The Civic CEO and cofounder explains how his upbringing in South Africa and his experience at former company Gyft led him to launch a startup focused on identity. It was[…]

This weekly, hour-long podcast dives deep into the people building the decentralized internet, the details of this technology that could underpin our future, and some of the thorniest topics in crypto, such as regulation, security and privacy.
Posted in: 2017, Episodes, Unchained
The Civic CEO and cofounder explains how his upbringing in South Africa and his experience at former company Gyft led him to launch a startup focused on identity. It was[…]
Posted in: 2017, Episodes, Unchained
Developers of new cryptocurrencies are raising gobs of money with little more than a white paper. Though real advances are likely to emerge from the trend, the bubble could get[…]
Posted in: 2017, Episodes, Unchained
Jerry Cuomo has been at IBM his whole career and says that the emergence of blockchain technology is the second time in his career he has seen a breakthrough that[…]
Posted in: 2017, Episodes, Unchained
Blockchain Capital’s recent BCAP token offering is a harbinger of things to come in venture capital and private equity, says the firm’s managing director Brock Pierce. And Stan Misohnik, the[…]
Posted in: 2017, Episodes, Unchained
The bitcoin community is mired in a civil war. In this episode of the Unchained podcast, supporters of opposing sides — former Bitcoin Core developer Jeff Garzik and Litecoin creator[…]
Posted in: 2017, Episodes, Unchained
Bobby Lee, CEO of BTCC, one of the world’s longest-running cryptocurrency exchanges, talks about whether Chinese people are using bitcoin to evade capital controls, how bitcoin trading in China has[…]
Posted in: 2017, Episodes, Unchained
Olaf Carlson-Wee is the founder of Polychain Capital, a hedge fund that has invested $15 million into digital assets and has gotten backing from storied venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz[…]
Posted in: 2017, Episodes, Unchained
Fredrik Voss, Nasdaq’s head of blockchain initiatives, discusses what the company has accomplished with the technology and how his firm evaluates whether potential projects could benefit from a blockchain solution.[…]
Posted in: 2017, Episodes, Unchained
The SEC will make a decision on a proposed bitcoin ETF by March 11, 2017. Will it approve? An optimist and pessimist weigh in, touching upon bitcoin’s liquidity, the impact[…]
Posted in: 2017, Episodes, Unchained
The IRS found three entities using bitcoin to evade taxes and has now demanded the records of millions of users at Coinbase, the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange. An accountant and[…]