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Casa - The safe way to store your Bitcoin May 26, 2022

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Nick Neuman is the founder of Casa – a provider of Bitcoin security services that enables users to have total self-custody over their crypto holdings, without risk of theft or hacks like those experienced by exchanges.

Why you should listen

Nick talks about the importance of Bitcoin self-custody and the risk of BTC loss if they don't properly secure their holdings.

Most bitcoin wallets only require 1 key to send bitcoin. Casa uses multiple keys which makes your money extra safe and secure. Casa is a multi-sig, multi-device, multi-location solution with the ease of the app.

If you do lose a key or have one stolen, you can swap it out for a new one. Simply transfer your bitcoin to the new, healthy set of keys using your two remaining keys from the initial set. Casa App walks you through it all, step by step.

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Fantom - Andre is back? The origin story, and what comes next May 23, 2022

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Crypto dev Andre Cronje is back, advising the Fantom Foundation after publically turning his back on crypto earlier this year. We speak to Fantom Foundation CEO Michael Kong to find out more... Why you should listen

Fantom is a high-performance, scalable, EVM-compatible, smart-contract platform. Fantom's mainnet deployment, Fantom Opera, is built on Fantom's consensus mechanism, Lachesis. Fantom is a leaderless, asynchronous, and byzantine fault-tolerant Layer 1 blockchain protocol.

Crypto dev Andre Cronje is back, advising the Fantom Foundation after publically turning his back on crypto earlier this year. We speak to Fantom Foundation CEO Michael Kong to find out more...

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The Minke App - Wave hello to better savings May 22, 2022

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Josh Reyes is the co-founder of the Minke, a DeFi platform that aims to be the easiest way to use DeFi via an app designed for mobile. Minke offers savings rates 40x higher than big banks.

Why you should listen

Co-founders Josh Reyes and Marcos Teixeira met as early employees at Melbourne startup SmartrMail. Like that venture, the global team is operating remotely with early employees based in Australia, Portugal, Japan, Brazil, and the UK.

Minke is a non-custodial wallet, meaning only you have access to your money, not Minke, not anyone else. Minke believes self-custody is the safest way to protect your money in the long-term.

Marc Andreessen coined the famous phrase "Software is eating the world" predicting that large swathes of the economy will be taken over by software and technology. That's not a 10x improvement, it's a 38x one. Warren Buffet says compounding interest is the 8th wonder of the world. Minke see these trends as the power behind DeFi's growth.

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Sergey Nazarov - Building a world powered by cryptographic truth May 20, 2022

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Sergey Nazarov is the Co-founder of Chainlink, the industry-standard oracle network for connecting smart contracts to real-world data and off-chain computation.

Why you should listen

In this podcast Sergey lays out his current thinking on how teams and protocols such as Chainlink are building a world powered by cryptographic truth.

Sergey explains how smart contracts are becoming an increasingly important part of the global economy, and he talks about the importance of the Chainlink community as the crypto ecosystem continues to mature.

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Anoma - Protect your privacy with zero-knowledge technology May 18, 2022

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Adrian Brink is the founder of Anoma, a blockchain protocol that enables private, asset-agnostic cash and bartering. Adrian founded Anoma to fight surveillance capitalism and the over-concentration of power in fiat currency, by protecting individuals' privacy through zero-knowledge technology.

Why you should listen

Anoma is a proof-of-stake blockchain protocol that enables multi-asset privacy and bartering among any number of parties. Adrian is a passionate advocate for embedding privacy into blockchain networks as part of the next iteration of our financial infrastructure and believes that there has been a loss of individual financial sovereignty and privacy by non-consensual usage of sensitive data by third parties.

Anoma was established to address these concerns with zero-knowledge privacy built-in, and is making progress towards its goal, raising $26M in November led by Polychain Capital.

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Near Futures Far-Fetched - A Sci-Fi Story May 15, 2022

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Andy Blood was executive creative director at Colenso BBDO and a creative strategist at Facebook. He is the creator of the multiverse series "Near Futures. Far-Fetched" an intriguing series of NFTs that are available on the Lithoverse NFT platform.

Why you should listen

Near Futures. Far-Fetched is a collection of six short stories with one thing in common: somewhere in the multiverse these stories will be true. The themes explored range from The Last Bitcoin (set in the year 2139), to the social network of objects, a terrorist group infiltrating CERN, our too-smart cities becoming dumb, weaponizing 'clean', and first contact with intelligent non-human life.

Near Futures Far-Fetched is a continuation of the creative partnership between CENNZnet and Andy Blood that produced last September's world first 'Book As NFT' project.

Each individual story NFT is available in an edition of ten. With each sale granting its owner a 1% share of the revenue of the full and final collection released as an NFT.

Andy Blood is the author of 'Full Bleed' a book of 'Remarkable stories and hard-won lessons from the coalface of creativity and the bleeding edge of advertising and technology.'

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The 1993 Group

Fridge has 83 Friends

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ALEX - Next gen DeFi on Bitcoin via Stacks May 11, 2022

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Chiente Hsu is the ex-Managing Director and Global Head of Quantitative Investment Strategy and Research at Morgan Stanley. She is the founder of ALEX, an open-source DeFi development company built on the Stacks Blockchain.

Why you should listen

ALEX is an open-source DeFi development company built on the Stacks Blockchain and modeled on the world's financial markets. The ALEX mission is simple: to give customers the tools to become the masters of their own financial experience. On our platform, you can lend, earn, and borrow BTC, minimize the risks, and maximize returns with fully decentralized integrated financial solutions.

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IBEX - Taking Bitcoin to the World May 10, 2022

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IBEX believes that a well-developed system of financial markets is indispensable for the health and efficiency of a society. The combination of robust and sophisticated markets and financial institutions, as well as diversity in instruments and financial products, supply the need for people and the general economy. There is a strong correlation between the development of financial markets and socioeconomic well-being. Bitcoin can help.

Why you should listen

IBEX CEO, Jose Lemus talks about Bitcoin's path to mainstream adoption and his experiences on the ground in El Salvador.

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Bitcoin's Logarithmic Growth Curve - last model standing? May 09, 2022

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Dave the Wave is an investor, trader, and technical analyst. A contrarian, Dave is respected on Crypto Twitter for his objective, rational approach to technical analysis. Dave's thesis is that Bitcoin is following a Logarithmic Growth Curve model. Logarithmic growth suggests exponential gains at the beginning that slowly taper off towards a plateau in the long term.

Why you should listen:

Andy and Dave discuss Dave's Logarithmic Growth Curve model. Dave says that Bitcoin is a nascent currency in the process of capitalization. There are periods of volatility in both directions as new people add and subtract liquidity in adoption waves.

Despite sometimes being misunderstood as bearish, Dave says that if Bitcoin follows the Logarithmic Growth Curve, Bitcoin could hit almost $1million in approximately ten years' time.

Dave analyses several other Bitcoin models, such as Stock to Flow, and Lengthening Cycles, and explains why in his view, they have been invalidated, leaving Bitcoin's Logarithmic Growth Curve as the last model standing.

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