Abra Money 3.0

Founder and CEO of Abra, Bill Barhydt answers all your questions about Abra and the larger crypto-universe. This episode is an edited audio version of Bill's live Q&A from July 31. --- Subscribe to Abra's official Youtube channel to ask your questions in Bill's weekly live Q&A sessions: https://www.youtube.com/abraglobal Download Abra and set up a cryptocurrency wallet today at abra.com.

In this episode, Abra's CEO Bill Barhydt and Saifedean Ammous, take a macroeconomic view and talk about the state of the world today. This episode is the third part of a three part conversation series between Bill and Saif. In the first episode we covered, why does the world need bitcoin, and in the second episode we covered how to drive the mainstream adoption of Bitcoin. Saif is an economist and author focusing on bitcoin. He has published the hugely popular book: The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking. --- Download Abra and set up a cryptocurrency wallet today at abra.com.

In this episode, Abra's CEO Bill Barhydt and Saifedean Ammous, take a long term view of the market and talk about how to drive the mainstream adoption of Bitcoin. This episode is the second part of a three part conversation series between Bill and Saif. In the first episode we covered, why does the world need bitcoin and in the final episode we will be covering the macroeconomics and the state of the world today. Saif is an economist and author focusing on bitcoin. He has published the hugely popular book: The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking. --- Download Abra and set up a cryptocurrency wallet today at abra.com.

This is a three part conversation series between Abra's CEO, Bill Barhydt with Saifedean Ammous. In this series we will be covering, Why does the world need bitcoin? How do we drive the mainstream global adoption of bitcoin and finally we will cover the macroeconomics and the state of the world today. In this first episode, Bill Barhydt sits down with Saifedean Ammous to discuss the state of bitcoin. Saif is an economist and author focusing on bitcoin. He has published the hugely popular book The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking. --- Download Abra and set up a cryptocurrency wallet today at abra.com.

This episode of Money 3.0 takes a deep dive into the role of stablecoins and other asset-backed stores of value.  To discuss this topic, Abra’s founder and CEO Bill Barhydt is joined by Paxos co-founder and CEO, Chad Cascarilla. --- Download Abra and set up a cryptocurrency wallet today at abra.com. This podcast is presented by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: blockworksgroup.io

In this episode, Abra founder and CEO Bill Barhydt is in conversation with Mark Yusko, the founder, CEO, and chief investment officer at Morgan Creek Capital Management and managing partner at Morgan Creek Digital. Bill and Mark talk about the investment case for Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies and why large investors like institutions and endowments are starting to pay attention to crypto.  The conversation also covers the exponential growth potential of cryptocurrencies. --- Download Abra and set up a cryptocurrency wallet today at abra.com. This podcast is presented by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: blockworksgroup.io

In this episode, Abra founder and CEO Bill Barhydt is in conversation with Ryan Selkis, the founder and CEO of Messari. Their conversation is a deeper dive into the Crypto Theses for 2020 paper that Messari recently published.  Some of the topics include: bitcoin as digital gold, unbanking the banked, the future of crypto on-ramps, tokenized income share agreements, and Messari’s plans to create a decentralized autonomous organization. --- Download Abra and set up a cryptocurrency wallet today at abra.com. This podcast is presented by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: blockworksgroup.io

This episode of Money 3.0 takes a closer look at DigiByte. One of the biggest strengths of the DigiByte project is the strength of its community. Joining us to discuss all things DigiByte, are DigiByte founder Jared Tate and the DigiByte Foundation’s Josiah Spackman. They talk about how the DigiByte community is building a powerful, global, and completely decentralized network. --- Download Abra and set up a cryptocurrency wallet today at abra.com. This podcast is presented by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: blockworksgroup.io

This episode of Money 3.0 takes  a deep dive into Stellar, a decentralized payment network and protocol with a native currency called lumens or XLM.  Joining us to discuss the project is Denelle Dixon, CEO and Executive Director of the Stellar Development Foundation.  Abra's Bill Barhydt sits down with Denelle to talk about our new role and learn more about the foundation's mission to unlock the world's economic potential by making money more fluid, markets more open, and people more empowered. --- Download Abra and set up a cryptocurrency wallet today at abra.com. This podcast is presented by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: blockworksgroup.io

