This Week in Bitcoin

• Li Xiaolai called creators of Binance, NEO, TRON and Qtum scammers
• Taiwan set up a Cross-straits Blockchain Alliance (CBA)
• Indian Supreme Court is not lifting cryptocurrency ban
• Israel's crypto regulations
• Ripple`s third lawsuit
• European Parliament's findings and recommendations
• Uzbekistan and its advances towards legalizing cryptocurrencies and implementing blockchain technology
• Coinbase Custody is now officially open for business
• The mainstream media (MSM) believes Satoshi Nakamoto is
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• Syscoin hacked
• Expedia has stopped accepting bitcoin (BTC)

Reina Nakamoto joins the show from Helsinki. A sharp game designer, she has been in the bitcoin world for a while. We discuss:

• What would happen if Satoshi moves his coins?
• The 00000000000000000021e800 overreaction
• Crypto on the Dark Web and the FBI investigating 130 related cases
• BTCChina exchange revealed that are opening back up for business
• Yakuza's involvement with crypto exchanges in Japan.
• US regulation, fighting the illicit use of crypto
• Facebook to allow cryptocurrency ads

The level of hype and funds invested in the project meant a soft launch was never going to be possible. Satoshi appears to have launched bitcoin alone, while EOS, on the other hand, has launched following a 4 billion dollar ICO.

• EOS and their launch troubles
• Bithumb hacked, 35 billion Korean won (around $31 million) in cryptocurrency was stolen
• South Korean government will strengthen the regulatory framework for cryptocurrency exchanges
• BTC and BCH trading are now supported on Japan's SBI Crypto Exchange
• North Carolina is adapting virtual currencies into its laws
• The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) launched a report that provides a critical appraisal of Crypto
• Schiphol Airport lets travelers swap leftover euros for Crypto on a new ATM
• Another real satoshi claim in Hawaii

This week we welcome Josh Ellithorpe, Senior Engineer at Coinbase. Josh added valuable perspective to this weekas news:

• Tether has been blamed for market manipulation, again
• A new order from the Japanese police that affects crypto mining
• Suspicious activity at South Korea's Coinrail exchange
• Ripple CEO shares his opinion about BTC
• CHINA: Blockchain technology to help the wine supply chain and fight counterfeiting.
• Twitter scams
• Epic virtual graffiti battle raging between BTC and BCH

A bullish week for Bitcoin. Banking, mining .. the infrastructure is starting to come together.

• Crypto exchanges versus the banks - if you can't beat them, join em
• Another claim to the real Satoshi?
• Bitcoin pizza guy talks about his relationship with Satoshi Nakamoto
• The future of the 20 trillion tax haven "industry"
• Bitmain has a serious challenger in the mining ring
• Brenna Sparks, a big believer in Bitcoin and blockchain speaks about cryptocurrencies and governments
• And a big China rumor

• A UK company trademarked the name Bitcoin and is slinging lawsuits
• A new website estimates the cost of a 51% attack on different cryptocurrencies
• Ripple trying to separate itself from XRP
• Weiss crypto ratings, who are the "winners"?
• The top 10 cryptocurrency exchanges from 2016 vs 2018
• South Korea's national legislature has officially proposed to allow domestic initial coin offerings

China updates

• OKEx users who bought futures and lost money threatening suicide
• Bitmain launched a BCH forum and users who make suggestions to improve the forum could receive BCH as a reward.
• The Hangzhou-based EOSFORCE team made a big announcement

Today we have the underground famous Andreas Brekken on the show and together we will talk about the most important news of the week:

• The Double Spend attack on Bitcoin Gold
• Small banks loves bitcoin
• Coinbase acquires decentralized DEX platform paradex
• Banco Masventas allow customers to settle in BTC as an alternative to Swift
• SEC announced its going after insider trading and illegal practices
• India is considering to impose a goods and service tax (GST) on cryptocurrency trades

China updates

• China's crypto rankings
• CCTV aired a segment Wednesday saying that the crypto market is a mess
• Shenzhen Municipal Office announced a partnership with Tencent for making blockchain-based invoices for international trade

Whatever you think of the SEC, it's consistently shown itself to have a better sense of humor, and to be more in touch with the zeitgeist then the rest of America's three-letter agencies put together.

We have a special guest - Joel from Bad Crypto joins us to deliver the news:

• The SEC has launched the best token sale of 2018
• Bitcoin Cash upgrades to 32MB block size without a hitch.
• How stable is a stablecoin if it pumps by 40%?
• Bitmain announced that they invested in Circle to issue USDCoin
• A look at Bitcoin vs Alt Coins on a 5 year window.
• CEO of Alibaba, says bitcoin is a bubble
• Is bitmain playing dirty?

Every week in the TWiB podcast, we try to thread together the week's top stories into some kind of a narrative.

This week, it's all about the big guns weighing in and saying their piece about bitcoin.

How big are we talking? We're talking Warren Buffett vs Elon Musk. In other news:

• Novogratz is turning to crypto
• Ripple is getting sued, among other problems with this "cryptocurrency"
• How many marriage proposals are on the bitcoin blockchain?
• Binance vs Sequoia
• EOS Block Producers in China
• Iranians are going abroad to purchase cryptocurrencies
• Bitcoin smart banknotes launched by company in Singapore
• Approximately 6.25% of the total bitcoin supply has been deposited with Xapo

Ryan Charles is the founder of Yours.org, a content platform powered by Bitcoin Cash micropayments.

He has been involved with bitcoin software since 2013, primarily coding on the application layer.

I asked Ryan to break down he May 15th hard fork and what it means for Bitcoin Cash.

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