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**CoinTalk™️**

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

Latest Episodes:

#19: Alt Spring on the Campus Quad Apr 13, 2018

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Alt season on college quads everywhere
decentralized videos on DTube
George Soros makes the dictator case for Bitcoin
the Telegram ICO gets retracted
what happens when companies HODL and prices crash
James Surowiecki’s MIT Technology Review piece “Bitcoin would be a calamity, not an economy”

#18: 'The Fundamentals Remain Strong' w/ @Ledgerstatus Apr 05, 2018

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@Ledgerstatus, the only trader on Twitter that Jay & Aaron trust, returns to the show to talk about why the fundamentals on Bitcoin have never been stronger, the future of altcoins, and how he remains optimistic during downswings.

PLUS: The Floyd Mayweather / DJ Khaled-shilled coin Centra is unsurprisingly a scam. Which celebrity ICO promoters would we trust? And a full breakdown of everything we got wrong in our blockchain episodes (thanks to the listener fact-checkers out there!)

Ledgerstatus.com

#17: It's Like a Mailbag Episode, But Decentralized Mar 29, 2018

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Maaaaaaaailbag!!!!

Plus the Satoshi Vision Conference and the creepy stuff that's getting logged for eternity into the Bitcoin blockchain (Mailbag starts at 21:00)

#16: The Rise and Fall of Kang & Lammer, America's Worst Crypto Traders Mar 26, 2018

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Aaron & Jay got into crypto as the market skyrocketed, then rode the crashes down. Now as they sit near break even, they discuss all the mistakes they made as amateur traders: chasing alt highs, panic selling the bottom, getting swept up in Twitter hype, and generally making the wrong decisions at every juncture.

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#15: 'What's So Great About the Blockchain?' Part 2 — Electric Boogaloo w/ Adrianne Jeffries of the Verge Mar 23, 2018

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After failing to internalize the business/humanitarian potential of blockchain technologies in the last episode, Aaron talks to the reporter Adrianne Jeffries about her Verge article "Blockchain is Meaningless".

#14: What's So Great About the Blockchain? Mar 19, 2018

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Aaron & Jay try (and fail) to wrap their heads about the blockchain itself and how it could be revolutionary in realms outside currency.

Can you believe in the blockchain but not Bitcoin?
What do companies like IBM want with blockchain technology?
Has anyone actually done anything worthwhile with the blockchain other than issuing coins?

Thanks to Adrianne Jeffries whose Verge article '‘BLOCKCHAIN’ IS MEANINGLESS' inspired this episode.

#13: Coinbase Index Fund / Did Mt. Gox's Japanese Trustee Personally Crash Bitcoin? Mar 10, 2018

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Aaron and Jay are back on their bullshit for a late night chat about Coinbase's newly announced Index Fund (which includes a full buffet of the 4 Coinbase coins weighted by market share) and revelations that Mt. Gox's Japanese trustee dumped one of the world's largest cache's of Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash, decimating the market just as it reached an all time high. Plus a really stupid Bitcoin Cash (BCH) rap video.

#12: What is an ICO? / Interview with Coin Center's Peter Van Valkenburgh Mar 05, 2018

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Jay and Aaron talk about:

what an ICO (initial coin offering) is and how they might be regulated in the future
handicapping betting odds for the next tiny country to issue its own cryptocurrency

And then interview Peter Van Valkenburg, the director of research at Coin Center which is the "leading non-profit focused on the policy issues facing cryptocurrencies."

#11: When Strongmen ICO—Nicolás Maduro and the Petro (PTR) Feb 28, 2018

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Aaron & Jay try to wrap their heads around yet another scammy ICO—the Petro (PTR) issued by Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro.

04:25 Nicolás Maduro looks at Bitcoin miners

04:28 kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com

8:45 Coin Talk #5: Tether (USDT) is the New Disneybucks

33:33 The Petro Hasn't Raised a Dime (Alejandro Machado, Caracas Chronicle)

#10: Journalism and the Blockchain with Maria Bustillos / Telegram's ICO Feb 23, 2018

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Aaron and Jay talk about Robinhood, the Telegram ICO and the TON token, and then bring on Maria Bustillos to talk about the Civil project which aims to bring the blockchain to journalism and includes her Popula publication.

8:32 Brokerage App Robinhood Thinks Bitcoin Belongs in Your Retirement Plan (Max Chafkin, and Julia Verhage, Bloomberg)

10:45 Bitcoin Thieves Threaten Real Violence for Virtual Currencies (Nathaniel Popper, New York Times)

21:19 @EricWl "Just looked through the Telegram ICO 132-page whitepaper for their TON Blockchain. Essentially a 100% premined, centrally issued, unbounded supply, PoS sharding shitcoin. One of the worst whitepaper I ever read. Full of blockchain armchair guessing and baseless estimates. 0/10."

29:40 Popula

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