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Bitcoin Around the World - Venezuela: Bitcoin Won’t Fix Venezuela with Javier Bastardo - WBD194
February 27th, 2020 byBTCMedia
In this interview, I talk to Javier Bastardo, a journalist for Cointelegraph, based in Caracas, Venezuela. We discuss Venezuela's political and economic situation, hyperinflation and the reality of Bitcoin adoption in the country. Read More -
Bitcoin & Co:-Randy Brito on How People Are Using Bitcoin in Venezuela
February 27th, 2020 byBTCMedia
Randy Brito is the founder of bitcoinvenezuela.com and the CEO of Locha Mesh. In 2012 he started publishing educational material about Bitcoin in Spanish and translated the interface of the Electrum Wallet. We are talking about the economical situation in Venezuela, how authorities extorted miners in 2015 and how people are using bitcoin today. Read More -
Weekly Bits #17: The Stories of Bitcoin Revisited
February 26th, 2020 byBTCMedia
From 2012 to 2014, Bitcoin Magazine produced 22 print issues covering the burgeoning technology, its budding culture and potential impact. This week, Colin and Peter revisit some of those stories with updates, reflections and new commentary. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Brooke Pollack: From A $8B Venture Capital Platform To A Crypto Fund of Funds
February 26th, 2020 byBTCMedia
Host Tom Shaughnessy talks to Brooke Pollack, Founder and Managing Partner of Hutt Capital. They discuss the differences between traditional VC funds and VC within the blockchain market, how Hutt Capital chooses investments and more. Read More -
4 Minute Crypto - Billionaire Investor Tim Draper Quit Stocks for Bitcoin
February 26th, 2020 byBTCMedia
Speaking to CNBC the VC investor and serial Bitcoin proponent revealed that he had significantly added to his crypto holdings since last year. When quizzed about exactly how far his faith in Bitcoin extended, he responded It’s a lot, it’s a lot, a lot. Read More -
The Tatiana Show - Kenn Bosak
February 25th, 2020 byTatianaMoroz
On a special combo cast of The Tatiana Show and Hodlcast with Sasha Hodler, we sat down with Kenn Bosak at the North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami. Video games already have extensive currency systems which sometimes bleed into physical assets. Everything from social media to dating has adopted gaming etiquette, or lack thereof. While we debate the social impact of gaming and online interaction, Kenn Bosak praises the communal distribution and use of cryptocurrency along w... Read More -
Blockcrunch: DeFi, The Ticking Time Bomb - Ben Sparango (Multicoin Capital) vs. Christian Keroles (BTC Inc), Ep. 89
February 25th, 2020 byBTCMedia
In this very special episode, Ben Sparango (@bennybitcons) from Multicoin Capital and Christian Keroles (@CK_SNARKS) debate the most common critiques for DeFi: DeFi can't scale beyond speculation, DeFi can't bank the unbanked, composability is a ticking time bomb, the "skeumorphism" of DeFi Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine: Bitcoin's Solvency and Security with Coinfloor’s Obi Nwosu & Blockstack's Muneeb Ali
February 24th, 2020 byBTCMedia
In this episode, Dave Hollerith speaks with Coinfloor's Obi Nwosu and Blockstack's Muneeb Ali, two leaders who have run companies in the community since 2013. Coinfloor is the U.k.'s largest cryptocurrency exchange while Blockstack is a developer platform and network trying to build a new internet. Though different in what types of products they offer, both companies are taking innovative and even perhaps opposing strategies for how they can and should successfully leverage Bitcoin. Read More -
4 Minute Crypto - All the Banks Are Broke Speech Goes Viral
February 24th, 2020 byBTCMedia
During a speech, Godfrey Bloom, a former member of the European Parliament said, All the banks are broke. He continued by asking, Why are they broke? Answering, It isn’t an act of God. It isn’t some sort of tsunami. They’re broke because we have a system called fractional reserve banking. Read More -
Let's Talk Bitcoin! #428 Decentralization Philosophy – Does Crypto Still Need Catalysts?
February 23rd, 2020 byadam
Earlier this week the Let's Talk Bitcoin! Show gathered to discuss catalysts and CEOS in the world of blockchain projects, the organizational and organic structures of decentralization and to wonder whether crypto even needs Satoshi-like figures now that the fire of blockchain burns bright.
