

Crypto Hipster
Jamil Hasan
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.
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.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Aug 15, 2022 • 24min
Betting Your Future with Conviction in BolieCoin, with Craig Curtis
CL Curtis has over 20 years of business experience and he’s also a published author. CL Curtis was raised in an impoverished neighborhood in the city of St. Louis Missouri. Mr. Curtis was exceptionally good in sports, particularly American Football and Baseball. Mr. Curtis was so good in American Football that he got a scholarship offer to play in college. Mr. Curtis never played High School football and yet a friend who was going to college on a football scholarship, he took Mr. Curtis to his coach and Mr. Curtis was offered a scholarship.However Mr. Curtis refused the scholarship offer to college. Mr. Curtis always felt it was a better way to earn money without running the risk of getting injured.CL Curtis had his first job at the age of 12 years old, getting paid cash everyday to clean up a flower shop in St. Louis Missouri Central Westend.
Mr. Curtis went on to graduate high school and to attend one year of community college studying business.CL Curtis has owned record companies, a computer company, a restaurant, nightclub and real estate investment company.Today present CL Curtis is the founder and CEO of Bolies Technology, BoliesTV and Boliecoin.CL Curtis also has a book entitled; “Boliecoin The Next Big Thing “ this book can be purchased through Amazon or LuLu, but if you purchase directly from the Boliecoin website you will receive an autograph copy from CL Curtis himself.

Aug 15, 2022 • 22min
Crypto Hipster Chronicles, Episode 30: Ethics, Conviction, Resiliency - Important Personal Traits or Blockchain Cornerstones?
This podcast is a montage of four interviews with founders and executives, from the time period of March 2021 to June 2022, as originally published at www.anchor.fm/irish-tech-news. This podcast highlights short gems from Jamil Hasan (Crypto Hipster)'s interviews with David Schwartz (Litecoin Foundation), Craig Curtis (BolieCoin), Dan Simerman (IOTA Foundation), David Kay (Liti Capital).

Aug 15, 2022 • 36min
How to Identify Crypto Opportunities, Richard Carthon, Crypto Current
Richard Carthon is Managing Member of Acacia Digital and Host of Crypto Current. He is on a journey to learn as much as possible about cryptocurrency while educating everyday people so they can have confidence in cryptocurrency investment opportunities.
Maybe you invested in one of the various ICOs, mining or other scams that were going on during late 2017/early 2018.
Let’s address the elephant in the room: cryptocurrency and blockchain technology is new and unfamiliar to most.
How to Identify Early Crypto Opportunities and Build Conviction to Make Life-Changing Profits
Several people invested in cryptocurrency without knowing much about the technology that is supporting the various crypto projects that are going on in the space.
Knowing this, he began to research and create content, Crypto Current, to educate himself and inform others so that they could begin to make more educated investment decisions in cryptocurrency and blockchain.
If you are curious in the space, he welcomes you to connect.

Aug 14, 2022 • 34min
How to earn Royalties with Lithographic Prints using Zero Knowledge Proofs, with TreeTrunk and John Wolpert
John Wolpert, CEO TreeTrunk
John Wolpert serves as ConsenSys Mesh group executive, researching and commercializing ways to use public Ethereum to conduct business. John is co-founder and co-chair of the Baseline Protocol, an initiative focused on zero knowledge cryptography run by the standards organization, OASIS. Prior to ConsenSys, John was global product executive for IBM Blockchain and CEO of the ride hailing service, Flywheel. His writing on business model innovation can be found in Harvard Business Review and other publications.

Aug 14, 2022 • 34min
Incorporating Cutting-Edge Digital Technologies while Building Digital Production Systems, Dilek Sezen, TreeTrunk
Dilek Sezen
Dilek Sezen is an interdisciplinary designer with an award-winning career. She has been focusing on
incorporating cutting edge technology into her art over half-decade. Her unique approach by juxtaposing luxury, technology and circular design principles demonstrates her contemporary art degree and keen understanding of how technology has forever changed the design, art, manufacturing of fashion and everyday items.
Her designs have been commissioned by local and global clientele and well-established brands including, SF Hearts Foundation, LGBT Asylum Project, Santa Barbara Art Museum, Oakland Art Museum, Four Seasons, Ritz Carlton, Montage Resorts, Inglenook and Beringer Vineyards.
Selected Recent Works
Recipient of two, IDA-International Design Award 2022
Selected to showcase at the largest NFT exhibition, both in virtual and physical gallery in Beijing 2021
SF Design week, selected to as one of the innovative designs 2020
SF Hearts foundation collection, “Heart2Heart” sculpture for public art 2018
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, American portraits jewelry collection, 2017
Oakland Museum of Art, History of Hip-Hop exhibition collection, 2017
Smart Hat & scarf design Wearables fashion show, Canada, 2017

