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Send us a textVikram's journey from health crisis to blockchain pioneer offers a masterclass in resilient entrepreneurship. After being bedridden with spondylitis in 2004, he launched what would become India's largest blockchain consulting firm out of necessity, not grand ambition. Today, that decision has evolved into a 700-person operation transforming how we think about blockchain implementation across industries.The conversation reveals Vikram's entrepreneurial philosophy centered on three critical factors: hunger (which must come intrinsically), humility, and smartness. Coming from modest beginnings and losing his father at 12, Vikram chose not to attend college to avoid burdening his mother—instead combining self-taught skills in design, technology, and content to forge his unique path.What truly distinguishes NTR Solutions is their revolutionary approach to talent acquisition. Rather than competing for graduates from elite institutions, they identify individuals with positive attitudes and invest in developing their technical skills. "Skills can always be taught as long as you have the right attitude," explains Vikram, defining the ideal attitude as "the ability to embrace challenges without losing enthusiasm."The company's blockchain innovations span multiple sectors, from user-friendly digital wallets to their groundbreaking solution for preventing question paper leaks in government exams—a chronic problem across many Asian countries. This blockchain-powered system has already made history in India by enabling trustless exam paper creation without human intervention.Beyond building products, Vikram's vision extends to transforming his home base of Mohali into "the blockchain capital of India," creating educational pathways for local talent to thrive in this emerging technology. His perspective on leadership—"It's not like you are employing team members; first you are employed to them"—reveals why his approach has succeeded where others have faltered in the volatile blockchain space.Support the show

Embark on an enlightening expedition through the ever-evolving world of cloud computing with our special guest, Anil Murty from Akash Network.  Our conversation navigates the transformative landscape of cloud infrastructure, marking the pivotal moments that have led to the birth of  decentralized cloud . Discover why Akash's innovative approach is shaking up the industry, offering cost benefits and an enticing alternative to the traditional, long-term financial commitments of big-name cloud providers. Anil illuminates how Akash's vision is revitalizing the cloud's original promise of eliminating hefty upfront capital expenditures and offering scalability, reshaping it into a competitive landscape where resources are accessible to everyone.Support the show

From a small town in Bihar to the buzzing tech hubs of Silicon Valley, Ankita Verma's story is nothing short of cinematic. As the co-founder and CEO of Persona, Ankita sheds light on her incredible journey through academia and the corporate world, culminating in her venture into the groundbreaking realm of Web 3. This episode is a goldmine for anyone intrigued by the evolution of digital advertising. It's not every day you get a front-row seat to the thought process behind pioneering Web3 advertising strategies. Ankita walks us through the shift from Web2's opaque practices to a new paradigm where privacy and user empowerment are at the forefront. Imagine a world where gas-less ads are the norm, rewarding user engagement is the standard, and transparency is not just a buzzword but a built-in feature of the very ecosystem we interact with.Support the show

Mike Gault co-founder Alphabill  talks about his radical new design a bill based transaction model that serves as an alternative to UTXOs (Bitcoin) and Accounts( Eth) based transaction models in existing blockchains. Alphabill claims to achieve massive parallelization without the need for any Layer 2s or zk roll-ups while maintaining strong security guarantees.Use  discount code "BUIDL" to get 10% off!! on your online order.Get Tangem  Hardware Wallet:https://go.tangem.com/Tangem_cardsTangem Wallet a swiss based hardware wallet company . Learn more Support the show

Tom Trowbridge  a well known serial entrepreneur and  co-founder of Fluence Labs, talks about why world deserves a better decentralized serverless compute platform. Use  discount code "BUIDL" to get 10% off!! on your online order.Get Tangem  Hardware Wallet:https://go.tangem.com/Tangem_cardsTangem Wallet a swiss based hardware wallet company . Learn more Fluence is hiring . Check jobs at fluence :https://fluence.one/joinSupport the show

