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We're baaaack! With a new episode of the Humans of Crypto Podcast with Lenka Hudakova! More about Lenka Hudakova: Crypto and blockchain tech advocate. Culture explorer with the drive for innovative, sustainable, collective, transparent & open. Community builder, event organizer, educator & DAO talent onboarder. As the Project Lead at the Sustainable Ecosystem Scaling core unit, she is working for MakerDAO on scaling initiatives, including research on decentralized workforce, work and capital.Previously, as Events Manager for the Maker Foundation, she orchestrated team involvement at events and conferences around the world, ensuring that the organization is well represented, wisdom is shared, and key audiences are reached. Prior to becoming Events Manager, she was the Foundation's Community Lead for Europe, charged with building awareness of MakerDAO, both online and offline.The Maker Foundation is the organization facilitating the development of MakerDAO. MakerDAO governs the Maker Protocol and Dai, the world’s first decentralized, collateral-backed stablecoin on the Ethereum blockchain. Dai mitigates volatility through an autonomous system of smart contracts called the Maker Protocol, and through decentralized community governance.Before joining Maker, she was Head of Communications at Coinify.Her other community building involvements are:- local blockchain fans as the co-organiser of the Eth/Web3 Community;- women interested in joining the crypto space as the co-founder of #CryptoWomenCPH;- local startup grass-root movement as a volunteer at #cphftw.Stay in touch with Lenka: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lenkla/ https://twitter.com/LenklaHhttps://twitter.com/MakerDAO_SES 🦦 CryptoCanal offers education, event and consultancy services for the crypto industry. Join our telegram community and stay free. https://t.me/CryptoCanalCommunityOrganising ETHDam a conference and hackathon dedicated to DeFi and Privacy builders in Amsterdam, 20-21 of May https://www.ethdam.com/
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Delighted to finally share Maria Magenes's story with you all. She took an interesting risk a few years ago, to work at a little startup called ETHLend, better known today as Aave... Over the years she has left her mark in the DeFi world, having worked with the Maker Foundation, Balancer and Oasis.app. I hope you enjoy this episode where you will get to know more from this Italian power house! Make sure to follow Maria and her endeavors at Oasis https://twitter.com/mariamagenes1 https://twitter.com/oasisdotapp https://oasis.app
00:00 Intro 00:20 Getting ready for ETHCC 01:20 Building a better UX 06:00 Getting my first job in crypto… 08:20 Making up your job 09:00 Overworking 09:50 Not working during weekends 12:00 Mountain escapade ruined by a hacker 17:00 Post MakerDAO 20:40 Team and fundamentals 24:20 The best and worst of working with a DAO 30:45 Not everyone is a leader 31:30 What is the “community”? 33:30 Voting in a DAO 35:00 Staying away from the DAO drama 37:45 Dealing with Bitcoin maximalists 40:00 Italian crypto culture 50:00 What about the merge? 51:07 We keep building during the bear market 1:00:00 Jumping into crypto 1:08 Loving our pets 1:13 Bringing back the human in crypto conference 1:17 Online VS in person events 1:20 Building the future of finance 1:24 ReligionCryptoCanal offer education, event and consultancy services for the crypto industry https://cryptocanal.org
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For the 7th episode of the Humans of Crypto Podcast, we have the utmost privilege to share Tey El Rujla’s journey with you all. Tey El Rujla is the founder of Fluus.finance and currently working on https://superstan.market/, connecting the Afghan and Lebanese diaspora and crypto to help people directly on the ground. This episode is dedicated to all the people suffering across the world from inflation and capital control. May Tey’s journey inspire others to embrace financial freedom.
00:00 Intro 02:04.19
Tey’s journey 11:56.14
The syrian civil war
15:07.53 Pride…
18:33.76
Apply for assylum
34:28.63 Bitcoin Pizza Day
45:12.65 Global moderator at Bitcoin.com
47:35.11 Private keys destroyed in Beirut explosion
50:28.47 Lebanon: inflation and capital control
53:20.54 Fluus Finance and construction worker
01:01:54.00 Picnic in Afghanistan
01:03:27.34 Superman afghanistan supermarket
01:15:59.66 The best way to understand Bitcoin is to use it.
