Season 7
255: SBF Gets 25 Years | BlackRock’s Tokenized Fund | Copper’s Sushi …
Paul Smyth and I look at Sam Bankman-Fried’s 25-year sentence before jumping to the brighter side of things with BlackRock’s new tokenized money market fund. We then time travel back to 2017 with Copper’s sushi party (or so we thought), and close things out by questioning the correlation between f…
253: CBDC Adoption | Who's Ahead of the Game? | Joaquim Matinero Tor
Joaquim Matinero Tor joins the show this week as guest co-host as we look at the likely paths to CBDC adoption (Central Bank Digital Currencies) in countries around the world making progress with these digital versions of fiat currencies.
251: Farcaster, Digital Identity and Decentralized Social Media with …
Laura Walsh joins the show again this week as guest co-host as we explore the potential link between digital identity and decentralized social media through the lens of the Farcaster protocol, its challenges, user growth, and the future potential of a decentralized online ecosystem.
250: The World is Yours | Brian Zwerner, W3 Studio & Beyond the Game …
Brian Zwerner is the President and Founder of W3 Studio, and a VC and Founder of Beyond the Game Network. As the President and Founder of W3 Studio, a 501c3 non-profit venture studio, Brian and his team help diverse founders in Atlanta build startups in web3. W3 Studio partners with corporations a…
248: Venture Investing and Connecting the Dots
We've remastered and packaged up two of our most popular episodes from 2023 that were originally going to be one episode looking at the venture capital mantra of ‘investing in lines and not dots’ with VC investing insights from Patrick Pinschmidt from Middlegame Ventures and my lessons learned from…
247: Money Talks with Mai Santamaria | Digital Identity, Trust, Risk …
Mai Santamaria joins me once again as guest co-host as we riff on the intersection of digital identity, digital wallets, blockchain, CBDCs, and how the political regime under which an individual lives influences your senses of trust and risk. We also blow to bits my expectation that the new EU digi…
245: Simon Brown from Consensys | Spot Crypto ETFs and Overcentraliza…
Blockchain ecosystem advisor and researcher Simon Brown from Consensys joins me as guest co-host this week. Consensys is a leading blockchain and web3 software company whose products like MetaMask and Infura are well known to the blockchain and crypto community. Simon and I riffed on Spot Crypto ET…
244: Money Talks w/ Alejandro Gutierrez | Spot Bitcoin ETF Approved |…
Pete gives a quick update on the Spot Bitcoin ETF approval followed by a roundup of Messari's Crypto Theses 2024 with guest co-host Alejandro Gutierrez.