What crypto needs to entice the big boys with Catherine Coley, CEO of Binance.US

To make money in crypto, you have to have some skin in the game. But for the masses to enter, someone has to build the infrastructure and tools for traders to utilize. James Putra, head of product strategy at TradeStation, is more than just a designer and builder, he is a trader at heart and knows exactly what features people need to gain exposure to digital assets. It doesn't hurt that James is also a mega bull. Scott Melker and James Putra discuss the ultimate Swiss Franc Forex trade, the jargon of trading, the psychology of trading, the costs of short term capital gains, the root of FUD headlines, miners taking profit, 30% dips, the systemic risk of Tether, awakening bears, retiring off Home Depot stock, the crypto supply crisis, negative interest rates, endless money printing, Miami as the crypto hub, the 2021 crypto outlook and more.  ---- If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and subscribe. This podcast is presented by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: https://www.blockworks.co

28 Jan 20211h 2min

Steven McClurg is leading the race towards mainstream adoption of Bitcoin and the acceptance of an ETF. According to Steven, once an ETF is approved, institutional players will finally have a chance to put their reserves, investments, cash, and balance sheets into Bitcoin. This episode contains everything you need to know about the race for an ETF and institutional adoption. Scott Melker and Steven McClurg further discuss esoteric money management, emerging markets, structured credits, close-knit mutual funds, asset-backed securities, Tesla as a proxy to oil trading, the GBTC premium, family offices, endowments, insurance companies, and pensions exploring Bitcoin, the degradation of the dollar, 500k Bitcoin and more. ––– MONEY ON CHAIN Money On Chain brings Bitcoin to mass adoption with solutions to meet the needs of different types of users: a fully bitcoin-collateralized stablecoin (DoC), a bitcoin on steroids (BPro), and a dizzying bitcoiner option for lovers of leveraged trading (BTCx). All this, without requiring the delivery of private keys. Money On Chain - Bringing bitcoin into the mainstream. Visit moneyonchain.com/wolf to learn more --- 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 9.5% 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. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: https://www.blockworks.co

26 Jan 20211h

Ryan Selkis is the co-founder and CEO of Messari which boasts the longest running crypto daily brief in the world, with over 40,000 readers. Their readers and platform customers include retail traders, investors, family offices, hedge funds, crypto institutions, governments and more. Placed at the heart of the operation, Ryan is inextricably tied to every important aspect of crypto and has a keen awareness of what's likely to unfold in the coming years. This conversation focuses on the potential explosion of interest in the crypto space in 2021.   Scott Melker and Ryan Selkis further discuss the 2020 Crypto Thesis, aggregating high signal information for investors, GBTC’s premium, alpha for whales, a crypto bubble that won't pop, the gold market as a proxy, the legitimacy of Tether, threats to Bitcoin, top DeFi blue chips, sending money at the speed of light, Ethereum as the backbone of DeFi, a Bitcoin ETF, Picasso’s Bull, NFTs and more.  ---- If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and subscribe. This podcast is presented by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: https://www.blockworks.co

21 Jan 202155min

Justin Sun is one of the most prominent members of the crypto community. His crypto story started in 2012, when Justin worked on some of the the earliest projects in the space before building Tron (TRX). Justin's previous experience gives him unique insight into every major trend occurring in 2021, and has Justin poised to make Tron a major player in the DeFi space and beyond. Scott Melker and Justin Sun further discuss working for Ripple in 2012, graduating from UPenn, the pre-Tron days, solving the scalability problem, building Tron, 2017 ICOs, paper Bitcoin, learning from Jack Ma, dot-com and crypto bubbles, the digital Yuan, North Korea, the future of Tron and more. ––– RSK/IOV Sovryn is a decentralised Bitcoin trading and lending platform and one of the first Bitcoin-native DeFi platforms. Earn interest on your Bitcoin and get paid for lending assets, with up to 5x leverage on long and short trades using USDT, BTC and bitcoin-backed stablecoins. All with no KYC. Click the link below to get your first month’s trading fees for free. Be one of the first 100 and claim a $100 bonus! Visit Sovryn.app/wolf for more info. --- 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 9.5% 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. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: https://www.blockworks.co

