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#248: JP Baric, CEO of Miningstore, on Bitcoin Mining and Energy Usage Jul 17, 2023

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JP Baric is the Founder and CEO of Miningstore, a well-established technology company that designs, builds, and operates large-scale cryptocurrency mining data centers. JP has been mining since Bitcoin was valued at $70/coin and regularly consults with Fortune 1000 companies entering the fast-paced cryptocurrency mining business. MiningStore was launched in 2016 with a focus on reducing friction and increasing financial access to the cryptocurrency mining industry. From a young age, JP has always had a passion for being his own boss. Since starting a robotics camp at only 15 years old, he has created three businesses and has led the development of ten cryptocurrency mining sites.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Benefits of Bitcoin mining on the rural electric grid
- Energy usage and bitcoins inherent value.
- How to build consistent returns in Bitcoin from 10 years of being in the space
- How to evaluate crypto protocols for longevity and value creation
- Selling energy back to the grid
- Building bitcoin mining rigs
- Transitioning from a debt-based monetary system to an energy-based
- Blackrock into Bitcoin
- Bitcoin halving
MiningStore
Website: miningstore.com
Twitter: @miningstore
Instagram: @miningstoreteam
JP Baric
Twitter: @jpbaric
LinkedIn: JP Baric

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#247: Aaron Kong, Growth & Strategy Lead at Osmosis Labs, on The Cosmos Ecosystem, Decentralized Exchanges, and Interoperability Jul 13, 2023

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Aaron Kong is the Growth & Strategy Lead at Osmosis Labs, where he spearheads growth initiatives and business development efforts. Osmosis Labs is the core team responsible for developing Osmosis, an appchain that serves as the DeFi hub for the Cosmos ecosystem.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Cosmos + Osmosis 101/overview
- Latest updates in the Cosmos ecosystem
- Mesh Security: Creating the ‘NATO of Web3’
- Cosmos ecosystem appchain alliances.
- ETH L2s/Rollups vs. Cosmos appchains
- Growing L1 ecosystems
- Mars Protocol
- Quasar Finance
- Improving tokenomics with OSMO 2.0
- How DEXes can outcompete centralized exchanges
- The future of blockchain interoperability and composability
Osmosis Labs
Website: osmosis.zone
Twitter: @osmosiszone
Discord: discord.gg/osmosis
Aaron Kong
Twitter: @aaronxkong
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#246: Sue Ennis, VP at Hut 8, on Bitcoin, A.I Infrastructure, and Bitcoin Mining Jul 10, 2023

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Sue Ennis is the Vice President of Corporate Development, and Investor Relations at Hut 8 Mining. Sue is a Chartered Investment Manager, emerging technology and innovation champion, advisor, and investor whisperer.

Since 2016, Sue has steered underappreciated companies in the digital asset sector into multi-billion market cap opportunities and told some of Canada’s greatest emerging tech and innovation stories.

Prior to joining Hut 8, Sue worked with both start-ups and scale-ups in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- How A.I infrastructure is different from traditional data centres
- Where is the opportunity for miners in the data centre space
- Strategies & impact on miners in next years Bitcoin halving
- Nasdaq 100 rose 39% in the first half of 2023 its best first half of the year ever
- Once Hut 8 and U.S. Bitcoin Corp. complete their merger, the resulting U.S.-based company will be one of the largest public miners in North America
- Running marathons
- Investor Relations
- Bitcoin ETFs
Hut 8
Website: hut8mining.com
Twitter: @Hut8Mining
LinkedIn: Hut 8 Mining Corp.

Sue Ennis
Twitter: @bigsuey
LinkedIn: Suzanne Ennis
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#245: Mike Belshe, CEO of BitGo, on U.S. Regulatory Environment and Institutional Crypto Adoption Jul 06, 2023

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Mike Belshe is the Co-Founder and CEO of BitGo and Internet Pioneer. At BitGo, Mike Belshe drives product and business strategy for delivering security, compliance, and custodial solutions for blockchain-based currencies. Before founding BitGo in 2011, Mike helped develop the internet as we know it today and was also an advanced tech pioneer.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Preventing further crypto failures
- Blackrock ETF
- Principles-Based regulation
- BitGo processes approximately 20% of all global Bitcoin transactions
- Improper bank management
- Good custody vs. bad custody
- Stories from working at Netscape, Lookout, Microsoft, Google, HTTP/2
BitGo
Website: www.bitgo.com
Twitter: @BitGo
LinkedIn: BitGo
Mike Belshe
Twitter: @mikebelshe
LinkedIn: Mike Belshe

#244: Shane Mac, Co-Founder of XMTP, on The Future of Messaging, and Decentralized Communication Jul 03, 2023

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Shane Mac is the Co-Founder of XMTP, the largest open protocol, and network for secure web3 messaging. Prior to XMTP, Shane founded Assist, which built the first business messaging for Facebook Messenger, Apple Business Chat, Google Business Messaging, and SMS. Assist was acquired in 2019. In 2017, Shane co-founded & bootstrapped Squared Away, which provides remote executive assistants powered by military spouses. Squad Away recently passed $25M in revenue, led by his co-founder.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Web3 messaging
- Decentralized communication
- Portability of messages is key in developing the web3 ecosystem
- 13yr old Shane making $3k per month selling baseball bats
- Nashville is booming
- Working with FaceBook & 1-800-FLOWERS
- Builders keep building
- Communication before commerce
XMTP
Website: xmtp.org
Twitter: @xmtp_
Discord: discord.gg/xmtp
Shane Mac
Twitter: @ShaneMac
LinkedIn: Shane Mac

