Blockchain Insider Podcast by 11:FS
227 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsBlockchain Insider, hosted by Mauricio Magaldi and Cuy Sheffield, is a dedicated podcast specialising in crypto, blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT). Make it your home for cryptocurrency news!
Since the price of Bitcoin has rocketed, and Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin have become household names, Blockchain Insider has charted their rise in a way that's accessible to new listeners.
Blockchain Insider is putting out 2 episodes a month - one news show looking at all the biggest news in the sector, and the other an insights show where we deep dive into a particular subject, topic or trend in the industry.
Whether you're a cryptocurrency expert or you've been avidly following its rise from afar and need to know more - this is the podcast for you!
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Ep. 73. The SEC won't let crypto be
November 22, 2018 15:30 - 44 minutes - 35.5 MBSimon's in the studio with Adi Ben Ari, Founder of Applied Blockchain. First up, the SEC settles Securities Registration charges against 2 ICO startups. The SEC’s announcement centred on two firms: CarrierEQ Inc., also known as Airfox, and Paragon Coin Inc., both of which conducted token sales last year. Airfox raised $15 million through its sale, while Paragon raised $12 million. After Friday’s SEC actions, experts say ICO party ‘Is truly over’. U.S. regulator stated that “there is a path to...
Ep. 72. The code you write has consequences
November 15, 2018 15:30 - 1 hour - 30.7 MBSimon's in the studio with Teana Baker-Taylor from the GDF and Patrick Mang, Innovation Lead for Global Markets at HSBC. First up, China Lifts Bitcoin Ban; Individuals and Businesses Can Now Own Cryptocurrencies Legally. Bitcoin (BTC) is now recognized as a legal asset to be owned, transferred and utilized as a medium of payment for goods and services in China as decreed by the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration after ordering the Bitcoin ban in 2017. Fake News: China Did Not End it...
Ep. 71. Initiative Q who?
November 08, 2018 15:30 - 43 minutes - 34.6 MBSimon and Colin are in the studio with Alex Batlin, Founder and CEO of Trustology. First up, Bitcoin turns 10. Halloween 2008 Bitcoin was born, although it wasn't traded until a couple of years later we take a look at what BTC has given us in the last 10 years, if it's here to stay and what's in store for the future of Bitcoin. Why “the Institutionalization of Cryptocurrency” is a paradox. Jackson Palmer writes that If you stay up-to-date with the cryptocurrency news cycle, a recent trend yo...
Ep. 70. Panel featuring Brent McIntosh from US Treasury and an interview with Marco Santori from Blockchain
November 01, 2018 15:30 - 55 minutes - 44.2 MBLive from Money20/20 USA, we start this episode with an in-depth interview with Marco Santori on where the crypto industry is right now. We also have a panel on the relationship between crypto investors and regulators. Regulation is evolving but remains patchy, with uncertainty on issues ranging from exchanges and ICOs to securities laws. As institutional players move into crypto, these issues have taken on a new urgency. Tanaya Macheel from Cheddar, Marco Santori, the "Dean of Blockchain la...
Ep. 69. Beanie baby traders
October 25, 2018 14:30 - 45 minutes - 36.8 MBSara is in the studio with Noelle Acheson, Editor at Coindesk, Vinay Gupta, CEO at Mattereum, Teana Baker-Taylor, on the Advisory Board at GDF. First up, Two-thirds fail cryptocurrency agents exam. Under the Virtual Financial Assets (VFA) Act coming into force in November, financial services practitioners looking to act as agents in the field, which includes cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, had to undergo a short training course and sit for an exam, the first of which took place in September. S...
Ep. 68. Tether the unstable coin plus a fireside chat with Blythe Masters
October 18, 2018 14:30 - 1 hour - 42.1 MBSimon and Sara are in the studio with Hugh Karp, Founder of Nexus Mutual. First up, Fidelity launches company to facilitate crypto trading. Fidelity has launched a company to facilitate cryptocurrency trading for hedge funds, endowments and family offices. The Boston-based investment giant said it would offer institutional investors access to “enterprise-quality custody and trade execution services” for cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin or ethereum, as a first step towards creating a full pla...
