It has been a while fellow hashers!With Neal and Nathan both taking care of family life, the end of 2019 rolled by with no new recordings, but that doesn't mean the crypto scene has been quiet! In this special holiday episode Neal and Nathan

#182 - Dennis Lewis the Cryptopreneur

Aug 7th, 2019 24m 7s

Today I have a chat with Dennis Lewis, author of the new book Behold the Cryptopreneurs. Dennis cut his teeth in ICO marketing and saw the rise and fall of many crypto projects. In the past few years we have seen the rise and fall of an ICO bu

#181 - Crypto Derivatives - Interview with Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX

Jul 24th, 2019 21m 28s

Trading and speculation are the engine that drives interest in blockchain technology, and the huge swings in value have captured the attention of wall street. This brave new world of digital asset trading lured Sam Bankman-Fried from his high-

#180 - Interview with Dom Povilauskas, CEO of NOIA

Jul 17th, 2019 17m 1s

When Neal and I started this podcast 2 years ago, one of our goals was to discover interesting projects and uses of blockchain that we hadn't considered before. The Internet is core to all of our lives to the point where we take it for granted

#179 - Hi Max Rye, from DeepCloud A.I.!

Jul 10th, 2019 26m 14s

Did ever you tryTo build an AIThat would tinker with cloudsAnd make them more spry?Well one person did.And his name is Max RyeAnd he is the founderOf DeepCloud AI.We take cloud services for granted in North America and Europe, howev

#178 - Incentives for a new economy

Jul 3rd, 2019 24m 5s

Hey everyone!This week I'm going to be speaking at Tech Open Air in Berlin. I was invited because my company, Minespider, is involved with an interesting blockchain use case of tracking responsibly sourced minerals and metals in the supply cha

#177 - Is Libra Legit + An interview with Algorand

Jun 26th, 2019 30m 20s

Greetings, hashers!Everyone is talking about Libra. Is it a coin for good or for evil? Should we trust Facebook to create a cryptocurrency? Take a listen and I'll give my 2 cents.Plus, the main segment today is an interview with Paul Riegle a

#176 - Interview with Evan Kuo, Founder and CEO of Ampleforth

Jun 13th, 2019 37m 15s

One of the beautiful aspects of blockchain and cryptocurrencies is the ability to experiment with new economic models without the need for a bloody revolution. We can try a different way of maneuvering wealth, managing incomes, and tweaking h

#175 - The End of an Era

May 30th, 2019 25m 48s

Bitcoin hits 9000, and it feels like the crypto winter may be giving way to the crypto spring.And as the crypto winter turns into spring, the show will also change. Neal will be taking an indefinite hiatus to focus on his family life. Natha

#174 - Crypto Spring and Demand.Film

May 22nd, 2019 27m 46s

Everyone is excited! Crypto is on the up. What's going on? Today Neal and Nathan have a chat about the factors that have led to this parabolic time of joy in the crypto price and look at wallet options if you want to dare to believe again

#173 - Interview with Jag Singh of Vid.Camera

May 16th, 2019 21m 30s

It's been a while since we've spoken with a decentralized, utility-token-driven project on the show, but with the recent crypto spike, now is the time to start looking at exciting new projects!Jag Singh is the cofounder of Vid.Camera, a bloc

#172 - Utility and Decentralization

May 8th, 2019 24m 13s

Utility tokens. They were all the rage in 2017 and even 2018. Not only because people could raise millions of dollars with them really quickly, but also because they enabled blockchain protocols to work. But utility tokens were designed to b

#171 - Martin Mikeln, Cofounder at Verity

May 1st, 2019 27m 37s

It's known as the Oracle Problem. Transactions on a blockchain are secure and trustless, but when we create smart contracts that use data that comes from sources not on the blockchain, how can we trust it is accurate? We need external data fo

#170 -Delisting and Harmony

Apr 16th, 2019 34m 9s

Hello lovely listeners, today we talk with Nick White, cofounder of Harmony, a base-layer protocol that is trying to solve some of the scaling problems that come with the blockchain space. Scaling is a huge challenge in the blockchain space: ho

#169 - Charles Hoskinson, CEO and Cofounder of IOHK

Apr 9th, 2019 37m 38s

Spring is here and there is a crypto rally around us! Crypto prices rallied last week giving everyone in the cryptoverse a bit of relief, and in the midst of that we had the opportunity to speak to Charles Hoskinson, cofounder of Ethereum, and

#168 - Interview with Beniamin Mincu, CEO of Elrond

Apr 4th, 2019 25m 45s

The long crypto winter has focused the blockchain world on enterprise projects with customers and solid business models, but we should not forget the importance of Layer One protocols! Behind the hype of STOs, finance platforms, and supply chai

#167 - What's at stake?

Apr 1st, 2019 17m 30s

A week after the big exchange scandal and crypto seems largely unaffected, so Neal and Nathan discuss the future of Proof of Stake systems and whether staking will be the newest investment tool for large institutional investors.-------------

#166 - PositiveBlockchain.io meetup - Digital ID panel

Mar 28th, 2019 56m 3s

Last week Positiveblockchain.io held a meetup in Berlin discussing the role of blockchain in digital ID and how it could make a positive social impact. Analysis in Chains was there to record it, so you didn't have to miss the discussion!On the

#165 - Inflated Volumes?

Mar 26th, 2019 22m 1s

Bitcoin trading volumes are strong but the value, not so much. Could it be that exchanges are inflating their volumes to look more impressive to the average trader? Is it just the small exchanges or are the big ones caught up as well? And wha

#164 - Interview with Eli-Shaoul Khedouri, Human Protocol

Mar 21st, 2019 21m 26s

We've all been there. We go to a website, go to log in, and have to prove we aren't a robot. Each time we fill out a Captcha we are doing work to provide data that feeds machine learning algorithms run by big companies, and we're doing it for

#163 - One more time around the circuit

Mar 18th, 2019 16m 1s

We're starting to see movement. We've seen this before. Altcoins are performing well relative to Bitcoin. That means that people are getting a bit riskier, and moving to sell off their Bitcoin to explore more adventurous areas of the crypto m

#162 - Discussion with Dr. Mervyn Maistry, CEO of Konfid.io

Mar 14th, 2019 31m 42s

I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with my friend Dr Mervyn Maistry, CEO of Konfid.io, whose blockchain is tailor made for solving enterprise problems. We spoke about the challenge "vulture capitalism" and how blockchain can address

#161 - How can data be self-sovereign?

Mar 11th, 2019 9m 45s

A lot of people are making data plays on blockchain. The concept of data self-sovereignty is the driving factor. How can I own my own data and not have a third party service make all the money by selling it?That's an exciting topic but it c

#160 - Fetch and Ocean - Will ICOs come back in 2019?

Mar 4th, 2019 20m 21s

Even in the middle of a crypto winter, you will still see some crypto trees pushing their way up through the snow. Last week Fetch.AI sold out their ICO in only 10 seconds. On the 6th of March, Ocean Protocol will hold their ICO which is wide

#159 - Bitbond Does an STO

Feb 28th, 2019 22m 31s

Time for a walk down memory lane! One of our first guests on Analysis in Chains was Radoslav Albrecht, CEO of Bitbond, one of the most established blockchain company in the Berlin scene, giving small business loans using Bitcoin. Bitbond ar