Jack Tao, CEO of Phemex, on Building The Fast Growing Cryptocurrency and Derivatives Exchange In The World

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 Apr 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 Apr 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 Apr 20201h 5min

Eric Feigl-Ding is the leading voice in the United States on the COVID-19 epidemic and was the first epidemiologist to publicly sound the alarm on the dangers of the virus. He was painted as an alarmist but was ultimately proven right. In this episode, Feigl-Ding and Scott Melker discuss the early warning signs of the pandemic, why COVID-19 is the "perfect storm," how testing is the biggest problem, including 50% false negatives, the importance of contact tracing, the possibility of reinfection, how the porn industry could accidentally be showing the way on testing, the difficulties of shutting down the United States, the complicity of the US government in the epidemic and more. This is the ENTIRE story on COVID-19. --- 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 to learn more about accumulating your favorite digital assets when making everyday purchases. --- 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

16 Apr 20201h 2min

Zac Prince, CEO of BlockFi and Scott Melker thoroughly discuss the crypto crash from March 12, 2020, how leverage exchanges, and Bitmex specifically, were responsible for the second leg of the crash, the relationship between global and crypto markets, why it's time for crypto and the dollar to shine, and The Frozen 2 soundtrack's greatest hits. --- 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 to learn more about accumulating your favorite digital assets when making everyday purchases. --- 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 Apr 202042min

Dr. Michael Corrado has been on the front line of the United States's fight against bioterrorism, having worked with BARDA for 15 years to eradicate smallpox. Dr. Corrado and Scott Melker discuss why a smallpox pandemic would be exponentially worse, the proper terminology for the coronavirus, how it infects humans, the difference between contamination, infection and disease, how COVID-19 progresses once you catch it, how long the pandemic may last, the issues with testing, and when there will be a vaccine (if ever). This is a comprehensive guide on everything you could possibly want to know about the coronavirus. --- 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 to learn more about accumulating your favorite digital assets when making everyday purchases. --- 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

9 Apr 20201h 23min

Mark Yusko, CEO of Morgan Creek and Scott Melker discussed a multitude of topics in this whirlwind podcast. They talked about why Bitcoin is the only legitimately uncorrelated asset in the world and the only true free market, why the government should let "zombie companies fail," why Boeing should be shut down, the difference between Cronyism and Capitalism, the problem with stock buy backs, the culpability of the US government in the present economic situation, why stocks are more manipulated than Bitcoin, why Putin is the richest man in the world, and how retail should invest and why they fail. As Mark said, "Human beings do two things really, really well - we buy what we wish we would have bought and sell what we are about to need." They also howled together at the end... --- 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 to learn more about accumulating your favorite digital assets when making everyday purchases. --- 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 Apr 20201h 14min

Jeffrey Swisher is the Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and goes into the hospital to treat patients every day. Dr. Swisher and Scott Melker discuss the balance between protecting yourself and caring for your patients, the prevalence of false negative COVID-19 tests, the importance of social distancing, the immense risk that health care workers are taking treating COVID patience with and without proper PPE, why most of what we heard from the media about the virus is a myth (only kills old people, just the flu etc.), why a vaccine is a long shot, the poor handling of the crisis by the US government and what it's like to be the brother of famous tech personality Kara Swisher. --- 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 to learn more about accumulating your favorite digital assets when making everyday purchases. --- 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

2 Apr 20201h 15min