, we focus on chapters 4 through 7.
In this episode we discuss:
- Why leveraged volume and spot market volume are essentially the same
- Why the FTX and Alameda Research teams are distributed throughout the world (Antigua, Tokyo, Hong Kong, etc.)
- How US regulators approach the crypto space differently from other countries
- Why emerging markets with less developed financial ecosystems are quickly adopting crypto
- What FTX is doing to differentiate their platform in the crypto derivatives exchange space
- How much revenue FTX is currently generating
- The importance of WeChat for building crypto communities in China
- Why co-location is not a big deal yet but will eventually be in the future
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Welcome to part 1 of this series on crypto derivatives trading. I’m joined by Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of FTX, one of the fastest-growing crypto derivatives exchanges. FTX launched in April of 2019, and at the time of this recording, does around $100 million dollars in daily volume.
Sam is also CEO of Alameda Research, a quantitative trading firm that provides liquidity to crypto markets worldwide. Alameda manages over $100 million in digital assets and trades $600 million to $1.5 billion dollars per day across thousands of products. They are responsible for approximately 5% of all (legitimate) crypto exchange volume.
This conversation is broken up into 7 chapters:
- Chapter 1: Quantitative trading
- Chapter 2: The relationship between Alameda Research and FTX
- Chapter 3: The current state of crypto derivatives trading
- Chapter 4: The similarities and differences between leveraged volume and spot market volume
- Chapter 5: The current state of FTX
- Chapter 6: Growth hacking and brand differentiation in the crypto derivatives exchange space
- Chapter 7: The future
In this episode, we cover chapters 1 through 3. Next week, we'll close the conversation by covering chapters 4 through 7.
In this episode we discuss:
- How FTX got started
- The opportunities in cryptoland versus traditional finance
- How quantitative trading works
- How the infrastructure for crypto investing has evolved over the past few years
- Blind spots to avoid when creating trading bots
- Why there are so few players in the derivatives and options platform space
- Rules, regulations, and norms for liquidity providers
- Why FTX wants more liquidity providers on their platform
- The 4 components (which Wall Street has) that are missing from crypto derivatives trading
- The difference between a future and an ETF
- How FTX handles outlier detection
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The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with several crypto exchanges, you can get everything through one screaming fast fire hose. If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting market cap data, instead of identifying opportunities or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently with top-notch support in SLAs, then check us out here. Or if you’d like to order historical cryptocurrency market data as CSV exports from top exchanges, email us at sales@nomics.com.
Welcome to part 2 of our series on Binance, the world’s biggest crypto exchange based on real trading volume. Nomics has given Binance an A exchange transparency rating, which means that Binance provides highly audible and granular data about trading activities with complete history. On most days, they are the #1 ranked exchange on Nomics.com.
In the previous episode, I had the honor of interviewing CZ, CEO and founder of Binance. In that episode, CZ gives us a "behind the scenes" look at how Binance grew to become the #1 crypto exchange only a few months after launching.
In this episode, we continue our exploration of Binance by talking with Wei Zhou, CFO of Binance. Before joining Binance in 2018, Wei was CFO of several startups, including two companies that IPOed in the US. Wei was also instrumental in the 2018 Grindr acquisition.
This conversation is broken up into 8 chapters:
- Chapter 1: How Binance accounts for its revenue
- Chapter 2: Binance’s fiat businesses (like Binance US, Binance Jersey, etc.)
- Chapter 3: IEOs and the disruption of investment banking
- Chapter 4: How Binance generates revenue (other than collecting trading fees)
- Chapter 5: The burning schedule for Binance Coin / $BNB
- Chapter 6: Stablecoins and pegged tokens
- Chapter 7: Binance’s general operations
- Chapter 8: The future
In this episode we discuss:
- How Wei became the 1st CFO of Binance
- How Binance uses equity to recruit talent
- The relationship between Binance and its fiat businesses
- What Binance looks for in a partner
- What the IEO process looks like with Binance
- Why stablecoins and pegged tokens are crucial for traders
- How living in a country with a stable banking system can be a disadvantage
- What Wei would do if he could make anything happen in the crypto space
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Nomics’s Cryptocurrency Market Data API
If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting market cap data, instead of identifying opportunities and if you want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently with top-notch support in SLAs, then check us out.
This conversation is with Binance CEO and founder, Changpeng Zhao (CZ). Binance is the world’s biggest crypto exchange based on (real) trading volume. On most days they're #1 ranked exchange on Nomics.com; they're also our highest rated exchange.
Binance is one of the two most important crypto companies. I believe they'll become one of the most important in all of finance.
This episode is in 5 chapters:
- Chapter 1: The state of Binance when it launched, and the pre-conditions that led to its rapid rise
- Chapter 2: The current state of Binance and Binance Coin / $BNB
- Chapter 3: What CZ would do if he were to start a company from scratch
- Chapter 4: Binance’s growth hacking strategies
- Chapter 5: An exploration of value-added custody
In this episode we discuss:
- The lawsuit Sequoia Capital lodged against Binance over a "no-shop clause" in a term sheet
- Why Binance transitioned from “employees” to "team members"
- The relationship between Binance Uganda, Binance Jersey, Binance Singapore, and Binance US with Binance.com
- How centralized Binance is bootstrapping Binance DEX
- The biggest opportunities in crypto right now (according to CZ)
- CZ’s thoughts on the role of equity over time
- Growth hacking strategies that helped Binance grow so quickly
- Why crypto exchanges will overtake custodial and staking businesses
P.S. This is part of a series on exchange operations. As part of this series, we’ve already interviewed Alex Wearn from IDEX the largest decentralized exchange & Ivan Poon from Switcheo, the first multi-chain decentralized exchange.
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Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Institutional counterparties can earn up to 8% annually on their idle stablecoins, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto. If you are looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your go-to partner. Explore nexo.io or reach them on institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics’s Cryptocurrency Market Data API
If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting market cap data, then check us out.
In this episode, I’m joined by Ivan Poon, co-founder and CEO of the Switcheo Crypto Exchange. Switcheo is the world’s first consumer-grade & multi-chain decentralized cryptocurrency exchange allowing users to trade across different blockchains.
We discuss Switcheo’s origin story, how to market a crypto exchange, and the future of decentralized exchanges.
This conversation is broken up into 7 chapters:
- Chapter 1: What Switcheo is and how it’s positioned in the market
- Chapter 2: Which parts of the Switcheo exchange are on-chain versus off-chain
- Chapter 3: Switcheo’s core user demographics
- Chapter 4: What it actually takes to grow an exchange
- Chapter 5: The regulatory environment for exchanges
- Chapter 6: Switcheo’s business operations
- Chapter 7: The future of decentralized exchanges
In this episode we discuss:
- How Switcheo facilitates on-chain, Atomic swaps
- Hash time-locked contracts (HTLCs)
- Proxy tokens
- The pros and cons of the EOS, NEO, and Ethereum blockchains
- The blockchains that Switcheo plans on adding
- Which components (custody, order books, matching engines, etc.) are on-chain vs. off-chain
- The two parts of trade execution
- How OTC Desks can use Switcheo
- What types of users are attracted to the Switcheo platform
- How many Switcheo users come from institutional backgrounds
- What Ivan has learned about exchange growth
- The strategy around the SWTH (i.e. the Switcheo Token)
- How to incentivize market makers
- Switcheo’s affiliate program
- Why Switcheo is looking at supporting BTC
- Switcheo’s position on regulation
- How Switcheo’s corporate entity is set up
- The future of decentralized exchanges
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Welcome to the second and final installment of our deep dive on high-frequency cryptoasset trading. Once again, I'm joined by Ed Tolson, founder of kbit. Kbit is a high-frequency trading firm that's responsible for about 0.5% of daily total crypto exchange volume. For example, in May of 2019, kbit did just shy of $1 billion of total volume.
This two-part deep dive is broken up into five chapters:
- Chapter One: What high-frequency trading is
- Chapter Two: What high-frequency traders actually do as well as the categories of high-frequency trading that exist in cryptoland
- Chapter Three: Data, fake volume, and toxic activity on exchanges
- Chapter Four: How kbit operates
- Chapter Five: What the future of high-frequency trading might look like
In the previous episode (#0049), we explored chapters one and two. In this episode, we conclude the conversation by covering chapters three through five.
We discuss:
- How exchanges outsource wash trading
- What "classic crypto wash trading" looks like
- Types of data that are most useful to high-frequency traders
- When it’s necessary to manually execute a trade
- What business development looks like between market makers and exchanges
- The two biggest pain points that market makers have with exchanges
- Maker-taker fee schedules
- How latency impacts high-frequency cryptoasset traders
- How kbit plans to enter the OTC space
- Where Ed goes for industry information
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Welcome to this two-part deep dive on high-frequency cryptoasset trading. Our guest is Ed Tolson, founder of kbit. Kbit is a high-frequency trading firm that's responsible for about 0.5% of daily total crypto exchange volume. For example, in May of 2019, kbit did just shy of $1 billion of total volume.
