Ep 25 | Electric Coin Company (ZCash) on its Asia Focus and Challenges in 2019
The Global Coin Podcast by Joyce Yang
Release Date: 05/11/2019
Episode 37 | Partner at AGE Crypto Ethan Kravitz on the State of Crypto Hedge Funds, Transition from CTO Role to Investor and Institutional Capital
The Global Coin Podcast by Joyce Yang
In this episode, we are joined by Ethan Kravitz. Ethan is the co-founder and General Partner at AGE Crypto Asset Investment fund. He holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from UC Santa Barbara and has over 20 years of software engineering experience. He was previously was the Co-Founder and CTO of Overnight and has been using and investing in crypto assets since 2012. In our conversation, we spoke to Ethan about the role that a crypto hedge fund plays in the ecosystem, the state of institutional participation, crypto market cycles and more. Disclosure: Co-host of the...
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Episode 36 | Cofounder of Coda Protocol Evan Shapiro on Coda, the Current PoS Landscape and Osaka Devcon Takeways
The Global Coin Podcast by Joyce Yang
In this episode, we are joined by Evan Shapiro, CEO of O1 labs. O1 labs is the creator of the Coda Protocol that uses recursive zk-SNARK technology to enable a succinct blockchain. Prior to Coda, Evan was a software engineer at Mozilla. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. In our conversation, we discuss the recent developments on the Coda blockchain, the testnet development and the teams’ takeaways from Devcon. Learn more about Coda here: Zero-knowledge proofs and how it works with Coda: Follow them on Twitter at ...
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Ep 35 | Special Episode: Analyse Asia on The Small Handbook to Asia Cryptocurrency featuring Joyce Yang
The Global Coin Podcast by Joyce Yang
Today, we are excited to reshare Analyse Asia's latest episode featuring our own Joyce Yang. Joyce joined Analyse Asia in a conversation about the Asian cryptocurrency market in Asia with the new Analyse Asia host, Carol Yin. Joyce and Carol discussed the recent publication by Global Coin Research (GCR) “” and identified the key important trends and currents in the Asian market, specifically China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, and Singapore. Here are the interesting show notes and links to the discussion (with time-stamps included): Joyce Yang ( , ), Founder...
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Ep 34 | Wyre CEO Michael Dunworth on Supporting the Fiat to Crypto Ecosystem and Crypto's Way to Mass Adoption
The Global Coin Podcast by Joyce Yang
In this episode, Joyce and John are joined by Michael Dunworth. Michael is Cofounder and CEO of Wyre, one of the leading crypto to fiat onramps globally. Founded in 2013, Wyre provides tools for blockchain developers, financial services and protocols to onboard users to crypto in under 10 lines of code. Their mission is to help developers focus on building great products, and less on the headaches around regulation and compliance. In this conversation, Michael talks about the founding story of Wyre, whom he admires in the industry, his thoughts on why credit cards are not the key feature to...
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Ep 33 | Quoine CEO Mike Kayamori on the Regulatory Environment in Japan, and Advice He Has for New Projects Looking to Enter the Japanese Market.rojects looking to enter the Japanese market
The Global Coin Podcast by Joyce Yang
Mike Kayamori is the co-founder and CEO of Liquid. In April, that it raised capital from investors at a valuation of more than $1 billion, making it one of the few unicorns in the crypto and blockchain space. As of May, Liquid has more than USD50 billion in transactions over the past 12 months. Mike brings over 22 years of experience in investments, business management, IT and venture capital across Japan, the United States, India, and Southeast Asia. Prior to Liquid, Mike was a Senior Vice President at SoftBank Group and Senior Director at Globalspan Capital Partners, a Palo...
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Ep 32 | Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire on the rapid rise of USDC, China's digital currency and regulatory headwinds in the US
The Global Coin Podcast by Joyce Yang
Jeremy is the co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Circle, a global crypto financial services company that provides individuals, institutions and entrepreneurs with a platform to invest in, store, trade and use digital assets, and raise capital through online securities offerings. In the last few months, Circle has been actively pursuing new growth opportunities such as the recent expansion into Bermuda to service international customers, and also offering fiat-to-crypto trading, and introduced new asset pairs for Tether and USDC on its exchange Poloniex. In our conversation, we...
