Brandon Quittem published last week the fourth and final installment of his wonderful mycelium/mushroom/medicine/symbiosis series. John Vallis, host of the Bitcoin Rapid Fire podcast, and I both slid right into Brandon's DMs to schedule him for a pod. I love these two guys and it occurred to me that it'd be a ton of fun to do this thing all together. So we did. This is the first half of our 2 hour 40 minute conversation - you will find the second half on the Bitcoin Rapid Fire podcast feed. This was a blast, we had a wide ranging conversation that was not at all limited to Bitcoin. In the second half we get crazy cosmic so be sure not to miss it. [@CitizenBitcoin](https://twitter.com/CitizenBitcoin) on Twitter
Founded by Barry Silbert in 2015, Digital Currency Group (DCG) is a venture capital firm that invests solely in the digital currency industry. Digital Currency Group has three subsidiaries: CoinDesk, which was purchased in January 2016, digital currency brokerage firm Genesis Trading and digital asset management firm Grayscale Investments. Headquartered in New York City, DCG […]
Today's guest is one of my favourite people in the space Andreas M. Antonopoulos. We are going to talk about the adoption of Bitcoin, censorship and fake news, the use of Bitcoin in Zimbabwe, corporate and nation state digital currencies, why he does not believe in Austrian economics, why the so-called "left" does not embrace Bitcoin and more.
"When freedom is banned, only outlaws have freedom." - Andreas M. Antonopoulos
"Bitcoin, this system of open currency removes power from the few and gives it to the many." - Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a best-selling author, speaker, educator, and highly sought after expert in Bitcoin and open blockchain technologies. He is known for making complex subjects easy to understand and highlighting both the positive and negative impacts these technologies can have on our global societies. As an educator, his mission is to educate as many people as possible, in as many places as possible, in as many languages as possible, about Bitcoin and open blockchains.
BTSE, a Dubai-based cryptocurrency exchange, has upped the limit for its over-the-counter request for quote (RFQ) due to April's surge in bitcoin demand.
For tech-savvy young adults in communities often overlooked by traditional big business, the crypto and blockchain industry offers opportunities that others don't.
Arweave operates on the same idea as other blockchain-based file storage services such as Filecoin or Storj, but with far larger ambitions backed by new technical developments unveiled Wednesday as Arweave 2.0.
On March 12th Bitcoin fell by over 50% from ~$8,000 to ~$3,800. One day earlier, the World Health Organisation had escalated the evolving COVID-19 situation to pandemic status, and Bitcoin wasn't alone in this, markets around the world crashed.
The Coronavirus black swan event caused huge volatility which has been a critical concern held by many Bitcoiners about Bitcoin financial service companies. Critiques of these services have questioned what the impact would be of such an event on crypto-backed loans and whether they would lead to high default rates from borrowers. Would the risk management strategies put in place by companies such as BlockFi be robust enough?
Coronavirus would trigger the market collapse that would test the doubter's theories.
In this interview, I talk to Zac Prince and Flori Marquez, the co-founders of BlockFi, a bitcoin financial services business. We discuss how they manage high volatility, operating as a custodian and the state of the Bitcoin market.
Coinbase Custody to support Celo Gold (cGLD), Filecoin (FIL), Keep Network (KEEP), NEAR Protocol (NEAR) & Polkadot (DOT)
With over 300 clients and having topped more than $8 billion in crypto assets stored, Coinbase Custody is the world’s largest and most trusted institutional crypto custodian. Started in 2018, Coinbase Custody offers clients access to the secure, institutional-grade offline storage solution that has been used by Coinbase’s exchange business for more than seven years. Coinbase Custody is an independent legal entity regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services that is built on Coinbase’s crypto-first DNA. Coinbase Custody offers one of the most sophisticated and reliable crypto custody solutions in the world.
As our client base grows, we are proud to continue adding support for the assets our clients care about. Today, we’re announcing at-launch support for cGLD, FIL, KEEP, NEAR & DOT. This means that our customers will be able to safely store these assets on the Coinbase Custody platform from the moment each of these networks goes live.
