Let’s go on a comprehensive journey beyond the scope of a traditional guide into a decentralized lifestyle transformation. Ready to reclaim the life you unknowingly let slip away, both online and offline? Here's your blueprint!

We cover the BRICS gold-backed currency, stablecoins, and WorldCoin. We deeply dive into core principles behind decentralization, like freedom, privacy, anonymity, decentralization, financial independence, and security. This isn't a one-size-fits-all approach but a spectrum you can adopt to fit your comfort level and lifestyle.

This podcast aims to equip you with knowledge and tools to gain better control over your digital and real-world existence. But remember, these measures exist on a spectrum; adopt what makes sense for you.

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Welcome to today's episode, where we'll dive into the world of cryptocurrency exchanges. We'll tackle the controversy surrounding centralized exchanges and KYC procedures, highlighting the infamous MtGox hack and the Binance scandal. Learn why these might not be the best route for your crypto journey and the pitfalls to avoid.

But it's not all doom and gloom. We'll also explore the opportunities within decentralized and swap exchanges, my top picks for your investment journey. I'll also share alternative, decentralized methods for buying crypto. Remember, not all exchanges operate globally, so always do your research. Let's navigate this fascinating world of crypto together, keeping it decentralized!

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There’s a lot of misconceptions about the ETH Merge. Let’s talk about them and cover exactly what has changed and what the future holds.

I had the opportunity to discuss PUML with Damien King who is the co-CEO and co-founder. We talked about what the PUML ecosystem is, what it offers, and how you can participate in fitness challenges to earn PUML tokens.

PUML is a blockchain fitness rewards program that rewards you for step/cycle challenges & gym or sports-club check-ins. Their all-inclusive sponsored challenges mean if you walk, run, cycle, swim, play, workout & stretch you can participate, earning or winning PUML Tokens as a reward.

Let's discuss Cypherock with Rohan Agarwal who is the CEO and co-founder to discuss wallet security and recovery as well as where they are headed in 2020.  

It offers multiple wallet storage, distributed architecture, isolated & cold storage, robust hardware security, multi-currency support, and multi-layered security.

I had the chance to speak with Dan Hensley who is the co-founder of 3Speak on the Steem blockchain which is a video hosting alternative to YouTube and considered a free speech platform.

3Speak is the home of Free Speech on the internet. We exist because Silicon Valley has gone out of its’ way to deplatform and demonetize individuals because of their political beliefs, or the kind of content they upload, not because they break the law. 3Speak is keen to ensure that those people who have fallen foul of Silicon Valley’s arbitrary rules have a place to call home.

I had the chance to discuss SoMee with Christopher Kramer who is the founder and CEO to learn more about the project and where it’s headed in 2020.

SoMee is a blockchain-based social network powered by the ONG cryptocurrency which is an ERC-20 compliant smart token. Their mission is to redefine the social media experience by inspiring community, empowering choice, respecting privacy and rewarding all value created through the blockchain.

Let's discuss what Uptrennd has covered in the last year and what Uptrennd plans to do in 2020 with Jeff Kirdeikis for a follow-up interview. We also discussed decentralized systems, data storage, freedom of speech, and data immutability.

We cover different ways to boost your posts with other creators, 1UP staking, communities expanding outside of the crypto categories and how Uptrennd is growing rapidly heading into 2020. It seems that Uptrennd is poised to be one of the top performers in the decentralized social space for my next comprehensive review.

I had the chance to discuss Flote with Kingsley Edwards who is the CEO there to discuss the platform and what they have going on. 

Flote is a community-driven social network focused on user privacy & monetization. It has no algorithms, no spying, no fees, and no problems. The rules are easy and simple, you can live stream, and be sent tips in the form of Bitcoin with ease.

Let's take some time to discuss DapsCoin with Andrew Huntley who is their chief technical officer and learn a little more about what they’re up to and what makes DapsCoin unique.

