Messari's Unqualified Opinions
Unqualified Opinions is a daily podcast hosted by Messari’s CEO Ryan Selkis featuring candid, fast-paced interviews with crypto’s top builders and investors.
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Digitizing the Dollar with Christopher Giancarlo
Christopher shares his thoughts on how the US will go about digitizing the dollar
47 min
27
Power Laws with Meltem Demirors
Ryan and Meltem discuss her history in the industry and how she forms her investment theses
61 min
28
Global Public Health with Alex Gladstein
Ryan and Alex discuss Alex's work with the HRF and the state of global public health
51 min
29
Covering Crypto with Bloomberg’s Joe Weisenthal
58 min
30
Coinbase Law with Coinbase CLO Brian Brooks
55 min
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Building Cardano with IOHK CEO Charles Hoskinson
Charles and Ryan discuss Cardano and the philosophy behind it
72 min
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Bitcoin Past, Present & Future with Casa CTO Ja...
Ryan and Jameson Lopp discuss Bitcoin's past, present and future
60 min
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Crypto-plumbing with Arwen CEO Sharon Goldberg
Sharon and Ryan discuss the inner workings of crypto exchange
52 min
34
The Dudas Abides with The Block CEO Mike Dudas
Ryan and Mike discuss the crypto media landscape
49 min
35
Virtual Private Networks with Orchid CEO Seven ...
Ryan and Seven discuss the need for VPNs globally and all things Orchid
53 min
36
The Bitcoin Institution with River Financial’s ...
River Financial CEO Alex Leishman discusses the strategy behind River's Bitcoin only approach
48 min
37
Special Edition: COVID-19 with Balaji Srinivasan
Discussion on the current state of COVID-19 and it's eventual longterm impacts
78 min
38
Dash’s Strategic Vision with Dash Core Group CE...
The two Ryans discuss Dash's history, strategy and recent project updates
67 min
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Enterprise Blockchains & CBDCs with R3 CTO Rich...
Enterprises, CBDCs and an overview of permissioned blockchains
58 min
40
Crypto’s East-West Divide with Tron Founder Jus...
Justin and Ryan discuss Tron's controversial past and what Justin has in store for Tron in the future
56 min
41
The Lending Machine with Celsius CEO Alex Mashi...
Alex Mashinsky and Ryan Selkis discuss crypto lending, ICOs, the SEC and more.
55 min
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XRP - The Remittance Standard? with Bitso CEO D...
Daniel Vogel and Ryan Selkis shed light on why Mexico is a region of the world ripe for crypto adoption.
74 min
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Building out the DEX Frontier with Radar CEO Al...
Alan Curtis and Ryan Selkis discuss the current state of the DEX landscape, the high cost of compliance and how Radar has managed to create a compliant DEX by US regulatory standards.
55 min
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Stablecoins: The Big Picture with Circle CEO Je...
Jeremy Allaire and Ryan Selkis discuss the next phase for USDC, and how Visa and Mastercard developed interoperable standards ultimately adopted by businesses, consumers and governments alike.
51 min
45
Cosmos & Beyond with Zaki Manian
Zaki Manian and Ryan Selkis discuss the origins of the Cosmos project, why the Cosmos ATOM token has value right now, and the role it currently plays in the Cosmos ecosystem.
53 min
46
Building a Crypto Civilization with Balaji Srin...
Balaji Srinivasan and Ryan Selkis discuss the intent behind Nakamoto.com, Balaji's concerns over the uncomfortable places modern technology and social media is taking society as well as his philosophy for building a future that he’d want to live in.
46 min
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Being a Blockchain CEO in 2020 with Algorand CE...
Steve Kokinos and Ryan Selkis discuss
45 min
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Bitcoin’s Civil War & Toxic Maximalism with Sam...
Samson Mow and Ryan Selkis discuss Bitcoin's chaotic early years.
72 min
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The unintended consequences of platform economi...
Ryan interviews Matt Spoke, CEO of Aion.
40 min
50
Public Blockchains for Enterprises with Oded We...
Oded Wertheim and Ryan Selkis discuss Orbs’s approach to collaborating with enterprises, the problems that public chains solve for enterprises and how trust will be a standard feature built into the products of the future.
27 min