Crypto Hipster

Every founder has a beginning.Before blockchain, before digital assets, and before becoming a respected voice in the industry, Agne Linge was simply a young student fascinated by finance and determined to understand how the world worked.In this inaugural Founder's Journey episode of the Crypto Hipster Podcast, we leave token prices and market headlines behind to explore the experiences that shaped a builder. Agne shares her journey from Lithuania to London's financial world, discovering blockchain in its earliest days, building communities, navigating uncertainty, and why she still believes we're only at the beginning of the digital economy.We also discuss trust, incentives, discipline, leadership, and the importance of helping the next generation of builders.Because every system is built by people.And every builder has a story.

Every founder begins with ownership.Every enduring system eventually requires stewardship.In this solo episode, I explore one of the most overlooked transitions in entrepreneurship: the moment when what you've built becomes bigger than you.What happens when a company, protocol, community, or movement no longer depends on its creator? Why do some systems thrive after their founders leave while others collapse?Drawing on lessons from entrepreneurship, Bitcoin, recovery, and years of interviewing founders, this episode examines the difference between ownership and stewardship—and why the ultimate measure of success may not be what you build, but what continues after you're gone.Topics include:Ownership vs. stewardshipWhy founders eventually have to let goBuilding systems that outlive their creatorsWhat Bitcoin and decentralized networks teach us about continuityWhy consistency matters more than moments

What happens when someone leaves the markets—not because they failed, but because they discovered another way to create?In this episode of Crypto Hipster, I sit down with Simon Mach to explore an unconventional journey from crypto trading to music. We discuss what markets teach us about discipline, conviction, and risk—and how those same lessons can fuel creativity far beyond finance.This isn't a conversation about token prices or market predictions. It's about identity, reinvention, and building something that reflects who you are.Topics include:From crypto trading to musicWhy creativity became the next frontierWhat markets teach about discipline and convictionBuilding something that lastsLife beyond the chartsCrypto Hipster is where founders, builders, and creators share the journeys behind the digital economy.

After nine years in crypto, I've learned that diamond hands aren't really about holding an asset.They're about holding a standard.In this solo episode, I explore how lessons learned through bull markets, bear markets, scams, losses, recoveries, and uncertainty have shaped the way I approach authorship, marketing, and building a body of work.Why do some marketers get ignored while others earn my attention?Why is understanding a book different from understanding its metadata?Why am I focused on building a catalog instead of chasing individual launches?And what does conviction actually look like when applied beyond investing?This episode examines patience, standards, alignment, and the difference between people who think in campaigns and people who think in decades.Because after nine years in crypto, I've discovered that diamond hands aren't about price.They're about purpose.

Technology has given creators more tools than ever before.Yet many still depend on platforms, algorithms, and audiences to reach the people they hope to serve.Alex Genadinik of SPRK joins me to discuss creators, ownership, community, incentives, and whether the modern creator economy has eliminated the need for permission—or simply changed where it comes from.A conversation about creativity, independence, and the systems that shape what gets created.

Technology changes.People remain remarkably the same.In this solo episode, Jamil Hasan explores the question behind his upcoming book People Are People: What happens to us when the systems around us change?Drawing from hundreds of founder interviews, years in crypto, recovery, authorship, health challenges, and family experiences, Jamil examines the human side of technological and societal transformation.This is a conversation about identity, adaptation, continuity, resilience, and the challenge of remaining human in a world that never stops changing.Because beneath every innovation, disruption, and headline is a person trying to figure out what comes next.People Are People. A reflection on technology, humanity, and the stories that survive after the noise fades.

What Is Bitcoin Mining Becoming?Bitcoin mining began as a cryptocurrency story.Today, it may be becoming something much larger.Sergii Gerasymovych of EZBlockchain joins me to discuss stranded energy, flare gas, infrastructure development, and why Bitcoin mining increasingly resembles an energy business as much as a crypto business.As industries mature, they often reveal their deeper purpose. This conversation explores what Bitcoin mining may ultimately become.

