'Stache My Crypto: Financial Freedom In Cryptocurrency

Online marketplaces are nothing new so why does a "decentralized" market make any difference? With places like eBay and Amazon sucking up every last dollar they can from your purchases, they are also sucking up your data among other things.  I talk with my guest Devin Finzer, founder of Opensea.io, a decentralized marketplace for digital collectibles. We talk about how decentralized markets are pushing adoption, how he started Opensea, the NFT scene as it stands, and what the future of online marketplaces like Opensea will look like. 

In traditional investing markets the only way to truly be "included" in everything is to have a high net worth and deemed an accredited investor. One of the great things about cryptocurrency is we don't have those same kinds of exclusionary rules.  Financial inclusion plays a large part of what Bitcoin is all about & I talk with Binance.us CEO Catherine Coley all about how she is helping to make this a reality here in the United States. Despite the massive amount of adversity any US exchange has to face, her and the team at Binance.us are tackling it head on. 

There are few things I like talking about more than Bitcoin! I think having real world conversations with people, especially those new to cryptocurrency, has the biggest impact on changing the paradigm of "sound money". In this episode, I talk with Brandon Green from the Bitcoin 2020 Conference in San Francisco. We talk about the event, highlight some speakers like Tony Hawk, and even drop some hints to some unannounced speakers. All this really leads into our conversation about Bitcoin as a while and where it is going in the future.  Why spend USD in space or on Mars when there is Bitcoin?!?

When a new industry starts to emerge we eventually see a set of standards agreed upon by the community at large. In a similar fashion to the beginnings of the internet, cryptocurrency is ripe for industry wide standards that can push forward the ecosystem as a whole. I talk with David Gold, the CEO of Dapix which is the company behind the FIO protocol. To say that they are just making wallet addresses human readable is quite the understatement when they are really solving some fundamental issues with blockchain interoperability.  Setting industry standards is not an easy task, but with these types of standards we can use it as a developmental spring board for mass adoption.