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As the founder of New York's White Company, Elizabeth White set out to let the holders of crypto buy the luxury goods their new-found wealth allowed them to dream of.

White’s background was in ritzy brands and auto racing. She used that experience to sell cars for crypto. To date, she says her company has sold 51 cars, including a veritable traffic jam of Lamborghinis and a £4 million vintage Ferrari. But it’s not just cars: White can fix you up with a wide range of items, as long as they’re exclusive, and expensive such as an Ai Weiwei artwork which she sold recently for $1.7 million.

Now the White Company is expanding in new directions. It has announced a partnership with Mastercard, to create its own crypto-based debit card, the White Card. The initiative is part of a bigger plan to develop blockchain applications for business.  

In this podcast, we find out from White, and her colleague Edgar Radjabli, about how they built a luxury retail brand based on crypto and how they're bringing crypto into the payments business.

Ryan X. Charles, the creator of Moneybutton and Yours.org, is something of a cryptocurrency veteran after five years in the industry. Now, a decade after Bitcoin was released, and after last year's 'hash war', he says he's looking forward to "really radical adoption" of crypto during the next decade: 

“We’re going to go from the toy phase and the experiment phase and the learning phase into the reality phase - of actually applying this technology for real problems and real businesses and real customers in the real world.”   

To help that along, he has launched Moneybutton, a micropayments app that aims to make paying and earning small rewards as simple as hitting the Facebook 'Like' button. In this conversation, Charles discusses his work on making onboarding new users to crypto easier and his ideas for how Moneybutton and other apps could enable whole new business models - in which everyone will be compensated for the talents and creativity they display online.