Raoul Pal: The Journey Man

Co-founder Valeria Benitez Florez is building the Pocket Network around the idea that "more people need to come into the space across all fields, as everyone brings more to the table.” Pocket Network is a system where the community can stake nodes on a decentralized network. Expanding on that in conversation with Wendy Diamond, founder and CEO of LDP Ventures and the Women’s Entrepreneurship Day, she says "there is an infinite amount of knowledge to be explored" as her community expands. Recorded on March 14, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Haouk Lee started his investing career in real estate and emerging markets. A fiat currency bear with an eye for new trends, the digital asset value proposition came naturally to him when he first engaged with crypto in 2016. Lee, the founder and CIO of Trinity Digital Assets, an offshoot of his family office Trinity Investment Holdings, talks to Leslie Lamb, the founder and host of the Crypto Unstacked Podcast, about his experience and what it says about broader market trends. Lee notes that an increasing number of family offices are including crypto in their portfolios. Lee and Lamb explore a generational shift taking place in the investment community, including its implications for how asset prices may move in the future. One key to Lee’s strategy is to let the young lead the way, as they’re the most engaged with digital assets and metaverses in their day-to-day lives. Recorded on March 18, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Building a Bitcoin mining rig can be complex. Compass Mining is here to simplify it to the point that literally anyone can participate in the decentralized computational process and add new blocks of transactions to the world’s No. 1 blockchain, whether at home or through one of 23 collaborating data centers in five different countries. As co-founder and CEO Whit Gibbs explains to Real Vision’s Elaine Ly, Compass Mining’s service enables those who don’t want to host a machine in their house to connect to a collaborating data center and receive mined Bitcoin directly into their wallets. Gibbs notes that Intel’s new mining machines could break up ASICS’s quasi-monopoly. He’s also bullish about the impact of President Joe Biden’s recent executive order on the ecosystem. Recorded on March 22, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gabby Dizon, CEO and co-founder of Yield Guild Games, envisions a Metaverse where individuals have ownership over their digital identity and the associated data and revenue. Dizon joins Rolf Hoefer, co-founder of Cultur3 Capital, to talk about the digital revolution taking place within community tokens and people’s newfound sense of online identity. According to them, Web 3.0 presents a unique opportunity to empower users to gain a sense of virtual autonomy, and Dizon argues that this is what we should imagine when we discuss the "Metaverse". Tune in to see how Yield Guild Games is working to realize a more equitable online economy. Recorded on December 9, 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mike Green, chief strategist and portfolio manager at Logica Capital, and Anthony Pompliano, investor at Pomp Investments, join Ash Bennington, Real Vision senior editor, to discuss their opposing views on Bitcoin. They each explain their views on Bitcoin—Pompliano makes the case for Bitcoin being a store of value that should be widely adopted and encouraged by the United States in order to stay competitive globally while Green asserts that Bitcoin is used primarily for nefarious activity and is mainly controlled by entities that are oppositional to the United States. Green believes that Bitcoin is the perfect example of markets indicating that something is incredibly successful, even when in actuality it is failing (or will fail), and that its price appreciation does mean that it is a robust system. Filmed on February 1, 2021. Key Learnings: Pompliano believes that there are many non-trivial indicators that suggest Bitcoin is robust and becoming widely adopted including the number of wallets, transactions, and hash rate. He believes there is a significant chance that Bitcoin will be adopted by a significant amount of the S&P 500 companies and nation-states. On the other hand, Green thinks it is extremely unlikely to see major adoption from the largest companies and nation-states, explaining that this could even harm the U.S. He believes that Bitcoin can be trivially attacked and taken down by a nation-state and that the system is not as secure as many people claim it to be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In its most basic terms, the digital dollar debate is about a public option versus a private option. According to Rohan Grey, assistant professor at Willamette University College of Law, there is a middle ground that happens to be the best option. Grey, who advised the authors of the bill, joins Real Vision’s Ash Bennington and Santiago Velez, co-founder and division lead of R&D at Block Digital, to talk about the ECASH Act recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. The “Electronic Currency And Secure Hardware Act” would make the U.S. Treasury, rather than the Federal Reserve, the issuer of what would be “a true digital analogue to the U.S. dollar.” According to Grey, it would function similarly to physical cash in that it would be "public money with privacy characteristics" and use "no ledger at all." Grey walks Bennington and Velez through the bill’s particulars, noting its emphasis on preserving privacy. Recorded on March 29, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Is the crypto bull market back on track? What should we make of the massive Ronin bridge hack? And how is Elaine’s field trip to NFT LA shaping up? The Defiant’s Camila Russo and Robin Schmidt join Real Vision’s Elaine Ly to dig into all that and more. The trio explains how Ethereum’s merge and Terra’s Do Kwon buying Bitcoin as a reserve are driving price action. That’s on top of everything Elaine’s learned from NFT LA, including Jiho’s response to the $600 million Ronin bridge hack. Recorded on March 30, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Randi Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Zuckerberg Media, is particularly interested in female-led NFT projects. But the entrepreneur knows “that won’t be enough going forward.” Her latest venture, “The Hug,” offers mentorship to up-and-coming founders from a network of industry leaders in technology and the arts. Zuckerberg’s tenure at Meta (formerly known as Facebook) provides her unique insight on America’s big tech boom. Now, she’s at the forefront of a new tech shakeup, taking what she’s learned to lift up innovators and artists using blockchain technology and principles of decentralization to defy the power of big tech. Recorded on March 21, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Greg Isenberg is co-founder and CEO of Late Checkout, a product studio and agency that designs, creates, and acquires community-first tech businesses. “Community first” means the community is the product or the community is built around the product. Isenberg advises on community design and community management as opportunities to reduce risk. He emphasizes the role tokenization plays in communities today, from NFTs to DAOs to social tokens. Isenberg joins Kevin Kelly of Delphi Digital to discuss the Web3 strategy that companies are focusing on as the importance of community becomes more significant in the retention and engagement of a brand. Recorded on March 16, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How do the world's most successful crypto hedge funds think about trading? Exponential Age Asset Management CIO Moritz Seibert is hosting a series of interviews with top asset managers about their approach. In the first episode, Edward Chin and Thejas Nalval of Parataxis Capital join Seibert to share their views on the most investable assets in the space. Their focus is on liquidity. "When I say [we focus on the] top five, it's more of a play on liquidity,” notes Nalval. “The largest market-cap names may not necessarily mean they're the most liquid." Chin explains Parataxis' method of determining the fundamental value of each digital asset and how it helps the firm stay grounded despite immense price volatility for the broader market. Recorded on March 21, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices