🧳The Corruption Episode
🎓 The College Admissions scandal 🧳 Would a Bitcoin future be more or less corrupt? 🇰🇷Korean Chaebols 😶 How to disappear completely
Mar 13, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 69
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✉️ Hacking Team Wants To Connect On Linked-In!
🦹♂️ Coinbase acqui-hires (then fires) Neutrino, a blockchain analytics firm that previously sold spyware under the name Hacking Team 🎲 Can you buy a BTC button in Vegas? 🇳🇿Cryptopia re-opens and Aaron's $SUMO bag is still there!
Mar 06, 2019•59 min•Ep. 68
#67: 🛢 Would Oprah Move the Needle? + Venezuela + JPM
🍇 Coinbase adds XRP 🗣 When ICOs snitch on themselves 🤖 Elon Musk and Bitcoin 🏦 JP Morgan Coin (JMP) and Programmable Centralized Stablecoins 🇻🇪 The Venezuela Op-Ed and Local Bitcoins
Feb 27, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 67
#66: 🎰 Hxro Is A Crypto Game That Is Definitely Not Gambling
🎰 Hxro is "everything you love about trading Crypto, now as a game" 🎰 Players either short or long 5 minute BTC candles and the payouts are weighted by which side was more heavily (not) gambled on 🎰 Our friend Ledger Status tells us about how he won over 400,000 Hxro starting with 2,000 in the beta Hxro Ledgerstatus.com Thanks to Medium for making this show possible. Become a member for $5 month!...
Feb 20, 2019•50 min•Ep. 66
#65: 💽 Slanted and Enchanted w/ Mark Yarm (BreakerMag) talking #freeross
🧙♂️Litecoin goes MIMBLEWIMBLE 🦄Fluffypony's Tari lets you store unique items on a blockchain that is mined alongside XMR 🎟 What would Jay & Aaron actually like to collect digitally? ⚖️ Mark Yarm from BreakerMag talks about his feature on the #freeross movement Thanks to Medium for making this show possible. Become a member for $5 month!...
Feb 13, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 65
#64: 🐄 Aaron's Farm (I Don't Want to Mine In-Game Rewards at. ..) + Quadriga
🧧 GRIN fails to raise a salary for a single dev, Yeastplume 🧔Quadriga's CEO dies with the private keys for $190mil (OR DID HE!?!??!!?!) ⛏ We try to figure out how one currency could work across multiple games.
Feb 06, 2019•58 min•Ep. 64
#63: 🐑 Ska, Selling Out, & the Bitcoin ETF
🤷♂️ Should Bitcoin change the financial system from within or without? 🕴 Ska-Punk vs. Ska-Pop 👮♂️ De-platforming
Jan 28, 2019•46 min•Ep. 63
#62: 🏝 Fyre Fest Was the Original Airdrop
🔥 Fyre Fest's Billy McFarland is an icon for the ICO age 🎸 Is GRIN an industry plant? Why does everyone agree that no one should buy it yet? 📱 Would you use a crypto Venmo? ⚾ All Your Altcoins Are 'COMMON" Baseball Cards
Jan 23, 2019•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 62
#61: 🧙♂️Grin & the MIMBLEWIMBLE Protocol
Jay and Aaron return to talk: 🧙♂️Satoshi in the whitepaper : "we can a gain a territory of freedom for several years" Only several years? 🧙♂️GRIN and the MIMBLEWIMBLE protocol 🧙♂️Monero (XMR) makes a guest appearance on Fortnite and in the saga of a Norwegian kidnapping Thanks to Seed CX "the institutional platform for trading digital assets" for sponsoring this week's show.
Jan 16, 2019•50 min•Ep. 61
#60: 🥩LIVE on the 10th Anniversary of the Mining of the Genesis Block
CoinTalk returns in 2019 with our first ever live show, in which we consider Satoshi as a literary figure. Thanks to Iterative Capital for having us! Tales From the Crypt also did a live taping after ours and we highly recommend a listen. 💀 Listen to Marty Bent's Tales from the Crypt live episode 💰 i2 Trading is Iterative Capital's Over the Counter trading desk...
