Ep. 255 - Flexa: What Happens When a NASA Engineer Builds a Crypto Network

CRYPTO 101

Bryce Paul & Brendan Viehman

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4.3 • 841 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Flexa is a new company that allows people to spend cryptocurrency in over 39,000 retail locations in the US. Their CEO and Co-Founder, Tyler Spalding, talks with us about how this was made possible. He talks about why the SPEDN (not SPEND) app could be the breakthrough to mainstream adoption that we’ve been missing. Tune in to hear about the latest project status and how you can get an invite code to join in the beta. Guest Links: https://Flexa.network https://twitter.com/FlexaHQ https://twitter.com/TRspalding Show Links: CRYPTO101podcast.com iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cryp…1262351840 Patreon: www.patreon.com/user?u=8429526 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Crypto101Pod https://twitter.com/BrycePaul101 https://twitter.com/PizzaMind Instagram: https://instagram.com/crypto_101 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Fog by DIZARO https://soundcloud.com/dizarofr Creative Commons — Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported — CC BY-ND 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/Fog-DIZARO Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/lAfbjt_rmE8 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ **THIS IS NOT FINANCIAL OR LEGAL ADVICE** © Copyright 2019 Boardwalk Flock, LLC All Rights Reserved Our Sponsors: * Check out Mars Men: https://mengotomars.com * Check out NPR: https://npr.org * Check out Quince and use my code quince.com/crypto101 for a great deal: https://www.quince.com * Check out Scribe and use my code Scribe.how/CRYPTO101 for a great deal: https://scribe.com/Crypto101 * Check out Shopify and use my code shopify.com/crypto101 for a great deal: https://www.shopify.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	What is up?
0:12.3	It is your favorite crypto revolutionaries.
0:16.1	I'm Bryce Paul and as always joined by the notorious pizza mind.
0:24.7	Welcome Crusaders to Crypto 101. Today we are cruising with Tyler Spalding, CEO of Flexa. Flexa is doing revolutionary work. They've succeeded
0:30.5	where many other crypto payment projects have crashed and burned miserably. The way it works is you
0:36.4	have a phone app that you scan at a point of
0:38.4	sales system. You can use this to pay for things like coffee and food using Bitcoin, Ethereum,
0:43.7	and all kinds of other different cryptos at over 39,000 locations here in the U.S.
0:49.7	You know, I guess however it works, you're right, making crypto possible to use every day is the only thing that matters here.
0:56.0	Flexa could be a crucial piece of the infrastructure we need to bring crypto to the mainstream.
1:02.0	All right, well, I can't wait to learn more and see where they're at in terms of progress.
1:05.0	All right, Tyler, welcome to the show.
1:08.0	Hey guys, thanks for having me.
1:10.0	We are very, very, very stoked about this one.
1:13.1	We're going to be covering lots of ground from staking in your system to the spend app to just the
1:20.9	grand vision for Flexa.
1:22.4	But before we get into all that exciting stuff, why don't you tell the audience who you are
1:27.2	and why'd you get
1:28.3	into crypto of all the things in the world? I've sort of been an entrepreneur now. This is my
1:32.4	fourth company. So my first company I started was, man, way back when when I was 16, it was an
1:38.7	e-commerce company. So got involved in sort of tech and software early on, ended up being in aerospace for a while.
1:47.3	So I worked on the space shuttle program through NASA, which was really fun.
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