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Hosted by Stephen Sargeant and Mike Townsend · business · EN · 633 episodes
The mission behind Around The Coin podcast is to offer entrepreneurs an alternative perspective for growing their business in and around the payment industry.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe mission behind Around The Coin podcast is to offer entrepreneurs an alternative perspective for growing their business in and around the payment industry.
Around the Coin is hosted by Stephen Sargeant and Mike Townsend. The show has published 633 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "What's Holding Back Canada's Fintech Industry? - Michelle Beyo | ATC #633" (14 October 2026, 74 minutes), "When Bitcoin Mining Meets AI Compute - Emma Todd | ATC #632" (7 October 2026, 56 minutes), and "When Crypto Policy Becomes Political - Amanda Wick | ATC #631" (1 October 2026, 92 minutes).
Around the Coin publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 49 minutes across 633 episodes.
Booking probability for Around the Coin is 47%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Around the Coin requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Around the Coin's contact route on record: verified email.
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Stephen Sargeant and Mike Townsend hosts Around the Coin, a business show with 633 episodes published.
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Episode #633
On the Around The Coin podcast, host Stephen Sargeant interviews fintech leader Michelle Beyo , CEO and Founder of Finavator , about why open banking, open finance, and open data have advanced globally while North...
Episode #632
Host Stephen Sargeant introduces an in-person September 2025 Around The Coin podcast episode with Emma Todd , CEO/co-founder of MMH Technology and CEO of MMH Data Systems , an early Toronto crypto organizer who moved...
Episode #631
In this episode of Around The Coin, host Stephen Sargeant sits down with Amanda Wick , author of The Catalyst and Founder & CEO of the Association for Women in Cryptocurrency , for a wide-ranging conversation about the...
Episode #630
Host Stephen Sargeant welcomes Wei Zhou , CEO at Coins.ph , to discuss grassroots crypto and stablecoin adoption in the Philippines, why the country consistently ranks in Chainalysis’ global top 10, and how regulation...
Episode #629
In this episode of Around The Coin, Stephen Sargeant speaks with Bart Smith , CEO of Avalanche Treasury Co ., to discuss building a regulated digital asset treasury focused on the Avalanche ecosystem. Bart explains why...
Episode #628
Host Stephen Sargeant welcomes George Christopher , Principal Investor at CoinFund (founded 2015), discussing how CoinFund invests from pre-seed through Series C+ across seed and venture funds in blockchain-focused...
Episode #627
Live from Futurist, host Stephen Sargeant interviews Charlene Cieslik , an independent financial crime compliance consultant with 26 years in compliance (including early FINTRAC) and 10 years in crypto, about Canada’s...
Episode #626
Live from Futurist, host Stephen Sargeant interviews Andrei Poliakov , founder and CEO of APX Lending . Poliakov explains why he built a highly regulated, compliant crypto-backed lending business after failures like...
Episode #625
Live from Futurist, host Stephen Sargeant interviews Nikita Sachdev , owner of Luna PR , about how AI is reshaping public relations in crypto, Web3, and AI. Nikita explains that while AI makes content creation easy...
Episode #624
Host Stephen Sargeant welcomes Patrick O’Kain , partner at Borderless Capital , to discuss cybersecurity, crypto investigations, blockchain analytics, and how AI-driven agentic commerce and stablecoins will reshape...
Episode #623
Host Stephen Sargeant interviews Samiz Bayan , partner at Draper Dragon , on the state of venture capital and the convergence of AI, blockchain, and tokenization. Bayan outlines Draper Dragon’s early-stage focus on...
Episode #621
On Around The Coin, host Stephen Sargeant interviews Wesley Rios , US & LATAM Partnerships Lead at Morph Network, about the current state of stablecoin infrastructure and merchant payment rails. Rios shares his career...
Episode #620
Host Stephen Sargeant welcomes David Barrick , CTO and co-founder of TIX & KYD Labs , to discuss why ticketing is fundamentally a banking business and how blockchain can fix fees, fraud, and resale chaos. Barrick...
Episode #618
On Around The Coin, host Stephen Sargeant welcomes Aditi Shriram , COO of Para , to discuss her path into crypto from seeing Vitalik speak and starting at ConsenSys, plus her experience as a venture scout for Bain...
Episode #617
Join our host Stephen Sargeant with Xen Baynham-Herd , Head of Growth and Marketing at Base , on the Around The Coin podcast to discuss Base’s newest launches. Base Ledgers for enterprise-grade private transactions...
Episode #616
Join our host Stephen Sargeant with Itai Turbahn from Dynamic and Tal Zackon from TRES Finance , both now under Fireblocks , for a deep dive into agentic AI and what it means for payments, compliance, cybersecurity, and...
Episode #615
Host Stephen Sargeant interviews Chris Mason , founder and CEO of Orbital , about building stablecoin infrastructure and how it can improve cross-border payments compared with traditional correspondent banking and...
Episode #614
Recorded live at EthCC in Cannes, Around The Coin with host Stephen Sargeant sits down with Kyle Jenke , Chief Business Officer at Optimism , about how Optimism’s OP Stack and OP Enterprise help large enterprises build...
Episode #613
Live at EthCC on the Around The Coin podcast, Stephen Sargeant heads to the Zama Villa to speak with Zama COO Jeremy Bradley about fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) and why financial institutions need a confidentiality...
Episode #612
Join host Stephen Sargeant reports live from ECC, where discussions center on wallets, tokenization, real-world assets, regulation, and compliance, and introduces a live Around The Coin episode featuring 1inch...
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