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In this episode Simon Chamorro, founder of Valiu, talks about how his young startup tries to help the 1.7 million Venezuelan migrants and refugees living in Colombia send money back to their relatives in Venezuela. 

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In this episode Simon Chamorro, founder of Valiu, talks about how his young startup tries to spur bitcoin adoption in Venezuela.

Podcast w/ Simon Chamorro Founder of Valiu on bringing Bitcoin adoption in Venezuela

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In this episode Simon Chamorro, founder of Valiu, talks about how his young startup tries to help the 1.7 million Venezuelan migrants and refugees living in Colombia send money back to their relatives in Venezuela. 

Unfortunately, no international remittance company allows to send money into Venezuela. So Valiu uses Bitcoin to create a platform where users can transfer Colombian Pesos to Venezuelan Bolivares in less than an hour. Valiu also allows their users to hold synthetic cryptodollars that are backed by bitcoin in their Account, to protect themselves from inflation.

Thanks to our sponsor [Bitwala](https://bitwala.x89scb.net/1xYMd) for sponsoring the episode!

Valiu Founder Simon Chamorro on using Cryptodollars for cross-border transfers and savings in Latin America

Wirex was the first company to launch a crypto card in 2015, thereby allowing bitcoin users to spend their cryptocurrency online or in store, pretty much anywhere where Visa is accepted.

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Wirex was the first company to launch a crypto card in 2015, thereby allowing bitcoin users to spend their cryptocurrency online or in store, pretty much anywhere where Visa is accepted.


Podcast w/ Pavel Matveev, CEO of Wirex on Crypto cards and Payments

[Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/episode/5P1h6V1bF1ngzMG1cox4wI?si=-nweUHihTdCGHog14CZ-ww),  [Apple Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/cryptotesters/id1507883894?l=en#episodeGuid=a1d3535f-4ffc-4973-8f36-dbfe5ad57581),[Breaker](https://www.breaker.audio/cryptotesters/e/67796000)

In this episode I talk to Pavel Matveev who is the CEO and Founder of Wirex. Wirex was the first company to launch a crypto card in 2015, thereby allowing bitcoin users to spend their cryptocurrency online or in store, pretty much anywhere where Visa is accepted.

We talk about how Wirex grew from a simple idea to a company with more than 230 employees, offices in 7 locations all around the world and more than 3m customers.

The story is quite fascinating as Pavel has been in the space for a long time and knows a lot about traditional finance.

We also discuss Wirex’s plans to launch its own stable coins, why Wirex launched their own token, the Wirex token (WXT) which he thinks about as loyalty token on steroids and what they have planned for the future.  

HINT: A lot!

Thanks to our sponsor [Bitwala](https://bitwala.x89scb.net/1xYMd)  for sponsoring the episode!


Wirex CEO Pavel Matveev on Crypto cards and Payments

Thomas Heller is the Global Business Director at F2Pool, the largest Bitcoin mining pool in the world. Mining pools allow individual miners to join forces in order to increase their chances to mine a block and get more regular rewards payouts.

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Podcast with Thomas Heller on the Crypto Mining Industry | Cryptotesters

[Spotify ](https://open.spotify.com/episode/0A7HXkhA0IxKrGb1zmMslk?si=6_m2cMJfTX2wihwRCwZ6SQ),  [Apple Podcast](https://apple.co/2BR5d9Y), [Breaker](https://www.breaker.audio/cryptotesters/e/66701622)

Thomas Heller is the Global Business Director at F2Pool, the largest Bitcoin mining pool in the world. Mining pools allow individual miners to join forces in order to increase their chances to mine a block and get more regular rewards payouts.

In this episode we talk about what mining pools are and whether they're dangerous for proof-of-work chains.

We also discuss whether small investors should start mining and what the best tactics are to mine profitably as a small investor.

Lastly, we talked about the halving and how it impacted the mining industry as well as how the thinks things will play out once they are no more bitcoin block rewards paid out to miners.

Thanks to our sponsor [Bitwala]( https://bitwala.x89scb.net/1xYMd ). Get €35 if you sign-up to their app today!

Join us on Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/IOe3w04NMhLuDEo3ekLeCQ


F2Pool Global Director Thomas Heller, On the Future of the Crypto Mining Industry

Ray Youssef is the CEO of Paxful, a peer-to-peer marketplace to trade bitcoin. Paxful let's people **directly **trade bitcoin with with one another.

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Ray Youssef is the CEO of Paxful, a peer-to-peer marketplace to trade bitcoin. Paxful let's people **directly **trade bitcoin with with one another. Anyone can sell bitcoin on the platform and choose which payment methods they like, set the price they want to sell for etc.

