Around The Coin

In this episode, Mike Townsend chats with Zach Bradford, CEO and President of CleanSpark - a publicly traded Bitcoin mining company. Zach has acquired over five companies, doubled revenue and quadrupled CleanSpark’s workforce since becoming chief executive officer in 2019. He was CleanSpark’s chief financial officer from 2014 to 2019 before taking on his current role as chief executive officer. Since 2013, he has been a partner in a public accounting and consulting firm in Henderson, Nevada. Zach holds a Bachelor of Science in accounting and a Master of Accountancy from Southern Utah University. He enjoys building teams, strategic thinking, and mountain biking.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend chats with Kyle Ellicot who is a Partner at Stacks Ventures. Kyle is also a Co-Chair of Bitcoin Odyssey, a Partner at Intersect VC, and an active Blockchain & dApps analyst. He is also a noted TEDx and global keynote speaker, strategist, published author, & technologist with over 15 years of experience at the cornerstone of digital transformation between industry and technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Vlad Panchenko, CEO and Founder at DMarket.com - a marketplace and infrastructure for Web3 companies to join a global metaverse. He is a video game and technology entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience. His cosmopolitan life views have formed his business approach of a world without borders through gaming and interactive entertainment companies.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend sat down with Gab Columbro, Executive Director of FINOS - Fintech Open Source Foundation. Gab is an open source executive and technologist at heart, having spent over 15 years building developer ecosystems to deliver value through open source across Europe and the US. He thrives on driving innovation both contributing to open source communities and joining commercial open source ventures. Previously Director of Product Management at Alfresco, as Executive Director Gab grew FINOS from the ground up, with the vision of creating a trusted arena for the global financial services industry to innovate faster through open source collaboration. Gab holds a Master in Computer Engineering, is a Committer for the Apache Software Foundation, and advises open source startups. He’s a passionate soccer fan, reggae music connoisseur and special needs dad, and advocates wannabe.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend chats with Charles Rosenblatt, President of PayQuicker — the payments technology leader in global payouts. A seasoned innovator in the payments industry, Charles has held executive leadership positions at major global banks (Capital One and Chase) and prominent FinTech organizations. He has been on the management teams that led to the sale of Hyperwallet to PayPal and Payoneer going public. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend chats with Max Kordek, Co-Founder and President of Lisk. Max is a globally recognized cryptocurrency entrepreneur who founded Lisk, a platform for blockchain applications written in JavaScript. Together with his co-founder, blockchain industry veteran Oliver Beddow, Max raised over 14,000 BTC for Lisk's ICO in 2016. Within the same year, Max founded Lightcurve, a leading blockchain development studio based in Berlin. Max's ambition for entrepreneurship and technological innovation can be traced back to his teenage years when he created his first app at just 14 years old. Since co-founding Lisk, Max has become increasingly involved in the global crypto community, speaking at some of the top blockchain conferences in the world. Today, Max is working relentlessly to help the industry gain traction with Lisk's easy-to-use Software Development Kit.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Bryan Gross who is the Steward at ICHI, a DAO which designs protocols that help other crypto projects to participate in DeFi more efficiently. ICHI’s core technology enables other crypto projects to create new, more sustainable liquidity programs called Vaults. ICHI works with leading DeFi projects including ShapeShift, Fuse and 1INCH. Prior to working with the ICHI DAO, Bryan led blockchain projects at IBM. He was also previously a manager at Amazon and led the launch of Amazon Lending in Europe. He currently serves as an advisor at Dapper Labs. Bryan Gross is one of the inventors of ICHI’s protocols.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Hany Rashwan the Co-founder and CEO of 21Shares and Amun. He is a serial entrepreneur and Forbes 30 Under 30 alum. He previously founded social commerce company, Ribbon, and enterprise fintech company, Payout. Hany was born and raised in Egypt and the United States and attended Columbia University.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Elena Nadolinski, CEO at Iron Fish and Craig Timm, General Counsel at Iron Fish, a layer-1 project building ZKP-based privacy for many assets across many chains. Elena was previously an avid hackathoner and software engineer at Airbnb and Microsoft.Craig Timm is General Counsel at Iron Fish. Iron Fish is building a Layer 1 blockchain to become the universal privacy layer for all of Web3. Prior to joining Iron Fish, Craig was an AML executive at Bank of America. While at Bank of America, he spent time as the designated AML Compliance Officer for Merrill Lynch and led strategic initiatives related to financial crime, including participation in the Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group, 314(b) information sharing initiatives, and the Wolfsberg Group as well as managing the day-to-day liaison with FinCEN, the U.S. Treasury, senior financial crimes policy officials at the OCC and Federal Reserve Board, key law enforcement agencies, and the U.S. Department of Justice.  Prior to Bank of America, Craig was a prosecutor with the Department of Justice leading the Money Laundering and Bank Integrity Unit in what was then the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section (now Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section) in the Criminal Division at headquarters in Washington, DC. Before moving to headquarters, Craig was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Arizona.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Locke Brown, CEO and founder at NuID, who believes that the future of the internet belongs to the user, and NuID’s decentralized identity architecture was designed to support that future. Locke's passion has always been pursuing greater efficiency in a society's most elemental interaction: exchange. It's what drove him headfirst into mining Bitcoin in 2013, and to join the trading desk at Bill Gates' private investment office, BMGI, in 2014.While obtaining a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics and an M.A. in Finance from Claremont McKenna College, Locke developed software at Google and served as a managing director to a multi-asset class emerging market fund in Mongolia. He went on to co-found the blockchain working group internal to BMGI, which ultimately led him to recognize digital identity as the key area for foundational improvement necessary to usher in the next paradigm of global exchange.Go to Blinkist.com/ATCOIN to start your 7-day free trial and get 25% off of a Blinkist Premium membership.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices