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Privacy is a key component of cryptographic networks that is typically misunderstood. Anish Mohammed, Chief Scientist for Panther Protocol, joins the podcast to discuss how transparent networks fall prey to MEV attacks and other negative actions such as collusion. Anish is an accomplished multi disciplinarian who has worked as medical doctor, bioinformatician, strategy consultant and cryptographer. As one of the founding members of UK Digital Currency Association, he has also been an advisor to Adjoint, Arteia, Collider-X, Privacy Shell, Ripple Labs, Hyperloop Transport Technologies , EA Ventures, IEET and Chain of Things. Panther is an interoperable, decentralised custodian and smart contract platform that enables privacy of digital assets on peer blockchains. At the core of Panther’s design are Panther Pools, on-demand dark pools for Decentralized Finance (DeFi) which enable institutional and retail Users to securely store, obfuscate and transact compliantly on peerchains using Panther Assets (“zAssets''). zAssets are created by issuing 1:1 collateralized, zero knowledge digital tokens on peerchains. Anish's Links Twitter | Linkedin | Website Panther Protocol: Website | Telegram | Twitter | Litepaper Where to find us iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Youtube | RSS Feed

Jesse Proudman comes onto the podcast to discuss Makara Digital and its launch to the retail market. Now anyone can access the active strategies of Strix and build wealth with a SEC registered investment company. This podcast was recorded in the depths of the bear market that started back in May. This has been one of the most interesting periods in crypto since 2018. I really enjoyed this podcast with Jesse. Make sure to subscribe and follow the End of the Chain to get new episodes right to your device as soon as they are released.

I love Liquidityfolio.com. It's one of the most powerful trackers for liquidity across multiple chains. It's key for tracking LP in your portfolio. Federico joins the podcast to discuss how liquidity provision is changing with the launch of Uniswap V3 and how it will affect trading into the future.   Website: Liquidityfolio.com

The godfather of algorithmic stablecoins dives deep into Seniorage Shares and its lasting legacy on the crypto ecosystem. Robert is the CEO of Clearmatics and is a long standing member of the Bitcoin and crypto community.  Robert Sams is a hedge fund manager and macro specialist, focused on central bank policy. Over 11-years experience in the industry. I have helped to launch two hedge funds, and successfully ran short-term interest rate strategies in G10 markets, with a focus on interest rate policy actions of the Federal Reserve, Bank of England, European Central Bank, Swiss National Bank, and the Bank of Canada. Clearmatics Twitter

In this episode, fellow St. Andrews alumni Nic Carter joins to discuss the current state of Bitcoin. Nic answers some of the burning questions that host Samuel McCulloch has been exploring for a couple of years:Where does Bitcoin stand in the surveillance economy?Effects of FinCEN’s proposed wallet rules on Bitcoin markets.China’s use of the great firewall to potentially preference Bitcoin transactions.Biden’s incoming war administration.How stablecoins invalidate the utility token hypothesis.Potential effects of currency debasement and inflation on Bitcoin and broader economy.Gold and Bitcoin and their benefits as a portfolio asset.The eternal energy debt Bitcoin has and how it will grow in the future.Bitcoin’s volatility is due to a lack of a proper valuation model.The crypto credit markets and the growth of HyperBitcoinization.How offshore crypto exchanges will evolve in the next decade and their benefit to the Bitcoin market.Where to find the showiTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Youtube | RSS FeedReference MaterialSUPPORT THE SHOWIf you like End of the Chain you can help support the show by doing one of the following:Leave a Review on iTunesFollow me on Twitter | Youtube

Why are NFT's so damn cool and how have they exploded into popularity in the past 2 years? Alex Salnikov sits down with host Samuel McCulloch to discuss all the amazing things NFT's can do and how he is building Rarible to bring NFT's to the entire world. Where to find the showiTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Youtube | RSS FeedReference MaterialSUPPORT THE SHOWIf you like End of the Chain you can help support the show by doing one of the following:Make a Tip - Send me an email after so I can mention you on the show.Bitcoin: USE THIS LINK FOR ADDRESS REUSEEthereum: 0xDAb148614f22dDa800cF006Be7932eeEB75AC644Leave a Review on iTunesShare an episode with family and friendsFollow me on Twitter | YoutubeIf you are interested in sponsoring the show please send me an email.

Dave Collum is back for the third year to unpack his yearly mega post on all the crazy events of the last 365 days. Over the course of 3.5 hours he and host Samuel McCulloch breakdown a few of the key topics in his report, from valuations, college wokeism, to Covid and more. This is the perfect way to wrap up 2020 and bring in the new year. Enjoy. Where to find the show iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Youtube | RSS Feed Reference Material   SUPPORT THE SHOW If you like End of the Chain you can help support the show by doing one of the following: Make a Tip - Send me an email after so I can mention you on the show. Bitcoin: USE THIS LINK FOR ADDRESS REUSE Ethereum: 0xDAb148614f22dDa800cF006Be7932eeEB75AC644 Leave a Review on iTunes Share an episode with family and friends Follow me on Twitter | Youtube If you are interested in sponsoring the show please send me an email.

A short update from Sam and a recap of 2020. Plus some thoughts on what's to come for 2021.

About this episodeWhat is transactional privacy and how does it affect you every day? Sebastian Buergel from HOPR joins to discuss current vulnerabilities in crypto and how HOPR is addressing them. Where to find the showiTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Youtube | RSS FeedSupport the showIf you like End of the Chain you can help support the show by doing one of the following:Ethereum: 0xDAb148614f22dDa800cF006Be7932eeEB75AC644Leave a Review on iTunesShare an episode with family and friendsFollow me on Twitter | YoutubeIf you are interested in sponsoring the show please send me an email.

About this episodeSam K comes back for another episode to talk about stablecoins and the release of his new project Frax.Where to find the showiTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Youtube | RSS FeedSupport the showIf you like End of the Chain you can help support the show by doing one of the following:Ethereum: 0xDAb148614f22dDa800cF006Be7932eeEB75AC644Leave a Review on iTunesShare an episode with family and friendsFollow me on Twitter | YoutubeIf you are interested in sponsoring the show please send me an email.

About this episode Time is unknown to a computer. Information travels at the speed of electricity or light, so how can time be a part of a computer network? Anatoly, co-founder of Solana, has solved how to bring time to a distributed network with Solana, an incredibly powerful and fast proof-of-stake network. Where to find the show iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Youtube | RSS Feed What to listen for Support the show If you like End of the Chain you can help support the show by doing one of the following: Ethereum: 0xDAb148614f22dDa800cF006Be7932eeEB75AC644 Leave a Review on iTunes Share an episode with family and friends Follow me on Twitter | Youtube If you are interested in sponsoring the show please send me an email. Show notes  

About this episode Serge is a degen of gambler and knows everything about online gaming. We break down the latest defi trend, the perils of crypto gaming, Bitcoin's lack of development and more. Serge Ravitch is a former lawyer, professional poker player and product/project manager turned angel investor. Serge has been skeptical of crypto since 2011, which didn't stop him from making big bets during 2017. He currently lives in Puerto Rico. Where to find the show iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Youtube | RSS Feed What to listen for Support the show If you like End of the Chain you can help support the show by doing one of the following: Ethereum: 0xDAb148614f22dDa800cF006Be7932eeEB75AC644 Leave a Review on iTunes Share an episode with family and friends Follow me on Twitter | Youtube If you are interested in sponsoring the show please send me an email. Show notes      

About this episode Gas prices are out of control and Layer 2 networks seem poised to offer a low cost solution for smaller transactions. Dr. Arthur Gervais joins this episode to discuss the various types of L2 networks and how Liquidity Network has built a functioning platform to meet the needs of ETH users. Arthur's links Homepage | Linkedin | Twitter Liquidity network Where to find the show iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Youtube | RSS Feed What to listen for Support the show If you like End of the Chain you can help support the show by doing one of the following: Ethereum: 0xDAb148614f22dDa800cF006Be7932eeEB75AC644 Leave a Review on iTunes Share an episode with family and friends Follow me on Twitter | Youtube If you are interested in sponsoring the show please send me an email. Show notes  

About this episode SBF joins this episode to discuss how crypto markets have evolved in the last year and what effects Defi and his future platform Serum will have on the larger ecosystem. Plus we get into detail on a few trade products and how they were built into FTX. Sam's Links Linkedin | Twitter Where to find the show iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Youtube | RSS Feed What to listen for SUPPORT THE SHOW If you like End of the Chain you can help support the show by doing one of the following: Help keep this show going by sending a donation Bitcoin: USE THIS LINK FOR ADDRESS REUSE Ethereum: 0xDAb148614f22dDa800cF006Be7932eeEB75AC644 Leave a Review on iTunes Share an episode with family and friends Follow me on Twitter | Youtube If you are interested in sponsoring the show please send me an email. SHOW NOTES Show Notes