Harry Halpin  CEO of NYM sits down to talk about how NYM tech can help individuals  overcome internet surveillance.Use  discount code "BUIDL" to get 10% off!! on your online order.Get Tangem  Hardware Wallet:https://go.tangem.com/Tangem_cardsTangem Wallet a swiss based hardware wallet company . Learn more Support the show

Grant Cermak a former cybersecurity expert and presently CEO of  Evergreenminer talks about how his startup has created a successful business around plug and play green mining . Partner News:We have partnered with Tangem Wallet a swiss based hardware wallet company .Tangem is an amazing hardware wallet that makes storing your crypto super easy with a completely new and secure approach.Get Tangem  Hardware Wallet:https://go.tangem.com/Tangem_cardsUse code "BUIDL" to get 10% off!Support the show

Paolo Ardoino  former CTO of Bitfinex and present CEO of Tether talks about his passion project Keet.io, a Peer-to-Peer Chat App. Apart from technical deep dive he talks about why society needs  peer to peer communications and applications. Partner News: We have partnered with Tangem Wallet a swiss based hardware wallet company .Tangem is an amazing hardware wallet that makes storing your crypto super easy with a completely new and secure approach. Get Tangem  Hardware Wallet: https://go.tangem.com/Tangem_cardsUse code "BUIDL" to get 10% off!Support the show

Jerod Moore a youtuber and tech nerd who has been nerding it up for the past 20 years runs Digital spaceport. Covering topics from Linux to Hardware to Home Improvements and Crypto has been a blast. Born out of the aftermath of the pandemic and the dramatic change of the radical shift to work-from-home , the opportunity to take home based technology, productivity, and entertainment to the next level has never been higher.  How do you empower individuals in any part of the world to  help contribute towards a decentralized future. Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/c/digitalspaceportTwitter : https://twitter.com/gospaceportWebsite : https://digitalspaceport.com/Support the show

Jerod Moore, a resident of Austin, Texas and youtuber has been nerding it up for the past 20 years. Covering topics from Linux to Hardware to Home Improvements and Crypto has been a blast. Born out of the aftermath of the pandemic and the dramatic change of the radical shift to work-from-home , the opportunity to take home based technology, productivity, and entertainment to the next level has never been higher. He talks about how to empower individuals create a producer economy. Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/c/digitalspaceportTwitter : https://twitter.com/gospaceportWeb : https://digitalspaceport.com/Support the show

Kristen Ragusin has more than 30 years of experience managing over $150M in client assets at Merrill Lynch and Raymond James .  On this episode Kristen talks about her new book " The End Of Scarcity" . We touch upon how humanity might be able to fix the perceived scarcity in its near future and challenges that we might face before we get there. Support the show

TibetSwap is an Automated Market Maker (AMM) running on the Chia blockchain. It uses funds provided users (liquidity providers) to allow anyone to trade XCH and tokens at what it considers to be a fair price.Support the show

Jesse Schulman, CTO and co-founder at Telos, talks about web3 gaming, zk tech, delegated proof of stake  sidechains and more. Website: https://www.telos.net/Developer Docs: https://docs.telos.net GitHub: https://github.com/telosnetwork Medium: https://hellotelos.medium.com/Twitter:  https://twitter.com/HelloTelosSupport the show

Tonmoy Shingal, CEO and co-founder at Binocs, talks about the evolving regulatory landscape in the crypto industry and building a comprehensive cryptotax tool.Website: https://binocs.co/Twitter: https://twitter.com/binocs_co

Dylan, talks about his latest venture Evergreen Miner and how Web3 can become unstoppable.  Website : https://www.evergreenminer.com/

Alex Carrabre , Chief Operating Officer at Presearch talks about  how  a community-powered, decentralized search engine  provides better results while protecting your privacy and rewarding you when you search. Also Checkout  Presearch Discord Community & Technical talk from Presearch CTO .

