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**CoinTalk™️**

The official podcast of Bitcoin crashes. Hosted by Aaron Lammer & Jay Caspian Kang.

Latest Episodes:

#9: Privacy Coins Explained—A Deep Dive into Monero (XMR) and Zcash (ZEC)...and also SumoKoin Feb 20, 2018

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Aaron & Jay go inside the privacy altcoins Monero (XMR) and ZCash (ZEC):

what coin fungibility and anonymity really mean
how privacy coins differ from Bitcoin—and whether Bitcoin might add those features as a secondary layer in the future
whether the association of Monero with dark net markets and money laundering is good or bad for price (and ethics?)
how academic research led to defining privacy features of Monero (Ring Signatures) and Zcash (ZSnarks) and how they work (actually we don't really understand, but we try!)

#8: Interview w/ Adrian Chen, the first journalist to write about Silk Road and Bitcoin Feb 14, 2018

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Adrian Chen wrote the first article about the darknet marketplace Silk Road and Bitcoin, causing the price of BTC to go from $10 to $14. Adrian discusses:

why he never has owned a single Bitcoin
his investigation into Satoshi Nakamoto's identity
the misperception that Bitcoin is anonymous

*whether crypto has scrambled Jay’s brain

Plus, Aaron shills his bags HARD.

7:30 Bitgrail hacked

7:33 Nano (XRB)

14:03 "The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable" (Adrian Chen, Gawker 2011)

17:33 BitcoinTalk forum

24:41 @AdamBack / Wei Dai

25:16 @JiaTolentino

28:28 @NickSzabo4

31:42 Bitmex

45:02 Tor

48:30 "Suspected AlphaBay founder dies in Bangkok jail after shutdown of online black market" (Washington Post, July 2017)

55:01 Bail Bloc

56:29 The New Inquiry

1:04:53 [Dogecoin (DOGE)] 15

1:05:36 Catbreading

#7: Giancarlo 2020 (The Senate Hearings on Bitcoin) / Augur (REP) Wants You To Hack Them Feb 09, 2018

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On the official podcast of Bitcoin crashes, Aaron & Jay:

listen in on CFTC Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo's hero-making comments to the Senate
try to understand why exchanges like Binance are so opaque during downtime (even if they didn't actually get hacked)
consider the first prediction market on the Augur (REP) platform which is a bet on "whether Augur will get hacked"

13:20 Forbes' First List Of Cryptocurrency's Richest: Meet The Secretive Freaks, Geeks And Visionaries Minting Billions From Bitcoin Mania (Forbes)

14:33 @CZ_Binance

16:01 Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money (Nathan Popper, Harper 2016)

19:16 Augur (REP)

19:30 Augur Ahead? One of the Oldest ICOs Is Almost Live (Coindesk)

26:37 Giancarlo defines "HODL" for the Senate

33:51 Giancarlo discusses whether Bitcoin is a commodity

#6: How Low Can You Go? / Jameson Lopp Interview Feb 02, 2018

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Aaron and Jay answer some Twitter questions at the entire crypto market crashes before their eyes, then find some solace in an interview with Bitcoin veteran Jameson Lopp.

@Lopp

Lopp.net

Show Notes (1 hr)

13:08 The Worst Crashes in Bitcoin History

30:35 Lightning Network

35:37 Statoshi

36:23 BitGo

#5: Tether (USDT) is the new Disneybucks Jan 30, 2018

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Aaron and Jay try to understand how Tether works and whether its collapse could bring down the entire crypto house of cards. Plus the Coincheck hack and some listener questions from Twitter.

(Since this episode was taped last night, it was reported that Tether and Bitfinex had received a subpoena from the CFTC on December 6th.)

"U.S. Regulators Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether" (Matthew Leising, Bloomberg)

7:50 Tether (USDT)

17:09 Tweet by @Nouriel

25:13 "Japan’s Cryptocurrency Whiz Kid Faces $530 Million Reckoning" (Takashi Mochizuki, Wall Street Journal)

27:04 Stablecoin (SBC)

33:47 "More than 1 million people sign up for early access to Robinhood's new crypto trading service" (Evelyn Chang, CNBC)

36:42 Tweet by @PeterLBrandt

44:32 Oink's Pink Palace

46:09 The Silver Jews

Thanks to our partner Medium! Read a transcript of every episode at medium.com/cointalk

#4: "Do You Guys Even Believe in Crypto?" / Own Your Own Casino w/ Buzzfeed's Charlie Warzel Jan 23, 2018

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In this episode:
-Aaron & Jay answer a provocative mailbag question as to whether they even fundamentally believe in Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies
-The crypto “long winter
-Mining and electricity consumption
-Ethereum’s hacky-sack mentality vs Bitcoin’s scorched earth
=Buzzfeed tech reporter Charlie Warzel comes in for a new deep dive segment on the ERC-20 casino token Funfair (FUN).