About this episode Leemon jumps into a discussion of his past service in the US Air Force and how it led him to creating the Hashgraph protocol. Both Leemon and host Samuel McCulloch lived for some time in Colorado Springs and discuss military life. Leemon is the inventor of the hashgraph distributed consensus algorithm, and is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Hedera. With over 20 years of technology and startup experience, he has held positions as a Professor of Computer Science at the US Air Force Academy and as a senior scientist in several labs. He has been the Co-Founder of several startups, including two identity-related startups, both of which were acquired. Leemon received his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and has multiple patents and publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences in computer security, machine learning, and mathematics. Leemon's Links Linkedin | Twitter | Forbes Where to find the show iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Youtube | RSS Feed What to listen for SUPPORT THE SHOW If you like End of the Chain you can help support the show by doing one of the following: Help keep this show going by sending a donation Bitcoin: USE THIS LINK FOR ADDRESS REUSE Ethereum: 0xDAb148614f22dDa800cF006Be7932eeEB75AC644 Leave a Review on iTunes Share an episode with family and friends Follow me on Twitter | Youtube If you are interested in sponsoring the show please send me an email.

About this episode What is neutrality and how is information to be recorded for generations to become? Sam Kazemian of Everpedia joins this episode of End of the Chain to discuss the current political climate and how Everpedia is designed to be an inclusive platform.   Sam's Links Wikipedia | Twitter | Everpedia Where to find the show iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Youtube | RSS Feed What to listen for Why the goal of both Everipedia and Wikipedia is to just present everyone’s story and not their narrative. Why objective journalism no longer exists in the USA due to the polarisation and the cultural divisions we see playing out. Why neutrality bias exists in Wikipedia because you decide what should and shouldn’t be included depending on its reputable source and this conservative status quo approach limits pages. Why if you make everyone mad or unhappy, you are doing something right because you are giving everyone space to present their viewpoint. Why Everipedia as a for-profit company is building DeFi related products that have direct relevance to knowledge like prediction markets. How their IQ token built on EOS incentivizes content creation and editing for the future. Why Everipedia’s mission was always to be on-chain and to build an economically sound cross-chain platform. Why everything is becoming a political question in 2020 and how this makes it difficult to remain apolitical or neutral, especially in the US. Why how you control information is how you gain power; and why this polarization is limiting constructive dialogue in the US today. SUPPORT THE SHOW If you like End of the Chain you can help support the show by doing one of the following: Help keep this show going by sending a donation Bitcoin: USE THIS LINK FOR ADDRESS REUSE Ethereum: 0xDAb148614f22dDa800cF006Be7932eeEB75AC644 Leave a Review on iTunes Share an episode with family and friends Follow me on Twitter | Youtube If you are interested in sponsoring the show please send me an email.

About this episode Nick Cowan, head of GSX group joins the podcast to discuss the evolution of crypto-securities in Gibraltar and how the island is adapting to 2020 and Brexit. Nick Cowan is the CEO and founder of the Global Blockchain Exchange and the Gibraltar Stock Exchange Group. He has 34 years of experience in capital markets, serving as Head of Equities and Board Member at ING Barings, managing up to 2,500 employees in 43 countries, including 40 stock exchange memberships. Nick's Links Linkedin GSX Group GBX Homepage Where to find the show iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Youtube | RSS Feed What to listen for Why GSX originally wanted to create an institutional-grade digital asset exchange and ended up building a digital securities exchange in Estonia. Why a digital securities market in Europe would address the liquidity challenges in smaller securities markets like SMEs and private equity offerings to accredited investors. Why regulators are only just catching up to the digital asset revolution and how innovation could make T-instant settlement a reality. Why Nick thinks that there will be several parallel universes between the world of DeFi, decentralized exchanges and the traditional T-plus-two day traditional settlement networks in banking today. How regulators looking at digital assets in Gibraltar, across Europe and in Asia encourage innovation through principle-based regulation that works. Why GSX is building a European securities exchange in Estonia and why this is not because of ‘Brexit’ but an opportunity to build on it. Why regulations within jurisdictions can either promote innovation in digital assets or stifle it and why this matter post-Brexit and passporting. SUPPORT THE SHOW If you like End of the Chain you can help support the show by doing one of the following: Help keep this show going by sending a donation Bitcoin: USE THIS LINK FOR ADDRESS REUSE Ethereum: 0xDAb148614f22dDa800cF006Be7932eeEB75AC644 Leave a Review on iTunes Share an episode with family and friends Follow me on Twitter | Youtube If you are interested in sponsoring the show please send me an email.

