Welcome to the first Flagship of the decade! Unfortunately Adam's preoccupied with other biznis this week, so Brent and Karim are here to start 2020 off, going over the stories that we missed over the holidays. In this episode we talk about Google possibly targeting crypto on their platforms, about the past decade's investing rundown, about Brent finally (maybe) tracking down the guy that scammed him and much, much more - only on the CryptoBasic Podcast. Rapid Fire KARIM QUESTION VICE has an epi...
Jan 03, 2020•1 hr 7 min
Welcome to this episode of the CryptoConvos series of the Crypto Basic Podcast! Today we've got Grant Blaisdell of Coinfirm on the show, here to talk all about what they do and how they do it over at Coinfirm, a crypto exchange risk assessment service. He goes in depth about the mission of Coinfirm to eliminate the crypto world's tarnished, scammy reputation, as well as help people reclaim their stolen crypto. Grant was super compelling to talk to, and his chat with Brent made for an excellent e...
Dec 24, 2019•53 min
Welcome to Flagship Friday, where we go over the most important crypto news of the week. This time around we're talking about Ethereum's new Istanbul upgrade, about India proposing banning cryptocurrency, and we're going over scams. A lot of them. You'll have to tune in and see. Rapid Fire Jack Dorsey Tweet Thread For Open Sourced Social Media Standards BitMex Gets Sued By Seed Investor Basically saying their $30k investment should be worth $50M now, so they're suing for $300M Charles Hoskinson ...
Dec 14, 2019•1 hr 9 min
Welcome to this week's Flagship Friday, our weekly series where we discuss all the latest news from the cryptoverse! This episode actually covers the past two weeks, as we skipped last week due to Thanksgiving. So, tune in to hear about crypto CEOs being appointed as senators, crypto developers being arrested for working with North Korea and what the 5 biggest trends for cryptocurrency in 2020 will be. All of the above -and more- in this episode of the Crypto Basic Podcast. Rapid Fire Georgia Go...
Dec 06, 2019•1 hr 5 min
Welcome to another episode of CryptoConvos, where today we have a VERY special guest who needs no introduction to most of our listeners! He is very well known in the cryptoverse for his educational work and to-the-point, in-depth analysis of various aspects of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. He has published several books about crypto and has been attending conferences as a speaker since as early as 2012. Join us in welcoming Andreas M. Antonopoulos to the CryptoBasic Podcast! Karim an...
Nov 27, 2019•51 min
Welcome to this week's Flagship Friday, where we discuss all the happenings in the crypto space of the past week! Tune in to find out what China is up to again, what a political simulation revealed about the crypto-Yuan's flexibility and potential, and much, much more. Also, we've got a couple of announcements... a certain Greek SOMEONE will be joining us for an interview next week, so be sure to stay updated! Also, we're excited to announce that we're nearing this year's broadcast of the Crypti...
Nov 23, 2019•52 min
Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to this week's Flagship Friday! We do apologize for last week's absence but Brent had to scramble off to NY and Karim and Adam just couldn't figure out a recording time. Lovely lads. Anyway, enough about our inability to function - today we're looking at topics like Brave 1.0 and the Samsung Blockchain being released, Bitcoin's all time highs going under investigation, scams galore (who would've thought?) and much, much more. Bonus: we don't talk about Li...
Nov 15, 2019•1 hr 8 min
Come one, come all, to this week's Flagship Friday, where we cover the week's crypto news and happenings! Today we're taking a look at Uber getting into the crypto world with Uber Money, we're taking a look at China that, in true China fashion, goes bullish on blockchain in the most authoritarian, orwellian way possible, and finally - we're celebrating! Big Daddy Bitcoin is 11 years old as of today! All of the above and more on today's episode! Dive into the cryptoverse with us on this week's ed...
Nov 02, 2019•1 hr 10 min
Welcome to another Flagship Friday, where we discuss the most important happenings in the crypto community weekly! Today we're talking a lot about what the big ol' giants have been up to, with Google's quantum computer running big ol' data pretty quickly, and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg doing a big ol' testimony for like, what, the billionth time? Also, we're taking a look at a... questionable feature of the Lightning Network and talking about something very unfortunate that happened to the Crypt...
Oct 26, 2019•1 hr 22 min
Another week, another Flagship! This week, the CryptoBasic Avengers have assembled to talk shit about big tech. The roasting session begins with Telegram and ends with Libra, given the fact that all bullshit leads to the Big Zucc. Additionally, Epic Games is starting to get its feet wet with crypto and eToro is making... interesting strides in the world of bot trading. All of the above and more on today's episode, so tune in! Dive into the cryptoverse with us on this week's Flagship Friday. Rapi...
Oct 19, 2019•1 hr 14 min
There are scammers out there impersonating us in the Discord arena, we need your help to find them if you can.