Coinbase Custody also continues to provide staking infrastructure at launch for Proof-of-Stake networks, which includes Celo Gold, Keep Network, NEAR Protocol and Polkadot.
As the leading institutional crypto custodian, we are committed to supporting ecosystem development by enabling secure participation in all networks on our platform. Coinbase Custody recently launched Compound Governance and collaborated with Bison Trails for staking.
“For people who custody with Coinbase Custody, and want to stake with secure and highly available Bison Trails validators, this integration is a game-changer,” said Joe Lalloz, CEO of Bison Trails.
Asset Support*
Coinbase Custody now supports more than 50 crypto assets and we’re always adding more. We’re excited to welcome Celo, Filecoin, Keep Network, NEAR Protocol & Polkadot to the platform.
If you’re invested in any of these networks and are interested to store your tokens securely with Coinbase Custody, please visit custody.coinbase.com or get in touch.
About Celo
Celo’s mission is to build a financial system that creates the conditions for prosperity for everyone. Celo’s mobile-first platform provides the opportunity to bring open finance to the 5.6 billion smartphone owners around the world. Celo Gold is a utility and governance asset enabling participation on the Celo platform. Visit celo.org for more information.
“Celo, like Coinbase, has a mission to build an open financial system. We’re delighted that Coinbase Custody, as one of the most trusted and reputable organizations in the ecosystem, has decided to support custody of Celo Gold at launch.”Rene Reinsberg, co-founder of Celo
About Filecoin
Filecoin is a decentralized storage network and marketplace designed to store humanity’s most important information. Miners earn Filecoin tokens by renting open hard drive space, and clients pay miners to store and retrieve their data. Visit filecoin.io to learn more.
“As the Filecoin mainnet launch approaches, users are deciding which platform allows them to use FIL most easily. We’re thrilled that Coinbase Custody is providing secure custody for FIL. Coinbase has a great track record of building new, innovative tools for its users.”Juan Benet, Filecoin project founder
About Keep Network
Keep is a privacy layer for Ethereum. A “keep” is an off-chain container for private data. Keep helps smart contracts harness the full power of the public blockchain — enabling deep interactivity with private data. The Keep network, powered by KEEP tokens, handles custodianship for tBTC. Keep is a portfolio company of venture studio Thesis. Visit keep.network to learn more.
“We are thrilled Coinbase Custody will support KEEP tokens at launch. This comes at an exciting time for Keep as we build up to our June 8 ‘stakedrop’ where anyone can stake ETH and earn KEEP,”Matt Luongo, Keep project lead
About NEAR Protocol
NEAR’s mission is to enable community-driven innovation to benefit people around the world. NEAR provides a decentralized storage and compute platform that is secure enough to manage high value assets like money or identity and high performing enough to make them useful for everyday people, putting the power of the Open Web in their hands. The NEAR token is a utility which enables the use, operation and governance of the NEAR platform. Learn more at near.org.
“With NEAR on the home stretch of its MainNet rollout, having asset support from Coinbase Custody allows us to rest easy that token holders have one of the best available options for securing their assets as they are distributed.” — Erik Trautman, CEO of NEAR Foundation
About Polkadot
Polkadot is a sharded blockchain that connects several chains together in a single network, allowing them to exchange data securely and process transactions in parallel. In this way, Polkadot solves major scalability issues that have impeded blockchain development. Applications from decentralized finance and energy to IoT and gaming will thrive on Polkadot, challenging the centralized platforms of Web 2.0. Visit polkadot.network for more information.
“As we head into the launch of Polkadot, we are aligning with high-quality leaders in the crypto ecosystem to ensure the success of the protocol. Coinbase Custody is an industry leader and we look forward to collaborating with them throughout the phases of Polkadot’s decentralization and DOT token launch,” saidDr. Gavin Wood, President of Web3 Foundation and Founder and former CTO of Ethereum.
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Bitcoin’s Lightning network has a long way to go in terms of user experience. To tackle this problem, a standard known as lnurl is quietly gaining ground.