What matters when nobody is watching?In this solo episode, I reflect on why integrity matters more than sales, visibility, influence, or convenience. Drawing from recovery, podcasting, and years of interviewing founders, I explore the role integrity plays in building trust, making decisions, and navigating a world increasingly shaped by incentives and narratives.From editing conversations to protecting listeners from promotional noise, this episode examines why integrity is not merely something we talk about—it is something we practice.Because success without integrity is temporary.But integrity survives even when nobody notices. 🎙️

Everybody talks about staking as passive income.But underneath that narrative are bigger questions.Who secures the network? Who controls validation? Who holds custody? And what happens when institutional capital arrives?Ryan Haczynski of Global Stake joins me to discuss staking, decentralization, custody, self-sovereignty, institutional adoption, and whether crypto is quietly rebuilding some of the same fragilities it originally set out to escape.What did we decentralize?

Everyone seems excited about AI agents.The promise is simple: faster decisions, less friction, more automation.But what happens when those decisions involve real money, real risk, and real consequences?In this episode of the Crypto Hipster Podcast, I sit down with Karym Abdelrakhman, founder of Simplify Labs, to explore the tradeoffs behind automation, infrastructure, and financial decision-making. We discuss AI agents, operational complexity, compliance, trust, and why simplifying systems doesn't eliminate complexity—it often shifts it somewhere else.As technology becomes increasingly invisible, one question remains:Who is ultimately responsible when something goes wrong?Making sense of the digital economy through the people building it.

Most people think Bitcoin changed money.I think Bitcoin revealed people.In this solo episode, I reflect on nearly a decade inside the crypto industry and the lessons that emerged from hundreds of conversations with founders, builders, entrepreneurs, and creators.What began as an exploration of Bitcoin ultimately became an exploration of trust, incentives, adaptation, and human nature.Because the deeper I looked into technology, the more I found myself studying people.The technology matters.The people matter more.

Can authenticity create trust?In this conversation, Dr. Manny Ahmed of Open Origins explains how his team is building technology to verify the origin and integrity of digital content in an age increasingly shaped by AI-generated media.We explore the distinction between authenticity and provenance, the challenges of verifying historical content, the limits of content authentication, and why trust remains a fundamentally human problem even when technology can verify the underlying data.The discussion also examines blockchain scalability, misinformation, insurance fraud, and what happens when the incentives surrounding information become more important than the information itself.

Crypto promised immutable ownership.Real-world law has other ideas.In this episode of the Crypto Hipster Podcast, Jamil Hasan sits down with Faisal Al Monai and Christopher Kelly of droppRWA to explore one of the biggest unresolved tensions inside tokenization and real-world assets:What actually happens when ownership becomes machine-readable infrastructure?From legal title and settlement finality to blockchain records, jurisdiction, compliance, and programmable ownership, this conversation examines the growing collision between traditional institutional systems and on-chain architecture.Because moving a token may be instant.But resolving disputes, enforcing rights, and defining legitimate ownership still happens inside human systems.This is not just a crypto conversation anymore.It is a conversation about the future architecture of trust itself.

Crypto promised freedom.Then speculation consumed the signal.In this solo episode, I explain why I walked away from “corporate crypto” interviews and why The Lost Message became necessary to write. This is not about price charts, tribalism, or recycled narratives. It is about what the original ideas behind Bitcoin, decentralization, sovereignty, and digital ownership were actually trying to protect — and what may have been lost as the industry scaled into performance, marketing, and financialization.This episode explores:how crypto drifted from freedom toward speculationwhy systems increasingly optimize humans instead of serving themthe emotional cost of living inside accelerated digital environmentswhy preserving human signal still mattersand why builders, not PR narratives, continue to matter mostThis is not investment advice.This is a systems conversation.Hosted by Jamil Hasan.Crypto Hipster Podcast — where builders talk freedom, not price.

