Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell

Pierre Rochard has been involved with Bitcoin as a researcher, investor, and software developer since February 2013. He co-founded the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute to curate the best primary source literature on Bitcoin and cryptography. In addition to developing Bitcoin software, Pierre is an outspoken advocate for Bitcoin's decentralized governance. In 2017 he began co-hosting the Noded Bitcoin Podcast. Pierre is widely recognized as an authority on the investment case for Bitcoin. He has previously worked at Deloitte, BitPay, Hudson River Trading, and Axial.

Max Keiser is a financial broadcaster, filmmaker, podcaster and former stockbroker who hosts the popular Keiser Report on RT. He is the founder of Bitcoin Capital & Heisenberg Capital. Keiser's background is in brokerage, banking, and financial technology innovation. Keiser created the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX.com) and was awarded a US patent for his Virtual Specialist tech in 1996. In addition to powering HSX. The Virtual Specialist tech launched virtual currencies, virtual securities, and Prediction Markets. Keiser is a frequent speaker at international conferences, including the first ever Bitcoin conference in Prague in 2011.

Dan Held is the Director of Growth Marketing at Kraken. His former company Interchange, a portfolio reconciliation tool for crypto institutional traders, was acquired by Kraken in 7/2019. Prior to that, he was at Uber on Rider Growth/Global Data. Before Uber, Dan built some of the most popular early crypto products including ChangeTip (acquired by AirBnB), and ZeroBlock (acquired by Blockchain.com in the second ever all Bitcoin acquisition). He was part of the original 2013 crypto meetup group in San Francisco, which was comprised with the founders of Kraken, Coinbase, Litecoin, and others.

Follow Dan on Twitter at @DanHeld.

Jason Williams (aka "Parabolic Guy") is an entrepreneur and Bitcoin investor with multiple investment exits in excess of $500 million. He is the founder of FastMed and also built the world's first waste-to-energy cryptocurrency mine, which ran mainly on car tires. Jason is also a founding partner of Morgan Creek Digital Assets, the crypto-focused investment arm of Morgan Creek Capital, which is involved with many of the top companies in the space and has significant holdings in Bitcoin.

He is the author of the book Bitcoin: Hard Money You Can't F*ck With, which went on to become a bestseller on Amazon's macroeconomics list. The book introduces Bitcoin as an asset class to conventional investors and the general public.

Anthony Pompliano is an entrepreneur, investor and U.S. Army Veteran. He has built and sold numerous companies, ran Product & Growth teams at Facebook, and manages a portfolio valued at more than $500 million in early-stage tech companies.

Anthony hosts the popular "Pomp Podcast," which has been downloaded more than 20 million times, and writes a Daily Newsletter that is read by more than 170,000 investors each morning. His interests lie at the intersection of finance, technology, entrepreneurship, and economics, which he tweets about extensively to his nearly 1 million Twitter followers.

He recently launched a new business effort called "Bitcoin Pizza" to celebrate an important anniversary in the cryptocurrency world. Every order supports the Human Rights Foundation's Bitcoin Development Fund with 100% of the profits set to be donated. Visit eatbitcoinpizza.com.

Learn more at AnthonyPompliano.com.

PlanB (@100trillionUSD) is a former Dutch institutional investor with 25 years of experiences in financial markets.

He has a legal and quantitative finance background and has always been fascinated by modeling risk & return.

In March 2019 he created the Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow (S2F) model where he uses scarcity to quantify Bitcoin value. A year later he introduced the Stock-to-Flow Cross Asset (S2FX) model, which includes gold, silver, diamond and real estates. He is now primarily focusing on Bitcoin valuation models, on-chain analysis and investment strategies.

Follow him on Twitter at @100trillionUSD.

Robert Breedlove is the Founder and CEO of Parallax Digital, a global Bitcoin-focused hedge fund and consultancy firm. He is a freedom maximalist, a philosopher, writer, and podcaster who is eager to spread the message that Bitcoin is Honest Money.

His essay on The Number Zero and Bitcoin is a must-read and is among dozens of his profound writings in the space. Robert believes Bitcoin will profoundly shift society in the same way the discovery of the number Zero did.

Robert hosts the popular What is Money? podcast, exploring a question that Robert says is the rabbit that leads us down the proverbial rabbit hole. The podcast explores why this question is important for finding truth in the world and engages in a diversity of deep conversations with deep thinkers from all walks of life.

Follow Robert on Twitter at @Breedlove22.

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Robert Breedlove's Extended Biography:

Robert is a digitally fluent finance and operations executive (CEO/CFO/COO/CIO) with broad spectrum leadership experience across the enterprise tech, consumer tech, corporate finance, international M&A, tax strategy, wealth management, Bitcoin, and cryptoasset domains. Robert holds a Bachelors of Science in Accounting and Finance and a Master's Degree in Accounting from the University of Tennessee Haslam College of Business. His mission in life is to maximize freedom for humanity. Asking yourself that all-important question "What is Money?" is the rabbit which will lead you down the proverbial rabbit hole of new inquiries, perspectives on socioeconomic reality, and worldview-shattering revelations. Undoubtedly, it is the single most significant question we can ask ourselves in a world drowning in deception. By engaging in deep conversations with a diversity of deep thinkers from all walks of life, we will doggedly pursue this "rabbit" in our relentless hunt for truth. Robert Breedlove is a freedom maximalist, ex-hedge fund manager, and philosopher in the Bitcoin space. To him, Bitcoin is fundamentally a humanitarian movement exposing the greatest con in human history: central banking. By learning about the connection between honest money, entrepreneurship, and civilization, we are renewing hope for the future of humanity. To this end, Robert's mission is to restore freedom, truth, and virtue in our world by tenaciously asking the question: "What is Money?"