Podcast w/ Paxful CEO Ray Youssef 'Building a Universal Money Translator'

[Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/episode/7e63dtv8VFOVzJcFeRtqf2?si=1OOXgpsuQSiRc-dyS-6iDA), [Breaker](https://www.breaker.audio/cryptotesters/e/65326199), [Apple Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/cryptotesters/id1507883894)

Ray Youssef is the CEO of Paxful, a peer-to-peer marketplace to trade bitcoin. Paxful let's people **directly **trade bitcoin with one another. Anyone can sell bitcoin on the platform, choose which payment methods they want to be paid in, set the price they want to sell for etc. It's essentially like Ebay for bitcoin.

The company grew to over 250 employees without ever receiving any investor money. The reason Paxful is so successful is that it does an incredible job at connecting all the fragmented financial systems in the world. Using Paxful, someone in Nigeria can pay someone in China on WeChat by just finding a peer on Paxful who is willing to accept bitcoin and able to pay out the quivalent amount in Yuan on WeChat.

In other words, Bitcoin is the clearing network or 'Money Translator' that connects all these peers and allows anyone to pay anyone in the world.

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Paxful CEO Ray Youssef, On Building A Universal Money Translator using Crypto

Antoni Trenchev is co-founder and managing partner at Nexo, the world’s leading instant crypto credit lines provider. They processed more than $1.5 Billion dollars in loans to date with no plans of stopping anytime soon.

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Nexo Co-Founder Antoni Trenchev on the Cryptotesters Podcast

[Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/episode/7v2CSsr09RdQy4VQzs1gYd?si=XA2g9_U0TOWCA4Y361z3Uw), [Breaker](https://www.breaker.audio/cryptotesters/e/64456481), [Apple Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/5-nexo-ceo-antoni-trenchev-on-crypto-backed-loan-sector/id1507883894?i=1000476039833)

Antoni Trenchev is co-founder and managing partner at Nexo, the world’s leading instant crypto credit lines provider. They processed more than $2 billion dollars in loans to date with no plans of stopping anytime soon.

Crypto is a new form of a collateral, that is highly liquid and transfereable. Unlike physical gold or a house, crypto is easily valued and so crypto loan providers like Nexo can serve a global userbase from day one of their operations. No physical branch needed.

In the Episode we talk about the fierce competition in the crypto lending space, Nexo's token sale, why miners are coming to Nexo en masse as of recently, tokenizing Gold and Nexo's opinion on the DeFi space.

Thanks to Bitwala for sponsoring the podcast!
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Nexo Co-Founder Antoni Trenchev on the Future of Crypto Backed Loans

Chris Whinfrey is the CEO of Authereum, a wallet that provides a new way to interact with Ethereum dapps. Authereum works similar to "Login with Facebook" or "Login with Gmail" in that you can connect your wallet with any dapp

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Podcast with Chris Whinfrey CEO of Authereum Wallet

[Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/episode/0spyyzKgDEZL64ZzMBXpLE?si=ft_41kUSQsGp5Vqk3YOwGg), [Breaker](https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/cryptotesters/id1507883894?l=en), [Apple Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/4-authereum-ceo-chris-whinfrey-on-creating-seamless/id1507883894?i=1000475284141)

Chris Whinfrey is the CEO of Authereum, a wallet that provides a new way to interact with Ethereum dapps. Authereum works similar to "Login with Facebook" or "Login with Gmail" in that you can connect your wallet with any dapp by just entering your email and your password. Unlike most wallets you are not bound to one device or forced to enter your seedphrase everytime you want to port your wallet to a new device. 

Authereum is also optimized to work on mobile which will hopefully spur a rise of new Ethereum mobile dapps. 

Let us know what you think of Authereum on Twitter [@cryptotesters](https://twitter.com/cryptotesters)

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Authereum CEO Chris Whinfrey, On creating a seamless Login Solution for Ethereum

Xen Baynham-Herd is the COO of Blockchain.com, one of the biggest players in the crypto industry. Their non-custodial web wallet has more than 40m users.

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Podcast w/ COO of Blockchain.com Xen Baynham-Herd, on the Crypto Exchange Industry | Cryptotesters

[Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/episode/24sP8J7OZnLKzEIjL7kt5M?si=4pa2grKUR7C7L_ug7Kr3uA), [Breaker](https://www.breaker.audio/cryptotesters/e/62835381) ,[Soundcloud](https://soundcloud.com/user-342502984/blockchaincom-coo-xen-baynham-herd-on-the-crypto-exchange-industry-defi-and-stablecoins), [Apple Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/3-blockchain-com-coo-xen-baynham-herd-on-crypto-exchange/id1507883894?i=1000473771831) 


Xen Baynham-Herd is the COO of Blockchain.com, one of the biggest players in the crypto industry. Their non-custodial web wallet has more than 40m users.

