Around The Coin

Mark has over 20 years of experience building large-scale data, AI, blockchain, and distributed software initiatives for the government, enterprise, and tech startup sectors. He founded Itheum 2 years ago to build technology that empowers personal data sovereignty with a focus now on making Itheum the core personal data protocol for the Metaverse era.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Suji Yan, founder, and CEO of Dimension & Mask Network. Dropped out of UIUC (the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Computer Engineering Department to start a business. Former independent reporter of Qdaily & Caixin Media, former engineer of the autonomous driving company; currently a mentor of RadicalxChange Fellowship; co-authored articles by amateur and “Radical Market” / RadicalxChange, and other economists and legal scholars; once published by Wired, South China Morning Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and so on. At present, individuals mainly focus on open source, encryption, and privacy protection (product: mask.io ).(for company logo: https://dimensiondev.github.io/Mask-VI/ )Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mance is an experienced technology executive and entrepreneur with more than 20 years of strategic leadership experience in multi-national corporations, government agencies, and high-tech startups, and is Co-founder and CEO of Hedera. His prior experience includes serving as the Head of Architecture and Labs at Ping Identity, Founder and CEO of two tech startups, the senior executive for product security at a $1.7B revenue organization, Program Manager for a very-large scale software program for the Missile Defense Agency, the Course Director for Cybersecurity at the US Air Force Academy, and research scientist in Machine Learning at Wright Laboratory. Mance received a MS in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts and a BS in Computer Science from Mississippi State University.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Hanson is the founder and CEO of Ultra, a next-generation gaming and entertain platform powered by blockchain. David has decades of experience founding companies, including operating as CEO for a 100+ million dollar game console project that was later acquired by Kingsoft.His latest project, Ultra, has been in development since 2017 and the platform has been designed to bridge the gap between blockchain capabilities and the mainstream games industry. Ultra's ecosystem is made up of various apps that allow players to enhance their gaming experience at every turn. Notable apps in the ecosystem include Ultra Games, a games distribution platform, the Uniq Marketplace, an advanced NFT marketplace that offers zero transaction fees, and the Ultra Wallet, Ultra's very own cryptocurrency wallet.Ultra is partnered with the likes of AMD, Ubisoft, Atari, and more to provide players and game developers with the tools to widen their gaming experience like it has never been done before.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrew Gazdecki is a 4x founder with 3x exits, former CRO, and founder of MicroAcquire. Gazdecki has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, and Entrepreneur Magazine, as well as prominent industry blogs such as Axios, TechCrunch, and VentureBeat.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bitrefill is the largest store in the world for people to buy things with their coins.Bitrefill sells gift cards that let you shop at all the top e-commerce sites in 100 countries, and a few weeks ago Bitrefill announced availability of Bill Payments. Now you'll be able to pay your credit card bills, mortgage, utilities, even taxes with crypto.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Monty Metzger is CEO and Founder at LCX, the Liechtenstein Cryptoassets ExchangeMonty is an internet veteran and serial entrepreneur - he found his first Internet company back in 1998. He studied at Universities in Switzerland and at Harvard Business School. Monty has been attending the famous World Economic Forum in Davos for more than 10 years and is actively involved in shaping crypto policies worldwide.Before launching LCX he was an active Venture Capitalist for many years. He was General Partner at a regulated VC firm - investing in technology companies in Silicon Valley and Europe. One of their portfolio companies Revue was acquired by Twitter for example.In his current role at LCX he is building the next crypto unicorn bridging the gap between the old financial world and the new blockchain industry. LCX is operating a regulated cryptocurrency exchange, a DEX aggregator, a compliant token launchpad and the leading NFT platform for real-world diamonds - all available at LCX.comPlease welcome Monty to the show.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Roger is the Founder and CEO of Market Forecasting Academy, a training and mentorship program for market participants looking for low risk, consistent, market-beating performance.He is most known for developing an innovative, industry-first methodology that eliminates the uncertainty, inconsistency and large drawdowns traditionally experienced in the financial markets.He calls it Demand Imbalance Arbitrage™, which is the only method guaranteed to consistently identify and take advantage of frequent, very low risk pockets of imbalance between demand and price . . . and profit from them 80-90% of the time.This enables new and experienced market participants to:* Confidently forecast what's going to happen next in any market or time-frame with 80-90% accuracy.* Identify 80-90% of the trade opportunities that look good and would normally be taken, but are in fact likely to struggle and fail, eliminating 80%-90% of what otherwise would turn into losing positions (so they can reliably avoid giving back important gains)Roger achieved financial independence 11 years ago using the method he developed.He never intended to teach this, but members of his community asked him to share his knowledge after realizing his method gave him a lot of free time to socialize and serve.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anji is the co-founder and CEO of Finnt, a DeFi app built for families around the world. Prior to starting Finnt, Anji founded and ran DOZ.com, a Marketing SaaS during 8 years; and also built Varanida, a personal data wallet.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rafael Cosman is the CEO and a co-founder of TrustToken, developers of the decentralized lending protocol TrueFi.Prior to TrustToken, Rafael helped build StreetCode, a nonprofit that teaches East Palo Alto youth technical skills, and worked at Google Brain (Google’s AI research division), Palantir and Kernel.Rafael graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor’s degree in computer science. In his free time, you’ll find Rafael reading or meditating.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices