The Wolf Of All Streets

Ryan Selkis is the co-founder and CEO of Messari which boasts the longest running crypto daily brief in the world, with over 40,000 readers. Their readers and platform customers include retail traders, investors, family offices, hedge funds, crypto institutions, governments and more. Placed at the heart of the operation, Ryan is inextricably tied to every important aspect of crypto and has a keen awareness of what's likely to unfold in the coming years. This conversation focuses on the potential explosion of interest in the crypto space in 2021. Scott Melker and Ryan Selkis further discuss the 2020 Crypto Thesis, aggregating high signal information for investors, GBTC’s premium, alpha for whales, a crypto bubble that won't pop, the gold market as a proxy, the legitimacy of Tether, threats to Bitcoin, top DeFi blue chips, sending money at the speed of light, Ethereum as the backbone of DeFi, a Bitcoin ETF, Picasso’s Bull, NFTs and more. ----If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and subscribe. This podcast is presented by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: https://www.blockworks.co

Justin Sun is one of the most prominent members of the crypto community. His crypto story started in 2012, when Justin worked on some of the the earliest projects in the space before building Tron (TRX). Justin's previous experience gives him unique insight into every major trend occurring in 2021, and has Justin poised to make Tron a major player in the DeFi space and beyond.Scott Melker and Justin Sun further discuss working for Ripple in 2012, graduating from UPenn, the pre-Tron days, solving the scalability problem, building Tron, 2017 ICOs, paper Bitcoin, learning from Jack Ma, dot-com and crypto bubbles, the digital Yuan, North Korea, the future of Tron and more.–––RSK/IOVSovryn is a decentralised Bitcoin trading and lending platform and one of the first Bitcoin-native DeFi platforms. Earn interest on your Bitcoin and get paid for lending assets, with up to 5x leverage on long and short trades using USDT, BTC and bitcoin-backed stablecoins. All with no KYC. Click the link below to get your first month’s trading fees for free. Be one of the first 100 and claim a $100 bonus! Visit Sovryn.app/wolf for more info.---VOYAGERThis episode is brought to you by Voyager, your new favorite crypto broker. Trade crypto fast and commission-free the easy way. Earn up to 9.5% interest on top coins with no lockups and no limits. Download the Voyager app and use code “SCOTT25” to get $25 in free Bitcoin when you create your account.---If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and subscribe. This podcast is presented by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: https://www.blockworks.co

Edan Yago grew up during apartheid in South Africa and at one point had to smuggle gold as a child to help his family. Yago discovered Bitcoin and, after years of prepping for a revolution, immediately knew that his life would change forever. Stepping into the crypto space, Edan set out to design a new way of approaching DeFi and built Sovryn, a sidechain off of Bitcoin instead of Ethereum. Edan is excited for the monetary revolution that DeFi will bring to the 99% of the world that does not have full access to the world’s financial garden - and all based on Bitcoin. Scott Melker and Edan Yago further discuss sewing gold into coat pockets, growing up in South Africa’s apartheid, a family of political activists, the only important choice is buying Bitcoin, bringing Bitcoin’s liquidity to DeFi, designing Sovryn, defeating crypto tribalism, fighting the no-coiners, loaning against DeFi, pseudo-Bitcoin, hyper dumps, hyper pumps and more.----If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and subscribe. This podcast is presented by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: https://www.blockworks.co

Robert Materazzi is a US Marine who eagerly attacks big problems, as evidenced by his time at PWC and at Lukka. Robert discovered crypto and believed in the sector's potential, but determined there to be a missing link in crypto markets with regard to fair market price evaluations. While it may sound simple to determine the price of a crypto asset, it is quite the opposite - and over 160 crypto firms have leveraged Lukka’s products to accurately price the assets that they own for guaranteed accuracy. When billions are at stake, every penny and dollar matters.Scott Melker and Robert Materazzi further discuss, working with the S&P, providing the most precise indices, how a fair market value is determined, avoiding artificial volume, catering to 160 crypto funds, the accessibility and liquidity of tokenized assets, staying compliant with regulators, crypto tax audits, Lukka Prime, Series C investments, Bitcoin as a gateway drug and more.–––RSK/IOVSovryn is a decentralised Bitcoin trading and lending platform and one of the first Bitcoin-native DeFi platforms. Earn interest on your Bitcoin and get paid for lending assets, with up to 5x leverage on long and short trades using USDT, BTC and bitcoin-backed stablecoins. All with no KYC. Click the link below to get your first month’s trading fees for free. Be one of the first 100 and claim a $100 bonus! Visit Sovryn.app/wolf for more info.---VOYAGERThis episode is brought to you by Voyager, your new favorite crypto broker. Trade crypto fast and commission-free the easy way. Earn up to 9.5% interest on top coins with no lockups and no limits. Download the Voyager app and use code “SCOTT25” to get $25 in free Bitcoin when you create your account.---If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and subscribe. This podcast is presented by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: https://www.blockworks.co

Pierce Crosby came to the crypto community with years of experience building large scale communities for different social platforms. He helped transform TradingView into a hub of social networking, idea sharing, and community interaction above and beyond just trading. TradingView is now the 125th largest website in the world, and Pierce has big plans to bring the platform to every finance circle on the globe. Scott Melker and Pierce Crosby further discuss hundreds of thousands of dollars in Memecoin, turning TradingView into one of the largest websites in the world, who is MagicPoopCannon, blowing up trading accounts, comparing TradingView to Spotify and SoundCloud, investing in the Tesla ICO, managing the velocity of DeFi, TradingView desktop version, positive and negative community development and more.–––RSK/IOVSovryn is a decentralised Bitcoin trading and lending platform and one of the first Bitcoin-native DeFi platforms. Earn interest on your Bitcoin and get paid for lending assets, with up to 5x leverage on long and short trades using USDT, BTC and bitcoin-backed stablecoins. All with no KYC. Click the link below to get your first month’s trading fees for free. Be one of the first 100 and claim a $100 bonus! Visit Sovryn.app/wolf for more info.---VOYAGERThis episode is brought to you by Voyager, your new favorite crypto broker. Trade crypto fast and commission-free the easy way. Earn up to 9.5% interest on top coins with no lockups and no limits. Download the Voyager app and use code “SCOTT25” to get $25 in free Bitcoin when you create your account.---If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and subscribe.This podcast is presented by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: https://www.blockworksgroup.io

Mike Dudas spent years helping major companies like Disney, Google, and Venmo with growth and business development. It was during his professional career that his interest in crypto began to grow. Mike recognized that the crypto space lacked an unbiased data, news, and information hub for retailers, businesses, startups, and hedge funds. After assembling a team of experts from around the crypto world, The Block was born and became arguably the best newsletter and data aggregator in the space. Now thousands of curious interdisciplinarians look to The Block for their expertise, guidance and analysis. Mike Dudas and Scott Melker further discuss, the need for unbiased research, simplifying crypto for the masses, the Bloomberg Terminal, governments as customers, fintech arriving to crypto, competing with PayPal, Facebook’s crypto product, who will be the next Michael Saylor, regulating stablecoins like banks, dumb regulation threatening crypto, burning and depreciating treasuries, the dollar as crypto’s reserve currency and more.---If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and subscribe.This podcast is presented by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: https://www.blockworksgroup.io

Just like Scott Melker, Kevin Wang attended the University of Pennsylvania and loved to play video games as a kid. With a desire to explore what was below the digital surface, Kevin learned to code and develop, becoming extremely proficient along the way. Upon discovering blockchain and Bitcoin Kevin Wang co-founded Nervos to solve blockchain interoperability and improve upon the existing proof of stake and proof of work protocols. The way Kevin sees it, blockchain is on a journey of world domination just like the internet once was decades ago.Scott Melker and Kevin Wang further discuss managing a team around the world, the advantages of proof of work, a multi-asset store of value, tokenizing everything, the Nervos vision, the centralization of mining, living in virtual reality, China’s digital Yuan, teaching kids to code, web 3.0, where Bitcoin is headed, Bitcoin’s rising price and network security, Ready Player 1, China’s volatile regulation, blockchain in 5 years and more.---VOYAGERThis episode is brought to you by Voyager, your new favorite crypto broker. Trade crypto fast and commission-free the easy way. Earn up to 9.5% interest on top coins with no lockups and no limits. Download the Voyager app and use code “SCOTT25” to get $25 in free Bitcoin when you create your account.---If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and subscribe.This podcast is presented by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: https://www.blockworksgroup.io

