SHOW TOPICS: Lightning Labs secures $10M funding seed round and announces Loop https://medium.com/@lightning_labs/entering-the-decade-of-lightning-8c4a4d31167f https://lightning.engineering/loop/ Bitpay Dumps Bip70, basically admitting defeat. You should probably use BTCPay or OpenNode instead anyways. https://cryptobriefing.com/bitpay-art-underwhelming-upgrades/ “The Missing Crypto Queen” BBC podcast series documenting the OncCoin Ponzi scheme is being turned into a TV drama https://decrypt.co/...
Feb 06, 2020•21 min
What is Bitcoin’s monetary policy? How many Bitcoins will ever be issued? How often are new ones created? Who gets them? More importantly, is this the same for altcoins? If not, how do they hold up against Bitcoin? In today’s show I explore these topics and give you a number of questions you should ask yourself any time you look at an altcoin and think it’s a “good deal”. SUPPORT THE SHOW: Visit LEDN to check out getting a bitcoin-backed loan https://platform.ledn.io/join/0a00cca3dd61dea5909c95c...
Feb 05, 2020•23 min•Season 1Ep. 14
SHOW TOPICS Bitcoin Up 32% This Month https://bitcoinist.com/bitcoin-is-up-32-this-month/ 75% of all Bitcoin are in profit https://bitcoinist.com/over-75-of-bitcoin-in-circulation-are-in-profit/ Trezor Wallets Can Be Hacked https://cointelegraph.com/news/trezor-wallets-can-be-hacked-kraken-reveals Attacking Bitcoin for one day costs $21 Million https://decrypt.co/18012/you-would-need-21-million-to-attack-bitcoin-for-a-day Jack Mallers announces incredible Strike app – true lightning innovation h...
Feb 01, 2020•21 min
Today I sat down with Ledn’s Mauricio Di Bartolomeo to discuss the idea of proof of reserves, building financial products on Bitcoin, and the implications of some companies carrying over bad practices of traditional finance to a world with no lender of last resort. Ledn on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hodlwithledn Mauricio on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cryptonomista Mauricio’s proof of reserves article from Bitcoin Magazine: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/why-proof-of-reserves-is-importa...
Jan 31, 2020•43 min
Today’s guest is Samson Mow, CSO at Blockstream. We dive into Blockstream's Liquid Network, what it is, and who it's for. Samson on Twitter https://twitter.com/Excellion Read more about Liquid Network https://blockstream.com/liquid/ Read more about Blockstream https://blockstream.com/ Check out my YouTube tutorial for Blockstream Green https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO3Zi9D5b0Y SUPPORT THE SHOW! Visit LEDN to check out getting a bitcoin-backed loan https://platform.ledn.io/join/0a00cca3dd61dea5...
Jan 24, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 12
SHOW TOPICS: Microsoft says on-chain scaling degrades decentralization, prefers layered scaling approach https://bitcoinist.com/farewell-bitcoin-cash-microsoft-chain-scaling-degrades-decentralization/ Lightning Network Trust Chain part 2 is on the move! https://twitter.com/hashtag/LNTrustChain2?src=hashtag_click Opendime – physical bitcoin https://opendime.com/ Bitcoin privacy war – will it be worse than the scaling war? https://eng.ambcrypto.com/bitcoins-privacy-war-could-be-worse-than-the-scal...
Jan 21, 2020•19 min•Season 1Ep. 11
SHOW TOPICS: What the hell is going on? Peter Schiff irresponsibly loses his private keys, blames Bitcoin https://twitter.com/PeterSchiff/status/1218911797626847234 Binance CEO suggests keeping funds on exchanges https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-ceo-suggests-crypto-exchanges-are-safer-than-keeping-ones-keys Trace Mayer endorses Bobby Lee’s Ballet Crypto wallet https://twitter.com/TraceMayer/status/1219003646685278208 A look at Bitcoin Block Size https://bitcoinmagazine.com/guides/what-is-t...
Jan 21, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 10
SHOW TOPICS: Canadian Securities regulators hit exchanges hard https://cointelegraph.com/news/canadian-regulator-issues-new-guidance-for-cryptocurrency-exchanges Summary by Matt Burgoyne https://twitter.com/BurgoyneMatt/status/1217866056519143430 Plan B Stock To Flow Model vs Efficient Market Hypothesis https://medium.com/@100trillionUSD/efficient-market-hypothesis-and-bitcoin-stock-to-flow-model-db17f40e6107 Live Stock to Flow model https://digitalik.net/btc/ Bitcoin up 25% this year already ht...