19 Jan 20211h 12min

Edan Yago grew up during apartheid in South Africa and at one point had to smuggle gold as a child to help his family. Yago discovered Bitcoin and, after years of prepping for a revolution, immediately knew that his life would change forever. Stepping into the crypto space, Edan set out to design a new way of approaching DeFi and built Sovryn, a sidechain off of Bitcoin instead of Ethereum. Edan is excited for the monetary revolution that DeFi will bring to the 99% of the world that does not have full access to the world’s financial garden - and all based on Bitcoin.   Scott Melker and Edan Yago further discuss sewing gold into coat pockets, growing up in South Africa’s apartheid, a family of political activists, the only important choice is buying Bitcoin, bringing Bitcoin’s liquidity to DeFi, designing Sovryn, defeating crypto tribalism, fighting the no-coiners, loaning against DeFi, pseudo-Bitcoin, hyper dumps, hyper pumps and more. ---- If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and subscribe. This podcast is presented by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: https://www.blockworks.co

14 Jan 20211h

Robert Materazzi is a US Marine who eagerly attacks big problems, as evidenced by his time at PWC and at Lukka. Robert discovered crypto and believed in the sector's potential, but determined there to be a missing link in crypto markets with regard to fair market price evaluations. While it may sound simple to determine the price of a crypto asset, it is quite the opposite - and over 160 crypto firms have leveraged Lukka’s products to accurately price the assets that they own for guaranteed accuracy. When billions are at stake, every penny and dollar matters. Scott Melker and Robert Materazzi further discuss, working with the S&P, providing the most precise indices, how a fair market value is determined, avoiding artificial volume, catering to 160 crypto funds, the accessibility and liquidity of tokenized assets, staying compliant with regulators, crypto tax audits, Lukka Prime, Series C investments, Bitcoin as a gateway drug and more. ––– RSK/IOV Sovryn is a decentralised Bitcoin trading and lending platform and one of the first Bitcoin-native DeFi platforms. Earn interest on your Bitcoin and get paid for lending assets, with up to 5x leverage on long and short trades using USDT, BTC and bitcoin-backed stablecoins. All with no KYC. Click the link below to get your first month’s trading fees for free. Be one of the first 100 and claim a $100 bonus! Visit Sovryn.app/wolf for more info. --- 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 9.5% 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. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: https://www.blockworks.co

12 Jan 202149min

Pierce Crosby came to the crypto community with years of experience building large scale communities for different social platforms. He helped transform TradingView into a hub of social networking, idea sharing, and community interaction above and beyond just trading. TradingView is now the 125th largest website in the world, and Pierce has big plans to bring the platform to every finance circle on the globe.  Scott Melker and Pierce Crosby further discuss hundreds of thousands of dollars in Memecoin, turning TradingView into one of the largest websites in the world, who is MagicPoopCannon, blowing up trading accounts, comparing TradingView to Spotify and SoundCloud, investing in the Tesla ICO, managing the velocity of DeFi, TradingView desktop version, positive and negative community development and more. ––– RSK/IOV Sovryn is a decentralised Bitcoin trading and lending platform and one of the first Bitcoin-native DeFi platforms. Earn interest on your Bitcoin and get paid for lending assets, with up to 5x leverage on long and short trades using USDT, BTC and bitcoin-backed stablecoins. All with no KYC. Click the link below to get your first month’s trading fees for free. Be one of the first 100 and claim a $100 bonus! Visit Sovryn.app/wolf for more info. --- 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 9.5% 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 Jan 20211h

Mike Dudas spent years helping major companies like Disney, Google, and Venmo with growth and business development. It was during his professional career that his interest in crypto began to grow. Mike recognized that the crypto space lacked an unbiased data, news, and information hub for retailers, businesses, startups, and hedge funds. After assembling a team of experts from around the crypto world, The Block was born and became arguably the best newsletter and data aggregator in the space. Now thousands of curious interdisciplinarians look to The Block for their expertise, guidance and analysis.  Mike Dudas and Scott Melker further discuss, the need for unbiased research, simplifying crypto for the masses, the Bloomberg Terminal, governments as customers, fintech arriving to crypto, competing with PayPal, Facebook’s crypto product, who will be the next Michael Saylor, regulating stablecoins like banks, dumb regulation threatening crypto, burning and depreciating treasuries, the dollar as crypto’s reserve currency and more. --- 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 Jan 202156min