In this exciting episode of The Crypto Market Watch, we dive deep into the latest developments and controversies surrounding the crypto world. Here's a rundown of the topics we cover in this episode: Intro (00:00 - 03:14) Catching up and a quick preview of today's topics WorldCoin: The Controversial Project (03:15 - 12:43) The ambitious goal of Wor…

In this week's episode of The Crypto Market Watch, hosts Marsh Frost and Dr. Nick discuss the recent collapse of Silvergate and Silicon Valley Bank, which sent shockwaves through the global markets, particularly in the crypto industry. They delve into the impact of these events on stablecoins like DAI and USDC, as well as the potential consequences…

This week, Dr Nick and Marsh Frost talk about the anatomy of Ponzis and how they could lead to the future of finance… Show Notes: What is a Ponzi? Are all Ponzi scams? Are there different types of Ponzis? How to spot a Ponzi? The ponzi ponzu continuum Ponzinomics Sustainable Ponzinomics Resources: Charles Ponzi - Wikipedia Rug of the week: dForce N…

In Episode #17, Dr Nick and Marsh Frost discuss the concept of Midcurving. Dr Nick and Marsh Frost frequently refer to making Midcurve decisions in Crypto. In this episode, we dive deeper into what Midcurve is and why all is not lost if you are a serial midcurver. Show Notes: What is midcurving in crypto? What does this tell us about investing in c…

In Episode #16, Dr Nick and Marsh Frost don their laser eyes and pull back the curtains on Bitcoin and deep dive into the pioneering technology. Jpegs (NFTs) on bitcoin is a new utilisation of the protocol, and we address the buzz around ordinals head-on. What is bitcoin? Why is it significant? Why can't others replicate its success? What are its l…

Dr Nick and Marsh Frost discuss Dr Nick's Crypto predictions for 2023. Socials: Dr Nicks Twitter finance.vote finance.vote Twitter Discord The Crypto Market Watch Suggestion box is open: Holders of an Ethereum FVT NFT or holders of $FVT token can suggest episode ideas and suggest news articles here: finance.vote episode suggestion box Want to leave…

In this episode, Dr Nick and Marsh Frost reviewed Dr Nick's predictions for last year (2022). Marsh and Dr Nick go through each prediction and see how on the money Dr Nick is with each prediction. The Tweet thread under discussion: drnick (anti-crypto arc) 🗳️² on Twitter: "Happy New Year! Will be dropping some crypto narrative predictions for 2022 …

Dr Nick and Marsh Frost talk about NFTs. We discuss the technologies future and what the "Trump Digital Playing Cards" means for NFTs. During the second half of the show, Dr Nick and Marsh go through 2022 major news events, how they impacted Crypto, and how the 2022 dominoes lined up. What is an NFT vs a Fungible Token Future of NFTs 2022 News Roun…

Dr Nick and Marsh Frost talk about CBDCs, why they are important, and what they represent. Our apologies for the abrupt ending of this episode. We hope you enjoyed the conversation. Dr Nick talks through his thesis framework: Dawn of Persmissioned Money. Thesis framework - Dawn of Persmissioned Money Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Ethereum and Programm…

Dr Nick and Marsh Frost are joined by special guest, Charlie Apthorp of Athena Labs. This week, they go through one of Dr Nick's tweets, where he asked the following: “What are the things you hate about this industry?” We go through the best responses and get critical of the crypto industry and lean into Dr Nick's Anti-Crypto Arc. Show notes: Dr Ni…

Dr Nick and Marsh Frost discuss the ongoing collapse of FTX and Almeida Research and what it means for Crypto. We cover cults, drugs, politics, ponzis, power and more. This is a great primer for the crypto-curious who are interested in the collapse of FTX. Important FTX tweet threads: The FTX thing Jason Choi on Twitter: "The Definitive Thread on F…

In Episode 9 of TCMW, Dr Nick and Marsh Frost discuss one of the most common yet least nuanced negative Crypto events, a Rug Pull. Dr Nick will provide a framework on how to think about Rug Pulls and how to avoid them. Or if you absolutely positively have to buy the meme token, what you are looking for in a Project so you can better anticipate what…

In Episode 8 of TCMW, Dr Nick and Marsh Frost discuss one of the spiciest, meme-worthy topics, Crypto Regulations. It's a complex topic with wide-reaching, long-lasting implications that has the ability to polarise the Crypto-sphere, like no other. It’s time to get spicy… The Show: What is the current global status of Crypto Regulation? Does Crypto…

