Ground Floor Consensus

GFC020: Crypto currency and the Evolution of Financial Services (w/ Michael Wu) Oct 12, 2021

“It’s easier to predict the future further along than the near future.” Michael Wu, founder and CEO of Amber Group, joins Ash Bennington to share his journey in the cryptocurrency space. He shares how he started Amber Group, discussing their services and client base, and he then goes on to explain the Asian perception of cryptocurrencies, crypto regulations in China, and what he sees as the future of crypto. Recorded in July 2021.

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GFC019: A Life In Bitcoin ( w/ Peter McCormack) Apr 20, 2021

One of the top Bitcoin podcasters in the UK, Peter McCormack, talks about his journey into Bitcoin and his transition from entrepreneur, to trader, to Bitcoin advocate, on this episode of Ground Floor Consensus. It’s an intensely personal story from an entertaining personality that you don’t want to miss.

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GFC018: Ethereum And Beyond ( w/ Joe Lubin and Erik Voorhees ) Apr 13, 2021

Guests Joseph Lubin, founder of ConsenSys and cofounder of Ethereum, and Erik Voorhees, CEO and founder of ShapeShift, join host Ash Bennington for a conversation that explores how the crypto space is growing and where Bitcoin and Ethereum fit into the landscape. They talk about use cases, discuss how each technology complements the other, explain why the either/or narrative is misguided, and consider the potential each holds to reshape the current financial system.

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GFC017: Bitcoin And Emerging Markets ( w/ Stephen Kelso ) Apr 06, 2021

Steve Kelso returns to Real Vision to talk about one of his passions: Bitcoin through the lens of emerging markets. In this engrossing conversation, he touches on everything from macro-market psychology to the mechanics of ETPs, the use case for Bitcoin as a store of value in emerging markets, and how Bitcoin can help level the playing field around the world.

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GFC016: Digital Assets And Institutional Investor ( w/ Peter Hans ) Mar 30, 2021

Peter Hans, Managing Director at Arca and host of Real Vision’s Between Two Chains podcast, joins Ash Bennington for a special episode of Ground Floor Consensus. Peter and Ash interview each other, share their individual journeys into the space, talk about the different aspects of being market participant in this asset class, and much more. If you’ve ever wanted to know more about the personalities behind the podcasts on Real Vision, this is an episode you don’t want to miss.

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GFC015: The Long And Winding Bitcoin Journey ( w/ Dan Held ) Mar 23, 2021

Dan Held, Director of Business Development at Kraken, is back on Real Vision to discuss his journey into Bitcoin, which coincided with the rise of Bitcoin in Silicon Valley. Held shares his perspective as a Bitcoin veteran: what got him interested in the space back in 2011, the evolving narratives around digital assets, how he thinks of risk, the root value of Bitcoin, the difference between NFTs and Bitcoin, his adventures in lending Bitcoin, and more.

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GFC014: Aave And The DeFI Revolution ( w/ Stani Kulechov ) Mar 16, 2021

Stani Kulechov, founder & CEO of Aave, returns to Real Vision after his recent deep-dive conversation with Ash Bennington to talk about his journey in the defi space and how he sees the world. Kulechov discusses where we are in the space, what it will take for mainstream adoption of defi, how defi is radically shifting paradigms in the financial world, why governance is so critical for the space, privacy, NFTs, and more. It’s a fascinating conversation that covers the most important issues investors need to understand.

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GFC013: Bitcoin And The Great Crypto Schism ( w/ Brandon Quittem) Mar 09, 2021

Brandon Quittem of Swan Bitcoin joins this episode to talk about divide between Bitcoiners and those who have a more expansive view of the digital assets space. Quittem and host Ash Bennington dive into the complexity and scale of the issues around Bitcoin, the competing ideologies at play, and the social and political ramifications of digital currencies. Their conversation tackles some of the most important questions in the crypto community—it’s an episode you won’t want to miss.

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GFC012: The Institutionalist Bitcoin Investor( w/ Anthony Scaramucci ) Mar 02, 2021

Financier and former White House Director of Communications Anthony Scaramucci joins this episode for a lively conversation about the inevitability of Bitcoin. From his position as a longtime institutionalist, Scaramucci shares why he has embraced this disruptive technology, what led him into the Bitcoin space, how he understands the valuation of the asset, and where he sees Bitcoin going in the future.

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GFC011: The Crypto Narrative (w/ Demetri Kofinas) Feb 23, 2021

Demetri Kofinas, Host of Hidden Forces Podcast joins this episode for a wide-ranging conversation about what’s happening in our world and how crypto fits in to our global systems. Kofinas talks about the importance of challenging consensus narratives, his view of Bitcoin and why he owns it as an “anti-FOMO” mechanism, how religious templates can be applied to understand the crypto landscape, what is driving the divisions in our world, the prevailing existential angst in our society and how it is playing out in markets, and much more.

