The Token Daily

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Host Soona Amhaz sits down with the movers and shakers in the crypto industry to discuss the big ideas they spend their days thinking about. Soona and her guests examine everything from industry trends, to what books they're reading, to human psychology and investing.

The Token Daily

Episodes

Season 1
Tony Sheng, Independent Analyst: A Writer's Take on Bitcoin Lore
Today we sit down with independent analyst and angel investor Tony Sheng to discuss his writing process, gaming, contributing to bitcoin core, and crypto fundamentals. ----- Since 2015, Consensus has been recognized as the most influential blockchain and digital assets event of the year. Hot-button topics such as adoption challenges, privacy, blockchain innovation, capital formation and more take centerstage as experts and pioneers give voice to the new developments and innovations occurring around the globe. Don't miss this three-day experience! Register today: www.consensus2019.com. Use promo: TOKEN300 to save $300 on your pass. ----- 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
May 9, 2019
66 min
David Fauchier, Founder of Cambrial Capital: The Road Ahead for DeFi
David Fauchier is the founder of Cambrial Capital. In this conversation, David and Soona Amhaz discuss popular misconceptions around Generalized Mining, the road ahead for DeFi, and how the money behind the money thinks about investments in crypto funds. ----- Since 2015, Consensus has been recognized as the most influential blockchain and digital assets event of the year. Hot-button topics such as adoption challenges, privacy, blockchain innovation, capital formation and more take centerstage as experts and pioneers give voice to the new developments and innovations occurring around the globe. Don't miss this three-day experience! Register today: www.consensus2019.com. Use promo: TOKEN300 to save $300 on your pass. ----- 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
May 2, 2019
53 min
Elena Nadolinski & JZ, Pioneer Winners: Crypto Privacy and a High School Student's Solution to Key Recovery
Soona Amhaz sits down with Pioneer winners Elena Nadolinski & JZ to discuss everything under the crypto sun, from privacy preservation to biometric key recovery systems, and rogue government actors. ---- 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
April 18, 2019
44 min
Jing Wang, Executive Director of Plasma Group: Plasma and the Future of Ethereum 2,0
Jing Wang is the Executive Director of Plasma Group. In this conversation, Jing and Soona Amhaz discuss generalized plasma, the state of Ethereum 2.0, and her book recommendation The Cathedral and the Bazaar. ---- 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
April 11, 2019
40 min
Taylor Pearson, Author of The End of Jobs: Markets Are Eating the World
Today we chat with Taylor Pearson, an entrepreneur and author of both The End of Jobs, and his most recent piece, which is also the topic of today’s episode: Markets Are Eating the World. On the show we discuss how blockchains will affect the concept of the firm, we also talk about the future of DAO’s, and tail risk as it applies to bitcoin. You can find Taylor's article here. ----- 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
April 4, 2019
51 min
Devin Finzer, Co-Founder of OpenSea & Brian Flynn, Dapper Labs : Everything You Need to Know About NFTs
Devin Finzer is the Co-Founder of OpenSea, and Brian Flynn works in product marketing at Dapper Labs. In this conversation, Finzer, Flynn, and Soona Amhaz discuss the recent uptick in activity that NFTs have seen, how NFTs and DeFi could interact in the future, and Collectibles Maximalism. ----- 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
March 21, 2019
43 min
Dani Grant, Analyst at Union Square Ventures: The VC Outlook on Crypto’s Trends and Future
Dani Grant is an analyst at Union Square Ventures where she focuses primarily on blockchain companies. Before USV, Dani was part of the Product Strategy team at Cloudflare. In our episode today we talk about why distributed computing is important, how users and developers will interact with crypto, learnings that Dani’s carried over from Cloudflare to help her better evaluate crypto trends, plus the latest projects she’s been hacking away on. ----- 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
March 7, 2019
61 min
Saifedean Ammous, Bitcoin Economist: How Bitcoin Would Respond to a Government Attack
