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In this episode we chat with Henrijs Jansons about the relaunch of the Debitum platform, and why investors should consider investing in this regulated platform.

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In this episode, Jean and Joe interview the founder and CEO of Lonvest, Roman Katerynchyk.

We dig into how P2P lending for consumer loans works, and what kind of models power the decisions to give loans or not to new customers. We discuss the ethical side of P2P lending, and the big issue with millions of unbanked people in developing countries.

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We also talk about how Lonvest wo...

Welcome to another exciting episode of the Mastermind.fm podcast, where we explore the latest trends, ideas, and innovations shaping the world. In today’s episode, we’re diving deep into the fascinating realm of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its transformative impact on the way we work.

We’re thrilled to have with us a special guest, Martin Slaney, the visionary behind ProductPrompts.com. Martin is a thought leader in the AI space and has extensive experience in harnessing the power of intelligent tools to enhance productivity and drive growth.

In our conversation today, we’ll explo...

In this episode Jean and Joe speak with Shehan Chandrasekera from Cointracker about the intricacies of NFT taxation.

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In this episode, Jean hangs out with Tinbane and Astamcloud/P to discuss the experience of collecting, creating and curating in the generative art space.

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* Featured image art by Tinbane

In this episode, Jean speaks to Eric Rubens, a successful professional photographer and founder of Collective Strangers, an NFT community focused on photography. We go through Eric’s journey into photography, why he created Collected Strangers, and what pass holders can expect in the coming months. We also touch on the photography NFT space as I’m quite excited about the future prospects of this niche.

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In this episode, Jean speaks to the founder and CEO of NFTfi, Stephen Young. We talk about all the use cases for borrowing and lending in the NFT space. I found this talk fascinating and learnt some new use cases I wasn’t aware of. Whether you’re on the borrowing or lending side, you should listen to this.

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In today’s episode, Jean speaks with the artist ZAR, who he had the pleasure of meeting for the first time during his recent trip to New York for NFT NYC. We delve into many different topics, for an overall fascinating talk where topics like minimalism, utility for NFT art, community building, and the process for building Classicality are discussed.

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Jean and Evan Medeiros team up to recap their action-packed week at NFT NYC, discussing their favorite projects such as Doodles, PROOF, Moonbirds, Coolmans, Cool Cats, Cyberbrokers etc.

They share what they loved about the events and what was a bit of a letdown.

If you haven’t been to NFT NYC, this is a great way to catch up on the past week’s events.

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I recently started collecting generative art NFTs, and one of the collections that I fell in love with was Hōrō (meaning wandering in Japanese), from Lionel Radisson, known in the art world as makio135. In today’s show, I connect with Lionel to talk about his journey as an artist and how he got into NFTs.

We speak about the challenges and also big wins that ultimately helped Lionel transition into working as a generative artist full-time. I am extremely bullish on the potential of NFTs to empower artists and bring their ideas and work much more...

In this episode, Jean talks to Hanif Perry about his experience as a collector of generative art NFTs and member of various communities that formed around this movement. This is a great primer for those who are interested in NFTs and want to know what to look for and where when buying their first pieces.

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In this episode, I sit down with Danny Greene, the general manager of the MeebitsDAO. We have a wide-ranging conversation about the significance of NFTs, the analogies that can be used to onboard new users into the NFT space, and of course, we also focused on Meebits in particular. I really like the MeebitsDAO initiative in favor of an open metaverse, so if you’d like to learn more about the metaverse and how you can start participating in this space you should definitely give this one a listen.

The Meebits are 20,000 unique 3D voxel characters, created by...

In this episode, we speak to Robin Copernicus (real name Robin Kabir) from Metaverse Land Club. It was a real pleasure speaking with Robin, his passion for futuristic technologies and the ways that they can help human betterment really comes through in our conversation.

Join us as we explore the many facets of the metaverse and how it will impact humanity in this wide-ranging episode.

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In this episode, we have Igors Puntuss, CEO of Bulkestate, as our guest. Together with Igors, we discuss Bulkestate’s journey over the past five years, and the main things that investors should expect going forward. Bulkestate is one of my favorite platforms. Contrary to other players in the market, they have an understated approach and focus on delivery rather than hype.

Here are some of the main numbers from Bulkestate’s performance over the past years.

We are glad to welcome Hearsay to our show. It’s a really special episode covering a quiet unspoken topic of law and NFTs.

We started discussing uncertainties of crypto taxation and what is crypto from a legal standpoint. A big part of the discussion ahead was about the traditional art industry and legal backbone, as well as the concepts of authenticity, derivatives, and value compared to the digital NFT world. The other important topic we touched upon were DAOs from the legal perspective and their prospects in governance.

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In this episode, we welcome back Jalil from PunkScape for another round of NFT knowledge drops.

Following our more introductory first episode with Jalil, in this episode, we continue evolving some of the topics we touched upon previously as well as introduce some other very important concepts and guidelines that all NFT investors or creators should know about.

