DeCent People Podcast With Shevy Smith and Khalid Jones of the Ultimate Playlist App
The co-founders of the Ultimate Playlist App talk about a new way for musicians and their fans can interact.
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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
The co-founders of the Ultimate Playlist App talk about a new way for musicians and their fans can interact.
Before creating a startup to help NFT projects optimize their revenue Tara Fung almost joined the CIA, attended Harvard Business School and is now happily a part of the Nashville tech scene.
Adam Levine discusses the positives and negatives of the decentralized artform and a hope for a collaborative future centered on kindness and positivity.
NFT artist and Director of Engineering at Art Blocks Aaron Penne talks about generative art and how discovering who you are is the gateway to honest work.
Branding, storytelling and the metaverse oh my! With Virtual Brand Group founder and CEO Justin Hochberg.
Aaron MING Albano talks about the intersection of music art and crypto
Coolman Coffeedan, aka Danny Casale, talks about his journey into animation and NFT art
The latest DeCent People podcast with Doug Petkanics, the co-founder of Livepeer, a decentralized video processing firm.
Alex Todd and Brandon Howard talk about their partnership to create one of the first digital cannabis dispensaries in the metaverse
Bryan Brinkman is one of the best-known NFT artists working today. His journey took him through Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, Saturday Night Live (where he won two Emmys) and the always entertaining world of digital art.
Griff Green has been in crypto long enough to lose several girlfriends to it and is on the forefront of creating micro-economies to supplant some government and non-profit services
Conceptual artist Robbie Trevino talks about growing up in a blue collar part of Michigan, how he got the first validation for his art and what it was like making the shift into creating non-fungible tokens.
Kristen Smith is leading the good fight in Washington D.C. as she educates lawmakers and regulators on the vagaries of web3 and blockchain as the Blockchain Association’s executive director.
A conversation with Christian Hardy of MomentRanks and how pro sports and NFTs are colliding
Jeff Dorman is the chief investment officer at Arca, a digital assets investment firm. He’s one of the smartest and on-point people working in the space today and early on realized the potential for tokens to overtake more traditional forms of capital assets.
Kirill Gertman began his life in Ukraine when it was still part of the USSR and became a self-taught programmer who co-founded the defi portal Conduit in 2021
Dawn Newton is a classically trained chef, a privacy advocate and co-founder of Netki, which provides digital identity solutions for blockchain projects. She also didn’t know how to cook a hot dog in college.
Eric Tung built a VPN to evade the Chinese Firewall when he was 12 and has gone on to create Themelio, a new blockchain protocol that places absolute truth above all else.
Matt Cutler is the co-founder of Blocknative, which helps web3 developers, traders and others navigate the perils of the mem pool, where blockchain transactions sit before being added to the next block. This is Dark Forrest territory.
A conversation about the intersection of cannabis, the metaverse, cryptocurrencies and how transparency is needed in legal marijuana markets.
Parker McCurley took inspiration from Satoshi’s Bitcoin white paper and decided to learn to code. He’s now the CEO and co-founder of Decent Labs, a venture studio that helps web3 developers create and launch decentralized applications.
A short, bonus conversation with Charles Cascarilla, the CEO and co-founder of Paxos, about his firms efforts to digitize real world assets like gold and U.S. stocks.
A conversation with the French DJ, electronic artist and producer Maelstrom, who was on the forefront of using music NFTs.
A conversation with Jill Gunter on her journey from tradfi to defi and Espresso Systems, a privacy-focused blockchain
Eric Tung built a VPN to evade the Chinese Firewall when he was 12 and has gone on to create Themelio, a new blockchain protocol that places absolute truth above all else.
A conversation about the intersection of cannabis, the metaverse, cryptocurrencies and how transparency is needed in legal marijuana markets.
A conversation with the former Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission who has undertaken the Digital Dollar Project to educate lawmakers and regulators on the benefits of creating a digital greenback.
An update on how the Ethereum upgrade to proof of stake is going from Tim Beiko who leads the team of Ethereum developers doing the hard, day-to-day work.
A fascinating conversation with cyber security expert Erin Plante on how to digitally copy a corporate dataset overnight without getting detected, how sending bags of cash in a taxi across Africa led her to to see the value in cryptocurrency and why she has a very light digital footprint.