Flippening - For Cryptocurrency Investors (bitcoin, Ethereum, And Cryptoasset Investing)

Note: This Episode of Flippening is Made Possible by Nomics' free Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin API.The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source cryptocurrency trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with a bunch of exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast firehose. If you’ve found that you or your developer has to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining cryptoasset datasets, instead of identifying investing/trading opportunities . . . or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently, with top-notch support and SLAs, then check us out at Nomics.com.My guest today is Eric Meltzer, and this is part one of my conversation with him. Eric is a partner at INBlockchain, China’s oldest and largest institutional crypto asset and blockchain fund.To give you a sense of INBlockchain’s size and scope, consider that they recently announced a $1.6 Billi

Note: This Episode of Flippening is Made Possible by Nomics' free Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin API.The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source cryptocurrency trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with a bunch of exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast firehose. If you’ve found that you or your developer has to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining cryptoasset datasets, instead of identifying investing/trading opportunities . . . or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently, with top-notch support and SLAs, then check us out at Nomics.com. This is part 2 of my conversation with Ateet Ahluwalia.I really enjoyed the content from part 1 and I wanted to give you a second chance to hear from Ateet and tease the first episode.If you didn’t catch our previous episode, here’s some background: Ateet is Managing Director at CoVenture Cry

Note: This Episode of Flippening is Made Possible by Nomics' free Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin API.The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source cryptocurrency trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with a bunch of exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast firehose. If you’ve found that you or your developer has to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining cryptoasset datasets, instead of identifying investing/trading opportunities . . . or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently, with top-notch support and SLAs, then check us out at Nomics.com. My guest today is Ateet Ahluwalia, and this is part one of my conversation with him.Ateet is a Managing Director at CoVenture Crypto.Prior to CoVenture, Ateet was a Macro Credit Trader at Barclays, a Macro Portfolio Manager at BlueCrest Capital, and a Credit Index Trader at Goldman Sachs. Ate

Note: This Episode of Flippening is Made Possible by Nomics' free Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin API.The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source cryptocurrency trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with a bunch of exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast firehose. If you’ve found that you or your developer has to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining cryptoasset datasets, instead of identifying investing/trading opportunities . . . or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently, with top-notch support and SLAs, then check us out at Nomics.com. This is part 2 of my conversation with Ari Nazir.I was so happy with the content in part 1, that I decided to create this second episode from my conversation with Ari.If you didn’t catch our previous episode, here’s some background: Ari is a founder and managing partner at Neural Capital, an

Note: This Episode of Flippening is Made Possible by Nomics' free Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin API.The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source cryptocurrency trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with a bunch of exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast firehose. If you’ve found that you or your developer has to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining cryptoasset datasets, instead of identifying investing/trading opportunities . . . or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently, with top-notch support and SLAs, then check us out at Nomics.com.My guest today is Ari Nazir and this is one of our top 3 episodes to date.Ari is a founder and managing partner at Neural Capital. I met Ari in part because I’m a limited partner in Protocol Ventures, which we covered in a previous episode. Protocol Ventures is a Fund of Funds with a portf

Note: This Episode of Flippening is Made Possible by Nomics' free Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin API.The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source cryptocurrency trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with a bunch of exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast firehose. If you’ve found that you or your developer has to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining cryptoasset datasets, instead of identifying investing/trading opportunities . . . or if you’re tired of interpolated data and want raw primary source trades delivered simply and consistently, with top-notch support and SLAs, then check us out at Nomics.com. My guest today is Troy Wong, CFO and Co-Founder of Neptune DASH, which he took public in January 2018 in Canada on the TSX Venture Exchange.Neptune DASH is the first Dash masternode company; it currently runs 18 masternodes, each of which generates about 6.8 DASH per month. Neptune DASH’

