Cryptotesters

In this episode Simon Chamorro, founder of Valiu, talks about how his young startup tries to help the 1.7 million Venezuelan migrants and refugees living in Colombia send money back to their relatives in Venezuela. 

Unfortunately, no international remittance company allows to send money into Venezuela. So Valiu uses Bitcoin to create a platform where users can transfer Colombian Pesos to Venezuelan Bolivares in less than an hour. Valiu also allows their users to hold synthetic cryptodollars that are backed by bitcoin in their Account, to protect themselves from inflation.

In this episode I talk to Pavel Matveev who is the CEO and Founder of Wirex. Wirex was the first company to launch a crypto card in 2015, thereby allowing bitcoin users to spend their cryptocurrency online or in store, pretty much anywhere where Visa is accepted.

We talk about how Wirex grew from a simple idea to a company with more than 230 employees, offices in 7 locations all around the world and more than 3m customers.

The story is quite fascinating as Pavel has been in the space for a long time and knows a lot about traditional finance.

We also discuss Wirex’s plans to launch its own stable coins, why Wirex launched their own token, the Wirex token (WXT) which he thinks about as loyalty token on steroids and what they have planned for the future.

Thomas Heller is the Global Business Director at F2Pool the largest Bitcoin mining pool in the world. Mining pools allow individual miners to join forces in order to increase their chances to mine a block and get more regular rewards payouts.

We also discuss whether small investors should start mining and what the best tactics are to mine profitably as a small investor.

Lastly, we talked about the halving and how it impacted the mining industry as well as how the thinks things will play out once they are no more bitcoin block rewards paid out to miners.

Ray Youssef is the CEO of Paxful, a peer-to-peer marketplace to trade bitcoin. Paxful let's people directly trade bitcoin with with one another. Anyone can sell bitcoin on the platform and choose which payment methods they like, set the price they want to sell for etc.

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Antoni Trenchev is co-founder and managing partner at Nexo, the world’s leading instant crypto credit lines provider. They processed more than $1.5 Billion dollars in loans to date with no plans of stopping anytime soon.

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Xen Baynham-Herd is the COO of Blockchain.com, one of the biggest players in the crypto industry. Their non-custodial web wallet has more than 40m users.

Recently they also launched an exchange. In the episode we talk about what went into the making of the exchange, how they set themselves apart from other exchanges, the rise of DeFi and much more!

Graeme is the mastermind behind UX at Argent, an Ethereum wallet that has made it extremely easy to use Ethereum applications. The technology that enables this extreme simplicity is called "Smart Contract Wallets" and Graeme explains the concept in detail.

In the episode we also talk about Crypto UX in general, challenges he sees, how Argent chooses which DeFi projects to integrate and many more interesting topics!

Des Martin, Head of Marketing at Brave, joins the show. Des has been with Brave for almost two years in which he saw the user base grow from 2 to more than 12 million monthly active users. In the episode we talk about the factors that have fuelled this tremendous growth, possible next products, Brave's partnership with Binance, the importance of the BAT (Basic Attention Token) and much more!

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