Venture Capital and Funding The Future Of Crypto with Alon Goren, Founding Partner of DraperGorenHolm

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 Maj 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 Apr 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 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