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Today Blockchain Wayne joins us to discuss why you should join us at the Miami Crypto Experience April 21-23 2021! https://crypto-current.co/events/miami-crypto-exp/ (Miami Crypto Experience) is not “just another conference”, we’re focused on creating a hands on interactive environment for attendees. Two full days of workshops from Crypto 101 to Master Classes, with an All Inclusive NFT gala. 60+ vendors, 40+ workshops, art auctions, hackathon, Lambos, entertainment, and more! Use “CryptoCurrent” for a discount on your tickets! Wayne Marcel (AKA Blockchain Wayne) has been managing, teaching, and coaching high performing teams for over 20 years. Several years ago his passion for helping and teaching people was merged with his passion for technology as he learned more about cryptocurrency and blockchain projects. Website – https://www.blockchainwayne.com/ (https://www.blockchainwayne.com/) Event - https://www.expcrypto.io/ (https://www.expcrypto.io/) Discount Code: Cryptocurrent View this episode on o

Mark Anstead joins us to discuss how you can utilize https://numio.one/ (Numio) for zkRollups that allow fast, cheap, and secure transfers. Mark is the Co-Founder and Director of Business Development for Numio. 2x Founder, and is helping various teams in the Ethereum ecosystem, like PhoenixDAO, Uptrennd, and the Indexcoop.  Links: Website: https://numio.one/ (https://numio.one/) App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.numio.pay ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.numio.pay) Twitter: https://twitter.com/GetNumio (https://twitter.com/GetNumio) Personal Twitter: https://twitter.com/The_Shark_7 (https://twitter.com/The_Shark_7) View this episode on our website https://crypto-current.co/utlize-numio-zkrollups-allow-fast-cheap-secure-transfers/ ( here). *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 opini

Today Mike Berland and Trevor Briggs join us to discuss how to build momentum in your business and life. Prior to founding Decode_M, Mike was CEO of Edelman Berland and president of Penn, Schoen & Berland. He has more than 25 years of experience as a strategic advisor and communications consultant. His areas of expertise include consumer behavior and trends. Trevor is a recent quantitative economics graduate from Dartmouth College and is a Business & Research Associate for Decode_M.   Links  https://www.decode-m.com/ (Decode_M Website) https://www.instagram.com/decode_momentum/ ( Decode_M Instagram) https://mailchi.mp/decode-m/up-down-subscription (Decode_M Mailing List Sign-Up) View this episode on our website https://crypto-current.co/how-to-build-momentum-business-and-life/ ( here). *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 an

Luc Jodet joins us to discuss how Arianee is providing valuable objects with an authentic, secure digital twin through NFTs. Luc is the co-founder of Arianee, the digital identity protocol that enables augmented ownership protocol. Luc started his career as a Business Analyst in a Fortune 500 company.  He then co-founded BUYECO, a Renewable Energy Marketplace in Switzerland. This is where he discovered blockchain technology while working on energy traceability solutions. Links Website - http://www.arianee.org/ (www.arianee.org)  Token Website - http://www.aria.fyi (www.aria.fyi) Luc’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/lucjodet (https://twitter.com/lucjodet) Telegram - https://t.me/ariafyi (https://t.me/ariafyi) Discord - https://discord.gg/4JaJUA4F (https://discord.gg/4JaJUA4F) Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/arianee_project/ (https://www.instagram.com/arianee_project/) View this episode on our website https://crypto-current.co/providing-valuable-objects-authentic-secure-digital-tw

Jack Jia joins us to discuss how Sendwyre is creating world-class payment APIs to power your fintech application. Jack is the first employee and VP of Business at Wyre. He's been working full-time professionally in crypto since 2013 and has acquired a deep understanding of crypto in relation to fx, payments, compliance, and fintech in general. Wyre is a licensed money transmitter in the USA and offers easy fiat on and offramps for crypto-native applications. You can use Wyre at a number of venues such as BRD.com, Metamask.io, to buy cryptocurrencies using Debit Cards, ACH, Applepay, and other payment methods. If you are a developer, be sure to check out Wyre's API at docs.sendwyre.com Links https://www.sendwyre.com/ (https://www.sendwyre.com/) https://docs.sendwyre.com/docs/getting-started-wyre-checkout ( https://docs.sendwyre.com/docs/getting-started-wyre-checkout) View this episode on our website https://crypto-current.co/creating-world-class-payment-apis-power-fintech-application/ ( here). *Discl