Sabari co-founder of spacescan talks about his life journey from a very humble beginnings to traveling the world and living in almost 5 continents. A rare interview in which he opens up about some of his life changing events that served as his inspiration to build towards a sustainable future.For more information checkout : https://www.spacescan.io/Follow on twitter : @spacescan_io

Amber Baldet is a leading voice on the practical application of decentralized technology. Fortune's 40 Under 40 and frequently quoted in the NYTimes , MIT Technology Review, Newsweek, and elsewhere for her groundbreaking work, she “handily bridges the divide between the Wall Street Street and crypto whisperer"  between wall street and crypto.  Build decentralized apps with seamless UX  at https://clovyr.app/code Learn more at https://clovyr.io/

Rodrigo Etcheto, founder of Moonray talks about future of metaverse gaming on bitcoin.Moonray recently raised  $3.5M for its multiplayer action-RPG game and NFT game marketplace with participation from top angels and funds including GBV Capital, Metavest Capital, LD Capital, and Lucid Blue Ventures. Checkout their website : https://moonray.game/Join the discord community : https://discord.com/invite/moonray

Greg Osuri ,  founder  Akash Network talks about how  permission-less open source cloud compute marketplace enables a more resilient and decentralized web.  Before Akash , Greg founded Angel Hack and Overclock labs. twitter handle :  https://twitter.com/gregosuriAkash Discord  :  https://akash.network/connectJoin the Akash community : https://akash.network/community 

Jonmichael Hands,  VP Storage at Chia talks about how Chia's energy efficient blockchain raises the stake for nakamoto consensus and proof of work .  Before joining  Chia, Jonmichael spent the last ten years at Intel in the Non-Volatile Memory Solutions group. In addition, he served as the chair for NVM Express (NVMe), SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) SSD special interest group and  Open Compute Project for open storage hardware innovation. twitter handle :  https://twitter.com/lebanonjon Chia Keybase  :  https://keybase.io/team/chia_network.public  as @Storage_jm  Read Chia how to guides  on :  https://chiadecentral.com/

Wifi Dabba  co founder Karam Lakshman, talks about wifi dabba's big vision  & how it's aim is to provide  an affordable, fast internet service powered by lasers that has the power to make the  existing internet infrastructure itself more resilient  . 

Patrick Stanley shares his vision for City Coins.  City coin's big idea is to give communities the power to improve their cities while providing crypto rewards to individual contributors and city governments alike. Learn more.

Plebnet is an awesome community started by a group of selfless, generous plebs working together to onboard people to the bitcoin lightning network. Constantly evolving, it's goal is to  bring people together to understand and support the lightning network, learn from each other the basics of running a node or using a lightning wallet, and bridge the gap that remains between the tech/cyber world and the everyday user. 

Chia engineers Straya Markovic & Matt Howard share their thoughts around Chialisp language, an on-chain programming environment which introduces a new and much better approach to building smart transactions. Learn about Chia programming language Chialisp. https://www.chia.net/2019/11/27/chialisp.en.htmlVisit https://www.chia.net/ to learn more.Join discussions with Chia community.https://keybase.io/team/chia_network.publicBusiness whitepaper : https://www.chia.net/assets/Chia-Business-Whitepaper-2021-02-09-v1.0.pdfYou can also install Chia blockchain GUIhttps://www.chia.net/releases/Special shoutout to : Sirius Labs  for conducting  Chia hackathon ( $500k prize pool ). Go Buidl. Trezor hardware wallet  Protect & store all your cryptocurrencies  offline.Zebedee  Win Bitcoin rewards for playing your favorite games. Listen to Rob Braxman the real Internet Privacy Guy, on how to protect your privacy online . Visit his YouTube channel at Rob Braxman Tech.  