This two-part deep dive is broken up into five chapters:
- Chapter One: What high-frequency trading is
- Chapter Two: What high-frequency traders actually do as well as the categories of high-frequency trading that exist in cryptoland
- Chapter Three: Data, fake volume, and toxic activity on exchanges
- Chapter Four: How kbit operates
- Chapter Five: What the future of high-frequency trading might look like
In this episode, we cover chapters one and two.
We discuss:
- Ed’s background in crypto and finance
- The role that artificial intelligence plays in high-frequency trading
- What Ed was doing before founding kbit
- The definition of high-frequency trading
- Who kbit is competing against
- Whether front running is possible in crypto
- Why traditional high-frequency traders have not moved to crypto
- Categories of high-frequency trading in crypto
- What a high-frequency trader does
- The concepts and mechanics involved in a trade that all beginners need to know
- Where changes in the market show up first
- What Ed sees happening in the crypto space that others might not be aware of
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Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, traditional & crypto funds helping them earn interest on idle stablecoins & fiat. The company's growing portfolio of structured institutional products includes fully collateralized continuously rebalanced swap agreements allowing counterparties to effectively manage their balance sheets. To learn more, check out Nexo.io.
Nomics’s Cryptocurrency Market Data API
The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with several crypto exchanges, you can get everything through one screaming fast fire hose. If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting market cap data, instead of identifying opportunities. Or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently with top-notch support in SLAs, then check us out here. Or if you’d like to order historical cryptocurrency market data as CSV exports from top exchanges, email us at sales@nomics.com.
Today's episode is an exploration of crypto trading bots and algorithmic trading with Daniel Anderson. Daniel is a software engineer and a freelancer who builds tools for cryptocurrency traders. Before he got into the crypto space, Daniel was a software developer for IBM.
This conversation is broken up into 4 chapters:
- Chapter 1: What trading bots are, how they work, and why they’re useful
- Chapter 2: Approaches for setting up, testing, and executing algo trading strategies
- Chapter 3: Popular algo trading strategies
- Chapter 4: The future of algorithmic trading
In this episode we discuss:
- How John Mcafee inspired Daniel to start building crypto trading bots
- What trading bots are and what they do
- How algorithmic trading works
- Factors that new algo traders must take into consideration when backtesting
- How to account for slippage
- Portfolio allocation strategies
- How trading bot platforms allocate funds
- How fees are accounted for in algo trading
- Why you won't find trading bots on decentralized exchanges (yet)
- Popular algo trading strategies
- Why doing arbitrage with crypto is harder than it looks
- Algo trading strategies for accumulating BTC versus USD
- What the future of trading bots looks like
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Nexo is the world’s largest & most trusted crypto lender offering automated instant crypto credit lines, which allow you to use your crypto (e.g., Bitcoin, Ether, XRP) as collateral to get cash in 45+ fiat currencies & stablecoins without selling your cryptoassets. Nexo also offers interest earning accounts yielding up to 6.5% per year for stablecoins & Euros. Interest is paid out daily & you can add or withdraw funds at any time.
Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, traditional & crypto funds helping them earn interest on idle stablecoins & fiat. The company's growing portfolio of structured institutional products includes fully collateralized continuously rebalanced swap agreements allowing counterparties to effectively manage their balance sheets. To learn more, check out Nexo.io.
Nomics’s Cryptocurrency Market Data API
The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with several crypto exchanges, you can get everything through one screaming fast fire hose. If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting market cap data, instead of identifying opportunities. Or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently with top-notch support in SLAs, then check us out here. Or if you’d like to order historical cryptocurrency market data as CSV exports from top exchanges, email us at sales@nomics.com.
Welcome to this second and final installment of this deep dive on institutional cryptoasset staking, staking as a service, and leveraging staking to generate returns. My guest today is Joe Buttram, founder and CEO of EON Staking.
This two-part deep dive is divided into four chapters:
- Chapter One: What staking is and a step-by-step process for doing it
- Chapter Two: The ins and outs of the institutional “staking-as-a-service” business model
- Chapter Three: The regulatory landscape around staking and how the IRS, the SEC, and the CFTC view staking
- Chapter Four: What the future of staking and staking based blockchains might look like
Chapters 1 and 2 were covered in the previous episode. In today's episode, we finish up chapter 2 and dive into chapters 3 and 4.
We discuss:
- How staking-as-a-service providers make money
- How EON communicates its philosophy and actions to users
- How the legal agreements that EON has with its customers work
- How and why stakers can lose money via slashing
- How EON protects customers from slashing
- How EON developed their legal model
- EON’s in-house legal counsel
- What makes clients choose EON, rather than a competitor
- Which laws and agencies EON’s services are regulated by
- The tax situation for EON’s business model
- How SEC, FinCEN, and CFTC regulations apply to staking-as-a-service providers
- What the future looks like for staking and staking based blockchains
- Big shifts that EON may need to adapt to in the future
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Nexo is the world’s largest & most trusted crypto lender offering automated instant crypto credit lines, which allow you to use your crypto (e.g., Bitcoin, Ether, XRP) as collateral to get cash in 45+ fiat currencies & stablecoins without selling your cryptoassets. Nexo also offers interest earning accounts yielding up to 6.5% per year for stablecoins & Euros. Interest is paid out daily & you can add or withdraw funds at any time.
Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, traditional & crypto funds helping them earn interest on idle stablecoins & fiat. The company's growing portfolio of structured institutional products includes fully collateralized continuously rebalanced swap agreements allowing counterparties to effectively manage their balance sheets. To learn more, check out Nexo.io.
Nomics’s Cryptocurrency Market Data API
The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with several crypto exchanges, you can get everything through one screaming fast fire hose. If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting market cap data, instead of identifying opportunities. Or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently with top-notch support in SLAs, then check us out here. Or if you’d like to order historical cryptocurrency market data as CSV exports from top exchanges, email us at sales@nomics.com.
Welcome to this two-part deep dive on institutional cryptoasset staking, staking as a service, and leveraging staking to generate returns. My guest today is Joe Buttram, founder and CEO of EON Staking.
This two-part deep dive is divided into four chapters:
- Chapter One: What staking is and a step-by-step process for doing it with tokens you may be holding
- Chapter Two: The ins and outs of the institutional “staking-as-a-service” business model
- Chapter Three: The regulatory landscape around staking and how the IRS, the SEC, and the CFTC view staking
- Chapter Four: What the future of staking and staking based blockchains might look like
In this episode, we cover chapters 1 and 2.
We discuss:
- What staking is and how it exists as an alternative model to proof of work
- Criticisms of proof of stake
- Popular stake-based blockchains
- The difference between proof of stake and delegated proof of stake systems
- The economic models around staking
- What a validator does
- Whether staking’s history predates blockchain
- The risk profile of proof of work versus proof of stake
- The algorithmically dictated returns that occur with proof of stake
- The reliability and the consistency of returns with a proof of stake system
- Which crypto networks began using staking first
- The value-add users get from staking as a service and a platform like EON
- How staking relates to custody
- Corollaries to staking as a service in the pre-blockchain financial world
- Which areas EON needs users to trust them on
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Nexo is the world’s largest & most trusted crypto lender offering automated instant crypto credit lines, which allow you to use your crypto (e.g., Bitcoin, Ether, XRP) as collateral to get cash in 45+ fiat currencies & stablecoins without selling your cryptoassets. Nexo also offers interest earning accounts yielding up to 6.5% per year for stablecoins & Euros. Interest is paid out daily & you can add or withdraw funds at any time.
Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, traditional & crypto funds helping them earn interest on idle stablecoins & fiat. The company's growing portfolio of structured institutional products includes fully collateralized continuously rebalanced swap agreements allowing counterparties to effectively manage their balance sheets. To learn more, check out Nexo.io.
Nomics’s Cryptocurrency Market Data API
The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with several crypto exchanges, you can get everything through one screaming fast fire hose. If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting market cap data, instead of identifying opportunities. Or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently with top-notch support in SLAs, then check us out here. Or if you’d like to order historical cryptocurrency market data as CSV exports from top exchanges, email us at sales@nomics.com.
Today’s episode is the second and final installment of our 2-part exploration on investing for Bitcoin accumulation with Tuur Demeester from Adamant Capital. Before Adamant Capital, Tuur was the Editor in Chief for Adamant Research, a global macro investment research firm.
While most investment strategies seek returns in US Dollars, Tuur focuses on generating returns in BTC. He also measures his success against Bitcoin, a much higher bar than investing for USD returns. There is a growing number of crypto fund limited partners who are looking for funds denominated in BTC, and which charge fees based on returns in BTC. Tuur's general approach is in line with this philosophy.
This deep dive is broken up into 4 chapters. In episode #44, we covered Chapters 1 and 2:
- Chapter 1: Why one would invest to accumulate BTC vs. USD.
- Chapter 2: How Bitcoin accumulation investment methods differ from methods for generating returns against the US Dollar.
In today’s episode, we focus on Chapters 3 and 4:
- Chapter 3: Methods of investing for Bitcoin accumulation.
- Chapter 4: Tuur’s unfiltered thoughts on Ethereum and his take on the future of Bitcoin.
