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.
The Great Reset with Raoul Milhado, Founder of ...
Raoul Milhado, CEO of Elitium, is helping build a new financial system to help protect wealth in advance of the "great reset."
58 min
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Going Where You Are Treated Best with Andrew He...
Andrew Henderson is a "nomad capitalist" and has made a career advising high-net-worth individuals on how to protect their wealth in countries around the world.
81 min
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Paying the World in Bitcoin with Jonathan Chest...
Jonathan Chester built BitWage based on the idea that the world needs to be paid in Bitcoin.
63 min
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Building The Tools For A Bitcoin Bull Run with ...
James Putra, head of product strategy at TradeStation, is building the necessary trading infrastructure for mass adoption of crypto.
62 min
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The Race for a Bitcoin ETF with Steven McClurg,...
Steven McClurg, co-founder of Valkyrie Investments is leading the charge towards an approved Bitcoin ETF.
60 min
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Ryan Selkis, CEO of Messari, is a walking encyc...
55 min
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The Future of Crypto and Defi with Justin Sun, ...
Justin Sun, the CEO of Tron is a thought leader in the crypto space with big plans for 2021.
72 min
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Building DeFi on Bitcoin with Edan Yago, Creato...
Edan Yago has set out to fix DeFi by building directly on Bitcoin.
60 min
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Solving the Crypto Price Problem with Robert Ma...
For institutions to enter the crypto space, they need to rely on a real-time, fair, and accepted market price for cryptocurrency assets - that is exactly the product Robert Materazzi, CEO of Lukka, has built.
49 min
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Building The World's Largest Trading Community ...
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Making Sense of Crypto with Mike Dudas, Founder...
Mike Dudas and Scott Melker further discuss, the need for unbiased research, simplifying crypto for the masses, the Bloomberg Terminal, governments as customers, fintech arriving to crypto, competing with PayPal, Facebook’s crypto product, who will be the next Michael Saylor, regulating stablecoins like banks, dumb regulation threatening crypto, burning and depreciating treasuries, the dollar as crypto’s reserve currency and more.
56 min
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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.
59 min
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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.
79 min
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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.
74 min
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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.
68 min
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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.
62 min
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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.
58 min
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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.
69 min
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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.
57 min
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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.
52 min
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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.