Amanda Wick served as a federal prosecutor for the US Department of Justice (DOJ) for nearly a decade, specializing in money laundering and cryptocurrency.

#cryptolaundering #blockchain #amandawick

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About my Guest Amanda Wick:

Amanda Wick served as a federal prosecutor for the US Department of Justice (DOJ) for nearly a decade, specializing in money laundering and cryptocurrency. She worked in three US attorneys’ offices (Atlanta, Birmingham, and St. Louis). After that, she moved to Main Justice to serve in the Criminal Division’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Session. As part of a DOJ leadership program, she served as a detailee and senior policy advisor at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). In 2020, she left the government to serve as the chief of legal affairs at Chainalysis, a blockchain analytics company.In 2021, Wick returned to government service to serve on the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol. She went on to found and run a global non-profit organization, the Association for Women In Cryptocurrency. The organization aims to build a global network of women and male allies in the cryptocurrency, blockchain, and web3 industries who will advocate for the equal inclusion of women in the future of digital finance.Wick also serves as a principal with Incite Consulting. In that role, she provides expert and litigation advisory services to law firms and advises a wide range of cryptocurrency-related businesses. She remains a digital nomad living out of a carry-on suitcase and a National Geographic backpack. "The Catalysts" is her first book.

What we Discussed:

00:20 Who is Amanda Wick

02:45 Her Crypto Journey with the Government

04:30 What happens when the Federal Government get Crypto from Criminals

06:50 How hard is it to trace Criminal Crypto

10:10 The IRS is Watching your Crypto Gains

13:00 Is there Trackers in Crypto Wallets

16:15 What Wallet does the Government use

17:45 The Presidents should not be allowed use Meme Coins

21:15 Dumb Money

22:20 The Reason she wrote the book and what she covers

27:10 Financial Fraud by City & Governments

32:30 The EU is not as good as People think

33:25 Credit System and protecting your funds

39:05 Corruptible & the advantages of Sovereignity

43:30 People are Moving hoping to find a better place

44:00 Women in Crypto

How to Contact Amanda Wick

www.amandawick.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandawick/

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#fintech #digitalfreedom #freedom #cryptoregulation #cryptofraud

Meg Lister specializes in designing multi-layered funding strategies that support every stage of a project’s lifecycle—quadratic funding for onboarding, retroactive funding for retention, and direct grants for scaling—empowering Ethereum ecosystem participants to achieve more.

#cryptofunding #blockchain #gitcoin

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About my Guest Meg Lister :

Meg Lister is a leading voice in Web3 funding, transforming capital allocation as a Managing Director at Gitcoin Labs to drive financial returns for ecosystems and builders while ensuring long-term, sustainable growth. She specializes in designing multi-layered funding strategies that support every stage of a project’s lifecycle—quadratic funding for onboarding, retroactive funding for retention, and direct grants for scaling—empowering Ethereum ecosystem participants to achieve more.

What we Discussed:

00:30 Who is Meg Lister

01:00 Her Blockchain Journey

02:40 Bring Web3 Tech to Web 2 Masses

03:50 How to they Validate the Companies looking for Grants

05:30 What are Sybil Attacks

06:30 Is the Funding like Kickstarter for the Crypto World?

08:55 What Happens after they Get the Funding

10:40 Do People that were funding donate back

12:00 Different Project that the Company Backs

13:25 Succssful Projects

15:10 DAOs

17:30 Charity Based Projects

19:40 How can people get Involved

How to Contact Meg Lister:

https://www.gitcoin.co/

https://x.com/gitcoin

https://meglister.com/

https://x.com/meglister

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#fintech #digitalfreedom #freedom #meglister #investmentfund

Adrian Mendoza founded Mendoza Ventures to take an in-depth-focused approach to venture capital, looking for founders who demonstrate domain expertise in one of his three focus areas across fintech, AI, and cybersecurity.

