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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 cents.

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.

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 recommend a listen.