Anatoly Yakovenko , CEO of Solana Labs  talks about  scaling blockchain applications to millions & how Solana differs from Ethereum 1.0 , 2.0  &  beyond. Solana recently raised  $314M in Token Sale led by A16z, Polychain & others. Visit https://solana.com/ to learn more.Join discussions with Solana community.https://solana.com/communityApply to Solana Developer Grantshttps://solana.com/developersLearn more about Solana Ecosystem  https://solana.com/ecosystemFor  understanding concepts  relating to Solana also  checkout :https://solana.com/news/proof-of-history---a-clock-for-blockchainSpecial shoutout to : Trezor hardware wallet  Protect & store all your cryptocurrencies  offline.Zebedee  Win Bitcoin rewards for playing your favorite games.Freehold community is built around contributors who hodl cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC), Stacks (STX),  & others. Join the movement @ https://www.joinfreehold.com/Sirius Labs  is conducting Chia hackathon ( $500k prize pool ). Go Buidl. Listen to Rob Braxman the real Internet Privacy Guy, on how to protect your privacy online . Visit his YouTube channel at Rob Braxman Tech. 

One of the co-founders of start9labs discusses what is sovereign computing & why it is necessary for our digital future.

Kyle Rankin a linux security & infrastructure geek, author of Linux Hardening in Hostile Networks  and  Chief Security Officer/Vice President  at  Purism,  talks about how to take back the control of your online privacy from big tech. 

JC , Chief Evangelist at  zebedee.io   talks about how ZEBEDEE  is  integrating Bitcoin rewards into games that you like. We discuss about how lightning network helps enable an exciting future for bitcoin & gaming industry alike. Checkout the websitehttps://zebedee.io/ Get the ZEBEDEE Wallet to play games and earn Bitcoin : Apple store https://apps.apple.com/us/app/zebedee-wallet/id1484394401Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.zebedee.wallet

Jude Nelson, ( Phd. Princeton '18  distributed systems ) research scientist at Stacks Open Internet Foundation, talks about smart contracts on bitcoin and more. Talk to community members on discord channel :https://community.blockstack.org/discordOur Sponsor:Protect & store all your cryptocurrencies  offline with  Trezor hardware wallet. Special shoutout to Freehold community.Freehold community is built around contributors who hodl cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC), Stacks (STX),  and others. Join the movement @ https://www.joinfreehold.com/Visit  https://www.stacks.co  to learn more .----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Abhay Kumar (Chief Product Officer at Helium), talks about how he and his team are building a future powered by Internet of Things (IoT). Helium is backed by some of the most prominent investors such as Khosla Ventures, Union Square Ventures (USV), GV (formerly Google Ventures), Marc Benioff, Multicoin Capital, and others.Our Sponsor:Protect & store all your cryptocurrencies offline with Trezor hardware wallet.

Russ Franklin  talks about  NFTs,  crypto  and his growth work at  Terra Virtua .  He is joined by equally interesting and creative  Patrick Mockridge who is a trending youtube influencer and a thought leader. Our Sponsor: Protect & store all your cryptocurrencies  offline with  Trezor hardware wallet.  Checkout Patrick's youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCacxzpwvRNIEOu_po6ZUUsg

Wilson Bright , co founder of Blocksurvey talks about how his startup is one of a kind privacy-respecting platform for digital surveys, polls & forms.Our Sponsor: Protect & store all your cryptocurrencies offline with Trezor hardware wallet. Special shoutout to Freehold community. Freehold community is built around contributors who hodl cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC), Stacks (STX), and others. Join the movement @ https://www.joinfreehold.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you enjoy the podcast, please show your support by contributing. Please give what you like, everything is appreciated . my BTC receive address is : bc1q2724m5ajhsycmc9n36uf4gyy4wjknfqcq8mv7j

Decentralization is incomplete without the infrastructure and community. This episode we interview Deborah Simpier , CEO of Althea.Althea is playing its part by building a community managed ISP. Internet by the community for the community. Sponsor links : Protect your digital world with Yubikeys. Get them at https://www.yubico.com/ Store all your cryptocurrencies offline with Trezor hardware wallet .

