038: ICOs are Dead. Introducing STOs – with Swarm’s Philipp Pieper

04/18/19 • 70 min

Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain

Philipp Pieper is the CEO & Co-Founder of Swarm. He has held various private equity and management positions at Deutsche Bank and Allianz Group.

Philipp is a serial tech entrepreneur and discovered Blockchain after an encounter with the founder of BitTorrent.

In this episode, we discuss:

The history of ICOs
Whether it makes sense to tokenize traditional securities
The 3 components of the Swarm system – tokenization, compliance, and decentralization
How Swarm, as an open-source non-profit entity, differentiates itself from other players in the STO market

Philipp Pieper is the CEO & Co-Founder of Swarm. He has held various private equity and management positions at Deutsche Bank and Allianz Group.

Philipp is a serial tech entrepreneur and discovered Blockchain after an encounter with the founder of BitTorrent.

In this episode, we discuss:

The history of ICOs
Whether it makes sense to tokenize traditional securities
The 3 components of the Swarm system – tokenization, compliance, and decentralization
How Swarm, as an open-source non-profit entity, differentiates itself from other players in the STO market

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037: The Ultimate Cryptocurrency Tax Solution – with TaxToken’s Michael Foland

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In this episode, we discuss:

Why you should file your crypto taxes and why 2019 is a good year to do that
Exactly what problem TaxToken aims to solve and what makes them the best solution
Challenges associated with filing your crypto taxes (like how does the tax-man treat quirky crypto events like hard-forks and airdrops).

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The $325 billion-dollar “data and attention economy” Bunz is tapping into
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