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**Crypto Basic Podcast: Teaching You The Basics of Bitcoin and the World of Cryptocurrency. CryptoBasic**

The CryptoBasic Podcast is an educational, honest, and entertaining exploration of the fascinating world of cryptocurrencies. Join hosts Brent Philbin, Karim Baruque, and Michael Laake as they explore concepts and cryptos such as Bitcoin, NEO, Ethereum, Litecoin, Blockchain, Cardano and much more. How does Bitcoin actually work? Should I use Coinbase or Bittrex? What in the world is an ICO? Listen to our 101 episodes on each topic for an in-depth, beginner friendly discussion to find out. Join this trio of professional poker players and lifelong friends as they learn, teach, and joke their way into serious crypto knowledge.

Latest Episodes:

James Duffy Round Table - Gaming, Side-Chains, Loom, and Korean Culture Sep 02, 2018

Show notes

Brent and Mike sit down with James Duffy, the Co-Founder of the Loom Network to discuss a multitude of topics. They talk gaming as it’s central to the Loom Network, and get specific about Zombie Battlegrounds, where it came from and why it’s working. They talk about James’s very short lived poker career, his 10 years in Korea, and meeting like minds everywhere around the world.

As usual, things get a little off topic. We talk about Ethereum, Bitcoin, and even work in a little callback to an old 101 and pet project of Brent’s – Spankchain. The round table’s always bring out the best in the crypto space, or sometimes they ignore cryptocurrency completely and talk about food.

LINKS TO TOPICS FROM THE SHOW

Loom Network Website

Zombie Battelground – The Magic: The Gathering style game on the Loom Network.

Cryptozombies.io – Actually a really awesome site where you can learn to code.

Delegate Call – site where you can earn tokens for questions and answers.

James Duffy’s Twitter

James Duffy’s Linked in - Yes it’s in Korean.

Loom Network Medium

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Ledger Wallet Website This is where you buy the hardware wallet that we're always talking about on the show - we all use a Ledger Nano S.

CASH APP HAS BITCOIN! If you sign up through that link the show gets $5 and so do you! Stop the presses. The easiest to use money transfer application (yes it's easier than Venmo) now as a built in way to buy and sell Bitcoin. They even have a no - fee debit card you can use.
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FS35 - Square Patent, Student Debt, & Ian Balina Aug 31, 2018

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On this week’s Flagship Friday the whole team gets together to discuss some recent headlines. A new Bitcoin documentary highlights Jordan Belfort’s criticisms, Square lands a cryptocurrency patent, and Karim sneaks in a story about student debt. The Mt.Gox story may actually have a decent ending, Ian Balina reminds us shills still exists, and an Italian Football team... makes history? Yeah, kinda.

LINKS TO TOPICS FROM THE SHOW

Article - Dear Wolf of Wall Street: Nobody Cares What You Think

Article - Square Wins Patent for Cryptocurrency Payment Network

Article - Coinbase Survey Shows 18% of US Students Now Own Cryptocurrency

Article - The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined

Website - https://www.mtgox.com/

Reddit - Ian Balina caught pooling 2.5M USD and frauding his own "fans".

Reddit – Faketoshi Bait

Reddit - When you thought 2FA is safe but then there is Bittrex support.

Article - Italian Football Club Makes History After Becoming First To Be Purchased In Cryptocurrency

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101 Series: 0x Aug 29, 2018

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LINKS TO TOPICS FROM THE SHOW

0x Whitepaper

0x Website/Portal

0x FAQ

0x Subreddit

Blog - Governance in 0x Protocol

Article - 0x lets any app be the Craigslist of cryptocurrency

Reddit – Brent asks r/0xProject some questions

Blog - Why 0x is not as trustless as it may seem

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Ledger Wallet Website This is where you buy the hardware wallet that we're always talking about on the show - we all use a Ledger Nano S.

Download one of the best browsing experiences out there: Brave. Also we get like $5.

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FS34 - Bitconnect "Leader" Arrested, Bitmain IPO, North Korean Hackers Aug 24, 2018

Show notes

It’s time to sail the crypto waters again on our Friday Flagship! A Bitconnect “leader” gets arrested in India, the inventor of Bittorrent walks out after the Tron purchase, and we discuss some stories of middle men holding cryptocurrency hostage. Mining giant Bitmain is preparing for one of histories largest IPOs, the SEC denied Bitcoin ETFs (again), and Bakkt is finally getting ready to launch. Crypto around the world takes us to Australia where bills are getting easier to pay, and North Korea has its hackers focus on crypto.

