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” th

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. The tenth birthday of the bitcoin whitepaper Coinbase raises more money in a Series E The Bitstamp acquisition A Bitcoin trader going to jail Gab is blocked by Paypal and Stripe Cindy Wang with updates from China Maplechange loses funds. Was it a hack or a scam?  

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 cos

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