Welcome to this cryptocurrency podcast with JP Thieriot, CEO of Uphold, a platform that lets users hold, spend, and instantly exchange assets like cryptocurrencies, fiat, and gold. Uphold also serves as Brave’s default wallet for holding Basic Attention Token or BAT.
The interview covers several topics, including:
How growing up in Argentina influenced JP’s views on money and inflation
How JP discovered Bitcoin while searching for a better way to send money internationally
The story of Bitreserve, the original Uphold
How regulatory friction frustrates innovation in finance
Uphold’s commitment to transparency
How Uphold thinks about its product roadmap, services, and business operations
The benefits of having a gold-denominated bank account
Managing inflationary risk
Sponsors:
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo provides the world’s most advanced credit and lending services to retail and institutional clients. Nexo built its reputation in the blockchain industry with its Instant Crypto Credit Lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Recently, Nexo launched its Earn on Crypto product, which lets you earn up to 5% annually on BTC, ETH, XRP, XLM, LTC, BCH, EOS, and LINK. You can also park your stablecoins or cash to generate a whopping 10% annual return. Lastly, Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, crypto funds, and institutions, which deploy capital to earn interest, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto from Nexo. So if you're looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your GO-TO PARTNER. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting crypto market cap data from crypto exchanges? We offer the most accurate and transparent crypto data in the space. For examples, see our Litecoin / LTC price & OKEx pages.
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Aug 19, 2020
1 hr 18 min
Welcome to this cryptocurrency podcast with Jesse Powell, co-founder and CEO of Kraken, a top-10 crypto exchange with an "A" transparency rating on Nomics.com and one of the first legitimate enterprises in the space. Jesse started Kraken after the 2011 Mt. Gox hack. He felt that for Bitcoin to go mainstream, exchanges would have to professionalize.
The conversation is split into 3 chapters:
The state of crypto exchanges in 2020
Behind the scenes at Kraken: services, acquisitions & relationship with regulators
How Kraken differentiates itself
It also covers:
How Kraken got its name and aesthetic
Why Kraken never launched an exchange token
Kraken’s upcoming retail mobile app & simplified desktop site
Jesse’s views on NFTs
Sponsors:
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Institutional counterparties can earn up to 8% annually on their idle stablecoins, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto. Individuals can also park their cash and stablecoins at Nexo's Interest-Earning account to get an annual return of 8%. So if you are looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your GO-TO PARTNER. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Uphold
Uphold is the only app that lets you go from anything to anything in one trade. Bitcoin to Gold? No problem. Want to send euros to your sister using your XRP stash? One trade and two clicks. Trade instantly between cryptos, stablecoins, national currencies, metals, and more. Uphold just launched a physical and virtual debit card in the US – the first of its kind. Cardholders can pay with BTC, BAT, or even gold. You can spend any of the 50+ assets Uphold supports and earn 2% CryptoBack and 1% CashBack when you’re doing it. Go from anything to anything. To get started, visit uphold.com/clay. You can also download Uphold from any app store.
Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting crypto market cap data from crypto exchanges? We offer the most accurate and transparent crypto data in the space. For examples, see our Ethereum / ETH price & OKEx pages.
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Jul 7, 2020
1 hr 24 min
Welcome to this cryptocurrency podcast with Mike Carson, founder of Park.io, which lets users backorder expiring domain names, and Gateway.io, which facilitates the sale of second-level domains off of Handshake top-level domains or TLDs. Handshake (HNS) is a blockchain-based protocol that enables anyone to own a TLD. As Mike explains, it "opens the floodgates to the TLD space."
The conversation is split into 3 chapters:
The domain name industry
Business opportunities for owners of Handshake TLDs
TLD security, Gateway.io & Mike's hopes for the future of the space
It also covers:
Mike’s journey from working in tech support to launching WizeHive
ICANN’s role in managing the TLD system
How the current system stifles innovation
The story behind .io
How top-level domains are like neighborhoods
Sponsors:
Uphold
Uphold is the only app that lets you go from anything to anything in one trade. Bitcoin to Gold? No problem. Want to send euros to your sister using your XRP stash? One trade and two clicks. Trade instantly between cryptos, stablecoins, national currencies, metals, and more. Uphold just launched a physical and virtual debit card in the US – the first of its kind. Cardholders can pay with BTC, BAT, or even gold. You can spend any of the 50+ assets Uphold supports and earn 2% CryptoBack and 1% CashBack when you’re doing it. Go from anything to anything. To get started, visit uphold.com/clay. You can also download Uphold from any app store.
