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Join Professor Chris and his rotating panel of experts for an insightful journey into Decentralized Finance and blockchain investing. Each week, we analyze breaking news, spotlight promising projects and protocols, and engage in focused discussions on the topics shaping the future of DeFi. Catch us live every Wednesday at 1pm EST, simulcast across YouTube, Twitter, Twitch, and Streamm.tv. Get exclusive insights at https://beacondefi.io.
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The Survivorship Project is a podcast dedicated to sharing inspiring stories of cancer survivors and thrivers who have defied the odds, expert insights from leading health professionals and holistic healers, and practical tools for thriving beyond a diagnosis. This show is a beacon of hope, resilience, and empowerment for anyone navigating the survivorship journey—whether in recovery, treatment, or supporting a loved one.
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Bitcoin's New All-time High and the TAO Private Network (TPN)
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Send us a text Join Professor Chris as he welcomes another fantastic panel to the Total Value Locked (TVL) show from Beacon DeFi. Today's panel featured rotating panelist Luke, Head of Growth at Taoshi, Bittensor subnet #8, THE Proprietary Trading Network, and our featured guest is the Founder of Taofu and building the TAO Private Network, Mikel. W…
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Coinbase to the S&P 500 and Featuring Women Web3 Founders!
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Send us a text [NOTE]: We were having various technical issues at the beginning up until the 5:00 mark. Our apologies, Chris's internet was in and out for that portion, but is mostly resolved past the 5 min mark. Join Professor Chris as heads a panel on the topic of featuring more women web3 founders. A fantastic panel as we talked about the follow…
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Bittensor.ai, Pectra Upgrade, New Hampshire & BTC, Coinbase's x402
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Send us a text A banger of an episode as Professor Chris welcomes a featured panelist on today's show, Lukas from NorthTensor, the team behind Bittensor.ai, one of the biggest landing spots for getting introduced to the Bittensor ecosystem. Also joining us on panel is 0xJirachi, BD for Formation. Quite a bit was covered today, as we started off wit…
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They Referred Him to Hospice. He Ran a Marathon Instead – Marcos Jarvis on Cancer, Wim Hof & Mindset
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Send us a text What would you do if doctors told you that you had terminal cancer with just weeks to live? It's a question no one wants to face, but one that Marcos Jarvis confronted head-on in October 2019. The diagnosis was devastating: stage four advanced, incurable pancreatic cancer with secondary growth in his liver. Doctors offered palliative…
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Mastercard, Neobanks and the Post-Bittensor Endgame Party
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Send us a text Join Professor Chris and his panel as he assembles a group of people he hung around with in person at the Bittensor Endgame summit in Austin, Texas. While it was easy to talk Bittensor in the beginning, we covered multiple big announcements that were huge for Decentralized Finance (DeFi), such as: Mastercard announcing a full 360-deg…
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Michael and Ashlee: Facing Rare Blood Cancer, Finding Strength in Surfing, and Living Through Love
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Send us a text What happens when a 19-year-old Olympic-level athlete suddenly faces a rare cancer with just a 15% survival rate? For Michael Reid Cramer, this devastating reality struck during the height of the COVID pandemic, transforming him from a competitive windsurfer at peak fitness to someone fighting for his life. Yet this conversation with…
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Bittensor Endgame & The Race to Big Bitcoin
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Send us a text Join Professor Chris as he welcomes back Luke, Growth Lead for Taoshi, Subnet #8 in the Bittensor ecosystem, representing the Proprietary Trading Network and Glitch Financial. This week, we cover a variety of news topics around the launch of Zora's ZORA token, DePIN promise in Space via SpaceCoin, the end of crypto tax haven status f…
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The Living List: Laura Middleton-Hughes on Stage IV Breast Cancer & Finding Her Tribe
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Send us a text Laura Middleton-Lewis's remarkable journey from a shocking breast cancer diagnosis at age 25 to becoming a beacon of hope for the secondary breast cancer community reminds us of the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit. Diagnosed with aggressive stage III breast cancer in 2014 after discovering a small lump by chance in the s…
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Product Airdrops, BTC Reserves and Stablecoins UP!