Oct 18, 2019•6 min
Rapid Fire UNICEF launches crypto fund UNICEF can now receive, hold, and disperse donations of ether and bitcoin cryptocurrencies. Funding open source technology benefiting children and young people around the world Median US Income by year in BTC Vitalik Buterin claimed that Ethereum will be more secure than Bitcoin after it moves to proof of stake over the next few years. POS introduces a system where validators can be questioned. So you can challenge a block for being illegitimate . "This is ...
Oct 13, 2019•1 hr 13 min
This week the team talks about cryptocurrency news regarding Libra, scams and more. Rapid Fire IKEA just allowed an invoice to be paid via the Ethereum blockchain (This was a stablecoin of some kind) BlockOne was fined 24M by the SEC. Siacoin only had to pay 225k CEO of Beaxy Exchange disappears, looks like they're insolvent. ( Crypto Exchanges Creating a Token Rating System ) Coinbase Blog - " Introducing the Crypto Rating Council " Create system that rates tokens on how close they are to a sec...
Oct 06, 2019•59 min
Another week, another flagship. This time, all 3 of the guys are on the show, as Brent's sniffles have subsided and he's pumped up to talk crypto with the crew. Today we go over how Kik's ditching its messaging service to focus on crypto, how Telegram is about to bamboozle libra, as well as the entire crypto space, in the most cool-guys-don't-look-at-explosions way possible, and we're taking a look at 640 crypto projects that haven't pubished a single line of code in over a YEAR. We also (lightl...
Sep 27, 2019•1 hr 1 min
Welcome once again to Flagship Friday! Although one day late, we're still calling it Flagship Friday to keep our tradition alive. Flagship Extended Weekend didn't sound all that nice. Tune in as Karim and Adam (Brent's got the sniffles :') dive into EOS and its latest scandal, talk about North Korea's crypto project and the Federal Reserve's intervention on the economy, along with some juicy commentary and rants by Karim, our in-house "important things" expert. So if you wanna hear Karim spit so...
Sep 21, 2019•1 hr
The CryptoBasic crew is back from the dead! Last week Brent had the amazing idea of recording an episode while sitting on the passenger seat of his car and talking to the rest of us through his mobile data connection, all while recording NOT through an actual microphone, but an external recorder. This trainwreck of a sentence itself should be, I believe, enough explanation as to why last week's Flagship didn't happen. This week however, all's set to go and we're back at it again! Tune in to find...
Sep 13, 2019•55 min
We're starting the week off with an exciting interview, as we've got Marius Kramer, number #1 writer on Quora for cryptocurrencies and fund manager on Emberfund! We talk all kinds of bitcoin, and of course, all kinds of shitcoin. Marius shares his insights on today's crypto market and its future, goes over his process of evaluating a project and -get this- goes over ALL of the top 300 coins. All of them. If your favourite kinda-red-flaggy coin is on his shit list... then you're probably gonna ha...
Sep 02, 2019•42 min
On today's show, Brent is joined by Kevin Ting, co-founder of CryptoCanary, a website focused on consolidating opinions and reviews of various projects in the cryptocurrency/blockchain world, providing users with a community-driven platform for researching before investing. Kevin talks to us about how the platform works, what shapes a crypto project's rating, how they deal with "review-bombing" issues and inaccurate reviews and what the project's near future looks like. If you wanna know how you...
Sep 01, 2019•48 min
Any Flagship Friday is a happy Flagship Friday when we've got shit to talk about Craig Wright, scamlord extraordinaire, Satoshi Suck-a-moto, the douchebag to end all douchebags. And guess what: this is a happy Flagship Friday. :) So, JOIN US on this episode to listen to us talk shit about Craig Wright and discuss his defeat in court, something that we've been longing for for quite some time. Also, the wonderful People's Republic of China is making a step towards transparency and democracy with l...
Aug 30, 2019•1 hr 6 min
FLAGSHIP FRIDAY (8/23/19) Rapid Fire Pro Crypto Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne resigns. Banano has released their whitepaper, and I'm pissed it's not called a Yellow Paper. Holy shit I clicked on it and it's a yellow paper. Pepe is on the cover. Omg it's animated lol Horizon State (HST) Folds - maybe we should have a that's a scam rapid fire? Lumiflux and his Dust Attack Someone on reddit posted a reminder that this would not work on Monero. ( 2020 Presidential candidate Andrew Yang is in favor...
Aug 24, 2019•1 hr 14 min
Join us on another Flagship Friday for your weekly dose of crypto news, shenanigans and goings-on! This week we talk about New Zealand's new step towards adoption, as it legalized using crypto as payment for employees, Moscow's Ethereum-based blockchain designed for transparently functioning city services, and Binance's coins listed for its US platform. Also, Brent never fails to remind us that there are more douchebags in the crypto scene other than Craig Wright, Karim just CANNOT stop buying C...
