Crypto Hipster

Rui Zhang, CFA, CPA, Co-founder & Managing Partner of gumi Cryptos Capital.

Rui co-founded gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC) at the beginning of 2018. Through gCC, he invested in the early rounds of companies and protocols including OpenSea, Qredo, YGG, 1Inch, Agoric, Celsius, etc.

Recently he launched $110million gCC Fund II, continuously investing in the early stage blockchain and crypto sector.

Before gCC, Rui led the global investment of gumi Group, investing in gaming, social media, VR&AR markets, with successful investments including inXile (acquired by Microsoft), Beat Games (via VR Fund, acquired by Facebook), Theta Network, etc.

Rui also had his successful entrepreneurship experience before getting into VC industry. After about 7 years banking and consulting firm experience in his early career, he co- founded Zenith Group Holdings, which successfully exited via acquisition.

This podcast is a montage of four 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 Rui Zhang (gumi Cryptos), Aldemaro Fonseca (NTL Wealth), Pedro Torres (Roseon.Finance), Paulius Stankevicius (Stankevicius MGM).

In this insightful episode Jamil catches up with David Schwartz

Dan Simerman is Head of Financial Relations at the IOTA Foundation, where he helps to support the ability of financial institutions and institutional investors to leverage IOTA’s technology and native currency.  He has a history of building software for Fortune 50 financial institutions, multinational media companies and strategic consulting firms.

Dan has been a vocal advocate and supporter of IOTA since 2017. As a member of the IOTA Evangelist Network, he has worked to engage with local partners to expand awareness of our technology in North America. As co-organizer of IOTA NYC, he has contributed to one of the largest IOTA meetups in the world by developing content to support the IOTA ecosystem.

Jamil Hasan catches up with David Kay, from Liti Capital to learn more about this important topic

Representing traders financially injured on Binance and the importance of Blockchain Ethics with David Kay @ Liti Capital

David Kay

Executive Chairman & Chief Investment Ofcer, Liti Capital

NYC-based David Kay is the Executive Chairman and Chief Investment Ofcer of Liti Capital. A qualified lawyer and investment banker, and one of the most successful and in-demand litigation finance strategists in the history of the 15-year-old litigation finance industry, David joined Liti Capital in early 2021.

Before joining Liti Capital, David provided board representation, corporate governance, capital raising, and strategic planning advisory services to several public and private multi-billion dollar organizations. He has proven expertise in complex conflict management and financing processes across various sectors, including but not limited to: multi-jurisdictional litigation and/or arbitration, international law issues, governmental contracts or disputes, judgement enforcement, and forensic asset-tracing.

For the better part of the last decade, David was also a Founding Partner and the Portfolio Manager of a US$1 billion+ private equity fund focused on investing in complex commercial litigations and arbitrations around the globe. While at the fund, David conceived and developed an investment strategy that focused on investing in (i) international commercial litigations and arbitrations and (ii) other complex special situations. This strategy was realized by successfully raising two funds, providing the opportunity to create outsized, non-market correlated returns via strategic investments where there was both (i) a strong risk-adjusted return and (ii) an ability to directly/positively impact the outcome. David led the deployment of capital at the funds, and he was responsible for building out the entire team and executing the strategy across approximately 40 investments in more than 17 countries.

Prior to that fund experience, David served in the Restructuring and Recapitalization Group at the Jeferies Financial Group. In that role, he was responsible for analyzing and facilitating corporate restructurings, with an emphasis on advising corporate clients and their creditors in large, multifaceted transactions. Representative engagements included: Nortel Networks, The Trump Organization, Verasun Energy Corporation, Delphi Corporation and Hard Rock Park. He also practiced law as an attorney at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in the Financial Restructuring Group, where he focused on advising creditors committees and bondholder committees in complex corporate restructurings, both out of court and in Chapter 11. Representative cases included: Delta Airlines, Loral Space & Communications, Calpine Corporation, Anchor Glass Container Corporation and Vertis Communications.David earned his Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Fordham University School of Law, where he made the Dean’s List and wrote for the Urban Law Journal.

