Crypto Hipster

Hosted by Jamil Hasan

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958

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Jun 2026

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About the show

Making sense of the digital economy—through the people building it. Where builders talk freedom, not price. The Crypto Hipster Podcast features conversations with founders, entrepreneurs, and independent creators shaping what comes next. This is not a traditional interview show. These are perspective-driven conversations focused on insight, conviction, and the realities of building in a rapidly changing world. We go beyond headlines, beyond hype, and beyond price—to explore ownership, freedom, and opportunity in the digital economy. Some episodes are conversations. Some are reflections. All are designed to help you understand what’s being built—and why it matters.

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June 16, 202621 min

Crypto Hipster Manifesto E8: People Are People

Technology changes.People remain remarkably the same.In this solo episode, Jamil Hasan explores the question behind his upcoming book People Are People: What happens to us when the systems around us change?Drawing from hundreds of founder interviews, years in crypto, recovery, authorship, health challenges, and family experiences, Jamil examines the human side of technological and societal transformation.This is a conversation about identity, adaptation, continuity, resilience, and the challenge of remaining human in a world that never stops changing.Because beneath every innovation, disruption, and headline is a person trying to figure out what comes next.People Are People. A reflection on technology, humanity, and the stories that survive after the noise fades.

June 16, 2026Episode 1138 min

Signals Through the Noise: What is Bitcoin Mining Becoming?

What Is Bitcoin Mining Becoming?Bitcoin mining began as a cryptocurrency story.Today, it may be becoming something much larger.Sergii Gerasymovych of EZBlockchain joins me to discuss stranded energy, flare gas, infrastructure development, and why Bitcoin mining increasingly resembles an energy business as much as a crypto business.As industries mature, they often reveal their deeper purpose. This conversation explores what Bitcoin mining may ultimately become.

June 9, 2026Episode 715 min

Crypto Hipster Manifesto E7: Integrity Matters Most

What matters when nobody is watching?In this solo episode, I reflect on why integrity matters more than sales, visibility, influence, or convenience. Drawing from recovery, podcasting, and years of interviewing founders, I explore the role integrity plays in building trust, making decisions, and navigating a world increasingly shaped by incentives and narratives.From editing conversations to protecting listeners from promotional noise, this episode examines why integrity is not merely something we talk about—it is something we practice.Because success without integrity is temporary.But integrity survives even when nobody notices. 🎙️

June 9, 2026Episode 1041 min

Signals Through the Noise: What Did We Decentralize?

Everybody talks about staking as passive income.But underneath that narrative are bigger questions.Who secures the network? Who controls validation? Who holds custody? And what happens when institutional capital arrives?Ryan Haczynski of Global Stake joins me to discuss staking, decentralization, custody, self-sovereignty, institutional adoption, and whether crypto is quietly rebuilding some of the same fragilities it originally set out to escape.What did we decentralize?

June 4, 2026Episode 939 min

Signals Through the Noise: People Not AI Agents

Everyone seems excited about AI agents.The promise is simple: faster decisions, less friction, more automation.But what happens when those decisions involve real money, real risk, and real consequences?In this episode of the Crypto Hipster Podcast, I sit down with Karym Abdelrakhman, founder of Simplify Labs, to explore the tradeoffs behind automation, infrastructure, and financial decision-making. We discuss AI agents, operational complexity, compliance, trust, and why simplifying systems doesn't eliminate complexity—it often shifts it somewhere else.As technology becomes increasingly invisible, one question remains:Who is ultimately responsible when something goes wrong?Making sense of the digital economy through the people building it.

June 2, 202627 min

Crypto Hipster Manifesto E7: Bitcoin Revealed

Most people think Bitcoin changed money.I think Bitcoin revealed people.In this solo episode, I reflect on nearly a decade inside the crypto industry and the lessons that emerged from hundreds of conversations with founders, builders, entrepreneurs, and creators.What began as an exploration of Bitcoin ultimately became an exploration of trust, incentives, adaptation, and human nature.Because the deeper I looked into technology, the more I found myself studying people.The technology matters.The people matter more.

June 2, 2026Episode 823 min

Signals Through the Noise: The Trust Problem

Can authenticity create trust?In this conversation, Dr. Manny Ahmed of Open Origins explains how his team is building technology to verify the origin and integrity of digital content in an age increasingly shaped by AI-generated media.We explore the distinction between authenticity and provenance, the challenges of verifying historical content, the limits of content authentication, and why trust remains a fundamentally human problem even when technology can verify the underlying data.The discussion also examines blockchain scalability, misinformation, insurance fraud, and what happens when the incentives surrounding information become more important than the information itself.

May 28, 2026Episode 739 min

Signals Through the Noise: Ownership versus Reality

Crypto promised immutable ownership.Real-world law has other ideas.In this episode of the Crypto Hipster Podcast, Jamil Hasan sits down with Faisal Al Monai and Christopher Kelly of droppRWA to explore one of the biggest unresolved tensions inside tokenization and real-world assets:What actually happens when ownership becomes machine-readable infrastructure?From legal title and settlement finality to blockchain records, jurisdiction, compliance, and programmable ownership, this conversation examines the growing collision between traditional institutional systems and on-chain architecture.Because moving a token may be instant.But resolving disputes, enforcing rights, and defining legitimate ownership still happens inside human systems.This is not just a crypto conversation anymore.It is a conversation about the future architecture of trust itself.

May 26, 2026Episode 624 min

Crypto Hipster Manifesto E6: The Lost Message

Crypto promised freedom.Then speculation consumed the signal.In this solo episode, I explain why I walked away from “corporate crypto” interviews and why The Lost Message became necessary to write. This is not about price charts, tribalism, or recycled narratives. It is about what the original ideas behind Bitcoin, decentralization, sovereignty, and digital ownership were actually trying to protect — and what may have been lost as the industry scaled into performance, marketing, and financialization.This episode explores:how crypto drifted from freedom toward speculationwhy systems increasingly optimize humans instead of serving themthe emotional cost of living inside accelerated digital environmentswhy preserving human signal still mattersand why builders, not PR narratives, continue to matter mostThis is not investment advice.This is a systems conversation.Hosted by Jamil Hasan.Crypto Hipster Podcast — where builders talk freedom, not price.

May 26, 2026Episode 635 min

Signals Through the Noise: Payments Are Still Broken

Most people never see the ugliest part of cross-border payments.Builders do.In this episode of the Crypto Hipster Podcast, I sit down with Ran Grushkowsky of MassPay to explore the hidden infrastructure behind global payouts, remittances, compliance, settlement friction, and the operational realities most consumers never think about.We discuss:why cross-border payments remain painfully inefficientthe invisible compliance layers shaping global money movementhow stablecoins may change international settlementwhere traditional finance still controls the railsand why building payment infrastructure requires surviving constant operational complexityThis conversation is less about hype and more about the systems underneath modern money movement.Hosted by Jamil Hasan.Crypto Hipster Podcast — where builders talk freedom, not price.