Aug 16, 2019•55 min
What a week for the cryptocurrency space. We've got a brand new exit scam (like we didn't have enough of those already), we've got bitcoin being traded at high volumes in Venezuela, and we've got.. Craig Wright? Again? You bet! Tune in to find out whether bitcoin is the world's eleventh largest money supply (hint: it is) and discover which four European countries are the most adoption-oriented out of all (you know you wanna invest in Europe). Dive into the cryptoverse with us on today's Flagship...
Aug 10, 2019•1 hr 4 min
Today's show is very very crypto. Not that it isn't generally, but most of the time we tend to touch on other issues too - politics, economics, business - but not today. Today's episode is all about cryptocurrency: we talk about Nano's lightning fast confirmation times, Bitcoin's new milestone of 85% of its total supply mined, as well as Litecoin's imminent halving, with the reward going down to 12.5 LTC per block. Additionally, a sort of motif is present throughout this entire episode. One not ...
Aug 02, 2019•54 min
Another Friday, another Flagship, another excuse to dive into all the crypto shenanigans and goings-on of this past week. What has Justin Sun been up to again and how is it related to the word "chicken"? What do recent stats show about the future use cases of Bitcoin? Could it become the global reserve currency of the 21st century, replacing the gold standard and becoming the basis for a worldwide system of Cyber-Keynesianism or is the person writing this just a closeted bitcoin maximalist? What...
Jul 27, 2019•1 hr
On today’s show, Brent is joined by a fellow Facebook-hating, privacy-loving comrade, namely Colin Fausnaught, creator of ZuckBucks, a memecoin designed as a joke and a protest to Facebook’s ever-growing need to have its greedy tentacles probing into more and more aspects of people’s lives - this time the financial one, with Libra. Colin created ZuckBucks on a whim, but never expected that it would actually blow up, gathering a dedicated community around it and even making it onto exchanges. Lis...
Jul 23, 2019•47 min
Today we’re getting super political, so Karim is all excited. Don’t worry, we’re talking about it being related to Crypto. The House had a hearing and we break down some opinions of some people in Congress. We also go on to talk about a couple of scams from across the globe. It’s Flagship Friday-ish on the CryptoBasic Podcast. Rapid Fire ZCash/ YCash Fork happened today Thursday at block 570,000. If you own ZCash you'll be getting it at 1:1 ratio YCash is being made to restore mining on commodit...
Jul 20, 2019•1 hr 6 min
Flagship Friday! We're talking about John McAfee and what he wants to do for Cuba. We cover whether or not Tron headquarters was raided by the police, and this particular episoe without Adam we talk about a lot of different tangents, and more. THIS IS OUR REFERAL LINK PLEASE SHOW EMBERFUND YOUR SUPPORT - https://emberfund.app.link/CryptoBasic Subscribe on iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cryptobasic-podcast/id1332565102?mt=2&at=1001lJEw Join Our Discord - https://discord.gg/3EnWx...
Jul 13, 2019•47 min
Craig Wright cries in court, thus proving he is Satoshi Butthurtamoto. . We go over tons of stories from across the globe, including what’s happening with Facebook’s Libra in China. Our friends Waltonchain make another cameo appearance in our “That’s a scam” Section, and we learn how Adam almost lost $10k by being cocky. # Episode 192 - Flagship 80 # Episode 192 - Flagship 80 - Rapid Fire - [Tether has a Blacklist -](https://tether.to/wallet-service-and-platform-update/) - [Netflix has an Altcoi...
Jul 06, 2019•1 hr 2 min
Bitcoin's price goes to 13k, but then back to 10k. The price is on everyone's minds so the team actually sits down and talks about it. We also have some dumb CSW stuff, more of a deep dive on Libra and more. THIS IS OUR REFERAL LINK PLEASE SHOW EMBERFUND YOUR SUPPORT - https://emberfund.app.link/CryptoBasic Coinbase goes offline - https://www.ccn.com/crypto/bitcoin-price-crash-coinbase-offline/2019/06/26/ BTC Market Cap - https://i.redd.it/0rlm5f6v1o631.png Blockchain Products - https://twitter....
Jun 29, 2019•57 min
IOST is an application-friendly, next generation public blockchain infrastructure, helping decentralized app developers overcome some of the most challenging problems with mass adoption. First and foremost, IOST solves the scalability trilemma, or having to select between levels of security, scalability, and decentralization. Through a “Proof-of-Believability” consensus mechanism, IOST enables DApps to build and deploy more meaningful services on its platform, helping more everyday users experie...
Jun 25, 2019•46 min
