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Unintended Consequences of MiCA With INATBA and Stokr, Regulated Tokenized Securities with Texture Capital and BTC Volatility and Variance Swaps With Flowdesk
Discussing Bitcoin, DeFi and Central Bank Digital Currencies With Crypto Finance
Patrick Heusser, head of trading at Crypto Finance, joined Coinscrum Markets producer Paul Gordon to discuss the bitcoin market, DeFi and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). Heusser described a “very bullish tone” in the bitcoin market over the past several months, pointing to a “nice…
Financing Decentralized Infrastructure With DCG’s Foundry
Bitcoin mining has grown from occurring inside people’s basements nearly a decade ago into a multi-billion dollar industrial business today. Demand that the network creates is a direct function of the price of bitcoin or Ethereum. The more the price of BTC or ETH goes…
CryptoCompare Exchange Review With Constantine Tsavliris
In recent years, there have been questions surrounding the integrity of the data published by cryptocurrency exchanges. In an attempt to help clean up these discrepancies, market data provider CryptoCompare for the past couple of years has been publishing a monthly exchange report to help…
Bitcoin Transaction Value Hits $5 Billion Per Day as Price Surges With ByteTree
James Bennett, CEO of ByteTree, provided the latest onchain insights and observations in the Onchain Reaction Segment. He discussed the onchain transaction value on Bitcoin over the last few days, saying it hit $5 billion settled per day as the price surged through $15K and…
Bitcoin Mining With Foundry and Cryptocurrency Exchange Data With CryptoCompare
In this week’s episode of Coinscrum Markets, Crypto Finance’s Patrick Heusser returns to review the markets in Crypto RFQ Segment. Paul Gordon is joined by Mike Colyer, CEO of Foundry, to discuss how the company is financing crypto mining and staking infrastructure in North America…
Bitcoin ATMs, Crypto Market Infrastructure in Europe and the UK’s Crypto Derivatives Ban
In this episode of Coinscrum, BlockFi’s David Olsson returns to discuss the prevalence of bitcoin ATMs across the globe in the Crypto RFQ segment. Teana-Baker Taylor, general manager for the UK at Crypto.com, is joined by SheeldMarket’s Oliver Yates and Finery Tech’s Ilia Drozdov to…
How MakerDAO is a decentralized project with Gregg Di Prisco
MakerDAO, which was started five years ago, runs on Ethereum. From the get-go, the team said that it has to be a multi-collateral protocol. It’s still early days for the Maker project. Gregg Di Prisco explained, (30:14) Right now, there’s about seven different assets I…
How bitcoin has broken a long-term downtrend that started in 2018 with ByteTree
James Bennett, CEO of ByteTree, provided the latest onchain insights and observations. This week, Bitcoin broke the long term downtrend that it started in 2018. (44:38) “It’s been a really exciting week for bitcoin again now that we’ve broken that long-term downtrend that we started…
Discussing the hype around oracle projects with Pantera Capital
Joey Krug, co-CIO at Pantera Capital, is an Augur alum who got into the Ethereum space in 2014. He discussed the DeFi landscape and whether there are too many solutions looking for a problem or if they actually have all intrinsic value. (32:01) “If you…
Discussing the idea of looking for real-world assets as collateral in DeFi liquidity pools with Vertalo
Dave Hendricks, CEO of Vertalo, talked about the evolution of the company from a due diligence platform to a transfer agent cap table shareholder registry for digital assets, which they built as a result of the problems they faced issuing their own digital asset in…