In the latest episode of Epicenter Bitcoin, Brian Fabian Crain and Sebastien Couture were joined by Daniel Gallancy, CEO and Founder of SolidX Partners Inc. With his company that recently raised a US$3 million funding round from Liberty City Ventures and Wall Street investors, he aims to make Bitcoin accessible to financial investors that have so far been excluded from the Bitcoin market. At the beginning of the year, there were plenty of predictions that financial institutions would start moving into the Bitcoin space. The Bitcoin ETF was on the horizon and the high-risk, high-reward nature of Bitcoin seemed perfectly …

In the latest episode of Epicenter Bitcoin, Brian Fabian Crain and Sebastien Couture were joined by Daniel Peled, CEO and Founder of Gems, and Tom Kysar, Marketing Lead at Koinify to talk about the social messaging app that aims to give users ownership and bring cryptocurrencies to the masses. Perhaps the best way to think of Gems is as an attempt to create a Bitcoin 'killer app'. At this stage, most products created by Bitcoin companies target the small Bitcoin user base. As great as they may be, they don't provide strong incentives for new users to join the community …

In the latest Epicenter Bitcoin episode, Brian Fabian Crain and Sebastien Couture were joined by Arianna Simpson, an Account Specialist at BitGo. A pioneer in multi-signature hierarchical deterministic wallets, BitGo develops enterprise-grade software, which it describes as "The World's Most Secure Wallet.” Their web-based multi-sig wallet is also available for free for individuals. Arianna says she "fell into Bitcoin" about a year and a half ago and was hooked when she read Satoshi's white paper. While still working at Facebook as an account manager, she began writing about Bitcoin on her personal blog, for Business Insider and CoinDesk. In August …

"Honesty is a very subversive thing." - Paul Snow The two main men behind Factom, CEO Paul Snow and president Peter Kirby, joined the latest Epicenter Bitcoin episode to discuss their ambitious Bitcoin 2.0 project. Based in Austin, Texas, Snow and Kirby have been pillars of the Bitcoin community. Paul Snow is a long-time developer and the organizer of the Texas Bitcoin Conference. Peter Kirby is a serial entrepreneur and was previously VP of sales and operations at the mining company, CoinTerra. The idea of Factom is to provide a system for creating arbitrary, immutable ledgers. Of course, the most …

“If a government isn't integrating blockchain technology in the next 5 or 10 years, not only will they be obsolete, but their currency will be gone.” - David Johnston In the latest episode of Epicenter Bitcoin, Brian Fabian Crain and Sebastien Couture were joined by David Johnston. David is the Co-founder of BitAngels, a board member of the Mastercoin Foundationand serves as Managing Director of DApps Fund, which has invested in decentralized applications like MaidSafe, Factom and Storj. He got the Bitcoin bug in 2012 and, soon after, made the decision to convert all of his fiat currency to Bitcoin. …