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Send us a text Join Professor Chris as he welcomes DJ Robert Williams from Talisman back on panel as we look at the news of the week and how to interpret it for you, our dear users. Here's some things we talked about today: VanEck's Matthew Sigel has a new digital asset primitive that he thinks could be helpful in helping the US government finance …
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Nine Years Later: Chris Joseph on Healing from Stage III Pancreatic Cancer
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Send us a text When Chris Joseph received a stage III pancreatic cancer diagnosis in 2016, doctors gave him what they offer most pancreatic cancer patients – limited time and limited options. In the face of a disease with a 70% first-year mortality rate, he initially followed the conventional path of aggressive chemotherapy. But when the tumor cont…
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Disrupting Web2 Industries with Crypto, DeFi and Web3!
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Send us a text Join your DeFi Professor, Chris from Beacon DeFi as we look at a multitude of entrepreneurs in this new subseries on our weekly podcast to find protocols and entrepreneurs who are disrupting industries in web2 or traditional business niches with blockchain technology from web3, crypto and Decentralized Finance (DeFi). In this episode…
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Phil De Gruy: From Stage IV Colon Cancer to Ultramarathon Runner
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Send us a text What happens when conventional cancer treatment fails you twice? For Phil, the answer wasn't more medicine—it was running shoes. After being diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer in 2015, undergoing surgery and chemotherapy, Phil faced a devastating recurrence when the cancer metastasized to his lungs a year later. Standing at a crossr…
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Liberations for Institutions via the FDIC and Release the RWAs!
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Send us a text Listen in with Professor Chris as he welcomes his panel in to talk about the news of the week. This week, we welcome back Ken, Developer Relations at Taoshi, Bittensor subnet #8, the proprietary trading network, onto the panel as he was on holiday and we have a lively discussion about: - The release date and details of Nintendo's Swi…
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Living with Inoperable Pancreatic Cancer: Martijn Timmermans on Hope, Healing & Histotripsy
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Send us a text When faced with a stage 3 pancreatic cancer diagnosis at age 53, Martin Timmermans refused to accept the grim statistics often associated with this disease. His powerful conversation reveals how seemingly minor chest discomfort led to a life-altering diagnosis that forced him to reconsider everything about his existence as a father o…
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The Impending Stablecoin Tsunami and Our Favorite DeFi Projects
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Send us a text Professor Chris welcomed some new panelists this week as we talked about the biggest news of the week, which involved: Is the Pi Network a scam? World Liberty Financial unveils an RWA stablecoin, USD1 on ETH and BNB chains Now that Operation Chokepoint is dead, a flood of institutions are coming into DeFi Billions of dollars in stabl…
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Avoiding Crypto Wallet Malware & Injective's Neptune Finance
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Send us a text Join Professor Chris and his panel of web3's brightest as they talk about the news of the week in crypto, onchain/blockchain investing and DeFi, and give great analysis and takes to help you interpret the news of the week for your investment decisions. This week we tackle a new crypto wallet malware found by Microsoft, tackle the wee…
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Defying the Odds: Jennifer Dickenson’s 14+ Year Healing Journey After Grade 4 Glioblastoma
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Send us a text What would you do if doctors told you that you had just 12 months to live? For Jennifer Dickinson, this devastating prognosis became the catalyst for a profound transformation that defied all medical expectations. In this deeply moving conversation, Jennifer shares how her 2011 diagnosis of grade 4 glioblastoma brain cancer set her o…
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Send us a text When life falls apart, how do you rebuild? Welcome to The Survivorship Project, a podcast about resilience, healing, and thriving beyond a cancer diagnosis. Hosted by Carsten Pleiser, a husband, father, and survivor who was given a dire prognosis but is still here, this show brings you inspiring stories of those who have defied the o…
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