Former futures trader turned early Bitcoin investor Eric Saraniecki has gone on to be a co-founder of Digital Asset Holdings, one of the first big firms to cater to private companies that want to use blockchain technology. He says he’s lost more Bitcoin than he owns and at one point was going to the back of a Duane Reade to start his Bitcoin purchases.
A conversation wit one of the leading academics in the blockchain space and the founder of Avalanche, the twelfth-largest distributed network, where we talk about his early life in Istanbul, his Commodore 64, how drafty doors and windows spurred him to a life in science and how his goal is to ‘digitize all things.’
Learn about how Vitalik thinks of metaphysics, the nature of time, his love of bunnies and what he thought of Moxie Marlinspike’s recent critique of web3.
A valid and ongoing critique of blockchain technology is that it’s not sufficiently decentralized, as Signal’s Moxie Marlinspike recently pointed out. Here is one firm, Livepeer, that is among a growing number of startups that are making decentralization a founding principle.
A conversation with security expert and co-founder of Trail of Bits Dan Guido where he talks about hacking his high school computer system, how the DAO hack of 2016 got him interested in crypto, how high school sports prepared him for later life and how he never wants to find the same software bug twice.
Vlad Zamfir has been around Ethereum from the very beginning and isn’t shy in his opinions of its shortcomings.
Tyler Hobbs goes deep on how artists should use code to represent the digital world that envelops us all.
A wide-ranging conversation where we touch on the hellscape of southern Florida, the hacker code of ‘screws not glue,’ musical theater and the value of art in a digital world
A fascinating conversation with Taylor Monahan where we cover Occupy Wall Street, strict but loving mothers, peeing in water bottles and how crypto can use more empathy.
The third and final part of the genesis saga of the Bright Moments NFT art gallery and its founder Seth Goldstein where the dust in Venice settles and a new adventure in NYC begins
We hear from the man herding all the cats as Ethereum core developers near the historic switch to ETH 2.0. But more than that we learn of Tim’s punk-rock t-shirt business, how a house painter who hoarded Iraqi Dinars introduced him to Bitcoin and what Tim hopes for a year from now in Ethereum.
An exclusive interview with Ryan Zurrer who just bought Beeple’s “Human One” NFT for $29 million, including “proof of artwork” and Metcalfe’s Law
Part 2 in the saga of Bright Moments, an NFT gallery founded by Seth Goldstein in Venice, California that was rocked in August when an insider made off with $4.3 million worth of its digital art.
Part 2 of my conversation with Phil Daian where we get into the DAO hack of 2016, comment on Emin Gun Sirer’s boyish charm and dive in to the weeds on miner extractable value, or MEV
A fascinating chat with one of the most interesting people in all of crypto. And Phil is only getting started.
Learn how a chemical engineer who used cryptography to battle credit-card fraud eventually found his way to crypto and co-founding the NFT bazaar MetaZone
Mark Zuckerber’s rebrand of Facebook as Meta seems to have sent some metaverse coins soaring over the weekend
The latest craziness in the NFT world of Crypto Punks where a seemingly record-breaking sale turns out to be a wash trade
After last raising money just half a year ago, Alchemy is back at it, this time soaring to valuation 7 times what the blockchain startup garnered in April
A chat with David about the crypto bear market and the real treasure of the friends he made along the way, I propose to form Keg DAO and he shoots it down and we hear about him buying Ether all the way down in 2018