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In this episode, we welcome the founder of Kumo’s World, Kumo, who shares with us her journey and motivations for creating this collection of extremely cute characters, as well as the new features that are on the roadmap for the next few months.

About Kumo’s World

Kumo’s World is a fantastical place where you control the story. Go on adventures with the other explorers and discover the hidden gems the world of Kumo!

Here, you can let your inner child free and just be yourself without judgment.

We hold e...

In this episode, we welcome Jalil Wahdatehagh, the founder and artist behind the PunkScape NFT project to guide us through the remarkable world of non-fungible tokens.

How do we visualize value, what are and why digital identities are important, how NFTs can be used not only for visual art? These are just minor parts of the topics we discussed with Jalil. Of course, we covered the basics (well, they are not so basic after all):

In this episode we’ve met Liza Aizupiete, managing director of Fintelum. Fintelum is a crowdfunding platform, which offers assets tokenization. With Fintelum investors can invest in businesses, who are tokenizing their equity, and then receive dividends. We’ve talked about how Fintelum works, new ways of investments and why you should make your crypto work. Also, we’ve touch next topics: how investing in crypto and in traditional currencies differs; why Fintelum is not a stock exchange; what backlashes exist against p2p landing; the essence of token; and many others.

In this episode of Mastermind.fm we’ve met with Arnab Naskar, co-founder and business lead of STOKR. It’s a digital marketplace which allows to invest into new and existing business with no middle man. STOKR is built on blockchain to keep things transparent and secure.

Arnab introduced us to the story behind STOKR and how it operates. And we’ve discussed lots of interesting topics including:  inefficiencies of capital market, equity vs. crowdfunding, hybrid IPOs and Liquid Network of Bitcoin. Also we talked over Blockstream Mining Note, one of the most recent ventures on STOKR.

In this episode we’ve met Jameson Lopp, CTO and co-founder of Casa. We talked all about Bitcoin security, starting from the basics of managing private keys to how Bitcoin transactions work. It’s an essential episode for anyone planning to keep crypto assets in self-custody securely.

That’s not all, we’ve discussed more:

You can find more information on Bitcoin and crypto security in general here:

In this episode we’ve met with Pavel Klema, the CEO of Bondster. It is a Czech FinTech start-up that offers investments in loans. What is interesting about Bondster is that offer a huge potential for diversification, listing both short and long-term loans from the broad selection of regions.

To help us dig deep into the topic we were joined by Andrew Farrugia, blogger, fitness instructor and investor.

We’ve discussed how COVID-19 impacted loans landing companies, investors and the P2P lending market overall. Also, we touched on the loans secured by cryptocurrencies – a new pr...

In this episode we met Michael Bereslavsky, CEO and founder of Domain Magnate to discuss all the nuances of buying and selling sites.

To help us dig deep into the topic we were joined by Andrew Farrugia, blogger and fitness instructor who ran into the issues of the content business himself covering fitness and lifestyle topics.

Listening to the podcast you will know more about:

In this episode, we welcome Fernando and Juancho, co-founders of Brickfy.com.

Brickfy can be called a platform of platforms allowing investors to join real estate crowdfunding projects from a single marketplace with no need to register on a variety of platforms.

We’ve discussed how Brickfy operates and their development plans.

Apart from that, we touched on the future of real estate crypto tokenization and the frictions behind government and crypto adoption in the real estate loans market.

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In this episode, we interview Mauricio Di Bartolomeo, one of the co-founders of the Canadian crypto borrowing and lending platform Ledn.

Mauricio is a very charismatic figure in the crypto space and this was one of the best conversations we’ve had so far.

What we loved about Mauricio is that he has an amazing story that led him to create a product that solved his own problems.

We talk about Venezuela, Turkey and other countries that have experienced runaway inflation, and how Bitcoin fixes this.

Expect, of course, a deep di...

In this episode, we speak to Jon Gillham about buying and selling websites. Jon is an authority in the space and is involved in various projects such as MotionInvest and Content Minded. He also runs his own site at WebsiteIncome.com.

In this podcast, we talk all about the opportunities and pitfalls of buying and selling websites, and what kind of person this investment class is suited for. If you’ve heard about buying and selling websites for a profit, Amazon affiliate marketing, authority sites etc. and have always wondered how this new asset class works, this is...

In this episode, Jean sits down with Gustas from InRento to discuss this recently launched platform that specializes in rental properties in Lithuania.

Gustas is a young but extremely knowledgeable serial entrepreneur who has founded multiple businesses, and its always a pleasure for me to speak with him and discuss the latest trends. You might remember Gustas from his involvement with Evo Estate, a platform that has been doing very well in recent years within the European real estate scene. Gustas in fact remains a shareholder of that company, but is now focusing all his efforts on...

In today’s episode, we speak to Shayne Mullen from BlockFi, which is one of the biggest crypto borrowing and lending platforms in the world and has grown tremendously over the past year.

BlockFi offers several products in the crypto space:

If you’re interested in generating yields on your crypto holdings, this episode is for you.

And if you’re a long-time hodler, you should probably also look into the possibility of obtain...