My guest today is actually . . . me (Clay Collins).On this episode, you will hear a very special interview conducted by Rob Paone, the host of the Crypto Bobby PodcastA few weeks ago, Rob interviewed me for his podcast and I liked the content so much that I asked Rob if I could air a modified version of that conversation here for you today. He generously said yes, so here we are.You're probably used to me being the one asking the questions. In this episode, we flip the script and I hope you enjoy what happens when the tables are turned.Topics include:Nomics' origin story and what led myself and my co-founder to start Nomics.A high-level overview of what Nomics is involved in at the moment.What the future product roadmap for Nomics looks like, and the importance of our forthcoming API product.Why we think we have the cleanest data in the space.The evolution of institutional participation in crypto investing and some of the top lessons learned thus far from the Flippening Podcast.The difference between Alpha an

My guest today is Hunter Horsley.Hunter is the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Asset Management, which operates the first crypto-index fund called the HOLD 10, which tracks the top 10 crypto assets weighted by inflation-adjusted market cap.The HOLD 10 Index fund has several hundreds of investors that range from billionaires to professors, to large RIA firms.What’s notable about this interview is that Hunter’s business model is the antithesis of hedge funds’.The indexing approach is about collecting small fees from lots of investors, and about passive methodologies winning over an active "coin picking" strategies. It’s a belief that a properly formed index can beat hedge fund performance without source code reviews, meeting founders, or creating value hypothesis.Hunter’s thoughts and worldviews are sobering counterpoints to some of this podcast’s most popular interviews.

My guest today is a guy named "Jon."  Jon wouldn’t tell me his last name or where he’s located.Jon isn't a mysterious figure I met on an underground Telegram pump-and-dump group or a darknet market operator.To the contrary, he's the COO of one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world: ShapeShift.io.Over time, ShapeShift is becoming somewhat of a crypto conglomerate. They recently purchased Hardware wallet maker KeepKey. They also run the pricing website CoinCap and the do-it-yourself index fund creation tool, Prism (currently in private beta).In this episode, I wanted to speak with the person in charge of end-to-end operations at ShapeShift. This conversation yields an inside look at one of the cryosphere's most influential companies.Topics include:The thesis that ties together ShapeShift's products, brands, and websites.How ShapeShift is similar to decentralized exchanges, and how it’s different.ShapeShift’s product for creating your own crypto hedge fund, called Prism.The mec

Our guest on today's show is Dhruv Bansal.Dhruv is the co-founder of Unchained Capital, which offers individual and commercial cash loans to US individuals and businesses who can provide Bitcoin as collateral. This is an interesting service because it lets you take out a cash loan on your crypto assets so you can benefit from your bitcoin wealth without having to sell your favorite investment. In essence, Unchained Capital is a services layer available to users of the bitcoin blockchain and is part of a growing trend towards making traditional financial services available to crypto asset holders. This is a fascinating offering, and bitcoin holders seem to be really excited about this trend.P.S. You might remember Dhruv from Episode 6, where we discussed the top soundbites and talks from Coindesk’s Consensus Invest Conference.Topics include:Why someone might take out a crypto asset-backed loan.The tax advantages of borrowing against vs. selling your bitcoin.The fact that 60% of bitcoins haven’t been spent

My guest today is Rick Marini Rick is the founder and managing partner of Protocol Ventures, a San Francisco based fund-of-funds that focuses on hedge funds investing exclusively in crypto assets. Rick currently has $10 million under management and is raising a $100M fund. Today’s conversation is a deep dive into Protocol Ventures and an exploration of the fund of funds model, as well as how Rick has applied that model to crypto asset investing. This discussion is important because it is the very first published interview with a founder of a crypto asset fund of funds.Note: This Episode of Flippening is Made Possible by Nomics' free Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin API.The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source cryptocurrency trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with a bunch of exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast firehose. If you’ve found that you or your developer has to spend too much time cleani

