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“It's not a billion dollar, but it's a trillion dollar opportunity in emerging markets.” - Thomas Bohner Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to interview Thomas Bohner, the 28-year-old CEO and co-founder of Credix. Credix is helping cash-rich institutions to loan out their money to
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Alpha (@illustratealpha) is the mastermind behind Coinfessions, a website where you can anonymously post crypto related confessions. With over 150,000 followers on his Twitter account (@coinfessions), Alpha provides an outlet for people who want to get their secrets off their chest and share it with the world. Alpha started
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Gami is building the Red Bull of web3 without the sugary drinks. Gnars DAO is a new way to fund extreme athletes who produce action-packed videos or make extraordinary events happen. Instead of selling energy drinks, Gnars is auctioning off up 26 NFTs every day. This idea and funding model
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Since the very beginning Yuga Labs, the company behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club, has received accusations of having hidden racist and antisemitic imagery in their NFT collection. I was skeptical at first and didn't really see it. How could some monkey pictures that many of today'
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The collapse of the crypto exchanges FTX and Celsius bring self-custody front and center again. For Stadicus (@stadicus3000), keeping cryptocurrency safe is his bread and butter. He is the Co-founder of Shift Crypto, the makers of the popular BitBox hardware wallet. In this episode, we revisit the basics of self-custody
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On Tuesday (Nov 8, 2022), a bank run on the cryptocurrency exchange FTX triggered one of the most significant setbacks in the crypto industry since the Mt. Gox hack. I invited Feyyaz Alingan (@freshfey), the founder of Bluealpine Research, to digest what had happened.
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Today on the show, I have the pleasure of talking to Fulowa, that’s his Twitter handle and online persona. Fulowa is a true NFT degen and the co-founder of OnChained, an NFT analytics platform. In this episode, Fulowa shares with us how he went from doing manual labor as
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João is a Brazilian entrepreneur and investor from Rio de Janeiro. He co-founded an investment firm when he was only 19 years old. Later he made a small fortune as a bond trader in Miami. Fascinated with aircrafts, João started importing helicopters by flying them from the US down to
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Alain Brenzikofer (@brenzi5) and his Encointer association have launched a new digital currency in Zürich, Switzerland. The digital currency, Leu (meaning Lion in Swiss German), wants to become an equal-opportunity money system that supports the local economy and fights inequality worldwide. The trick is that you can only use it
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GM. This is Defire (@defiremoney), the podcast that feels like relaxing in a hammock in the shades of palm trees, sipping delicious coconut water while magically getting smarter about crypto. About Corina from Maker DAO Today on the show, we hear the story of Corina (@0xCorina). Corina is working in
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In this episode of defire (@defiremoney): The story of Jason Hitchcock (@jasonhitchcock). Who is Jason Hitchcock? Jason is the founder and General Partner of Four Moons, a hedge fund actively investing in DeFi. Before moving to crypto, Jason spent over a decade at early-stage startups, helping companies get the first
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Today on the show, I (@defiremoney) am going to visit a Venture Capitalist with a pleasing baritone voice. Ryan Zurrer (@kukulabanze) is the founder of Dialectic (@Dialectic_CH). Ryan manages to reliably be early to almost everything. From crypto, renewables, NFTs and now even psychedelics. In this conversation, we talk