Today Crypto Current’s new COO Steven Miller joins us to discuss how you can stay Crypto Current with us on Clubhouse! 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), ProfitTrax AI, and Crypto Current - but he's currently contributing to more than 5 Podcasts in a variety of capacities. As Crypto Current's COO, Steven is focused on optimizing workflows, directing People Ops, overseeing product development, and shaping the platform's roadmap with the Executive Team. Given his vast experience in Podcast Production, he may even find himself behind the microphone as a co-host from time to time. Outsi

Stuart Popejoy joins us to discuss how Kadena is providing unlimited scalability to the blockchain. Stuart is Founder and CEO of Kadena and the author of the Pact smart contract language. Stuart has over 15 years experience building trading and exchange systems in the financial industry and over 27 years in software. Previously, Stuart built the JP Morgan Blockchain Center of Excellence engineering team, where he and co-founder Will Martino developed the high-performance private blockchain Juno which was used in the pilot of JPMCoin. Previous episode: https://crypto-current.co/how-anyone-write-directly-safely-onto-blockchain/ ( https://crypto-current.co/how-anyone-write-directly-safely-onto-blockchain/) Website: https://kadena.io Medium: https://medium.com/kadena-io Learn about Kadenaswap: https://medium.com/kadena-io/introducing-kadenaswap-bountyswap-live-beta-ecde4cf014dc Twitter: @SirLensALot / @Kadena_io Telegram: https://t.me/kadena_io (https://t.me/kadena_io) View this episode on our websi

Today Russell LaCour with Tantra Labs joins us to discuss how you can earn 12% APY in Bitcoin & Ethereum every year. Russell is the Co Founder and CTO of Tantra Labs, an Algorithmic Prop Desk that gives 12% interest on BTC and ETH. Russell has been in the Bitcoin space since 2011 and has been an Algorithmic developer since 2015. After going to India in 2017 and trying to find a purpose greater than just making money for rich people, he founded Tantra Labs in 2018 as a way to let people be denominated in an asset instead of in dollars. Links Website - http://tantralabs.io/ (http://tantralabs.io/) Twitter - https://twitter.com/tantra_labs (https://twitter.com/tantra_labs) YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMKC2vQ_EpUCfh3yAtszGow ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMKC2vQ_EpUCfh3yAtszGow) Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tantra-talks/id1497193655 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tantra-talks/id1497193655) View this episode on our website https://crypto-current.co/ear

George Spasov joins us to discuss how Limechain is building secure, trusted and decentralized solutions using Blockchain and DLT. https://twitter.com/GSpasov (George) is a Blockchain Architect and a co-founder at LimeChain. Heading the technical team at LimeChain, George has experience in leading teams to deliver successful software projects for everyone - from startups like pCloud to international companies like IBM. During the past 3 years, he has consulted and designed the architecture of 50+ blockchain and DLT projects, while also remaining an active member of the public communities. He is now focused on transforming businesses and corporate processes using innovative solutions on Blockchain and DLT. Nowadays he is focused on system design and architecture, product development, team leadership, and blockchain solutions development with technologies such as Ethereum, Hedera Hashgraph, Hypreledger, Baseline, Polkadot, Leading the innovation adoption at LimeChain, he is one of the well-known and recognizab

Today Alexander Petek with SpiderDAO joins us to discuss how you can maintain your online privacy anywhere in the world.  Alexander is the Business Development Manager at SpiderDAO.  With a strong background in business and finance, Alex has built up several successful companies over the past ten years. Currently, he is leading  automotive rental operations, delivering multi-million euro turnovers and a consistently growing employment of over 200 people as of 2021.  Alex's Crypto venture started in 2015 when he first got involved with mining operations and market trading; he has gained valuable insight into cryptocurrency markets and their inner workings. Website: https://www.spiderdao.io/ (https://www.spiderdao.io/) View this episode on our website https://crypto-current.co/how-can-maintain-online-privacy-anywhere-world/ ( here). *Disclaimer. Richard Carthon is the Founder of Crypto Current. All opinions expressed by members of the Crypto Current Team, Richard or his guest on