LINKS TO TOPICS FROM THE SHOW

Article - India Bitconnect Head Arrested

Article - Disagreement with Tron’s Acquisition, BitTorrent Inventor And Employees Quit In Protest

Reddit - Localbitcoins.com is illegally holding my 9.3 bitcoin on "escrow" since may 2015

Reddit - QuadrigaCX Randomly suspended my account with 700k in it, with no email no nothing.

Article - The Bitmain IPO: A risky bet on mining and Bitcoin Cash?

Article - U.S. Federal Court Accepts Cryptocurrency for Bail of Hacker

Blog - Bakkt: An evolving market

Article - Australians Can Now Pay Their Bills with Crypto

Article - North Korean hackers are targeting cryptocurrency traders with fake software

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Ledger Wallet Website This is where you buy the hardware wallet that we're always talking about on the show - we all use a Ledger Nano S.

Download one of the best browsing experiences out there: Brave. Also we get like $5.

Podcast Theme Music

Neledrax by Earradiate (2017)
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405.440.3260

101 Series: Basic Attention Token (BAT) Aug 22, 2018

Show notes

Mike and Brent sit down and discuss a combo experience: Brave browser and the Basic Attention Token. Mike starts the episode off with the worst pun known to man, and find out what the team thinks is BAT's biggest hurdle to cross, and why the Brave browser is the best browsing experience out there...most of the time. Learn why this token is trying to fix the massively broken advertising experience, how they intend to do that, and when you can expect things to get better. Get Basic with CryptoBasic...basically.

LINKS TO TOPICS FROM THE SHOW

BAT Whitepaper

BAT Subreddit

BAT Homepage

BAT FAQ

BAT Roadmap

Picture – Current “middle man” landscape

Website – Uphold.com

Website – Envanto.com

Video – CryptoCandor “Basic Attention Token | $BAT | Revolutionizing Digital Advertising”

Video – David Hay “Crypto Review: BAT + Brave Browser 💣 Why I Sold Out Fast 💥”

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Robin Hood is getting in the crypto game! You get a random stock valued between $5 and $200 and so do we, this is super exciting. Robin Hood has been one of the best experiences we’ve had with a
CASH APP HAS BITCOIN! If you sign up through that link the show gets $5 and so do you! Stop the presses. The easiest to use money transfer application (yes it's easier than Venmo) now as a built in way to buy and sell Bitcoin. They even have a no - fee debit card you can use.
Binance Exchange Binance is the primary location for many of the coins that are not available on CoinBase. They have the best user experience, don't use the USDT as a primary trading pair, and have reasonable customer service. Give them a look.
Ledger Wallet Website This is where you buy the hardware wallet that we're always talking about on the show - we all use a Ledger Nano S.

Podcast Theme Music

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CryptoBasicPodcast@gmail.com
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Roundtable #5 - Cardano Icarus Release, VeChain Vaccine Tracing, & Astroturfing Aug 20, 2018

Show notes

This week our Roundtable discussion will be more of a heads-up discussion between Karim and Brent as Mike decided it was more important to try to win poker tournaments! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ We kick things off with some cryptocurrency updates for Cardano, Nano, Ethereum's Casper, and Vechain. Our RT topic was inspired by John Oliver’s recent “Astroturfing” episode, a topic we’ve discussed on the podcast before. Can we believe anything anymore? And why does Brent finish the episode feeling that Karim destroyed his childhood? Well we can’t say its mostly good news…..but we had fun debating!

LINKS TO TOPICS FROM THE SHOW

Blog - IOHK releases Icarus to the Cardano community

Youtube – Charles Hoskinson “August 15th Announcement”

Article - VeChain Announces Blockchain Vaccine Tracing Solution for China

Twitter – Vitalik’s History of Casper

Youtube - Astroturfing: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Youtube - Astroturf and manipulation of media messages | Sharyl Attkisson | TEDxUniversityofNevada

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Flagship Friday #33 Aug 17, 2018

Show notes

This week our Flagship sails with it’s entire crew as we sail the sea of red which is the current crypto markets… when moon again? o(╥﹏╥)o We kick things off by talking about Bitfi, McAfee’s “unhackable” cryptocurrency hard wallet, getting hacked. AT&T gets sued for $224 million over crypto theft, another major exchange moves to Malta, IOTA update, and an “Exchange Traded Note” gets around the SEC. To finish things off crypto around the world takes us India where the government is exploring blockchain for public transportation, and the Thai SEC approves some businesses.

