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The top stories and best shows in the blockchain world, delivered daily from the team at CoinDesk.
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- every day
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- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 3552
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
BREAKDOWN: The View From China: Crypto, Crisis and Digital Currencies Feat. Matthew Graham
When everyone wrote their 2020 crypto prediction pieces, China featured prominently in everything from the exchange business to enterprise blockchain to the potential impact of a forthcoming digital …
00:25:19 |
Mon 02 Mar 2020
LTB!: Coronavirus Impacts on Bitcoin (And the IRS's Dumb Singularity)
The best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Earlier this week the Let's Talk Bitcoin! Show gathered to discuss Coronavirus and its potential impacts or disruptions to the decentralize…
00:53:11 |
Sun 01 Mar 2020
BREAKDOWN: Understanding This Week's Market Whiplash, Feat. Scott Melker
After weeks of not reacting to Coronavirus, the markets took a profound turn for the worse this week, leading ultimately to the fastest correction - i.e. loss of 10% - in recorded history.
In this e…
00:24:02 |
Fri 28 Feb 2020
BREAKDOWN: A 101 Guide to Ethereum's ProgPOW Controversy
Last Friday on Ethereum’s core developer call, the devs agreed to push forward a controversial anti-ASICs consensus algorithm switch known as ProgPoW.
The broader Ethereum community was not pleased,…
00:25:11 |
Thu 27 Feb 2020
BREAKDOWN: Is Bitcoin a Safe Haven or 'Schmuck Insurance'?
Bitcoin is having a terrible, horrible, no good very bad day. Many are using the dump - which from a timing perspective aligns with a broader market selloff among Coronavirus fears - as a way to dimi…
00:19:22 |
Wed 26 Feb 2020
COINDESK EXPLAINS: Sim Card Hacks
In the pantheon of crypto hacks, “SIM jacking” is one of the worst. The hack, which is less a hack and more social engineering, is basically a form of identity theft, with the attacker swapping a vic…
00:06:22 |
Wed 26 Feb 2020
BREAKDOWN: 6 Explanations for Crypto's Fascination With Coronavirus
The spread of Coronavirus has dominated the news cycle across industries, but the discussion has been particularly fierce in both the finance and tech worlds, with crypto right in the lead.
For a mo…
00:22:56 |
Tue 25 Feb 2020
BREAKDOWN: Caitlin Long on Coronavirus, Crypto Custody and Building a Bank
An incredible amount of work has gone into convincing institutional investors that bitcoin and crypto should be on their radar. Now that many are convinced, however, they face some significant limita…
00:19:59 |
Mon 24 Feb 2020
LTB!: Decentralization Philosophy Part 2 - Does Crypto Still Need Catalysts?
The best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Earlier this week the Let's Talk Bitcoin! Show gathered to discuss catalysts and CEOS in the world of blockchain projects, the organization…
00:53:51 |
Sun 23 Feb 2020
LEIGH: 'Pandora's Box, but for Freedom': Author Isaiah Jackson on Bitcoin's Impact
Coindesk reporter Leigh Cuen is joined by Isaiah Jackson, author of “Bitcoin and Black America '' and co-founder of KRBE Digital Assets group, to talk about financial discrimination in the United Sta…
00:17:07 |
Sat 22 Feb 2020
BREAKDOWN: Why Today's Crypto Exchange Leaders Are Powerful, but Not Inevitable
After settling in to the $10,000 price level, BTC suddenly and rapidly dipped more than 5% in an hour on Wednesday. As the market discusses possible explanations, some floated the unexpected simultan…
00:12:48 |
Fri 21 Feb 2020
BREAKDOWN: Why We Should Stop Thinking of ‘Crypto’ as a Single Industry
The ‘crypto’ industry is having a hard time fitting everything that’s happening inside that one monolithic term. On this episode, @nlw looks at current news stories from across at least 5 different c…
00:15:53 |
Thu 20 Feb 2020
BREAKDOWN: Chainlink's Sergey Nazarov on What DeFi Can Learn From Early Exchange Hacks
The DeFi world continues to dissect the recent attacks on bZx. To most, the amount lost in the attacks is far less relevant than what the attacks suggest about how DeFi applications need to be design…
00:34:53 |
Wed 19 Feb 2020
BREAKDOWN: Is It Exploitation Season for DeFi?
Part of what makes DeFi interesting to people is how it takes advantage of open source protocols to enable types of transactions never before available. The problem, however, is that financial struct…
00:17:42 |
Tue 18 Feb 2020
LEIGH: How Bitcoin Is Used To Promote Human Rights, Feat. Stories from Activists and Refugees
CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen is joined by the Human Rights Foundation’s Alex Gladstein and Syrian entrepreneur Moe Ghashim to discuss how cultural context shapes the way people view bitcoin, includin…
00:39:06 |
Mon 17 Feb 2020
LTB!: Mainstream Moments and the CompuServe of Crypto
The best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. With the price of bitcoin headed up again, the idea of blockchains and digital currencies has never been more palatable to the mainstream. …
00:55:53 |
Sun 16 Feb 2020
RESEARCH: We Think 10-Minute Settlement Is Slow, but That's Crazy, Feat. CoinDesk Research's Noelle Acheson
CoinDesk's Head of Research Noelle Acheson joins Ophelia (Amun's co-founder and president) and Lanre (Amun's researcher) to discuss the advantages, disadvantages and eccentricities of crypto markets,…
00:35:03 |
Sat 15 Feb 2020
BREAKDOWN: The Top Narratives Driving Crypto Market Growth, feat. Travis Kling
There’s no denying that 2020 is off to a roaring start. From prices to volume to social media, sentiment is up up up.
But what’s driving it? On this special Valentine’s Day episode, @nlw reacts to l…
00:18:19 |
Fri 14 Feb 2020
INTERVIEW: US DOJ Calls Bitcoin Mixing ‘a Crime’ in Arrest of Software Developer
We're joined by CoinDesk senior reporter Leigh Cuen to discuss developments and implications in the case alleged against Larry Dean Harmon.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Califor…
00:05:32 |
Fri 14 Feb 2020
BREAKDOWN: The US Government's Mixed Signals on Digital Currency Privacy
To look at the US Government, it is the best of times and the worst of times for personal financial privacy.
On the one hand, in comments before the Senate Financial Services Committee, Treasury Sec…
00:21:15 |
Thu 13 Feb 2020
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