01:23:21.14 Second life gamer to miner
01:44:56.60 Labeled a spy 01:50:43.31
Hope for Lebanon
02:03:48.70 Show: hoodie from Hcpp Conference
02:08:48.53 “To financial freedom to censorship resistance and to peer-to-peer Electronic Cash”
Connect with Tey https://www.linkedin.com/in/tey070/
https://twitter.com/FluusFinance https://fluus.finance/
https://superstan.market
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Today for the 6th episode of the Humans of Crypto we welcome Briget Greenwood Founder of The Bigger Pie, an organisation focused on supporting women in blockchain and emerging tech. As women represent less than 10% of those involved in this sector they focus their efforts on supporting the incredibly talented and pioneering women in blockchain. Bridget is a firm believer of having more women involved with the design, development and deployment and decommissioning of tech solutions. Bridget has worked with different actors in the blockchain economy since 2017, both retail facing and servicing institutional clients, gaining an insight into the market place, challenges, pitfalls, regulation and breadth of projects and businesses in this rapidly evolving space.
00:00 Intro 00:42.39 Down the bitcoin Rabbit hole 08:13.26 Welcome borderless work 20:17.35 What diversity? 26:18.85 The role of education 33:28.17 Anecdote time: the marshmallow challenge 44:15.61 The Bigger pie community 01:03:09.40 What about blockchain use cases? 01:29:37.58 Show & Tell🎙Humans of Crypto https://cryptocanal.org/humansofcrypto/
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Today for the 5th episode of the Humans of Crypto we welcome the one and only, US based, unbanked Joël Valenzuela. Can he really be living the cypherpunk dream, and how?
Dash Force partner and editor of Dash Force News. He is a veteran writer and journalist in the cryptocurrency space, and had a long professional history in public policy, having worked for organizations such as the Cato Institute and the White House under George W. Bush. He also manages civic action organization the Rights Brigade and runs a taekwondo club, which he tell us a bit more about in the Show & tell.
Timeline
00:00 Intro
04:00 New Hampshire crypto scene
08:50 Free State Project
13:43 Chicago Bitcoin Pizza
15:32 Joel’s origin story
20:20 White House internship
29:00 Back to the Free State Project
35:18 Becoming unbanked
48:30 How to live unbanked
1:02:30 Living outside the system
1:07:20 Spending cryptocurrencies
1:16:40 What is Dash?
1:26:00 Scaling
1:30:00 Funding
1:40:00 Market cap ranking and the free market
1:51:20 Cryptocurrencies have their own use case
1:54:40 Dash Evolution
2:01:30 DeFi & DAOs
2:11:30 Blockchain trilema
2:12:20 Show & Tell
More about Joel Valenzuela
https://twitter.com/TheDesertLynx
Digital Cash Network https://anchor.fm/digitalcashnetwork
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For the 4th episode of the Humans of Crypto Podcast I had the honour to welcome the CEO and Co Founder of Edge, a self custody wallet and exchange held by more than 2 millions of users. Built in San Diego with a strong ethos of privacy and ownership. We dive into Paul’s journey into crypto, his health, the product, the mishaps and the future.
ps: Sorry for all that lipstick over my teeth, that old crummy tube has been banned.
Timeline
00:00 Intro
05:15 Crypto community of San Diego
10:20 “I’m a privacy hypocrite”
14:40 “I’m a dork and a geek at heart”
18:10 Health issues brought me to crypto
20:00 Questioning authority
22:00 My philosophy, it’s all about large enterprise VS the individual
24:10 “Bitcoin put it all together for me in 2013”
29.58 “After using crypto, bitcoin for a bit I said, It’s still early, there’s a lot to build, let me join this revolution and be part of the history books and here I am today”
32:36 From 3000 users to 2million
34:55 “Yes, that’s me, the convenience and wanting to simplifying it for the user”
37:39 “Bad UX, it physically hurts”
39:15 The pain of demonstrating the Armory wallet
40:00 “I’m convinced the industry will simplify this and I will be part of simplifying this and that’s how Airbitz, now Edge started”
42:00 "Edge is a self custody exchange, where you hold you keys, but you can buy, sell exchange with an elevated level of privacy”
43:45 “We are the bridge from the old to the new, with the user experience you are used to but with the core benefits of autonomy and privacy of this new financial world”
46:00 Bitcoin was built to have a level of privacy and control, the biggest value proposition is to send money to anyone, anywhere in the world with an internet connection and that’s gone if you don’t have your keys, which happens in a custodial service.
51:36 Cred is the biggest black eye in our company’s history, we did our best due diligence
54:12 “That’s the last full custodian service that you will ever see inside of Edge”
54:30 “The one time we compromised on the ethos of self custody…”
1:01:12 Forking is freedom
1:04:20 The Paul $
1:05:37 Freedom is messy
1:07:10 Shitcoin, fertilises creativity and innovation, manure for the crypto field.