Silvergate Bank added 46 crypto customers in the first quarter and saw fee income and deposits increase from those customers because of “Black Thursday,” according to its earnings report released before market open on Wednesday.
Liberty activist and NH state senate candidate Carla Gericke joins Tatiana and Josh in the first part of the show to discuss coronavirus response in New Hampshire and nationwide, and why she believes the full lockdown was an unnecessary infringement of our rights. She also discusses her ongoing New Hampshire state senate campaign and her plans for this year's PorcFest.
Then, GIVE Nation co-founder and blockchain strategist Alyze Sam joins Tatiana to talk about Virtual Blockchain Week, a live streaming event featuring some of the biggest names in crypto (and Tatiana's performance at the after party), as well as her involvement with the charity organization GIVE Nation.
About the Guests:
Carla Gericke (JD, MFA) is an advocate of liberty specializing in localized voluntarism, self-determination, and how responsible human action can lead to peace and prosperity. She is president emeritus of the Free State Project, and lives in New Hampshire with thousands of fellow freedom fighters. In 2014, Carla won a landmark court case affirming the 1st Amendment right to film police encounters. She has appeared on WMUR, CNN, and Fox News, been featured in GQ and Playboy, been quoted in The Economist, and has discussed libertarianism on the BBC. She has visited more than 40 countries, hiked to the base camp of the 10th highest mountain in the world, lost a shoe in a taxi more than once, had her passport stolen in Goa, got kidnapped in Vietnam, and has noshed on more "mystery meat" street food than she cares to admit. Carla once spent an entire summer while working as in-house counsel at Logitech eating tuna fish sandwiches with Doug Engelbart (the Mother Of All Demos dude), she worked on Apple's acquisition of Steve Job's NeXT, and bought her first Bitcoin for $6. Carla co-hosts the Told You So podcast, and co-chairs Manch Talk TV. She serves on several non-profit boards, follows a Keto lifestyle (read about her transformation), practices yoga and shooting, and plays a mean game of Scrabble. Carla enjoys cooking, gardening, painting, reading, and watching documentary films. She has twice run for New Hampshire Senate, garnering 42% of the vote in 2018 against an 11-term incumbent, and believes in 2020, third time will be the charm! DONATE to her race TODAY! Carla's first book, The Ecstatic Pessimist, a collection of award-winning short stories, flashes, speeches, and essays is forthcoming next month. Show your support by pre-ordering the Amazon Kindle version of The Ecstatic Pessimist now!
Alyze Sam is a refreshing blockchain strategist, a novel educator, and vehemently driven advocate. First, dedicating her life to her patients in hospice nursing, Sam passionately embraced the world of financial technology after nearly losing her own life, not once, but twice! Sam feels her destiny lies within serving her community and assisting other 'underdogs' with love and education. She's achieving these dreams with roles as; Co-Founder and Chief Executive Assistant for GIVE Nation, a non-profit children's financial literacy AI/blockchain project which rewards altruistic behaviors. She's a Founder and Community Director of Women in Blockchain International and sits as an 'Social Impact Advisor' for blockchain nonprofits; Blockchance.eu & Women in Blockchain Foundation. Alyze has been an active participant and speaker in the internationally known Women in Blockchain community.
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DeFi protocol Keep Network has tapped Bison Trails to provide non-custodial staking services for tBTC, an ERC-20 representation of bitcoin (BTC) deposits.
CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz, who sponsored the Technology Advisory Committee and advocated for self regulation in the crypto industry, will leave his post by late October.
OpenLaw’s LAO, or “Limited Liability Autonomous Organization,” opened Tuesday for investors looking to compliantly earn returns on the next wave of Ethereum-based projects.
With the Bitcoin blockchain's once-every-four-years rewards halving now just two weeks away, some analysts are starting to fix their sights on the next upside target: $10,000.
Libra's revised whitepaper resembles clearinghouse certificates that the U.S. used to prevent bank runs before the Federal Reserve was created, a former IMF economist says.