In this episode we discuss:
- The fundamental strategies for Bitcoin accumulation
- How a person can accumulate Bitcoin without exiting their position in Bitcoin
- Taking part of the value of your Bitcoin out as a loan
- Trustless ways to borrow or lend BTC
- Active strategies around Bitcoin accumulation
- Strategies for altcoins
- The reasons for using active strategies with altcoins instead of USD
- Tuur’s stance on Ethereum
- Whether Bitcoin will develop faster payments, faster settlement times, smart contracts, decentralized finance
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Nexo is the world’s largest & most trusted crypto lender offering automated instant crypto credit lines, which allow you to use your crypto (e.g., Bitcoin, Ether, XRP) as collateral to get cash in 45+ fiat currencies & stablecoins without selling your cryptoassets. Nexo also offers interest earning accounts yielding up to 6.5% per year for stablecoins & Euros. Interest is paid out daily & you can add or withdraw funds at any time.
Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, traditional & crypto funds helping them earn interest on idle stablecoins & fiat. The company's growing portfolio of structured institutional products includes fully collateralized continuously rebalanced swap agreements allowing counterparties to effectively manage their balance sheets. To learn more, check out Nexo.io.
Nomics’s Cryptocurrency Market Data API
The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with several crypto exchanges, you can get everything through one screaming fast fire hose. If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting market cap data, instead of identifying opportunities. Or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently with top-notch support in SLAs, then check us out here. Or if you’d like to order historical cryptocurrency market data as CSV exports from top exchanges, email us at sales@nomics.com.
I'm joined by Tuur Demeester from Adamant Capital. We discuss investment strategies for accumulating BTC and generating returns against BTC (instead of USD).
While most investment strategies focus on generating returns in US Dollars, Tuur focuses on generating returns in BTC. He measures his success against Bitcoin, which over the course of Bitcoin's short history, is a much higher bar for an investor. There is a growing number of crypto fund limited partners looking for funds denominated in BTC, and which charge fees based on returns in BTC.
Our deep dive into investing for Bitcoin accumulation will be covered in two parts and split into four chapters:
- Chapter 1: Why one would invest to accumulate BTC vs. USD
- Chapter 2: How Bitcoin accumulation investment methods differ from methods for generating returns against the US Dollar
- Chapter 3: The methods of investing for Bitcoin accumulation
- Chapter 4: Tuur’s unfiltered thoughts on Ethereum and his take on the future of Bitcoin
In today’s episode, we focus on Chapters 1 and 2.
In this episode we discuss:
- How Tuur got involved in the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency community
- Tuur’s explorations around freedom, sovereignty, and location independence
- Why Tuur prefers living in the United States (for now)
- How Bitcoin enhances mobility
- The philosophical case for investing for Bitcoin accumulation
- The tax advantages to denominating in BTC
- Why diversification matters
- Proof of stake
- How investing for Bitcoin accumulation is different than investing for USD accumulation
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Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, traditional & crypto funds helping them earn interest on idle stablecoins & fiat. The company's growing portfolio of structured institutional products includes fully collateralized continuously rebalanced swap agreements allowing counterparties to effectively manage their balance sheets. To learn more, check out Nexo.io.
Nomics’s Cryptocurrency Market Data API
The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with several crypto exchanges, you can get everything through one screaming fast fire hose. If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting market cap data, instead of identifying opportunities. Or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently with top-notch support in SLAs, then check us out here. Or if you’d like to order historical cryptocurrency market data as CSV exports from top exchanges, email us at sales@nomics.com.
My guest today is Stephen McKeon. Stephen is a visiting fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, a finance professor at the University of Oregon, and most relevant to this podcast, a partner at Collaborative Fund where he’s leading a dedicated effort called Collab Crypto.
This is Stephen’s 3rd appearance on the podcast, making him our most frequent guest. His other two appearances were on episode 19, “The Economics of Cryptoasset Markets” and our very popular security token audio documentary entitled, “Tokenize The World.”
Professor McKeon is back on the show to explore the state of crypto-focused venture capital, Collab Crypto's thesis and approach to structuring investments, and what Stephen believes to be the biggest investment opportunities.
In this episode we discuss:
- How Stephen got involved with Collaborative Fund
- The current state of crypto VC
- Whether investors in the crypto space are getting more sophisticated
- How the crypto space is maturing
- Which funds provided inspiration for Collab Crypto
- Location patterns in crypto investments
- Governance and allocation
- Investment protection and how it is being standardized
- How Collab Crypto is positioned to provide value
- Equity vs. tokens
- Institutional Shareholder Services
- Protections against excessive dilution
- Opportunities beyond crypto assets and exchanges
- What’s happening in the security tokenization space
- Stephen’s thoughts about debt markets
- Value-added custody
- Where the scarcities are located in the crypto investment space
- Types of teams that are most successful in the crypto space
Sponsors
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Veil defines itself as ‘privacy without compromise’ — providing anonymity through a combination of technologies like Zerocoin and RingCT. Having launched this year with over $1 million in seed funding, Veil boasts an experienced team, including members working on Ravencoin, PIVX, and more. Before its launch, the Veil team released the X16RT mining algorithm, which has been adopted by projects seeking resistance to ASICs and FPGAs.
Veil’s hybrid Proof-of-Work & Proof-of-Stake consensus lets users mine the coin, stake with Zerocoin, or both. Find Veil on leading data feeds like Nomics, CoinMarketCap, Blockfolio, & CoinGecko. To learn more about Veil, check out their website here.
Nomics’s Cryptocurrency Market Data API
The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with several crypto exchanges, you can get everything through one screaming fast fire hose. If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting market cap data, instead of identifying opportunities. Or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently with top-notch support in SLAs, then check us out here.
Today, instead of an interview, you’ll hear a short public service announcement about tax-loss harvesting.
Right now, during this period between the bear market and a potential bull market, where prices are going sideways, it would behoove a lot of people to consider doing some tax-loss harvesting
To explain tax-loss harvesting in more detail, you’ll hear from my friend, Zac McClure, co-founder of TokenTax.
I personally go to Zac for help with this stuff.
In this short episode, you’ll learn:
- What tax-loss harvesting is
- What’s allowed and what isn’t
- How much you can deduct against your ordinary income if you've already used up all your gains
- The deadlines for tax-loss harvesting
- And finally, whether you can retroactively apply crypto losses on tax gains you’ve paid for in previous years
Sponsors
Veil Project
Veil defines itself as ‘privacy without compromise’ — providing anonymity through a combination of technologies like RingCT. Having launched this year with over $1 million in seed funding, Veil boasts an experienced team, including members working on Ravencoin, PIVX, and more. Before its launch, the Veil team released the X16RT mining algorithm, which has been adopted by projects seeking resistance to ASICs and FPGAs.
Veil’s hybrid Proof-of-Work & Proof-of-Stake consensus lets users mine the coin, stake or both. Veil states that staking allows Veil users to earn rewards anonymously by holding coins in their wallets. Find Veil on leading data feeds like Nomics, CoinMarketCap, Blockfolio, & CoinGecko. To learn more about Veil, check out their website here.
Nomics’s Cryptocurrency Market Data API
The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with several crypto exchanges, you can get everything through one screaming fast fire hose. If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting market cap data, instead of identifying opportunities. Or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently with top-notch support in SLAs, then check us out here.
In this episode, we explore privacy coin investing with our guest, Jordan Clifford, Co-founder and Managing Director at Scalar Capital. Before Scalar, Jordan was a lead growth engineer at Coinbase and a business analyst at Capital One.
Hear Jordan & Clay discuss the fungibility of cryptoassets, the privacy coin landscape, and how macrotrends in society will lead to increased interest in privacy-centric cryptoassets.
In this episode we discuss:
- How the Cyprus financial crisis in 2013 led Jordan (as well as many others) into exploring Bitcoin
- Why everyone should read the "Cypherpunk's Manifesto"
- How easy it is for companies and governments to trace your transaction history on the blockchain
- Why privacy matters
- The fungibility implications for cryptocurrencies
- Why privacy is the main focus of Scalar Capital
- How privacy coins empower individuals to custody their own assets
- Where privacy-centric cryptoassets will catch fire
- How people will pay more attention to their own privacy and therefore interest in privacy coins will also grow
- Why Monero stands out above the rest in the privacy coin landscape
- How mandatory privacy works and why it may be holding back Monero from wider adoption
- How ring signatures work
- Why JP Morgan is looking to use some of the technology found in Zcash
- Why Monero has a larger market cap even though Zcash is more popular
- Who the biggest threats are to Monero and Zcash (you might be surprised)
- The "instamine" issue on the Dash ecosystem
- Why Jordan is excited about decentralized exchanges
- Why more institutional involvement in cryptoassets is inevitable
- Why Schnorr signatures are a game changer for privacy
Sponsors
Veil Project
Veil defines itself as ‘privacy without compromise’ — providing anonymity through a combination of technologies like Zerocoin and RingCT. Having launched this year with over $1 million in seed funding, Veil boasts an experienced team, including members working on Ravencoin, PIVX, and more. Before its launch, the Veil team released the X16RT mining algorithm, which has been adopted by projects seeking resistance to ASICs and FPGAs.
