CoinTalk™️

We talk about Jay's NFT column in the New York Times, how lonely people find community on Discord, and how much nicer crypto people are now than when we started CoinTalk.

Kyle Kuzma is human DOGE, selling .ETH names to NBA owners, ETH-maximalism vs. shitcoining nostalgia, Aaron's new podcast EXIT SCAM and more.....

Buying hashmasks, learning about defi, and slowly descending into an NFT froth with special guest Brian 'Ledger Status' Krosgard.

r/WSB takes down a hedge fund, Jay buys NFT art, Aaron mints CoinTalk loyalty badges, and we consider whether today was the most bullish day ever for DeFi and Ethereum.

Jay and Aaron reunite as Bitcoin crosses 35k and the inverse Kang line is breached.

After some coins mined in Feb 2009 (the first month of Bitcoin) move for the first time, we revisit our Satoshi theories.

Our Dwayne Wade-style extended retirement tour continues...

The government can't figure out how to airdrop to America's wallets and other problems that crypto probably can't solve.

We intended to do a reunion show when Bitcoin crossed $10,000 (again). But we were too slow and before we taped it, Bitcoin crashed to the Kang Line during the global pandemic

We're taking a hiatus from new weekly episodes of CoinTalk. Thanks to all the listeners, Medium and all the sponsors, thanks to the maximalists and the HODLers and the skeptics, and of course all the con men who have made...

We finally get around to discussing the Trump tweets on Bitcoin and Libra.

The sound quality of this one kinda sucks because Aaron is on vacation, but we thought we'd sneak in a quick bonus episode on this weeks Libra hearings.

Evan Ratliff's new article for Wired probes whether programmer turned real life supervillain Paul Le Roux might actually be Satoshi Nakamoto.

Audius is building a decentralized platform for music inspired both by Soundcloud and private torrent trackers.

⚰️ Bury Me With My Cardano

Is Libra a 'false flag' operation? Will it ever actually launch? Novogratz sold. Buying the top... again. Craig Wright's tears.

Did Libra pump Bitcoin? We go inside the bull run to nearly $14,000 and the subsequent 20% freefall.

Libra is launching with 27 node partners–most of them are big companies like Uber and Mastercard–but one of them is a small Brooklyn-based blockchain company called Bison Trails.

♎️ Libra Mania

Aaron and Jay go deep on Libra.

Coinbase's Brian Armstrong writes an open letter to a friend who asked to borrow money, Facebook prepares to drop the GLOBALCOIN whitepaper.

Jay goes Ripple, TRON guy Justin Sun wins a lunch with Buffett at auction, no more nocoiner hubris.

Over the last two weeks Bitcoin has flash crashed, flash rallied, then rallied again. We revisit our "reasons why" from two weeks ago and discuss the bounce from the Kang Line to nearly 2.5x. Also, Jay bought Ripple for some...

How a giant sell order on Bitstamp brought down the Bitcoin market.

We rank 5 theories about why Bitcoin is rallying, then talk about the Binance Hack and CZ's "suggestion" to roll back the ledger and get his money back.

BTC rebounds to nearly 2x the Kang Line, FacebookCoin is the ultimate fiat on-ramp, Bitfinextetherpalooza, Crypto Capital's Reginald Fowler is the biggest crypto scammer of them all and got caught with counterfeit $100s to boot.

The CoinTalk book club returns for a discussion of Eric Posner and E. Glen Weyl's "Radical Markets" featuring David Z. Morris from BreakerMag who attended the Detroit conference organized around the book's ideas.

Craig Wright and Calvin Ayre's BSV trolling gets them delisted from Binance and others. PewDiePie leaves Youtube for DLive (maybe?) Is all this increased BTC confidence a trap?

Marty Bent from Tales from the Crypt comes on to talk about price signals, the amorality of Bitcoin, self-driving cars that use electricity as their currency, Jack Dorsey's bullishness and the future of the Cash app....

Is it alt season? Its BTC ideological? RIP Bitcoin enthusiast Nipsey Hussle. Mailbag.

The exchange business sucks during the winter and volume is hilariously low.

Lightning tipping, Tether changes its TOS to include that it doesn't actually have the money, the bull case for Facebucks, Bitconnect and the Christchurch shooting.

College admissions, bribery, Chaebols, and how to disappear completely.

✉️ Hacking Team Wants To Connect On Linked-In!

Coinbase hires literal villains to run their shitcoin spy-ops, we read Brian Armstrong's Medium posts, discuss whether you can get a button with BTC in Vegas, and Cryptopia returns.

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Coinbase adds XRP, self-snitchin' ICOs, Elon Musk loves Bitcoin, JPM, and Venezuela.

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Our old friend Ledger Status returns to tell us about the crypto trading game Hxro he has been obsessively playing in beta. He has amassed a (theoretical) mini-fortune (not) gambling on 5 minute Bitcoin candles.

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LItecoin goes MIMBLEWIMBLE, Riccardo 'Fluffypony' Spagni's new project Tari lets you store unique items on a blockchain that is mined alongside Monero, and we interview Mark Yarm from Breaker Mag about his new feature on the #freeross movement.

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GRIN utterly fails to fundraise a single developers salary, Quadriga's CEO disappeared with $190 million worth of private keys (OR DID HE?!?!?), and we try to figure out how a single currency could be used across games.

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The death of the CBOE Bitcoin ETF, cypherpunk-ska-pop, changing the system from the outside vs. the inside, de-platforming and crypto.

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Aaron narrates the entire Fyre Fest documentary to Jay, then they discuss whether GRIN is an industry plant. Finally, they consider what it would take to drive an altcoin to zero when even common baseball cards are worth a few...

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Jay & Aaron return to talk about Grin, a project launching this week that actually looks pretty cool. Plus: Monero + Fortnite + Norwegian Kidnappers and some Satoshi thoughts. Thanks to SeedCX for sponsoring this week's show.

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CoinTalk returns in 2019 with our first ever live show, in which we consider Satoshi as a literary figure. Thanks to Iterative Capital for having us! Tales From the Crypt also did a live taping after ours and we highly...

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With a year wasted on Bitcoin podcasting under our belts, we revisit topics from past episodes and remember where the price was when we talked about them. Plus: how to disappear completely and then reappear as an ICO fraudster with...

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The Kang Line is crossed! Below 3300 we go. Did doorbuster giveaways on the Korean exchange Bithumb bring volume that artificially held the price of BTC at $6,000? Plus, our new game show "Would You Trade Your Car For 1...

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Steemit layoffs and how crypto projects are weathering winter. CVL stiffed its employees with inflated token promises. Erik Townsend from Macro Voices comes on to talk about govenment issued crypto

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Aaron & Jay accidentally crash Bitcoin by talking about how stable it is, then discuss the BCH fissure and the return of Roger Ver and Craig Wright. the Expendables of the crypto.

#55: ＱThe Bull Case for Initiative Q

"Don't Vote" and the crypto movement against democracy plus a much requested "shallow dive" into the centralized Initiative Q pyramid.

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Aaron & Jay download the Brave browser and attempt to use the 25 BAT that come with it.

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Aaron & Jay discuss old tweets, altcoin hypocrisy, and what standards we should hold our crypto influencers to. Plus: some hot TI-82 takes.

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Actor / poker degen Doug Kim returns from North of the Wall to talk about the long winter, alt-hopium, and whether anyone actually knows anything about crypto.

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Aaron & Jay finally get around to talking about the failed Civil (CVL) token sale. Plus, Tether unstabilizes.

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Nick Paumgarten comes on to talk about his new crypto piece in The New Yorker and Aaron proposes a Talk of the Town about Sumokoin.