CoinTalk™️

🐧 We bought penguins (and lots of other crap) at the top📢 Davening on Discord🏀 John Wall's plagiarized NFT project

🚸 DOGE mania and why it's actually more respectable than a lot of Top 30 coins⛹️‍♂️ Selling .eth domains to NBA owners (Call me, Vivek!)💍 Aaron goes true believer on ETH while Jay returns to shitcoining💸 Aaron's new podcast about Quadriga and Gerald Cotten EXIT SCAM is out now 

 🙋‍♂️Haskmask mania🏦'Wut is Defi'🧠 Changing our minds about ETHFollow Ledger Status: https://twitter.com/ledgerstatus

🔮The crypto-influenced r/WSB degens do a 51% attack on Melvin Capital. Jay somehow bets the wrong way.👨‍🎨Jay buys a piece of original NFT art featuring E. Honda🎨 Aaron mints original CoinTalk loyalty badge NFTs which will someday be worth millions☾ With the GME incident, Epic Games saying they will open up to the blockchain, and more - is this the most bullish day ever for Ethereum?

Jay and Aaron reunite as Bitcoin crosses 35k and the inverse Kang line is breached:👮‍♀️ Bitcoin pumps as the Capitol is swarmed🏦 Aaron goes DeFi and speculates on Ethereum domain names⛏ Bitcoin mining options degen-ing    

🦝 How Aaron trapped a live raccoon👴🏻 Old coins on the move👮‍♂️ Justin Sun is a snitch

 💉  Remdesevir and the misaligned incentives of pharma-development💰 The Digital Dollar 🌍  How many dollars are there? How much money is there in the whole world?

🆔 Gov't issued bank accounts aka why is it so hard to give everyone $1200?🤿 How much surveillance would people accept in order to go outside?🇺🇸 Nation-states and the secession of California 

🦇 Bitcoin preppers vs. goldbug preppers🤦‍♂️ Blockchain elections🔪 The Halvening🍾  Thanks to all the fans who HODLed this feed 

🇨🇳 TRON's Justin Sun cancels on Buffett and apologizes to the Chinese authorities 💰 Bitcoin is up - we are just bad at trading 📝 Biggest surprise, disappointment, and excitement SEND US A LIGHTNING TIP (cmon) tippin.me/@cointalkshow CoinTalk is: @aaronlammer @jaycaspiankang

🦆 Trump finally tweets about Bitcoin... and Libra? 🐝 Betting odds on whether Libra ever launches 🧱 AOC says Libra is like coal-company 'scrip' 💦 Ethereum can't say Goodbye to Vitalik

🍭 Congress is surprisingly crypto-literate? 🍭 Yeah... how exactly is a Libra a non-profit? 🍭 Can the deplatformed still use Libra? 🍭 David Marcus' loss is Satoshi's gain @DavidZMorris Send us a Lightning tip: https://tippin.me/@COINTALKSHOW

💣 "Was Bitcoin Created by This International Drug Dealer? Maybe!" (Evan Ratliff, Wired, July 2019) 💣 "The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal." (Evan Ratliff, Random House 2019)

🥁 The advantages of decentralizing communities like Soundcloud's 🎤 Building on VC money vs. token money 🐖 Why Oink was the greatest music service ever

🇨🇭 Is Libra a 'false flag' operation? Will it ever launch? 🌋 Novogratz sold the top, Jay bought the top 😿 Craig Wright cries in court 🔮 Our updated 2019 "who is Satoshi' odds

♎️ You can't talk about Libra without talking about Bitcoin 💹 Price manipulation is back, baby! 🛴 Why all the exchanges are rooting for altcoins

Bison Trails @JoeLallouz

Goodbye Facebook, hello Libra.

💌 Brian Armstrong's open to letter for a (former?) friend 🌍 Facebook's GLOBALCOIN is debuting with a... .whitepaper? 📉 GLOBALCOIN is pegged to fiat currencies, so the only way to gamble on it is... buy Facebook stock?

🍔 Jay attempts to find his place in the XRP army 🍕 Justin Sun of TRON wins the auction for a lunch with Warren Buffett 🥗The "Bitcoin is going to go to zero" narrative grows stale Send us a Lightning BTC tip ! We also like XRP tips: @cointalkshow

🏸 We revisit the 5 reasons for Bitcoin's rise two weeks later after a flash crash and two rallies 🤴Jay explains why he bought Ripple 👨‍🔬 We discuss dumb trader psychology for the next bull run, having experienced the last run as newbs ourselves

⚡️ SEND US YOUR LIGHTNING TIPS 📠 How a big sell order on Bitstamp brought Bitcoin down to earth 🤯 Speculation on the intentions and methodologies of market manipulators 👮‍♂️ What constitutes illegal trading in crypto vs. traditional markets 🛰 Altcoins and the future of the Bitcoin dominance Ledgerstatus.com Ledger Cast

SEND US A LIGHTNING NETWORK TIP: https://tippin.me/@COINTALKSHOW (If you leave a message in the notes field, we will read it on the show!) 🤷‍♂️5 theories about why Bitcoin is ralling ranked 🍕 CZ is just curious if maybe we could use the crypto time machine to get back the $40 mil that Binance lost 📉 How to solve the problem of exchanges Thanks to Medium for making this show possible.

