The Charlie Shrem Show

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How The Hardest Asset Is Now Liquid with Jacques Voorhees Jan 05, 2021

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My guest today is my friend Jacques Voorhees, the Founder and CEO of Icecap. Icecap is a Blockchain-Based Diamond Marketplace. Icecap uses Ethereum-based, non-fungible tokens to represent ownership of individual diamonds. Jacques Voorhees is a serial entrepreneur, prior to Icecap, founded and was the past president of Polygon, one of the most disruptive initiatives to hit the diamond industry in the last fifty years. We discussed the history of diamonds as an alternative asset, how diamonds are graded, what is an investment grade diamond, what is Icecap, the legal connection between the diamond and the token and much more.

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Coingaming was formed when one Australian professional poker player, who knew first-hand the importance of fun, fast and fair gaming, met two Estonian tech whizzes who just so happened to be vanguards of Bitcoin. From there, Coingaming’s ecosystem of brands and products evolved, breathing new life into the gaming industry.

Now with 400+ people, Coingaming is behind some of the world’s most innovative crypto gaming brands and is on a mission to further awareness of cryptocurrencies across the globe.

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This podcast is powered by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworksgroup.io

Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com.

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Bringing the Unbanked into the Financial World w Brandon Mintz of the Bitcoin ATM Empire Dec 29, 2020

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My guest today is Brandon Mintz, Founder and CEO of Bitcoin Depot. Brandon has spent his whole career in the crypto-space. He began his career by starting Cash To Crypto, which became one of the first professional OTC crypto trading companies in the world. Following the success with Cash to Crypto, in 2016 Brandon founded his current company, Bitcoin Depot.

Bitcoin Depot currently has hundreds of Crypto ATMs across the U.S. and is the fastest growing as well as one of the most respected names in the Crypto ATM space. We discuss how the unbanked is realizing the power of crypto, how he got into the crypto industry, how he first started Bitcoin Depot, and how he was able to scale it to the largest Bitcoin ATM company in the country.

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Now with 400+ people, Coingaming is behind some of the world’s most innovative crypto gaming brands and is on a mission to further awareness of cryptocurrencies across the globe.

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Permission

Permission.io enables people to earn rewards for doing the same things online they do every day by empowering them to take back ownership of their personal data from Silicon Valley startups. People can now decide which brands and online retailers can target them with ads, and use the rewards earned for viewing them to pay for goods and services available online. Go to www.permission.io/charlie for a sign up bonus.

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TOKENIZED STOCKS from BITTREX GLOBAL

Bittrex Global is offering all of the Charlie’s listeners the ability to now buy tokenized stocks from Tesla, Apple, Amazon and more. Please visit https://global.bittrex.com/discover/tokenized-stocks to get fractional shares of your favorite stocks now from almost anywhere in the world.

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This podcast is powered by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworksgroup.io

Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com.

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An Argument for the Free Market and Objectivism with Charles Silver Dec 22, 2020

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My guest today is my friend Charles Silver, CEO of Permission.IO an e-commerce platform where instead of merchants paying centralized third-party platforms to engage consumers, merchants compensate consumers for their time and data directly with ASK cryptocurrency. The platform enables businesses to connect with individuals on a permission basis, building trusted, transparent, and interruption-free relationships. Prior to Permission, Charles has been a serial entrepreneur, in a wide range of industries, his companies have been acquired by Jiffy Lube, the Hearst to name a couple.

Our conversation focuses on the importance of individualism, decentralization and transparency. We discuss the importance of finding balance between the individual and the collective in governance, how markets help drive value creation and equality, how Permission.IO is empowering both consumers and advertisers by de-siloing data and creating a more direct personal relationship with the consumer and advertiser, and why this is the future of advertising.

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Now with 400+ people, Coingaming is behind some of the world’s most innovative crypto gaming brands and is on a mission to further awareness of cryptocurrencies across the globe.

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Permission

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TOKENIZED STOCKS from BITTREX GLOBAL

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This podcast is powered by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworksgroup.io

Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The Return of The American Crypto Investor With Graham Friedman Dec 17, 2020

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Graham Friedman is Director at Republic Advisory Service & Co-founder and Partner at TLDR Global, a global investment firm, focusing on tokenized assets and DLT technology. Prior to joing the crypto space, Graham spent over a decade of working in multimedia; shooting commercials for major brands and pioneering new media strategies, such as live-stream integration, vertical video, and more. We discuss his time at Vayner Media, the current regulatory framework for crypto, how far crypto as an industry has become, what are No-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and imagining their future use cases and much more.

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Now with 400+ people, Coingaming is behind some of the world’s most innovative crypto gaming brands and is on a mission to further awareness of cryptocurrencies across the globe.

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Permission

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TOKENIZED STOCKS from BITTREX GLOBAL

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This podcast is powered by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworksgroup.io

Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Why DeFI will finally bring finance to the Internet Age with Spencer Bogart Dec 15, 2020

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My guest today is my friend, Spencer Bogart, General Partner at Blockchain Capital - a leading venture firm in the crypto and blockchain industry. Spencer has made over 90 investments in companies and protocols in the sector, across different stages, geographies and asset types. Prior to Blockchain Capital , Spencer was a part of the Internet Equity Research team at Needham & Company, an investment bank, where he led the firm's research efforts in all things crypto and blockchain.

We discuss how Spencer's experience publishing Bitcoin research reports in the early days of crypto and having to defend his thesis against traditional fund managers, the possibility of a Bitcoin liquidity squeeze, why DeFi is so exciting, and Blockchain Cap's Investment Framework.