Most people never see the ugliest part of cross-border payments.Builders do.In this episode of the Crypto Hipster Podcast, I sit down with Ran Grushkowsky of MassPay to explore the hidden infrastructure behind global payouts, remittances, compliance, settlement friction, and the operational realities most consumers never think about.We discuss:why cross-border payments remain painfully inefficientthe invisible compliance layers shaping global money movementhow stablecoins may change international settlementwhere traditional finance still controls the railsand why building payment infrastructure requires surviving constant operational complexityThis conversation is less about hype and more about the systems underneath modern money movement.Hosted by Jamil Hasan.Crypto Hipster Podcast — where builders talk freedom, not price.

Privacy in blockchain exists… until it doesn’t.In this episode, Jamil Hasan speaks with Varun Kabra of Concordium about the tension between privacy, identity, compliance, and scalability in modern blockchain systems.Rather than treating identity as the enemy of decentralization, this conversation examines whether structured accountability may ultimately be necessary for blockchain technology to operate at global scale.The discussion explores privacy versus anonymity, institutional trust, reversibility, real-world adoption, and why some systems survive not because they are ideologically pure — but because they remain usable.Where builders talk freedom, not price.

What happens when gameplay becomes economic infrastructure?In this conversation with Luke Barwikowski, founder of Pixels, we explore AI-driven rewards, decentralization, digital ownership, and the tension between ideals and practical system design inside Web3 gaming.Because the real question may not be whether players own the game.It may be whether they own their role inside the economy.

For years, the Crypto Hipster Podcast documented builders across the digital economy.But after more than 580 conversations, certain discussions stayed with me long after the recordings ended.Not because they were the loudest.Not because they generated the most views.And not because they were attached to the biggest market caps.They stayed with me because they revealed something deeper underneath the industry itself.In this solo episode, I explain the origins of Crypto Hipster’s Curtain Calls and why four specific conversations became the foundation for my first Curtain Calls book, Signals Through the Noise.This is not a “best of” compilation.It is an attempt to interpret the patterns, tensions, contradictions, and human questions hiding underneath years of crypto narratives, market cycles, and technological change.Topics include:• The evolution from guest showcases to interpretation• Borrowed audiences vs. real audiences• Why polished talking points often destroy signal• What I learned during my apprenticeship at The Digital Economist• Systems, sovereignty, trust, identity, and human behavior• Why the archive itself began telling a larger storyThis episode marks the next evolution of my solo format:less performance, more synthesis.Signals Through the Noise is available now as part of Crypto Hipster’s Curtain Calls.

Most AI conversations begin from the assumption that the world already looks digitally uniform.It doesn’t.In this episode, Monti Kgengwenyane and Mithabisi Bokete with OrionX discuss building AI infrastructure across environments shaped by expensive connectivity, fragmented systems, limited digital access and underrepresented data.We explore sovereignty, usability, infrastructure constraints and why the future of AI may ultimately be decided by those building for the hardest conditions.The Crypto Hipster Podcast.Where builders talk freedom, not price.

Crypto was supposed to disrupt manufactured credibility.Instead, parts of the industry learned how to manufacture it too.In this episode of Crypto Hipster, Jamil Hasan explores why pressure—not titles, visibility, or polished narratives—reveals who actually understands the systems they speak about.After hundreds of conversations across crypto and the digital economy, the signal became harder to ignore: real builders sound different once they’ve lived through enough friction.This episode examines operational depth, manufactured credibility, long-form conversation, and why pressure eventually exposes the difference between performance and lived experience.Crypto Hipster.Where builders talk freedom, not price.

Exposure is not ownership.In this episode of Crypto Hipster, Jamil Hasan sits down with Alan Qureshi of Black Lake to examine what happens when real-world assets move onchain — and where the cracks still exist beneath the surface.Because tokenization sounds clean… until you ask the harder question:If the token moves……does legal ownership move too?This conversation explores the collision between blockchain infrastructure, legal systems, settlement layers, custody assumptions, and systemic trust. Not from the perspective of hype cycles or announcements — but from the perspective of operational reality.Topics include:• The difference between exposure and actual ownership• What happens when tokenized systems fail• The legal tension between wrappers and real assets• Why infrastructure matters more than narratives• The hidden assumptions inherited from traditional finance• What tokenization exposes about modern marketsCrypto Hipster is where builders talk freedom, not price.

