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Bitcoin Youth Programme in El Salvador with Michael Peterson - WBD179
December 31st, 2019 by
BTCMedia El Salvador is a country gripped by gang violence. It consistently ranks among countries with the highest murder rate per capita and is one of the deadliest countries in the American subcontinent. Gangs are prolific, and unlike other Central and South American countries, the drug route through Central America misses El Salvador, so instead, the gangs here turn to extortion and murder. Read More -
4 Minute Crypto - Ethereum Co-founder Sold 90,000 ETH
December 31st, 2019 by BTCMedia Ethereum co-founder Jeff Wilcke admitted he has sold 90,000 ETH. The transfer, which carried the large stash of ETH to the Kraken exchange, sparked fears the coin may slide in the coming days, erasing more of its value by the end of the year. Read More -
Epicenter - Increasing Wallet Usability to Decrease the Anxiety of Self-Custody
December 30th, 2019 by BTCMedia Managing crypto-assets can be an anxiety-inducing experience for a lot of people. While it's quite empowering to “be your own bank,” it's also scary for a lot of people who understand the risks associated with self-custody. Although cryptocurrency wallets have made tremendous progress since the days when a full-sync of the blockchain was required, there are still significant hurdles that limit broad adoption. Read More -
What Argentina Can Teach Us About Bitcoin with Ariel Muslera and Diego Gutierrez-Zaldivar - WBD178
December 29th, 2019 by BTCMedia Bitcoin is still mostly a speculative asset in the developed world. However, in countries with a history of poor monetary policy, Bitcoin is now a viable hedge against high inflation and government seizure. Argentina's recent history is one of poor monetary policy. Between 1991 and 2002 the Argentine Peso was pegged to the USD with the central bank claiming to operate a full reserve. This peg was used to combat hyperinflation and initially appeared to work with inflation falling from 3000% in 1989 to 3.4% in 1994. Read More -
4 Minute Crypto - Need to Explain Bitcoin to Friends and Family?
December 29th, 2019 by BTCMedia If you’re looking to bring up Bitcoin during the holidays or any time over the next few weeks, here are two good strategies in bringing up the subject matter. Read More -
POV Crypto - Value in Gods Unchained, with CTO Alex Connolly
December 27th, 2019 by BTCMedia Alex Connolly is the CTO of Immutable, the company behind the Gods Unchained trading card game, with cards represented as digital tokens on Ethereum. Gods Unchained is similar to Hearthstone, Magic the Gathering, Yugioh etc, except it has - All the benefits of a computer-based TCG - While retaining paper-card based TCG's perks of tradability and ownership of the cards. Join POV as we delve down into some of the nuances of digital cards on Ethereum! Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Jan Capek and Pavel Moravec: Bitcoiners by Heart Lead Us Behind the Scenes of Pool Mining
December 27th, 2019 by BTCMedia We will take a non-technical look into bitcoin mining in this episode. My guests are Jan Čapek and Pavel Moravec, the CEOs and Founders of Braiins, the company that is operating Slush pool, which is the world’s first bitcoin mining pool with more than 1 000 000 BTC mined since 2010. Jan and Pavels company is located in the Czech Republic in Prague. They are bitcoiners by heart and explain how pool mining works, what the challenges for miners are to be profitable, share their thoughts about the electricity consumption of proof-of-work and what they believe bitcoin will be in the future. Read More -
4 Minute Crypto - U.S. Patent Makes Sending Bitcoin Easy As Email
December 27th, 2019 by BTCMedia Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has been granted a U.S. patent for a system for users to make crypto payments with email addresses linked to corresponding wallet addresses. Read More -
Chain Reaction - IDEX’s Alex Wearn: Scaling A Decentralized Exchange Through Optimized Optimistic Rollups
December 26th, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by Alex Wearn, the co-founder and CEO of IDEX, a decentralized exchange built on Ethereum, to discuss the next version of the exchange and using optimized optimistic rollups to scale the exchange. Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #73: Tim Pastoor, P2P Identity
December 26th, 2019 by
Rob Welcome to episode 73 of *The Bitcoin Game*, sponsored by eToro. When I started paying attention to Bitcoin Twitter in 2013, I noticed a guy named Tim Pastoor, who seemed pretty well-respected by the Bitcoin Twitter community. He and I eventually became good friends on Twitter, so much so that we hung out for a long afternoon when I visited Amsterdam a few years ago. Tim has been focused on peer-to-peer identity and reputation systems for the past five years, supporting Martti Malmi's work in t... Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine: Trace Mayer on Monetary Sovereignty and Proof of Keys
December 26th, 2019 by BTCMedia In this episode, Bitcoin Magazine's Vlad Costea interviews long-time Bitcoiner Trace Mayer. They discuss how some cryptocurrency businesses tend to restrict the concept of sovereignty that the technology was meant to protect, and Mayer's response to the phenomenon, the [Proof of Keys [Jan/3➞₿]](https://www.proofofkeys.com/) event, held every year on January 3. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Andreas M. Antonopoulos: Money as a System of Control, Decentralization vs Centralization, Base Layer and Lightning Tech
December 25th, 2019 by BTCMedia In this episode Andreas and I talk about the early PC and Internet era and why it is often analogized to bitcoin’s evolution, we talk about how money has become coopted by governments drunk of Keynesian ideology, how money is used as a system of control and how bitcoin fixes this. In the second half of the discussion we talk tech - first base layer tech and then Lightning. We finish up with Andreas’ vision of a bitcoin future. Read More -
TTS Ep. 237 Year End Wrap Up
December 24th, 2019 by
TatianaMoroz On a special holiday episode of #TheTatianaShow, Tatiana and Josh look back on 2019 and also forward to the new year. There are some exciting opportunities for 2020! What To Listen For: Tatiana gives some details into the upcoming events in the Bahamas she’s planning called Crypto-Cares. What started out as a casual idea has become a week long event in January 2020 with a live acoustic album taping and a larger conference in the spring. The two recap their recent trip ... Read More -
Quadriga: What Happened to Gerald Cotten with Nathaniel Rich - WBD177
December 24th, 2019 by BTCMedia In December 2018 Gerald Cotten, the CEO of Canadian crypto exchange Quadriga, was on his honeymoon in India with his new wife. While there Gerald fell sick and a few days later died from complications related to his Crohn's disease. Gerald was the only person who held the private keys to Quadriga's cold storage wallet, leaving an estimated CA$250m ($190 US) of customer deposits unrecoverable. In January 2019 QuadrigaCX, Canada's largest cryptocurrency exchange shut down for business, filing for bankruptcy in April. Read More -
POV Crypto - Fight Night XI: BTC V ETH V DCR with Checkmate
December 23rd, 2019 by BTCMedia Prolific crypto analyst and Decred bull, Checkmate comes on to POV Crypto for a three-way fight night episode. This is an extremely well balanced episode with compares and contrasts bull and bear case for all three assets. We discuss the following topics Read More -
The Cryptoconomy - Does Bitcoin Need Accounts? - By Aaron Van Wirdum (audio article)
December 23rd, 2019 by BTCMedia "Another clever & censorship resistant system for identity within the Bitcoin system is being proposed. Called "Easypaysy," developer Jose Femenias Canuelo has created a system to safely & independently create a static on-chain account system, that would solve the need both of having to reuse Bitcoin addresses, & having to constantly generate new ones for every payment. Today we read the Bitcoin Magazine article by none other than Aaron Van Wirdum, breaking down exactly what it is, how it works, and what it might mean for the future of interfacing with the Bitcoin system. Read More -
4 Minute Crypto - BitGo Wallet to Stop Bitcoin SV Support
December 23rd, 2019 by BTCMedia The BitGo wallet has warned it will not support the Genesis hard fork for Bitcoin SV, as it will not be able to receive funds. BitGo explained that the reason for the discrepancy is the decision of Bitcoin SV to take up a new consensus protocol. Read More -
TTS Ep. 236 Rob Viglione Horizen
December 21st, 2019 by TatianaMoroz On this episode of The Tatiana Show, our friend from the crypto space Rob Viglione stops by. Rob is the co-founder of the Horizen project formerly known as Zencash. Launched in May 2017, Horizen is a cutting-edge technology platform that allows real life use beyond its Zen cryptocurrency. It includes the ability to implement sidechains and integrate third party technologies by using a hub and spoke type architecture. Rob shares with Josh and Tatiana the recent breakthroughs in sid... Read More -
Blockcrunch - Crypto Is Not for Mass Adoption: A Debate - Jill Carlson vs. Yaniv Tal
December 21st, 2019 by BTCMedia To close out 2019, Open Money Initiative's Jill Carlson (@jillruthcarlson) and The Graph's Yaniv Tal (@yanivgraph) join us to debate one of the most important topics in crypto. They discuss: Read More -
Chain Reaction - Zaki Manian and Dean Tribble: No Blockchain Is An Island
December 21st, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by Zaki Manian, the Director of Research at Tendermint Inc and Dean Tribble, the CEO of Agoric. On this episode we dive into into how IBC (inter-blockchain communication) will connect blockchains to enable new use cases. On this episode we discussed a lot of philosophical questions around a multi-chain vs few chain world, chain sovereignty, Agoric's targeting the world's 20M javascript developers for its smart contract platform, the use cases IBC enables across chains, the status of IBC and so much more. The discussion involves how Cosmos plays into IBC, and how eventually IBC will be a part of Cosmos' SDK. Read More
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