Steve Beauregard is founder and chairman at GoCoin and chief revenue officer at Bloq. Steve shares his experiences starting out GoCoin and explains to us the premise behind the platform. GoCoin lets merchants safely and easily accept Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as payments. After GoCoin, Steve transitioned to Bloq which is a B2B that delivers […]
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Episode 146: Susan Brazer on Investing in Transformative Technologies
Susan Brazer is a digital and mobile transformation exec. She has launched disruptive digital media and mobile platforms globally and has worked for companies such as Apple, DirecTV, Viacom, and Nokia. Currently, Susan is an investment advisor with Decentralized Global and the CEO of LionShare Media. LionShare is a platform that integrates video streaming and […]
Episode 145: Applications of Blockchain
This episode of Crypto Token Talk was recorded live with Arun Kalaiselvan, co-founder and CTO of Blockdaemon; Niki Williams, Community Curator of ConsenSys; and Cyrus Taghehchian, co-founder and CEO of Splyt at the General Assembly camplus in Santa Monica. The panel focuses on how blockchain applies and can apply to various industries such as gaming […]
Episode 144: Kyle O’Connor on Nasdaq’s Participation in Crypto
Today’s guest is Kyle O’Connor, the Crypto Strategy Lead at Nasdaq. Kyle introduces us to Nasdaq and their involvement with blockchain. Kyle then shares the differences she sees between Nasdaq’s stock and cryptocurrency operations. Kyle tells us about how an article about the Silk Road getting shut down first got her interested in cryptocurrency and […]
Episode 143: Kirill Bensonoff on Crypto Trading
Today’s guest is Kirill Bensonoff from Caviar, a crypto trading platform. Kirill shares how he transitioned from working for a web hosting company to becoming an early investor in Bitcoin. Since his initial investment in 2013, Kirill has become a blockchain advisor and the host of the Boston Crypto Meetup, founder of the Boston Blockchain […]
Episode 142: Anita Motwani on Borrowing and Lending on the Blockchain
Anita Motwani is the head of business development for Celsius in North America. Celsius is a new way to deposit, borrow, and earn interest with crypto. The platform allows users to earn up to 5% interest while they HODL, or borrow fiat at 9% against crypto stored in a Celsius wallet. They’re aiming to […]
Episode 141: Juan Hernandez on Trading for the General Public via Security Tokens
This episode’s guest is Juan Hernandez, CEO of OpenFinance Network. Juan introduces us to the OpenFinance trading platform and explains why there is a high demand for security token trading. He offers up information about the different types of security tokens and why he believes they are the key to attracting more mainstream users for […]
Episode 140: Tricia Martinez on Using Blockchain to Advance Opportunities in Emerging Markets
Tricia Martinez is Founder & CEO at Wala and Director at Dala Foundation. In this episode, Tricia explains how her research led her to use blockchain to encourage financial growth in emerging markets. The foundation Dala and company Wala are able to operate on a no-fee model and aid consumers and small business owners who […]
Episode 139: David Bleznak on Accessible Trading
David Bleznak is the founder and CEO of Totle, a game-changing ERC-20 token trading platform. The idea for Totle sprung from several challenges that David encountered when he first started trading crypto. He wanted to make everything from balancing his portfolio to dealing with multiple exchanges, and using spreadsheets streamlined, accessible and simple. Totle aims […]
Episode 138: Bailey Reutzel Unveils Reporting on Crypto
Bailey Reutzel, one of the editors at CoinDesk, joins us this week. She shares with us her journey into the counterculture crypto community and the various projects and stories that eventually led her to her current role at CoinDesk. Bailey divulges the types of stories she is interested in covering and that most often her […]