This week, Marsh Frost & Dr Nick discuss “Token Economics”. Nick and Marsh discuss one of the most important cornerstones of all Crypto/web3 projects, token economics. The Show: What is token economics? What is a token What is a utility token? What is a security token? Game theory and mechanism design Why is token economics important? How do you kn…

This week, Marsh Frost & Dr Nick discuss “The Metaverse”. Nick and Marsh discuss the existential question around what the Metaverse is and then they deep dive into the nascent area. So be prepared to go meta… The Show: What is the Metaverse? Metaverse Narratives The Metaverse Value Chain - The Metaverse Value Chain by Jon Radof Layer 1: Experience …

This week, Marsh Frost & Dr Nick discuss “What is a Real DAO?”. Nick and Marsh go down the rabbit on a nascent and nebulous area and attempt to put some flesh on the bone on what is and what is not a DAO (Decentralised Autonomous Organisation). A quick recap of a DAO definition vs Gabriel Shapiro's DAO definition Decentralised Autonomous Organisati…

This week, Marsh Frost & Dr Nick discuss why Crypto and Web3 are different. We will deep dive into their history, what each of them represents, their differences and some use cases. Crypto vs web3 What is web2? Aren’t Crypto and Web3 interchangeable? What role can crypto and web3 play in our society? Crypto What is crypto? What is permisionlessness…

This week, Marsh Frost & Dr Nick discuss the ins and outs of Soul Bound Tokens. We also go into the token economics and game mechanics of finance.vote, the play to earn prediction market. SBT: What is an SBT? SBT vs NFT Why are SBTs important? Decentralised Society Good vs bad of an SBT? Potential applications? FVT: What is finance.vote? History of…

this week, Marsh Frost and Dr Nick talk deep dive into Ethereum, The Merge and Prediction Markets Ethereum What is Ethereum? Why is Ethereum important? What is Eth Classic? What are Ethereum’slLimitations? What are Ethereum's strengths? Merge What is the Merge? When is it happening? What does it change? Why is it important? Forks Does it solve Eth’…

In this inaugural episode, Dr Nick and Marsh Frost discuss DAOs and Maker DAO. Apologies for some of the sound issues in this recording, we are using new equipment in a new set-up, and it will take us a little time to figure it out, but we will work on perfecting this. Nick and Marsh discuss the following and more: DAOs: What is a DAO? How does a D…

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler chats to Dr. Navjit Dhaliwal, the CEO of Iagon, which is a proposal to disrupt the big cloud computing companies: Amazon, IBM, Google and Microsoft, with a distributed network of storage and computer processing using computers of the world. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Nick Armstrong, the CEO of Identitii (ASX:ID8) which listed last month. The business is using blockchain technology to set up an information sharing network between banks at an enterprise level. There's also market commentator Saeed Sidaoui's report on the latest cryptocurrency news and market movemen…

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler chats to UWA Business School Professor Dr Dirk Baur, regarding the launch of their upcoming blockchain unit they'll soon be teaching at the university, as well as his thoughts on the current state of the cryptocurrency market and blockchain technology in general. Market commentator Saeed Sidaoui also provides …

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler speaks to Rupert Colchester, Head of Blockchain and Practice Leader at IBM Australia and New Zealand regarding the IBM Food Trust — a blockchain to track food through the supply chain. Market commentator Saeed Sidaoui also provides his report on the latest cryptocurrency news and market movements. See omnystud…

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler speaks to Jordan Michaelides, Head of Institutional Investment at CoinJar for an update on institutional investment in the cryptocurrency space. Market commentator Saeed Sidaoui also provides his report on the latest cryptocurrency news and market movements. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

This week's episode of Crypto Watch is focussed on the 'Australian National Blockchain’ — Australia’s first cross-industry and large scale blockchain to be built by the CSIRO's Data61 in conjunction with Herbert Smith Freehills and IBM. Alan Kohler spoke to Dr Mark Staples, senior research scientist at the CSIRO’s Data61 and Natasha Blycha, Blockch…

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Sophie Gilder, Head of Blockchain, Innovation Labs at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia who were chosen by the World Bank to deliver the world's first blockchain bond. Alan spoke to Sophie to find out how it will work, what implications it might have for other securities such as company shares, and f…

