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Dr David Hanekom is a medical expert with over 30 years of experience in acute and chronic disease management. Currently, Dr Hanekom is serving as the Chief Medical Officer and Regional President for North America of Solve.Care, a healthcare company that is seeking to democratize global health systems through blockchain technology. Tune in as we speak to Dr Hanekom about the inefficiencies of the current healthcare system and how blockchain technology can help in preparing for future pandemics.

— Total crypto market cap drops to $251B — tZERO intends to launch a broker dealer service in the US this quarter — Block.One secures a patent for blockchain-based social media bidding system — Compound introduces USDT lending and borrowing — MKR holders agree to add WBTC as collateral — Iran issue license for a 6000-rig crypto mining operation

— Top 20 cryptocurrencies continue to register gains — Tezos to use Chainlink oracles — Brave integrates Binance’s trading widget — Elliptic will now monitor Stellar transactions — a16z raises $515M for second crypto VC fund — Ripple reports lowest ever XRP sales in Q1 — Grant Thornton to use EOSIO for intercompany transactions

— Bitcoin breaks through resistance to reach $9200 — Coinbase suffers an outage as Bitcoin moves upwards — Telegram postpones the release of GRAM and offers refund options — OKEx Pool joins ETH 2.0 testnet Topaz as a validator — Binance hits $15BN in daily trading volume — Crypto infrastructure startup Taurus Group raises ~$11M in Series A funding — Block.One awards a grant to Genobank.io — Skew raises $5M — Tencent launches a blockchain accelerator

— Bitcoin gains 4% to reach $8040 — BitMEX to restrict Japan-based users from accessing its platform — Tether prints $1bn worth of $USDT in April — CipherTrace launches new Armada product — Boerse Stuttgart Digital Exchange (BSDEX) enables the use of stop orders — Norwegian police arrest energy tycoon in a kidnapping case

— XLM spikes by 13% to reach 7 US cents — Grayscale has bought half of all newly minted ETH this year — FTX to launch a spot crypto exchange in the US — Binance unveils its mining pool — dForce compensates users after attacker returns $24.9M — BitPay adds support for BUSD — Bitfinex launches a social network for users — IBM introduces a blockchain network for COVID19 relief suppliers

Alex is one of the inventors of VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) with a foundational patent dating back to 1994. With more than 35 patents to his name, he is also a serial entrepreneur and founder of seven New York City-based startups, raising more than $1 billion and exiting over $3 billion. During this conversation, we ask Alex about what differentiates Celsius from its other main competitors as well as why Bitcoin and decentralization matter more than ever in the current economic environment.

— Total crypto market cap reaches $225BN — China launches its Blockchain Services Network — Etana Custody reports a data security breach — Storj offers 5PB of free storage for COVID-19 research — Telegram hits 400M users — Ebang files for an IPO in the US — BoostVC closes a new $40M fund

— Bitcoin jumps by 6% to reach $7550 — Coinbase releases own price oracle — Binance unveils Africa-focused social payments app, Bundle — BitMEX launches ETH/USD futures settled in Bitcoin — Huobi Token receives approval from Japan’s FSA — Securitize now allows users to trade tokenized securities P2P — Yanolja partners with MiL.K to offer crypto rewards

— Crypto market continues its recovery — DGH launches a cryptocurrency exchange WordPress plugin — On-chain activity of stablecoins jumps by 800% — MyEtherWallet becomes the first reseller of .com domains — The Block names Mike McCaffrey as its new CEO — Framework Ventures invests $750,000 in Kava Labs — Applied Blockchain raises £2M — GoldenSand Capital completes $5M equity investment in tZERO — CoinMarketCap to scale crypto payments with Gilded

— Top 20 cryptocurrencies return to gains — Ripple files a lawsuit against YouTube — Dharma launches social payments feature — The Dutch central bank releases a report on CBDC development — Gnosis launches a decentralised prediction platform for COVID-19 — Okung Ventures backs Fold — Power Ledger is to roll out its blockchain-based solar energy trading platform — US Senate passes new $484BN aid package

— Crypto market sees a pullback with Bitcoin dipping below $7000 — Hacker returns stolen funds worth ~$25M to dForce — Bitnomial exchange gets approval to offer Bitcoin futures contracts — dYdX launches a decentralised market for Bitcoin perpetual contracts — Filecoin delays its mainnet launch — ConsenSys cuts 14% of its workforce — Japan issues an update on STO guidelines

Tune in as we speak to Dan, a true crypto OG, about the upcoming Bitcoin halving, privacy, the importance of UX, the biggest threats to Bitcoin, Kraken's plans for this year and more. To find out more about Kraken, make sure you visit their website at — https://www.kraken.com/

— Bitcoin’s market dominance slides below 63% — Hacker steals ~$25M from DeFi protocol dForce — Renaissance Technologies secures permission for Bitcoin futures transactions — Arrano Capital to launch the first crypto fund in Hong Kong — MicroBT launches new Bitcoin miners — Binance burns $52.5M BNB in Q1 — BitGo laid off 12% of its staff

— Bitcoin remains above $7000 — Binance launching an Ethereum-compatible blockchain — Researchers discover Lightning Network privacy issues — Chinese gov’t employees to receive CBDC in May — Grayscale reports record inflows in Q1 — BitGo acquires Lumina — Compound launches a decentralised governance token — The Libra Association unveils major project changes — Crypto Finance AG raises ~$14.5M in a Series B funding round

— Top 20 cryptocurrencies register gains in the past day — China is set to launch a national blockchain platform this month — Etherscan releases a new surveillance feature — Ethereum sees 64% increase in active wallets in Q1 — Gnosis launches its DEX, Gnosis Protocol — TradeStation integrates with ErisX — Solana partners with Korean stablecoin Terra

— Bitcoin remains at $6800, Monero gains 2% — Investors file a class-action lawsuit against the Maker Foundation — FSB warns G20 economies of stablecoin risks — Craig Wright ordered to hand over 11,000 documents by Friday — a16z is looking to raise $450M for a new crypto fund — Algorand Foundation launches $42M grant program — ShapeShift acquires Portis — Bison Trails partners with Coinbase — Atomic Loans raises $2.45M — dForce raises $1.5M

— Crypto market registers minor gains following weekend slide — Bitmain wins legal case against former employees — Huobi to launch an on-chain analytics tool — Binance introduces Bitcoin options trading to its mobile app — Celsius Network reduces loan minimum to $1000 — Square gets approved as coronavirus stimulus lender

In this episode, David tells us more about the importance of good PR in the early stages of a startup and why companies should be building up relationships with people within the media. Furthermore, we talk about how to communicate success within a crisis such as this and the opportunities that may arise after COVID19. To find out more about Wachsman, make sure you visit their website — https://wachsman.com/ Or follow them on Twitter @Wachsman_

— Bitcoin dips to $6700 as Chainlink continues run — Apple and Google partner to develop COVID-19 tracing solution — Bitcoin futures volume drop on CME and Bakkt — PayPal to provide loans part of US gov’t initiative — Bitfinex moves 161,500 Bitcoin, pays $0.70 fees — HTC's EXODUS 1S to allow users to mine Monero on the go