Kristy-Leigh Minehan joins us to discuss how NEM software is ensuring mainstream adoption. Kristy-Leigh is the Chief Technology Officer at http://nem.io/ (NEM Software). As CTO, Kristy-Leigh is responsible for driving the vision and technical development of NEM’s blockchain solutions. Regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on cryptocurrency mining, Kristy-Leigh has spent ten years building up blockchain infrastructure for multiple countries and companies; writing mining and management software; and contributing to the design and implementation of various consensus algorithms. Previously, she was Chief Technology Officer at Core Scientific, where she led out product and technology under CEO Kevin Turner (formerly COO of Microsoft). Kristy-Leigh is a well known personality in the Bitcoin and Ethereum space, speaking on numerous platforms and podcasts (including HASHR8, PoV Crypto, CoinDesk and more). With an obsessive curiosity and a passion for improving, she continues to teach herself new fiel

Today Anna Stone joins us to discuss how Good Dollar is creating the world’s first digital basic income.  Anna is an accomplished leader in building better, fairer and free-er money for a digitizing world.  Anna currently acts as the strategy and go-to-market lead for GoodDollar.org, a social enterprise sponsored by eToro.com that delivers a digital basic income to over 60,000 people in 180 countries. Prior to moving into the blockchain and digital asset space, Anna spent 6 years as a growth and marketing leader for enterprise technology companies in the field of big data and artificial intelligence. She holds a MA in Global Political Economy and Business from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, and a BA in Philosophy from Dartmouth College.  Website - https://www.gooddollar.org/ (https://www.gooddollar.org/) LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/annalstone/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/annalstone/) Twitter - https://twitter.com/therealstone (https://twitter.com/therealstone) View

Rebecca Mqamelo with Zerion joins us to discuss the easiest way to build and manage your entire DeFi portfolio in one place.  Rebecca is Head of Growth at Zerion, a leading investment interface for decentralized finance (DeFi). Her passion lies in redesigning money for the 21st century – which means leveraging alternative currencies to facilitate more inclusive, resilient and sustainable economies. Concurrent to her work at Zerion, she's completing her degree in Economics and Data Science at Minerva as well as leading the world's first randomized control trial on community currencies together with the http://www.grassrootseconomics.org/ (Grassroots Economics) Foundation. When she isn't working, researching, studying, or kicking herself for trying to do all three, she writes on her experiences as a global African at http://www.rebeccamqamelo.com/ (www.rebeccamqamelo.com).  Twitter - https://twitter.com/Rebecca_Mqamelo (https://twitter.com/Rebecca_Mqamelo) Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/reb

Yonatan Ben Shimon joins us to discuss how YBS Capital is helping companies get into defi and exit to the community. Yonatan Ben Shimon is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for discovering how digital assets can unlock new avenues of wealth creation. He started his career as a securities analyst, but in 2013 he became interested in cryptocurrencies as an emerging asset class and never looked back. Yonatan has been involved with projects including privacy coin Beam, art marketplace Collectorshub, virtual accelerator Celocamp, and Unipool, a union for Uniswap liquidity providers. Over the years he’s been operating in the cryptocurrency space, he’s come to believe that the most compelling uses for blockchain applications and tokens lie in the value that they can generate for their communities. In 2020, he decided to launch YBS Capital as a firm dedicated to furthering the idea of community-based business models, with a focus on Exit to Community strategies. Yonatan is a drop out from Nanotechnology degr

Today, Tieshun Roquerre from https://namebase.io/ (Namebase) joins us to discuss how you can own your name on the new Internet. 2019 - Received a grant from the Thiel Fellowship for Namebase. 2018 - Dropped out of MIT to start Namebase. 2016 - Started undergrad at MIT, studying Math and Computer Science. 2016 - Went through Y Combinator for StrongIntro. 2015 - Started StrongIntro to help tech companies grow their engineering teams through employee referrals. 2015 - Dropped out of high school. 2014 - Moved from Boston to San Francisco to work as a full-time engineer at Teespring instead of doing my junior year of high school. Investments https://lattice.com/ (Lattice) - seed https://italic.com/ (Italic) - seed https://coursedog.com/ (CourseDog) - seed https://vinovest.co/ (Vinovest) - seed   Links https://www.namebase.io/ (https://www.namebase.io/) https://tieshunroquerre.com/ (https://tieshunroquerre.com/) https://twitter.com/andrewrosener/status/1347622474

