Josh Wolfe | Investing in the Future: Meditations on Passion, Randomness, and Optionality
In Episode 37 of Hidden Forces, host Demetri Kofinas speaks with Josh Wolfe, co-founder of Lux Capital. Lux Capital is a venture firm that specializes in the hard sciences, supporting scientists and e...
26 Maalis 20181h 23min
Leemon Baird | Hedera Hashgraph: A Revolutionary New Public Ledger and Governance Framework
In Episode 36 of Hidden Forces, host Demetri Kofinas interviews Leemon Baird about the launch of Hedera Hashgraph, a public ledger built atop the hashgraph consensus protocol that aims to serve as the...
19 Maalis 20181h 20min
Banking on Bitcoin | Solving the Problem of Credit Using Distributed Applications
In Episode 35 of Hidden Forces, host Demetri Kofinas speaks with Alex Mashinsky. Alex is the founder, and CEO of Celsius, a next generation lending wallet that aims to be the 'Killer App' of the bitco...
5 Maalis 201855min
Brian Kelly | Investing in Cryptocurrency: a Financial Markets Perspective on Bitcoin
In Episode 34 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Brian Kelly, CEO of BKCM LLC, a digital asset investment firm. He is an experienced Global Macro investor with over twenty-five years' exper...
26 Helmi 201857min
Bill Browder and the Fall of Glasnost: A Tale of Murder and Corruption in Russia
In Episode 33 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Bill Browder about how his wealth was plundered by Russian oligarchs and placed in the hands of Vladimir Putin. This is the story of Bill Br...
19 Helmi 20181h 8min
Ari Paul | How the Top Crypto Funds Are Trading and Investing in Cryptocurrency
In Episode 32 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Ari Paul about the inner workings of hedge funds focused exclusively on the cryptocurrency space. Over the course of the last year, cryptocu...
12 Helmi 20181h 6min
Chris Burniske | How Do You Value a Cryptocurrency? Cryptoeconomics and How to Build a Financial Model for Valuing Cryptoassets
In Episode 31 of Hidden Forces, host Demetri Kofinas speaks with Chris Burniske about how to value a cryptocurrency. Chris is a co-founder of Placeholder, a New York venture firm that specializes in c...
29 Tammi 20181h 9min
Tim O'Reilly | We Can Predict the Future Only by Learning to Map the Present
In Episode 30 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas asks the question, "how can we learn how to predict the future?" According to his guest, Tim O'Reilly, learning how to predict the future starts with bu...
22 Tammi 20181h 5min