Ep. 67. The CEO of Binance is [so] hot right now
October 11, 2018 14:30 - 56 minutes - 44.9 MBSimon's in the studio with Joon Ian Wong, Managing Director for Europe and Asia at Coindesk, Claire Wells, Director of Legal & Business Affairs EMEA at Circle, and Aman Kohli, CTO of Financial Services and Insurance Practice at Microsoft. First up, Circle eyes crypto securities bid with crowdfunding site acquisition. Circle is reportedly moving to acquire SeedInvest, a crowdfunding platform for startups. Their acquisition will – if approved by regulators – open to the door to allowing startup...
Ep. 66. Blockchain Live: Interviews (featuring Blockchain.com & Chorum)
October 04, 2018 14:30 - 1 hour - 41.9 MBToday's episode is a little bit different. Simon and Colin interviewed some great guests at Blockchain Live to get an insight into what's happening in blockchain straight from the experts. We speak to: Garrick Hileman, Head of Research at Blockchain Xen Baynham-Herd, Head of Strategy and Lead Economist at Blockchain Joanna Hubbard, Co-Founder of Electron Rhian Lewis, Founder of London Women in Bitcoin David Williams, CEO at Chorum Richard Crook, CTO at Chorum Ben Wyeth, Senior Innovation Engi...
Ep. 65. Blockchain Live
September 27, 2018 14:00 - 43 minutes - 30.4 MBSimon and Colin are live at the Blockchain Insider stand and sat down with a great guest, Teana Baker-Taylor, CMO at Coinfloor. We also have an exclusive interview with Dan Larimer, CTO of Block.one and Brendan Blumer, CEO of Block.one. First up the panel takes a look at New York AG report faulting crypto exchanges for manipulation risks. The New York Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has released a report on cryptocurrency trading platforms, finding that many are vulnerable to market mani...
Ep. 64. Bitcoin Moons in Argentina
September 20, 2018 14:30 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBColin and Sara are in the studio with Noelle Acheson, Editorial Producer at Coindesk and Tim Swanson, Founder and Director of Research at Post Oak Labs. First up, the group takes a look at a U.S. Judge stating that Initial Coin Offerings are covered by securities law. A federal judge has ruled that U.S. securities laws may cover an initial coin offering, handing the government a legal victory in its effort to regulate billions of dollars in cybercurrency offerings much like stocks. The rulin...
Bonus: Interview with Richard Brown and Mike Hearn at CordaCon
September 18, 2018 14:30 - 39 minutes - 31.4 MBThis is an extra special bonus episode of Blockchain Insider as in this interview with Richard Brown, CTO of R3, Simon and Colin talk to him about how they first encountered Bitcoin and the start ofthe blockchain phenomenon. They also look at what blockchain, in the Corda sense, brings to the world that was missing before, how open source blockchain holds the potential to change industries across the world and how to represent real world assets on the blockchain. The four also talk about bloc...
Ep. 63. Chickens on the Blockchain
September 13, 2018 14:30 - 1 hour - 48.2 MBColin's back in the studio with Simon and they're sat with Ville Sointu, Head of Emerging Technologies at Nordea Bank. First up, the panel takes a look at Coinbase exploring a crypto ETF, and it has sought help from $6 trillion Wall Street giant BlackRock. Coinbase is looking to create an exchange-traded product tied to crypto, as a way to allow retail investors to gain access to the volatile market. The firm in recent weeks has held conversations with members of BlackRock's blockchain workin...
Ep. 62. Religiously HODLing
September 06, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 46.2 MBSara is with Olivia Vinden, Director at Alpha FMC, Obi Nwosu, CEO and Founder of Coinfloor, and Richard Burton, CEO and founder of Balance Software. First up the panel looks at a16z back blockchain project Dfinity's funding round. Decentralized cloud startup Dfinity just raised $102 million to further its work in developing an "internet computer". Dfinity hopes to launch its world computer, what it refers to as "the cloud 3.0," by creating a scalable network that is more efficient than proof-...
