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In an exclusive interview at the Miami Crypto Experience, Eryka Gemma (aka Bank of Eryka) joins us to discuss why Miami is becoming the global capital of crypto. As the Venture Director at a Digital Asset Hedge Fund, Eryka is well versed in bitcoin’s underlying technology, the blockchain. In 2019, she co founded Blockchain Center Miami with a goal of making her city the crypto capital of the Americas. Over the years, Eryka has taught hundreds of people how to safely navigate the cryptocurrency space and writes a Bitcoin column for Escape Artist Insiders Magazine. In 2012, Eryka was a delegate in Washington State for Ron Paul's Presidential campaign. She graduated with honors from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University with a Bachelors in Aeronautics. She is a Gates scholar, private pilot and liberty enthusiast. Links  Website - https://www.bankoferyka.com/ (https://www.bankoferyka.com/) Twitter - https://twitter.com/bankoferyka (https://twitter.com/bankoferyka) LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/erykag

Today our CEO Richard Carthon & COO Steve Miller speak at the Miami Crypto Experience on Non-Fungible People and Unlocking Community. http://www.richardcarthon.com/ (Richard) began Crypto Current to educate others to make informed cryptocurrency investments, but today aims to spotlight all opportunities across cryptocurrency and the blockchain industry. Outside of Crypto Current, Richard is a serial entrepreneur with extensive experience in Startup Operations, App Development, Fundraising and Fintech who currently lives and works in Austin, TX. Steven Miller is a purpose-driven Serial Entrepreneur on a mission to make the world a more vibrant place. He’s been making that happen via his creative agency called https://www.decisiveleap.com/ (Decisive Leap), where he helps Thought Leaders and Micro Businesses to discover their Brand Identities and then manage their reputations. His most notable clientele has included Gary John Bishop (Author of Unfu*k Yourself & Host of Unfu*k Nation with Gary John Bishop

On this episode, Richard is joined by Mike Grantis for a discussion on scouting the teams building the next wave of crypto companies. Mike Grantis is the Founder of the crypto intelligence platform, CryptoWeekly, the blockchain education course, Bitcoin 101, and the NFT-based trading card game Crypto Revolution. Mike is a passionate advocate for the adoption of Bitcoin, blockchain, and cryptocurrency. He has spent the past 5 years educating his friends, family, and followers on the immense potential that Bitcoin and Blockchain have to offer. Links: Website - https://cryptoweekly.co/ (https://cryptoweekly.co/) Twitter - https://twitter.com/WeeklyCrypto (https://twitter.com/WeeklyCrypto) Telegram - https://t.me/CryptoWeeklyOfficial/ (https://t.me/CryptoWeeklyOfficial/) Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/CryptoWeekly/ (https://www.facebook.com/CryptoWeekly/) ##START##(Do not copy this) *Disclaimer. Richard Carthon is the Founder of Crypto Current. All opinions expressed by members of the Crypto Current Team,

In this exclusive behind the scenes interview from the Miami Crypto Experience, Richard and Steve sit down with the one and only Blockchain Wayne to look back on what it took to pull together the first ever Miami Crypto Experience… in under 90 Days! Wayne Marcel, also known as The Crypto Coach, Blockchain Wayne, has been an educator and building high performing teams for over 20 years. Several years ago, he carried that passion over to the Cryptocurrency and blockchain space, which also highlights his passion for emerging technologies. He is a Co-Founder of the Miami Crypto Experience. He hosts a cryptocurrency educational event titled “From No Crypto to Know Crypto.” His passion for teaching and coaching others is coupled with the growing need for education in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space for those who want to position themselves in front of this giant technological and wealth shift.  Links Miami Crypto Experience - https://www.expcrypto.io/ (https://www.expcrypto.io/) Website - https://www.b

Brad joins us to discuss how he and his team at EQIFI are bridging the gap between DeFi and Traditional Finance. Brad Yasar is an entrepreneur, investor, mentor, and advisor with a global focus on blockchain and innovative technologies. He has conceived and bootstrapped several companies to maturity over the past 30 years. Brad is currently the CEO of EQIFI, the premiere decentralized global banking platform. He is also the Founder of Beyond Enterprizes, offering strategic and technical leadership, advisory, and support to projects in all blockchain implementation and development stages. EQIFi is a leap forward in permissionless processes for international banking and financial services. It is the first existing licensed and regulated Digital Bank protocol, fully enabling DeFi and seamless cross-platform transactions for the mass market. EQIFi is a decentralized protocol for pooled lending and borrowing for ETH, ERC-20 tokens, Stablecoins, wBTC, USD, GBP, and EUR. The protocol provides a single uniform platfo