I’ve been told I picked the wrong day.That Tuesdays are crowded.That I’m going up against bigger shows.Good.Because this isn’t about competing for attention.This episode breaks down the difference between building for launch…and building for longevity.Why most podcasts optimize for spikes—and why I don’t.Tuesdays are for perspective.Thursdays are for conversations.One per week. On purpose.Not content for the sake of content.Signal… when it’s ready.This isn’t about being first.It’s about being worth finding.

Most people think crypto’s biggest risk is volatility.It’s not.It’s uncertainty in the data itself.In this conversation, Victor Fei from Ormi and I break down how the data layer works, where it fails, and what happens when systems rely on signals that might not be right.This isn’t about price.It’s about what sits underneath it.Where builders talk freedom, not price.

I didn’t leave X because it failed.I left because I realized something most people still don’t understand:You don’t own your audience.For years, I played the game—posting, engaging, building visibility.It looked like progress. It felt like momentum.But attention isn’t ownership.It’s rented.In this episode, I break down why I stopped chasing distribution—and started building something that compounds.This isn’t about platforms.It’s about control.Ownership.And building something that actually lasts.If you’re a builder, not a promoter—this is for you.—Crypto Hipster PodcastMaking sense of the digital economy—through the people building it.Where builders talk freedom, not price.

I stopped interviewing corporate crypto. Not because I ran out of guests...but because the conversations stopped being real.At some point, everyone started sounding the same. Same backgrounds. Same narratives. Same polished answers.So I changed the rules.This episode is a reset on what the Crypto Hipster Podcast is...and who it is for.This is not a show for people adjacent to outcomes. It is for builders.Founders.And people with something at stake.The ones who do not get to hide behind narratives, a corporate infrastructure, or a flashy resume and cushy job.Because when things break (and they almost always do)...they feel it.Pain over pedigree.Scars over fluff.Knife-sharpened over spoon-fed.Cypherpunks over suits.Founders over phonies.If you're here for price predictions, headlines, or recycled talking points, this is not for you.If you want to understand what's actually being built and what is actually takes to build it......you are in the right place.

This is the sixty-seventh and final episode in the Crypto Hipster's Curtain Calls Series, which includes 3–4-minute clips from Seasons 6-8. This compilation draws upon my conversations with:Haden Patrick, Director of Business Operations @ Cordial Systems (6/5/2024, Season 7)Karan Bharadwaj, CEO @ Arithmic (7/3/2024, Season 7)Tim Wang, COO @ Elixir (6/9/2024, Season 7)Michael O'Rourke, CEO and co-founder @ Pocket Network (9/2/2023, Season 6)

This is the sixty-sixth episode in the Crypto Hipster's Curtain Calls Series, which includes 3–4-minute clips from Seasons 6-8. This compilation draws upon my conversations with:Dan Kaizer, CTO @ Azuro (5/26/2024, Season 7)Bowen Wang, Founder @ NEAR One (5/19/2025, Season 8)Pavel Altukhov, co-founder @ TAC (4/3/2025, Season 8)William Herkelrath, CEO and co-founder @ K3 Labs (2/7/2025, Season 8)

This is the sixty-fifth episode in the Crypto Hipster's Curtain Calls Series, which includes 3–4-minute clips from Seasons 6-8. This compilation draws upon my conversations with:Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie, Head of Strategic Partnerships @ MPCH (6/5/2024, Season 7)Bogdan Habic, co-founder and CTO @ Tenderly (8/27/2023, Season 6)Butain Li, CEO @ Bless Network (3/22/2025, Season 8)Teemu Päivinen, founder and CEO @ ZkCloud (1/12/2025, Season 8)