Ep. 61. FOMO is Not an Investment Strategy
August 30, 2018 14:00 - 57 minutes - 39.8 MBSimon and Sara are with Aman Kohli, CTO of Financial Services and Insurance Practice at Microsoft and Ryan Radloff, CEO at Coinshares. First up the panel looks at What an SEC Bitcoin ETF rejection review really means. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Thursday that nine bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) disapproval orders are to be stayed until further review. The aftermath of the Bitcoin boom and the hard lessons for cryptocurrency investors and whether crypto is ...
Ep. 60. DLT is faster than your post trade
August 23, 2018 14:30 - 53 minutes - 37.2 MBSimon and Sara are with Teana Baker-Taylor CMO of Coinfloor, Michele Curtoni, Director of Digital Assets, Blockchain at State Street, and Alex Hern, Technology Reporter at the Guardian to go over the biggest blockchain stories of the week. First up the panel looks at ASX's declaration that a new DLT system could save billions. The Australian Securities Exchange could save as much as $23 billion in its effort to replace its settlement system with a distributed ledger, its CEO announced Thursd...
Ep. 59. Why You Should Still Care About Tokens
August 16, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 42.5 MBSimon is with Anthony Macey, Martin Bartlam, Partner and International Group Head of Finance & Projects and Fintech Global Co-Chair at DLA Piper, Noelle Acheson, CFA and Editorial Producer at Coindesk, and Todd McDonald, Co-Founder and Head of Partnerships at R3, to go over the biggest blockchain stories of the week. First up the panel looks at crypto unicorn, Bitmain considering $18 Billion IPO, one of the world's largest. The cryptocurrency mining company is filing for an initial public off...
Ep. 58. Buying Frappuccinos with Bitcoin
August 09, 2018 13:00 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MBSimon and Sarah are with Teana Baker-Taylor, CMO at Coinfloor. We also have a great talk with Jeff Bandman, Principal at Bandman advisors, to take us through the biggest story of the week. First up we hear from Jeff Bandman on the world’s biggest stock exchange operator launching a Bitcoin market. ICE (the owner of NYSE) made the groundbreaking announcement on Friday, revealing that the new platform — Bakkt — has been developed in partnership with a variety of blockbuster names, including Mic...
Ep. 57. Assassination Markets & WTF ETFs
August 02, 2018 13:00 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBSimon's with Noelle Acheson, CFA and Editorial Producer at Coindesk, Vinay Gupta, Founder of Mattereum, and Stephane Malrait, MD Global Head of Market Structure and Innovation for Financial Markets at ING. We kick things off with a potential U.S. Bitcoin ETF launch in 2018, widely anticipated as a catalyst to jolt Bitcoin out of its bear market, an ETF launch for the cryptocurrency in the U.S. this year is unlikely, in Bloomberg’s view. The SEC is increasingly sensitive to public opinion and ...
Ep. 56. Is Bitcoin back?
July 26, 2018 13:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBSarah's with Joon Ian Wong Managing Director for Europe and Asia at Coindesk and Aaron Stanley, Strategic Communications Lead at Sweetbridge to talk about the latest news, including: Police Confiscate some Bitcoin, Coinbase gets political, and Return of the Bitcoin We kick things off with Surrey police force obtaining 295 bitcoins last October after arresting a Latvian man, who has since been convicted for money laundering and sentenced to nine years in prison. Police since sold the assets fo...
Ep. 55. Unlocking Institutional Capital in Crypto
July 19, 2018 13:00 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MBSarah and Sara go through a run down of the latest crypto news including: Blackrock explore bitcoin, Block.one close a ‘strategic investment round’, and will there be Major League Baseball Crypto? We kick things off with Blackrock beginning to explore bitcoin. BlackRock has set up a group made up from different parts of the business to investigate cryptocurrencies and their underlying infrastructure to investigate how the $6.3 trillion asset manager can take advantage of the fast-growing cryp...
Ep. 54. Is Crypto Going Mainstream?