Dan Held, a renowned builder and OG in the Bitcoin space, has invested over 80% of his net worth in Bitcoin and has held through multiple cycles. He still believes the asset is in its infancy. As a HODLer and Bitcoin Bull, Dan sees potential for Bitcoin to surpass gold, achieve a market cap in the trillions, and drastically change finance as we know it today. In this episode, Dan made the definitive case for Bitcoin, which can be understood by everyone from the casual investor to the most die hard maximalist. Scott Melker and Dan Held discuss million-dollar Bitcoin, holding your net worth in Bitcoin, the many advantages of Bitcoin, including, fungibility, scarcity, immutability, and privacy, depreciating cash reserves, the power of HODLers, cascading liquidations, borrowing against Bitcoin, timing the next top, investing with goals in mind and more.---CELSIUSWith the Celsius app you can earn up to 15% APY rewards on over 30 cryptocurrencies. Have crypto but want cash? Celsius also offers the lowest cost loans against your crypto with interest rates starting at just 1% APR. Enter promo code WOLF when you sign up and get $20 in BTC! Users must transfer and hold at least $200 of any coin for 30 days to be eligible for the reward.---VOYAGERThis episode is brought to you by Voyager, your new favorite crypto broker. Trade crypto fast and commission-free the easy way. Earn up to 9.5% interest on top coins with no lockups and no limits. Download the Voyager app and use code “SCOTT25” to get $25 in free Bitcoin when you create your account.---If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and subscribe.This podcast is presented by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: https://www.blockworksgroup.io

Sam Bankman-Fried has quickly become a crypto legend. He graduated college as a Physicist but chose to pursue a career in finance, with the intention of making and donating as much money as possible. Sam discovered his innate ability to spot inefficiencies in global markets and transitioned to crypto to capitalize on his incredible skill set. Now he casually manages billion-dollar arbitrage trades through Alameda Research while providing liquidity and endless trading options to crypto traders through his top 10 crypto exchange, FTX. Sam’s insight into crypto liquidity sheds a clear light on the practices of Bitcoin whales and is essential to understand as a crypto trader or investor. Scott Melker and Sam Bankman-Fried further discuss trading a billion dollars in a day, executing orders in stealth, arbitraging money around the world, looking at 6 monitors at once, billion-dollar capital management, front running orders, injecting liquidity, the golden parameter of trading, preventing a Bitcoin leverage meltdown, scaling the industry for institutional money, dominating liquidity and more.---VOYAGERThis episode is brought to you by Voyager, your new favorite crypto broker. Trade crypto fast and commission-free the easy way. Earn up to 9.5% interest on top coins with no lockups and no limits. Download the Voyager app and use code “SCOTT25” to get $25 in free Bitcoin when you create your account.---MYBOOKIEIn a year unlike any other, you need a sportsbook unlike any other. And if you gamble with Bitcoin, you need a sportsbook that doesn’t just slap the word “crypto” on their homepage and call it a day. Make the right play and sign up at MyBookie.com. Use promo code SCOTT to receive a 100% bonus on your first three deposits. ---If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and subscribe.This podcast is presented by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: https://www.blockworksgroup.io

Memli Krasniqi helped build a nation from scratch, something that few living people can claim to have accomplished. As one of the founding fathers of Kosovo, Memli has participated in every aspect of nation building, from penning the Constitution to building infrastructure and conceiving the very core institutions of government. He was also a famous rapper! His life is worthy of a Hollywood Blockbuster, and his passion for Bitcoin is central to his beliefs about what the nation of Kosovo should ideally be. Scott Melker and Memli Krasniqi further discuss 90’s rappers, discovering Bitcoin in 2013, rapping anti-establishment music, living through apartheid, 100,000s of thousands of displaced people, Kosovo becoming free in 2008, becoming the Vice-President of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, signing the declaration of independence, rebuilding a country from the ground up, shaping government around the ideals of Bitcoin and more.---CELSIUSWith the Celsius app you can earn up to 15% APY rewards on over 30 cryptocurrencies. Have crypto but want cash? Celsius also offers the lowest cost loans against your crypto with interest rates starting at just 1% APR. Enter promo code WOLF when you sign up and get $20 in BTC! Users must transfer and hold at least $200 of any coin for 30 days to be eligible for the reward.---If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and subscribe.This podcast is presented by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: https://www.blockworksgroup.io