Tara Annison, Elliptic (2/2) – Bitcoin Mining Narratives, Future of Ethereum, Censorship, Bridge Exploits

Jomari Peterson, FiHub Founder – Why the Avalanche Tech Stack is Attractive to Engineers, Onboarding New Web3 Users, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, DAO Venture Capital

Jomari Peterson is an engineer, entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is the founder of the FiHub training platform, a member of the DAO venture capital firm AVentures, the core strategist at Snowball and an advisor at Arkius. In this wide-ranging conversation, we discuss everything from the Avalanche ecosystem to zero-knowledge (ZK) rollups.

Noelle Acheson, Crypto Asset and Macro Research – Loss of Trust in Institutions, Challenging Ethereum Truisms, Regulation, Stablecoins, Advice for Newcomers

Noelle Acheson is one of the premier crypto asset and macro environment researchers in the space. Noelle previously served as the Head of Market Insights at Genesis Global Trading, a digital asset prime broker for institutional clients, and the Managing Director of Research at the media company CoinDesk. In this wide-ranging conversation, we talk about everything from what the loss of trust in institutions means for crypto adoption to advice for anyone thinking about joining the industry. Noelle regularly publishes excellent reports on LinkedIn, where we highly recommend you follow her (https://www.linkedin.com/in/noelleacheson/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/noelleacheson/]) as well as on Twitter at @NoelleInMadrid (https://twitter.com/NoelleInMadrid [https://twitter.com/NoelleInMadrid?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor]).

Matt Bartlett, VanEck – Helping Guide Traditional Finance into Web3, Ethereum NFTs, Metaverse Concepts

Matt Bartlett is the Head of NFT Community and Web3 at VanEck, a global asset manager with roughly $68 billion in assets under management. VanEck was launched all the way back in 1955. Not only has Matt been active in crypto and early metaverse concepts for years, he brings an interesting perspective on the how highly-regulated traditional financial firms can approach and embrace these exciting new technologies without flying too close to the sun.

Tara Annison, Elliptic (2/2) – Bitcoin Mining Narratives, Future of Ethereum, Censorship, Bridge Exploits

In the second part of our conversation with Tara Annison, the head of technical crypto advisory at blockchain analytics firm Elliptic, we discuss narratives that have formed around Bitcoin mining, the long-term promise of Ethereum, whether crypto is as censorship-resistant as proponents claim and a flurry of recent bridge exploits. We highly recommend following Tara on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarannison/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarannison/]) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/TaraAnnison [https://twitter.com/TaraAnnison]). NFTs and Financial Crime: https://www.elliptic.co/resources/nfts-financial-crime [https://www.elliptic.co/resources/nfts-financial-crime] Crime in the Metaverse: https://www.elliptic.co/resources/crime-in-the-metaverse [https://www.elliptic.co/resources/crime-in-the-metaverse]

Tara Annison, Elliptic (1/2) – Instascammers, Pig Butchering, TradFi Background, Tornado Cash & Privacy

Tara Annison is the head of technical crypto advisory at Elliptic, a blockchain analytics firm that helps other companies stay anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) compliant. Tara is one of our favorite content producers in the crypto/web3 space. You can often find her squaring up with crypto scammers and bringing their schemes to light. In this conversation, Tara shares what it's been like exposing crypto scammers, new scams that are popping up, the role of privacy in crypto and some of the tribalism that naturally exists between advocates of different blockchains. We highly recommend following Tara on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarannison/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarannison/]) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/TaraAnnison [https://twitter.com/TaraAnnison]). NFTs and Financial Crime: https://www.elliptic.co/resources/nfts-financial-crime [https://www.elliptic.co/resources/nfts-financial-crime] Crime in the Metaverse: https://www.elliptic.co/resources/crime-in-the-metaverse [https://www.elliptic.co/resources/crime-in-the-metaverse]