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Institutional counterparties can earn up to 8% annually on their idle stablecoins, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto. Individuals can also park their cash and stablecoins at Nexo's Interest-Earning account to get an annual return of 8%. So if you are looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your GO-TO PARTNER. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting crypto market cap data from crypto exchanges? We offer the most accurate and transparent crypto data in the space. For examples, see our Litecoin / LTC price & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Jun 26, 2020
55 min
Welcome to this cryptocurrency podcast. Today’s guest is Flippening host and Nomics CEO, Clay Collins. The content is excerpted from Clay's recent presentation at Consensus: Distributed, a virtual version of CoinDesk’s annual blockchain conference.
In his talk, Clay covers a number of topics, including:
What is quote currency dominance?
How stablecoins became the dominant quote currencies in crypto trading
Why Binance offers so many BNB trading pairs
Why exchanges like FTX list so many altcoins
Why most aggregators end up doubling their volume data
Why it’s important to have a sound methodology when calculating trading volume
Sponsors:
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Institutional counterparties can earn up to 8% annually on their idle stablecoins, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto. Individuals can also park their cash and stablecoins at Nexo's Interest-Earning account to get an annual return of 8%. So if you are looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your GO-TO PARTNER. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting crypto market cap data from crypto exchanges? We offer the most accurate and transparent crypto data in the space. For examples, see our Ethereum / ETH price & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Jun 18, 2020
17 min
Welcome to this cryptocurrency podcast with Philip Gradwell, Chief Economist at Chainalysis, a provider of blockchain intelligence and compliance solutions to businesses and law enforcement. The interview covers a range of topics including how Bitcoin is used, how much might be lost forever, its concentration among top crypto exchanges, and the true scale of illicit activity occurring on the network.
The conversation is split into 3 chapters:
How Bitcoin is held, traded and spent
Bitcoin and crime
A deep dive on exchanges
It also covers:
Philip’s role as Chief Economist at Chainalysis
How a relatively small group of traders influence Bitcoin’s price
How Chainalysis ties addresses to particular exchanges
Bitcoin’s concentration among the top 14 crypto exchanges
The role of fiat in the crypto ecosystem
How Tether became the dominant quote currency in crypto trading
Sponsors:
Uphold
Uphold is the only app that lets you go from anything to anything in one trade. Bitcoin to Gold? No problem. Want to send euros to your sister using your XRP stash? One trade and two clicks. Trade instantly between cryptos, stablecoins, national currencies, metals, and more. Uphold just launched a physical and virtual debit card in the US – the first of its kind. Cardholders can pay with BTC, BAT, or even gold. You can spend any of the 50+ assets Uphold supports and earn 2% CryptoBack and 1% CashBack when you’re doing it. Go from anything to anything. Download Uphold from any app store.
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Institutional counterparties can earn up to 8% annually on their idle stablecoins, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto. Individuals can also park their cash and stablecoins at Nexo's Interest-Earning account to get an annual return of 8%. So if you are looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your GO-TO PARTNER. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting crypto market cap data from crypto exchanges? We offer the most accurate and transparent crypto data in the space. For examples, see our Litecoin / LTC price & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
Jun 11, 2020
1 hr 13 min
Welcome to this cryptocurrency podcast with Bradley Miles and Sid Kalla, co-founders of Roll, an Ethereum-based social money platform that enables influencers and creators mint social money to incentivize and reward their communities. Thanks to Roll, social money economies are springing up across a range of categories. Individuals have even used Roll to tokenize themselves, enabling believers to invest in their social capital.
The conversation is split into 5 chapters:
Introduction
A deep dive into social money
Getting started with Roll – using Nomics' NOM token as an example
Prehistory of social money
Operations at Roll & the future of social money
It also covers:
Tingles, the first social money on Roll
The mechanics of distributing social money
Using social money to crowdfund and kickstart communities
How digital artists use social money
The Roll tech stack
Why Roll standardizes economics across creators
Sponsors:
CryptoTrader.Tax
CryptoTrader.Tax makes the excruciating task of reporting your cryptocurrency gains and losses a breeze. Sorting through transaction records from exchanges and reporting each trade in USD terms is not how most crypto investors want to spend a weekend. CryptoTrader.Tax is a software platform that automates the entire cryptocurrency tax reporting process. It's basically TurboTax for cryptocurrency investors. Just connect your exchanges and import your trade history and CryptoTrader.Tax will do all of the number-crunching and spit out your auto-filled tax reports with the click of a button. Tell them that Clay from the Flippening Podcast sent you to get a discount.