July 12, 2018 13:00 - 50 minutes - 35.2 MBSimon and Sara sit down with Noelle Acheson Coindesk, Editorial Producer and Joon Ian Wong, Coindesk, Managing Director Europe/Asia to discuss the latest blockchain news, including: Todd McDonald had a Corda, The FCA is letting Blockchain play in their sandbox, and Coinbase get their custodial party started. We kick off with Binance eyeing a $1 billlion profit with a few discussions on why Binance is bothering to release this information now. And how with such a fragile market they may not be...
Ep. 53. Is Anyone Doing Decentralisation Right?
July 05, 2018 14:30 - 46 minutes - 32.3 MBSarah and Sara sit down with Maya Kumar, Head of UK & Ireland for Luno to discuss the latest blockchain news, including: EOS & IOTA come under scrutiny, SolarisBank launches Blockchain Factory, and are Facebook going to acquire Coinbase? Simon also has a great interview with Peter Grosskopf, CTO of Solaris Bank to talk through the launch of Blockchain Factory. All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best t...
Ep. 52. Cryptowinter is Coming......or Not?
June 28, 2018 15:00 - 50 minutes - 35.6 MBSarah sits down with Pete Rizzo, Editor at Coindesk and Anastasia Andrianova, CEO of Akropolis to discuss the latest blockchain news including: Stellar looking to acquire Chain, US Secret Service on Anonymous crypto, and #21e800. All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show! We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe! Want to join the...
Ep. 51. ETH Passes Dowey Test, Ripple isn’t ready and is Bitcoin Un-Tethered?
June 21, 2018 15:00 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBSimon and Taylor sit down in the WeWork Aldgate offices in London to catch-up and have some very emphatic discussions on the latest blockchain news. Colin also interviews Stephen Palley, Partner at Anderson Kill. All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show! We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe! Want to join the conversation on...
Ep. 50. Amber Baldet Goes Over Clovyr, EOS Launch Woes, And Ripple Gets Sued Again
June 14, 2018 15:00 - 57 minutes - 53.4 MBSimon sits down with Amber Baldet, CEO and Co-Founder of Clovyr in the 11:FS offices in WeWork Aldgate in London for our landmark 50th episode of Blockchain Insider. We bring you an interview with crypto queen Amber Baldet, Ripple under security scrutiny yet again, and the EOS Mainnet nightmare. All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show! We hope you enjo...
Ep 49. Live from Money20/20 Europe: Interviews With Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and Brad Zastrow from Dash
June 07, 2018 15:00 - 31 minutes - 27.3 MBWe kick things off with the Blockchain portion of our live show from the Arena Stage, by talking cargo on a blockchain! Can companies revolutionise their shipping systems by utilising the technology? Find out what the team had to think about the Maersk x IBM pilot! Are we just doing old things using new technology? Next up, Binance announce a $1 billion investment fund! A drop in the ocean for them, but find out what our great panel think about the massive margins Binance work with, and what ...
Ep. 48. Tokenising the World, Bitcoin Price Probe and EOS Security Issues
May 31, 2018 15:00 - 45 minutes - 39.7 MBFirst up, the US launch a probe into Bitcoin price manipulation (shock). Spoofing and fake buy/sell orders among a flurry of other illegal practices are what the justice department are focusing on. A long time coming some would say... Next up, tokenisation, tokenisation, tokenisation. IHS Markit, the market infrastructure giant, is developing a new blockchain-based system to handle the payments leg of syndicated loan trading – and eventually, a wider range of financial transactions. Is this o...
Ep. 47. Circle the Bitcoin Unicorn with R3 CTO Richard Brown
May 24, 2018 15:00 - 49 minutes - 40.5 MBColin G. Platt is back in our offices talking to Pete Townsend, CEO and Founder of Norio Ventures, and Richard Brown, CTO of our Lead Sponsor for Blockchain Insider, R3. The trio discuss Circle's status as a bitcoin unicorn, Consensys collaboration with Amazon, and the SEC's brilliant Howeycoin ICO. All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show! We hope you e...
Ep. 46. A General Consensus
May 17, 2018 15:00 - 43 minutes - 36.5 MBSarah Kocianski sits down with Oscar Williams-Grut, Senior Reporter at Business Insider to discuss Amber Baldet's new startup, HSBC make waves with soybeans, and Citizen Reserves fires tokens at the international defence industry. Simon also meets with Pete Rizzo Editor of Coindesk for an interview. All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show! We hope you ...
