Unconfirmed

https://unchainedpodcast.com/why-bitcoin-surpassed-10k/

Episode links:

Dmitry Buterin: https://twitter.com/BlockGeekDima

BlockGeeks: https://blockgeeks.com

Ethereum: https://ethereum.org/en/

Unchained interview with Vitalik on Ethereum's 5-year anniversary: https://unchainedpodcast.com/vitalik-buterin-on-ethereums-five-year-anniversary/

Links from news recap:

'Twitter Will Be Fun Today': The College-Age Kids Who Hacked Into Twitter - Ep.135 Jul 24, 2020

Show notes

Haseeb Awan, CEO of Efani, a secure and private cell phone service, talks about how he became acquainted with hackers who took over prominent accounts on Twitter last week. He describes:

the underground industry that steals cell phone numbers and why
who the main players, Kirk, lol and "ever so anxious" are
what the hackers did when they took hold of prominent accounts, such as those of Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and those of crypto companies such as Binance and Coinbase
what the hackers could do with the information that they obtained with the accounts they took over
why this was likely not a pre-planned attack
what happened to the security of the Twitter accounts, and why their second-factor authentication protections did not keep their accounts from being hacked
what lessons crypto people can take away from the Twitter hack and how they can protect themselves

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Episode links:

Haseeb Awan: https://twitter.com/haseeb

Efani: https://www.efani.com

The New York Times story detailing the hack: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/technology/twitter-hackers-interview.html?searchResultPosition=3

Chainalysis analysis of the Bitcoin obtained in the hack: https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/twitter-hack-july-2020-update

Twitter’s account of the hack: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/an-update-on-our-security-incident.html

Analysis by Krebs on Security: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/whos-behind-wednesdays-epic-twitter-hack/

The recounting by the holder of the @6 account: https://medium.com/@lucky225/the-twitter-hack-what-exactly-happened-d8740d33c1c

Coinbase preventing customers from sending money to the hackers: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/72200/coinbase-says-it-prevented-over-1000-customers-from-sending-280000-worth-of-bitcoin-to-twitter-hackers

Fortune on why the attackers will have a hard time cashing out: http://links.info.fortune.com/e/evib?_t=5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73&_m=4ecf0f55469542a782a36f0ec9d8df09&_e=EaRX5Sk3zpaQLYk6z4FZ9OwiLdl6CTboSs0AyX9UekCl-VWvzN8z8oZ2pelKQ5oGqAiv5DUuK6FhjOY1tputGIU-mTcXNHxotHGTm1cA2_L6YhT_jsJ_DRRCpdFSGEbh

Convo between two of the hackers: https://i.imgur.com/aJUDLrI.png

Links from news recap:

Why Stablecoin Growth Over 5 Years Doubled in 4 Months - Ep.134 Jul 17, 2020

Show notes

Nate Maddrey, senior research analyst at Coin Metrics, discusses a report on the rise of stablecoins over the last few months that Coin Metrics published in conjunction with Bitstamp. He covers:

why a stablecoin supply that grew over five years has doubled in the last four months
why demand has grown, specifically for Tether, especially after Black Thursday
why that demand caused Tether's price to rise above $1 post-Black Thursday
why Tether is the most dominant stablecoin
how traders were making money off that arbitrage opportunity and why the arbitrage stayed in place so long
where Tether is popular
why Tether's price goes up when the free float supply is high and why it goes down when the free float supply is low
why the stablecoins have varied in their ability to stay stable and how individual stablecoins have reacted
which types of users are holding stablecoins and various types of users are doing with it
why it is that stablecoins appear to have different median exchange values
and why stablecoins have higher velocity than bitcoin and ether

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Episode links:

Nate Maddrey: https://twitter.com/natemaddrey

Coin Metrics: https://coinmetrics.io

The Rise of Stablecoins report: https://coinmetrics.io/the-rise-of-stablecoins/

Links from news recap:

