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There are constantly new tokens, DeFi projects, NFTs collections and DAOs being launched – but how can you make sense of everything going on in the crypto space? From the hype to the scams, TechCrunch senior crypto reporter Jacquelyn Melinek explores the impact of crypto on finance, art, web3, and society as a whole. Whether you’re a fan or a skeptic, every Thursday, Jacquelyn chats with a crypto expert, learning alongside you to break down the nuance behind the wild world of crypto. Chain R ...
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Secrets of the Sell is an informative podcast highlighting all things real estate related. In addition we discuss the entrepreneurial journey with business owners and their secrets of the sell.
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As we continue our way through the gospel of Mark, Maggie Keller helps us dream about the kind of community we want to build and become.By Maggie Keller
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To close out Pride Month, Pastor Jae talks about queer apocalypse, queer blessings, and queer imagination.By Jae Bates
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This Pride Month, we welcome Cody Sanders, professor of congregational care at Luther Seminary. Cody preaches on two of Jesus’ miracles and connections to the queer community’s experience of God in the church.By Cody Sanders
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As part of our Pride Month series, Marta Smith reminds us that we're never finished—God is still at work and our stories are still unfolding.By Marta Smith
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On his last Sunday as a pastor of this community, Matt Moberg shares with us the message that God is still—always—moving and working.By Matt Moberg
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Pastor Jae introduces our high school grads, Sully and Maggie, who share reflections on the theme of transformation and transition.By Jae Bates, Sully Jackson, Maggie Farrell
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Marta continues our series on John Mark's gospel by preaching on the only miracle that requires Jesus to try again.By Marta Smith
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Debbie continues our series in Mark's gospel. The same reminders Jesus gave the disciples are given to us: we've seen God's faithfulness proven over and again in the story of The Table. Debbie shares an update on Matt's sabbatical.By Debbie Manning
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Pastor Jae continues our series on Mark's gospel by looking at how Jesus combined the spiritual and the physical in his healing miracle in Mark 7.By Jae Bates
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As we continue through chapter 7 of Mark's gospel, Debbie talks about the time Jesus called a Syrophoenician woman an ethnic slur.By Debbie Manning
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As we begin studying Mark chapter 7, Maggie takes us through the disagreement between Jesus and the Pharisees, and how our hearts are the indicators of our holiness.By Maggie Keller
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We have been studying the gospel of Mark this year. Tonight, Debbie talks about what happened when Jesus appeared to the disciples as a ghost, and how we deal with the fears that grip us.By Debbie Manning
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Debbie reminds us that while the resurrection story never changes, we are new people when we hear this story each year.By Debbie Manning
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Space and Time wants to help LLMs and AI agents get on-chain (w/ Scott Dykstra)
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For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Scott Dykstra, CTO and co-founder of Space and Time. Before diving into web3, Scott spent almost 8 years at the cloud analytics and data platform Teradata and throughout the years he held roles of senior architect, director of cloud solutions and worked his way up to VP of the firm’s global cloud. As f…
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Pastor Jae gives us another way of understanding Palm Sunday with a close reading of what "Hosanna" really means.By Jae Bates
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Whoever rules the data rules the world (w/ Tegan Kline)
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For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Tegan Kline, the CEO and co-founder of Edge & Node. The company is focused on creating and supporting decentralized applications, or dApps, and protocols. It was also the initial team behind The Graph, an indexing and query protocol, or what some have referred to as the Google of Web3, which aims to or…
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As we continue our way through the gospel of Mark, Debbie tells the story of when the Bread of Life used 5 loaves and 2 fish to feed 5,000.By Debbie Manning
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Blockchain tech is working to combat AI-based deepfakes (w/ Melody Hildebrandt and Mike Blank)
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For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Melody Hildebrandt, CTO of Fox Corporation and Mike Blank, COO at Polygon Labs. Why these two companies? Well, Polygon Labs, the layer-2 blockchain focused on scaling Ethereum, and Fox Corporation, the well-known media conglomerate, joined forces in January to tackle deepfakes as artificial intelligenc…
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Katie walks us through a story in the middle of Mark 6 about Herod and a party he threw that ended with a beheading.By Katie Henry-Murad
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Blockchain could be the answer to getting AI artists paid (w/ Dee Goens)