Jan 08, 2019•39 min•Ep. 60
#59: 🧔Flashbacks and Fake Beards, A Crypto 2018 Year in Review
JAN 3 IN NYC - 10th ANNIVERSARY OF THE MINING OF THE GENESIS BLOCK Podcasts by Marty Bent (TFC) and Lamme/Kang of Coin Talk $10 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bitcoin-10-year-anniversary-live-w-marty-bent-aaron-lammer-jay-kang-tickets-51666739609 🎱With a year wasted on Bitcoin podcasting under our belts, we revisit topics from past episodes and remember where the price was when we talked about them. 🎭How to disappear completely and then reappear as an ICO fraudster with a new beard: " Two identi...
Dec 19, 2018•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 59
#58: 🎊The Kang Line / Airdrop Festival
🎉 The Kang Line is crossed! Below 3300 we go. 🆓Did doorbuster giveaways on the Korean exchange Bithumb bring volume that artificially held the price of BTC at $6,000? 🚙 Our new game show "Would You Trade Your Car For 1 BTC?" Reading: 📚 Crypto Exchange Bithumb Accused of Allowing ‘Wash Trading’ of Over $250 Million in Fake Volume 📚 Crypto Exchange Bithumb May Have [Temporarily] Propped up Bitcoin Price: Analysts 📚 Coinbase abandons its cautious approach with plan to list up to 30 new crypto...
Dec 11, 2018•50 min•Ep. 58
#57: 🏓 Crypto vs. Journalism + An interview w/ Erik Townsend (Macro Voices)
👋 STEEMIT (STEEM) layoffs and how crypto projects are weathering winter 💸 CVL stiffed its employees with inflated token promises 🗞 A study shows the media coverage of Bitcoin tipped from mostly positive to mostly negative in 2017 🏦 Erik Townsend from Macro Voices comes on to talk about govenment issued crypto Reading: Beyond Blockchain: The Death of the Dollar and the Rise of Digital Currency (Erik Townsend, 2018) Steemit Lays Off 70% of Its Staff, Citing Crypto Bear Market “I had to borrow ...
Dec 05, 2018•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 57
#56: 🤡 BCash 2: Electric Boogaloo (Satoshi's Vision)
🛹 Craaaash!!! Wha happened..!??!?!!? 🍿Roger Ver (BCH ABC) vs. Craig Wright (BCH SV): Revenge of the Assholes Reading: " Nodes, Opcodes, and Satoshi’s Vision: Today’s Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork Explained " "Craig Wright's Angry Letter to Roger Ver: 'I AM Satoshi, Have a Nice Life'"...
Nov 27, 2018•40 min•Ep. 56
#55: ＱThe Bull Case for Initiative Q
🗳Crypto's most influential figures set aside their differences to encourage everyone NOT to vote ☄️ Initiative Q is the ponzi mailing list scheme that juuuuust might work 🥳 This episode is short because we taped an introductory segment right before the crash in which we complained about how boring stable BTC has been. Oops! We cut it so we could pretend it never happened. Next episode will be about the crash!
Nov 21, 2018•41 min•Ep. 55
#54: 🦁Brave 🦇BAT
Aaron & Jay download the Brave browser and attempt to use the 25 BAT that come with it.
Nov 14, 2018•57 min•Ep. 54
#53: 👨💻 Are We Crypto Influencers?
Aaron & Jay discuss old tweets, altcoin hypocrisy, and what standards we should hold our crypto influencers to. Plus: some hot TI-82 takes.
Nov 07, 2018•58 min•Ep. 53
#52: 💉 Hopium Is A Helluva Drug w/ Doug Kim
Actor-poker degen Doug Kim returns from North of the Wall to talk about the long winter, alt-hopium, and whether anyone actually knows anything about crypto.
Oct 31, 2018•53 min•Ep. 52
#51: 🍿 But What Do You Really Think About Civil (CVL)?