Will Coinbase Do a Token Offering When It Goes Public? - Ep.133 Jul 10, 2020

Show notes

Jeff Roberts, senior reporter at Fortune and author of "King of Crypto: One Startup’s Quest to take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street" talks about the news this week that Coinbase may go public later this year. We talk about:

how Coinbase may offer an additional token offering in addition to a traditional listing
how the firm has been laying the legal groundwork for an innovative offering
Coinbase's new chief legal officer, Paul Grewal, who is a former federal judge who has ruled over the Google-Oracle and Apple-Samsung trials and who was the deputy general counsel at Facebook
what a direct listing, as opposed to a traditional IPO, could mean for Coinbase's investors
what a Coinbase IPO would generally mean for the crypto industry
why Coinbase's $8 billion valuation would likely go up in an IPO
how the fact that overall interest in Bitcoin and crypto are down compared to the highs of 2017/2018 will affect a Coinbase listing

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Reuters story: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-coinbase-ipo-exclusive/exclusive-crypto-exchange-coinbase-readies-landmark-stock-market-listing-sources-say-idUSKBN24A21W

Episode links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeffjohnroberts

Kings of Crypto audiobook: https://www.amazon.com/Kings-of-Crypto/dp/B085PY7S7H

Kings of Crypto print book: https://www.amazon.com/Kings-Crypto-Startups-Cryptocurrency-Silicon-ebook/dp/B085TRJY8X

Unconfirmed interview with Jeff Roberts about his book on Coinbase: https://unchainedpodcast.com/the-brilliant-asshole-who-almost-blew-up-coinbase/

Coinbase’s recent legal hire: https://fortune.com/2020/07/08/coinbase-lawyer-paul-grewal-crypto-law/

Bitcoin interest is down: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/genesis/70437/data-shows-that-mass-adoption-is-still-nowhere-to-be-found?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

Links from news recap:https://unchainedpodcast.com/the-most-pivotal-event-in-all-of-crypto/

How This New Supply Metric Makes Buy Signals Clearer - Ep.132 Jul 03, 2020

Show notes

Ben Celermajer, index manager at Coin Metrics, talks about a new metric Coin Metrics introduced this week, called free float supply. In this episode, he explains:

what problems in general Coin Metrics is trying to resolve with its various new metrics when it comes to blockchain-based tokens
what other new metrics it has introduced
what free float supply is
what types of tokens and token holders it excludes from the free float
how market caps change for some of the biggest coins when compared to the traditionally reported supply
how using free float changes other valuation methods such as NVT and MVRV
what other products Coin Metrics plans to build on these metrics

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Episode links:

Benjamin Celermajer: https://twitter.com/CelermajerB

Coin Metrics: https://coinmetrics.io

Coin Metrics blog post on free float supply: https://coinmetrics.io/introducing-free-float-supply/

Coin Desk on the new metric: https://www.coindesk.com/coin-metrics-offers-more-rigorous-measure-of-crypto-market-supply

Links from news recap:

How You Can Double Your Money -- Or Lose Everything - Ep.131 Jun 26, 2020

Show notes

Angel investor and writer Tony Sheng explains what yield farming is, why it's been such a craze, and whether or not the trend is sustainable. We discuss:

how yield farming works
how people could potentially earn 100% in annual percentage yields from it
why people can earn more from lending or borrowing certain tokens vs. others
how people can earn from borrowing at all
how much leverage people are playing with
the three ways people can lose their money while trying to yield farm
and what the long-term significance is of yield farming for crypto

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Episode links:

Tony Sheng: https://twitter.com/tonysheng

Tony's newsletter: https://www.tonysheng.com

Beware illiquid markets: https://tonysheng.substack.com/p/beware-illiquid-markets-lessons-from

Yield farming is the new GPU mining: https://tonysheng.substack.com/p/yield-farming-is-the-new-gpu-mining

How to earn 100% annual interest yield farming: https://twitter.com/tonysheng/status/1274393189231689728

How you might lose your funds yield farming: https://twitter.com/tonysheng/status/1274780457729617920?s=20

Links from news recap:

Why COMP 5xed on Day 1 and What This Means for a DeFi Bull Market - Ep.130 Jun 19, 2020

Show notes

Kain Warwick, founder of Synthetix, discusses the launch of the COMP token this week, including:

why the price of COMP tokens popped
how this now meant that the governance of the Compound protocol was now in the hands of the community
whether liquidity mining in DeFi is similar to or different from transaction mining on centralized exchanges
what the price jump in COMP on day 1 means for a future DeFi bull market
why Kain believes he is already seeing Bitcoin flowing into alts and DeFi tokens
what this means for VCs who invested in layer 1 projects

