Crypto Hipster

Join the Crypto Hipster for this week's walk around the globe bringing you interesting news and insights from the world of crypto!!

Rob Viglione is the co-founder and CEO of Horizen Labs, as well as theco-founder and team lead of the Zen Blockchain Foundation. He holds a Ph.D. in Finance, an MBA in Finance and Marketing, and a Bachelor's in Physics & Applied Mathematics. Previously he has been an advisor to Aave, HeroEngine, and worked as a software project manager for the U.S. Air Force.

Kurt Ivy is a co-founder at Simple Crypto PR, Head of PR for SHOPX, Marketing Advisor for Altar, has helped over 20 projects launch, and has contributed writing to

Entrepreneur, CoinTelegraph, Be[In]Crypto, the  Defiant, Apple News, Grit Daily, Blocktelegraph, Altcoin Buzz, TechBullion,  and Hackernoon.

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Following hot on the heels of Kava's latest partnership announcement with Chainlink, Irish Tech New's crypto expert, Jamil Hassan caught up with Brian Kerr from Kava to learn more about it all.

Kava, built on the Cosmos SDK, is quickly gaining momentum as the most trusted DeFi platform for institutional clients around the world. Kava plans to take another major step forward towards that end through an integration with Cosmos’s recently launched Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol (IBC). Kava will then use IBC to make Chainlink's widely used and secure decentralized data feeds available to blockchains across the wider Cosmos ecosystem.

Kava To Use IBC to Make Chainlink Data Available Across Cosmos

More about Brian Kerr

Brian started his career as Founder and CEO of Fnatic Gear, a company that Forbes valued at $175 Million, makes peripherals and hardware, designed by the world's best Gamers. As a gamer himself he found value in the premise of NFTs and gaming which lead him to the world of crypto. Soon he saw the demand for open banking where he created Kava, a decentralized finance platform for crypto.

About Brian: https://disruptmagazine.com/kava-ceo-brian-kerr-shares-the-top-five-crypto-trends/

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Jamil catches up with Jonny Fry to learn more about his passion for blockchain and what he is currently working on.

Jonny Fry, co-founder and CEO of TeamBlockchain Ltd, is a Blockchain, Digital Assets and funds specialist. He founded, and was the CEO for over 20 years, of Premier Asset Management Plc, a mutual fund company which he floated on the London Stock Exchange. His recent focus has been on the dynamics of financial innovation, advising organisations on how Blockchain and Digital Assets are being used commercially. He works closely with a number of professional firms, such as accountants and lawyers, advising their clients on corporate strategy and adoption of Blockchain technology.

Jonny gives 20+ hours of his time weekly to research and write, an analysis of some of the developments in the Blockchain and Digital Asset sectors. This analysis, called Digital Bytes is used globally by a variety of professional advisors, corporate brokers, accountants, lawyers, business schools, universities, trade bodies and corporations and forms the basis of the Digital Bytes show on Blockchain radio which is broadcasted to over 140 countries.

He is Non-Executive Chairman of Gemini Investment Management Ltd, which owns a Dublin-based fund hosting platform, regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland. As Co-founder of The British Blockchain Frontier Technology Association (BBFTA). He is an advisor for several companies helping them with their strategic growth and managing corporate and reputational risk.

Developing a Problem Solving Mindset through Coding and Mentorship with 13-Year Old Entrepreneur Samaira Mehta, and Generation Z.

Samaira Mehta is a 13-year-old Tech Entrepreneur who was recognized by TIME as “One of the 8 Young Leaders Shaping the Decade” and a “Real-life Powerpuff girl” by Hulu for her invention “CoderBunnyz” - a board game that simplifies complex coding concepts and teaches them in a fun farmyard adventure. Samaira is also the founder of “CoderMindz” - the world’s first-ever Artificial Intelligence board game that simplifies the intricacies of how AI works, and “CoderMarz” which brings together her love for coding and AI with her interest in outer space and Mars.