Veil’s hybrid Proof-of-Work & Proof-of-Stake consensus lets users mine the coin, stake with Zerocoin, or both. Veil states that staking with Zerocoin allows Veil users to earn rewards anonymously by holding coins in their wallets. Find Veil on leading data feeds like Nomics, CoinMarketCap, Blockfolio, & CoinGecko. To learn more about Veil, check out their website here.
Nomics’s Cryptocurrency Market Data API
The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with several crypto exchanges, you can get everything through one screaming fast fire hose. If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting market cap data, instead of identifying opportunities. Or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently with top-notch support in SLAs, then check us out here.
On March 19, 2019, Bitwise, a crypto asset management firm, filed a report with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) in hopes of getting approval for their Bitcoin ETF. In the report, Bitwise asserted that 95% of exchange volume was fake and only 10 exchanges had "real volume."
This report spread like wildfire throughout crypto Twitter.
Today, I'm joined by Nathaniel Whittemore, curator of Long Reads Sunday and coauthor of the 6,000-word mammoth on our blog entitled, "Crypto Market Cap: An In-Depth Review & Survey Of Emerging Alternatives." In this episode, we turn the tables as he interviews me about my take on the Bitwise report.
Please enjoy this conversation between myself and Nathaniel Whittemore.
In this episode we discuss:
- The proper context for understanding the purpose of the Bitwise report
- A high-level overview of what was included in the report
- How the analysis is fair for a Bitcoin ETF, but probably not fair for considering the rest of the cryptosphere
- Why clearly defining terms and methodology matters
- A primer on crypto market data
- What the best exchanges have in common
- What the worst exchanges lack
- What crypto Twitter got wrong about the report
- How inaccurate crypto data is negatively impacting our everyday lives
- Why we must demand for accurate data from exchanges
- How the Nomics API is addressing the data problem
- The reasons why accurate data benefits everyone, including exchanges
Sponsor: Nomics’s Cryptocurrency Market Data API
The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with several crypto exchanges, you can get everything through one screaming fast fire hose. If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting market cap data, instead of identifying opportunities. Or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently with top-notch support in SLAs, then check us out here.
Welcome to the second and final installment of this two-part case study on fund tokenization. This case study is an addendum to our security tokenization audio documentary, entitled "Tokenize The World," which has +100k downloads. If you haven't heard it yet, check it out at securitytokendocumentary.com.
About this episode:
In this case study, our guest Rob Nance from CityBlock capital is brutally honest about the arduous process of issuing his fund's NYCQ security token.
(Note: if he’d known from the outset how difficult the journey would have been, he might never have started... especially given the bear market, the immaturity of legal precedent, etc.).
Here’s some real talk: I regularly hear people who have never actually issued a security token advising companies to tokenize. In fact, on at least 10 occasions, people have suggested that Nomics -- the company that runs this podcast -- tokenize our equity (as if it were a simple process). Nothing could be further from the truth.
As far as I know, this is the first published end-to-end case study and deep dive on what it actually takes to tokenize.
This case study is broken up into three chapters:
- Chapter 1: Tokenized funds – what they are, how they work, and the benefits they provide.
- Chapter 2: The five steps required to launch a tokenized fund.
- Chapter 3: Rob’s take on what the future looks like.
In the previous episode, we covered Chapter 1 and the beginning of Chapter 2. In today’s episode, we will finish exploring Chapter 2 and conclude with Chapter 3.
In this episode we discuss:
- How to think about finding legal counsel
- What level of diligence is necessary for choosing a security token company
- Key variables of security token providers
- Whether you can fundraise before tokenizing
- Aspects of an offer that are unique to tokenized funds
- The pros and cons of offering investors the option to tokenize
- The value of tokens other than liquidity
- Surprising aspects of token mechanics
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Sign up using our special link here.
Nomics’s Cryptocurrency Market Data API
The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with several exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast fire hose. If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets, instead of identifying opportunities, or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently with top-notch support in SLAs, then check us out here.
This case study is an addendum to our security tokenization audio documentary, entitled "Tokenize The World," which has +100k downloads. If you haven't heard it yet, check it out at securitytokendocumentary.com.
About this episode:
In this case study, our guest Rob Nance from CityBlock capital is brutally honest about the arduous process of issuing his fund's NYCQ security token.
(Note: if he’d known from the outset how difficult the journey would have been, he might never have started... especially given the bear market, immaturity of legal precedent, etc.).
Here’s some real talk: I regularly hear people who have never actually issued a security token advising companies to tokenize. In fact, on at least 10 occasions, people have suggested that Nomics -- the company that runs and runs this podcast -- tokenize our equity (as if it were a simple process). Nothing could be further from the truth.
As far as I know, this is the first published end-to-end case study and deep dive on what it actually takes to tokenize.
This case study is broken up into three chapters:
- Chapter 1: Tokenized funds – what they are, how they work, and the benefits they provide.
- Chapter 2: The five steps required to launch a tokenized fund.
- Chapter 3: Rob’s take on what the future looks like.
In this episode we discuss:
- The five-step equity tokenization process
- Whether CityBlock could do its work without tokens
- The inspiration for CityBlock’s business model
- How capital deployment decisions are made
- What kind of information CityBlock provides in terms of disclosures to token holders
- The standard methodology for evaluating a privately held, venture-backed company
- What a tokenized fund is
- How to invest in a tokenized fund
- Why investors need to expect to wait at least three years to sell
- The difference between building the team, product, thesis, and pitch for a tokenized fund versus a non-tokenized fund
- The up-front costs of tokenizing
Our Sponsors:
Currency.com
Currency.com is the world’s first regulated tokenized securities exchange that allows you to use your Bitcoin or Ethereum holdings – and even fiat – to trade the world’s biggest markets through tokenized securities. Choose to trade with up to 100x leverage or buy and sell assets of your choice from over 200 tokenized securities. Crypto traders are able to trade traditional financial assets without putting their holdings under price pressure or exchanging to fiat. Of course, this is all possible with the security, trust, and precision of blockchain technology. It’s simple: trade with crypto, profit in crypto.
Sign up using our special link here.
Nomics’s Cryptocurrency Market Data API
The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with several exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast fire hose. If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets, instead of identifying opportunities, or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently with top-notch support in SLAs, then check us out here.
In this episode, we reflect on the biggest ideas and lessons learned from the past 12 months of interviewing the top names in crypto. I’m joined by Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano, co-founder at Morgan Creek Digital Assets. Hear Pomp & Clay discuss which companies might outperform Bitcoin, what we got wrong about crypto in 2018, and why debt hasn’t gotten as much attention as it should.
In this episode we discuss:
- The equity opportunities that Pomp finds most interesting
- Anthony’s outlook on media companies
- The concept of bootstrapping a crypto nation-state
- The major categories of use cases for security tokenization
- How tokenization affects disclosure
- The spectrum between centralized and non-centralized
- What Anthony has learned from doing his podcast
- The best episode of the past 12 months of Flippening
- What Anthony thinks about Grin
- Bear markets
- Anthony’s thoughts on generalized mining
- Impact of the Bitcoin ETF
- Ecosystem funds Derivative platforms
- Whether Binance & BNB are overrated or underrated
Our Sponsor - Nomics’s Cryptocurrency Market Data API
The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with several exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast fire hose. If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets, instead of identifying opportunities, or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently with top-notch support in SLAs, then check us out here.
This episode is the second and final part of our series on investing in smart contract platforms. I’m joined by Katya Kovalenko, a partner at P2P Capital. We explore the pros and cons of smart contract platforms, how to evaluate them, and what the future holds.
In Part 2, We Discuss:
- How Katya got involved in cryptocurrency investing
- The origins of P2P Capital
- P2P Capital areas of focus
- How P2P Capital is structured
- How the business involves staking, running nodes, and participating in networks that reward network participants
- What kind of things are codified in an agreement that an investor makes with a project
- What smart contracts are and what they can do
- Smart contracts that have been shown to work historically
- How smart contracts are used during token sales
- Compelling future use cases of smart contracts
- What smart contracts are and aren’t good for
- Popular smart contract platforms
- What is possible with regards to smart contracts on the Stellar platform
- Smart contracting languages
- What Katya is enthusiastic about when it comes to EOS
- How investors should consider smart contract options
- The Moloch DAO
- How to place bets in the smart contract space
- Common arrangements when it comes to equity plus token arrangements
- Accrual of value to tokens aspiring to be currencies like Bitcoin versus the accrual value to smart contract platforms
- What the future of smart contract platforms looks like
Our Sponsor - Nomics’s Cryptocurrency Market Data API
The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with several exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast fire hose. If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets, instead of identifying opportunities, or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently with top-notch support in SLAs, then check us out here.
This is a special episode of the Flippening Podcast. The research arm of Nomics, creatively titled “Nomics Research,” will be publishing the audiobook you’re about to hear on Audible. But before we do that, we’re broadcasting it here for free.