⛹️‍♂️ BTC rebounds hard off the Kang Line, reaching close to 2x 🏰 All your base are belong to FacebookCoin 🙈 Bitfinex::Tether as Garth Brooks::Chris Gaines 👮‍♂️ Crypto Capital's Reginald Fowler ripped Bitfinex off for $850mil, was caught with counterfeit $100s, is a flight risk AND used to own the Vikings

📕 "Radical Markets" (Eric Posner and E. Glen Weyl, 2018) ⓩ David Z Morris (BreakerMag archive) ⚡️ Send us a Lightning tip on tippin.me ⭐︎ Thanks to Medium for supporting the show. enter link description here

🕶 The mystique of CZ 🌴 Antiguan BSV assholes Craig "You Can't Prove I'm Not Satoshi" Wright & Calvin Ayre threaten a bunch of fake lawsuits and get themselves delisted 📹 PewDiePie leaves Youtube for DLive 🏀 NBA Playoff Gambling

Marty Bent from Tales from the Crypt comes on to talk: 🚨 Price signals at the office 🤷‍♂️The amorality of Bitcoin 💰 Jack Dorsey's bullishness and the future of the Cash app 🚗 Self driving cars and electricity as currency Thanks to Medium and the EU exchange XDAT.io for making this weeks show possible!

🌅 Is Alt Season finally here? Will the same alts from the last mania come back to life? 🆚 Is Bitcoin inherently ideological? 🤜 RIP Bitcoin enthusiast Nipsey Hussle and crypto in marginalized communities 📨 Maaaaaailbag LIghtning Tip us here: https://tippin.me/@COINTALKSHOW

🏦 Coinbase's volume is in the toilet and maybe we don't really need exchanges? 🍎 When your choice of bank is Apple (er, Goldman Sachs) vs. Bitcoin 🌤️ Satoshis are pretty cool Lightning Tip us here https://tippin.me/@COINTALKSHOW

🆘 Tether changes its TOS to show that it doesn't actually have the money 🎠 The bull case for Facebucks 🇳🇿 Bitconnect and the Christchurch shooting ("Making Sense of the New Zealand Shooter’s Mention of BitConnect" by David Z. Morris, BreakerMag) 🥴Send us a tip on the Lightning Network https://tippin.me/@COINTALKSHOW Transcripts: medium.com/cointalkshow Contact: hi[at]cointalk.show

🎓 The College Admissions scandal 🧳 Would a Bitcoin future be more or less corrupt? 🇰🇷Korean Chaebols 😶 How to disappear completely

🦹‍♂️ Coinbase acqui-hires (then fires) Neutrino, a blockchain analytics firm that previously sold spyware under the name Hacking Team 🎲 Can you buy a BTC button in Vegas? 🇳🇿Cryptopia re-opens and Aaron's $SUMO bag is still there!

🍇 Coinbase adds XRP 🗣 When ICOs snitch on themselves 🤖 Elon Musk and Bitcoin 🏦 JP Morgan Coin (JMP) and Programmable Centralized Stablecoins 🇻🇪 The Venezuela Op-Ed and Local Bitcoins

🎰 Hxro is "everything you love about trading Crypto, now as a game" 🎰 Players either short or long 5 minute BTC candles and the payouts are weighted by which side was more heavily (not) gambled on 🎰 Our friend Ledger Status tells us about how he won over 400,000 Hxro starting with 2,000 in the beta Hxro Ledgerstatus.com Thanks to Medium for making this show possible. Become a member for $5 month!

🧙‍♂️Litecoin goes MIMBLEWIMBLE 🦄Fluffypony's Tari lets you store unique items on a blockchain that is mined alongside XMR 🎟 What would Jay & Aaron actually like to collect digitally? ⚖️ Mark Yarm from BreakerMag talks about his feature on the #freeross movement Thanks to Medium for making this show possible. Become a member for $5 month!

🧧 GRIN fails to raise a salary for a single dev, Yeastplume 🧔Quadriga's CEO dies with the private keys for $190mil (OR DID HE!?!??!!?!) ⛏ We try to figure out how one currency could work across multiple games.