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GFC010: Raoul Pal - Cryptocurrency and the Macro Framework Feb 16, 2021

Real Vision CEO Raoul Pal joins this episode to unpack his macro framework of cryptocurrency and explore the lessons he has learned watching markets for decades. He and host Ash Bennington talk about Pal’s journey into macro, how he sees markets, why macro investors are all betting big on crypto, the forces driving the crypto space, and how investors can think like a macro fund manager when analyzing opportunities in crypto and beyond.

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GFC009: Crypto & Meme Stocks Collide ( w/ Frank Chaparro) Feb 09, 2021

Frank Chaparro, news director at The Block, joins host Ash Bennington for an intriguing conversation about the interconnectedness of traditional capital and digital asset markets in light of the Robinhood-Reddit-GameStop saga. Chaparro does a deep dive into how Robinhood works and shares what the recent events reveal about market structure. He also talks about the flow of institutional money into the crypto space and how it is changing those markets. Chaparro is a savvy observer of markets and market structure and he unpacks it all on this episode of Ground Floor Consensus.

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GFC008: The Hazy Line: Crypto & Capital Markets (w/ Michael Rogers & Ryan Todd) Feb 02, 2021

Michael Rogers and Ryan Todd are back for a wide-ranging conversation, from how to break into the crypto space professionally to a deep dive into the macro backdrop of crypto markets. The pair open the discussion with their thoughts about the value of building your own brand across social media platforms and share advice for people looking to work in the space. They then move on to topics like speculation in traditional capital markets, valuation metrics for crypto, digital scarcity, Bitcoin as a priceless asset, their take on Robinhood, and much, much more.

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GFC007: What Crypto Markets Tell Us ( w/ Lawrence Lewitinn ) Jan 26, 2021

Lawrence Lewitinn, managing editor of Markets at CoinDesk, joins this episode to help contextualize what’s happening in crypto markets after a busy few weeks of news flow and price action. Lewitinn discusses how we’re still in the early innings of crypto, how institutional money is testing the waters, the “cult” of Bitcoin, and the risk of overinvestment in the space. He also explains how the pandemic has been a catalyst for digital technology, and why he believes there are even more interesting times ahead.

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GFC006: A peak behind the curtain (w/ Sebastian Moonjava) Jan 19, 2021

Host Ash Bennington is joined by Real Vision Associate Crypto Editor Sebastian Moonjava to discuss the origins of his cryptocurrency story and how it informs his view of the space today. From buying his first Bitcoin before exchanges existed, to how he moved beyond Bitcoin to embrace smart contracts, Ethereum, and more, they dive into the reasons Moonjava is 100% all-in on crypto. The pair also debate the existential questions that hackers and bugs in the technology pose for decentralization, and talk about his take on the current state of play in the DeFi space.

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GFC005: Understanding Smart Contracts ( w/ Sergey Nazarov ) Jan 12, 2021

Sergey Nazarov, co-founder of Chainlink, joins this episode to talk about the technology behind smart contracts. Diving into topics like brand- vs. math-based models of trust, the nuances of understanding the value of blockchains in smart contracts, and practical use cases for the technology, Nazarov makes the case for how Chainlink’s decentralized oracle network has the potential to change the way the world works.

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GFC004: A Hedge Fund Manager’s View of the World with Ari Paul Jan 05, 2021

Host Ash Bennington and Ari Paul, CIO and managing partner of BlockTower Capital, rip up the script and talk about game theory, adversarial thinking, principal agency conflict, network effects, information asymmetry, and the core mental models that we use to understand our world. Join the conversation as they go down the rabbit hole to unearth the ideas behind the story on this episode of Ground Floor Consensus.

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GFC003: Crypto and the Competitive Trading Landscape ( w/ Chris Sullivan ) Dec 29, 2020

Chris Sullivan joins Ash Bennington to detail his journey from high frequency trading into the crypto space. Sullivan talks about market conditions, manipulation, and the demise of true price discovery in traditional capital markets and contrasts it with the accountability that is intrinsic to blockchain technology. He also talks about how he looks at risk in the crypto space, its potential to democratize financial assets, and the diverse capitalist ecosystem he sees enabled by Ethereum and other technologies.

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GFC002: Crypto Perspectives with Nic Carter Dec 21, 2020

Nicolas Carter, partner at Castle Island Ventures and cofounder of Coinmetrics, joins Real Vision Crypto Editor Ash Bennington for an in-depth discussion of some philosophical questions around cryptocurrency, including governance models, asset classification, settlement finality, Bitcoin protocol updates, and the threat stable coins pose to central banks.

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GFC001: Deconstructing the Bitcoin Mythos with Meltem Demirors Dec 19, 2020

On the first episode of Ground Floor Consensus, Meltem Demirors, Chief Strategy Officer at CoinShares, joins Ash Bennington to talk about the mythos surrounding cryptocurrency, including the ideological concept of Bitcoin as a truth preserving machine, how decentralization is reconceptualizing how markets can function, why Bitcoin fits perfectly into our post-truth world, and more.

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Ground Floor Consensus by Real Vision Podcast Network - Introduction Dec 11, 2020

Real Vision Podcast Network brings you a new bitcoin/blockchain/digital assets/cryptocurrency,/distributed ledger technology podcast - Ground Floor Consensus.

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