This audiobook is a reading of Katya Kovalenko’s 10K word blog post, entitled “Investing In Smart Contract Platforms: How Developer Ecosystems, Crypto Economics, and Token Mechanics Create Value on Platforms Like Ethereum, EOS, Cardano and Tezos.” (Note: We also created an audiobook for the article Nathaniel Whittemore and I published last December, entitled “Crypto Market Cap: An In-Depth Review & Survey Of Emerging Alternatives”).
What you’re about to hear is a private investor’s take on the smart contract space and possible ways to evaluate and invest in smart contract platforms.
This audiobook is broken up into three parts:
- A deep exploration of what smart contract platforms are
- A framework for evaluating smart contract platforms
- A consideration of smart contract investing’s future
In This Episode We Discuss
- What are smart contracts?
- Potential use cases of smart contracts
- Current concerns with smart contract platforms
- Ethereum, Stellar, EOS, RSK, Cardano, Tezos
- How to evaluate smart contract platforms
- The role of developer experience and governance
- Ecosystem funds and developer adoption
- Avenues for investing in smart contracts
- Katya’s predictions for the future
Links Relevant To This Episode:
- Investing In Smart Contract Platforms: How Developer Ecosystems, Crypto Economics, and Token Mechanics Create Value on Platforms Like Ethereum, EOS, Cardano and Tezos
- Crypto Market Cap: An In-Depth Review & Survey Of Emerging Alternatives
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Nomics is an API-first cryptoasset market data company. Our API enables programmatic access to clean, normalized, and gapless primary source trade data across a number of cryptocurrency exchanges. Instead of having to integrate with multiple exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast fire hose. If you’re an enterprise or fund that requires error rate, update, and accuracy guarantees along with email and phone support, then consider using the Nomics Cryptocurrency API.
This episode is the second and final part of a series on decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges. I am joined today by Alex Wearn: Co-founder and CEO of Aurora Lab. Aurora Lab is responsible for creating IDEX, the number one decentralized application on the Ethereum network.
This deep dive is broken up into 10 chapters. In episode 33 we covered chapters 1 through 4.
In this episode, Alex and I will concentrate on chapters 5 through 10.
- Chapter 5: Control and regulation
- Chapter 6: A review of the top blockchains for decentralized exchange
- Chapter 7: Sourcing liquidity
- Chapter 8: Different approaches to exchange tokens (Binance’s BNB token, for example)
- Chapter 9: A look at the organization around IDEX, Aurora DAO
- Chapter 10: The future of decentralized exchange might look like
We also discuss:
- What regulators can and can't expect IDEX to do
- IDEX’s listing policies
- How to stop phishing attacks on a decentralized exchange
- Methods for sourcing liquidity
- Accommodating (or not) maker-taker schemes and incentivization programs
- Different approaches to exchange tokens
- Token design
- IDEX Fundraising
- The size and location of Alex’s team
- The future of decentralized exchange
A Note From Our Sponsor:
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Nomics is an API-first cryptoasset market data company. Our product is a developer tool for funds, family offices, enterprises, and fintech developers. Our API enables programmatic access to clean, normalized, and gapless primary source trade data across a number of cryptocurrency exchanges. Instead of having to integrate with multiple exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast fire hose. If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets, instead of identifying opportunities, or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently with top-notch support and SLAs, then check us out here. One notable difference between Nomics’ API and competition is that the Nomics product has no rate limits.
If you’re an enterprise or fund that requires error rate, update, and accuracy guarantees along with email and phone support, then consider using the Nomics Cryptocurrency API.
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This is part 1 of our series on decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges. I am joined today by Alex Wearn: Co-founder and CEO of Aurora Lab. Aurora Lab is responsible for creating IDEX, the number one decentralized application on the Ethereum network.
This deep is broken up into 10 chapters:
Chapter 1: A primer on decentralized exchanges and the problems they actually solve
Chapter 2: A step-by-step walkthrough of trade execution through post-trade settlement
Chapter 3: A history of decentralized exchanges
Chapter 4: The components and attributes of a decentralized exchange
Chapter 5: Control and regulation
Chapter 6: A review of the top blockchains for decentralized exchange
Chapter 7: Sourcing liquidity
Chapter 8: Different approaches to exchange tokens (Binance's BNB token, for example)
Chapter 9: A look at the organization around IDEX, Aurora DAO
Chapter 10: The future of decentralized exchange might look like
In this episode, Alex and I will concentrate on the first five chapters.
Listen in to hear what Alex has to say about the problems that a decentralized exchange solves, the smart contract-based approach, and the history of decentralized exchanges.
In this episode we discuss:
--Decentralized exchange definitions
--Problems solved by a decentralized exchanges
--Types of users attracted to particular feature sets
--Pros and cons of decentralized exchange
--How the dollar value of funds raised through an ICO in a given month correlates with revenue
--Steps that someone new to cryptocurrency would need to take to execute a trade on IDEX
--The smart contract-based approach
--The 0x protocol
--The history and emergence of decentralized exchanges
--How to handle the collision of taker orders
--The core functions that can be unbundled from each other in the execution of trades on an exchange
--The relationship between orders and trades
--Definitions of makers and takers
--Custody of funds and how it ties into trade settlement
A Note From Our Sponsor:
Do you Need An Enterprise-Grade Crypto Market Data API For Your Fund, Smart Contract, or App?
Nomics is an API-first cryptoasset market data company. Our product is a developer tool for funds, family offices, enterprises, and fintech developers. Our API enables programmatic access to clean, normalized, and gapless primary source trade data across a number of cryptocurrency exchanges. Instead of having to integrate with multiple exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast fire hose. If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets, instead of identifying opportunities, or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently with top-notch support and SLAs, then check us out here. One notable difference between Nomics’ API and competition is that the Nomics product has no rate limits.
If you’re an enterprise or fund that requires error rate, update, and accuracy guarantees along with email and phone support, then consider using the Nomics Crypto Market Data API.
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Today’s episode is a departure from the usual format. Instead of an interview, you’ll hear an audiobook created from a long-form article that I published with Nathaniel Whittemore a few weeks ago, entitled “Crypto Market Cap: An In-Depth Review & Survey Of Emerging Alternatives”.
The article sparked a lot of discussions, but some of the feedback suggested that the length of the article may have made the content less accessible. Listening to the article, however, provided a much different experience. What you’re going to hear on today’s show is the article read by a professional voice actor who has experience narrating Audible books. In this piece, Nathaniel and I review the following topics:
In this episode we discuss:
-Why the conversation about Market Cap matters
-The origin of Market Cap
-How Market Cap became the dominant measure of value
-How Market Cap is evaluated
-The differences between tokens and stocks, and why this matters as a critique of Market Cap
-How inflation schedules matter as a critique of Market Cap
-Why the challenges of determining what number to use for supply lead to a major critique of Market Cap
-The problem of Redemption Impact when it comes to cryptocurrency
-How a Fully Diluted Market Cap could improve on the current Market Cap system
-How using Realized Capital could provide a more accurate picture of circulating supply by removing lost, dormant, or never-activated coins.
-How The Market-Value-to-Realized Value (MVRV) could incorporate market cycle analysis into market capitalization
-The case for measuring volume and liquidity instead of market cap
-Measuring security expenses as a measure of assessing value
-Measuring community and network health as a means of assessing value
A Note From Our Sponsor:
Do you Need An Enterprise-Grade Crypto Market Data API For Your Fund, Smart Contract, or App?
Nomics is an API-first cryptoasset market data company. Our product is a developer tool for funds, family offices, enterprises, and fintech developers. Our API enables programmatic access to clean, normalized, and gapless primary source trade data across a number of cryptocurrency exchanges. Instead of having to integrate with multiple exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast fire hose. If you found that you or your developer have to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets, instead of identifying opportunities, or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently with top-notch support and SLAs, then check us out here. One notable difference between Nomics’ API and competition is that the Nomics product has no rate limits.
If you’re an enterprise or fund that requires error rate, update, and accuracy guarantees along with email and phone support, then consider using the Nomics Crypto Market Data API.
Today’s episode is the second part of an in-depth conversation is with Kevin Zhou, head trader at Galois Capital. Galois Capital is a high-volume US-based OTC desk. Some of Kevin’s previous positions include Head of Trading at Kraken, and prior to that, Head of Trading at Buttercoin, one of the very first crypto asset companies backed by Y Combinator. Kevin has been trading crypto since 2011.
Continuing from the first part of the conversation, in this episode, you’ll learn more about how OTC desks grow their businesses and add customers, how OTC desks differentiate themselves from one another, and what sales operations, regulations, and pricing look like for an OTC desk.
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Today’s conversation is with Kevin Zhou, head trader at Galois Capital. Galois Capital is a high-volume US-based OTC desk. Some of Kevin’s previous positions include Head of Trading at Kraken, and prior to that, Head of Trading at Buttercoin, one of the very first crypto asset companies backed by Y Combinator. Kevin has been trading crypto since 2011.