#financialsystem #blockchain #cybersecurity

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About my Guest Adrian Mendoza :

Adrian is the founder and general partner at Mendoza Ventures which is both Latinx and woman-owned and the first Latinx-founded VC fund on the East Coast based in Boston. With 20 years’ of experience in building technology products and teams, Adrian is an experienced entrepreneur, operator, and veteran of the Boston startup ecosystem. Adrian founded Mendoza Ventures to take an in-depth-focused approach to venture capital, looking for founders who demonstrate domain expertise in one of his three focus areas across fintech, AI, and cybersecurity. Adrian prides himself on being a hands-on investor by setting up companies for success beyond just writing a check, creating strong funding syndicates, making customer introductions, and assisting with partnership conversations.

What we Discussed:

00:30 Who is Adrian Mendoza

01:30 Who is the VC Puppy

02:50 Why he Choose Ai & Cyber Security

05:45 Is there hope for having a better Payment System

12:30 Is there any Systems to simplyify Crypto transfers

16:40 KYC and not owning the Crypto

20:40 Tracable Fraud with Blockchain

24:30 Is there companies that work on a % of retrival from fraud

27:40 Can we have an Ai that provides True Answers

36:20 Finding Talent with their VC Fund

38:00 The Process for Pitching

40:50 Do they put Someone on the Board

42:40 Protecting your Business from too much Dilution

45:45 Different Exit Strategies

48:00 Working with his Wife and how to make it work

How to Contact Adrian Mendoza :

https://mendoza-ventures.com/

https://x.com/AdrianMendozaVC

https://www.youtube.com/@MendozaVentures/featured

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#fintech #digitalfreedom #freedom #ai #investmentfund

Noah Healy is a market designer and game theorist working on better economic systems.

#financialsystem #blockchain #crypto

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About my Guest Noah Healy:

Noah Healy is a market designer and game theorist working on better economic systems. After training in nuclear engineering he worked for tech startups at the peak of the dot com boom. Becoming fascinated by the mathematics of information and computation led to patent work on a better commodity market design.

What we Discussed:

00:00 Who is Noah Healy

03:30 His Blockchain Journey

08:00 The Bitcoin failure issues

11:50 Coordisc

16:05 Stopping the Corruption

22:30 The Basic Economic Assumptions

24:00 Mathematical Foundations

26:05 The Solution

28:50 The Chaos of commodities from Wars

32:05 Qualitative arguments

34:30 What Happens to Speculators with a disaster

37:30 Regulations for the Commodities Markets

40:40 His Patent and his experience with the Patent Office

46:10 Time & money Suck from Government

49:15 The Difficulty of getting International Patents

55:10 What he need to make this work

How to Contact Noah Healy :

https://coordisc.com/

linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-healy/

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8aOEcDV7MA

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#commodities #digitalfreedom #freedom

Kyle Bateman brings a wealth of experience and a passion for open-source solutions to public policy problems. Get ready for an inspiring conversation about technology, freedom, and the future of decentralized systems.

#financialsystem #votingsystem #crypto

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About my Guest Kyle Bateman:

Kyle Bateman is the founder of GotChoices.org, where innovation promotes freedom. He is the driving force behind MyCHIPs.org, a decentralized digital currency network, and VoteTorrent.org, an open-source voting platform. With a background in engineering, entrepreneurship, and finance, Kyle brings a wealth of experience and a passion for open-source solutions to public policy problems.

What we Discussed:

00:00 Who is Kyle Bateman

01:30 His profession and why he started all 3 projects

05:45 Bitcoin Problems

11:00 Is it Possible to Step Away from the FIAT System

16:20 How do you put your Money into the System

31:20 how Banks Create Money

32:30 A Tally Stick, the ancient form of money

39:30 Compassionate Social Society System

43:30 How do we get the Project Started

48:00 Who they need to get this started

48:45 How is he funding this

50:05 What is Vote Torrent

1:01:00 How to Prevent Corruption with the Voting

1:07:20 The e-Residency Estonian System

1:08:40 The Current Status of Vote Torrent

1:10:10 Got Choices Projects including Energy Projects

1:13:05 The Recycling Lie

1:14:00 The Egg Shortage

1:15:20 The Energy Systems that are Quashed

How to Contact Kyle Bateman :

https://gotchoices.org/

https://mychips.org/

https://votetorrent.org/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-bateman-1247783/

https://www.youtube.com/@gotchoices

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Dan Hafner explains all there is to know about creating an App

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About my Guest in his words:

I started out building apps with zero ability to write a single line of code, yet somehow figured out how to build an entire app development business! I can work with almost any business from a solo entrepreneur to a small team of 25-30 people to put their idea into a tangible, sleek and scalable app model.

