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On The Brink with Castle Island

Dec 30, 2019

Dave Balter, co-founder and CEO of Flipside Crypto joins the show. In this episode we discuss: 

- Dave's entrepreneurial journey to starting Flipside Crypto, his seventh company

- His perspective on the public blockchains that are attracting meaningful users

- His stance that many of these so-called protocols are...


Dec 23, 2019

Joe Lallouz, co-founder and CEO of Bison Trails joins the show. In this episode we discuss: 

- Joe's career trajectory and the path that led him and his co-founder Aaron to launch Bison Trails

- Joe and Aaron's initial mining project in the Pacific Northwest

- How Joe thinks about the landscape for infrastructure...


Dec 20, 2019

Matt and Nic from Castle Island Ventures review the top stories of the week in the cryptoasset industry. This week's topics include: 

- ErisX's futures launch

- PlusToken

- Efficient Markets at the halvening?

- Deals of the week

and more


Dec 16, 2019

Terrence Dempsey, the Head of Product at Fidelity Digital Assets joins the show. In this episode we discuss: 

- Terrence's career trajectory, including his role at Second Market prior to Fidelity

- Fidelity's product offering and ambitions in the cryptoasset industry

- Terrence's views on the current state of play for...


Dec 13, 2019

Matt and Nic from Castle Island Ventures review the top stories of the week in the cryptoasset industry. This week's topics include: 

- Deals

- ICO Scammers and DOJ arrests

- Charles Schwab Study

- Jack Dorsey (Square and Twitter)

- Poloniex cold wallets