Crypto Hipster

This episode has been published and can be heard everywhere your podcast is available. Jamil tackles Matthew Le Merle, who is co-founder and Managing Partner of Fifth Era which manages Blockchain Coinvestors - the world's leading blockchain venture fund of funds. Matthew is also Managing Partner of Keiretsu - the most active early stage venture investors backing almost 200 companies a year. He is Chairman of CAH, Securitize (Europe), Universal Protocol Alliance and Vice Chairman of SFOX. Matthew grew up in England before living most of his life in Silicon Valley where he raised his five children with his wife Alison Davis. Today he splits his time between the US and UK. By day he is an investor in technology companies and a bestselling author and speaker on innovation, investing and the future having worked at McKinsey, A.T. Kearney, Monitor, Booz and Gap. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, writing and photography. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and Stanford and is an adjunct professor at Singularity U. To learn more go to www.fifthera.com Here are some of the things they discussed 1. What is your own background? It is a logical background to what you do now? 2.Give us with a brief overview of Blockchain Coinvestors and Fifth Era along with an overview of your investment mandate principles. 3. You are a best selling author and researcher. You recently conducted an in-depth focus study of 10,000 institutional investors and high net worth individuals about some common myths and fears concerning Bitcoin. Could you please provide us a snapshot of some of your key findings? What were they? 4. The #1 fear was Bitcoin isn’t safe to own. How do you feel about that result and what measures do you feel would support your investors in changing their minds? 5. Of the remaining concerns, what one most surprised you and why? 6. What result did you most expect to see but maybe expected a larger percentage of concern? Why? 7. Bitcoin has only been adopted by a small number of Fortune 1000 companies publicly, including Microstrategy and Tesla. The actual number is in contrast to your focus group findings about Wall Street greed, though both your HNW audience and my blue collar friends feel the same way. How do you see, in actuality, Bitcoin and Wall Street playing out in the short, medium and long term? 8. What do you think it will take to really achieve mass adoption? 9. In addition to Bitcoin, I noticed your firm recently took on coin investments in both Aave and Uniswap, which are open sourced decentralized protocols on the Ethereum network. As an Aave investor, that captivated my interest. I would expect a Silicon Valley VC to be more interested in a VC backed crypto such as Maker or Compound. What prompted your interest in Aave and Uniswap? Host Jamil Hasan is the Crypto Hipster. Jamil hosts this global crypto and blockchain audio podcast series where he interviews founders and co-founders, entrepreneurs and artists, executives and stay-at-home Hipsters in crypto and blockchain from all around the world. Jamil is a five-time author and best known for being the pre-eminent author in the field of Blockchain Ethics. 

Transitioning global payments from fiat to Bitcoin, and the transition of analog to digital, with Matt Senter and Lolli Matt Senter is the CTO & Co-founder of Lolli, a rewards application that gives people bitcoin when they shop online from 1,000+ top merchants. Matt was previously the CTO & Co-founder of Cosmic, the leading e-commerce gateway, which was acquired by PopSugar in 2015 and then by Ebates in 2017. Prior to Cosmic, Matt was the CTO & Co-founder of SeedMatrix, a groundbreaking agricultural data analysis tool used by Fortune 100 and Fortune Global 500 companies to identify their best performing seeds in various planting conditions, acquired by Context Network in 2010. During the dotcom boom, Matt was the CEO and Founder of Senternet, one of the world’s first Java-based web hosting companies, sold in 2002. He is an advocate for online privacy and security and considers those foundational tenets of a free society. Matt is also a father of three.

Jamil catches up with Peter Nagel to learn more about Irish company Bitcove and their work. Peter has a background in Law and is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Bitcove. Peter first discovered Bitcoin in 2013 and has been working in the industry since 2014. Peter is a big believer in Bitcoin and the transformative power of cryptocurrencies among a number of different verticals. Peters work with Bitcove aims to unlock the next wave of crypto users as they strive to make crypto secure and accessible for all.

