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The Tatiana Show - 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 -
The Tatiana Show - 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 -
Trace Mayer on Proof of Keys - WBD176
December 20th, 2019 by BTCMedia In this interview, I talk to Trace about his Proof of Keys campaign, exchange hackings, claiming your monetary sovereignty and stress testing custodians. Read More -
4 Minute Crypto - John McAfee Swears Off Crypto Promotions
December 20th, 2019 by BTCMedia John McAfee known for causing explosive rallies in some of the coins he promotes has announced he is breaking away with his persona of crypto presenter. He will not be promoting coins, tokens, or startups in 2020, or lending his brand and image to crypto companies. Read More -
Bitcoin & Co. - Austin E. Alexander: Bitcoin Is a Complete, Total Game Changer. It’s an Opt-Out.
December 19th, 2019 by BTCMedia Austin E. Alexander is working for the office of the CEO at Kraken. He joined Kraken at the end of 2013. Back then, Kraken had only 20 to 30 employees. Today it is one of the biggest and most respected crypto exchanges in the world. I met Austin at several bitcoin conferences and at the Baltic Honeybadger in Riga in October, we finally sat down to chat about his career and the developments in the bitcoin space since 2011. In 2013 he was co-founding the Bitcoin Center New York with Nick Spanos. He talks about how enthusiastically they have built the center and about the problems they ran into in the dawn of the Bit License. We also discuss his learnings in 2019 while visiting Uganda, Somalia, South Africa and Zimbabwe and much more. Read More -
Citizen Bitcoin - Lucho Poletti: Bitcoin Art, Renaissance, Memes, Lightning, Finance
December 19th, 2019 by BTCMedia Lucho Poletti is a bitcoin artist with an incredibly unique and beautiful style. Lucho has an interesting background in business and finance before he followed his passion into a career in art which eventually merged with another of his passions: bitcoin. In this episode Lucho and I discuss his that background story, delve into our economic situation and the state of global finance, we then move into his art career, his process and how it has evolved, we discuss a couple of his recent works and Lucho speculates about how a bitcoin future might unfold. Read More -
POV Crypto - Exploring Binance USA, with Catherine Coley
December 19th, 2019 by BTCMedia Catherine Coley is the CEO of Binance USA! Catherine comes on to POV to discuss Binances venture in to the states, and how Binance fits with the other american exchanges! Read More -
Chain Reaction Podcast: NEAR’s Alex and Illia: Since 2018 Everything Has Changed
December 18th, 2019 by BTCMedia Host Tom Shaughnessy of Delphi Digital is joined by NEAR Protocol's co-founders Alex and Illia to discuss the project. We previously had Alex and Illia on in November of 2018 when the podcast was first starting out so on this episode we discuss what has changed since then, the progress the project has made and much more. Specifically we dive into how NEAR plans to attract developers across three key areas, smart contract wars between layer-1's, governance for NEAR, and what to expect from the protocol's coming Mainnet launch. Read More -
Weekly Bits #9: The Open-Source Mission of BTCPay Server
December 18th, 2019 by BTCMedia The best of Bitcoin tends to come from projects that leave wealth accumulation and personal agendas aside to focus on building on behalf of the community. For an example, look no further than open-source payment portal BTCPay Server. In this episode of the Weekly Bits podcast, Colin Harper joins Peter Chawaga to discuss his latest cover story on the project, the developers behind it and its status as Bitcoin's open-source unicorn. Read More -
4 Minute Crypto - 2 More Crypto Firms Shut Down Due to Upcoming EU Rules
December 18th, 2019 by BTCMedia On Mondays show I reported that the Bitcoin App BottlePay was shutting down, and now 2 more European crypto firms have shut down because of the upcoming Anti Money Laundering rules in the European Union. Read More -
The Blockcrunch: Stories from China's Crypto Wild West | Matthew Graham, Asia Series, Ep. 80
December 17th, 2019 by BTCMedia As part of our Asia series, Matthew Graham, co-founder of Beijing based blockchain investment firm Sino Global Capital, shares his on-the-ground views on retail sentiment in China crypto, 700x leverage & speculation, Alipay/Wechat pay vs crypto, scams & regulators, provincial government's approach to blockchain. Read More -
Holly Randall on Porn, Censorship and Bitcoin - WBD175
December 17th, 2019 by BTCMedia In this interview, I talk to pornographer Holly Randall about censorship. We discuss how the industry has changed, financial censorship, whether Bitcoin can be a solution and the misconceptions and misrepresentations of adult performers. Read More -
Bitcoin Magazine: Guy Swann on Curating The Best Bitcoin Writing
December 16th, 2019 by BTCMedia In this episode, Dave Hollerith talks with Guy Swann, host of the Cryptoconomy podcast. Guy's show has become a staple in the Bitcoin community for curating and recording some of the best long-form articles about Bitcoin. Dave and Guy discuss Guy's curation process, what makes a compelling Bitcoin read, Bitcoin maximalism as a reaction to the 2017 ICO boom, some of the historical metaphors used to explain Bitcoin and how technology like Bitcoin and the internet are changing sovereignty. Read More -
4 Minute Crypto - Bitcoin App Bottle Pay Shuts Down
December 16th, 2019 by BTCMedia The Bitcoin payments startup Bottle Pay shut down on Friday, citing the 5th EU Anti Money Laundering Directive better known as AMLD5 which goes into effect in January. Read More
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