The security of Bitcoin is one of the factors which gives it so much value, and after ten years there still hasn’t been a single counterfeit Bitcoin created, there has never been a successful 51% attack, and the few potentially catastrophic bugs have been fixed without any negative consequences. But how secure is Bitcoin? Is Proof of Work too risky? Can we trust those that are developing Bitcoin to do so with the right ethical judgement?

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We’re joined by Jerry Brito, Executive Director of Coin Center. In 2014, he founded Coin Center, a leading research and advocacy center focussing on cryptocurrencies.

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Kevin offers his take on the global backdrop, everything from underfunded pensions to global monetary policy and even the eventual potential dethroning of king dollar. We go on to where Kevin believes crypto and the global economy will co-exist in the future and what would happen to crypto if a recession hits.

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We are back and kicking it off with Reuben Yap of Zcoin. Zcoin has been flying under the radar for quite some time. Zcoin appears to be quite an innovative project with a team of Dev's that are more than willing to work with other projects. Reuben lays out the current Zcoin road map and it's plans to both share and borrow code from and with other projects. I also want to give a shout out to Zcoin for continuing to support Ross Ulbricht with monthly pay outs as was promised in Oct. 2016 on The...

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In this episode, recorded at the Bitcoin2019 Conference, Dave and Grahm are joined by Joel Comm of the Bad Crypto Podcast and Gary Leland of Crypto Cousins to discuss everything from Bitcoin, podcasting, regulations, Facebook's Libra and even a little about the great scooter debate. Enjoy!

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Tim Coulter, the founder and CEO of Truffle Suite and Trufflecon, comes on to POV Crypto to discuss how he is working to make building on blockchains easier and better.

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The Cannabis industry shares a lot with Bitcoin. It is growing fast under a clouded regulatory position. While at a state level Bitcoin has been legalised either for recreational or medicinal purposes across the majority of the country, it is still illegal at a federal level which has led to problems acquiring banking services for those operating in the industry.

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Welcome to episode 67 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. Eric Martindale is a hardcore cypherpunk hacker. We get some details about Eric's past and present, including the well-known Bitcoin companies Eric has worked for, and Fabric, a decentralized, peer-to-peer protocol, created with the goal of replacing our current broken internet.

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Eric on Twitter
https://twitter.com/martindale

Fabric
https://fabric.pub

Fabric on Twitter
https://twitter.co...

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Benjamin Franklin started printing paper money in 1726, making him arguably, the Bitcoin miner of his time.

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Harmony is described as a fast and secure blockchain and it leverages a lot of newer tech such as Proof of Stake, Sharding and cross shard communications, granted not all of this tech is fully launched yet. 

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I speak with Blocknet's co-founder Arlyn Culwick on how their cross-chain protocol works, and why Blocknet takes a Layer 2 approach (instead of Polkadot/Cosmos' Layer 1) to interoperability. We discuss:

• Arlyn's concerns with Polkadot and Cosmos
• Why Blocknet focuses on L2 for inteoperability instead of L1
• How Blocknet connects Bitcoin and Ethereum

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Josh and I sat down with our good friend Thomas Hunt, the one man show responsible for the Mad Bitcoins videos we all love.  Our conversation was covered from all over the globe, with me in San Francisco, Josh in Berlin, and Thomas in beautiful Barcelona. The main topic was Facebook Libra, the social media giant's new cryptocurrency.  Is it really a look into the future or just another attempt to monopolize a good idea for their own greedy benefit.  We also cover censorship... Read More

Scaling has been a constant thorn in the side of Bitcoin. Solutions for scaling has led to a civil war, multiple forks and is the centre of many arguments on Reddit and Twitter.

The Bitcoin blockchain is currently around 230GB and syncing the blockchain can take multiple days. This is just one of the barriers which may put people off running the software, but what if you could run it on your phone? That is exactly what Tadge is trying to achieve with Utreexo. By not worrying about the full history of the blockchain and only concentrating on data that is relevant to you this may be the solution for the ever increasing size of the data.

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In this episode, we caught up with Robert Leshner, founder of the Compound protocol. Compound is one of the first examples of a well-functioning lending market built using smart contracts, built on Ethereum.

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In this episode of Fight Night, David and Christian discuss:

• The BTC/USD Chart
• The ETH/BTC and ETH/USD Chart
• Why someone would want to store value in BTC
• What is next for ETH

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This was an episode we weren’t sure to release. It’s more personal but hopefully worthwhile to getting you to dig deeper. New relationships can be rocky to start, but sometimes it’s worth it. Is the freak out a red flag? Quite possibly, but is it also a way to break through?   Do you have a burning question, or a show idea for us?  Please email us at [email protected]! Thank you to our sponsor Vaultoro & Blocktap.io  Remember, this is a ... Read More

In this episode, Dave discusses the new Financial Action Task Force (FATF) guidelines with Amsterdam-based regulatory consultant Simon Lelieveldt, who argues that these guidelines have gone way too far and are disproportionate, technically unsound and uneconomic. At the crux of this topic is the difference between how Facebook's Libra will accept regulation versus advocacy for online privacy by many in the Bitcoin community.

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“If Libra takes off we get a billion new crypto users that will eventually migrate somewhat into Bitcoin and grow the whole ecosystem. If Libra gets shut down… boom! Now we know why Bitcoin is so powerful as a global reserve currency.” — Brad Stephens

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Jeopardy host Alex Trebek offered the answer “Bitcoin uses this technology as its transaction record.” The correct response, of course, was blockchain, the distributed ledger technology most cryptos are built on and was created by Satoshi Nakamoto alongside Bitcoin.

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We're joined by Rob Dawson, Head of Product at PegaSys. PegaSys is the protocol engineering spoke of ConsenSys, and the team building Pantheon, a Java implementation of the Ethereum client.

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