Continued conversation with Gene Hoffman president of Chia ( former CEO of Vindicia and co founder of emusic) along with Bram Cohen, on future of Chia network . Visit https://www.chia.net/ to learn more.Join discussions with Chia community.https://keybase.io/team/chia_network.publicBusiness whitepaper : https://www.chia.net/assets/Chia-Business-Whitepaper-2021-02-09-v1.0.pdfLearn about Chia programming language Chialisp. https://www.chia.net/2019/11/27/chialisp.en.htmlYou can also install Chia blockchain GUIFor window users :https://download.chia.net/release-candidate/ChiaSetup-0.2.2.exeFor mac users :https://download.chia.net/release-candidate/Chia-0.2.2.dmgAll others :https://github.com/Chia-Network/chia-blockchain/wiki/INSTALLFor understanding concepts relating to Chia coins also checkout :https://www.chiaexplorer.com/chia-coinsLearn about Chia programming language Chialisp. https://www.chia.net/2019/11/27/chialisp.en.html

Bram Cohen, the legendary inventor of BitTorrent, talks about his programmable money startup Chia . It plans to make cryptocurrencies more efficient and easier to use then today. Bram is joined by Chia's president Gene Hoffman, former CEO of Vindicia and co founder of emusic. Visit https://www.chia.net/ to learn more.Join discussions with Chia community.https://keybase.io/team/chia_network.publicBusiness whitepaper : https://www.chia.net/assets/Chia-Business-Whitepaper-2021-02-09-v1.0.pdfLearn about Chia programming language Chialisp. https://www.chia.net/2019/11/27/chialisp.en.htmlYou can also install Chia blockchain GUIFor window users :https://download.chia.net/release-candidate/ChiaSetup-0.2.2.exeFor mac users :https://download.chia.net/release-candidate/Chia-0.2.2.dmgAll others :https://github.com/Chia-Network/chia-blockchain/wiki/INSTALLFor understanding concepts relating to Chia coins also checkout :https://www.chiaexplorer.com/chia-coinsLearn about Chia programming language Chialisp. https://www.chia.net/2019/11/27/chialisp.en.htmlOur Sponsors: Liqid.com 's innovative composable platform empowers companies to transform their on prem static architecture into a dynamic one quickly. Run heavy duty AI workloads in the morning and easily repurpose same hardware to run completely different workloads at night with just a few Clicks. Configure bare-metal servers easily in seconds.Learn more about them at https://www.liqid.com/

Muneeb Ali ( PhD Princeton ) co founder of Blockstack ( Y Combinator 2014 ) talks about how blockstack brings apps and smart contract functionality to Bitcoin. With more then $53 million funding and first blockchain company to get SEC qualification, blockstack is on a fast track to crypto mass adoption. Talk to community members on discord channel :https://community.blockstack.org/discordListen to Muneeb's TEDx 2016 Talk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtOIh93HvuwVisit https://www.blockstack.org/ to learn more .

Continued talk with  Dr. Sanjam on Satoshi, Bitcoin and The coming regulations. Read more about him and his publications here    Sponsors : Zencastr.com is the perfect cloud based solution to record your remote interviews in studio quality format with just a few clicks . Listen to Rob Braxman the real Internet Privacy Guy, on how to protect your privacy online . Visit his YouTube channel at Rob Braxman Tech.

This episode features world renowned UC Berkeley crypto researcher ( PhD UCLA  2013, IIT Delhi 2008, Forbes 30 Under 30 list 2016 )  Dr Sanjam Garg.Sanjam was featured on Forbes 30 Under 30 list (2016) for his pioneering research on ways to create ‘unhackable’ software.His ground breaking work in software obfuscation has enabled a range of new cybersecurity applications many of which were previously considered impossible. Quanta Magazine referred to Dr Sanjam's work as a watershed moment for cryptography. Read more about his publications here .Sponsors : Zencastr.com is the perfect cloud based solution to record your remote interviews in studio quality format with just a few clicks . Listen to Rob Braxman the real Internet Privacy Guy, on how to protect your privacy online . Visit his YouTube channel at Rob Braxman Tech.