MoneyNeverSleeps

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Latest Episodes

249: Bridging the Gap | Connor Murphy | One Problem, Two Ventures and Bridging Networks
February 23, 2024

This weeks guest is Connor Murphy, the CEO of Bridge. I met Connor at a Techstars event in Dublin in 2019 as he was just getting his latest venture off the ground in Bridge, and I started using the Bridge app within seconds of meeting him to help me brid

248: Venture Investing and Connecting the Dots [Double Episode Replay]
February 16, 2024

We've remastered and packaged up two of our most popular episodes from 2023 that were originally going to be one episode looking at the venture capital mantra of investing in lines and not dots. Both of these episodes were recorded in March 2023, a

247: Money Talks with Mai Santamaria | Digital Identity, Trust, Risk and Blockchain (or not)
February 09, 2024

Mai Santamaria joins me once again as guest co-host as we riff on the intersection of digital ID, digital wallets, blockchain, CBDCs, and how the political regime under which an individual lives influences your senses of trust and risk. We also blow to bi

246: Evan Miyazono | Atlas Computing | Overcoming AI Risks
February 01, 2024

Evan Miyazono is founder and CEO of Atlas Computing, a non-profit formed late last year to help scale human control over risky AI capabilities. I seem to be falling into a number of serendipitous situations recently where I find myself at the intersecti

245: Simon Brown from Consensys | Spot Crypto ETFs and Overcentralization
January 19, 2024

Blockchain ecosystem advisor and researcher Simon Brown from Consensys joins me as guest co-host this week. Consensys is a leading blockchain and web3 software company whose products like MetaMask and Infura are well known to the blockchain and crypto com

244: Money Talks w/ Alejandro Gutierrez | Spot Bitcoin ETF Approved | Messari’s Crypto Theses 2024 Roundup
January 12, 2024

Alejandro Gutierrez and I recorded this episode 10 hours before the SEC finally approved Spot Bitcoin ETFs, so we start with a quick update on what happened over the last few days. We then get into the meat of this episode, which is a roundup of Messari

243: Light Speed | Solana with Amira Valliani and Nick Ducoff
December 15, 2023

Im joined this week by two of the wonderful people I met at the Solana Breakpoint conference in Amsterdam last month, Amira Valliani who is the Head of Policy at the Solana Foundation, and Nick Ducoff who is the Head of Institutional Growth at the Solana

242: Money Talks with Paul Smyth | State of European Tech & VCs | Stablecoins, CBDCs & Privacy | Great Founders vs. Great Markets
December 08, 2023

Paul Smyth joins me as guest co-host this week, and he is a specialist executive recruiter and executive coach within the fintech industry. As a founder of two startups, Paul has a unique view on the startup ecosystem.Paul and I met back in 2017 short

241: Money Talks with Mai Santamaria | Binance and CZ | Argentina's New President | Vitalik's Techno-Optimism Manifesto | Blockchain and AI Intersect
December 01, 2023

This week Im joined by guest co-host Mai Santamaria, who is the Head of the Financial Advisory Unit for the Department of Finance in Ireland. Mai and I met in February 2018 at a meeting of the Irish Blockchain Expert Group which later became the indust

240: What’s Next with Web3 with Alex Tapscott, Justin Swart (BITKRAFT Ventures) and Sterling Campbell (Blockchain Capital)
November 24, 2023

This weeks episode is from a session Pete Townsend hosted with Alex Tapscott, author of Web3: Charting the Internet's Next Economic and Cultural Frontier (Harper Collins). Alex and Pete were joined by venture investors Justin Swart from BITKRAFT Ve