Is This the End or Just the Beginning? Bad News For Sept 22nd Did anyone notice that Bitcoin dumped this week? People new to the space may have panicked. But we didn’t, because crypto goes up and crypto goes down. Most true believers are in it for the long haul and have their sites set beyond the moon. Novogratz says we are in good shape as long as Bitcoin stays above $40,000. A hacker stole almost $12 million in Bitcoin from a DeFi platform. El Salvador now owns more than 700 Bitcoin as the Pre...
Sep 24, 2021•40 min•Season 1Ep. 551
Cross Chain Functionality with Sergey Gorbunov of Axelar In the beginning, there was Bitcoin. One chain to rule them all. Until more chains started popping up. Ethereum, Binance Smart chain, Solana, Cardano, just to name a few. We see a future where cross-chain interoperability is a regular thing. And we’re not alone. Sergey Gorbunov was on the founding team at Algorand, and today is the co-founder of Axelar, a decentralized network and tools that connect users, assets, and dApp across multiple ...
Sep 20, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 550
Crypto is Useless Bad News For Sept 15th Ask anyone which buffet in Las Vegas is the best and you are bound to hear The Venetian again and again. Episode 549 is like a buffet, but it’s not the Venetian. It’s more like The Tropicana. First, we revisit Chainge.finance and share the private keys for a wallet containing 100 bitcoin, and challenge you to hack it. Then, we’ve got a preview from our epic Nifty Show interview with Ja Rule. And what happens when you promote your crypto as useless and it ...
Sep 16, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 549
Reboot Camp with David Koechner As crypto and NFTs move closer and closer to mainstream adoption, it’s not a surprise to discover names you might know getting into the game. Our friends at Mogul Productions are releasing a unique NFT set featuring deleted scenes from a major motion picture, along with access to a red carpet event in Hollyweird. Joining us today is David Koechner, an actor who you will recognize from the hit TV show, The Office, the Anchorman films and a number of other tv shows ...
Sep 13, 2021•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 548
Bull Run Takes a Breather - Bad News for Sept 8, 2021 Just when you think the bull run is here to stay, the carpet gets pulled out from under everyone’s feet, and here we go again. For those new to the world of Bitcoin, a $6000 drop may seem like a big deal. But for those of us who have been around a few years, we don’t blink. Crypto goes up, crypto goes down. And the coins aren’t the only thing in the news. NFTs are everywhere. And even though we do another show strictly dedicated to digital co...
Sep 09, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 547
Scaling Blockchain with SKALE Labs, Jack O'Holleran, CEO As more and more businesses, governments and individuals use blockchain, it’s essential that we are prepared to scale all aspects of the technology. That’s why we’ve got Jack O’ Holleran, CEO of Skale Labs, joining us for today’s show. SKALE is solving the blockchain scalability problem by facilitating processing between blockchains and decentralized applications, helping the ecosystem run hundreds of millions of smart contracts and transa...
Sep 07, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 546
Will Ethereum Flip Bitcoin? Bad News For Sept 1st As the markets ponder which way to go next, we’re seeing incredible strength from Ethereum, which leads many to question if and when Ethereum will flip Bitcoin in total market capitalization. Coinbase’s Bitcoin reserve has dropped to its lowest since December 2017, so what does that mean? And wait till you hear about two kids that are earning $30,000/month earning crypto. I don’t know if it’s truly always sunny in Philadelphia, but it is here in ...
Sep 02, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 545
Tracking Altcoins with Richard Fetyko of altFINS It was in 2017 during the ICO craze that this podcast was birthed. We’re not the only ones who jumped into the crypto madness four years ago. In episode 544, guest Richard Fetyko also saw the potential for blockchain around the same time. As the CEO of altFINS, Richard has built an online platform for screening and analysis of cryptocurrencies. The more you know the better you can trade. Become a better trader today on episode #544 of The Bad Cryp...
Aug 30, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 544
Time-Framing Your Crypto with Chainge.Finance By now, we’re sure you are familiar with staking. But what happens when you inject staking with some next-level Rick and Morty-style time travel awesomeness? Well, you don’t get sent to an alternate dimension. But your crypto becomes safer, more flexible, and more profitable. This is what’s possible, according to DJ Qian, founder of Chainge.finance. So take out your portal gun and get schwifty for a time-framing episode #543 of The Bad Crypto Podcast...
Aug 26, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 543
Taking Blockchain Games to the Next Level with Vulcan Forged With Axie Infinity selling over $1 billion in NFTs, there’s no question that blockchain gaming is here to stay... And it’s just getting started. So what happens when you combine a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game like World of Warcraft with a builder game like Minecraft and toss in NFTs with a play-to-earn ecosystem? You’ve got the future of gaming. And this perfectly describes Vulcan Verse. And today we’ve got the CEO of ...