DAPS aims to become the new standard of privacy in altcoins. To enact this vision, the specs of DAPS were carefully crafted to create a unique coin protocol for the crypto world, with the ultimate goal of mass adoption. They have the most private privacy coin that I’ve seen yet presenting new solutions and addressing unaddressed issues in the many privacy coins existing today.

I got to discuss Springrole with Kartik Mandaville who is the founder and CEO. We get into what Springrole is all about and how it plans to take on the HR side of blockchain.

Blockchain-powered attestation protocol for verifying professional profiles. Create your profile now on our live beta and join us in building a trusted network. It has verified resumes, meaningful skill endorsements, better messaging, leaves notes and reminders, showcased freelance projects, and enhanced profiles. 

I had the opportunity to discuss TokenTuber with David Zhou who is the founder and CEO and dive into the platform as well as looking at where they will be taking it in 2020. 

TokenTuber aims to lower the barriers to entry to the crypto world so that the mass adoption of blockchain and cryptocurrencies can be achieved. TokenTuber will guide you on your journey in the crypto world, helping you learn and educate yourself on blockchain and cryptocurrency.

I had the chance to discuss Unstoppable domains with Bradley Kam who is the head of business development there. 

Unstoppable domains has set out to help you replace your cryptocurrency addresses with a human-readable name like mine at scottcunningham.zil where you can set yourself up to receive 40 different cryptocurrencies as well as be able to launch uncensorable websites. It’s compatible with wallets like Coinomi, Atomic wallet, and a few others.

Time for another update on my investment portfolio and my passive income journey. In this episode, I cover my regular monthly update sharing what I invest in and why. This is amateur investing at its finest!

I had the chance to talk with Alex Kampa who is the founder of Sikoba. We discussed the blockchain company as well as the concepts of peer to peer IOUs and informal credit.  

Sikoba is a decentralized platform based on peer-to-peer IOUs and built on blockchain technology. Participants who know and trust each other in real life grant each other credit lines in the Sikoba system. They can then pay each other using IOUs which can be cleared; tallied and offset on a rapid and ongoing basis. These peer-to-peer credit relationships are governed by contracts with specific conditions, fee structures, and repayment rules.

I had the opportunity to discuss Edge with Paul Puey who is the CEO and co-founder.

The Edge team's mission is to provide the world’s most innovative tools and systems for secure and private data. It’s a place where you can buy, store, and trade dozens of cryptocurrencies in one app.

I had the chance to talk with Bill Ottman again who is the CEO of Minds and dive into what Minds Pro is all about, what you can expect to see from it and the various features it supports currently.

I had the chance to discuss the fast-growing and immensely popular Ethereum Name Service or ENS with the director of operations Brantly Millegan.

ENS offers a secure & decentralized way to address resources both on and off the blockchain using simple, human-readable names. I have taken advantage of this with my address scottcbusiness.eth.

I had the chance to chat with Gabriel Rene who is the CEO and founder of Verses.io to learn a little more about the project and where it is headed.

VERSES Labs provides enterprises, organizations, and governments with an extensive suite of integrated technologies that offer powerful spatial rights management capabilities to enable dynamic workflows, verifiable traceability, intelligent automation and collaborative ecosystems that address the need for multi-party privacy, security and interoperability by design.

I had the chance to chat with Kyle Collier who is the founder and CEO of Phaze.io. Learn what they’re all about and the progress they’ve been making.  Phaze powers the next generation of transactions. Connecting modern financial enterprises with the world’s largest retailers online and in-store.

I recently spoke with David Gold who is the CEO of Dapix who are currently building out the FIO protocol.  Dapix is revolutionizing inter-wallet operability with the FIO Protocol. 

They are partnered with companies like Binance, Coinomi, Edge, Shapeshift, Bitcoin.com, Guardowallet, Atomic wallet, and many more.  The Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO) is a consortium of leading wallets, exchanges, and crypto payment processors supporting the FIO Protocol. FIO Members are early supporters who intend to integrate the protocol into their respective products and provide assistance/guidance in its direction.

