An insider’s look at stablecoins

Apr 10, 2025
Season 1
124 min

Description

🎙️ The CoinRock Show – Stablecoins, Macro Shocks & Building the Future of Crypto
🎧 Buckle up for a no-hype, high-signal episode as Matthias shakes off the fever, breaks down a turbulent market week, and sits down with OG crypto builder William Quigley—co-founder of Tether—for a candid convo on stablecoins, gaming, and the evolution of crypto.

Markets may be choppy, but CoinRock keeps building.
After a rocky Q2 start, Matthias brings clarity to the chaos, unpacks the Trump tariff tremors, and previews why the “bull market playbook” might be broken.

Then it’s time for a deep dive with William Quigley, whose resume spans early virtual economies, PayPal, and co-creating the world’s most traded digital asset: Tether.

💥 Key Themes Covered:
🔹 Why we might not get the post-halving bull run in 2025
🔹 How Wall Street's short-term thinking distorts crypto markets
🔹 The regulatory war on crypto—and how stablecoins could win it
🔹 The hidden fragility of global finance and how tokenization solves it

🚨 Special Guest Segment: William Quigley (Co-Founder, Tether)
From trading gaming items in the ‘90s to building blockchain infrastructure before it was cool, William shares a masterclass in long-game investing.

Topics include:
✔️ Why every asset class moves on expectations—not just fundamentals
✔️ How Tether quietly became the most traded crypto in history
✔️ The true value of blockchain as a data methodology, not just tech
✔️ Why governments will eventually tokenize fiat—like it or not
✔️ The real opportunity in DeFi, stablecoins, and bearer instruments
✔️ Why legacy gaming studios won’t win Web3—and who might

🎮 Gaming, Payments & Real Utility
🕹️ William unpacks why blockchain gaming is a sleeping giant
💵 Stablecoins as the real mass-adoption unlock
🌍 Tokenized fiat and cross-border payments—why it’s inevitable
🏛️ Why banks still don’t get crypto (and maybe never will)

🧠 Alpha for Founders, Investors & Builders
Matthias and William go deep on:
• How the 2025 bull cycle could break historical patterns
• Why crypto is still fundamentally misunderstood by TradFi
• The insight game: how to think across markets, cycles, and decades
• What’s next for video games, payments, and Web3 convergence

🚀 From Magic Internet Money to the beating heart of global crypto liquidity, this episode is a real-time download from one of the industry's most seasoned builders.

🔗 Explore the topics further:
CoinRock Alpha News: coinrockmedia.com
Follow William: @WilliamEQuigley

🎧 Tap in. If you're building or investing in crypto, you need to hear this one.

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Authors

Matthias Mazur, Founder

Matthias Mazur is a serial Web2 and Web3 entrepreneur, investor and author with 17 years of experience in building, acquiring, growing and selling digital businesses.

He has been involved in digital marketing since the early 2000s, and has built over a dozen internet-based businesses which have collectively generated over $200 million in revenue in the publishing, e-commerce, and software markets since retiring from professional tennis in 2007.

He is retired financially, and his portfolio business generates $30 million/year with over 150 employees and staff across all companies.

He bought Bitcoin in May 2017, been through 2 bear markets, has been a private investor in crypto and blockchain projects for years and founded CoinRock to solve inefficiencies in the crypto and Web3 industry by giving the public access to projects usually only reserved to whitelisted investors and private groups.  

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