Today we sit down with independent analyst and angel investor Tony Sheng to discuss his writing process, gaming, contributing to bitcoin core, and crypto fundamentals.

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David Fauchier is the founder of Cambrial Capital. In this conversation, David and Soona Amhaz discuss popular misconceptions around Generalized Mining, the road ahead for DeFi, and how the money behind the money thinks about investments in crypto funds.

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Since 2015, Consensus has been recognized as the most influential blockchain and digital assets event of the year. Hot-button topics such as adoption challenges, privacy, blockchain innovation, capital formation and more take centerstage as experts and pioneers give voice to the new developments and innovations occurring around the globe. Don't miss this three-day experience! Register today: www.consensus2019.com. Use promo: TOKEN300 to save $300 on your pass. 

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Soona Amhaz sits down with Pioneer winners Elena Nadolinski & JZ to discuss everything under the crypto sun, from privacy preservation to biometric key recovery systems, and rogue government actors.

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Jing Wang is the Executive Director of Plasma Group. In this conversation, Jing and Soona Amhaz discuss generalized plasma, the state of Ethereum 2.0, and her book recommendation The Cathedral and the Bazaar.

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Today we chat with Taylor Pearson, an entrepreneur and author of both The End of Jobs, and his most recent piece, which is also the topic of today’s episode: Markets Are Eating the World. On the show we discuss how blockchains will affect the concept of the firm, we also talk about the future of DAO’s, and tail risk as it applies to bitcoin.

You can find Taylor's article here.

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Devin Finzer is the Co-Founder of OpenSea, and Brian Flynn works in product marketing at Dapper Labs. In this conversation, Finzer, Flynn, and Soona Amhaz discuss the recent uptick in activity that NFTs have seen, how NFTs and DeFi could interact in the future, and Collectibles Maximalism.

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Dani Grant is an analyst at Union Square Ventures where she focuses primarily on blockchain companies. Before USV, Dani was part of the Product Strategy team at Cloudflare. In our episode today we talk about why distributed computing is important, how users and developers will interact with crypto, learnings that Dani’s carried over from Cloudflare to help her better evaluate crypto trends, plus the latest projects she’s been hacking away on.

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Saifedean Ammous is a Bitcoin economist and the author of The Bitcoin Standard. In this conversation, Saifedean and Soona Amhaz discuss Bitcoin adoption in the Middle East, Saifedean's talk at The Unconfiscatable Conference titled "Beyond the Bitcoin Standard," J.P. Morgan Coin, and what Saifedean anticipates Bitcoin transaction fees will look like once all Bitcoins have been mined.

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Matt Corallo is an engineer at Chaincode Labs, and one of the top Bitcoin core developers. In this conversation, Corallo and Soona Amhaz discuss what Corallo means when he says Bitcoin has a 5% chance of succeeding, how he plans to replace mining protocol stratum with BetterHash, what's coming up in the 2019 Lightning road map, and what it's like being vegan in Bitcoin carnivory-land.

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Zooko Wilcox is Founder and CEO of Zcash Co, the company behind Zcash, a privacy focused digital currency. In this conversation, Zooko and Soona Amhaz discuss the Founders Reward Debate, the new proposed Zcash algorithm, what it will take to get people to care about privacy, and the story behind why Zooko, at one point, was living out of his car.

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Meltem Demirors is Chief Strategy Officer at CoinShares a digital asset manager and research platform. Before CoinShares, Meltem was Vice President at Digital Currency Group. On today’s show we discuss her thoughts about the next equities bear market, why Meltem is skeptical of the "crypto will helping developing nations" narrative and the philosophical parallels she sees between alchemy and bitcoin.

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