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For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Dee Goens, the co-founder of Zora. Zora is a platform and protocol that helps developers and creators bring their ideas on chain and on Ethereum through an open and shared environment. The platform has minted over 4 million NFTs, has over $300 million in secondary sales and about 1 million unique colle…
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Debbie continues our series in Mark's gospel by examining the passage where Jesus sends out the disciples and instructs them to travel light.By Debbie Manning
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Looking back on the NFT marketplace Magic Eden (w/ Jack Lu)
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For this week’s episode, we’re resharing a conversation I had in June 2023 with Jack Lu, CEO and co-founder of Magic Eden. When we recorded this episode, NFT sales were down around $640 million at the beginning of the month, compared to today where February 2023 NFT sales volume hit $1 billion, for the first time since February 2023. Looking back o…
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Debbie continues our year-long series on John Mark's gospel with Mark 6, where Jesus returns to his hometown to mixed reactions.By Debbie Manning
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Starbucks Odyssey’s community lead expects NFT brand building to expand this year (w/ Steve Kaczynski)
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For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Steve Kaczynski, co-author of the book “The Everything Token,” and co-host of a web3 morning show Coffee with Captain. He also co-authored the first Harvard Business Review article about NFTs and outside of that, he consults with agencies and brands about building their web3 strategies including his ro…
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Maggie Keller finishes up the fifth chapter of Mark’s gospel with the story of the bleeding woman and Jairus’s daughter—and the invitation to tell the whole truth.By Maggie Keller
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Web3 brands and NFTs are on a global race for adoption (w/ Yat Siu)
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For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Yat Siu, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands. Yat co-founded Animoca in 2014 and since then it has invested in over 400 web3 projects across a range of sectors like DeFi, education, infrastructure, blockchain gaming and the metaverse. Animoca also has its own NFT collections, blockchain…
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OpenSea’s CEO sees greater opportunity for NFT use cases to grow (w/ Devin Finzer)
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This year, Chain Reaction is doing monthly series diving into different topics and themes in crypto. To start things off, this month we’re focusing on NFTs. For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Devin Finzer, the CEO of NFT marketplace OpenSea. He co-founded OpenSea in 2017 and it quickly climbed to become one of the most well known – and …
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SEC Commissioner sees a need for a new Token Safe Harbor Proposal (w/ Hester Peirce)
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This week we have a bonus episode with Hester Peirce, commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Jacquelyn moderated a fireside chat with Commissioner Peirce at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business alongside Eddie Cullen, a former candidate for New York City Mayor in 2021 and co-founder and CEO of Crescite Innovati…
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We welcome Brad Herman, who was part of this community for many years, to share his story with us. Debbie shares an important Table Family Update.By Debbie Manning and Brad Herman
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Read Write Own this episode with a16z’s crypto partner (w/ Chris Dixon)
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For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Chris Dixon, general partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Chris has been at the firm since 2012 and founded and leads a16z’s crypto team, which invests in the web3 world through four mega-funds with over $7 billion under management. He’s also an author of the recently released bo…
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Bonus Episode: Worldcoin is going on a race to billions of users “as fast” as it can (w/ Alex Blania)
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This is a bonus episode, where Jacquelyn interviewed Alex Blania, CEO and co-founder of Tools for Humanity, in a fireside chat at a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco. The startup was co-founded by Alex, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Max Novendstern. To date, it has raised about $250 million from investors like a16z, Bain Capital Crypto and others. It is …
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Pastor Jae tackles the confusing, sometimes scary passage in Mark about demon possession and how Jesus responds to the possessed man.By Jae Bates
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Solana Mobile is just getting started (w/ Anatoly Yakovenko)
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For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder of Solana Labs, the technology company that aims to help grow the ecosystem for the layer-1 blockchain Solana. The conversation focused on Solana Mobile and its flagship web3 Android smartphone, Saga, which sold out in mid-December, as well as its new phone, Chapter 2 – wh…
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Debbie takes us deeper into Mark’s gospel and the familiar passage of Jesus calming the storm. She reminds us that some storms brew, and some whip up quickly, but Jesus is always there in the boat with us.By Debbie Manning
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Ripple president talks XRP Ledger, SEC suits, and 2024 plans (w/ Monica Long)