Mehta is a Gen Z ambassador for Arm with their program GenArm2Z, works with the United Nations for gender equality, and is a Softbank Masason Scholar. She was featured on platforms like Vogue, CNBC, CNET, Business Insider, Today Show, UN Women, and Washington Post for her creations and 500+ workshops that she has lead, which spotlight her board games, through which she has taught over 15,000 kids to code. She has been a speaker at over 100 conferences nationwide and internationally including at MWC’19, C2 Montreal, and corporations like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Intel, SAP, Walmart, and IBM.

Her STEM initiative “Yes, One Billion Kids Can Code” and entrepreneurship academy “Boss Bizz” are ambitious but that’s not her only goals. She wants to become President of the United States when she’s older, giving her a bigger platform and voice to do what she believes is right for the country.

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Consensus 2022 is headed to Austin, TX!!, with Michael J Casey @ Coindesk.

Michael Casey is the Chief Content Officer at CoinDesk, the leading media platform for the blockchain and digital asset community, and the author of CoinDesk’s weekly Money Reimagined newsletter as well as a co-host of the podcast of the same name.

He is also non-executive chairman and cofounder of Streambed Media, a digital media data management platform.

Michael previously spent three years as a Senior Advisor to MIT Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative and as a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management.

Michael spent most of his career as a print journalist, including 18 years at Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal, where he was last a senior columnist covering global finance. He also hosted online TV shows for WSJ Live and appeared as a commentator on networks such as CNBC, CNN, Fox Business, and the BBC.

Michael has five acclaimed books to his name, including two on cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology – The Truth Machine and The Age of Cryptocurrency – both co-authored with Paul Vigna.

Michael is a graduate of the University of Western Australia and has higher degrees from Cornell University and Curtin University.

This podcast is a montage of five interviews with founders and executives, from the time period of March 2021 to June 2022, as originally published at www.anchor.fm/irish-tech-news. This podcast highlights short gems from Jamil Hasan (Crypto Hipster)'s interviews with Michael Casey (Coindesk), Brian Kerr (Kava Labs), Samaira Mehta (CoderBunnyz), Jonny Fry (Team Blockchain) and Richard Carthon (Crypto Current).

Alex Adelman is the CEO & Co-founder of Lolli, a rewards application that lets people earn bitcoin when they shop online from 1,000+ top merchants. Alex was previously the CEO & Co-founder of Cosmic, the leading e-commerce gateway, which was acquired by PopSugar in ’15 and then by Ebates in ’17. Alex positioned Cosmic and Lolli as high growth, high value, and industry-leading technology companies, establishing strategic partnerships with key partners in e-commerce. Alex was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Retail & E-Commerce. His work has been featured on WSJ, Forbes, Fortune, Wired, TechCrunch, Cheddar, MarketWatch, and Digiday and he’s presented at Advertising Week, Fashion Tech Forum, TechCrunch Disrupt, Tech Cocktail, Money 20/20, and Technori. Alex holds a BA in Economics from UNC-Chapel Hill.

In this episode Jamil Hasan catches up with Romain Nouzareth for an interesting discussion around crypto mining, blockchain and trends to watch going forward.

Romain Nouzareth

Romain is a seasoned tech entrepreneur, Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CCU. He co-founded with his brother Mathieu Web Concept, one of the first web agencies in France, which was sold to Icon Medialab in 1999. Romain subsequently co-founded Boonty, a digital distribution platform that went on to become a world leader with offices in Paris, Tokyo, Singapore, Beijing, and New York. Boonty later became IsCool Entertainment and was listed on the NYSE Euronext before being sold to Hachette of Lagardère Publishing in 2018. In 2009, Romain co-founded FreshPlanet Inc., a game studio that capitalized on the nascent mobile, social, and gaming market. In 2015, Romain founded eWRLD Corp., building products for messenger apps and for the Facebook Instant Games platform. Passionate about emerging technology, Romain’s interest in the blockchain started in 2013. In 2017, he co-founded www.CCU.ai