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Institutional counterparties can earn up to 8% annually on their idle stablecoins, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto. Individuals can also park their cash and stablecoins at Nexo's Interest-Earning account to get an annual return of 8%. So if you are looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your GO-TO PARTNER. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting crypto market cap data from crypto exchanges? We offer the most accurate and transparent crypto data in the space. For examples, see our Litecoin / LTC price & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
May 27, 2020
1 hr 9 min
Welcome to this cryptocurrency podcast with Hart Lambur, co-founder of UMA, and Michael Oved, co-founder and CEO of Fluidity, the company behind AirSwap. The discussion is from a live panel titled Tokenizing Traditional Assets, which took place at 0xpo, a February 2020 conference hosted by 0x (ZRX).
The conversation spans 3 main topics:
The state of asset tokenization
Security token exchanges
The future of tokenization
It also covers:
The evolution of tokenization – from ERC20 to today
Custodial vs. synthetic representations of assets
How blockchain enables secondary markets for almost any asset
Why Hart and Michael are excited about Libra
Why many consumers choose centralized exchanges over DEXs
Sponsors:
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Institutional counterparties can earn up to 8% annually on their idle stablecoins, enter into asset swap agreements, or directly borrow crypto. Individuals can also park their cash and stablecoins at Nexo's Interest-Earning account to get an annual return of 8%. So if you are looking to borrow, lend, or swap digital assets, Nexo is your GO-TO PARTNER. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
CryptoTrader.Tax
CryptoTrader.Tax makes the excruciating task of reporting your cryptocurrency gains and losses a breeze. Sorting through transaction records from exchanges and reporting each trade in USD terms is not how most crypto investors want to spend a weekend. CryptoTrader.Tax is a software platform that automates the entire cryptocurrency tax reporting process. It's basically TurboTax for cryptocurrency investors. Just connect your exchanges and import your trade history and CryptoTrader.Tax will do all of the number-crunching and spit out your auto-filled tax reports with the click of a button. Tell them that Clay from the Flippening Podcast sent you to get a discount.
Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining datasets & ingesting crypto market cap data from crypto exchanges? We offer the most accurate and transparent crypto data in the space. For examples, see our Litecoin Price / LTC & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
May 15, 2020
29 min
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2018 conversation with Sam McIngvale, Head of Product at Coinbase Custody, the world’s largest cryptocurrency custody service. We discuss why Coinbase chose to partner with an SEC-regulated broker-dealer. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 28.
Sponsors
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For examples, see our Ethereum Price / ETH & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
May 11, 2020
6 min
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2019 conversation with Jordan Clifford, co-founder and Managing Director at cryptoasset fund Scalar Capital. We discuss how his experience working at Coinbase reinforced his beliefs in privacy and that crypto should be as fungible as cash. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 41.
Sponsors
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For examples, see our Litecoin Price / LTC & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
May 7, 2020
6 min
Welcome to Daily Wisdom, a daily crypto podcast from The Flippening. These episodes feature short, to-the-point clips from our full-length interviews. We talk with the men and women behind the trades, crypto exchanges, regulations, and crypto market cap movements with the goal of helping you become a better, more informed investor.
Today’s episode is from a 2019 conversation with Stephen McKeon, finance professor at the University of Oregon and partner at Collaborative Fund, where he heads up Collab Crypto, a group dedicated to blockchain and cryptoassets. We discuss the state of crypto venture capital and Stephen’s observation that as investors gain sophistication, they’re less content with exposure to crypto and more interested in following narrow investment theses. For the full conversation, check out Flippening episode 43.
Sponsors
Crypto Loans by Nexo
Nexo is the only lender offering INSTANT crypto credit lines, which let you use digital assets as collateral to get cash in 45 fiat currencies and stablecoins. Annual interest rates for credit lines are now starting at just 5.9% - which may very well be the lowest borrowing rate in the whole industry. Nexo is also a strategic partner of exchanges, OTC desks, and crypto funds through its portfolio of structured financial products. Definitely explore nexo.io or reach them at institutions@nexo.io.
Nomics.com & Nomics' Cryptocurrency API
Nomics is a crypto market cap website and aggregator, going head to head with CoinMarketCap. We stand as a transparent alternative to many of the sketchy market cap websites out there. If you haven't been to Nomics.com in a while, I encourage you to visit our website. We offer transparent volume statistics for nearly every cryptocurrency and crypto exchange in the space. And I believe we have the only credible crypto exchange index in the space as of the time of this reading. If you’re sick of scammy ads, bad design, and manipulated data provided by companies whose founders hide from public view, then check us out at Nomics.com. For examples, see our Ethereum Price / ETH & OKEx pages.
P.S. If you've read this far, consider signing up for our fully customizable daily crypto newsletter.
May 6, 2020
8 min
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