Unlocking $700 trillion through Crypto with John Wu of Ava Labs

Nathaniel Whittemore, host of The Breakdown and lead of NLW&CO and Scott Melker discuss traveling and working in conflict zones around the world and lessons learned, the idea of American Exceptionalism and its effects on other cultures, hyperinflation in Lebanon and its effect on Bitcoin, the incredible strength of the dollar, Warren Buffett's take on the markets, the path to hyperbitcoinization, working at home through the global pandemic, creating content on a large scale, money printing and UBI and much more. --- ROUNDLYX RoundlyX allows you to dollar-cost-average into crypto with our spare change "Roundup" investing tool, manage multiple crypto exchange accounts in one dashboard and access curated digital asset content and services. Visit RoundlyX and use promo code "WOLF" to learn more about accumulating your favorite digital assets when making everyday purchases and earn $4 in free Bitcoin. --- VOYAGER This episode is brought to you by Voyager, your new favorite crypto broker. Trade crypto fast and commission-free the easy way. Earn up to 6% 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

14 Touko 20201h

Dave Chapman is the Executive Director of BC Group and OSL, Asia's leading digital asset platform. He and Scott Melker discuss how big money moves in and out of Bitcoin, the over the counter market, China's seesaw policies on crypto, Tether's role in Bitcoin price movement, why he is always bullish on Bitcoin, "dirty cash" and how people's behavior is likely to change after COVID-19, Hong Kong's effective measures to stop the virus, the growing distrust of governments and central bodies and how that helps Bitcoin, mainstream adoption and it's inevitability and more. --- ROUNDLYX RoundlyX allows you to dollar-cost-average into crypto with our spare change "Roundup" investing tool, manage multiple crypto exchange accounts in one dashboard and access curated digital asset content and services. Visit RoundlyX and use promo code "WOLF" to learn more about accumulating your favorite digital assets when making everyday purchases and earn $4 in free Bitcoin. --- VOYAGER This episode is brought to you by Voyager, your new favorite crypto broker. Trade crypto fast and commission-free the easy way. Earn up to 6% 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

12 Touko 20201h 3min

Dan Gunsberg, CEO of HXRO exchange and Scott Melker discuss whether golf is a sport or a drinking game, being a crypto entrepreneur through a bear market, developing and launching a novel exchange concept, why Bitcoin was never going to 0, removing emotions from trading, why traders need to ring the cash register, why many exchanges are not available in the US, how large funds trade, finding an edge as a crypto trader, going broke trading and bouncing back, the music industry and more. One of the best quotes from the episode when asked about his worst trading moments. Dan said he felt like "laying on my couch with my thumb in my mouth." --- ROUNDLYX RoundlyX allows you to dollar-cost-average into crypto with our spare change "Roundup" investing tool, manage multiple crypto exchange accounts in one dashboard and access curated digital asset content and services. Visit RoundlyX and use promo code "WOLF" to learn more about accumulating your favorite digital assets when making everyday purchases and earn $4 in free Bitcoin. --- VOYAGER This episode is brought to you by Voyager, your new favorite crypto broker. Trade crypto fast and commission-free the easy way. Earn up to 6% 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

7 Touko 20201h 4min

Steve Ehrlich, CEO of Voyager and ex-CEO of ETRADE Professional Trading and Scott Melker discuss the challenges of running a publicly traded crypto broker in the United States, the lessons learned from playing sports, the fungibility of crypto, security and safety, how to reach mainstream adoption, whether institutional money is in crypto, infinite QE and money printing, running a company during the COVID-19 pandemic, the March 12th crypto crash and much more. --- ROUNDLYX RoundlyX allows you to dollar-cost-average into crypto with our spare change "Roundup" investing tool, manage multiple crypto exchange accounts in one dashboard and access curated digital asset content and services. Visit RoundlyX and use promo code "WOLF" to learn more about accumulating your favorite digital assets when making everyday purchases and earn $4 in free Bitcoin. --- VOYAGER This episode is brought to you by Voyager, your new favorite crypto broker. Trade crypto fast and commission-free the easy way. Earn up to 6% 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

