Ever wonder where bitcoin came from, or who made it? How about, ‘what is a blockchain, and how does it work?’ John Lothian News Associate Editor Matt Raebel offers a crash-course in crypto for the inaugural episode of the CryptoMarketsWiki Podcast.
Read MoreThe CryptoMarketsWiki Podcast Episode 2: Tokenized Trading →
Juan Hernandez, CEO of OpenFinance Network, joins JLN associate editor Matt Raebel to talk tokens – that is, securitized assets in the form of digital tokens, not the tokens you use to pay for arcade machines at Chuck E. Cheese’s.
Read MoreThe CryptoMarketsWiki Podcast Episode 5: Living That Distributed Life →
After finishing her education at Pepperdine University, Lexy Prodromos dove headfirst into the blockchain world, quickly establishing herself as an influential figure. An early contributor to the Illinois Blockchain Initiative, she later became executive director of the Chicago Blockchain Center as well as a strategic lead at Bloq. Prodromos shares what it has been like working behind the scenes with both regulators and technology firms to help this nascent technology flourish.
Read MoreCryptoMarketsWiki Podcast Episode 9: Privacy Coins Vs. Private Money (Featuring Meltem Demirors, Chief Strategy Officer at Coinshares) →
Meltem Demirors, chief strategy officer at CoinShares, is passionate about cryptocurrency, financial technology, and civil rights – and she wants to share her knowledge as well as her enthusiasm with the world. In 2019, she testified before the House Financial Services Committee for a hearing on Facebook’s proposed digital currency project, Libra. Demirors has appeared on Bloomberg, CNBC, CoinDesk, and the MIT Technology Review. Now, she joins us to discuss privacy, mining, and regulation – and of course, Facebook’s Libra. (Originally published 2/22/2021 at John Lothian News.)
Read MoreThe CryptoMarketsWiki Podcast Episode 18: Building A Better Mousetrap (David Olsson, BlockFi) →
BlockFi is a New York City-based start-up cryptocurrency financial institution. It offers lots of crypto services to its customers, including lending U.S. dollars against bitcoin and other cryptocurrency as collateral, as well as accepting deposits of cryptocurrencies which pay interest to the depositor. David Olsson is the Global Head of Distribution at BlockFi. Previously, he worked in the financial markets for two decades, managing teams at companies like Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse. On this episode of the CryptoMarketsWiki Podcast, Olsson sits down to talk about how BlockFi is striving to become the global crypto bank of the future. (Originally published 3/22/2021 at John Lothian News.)
Read MoreThe Cryptomarketswiki Podcast Episode 19: Coinbase Goes Public →
Matt and Thom discuss Coinbase’s recent debut as a publicly-traded company, as well as some updates about a company that wants to revitalize the U.S.’s struggling bitcoin mining industry. (Originally published 4/29/2021 at John Lothian News.)
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