This is the sixty-fourth episode in the Crypto Hipster's Curtain Calls Series, which includes 3–4-minute clips from Seasons 6-8. This compilation draws upon my conversations with:Adam Helfgott, co-founder @ Valence (10/14/2023, Season 6)Ian Estrada, co-founder and CEO @ MAITRIX (3/14/2025, Season 8)Nikhil Raghuveera, co-founder and CEO @ Aethos (5/26/2024, Season 7) Todd Haselhorst, CEO and founder @ HEALE Labs (4/13/2024, Season 7)David Weisberger, Co-founder Emeritus @ CoinRoutes (3/23/2025, Season 8)

This is the sixty-third episode in the Crypto Hipster's Curtain Calls Series, which includes 3–4-minute clips from Seasons 6-8. This compilation draws upon my conversations with:Karel Kubat, founder @ Union (6/22/2024, Season 7)Nathan Kim, Marketing Director @ UNOPND and Rachel Kim, Senior Manager of Events and Partnerships @ shardLab (2/13/2024, Season 6)Chris Liquin, CEO @ Cupcake (5/25/2024, Season 7) Billy Luedtke, founder and CEO @ Intuition (6/14/2024, Season 7)

This is the sixty-second episode in the Crypto Hipster's Curtain Calls Series, which includes 3–4-minute clips from Seasons 6-8. This compilation draws upon my conversations with:Alan Orwick, co-founder @ Quai Network (7/2/2024, Season 7)Yannik Schrade, CEO and co-founder @ Arcium (7/20/2024, Season 7)Fabian Vogelsteller, co-founder @ LUKSO (6/10/2024, Season 7)Ian Smith, CEO and CTO @ Quantum EVM (4/12/2025, Season 8)

This is the sixty-first episode in the Crypto Hipster's Curtain Calls Series, which includes 3–4-minute clips from Seasons 6-8. This compilation draws upon my conversations with:Lindsey Lim, board member @ Radix Foundation (2/10/2025, Season 8)Kathy Roberts, CEO @ Switch Reward Card (9/26/2024, Season 8)Amir Forouzani, Core Contributor @ Puffer Finance (7/19/2024, Season 7)John Vibes, Content Lead @ Somnia Network (1/20/2025, Season 8)

This is the sixtieth episode in the Crypto Hipster's Curtain Calls Series, which includes 3–4-minute clips from Seasons 6-8. This compilation draws upon my conversations with:Da Hongfei, founder @ Neo (4/14/2024, Season 7)Myles Harrison, Chief Product Officer @ AMINA Bank (6/25/2024, Season 7)Barna Kiss, co-founder @ Malda (3/9/2025, Season 8)Sunil Srivatsa, founder and CEO @ Storm Labs (4/12/2024, Season 7)Josie Leung, COO and co-founder @ MilkyWay (3/4/2025, Season 8)

This is the fifty-ninth episode in the Crypto Hipster's Curtain Calls Series, which includes 3–4-minute clips from Seasons 6-8. This compilation draws upon my conversations with:Gabriele Giancola, CEO @ qiibee Foundation (7/27/2024, Season 7)Martin de Rijke, Growth Lead @ Maple Finance (6/16/2024, Season 7)Evan Owens, Vice President of Business Development @ Kadena (1/30/2025, Season 8)Joseph Ziolkowski, co-founder @ Realm Insurance (8/14/2024, Season 7)Warren Anderson, co-founder @ Exocore (5/16/2024, Season 7)

This is the fifty-eighth episode in the Crypto Hipster's Curtain Calls Series, which includes 3–4-minute clips from Seasons 6-8. This compilation draws upon my conversations with:Simon McLoughlin, CEO @ Uphold (12/9/2023, Season 6)Vikram R Singh, founder @ Antier Solutions (3/9/2024, Season 7)Joao Reginatto, Chief Strategy Officer @ M^ZERO Labs (6/27/2024, Season 7)Tom Trowbridge, co-founder and CEO @ Fluence Labs (9/1/2024, Season 8)

