This Week in Bitcoin

Gabriel Cardona, founder of BitBox and head of developer.bitcoin.com is on the show. We talk about his world travels helping to inspire to developers and entrepreneurs to build on Bitcoin Cash.

• Permissionless Ventures and Hackathons
• Have an idea? 30 million dollars of funding available for BCH startups
• Why bitcoin cash is the most undervalued asset in the cryptospace
• Advantages of launching token on Bitcoin Cash protocol instead of Ethereum
• How developers can get involved
• The 100x multiplier for Bitcoin Cash
• ViaBTC's VIAT token
• Jihan Wu on hash power towards BTC
• Kurzweil's Law
• Will there be recurring payment apps for e-commerce stores?
• A contentious hard fork for Bitcoin Cash?

• IDEX is banning traders who reside in New York
• The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) approves Coinbase custody services for "institutions"
• HTC's new blockchain smartphone
• Coinbase now supports USDC, a stablecoin
• Bakkt Bitcoin Futures will start trading on Dec. 12
• The ten days of Bitcoin's history

China Update

• Bitmain officially released Overt Asicboost firmware for Antminer S9
• Star Xu and OkEx had a very hard time this week

Professional contrarian Derek Magill joins us to discuss Tether, American Express buying anti-bitcoin advertising, his thoughts on the Binance and Chainanalysis partnership and other hot topics in the crypto world.

• Big media drama with stablecoins, tether in particular
• American Express promoting a dirty war on Bitcoin
• 51 percent attacks on altcoins becoming a spectator sport;
• Someone in China thinks "USDT sucks"
• Derek's thoughts on a potential BCH fork
• Global security firm to offer crypto storage solutions

Kevin travels all around the world to help run the Bitcoin.com mining pool. He has some stories to tell; insights that will make you think differently about the health of bitcoin.

We talk to traders, coders, business developers, entrepreneurs all the time. The vague question "How is bitcoin doing?" .. We tend to weigh part of our answer on the price even if the metric takes on (way) too much importance.

But sometimes we forget about the miners. A fundamental part of the ecosystem, how do they see Bitcoin and crypto?

Kevin Zhang, our mining operations manager at Bitcoin.com, gave us a unique perspective:

Why governments are inviting bitcoin miners to expand operations there

Surprising facts about renewable energy consumption and costs

Could bitcoin miners take away electricity from citizens who need it?

Metrics that Kevin uses to judge the health of the bitcoin ecosystem

Is mining too centralized?

Why investment in mining is fundamentally different than a hedge fund buying a lot of bitcoin

The opportunity cost of producing mining chips and Samsung

Jimmy Song is back. And a shady Russian exchange "pumps" in a (brilliant) PR stunt? Plus, ViaBTC did an ICO. Will it pave the way for more mining tokens?

• The controversial tweet from Jimmy Song that everyone is talking about
• Nouriel Roubini and his testimony full of exaggerations and inaccuracies
• Binance's major move: donations instead of fees
• Pantera fund down 40%
• Yobit launching an aggressive campaign
• The first ICO on the bitcoin cash blockchain
• On oct, 13 a livestream of an altcoin being 51% attacked
• Unocoin is launching its own crypto ATMs in India

"Mess with a bull, you get the horns." Erik Voorhees breaks down Wall Street Journal's poor and unethical journalism. Plus studies on exchange security and crypto adoption.

• Report finds lax security on crypto exchanges
• Breaking down the 36% of lost and or stolen BTC
• SEC, CFTC, and FBI take action against 1Broker
• Beijing Sci-Tech Report (BSTR) accepts BTC
• Crypto ATMs supporting Bitcoin Cash are growing in Europe
• Meet Fabio and his BCH merchant adoption story
• Wall Street Journal attacks Shapeshift; Voorhees responds

Laws don't have to be harsh to be bad: sometimes they just need to be vague, or ambiguous, or to not exist at all.

• Confusing laws for crypto users in U.S.
• Frustrated crypto traders in India
• 1 in 4 millennials want to invest in crypto
• Chinese crypto adoption stats
• Coinbase has made a surprise mov
• Is Bitcoin becoming mainstream?
• A new bitcoin-based foundation
• Google will allow some crypto ads in US and Japan
• Bitmain has filed its initial public offering (IPO)

• A third of humanity remains financially excluded
• Money laundering in Danske Bank
• Netherlands' Largest Bank ING violated numerous money laundering laws
• Are Visa and Mastercard running a credit card cartel?
• The monopolistic tendencies in the trade of bitcoin and other crypto from Brazil's banks
• Japan's first major exchange hack in months
• A new platform allows people to create a custodian-free bitcoin trust

China Updates

• "A Crypto Newbie Prepares" the new book from Bitcoin tycoon Li Xiaolai
• Blockchain and crypto official WeChat accounts are getting banned with no clear agenda behind it

Welcome to another action-packed week in the never-sleeping, never-slowing world of cryptocurrency. Unlike the legacy financial system, bitcoin doesn't clock off at 5pm or on weekends.

• Ether at a 14 month low; BTC dominance rising
• SEC taking action against two cryptocurrency firms
• The confusing sales tax for bitcoin in the U.S.
• The Blockchain Association is ready to play in D.C.
• The world's dirtiest currency: USD
• IMF is pushing on the Marshall Islands
• Thai government wants its own crypto wallet

Is there finally clarity on the Satoshi Nakamoto mystery? Kelso sits in for Matt Aaron this week, and discusses how a wallet not touched for four years, containing hundreds of millions worth of BTC, is suddenly moving funds; BCH has an incredible stress test, and maybe there is finally hope for India's crypto enthusiasts; and much more news as well.

• More clues about Satoshi Nakamoto identity
• The Bitcoin Cash stress test results
• BCH getting Adoption Across Canada, Europe, Australia
• Iran approves Cryptocurrency Mining
• The new "beautiful" Russian cryptocurrency mining rig
• Venezuela's Petro is facing serious doubts about its viability
• Indian Officials are learning about crypto from regulators in Japan, the UK, and Switzerland