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This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeCryptoX has just completed its list of 2021′s 50 Most Influential people. On today’s episode, NLW shares that list, and then adds brief commentary on 10 more people or groups that he might have included, including Dylan LeClair and Will Clemente, Punk 6529,
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Audius, a music streaming platform based on the Ethereum and Solana blockchains, grew from having 500,000 monthly listeners at the end of 2020 to nearly 7 million today, CEO Roneil Rumburg says. That’s significant, and a signal that Audius might emerge as a real challenge to centralized services like Spotify
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Co-founder of Yat Labs Naveen Jain essentially built a global identity solution using emojis, and one being leveraged by many in the crypto industry and celebrities including Ke$ha and Questlove.Like many crypto projects, the aim is censorship resistance, a form of identity based on three emoji to represent an online
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Former Bloomberg journalist Camila Russo identified a niche market, decentralized finance (DeFi) that wasn’t receiving nearly enough attention for the weight it was pulling, and executed. Her media empire, “The Defiant,” began as a daily newsletter giving a rundown of major DeFi news has grown to encompass a team of
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Good morning. Robert Leshner has built one of the essential cornerstones of decentralized finance (DeFi) with Compound, a lending protocol. That’s important. As are the series of investments he’s made in fledging DeFi projects through a “scout” fund he co-founded, Robot Ventures. But you might say his affect and personality
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Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) were already gaining steam before Mike Winkelmann, the digital artist who publishes under the name Beeple, sold a work at a Christie’s auction for $69.9 million. But it was that sale, made in Ethereum’s currency ETH, that brought the sub-sector to public consciousness. Winkelmann was a successful
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Anatoly Yakovenko calls himself the biggest skeptic of cryptocurrencies, even though he developed one of the fastest-growing crypto networks, Solana. The blockchain can reportedly process 50,000 transactions per second, far more than competing smart contract blockchain Ethereum, which currently stalls out at 45 transactions per second. In five years, Yakovenko
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This year, crypto emerged as a political force, with many Washington-based lobbyists fomenting the charge. Executive director of the Blockchain Association, Kristin Smith, a former congressional staffer and familiar face on the Hill, has been the voice for much of this change-making. Her work sometimes happens behind closed doors –
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The one-time chief executive of social media giant Twitter and payments platform Square is now focused solely on Block (Square’s new crypto-themed name). Jack Dorsey is perhaps Silicon Valley’s leading Bitcoin evangelist. He’s called the cryptocurrency the “native currency of the internet,” and has worked to bring that about. Before
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Brian Armstrong, the 38-year-old founder of Coinbase, took the U.S.’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume public this year. In addition to his work making mass crypto adoption easy, Armstrong has been a vocal critic of onerous financial regulations, even proposing that the U.S. appoint a crypto-specific industry watchdog. Although
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