What makes a good Defi investment and why are strong narratives and memetic founders attractive? Michael Anderson breaks down his investment style through Framework Ventures with host Samuel McCulloch.

About this episode How safe is your website? At anytime a government can order the shutdown of a site and its content is forcibly destroyed. In this episode Brad Kam explains why it is necessary to have an independent architecture for the web and why it must be free. Brad is a serial entrepreneur from Atlanta and co-founder of Unstoppable Domains, a registry business building domain names on blockchains. Previously, he co-founded Talkable, a YC backed marketing software company. Brad's Links Linkedin | Crunchbase Unstoppable Domains Where to find the show iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Youtube | RSS Feed What to listen for Why censorship resistance matters more than ever today and why this is a question of internet architecture. Why blockchain domains are better than DNS, which is not fit for purpose and not censorship-resistant. Why DNS creates centralized control of the infrastructure of the internet, and how this power can be abused. Why protecting free speech needs to be built into the infrastructure of the internet because there is no universal oversight. How blockchain domains remove illegal content by denying access to the site but the data remains on the blockchain; so the record of it stills exists. Why Sam thinks that some content should be removed from the internet because it is illegal, but there is no infrastructure to do this currently that does not involve a person or government or a decider. Why Brad believes the current internet domain system is not working and why blockchain domains will create sharing between applications instead of the multiple application silos we have today. Why changing the domain registry system could reduce costs and time to launch domains in the longer term by being on the blockchain. How there are many further applications around how we could domains in the future and this could reduce the need for a separate payment system. Why Covid-19 may change the nature of work and reduce workforce costs through remote working. How San Francisco may be changed by companies going remote and how this will affect salaries and the creative nature of tech networking as we knew before. SUPPORT THE SHOW If you like End of the Chain you can help support the show by doing one of the following: Help keep this show going by sending us $5 Make a Tip - Send me an email after so I can mention you on the show. Bitcoin: USE THIS LINK FOR ADDRESS REUSE Ethereum: 0xDAb148614f22dDa800cF006Be7932eeEB75AC644 Leave a Review on iTunes Share an episode with family and friends Follow me on Twitter | Youtube If you are interested in sponsoring the show please send me an email.

About this episode Unrest, riots and pandemics are a springboard to greater erosion of privacy rights. Corey Petty joins this episode of the End of the Chain to talk about the war on encryption and what Status is doing to fight it. Dr. Corey Petty is the Chief Security Officer of Status and started his blockchain focused research around 2012 as a personal hobby while doing his PhD candidacy at Texas Tech University in Computational Chemical Physics. He then went on to co-found The Bitcoin Podcast Network and still serves as a host on the flagship The Bitcoin Podcast and a more technical show Hashing It Out. Corey left academia and entered the data science/blockchain security industry for a few years attempting to fix vulnerabilities in ICS/SCADA networks before finding his fit as the head of security at Status.im where he remains today. Corey's Links Linkedin | Twitter Status' Homepage Where to find the show iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Youtube | RSS Feed What to listen for How the current unrest in America is the perfect excuse to clamp down on freedom and privacy in the name of security. Why further thinking does not happen in response to solving a problem right now, and this results in people using rules in unforeseen ways. How the EARN IT Act could result in a backdoor into message encryption and increase the amount of surveillance longer term. Why Status’ position is that Web 3.0 should not reduce privacy and security in the name of government control. Why Status believes that the underlying protocol, the network of messages, must always remain unconstrained and unreadable, even if you were able to see inside the infrastructure they built. How technology has let the cat out of the bag and why giving up your privacy in the name of security or convenience should not be our future. Why the recent gas price spikes are the lesson of crypto-kitties that Ethereum did not learn and why these conversations about on-chain business and business logic need to happen now. Why Layer 2 solutions create “walled gardens” off-chain but give end-users choices to opt-out and to choose the level of security that they need. Why gaming on the blockchain is testing creative technological innovation and different types of economic situations before applying them to real-world enterprises. Why for Corey thinks blockchains and smart contracts are the first time we have been able to ‘play’ with actual economics and see the relationships between value and exchange. SUPPORT THE SHOW If you like End of the Chain you can help support the show by doing one of the following: Help keep this show going by sending us $5 Make a Tip - Send me an email after so I can mention you on the show. Bitcoin: USE THIS LINK FOR ADDRESS REUSE Ethereum: 0xDAb148614f22dDa800cF006Be7932eeEB75AC644 Leave a Review on iTunes Share an episode with family and friends Follow me on Twitter | Youtube If you are interested in sponsoring the show please send me an email.