I had the opportunity to chat with Jeremy Kauffman who is the founder and CEO of the decentralized video hosting platform LBRY. But LBRY is much more than just that, it’s a secure, open, and community-run digital marketplace where you can enjoy the latest content from your favorite creators—as a user, not a product.

You can actually consume content that exists on many different people’s computers with true peer to peer blockchain-enabled video hosting.

I had the opportunity to interview Andrei Poliakov who is the CEO & co-founder of Coinberry to talk about where the company is headed and what they're up to now.  

Coinberry is a FINTRAC-registered, digital currency platform based in Toronto, Canada. It was founded in 2017 and is trusted by tens of thousands of users. They claim to offer the safest, simplest and quickest way to buy and sell BTC, LTC, ETH, BCH, and XRP using Canadian dollars.

I had the chance to chat with Aly Kassam who is the Director of Product at OneLedger and discuss their progress and where the company is headed. OneLedger is a cross-chain application platform designed to allow developers to extend blockchain technology.  

You want to take full advantage of the social platforms out there that use blockchain technology or have crypto monetization. Here are the 12 platforms I used to earn $230.22 CAD worth of fiat & crypto in July as well as some insights.

I got the chance to chat with Luke Mulks who is the Director of Business Development at Brave and the Basic Attention Token.  

Brave is a new way of thinking about how the web works. Brave is open source and built by a team of privacy focused, performance-oriented pioneers of the web. You can check it out at https://brave.com/

I sat down with Jonathan Brown who is the CEO and Founder of Mix to discuss the blockchain and the social platform he has created on it.  MIX Blockchain is a smart contract platform for decentralized content. It is fully public. It cannot be censored, and no one can be prevented from participating. It is fully programmable at every level. It is a protocol for interconnected content apps that empower the individual.

I sat down with Elizabeth Powell who is the Managing Director at Steemit to discuss what they have been working on and where they are headed next.

Andrew Levine who was the Head of Communications at Steemit Inc. on the Steem blockchain who is also known on Steem as @Andrarchy explains why Facebook's Libra blockchain won't hinder their efforts to build an amazing social platform on the blockchain, but rather that it will help amplify their efforts with the amount of awareness and hype it will generate.

I sat down with the founder and main developer of DTube Adrien aka @Heimindanger to talk about DTube. We dive into its origins and some big updates for what’s coming next. This was recorded just as DTube had a major interface update and released a testnet.

Stefano Covolan takes us through what it’s like to work at https://korporatio.com/ and the journey of how it came to fruition. 

Korporatio says they “aim to create a new generation of cutting edge, truly global businesses, led by entrepreneurs who are citizens of the world. A new era in which everyone is empowered to incorporate, innovate and realize their dreams.”

I discuss Hydro and Hydrogen with Mark Anstead who is the head of business development there. We dive into what these projects are all about and where they're headed.

I interviewed Richard Sanders who is the founder of CipherBlade, one of the only blockchain investigation agencies. They have recovered millions of dollars of stolen funds, prevented dozens of ICO scams, and professionally handled PR disasters and other emergency situations.

Check out this awesome interview I had with Jeff Kirdeikis the founder of Uptrennd. We dive into the details of the platform and what it's all about.

Bill Ottman, the CEO and co-founder of Minds.com and I discuss Minds. I ask him a series of challenging and interesting questions to learn more about the platform.

The question we aim to answer today is, out of all of the stablecoins, which are the best? We’ll cover them all briefly and explain the pros and cons of each.

I had a great interview with Pascal Thellmann one of the cofounders of Bounty0x. There were a few times there were bandwidth issues that made it lag a bit, but it wasn't too impactful. Bounty0x is the easiest and safest way for your business to hold cryptocurrency bounties and hire bounty hunters to complete tasks. It has automated reviews, KYC / AML verification, multiple blockchain support, tiered rewards, bounty tracking, easily distributable rewards, and a ton of exposure.

Just recently I had the chance to sit down for about an hour to talk with Wendy O about her show, her meetups, a bunch of different dapps, Steem & Steemit, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more.  