1:10:00 Where do you learn? Shoutout to Omar Bham
1:13:20 Monthly Crypto Drinks on the last Wednesday of the month + Crypto 101
1:14:10 Does your family get crypto?
1:17:35 Show & Tell
More about Paul Puey
🚀 https://twitter.com/paullinator
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In our 3rd episode of the Humans of Crypto Podcast, we were delighted to welcome Pavel Jakovlev. Last time we were together, in person, was during the World Economic Forum, in Davos Switzerland, in January 2020. Eons ago. In the meantime, he has built his own venture, Ancore Strategy.
Fantastic communicator, Pavel has had a lot of success managing and supporting startups, developing marketing strategies, driving their business… very passionate he shares how emotionally involved he can get with clients. In this episode, we discuss his path in the crypto, blockchain startup world at CV Labs, Ancore Strategy, his own show White Spaces and his personal development.
00:00 Intro 01:50 A father & a builder 03:47 Discovering Bitcoin, Tor and the Silk Road in 2011 07:20 Ralf Glabischnig a friend and a mentor 08:34 Davos & CV VC Labs event 12:55 Britany Kaiser, Cambridge Analytica, Own Your Data, the Great Hack 16:25 Working with a battle tested team 17:30 What it’s like to be an event organiser in Davos, World Economic Forum 2020 23:00 “Sheduak” 27:00 Market fluctuation affecting the crypto event scene 32:00 Crypto Valley Zug the place to be for digital asset companies 38:45 Mindset of regulators in Switzerland 41:29 3 key take-aways when reviewing a project 42:36 Baby interlude 🐣 44:37 Scouting for early stage startups 46:00 The team is everything 47:15 Incubator life 50:30 Advices for a successful startup 53:53 How many times have you failed? 55:00 Andrew Wilkinson and the Metalab/Asana story 59:49 Mental health & hustle porn 01:08:13 Parenthood & learning patience 01:11:23 Anchor management 01:14:00 Making the world a better place 01:15:00 Getting emotionally involved with projects 01:16:40 COO Valentina Coco - Bad cop, bad cop 01:19:40 2 types of founders 01:22:55 Investor pitching 01:25:07 White Spaces show - personal stories of people working in innovation 01:32:48 Show & tell 01:41:26 Venture builder 01:41:30 Learning from female colleagues 01:44:40 Next steps 01:45:40 Non profit, focused on connecting ideas & capital 01:46:24 Shout out to Valentina Coco COO at Ancore StrategyMore about Pavel Jakovlev
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In our 2nd episode, we welcome Kalani Moe, Marketing Director Velas AG, Creative Director Coinpayments.net, Founder Divi Project & Founder Ido Booster. Dive with us to learn more about his first business relationship in crypto, his marketing expertise and how to prepare for a FUD attack. Get ready for a special personal Show & Tell as he introduces his father to us!
00:00 Intro 01:54 Discovering Bitcoin 03:27 First relationship in crypto? 09:53 What did we learn from 2017? 23:16 It’s all about partnerships 25:25 Mushroom interlude 39:26 What do you do to stay healthy? 44:50 This is a two way street 52:50 Marketing expertise 1:01:44 Is community management just marketing? Is it just fluff? 1:04:06 How to prep for FUD attack? 1:08:50 Show and tell 1:16:20 Ledger instead of a college fund 1:19:50 We’re in a super cycle 1:27:10 The rise of DEX 1:29:09 Uniswap V3 1:30:00 The marketing strategies of tomorrowMore about Kalani Moe
🚀Velas.com
🚀Coinpayments.net
🚀Nafter.io
🚀 Idobooster.com
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In our first episode, we welcome Matt Aaron, crypto entrepreneur who’s led the Bitcoin.com Podcast and is now the CEO of UniWhales.io. Dive with us to learn more about his career, how he thinks you should join crypto, his first interview with Roger Ver, his experiences in Latin America, NFTs and of course his personal favorite object, for us to remember him by!
03:04 Passing the torch
05:40 Foundation of UniWhales
10:15 How to join crypto?
14:34 First interview with Roger Ver
17:50 Ethos of crypto
21:22 Visa USDC & Coinbase commerce
28:30 Asia about money, not ideology
33:23 Where to start? Start reading
38:30 Lebanon - capital control
42:23 Bitcoin Cash House Venezuela
43:57 NFTs Hashmask
54:18 Native token on BCH
57:17 Show & tell
1:01 Make a 100 episodes
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