Saifedean Ammous is a Bitcoin economist and the author of The Bitcoin Standard. In this conversation, Saifedean and Soona Amhaz discuss Bitcoin adoption in the Middle East, Saifedean's talk at The Unconfiscatable Conference titled "Beyond the Bitcoin Standard," J.P. Morgan Coin, and what Saifedean anticipates Bitcoin transaction fees will look like once all Bitcoins have been mined. ----- 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
February 28, 2019
66 min
Matt Corallo, Engineer at Chaincode Labs: Bitcoin's 5% Chance of Success
Matt Corallo is an engineer at Chaincode Labs, and one of the top Bitcoin core developers. In this conversation, Corallo and Soona Amhaz discuss what Corallo means when he says Bitcoin has a 5% chance of succeeding, how he plans to replace mining protocol stratum with BetterHash, what's coming up in the 2019 Lightning road map, and what it's like being vegan in Bitcoin carnivory-land. ----- 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
February 21, 2019
47 min
Zooko Wilcox, Founder & CEO of Zcash Co: Zooko on What's Next for Privacy in Crypto
Zooko Wilcox is Founder and CEO of Zcash Co, the company behind Zcash, a privacy focused digital currency. In this conversation, Zooko and Soona Amhaz discuss the Founders Reward Debate, the new proposed Zcash algorithm, what it will take to get people to care about privacy, and the story behind why Zooko, at one point, was living out of his car. ----- 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
February 14, 2019
47 min
Meltem Demirors, CSO at CoinShares: Parallels Between Alchemy and Bitcoin
Meltem Demirors is Chief Strategy Officer at CoinShares a digital asset manager and research platform. Before CoinShares, Meltem was Vice President at Digital Currency Group. On today’s show we discuss her thoughts about the next equities bear market, why Meltem is skeptical of the "crypto will helping developing nations" narrative and the philosophical parallels she sees between alchemy and bitcoin. ----- 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
January 31, 2019
73 min
Andy Bromberg, President of CoinList: Trends in Token Distribution
Andy Bromberg is President and co-founder of CoinList, a platform for token offerings and for building blockchain projects. Today on the show Bromberg and Soona Amhaz discuss whether or not airdrops are actually dead and the interesting trends in token distribution Andy’s noticed, his transition from CEO to president, and whether or not KYC really spells out the end of decentralized exchanges. Plus we also discuss a range of non-crypto topics like the keto diet, productivity hacks he can vouch for, and some of Andy’s favorite books. ----- 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
January 31, 2019
50 min
Linda Xie, co-founder of Scalar Capital: What Linda Thinks About Basically Everything
Linda Xie is co-founder and managing director of Scalar Capital a cryptoasset investment firm. Before launching Scalar, Linda was at Coinbase for about three years. Today on the show Linda and Soona Amhaz discuss how Scalar capital chooses the assets they invest in, how they research things that aren’t in the public market, the state of privacy coins and where it's headed. Plus, how Linda became one of the wealthiest people on Neopets at only 10 years old. ----- 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
January 31, 2019
53 min

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Tony Sheng, Independent Analyst: A Writer's Take on Bitcoin Lore

David Fauchier, Founder of Cambrial Capital: The Road Ahead for DeFi

Elena Nadolinski & JZ, Pioneer Winners: Crypto Privacy and a High School Student's Solution to Key Recovery

Jing Wang, Executive Director of Plasma Group: Plasma and the Future of Ethereum 2,0

Taylor Pearson, Author of The End of Jobs: Markets Are Eating the World

Devin Finzer, Co-Founder of OpenSea & Brian Flynn, Dapper Labs : Everything You Need to Know About NFTs

Dani Grant, Analyst at Union Square Ventures: The VC Outlook on Crypto’s Trends and Future

Saifedean Ammous, Bitcoin Economist: How Bitcoin Would Respond to a Government Attack

Matt Corallo, Engineer at Chaincode Labs: Bitcoin's 5% Chance of Success

Zooko Wilcox, Founder & CEO of Zcash Co: Zooko on What's Next for Privacy in Crypto

Meltem Demirors, CSO at CoinShares: Parallels Between Alchemy and Bitcoin

Andy Bromberg, President of CoinList: Trends in Token Distribution

Linda Xie, co-founder of Scalar Capital: What Linda Thinks About Basically Everything