Host Scott Melker talks to your favorite characters from the world of Bitcoin, trading, finance, music, art, and anyone else with an interesting story to tell. Sit down, strap in, and get ready – we’re going deep.
Bridging Blockchains with Kevin Wang, Nervos Co...
Scott Melker and Kevin Wang further discuss managing a team around the world, the advantages of proof of work, a multi-asset store of value, tokenizing everything, the Nervos vision, the centralization of mining, living in virtual reality, China’s digital Yuan, teaching kids to code, web 3.0, where Bitcoin is headed, Bitcoin’s rising price and network security, Ready Player 1, China’s volatile regulation, blockchain in 5 years and more.
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The Definitive Case For Bitcoin with Dan Held, ...
Scott Melker and Dan Held discuss million-dollar Bitcoin, holding your net worth in Bitcoin, the many advantages of Bitcoin, including, fungibility, scarcity, immutability, and privacy, depreciating cash reserves, the power of HODLers, cascading liquidations, borrowing against Bitcoin, timing the next top, investing with goals in mind and more.
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How The Big Money Moves In Crypto with Sam Bank...
Scott Melker and Sam Bankman-Fried further discuss trading a billion dollars in a day, executing orders in stealth, arbitraging money around the world, looking at 6 monitors at once, billion-dollar capital management, front running orders, injecting liquidity, the golden parameter of trading, preventing a Bitcoin leverage meltdown, scaling the industry for institutional money, dominating liquidity and more.
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Building A Nation And Bitcoin with Memli Krasni...
Scott Melker and Memli Krasniqi further discuss 90’s rappers, discovering Bitcoin in 2013, rapping anti-establishment music, living through apartheid, 100,000s of thousands of displaced people, Kosovo becoming free in 2008, becoming the Vice-President of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, signing the declaration of independence, rebuilding a country from the ground up, shaping government around the ideals of Bitcoin and more.
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Saving Lives With Bitcoin in Latin America with...
Scott Melker and Pablo Gonzalez further discuss currencies losing value overnight, 6/10 Mexican’s lacking access to a bank, stacking USD in safety deposit boxes, the banking cash cow, buying Bitcoin on Mt. Gox in 2011, building Bitso, cryptocurrency as superior money, using XRP for remittances, Bitcoin as magic money, the failed Petro, the complicated nature of Sats, and crypto as a world-changing movement.
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The Future Of Crypto Payments with Sanja Kon, C...
Scott Melker and Sanja Kon further discuss what it's like to work at eBay and PayPal, leaving the legacy system for crypto, PayPal offering cryptocurrency, becoming the CEO of Utrust, reverse staking, COVID-19, the death of brick and mortar, an “overly ambitious” child, hiring for diversity, the stages of joining the crypto ecosystem, women in tech, the rate of crypto adoption and more.
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Tokenizing Everything with Cyrus Fazel, CEO of ...
Scott Melker and Cyrus Fazel further discuss the current market conditions, discovering Bitcoin through whiskey, a 52 million dollar ICO, an inclusive hedge fund, founding SwissBorg, creating the CHSB token, DeFi rug pulls, the rules of being a good CEO, managing 80+ employees, breakdancing and Napster, tokenizing stocks, the Spotify of wealth management, absurd stable coin interest, human capital and more.
63 min
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Saving New York City with Zach Iscol, Candidate...
Scott Melker and Zach Iscol further discuss running for NYC mayor, the inspiration to join the Marines, a lineage of military service, saving veterans from poor mental health and suicide, volunteering at the Javits Center during the COVID-19 pandemic, government shutdowns, ranked-choice voting, saving small business, donating thousands of masks, throwing a slot machine overboard, getting your hands dirty as a leader, crypto regulation in NYC and more.
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Trust By Transparency with Chen Zur, US Blockch...
Scott Melker and Chen Zur further discuss working at Ernst and Young for over 20 years, working on the blockchain for 6 years, the internet of value, the 5 reasons for utilizing blockchain, China’s CBDC and the imminent digital dollar, big brother, NFTs, the gold standard, removing the middle man, the normalization of blockchain, the future of precious metals, private vs. public blockchains and more.
72 min
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The Blockchain And Mortgage Revolution with Cur...
Scott Melker and Curtis Wood further discuss the current state of the housing market, the impact of COVID-19 on home value, historically low-interest rates, the difficulty in obtaining a loan, refinancing for free money, the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis, Dodd-Frank and Fannie Mae, strippers buying 7 homes, the impact of fraud and greed, the money machine in DC, tech as a double edge sword, borrowing against crypto and more.
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Rethinking Criminal Justice with Eliza Orlins, ...
Scott Melker and Eliza Orlins further discuss what it's like to run for office, competing on Survivor, her plans as district attorney, career prosecutors, lock em’ up culture, defeating the boys club, broken windows policing, the price of a prisoner, accepting cryptocurrency in her campaign, campaign finance reform, getting arrested on an empty subway and more.
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The Future Of Art Is Digital, with Trevor Jones...
Scott Melker and Trevor Jones further discuss the artist checklist for success, drinking wine for inspiration, Trevor’s very first art exhibition, painting QR codes and augmented reality, Picasso’s Bull, Nonfungible tokens, an abstract understanding of ownership, selling one piece for $300,000, opening the NFT floodgate, accidentally giving the cold shoulder to Tyler Winklevoss, the different ways to invest in NFTs, emotionally detaching from your own work, how to display an NFT and more.
