Building DeFi on Bitcoin with Edan Yago, Creator of Sovryn
Episode Date: January 14, 2021Edan 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, af...
Host Scott Melker talks to your favorite characters from the world of Bitcoin, trading, finance, music, art, and anyone else with an interesting story to tell. Sit down, strap in, and get ready – we’re going deep.
1427 episodes transcribedEdan 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, af...
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...
Pierce Crosby came to the crypto community with years of experience building large scale communities for different social platforms. He helped transfo...
Mike Dudas spent years helping major companies like Disney, Google, and Venmo with growth and business development. It was during his professional car...
Just like Scott Melker, Kevin Wang attended the University of Pennsylvania and loved to play video games as a kid. With a desire to explore what was b...
Dan Held, a renowned builder and OG in the Bitcoin space, has invested over 80% of his net worth in Bitcoin and has held through multiple cycles. He s...
Sam Bankman-Fried has quickly become a crypto legend. He graduated college as a Physicist but chose to pursue a career in finance, with the intention...
Memli Krasniqi helped build a nation from scratch, something that few living people can claim to have accomplished. As one of the founding fathers of...
Pablo Gonzalez, the Co-Founder of Bitso, Latin America’s most popular crypto exchange, first started using Bitcoin in 2011. Pablo was also one of Mexi...
As a young girl, Sanja Kon was told that she was “too ambitious” because of her insatiable drive to succeed and change the world. Fast forward to her...
Cyrus Fazel first experienced the power of Bitcoin when he wanted to buy whiskey for someone in Iran. After tumbling down the crypto rabbit hole, Cyru...
Zach Iscol grew up in a home with loving parents, yet chose to join the Marines as an officer. He served two tours leading an infantry unit in one of...
Chen Zur has a diverse background in a multitude of sectors and over 20 years of experience at Ernst and Young. Upon E&Y’s discovery of blockchain 6 y...
Curtis Wood spent years learning the ins and outs of both the mobile app and mortgage industries. When he learned about the blockchain, he knew he had...
Eliza Orlins has spent over a decade serving the citizens of New York City as a public defender. Now she is taking her fight to the political arena, r...
Trevor Jones formally started his art career at the age of 38. He started small, selling his paintings at local gallery exhibitions, catching the eyes...
According to Charles Silver, the CEO of Permission.io, every click on the internet is carefully tracked and packaged into a data gold mine that mega-c...
Bryan Sharpe, better known as Hotep Jesus, consistently challenges the status quo. At a young age his father began to introduce Hotep to ideas outside...
Michael Saylor made headlines when his company MicroStrategy publicly purchased $425M worth of Bitcoin. This massive buy order ignited the “MicroStrat...
Richard Craib began his career as a quantitative analyst for a hedge fund. During his tenure he formed a vision for a new financial system, leading hi...