In today’s episode, we bring on Mike Bristow, the CEO and co-founder of CrowdProperty, to talk about crowdfunding for real estate in the UK market. The CrowdProperty platform has been one of the most successful platforms in this space, due to the excellent technology they have built coupled with the many years of experience in the real estate sector of their leadership team and founders.

With a background in strategy consultancy advising major corporates and private equity funds on corporate strategy and buyouts, Mike has been investing in property since 2002, investing in high potential proptech businesses si...

In this jam-packed episode, we interview Gregory Klumov from Stasis, the company behind the EURS stablecoin.

We talk about what stablecoins are and why they are used. It’s hard to come up with a shortlist of all the topics we touched upon in this episode, so just go ahead and listen to this monster episode and I bet you’ll have a much better understanding of stablecoins and their impact on the crypto system at the end of the episode.

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In this interview, Jean and Joe speak to Mihkel Stamm – COO of EstateGuru, a real estate crowdfunding platform established in 2014, with more than €300m loans given so far. This makes it one of the oldest and most successful platforms in Europe.

In this wide-ranging interview, we go into details about how the platform operates as well as general real estate investing trends that Mihkel has been observing over the past years.

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In today’s episode, we interview Allan Martinson from Xolo. Xolo helps people open companies in Estonia and also invoice for their services from Estonia without needing to register a company there, thanks to an innovative solution whereby Xolo is the company invoicing clients.

Over 40,000 solopreneurs globally have signed up with Xolo. They are launching either their fully-owned, Estonian-registered companies or using Xolo’s unique partnership-based virtual company model. Xolo manages a third of companies incorporated by Estonia’s e-residents.

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In today’s episode, we interview Maxime Pallain, the co-founder and CEO of Raizers. Raizers is a real estate crowdfunding platform that currently offers several investment opportunities in France.

Raizers’ competitors when it started were private banks, family offices etc. Raizers’ innovation was in digitizing the way to give loans to entrepreneurs.

This platform offers loans to real estate developers, with a maximum 24 months and average of 21 months.

There is currently a 0% default rate on Raizers, and there aren’t any long-pending projects either.

They have financed over 500m in projects. In 2020...

In today’s episode, we speak to Chandan Lodha from Cointracker.io, one of the leading crypto portfolio trackers and tax preparation tools.

Cointracker offers two main products:

In today’s episode, we speak with Nikita Goncars, the CEO and co-founder of LendSecured. This is one of the newest lending platforms in Europe, however, it’s worth noting that it’s an offshoot of an existing lending business that has been operating successfully for several years.

The team has considerable experience in Latvia and they want to expand to the rest of Europe, with Germany and Spain being one of the first big markets they are targeting. We spent some time discussing their upcoming focus on agricultural loans, which both Jean and Joe found fascinating.

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In today’s episode, we meet Tomas Medeckis from Nordstreet, where you can invest in business and real estate loans.

We talk about why they are based in Lithuania and the pros/cons of that, as well as their great track record with loans so far. We also talk about investing in the Baltic region as well as Nordstreet’s plans on expanding beyond the region.

This platform has been returning 10-14% for its investors, although according to market fundamentals the expected returns in the next year should be around 10-11%, and Tomas was very open...

In this episode, Jean sits down with Rob Dix, who is well known for his several projects in the UK real estate space. Together with his wife Mish, he also ran the popular digital nomad blog Making It Anywhere. His journey shares quite a few similarities with Jean’s, so it was interesting to discuss several of the topics that interest both of them, including parenting, property and other investments, as well as other life choices.

*We apologize for the sound quality in Jean’s part of the recording, unfortunately we had a technical problem and had to u...

In today’s episode, we have Anthony Cerullo from YouHodler joining us to explain how this platform enables crypto hodlers to earn interest on their holdings via the YouHodler savings account, or even obtain crypto-backed loans and even gain big from crypto movements using the Turbocharge and Multi Hodl products.

You can check out Jean’s review of YouHodler if you’d like more details on the platform, the article is a perfect accompaniment to this podcast episode.

If you like the content we’re putting out, please consider leaving a 5-star review on iTunes, it helps...

Today’s episode features Martins Sulte, the CEO and co-founder of the biggest European P2P lending platform Mintos, as our guest.

Lending and alternative lending is not a new industry at all, but many European investors only became aware to this asset class in recent years, also because before there was no real way they could get involved since it required insider knowledge, contacts or big sums of capital.

Mintos itself start out with the founders and 4 developers, and it has not grown to over 160 people.

It was a pleasure to speak wi...

In this episode, Joseph and Jean interview Chris Roper from MyConstant, a platform that offers crypto-backed lending and borrowing facilities.

As an investor, one may use several products available on the MyConstant site to obtain interest on their fiat currencies or stable currencies. On the other hand, you can also act as a borrower, by depositing crypto as collateral and obtaining a loan from MyConstant.

The platform focuses a lot on educating investors about crypto-based lending and borrowing, and as such is an ideal platform for those new to this type of investing.

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