Aug 14, 2022 • 28min
The Collector's Dilemma, Role of Crypto Experts, and the Intersection of NFTs and Blockchain Innovation with Sarina Charugundla
Sarina Charugundla is a creative thinker with a background in mechanical engineering, marketing, telecom, and business. Prior to joining TreeTrunk, she worked as VP of business development, analyzing businesses for VC deployment at Eagle. Sarina thrives in the intersections of art and technology. Fostering relationships is at her core, she has worked to uplift communities in NFT, art, and STEM via student entrepreneurship opportunities, art events, and grants for technological advancement.

Aug 14, 2022 • 21min
Crypto Hipster Chronicles, Episode 29: Uplifting Creators and Collectors through Cutting Edge Technologies and Innovation (featuring Tree Trunk)
This podcast is a montage of four interviews with founders and executives, from the time period of March 2021 to June 2022, as originally published at www.anchor.fm/irish-tech-news. This podcast highlights short gems from Jamil Hasan (Crypto Hipster)'s interviews with John Wolpert (Baseline Protocol/Tree Trunk), Dilek Sezen (Tree Trunk), and Sarina Charugundla (Tree Trunk).

Aug 13, 2022 • 30min
Creating Crypto Lending Solutions for Institutions, DeFi's impact on Banks, and the Future of Finance with Howard Krieger and UnFederalReserve
Howard Krieger currently serves as co-founder and CEO of unFederalReserve.
Prior to founding unFederalReserve, Krieger served as Managing Director at CBIZ Valuation Group, Valuation Director at WithumSmith+Brown and was also a Senior Manager at one of the Big 4 Accounting Firms. Krieger is well-versed in intangible business valuation, intellectual property valuation, financial modeling, valuation of equity-participating instruments, and exotic financial assets and liabilities. Krieger holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from James Madison University and a MBA with a concentration in qualitative finance from Rutgers University.
Twitter: @CryptoKriegerU
www.UnFederalreserve.com

Aug 13, 2022 • 29min
The challenges of driving crypto adoption, Rosario Ingargiola, Bosonic Digital
Rosario Ingargiola is Founder and Chief Executive of Bosonic Digital, a San Francisco based Financial Technology and Infrastructure company offering the only non-custodial, real-time clearing and settlement platform for crypto. Clients include Banks, Neo Banks, Hedge Funds, Lenders, Market-Makers, Broker-Dealers and Miners. He is a serial FinTech entrepreneur, an award-winning patent owner, published author and an Enterprise Technology Trading System SME in the fields of Algorithmic Trading, Foreign Exchange, Cryptocurrency and Low-Latency systems.

Aug 13, 2022 • 30min
Defying the Traditional Trends by Helping Investors Make Confident Crypto Decisions with Imgesu Cetin
Jamil chats with Imgesu Cetin, CEO of Defy Trends in his latest interesting crypto corner conversation.
Defying the Traditional Trends by Helping Investors Make Confident Crypto Decisions with Imgesu Cetin
Imgesu Cetin, CEO of Defy Trends, - an AI and data driven crypto intelligence platform that helps investors and traders make confident crypto investment decisions through actionable insights and quality information- breaks the mold of the enigmatic night-owl coder with her strong leadership, people skills, and outgoing personality. After sitting on her laptop, programming, and scraping together data from all thousands of sources, she likes to unwind by being a social butterfly, bringing like-minded people together, and even DJs for fun.She was born in Turkey grew up in the States. She got her Master’s degree at UCSD for Data Science.
One of her biggest accomplishments was getting a prestigious position in the UN - international organization for migration for forecasting and creating predictive modeling for migration using big data (web and social media analytics). She was selected among only 2,000 applicants for a full-time data scientist position in the UN. During all these accomplishments, she was always intensely passionate about blockchain, trading, and creating apps for herself to aid in her investment strategy. These self-help trading apps that scrapped and analyzed crypto trends ended up being the foundation of the Defy Trends Company which is now a platform for investors and traders to make confident crypto investments utilizing quality information and actionable insights!As a young entrepreneur empowering women, she has already launched her first company and is in the process of building a strong team to support her goals.