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Ep 31 | Is Facebook Libra Opening A Pandora’s Box? Singapore Professor David Lee Explains
The Global Coin Podcast by Joyce Yang
Global Coin Research partnered up with the number 1 Taiwanese Crypto Media Blocktempo at the Asia Blockchain Summit in early July. Our founder Joyce Yang interviewed David Lee, Visiting Fulbright Scholar (2015) at Stanford University and Professor, Singapore University of Social Sciences. Prof David LEE Kuo Chuen is the founder of several entities including LeftCoast in Silicon Valley, Libai.io for Chinese wealth management education, and BlockAsset for Fintech and Blockchain. He was the Director of the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics at the Singapore Management University. He...
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Ep 30 | Special Episode: With CFO of Binance Wei Zhou on the Happenings from the Asian Blockchain Summit
The Global Coin Podcast by Joyce Yang
Today, we are excited to reshare Binance's latest episode featuring our own Joyce Yang. Joyce Yang, founder of Global Coin Research gives a firsthand account from the Asian Blockchain Summit, including the Rumble in Taipei between Arthur Hayes and Nouriel Roubini, the crazy Bitmex.com 10k party and more. Joyce also poses Twitter questions to Wei about recent developments with Binance US; Binance's potential stablecoin, and Wei’s insights on identifying favorable, portable jurisdictions for expansion. He also touches on Binance's hustle - “whoever works harder shapes...
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Ep 29 | Bitmex Arthur Hayes on his debate with Nouriel Roubini at the Asia Blockchain Summit
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Global Coin Research partnered up with Blocktempo at the Asia Blockchain Summit last week. Our founder Joyce Yang interviewed Arthur Hayes in Taipei on his debate with Nouriel Roubini, privacy, Bitmex and DEXes, @facebook coin, and crypto media. - #ArthurHayes obtained his BA in Economics at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in 2008. Subsequently, he moved to Hong Kong where worked as an equity derivatives trader for Deutsche Bank and Citigroup for 5 years. Arthur was the head ETF market maker at both firms. In January 2014, BitMEX was formed. BitMEX is a...
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Ep 28 | Special Episode: Analyse Asia on Binance featuring Joyce Yang
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Today, we are excited to reshare Analyse Asia's latest episode featuring our own Joyce Yang. Joyce joined Analyse Asia to discuss Biance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange globally, to review its rapid rise and current lead in the industry. They began with the chronological history of the company and how the founders Zhao Changpeng and He Yi built up the cryptocurrency exchange from 2017 to now the leading player with 40% of the market share globally. They discuss their current business footprint, their current projects from the stable coin project to the recent announcement...
info_outlineThis is a replay of a conference call held jointly by Global Coin Research and Messari on May 9, 2019.
In the last year, the Electric Coin Company, formerly Zcash, has been moving beyond the technical and scientific cypherpunk community towards those with a need or desire for an alternative store of value (SoV). And for that reason, Electric Coin Company has begun focusing on countries in Asia as primary targets for their research, marketing, and business development efforts.
As Josh Swihart, Electric Coin Company's head of business development and marketing, highlighted in a company post in January, Electric Coin Company will begin focusing on Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong. The team also intends to lightly engage in the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
For this call, we invite Josh to share with us his thought process for onboarding users in Asia, with his outline of the customer decision journey, focusing first on SoV use cases for near-term full adoption and then exploring medium of exchange (MoE) use cases in an effort to find product-market fit.
Josh and Zooko also recently went to a number of countries in Asia and held a number of local meetups. We will ask for their takeaways there.
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About Josh Swihart:
Josh is responsible for Electric Coin Company’s marketing and business development. Prior to Electric Coin Company, he served as the Senior Vice President of Global Marketing for K2, leading global growth from start-up to acquisition by Francisco Partners. He has also served as a global practice principal for EMC, the CEO of Aspenware, and was the co-founder of a couple of other companies with exits to Accenture and EMC. He began his career as a software developer, data recovery specialist and BBS sysop. Josh has received numerous global and national awards for leadership, marketing, and solution delivery.
About Zcash:
Electric Coin Company’s mission is to empower everyone with economic freedom and opportunity. We believe that everyone has a right to privacy, that the pursuit of economic freedom is virtuous, and that the future of money is an attack- and censorship-resistant digital currency. Since its launch in 2016, Electric Coin Company has quickly grown to be one of the most valued and admired cryptocurrencies in the world.
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