Jonathan Levin, Co-Founder of Chainalysis: Catching the Bad Actors in Cryptocurrency

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Jonathan Levin is Co-Founder of Chainalysis. In this conversation, Jonathan and Anthony Pompliano discuss how to build a startup, what it's like to pitch a Silicon Valley Venture Capital Fund, why Chain Analysis tools are important, what the bad actors are doing in cryptocurrency, and how Chainalysis is being used to catch them. ----- Join the Off the Chain newsletter. Pomp's daily email analyzes the crypto market for institutional investors. Simply, it’s the best crypto newsletter delivered to your inbox every morning. No frills. No bullsh*t. Just everything you need to know in a 3-minute read. https://offthechain.substack.com/ ----- ZenLedger simplifies crypto taxes for investors and CPAs. We provide the best software for importing crypto transactions, calculating gains and income, and auto-completing tax forms like 8949, Schedule D and FinCEN. If you had losses in your crypto investments, ZenLedger can help you save up to $3,000 on your income taxes, with our tax loss harvesting tool. ZenLedger is also a TurboTax partner and has the best support for EOS owners. Finally, a simple tax tool that saves you a ton of time and headache!Visit Zenledger.io/OffTheChain to get your taxes done with ease, and as an Off the Chain listener, save 20% of your 2018 tax forms! ----- Totle is a rare blockchain investment opportunity, one that offers a live product, active customers, an established revenue model. Totle solves three significant problems with blockchain asset exchange: 1) Security 2) Complexity and 3) Pricing. Over $4 trillion of blockchain assets were exchanged in 2018 and growth is forecast for at least the next 10 years. Totle’s sophisticated platform powers the blockchain economy with safe, simple decentralized asset exchanges at the best price for traders, wallets, businesses and other financial apps. Totle’s B2C Web App and B2B API are live and serving customers today. Visit totle.com/pomp for more info. ----- If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and subscribe. This podcast is presented by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: https://www.blockworksgroup.io

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to Off the Chain, simply the best podcasting crypto. Let's kick this thing off.
0:13.0	Jonathan Levine is the co-founder of Chainalysis. In this conversation, we discuss how to build a startup, what it is like to pitch a Silicon Valley Venture Capital Fund, why chain analysis tools are important, what the bad actors are doing in cryptocurrency, and how chain analysis is being used to catch them. I really enjoyed this conversation, and I hope you do as well.
0:36.0	All right, guys, before we continue with this episode, a quick word from our
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