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CryptoQuikRead_354 - Why Proof of Reserves is Important to Bitcoin [Mauricio Di Bartolomeo]
February 22nd, 2020 byBTCMedia
Bitcoin, as a new asset class, provides us with one of the most powerful tools for financial security in a custodial context: cryptographic proofs of reserve. We would be foolish to not make use of it. Let us not repeat the mistakes of the past. Another great piece from Bitcoin Magazine to shine a light on a critical issue for a future with sustainable sound money. Read More -
Chain Reaction - RockTree’s Omer Ozden and Kevin O’Brien: China’s Mammoth Blockchain Market Opportunity
February 22nd, 2020 byBTCMedia
Host Tom Shaughnessy talks to Omer Ozden and Kevin O’Brien, CEO and Managing Director of Rocktree Capital, respectively. They discuss the China blockchain market versus the US, tech innovation, the move to cashless economies, and more. Read More -
Proof of Love - Being a Good Ex: Dr. Stephanie Murphy & Lauren Kaszovitz
February 21st, 2020 byTatianaMoroz
How do you talk about an ex gracefully? What do you do when a friend begins dating an old flame and asks your advice? How can you come off not looking like the crazy ex who still has feelings? On this episode of Proof of Love, co-hosts Dr. Stephanie Murphy and Lauren Kaszovitz have a Q&A session on how to handle discussing ex’s and what or what not to say to friends who are dating former partners. The ladies share some real life examples from their past when they&rsq... Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. — Pascal Huegli on Today’s Problematic Monetary Colonialism
February 21st, 2020 byBTCMedia
Pascal Hügli is a journalist working with financial media AG. He focuses on the topic of finance and economics. As such he considers himself as a life-long student trying to get a real understanding of the world. He’s the author of “Ignore at your own risk: the new decentralized world of Bitcoin and Blockchain”. He is also a lecturer at HWZ and moderates as well as debates in public. Read More -
4 Minute Crypto - How Many People Have At Least 1 Bitcoin?
February 21st, 2020 byBTCMedia
Bitcoin has consolidated above $10,000 this week and that's a nice amount for one Bitcoin, so you might be wondering how many people actually hold at least 1 Bitcoin. Read More -
POV Crypto - Keeping Crypto Safe with Richard Ma of Quantstamp
February 20th, 2020 byBTCMedia
CEO and co-founder of smart contract auditing firm Quantstamp, comes onto POV Crypto to illuminate the inner workings of the blockchain ecosystem. Quantstamp has been trusted to audit and verify the integrity of many of the money legos in the current DeFi ecosystem. We discuss the following topics Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Adam Back: Bitcoin's Past and Future
February 20th, 2020 byBTCMedia
Dr. Adam Back is a cypherpunk pioneer. His work on hashcash, a is cited in the Bitcoin whitepaper and, lesser-known among bit coiners, but just as cool, his work on telescoping circuits is cited in the TOR white-paper. - these among many more contributions to the field of applied cryptography. In this episode we discuss cypherpunk history, bitcoin’s history and future, bitcoin privacy and Adam gives us an overview of the state of bitcoin tech. This was a great one, hope you all enjoy it. Read More -
Chain Reaction - Tlon CEO Galen Wolfe-Pauly: Urbit Is The Personal Operating System For The 21st Century
February 20th, 2020 byBTCMedia
Host Tom Shaughnessy talks to Galen Wolfe-Pauly, CEO of Tlon, which is building out Urbit. Galen discusses his vision for Urbit, how developers can work with it, what’s on the horizon for Urbit in the near future, and more. Read More -
Weekly Bits #16: Powering Corporate Open-Source Development
February 19th, 2020 byBTCMedia
As the world's most robust open-source digital ledger, Bitcoin has encouraged several corporations to fund the development of tools that can be accessed and leveraged by anyone. In this week's episode, Colin and Peter discuss this intersection of corporate self-interest and technical altruism. Read More -
Bitcoin Around the World - Colombia: Bitcoin, Regulation and Ties to Venezuela with Mauricio Tovar Gutierrez & Alejandro Beltran Torrado - WBD193
February 19th, 2020 byBTCMedia
In this interview, I speak to Mauricio Tovar Gutierrez & Alejandro Beltran Torrado, part of the Bitcoin community in Bogota, Colombia. We discuss the politics and economics of Colombia, Bitcoin regulation and their close ties with Venezuela. Read More
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