Fintech Podcast — Episode 311

Interview with Tron Black, President of Ravencoin Foundation

3 min readDec 17, 2021

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Tron Black, President of Ravencoin Foundation. Tron is a freedom advocate, crypto developer, entrepreneur, and founder of two startups that were sold to publicly traded companies. Tron holds a BS in Computer Science and a Master’s of Business Administration.

Since early 2013, Tron has been working in the cryptocurrency space as a miner, developer, investor, and trader. He was one of the first five employees of t0 (tZero), and helped issue the first publicly traded SEC acknowledged parallel crypto-equity for Overstock.com, and issued the world’s first crypto bond offering. He worked for ANX International, a crypto-fintech company located in Hong Kong. Tron was a Principal Developer for Medici Ventures which invested in a portfolio of blockchain companies including TZero, Bankorus, Bitt, Voatz, Minds, Chainstone Labs, Ripio, SettleMint, Vinsent, and Spera.

Tron has given away crypto-currencies to hundreds of people in order to increase awareness of how value now moves as easily as e-mail. He’s written articles about Bitcoin, Monero, Dash, Financial Regulations, Security Tokens (STOs) and Ravencoin, and has been featured on many crypto-currency podcasts. He’s the inventor of a number of patents in the crypto space and regularly gives talks on crypto-currency topics worldwide.

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Along with serving as the President of the Ravencoin Foundation, Tron is also an advisor to TZero, TUSC, Realio.fund, EquaStart, and supporter of RVN which is both a top cryptocurrency and a leading crypto-asset platform.