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Crypto.com: https://crypto.com

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Episode links:

Kain Warwick: https://twitter.com/kaiynne

Synthetix: https://www.synthetix.io

Tweet storm on what he got wrong about COMP: https://twitter.com/kaiynne/status/1272875213319856129

Governance of Compound now in hands of the community: https://medium.com/compound-finance/compound-community-ownership-ee0ed1252cc3

Tushar Jain’s tweet: https://twitter.com/TusharJain_/status/1272696517258883072

Why Kain thinks COMP popping on its first day is a harbinger of a DeFi bull market: https://twitter.com/kaiynne/status/1272723560260198402?s=20

DeFi Weekly: https://defiweekly.substack.com/p/comp-lessons-and-learnings-651

Deribit on how this can create network effects: https://insights.deribit.com/market-research/supercharging-network-effects-in-crypto/

Tweet storm on the BTC dominance cycle: https://twitter.com/kaiynne/status/1269792683616120833?s=20

Tom Shaughnessy tweet on how there’s no more competition between layer 1s — it’s more about DeFi: https://twitter.com/Shaughnessy119/status/1272373784616542209

Similar thoughts by Spencer Noon: https://twitter.com/spencernoon/status/1273403731586023431?s=20

Links from news recap:

Why 'Cryptocurrency Would Not Exist Without Black People' - Ep.129 Jun 12, 2020

Show notes

Robby Greenfield, the CEO of Emerging Impact and the former head of social impact and diversity programming at ConsenSys, talks about how the crypto community handles issues of diversity and inclusion. We discuss:

why he thinks many in the community want to change everything but systemic racism
why many in the community turned a blind eye to racist posts retweeted by cryptographer Nick Szabo
how people in the crypto community responded to his recent essay on racism
why cryptocurrency would not exist without black people
his social impact work at ConsenSys
how blockchain technology and crypto can help address issues of racism
why blacks are underrepresented in crypto despite expressing more interested in it than other demographics

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Episode links:

Robby Greenfield: https://twitter.com/RobTG4

Emerging Impact: http://emergingimpact.com

Robby’s essay in CoinDesk: https://www.coindesk.com/the-crypto-community-needs-to-stand-up-and-fight-racism

Robby’s tweet storm on why cryptocurrency would not exist without black people: https://twitter.com/RobTG4/status/1269430232861175808

Unconfirmed interview with Steven McKie: https://unchainedpodcast.com/look-for-opportunities-to-increase-diversity-in-crypto/

Robby's campaign, Crypto for Black Lives: http://chng.it/KFn7vnk5

Links from news recap:

'Look for Opportunities' to Increase Diversity in Crypto - Ep.128 Jun 05, 2020

Show notes

Steven McKie, CEO and founding partner at Amentum Capital, discusses the incidents involving Amy Cooper and George Floyd and the resulting protests, and how systemic racism affects black entrepreneurs in crypto. In this episode we discuss:

His personal story from a childhood in poverty to running a crypto hedge fund
How companies that want to hire from underrepresented groups have to change their habits to reach out to those communities
Why underrepresented communities can be easily left behind at the time of technological revolutions
Why Black Americans express more interest in crypto than white Americans and yet are still underrepresented
What he says when people say that underrepresented groups choose not to be involved in crypto since there are no barriers

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Episode links:

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Weekly News Recap:

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What Patoshi Is and How It Affects Craig Wright - Ep.127 May 29, 2020

Show notes

Sergio Lerner, the head of innovation of IOV Labs and the creator of the Rootstock side chain, describes a pattern he discovered in early Bitcoin mining that he called Patoshi and why people are talking about it now. In this episode he explains:

what the Patoshi pattern is
what connection it has to Satoshi
why the pattern exists
how the pattern is being used now in a current court case in which Craig Wright is claiming he is Satoshi Nakamoto
how the Patoshi pattern was used this week to evaluate a set of transactions involving early bitcoins signed with the statement, "Craig Steven Wright is a liar and fraud"
how it can be determined whether or not recent transactions were mined under the Patoshi pattern

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