In this conversation, you’ll get a behind the scenes look into how OTC desks operate and make money. The world of OTC trading can be opaque. Although the term OTC desk is often used, there’s much less talk about what happens behind the scenes at regulated high-volume desks.
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You’re about to hear is part 2 of my conversation with Sam McIngvale, who runs Coinbase Custody.
Whereas the first part of this conversation was focused on custody, the second part of this conversation focuses more generally on the suite of institutional products that Coinbase is rolling out, including their prime brokerage offering.
In the episode that you’re about to hear, we discuss . . .
- An overview of Coinbase’s suite of institution product offerings
- Why consumer products in the crypto space are optimizing for getting the greatest number of individual users, whereas institutional products are designed around
- servicing the greatest amount of capital
- How Coinbase Prime operates as a service layer on top of Coinbase’s products for institutional customers
- Coinbase’s forthcoming OTC offering
- The need for additional order types for cryptoassets
- A discussion of Coinbase’s soon to be shuttered index fund
We also discuss how coinbase markets, which provides a shared pool of liquidity for all of Coinbase’s products…. is both an internal service provider to the rest of coinbase and a product available to market makers and high-frequency traders.
I should mention that if you want to discuss these topics or this podcast episode, feel free to join us on our telegram group at NomicsTelegram.com
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Today’s conversation is with Sam McIngvale who heads up Coinbase Custody.
Coinbase Custody’s clients include PolyChain Capital, Multicoin Capital (who we’ve had on this podcast, by the way), Autonomous Partners, and Walden Bridge Capital. Coinbase Custody’s mission is to make digital currency investment accessible to every eligible financial institution and hedge fund in the world.
Before Sam was running Coinbase Custody, he was VP of Engineering at Apex Clearing Corporation.
I’ve been to several crypto conferences for institutional investors and heard several unremarkable conversations about custody. This is not one of them.
Sam is on point throughout this entire interview and this conversation results in a fantastic episode that will likely leave you with much to consider.
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My guest today is actually me and my co-founder at Nomics, Nick Gauthier.
This interview is a deep dive into the state of crypto market data and the problems faced when traders, analysts, market makers, and financial product creators try to procure clean and reliable data. In this episode, we discuss the problems of (1) data inconsistency, (2) data accessibility, and (3) data decentralization when it comes to cryptoasset market data.
Enjoy!
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I’ve long aspired to release topical content relevant to the current crypto news cycle. But I never found a great way to pull that off. There are lots of podcasts with crypto bros shilling their unedited opinions on price movements or the latest ICOs, and I just didn’t want to go that route (especially since I don’t personally enjoy this content).
While contemplating this delimma, Eric Meltzer’s Proof of Work Newsletter arrived in my mailbox. What I appreciate about Eric’s Newsletter is that it isn’t filled with news hackery or thought pieces from Medium; instead, Proof Of Work includes updates directly from the makers behind top crypto projects. Proof of Work includes primary source material coming directly from founders, rather than third-party analysts.
So I approached Eric about doing a Monthly Proof of Work Audio wrap up. He said yes, so here we are.
In this episode we discuss:* Major themes and trends amoung crypto projects for the month of august * Our 6 favorite features and releases “shipped” from various engineering teams in the space * Which crypto team has won “The Ship Award” … which is the monthly award we give to the project that has shipped the most in a given month * Why asian exchanges are absolutely dominant right now * Which crypto businesses are making money, and . . . * What new developments we expect to see in September
Here’s a little bit of background on Eric.
Eric is a partner at INBlockchain, China’s oldest and largest institutional cryptoasset and blockchain fund. To give you a sense of INBlockchain’s size and scope, consider that they announced a $1.6 Billion dollar fund with 30% coming from the Hong-Jo local government. And prior to that they already had a couple billion under management.
If you want to learn more about Eric, check out Flippening Episode #17.
--Clay
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If investing is not your full-time job, but you still want to get into crypto and blockchain, what cryptocurrencies should you consider when making an investment decision?
One popular solution is a portfolio of cryptoassets selected and rebalanced on a regular basis. Panda Analytics is a crypto index research and management company that has software tools which allow you to construct a passive index tailored to your risk level and help you execute the strategy, automating the tedious rebalancing work. Also, Panda created the world's first Proof-of-Work index fund, a low-cost, complexity-free investment vehicle allowing you to diversify into crypto. If you want to learn more about their index fund and tools, please check the website at PandaAnalytics.com.
Note: This Episode of Flippening is Made Possible by Nomics' free Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin API.
The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source cryptocurrency trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with a bunch of exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast firehose. check us out at Nomics.com.
Welcome to part two of our deep dive on tokenized debt.
My co-creator for this content is Nadav Hollander, who is the founder and CEO of Dharma: a platform for building borderless lending products using programmable, tokenized debt.
In part one, we discussed why debt and particularly tokenized debt is such a big deal. If you haven't yet listened to part one, please stop now and listen to that episode for more context on this conversation.
As a reminder, in chapter one we discussed the history of debt from the origin of the species to the year 2000. In chapter two, we explored the history and development of crypto asset technology that has paved the way for programmable, tokenized debt.
Today's episode begins with the second half of chapter three of this conversation, where we discuss how the Dharma protocol works and the first class operators within the system.
In chapter four, we focus on the top use cases and investment opportunities for tokenized debt. Finally, in chapter five, we discuss Dharma as a corporate entity, how it works, and more.
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Today’s conversation isn’t quite a documentary, but it isn’t just your average interview either. So I’m labeling this a "deep dive," and the topic is tokenized debt.
The Flippening Podcast is first and foremost for institutional investors, and I’m covering this topic because the dual issues of debt and lending are just too big to ignore and absolutely rife with investment opportunities. Many of which we talk about during this conversation.
My co-creator for this content is Nadav Hollander, who is the founder and CEO of Dharma: a platform for building borderless lending products with programmable tokenized debt.
This is the first of two episodes, in which we break down the topic of tokenized debt into five chapters. Today, you will hear the first few chapters of this conversation.
In chapter one, we discuss the history and origins of debt from the origin of the human species, up until around the year 2000. We also discuss the web 2.0 peer to peer lending solutions that preceded Dharma, such as prosper and lending club.
In the second chapter, we discuss the history and development of Crypto Asset Technology that has paved the way for programmable, tokenized debt. In chapter 3 we discuss we discuss how the Dharma protocol works and the 1st class operators within the system.
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Today's episode is a brief discussion about our recent intermission.
We're taking a break because Nomics, the company that produces this podcast, is currently fundraising for our Series A and I (Clay Collins) am swamped until part 1 of this process is complete.
In this episode, we talk about fundraising, as well as the future of this podcast. We'll be coming back with a vengeance (and a brand new episode) next week.
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Welcome to Part 3 of “Tokenize The World: A Security Token Documentary”
In this episode, we squint our eyes and stare into the future to explore how the world might change in the aftermath of widespread security tokenization. We’ll be walking you through 7 predictions about the future, as it relates to security tokenization. These forecasts for the future will move from expected to unexpected, from predictable to pretty wild (by financial product standards).
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Blocktrade will be the first fully licensed security token exchange in Europe, focused on listing crypto assets, security tokens, and other tokenized financial instruments. By being fully MiFID II compliant they will enable crypto trading to institutional traders while unlocking huge amounts of liquidity with their primary market partners. If you’re someone who’s following the security token space, they have quite a few things to announce in the next couple of weeks, including their public beta launch. Be sure to go to Blocktrade.com, hit the red subscribe button at the top, and get on their announcement newsletter.
Welcome to part 2 of “Tokenize The World: A Security Token Documentary”
This episode is a deep dive into the mechanics of how security token issuance and secondary trading fundamentally works on tokenized security platforms like Harbor and Polymath.
For all the talk about the merits and drawbacks of security tokenization, I’ve found that there’s very little discussion of the mechanics of token issuance and trading.
My purpose in this second installment is to enrich the debate so we can move beyond high-level philosophy to a deeper discussion of the technologies, methods, and mechanisms required of competent security token platform.
In this part of our series, you'll hear the story of two different tokenized security platforms, Harbor and Polymath. We'll go into detail about how they work, in an effort to provide a better understanding of the constituents, processes, and technical mechanics of the broader security token ecosystem.
Welcome to Part 1 of “Tokenize The World: A Security Token Audio Documentary”
I decided to create this series after learning that many of my preconceived notions about security tokens were just flat wrong, and that several individuals I respected and who otherwise were well-versed on crypto assets had misconceptions about security tokens, how and where they attempt to add value, why they might be needed, and the mechanics of how they work.
My purpose here is not to convince you that security tokens and asset-backed tokens are valuable, or needed, but instead to simplify the complex and tell the story of the projects, makers, issuers, investors, and influencers driving adoption of security tokens.
To create this content, I had conversations with leading thinkers and creators in the field. What I've found is that at every step of the way, the tokenization of securities, real estate, art, and other real-world assets is forcing us to re-examine old habits and ways of operating.