Host Tom Shaughnessy talks to Arthur Breitman, Co-Founder of Tezos. In an all encompassing conversation, they discuss the pros and cons of proof of stake and proof of work networks; innovation vs competition; supply dynamics, thought experiments and more. Then, they have some fun discussing their shared interest in sci-fi through the lens of COVID-19, including whether Arthur believes we will colonize space or Antarctica first.
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The gold standard was a monetary system in which the value of countries currency was directly linked to the amount of gold held in reserve. Although not currently used by any government, it was once a widely used system.
A currency backed by a scarce asset such as gold prevents the government from printing more money without consequences.
In 1931 the Bank of England abandoned the gold standard '˜temporarily'; however, it never returned. Following Britains move to abandon the gold standard, a number of other countries followed suit.
In 1933, during the Great Depression, US residents began hoarding gold which led US President Roosevelt to order all gold worth over $100 to be returned to the federal reserve and exchanged for paper money.
The following year the price of gold, set by the US government, was increased to $35/once which, raising the feds balance sheet by 69%, marking the beginning of the end of the gold standard in the US.
In 1971 Nixon announced that the US would sever all ties between the dollar and gold and would no longer convert dollars to gold at a fixed value of $35., putting an end to any remnants of a gold standard.
WTF Happened in 1971 is a website that charts the economic impact and societal shift that has followed the abandonment of the gold standard.
In this interview, I talk to Ben Prentice and Collin, the creators of WTFhappenedin1971.com. We discuss the gold standard, the Bretton Woods Agreement, monetary policy, inflation and hyperbitcoinisation.
QuadrigaCX, you know the story: Dead CEO, $190 million of customer's funds missing, mismanagement, conspiracy. But where are we now in terms of making crypto clients whole?
Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is in his seventh year behind bars. His mom Lyn continues to campaign for his release, despite rough odds and no visitation rights during coronavirus.
The announced closure of one-man bitcoin startup Bittr may be the first of many in the Netherlands as contentious new AMLD5 regulations come into effect.
On today's show we've got a pair of interviews for you. First we speak withJohn Cantrell, the author ofJuggernaut, a new messaging layer 3 application being built on top of layer 2 lightning network, which is itself built on top of layer one bitcoin.It's a lot of layers, but as a technological concept currently in beta it's a fascinating project, and we talk about it.(Juggernaut on Github)
After the break we're joined again byAlex GladsteinofHRF.orgfor a discussion on political expediency in the age of pandemic and what crisis has revealed about various governments, and different types of governments around the world.Alex is one of my favorite returning guests, with his global human rights focused work taking him to some of the most interesting and most oppressed places around the world
"What's interesting is that citizen journalists I know in Taiwan have pressed the government on this and they've gone to parliament and it's all on record, and they've said 'Have these (...) digital contact tracing or cell phone surveillance things been useful?' And the governments said "Only in one case.... Only in one case was this sort of mass surveillance approach been useful', so they've actually been honest with the people... But at the end of the day it does teach us that even the most progressive governments are going to be lured by the sirens call of using surveillance to tackle problems." -Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer HRF.org
This episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin is sponsored byeToro.comand features content from John Cantrell, Alex Gladstein and Adam B. Levine. Todays show features music by Jared Rubens and Gurty Beats with editing by Jonas. Album Art original photo byGoh Rhy YanonUnsplash
In a time of increasing censorship aimed towards protecting us, is truly private messaging possible? Why are we using "data driven" approaches when we know the data is wrong? Juggernaut's John Cantrell and HRF's Alex Gladstein help us see what the crisis has revealed.
The machines that maintain the Bitcoin network have undergone rapid technological development. Here's a detailed look at that evolution and at what might lie ahead.
Bitfinex and Tether CTO Paolo Ardoino says he hopes pToken – a project he has assisted – will make it easier for retail USDT holders to swap their tokens from one chain to another.
In the lead-up to the next bitcoin halving event in May, some bitcoin miners are looking at leveraging what some describe as “surplus energy” to make operations even more cost-effective.
The SEC and Kik doubled down on their respective views of whether the 2017 KIN token sale was a securities transaction in new legal filings published late Friday.
