Beyond Bitcoin
Crypto and digital assets; the week’s news and events in the rear vision mirror. Keeping it simple and hypothesising about what these events might mean to our favourite assets and to us as humans living into the digital world. Enjoy two blokes chatting one from a fund management viewpoint (Deryck Graham) and one deeper dive tech (Nitin Gaur). Let the chat and banter begin and remember feel free to contribute to future topics and to leave comments.
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Episodes
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
Great Conversation with Sagar Barvaliya - a Investor, where he shared his perspective on builders and projects
Sagar has an interesting journey he shared with us, he was trained as an engineer and previously worked for Porsche and start-up accelerators before deciding to go "all-in" into the crypto space. As an Engineer, He was always close to building something and the actual job of a civil engineer is to build bridges and Houses, Now he is building the bridges in Web3. He is a Chief Networking officer/Principal at Blockrocket and helps portfolio startups with 360 degree advisory.
We dissected into VC investment and projects trends, where Out of all the overarching sectors in the blockchain industry in decentralized finance (DeFi,) centralized finance (CeFi,) blockchain infrastructure, Web3 and nonfungible tokens (NFT,) DeFi was basically always king for VC capital inflows. That all changed in Q2, when Web3 garnered around 42% of all the individual deals, leaving DeFi in a far distant second at 16%. This trend was highlighted further when analyzing the most active investors, who made around 42% of all deal activity for Q2, a drop from 65% in Q1.
Our discussion focused on what is shaping the industry and a Venture perspective.
Thursday Oct 27, 2022
Thursday Oct 27, 2022
Listen to Paul Goldman, Country Manager OKCoin Australia on his perspective on industry differentiator of OKCoin one of the fastest growing global cryptocurrency exchange.
He shared his perspectives on Institutionalization of crypto, and opportunity that lies ahead for financial professionals.
Paul draws on his Trading and finance background and discussed the difference in market structure and dynamic around Crypto assets as a new asset class.
Certainly interesting perspectives as the industry evolves. Take a listen.
Thursday Oct 27, 2022
Thursday Oct 27, 2022
Listen to Paul Goldman, Country Manager OKCoin Australia on his perspective on industry differentiator of OKCoin one of the fastest growing global cryptocurrency exchange.
He shared his perspectives on Institutionalization of crypto, and opportunity that lies ahead for financial professionals.
Paul draws on his Trading and finance background and discussed the difference in market structure and dynamic around Crypto assets as a new asset class.
Certainly interesting perspectives as the industry evolves. Take a listen.
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Every Quarter Mark Witten, CIO of Portal Asset Management, provides a review of macroeconomics and the crypto markets and an update on the performance of Portal's 3 multistrategy funds. This quarter he shares this on Beyond Bitcoin.
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Every Quarter Mark Witten, CIO of Portal Asset Management, provides a review of macroeconomics and the crypto markets and an update on the performance of Portal's 3 multistrategy funds. This quarter he shares this on Beyond Bitcoin.
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
He is Hyperledger India Co-Chair contributing to the Climate Action & Accounting SIG, Trade Finance SIG, and Hyperledger Global Forum Committee member. He talks about the rapid adoption of crypto as a currency, the use of blockchain in enterprise as a validation mechanism, crypto in a cash society and the development of CBDC along with the vibrant Indian blockchain community.
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
He is Hyperledger India Co-Chair contributing to the Climate Action & Accounting SIG, Trade Finance SIG, and Hyperledger Global Forum Committee member. He talks about the rapid adoption of crypto as a currency, the use of blockchain in enterprise as a validation mechanism, crypto in a cash society and the development of CBDC along with the vibrant Indian blockchain community.
Thursday Oct 06, 2022
Thursday Oct 06, 2022
The rise and rise of blockchain in Dubai and the UAE. With the government of Dubai investing over US$1.5 billion annually Dubai has become an epicentre of all things blockchain.
The Dubai Blockchain Strategy is designed to help Dubai achieve the vision of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum by making "Dubai the first city fully powered by Blockchain" and making Dubai the happiest city on earth. The strategy uses 3 strategic pillars - Government Efficiency, Industry Creation, and International Leadership.
Thursday Oct 06, 2022
Thursday Oct 06, 2022
The rise and rise of blockchain in Dubai and the UAE. With the government of Dubai investing over US$1.5 billion annually Dubai has become an epicentre of all things blockchain.
The Dubai Blockchain Strategy is designed to help Dubai achieve the vision of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum by making "Dubai the first city fully powered by Blockchain" and making Dubai the happiest city on earth. The strategy uses 3 strategic pillars - Government Efficiency, Industry Creation, and International Leadership.
Thursday Sep 29, 2022
Thursday Sep 29, 2022
Blockchain is a truly decentralised and distributed technology and so are the components that make a blockchain project work. Maybe the best legal system could be Switzerland, the best fundraising nation the USA, the best development capability AND capacity, Eastern Bloc Countries and the best tax and lifestyle country could be Portugal. Have a listen and see how distributed blockchain tech projects can be.
Checkout Anthony Day's Podcast here - Blockchain Won’t Save the World