Wade Guenther of asset management firm Wilshire Phoenix joins the podcast to discuss Bitcoin mining stocks and investing in the crypto sector. Read the article over on Invezz here. Continue the conversation on Twitter with @InvezzPortal and @DanniiAshmore. Or visit @WilshirePhoenix or www.wilshirephoenix.com. Thanks for listening, follow us & subsc…

This week on the Invezz podcast, we talk with the creator of the Short and Long Jim Cramer ETFs, Matthew Tuttle of Tuttle Capital Management. Read the article over on Invezz here. Continue the conversation on Twitter with @InvezzPortal and @DanniiAshmore. Reach Matthew Tuttle @TuttleCapital or visit www.tuttlecap.com for more information. Thanks fo…

Dr Craig Pirrong, professor of finance at the University of Houston, joins the podcast to discuss the role of the Federal Reserve, and whether things could have been done differently to avoid the inflation and banking crises. Additionally, he chats about where the economy is heading next and whether a "soft landing" is achievable. Read the article …

Michael Field, European market strategist at Morningstar, joins the podcast to discuss European equity valuations, how they compare to the US, and how the European economy as a whole is placed right now. Read Dan's full article over on Invezz here. Continue the conversation on Twitter with @InvezzPortal and @DanniiAshmore. Or visit www.morningstar.…

Silver is an odd asset, part store of value and inflation hedge, part driven by industrial demand. Despite often trending in price with gold, it's far more volatile and has become much cheaper relative to its shinier cousin. Dan Ashmore hosts Adrian Ash, the Director of Research at BullionVault, to discuss investing in silver, including how it look…

Alex Kim, BNB Chain's Business Development Manager, joins the podcast to chat all things BNB Chain. See on CoinJournal here. Reach out to us on Twitter: @DanniiAshmore & @CoinJournal Listen to the podcast on various platforms here Find BNB Chain on Twitter: @BNBChain Find out more at www.bnbchain.org…

We all see the hype around AI. We see the passionate debates around whether blockchain technology/cryptocurrency is useful or a waste of time. But what do developers think? We interview Joy Cicman Liuzzo, Vice President of Product Marketing at Stack Overflow, to dive into a survey Stack Overflow ran getting insights into how developers and technolo…

XRP is currently the sixth biggest cryptocurrency in the world, and it is also one of the oldest, launched back in 2012. Yet so many still don't understand what it is, nor the distinction between XRP and Ripple. Brendan Berry, Head of Payment Products at Ripple, joins the podcast to chat all things XRP and Ripple. Read Dan's full article over on In…

Tether's market share is growing again. Following the news BUSD is shutting down, Tether CTO Paolo Ardoino joins host Dan Ashmore to chat about Tether's position in the market as a non US-based stablecoin. The duo also chat about Tether's reserves, the Tether-led blockchain initiative in Lugano, El Salvador, the dominance of the dollar, the crypto …

Avalanche is a newcomer even within the young industry of crypto, having been launched in late 2020. Despite this, it is already among the biggest projects in the space. John Nahas, Vice President of Business Development at Ava Labs, the creator behind Avalanche, joins the podcast to discuss why he thinks Avalanche has solved the blockchain trilemm…

Elijah Tan worked in trad-fi for years. On this episode, he talks leaving Goldman Sachs for crypto after 7 years, where he worked for Binance and is now the VP of Operations at Philippines-based exchange Coins.ph Head over to Dan's article on CoinJournal here Reach out to us on Twitter: @DanniiAshmore & @CoinJournal Listen to the podcast on various…

Our host Dan Ashmore interviews Sam MacPherson of MakerDAO, the DAO behind the world's largest decentralised stablecoin, DAI. The duo chat about its future, and the stablecoin market as a whole, following the shocking story that BUSD will be gradually shut down amid an SEC crackdown. Head over to Dan's article on CoinJournal here Reach out to us on…

