Crypto Hipster

Daniel Steeves is a Germany-based, Canadian tech-focused strategy consultant and entrepreneur with a career covering thirty-five years internationally and across sectors. Over the last ten years, his focus has moved from very large scale tech and business solution to advising, mentoring and building fintech, ICO and blockchain startups - not to mention his current endeavours at tudaBirds.io.An accredited management consultant, recognised thought leader in the cloud space and one of the founding mentors at Level39 in London’s Canary Wharf, Daniel is also a former partner at Hamilton Bradshaw with “Dragon’s Den” star James Caan. He has an extensive speaking and writing background ranging from TEDx to The Economist BIU and was a contributing author on Wiley's best-selling “Fintech Circle”.Further information regarding Daniel’s professional career can be found on his LinkedIn profile (https://linkedin.com/in/danielsteeves)

Building Robust Financial Smart Contracts and 'Correct by Construction' Proofs, with Ralf Kubli and the Casper Association

Ralf Kubli is an experienced executive with a strong background in blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and decentralized technology.  Ralf’s career spans roles in M&A, sales and executive management positions in large corporations and technology startups.  He discovered Blockchain through a Fintech investment in 2015.  Since then, Ralf cannot unsee the transformative potential of this technology and has been involved in the blockchain space as an investor, advisor and board member.Ralf holds an MBA from Cornell and an M.A. in History from the University of Zurich.

Live from Davos: How Switzerland can become the global leader in cryptocurrencies, with Felix Honigwachs and XChange Monster

Felix Honigwachs is CEO of Xchange Monster, an easy-to-use crypto platform that connects thegaming community and publishes through a value-driven ecosystem.He is a technology entrepreneur, an experienced blue-chip manager and has a background in software development, management and product management. In these areas, he worked for Siemens, Microsoft and SAP for many years.Prior to founding Xchange Monster, Felix was a successful entrepreneur and an active investor. He invested in two startups, which he led to successful exits, and with the proceeds from the sales and profits he started Xchange Monster.

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 Felix Honigwachs (Xchange Monster), Ralf Kubli (Casper Association), Vaibhav Kadikar (Close Cross), and Daniel Steeves (tudaBirds).

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Jamil tackles Matthew Le Merle, who is co-founder and Managing Partner of Fifth Era which manages Blockchain Coinvestors - the world's leading blockchain venture fund of funds. Matthew is also Managing Partner of Keiretsu - the most active early stage venture investors backing almost 200 companies a year. He is Chairman of CAH, Securitize (Europe), Universal Protocol Alliance and Vice Chairman of SFOX.

Here are some of the things they discussed

1. What is your own background? It is a logical background to what you do now?

2.Give us with a brief overview of Blockchain Coinvestors and Fifth Era along with an overview of your investment mandate principles.

3. You are a best selling author and researcher. You recently conducted an in-depth focus study of 10,000 institutional investors and high net worth individuals about some common myths and fears concerning Bitcoin. Could you please provide us a snapshot of some of your key findings? What were they?

4. The #1 fear was Bitcoin isn’t safe to own. How do you feel about that result and what measures do you feel would support your investors in changing their minds?

5. Of the remaining concerns, what one most surprised you and why?

6. What result did you most expect to see but maybe expected a larger percentage of concern? Why?

7. Bitcoin has only been adopted by a small number of Fortune 1000 companies publicly, including Microstrategy and Tesla. The actual number is in contrast to your focus group findings about Wall Street greed, though both your HNW audience and my blue collar friends feel the same way. How do you see, in actuality, Bitcoin and Wall Street playing out in the short, medium and long term?

8. What do you think it will take to really achieve mass adoption?

9. In addition to Bitcoin, I noticed your firm recently took on coin investments in both Aave and Uniswap, which are open sourced decentralized protocols on the Ethereum network. As an Aave investor, that captivated my interest. I would expect a Silicon Valley VC to be more interested in a VC backed crypto such as Maker or Compound. What prompted your interest in Aave and Uniswap?

Host Jamil Hasan is the Crypto Hipster. Jamil hosts this global crypto and blockchain audio podcast series where he interviews founders and co-founders, entrepreneurs and artists, executives and stay-at-home Hipsters in crypto and blockchain from all around the world. Jamil is a five-time author and best known for being the pre-eminent author in the field of Blockchain Ethics. 

Transitioning global payments from fiat to Bitcoin, and the transition of analog to digital, with Matt Senter and Lolli

Matt Senter is the CTO & Co-founder of Lolli, a rewards application that gives people bitcoin when they shop online from 1,000+ top merchants. Matt was previously the CTO & Co-founder of Cosmic, the leading e-commerce gateway, which was acquired by PopSugar in 2015 and then by Ebates in 2017. Prior to Cosmic, Matt was the CTO & Co-founder of SeedMatrix, a groundbreaking agricultural data analysis tool used by Fortune 100 and Fortune Global 500 companies to identify their best performing seeds in various planting conditions, acquired by Context Network in 2010. During the dotcom boom, Matt was the CEO and Founder of Senternet, one of the world’s first Java-based web hosting companies, sold in 2002. He is an advocate for online privacy and security and considers those foundational tenets of a free society. Matt is also a father of three.

Jamil catches up with Peter Nagel to learn more about Irish company Bitcove and their work.

Peter has a background in Law and is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Bitcove. Peter first discovered Bitcoin in 2013 and has been working in the industry since 2014. Peter is a big believer in Bitcoin and the transformative power of cryptocurrencies among a number of different verticals. Peters work with Bitcove aims to unlock the next wave of crypto users as they strive to make crypto secure and accessible for all.

Mr. Alex Tapscott is an entrepreneur, author and seasoned capital markets professional focused on the impact of Bitcoin, blockchain and other digital assets on business and financial markets. Mr. Tapscott is the co-author of the critically acclaimed non-fiction best-seller, Blockchain Revolution, which has been translated into more than 15 languages and has sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide. He is also the Editor and Co-author of Financial Services Revolution (January 2020).

Mr. Tapscott is sought after world-wide for his expertise by business and government audiences. He has delivered over 200 lectures and executive briefings at firms like Goldman Sachs (Talks at GS), Google, Allianz, IBM, Microsoft and Accenture. His TedX talk, “Blockchain is Eating Wall Street” has been viewed over 700,000 times. Mr. Tapscott has also written for The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, The Globe and Mail, National Post and many other publications.In 2017, Mr. Tapscott co-founded the Blockchain Research Institute (BRI), a global think-tank investigating blockchain strategies, opportunities and use-cases. Previously, Mr. Tapscott was Director of institutional equity sales at Canaccord Genuity. Mr. Tapscott is a graduate of Amherst College (Cum Laude) and is a CFA Charterholder.

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 Alex Tapscott (Ninepoint Partners), Peter Nagle (Bitcove), Matt Senter (Lolli), and Matthew Le Merle (Coinvestors).

Jamil interviews Kurt Nielsen, who is the Co-Founder & President of Partisia Blockchain, a Web 3.0 public blockchain built for trust, transparency, privacy, and speed-of-light finalization.

A seasoned entrepreneur, Kurt has pioneered the use of advanced cryptography solutions and turned them into innovative high-tech businesses for more than 12 years. He is also the Co-founder of three other successful companies - Partisia, Sepior, and Secata.