Ep. 45. Taylor-Copeland Lawsuits Send Ripples Through XRP’s Security Status
May 10, 2018 15:00 - 33 minutes - 28.3 MBOur hosts take an in-depth look on the most interesting news in blockchain this week. Focusing on: what impact the SEC's decision on Ethereum will have on ICOs, Ripple being sued for security violations, and the likelihood of Fedcoin. All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show! We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe. Want to jo...
Ep. 44. Deutsche Wish Your Profit Was Hot Like Binance
May 03, 2018 15:00 - 52 minutes - 43.3 MBOur hosts take an in-depth look on the most interesting news in blockchain this week. Focusing on: 1 in 5 financial institutions considering cryptocurrency trading, Binance making more than Deutsche Bank, Gary Gensler's new focus on blockchain, and UCL doesn't care one IOTA. All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. We also introduce to the mic, for the very first time, Petrit Berisha. Our plucky Assistant Producer matches blockchain wits with Simon and Sarah, offering ...
Ep. 43. Sexism in Crypto, Pornhub takes Verge, and Binance Denies the Dollar
April 26, 2018 15:00 - 39 minutes - 32.7 MBOur hosts take an in-depth look on the most interesting news in blockchain this week. Focusing on: Cambridge Analytica's virtual currency plans, Pornhub accepting Verge, Binance denying dollar trading, Coinbase suspending Wikileaks bitcoin account, and why the crypto world needs to ask better questions. All this and more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show! We hope ...
Ep. 42. Santander Makes Ripples and Charles Hoskinson Shares His Vision of Cardano
April 19, 2018 15:00 - 54 minutes - 45.5 MBOur hosts take an in-depth look on the most interesting news in blockchain this week. Looking at: Santander's new blockchain-based money transfer service with Ripple, Coinbase acquiring Earn.com, R3's Corda expands with SBI subsidiary, Barclays commissions a cryptocurrency trading desk, Malta proposes test to see when ICOs are securities, and Harbor raises $28M to reengineer private securities for blockchains. We also have an interview with Input Output CEO, Charles Hoskinson. And if you enjo...
Ep. 41. Twitter Blocks Bitcoin, Monero Splits Opinion & is Ripple a Security
April 12, 2018 15:00 - 1 hour - 57.7 MBBitcoin’s twitter account got hacked, causing yet another Internet-wide discussion on the death of free speech. It split the community and Colin clues us in on why both sides of Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash think they’re right. Coinbase launch their early stage venture fund to a great deal of excitement, surprising given all the noise around ICOs. The exchange is planning to invest off its own balance sheet into companies it likes. It’s been a bad week for crypto exchanges with the Japanese regul...
Ep. 40. Dodgy Words from Binance, Vitalik Buterin Savages Faketoshi and Bluezelle's CEO Pavel Bains
April 05, 2018 15:00 - 48 minutes - 40 MBBinance billionaire Changpeng Zhao makes a few very dodgy statements on a potential exchange that Simon and Sara both agree might be more than a little bit biased. Ethereum falters with the influx of ASIC mining rigs in the market. Simon explains the new powerful miner and the pair wonder if the era of Ethereum making money for ordinary people is coming to an end. Vitalik issues a scathing takedown on a man claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto without any real proof. The SEC delivers a knockout b...
Ep. 39. Coinbase Goes ERC-20, Bitcoin’s Lightning Lift Off and Coinfloor’s Obi Nwosu
March 29, 2018 15:00 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBKicking off the show, R3’s CEO declares blockchain a once in a lifetime opportunity for financial markets. New opportunities chased by Deutsche Börse and HQLAx, the finance magnates are looking to build a securities lending platform on blockchain. Coinbase opening up its platform? The exchange is finally implementing Ethereum ERC-20 support but no specific assets have been named just yet. Lightning network gets its first lapp! Blockstream’s introduced FileBazaar, its first ever lightning app...
