Blockchain Episodes

May 5, 2023

217: Payday | Lee Gray and SonX

Lee Gray is the co-founder and CEO of SonX, a community platform that allows superfans to subscribe to their favorite musicians via a monthly membership fee unlocking fan-only ticketing, exclusive audio content, and digital and physical collectibles.

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April 28, 2023

216: One Tribe | Katerina Bohle Carbonell, TogetherCrew and Web3 Comm…

Katerina Bohle Carbonell is the co-lead of TogetherCrew, one of the 12 founding teams forming the Techstars Web3 accelerator. Some web3 communities fall apart under pressure, others come together stronger. TogetherCrew exists to help build and grow communities by ensuring …

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April 20, 2023

215: I Left My Wallet | Jesse Phillips and TrustWare

Jesse Phillips is the co-founder and CEO of TrustWare, one of the 12 founding teams forming the Techstars Web3 accelerator. Jesse and Pete Townsend dig into how Jesse got into crypto, the TrustWare vision he formed with co-founder Jonathan Frazier, …

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April 14, 2023

214: World Class | Techstars Web3 Class of 2023

This episode features a rundown of the 12 web3 founding teams that form the Techstars Web3 accelerator class of 2023, along with an intro to each of their CEOs.

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Feb. 24, 2023

208: MoneyTalks: US Crypto Crackdown | Apple + NBA Top Shot | Solaris…

Eoin and Pete riff on the latest US regulatory crackdown in crypto markets, how NBA Top Shot on the Apple app store is a leading indicator of our wider society’s digital asset adoption whether we realize it or not, trouble …

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Jan. 6, 2023

203: MoneyTalks: 2023 Web3 & Fintech Predictions | Techstars Web3 Upd…

This week, Eoin Fitzgerald and Pete Townsend riff on the latest on Sam Bankman-Fried before diving into a few of the fintech and web3 predictions for 2023 published recently, then we do an experimental walk-through of the AI bot ChatGPT. …

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Dec. 16, 2022

202: Clarisse Hagege, Dfns and Protecting Your Crypto Assets

Clarisse Hagege, founder and CEO of Dfns, joins the show this week recorded recently as part of the Techstars Web3 Community Series events organized by the Techstars Web3 Accelerator. Dfns is a cybersecurity company providing wallet infrastructure for web3. From …

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Dec. 9, 2022

201: Sean Lee, Odsy Network and Making Web3 Universally Accessible

Sean Lee, co-founder of Odsy Network, joins the show this week recorded recently as part of the Techstars Web3 Community Series events organized by the Techstars Web3 Accelerator. Sean is the former CEO of the Algorand Foundation, he is an …

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Nov. 18, 2022

199: Money Talks #57: FTX WTF | Musk Monetizing Twitter | UK Tech Nat…

This week, Eoin and Pete take the inevitable plunge into what to make of the FTX mess and then resurface with some of the scenarios unfolding on what Elon Musk has in mind for the 250 million daily active users …

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Nov. 11, 2022

198: MoneyTalks #56: Techstars Web3 | FTX Rant | Block’s Flywheel | F…

This week, Pete gives some insight into the new Techstars Web3 accelerator and goes on a quick rant on FTX before he and Eoin riff on Block’s flywheel and their ambitions with Cash App, then they go through a hall-of-fame …

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Nov. 4, 2022

197: Connected for Life | Ollie Walsh, Pipit & Konect | Live from Web…

Ollie Walsh is the co-founder and CEO of Pipit, who are bringing to market the new Konect network that is powering international cash transactions with DeFi and enabling migrants to support their families back home cheaper, safer, and now faster.

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Oct. 21, 2022

195: All Eyez on Me | Web3 in Hollywood with Alex Amartei and Antara

Alex Amartei is an Irish entrepreneur originally from Shannon and is also an investor, film writer, and producer. He recently won the Hollywood Icon award and the Monaco Streaming Film Festival Award alongside James Cameron and Mark Wahlberg. Alex is …

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Oct. 14, 2022

194: MoneyTalks #55: FTX and Visa | Google Cloud Goes Crypto | Mumsne…

This week, Eoin and Pete riff on crypto exchange FTX’s partnership with Visa enabling users to spend crypto anywhere Visa is accepted, Google Cloud enabling customers to pay in crypto in partnership with Coinbase, the state of ‘community fintech’ through …

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Oct. 7, 2022

193: Express Yourself | Amor Sexton, Blockdaemon and Web3 infrastruct…

Amor Sexton is Head of International Operations for Blockdaemon, the leading independent blockchain node infrastructure to stake, scale, and deploy nodes with institutional-grade security and monitoring. Amor is an experienced global leader with extensive commercial, legal and operational experience, and …

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Sept. 23, 2022

191: MoneyTalks #53 | Ethereum Post-Merge l Revolut Pay Later Trial |…

Eoin and Pete talk through the aftermath of the Ethereum Merge, some pandas and goofy songs, an early-morning Bankless livestream of the Merge, and critically, a 99% more energy-efficient blockchain. We also look at the new Revolut BNPL product live …

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