#243: Humayun Sheikh, CEO of Fetch.ai, on AI, Machine Learning, Autonomous Agents, and Blockchains Jun 29, 2023

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Humayun Sheikh is the Founder and CEO of Fetch.ai. He is an entrepreneur, investor, and tech visionary passionate about AI, machine learning, autonomous agents, and blockchains. In the past, he was a founding investor in DeepMind where he supported commercialisation for early-stage AI & deep neural network technology. Currently, he is leading Fetch.ai as a CEO and co-founder, a start-up building the autonomy of the future. He is an expert on the topics of artificial intelligence, machine learning, autonomous agents, and the intersection of blockchain and commodities.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- The intersection of AI and crypto
- Autonomous software agents
- AI Training
- Connecting smart agents to automate web3 systems
- Agent-based trading tools for decentralized exchanges (DEXs)
- Large Language Models
- Development of advanced blockchain technologies to overcome the security and scalability challenges
- Machine Learning
Fetch Network
Website: fetch.ai
Twitter: @Fetch_ai
Telegram: t.me/fetch_ai
Humayun Sheikh
Twitter: @HMsheikh4
LinkedIn: Humayun Sheikh

#242: Anthony Georgiades, Co-Founder of Pastel Network, on the Current NFT Market, NFT Native Blockchains, and the US Economy Jun 26, 2023

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Anthony Georgiades is the Co-Founder of Pastel Network, a fully decentralized, developer-friendly layer-1 blockchain serving as the preeminent protocol standard for non-fungible tokens ("NFTs") and Web3 technology. While performing his duties as President, Anthony is also a General Partner at Innovating Capital, a technology fund focused on disruptive companies and digital assets that has incubated Pastel Network since day one. Anthony previously spent time on the investment team at First Round Capital and on the operations teams of various startups. He studied finance, management, and computer science at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton and engineering schools.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Web3/NFT security
- The importance of decentralized storage
- Struggles creators face in the NFT space
- NFT use cases beyond art, such as within DeFi
- The current state of the NFT market and where we’re headed
- Loan collateralization
- Fractionalized NFTs
- On-chain storage solutions
- Current state of the US economy
Pastel Network
Website: pastel.network
Twitter: @PastelNetwork
Telegram: t.me/PastelOfficial
Anthony Georgiades
Twitter: @panthonylg
LinkedIn: Anthony Georgiades
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#241: Daniela Barbosa, Executive Director of Hyperledger Foundation, on Asset Tokenization, Enterprise Blockchain Use Cases, and CBDCs Jun 22, 2023

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Daniela Barbosa serves as General Manager Blockchain and Identity at the Linux Foundation and as Executive Director of Hyperledger Foundation. She has more than 20 years of enterprise technology experience, including at Dow Jones where she worked with the top global brands across various sectors, including finance, consumer and energy, to architect and deliver enterprise systems, ontologies and semantic web solutions. In the early 2000s, Daniela became involved in the early web 2.0 community helping to advance the concept of digital identity and data portability as the pathway for people to reuse their data across interoperable applications.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Government adoption of CBDCs
- Asset tokenization
- Hyperledger Foundation’s history
- Institutional adoption of blockchain technology
- Enterprise blockchain use cases
- Climate-forward blockchain initiatives
- Open source technology
- Distributed Ledger Technology
Hyperledger Foundation
Website: www.hyperledger.org
Twitter: @Hyperledger
LinkedIn: Hyperledger Foundation
Daniela Barbosa
Twitter: @danielabarbosa
LinkedIn: Daniela Barbosa
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#240: Barney Mannerings, Co-Founder of Vega Protocol, on Crypto Derivatives and Permissionless Market Creation in DeFi Jun 19, 2023

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Barney Mannerings is the Co-Founder of Vega Protocol, the derivatives layer for Web3, backed by Coinbase, Pantera, and other prominent VCs. Barney sits at the intersection of institutional finance and crypto, having founded Vega after building two versions of the London stock exchange matching engine and working in capital markets in London for 15 years.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- SEC vs Coinbase and Binance
- Vega’s recent deployment on Alpha Mainnet
- Purpose-built Blockchains for DeFi Applications
- The present + future of Crypto Derivatives
- Permissionless Market Creation in DeFi
- DeFi Trading
- Retail Investors vs. Institutional Investors
Vega Protocol
Website: vega.xyz
Twitter: @vegaprotocol
Discord: vega.xyz/discord
Barney Mannerings
Twitter: @barnabee
LinkedIn: Barney M.
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#239: Keone Hon, CEO of Monad Labs, on High Frequency Crypto Trading, L1s, L2s, and Security Jun 15, 2023

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Keone Hon is the CEO and Co-founder of Monad Labs, the team supporting the high-performance Monad blockchain. He is a software developer and blockchain researcher. Before founding Monad, he spent eight years at Jump Trading, leading an HFT team. In 2021, Keone joined Jump’s crypto division and led a team of engineers focused on blockchain research and dApp development.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- JUMP Trading
- High frequency trading
- The relationship between HFT and crypto trading
- Security on the Monad blockchain
- L1 pros and cons vs. the pros and cons of L2s
- The narrative always changes
- Roll-ups
- Scaling blockchain tech at the L1 level
- Creating better blockchain-based mobile apps
Monad Labs
Website: www.monad.xyz
Twitter: @monad_xyz
Discord: discord.gg/monad
Keone Hon
Twitter: @keoneHD
LinkedIn: Keone Hon

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