Recently they launched an exchange. In the episode we talk about what went into the making of the exchange, how they set themselves apart from other exchanges, the rise of DeFi and much more!

**Question**: Are you following the DeFi space?

**Answer**: "*Absolutely, yeah. I personally think DeFi is extremely interesting. I guess DeFi represents the need to have true self-sovereignty over assets and money in a non-custodial way. So what it boils down to is robust private key management and so I think there are some fantastic opportunities out there but getting the basics right is very important and that's where most of our exploration lies, abstracting private keys away, making it easier to use non-custodial wallets and potentially also abstracting away addresses, making it easier to send to other people in a secure way."*

Check out their exchange: [Blockchain.com](https://exchange.blockchain.com/trade?referrerUsername=cryptotester)

Big thanks to [Bitwala](https://bitwala.x89scb.net/1xYMd) for sponsoring the show!

Blockchain.com COO Xen Baynham-Herd, on the Crypto Exchange Industry, the Rise of DeFi and Stablecoins

Graeme is the mastermind behind UX at Argent, an Ethereum wallet that has made it extremely easy to use Ethereum applications. The concept that enables this extreme simplicity is called "Smart Contract Wallets"

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Graeme is the mastermind behind UX at Argent, an Ethereum wallet that has made it extremely easy to use Ethereum applications. The technology that enables this extreme simplicity is called "Smart Contract Wallets"

Argent Podcast with Graeme Blackwood on UX and Crypto wallets | Cryptotesters

Graeme is the mastermind behind UX at Argent, an Ethereum wallet that has made it extremely easy to use Ethereum applications. The technology that enables this extreme simplicity is called ["Smart Contract Wallets"](https://cryptotesters.com/blog/what-are-smart-contract-wallets) and Graeme explains the concept in detail.

In the episode we also talk about UX in general, challenges he sees, how Argent chooses which DeFi projects to integrate and many more interesting topics!

**Favourite quote:** *A lot of people think about the UI when they think about UX, but the UI is really just one layer. It's the stuff underneath that implements the experience. UX issues that we see are often just symptoms of deeper issues.*

Listen on:
[Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/episode/2RecjJcjslji6GDqCoNPIZSP) , [Breaker](https://www.breaker.audio/cryptotesters/e/62420611),  [Soundcloud](https://soundcloud.com/user-342502984/2-argent-head-of-ux-graeme-blackwood-on-crypto-ux-and-argent), [Pocketcasts](https://pca.st/episode/280d2db0-635a-4a8c-90c5-7e337c9cb487)

[Get Argent](https://cryptotesters.com/best-non-custodial-wallets/argent-review)

Head of UX at Argent, Graeme Blackwood on UX and Crypto wallets

I am passionate about Bitcoin and Ethereum and want to on-board new people to crypto.

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Des Martin, Head of Marketing at Brave, joins the show. Des has been with Brave for almost two years in which he saw the user base grow from 2 to more than 12 million monthly active users.

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Podcast with Des Martin, Head of Marketing of Brave Browser | Cryptotesters

Des Martin, Head of Marketing at Brave, joins the show. Des has been with Brave for almost two years in which he saw the user base grow from 2 to more than 12 million monthly active users. In the episode we talk about the factors that have fuelled this tremendous growth, possible next products, Brave's partnership with Binance, the importance of the BAT (Basic Attention Token) and much more!

**Favourite quote:**
*There’s still so much we can do with the browser. The browser can potentially go back to becoming a super app. A lot of things have been taken out of the browser and broken into different apps on your phone. But a browser with a wallet that enables you to a whole range of things that you would have done in other apps is very powerful.
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[Get Brave](https://bit.ly/brvrfrl)

Check out our website: [https://cryptotesters.com](https://cryptotesters.com)

EPISODE 9

Valiu Founder Simon Chamorro on using Cryptodollars for cross-border transfers and savings in Latin America

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EPISODE 8

Wirex CEO Pavel Matveev on Crypto cards and Payments

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EPISODE 7

F2Pool Global Director Thomas Heller, On the Future of the Crypto Mining Industry

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EPISODE 6

Paxful CEO Ray Youssef, On Building A Universal Money Translator using Crypto

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EPISODE 5

Nexo Co-Founder Antoni Trenchev on the Future of Crypto Backed Loans

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EPISODE 4

Authereum CEO Chris Whinfrey, On creating a seamless Login Solution for Ethereum

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EPISODE 3

Blockchain.com COO Xen Baynham-Herd, on the Crypto Exchange Industry, the Rise of DeFi and Stablecoins

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EPISODE 2

Head of UX at Argent, Graeme Blackwood on UX and Crypto wallets

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EPISODE 1

Brave Head of Marketing, Des Martin, on Hypergrowth, Browser Marketing and the Future of Brave

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