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For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Monica Long, the president of Ripple, a blockchain-based digital payment network and protocol. Monica has spent the last 10 years at Ripple, working her way up from the director of communications to now, president. Ripple has been around since 2012 and is one of the oldest crypto entities. In recent ye…
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Matt continues examining the Parable of the Sower by calling us to be more faithful to the process and less on being a finished product.By Matt Moberg
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Bitcoin spot ETFs has been approved in the U.S. (w/ Michael Sonnenshein)
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For this week’s bonus episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Michael Sonnenshein, the CEO at Grayscale Investments. Grayscale is a digital asset investment firm that aims to provide products and services to institutional and individual investors, it is well known for its Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) and now, its new bitcoin spot ETF product. The company …
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Matt continues our series in John Mark’s gospel with a well-known but not often understood story of the soil, the seed, and the Sower.By Matt Moberg
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All roads seem to be leading to a U.S. spot bitcoin ETF approval soon (w/ Fred Thiel)
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For this week’s news episode, Jacquelyn dove back into the latest developments on spot bitcoin ETF applications in the U.S. as anticipation builds. Fred Thiel, the CEO of Marathon Digital Holdings, a digital asset technology company and largest publicly traded bitcoin mining firm, joined to help break down the latest developments on spot bitcoin ET…
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You should join a crypto social club w/ Boys Club co-founders (re-release)
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Welcome to a re-released episode of of Chain Reaction, a podcast that unpacks and dives deep into the latest trends, drama and news in crypto with some of the biggest names in the industry to break things down block by block for the crypto curious. For this week’s episode, we're remixing an episode from earlier this year. Jacquelyn interviewed Dean…
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On Christmas Eve, Matt celebrates the God who wore skin like ours so we could wear skin like God's.By Matt Moberg
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Algorand foundation CEO sees tokenization as key sector to scale crypto (w/ Staci Warden)
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For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Staci Warden, the CEO of the Algorand Foundation, the organization behind the layer-1 blockchain Algorand. Previously, Warden worked at the Milken Institute and oversaw initiatives relating to capital market development, FinTech financial inclusion, cryptocurrencies and blockchain. Before that she was …
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On the third Sunday of Advent, Debbie preaches on joy and how it often surprises us.By Debbie Manning
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Robinhood’s still on a quest to make crypto mainstream (w/ Johann Kerbrat)
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For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Johann Kerbrat, the general manager of crypto at Robinhood. Johann is leading the application's effort to expand its crypto exchange business and make digital assets more accessible to retail investors. Before joining Robinhood, Johann was an engineer at Airbnb and was the head of engineering at Uber a…
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On the second Sunday of Advent, Matt talks about peace in a world that doesn't feel peaceful.By Matt Moberg
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Crypto VC space may be on the cusp of recovery (w/ David Pakman)
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For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed David Pakman, managing partner and head of venture investments at CoinFund. Before CoinFund, David spent 14 years at the venture capital firm Venrock. He also led the Series A and B rounds at Dollar Shave Club which was acquired by Unilever for $1 billion. And in 1991, David co-created Apple Music when…
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On the first Sunday of Advent (traditionally centered around the theme of Hope), Matt and Debbie remember Lynn Giovannelli and all our other loved ones who are not gone—they've just gone ahead.By Matt Moberg and Debbie Manning
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Optimism is optimistic for the future of Ethereum (w/ Jing Wang and Ryan Wyatt)
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For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Optimism’s CEO and co-founder Jing Wang and chief growth officer Ryan Wyatt. Optimism is an Ethereum-focused layer-2 blockchain that focuses on scaling and speed, while also lowering costs for users. It helps users interact with Ethereum for about 10x cheaper through its blockchain and provides develop…
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Pastor Jae continues our journey through John Mark's gospel looking at the time that the people around Jesus called him crazy.By Jae Bates
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Amid the OpenAI chaos, here's a refresher on Sam Altman's crypto project: Worldcoin
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For this week’s episode, we're re-sharing Jacquelyn's conversation with Tiago Sada, head of product for Tools for Humanity and core contributor to Worldcoin, at TechCrunch’s Disrupt 2023 in San Francisco. The saga behind Sam Altman’s departure from OpenAI has been a whirlwind, but his involvement in his crypto project Tools for Humanity, the team b…
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