As part of our continued coverage of the Miami Crypto Experience, Adrian Baschuk joins us to discuss the future of NFTs and how Ethernity Chain is taking a unique approach to NFT Authentication. Adrian Baschuk is currently the COO & Strategic Advisor for Ethernity Chain, a leading NFT platform issuing licensed NFT assets across fields, notable figures, and mediums including art, AR/VR, and virtual world integrations. He is a Co-Founder a Crypto Banter, a daily livestream of the overall crypto community and Producer of CNBC’s “Crypto Trader,” the world’s first major network broadcast program on blockchain and crypto currencies. He was formerly a Producer and Correspondent covering war zones and disaster areas CNN, MSNBC, & Discovery Digital based in Jerusalem covering the Iraq War, the Syria refugee crisis, North Korea, and more. He was on the founding team starting Current TV based in San Francisco which led him to start his full circle mission bridging tech and media - now fully realized with the pro

Today Paul, Mark, and Sajjad with Greenheart join us to discuss how $CBD uses DeFi, blockchain, and crypto to revolutionize the agricultural industry. Greenheart is a leading CBD tech company using DeFi, blockchain, and crypto to bring the agricultural industry into the 21st century. The project is led by co-founders Paul Walsh and Mark Canavan and VP of Technology Sajjad Asif. The token is called “Greenheart CBD” and its ticker is $CBD. We are a Sustainable DeFi project to encourage the adoption and cultivation of CBD products in the wider global community. Links Website: http://www.greenheartcbd.io (www.greenheartcbd.io) Telegram: https://t.me/greenheart_cbd (https://t.me/greenheart_cbd) & https://t.me/greenheartcbd_ANN (https://t.me/greenheartcbd_ANN) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greenheartcbd (https://www.instagram.com/greenheartcbd) Twitter: https://twitter.com/greenheart_cbd?s=09 (https://twitter.com/greenheart_cbd?s=09) Github: https://github.com/greenheartcbd/Greenheart-CBD-Project (https:

Adrian Krion just us to discuss how you can earn crypto while playing video games on Womplay. A gamer at heart, Adrian grew up living and breathing the gaming world. From age 7, when he created its first game, Adrian kept dreaming of something bigger. He launched several electronic trading systems, designed and developed markets for 7 years at Deutsche Börse Group, a Germany-based exchange organization. Adrian also founded several companies including Techdev Solutions, an IT Service Provider, powering Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant. He then sold this company and established Spielworks. With Spielworks, Adrian aims to fully integrate blockchain into the vast world of gaming and make the use of block­chain in games more accessible to gamers. Links Spielworks: https://spielworks.com/ (https://spielworks.com/) Womplay: https://womplay.io/ (https://womplay.io/) Wombat: https://getwombat.io/ (https://getwombat.io/) *Disclaimer. Richard Carthon is the Founder of Crypto Current. All opinions expressed by members

Today’s interview comes from the Miami Crypto Experience where we had Kenn Bosak in a $2M NFT Discussing NFTs. Kenn has been a Bitcoiner Since, 2015 and living 100% off Bitcoin since, 2016. He has traveled around the world attending over 200 Blockchain conferences, meet ups and events. He’s here to shill crypto into mass adoption, one nocoiner at a time. Kenn hosts the #https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/not-another-bitcoin-podcast/id1434235447 (NotAnotherBitcoinPodcast)™️,  a daily fireside chat live stream. Links Website - https://kennbosak.com/ (https://kennbosak.com/) YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/MrKennbosak (https://www.youtube.com/user/MrKennbosak) Twitter - https://twitter.com/kennethbosak (@kennethbosak) *Disclaimer. Richard Carthon is the Founder of Crypto Current. All opinions expressed by members of the Crypto Current Team, Richard or his guest on this podcast are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of Crypto Current. You should not treat any opinion expressed by

In today’s discussion, we’re joined by Dante Noir - a Crypto Podcaster who’s creating an entertaining educational experience with the Cigars & Crypto Podcast. Dante is a husband, a father of 4, the host of https://www.cigarsandcrypto.com/ (Cigars and Crypto) podcast, and a believer in Bitcoin. He earned an undergraduate degree in Mass Communications with a concentration in Radio Broadcasting. This has allowed him to work in radio and as a podcaster for many years.  Links https://www.cigarsandcrypto.com/ (https://www.cigarsandcrypto.com/) http://www.investnoir.com/ (http://www.investnoir.com/) *Disclaimer. Richard Carthon is the Founder of Crypto Current. All opinions expressed by members of the Crypto Current Team, Richard or his guest on this podcast are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of Crypto Current. You should not treat any opinion expressed by Richard as a specific inducement to make a particular investment or follow a particular strategy but only as an expression of his