Aug 23, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 542
Creating a More Private Future with Anne Fauvre-Willis, COO of Oasis Lab In the words of Rockwell, “I always feel like somebody’s watching me”. If you feel the same way, it’s not paranoia. It’s the reality that privacy has become less and less important to many. So how do we create a more private future? In episode 541, we are joined by Anne Fauvre-Willis, COO of Oasis Lab, to have some really important discussions around privacy. She is an early contributor to the Oasis Network, the first priva...
Aug 19, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 541
More or Less Talking Crypto with Les Borsai Sometimes our listeners ask us to do more on certain crypto subject matter. We’ve heard you, and today we bring you less… Les Borsai that is. An LA-based tech entrepreneur and music promoter and manager, Les has been dabbling and creating in the blockchain space for a number of years. Today we cover a lot of ground in our discussion with Les, and by the time we’re done, we think you’ll agree that it’s more. How many “more or less” puns can we squeeze i...
Aug 16, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 540
Blockchain Goes Hollywood with Gorav Seth of Mogul Productions Hollywood has been churning out what they think the public wants for decades. The problem is, a lot of it the public has no interest in whatsoever. So what happens when the people get a voice in which films get produced? We’re about to find out as Mogul Productions has launched the first decentralized film platform, where holders of their tokens get to vote on which films get made. Today we welcome Gorav Seth from Mogul to the Republ...
Aug 12, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 539
All Things XRP with Ripple CTO, David Schwartz Perhaps one of the most maligned and misunderstood cryptos in the top ten is XRP. True believers stand by it and haters continue hating. We are XRP agnostic and are fascinated by all the cryptos. It’s been several years since CEO Brad Garlinghouse joined us on this very show. In episode 538, we are pleased to speak with David Schwartz, the Chief Technology Officer of Ripple, to go deeper down the rabbit hole. Love it or hate it, we’re here to talk a...
Aug 09, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 538
After Bitconnect: A Visit with Carlos Matos During the bull run of 2017-2018, one voice stood out among the crowd. He became a cheerleader for the crypto revolution unlike any other. And while the project he was associated with turned out to be a scam, his voice still resonates today in the annals of blockchain history. That’s the voice of Carlos Matos, and he became synonymous with Bitconnect. Fast forward a few years and you may wonder what Carlos is up to now. We wondered, and so we invited h...
Aug 05, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 537
Regulating Crypto Exchanges with Kevin Murcko of CoinMetro We’ve had hundreds of guests on this show since we started over four years ago. And to be candid, a couple of them have sucked. Well we’ve got some good news and some bad news. The good news is today’s guest doesn’t suck. In fact, he’s really good. Kevin Murcko, the founder of CoinMetro, doesn’t just talk the talk, he actually walks the walk, frequently advising regulators and government bodies on matters relating to applying current reg...
Aug 02, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 536
NFT Chat with Origin CEO, Josh Fraser It’s impossible to talk about blockchain these days without discussing NFTs. While we do another podcast specializing in the space called The Nifty Show, from time to time we like to make sure we do the NFT space justice and bring you a quality interview to Bad Crypto. In episode 535, we are pleased to welcome Josh Fraser from Origin Protocol to the show to discuss 3lau, Charlie Bit Me, and more from the rapidly-growing NFT world. Let’s demystify digital col...
Jul 26, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 535
Bad Crypto Podcast Fourth Anniversary Show Did you feel it? It happened, whether you felt it or not. It wasn’t exactly a seismic event. It was more like a bowel movement. On July 18th we celebrated the 4th anniversary of this show. Over the past four years, we’ve seen crypto go up and crypto go down. We’ve had the opportunity to interview some of the greatest minds in the blockchain and crypto world. And we’ve been blessed to see the Republic of Bad Cryptopia grow to be a vibrant, active communi...
Jul 22, 2021•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 534
The Blockchain Developer Toolbox with Michael Godsey In the beginning, Blockchain developers didn’t really have tools to build out applications. They had code and computers, and they figured it out. As we’re now into the second decade of blockchain, we’re starting to see tools created to assist developers on their journey. Today we are pleased to welcome Michael Godsey of Infura to the show. They’ve developed a suite of tools that devs from a decade ago wish they had had. Don’t be a tool, but di...
Jul 19, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 533
Mining Bitcoin More Profitable Than Selling Electricity - Bad News For Wednesday, July 14th We could share stories about why the price of Bitcoin is down. We could share stories about why the price of Bitcoin should be going up. And there are plenty of people speculating about the ups and downs of crypto. But since the market is mostly sideways right now, we’ve got news surrounding ransomware, the SEC, regulations and the upside of China cracking down on crypto mining. And in case you feel like ...