With companies closing, unemployment rising and investors spooked in the age of the pandemic, NLW speaks with Swan BTC co-founder Yan Pritzker about the experience of launching a startup in the hyper-competitive world of Bitcoin.
Welcome to another episode of Proof of Love from quarantine. This week, Lauren and Tatiana discuss one of Lauren's hobbies: Tarot.
We know you all have a lot going on and are trying to make sense of it all, so the lovely Lauren graciously provides a reading for our listeners based on their zodiac elements. Don't know which element corresponds to your zodiac sign? We have you covered:
Fire Signs: Aries, Leo, Sagittarius
Earth Signs: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn
Air Signs: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius
Water Signs: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces
The ladies also discuss the Age of Aquarius and Lauren shares her eerily accurate experience with a psychic reading.
Listen in to hear what the cards say is in store for you and let us know on social media if your reading was accurate!
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With around a billions dollars locked in decentralized finance projects, the new data feed for cryptocurrency prices is aimed to help keep those funds secure.
Money printer go brrrrrrr. In a world inherently short of dollars, refusing to increase supply is anything but responsible and rational, says columnist Jill Carlson.
Oil futures crashed into negative territory, making bitcoin look like a beacon of stability. But what does the news really mean for the top cryptocurrency?
Announced today, the Blockstack testnet is open. Developers can now simulate the Stacks blockchain's new, hybrid consensus mechanism, which Blockstack calls Proof-of-Transfer (PoX).
Over the last two years the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ecosystem has rapidly expanded as a core use-case in crypto. Today, there are close to $1B in assets actively pooled in DeFi protocols and applications that offer a wide range of programmable financial services. In many of these protocols, there is a reliance on trusted price feeds, known as “Oracles”, that need to report on asset prices in order for the protocol to function. These prices are used for many things, including the construction of novel derivatives, algorithmic stablecoins or to liquidate debt positions.
There are two main approaches to making asset prices available for DeFi: publishing signed price data from an off-chain source like an exchange, or using prices from algorithmic decentralized exchanges (DEXes) such as Uniswap or Kyber. Unfortunately, both suffer from major problems. Using data from an off-chain source requires trusting the publisher to post correct prices and keep the signing key safe — the latter historically has proven to be a difficult problem, especially when stakes are high. Similarly, relying on DEX-generated on-chain feeds exposes protocols to various novel attack vectors yet to be fully explored.
Coinbase is one of the most trusted companies in the crypto space and a major part of our mission is growing the cryptoeconomy. A highly reliable price feed anchored into Coinbase’s secure infrastructure can help make the DeFi ecosystem safer, reduce systemic risks and unlock the next wave of growth and adoption.
Today, we are proud to announce Coinbase Oracle — a signed price feed that anyone can publish on-chain.
Starting today, anyone can use the Coinbase Oracle API to get signed price data for BTC-USD and ETH-USD markets. The price feed is sourced from Coinbase Pro — one of the most liquid crypto exchanges in the world — and updates each minute. Anyone can publish the prices on-chain and since the data is already signed by Coinbase’s private key, there is no need to trust the publisher. Using the Coinbase Price Oracle public key, anybody can verify the authenticity of the data.
“Coinbase Oracle will increase the security and decentralization of Compound’s price feed, which is mission-critical to the protocol and the ecosystem of applications built on top of Compound. We’re not alone — the rest of DeFi will benefit with faster development, consistent data, and shared standards.”
— Robert Leshner, Compound CEO
The Coinbase Oracle is secured by the same infrastructure that is storing large amounts of crypto assets on behalf of Coinbase customers. Our security experts developed many best-in-class key storage techniques — these same techniques are used to ensure the safety of the private key signing the Coinbase Oracle prices. In addition, the Oracle implements protections against exchange price manipulation or invalid data.
Once on chain, the data can be combined with other trusted sources and used by DeFi protocols to perform various functions such as lending, margin trading, collateral liquidations, derivatives and more.