On today’s show George Gvazava joins us to discuss how CryptX is a crypto wallet, exchange, trading terminal, development group and more!   George brings diverse finance expertise from his roles at Deloitte, Galt & Taggart (the largest investment bank in Georgia), and, as the CFO at Brokers.IO, a group of fintech companies. Most recently, he became a CEO of CryptX, an easy-to-use Crypto Wallet with institutional grade security. George also loves sharing his knowledge and experience with the next generation and is a Visiting Lecturer at several universities in Georgia and France. He is also an ACCA member and a CFA Level III candidate. He has advised companies in the technology, energy, oil and gas, and banking sectors, with total assets ranging from $10 million to over $1 billion. George was nominated by Forbes Georgia in “30 under 30 – Finance”.   And the links, you might use: https://www.cryptx.com/wallet (https://www.cryptx.com/wallet) https://www.cryptx.com/terminal (https://www.cryptx.com/t

Medha Parlikar joins us to discuss how Casper Labs is accelerating enterprise and developer adoption of blockchain technology. Medha is the CTO and one of the co-founders of CasperLabs. She started working with technology in the early 80’s, building computers in the basement.  For the past 2 decades, she has been delivering  production SaaS software for large companies like  Adobe, Omniture and Avalara. Her strengths are building high functioning technical teams, and inspiring them to deliver solutions that solve customer problems. Links Website: http://casperlabs.io/ (http://casperlabs.io/) LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/mparlikar/ ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/mparlikar/) *Disclaimer. Richard Carthon is the Founder of Crypto Current. All opinions expressed by members of the Crypto Current Team, Richard or his guest on this podcast are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of Crypto Current. You should not treat any opinion expressed by Richard as a specific inducement to

Benjamin Diggles joins us to discuss how the Constellation Network is cybersecurity for big data validation, notarization, and scalable interoperability.  Benjamin is the Chief Revenue Officer & Co-Founder of Constellation Network (https://constellationnetwork.io/ (https://constellationnetwork.io/)). Benjamin has been an active participant in web, software development, and digital design for 20 years from both practitioner and leadership positions. Based in Denver, Colorado, Benjamin has effectively worked with startup and enterprise companies driving strategy for Fortune 500 companies in the digital space.    With a focus on big data, mobile and scale, Benjamin has a passion for building, mentoring and inspiring teams to collaborate cross-departmentally in order to drive true sustainable strategic results. Before founding Constellation, Benjamin held leadership positions for Oracle and Webtrends, and he stays actively involved in many industry projects as an advisor or partner.   

Quin Weidner joins us to discuss how Shyft is unlocking trust, identity, and credibility networks for humanity. Quin is president of Node Providers. NP provides infrastructure and sysadmin support to early stage crypto projects as well as renewable power generation for bitcoin mining data centers. Quin has a background in renewable energy development and bitcoin mining. Links http://www.nodeproviders.com/ (Nodeproviders.com) Shyft Telegram: https://t.me/shyftnetwork Shyft Discord: https://discord.gg/v74nABMF https://veriscope.network/ (Veriscope.network) https://shyft.network/ (Shyft.network) *Disclaimer. Richard Carthon is the Founder of Crypto Current. All opinions expressed by members of the Crypto Current Team, Richard or his guest on this podcast are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of Crypto Current. You should not treat any opinion expressed by Richard as a specific inducement to make a particular investment or follow a particular strategy but only as an expression of his opinion.

On this episode, Richard sits down with Rafael Cosman to talk about his team's new DeFi protocol for uncollateralized lending, called TrueFi. Prior to TrustToken, Rafael helped build StreetCode, a non-profit that teaches East Palo Alto youth technical skills, and worked at Google Brain, Palantir, and Kernel. Rafael graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science. In his free time, you’ll find Rafael reading or surfing.  About TrustToken TrustToken is modernizing financial infrastructure to make economic opportunities open to all. TrustToken’s TrueFi platform brings uncollateralized lending on-chain, offering lenders high earning rates with full transparency of how their funds are used, and borrowers the ease of fast, fixed-rate, fixed-term loans without collateral requirements.  The company’s TrueCurrencies (TUSD, TGBP, TAUD, TCAD, THKD) are the world's fully collateralized stablecoins attested live on-chain, now moving billions in monthly trade volume across +100 tra