This is the fifty-seventh episode in the Crypto Hipster's Curtain Calls Series, which includes 3–4-minute clips from Seasons 6-8. This compilation draws upon my conversations with:Bunny, co-founder and CEO @ DORA (9/14/2024, Season 8)Alison Haire, CEO and founder @ Lilypad (6/27/2024, Season 7)Josh Benaron, CEO and founder @ Irys (9/7/2024, Season 8)Sebastian Pfeiffer, Managing Director @ Impossible Cloud Network (2/18/2025, Season 8)

This is the fifty-sixth episode in the Crypto Hipster's Curtain Calls Series, which includes 3–4-minute clips from Seasons 6-8. This compilation draws upon my conversations with:Marc Tillement, Director @ Pyth Network (3/6/2025, Season 8)Adam Simmons, Chief Strategy Officer @ RDX Works (4/14/2024, Season 7)Victor Vernissage, co-founder @ Humanode.io (2/13/2025, Season 8)Steven Pu, co-founder @ Taraxa (2/9/2025, Season 8)

This is the fifty-fifth episode in the Crypto Hipster's Curtain Calls Series, which includes 3–4-minute clips from Seasons 6-8. This compilation draws upon my conversations with:Ziga Drev, founder @ Trace Labs (2/2/2024, Season 6)Nick Cowan, Group CEO @ VLRM (5/24/2024, Season 7)Alex Pruden, Executive Director @ Aleo Network Foundation (6/4/2024, Season 7)Kurt Hemecker, CEO @ Mina Foundation (7/28/2024, Season 7)

This is the fifty-fourth episode in the Crypto Hipster's Curtain Calls Series, which includes 3–4-minute clips from Seasons 6-8. This compilation draws upon my conversations with:Altan Tutar, co-founder and CEO @ MoreMarkets (5/22/2025, Season 8)Nikolay Filichkin, co-founder and Chief Business Officer @ Compute Labs (5/21/2025, Season 8)Kony, CEO and co-founder @ GAIB (3/28/2025, Season 8)Leo Fan Xiong, co-founder @ Cysic (5/25/2025, Season 8)

This is the fifty-third episode in the Crypto Hipster's Curtain Calls Series, which includes 3–4-minute clips from Seasons 6-8. This compilation draws upon my conversations with:Jon Trask, CEO and founder @ Dimitra (10/28/2023, Season 6)Kevin Rusher, founder @ RAAC (1/19/2025, Season 8)Erik LaPaglia, Chief Strategy Officer @ Propy (8/15/2024, Season 7)Ricardo Johnson, founder @ Oases (1/31/2025, Season 8)

This is the fifty-second episode in the Crypto Hipster's Curtain Calls Series, which includes 3–4-minute clips from Seasons 6-8. This compilation draws upon my conversations with:JOTARO, co-founder @ JOJO (5/22/2024, Season 7)Chris Bradbury, CEO @ Summer.Fi (4/21/2024, Season 7)Georgii Verbitski, founder @ TYMIO (11/22/2024, Season 8)Meg Lister, Managing Director @ Gitcoin Labs (3/19/2025, Season 8)

This is the fifty-first episode in the Crypto Hipster's Curtain Calls Series, which includes 3–4-minute clips from Seasons 6-8. This compilation draws upon my conversations with:Mark Lee, Partner and CMO @ synFutures (2/3/2024, Season 6)Anthony Saliba, founder @ Liquid Mercury (11/5/2023, Season 6)Oliver Linch, CEO and General Counsel @ Bittrex Global (3/22/2024, Season 7)Vitali Dervoed, co-founder @ Spark (12/6/2024, Season 8)Jake Claver, Managing Director @ Digital Ascension Group (3/20/2025, Season 8)

This is the fiftieth episode in the Crypto Hipster's Curtain Calls Series, which includes 3–4-minute clips from Seasons 6-8. This compilation draws upon my conversations with:Justin Banon, co-founder @ Boson Protocol (11/4/2023, Season 6)Marc Walton, founder @ Forex Mentor Pro (2/28/2025, Season 8)Sam Mudie, co-founder and CEO @ Savea (5/17/2025, Season 8)Jack McInerney, founder @ Renewal Coin (4/29/2024, Season 7)