Our host Dan Ashmore bought Amazon stock at $150 per share in 2021, and is now down 35%. Strategy Consultant and ex-Amazon employee Brittain Ladd joins the podcast to chat about the stock's outlook, including suggestions on what it can do to reverse its fortunes, such as a potential Target acquisition or integration of ChatGPT with Alexa. Read Dan'…

Austin Federa is head of communications at the Solana Foundation , but also hosts his own web3 podcast: Validated. Dan and Austin chat about what it's like podcasting in the crypto space, Austin's overall thoughts on crypto and web3, and thoughts on what the future holds. Read Dan's full article over on Invezz here. Continue the conversation on Twi…

Crypto has pulled back massively recently, with mass layoffs and cratering volumes in the industry. Despite this crypto exchange Bitget is not only avoiding redundancies, but it is hiring. We chat with Managing Director Gracy Chen on how this is the case, her journey into crypto, the bear market, the future and more. Listen on Spotify here Other pl…

Gold has long had a reputation for being an inflation hedge, and a diversifying asset to hold in one's investment portfolio. Dan Ashmore hosts Adrian Ash, the Director of Research at BullionVault, one of the leading precious metal marketplaces, to discuss investing in gold, including how it looks in this very uncertain 2023 economic climate. Read D…

Our host Dan Ashmore is joined by Sam Burns of Mill Street Research. The duo chat about growing recession fears in the economy, whether now is a good time to enter the stock market, and everything else happening in the markets right now. Read Dan's full article over on Invezz here Continue the conversation on Twitter with @InvezzPortal and @DanniiA…

We chat with the co-founder of Tinder and Bumble, Christopher Gulczynski, and former Facebook engineer Zaven Nahapetyan, about their new project, Niche. Niche is a decentralised social media platform to operate in what people call the metaverse, but what exactly does this mean? Read Dan's full article over on Invezz here. Continue the conversation …

$7 billion has been withdrawn from Binance in the last 3 days, with fear continuing to flow through crypto markets. Sarah Leow of blockchain analytics firm Nansen joins our host Dan Ashmore to analyse what on-chain metrics we are seeing. They chat Binance, the collapse of FTX on-chain, other exchanges, DeFi, and everything else happening on-chain. …

Our host Dan Ashmore is joined by Invezz forex specialist Mircea Vasiu. The duo discuss forex news and trends this year, and what could happen next, focusing on USD, EUR, JPY, CHF and GBP. Read Dan's full article over on Invezz: here Continue the conversation on Twitter with @InvezzPortal and @DanniiAshmore Thanks for listening, follow us & subscri…

Dan hosts Matthew Liu, who was one of the earliest employees at YouTube and an early Bitcoin buyer, before eventually diving into crypto full-time and founding the Origin Protocol. The duo talk Sam Bankman-Fried, the reputation of crypto, Origin's stablecoin, the current yield environment, NFTs, Paris Hilton, Matthew's journey to crypto and a lot m…

Dan chats with David Lucatch, CEO of Liquid Avatar Technologies. Unlike most metaverse companies, however, this has nothing to do with cryptocurrency. Instead, it leverages the technology side: the blockchain. And there is not a cryptocurrency in sight. Read Dan's full article over on Invezz: here Continue the conversation on Twitter with @InvezzPo…

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On this week's episode of the Invezz podcast, our host Dan Ashmore chats with Jake Yocom-Piatt of Decred. Decred were recently used during the Brazilian Presidential elections to combat misinformation. Dan and Jake chat about the future of voting and elections, and whether blockchain could be used to digitalise what remains an old-fashioned process…

A serial entrepreneur, Corey Wilton tells me his story. A kid from the Gold Coast in Australia, he failed to get into University. Today, he runs a metaverse company, Mirai Labs, out of Vietnam with 75 employees, and has some great tales from the hysteria of the last few years. Head over to Dan's article on CoinJournal here Watch on YouTube here Rea…