68 min
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Taking Back Your Data From Big Tech with Charle...
Scott Melker and Charles Silver further discuss living in an Orwellian society, the history of big data, working under Reagan, the debt death spiral, web 3.0, Permission.io, click farms and click fraud, crony capitalism, property rights issues, privacy as a false concept, ASK token, the data economy, the confusion of fiat currency and more.
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“Taking the Red Pill” with Hotep Jesus, Popula...
Scott Melker and Hotep Jesus further discussed taking the red pill, demanding free coffee from Starbucks, left v. right politics, conspiracy theories, the birth of Hotep Jesus, the state and its central bank, capitalism mixed with anarchism, a world currency, traditional investors vs Bitcoin investors, a “Bitcoin board of attorneys,” deep fakes, ICO’s and more.
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Why Michael Saylor Invested 700M Dollars In Bit...
Scott Melker and Michael Saylor further discuss Michael Saylor Bull, Bull, Bull, joining Crypto Twitter, falling in love with Bitcoin, channeling monetary energy, the “MicroStrategy Effect”, running a company with 1,000s of employees, the problem with inflation, COVID’s impact, the new normal, a “K shape recovery,” the FED injecting money, cash flow and monetary expansion, shorting the dollar and more.
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Monopolizing the World’s Money with Richard Cra...
Scott Melker and Richard Craib further discussed the definition of a quant, machine learning, million-dollar data sets, managing all the money in the world, crowdsourcing signals, beating the S&P, the Numerai Master Plan, a brand new hedge fund system, Ken Griffin and Citadel, poker players and trading, the ethical good in trading, hedge fund exclusion, accredited investor laws, the data + talent secret, and more.
62 min
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Bringing Bitcoin and Ethereum Together with Chr...
Scott Melker and Chris Spadafora further discussed working above the OG Bitcoin Center, professional bodybuilding, the life of a salesman, breaking a regimented routine, discovering true happiness on vacation, the 4-hour work week, building on Ethereum, designing a DAO, PayPal in the crypto space, food coins, charity poker, wrapped Bitcoin, a new financial system and more.
58 min
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Magic Truffles and Magic Money with Todd Shapir...
Scott Melker and Todd Shapiro further discuss becoming a radio sensation, going on the show Blind Date, what is a “Magic Mushroom”, Magic Truffles vs. Magic Mushrooms, falling in love with capital markets, pink elephants and bending phones, stigmas and conspiracy theories, big pharma, appreciating the things that mean the most, a VR microdose headset, the Red Light District, psychedelics, psilocybin and more.
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Protecting Your Assets with Jameson Lopp, CTO o...
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Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness with...
Scott Melker and Brock Pierce further discuss painting the White House, the life of a child movie star, why he's running for president, the polarization of our nation, stepping into the political ring of fire, breaking free of left and right politics, a developing political evolution, being bullish on crypto, going face to face with the media giants, financing a presidential campaign, universal earned income, criminal justice reform, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and more.
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Beating the Banks with Alex Mashinsky, CEO of C...
Scott Melker and Alex Mashinsky further discuss moving to the U.S. in the ’80s, phone company monopolies, the urge to disrupt, creating Celsius Network, giving 80% of the profits to the community, bank bailouts, daytime robbery, beating the banks, crypto community fees, hedge funds in crypto, the name “Sushi” as a leading indicator, the corrosion of standards and voting with your wallet.
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Exploring the Internet of Assets with John Wu, ...
Scott Melker and John Wu further discuss discovering Bitcoin in 2013, the untapped world of alternative assets, taxi medallions, the internet of assets, the DeFi Petri dish, NFT’s, political polarization, the danger of big companies, the schoolyard vs. the comment section, trillions of dollars locked in an inefficient system, the ‘08 crash and DeFi, Mad Men investors and more.
58 min
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A Trader’s Edge with Mati Greenspan, Founder of...
Scott Melker and Mati Greenspan further discuss the good QE, Elon heading to Mars, COVID’s lasting impact, a self-made billionaire grandfather, Mati as the face of eToro, managing other people’s money, receiving $30 in Bitcoin as a gift, Link Frogs attacking, leverage, most traders failing, meditation and prayer and more.
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In the Trading Pit with Mike McGlone, Senior Co...
Scott Melker and Mike McGlone further discuss the screams and shouts of the trading pit, determining the volume of the market by the odor of the other traders, the Bloomberg Terminal, the election’s impact on the market, CBDCs' unstoppable trend, tempting the market gods, quantitative easing, the classic signs of a bear and bull market, the growing advantages of hard assets, where the market is heading, Bitcoin’s true value and more.
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Music, Art, and NFTs with DJ Justin Blau aka 3LAU
Scott Melker and Justin Blau further discuss their similar backgrounds in music, performing and crypto, mixing finance and blockchain into the world of art, learning about Bitcoin from the Winkelvoss twins, NFTs, Kanye West tweets, what blue checkmarks, Yeezys, and Jordans all have in common, who is Blockparty, predatory record labels, mining for gold on asteroids, a shaky dollar, having strong opinions loosely held, the impact of COVID on performers, building schools in Guatemala and more.