Jul 15, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 532
Remembering John McAfee The older you get the more you realize that life is indeed short. While the meme featuring Dwight Shrute says “false, it’s the longest thing you do”, it’s true that our time on this planet is brief, especially in relation to the history of the universe. A couple of weeks ago we all heard the news that John McAfee, an icon in the tech and blockchain space, and a colorful character who marched to the beat of his own drummer, had died. Over the past four years, John became a...
Jul 12, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 531
The Bitcoin King Arrested - Bad News For July 7th with Give Directly Depending on which articles you read and who you ask, Bitcoin is looking bearish or bullish. Our professional projection remains the same. Bitcoin will go up and bitcoin will go down. However, if ancillary stories are any indication of the future, perhaps it’s bearish the Bitcoin King has been arrested in Brazil. Binance has suspended euro bank transfers. And Elon Musk’s latest attempt to pump Doge has failed miserably. We’ve g...
Jul 08, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 530
Pokemon & Poker Chips with Christian Kameir Here at the Republic of Bad Cryptopia we cover a variety of topics and include a variety of opinions. Some of our guests like to talk about Bitcoin. Some talk about DeFi. Some talk about NFTs. Every now and then we have a guest that can talk about every topic under the sun. In episode 529, we welcome Christian Kameir back to the show to do a whole lot of talking on a whole lot of topics. It makes for a whole lot of interesting listening. Full Show ...
Jul 05, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 529
Bitcoin Flashes Big Buy Signal - Bad News For June 30th Alex Mashinsky has tripled down on bitcoin saying it can hit $160,000 this year. This is as key bitcoin indicators flash BUY for the 5th time in history. 650 US Banks will soon be able to offer crypto to more than 24 million customers. One bitcoin billionaire has reportedly turned up no longer living. Odd goings-on in the cryptocurrency world, so who better than to report it to you than the oddest couple in the blockchain world. We are the ...
Jun 30, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 528
Charting a Path to the Moon with MoonPay Paving the way for others to use crypto in commerce is essential for the growth and adoption of cryptocurrency. One company that is helping to create the rail is Moonpay. Their on-and-off-ramp suite of products provides a seamless experience for converting between fiat currencies and cryptocurrencies using all major payment methods. In episode 527, we are joined by Ivan Soto-Wright, CEO and Co-Founder of Moonpay to discover how their service and others ar...
Jun 28, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 527
Microstrategy Owns ½ Percent of All Bitcoin - Bad News For June 24th Bitcoin has bounced back $5000 on some news or rumors. Microstrategy now owns over 100,000 Bitcoins. And Chris Giancarlo, former Chairman of the CFTC, says the US risks becoming “backwater” without a central digital currency. One Ethereum options trader lost $3 million in a trade gone bad. That’s just a few of many stories we’ll be covering today. In a special crypto spotlight segment, we feature the FreeTon project. You’ll dis...
Jun 25, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 526
Breaking New Ground with Gala Games Guess which of these three industries grosses more money each year? Games, movies or music? Both music and movies each grossed approximately $11 billion in their last pre-covid year. But if you answered games, you would be correct, as the industry brought in more than both put together with a cool $37 billion gross in 2020. It’s another reason we are hype on blockchain-based games and believe they are a gateway drug for the masses. In episode 525, we welcome J...
Jun 21, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 525
Elon Flip-Flops Again - Bad News For June 16th Bitcoin has spiked over $40,000 once again. Who saw that coming? Tim Draper says everyone will accept Bitcoin by 2022 and the price will hit $250,000. He sees it coming. And Bitcoin goes up after Elon Musk tweets that Tesla would accept Bitcoin again under certain conditions. We all saw that flip-flop coming. Also coming your way is the rest of the crypto and blockchain news from around the world delivered with a sense of humor and some commentary j...
Jun 17, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 524
Taking Blockchain Games to the Next Level with Animoca Blizzard/Activision, Rock Star Games, Epic Games… these are some of the behemoths of the traditional video gaming world. The one thing they all have in common is they all started with a dream and a vision. They all had dogged persistence and determination to be best of class. There are several companies in the blockchain gaming world that are seeking to become leaders in the blockchain gaming space. But few have been as persistent and focuse...
Jun 14, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 523
El Salvador Makes Bitcoin Legal Tender - Bad News For Wednesday, June 9th Exactly where is the bottom for the Bitcoin price? How low can it go? Anonymous is targeting Elon Musk after his alleged manipulation of the Bitcoin price. Vitalik is surprised at how long Ethereum 2.0 is taking. We are as well. El Salvador President Submits Bill to Recognize Bitcoin as Legal Tender. The U.S. DOJ has retrieved over $2.1 million in Bitcoin paid as ransom by colonial pipeline. And President Trump has pissed ...
Jun 10, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 522
