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What Volatility Suggests in the Crypto Derivatives Markets With Flowdesk
(00:47) Guilhem Chaumont, CEO of Flowdesk, joined host Paul Gordon to discuss the cryptocurrency derivatives markets. What Flowdesk is seeing is that there is still high-priced volatility of around 95% for the at-the-money volatility. This clearly shows that the markets are still betting on the…
Weekly Market Roundup
It was all about macro events this week as market participants kept a close eye on the Fed and its intentions to appease market concerns that inflation will overshoot its own targets. Comments by the central bank on the opposite side of the pond, specifically…
Discussing Bitcoin Core Devs in a Bull Market With John Newbery
(1:36) Bitcoin core developer John Newbery joined host Nicholas Gregory, CEO at CommeceBlock, to discuss the state of the Bitcoin network. John first got interested in bitcoin in 2013 when he was living in Australia. He first heard about it on a podcast, but like…
Institutional Investor Flows With Crypto Finance Group
Rupertus Rothenhaeuser, CEO of Crypto Broker AG in the Crypto Finance Group, joined host Paul Gordon to discuss institutional investor demand for bitcoin. Rupertus discussed the recent market activity in which bitcoin pulled back, taking the broader crypto markets with it. On the Crypto Finance…
How Decentralized Storage Is Changing the Game with Arweave and ArDrive
Sam Williams is co-founder and CEO of Arweave, which allows users to store data permanently. Phil Mataras is CEO of ArDrive, which is building on top of the Arweave Network. Both joined host Paul Gordon for the Coinscrum Meet the Founders Series to discuss decentralized…
Bridging the Gap Between Traditional Finance and Crypto w/Ava Labs
John Wu is president of Ava Labs, which is behind the Avalanche protocol and which recently partnered with Coinscrum. He joined host Teana Baker-Taylor to discuss the intersection of traditional financial markets and the blockchain space. John hails from the traditional financial world where he…
Reactive and Proactive Crypto Regulation in the UK w/Outlier Ventures
Outlier Ventures is a UK-based venture capital firm that has been focused on blockchain and crypto since 2013. Chris Donovan, head of legal at the company, spent some time with host Ian Taylor to discuss the regulatory and VC environment for crypto in the U.K….
How Corporate Demand and FOMO Are Fueling Bitcoin With BlockFi
David Olsson, vice president of Europe and Asia at BlockFi, joined host Teana Baker-Taylor to discuss crypto demand. BlockFi is seeing huge demand on the fiat side of dollars and stablecoins, which has been fueled by the climb up to all-time-highs at USD 58K on…
The Economics of Tokens and Platforms
The issuance of native tokens within a platform, such as a distributed ledger, is one of the most common ways of financing its maintenance and development. In this note, we discuss how a platform economy works, whether a fixed supply of tokens is optimal and…
Hegemony in the Head
Professors and practitioners of geopolitics have long been debating which civilisation will replace the West as the world’s hegemon. But if you told these scholars that the challenge to the West would come from what we patronisingly used to call the Third World, they would…
Catching the NFT Bug With KnownOrigin’s Andy Gray
KnownOrigin is an artist-focused platform that lets digital creators authenticate, showcase and sell the artwork they create via non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Andy Gray, a co-founder at KnownOrigin, spent some time with host Paul Gordon for Coinscrum’s Meet the Founders series. Andy is a software engineer…
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