🤷‍♂️ Should Bitcoin change the financial system from within or without? 🕴 Ska-Punk vs. Ska-Pop 👮‍♂️ De-platforming

🔥 Fyre Fest's Billy McFarland is an icon for the ICO age 🎸 Is GRIN an industry plant? Why does everyone agree that no one should buy it yet? 📱 Would you use a crypto Venmo? ⚾ All Your Altcoins Are 'COMMON" Baseball Cards

Jay and Aaron return to talk: 🧙‍♂️Satoshi in the whitepaper : "we can a gain a territory of freedom for several years" Only several years? 🧙‍♂️GRIN and the MIMBLEWIMBLE protocol 🧙‍♂️Monero (XMR) makes a guest appearance on Fortnite and in the saga of a Norwegian kidnapping Thanks to Seed CX "the institutional platform for trading digital assets" for sponsoring this week's show.

CoinTalk returns in 2019 with our first ever live show, in which we consider Satoshi as a literary figure. Thanks to Iterative Capital for having us! Tales From the Crypt also did a live taping after ours and we highly recommend a listen. 💀 Listen to Marty Bent's Tales from the Crypt live episode 💰 i2 Trading is Iterative Capital's Over the Counter trading desk

JAN 3 IN NYC - 10th ANNIVERSARY OF THE MINING OF THE GENESIS BLOCK Podcasts by Marty Bent (TFC) and Lamme/Kang of Coin Talk $10 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bitcoin-10-year-anniversary-live-w-marty-bent-aaron-lammer-jay-kang-tickets-51666739609 🎱With a year wasted on Bitcoin podcasting under our belts, we revisit topics from past episodes and remember where the price was when we talked about them. 🎭How to disappear completely and then reappear as an ICO fraudster with a new beard: "Two identities, one man: the story of $800 million hedge fund fraudster Boaz Manor who led the alleged $31 million Blockchain Terminal ICO"

🎉 The Kang Line is crossed! Below 3300 we go. 🆓Did doorbuster giveaways on the Korean exchange Bithumb bring volume that artificially held the price of BTC at $6,000? 🚙 Our new game show "Would You Trade Your Car For 1 BTC?" Reading: 📚Crypto Exchange Bithumb Accused of Allowing ‘Wash Trading’ of Over $250 Million in Fake Volume 📚Crypto Exchange Bithumb May Have [Temporarily] Propped up Bitcoin Price: Analysts 📚Coinbase abandons its cautious approach with plan to list up to 30 new cryptocurrencies (Tech Crunch)

👋 STEEMIT (STEEM) layoffs and how crypto projects are weathering winter 💸 CVL stiffed its employees with inflated token promises 🗞 A study shows the media coverage of Bitcoin tipped from mostly positive to mostly negative in 2017 🏦 Erik Townsend from Macro Voices comes on to talk about govenment issued crypto Reading: Beyond Blockchain: The Death of the Dollar and the Rise of Digital Currency (Erik Townsend, 2018) Steemit Lays Off 70% of Its Staff, Citing Crypto Bear Market “I had to borrow money to pay my rent”: Civil’s tokenomics has left some of its journalists wondering where their salary is (Nieman Labs)

🛹 Craaaash!!! Wha happened..!??!?!!? 🍿Roger Ver (BCH ABC) vs. Craig Wright (BCH SV): Revenge of the Assholes Reading: "Nodes, Opcodes, and Satoshi’s Vision: Today’s Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork Explained" "Craig Wright's Angry Letter to Roger Ver: 'I AM Satoshi, Have a Nice Life'"

🗳Crypto's most influential figures set aside their differences to encourage everyone NOT to vote ☄️ Initiative Q is the ponzi mailing list scheme that juuuuust might work 🥳 This episode is short because we taped an introductory segment right before the crash in which we complained about how boring stable BTC has been. Oops! We cut it so we could pretend it never happened. Next episode will be about the crash!

Aaron & Jay download the Brave browser and attempt to use the 25 BAT that come with it.

Aaron & Jay discuss old tweets, altcoin hypocrisy, and what standards we should hold our crypto influencers to. Plus: some hot TI-82 takes.

Actor-poker degen Doug Kim returns from North of the Wall to talk about the long winter, alt-hopium, and whether anyone actually knows anything about crypto.

💾 Aaron & Jay finally get around to talking about the failed Civil (CVL) token sale. 💸 Tether ceases to be a stable coin

Nick Paumgarten comes on to talk about his new crypto piece in The New Yorker and Aaron proposes a Talk of the Town about Sumokoin.