In 2019's first episode, we take a really interesting dive into Hong Kong's crypto ecosystem with Leo Weese, President of the Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong. We talk about how the Hong Kong crypto ecosystem has changed since 2012, what some of the common misconceptions are about crypto in Hong Kong, and what makes this city so unique and well suited for crypto development.

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Messari Podcast #19: Examining Hong Kong's Crypto Ecosystem w/ Leo Weese (Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong)

In this week's episode, Tian Li (co-founder, DDEX) talks about the decision by the DDEX team to fork away the 0x protocol and carry on with their own implementation of the protocol, named Hydro. Tian also addressed the decision to remove to 0x token, and what the short term future looks like for DDEX.

Messari Podcast #18: Tian Li (Co-founder, DDEX) on the decision to fork 0X & move to Hydro

In this episode, Circle's Ria Bhutoria talks about her research process (how long it takes, and what the most frustrating parts of the process are), and also goes into her latest report on prediction markets. We talk about what prediction markets are, how they work, the advantages and challenges of a decentralized prediction market, and what usage is like on current platforms.

Messari Podcast #17: Circle Research's Ria Bhutoria on the crypto research process, with a primer on prediction markets

Decentralization isn't an easy concept to define or understand, so Zcash Foundation Executive Director Josh Cincinnati shares his thoughts on what it means to be decentralized. He also emphasizes the utility of non-profit foundations in the cryptocurrency space, which he thinks can affect a lot of good.

Messari Podcast #16: Josh Cincinnati on the Zcash Foundation and the nuances of decentralization

Given the crypto market downturn this quarter, Dan McArdle shares his thoughts on what is now the fourth "crypto recession" for him, and where he thinks things might head in the short to medium term.

Messari Podcast #15: Dan McArdle on how to survive the "crypto winter", and lessons from past crypto recessions

Product design is hard. For this week's episode, Taylor’s highlights the sometimes vast difference between intentions and outcome in product design v. user experience. For example, the intention of making the user onboarding process easier can become so streamlined that it ceases to require users to save their private keys. Another example Taylor gives is the practice of saving private keys, or other secret information, to local storage in exchange for intended causes like ease to access, faster signup, account recovery options, etc. Ending the episode with wise words from Arianna Simpson, who reminds us that price is not all that matters.

Messari Podcast #14: The unintended consequences of product design with Taylor Monahan

In this podcast episode, Katherine explains the implications of the latest SEC order against Etherdelta's founder and its three important takeaways. Then, Simon Taylor, founder of Globa Digital Finance, comes on and talks about setting global standards and a code of conduct for the various actors in the crypto ecosystem.

Messari Podcast #13: SEC's Etherdelta action + Conversation with Simon Taylor about Global Digital Finance

This week, Katherine is on the grounds at DevCon in Prague and chats with Erik Vorhees (Founder + CEO, Shapeshift) about the 10th anniversary of the publication of the Bitcoin whitepaper. Later, Ari Paul (CIO, Blocktower Capital) shares what he is excited about and what he wants to learn more about in the crypto space.

Messari Podcast #12: Conversation with Erik Voorhees & Ari Paul at DevCon4

In this week's podcast, Katherine breaks down the latest arbitration case to come out of China's Shenzhen International Court of Arbitration, which determined that bitcoin is protected under China’s current property laws. Additionally, Zack interviews Samson Mow of Blocksteam about sidechains: what they are, what type of sidechain Liquid is, and how Liquid can affect the average crypto investor.

Messari Podcast #11: China's latest arbitration case involving bitcoin + Interview with Samson Mow about sidechains and the liquid network

In this week's podcast, Katherine interviews Spencer Bogart (Partner, Blockchain Capital) while in San Francisco and they chat about fund tokenization, benchmarks for crypto fund performance, and Spencer's transition from equity research to crypto venture investing.

Messari Podcast #10: Spencer Bogart on tokenized funds, benchmarks for crypto fund performance, and his transition from equity research to crypto venture investing

Every week, Tony Sheng writes high-quality pieces on the most relevant and fascinating topics in crypto. In this week's podcast, Tony discusses his writing process, how he gets over writer's block, how he decides on a topic, and why he recently decided to switch to a membership model for his blog.

Messari Podcast #9: Tony Sheng on his writing process, how to get over writer's block, and the blog membership model

This week's podcast was recorded in Palm Springs, California for Crypto Springs, a ~250 attendee crypto conference. Messari's Katherine Wu was on the ground and interviewed some of the speakers and attendees (listed below) about their quick impressions of the conference and the discussions that they found interesting.

Messari Podcast #8: Conversations on the ground at Cryptosprings ☀️?

Never a dull moment in crypto. In this week's Messari podcast, we delve into two topics: 1) a look at the disclosure documents that Bitmain filed in an IPO application to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and 2) a conversation with Eric Meltzer on the latest bitcoin bug, what it means, and its implications.

Messari Podcast #7: Bitmain's IPO Application Proof + Bitcoin bug w/ Eric Meltzer

In this week’s podcast, we have with us Jake Chervinsky to give us a better & easier primer to understand some of the regulators in the crypto space. We cover 7 federal agencies and 2 state agencies: what the acronym stands for, what the agency does/have jurisdiction over, and how that relates to crypto.

Messari Podcast #6: Primer on Federal & State Regulators for Crypto w/ Jake Chervinsky

In this week's episode, Ryan Seklis (CEO of Messari) and Qiao Wang (Head of Product, Messari) share their experiences from the previous week at EthBerlin. We talk about what the week consisted of, what they found interesting, what they found surprising, and what advice they have for the future attendees of EthGlobal events.

Messari Podcast #5: Thoughts and Takeaways from EthBerlin with Ryan Selkis and Qiao Wang

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