Special thanks to all of our guests including Professor Stephen McKeon, securities attorney Zach Robins, Harbor CEO Joshua Stein, and Bruce Fenton (CEO Chainstone Labs/Atlantic Financial and Board Member at Medici Ventures, tZero & the Bitcoin Foundation). Thanks also to Polymath's CEO Trevor Koverko & COO Chris Housser, who appear prominently in part 2 of this audio documentary.
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My guest today is Stephen Mckeon, who is an economist and Professor of Finance at the University of Oregon's Lundquist School of Business.
I had the privilege of interviewing Stephen for our upcoming three-part audio documentary on tokenized and asset-backed securities, as well as meeting him in person in New York a few weeks ago.
This episode is a hyperfocused exploration of the economic forces affecting cryptoasset markets.
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Today's episode is part 2 of my conversation with Eric Meltzer.
Our previous episode with Eric has gone on to become one of our most popular episodes to date and this is a second chance to hear from him.
This episode stands on its own and includes a very compelling step by step strategy for bootstrapping a crypto nation-state.
For some background, Eric is a partner at INBlockchain, China’s oldest and largest institutional crypto asset and blockchain fund with several billion under management, and he’s recently opened their US office in Boston.
Please enjoy part 2 of my conversation with Eric Meltzer of INBlockchain.
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The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source cryptocurrency trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with a bunch of exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast firehose. If you’ve found that you or your developer has to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining cryptoasset datasets, instead of identifying investing/trading opportunities . . . or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently, with top-notch support and SLAs, then check us out at Nomics.com.
Note: This Episode of Flippening is Made Possible by Nomics' free Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin API.
The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source cryptocurrency trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with a bunch of exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast firehose. If you’ve found that you or your developer has to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining cryptoasset datasets, instead of identifying investing/trading opportunities . . . or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently, with top-notch support and SLAs, then check us out at Nomics.com.
My guest today is Eric Meltzer, and this is part one of my conversation with him.
Eric is a partner at INBlockchain, China’s oldest and largest institutional crypto asset and blockchain fund.
To give you a sense of INBlockchain’s size and scope, consider that they recently announced a $1.6 Billion dollar fund with 30% coming from the Hangzhou government.
When people talk about institutional investing, these are the kinds of numbers they’re referring to. It’s a fascinating interview.
Note: This Episode of Flippening is Made Possible by Nomics' free Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin API.
The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source cryptocurrency trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with a bunch of exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast firehose. If you’ve found that you or your developer has to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining cryptoasset datasets, instead of identifying investing/trading opportunities . . . or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently, with top-notch support and SLAs, then check us out at Nomics.com.
This is part 2 of my conversation with Ateet Ahluwalia.
I really enjoyed the content from part 1 and I wanted to give you a second chance to hear from Ateet and tease the first episode.
If you didn’t catch our previous episode, here’s some background: Ateet is Managing Director at CoVenture Crypto, and in a past life, he was a Macro Credit Trader at Barclays, a Macro Portfolio Manager at Bluecrest Capital, and a Credit Index Trader at Goldman Sachs.
In part 1 of this two-part interview, we discussed quantitative crypto investing, the values of quantitative trading, why whatever idea you have must be quantified, and how Ateet's investment research during the Cyprus bailout led him to Bitcoin.
In this, part 2 of our conversation, we play a fun lightning round game of over-rated / under-rated, discuss the impact that regulation is likely to have on the space, and take stock of the real impact that our community is having on the world.
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My guest today is Ateet Ahluwalia, and this is part one of my conversation with him.
Ateet is a Managing Director at CoVenture Crypto.
Prior to CoVenture, Ateet was a Macro Credit Trader at Barclays, a Macro Portfolio Manager at BlueCrest Capital, and a Credit Index Trader at Goldman Sachs. Ateet is a trader’s trader and a quantitative investor through and through. He’s also one of the most disciplined thinkers in our space.
I should note the one singular theme driving through this entire conversation is encapsulated by the phrase Ateet repeats over and over again, quote: “it’s all just a number on the screen”
Ateet’s entry into the space is indicative of an industry that’s evolving past offering basic exposure to investors to an industry offering investors the ability to allocate capital behind particular pureplay strategies.
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The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source cryptocurrency trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with a bunch of exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast firehose. If you’ve found that you or your developer has to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining cryptoasset datasets, instead of identifying investing/trading opportunities . . . or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently, with top-notch support and SLAs, then check us out at Nomics.com.
This is part 2 of my conversation with Ari Nazir.
I was so happy with the content in part 1, that I decided to create this second episode from my conversation with Ari.
If you didn’t catch our previous episode, here’s some background: Ari is a founder and managing partner at Neural Capital, an advisor at Protocol Ventures, and Chief Investment Officer at Apex Token Fund.
He’s also outperformed almost every Crypto hedge around with a regulated, San Francisco based fund.
In part 1 of this interview we discussed, among other things, sentiment and momentum investing, some of Ari’s other favorite indicators, and Ari’s strategy of shorting everything pitched on CNBC fast money. If you haven’t listened to that episode, I’d go and do that now.
In this, part 2 of our conversation, we play a lightning round game of over over-rated / under-rated.
I hope you enjoy the conclusion of my conversation with Ari Nazir.
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The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source cryptocurrency trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with a bunch of exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast firehose. If you’ve found that you or your developer has to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining cryptoasset datasets, instead of identifying investing/trading opportunities . . . or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently, with top-notch support and SLAs, then check us out at Nomics.com.
My guest today is Ari Nazir and this is one of our top 3 episodes to date.
Ari is a founder and managing partner at Neural Capital. I met Ari in part because I’m a limited partner in Protocol Ventures, which we covered in a previous episode. Protocol Ventures is a Fund of Funds with a portfolio that includes prominent crypto asset hedge funds like BlockTower Capital, Metastable, PolyChain, and Ari’s Neural Capital.
As an LP of protocol ventures, I get to see how these funds are performing; these reports made it clear to me that I needed to have Ari on the show.
Ari is without a doubt one of the top minds in crypto investing, and I think you’ll find this episode to be as funny as it is informative.
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The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source cryptocurrency trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with a bunch of exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast firehose. If you’ve found that you or your developer has to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining cryptoasset datasets, instead of identifying investing/trading opportunities . . . or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently, with top-notch support and SLAs, then check us out at Nomics.com.
My guest today is Troy Wong, CFO and Co-Founder of Neptune DASH, which he took public in January 2018 in Canada on the TSX Venture Exchange.
Neptune DASH is the first Dash masternode company; it currently runs 18 masternodes, each of which generates about 6.8 DASH per month.
Neptune DASH’s business reminds us of proof-of-stake and proof-of-work mining businesses, with some characteristics of direct exposure investment vehicles like the Bitcoin investment trust, but there’s nothing else like this business model around.
I’m presenting this conversation to you as part of our attempt to broadly cover regulated businesses with cryptocurrency roots.
This is an interesting episode because there are no direct analogies to Neptune DASH’s business model in the traditional financial world.
My guest today is actually . . . me (Clay Collins).
On this episode, you will hear a very special interview conducted by Rob Paone, the host of the Crypto Bobby Podcast
A few weeks ago, Rob interviewed me for his podcast and I liked the content so much that I asked Rob if I could air a modified version of that conversation here for you today. He generously said yes, so here we are.
You're probably used to me being the one asking the questions. In this episode, we flip the script and I hope you enjoy what happens when the tables are turned.
Topics include:
- Nomics' origin story and what led myself and my co-founder to start Nomics.
- A high-level overview of what Nomics is involved in at the moment.
- What the future product roadmap for Nomics looks like, and the importance of our forthcoming API product.
- Why we think we have the cleanest data in the space.
- The evolution of institutional participation in crypto investing and some of the top lessons learned thus far from the Flippening Podcast.
- The difference between Alpha and Beta gains.
- The ethics of crypto asset liquidity events or ICOs.
- The evolution of ICO fundraising.
- Crypto index funds and crypto funds of funds.
- Why I'm so interested in decentralized exchanges.
- Our favorite crypto projects right now.
- Please enjoy this conversation between myself and Rob Paone.
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The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source cryptocurrency trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with a bunch of exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast firehose. If you’ve found that you or your developer has to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining cryptoasset datasets, instead of identifying investing/trading opportunities . . . or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently, with top-notch support and SLAs, then check us out at Nomics.com.
My guest today is Hunter Horsley.
Hunter is the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Asset Management, which operates the first crypto-index fund called the HOLD 10, which tracks the top 10 crypto assets weighted by inflation-adjusted market cap.
The HOLD 10 Index fund has several hundreds of investors that range from billionaires to professors, to large RIA firms.
What’s notable about this interview is that Hunter’s business model is the antithesis of hedge funds’.
The indexing approach is about collecting small fees from lots of investors, and about passive methodologies winning over an active "coin picking" strategies. It’s a belief that a properly formed index can beat hedge fund performance without source code reviews, meeting founders, or creating value hypothesis.
Hunter’s thoughts and worldviews are sobering counterpoints to some of this podcast’s most popular interviews.
My guest today is a guy named "Jon." Jon wouldn’t tell me his last name or where he’s located.