This is the forty-ninth episode in the Crypto Hipster's Curtain Calls Series, which includes 3–4-minute clips from Seasons 6-8. This compilation draws upon my conversations with:Omer Sadika, co-founder @ dWallet Network and CEO @ dWallet Labs (3/16/2024, Season 7)Dr. Weijia Zhang, Vice President of Engineering @ Wanchain (9/9/2024, Season 8)Aki Balogh, co-founder and CEO @ DLC.Link (3/17/2024, Season 7)Peter Kris, co-founder and CEO @ Gasp (12/9/2024, Season 8)

This is the forty-eighth episode in the Crypto Hipster's Curtain Calls Series, which includes 3–4-minute clips from Seasons 6-8. This compilation draws upon my conversations with:Jathin Jagannath, Developer Advocate @ Cartesi, and Awoskia Israel Ayodeji, founder @ Web3bridge (12/18/2023, Season 6)Yair Cleper, CEO and co-founder @ Magma Devs, and Initial Core Contributor @ Lava Network (6/17/2024, Season 7)Adrien Stern, founder and CEO @ Reveel (8/26/2024, Season 8)Aly Madhavji, Managing Partner @ Blockchain Founders Fund (1/11/2025, Season 8)

This is the forty-seventh episode in the Crypto Hipster's Curtain Calls Series, which includes 3–4-minute clips from Seasons 6-8. This compilation draws upon my conversations with:Bill Laboon, Director of Education and Governance Initiatives @ Web3 Foundation (3/23/2024, Season 7)Jim Myers, CTO and co-founder @ Flipside Crypto (2/10/2024, Season 6)Lucy Coulden, Global Program Director @ Polkadot Ambassador Fellowship (3/7/2025, Season 8)Joe Andrews, co-founder and President @ Aztec Labs (3/11/2025, Season 8)

This is the forty-sixth episode in the Crypto Hipster's Curtain Calls Series, which includes 3–4-minute clips from Seasons 6-8. This compilation draws upon my conversations with:Stefan Rust, CEO @ Truflation (1/28/2024, Season 6)Jeroen Offerijns, CTO @ Centrifuge (5/16/2025, Season 8)Miguel Buffara, Lead Financial Engineer @ RACE (10/30/2024, Season 8)Jonny Fry, CEO @ Team Blockchain & Group Head of Digital Assets Strategy @ ClearBank (3/31/2024, Season 7)

This is the forty-fifth episode in the Crypto Hipster's Curtain Calls Series, which includes 3–4-minute clips from Seasons 6-8. This compilation draws upon my conversations with:Jakub Ondrasek, CEO @ Clore.AI (11/26/2024, Season 8)Ben James, Founder @ 404-GEN (3/5/2025, Season 8)Yaroslav Writtle, Core Contributor @ Yelay (3/29/2025, Season 8)Jason Teutsch, founder and Chief Scientist @ Truebit (5/15/2025, Season 8)

This is the forty-fourth episode in the Crypto Hipster's Curtain Calls Series, which includes 3–4-minute clips from Seasons 6-8. This compilation draws upon my conversations with:Jiahao Sun, CEO @ FLock.io (6/22/2024, Season 7)Wei Xie, COO @ ArenaX Labs (6/20/2024, Season 7)Brendan Playford, co-founder @ Masa (10/18/2024, Season 8)Erick Ho, CEO and co-founder @ Function Network (5/24/2025, Season 8)

This is the forty-third episode in the Crypto Hipster's Curtain Calls Series, which includes 3–4-minute clips from Seasons 6-8. This compilation draws upon my conversations with:James Toledano, COO @ Savl (4/7/2024, Season 7)Dylan Dewdney, CEO and co-founder @ Kuva.ai (5/13/2025, Season 8)Alvin Kan, COO @ Bitget Wallet (6/1/2024, Season 7)Georgi Koreli, founder @ Hinkal (3/3/2025, Season 8)