CL Curtis has over 20 years of business experience and he’s also a published author. CL Curtis was raised in an impoverished neighborhood in the city of St. Louis Missouri.  Mr. Curtis was exceptionally good in sports, particularly American Football and Baseball.  Mr. Curtis was so good in American Football that he got a scholarship offer to play in college.  Mr. Curtis never played High School football and yet a friend who was going to college on a football scholarship, he took Mr. Curtis to his coach and Mr. Curtis was offered a scholarship.However Mr. Curtis refused the scholarship offer to college.  Mr. Curtis always felt it was a better way to earn money without running the risk of getting injured.CL Curtis had his first job at the age of 12 years old, getting paid cash everyday to clean up a flower shop in St. Louis Missouri Central Westend.

Mr. Curtis went on to graduate high school and to attend one year of community college studying business.CL Curtis has owned record companies, a computer company, a restaurant, nightclub and real estate investment company.Today present CL Curtis is the founder and CEO of Bolies Technology, BoliesTV and Boliecoin.CL Curtis also has a book entitled; “Boliecoin The Next Big Thing “ this book can be purchased through Amazon or LuLu, but if you purchase directly from the Boliecoin website you will receive an autograph copy from CL Curtis himself.

This podcast is a montage of four 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 David Schwartz (Litecoin Foundation), Craig Curtis (BolieCoin), Dan Simerman (IOTA Foundation), David Kay (Liti Capital).

Richard Carthon is Managing Member of Acacia Digital and Host of Crypto Current. He is on a journey to learn as much as possible about cryptocurrency while educating everyday people so they can have confidence in cryptocurrency investment opportunities.

Maybe you invested in one of the various ICOs, mining or other scams that were going on during late 2017/early 2018.

Let’s address the elephant in the room: cryptocurrency and blockchain technology is new and unfamiliar to most.

How to Identify Early Crypto Opportunities and Build Conviction to Make Life-Changing Profits

Several people invested in cryptocurrency without knowing much about the technology that is supporting the various crypto projects that are going on in the space.

Knowing this, he began to research and create content, Crypto Current, to educate himself and inform others so that they could begin to make more educated investment decisions in cryptocurrency and blockchain.

If you are curious in the space, he welcomes you to connect.

John Wolpert, CEO TreeTrunk

John Wolpert serves as ConsenSys Mesh group executive, researching and commercializing ways to use public Ethereum to conduct business. John is co-founder and co-chair of the Baseline Protocol, an initiative focused on zero knowledge cryptography run by the standards organization, OASIS. Prior to ConsenSys, John was global product executive for IBM Blockchain and CEO of the ride hailing service, Flywheel. His writing on business model innovation can be found in Harvard Business Review and other publications.

Dilek Sezen

Dilek Sezen is an interdisciplinary designer with an award-winning career. She has been focusing on

incorporating cutting edge technology into her art over half-decade. Her unique approach by juxtaposing luxury, technology and circular design principles demonstrates her contemporary art degree and keen understanding of how technology has forever changed the design, art, manufacturing of fashion and everyday items.

Her designs have been commissioned by local and global clientele and well-established brands including, SF Hearts Foundation, LGBT Asylum Project, Santa Barbara Art Museum, Oakland Art Museum, Four Seasons, Ritz Carlton, Montage Resorts, Inglenook and Beringer Vineyards.

Selected Recent Works

Recipient of two, IDA-International Design Award 2022

Selected to showcase at the largest NFT exhibition, both in virtual and physical gallery in Beijing 2021

SF Design week, selected to as one of the innovative designs 2020

SF Hearts foundation collection, “Heart2Heart” sculpture for public art 2018

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, American portraits jewelry collection, 2017

Oakland Museum of Art, History of Hip-Hop exhibition collection, 2017

Smart Hat & scarf design Wearables fashion show, Canada, 2017