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ELECTRONEUM

Electroneum, has gained widespread adoption providing a mobile-first payment solution to the world's unbanked, attracting more than 4M users worldwide in less than three years. They have since launched a new freelance marketplace, AnyTask.com, which is providing thousands of freelancers the opportunity to sell their services to buyers globally, without the need of a bank account. Learn more at Electroneum.com.

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This podcast is powered by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworksgroup.io

Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com.

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Breaking Down the Complex World of Fintech and Banking as a Service with Edward Woodford Dec 10, 2020

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My guest today is Edward Woodford, Co-founder and CEO of Zero Hash. Zero Hash offers a post-trade settlement utility to bridge a fragmented market of diverse execution platforms. Participants leverage Zero Hash’s innovative technology, regulatory compliance and operational excellence to settle confidently across the ecosystem. Prior to Zero Cash, Edward was working in the financial sector mainly in the hedge fund industry. In 2018, Edward along with Co-Founder were named to Forbes’ 30 under 30 for their work at Zero Hash (formally SeedCX).

Our conversation focuses on banking as a service and the regulation around money transfer. We discuss his experience bootstrapping a Crypto Startup and his advice for aspiring entrepreneurs, Zero Hash and how it is facilitating the bridge between the crypto markets and the legacy financial markets, banking as a service and much more.

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Now with 400+ people, Coingaming is behind some of the world’s most innovative crypto gaming brands and is on a mission to further awareness of cryptocurrencies across the globe.

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Permission

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BITTREX GLOBAL

DEFI TOKENS from BITTREX GLOBAL. Bittrex Global is offering all of Charlie's listeners the ability to trade DeFi tokens without paying trading or gas fees through the end of 2020. Bittrex Global is the safest and most secure place for you to trade DeFi tokens like Compound, Aave, Balancer and all of the rest of the top tokens. Please visit https://global.bittrex.com/discover/defi to get free trades and no gas fees now.

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This podcast is powered by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworksgroup.io

Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Getting into the Flow State with Chris Burniske: Importance of Privacy and Ethereum’s Perception Dec 08, 2020

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My guest today is Chris Burniske, Co-founder of Placeholder, a New York venture capital firm that specializes in crypto-assets. Prior to Placeholder, Chris pioneered ARK Investment Management's Next Generation Internet strategy, leading the firm to become the first public fund manager to invest in bitcoin. Our wide-ranging conversation covers Satoshi Nakamoto & and try to understand why they decided to leave the crypto-space, what is the flow state and how to master it, ZCash and their unique privacy features, and how Ethereum’s perception within crypto evolved over time and the ignorance of Bitcoin maximalists. I hope you enjoy and learn from this conversation as much as I did.

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ELECTRONEUM

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This podcast is powered by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworksgroup.io

Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

How Crypto is Facilitating one of the Largest Wealth Shifts in History w. Kyle Samani of Multicoin Capital Dec 03, 2020

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My guest today is Kyle Samani, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital. Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in blockchain and crypto companies with the purpose of making capital markets more efficient and accessible to everyone, helping enable Web3.0 and data emancipation, and the integration of global state-free money.

Samani is one of the leading authorities in blockchain and cryptoeconomics. Our conversation covers a wide range of topics including the possible outcomes and realities of digitization and tokenization of society, how ascribing Bitcoin to be “digital gold” is actually a limiting label, Multicoin’s investment thesis and much more.

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Now with 400+ people, Coingaming is behind some of the world’s most innovative crypto gaming brands and is on a mission to further awareness of cryptocurrencies across the globe.

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Permission

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BITTREX GLOBAL

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This podcast is powered by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworksgroup.io

Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

How to Become a Better Trader with David Waslen & HedgeTrade Dec 01, 2020

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My guest today is David Waslen, CEO of Rublix. Rublix is a software development company focused on Fintech fueled by blockchain technology, their first decentralized project is HedgeTrade. HedgeTrade is a crypto prediction social marketplace, where traders can post trading predictions and are rewarded if their information/prediction was accurate. HedgeTrade accomplishes this by holding forecasters accountable through immutable blockchain records and the unique smart contract staking model. David Waslen has a background in venture capital and private equity with extensive experience managing growing businesses. The Topics we discussed included what is HedgeTrade, why derivatives markets are important for the growth of crypto, the incentive model and the token economics of HedgeTrade, Singapore becoming the new global Financial Capital and much more.

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ELECTRONEUM

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Permian Chain

PermianChain brings together the crypto-mining and oil and gas sectors. We offer crypto projects access to cheap, abundant power, using an oil and gas blockchain-integrated framework (OGBiF) to ensure that stranded and wasted energy resources are used efficiently. This unlocks liquidity and transforms the way that oil and gas reserves are funded, produced, bought and sold on the blockchain.

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This podcast is powered by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworksgroup.io

Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Data Emancipation and The Permissionless Future with Filecoin's Pooja Shah Nov 26, 2020

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My guest today is Pooja Shah, Product Lead at Filecoin. Filecoin is a decentralized storage network that turns the world’s unused storage into an algorithmic market, creating a permanent, decentralized future for the web. Prior to joining Filecoin, Pooja worked at Palantir, the leading Big data analytics company for Governments and Intelligence agencies, and started her own company Dagny, a virtual reality platform focused on improving the users productivity.

Our conversation touched a wide range of topics in data and crypto. The topics discussed included her time and what she learned at Palantir, VR and it’s roadblocks, Filecoin vs Torrent Platforms she explains how Filecoin is trying disrupt the data industry and what is and why data emancipation is important.

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Now with 400+ people, Coingaming is behind some of the world’s most innovative crypto gaming brands and is on a mission to further awareness of cryptocurrencies across the globe.

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Permission

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BITTREX GLOBAL

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This podcast is powered by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworksgroup.io

Thank you for listening to The Charlie Shrem Show. For more free content and access to over 400 episodes, visit www.CharlieShrem.com.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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