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#39: 🤷 We Called a Craigslist "Crypto Consultant" Aug 10, 2018

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💳 Vitalik says the future is $5-10 crypto gift cards
🇨🇳 The Bitmain IPO and Crypto Power Rankings
📞 Aaron and Jay seek advice from a Craigslist "Crypto Consultant"

Thanks to Zach from nycryptoconsulting.com and to our partners at Medium.com where you can find all the best writing about crypto.

#38: 🥃 No Market, No Bounce ft. Doug Kim Aug 02, 2018

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We talk mini-bounces, Bitcoin ETF hype, the Chinese mining business is a good business, and Doug returns from the World Series of Poker for a trip through altcoin nostalgia.

Thanks to the Techeme Ride Home podcast for sponsoring the show! And thanks to our partners at Medium.

#37: 💣 Decentralized Assassinations + Pee-Tape Markets + Interview w/ @Coinyeezy and @NonDualRandy of Honeyminer Jul 30, 2018

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Jay and Aaron talk about the coverage of Augur assassination markets and Aaron loads up his Metamask account with REP to make a live betting market based on whether the Trump pee tape will come out.

Then Aaron interviews @Coinyeezy and @NonDualRandy about making crypto products that people can actually use like Honeyminer, which you can use to mine with a spare computer.

#36: 💸 We Made A Bet on Augur (w/ @LedgerStatus) Jul 25, 2018

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Jay & Aaron download Augur, sync the ETH blockchain, and place their first bet on the decentralized prediction market.

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#35: 🛍 Coinbase Goes Shopping / 🇷🇺 Russian Hackers Don't Know About Monero Jul 18, 2018

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🇷🇺 Russian hackers used BTC to buy VPNs and domains
🛍 Coinbase goes on a shopping spree and "explores" adding ZRX, ZEC, ADA, BAT and XLM
🎰 Augur launches and we consider betting on some of the more skewed lines

#34: 🕶 The Real Slim Satoshi Jul 09, 2018

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A book excerpt ("Duality") purportedly from a memoir by Satoshi Nakamoto appeared online. Aaron & Jay do a close read and guess what the real Satoshi has actually been up all these years.

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What Does Crypto Care if Zooko Is a Millionaire? (CoinDesk)
Did Satoshi write this book excerpt? (Wired)
Duality: An Excerpt (Nakamoto Family Foundation)

#33: 🚽 How Tezos Went Awry (w/ Gideon Lewis-Kraus) Jul 05, 2018

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WIRED's Gideon Lewis-Kraus visits the crypto cave to discuss his cover story on the tragicomic scandal that is Tezos and how well-intentioned projects can end up just as troubled as scams.

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"The Economic Limits of Bitcoin and the Blockchain" (Eric Budish, University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Tezos (XTZ)
Tezos: Inside the Crypto World's Biggest Scandal (WIRED, June 2018)

#32: 📚 Interview with Saifedean Ammous, economist and author of 'The Bitcoin Standard' Jun 27, 2018

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📚 The Fake Internet Money Book Club Vol. 1 concludes with a discussion of what a world run on the Bitcoin Standard would look like.

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@Saifedean
The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking (Wiley, 2018)
Saifedean Ammous' Blog
My 133 favorite quotes from The Bitcoin Standard (Yorick de Mombynes, Medium)
Enta Omri - Umm Kulthum

#31: 💩 Kidnapped by the Triads and Other Sh*tcoin Adventures Jun 20, 2018

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🇨🇳 The CEO of Skycoin claims he was kidnapped by his own Chinese marketing team and encourages investors to dump and rebuy.

💩 Bitcoin maximalists are sick of sh*tcoins.

🏧 Speaking of sh*t, Steve Bannon has come out as a coiner.

🦄 Would Bitcoin be better off if Ethereum had never existed?

#30: ⛏ Interview with a Miner (Chris Dannen of Iterative Capital) Jun 13, 2018

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Most of the miners you'll encounter are secretive and eager to discourage you from getting into mining. Not Chris Dannen–he's a former journalist and the author of two books on Ethereum who now runs Iterative Capital, a crypto fund that runs multiple mining facilities.

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