Metaverse gaming is the topic on the latest episode of the Invezz podcast, as our host Dan Ashmore chats with Chris Jang, co-CEO of ZTX, which is striving to build an all-encompassing metaverse. Read Dan's full article over on Invezz: here Continue the conversation on Twitter with @InvezzPortal, @DanniiAshmore and @ZTX_official. Or visit https://ww…

On this episode of the Invezz podcast, we talk portfolio management and DeFi. Tim Frost, CEO of Yield App, the one stop crypto platform, and Jon Deane, CEO of Trovio, the hybrid asset manager, join host Dan Ashmore on the show. Read Dan's full article over on Invezz: here Continue the conversation on Twitter with @InvezzPortal, @DanniiAshmore and @…

We talk real estate on the Invezz podcast this week. Specifically, whether it can be disrupted by blockchain technology. Dan Ashmore hosts Sanjay Raghavan, Head of Web3 Initiatives at Rooftstock, the real estate investment marketplace which has just completed the seminal sale of its first house in the form of a one-click NFT purchase, a homer locat…

Dan chats about sports and web3 this week, interviewing CPO of AllStars Digital (ASD), Akash Gharu. ASD blends sports betting, crypto and fantasy sports, and Akash talks about why exactly sports fans could be enthused at ASD, ahead of the token launch this week. Read Dan's full article over on Invezz here Continue the conversation on Twitter with @…

We chat all things DeFi, Polygon and Ethereum with Polygon's Head of DeFi & Labs, Hamzah Khan. Read up on Polygon: https://polygon.technology/ Head over to Dan's article on CoinJournal here Watch on YouTube here Reach out to Dan on Twitter here: @DanniiAshmore and @CoinJournal Read more on Polygon: https://polygon.technology/…

Dan Ashmore hosts the CEO of Bitwage, Jonathan Chester, on the Invezz podcast to discuss getting paid in stablecoins, Bitcoin and other crypto. Bitwage allows individuals to receive payment in combination of stablecoins, crypto and their default payment, allowing for diversification and greater control over one's finances and exposure. In a year th…

IOTA has been around quite a while in cryptocurrency terms. They do things a little differently than most, the self-proclaimed "blockchainless blockchain". CoinJournal's Dan Ashmore sits down with IOTA's Christian Saur this week to chat all things IOTA, following the launch of the Shimmer network. Beyond Shimmer, the duo also chat DeFi, the bear ma…

This week on the show, our host Dan Ashmore is joined by Alan Ransil, founder of Filecoin Green. Filecoin is one of the world's biggest cryptocurrencies, a decentralised system which offers a peer-to-peer storage network. Filecoin Green, meanwhile, measures the environmental impacts of Filecoin and strives to drive them downward. It feels like a ve…

This week on the show, our host Dan Ashmore is joined by Felix Xu, founder of 100% crypto hedge fund ZX Squared. Despite crypto melting down, Felix dives in to how the performance over the past year is relatively flat - above not only his benchmark of Bitcoin (-70%+ from all-time high), but also the S&P 500 (down 25% this year alone). Dan and Felix…

This week, our host Dan Ashmore is joined by Sasha Ivanov, founder and CEO of the cryptocurrency Waves. A refreshingly honest episode, Ivanov laments that crypto has become a money grab, a worse place than it was a few years ago when it was more tech-focused, with an emphasis on solving problems rather than making a quick dollar. Ivanov also outlin…

Paolo Ardoino is the CTO of Tether, the world's biggest stablecoin and third biggest cryptocurrency, behind only Bitcoin and Ethereum. Obviously with a cryptocurrency the size of Tether, there is no shortage of topics to be discussed. But in this current climate of mass inflation, it's especially topical given the power a dollar stablecoin could pr…

Venture capitalism and crypto are a pair who have not been married for long, but the results have been explosive. Of course, like everything, it has taken a turn for the worst this week. Dan speaks with longtime VC David Siemer, CEO of Wave Financial, about all things VC and crypto. David was a VC for the dot com bubble and the GFC in 2008, so he h…

