Brazil Crypto Report

🎧 Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTubeOlá pessoal!For today’s episode I’m joined by Michael J. Casey, who is a renowned journalist, author and authority on the topics of blockchain and cryptocurrency. As a Wall Street Journal correspondent covering capital markets, he was one of the first mainstream media journalists to take an interest in bitcoin back in 2012-13. Michael lived in Argentina for six years in the 2000s as a WSJ reporter, witnessing firsthand

🎧 Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTubeOlá pessoal!Fabrício Tota is Head of New Business at Mercado Bitcoin, one of Brazil's leading crypto platforms. He was one of the first guests I interviewed for BCR nearly two years ago; a lot has changed since then, so I figured it was time for a redux. In this conversation, we discuss how Mercado Bitcoin weathered the recent crypto bear market, its successful foray into the asset tokenization space and how it’s

🎧 Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTubeOlá pessoal! Thiago Barbosa is an attorney at Salles Nogueira Advogados and an expert on crypto taxation in Brazil. He joins the show to discuss new rules from the Receita Federal, Brazil’s tax authority, that impact how Brazilian investors must report and pay taxes on crypto assets.Specifically, we dive into a new law, passed in late 2023, that taxes stockpiles of Brazilian assets held overseas. The Receita Federal was

🎧 Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTube🇧🇷Brazil Crypto Report is excited to be an official media partner and curator for Ethereum Rio 2024, which takes place May 13-15. Speaker applications and partnership inquiries are open! Olá pessoal!I hope everyone is doing great. We’re switching things up this week with a lighter theme: the growing trend of gringos moving to Latam as a lifestyle arbitrage play.To help us better understand, I’m joined by Vance, who is

🎧 Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTube🙏 If enjoy this content please consider dropping a Five Star rating wherever you listen to podcasts!Olá pessoal!For this week’s episode I sat down with Luca Cosivi, who works in business development at Open Zeppelin and is also helping to organize Rio Onchain Week March 19-24. As Luca explains, Rio Onchain Week is modeled after Devconnect — the popular developer focused event supported by Ethereum Foundation. The

🎧 Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Anchor | Amazon | Google Podcasts | YouTube🙏 If enjoy this content please consider dropping a Five Star rating wherever you listen to podcasts!Olá pessoal!Greetings from ETH Denver where we’re powering ahead into Day 3 of the main event. This has become a must-attend gathering every year because of its sheer size and influence. I haven’t seen official numbers but have heard from organizers that 25,000 people descended into the city this week for the conference