5 Touko 20201h 4min

Dr. Richard Melker, world-renowned ER Physician and Inventor and Scott Melker, discuss the early days of emergency medicine, being the head doctor for the NASA Space Shuttle Program and the Challenger Explosion, the politicization of COVID-19, life on the front lines in the ER during a global pandemic, fake news, inventing the transport ventilator, inventing the world standard device (The Melker Cricothyrotomy Set) for intubating patients in an emergency, the importance of hand washing, making the leap from physician to inventor, social distancing and much more. --- ROUNDLYX RoundlyX allows you to dollar-cost-average into crypto with our spare change "Roundup" investing tool, manage multiple crypto exchange accounts in one dashboard and access curated digital asset content and services. Visit RoundlyX and use promo code "WOLF" to learn more about accumulating your favorite digital assets when making everyday purchases and earn $4 in free Bitcoin. --- VOYAGER This episode is brought to you by Voyager, your new favorite crypto broker. Trade crypto fast and commission-free the easy way. Earn up to 6% 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

30 Huhti 20201h 36min

Haseeb Awan, CEO of Efani and Inventor of the Bitcoin ATM offers a masterclass on Sim swapping and securing your phone and information from hackers. Haseeb and Scott Melker discuss what SIM Swaps are, how hackers find your personal information, how the dark web functions and, most importantly, the best ways to secure yourself. We also discussed his long history in crypto and the invention and proliferation of the Bitcoin ATM. This episode will keep you up at night and compel you to take security seriously - starting today. --- ROUNDLYX RoundlyX allows you to dollar-cost-average into crypto with our spare change "Roundup" investing tool, manage multiple crypto exchange accounts in one dashboard and access curated digital asset content and services. Visit RoundlyX and use promo code "WOLF" to learn more about accumulating your favorite digital assets when making everyday purchases and earn $4 in free Bitcoin. --- VOYAGER This episode is brought to you by Voyager, your new favorite crypto broker. Trade crypto fast and commission-free the easy way. Earn up to 6% 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

28 Huhti 20201h 6min

You can't tell the story of Bitcoin without telling the story of Charlie Shrem. Charlie, Bitcoin Legend, host of Untold Stories and CEO of CryptoIQ and Scott Melker discuss life in the early days of Bitcoin and crypto, the insanity of life in prison and the lessons learned, the failure that is the United States criminal justice system, going from being a millionaire to working a minimum wage job and back to being a millionaire, being a target of hackers as a famous person in the space, the toxicity of the crypto community, the upcoming Bitcoin halvening and its implications and more. --- ROUNDLYX RoundlyX allows you to dollar-cost-average into crypto with our spare change "Roundup" investing tool, manage multiple crypto exchange accounts in one dashboard and access curated digital asset content and services. Visit RoundlyX and use promo code "WOLF" to learn more about accumulating your favorite digital assets when making everyday purchases and earn $4 in free Bitcoin. --- VOYAGER This episode is brought to you by Voyager, your new favorite crypto broker. Trade crypto fast and commission-free the easy way. Earn up to 6% 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

23 Huhti 202053min

Ed Felten, Former Chief Technologist of the FTC and Deputy CTO of the USA and Scott Melker discuss contact tracing and its privacy implications, the proper role of government in COVID-19, the post virus "new normal," election hacking and why blockchain is not a voting solution, the best use cases for blockchain, the future of smart contracts, what's up with Libra, why the US no longer has the same lead as a technological hub and how crypto can function as money in the future. --- ROUNDLYX RoundlyX allows you to dollar-cost-average into crypto with our spare change "Roundup" investing tool, manage multiple crypto exchange accounts in one dashboard and access curated digital asset content and services. Visit RoundlyX and use promo code "WOLF" to learn more about accumulating your favorite digital assets when making everyday purchases and earn $4 in free Bitcoin. --- VOYAGER This episode is brought to you by Voyager, your new favorite crypto broker. Trade crypto fast and commission-free the easy way. Earn up to 6% 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

21 Huhti 20201h 5min