Mr. Alex Tapscott is an entrepreneur, author and seasoned capital markets professional focused on the impact of Bitcoin, blockchain and other digital assets on business and financial markets. Mr. Tapscott is the co-author of the critically acclaimed non-fiction best-seller, Blockchain Revolution, which has been translated into more than 15 languages and has sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide. He is also the Editor and Co-author of Financial Services Revolution (January 2020). Mr. Tapscott is sought after world-wide for his expertise by business and government audiences. He has delivered over 200 lectures and executive briefings at firms like Goldman Sachs (Talks at GS), Google, Allianz, IBM, Microsoft and Accenture. His TedX talk, “Blockchain is Eating Wall Street” has been viewed over 700,000 times. Mr. Tapscott has also written for The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, The Globe and Mail, National Post and many other publications.In 2017, Mr. Tapscott co-founded the Blockchain Research Institute (BRI), a global think-tank investigating blockchain strategies, opportunities and use-cases. Previously, Mr. Tapscott was Director of institutional equity sales at Canaccord Genuity. Mr. Tapscott is a graduate of Amherst College (Cum Laude) and is a CFA Charterholder.

This podcast is a montage of four interviews with founders and executives, from the time period of March 2021 to June 2022, as originally published at www.anchor.fm/irish-tech-news. This podcast highlights short gems from Jamil Hasan (Crypto Hipster)'s interviews with Alex Tapscott (Ninepoint Partners), Peter Nagle (Bitcove), Matt Senter (Lolli), and Matthew Le Merle (Coinvestors).

Jamil interviews Kurt Nielsen, who is the Co-Founder & President of Partisia Blockchain, a Web 3.0 public blockchain built for trust, transparency, privacy, and speed-of-light finalization. A seasoned entrepreneur, Kurt has pioneered the use of advanced cryptography solutions and turned them into innovative high-tech businesses for more than 12 years. He is also the Co-founder of three other successful companies - Partisia, Sepior, and Secata. A renowned academic, Kurt completed his PhD in Economics at the University of Copenhagen, where he has been an Associate Professor for the past 14 years. His research interests include: applied game theory, operations research, decision support systems, information management, and design of contracts, auctions, and regulation mechanisms.

Marie Poteriaieva fell down the crypto rabbit hole over 5 years ago, progressively realizing how a 9-page Whitepaper could change the world. 3 years ago she quit her job in fashion to dedicate herself to the research on all things blockchain together with her associate. The results of this research took the form of a mindmap easily explaining crypto-related notions, which was published on a newly created d.center <https://d.center/> website. D.Center now is a crypto education company, animating its website with both theoretical content and the analysis of the newest crypto events, as well as providing blockchain-related trainings. However, it has far-going ambitions in bringing crypto knowledge to the masses, and many more cool features are to come. Join the discussion on the future of crypto on D.Center’s pages on <https://www.linkedin.com/company/dcenter> LinkedIn, <https://twitter.com/DCenter_Explore> Twitter or <https://www.facebook.com/d.center.all.things.blockchain> Facebook!

Dr. Gordon Jones is an Author, curator, and Investor. A former healthcare executive turned entrepreneur. With more than 30 years of digital innovation, entrepreneurship, and business development experience, Dr. Jones has founded and invested in a variety of projects and startups. Alongside his role leading the emergence of Thrivacy, he is the Adjunct Professor of Blockchain, Data Privacy and Self Sovereign Identity at the University of South Carolina. Creating a Thriving Self Sovereign Identity through Privacy and Thrivacy Wallet, Dr Gordon Jones

Controlling and Sharing your Data with Data Unions, a view from Ethereum maximalist Shiv Malik Shiv Malik is CEO and Founder of Pool, the data marketplace and payment rails redistributing power, value and control in the data economy. He is an award-nominated broadcaster, former Guardian investigative journalist, author, and co-founder of the Intergenerational Foundation think tank. After three years advising the Web3 projects, Golem and Streamr and co-creating a revolutionary framework for monetising personal data, he co-founded Pool in 2021 and currently leads the foundation on its mission to bring Data Unions to the world and ensure people have control of their data and a genuine stake in the digital economy.

This podcast is a montage of four interviews with founders and executives, from the time period of March 2021 to June 2022, as originally published at www.anchor.fm/irish-tech-news. This podcast highlights short gems from Jamil Hasan (Crypto Hipster)'s interviews with Kurt Nielsen (Partisia Blockchain), Shiv Malik (Pool), Dr. Gordon Jones (Thrivacy), and Marie Poteraiaeva (dCenter).