What we Discussed:

- 0:02:30 His Career to Starting Apps

How to Contact :

https://dappernocode.com/

https://www.facebook.com/dan.hafner.5

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Dr. Jamar Montgomery is an active blockchain and AI investor, developer, and educator since 2016, Myers-Montgomery evangelizes the transformative power of blockchain technology.

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About my Guest Jamar Montgomery:

Jamar “The Web3 Statesman” Montgomery is a 35 year old politician, former lawyer, and educator who started college at 11 years old. As an active blockchain and AI investor, developer, and educator since 2016, Myers-Montgomery evangelizes the transformative power of blockchain technology. He is a distinguished speaker on blockchain and serves as an advisor to presidential and congressional candidates.

What we Discussed:

- Started College at 11yrs (1:40 mins)

- The USA Eductaion System ( 2:45 mins)

- His Crypto Journey (4:40 mins)

- Who does he think created Bitcoin (6:45 mins)

- What is Hedera (8:15 mins)

- Blackrock and the mining pools (11 mins)

- Speaking with President Trump about Crypto (13:30 mins)

- Can Crypto not be connected to FIAT ( 17 mins)

- The Pro's & Con's of Ai (19:45 mins)

- Ai pretending to be a real human (23:45 mins)

- Where would we trust a robot (27:30 mins)

- Could we have a Judicial System with Ai (29:45 mins)

- How we can use NFT's properly (32:15 mins)

- Can we see the masses embrace Blockchain (34:45 mins)

- The Influencers cheating investors (37 mins)

- Set your intentions going to Davos (39 mins)

- Advising Diplomats from the UN (40:45 mins)

- The Black Crypto Club (42:40)

- Drones be used for Fire Fighting and more (43:15 mins)

- Signal Jammers for Drones (45 mins)

- How he lost his law lisence running for office (46:45 mins)

How to Contact Jamar Montgomery:

https://drjamarmontgomery.com/

https://www.youtube.com/@drjamarmontgomery

https://x.com/DocMontyForUS

https://www.instagram.com/drjamarmontgomery

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Michael Cutajar is the brains behind Interactive Avatars, a AI product that creates avatars that can be easily integrated into ones website.

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About my Guest Michael Cutajar:

Michael is the brains behind Interactive Avatars, a AI product that creates avatars that can be easily integrated into ones website. We aim to solve the problem of customer retention. Hes a charactered accountant by profession, that built an Airbnb management company, and a web3 company: Metaverse Architects.

What we Discussed:

- Michael's Career to Blockchain ( 1 min)

- 11 yrs of Chronic Pain (3:45 mins)

- How I stoped the pain from a trapped nerve (6 mins)

- CEO of Metaverse Architects (8 mins)

- Why the company collapsed ( 9:30 mins)

- Interactive Avatars and what they want to solve (11:30 mins)

- Pro's & Con's of Ai (15 mins)

- Using Voice for Ai (17 mins)

- Politics and deep fake ( 19 mins)

- Building Augmented Intelligence at Glimpse (20 mins)

- Why did VR not take off (21:30 mins)

- Can the Avatar stop the scammers on Social Media ( 24 mins)

- Malta to set up your company (25 mins)

How to Contact Michael Cutajar:

www.interactiveavatars.ai https://michael-cutajar.com/

https://www.instagram.com/interactiveavatars.ai/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelcutajar/

https://www.facebook.com/michael.cutajar10/

https://x.com/Meta_MikeM

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