Send us mailbag questions: hi@cointalk.show

@CWarzel

4:40 RaiBlocks (XRB)

11:19 "What It's Like To Be Absolutely Obsessed With Bitcoin" (Jay Kang, Vice News Tonight)

12:01 Report: India's Government Sends Tax Notices to Cryptocurrency Traders (Coindesk)

13:22 Local Bitcoins

22:32 Ripple (XRP), Tron (TRX), Verge (XVG)

24:09 "There Is Nothing Virtual About Bitcoin’s Energy Appetite" (Nathaniel Popper, New York Times)

31:13 "Satan’s Credit Card: What The Mark Of The Beast Taught Me About The Future Of Money" (Charlie Warzel, Buzzfeed)

36:00 "Bitcoin Boom is a Boon For Extremist Groups" (Craig Timberg, Washington Post)

41:00 Funfair (FUN) White Paper

#3: We Survived the Crash w/ Doug Kim Jan 19, 2018

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The biggest Bitcoin crash in over 2 years has come and gone—and we still don't totally understand what happened. We talk hodling, panic selling, and why each successive crash in your own crypto history is easier (and funnier?) than the last with professional poker player and actor Doug Kim.

@SweetJustice

Just Doug on Facebook Watch

6:54 @Matthew_D_Green

27:27 Zoin (ZOI)

28:34 "A Theory About the Recent Crypto Price Plunge" (Matthew C. Klein, FT Alphaville)

36:11 Storm (Storm) & BLOCKv (VEE)

40:50 "Just Doug is one of the few good Facebook Watch series in a sea of clickbait" (Shannon Liao, The Verge)

#2: Korean Crypto-Mania and the Kimchi Spread Jan 16, 2018

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An interview with Nathan Park, an attorney who has been active in crypto regulations in the Korean market, about:
—why Korea caught crypto fever
—the massive "Kimchi Premium" paid on Korean exchanges like Bithumb and its ties to Chinese mining and money-laundering
—what to expect from Korean regulators in 2018

Plus San Francisco's crypto-rich and the J-Pop band "Virtual Currency Girls."

This episode was taped Monday, January 15th and 11am EST. The Bitcoin Price Index was $14,066.

"Everyone Is Getting Hilariously Rich and You’re Not" (Nellie Bowles, New York Times)

"Japan has a new cryptocurrency-themed J-pop band" (Thuy Ong, The Verge)

#1: @Ledgerstatus on Learning and Teaching Trading Jan 11, 2018

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Aaron and Jay ask one of their favorite Twitter trader @ledgerstatus what every crypto noob should know, plus C.E.S.' saddest product the "Kodak Kashminer," blockchain dentistry, Toshi serfdom and highlights from a Warren Buffett interview on Bitcoin.

3:30 Kodak Kashminer

11:48 Dentacoin

15:22 Toshi

27:02 Warren Buffett on CNBC

33:00 @Ledgerstatus

57:52 The Ledgercast

1:01:30 ledgerstatus.com

#0 Preview / Ripple Mania and Sumokoin Feudalism Jan 08, 2018

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Introducing COIN TALK —a new show for crypto-noobs.

An overview of the show, plus a bonus chat about Ripple mania, how Aaron became a Sumokoin ($SUMO) baron, and why Jay draws no distinction between altcoin buying and sports gambling.

READ THE FULL TRANSCRIPT HERE

Show Notes

9:30 This Cryptocurrency Inventor Has Suddenly Become One of the World's Richest Men (Time)

9:48 Meet The Crypto Billionaires Getting Rich From Ripple's XRP (Laura Shin, Forbes)

9:55 @NathanielPopper: On the rise of Ripple. If this is a tulip fever, the fever has spread to chrysanthemums and poppies. (thread)

12:00 The Ripple Effect (Izabella Kaminska, FT Alphaville)

21:41 Sumokoin (SUMO)

23:00 HQ Trivia

33:00 I See You, $XRP (@TwoBitIdiot, Medium)