This Week in Bitcoin

Despite the low probability of success, many are unafraid to call "the bottom". Plus, Bitcoin Cash leads an upswing in the crypto market.

• BCH making us feel cautiously optimistic
• The BTC bottom predictions
• The Proof of Keys campaign
• Is JP Morgan wrong about the future for the cryptocurrencies?
• Cypherpunk Godfather Timothy May has passed away

Joey King is back to go over all the latest news. More crypto FUD plus thoughts on the Lightning Network, Stablecoins and more.

• "What is Bitcoin?" one of the most trending searches of 2018
• Allianz global investors CEO wants cryptocurrencies to be banned
• Mark Karpeles could face 10 years in jail
• The Lightning Network (LN) is not close to ready for commercial use
• The taxi driver who sells cryptocurrencies to passengers
• What's going on with the Basis stablecoin?

Misinformation has reached a new level at the darkest time so far in the bear market. We make sense of it all.

• Cryptophobic statements from the former Israeli Prime Minister
• Maduro is raising the price of the Petro against the sovereign bolivar
• The three worst Bitcoin lies
• DHS wants surveillance tools for cryptocurrencies like Monero and Zcash
• Morgan Creek is looking to bet against the S+P 500 performance. Any takers?
• A new study by Coinshares has revealed Bitcoin's impact on the climate change
• Vertcoin network suffers reorg attacks

• SEC asking for key upgrades before approving bitcoin ETF
• U.S. Government trying to blacklist bitcoin addresses
• Russian miners are looking to sell their hardware
• China's updates their crypto rankings
• Snowden weighs in on the value of bitcoin
• Wallet Apps infected with malicious code
• The eight most important transactions in Bitcoin history
• Ross Ulbricht petition reaches 100,000 signatures

Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano of Morgan Creek Digital runs an awesome bitcoin podcast focused on the investing crowd, Off the Chain.

A recent episode with Murad Mahmudov made a particularly compelling case for bitcoin and why fiat may be in trouble. It makes you want to buy bitcoin (with fiat) immediately after listening.

The episode soared the charts reaching number 4 in Business > Investing.

Then it was temporarily gone.

We go behind the scenes of the episode and get Pomp's take on the bitcoin ecosystem:

• The people who censor the most, need uncensorable currency the most.
• The people who seize the most need unseizable currency the most.
• State backed national currencies like the Petro
• How to handle the Bitcoin and terrorism question
• Why 0% is the wrong number for cryptocurrency holdings
• What does Yale Endowment Fund entering Bitcoin say about the legitimacy of this asset class?
• Seats at the table and scarcity
• What about the BAKKT and fractional-reserve bitcoin?
• Question the "institutional money, bitcoin moon" theory
• What will the BTC % of market cap be 10 years from now?

• Updates on the last six days of the hash war
• How crypto traders are handling the drop
• A new message from Satoshi?
• Cryptocurrency exchange Quoine is going to trial
• Market volatility goes beyond crypto

Updates from China

• Jihan Wu is no longer CEO of Bitmain. Truth or fake?
• Market panic: miners are shutting off their machines
• Zhao Dong's opinion about the BTC drop
• Coco wallet and its new tool that help users split their BCH assets

The BCH Hard Fork war kicked off 24 hours ago. What happened and what comes next? Blake Moore joins us to discuss.

• Bitcoin Cash miners break records
• The Michigan Secretary of State has formally barred cryptocurrency donations to political campaigns
• "Central Banks may want to issue digital currency" says the managing director of IMF
• Has it been good for Stablecoins?

President Maduro helped make Venezuelan Bolivar worthless. Can he do it with a national cryptocurrency as well? Plus an update on the Bitcoin Cash hard fork next week.

• Venezuela and its plan for Petro Adoption
• Preview of the BCH fork on Nov. 15th
• Initiative Q. The next Bitcoin?
• Jeffrey Berns plans to Build a Crypto City in the Nevada Desert
• President of the Marshall Islands facing a political attack for her support of a national cryptocurrency

David Clement is the director of external relations for Students for Liberty, the largest libertarian student organization in the world. Bitcoin is a bottom-up movement; it starts with the kids. How do they feel about bitcoin right now?

Students for Liberty is going strong in 90 countries around the world. From using digital media to promote liberty in Africa to advancing liberty through public policy and academia in Argentina.

David has a pulse on how college students are thinking about bitcoin and blockchain. Without their buy-in, it will be tough for the crypto movement to grow.

Coinbase, a young kid arrested for running an unlicensed money-transmitting business between Mexico and San Diego, and a 7 year journey for two Slovenians with 1000 Euros and two laptops in a garage selling their exchange for millions in 2018.

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