Ep. 38. LIVE: Lightning Strikes Bitcoin and Binance Gets Its DEX on
March 22, 2018 16:00 - 1 hour - 57.7 MBKicking things off on a special live episode, has Bitcoin solved its scaling issues? Lightning Network launches, more than doubling transaction speeds! Colin is keen to explain it all. 'Bitcoin investors are clueless' says Visa's CFO. Are cryptocurrencies just the new casino for unaware buyers to double or triple their cash in a low interest environment? But is all the future crypto potential on the enterprise side? Payment rails should be very afraid! If cryptocurrencies can figure out how t...
Ep. 37. Sandra Ro, Women in Blockchain and Tracking Crypto Crime
March 15, 2018 16:00 - 1 hour - 50.3 MBFirst up, Binance are offering a $250,000 bounty for the arrest of hackers that tried to infiltrate the exchange earlier in March! Is Bitcoin as untraceable as we think? The met police claim that Bitcoin is not anonymous and is easy to track! Simon and Colin discuss this one in great depth. Next up, Bitfinex'd, the the pseudonymous blogger and persistent critic of cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex has lawyered up! An interesting saga to keep an eye on.... Following on from International Women...
Ep. 36. The Empire Strikes Bitcoin and an Exclusive Interview With Joe Lubin
March 08, 2018 16:00 - 1 hour - 53.6 MBFirst up, Coinbase is hit with not one but two class action Lawsuits! They've been accused of insider Bitcoin Cash trading and when you look at it's price chart, it doesn't help their case whatsoever...in brighter news though it plans that Coinbase may be planning to start a Crypto fund as the unicorn eyes further expansion. Sticking with the shady side of the law, TechCrunch founder's Crypto fund, Arrington XRP Capital, was subpoenaed by the SEC....let's see where this one goes! Moving on fr...
Ep. 35. Get Bits or Die Tryin' and Ripple Explain XRP
March 01, 2018 16:00 - 56 minutes - 52.6 MBFirst up, this week's big news that Circle (backed by none other than Goldman-Sachs) have acquired crypto exchange Poloniex. Is this Wallstreet's 'in' to Crypto? Moving on to some regulatory news, NYC lawmakers claim that they are 'open' to revisiting the BitLicense regulation. What kind of impact would a reform have on the market and on blockchain innovation? From Lawmakers to Lawbreakers, Craig Wright, who's infamously claimed to be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, is being sued for a who...
Ep. 34. Vitalik drops crypto truth bombs, Ellen explains bitcoin and the Brooklyn project
February 22, 2018 16:00 - 54 minutes - 44 MBFirst up on today's show from CNBC, the US government is nowhere near regulating Bitcoin. Rob Joyce emphasised the need to better understand the cryptocurrencies and our team discuss how this has been greeted positively by the trader community especially. Next, Ellen Degeneres compares Bitcoin to a Goat (I know) to her rather large audience. Even though the price hasn't been as exciting for speculators recently, Bitcoin is still mainstream and won't go away! Back to regulation, Switzerland'...
Ep. 33. Blythe Masters Interview, hacks, non-hacks & Europe's crypto crackdown
February 15, 2018 16:00 - 1 hour - 54.8 MBSimon and Sara (no Colin this week) tackle the week's news stories Kicking off with the biggest story: France and Germany's crackdown on crypto. France and Germany have put it to the G20 that the time has come to regulate IPOs and bitcoin. In a join statement they say they are aiming to: Build a common understanding on the nature of tokens Monitor the implications on market stability Find better protections for non professional investors Adopt a common approach on anti money laundering Simon ...
Ep. 32. Jameson Lopp, the Market be down but Enterprise is up
February 08, 2018 16:00 - 1 hour - 69.3 MBIn this episode, Simon, Colin and guest Sara Feenan dissect the week's news and we have a fantastic interview from Jameson Lopp! Kicking off with the biggest story of the... year? The market be down: prices have tumbled 50% from all time highs, is this a disaster or must what goes up, always come back down? Lloyds have banned customers buying bitcoin on credit cards. Is this sensible or over-protecting of customers, and also protecting themselves? Colin and Sara say you should never buy cryp...
