The Unhashed Podcast

On this week's Unhashed Podcast: Coinbase has filed for permission to have an IPO, Ripple sued by the SEC because XRP is a security, MicroStrategy purchased another $650M worth of BTC and Stodgy Mass Mutual bought $100M, Calvin Ayre is buying a small poor archipelago of around 15,000 people North of New Zealand for BSV, FinCEN released a notice that would require money businesses to verify the identity of customers with digital currencies “held in unhosted wallets”, Suredbits has devised a Discreet Log Contract for Difference to hold a USD position, and the stolen email and mailing addresses for Ledger cryptocurrency wallet users has appeared online.

Colin Aulds of Privacy Pros, formerly known as BillFodl, and the Unhashed Podcast comes on the Digital Cash Network podcast to talk about privacy in cryptocurrency, from using VPNs to Faraday bags for phones and even hardware wallets. We also cover self-custody, and whether or not people should hold their own Bitcoin because of the risk of loss, or if they should trust other parties. Finally we go into the mass adoption of cryptocurrencies and at what level will the average grandmother ever be comfortable holding their own keys.

On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast, there's no shortage of Bitcoin news: Bitonic taking the Dutch authorities to court, John Newbery launches Brink to fund core development, the Battle for P2SH, Square funding clean Bitcoin mining, and more institutions get involved. We round things off with a nice discussion about what each of us were to do if bitcoin failed, and the ethics of cannibalism. It gets about as weird as you expect it to.

On this week's Unhashed Podcast we are joined by Wasabi Wallet creator Adam Ficsor. We talk about how he got started working on Bitcoin, how Wasabi Wallet avoids needing a full node thanks to neutrino filters, The UI and protocol changes coming in Wasabi 2.0, the WabiSabi research paper, variable amount coinjoins in relation to the BCH CashFushion research, coinswaps, signature aggregation, confidential transactions, and we talk about the animosity between Samourai and Wasabi.

On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast, Colin, Mario, and Bryan discuss the advent of KYC on mined bitcoin transactions by BlockSeer and whether this presents the beginnings of a threat to bitcoin. We also enjoy the strangely cordial discussion between DeFi hackers and a "nurse" that they stole funds from. Meanwhile, Cred deals with liabilities of...well, they're not sure how much, but it's a LOT. On the brighter side of things, mining pool Poolin spearheads a miner-backed effort to support Taproot activation, hopefully an indication of a smoother update than experienced with SegWit.

On this week’s episode of the Unhashed Podcast: the US government seized $1B Silk Road Bitcoin, Bitcoin SV lost funds due to a foolish multisig bug which makes Colin laugh uncontrollably, crypto lending platform Cred files for bankruptcy with police investigation on-going, Bitmex Research publishes an article on the prevalence of Merge Mining, and Ruben shares his $1M kpop ICO launch party story while the crew reminisces over the best buffet they ever had.

On this week’s episode of the Unhashed Podcast: Somsen discusses "sidechains" for Bitcoin that do everything a separate blockchain can do, *except* storing value, or more specifically Blind Merged Mining and the Perpetual One-way Peg, in another guest appearance on the Van Wirdum Sjorsnado podcast.

On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast, we spent at least (barely) half the show talking about Bitcoin! After Ruben gives pointers on how to be a successful camgirl, we dive into the release of MuSig2, PayPal's foray into the world of bitcoin, trust-minimized lending on Liquid, and Ruben's explanation for ZK Snarks. As always, we finish off with a lightning round contemplating profound existential questions such as "how awesome is sneezing?"

On this week’s episode of the Unhashed Podcast: Square purchases $50M worth of bitcoin, File Coin accidentally allows the sale of testnet coins, Bitmex changes leadership, why brainwallets are bad, taproot gets merged, Justin Sun ruins Bittorrent, and Coinbase starts paying Core developers.

On this episode of the Unhashed Podcast, we talk to guest Joe Looney about his creation, Rare Pepe, one of the first Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) in the space. We talk early days of Counterparty, why Ethereum took over the token game, the value of NFTs, and much more.