Bitcoin & Crypto Trading: Ledger Cast

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Market making small cap altcoins, with Wes Pryor Aug 09, 2019

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Welcome to Ledger Cast, hosted by me, Brian Krogsgard (@ledgerstatus on twitter), and Josh Olszewicz (@carpenoctom). Ledger Cast is a cryptocurrency trading and blockchain ecosystem podcast. Ledger Cast is brought to you in partnership with Brave New Coin.

You can subscribe to new episodes of Ledger Cast on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher, YouTube and via RSS.

The information in this podcast should not be construed as investment advice, it is purely educational material and you should always do your own research before buying.

In this episode, I talk to Wes Pryor, of Liquid Malta. Wes's business provides market making services in the cryptocurrency space, primarily for lower liquidity small cap altcoins, including new listings. They have worked a lot on projects with initial distributions through decentralized exchanges like IDEX. We talked about how those opportunities come about, how they work practically, and discuss a lot of risks in the market.

The idea of market making brand new listings, and going into partnership agreements with exchanges and coin teams, is fascinating to me. Mostly because it sounds a bit scary. Wes is a smart investor and trader and he helps break down exactly what kinds of risks there are, what the practice requires, and how they do what they do.

Find Josh and Brian elsewhere

Josh's articles on Brave New Coin
Josh's YouTube channel
Josh on Twitter @carpenoctom
Brian on Twitter @ledgerstatus
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Music: "Oh, the chains" by Joel Madison Blount

**You can finally blame the Algos** Aug 02, 2019
Show notes

Welcome to Ledger Cast, hosted by me, Brian Krogsgard (@ledgerstatus on twitter), and Josh Olszewicz (@carpenoctom). Ledger Cast is a cryptocurrency trading and blockchain ecosystem podcast. Ledger Cast is brought to you in partnership with Brave New Coin.

You can subscribe to new episodes of Ledger Cast on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher, YouTube and via RSS.

*The information in this podcast should not be construed as investment advice, it is purely educational material and you should always do your own research before buying.*

In this episode, Josh and I talk about a bunch of news and our key price levels for Bitcoin.

We discuss nation states banning crypto -- India being the biggest example in the news today. I go in depth on how Algorand completely screwed up what was supposed to be a "fair" distribution of their tokens, in effect helping their earliest investors dump on retail for huge multiples of profits, leaving exchange buyers totally holding the bag.

https://twitter.com/ledgerstatus/status/1157112245987487746

We spend time talking exchanges, exchange tokens, the rush to futures, and more. We discussed FTX.com and their products I find interesting, LedgerX's CEO going ham on Twitter and their PR guy quitting, and more.

We discuss Josh's price and fundamental analysis on LiteCoin, BAT, and NEM.

And of course we dig into pricing -- with a focus on Bitcoin and a discussion about my Tezos position. Here are a couple charts related.

Bitcoin is at resistance inside the cloud and under Kijun

I highlight some key zones and why I think the Bollinger Bands matter

My Tezos trade and setup

Here's the episode:

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Algorand's silly distribution thing.

Find Josh and Brian elsewhere

Josh's articles on Brave New Coin

Josh's YouTube channel

Josh on Twitter @carpenoctom

Brian on Twitter @ledgerstatus

Ledger Status Learn course

Partner: Brave New Coin
Brave New Coin offers institutional grade crypto market data, tracking 1500+ digital & cryptographic assets from 250+ exchanges 24/7/365. They have excellent market analysis, news, data, and tools for traders. Check out Brave New Coin and subscribe to their newsletter.
*Music: "Oh, the chains" by Joel Madison Blount*

The appeal to institutional crypto investors, with Seed CX's Edward Woodford Jul 24, 2019

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You can subscribe to new episodes of Ledger Cast on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher, YouTube and via RSS.

The information in this podcast should not be construed as investment advice, it is purely educational material and you should always do your own research before buying.

In this episode, I talk to Edward Woodford, the CEO and co-founder of Seed CX. Seed CX is a platform for institutional investors to trade crypto, with up around 3x margin. We discuss the challenges building a product for institutions, for acquiring proper licensing in the United States, and a bunch of stuff around building a quality exchange business and trading experience.

SeedCX interests me for a couple reasons. For one, collateral is very flexible and can be in bitcoin or multiple forms of fiat. Secondarily, taker fees are only 8 basis fees and maker fees are 0. Thirdly, there is a nightly settlement process so each customer has their own wallets, while trading is on their centralized platform.