LINKS TO TOPICS FROM THE SHOW

Article - 15-Year-Old Plays DOOM On BitFi Wallet Because John McAfee Still Won't Stop Talking

Article - John McAfee’s ‘unhackable’ cryptocurrency wallet has been hacked (again)

Reddit - Here is my bank instalment related to the loan I took to invest in crypto.

Article - Another Top-5 Cryptocurrency Exchange Plots Move to Malta’s ‘Blockchain Island’

Article - Bitcoin Holds Above $6,000 While Industry Figures Warn Over ETF ‘Benefits’

Article - India’s Govt Considers Allowing Crypto Tokens for Metro Cards, Airline Tickets

Article - Another Top-5 Cryptocurrency Exchange Plots Move to Malta’s ‘Blockchain Island’

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RT #4 - Free Speech, Censorship, & Cryptocurrency Aug 15, 2018

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It’s time for another Roundtable discussion and somehow Brent managed to pick the topic again! We lead off with some news about Kucoin and their headquarters, Vitalik proposed a new algorithm to prevent 51% attacks, and a quick update on IOTA drama. For the Roundtable we discuss censorship, with media giants shutting down Alex Jones for violations of terms of service the boys have to ask… is this a good idea? What doors are we opening here? And does cryptocurrency have anything to say about this dynamic? Let the debates begin!

LINKS TO TOPICS FROM THE SHOW

Article - Vitalik’s new Consensus Algorithm to make 51% attack obsolete

Blog - A Guide to 99% Fault Tolerant Consensus by Vitalik Buterin

Screenshot – IOTA Drama Update

Article - Blockchain Can Prevent Tech Giants’ Internet Censorship

Article - Alex Jones is far from the only person tech companies are silencing

Article - YouTube isn’t infringing on Alex Jones’ freedom of speech, it’s enforcing the rules

Article - #Metoo in China: fledgling movement in universities fights censorship

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Roundtable #3 Aug 13, 2018

Show notes

We have a new guest on the show this week joining us for another Roundtable discussion. Matthew Mežinskis is one of the creators of the popular Crypto Voices podcast, where he and his co-host Fernando explore the world of cryptocurrency through the lens of Austrian economics. Matthew sits down with the entire crew to discuss his favorite topic (monetary policy), as well as explain what Bitcoin maximalism is all about. There’s also a lot of talk about charts because… well that’s a lot of crypto nerds in one room!

LINKS TO TOPICS FROM THE SHOW

Crypto Voices – Homepage

Crypto Voices – Who We Are

Crypto Voices Charts – Share of Global Crypto Market Cap

Crypto Voices Charts – Transaction Volume

Twitter @crypto_voices

Wikipedia – Austrian School

Article – What is Austrian Economics

Article – Bitcoin Maximalism

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Flagship Friday 32 Aug 10, 2018

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Falgship Friday time, let’s see what’s in store for is in this week in the world of crypto! The owner of the NYSE exchange says Bitcoin can be the first worldwide currency… and they intend to help make this happen. Apple makes history as it reaches $1 trillion and Karim goes on a not so unexpected rant about big corporations (◔_◔) IOTA leaked emails reveal behind the scenes drama, Vitalik and Charles plan a debate via blog, Berlin prepares to host a truly crypto themed hackathon, and the Chinese retaliate to Trump’s tariffs. And Brent goes on a rant about toilets….really.

LINKS TO TOPICS FROM THE SHOW

Article - Bitcoin Could be ‘First Worldwide Currency’: NYSE Owner

Article - Apple breaches US$1 trillion stock market valuation

Article - Apple Hits $1 Trillion, But It's Still Not The Most Valuable Company In The World

Article - University Research Made Your Smartphone Smart

Article - Charles Hoskinson drops message for Vitalik Buterin amidst upcoming Cardano updates

Main – ETH Berlin

Article - China slaps 25% tariffs on $16 billion worth of US goods

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