Podcast

1 hr 4 min

Opening up Ethereum apps to languages like Move and Rust with Pontem's Alejo Pinto

How Bitcoin is secured by physics and the risks of mining the world’s most-valuable cryptocurrency, among a lot of other subjects with Alejo

42 min

Metaverse world building with social media components with Mona's Justin Melillo

Digital human rights and “the medium of the metaverse”

1 hr 1 min

A tour of the crypto media landscape with The Block's Frank Chaparro

Get a behind the scenes view on what it’s like to report on an industry as wacky and unpredictable as crypto

57 min

Can the film industry be truly decentralized? With Film.io co-creators Ian LeWinter and Chris Davis

FIlm.io is putting movie creation decision making in the hands of the audience

44 min

The importance of public blockchains, and private ones too, with EY's Paul Brody

Paul was an early advocate in the corporate world for building on the public Ethereum chain

55 min

Getting the download on how WalletConnect bridges the web3 landscape with Jess Houlgrave

A background in art first attracted Jess to web3 and the NFT boom

52 min

Making sure AI is decentralized with Ritual's Saneel Sreeni

Ritual is building a full stack blockchain to give developers the chance to create decentralized AI applications

1 hr

Exploring Bitcoin's Lightning Network With Amboss Co-Founder Jesse Shrader

Turns out there are a lot of similarities to Jesse’s previous work in highway management and helping users now navigate the Lightning Network

1 hr 1 min

The importance of decentralized privacy in web3 and blockchain with Orchid Lab's Steven Waterhouse

Seven discusses the importance of privacy in decentralized web3 and blockchain systems as well as his illustrious career as a digital asset investor and founder

57:46

Decent People with Jim Chang

Catalyst is a bridge protocol that aims to make it easier to move assets across different blockchains

1 hr 21 min

DeCent People With Defi Dad

Get the backstory from one of the most prolific defi educators working in crypto today

49 min

Justin Hochberg of Virtual Brand Group

Virtual worlds like Decentraland are offering a low cost way for brands and artists to test demand for new products with little value lost if they fail

41 min

Eric Jardine of Chainalysis

Crypto crime fell in 2023. Get all the details from one of Chainalysis’s best cyber sleuths.

1 hr 2 min

DeCent People With Sicco Naets

Sicco is helping build Moonbeam, a smart contract platform that connects blockchain applications between Ethereum and Polkadot.

39 min.

DeCent People With Raullen Chai

Get the latest on decentralized physical infrastructure networks, or DePIN, from the co-founder of IoTeX.

54 min

DeCent People With CME Group's Tim McCourt

Tim is in charge of CME Group’s financial products including its cryptocurrency futures, which have recently been near record levels as Bitcoin, Ether and other crypto prices have been gaining.

41 min

SKALE Insights: Accelerating Ethereum with Jack O'Holleran

For this week's episode of Decent People, we're bringing you a Decential Twitter Space with Jack O'Holleran, co-founder of SKALE. We explore the world of layer 2 networks, the EVM universe, the state of Ethereum, and how NFTs and gaming are being helped by SKALE.

39 min

DeCent People With Noam Hurwitz

Noam leads a team of engineers at Alchemy where they are building the back end technology that makes much of the NFT market work as well as a huge part of the web3 infrastructure. We talked about his time at Pomona College, how he loves Los Angeles and what he’s excited about in the blockchain space.

55 min

DeCent People With Philip Martin

The self-described “security nerd” was a counterintelligence officer both in the U.S. and abroad before he got into crypto and rose to be chief security officer at Coinbase.

46 min.

This Machine Kills Copyright: Folk Music and Decentralization

How should copyright laws be applied to assets uploaded to a blockchain? Is it fair to use the folk tradition of sharing songs to build a catalogue that sells for half a billion dollars? We explore these questions with our music + web3 reporter MacEagon Voyce.

1 hr 3 min

DeCent People With Jacqueline Burns Koven

Jacqueline shares her background at the Department of Defense, working at a place called Enigma Technologies (really?) and how Chainalysis is combatting crypto crime.

50 min

DeCent People With Ryan Li

Get the low down on the state of decentralized social networks with CyberConnect’s Ryan Li

56 min

DeCent People With Arthur Breitman

Arthur was a research engineer at Google X, the innovation lab at the search engine giant, where he worked on teaching self-driving cars to turn left. He then helped co-found the Tezos blockchain and led the startup through a $232 million initial coin offering in 2017.

47 min

DeCent People With Andy Bromberg

All about account abstraction wallets which are like an upgrade from the legacy non-custodial wallet that’s a flip phone to a smart phone, as Andy put it.

1 hr 21 min

DeCent People With Defi Dad

Get the backstory from one of the most prolific defi educators working in crypto today

1 hr 7 min

DeCent People with Michael Wasyl

Michael made his way from Bloomberg LP to ConsenSys before co-founding Bracket Labs to offer decentralized options trading strategies in different volatility situations.

1 hr 3 min

DeCent People With Sommelier's Zaki Manian

Zaki’s been in the blockchain space for a long time and helped build the Cosmos protocol before branching out with Sommelier, a decentralized asset manager

1 hr 1 min

DeCent People With Scott Lawin of Candy Digital

After a distinguished career on Wall Street Lawin caught the crypto bug and hasn’t looked back since.

1 hr 2 min

DeCent People With Ben Mills

Ben’s helping foster “fintech built for crypto” at Meso.

46 min

MacEagon Voyce | Writer. Musician, Host of Big Brother and The Holding Company

Hear Keagon talk about how he accidentally became involved in recruiting for tech start-ups, which helped pave his foray into web3.