Reel Comic Heroes Presents: The Iron Giant Minute: Episode 012 - Wobbling the Image Guests: Crystal Beth and Dave Pallas As discussed in the Reel Comic Heroes episode for The Iron Giant, Travis was working on a Movies by Minutes project for The Iron Giant. This is one of the only episodes ever recorded. The project got put on hold shortly after thi…

In today's episode, we dig into the demise of Bored Ape Yacht Club. The floor price of BAYC NFTs has reached its lowest point since early 2021 and sentiment among the community is at an all-time low. Can Yuga turn things around?By Matthew Howells-Barby

Reel Comic Heroes Presents: The Iron Giant Minute: Episode 011 - Happy Bob Ross Trees Guests: Crystal Beth and Dave Pallas As discussed in the Reel Comic Heroes episode for The Iron Giant, Travis was working on a Movies by Minutes project for The Iron Giant. This is one of the only episodes ever recorded. The project got put on hold shortly after t…

168 - The Iron Giant Join our hosts as they delve into the timeless animated classic, "The Iron Giant." Released in 1999, this Brad Bird-directed film has captivated audiences with its heartfelt story and stunning animation. We explore the film's commentary on Cold War paranoia and the fear of the unknown, as well as its optimistic message of hope …

We host Leonidas, the founder of Ord.io, creator of the Runestone Ordinals project, and overall mega-bull on Runes. We discuss the future of Runes, Ordinals and Bitcoin L2s. Don't miss this one.By Matthew Howells-Barby

In this week's episode, we discuss: 1. Quick overview of the current macro situation. 2. Crypto gaming's struggle to find PMF and what's next. 3. Lessons learned from minting Runes.By Matthew Howells-Barby

In this week's episode, we discuss the upcoming narratives in the crypto space where we think there are the most opportunities over the coming months. Plus, we dig into the growing feeling that crypto is becoming a major theme in the upcoming US presidential election.By Matthew Howells-Barby

In this week's episode, we dig into the major catalysts that are coming to the crypto markets in the coming few months, and the reasons why you should be bullish. We dig into the implications of the spot Ether ETF plus the recent FIT21 legislation.By Matthew Howells-Barby

167 - Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me Join us on the next episode of Reel Comic Heroes podcast as we journey back to the swinging '60s... We're diving into the uproarious world of Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me! Mike Myers returns as the International Man of Mystery in this outrageous sequel, where he must travel through time to reclai…

In this week's episode we dig into the exciting world of Bitcoin Layer 2s, explaining why they're important, how they work, and what to look out for. Alongside this, Austin digs into the recent case from the US Government against the Pepaire-Bueno brothers and their MEV exploit which earned them $25m.…

Eyal Solomon (@EyalSolomo44643) is the CEO and co-founder of Lunar, an open-source platform which bills itself as the “first reverse API gateway.” Lunar allows engineering teams to monitor, manage, and optimize API consumption. According to Eyal, it’s very easy to integrate with APIs, but difficult to keep them maintained, and there was a clear nee…

PodM8s Presents: You Alright M8? Mental Health Round Table Every so often a few members of the PodM8s Facebook Group get together to talk about Mental Health. We think it is important to talk about our struggles and successes with Mental Health. If you have a story to share, we encourage you to do so. Please know that there is always someone who wi…

166 - Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace with Liz Whitaker Every saga has a beginning. In 1999, The Phantom Menace brought Star Wars back to the big screen and forever changed the landscape of Star Wars. Here to share in this adventure with us is Liz Whitaker (Mean Girls Minute). Guest Plug Check out Liz’s amazing art and fashion designs: ht…

In today's episode, we dig into the upcoming $EIGEN token launch, what we expect the value to come in at, plus some of the controversy surrounding it. Plus, we explain why. CZ's sentence confirms that we're living in a simulation.By Matthew Howells-Barby

Shirshanka Das (@shirshanka) is the CTO of Acryl Data and founder of DataHub, which bills itself as the #1 open-source metadata platform. It enables data discovery, data observability and federated governance to help tame complex data ecosystems. Shirshanka first developed DataHub while at LinkedIn, but has grown it into an independent project with…

Runes is a fungible token protocol built on Bitcoin. If you’re familiar with Ordinals, more specifically Inscriptions - they’re effectively NFTs on Bitcoin. Runes, on the other hand, are like ERC-20s (from Ethereum) on Bitcoin. In this episode, we do a deep dive into the protocol that's set to launch tomorrow on the Bitcoin halving (block 840,000).…

165 - Star Trek: Insurrection with Jonathan Howell There’s so much insurrection-ing happening in this movie we didn’t even know where to start! Thankfully, Jonathan Howell was on loan to us from the Swordboys Podcast to help explain when the insurrection began. Guest Plugs Hear Jonathan over on Swordboys and follow @swordboysdotbiz on TikTok Discus…

In this week's episode, Matt gives a full overview of the EigenLayer protocol, how restaking changes the way new projects are launching, and what this means for staking on Ethereum.By Matthew Howells-Barby

After his first child was born, Matt Wonlaw (@tantaman) imagined giving his son life advice. What kind of life did he want his kid to lead? At the time, he was working for Facebook, and he decided that his own life needed a change in direction. So Matt started vlcn, aka Vulcan Labs, a research company that develops open-source projects like CR-SQLi…

164 - Godzilla with Mark Ybarra & Robert Kelly The King of Monsters is finally being talked about on RCH! Sure, it may be the 1998 movie starring Matthew Broderick and an overgrown iguana, but hey... Joining us are two Big G lovers and experts, Mark Ybarra and Robert Kelly. Guest Plugs Mark Ybarra - DC Cinematic MinuteRobert Kelly - Record All Mons…