Jan 18, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 9
SHOW TOPICS: BTCPay Server integrates Liquid network https://blockstream.com/2020/01/15/en-announcing-liquid-support-for-btcpay-server/ Overview of Liquid support for Green Wallet https://blockstream.com/2019/07/05/en-liquid-arrives-on-green/ Hodlonaut Defamation case vs Craig Wright dismissed in the UK https://bitcoinist.com/hodlonaut-v-craig-wright-case-moves-to-norway/ Bitfinex moves $1Billion in Bitcoin for 48 cents https://cointelegraph.com/news/no-it-wasnt-craig-wright-bitfinex-moves-1b-in...
Jan 16, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 8
***Apologies for audio quality - had microphone issues today SHOW TOPICS: Bitcoin hits 2 month high https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-price-hits-2-month-high-at-87k-as-3-bullish-factors-converge Key resistance levels between here and $10,000 https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-price-hits-2-month-high-at-87k-as-3-bullish-factors-converge BitcoinSV is pumping and Craig Wright’s trial is a circus https://decrypt.co/16507/craig-wrights-9-billion-court-case-just-took-an-unexpected-turn Coinma...
Jan 14, 2020•26 min•Season 1Ep. 7
SHOW TOPICS: 11 years ago today Hal Finney tweeted “Running Bitcoin” https://twitter.com/halfin/status/1110302988?s=20 https://nakamotoinstitute.org/finney/ Russia has nearly double the interest in cloud mining as China https://decrypt.co/16364/russia-dominates-the-cloud-based-bitcoin-mining-industry Scammers gonna scam – Craig Wright drops 400+ dossiers in Kleinman case to buy himself more time https://twitter.com/ModernConsensus/status/1215445144134209537 The average 2019 crypto scam victim in...
Jan 10, 2020•14 min•Season 1Ep. 6
SHOW TOPICS: Is Bitcoin becoming more correlated with gold? https://decrypt.co/16206/bitcoin-gold-the-uncanny-relationship-between-the-two-assets Bitcoin futures volumes explode across the board https://bitcoinist.com/bitcoin-futures-volumes-explode-after-price-swing/ IBM doubles its quantum computing capability at CES – is this a threat to Bitcoin? https://decrypt.co/16211/quantum-computing-boost-for-ibm-but-bitcoin-stays-safe https://cointelegraph.com/news/will-googles-quantum-supremacy-break-...
Jan 10, 2020•17 min•Season 1Ep. 5
SHOW TOPICS: Bitcoin chart turns green again. Are we out of the woods? https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-flashes-wyckoff-sign-of-strength-hinting-at-new-bull-market Check out Murad’s “Ultimate Bitcoin Argument” https://anthonypompliano.com/podcast/murad-mahmudov-and-the-ultimate-bitcoin-argument/ Kraken law enforcement requests hit an all time high in 2019 https://cointelegraph.com/news/law-enforcement-requests-to-kraken-hit-all-time-high-up-49-in-2019 Andreas Antonopoulos to testify at Cra...
Jan 07, 2020•19 min•Season 1Ep. 4
SHOW TOPICS: Nakamoto “Technical Journal” has a disastrous launch https://decrypt.co/15969/why-the-pro-btc-nakamoto-telegram-group-was-a-complete-disaster @CitizenBitcoin gives reasons for pushback https://twitter.com/CitizenBitcoin/status/1213870001775620097 @BitcoinMemeHub aggregates #ProBTC tweets https://twitter.com/BitcoinMemeHub/status/1213817467728015360 Insight on Coinbase’s shady past & the #DeleteCoinbase movement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l1KwAZKGts John McAfee renegs on $1...
Jan 06, 2020•26 min•Season 1Ep. 3
SHOW TOPICS: Bitcoin turns 11 years old https://decrypt.co/15841/bitcoins-had-a-sensational-11-years Proof of Keys is TODAY. Get your coins off exchanges! https://www.proofofkeys.com/ Did tensions between Iran and the US boost the Bitcoin price? https://bitcoinist.com/bitcoin-price-surging-because-iran-general-killed/ Previous correlations between global unrest & bitcoin price: https://money.cnn.com/2013/03/28/investing/bitcoin-cyprus/index.html https://money.cnn.com/2015/06/29/technology/gr...
Jan 03, 2020•20 min•Season 1Ep. 2
SHOW TOPICS: Top 7 Bitcoin New Years Resolutions https://bitcoinist.com/7-new-years-resolutions-for-bitcoin-hodlers/ My tweets & links on running a Bitcoin node https://twitter.com/BTCsessions/status/1212133601950797824 Bitcoin starts 2020 with a new hashrate all time high https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-kicks-off-2020-more-secure-than-ever-as-hash-rate-hits-record https://bitcoinist.com/bitcoin-hash-rate-now-7x-the-size-it-was-during-2017-ath/ Malicious Ledger browser extension found...
Jan 02, 2020•30 min•Season 1Ep. 1
