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The top stories and best shows in the blockchain world, delivered daily from the team at CoinDesk.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 3552
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
LTB!: Bailouts, Bitcoin, Disruption, Failures and Hope
On today's episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin we're discussing the coming bailout-everything regime in a topic that's both extremely timely but is also what originally forced many long-term bitcoin enthu…
01:05:43 |
Sun 22 Mar 2020
LEIGH: How Bitcoiners Can Protect Their Mental Health During The Coronavirus Crisis
CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen is joined by cognitive economist Leigh Caldwell, author of “The Psychology of Price,” to talk about mental health and cryptocurrency in a time of coronavirus crisis.
Peo…
00:16:12 |
Sat 21 Mar 2020
BREAKDOWN: State Power After Coronavirus, Feat. Peter McCormack
Peter McCormack is the host of What Bitcoin Did and the Defiance podcast. He recently returned from travel to a number of countries in South America including Venezuela and Colombia as well as the Tu…
01:14:48 |
Fri 20 Mar 2020
BITCOIN IN AFRICA: The Ubuntu Way (Zimbabwe)
In this 1st part of the “Bitcoin in Africa” podcast documentary series, join Anita as she learns about the current living situation of Zimbabweans and the country's political history. Combining on-th…
00:48:24 |
Thu 19 Mar 2020
BREAKDOWN: Can Open Source Networks Address Medical Shortages? Feat. Bruce Fenton
In his daily Coronavirus press briefing today, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said “our main scramble now is ventilators.” The state anticipates that within 45 days, it could need 37,000 ventilators.…
00:40:30 |
Wed 18 Mar 2020
BREAKDOWN: Why Bitcoin Is the Only Truly Free Market, Feat. Dan Tapiero
President Trump and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin announced a significant slate of upcoming stimulus measures, including deferred taxes and direct payments to Americans (although those details rem…
00:41:16 |
Tue 17 Mar 2020
BREAKDOWN: Can $700B in Quantitative Easing Calm the Markets? CoinDesk's Michael Casey and Noelle Acheson Discuss
Over the weekend, the Fed decided it couldn’t wait for Wednesday’s planned meeting to act, cutting interest rates to nearly 0%. It also announced $700 billion of direct capital injection through the …
00:24:39 |
Mon 16 Mar 2020
LTB!: Consensus Oracles and 'Anything That Can Be Decentralized Will Be Decentralized' 6 Years Later
The best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Last week the Let's Talk Bitcoin! Show gathered to discuss a new consensus driven approach to DeFi oracles and to revisit Johnston's Law (a…
00:34:39 |
Sun 15 Mar 2020
LEIGH: Udi Wetheimer on Real Bitcoin Use and Cyperpunk Myths
The cypherpunk movement has expanded far beyond the 2,000 people who subscribed to mailing lists in the 1990s. In 2018, Entrepreneur reported there are more than 8,000 posts on Bitcointalk every day,…
00:59:40 |
Sat 14 Mar 2020
BREAKDOWN: What Happens When Currencies Fail? Feat. Preston Pysh
Massive and novel government intervention in markets is now a foregone conclusion, but what happens to bitcoin as the dust settles?
Description
Yesterday, the Federal Reserve announced more than a …
01:07:21 |
Fri 13 Mar 2020
BREAKDOWN: 6 Good Reasons for Bitcoin HODLers to Stay Calm
The Coronavirus got really extra real today for markets. A two and a half week selloff was tipped to the next level by a major ratcheting up of action from the US government (which still seemed clear…
00:16:06 |
Thu 12 Mar 2020
BREAKDOWN: Ben Hunt on Markets and Narratives in the Age of Coronavirus
The week of February 12, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was reaching new all time highs. Meanwhile, China’s quarantine of the 11 million people in Wuhan was three weeks old and expanding to other p…
00:58:15 |
Wed 11 Mar 2020
BREAKDOWN: Crypto Fundraising and a Nothing-Is-Safe Haven
Whatever you thought of the uncorrelated or safe haven narratives a few weeks ago, it’s hard to deny that bitcoin and crypto are moving in lock step with equities - even mirroring a small bounce in t…
00:14:13 |
Tue 10 Mar 2020
BREAKDOWN: What the Market Crash Means for Bitcoin, Feat. Delphi's Kevin Kelly
Bitcoin’s price has cratered, but it’s nothing compared to the broader market havoc. From the Coronavirus scare to an oil price war, a confluence of factors is aligning to make it a very rough Monday…
00:33:44 |
Mon 09 Mar 2020
LEIGH: Leader to Watch: Elena Giralt Talks Zcash and Feminism
CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen is joined by Elena Giralt, the Electric Coin Company’s product marketing associate known for her research on cryptocurrency usage in Latin America, to talk about how digi…
00:23:50 |
Sat 07 Mar 2020
BREAKDOWN: FluffyPony on Encryption, Clearview and How Coronavirus Could Impact Privacy
As the Coronavirus took hold in China, officials in the Hubei province tracked potential patients by examining purchase records for cough and flu medicine for the previous month.
Welcome to the new …
00:31:42 |
Fri 06 Mar 2020
LEIGH: Binance US and Stellar CEOs Debunk Myths for International Women’s Day
CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen is joined by Binance US CEO Catherine Coley and Stellar Development Foundation
CEO Denelle Dixon to debunk myths about gender for International Women’s Day.
There’s a c…
00:29:45 |
Fri 06 Mar 2020
BREAKDOWN: Why Bitcoin Mining Might Be the New Business Model for US Power Plants
It was another good day for global crypto, as South Korea votes to formally integrate the industry into the existing financial system, opening the market to new players and potentially improving serv…
00:15:52 |
Thu 05 Mar 2020
BREAKDOWN: Libra Plus? A New Global Digital Currency Strategy for Facebook
Yesterday, The Information reported that Facebook’s Calibra wallet would be abandoning the backed-by-a-basket-of-currencies Libra for a set of fiat-backed digital currencies for different regions. Th…
00:15:59 |
Wed 04 Mar 2020
BREAKDOWN: Super Tuesday Special: What Us Election Outcome Is Best for Bitcoin?
Today is Super Tuesday - the biggest day of the US primary election season. Increasingly, prediction markets and pollsters suggest it’s a two person race between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders (althoug…
00:24:55 |
Tue 03 Mar 2020
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