💾 Aaron & Jay finally get around to talking about the failed Civil (CVL) token sale. 💸 Tether ceases to be a stable coin
Oct 25, 2018•59 min•Ep. 51
#50: 🐟 "If Vitalik is a 9/10, I'm a 2/10" ft. Nick Paumgarten from The New Yorker
Nick Paumgarten comes on to talk about his new crypto piece in The New Yorker and Aaron proposes a Talk of the Town about Sumokoin.
Oct 22, 2018•45 min•Ep. 50
#49: 🎸 Senate Hearing Jam Session Pt. 2 w/ Brian Patrick Eha from Breaker Magazine
Brian Patrick Eha , who has covered crypto lobbying for Breaker , calls in to talk about the Senate Hearings. Part 1 here .
Oct 15, 2018•54 min•Ep. 49
#48: 🎸 Senate Hearing Jam Session Pt. 1 w/ Zack Voell from Messari
A first hand account of yesterdays Senate Hearing throwdown between Nocoiner Roubini and Procoiner Valkenburg (a former guest!) from Zack Voell (Messari) who was there. Zach's podcast The Coin Pod (returning in 2019 - subscribe!) Messari - Crypto News, Pricing, and Research
Oct 12, 2018•52 min•Ep. 48
#47: 🐛 Bitcoin Bugz / 🌱 Weed Stock Mania
🐞 Bitcoin gets bedbugs 🌱 Weed is the new crypto 🎤 Tokenized Soundcloud rap 🎟 Aaron gets a CVL token sale ad in his Instagram feed 😴 Is Bitcoin stable?
Oct 03, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 47
#46: 📉 Are We Ready To #CallABottom?
🕳 Aaron & Mike Novogratz #callabottom 🧐 Tracking crypto by the BGCI ( Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index ) rather than BTC price 🎉 Con Con, the Coin Talk conference for crypto moderates 👽 Vitalik's brutal honesty 📉 The crypto crash is now worse than the Dot Com bubble
Sep 19, 2018•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 46
#45: 🌍 'The Psychology of Mass Movements' w/ Tony Sheng
🍑 ViaCoin (VIA) related ass-eating 🤥 Aaron's reluctant turn towards ETH buying 🎭 Shapeshift, Changelly, and the end of anonymity 🌍 Tony Sheng (writer and Product Lead at Decentraland) talks about applying the ideas of Eric Hoffer's 1951 book "The True Believer: Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements" to crypto
Sep 12, 2018•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 45
#44: 🤷🏻 'Wut Is Governance?' w/ Brady Dale from CoinDesk
Aaron and Jay welcome back on Brady Dale from CoinDesk to talk EOS, what "governance" actually means, and exchange-issued coins like Binance's BNB.
Sep 04, 2018•52 min•Ep. 44
#43: 🇨🇳 Impressions of Crypto China w/ Chris Dannen
Chris Dannen, who mines and manages a crypto fund ( Iterative Capital ), talks about a research trip to Shenzhen and Beijing. Listen to our previous interview with Chris from June 2018 . Thanks for our friends at Medium for helping make this show possible!
Aug 28, 2018•45 min•Ep. 43
#42: 🇧🇶 Excerptoshi Truthers!!! / Ethereum and the End of the ICO Boom
💣 Excerptoshi truth bombs and new revelations from the shadowy Nakamoto Family Institute ☠️ What happens to ETH after ICOs? ⚽️ eToro pays 7 English Premiere league teams in BTC
Aug 22, 2018•44 min•Ep. 42
#41: 🍴Where Were You When BCash Forked?
Jay & Aaron use the 1-year anniversary of the BCash fork as an excuse to review the last year in crypto: the winners, the losers, the narratives and the fake outs. Thanks to our partners at Medium .
Aug 16, 2018•53 min•Ep. 41
#40: 📭 Mailbag! Vol. 2
Aaron & Jay read and answer questions listeners have emailed in.
Aug 13, 2018•38 min•Ep. 40
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