This week's episode is a compilation of the best audio clip highlights, talks, and discussions from Consensus: Invest.If you didn't attend Consensus: Invest, or you haven't heard of it, it was the very first conference for institutional investors focused on cryptoassets, and it happened at the end of 2017 in New York City.For today's roundtable discussion, we are joined by Taylor Pearson and Dhruv Bansal from Unchanied Capital. You might remember Taylor from a previous episode. He's a popular essayist and the author of The End of Jobs. Dhruv is the co-founder of Unchained Capital. Unchained Capital is a service that lets you take out a cash loan on your crypto assets so you can benefit from your Bitcoin wealth without having to sell your favorite investment.In this episode, we've recapped Consensus Invest and compiled our favorite audio clips and discussions from the event.  This episode is the next best thing to attending in person.Topics include:Thoughts on a talk about cryptocurren

Chances are good that you've never met a professional crypto liquidity provider.  And before meeting today's guest in Zug, Switzerland, I'd never met one either.Today's guest is Benjamin Roberts, the co-founder of Citizen Hex, which is (you guessed it) an Ethereum and ERC-20 token liquidity provider.Citizen Hex works to increase the likelihood that, when traders place buy and sell orders for ERC-20 tokens on various crypto-exchanges, that those orders go through.This conversation is a deep dive on what it means to be a market maker and liquidity provider in crypto markets.Note: This Episode of Flippening is Made Possible by Nomics' free Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin API.The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source cryptocurrency trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with a bunch of exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast firehose. If you’ve found that you or your developer has to spend t

Our guest today is crypto-derivatives expert and Bloomberg contributor Aaron Brown. Aaron is the former Managing Director and Head Of Research at AQR Capital Management (the world’s second-largest hedge fund with over 63 billion under management). Today’s conversation is a deep dive into the topic of crypto and bitcoin derivatives. This is a timely discussion, as CME Group, Cboe, LedgerX, and Nasdaq have all launched -- or announced plans to launch -- Bitcoin derivatives markets. Many believe that these announcements have fueled the huge gains we have seen in the price of Bitcoin in October, November, and December of 2017.Note: This Episode of Flippening is Made Possible by Nomics' free Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin API.The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source cryptocurrency trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with a bunch of exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast firehose. If you’ve found th

A deep dive into the topic of crypto hedge funds generally, and Multicoin Capital, specifically. On today’s show, we are joined by Kyle Samani. Kyle is the co-founder of Multicoin Capital, an Austin, Texas-based crypto hedge fund with $10 million under management and currently raising a $100 million fund. This is a very timely discussion, given that there are now over 124 registered crypto hedge funds, most of which were created this year.Note: This Episode of Flippening is Made Possible by Nomics' free Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin API.The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source cryptocurrency trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with a bunch of exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast firehose. If you’ve found that you or your developer has to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining cryptoasset datasets, instead of identifying investing/trading opportunities . . . or if you’re tired of in

This week’s show is our very first Crypto News Roundup for December of 2017. These episodes provide long-form commentary and context around the most important news and events for cryptocurrency investors. Joining us for this episode is Taylor Pearson, the author of The End of Jobs. Taylor recently spoke at length on social media about the lack of understanding that many people have for blockchain technology. This conversation includes some great insight into crypto hedge funds, cybersecurity, and institutional cryptoeconomics.Note: This Episode of Flippening is Made Possible by Nomics' free Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin API.The Nomics API offers squeaky clean and normalized primary source cryptocurrency trade data offered through fast and modern endpoints. Instead of having to integrate with a bunch of exchange APIs of varying quality, you can get everything through one screaming fast firehose. If you’ve found that you or your developer has to spend too much time cleaning up and maintaining cryptoasset datas

Welcome to the very first episode of Flippening. This podcast is for a new class of investors who were not part of the financial services world before bitcoin, but came into the finance space because of their passion for crypto assets and distributed ledger technology. As part of the movement to recreate the world’s financial system from the ground up, these folks are starting hedge funds, creating financial products, addressing the custodianship problem, starting liquidity businesses, starting decentralized crypto exchanges, etc. Each week we discuss the cryptocurrency economy, new investment strategies for maximizing returns, and stories from the front lines of financial disruption. In the upcoming episodes of Flippening, we’ll be having conversations with the creators of the new financial reality. The ensuing episodes will feature conversations with financial revolutionaries, economic heretics, crypto anarchists, and people who just think a few things could be done a bit better. This podcast is for inve