I enjoyed this chat with Edward, learning how they have built things, and the challenges they face -- particularly the competition with more "cowboy" exchanges.

Thanks to our new sitewide partner, Brave New Coin. BNC is well aligned with my goals for Ledger Status, offering excellent market commentary, data, and other products that benefit crypto traders and investors.

Here's the episode on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/q6dgA4A15RU

Find Josh and Brian elsewhere

Josh's articles on Brave New Coin
Josh's YouTube channel
Josh on Twitter @carpenoctom
Brian on Twitter @ledgerstatus
Ledger Status Learn course

Partner: Brave New Coin

Music: "Oh, the chains" by Joel Madison Blount

Bearish on Binance, and Libra hot takes Jul 09, 2019

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I talk to Aaron Lammer, my friend from the Coin Talk Show, and we discuss the crushing of alt coins, my relative bearishness on Binance, and dive deep into random Libra takes.

Decentralized Finance, with Louis Aboud of Wyre Jun 13, 2019

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Welcome to Ledger Cast, hosted by me, Brian Krogsgard (@ledgerstatus on twitter). Ledger Cast is a cryptocurrency trading and blockchain ecosystem podcast.

You can subscribe to new episodes of Ledger Cast on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher, YouTube and via RSS.

The information in this podcast should not be construed as investment advice, it is purely educational material and you should always do your own research before buying.

In this episode of Ledger Cast, I talk to Louis Aboud of Wyre Capital and Wyre. Wyre is an, API for applications to offer a fiat onramp easily. The Wyre Capital side of the business is a long/short fund invested in all sorts of cryptocurrency projects.

We talked first about trading, and then dug into the DeFi stuff, and conversation around the Wyre product, which seems really interesting.

We talked a bit about Uniswap in the show, and I mentioned this episode the Uniswap creator did with Laura Shin.

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Louis is on Twitter
Wyre website
Wyre Capital
Brian on Twitter @ledgerstatus
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Music: "Oh, the chains" by Joel Madison Blount

The case for the local top, and possibilities for altcoins May 31, 2019

Show notes

Welcome to Ledger Cast, hosted by me, Brian Krogsgard (@ledgerstatus on twitter), and Josh Olszewicz (@carpenoctom). Ledger Cast is a cryptocurrency trading and blockchain ecosystem podcast.

You can subscribe to new episodes of Ledger Cast on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher, YouTube and via RSS.

The information in this podcast should not be construed as investment advice, it is purely educational material and you should always do your own research before buying.

Futures trading and inside Bitstamp, with Miha Grčar May 27, 2019

Show notes

Welcome to Ledger Cast, hosted by me, Brian Krogsgard (@ledgerstatus on twitter). Ledger Cast is a cryptocurrency trading and blockchain ecosystem podcast.

You can subscribe to new episodes of Ledger Cast on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher, YouTube and via RSS.

The information in this podcast should not be construed as investment advice, it is purely educational material and you should always do your own research before buying.

In this episode of Ledger Cast, I talk to Bitstamp's Head of Business Development, Miha Grcar. Miha has been in crypto since 2012, and was employee #3 at Bitstamp. Today, he runs Business Development there, which often means managing their banking relationships.

I talk to Miha about many topics, both relative to Bitstamp and his own trading, which is primarily in legacy market futures products.

Early days of Bitstamp
Scaling exchanges during Bitcoin bubbles
Institutions and retail in crypto
Challenges facing exchanges: banking, support, etc
Trading legacy markets: forex, commodities, and equities
Challenges trading, and Miha's trading style

I had a lot of fun on this call. I've been chatting with him (primarily about legacy markets) for the better part of a year, and I asked him to come on to discuss his own trading story. We got the bonus of being able to discuss his role at Bitstamp and long history in Bitcoin as well.

Find Miha and Brian elsewhere

Bitstamp: a reputable crypto exchange and fiat gateway
Miha's Twitter, which is brand new but he tells me he's ready to do it.
Miha was on Josh's exchange panel at Magical Crypto Con, which was great
Brian on Twitter @ledgerstatus
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Music: "Oh, the chains" by Joel Madison Blount

Beyond our wildest expectations May 17, 2019

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In this episode of Ledger Cast, Josh is back from Magical Crypto Con, and we discuss bitcoin's wild move above $8k, and then back a ways. We discuss what we think is next, the Bitstamp effect on the move down, and much more.

Point of control and... $333 ETH by July? May 10, 2019

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We dig into both price and news in this episode. We end with a discussion on whether we think ETH has a chance to move ahead, and I helped Josh coin #333ETHbyJuly because, why not.