Ah, Dogecoin. Love it or hate it, it's the OG memecoin. But can it ever be more than a meme? The Dogecoin community is notoriously committed, and anytime there are that many people bought into one vision, the network effects alone mean that if it can be monetised, there could be something very valuable here. Of course, that's the big question - cou…

This week on the Invezz Podcast, we spoke with somebody with an especially unique background - a priest turned hedge fund CIO, Reverend Emmanuel Lemelson. A Greek Orthodox priest who is CIO of Lemelson Capital, the hedge fund specialising in deep value and special situations, Fr Emmanuel discusses his history of public activist shorting, including …

The phrase "crypto lending" is seen as a dirty one now in the post-Celsius world, as a wave of contagion spreading through the industry caused many firms to go under in a very high-profile manner. Today Dan speaks with Rafael Cosman, the co-founder and CEO of TrustToken, the firm behind the world's fifth biggest stablecoin, TrueUSD, and also the pi…

Invezz Analyst Dan Ashmore reports from the ground in El Salvador, getting an insight into the Bitcoin economy, one year after Salvadoran citizens woke up to discover their president had declared Bitcoin as legal tender, the first country in the world to do so. So, can you actually pay with Bitcoin, or is it all a gimic? What do locals think? Is it…

Charmyn Ho used to be a pre-school teacher who liked gaming. Then she came across a game called Axie Infinity, sporting a curious feature of earning while you play. Today, she's Head of Crypto Insights at Bybit, having been bitten by the crypto bug. And she joins Dan on this week's episode of the CoinJournal podcast. She works on a monthly report i…

What blockchain will win? A common question in the world of cryptocurrency. But in truth, the future is likely one of interoperability. Certain blockchains will be bigger than others, but many will exist. I sat down with Ram Ramachandran on the latest episode of the CoinJournal podcast to discuss this issue and more. Ram is the CEO of the Router Pr…

Cryptocurrency can be intimidating. Even to people with a good understanding of the financial markets or technology, wrapping their heads around blockchain can be a challenge. I sat down on the latest episode of the CoinJournal podcast with someone who can be described as a “crypto academic”, who aims to bridge that gap for people. Omid Malekan lec…

There are hundreds of cryptocurrency exchanges and trading platforms, with more popping up every single day. With the industry still only a few years old, however, most of these are private companies. Coinbase led the way in changing this, however, going public last year to much furore. North of the border, Canadian platform Coinsmart followed suit…

Hokkaido Inu were one of the many memes that rode the coattails of Dogecoin’s success. Peaking at a mouth-watering $800 million in market cap, it was since abandoned by the founders and crashed down 99%. Today, however, it’s reinventing itself as a DeFi player “powered by memes”. Whatever you think about memes, they are definitely interesting. Ther…

"(Inflation) is the most important political issue in existence" If you're only going to listen to one episode of the CoinJournal podcast, I would make it this one (in my extremely biased opinion). I sat down with Michael Kong, the CEO of Fantom, one of the biggest cryptocurrencies around. But Michael is a deep thinker and understands the world has…

The concept of identity is quite a polarising one in cryptocurrency. People forget sometimes that Bitcoin grew out of a niche corner of the Internet, birthed from ultra-libertarian ideals with self-sovereignty, anonymity and independence central to the thesis. Of course, cryptocurrency has involved beyond Bitcoin, and today we have numerous differe…

Joe and Dan talk to Jake Yocom-Piatt, founder of top-100 cryptocurrency Decred (DCR). In this wide-ranging discussion, Jake and the boys talk about the importance of sovereignty, crypto scams, privacy, CBDCs, and more. Read Dan's write-up on CoinJournal.net. Decred is a cryptocurrency with a hybrid Pow/PoS consensus algorithm that aims to build on …