Today Wasim Ahmad joins us to discuss how you can secure your digital assets to future generations using Vault12.  Wasim is a serial entrepreneur with five exits and an advisor in the fields of AI, the blockchain, cryptocurrency and encryption solutions. At Vault12, he led the private and public fundraising - one of the world’s first STOs and focuses today on expanding the Vault12 ecosystem. His crypto experience began with AlphaPoint, where he worked with the founding team to promote the world’s first crypto trading exchange solutions.  Previously he was a founding member of Voltage Security, a spinout from Stanford University, that launched Identity-Based Encryption (IBE), a breakthrough in Public Key Cryptography, and pioneered the use of sophisticated data encryption to protect sensitive data across the world’s payment systems.  Wasim serves as chair of non-profit, StartOut New York, and is a Seedcamp and WeWork Labs global mentor.  Wasim graduated with a Bachelor of Science degr

Chris Dcosta with Totem joins us to discuss accounting without having to carry out manual entry or reconciliation. https://totemaccounting.com (Totem) is building a real-time global accounting ledger disrupting the accounting industry. Our goal is to replace accounting software within 10 years, and in the very near future Totem will change the way you account for everything — taking accounting off the todo list for everyone. All sales and purchases will automatically appear in your accounting records without having to carry out any manual entry or reconciliation. With Totem, you can ensure your accounts are completely accurate, compliant, and maintenance-free.  Links to Totem channels Get free tokens by creating an identity in the Totem Live App https://totem.live (https://totem.live) Discord: https://discord.gg/7XTK4xReQV (https://discord.gg/7XTK4xReQV) Gitlab Primary Code Repositories: https://gitlab.com/totem-tech (https://gitlab.com/totem-tech) Twitter: @Totem_live_ Youtube: https://www

Today Miss Teen Crypto joins us to discuss how she is bringing Bitcoin education to Gen Z. She is an 18 year old girl from NYC that loves crypto! Her main goal is to spread crypto adoption to Gen Z. You can join her at her Bitcoin 101 workshop at the https://crypto-current.co/events/miami-crypto-exp/ (Miami Crypto Experience)! Gen Z and many others hear the word "Bitcoin" on a daily basis, but do not know what Bitcoin is or where to start. During her workshop, she will get you started in your crypto journey! All ages are welcome. Links Missteencrypto.com https://youtu.be/U4KrybI4VD4 (https://youtu.be/U4KrybI4VD4) *Disclaimer. Richard Carthon is the Founder of Crypto Current. All opinions expressed by members of the Crypto Current Team, Richard or his guest on this podcast are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of Crypto Current. You should not treat any opinion expressed by Richard as a specific inducement to make a particular investment or follow a particular strategy but only as a

Ben Armstrong, aka BitBoy Crypto, joins us to discuss why DeFi should be one of your top priorities for 2021. The https://www.youtube.com/bitboy-crypto (BitBoy Crypto YouTube Channel) was founded in January of 2018 by Ben Armstrong. Since then, BitBoy Crypto has become one of the most recognized news channels for the latest updates on Bitcoin & cryptocurrency. Over the last two years, the BitBoy Crypto brand has expanded to now include a separate news division. BitBoy Crypto News is a website dedicated to educating & informing the public on Bitcoin & cryptocurrency. https://bitboycrypto.com/ (BitBoyCrypto.com) has exclusive stories that provide a different perspective on the news than many readers get from the traditional crypto news sources. BitBoy Crypto is the place where you can get the latest crypto news, project reviews, and cryptocurrency trading advice. Learn about different altcoins, historical Bitcoin cycles, & get the latest Ethereum news. Come be part of our community which we

Joe Reiben joins us to discuss how you can experience better trading depth, security and transaction speed on Mandala Exchange.  Joseph Reiben is the Chief Executive Officer of Mandala Exchange, as well as a regulatory, business and tax attorney based in Denver Colorado and St. Paul, Minnesota. Joseph received his undergraduate degree from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where he received his BA in business, and his JD from Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio. Joseph has worked for law firms in Cleveland, Chicago and Denver, specializing in civil litigation, bankruptcy, tax and business law prior to starting his own firm in 2016. Since founding Reiben & Velvis, later Reiben & Reiben, Joseph has focused on regulatory and compliance, business and tax issues surrounding emerging markets such as blockchain, hemp, and cannabis for both domestic and international companies. Joseph has been actively involved in furthering these markets as well, appearing in interviews on the NAS