Blue Alpine Cast - Cryptocurrency News and Research (Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and more)

- Bitmain, one of the biggest ASIC Miners boasts revenue numbers of 3 Billion USD (https://www.ccn.com/bitmains-profits-rival-chipmaker-nvidia-analysts-say/)

- We compare Bitmain to Nvidia and look at Bitmain's main revenue channels

- A small rant on Crypto User Experience that needs to improve in order to get more people into crypto (https://www.ccn.com/user-interfaces-will-bridge-educational-gap-enhance-adoption-cryptocurrencies/)

- Austria treating Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies like Gold or Derivatives (https://www.ccn.com/austria-plans-to-regulate-bitcoin-like-gold-derivatives/)

- A comparison between Austria and Switzerland (https://www.finma.ch/en/news/2018/02/20180216-mm-ico-wegleitung/)

- Bank of America's fears of cryptocurrency and internet services, that could eat away their business (https://cointelegraph.com/news/bank-of-america-our-inability-to-adapt-could-see-a-failure-to-compete-with-crypto)

- Venezuela bringing another cryptocurrency, before the pre-sale for the Petro (PTR) is finished

- The controversy around the Petro coin

- Iran will probably bring out their own cryptocurrency

- Will this be a way to circumvent sanctions?

- Bitcoin's (BTC) price going down after getting close to the important number of 12k USD! (https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-market-in-the-red-despite-bitcoin-transaction-fees-dropping-dominance-rising)

- Bitcoin Fees sinking in general, its competition with Bitcoin Cash

- New technology from Ripple (XRP)? Ripple releases two new whitepapers (https://www.coindesk.com/ripple-papers-promise-new-start-for-40-billion-xrp-cryptocurrency/)

- Why is Ethereum Classic (ETC) increasing?

- Is an airdrop or fork coming? (https://www.ccn.com/ethereum-classic-price-flirts-with-all-time-high-as-callisto-airdrop-looms/)

- Canada starts offering a digital crypto vault (https://bitrazzi.com/bank-canada-offer-secure-vault-services-crypto/)

Bonus article: How the Winklevoss twins keep their cryptos safe https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/technology/bitcoin-winklevoss-twins.html

How do you do research in terms of community and social media? We'll look specifically at OmiseGO (OMG), Qlink (QLC) and Nano (NANO)

We'll compare the crypto market with its coins such as Bitocin and Ethereum to the general stock market and mutual funds market, from the 1980s. You will have to watch it to understand why...

- Crypto Regulation in the US seems unlikely right now, says White House (https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-regulation-not-anytime-soon-says-white-house-official/)

- FINMA (Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority) gives out guidelines on ICO and defines three types of tokens:

- payment tokens

- utility tokens

- asset tokens

Besides asset tokens, none are treated as securities (https://www.finma.ch/en/news/2018/02/20180216-mm-ico-wegleitung/)

In today's episode we'll talk about:

- Ripple's (XRP) Partnership with Western Union (https://www.ccn.com/western-union-confirms-ripple-blockchain-trial-will-feature-xrp-integration/)

- Western Union will actually use XRP

- WAX jumps 78%, we analyze the team and who's behind it (https://wax.io/#about)

In today's episode, we'll talk about:

- Ripple's (XRP) partnership with Saudi Arabia (https://www.ccn.com/ripple-partners-saudi-arabias-central-bank-plug-banks-blockchain/)

- Litecoin's (LTC) high 30% jump and why exactly it happened (https://cointelegraph.com/news/litecoin-price-surges-on-news-of-ltc-fiat-payment-service-and-scam-hard-fork)

- JPMorgan and its stance on Bitcoin (BTC) regarding a potential BTC ETF (https://bitrazzi.com/bitcoin-etfs-holy-grail-according-jpmorgan/)

Video about buying Litecoin and sending it to a wallet: https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=Z6Zz12Scnfc