Jon isn't a mysterious figure I met on an underground Telegram pump-and-dump group or a darknet market operator.
To the contrary, he's the COO of one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world: ShapeShift.io.
Over time, ShapeShift is becoming somewhat of a crypto conglomerate. They recently purchased Hardware wallet maker KeepKey. They also run the pricing website CoinCap and the do-it-yourself index fund creation tool, Prism (currently in private beta).
In this episode, I wanted to speak with the person in charge of end-to-end operations at ShapeShift. This conversation yields an inside look at one of the cryosphere's most influential companies.
Topics include:
- The thesis that ties together ShapeShift's products, brands, and websites.
- How ShapeShift is similar to decentralized exchanges, and how it’s different.
- ShapeShift’s product for creating your own crypto hedge fund, called Prism.
- The mechanics of how Prism works, and how Prism creates Ethereum-based smart contracts.
- What ShapeShift's organizational structure looks like.
- Why people who run exchanges tend to stay out of the public eye.
- ShapeShift’s relationship with other exchange operators
- How running a non-custodial exchange differs from running a custodial exchange.
- Why cryptocurrency exchanges get a bad rap.
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Our guest on today's show is Dhruv Bansal.
Dhruv is the co-founder of Unchained Capital, which offers individual and commercial cash loans to US individuals and businesses who can provide Bitcoin as collateral. This is an interesting service because it lets you take out a cash loan on your crypto assets so you can benefit from your bitcoin wealth without having to sell your favorite investment.
In essence, Unchained Capital is a services layer available to users of the bitcoin blockchain and is part of a growing trend towards making traditional financial services available to crypto asset holders.
This is a fascinating offering, and bitcoin holders seem to be really excited about this trend.
P.S. You might remember Dhruv from Episode 6, where we discussed the top soundbites and talks from Coindesk’s Consensus Invest Conference.
Topics include:
- Why someone might take out a crypto asset-backed loan.
- The tax advantages of borrowing against vs. selling your bitcoin.
- The fact that 60% of bitcoins haven’t been spent in the last year, and how this discovery led to the formation of Dhruv’s business.
- What sets Unchained Capital’s product offering apart from other crypto loan products.
- The parameters around Dhruv’s offering, including loan interest rates, loan terms, fees, etc.
- Why Unchained Capital doesn’t do credit checks and how they handle volatility.
- How Unchained stores collateral and how they let you monitor it while it’s in their custody.
- How much money they have lent out thus far.
- Dhruv’s views on the industry and how he sees his product roadmap evolving over time.
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My guest today is Rick Marini
Rick is the founder and managing partner of Protocol Ventures, a San Francisco based fund-of-funds that focuses on hedge funds investing exclusively in crypto assets.
Rick currently has $10 million under management and is raising a $100M fund.
Today’s conversation is a deep dive into Protocol Ventures and an exploration of the fund of funds model, as well as how Rick has applied that model to crypto asset investing.
This discussion is important because it is the very first published interview with a founder of a crypto asset fund of funds.
Note: This Episode of Flippening is Made Possible by Nomics' free Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin API.
The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source cryptocurrency trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with a bunch of exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast firehose. If you’ve found that you or your developer has to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining cryptoasset datasets, instead of identifying investing/trading opportunities . . . or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently, with top-notch support and SLAs, then check us out at Nomics.com.
This week's episode is a compilation of the best audio clip highlights, talks, and discussions from Consensus: Invest.
If you didn't attend Consensus: Invest, or you haven't heard of it, it was the very first conference for institutional investors focused on cryptoassets, and it happened at the end of 2017 in New York City.
For today's roundtable discussion, we are joined by Taylor Pearson and Dhruv Bansal from Unchanied Capital. You might remember Taylor from a previous episode. He's a popular essayist and the author of The End of Jobs. Dhruv is the co-founder of Unchained Capital. Unchained Capital is a service that lets you take out a cash loan on your crypto assets so you can benefit from your Bitcoin wealth without having to sell your favorite investment.
In this episode, we've recapped Consensus Invest and compiled our favorite audio clips and discussions from the event. This episode is the next best thing to attending in person.
Topics include:
- Thoughts on a talk about cryptocurrency as a new asset class.
- The evolution of Bitcoin and how it has been used since its inception.
- Our take on a fascinating panel about cryptocurrency taxation.
- Some compelling existential bear cases for the cryptocurrency space.
- How institutions can gain exposure to the cryptocurrency asset class.
- What the general vibe was in the hallway of this event.
- How much the event has changed in the last year and a half.
Note: This Episode of Flippening is Made Possible by Nomics' free Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin API.
The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source cryptocurrency trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with a bunch of exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast firehose. If you’ve found that you or your developer has to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining cryptoasset datasets, instead of identifying investing/trading opportunities . . . or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently, with top-notch support and SLAs, then check us out at Nomics.com.
Chances are good that you've never met a professional crypto liquidity provider. And before meeting today's guest in Zug, Switzerland, I'd never met one either.
Today's guest is Benjamin Roberts, the co-founder of Citizen Hex, which is (you guessed it) an Ethereum and ERC-20 token liquidity provider.
Citizen Hex works to increase the likelihood that, when traders place buy and sell orders for ERC-20 tokens on various crypto-exchanges, that those orders go through.
This conversation is a deep dive on what it means to be a market maker and liquidity provider in crypto markets.
Note: This Episode of Flippening is Made Possible by Nomics' free Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin API.
The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source cryptocurrency trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with a bunch of exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast firehose. If you’ve found that you or your developer has to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining cryptoasset datasets, instead of identifying investing/trading opportunities . . . or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently, with top-notch support and SLAs, then check us out at Nomics.com.
Our guest today is crypto-derivatives expert and Bloomberg contributor Aaron Brown.
Aaron is the former Managing Director and Head Of Research at AQR Capital Management (the world’s second-largest hedge fund with over 63 billion under management).
Today’s conversation is a deep dive into the topic of crypto and bitcoin derivatives. This is a timely discussion, as CME Group, Cboe, LedgerX, and Nasdaq have all launched -- or announced plans to launch -- Bitcoin derivatives markets.
Many believe that these announcements have fueled the huge gains we have seen in the price of Bitcoin in October, November, and December of 2017.
Note: This Episode of Flippening is Made Possible by Nomics' free Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin API.
The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source cryptocurrency trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with a bunch of exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast firehose. If you’ve found that you or your developer has to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining cryptoasset datasets, instead of identifying investing/trading opportunities . . . or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently, with top-notch support and SLAs, then check us out at Nomics.com.
This week’s show is our very first Crypto News Roundup for December of 2017.
These episodes provide long-form commentary and context around the most important news and events for cryptocurrency investors.
Joining us for this episode is Taylor Pearson, the author of The End of Jobs.
Taylor recently spoke at length on social media about the lack of understanding that many people have for blockchain technology.
This conversation includes some great insight into crypto hedge funds, cybersecurity, and institutional cryptoeconomics.
Note: This Episode of Flippening is Made Possible by Nomics' free Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin API.
The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source cryptocurrency trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with a bunch of exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast firehose. If you’ve found that you or your developer has to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining cryptoasset datasets, instead of identifying investing/trading opportunities . . . or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently, with top-notch support and SLAs, then check us out at Nomics.com.
A deep dive into the topic of crypto hedge funds generally, and Multicoin Capital, specifically.
On today’s show, we are joined by Kyle Samani.
Kyle is the co-founder of Multicoin Capital, an Austin, Texas-based crypto hedge fund with $10 million under management and currently raising a $100 million fund.
This is a very timely discussion, given that there are now over 124 registered crypto hedge funds, most of which were created this year.
Note: This Episode of Flippening is Made Possible by Nomics' free Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin API.
The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source cryptocurrency trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with a bunch of exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast firehose. If you’ve found that you or your developer has to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining cryptoasset datasets, instead of identifying investing/trading opportunities . . . or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently, with top-notch support and SLAs, then check us out at Nomics.com.
Welcome to the very first episode of Flippening.
This podcast is for a new class of investors who were not part of the financial services world before bitcoin, but came into the finance space because of their passion for crypto assets and distributed ledger technology. As part of the movement to recreate the world’s financial system from the ground up, these folks are starting hedge funds, creating financial products, addressing the custodianship problem, starting liquidity businesses, starting decentralized crypto exchanges, etc.
Each week we discuss the cryptocurrency economy, new investment strategies for maximizing returns, and stories from the front lines of financial disruption. In the upcoming episodes of Flippening, we’ll be having conversations with the creators of the new financial reality. The ensuing episodes will feature conversations with financial revolutionaries, economic heretics, crypto anarchists, and people who just think a few things could be done a bit better.
This podcast is for investors by investors and nothing else exists like this today.
Note: This Episode of Flippening is Made Possible by Nomics' free Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin API.
The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source cryptocurrency trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with a bunch of exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast firehose. If you’ve found that you or your developer has to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining cryptoasset datasets, instead of identifying investing/trading opportunities . . . or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently, with top-notch support and SLAs, then check us out at Nomics.com.