Ep. 31. South Korea's ban, Japan's hack, Robinhood and the future of crypto
February 01, 2018 16:00 - 1 hour - 66.1 MBWe begin with big news from South Korea, as they announce that 6 major banks will facilitate data sharing with Cryptocurrency exchanges. Money laundering and tax evasion have been large governmental concerns with regards to crypto and it seems South Korea have taken the first steps to mitigate under the counter activity. Moving on, Japanese Cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck will refund the $400m worth of NEM that was stolen from them by hackers. This isn't the first time we've seen big hacks ...
Ep. 30. Bitcoin Falls, Whales Rise and an Interview With bitFlyer CEO
January 25, 2018 16:00 - 1 hour - 52 MBAfter the market beatdown, Simon and Colin dissect the sustainability of current prices and how much longer regulators will stand idly by whilst pump and dumps continue to happen. Our first story comes from Coindesk, talking about the price action where Bitcoin 'defended' the $11,000 mark. Conversely, the Evening Standard came out with a story claiming investors were swapping their bitcoin for physical gold- are people actually swapping digital gold for it's physical counterpart? Staying with...
Ep.29. Kraken on With Crypto After the Market Bloodbath
January 18, 2018 16:00 - 1 hour - 53.4 MBOn today's show, we just had to start with crypto price bloodbath January has brought. Simon and Colin dissect rumours of centralised exchanges being banned in China & South Korea, as winter comes (http://uk.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-ethereum-ripple-cryptocurrency-prices-fall-on-january-16-2018-1) for crypto markets. Next, Mike Novagratz makes a '$400m bet' (https://fintechinsidernews.com/posts/vWNJsEPpqodBkquKu/michael-novogratz-usd400-million-bet-form-giant-crypto) attempting to form a gi...
Ep. 28. Where now for Ripple? & Blockchain gets all Zuck'ed up
January 11, 2018 16:00 - 1 hour - 51.9 MBWe begin this week's news by discussing Mark Zuckerberg's (https://fintechinsidernews.com/posts/8zymDik7mxwwHNGSa/mark-zuckerberg-s-personal-challenge-is-all-about-fixing) interest in decentralisation, as he made it his 'challenge of the year' to study how it could 'fix' Facebook. Speaking of Zuck, XRP (Ripple's crypto-currency) had an incredible run up peaking at over $3.80, making Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen (https://fintechinsidernews.com/posts/3CSAMDdjxE2C7pNS8) actually wealthier than...
Ep. 27. XRP's Ripple effect and Blockchain use cases
January 04, 2018 16:00 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBWelcome to the very first show of 2018! We kick off the year with a bang, including some of the biggest stories from the holiday season, our predictions for 2018 and an interview with Peter Rizzo, Editor at Coindesk. First up on the first show of 2018 we take a look at Blockchain and crypto predictions for the year to come. Why will this be the year that institutional investors really get involved? Will 2018 be the year that web 3.0 takes off? How will ICOs evolve through 2018, and will pump ...
Ep. 26. Holiday Interview Special - Tim Swanson, & Somil Goyal: Adjoint
December 28, 2017 16:00 - 59 minutes - 48 MBAs it's the Christmas break we are not here this week! But instead of the usual news overview we're giving you an interview-only special show, featuring Tim Swanson and Somil Goyal from new smart contracts start up Adjoint. Tim and Colin look back at the last year in blockchain and cryptoassets and give their predictions for 2018. Somil tells Colin all about Adjoint and what their first year in industry has looked like and what their plans for growth are in 2018 and the years to come. Happy h...
Ep. 25. Keanu Reeves on bitcoin, Vanguard on Blockchain and Cardano
December 21, 2017 16:00 - 1 hour - 36.7 MBG-Sass is back in France this week but that won't stop him joining Simon for this week's installment of the news show. First up this week, the guys explore the implications of competition in the crypto futures space, as the CME launches its contract to compete with CBOE. Bringing the cryto debate firmly into the mainstream, we discuss the French finance minister's intervention, urging a debate at the G20. Plus, why has Keanu Reeves spoken out over Bitcoin and what does it mean for the future ...