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Bitcoin Happy Hour #2: IRS Guidance, Trouble w/ ETH, & Gab Oct 12, 2019

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Wind down your work week with the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast Happy Hour, where members of the Bitcoin Magazine team digest the week's top news with easy conversation and local brews.

On this episode, Colin, Taiberg, Brandon and Dave take a look at the IRS' latest crypto tax guidance, the promise or limitations of Ethereum, and why Gab is doubling down on Bitcoin.

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Agatha Bacelar on Why Bitcoin and the Blockchain Will Be Agents for Social Change Oct 11, 2019

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In this episode, Dave Hollerith and Colin Harper talk with Agatha Bacelar. Bacelar is challenging long-time juggernaut, Nancy Pelosi, for California's District 12 congressional seat in the next election cycle. Bacelar is a 27-year old Brazilian American immigrant with progressive democratic political views and an appreciation for Bitcoin that dates back to 2011 (OG status).

She is also one of the first political candidates accepting campaign donations in cryptocurrency. She's seeking to raise one million dollars n cryptocurrency to match the amount of stock Pelosi holds in Facebook.

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Bitcoin Happy Hour #1: Bakkt, Crypto Ratings, EOS & Block.One Oct 08, 2019

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Introducing the Bitcoin Happy Hour, where Bitcoin Magazine staff members digest the week's top news in crypto with easy uncensored conversation and local brews.

In this pilot episode, Colin, Christian, Cass and Michael take a look at Bakkt's first week in futures trading, the Crypto Ratings Council and news of Block.One's $24 million settlement with the SEC.

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Bitcoin Schmitcoin on Analyzing the Bitcoin Price and What A Healthy Market Looks Like Oct 08, 2019

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In this episode, Dave Hollerith talks with Nathan Hadley a.k.a. Bitcoin Schmitcoin, to hear what it's like to be a Bitcoin price analyst. Nathan discusses how he uses technical analysis to gauge the Bitcoin price, why it works better than fundamental analysis in this market, what will need to be seen in the market before Bitcoin takes a bigger bull run. Nathan also explains why many self-proclaimed "traders" are full of it and some of the craziest days in cryptocurrency price action that has ever seen.

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Aleksandar Svetski On Why Bitcoin Is the Ultimate Contrarian’s Bet Sep 27, 2019

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In this episode, Bitcoin Magazine catches up with Aleksandar Svetski, CEO of the Bitcoin company, Amber. Aleksandar argues why now more than ever, Bitcoin not Blockchain is the best direction for the crypto industry to grow. He also considers himself a contrarian and explains how Bitcoin is the ultimate contrarian bet.

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Francis Pouliot on Joining Liquid Network, Bitcoin Privacy and Scalability Sep 20, 2019

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On the first day of the 2019 Baltic Honeybadger conference, prominent bitcoiner and Bull Bitcoin CEO Francis Pouliot spoke with Bitcoin Magazine just a few hours after Bull Bitcoin announced it would be joining Blockstream’s Liquid sidechain federation.

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Creating the Animated Series Bitcoin & Friends with Robert Allen Sep 13, 2019

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In this episode, the guys talk about some of the bigger stories in the Bitcoin Magazine headlines (FATF Travel Rule, Bitmain’s Antminer 17 SOLD OUT, and NFL left tackle trying to get paid in Bitcoin) then interview Robert Allen, executive producer of the animated adult web series, Bitcoin & Friends. They talk about some of the references behind the characters and jokes, how funny people are usually brought up religious and of course, Bitcoin.

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Netki Adapts TransactID Into Fits-All Solution for FATF Travel Rule Guidance

CipherTrace Unveils Travel Rule Protocol for Cryptocurrency Businesses

Bitmain’s Antminer 17 Sold Out in Minutes. Will the Bitcoin Hash Rate Rise?

The NFL’s Russell Okung Won’t Stop Until He’s Paid in Bitcoin

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Energy Companies Are Missing Out On Bitcoin Mining Sep 07, 2019

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Welcome to the first ever Bitcoin Magazine Podcast's "Wingin' It", a light, off-the-cuff, sometimes humorous approach to all things happening around bitcoin and more importantly, everything else.

In this episode, the guys bring on Brandon Green, another Bitcoin Magazine staffer, to talk about a spicy op-ed he recently wrote about the Bitcoin mining energy consumption problem. Brandon flips the problem on its head by asking, why more energy companies aren’t seeing the business opportunity in servicing cryptocurrency mining companies. The conversation meanders into the territory of universal basic income, the cost of printing money and even candy bars.

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Op Ed: Bitcoin Uses a Lot of Energy, So Where Are the Energy Companies?

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Dr. Maxim Orlovsky on Storm and Bitcoin Aug 31, 2019

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In this episode, Bitcoin Magazine staff writer, Vlad Costea talks with Dr Maxim Orlovsky, a neuroscientist turned Bitcoin researcher, engineer and entrepreneur, whose has published the concept for a new 2nd layer Bitcoin Protocol called Storm.

After revealing the project’s GitHub repository and starting an interesting conversation on Reddit, Orlovsky has quickly turned to Bitcoin developers for advice and constructive criticism: More specifically, his proposal was included in the bitcoin-dev mailing list on August 19, 2019, and reputed users like ZmnSCPxj and Stefan Richter have already provided their feedback.

In a nutshell, Storm is about creating a framework which resembles the BitTorrent technology but with the financial incentives of Bitcoin’s second layer. As in the token project, regular node operators don’t have to store any of the data on their hard drives, as participation is voluntary and ad-hoc. Also, according to Orlovsky, the data that gets sent for storage gets divided into multiple pieces for greater security, so that no single entity that offers disk space is able to access the contents. However, those who store data are required to run full Bitcoin and Lightning nodes as a way of guaranteeing the seamless transfer of satoshis.

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A Conversation with Crypto.com and Salt Lending from Bitcoin 2019 Aug 28, 2019

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Bitcoin is the best performing asset in the last ten years, but behind the price, there's a lot going on. In this episode, we cover the top news stories over the past two weeks then feature two interviews from the Bitcoin 2019 conference. The first is with Sean Rach, CMO of Crypto.com, and the second is with Jenny Shaver, COO of Salt Lending.

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