Irene Aldridge joins us to discuss how Big Data can have an impact on the market stability and trader profitability. Irene Aldridge is a co-author of “Big Data Science in Finance” (with Marco Avellaneda, Wiley 2020), an internationally-recognized quantitative and Big Data Finance researcher, Adjunct Professor at Cornell University and President and Managing Director, Research, of AbleMarkets, a Big Data for Capital Markets company. She was named to the Forbes’ Top 40-Over-40 Women’s List in 2017. Prior to AbleMarkets, Aldridge designed and ran high-frequency trading strategies in a $20-million cross-asset portfolio. Still previously, Aldridge was, in reverse order, a quant on a trading floor; in charge of risk quantification of commercial loans; Basel regulation team lead; technology equities researcher; lead systems architect on large integration projects, including web security and trading floor globalization. Aldridge started her career as software engineer in financial services.

Thor Chan joins us to discuss how you can create, grow and secure your wealth with AAX. Thor brings a wealth of experience to help shape AAX’s company’s product development strategy – ensuring products are relevant, trusted and institutional grade. His experience includes building global order management systems, global settlement systems and low-latency trading platforms for both retail and professional traders. He was licensed in Hong Kong to manage equities and derivatives brokerage and trading operations. Thor has held previous roles including deputy COO at FDT Group and product management at App Annie, Microsoft, Publicis, and HSBC.  Links - https://www.aax.com/en-US/ (https://www.aax.com/en-US/) https://twitter.com/_thorchan (https://twitter.com/_thorchan) https://twitter.com/AAXExchange (https://twitter.com/AAXExchange) https://www.facebook.com/AAXExchange (https://www.facebook.com/AAXExchange) https://www.instagram.com/aaxexchange/ (https://www.instagram.com/aaxexchange/) https://www.

John Wolpert joins us to discuss how he is creating horizontal integration on blockchain to deliver secure and private business processes at low cost.  John Wolpert serves as https://consensys.net/ (ConsenSys) Group Executive for Enterprise Mainnet, delivering products, services and leadership to enterprises that use the public Ethereum Mainnet to conduct business. John is co-founder and steering committee chair of the https://baseline-protocol.org (Baseline Protocol), an initiative of the open standards body, https://oasis-open.org (OASIS). John is a seasoned enterprise executive and serial entrepreneur with 30 years in business — a cofounder of IBM’s global blockchain organization, the open source Hyperledger Fabric project, the original taxi ride hailing service, Flywheel, and the international life science research consortium, IXC. He has created new lines of business for numerous Fortune 100 companies and government organizations. His writing on open source and open innovation have appeared in Harva

James Gillingham joins us to discuss how https://www.finxflo.com/ (Finxflo) helps you to get the best rates and prices from CeFi and DeFi protocols through one account James is one of the co-founders and Chief Executive Officer of https://www.finxflo.com/ (Finxflo). James is engaged in developing and implementing strategic plans and company policies, maintaining an open dialogue with stakeholders and driving organizational success. He is an expert in managing and executing high-level strategic objectives with more than 13 years’ experience in building, developing and expanding multinational organizations. His deep knowledge of financial markets, digital currencies and fintech has played a pivotal role in his success to date. After a compound fracture brought a promising football career to an abrupt halt, it didn’t take long for James to bounce back, swiftly winning a place at Close Brothers, one of the UK’s leading merchant banking groups, before being headhunted to work for International Asset Management,

Today Daniel Dabek joins us to discuss how Safex is the blockchain engine for eCommerce.Daniel Dabek is a 29 year old Software Developer and Entrepreneur who is an early adopter and pioneer of the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry. He has a diverse background in merchandising, and software engineering, having found a keen interest for e-commerce at the age of 9 by developing a successful business flipping in-game items for the hit game, Neopets. He later leveraged his computing expertise to develop trading algorithms for hedge funds. Eventually, Daniel found himself obsessed with developing the next marketplace for Web 3.0 that focuses on privacy and safety above all else for merchants and consumers. He established the SafeX foundation in 2015, and has expanded it out to a network of over 10,000 tokenholders, supported by a full time staff.Links:https://safex.org/https://forum.safex.org/https://twitter.com/safexhttps://www.instagram.com/safex.io/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKnUPw_PI1lhMPfrztUqnoQVi