“A Coinbase Price Oracle will be hugely impactful for the DeFi ecosystem — price oracles are used in every lending & derivatives protocol. Coinbase is uniquely positioned to provide oracle prices as they’re the most trusted and secure institution in the space. These prices can be used as an input to help create more decentralized and secure price oracles for the ecosystem.”
— Antonio Juliano, CEO of dYdX
Open Oracle
The payload returned by the API is designed to be compatible with the Open Oracle — a set of Ethereum smart contracts that the Compound team developed and open-sourced to facilitate standardization and interoperability between different sources of oracle price data.
Multiple publishers can submit prices from various sources to the Open Oracle smart contract. This data then becomes available on-chain for individuals and smart contracts who can choose which sources to include in the calculation of a median price returned by the oracle contract.
Data quality
For an oracle to provide a reliable price feed it is important to address various scenarios in which a data point to be signed does not reflect an actual market price of an asset. There are three layers in the Coinbase Oracle architecture designed to solve this:
Price source. We use the Coinbase Pro API as the source of the price data. Coinbase Pro is one of the most liquid crypto-exchanges in the world. There is already an ecosystem of oracles, market makers and traders that rely on an accurate data feed provided by the Pro API. As such, Coinbase is making continuous investments in the quality of the API itself, as well as the market, as measured by liquidity.
Off-chain filtering. The Coinbase Oracle implements a filtering mechanism that rejects data points that significantly deviate from the expected volatility of each asset.
On-chain filtering. Open Oracle’s `DelFiPrice` contract implements concepts of an ‘anchor’ source. Data points that significantly deviate from the last price reported by the anchor source are rejected.
Accessing Oracle API
You can learn how to access the free Coinbase Oracle price feed in the developer docs here.
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On this final episode of the Bitcoin in Africa series, we join Anita Posch as she travels to Botswana and speaks with Alakanani Itireleng on bitcoin's present and potential future in the "original home of the honey badger"
The food and beverage giants are among the restaurants and retail shops reportedly on a local government list for testing of China's central bank digital currency.
With bitcoin’s price drop and imminent halving, mining farms in China are struggling to fill slots despite the coming rainy season, when power is cheap.
Oil’s bounceback performance seems to be taking the driver’s seat in market activity. Bitcoin is also up, and ether’s price performance is even better.
"As the crypto industry makes progress toward Web 3.0, we'll come to realize that it's hard to beat the security and network effects of Bitcoin." - Muneeb AliAnother great article from Bitcoin Magazine, this one by the founder of Blockstack, Muneeb Ali, on the superior security and foundation that Bitcoin can provide to Web 3.0. How its perceived "limitations," may be what makes it the best foundation we could have. It also sparks a long Guy's Rant on the value of on-chain vs off-chain contracts, the doubts on the "tokenization of everything," & why smart contracts are only as good as the token they contract in (not the other way round).
This isn't to be missed. Check out the other great stuff at Bitcoin Magazine that I won't be able to cover, plus the original article with links to dig further in at the link below:
Italy's ANSA newswire is trialing an ethereum-based system to track every article it publishes in an effort to prevent impersonators from publishing fake news under its banner.
New research on issuances and flows of Tether and other stablecoins finds no systematic evidence that these assets drive cryptocurrency market movements.
Host Tom Shaughnessy talks to Jason Williams, co-founder of Morgan Creek Digital - a fund in the crypto space. Jason previously grew and sold FastMed, an urgent care provider for $500M and started Full Tilt Capital, a Venture Fund that deployed $18M into 63 deals.
On this episode we discuss
His take on COVID19 given Jason founded a massive urgent care business
Issues with the health ecosystem in the United States and what will change
The government's response to the crisis, including the payroll protection program (PPP).
What the new normal looks like after COVID19
The Bitcoin Halving that is coming up
Jason's investment thesis at Full Tilt Capital, his current thesis at Morgan Creek Digital, and what has changed thus far.
What Jason looks for in founders and why he would pass on an investment.
Convincing traditional entities, especially pension funds to invest in Morgan Creek DigitalSupport The Show
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