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Fred Schebesta, the Co-Founder of Finder and also the Co-Founder of HiveEx to discuss the future of the cryptocurrency world. Market commentator Saeed Sidaoui also provides his report on the latest cryptocurrency news and market movements. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Roger Ver, the Chief Executive Officer of Bitcoin.com and the main proselytiser for Bitcoin Cash which is the competitor to Bitcoin. Roger recently tweeted that "Bitcoin Cash just processed more transactions in a single day than BTC ever has, and the fees stayed at a fraction of a penny." Roger is all…

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Steve Vallas, the founder of Honey Digital and the co-founder of the Blockchain APAC conference which is coming up in late August. Steve has his feet firmly on the ground when it comes to blockchain and cryptocurrencies so Alan gave him a call to find out what businesses are set to jump on the blockch…

This week in Crypto Watch, I spoke to Adrian Harrison, the CEO in Australia of Huobi Global. Huobi is a global exchange for trading cryptocurrencies, and they recently launched an ETF. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Par The Constant Investor

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Andrew Gillick, a writer at Brave New Coin, and this week he's done an interesting piece about how cryptocurrency and blockchain is to some extent a demographic phenomenon, a response to baby boomers pricing them out of the property and share markets. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informatio…

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Ken Anderson, Chief Developer Advocate for Hedera Hasgraph which is cited as an alternative to the blockchain that was invented by Leemon Baird in the US. Hedera is a development of distributed ledger technology, and they're saying the blockchain that currently exists has a number of problems, includi…

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Daniel Bar, one of the co-founders of Tenzorum, which calls itself the unstoppable machine for self-sovereign key management and access to the decentralized world. Alan spoke to Daniel to find out what it all means. Market commentator Saeed Sidaoui also provides his report on the latest cryptocurrency…

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Ben Way, the CEO of Digits, to find out more about their technology which they say allows people to spend cryptocurrencies in shops using their credit cards. Market commentator Saeed Sidaoui also provides his report on the latest cryptocurrency news and market movements. See omnystudio.com/listener fo…

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Alex Saunders from Nugget's News Australia about the current sentiment of the cryptocurrency market, whilst Saeed Sidaoui provided his market wrap of the week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Par The Constant Investor

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Caile Ditterich, the CEO of BlockGrain, to find out more about their blockchain for agriculture based ventures. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Par The Constant Investor

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Gareth Simpson, the Trade and Investment Commissioner for Austrade based in New York. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Par The Constant Investor

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to John Price, a Commissioner of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) about cryptocurrencies, initial coin offerings (ICOs), and whether they are securities or something else. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Par The Constant Investor

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Peter Hiom, Deputy CEO of the ASX about the replacement of the CHESS system (the settlement system behind the ASX) with blockchain technology. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Par The Constant Investor

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Scott Stornetta, one of the co-founders of blockchain technology. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Par The Constant Investor

This week in Crypto Watch, Producer Greg Dimopoulos spoke to Lasanka Perera, Head of Strategy at Independent Reserve and Rob Wilson, CEO of Incent Loyalty. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Par The Constant Investor

This week in Crypto Watch, Producer Greg Dimopoulos spoke to a range of industry heavyweights who were at the World Blockchain Forum in Dubai. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Par The Constant Investor

This week in Crypto Watch, Producer Greg Dimopoulos spoke to Gregory Van den Bergh, the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bankorus - the world's first private wealth management platform powered by AI and built on the blockchain. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Par The Constant Investor

This week in Crypto Watch, Producer Greg Dimopoulos spoke to James Nguyen, co-founder and Managing Partner of Anti-Hero Capital who have launched a wholesale investment fund dedicated entirely to cryptocurrencies, but here’s the kicker; they’re using the help of evolutionary science and ant colonies to help make some of the decisions. See omnystudi…

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Kain Warwick, the founder of an Australian based cryptocurrency called Havven, who's trying to produce a stable cryptocurrency. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Par The Constant Investor

This week in Crypto Watch, Producer Greg Dimopoulos spoke to Rupert Hackett, CEO of Melbourne based cryptocurrency exchange bitcoin.com.au, who's now selling Bitcoin in newsagencies across the nation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Par The Constant Investor

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Richard Levin, Chair of the FinTech and Regulation Practice at the AmLaw 100 law firm Polsinelli. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Par The Constant Investor

This week in Crypto Watch, Producer Greg Dimopoulos spoke to a range of guests present at the APAC Blockchain Conference in Melbourne. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Par The Constant Investor

This week in Crypto Watch, Alan Kohler spoke to Greg Medcraft, the Director of the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs at the OECD who was in Melbourne for the APAC Blockchain Conference. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Par The Constant Investor