We talk about her show where she offers analytics and points on investing in cryptocurrency. She has run many crypto meetups now though she is currently in school. She also runs a marketing business so she has a lot going on. We talk about a new dapp called Note that I hadn’t heard of until then. We dive into the drama with Justin Sun from Tron and Steemit with the frozen stake and hostile takeover attempt for the governance of the Steem blockchain. I want to see both Tron and Steem succeed with no third token.

Matt Aaron has done many things such as start a CBD coffee business called CrazyCalm, sponsored The Bitcoin Cash House education project in Venezuela, and ran the Bitcoin.com podcast network for nearly 2 years ending with 231 episodes under his belt. Let’s talk about it!

Rachel Siegel aka @CryptoFinally and I recently spent an hour discussing Steem, her MTV crypto expert episode, and the many blockchain social dapps that we both use. Check it out!  She also shares some interesting information about Uptrennd that many may want to double-check and look into themselves because it’s pretty concerning information. Watch the whole episode to find out!

Lea Thompson aka Coruscate aka @GirlGone_Crypto is another awesome content creator who is prominent on Steem. We decided to jump on a video call and talk about Steem, the dapps we like and use, and where we think the market is headed in 2020. 

I recently sat down for an hour to talk with Kenn Bosak aka @KennBosak who is another popular crypto content creator. We discuss the Steemit acquisition, Steem dapps, LBRY, Flote, SoMee, EOS, Publish0x, Uptrennd, Bravocoin, censorship, NFTs, and what will happen to legacy platforms.  

We discussed the different platforms and projects in their current state, giving our opinions and sharing our experiences using them. We also discuss the issues around EOS and the Voice launch as well as touch on YouTube censorship and Bravocoin’s review platform. Kenn had a slight misinterpretation about what the Voice platform is, but the concerns around KYC and their public chain congestion still stand. We talk about the many use cases of NFTs and how you can create your own collectibles and where blockchain is taking the gaming industry.

Hey everyone, I recently had the opportunity to chat with Forrest aka Hashoshi who is another awesome crypto content creator and we spent some time discussing Ethereum mainly focusing on Ethereum 2.0.  Outside of just Ethereum 2.0 we also covered Ethereum dapps, companies building on Ethereum, a few other comparable blockchain networks, and the nitty-gritty of everything going on with Ethereum today as we take on 2020.

Jason Nelson and I sat down for a little over an hour to talk about various topics in the crypto and blockchain space. We cover LBRY, EOS, The DLive acquisition and many more.

Come along with us on this journey as we explore these various topics. This is the first installment in my series for “Creator Corner” where I sit down with other people in the space who are putting out content to discuss the various topics I cover daily with people from my side of the looking glass who deal with and see the same issues on YouTube and other platforms.

The question we aim to answer today is how safe and stable are stablecoins? We will be covering Central Bank Digital Currencies or CBDCs and the future of stablecoins in this episode.

We will get into the future of stablecoins, the concerns around them, what Central Bank Digital Currencies or CBDCs are, and how they could impact crypto.

The question we aim to answer is how safe and stable are stablecoins? We will be covering crypto and commodity backed stablecoins in this episode. Are stablecoins backed by cryptocurrencies or gold any better than fiat or algorithmic stablecoins?

You want to take full advantage of the social platforms out there that use blockchain technology or have crypto monetization. Here are the 12 platforms I used to earn $142.85 CAD worth of fiat & crypto in June as well as some insights.

Fiat is trending towards 0, and our buying power is going away faster and faster. The only way to get ahead is to invest. Let’s talk about beating inflation, what inflation is, and where crypto comes into play.

Banks can hold up to 1% of their reserves in BTC and ETH 2.0 is scheduled to merge on September 19th. Let’s discuss the two biggest catalysts for the next crypto bull market.

Centralized crypto lending platforms are going bankrupt left and right. I want to discuss who I think is next, who will survive, and if there’s something sketchy going on as crypto lenders seemingly begin to form a monopoly.