In this episode, Abra founder and CEO Bill Barhydt talks to TRON founder and CEO Justin Sun about what the TRON community is building. TRON is focused on creating a platform that allows developers to easily deploy decentralized applications. The conversation also covers how Justin got the idea for TRON, his thoughts about the token economy, and how cryptocurrencies might achieve mainstream traction. Download Abra and set up a cryptocurrency wallet today at abra.com. This podcast is presented by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: blockworksgroup.io

In this episode, Abra founder and CEO Bill Barhydt is in conversation with David Vorick, co-founder and CEO of Sia.  The network that Sia is building is a really interesting example of the kinds of technologies that are made possible by blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Sia is a decentralized cloud storage network that ultimately allows its users to have more control over their data.  Download Abra and set up a cryptocurrency wallet today at abra.com. This podcast is presented by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: blockworksgroup.io

In today’s episode, Abra founder and CEO Bill Barhydt is in conversation with Dash Core Group CEO Ryan Taylor all about the Dash cryptocurrency.  Dash has some interesting governance features in its masternode system. And Dash developers are working to create a fast and low-cost currency that is useful in point-of-sale and instant settlement situations. Download Abra and set up a cryptocurrency wallet today at abra.com. This podcast is presented by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: blockworksgroup.io

In this episode, Abra founder and CEO Bill Barhydt is in conversation with Tom Kysar, the head of operations at Augur.  Augur is a decentralized prediction market that is built on Ethereum.  Bill and Tom talk about some of the ways that people are using prediction markets, but the conversation also touches on the potential impacts of the technology that the team at Augur is building. Download Abra and set up a cryptocurrency wallet today at abra.com. This podcast is presented by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: blockworksgroup.io

In this episode, Abra founder and CEO Bill Barhydt is in conversation with Rafael Cosman, the co-founder and head of engineering of TrustToken.  Bill and Rafael cover a lot of ground in this conversation including Rafael’s thoughts on how Facebook’s Libra project could impact the stablecoin ecosystem and what’s coming next from TrustToken and Abra. Download Abra and set up a cryptocurrency wallet today at abra.com. This podcast is presented by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: blockworksgroup.io

In this episode, Abra founder and CEO, Bill Barhydt is in conversation with Ethan Beard, SVP of Xpring, an initiative inside Ripple focused on developing an ecosystem of XRP-related companies. Bill and Ethan discuss some of the challenges of building with cryptocurrency technologies and about how XRP’s protocol for money aims to transform global payments.  Download Abra and set up a cryptocurrency wallet today at abra.com. This podcast is presented by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: blockworksgroup.io

In this episode of Money 3.0, Abra's Daniel McGlynn talks to co-founder and CEO of CryptoTrader.tax, David Kemmerer. They talk a lot about how crypto is taxed and how to prepare for the upcoming tax season. They also talk about the recent IRS cryptocurrency guidance and how it is a good thing for the crypto space overall. At one point in the show, the CryptoTrader.Tax 2019 Guide to Cryptocurrency Taxes is mentioned. That guide can be found here. A full transcript of this episode is available on the Abra blog. Download Abra and set up a cryptocurrency wallet today at abra.com. This podcast is presented by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: blockworksgroup.io

In this episode, Bill Barhydt talks to ARK CEO and chief investment officer Cathie Wood. They cover a lot of ground including investing in technologies with exponential growth potential, and what the future might look like as multiple innovation platforms evolve at the same time. This podcast is presented by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: blockworksgroup.io

In this special episode listen to the thoughts of Max Keiser, the co-host of Keiser Report, Anthony Pompliano, founder and partner at Morgan Creek Digital, and Abra founder and CEO Bill Barhydt talk about the resilience of Bitcoin.  This talk was recorded in June as a panel discussion during Bitcoin2019 in San Francisco.

What is the role of privacy in money, and why does it matter? In this latest episode of the Money 3.0 Show, Abra founder and CEO Bill Barhydt sits down with Zooko Wilcox, the creator and CEO of Zcash. (This podcast originally aired on our YouTube channel in early 2019.) Their conversation covers a lot of ground — both have been working on encryption and secure internet technologies since well before the launch of Bitcoin.  Read more about the episode on the Abra blog.

In the latest episode of the Abra Money 3.0 show, Abra founder and CEO Bill Barhydt talks to Nimrod Lehavi, the co-founder and CEO of Simplex. The conversation focuses on why moving fiat to crypto is so complicated, and the technology Simplex is building to eliminate fraud from fiat to crypto transactions This podcast was recorded in San Francisco during the recent Bitcoin 2019 conference. Check out the Abra blog for more information.