Cointalk

We talk mini-bounces, Bitcoin ETF hype, the Chinese mining business is a good business, and Doug returns from the World Series of Poker for a trip through altcoin nostalgia. Thanks to the Techeme Ride Home podcast for sponsoring the show! And thanks to our partners at Medium.

Jay and Aaron talk about the coverage of Augur assassination markets and Aaron loads up his Metamask account with REP to make a live betting market based on whether the Trump pee tape will come out. Then Aaron interviews @Coinyeezy and @NonDualRandy about making crypto products that people can actually use like Honeyminer, which you can use to mine with a spare computer.

Jay & Aaron download Augur, sync the ETH blockchain, and place their first bet on the decentralized prediction market. Download Augur

A book excerpt ("Duality") purportedly from a memoir by Satoshi Nakamoto appeared online. Aaron & Jay do a close read and guess what the real Satoshi has actually been up all these years. Show Notes What Does Crypto Care if Zooko Is a Millionaire? (CoinDesk) Did Satoshi write this book excerpt? (Wired) Duality: An Excerpt (Nakamoto Family Foundation)

WIRED's Gideon Lewis-Kraus visits the crypto cave to discuss his cover story on the tragicomic scandal that is Tezos and how well-intentioned projects can end up just as troubled as scams. Show Notes "The Economic Limits of Bitcoin and the Blockchain" (Eric Budish, University of Chicago Booth School of Business) Gideon Lewis-Kraus Tezos (XTZ) Tezos: Inside the Crypto World's Biggest Scandal (WIRED, June 2018)

Most of the miners you'll encounter are secretive and eager to discourage you from getting into mining. Not Chris Dannen–he's a former journalist and the author of two books on Ethereum who now runs Iterative Capital, a crypto fund that runs multiple mining facilities.

⚰️ Aaron buries his first love $SUMO

The Fake Internet Money Book Club returns with our second episode on "The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking" by Saifedean Ammous.

Laura Shin vs Ripple Inc.: Who the hell are these XRP Stans? Coins in Pop Culture: HBO's Silicon Valley ICOs Post-Apocalyptic BTC Spec Scripts: The Bunker with $10 Billion in Bitcoin (Bloomberg)

We talk to Brady Dale, who covers ICOs and more for CoinDesk, plus: the BTC-ransoming of aaronlammer.com Stephon Marbury's Chinese "sports blockchain" Kanye mentions Bitcoin and the market doesn't care Japan moves to ban privacy coins from exchanges the CFTC wants YOU to snitch (on ICOs) the IBM blockchain commercial that plays during the NBA playoffs as a form of torture.

How blockchain was deployed to combat Chinese censorship in a #MeToo moment Whether Ether is a security (Preston Byrne) No, ether is not a security. (Peter Van Valkenburgh, Coin Center) Coinbase CEO just retweeted that 0x has done more for ethereum than any ICO. (Reddit) 0x Protocol: 0x is an open, permissionless protocol allowing for ERC20 tokens to be traded on the Ethereum blockchain. Fake Internet Money Book Club #1: The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking (Saifedean Ammous)

Poker shark / actor Doug Kim returns to the show PLUS: Cambridge Analytica-coin crypto-weed why alts hurt at tax time the mysterious hackings of crypto-personalities like Ian Balina