My guest today is my friend Charles Silver, CEO of Permission.IO an e-commerce platform where instead of merchants paying centralized third-party platforms to engage consumers, merchants compensate consumers for their time and data directly with ASK cryptocurrency. The platform enables businesses to connect with individuals on a permission basis, building trusted, transparent, and interruption-free relationships. Prior to Permission, Charles has been a serial entrepreneur, in a wide range of industries, his companies have been acquired by Jiffy Lube, the Hearst to name a couple. Our conversation focuses on the importance of individualism, decentralization and transparency. We discuss the importance of finding balance between the individual and the collective in governance, how markets help drive value creation and equality, how Permission.IO is empowering both consumers and advertisers by de-siloing data and creating a more direct personal relationship with the consumer and advertiser, and why this is the future of advertising. ––– Coingaming was formed when one Australian professional poker player, who knew first-hand the importance of fun, fast and fair gaming, met two Estonian tech whizzes who just so happened to be vanguards of Bitcoin. From there, Coingaming’s ecosystem of brands and products evolved, breathing new life into the gaming industry. Now with 400+ people, Coingaming is behind some of the world’s most innovative crypto gaming brands and is on a mission to further awareness of cryptocurrencies across the globe. ––– Permission Permission.io enables people to earn rewards for doing the same things online they do every day by empowering them to take back ownership of their personal data from Silicon Valley startups. People can now decide which brands and online retailers can target them with ads, and use the rewards earned for viewing them to pay for goods and services available online. Go to www.permission.io/charlie for a sign up bonus. ––– TOKENIZED STOCKS from BITTREX GLOBAL Bittrex Global is offering all of the Charlie’s listeners the ability to now buy tokenized stocks from Tesla, Apple, Amazon and more. Please visit https://global.bittrex.com/discover/tokenized-stocks to get fractional shares of your favorite stocks now from almost anywhere in the world. ––– This podcast is powered by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworksgroup.io