In this week's episode we do a deep dive into the DeFi innovation happening within the liquid restaking space via Pendle. Alongside this, we give a regulatory update on the SEC's fight with Coinbase, Ripple, and more.By Matthew Howells-Barby

Amplication is an open-source development platform for scalable and secure Node.js applications. It allows engineers to skip writing boilerplate code and offers the flexibility to customize and add components. Amplification was created by Yuval Hazaz (@Yuvalhazaz1), a veteran developer who determined that low-code platforms save time but restrict f…

In this week's episode of Off Chain, we discuss the following stories: The Ethereum Dencun Upgrade Microstrategy Doubles Down on Bitcoin... AGAIN WIF is set to appear on the Las Vegas SphereBy Matthew Howells-Barby

OpenBB is an open-source investment research platform created by Didier Lopes (@didier_lopes). OpenBB grew out of a project called Gamestonk Terminal that Didier began working on shortly before the Gamestop short squeeze in January 2021. Today, OpenBB has evolved into an infrastructure platform that allows users to build extensions and access finan…

In case you didn't notice, it's airdrop season. Free money is raining down but airdrop farmers have to get smarter about how they're going to qualify for these juicy payouts. We speak with Theo and Sami, the cofounders of Noder.bot which is a node-as-a-service platform focused on setting you up with pre-mainnet nodes. You don't need any technical k…

OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework for collecting and managing telemetry data. OpenTelemetry has been more successful than expected, becoming the second fastest growing project in the CNCF. It allows for flexibility and avoids vendor lock-in, making it attractive to startups and large enterprises alike. On today’s show, Eric (@…

In this week's episode of Off Chain, we cover the following stories: Sotherbys is auctioning off an Ether Rock… we must be back! Inflows to Bitcoin ETFs reach new highs, powering a BTC rally The Ethereum ETF applications are coming in thick and fast - we share an interesting trade that could really pay off in the run up to the spot ETF approval…

OPAL is an open-source administration layer for Policy Engines such as Open Policy Agent (OPA). OPAL provides the necessary infrastructure to load policy and data into multiple policy engines, ensuring they have the information they need to make decisions. Today, we’re talking to Or Weis (@OrWeis), co-creator of OPAL and co-founder of Permit, the e…

In this week's episode we cover: Ark 21shares amended its spot ETH ETF filing to include a cash creation/redemption process (similar to spot BTC ETFs) and some language surrounding staking. A look at the underground site where basic AI is being used to bypass KYC and AML. Ethereum's Dencun upgrade reaches the final stages of testing, going live on …

We do a deep dive into the latest major theme in the crypto space: Restaking. We bring in Mike Silagadze, CEO of EtherFi to break down what restaking is and why it's such an important innovation for the Ethereum ecosystem and beyond. We talk about the more than $700m of TVL that EtherFi has gained in the past few weeks and what's next.…

FerretDB enables users to run MongoDB applications on existing Postgres infrastructure. Peter Farkas (@FarkasP), co-founder and CEO of FerretDB, explains the need for an open source interface for document databases. Peter also discusses the licensing change of MongoDB and the uncertainty it created for users. He emphasizes the importance of open st…

In this week's episode, we dig into the data behind the capital flows of four days of trading the Bitcoin ETFs. Lots to unpack and we discuss why the BTC price has been down-only, and why you should still be bullish in the short to medium term.By Matthew Howells-Barby

Ben Johnson (@benbjohnson) is the creator of Litestream and LiteFS, two open-source disaster recovery solution for SQLite. Litestream is designed to provide continuous backups for SQLite databases by streaming incremental changes, allowing for easy data recovery in the event of a server crash. LiteFS, on the other hand, is built on LiteStream but u…

Tonic is a native gRPC implementation in Rust that allows users to easily build gRPC servers and clients without extensive async experience. Tonic is part of the Tokio stack, which is a library that provides an asynchronous runtime for Rust and more tools to write async applications. Today, Lucio Franco (@lucio_d_franco) of Turso joins the podcast …

In this week's episode, we explore the current airdrop season happening on and off Solana, sharing some interesting projects that could result in airdrops. Enjoy!By Matthew Howells-Barby

rqlite is a lightweight, distributed relational database built on Raft and SQLite. Founder Philip O’Toole (@general_order24) decided to combine these technologies while working at a startup years ago. The startup no longer exists, but rqlite is going strong. Today, Philip is an engineering manager at Google, while he continues to be the driving for…

In this episode, Matt and Austin share their predictions on where BTC and ETH price will top, whether the Fed will reduce rates (and if so, when), plus they share three big predictions for major events in 2024.By Matthew Howells-Barby

In this episode, we unpack the current situation with the Bitcoin and Ether spot ETFs, breaking down why this is bullish and what it means from a practical standpoint. We also dig into the recent surge in price action across the crypto space, including MOON's 600% gain.By Matthew Howells-Barby

In this week's episode, we discuss the surge in activity in the NFT space, with daily trading volumes hitting 3-month highs, plus we dig into the NFT marketplace wars and make some predictions on how the space will shake out. All that, plus we discuss the SBF guilty verdict and what's next in the FTX saga.…

163 - Blade with Nhi Do Released in an era well before the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Blade stands out as being one of the best pre-MCU movies based on a Marvel Comic. We had a great time talking about this, one, and hope that you have a fun listening along. Our guest, was Nhi Do, who claimed this episode four years prior to recording - she was tha…

In this week's episode, we discuss the u-tun made by Reddit on their blockchain-based community points system, plus we discuss the recent headlines surrounding crypto's role in the Isreal-Hamas conflict, and where they're being overstated.By Matthew Howells-Barby