Borderless
15 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe Disruption is global and its reach knows no bounds. As bitcoin & crypto stories from around the world circulate, Coindesk reporters Anna Baydakova and Danny Nelson, will dissect their top most influential picks to explore every week here on Borderless.
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Fact versus Fiction on India’s Crypto Crackdown
April 05, 2021 12:22 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBNischal Shetty, the CEO of India’s top crypto exchange WazirX joins hosts Danny Nelson and Anna Baydakova on this week’s Borderless to talk crypto bans. Rumor has it India’s government is gearing up for a crypto crackdown; possibly a complete ban. Is that really the case? Nischal helps untangle fact from fiction in one of crypto’s most exciting emerging markets. The conversation then turns to crypto-environmentalism, first through mining and then via NFTs. Miami’s dream of becoming...
Blockchain Sleuth Kim Nilsson on the Mt. Gox Saga
March 29, 2021 17:40 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBIn this episode, Anna Baydakova and Danny Nelson speak with Kim Nilsson, a former user of the oldest (and long defunct) Mt. Gox crypto exchange. Nilsson has investigated the infamous crypto theft and has been watching the effort to repay the exchange’s creditors. When Mt. Gox stopped functioning and filed for bankruptcy, Nilsson didn’t just sit back and see what happened. He set up his own bitcoin node, coded software and tracked the stolen bitcoin to where it landed. He’s also be...
Mapping Crypto-Related Crime With Chainalysis
March 22, 2021 15:34 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBIn this episode, Anna Baydakova and Danny Nelson speak with Kim Grauer, head of research at Chainalysis, about the blockchain analytics firm’s 2021 “Crypto Crime Report,” how to locate where scammers send their money, and the state of crypto regulation and adoption. The report, released in February, maps out major crime types associated with cryptocurrencies: crypto scams, ransomware attacks and money laundering, among others. Kim Grauer explains how Chainalysis comes to its concl...
$69M Art, Investing in Grayscale and the Future of Money
March 15, 2021 08:00 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBA collection of 5,000 .jpg files just sold at Christie’s for $69.3 million. Why? Because it’s art, it’s digital and it’s on a blockchain. Hosts Anna Baydakova and Danny Nelson dive into the non-fungible token (NFT) phenomenon and its wildest, eye-popping twist yet on “Borderless” this week, discussing what makes NFTs so valuable and whether they’re here to stay – potentially turning the art world on its head. Even hackers are paying attention. The conversation then turns to Israel,...
Why Bitcoin Is a Safe Haven and Weapon, Feat. Alex Gladstein
March 08, 2021 09:00 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBThis week on “Borderless,” Anna Baydakova and Danny Nelson speak with Alex Gladstein, chief strategy officer for the Human Rights Foundation, about the intersection of bitcoin and activism, how global movements are using blockchain and what governments might try to do to stop it. As more world governments step up their digital and financial surveillance measures, bitcoin has become a safe haven for pockets of oppressed. For example, in Nigeria female activists now harness bitcoin ...
How Bitcoin Is Becoming a Lifeline for Cubans
March 01, 2021 17:06 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBThis week on Borderless, tech reporter Leigh Cuen speaks with data analyst and entrepreneur Boaz Sobrado about how bitcoin became relevant to him when he had to use it at his e-commerce company. With the changes in the U.S. presidential administration in 2016 and the strict regulations that followed it became harder to bank in Cuba. Processing payments and conducting proper international transactions were causing his company to bleed money. So Boaz turned to bitcoin to move money ...
Crypto Taxes Are Coming So What Is Next?
February 22, 2021 14:33 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBIn this episode, Anna Baydakova and Danny Nelson discuss the coming crypto taxation in Russia and India, North Korean hackers indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice and the GameStop story rolling into the U.S. Congress. Russia is on its way to taxing cryptocurrency transactions. A draft bill on crypto taxation is now in Russia’s parliament, the State Duma, and it has just passed its first round of hearings last week. The bill says Russian taxpayers must declare crypto they rece...
Happy Bull’s Year, North Korean Hackers!
February 15, 2021 09:00 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBIn this episode, Anna Baydakova and Danny Nelson discuss North Korea reportedly stealing your crypto to create nuclear weapons, Tesla rattling markets at an opportune time and Nigeria trying to ban crypto. Starting Feb. 12, in the Chinese calendar, we are in the year of the ox, or bull; at least for now, things are looking quite bullish for crypto. Usually, Chinese users would massively sell bitcoin ahead of the New Year but the current rally is being mostly driven by institutions...
Potential India Crypto Ban, Worldwide Darknet and Virgil Griffith’s Saga Continues
February 08, 2021 14:41 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBIn this episode, Anna Baydakova, Tanzeel Akhtar and Danny Nelson discuss possible crypto restrictions in India, fresh darknet market research from Chainalysis and the newest chapter in Virgil Griffith’s North Korea saga. Will India ban crypto? The move by the government, rumoured for months, may be not as bad as expected. For now, it’s only about illegal activities involving crypto and using it to pay for things, as Minister of State for Finance Anurag Singh Thakur told the nation...
The Small Guys Rebel Against their Big Brother Hedge Funds
January 30, 2021 09:00 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBIn this episode, Anna Baydakova, Tanzeel Akhtar and Danny Nelson discuss what the GameStop stock market chaos can teach crypto, why the Bank of International Settlements is pitching central bank digital currencies (CBDC) instead of crypto, and the privacy concerns around China’s digital yuan. The big story for the week involves the Reddit-based trading community called WallStreetBets that has been causing equities to behave like cryptocurrencies – very volatile. WallStreetBets have...
New Regulators in Town: What’s Next for Crypto in DC
January 25, 2021 14:26 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MBIn this episode, Anna Baydakova, Tanzeel Akhtar and Nik De discuss what to expect from U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration regarding crypto, how QuadrigaCX users are doing and trying to predict the future for Ripple. President Joe Biden has named Gary Gensler as his pick for chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Janet Yellen as the future head of the U.S. Treasury. Gensler, the former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is known for his...
Extremism and Cryptocurrency: The Story Too Big to Ignore
January 19, 2021 14:22 - 26 minutes - 24 MBIn this episode, Anna Baydakova, Danny Nelson and Tanzeel Akhtar discuss why one of Justin Sun’s companies is linked to extremism, the insurrection of the Capitol on a blockchain, Iran taking the mining industry under control and also if Europe can regulate bitcoin. Rioters storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, livestreamed the action in DLive; a video streaming platform owned by BitTorrent, which, in turn, is owned by the Tron founder Justin Sun. They also received donations throug...
Police Brutality Is Global, So Is Bitcoin
October 22, 2020 16:14 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBFrom the CoinDesk Global Macro news desk, this is Borderless – a twice-monthly roundup of the most important stories impacting Bitcoin and the crypto sector from around the world. On this episode, Nik, Anna, Daniel and CoinDesk tech reporter Colin Harper discuss Nigerian protestors using bitcoin, the digital yuan reaching retail users in China, the IMF talking about crypto, and more. In Nigeria, people are protesting police brutality and demanding the abolition of SARS, or the Spec...
BitMEX Charges, a Digital Euro, Fighting Belarusian Censorship and New Ransomware Concerns
October 08, 2020 13:38 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBFrom the CoinDesk Global Macro news desk, this is Borderless – a twice-monthly roundup of the most important stories impacting Bitcoin and the crypto sector from around the world. It’s created by reporters Nikhilesh De, Anna Baydakova and Daniel Nelson. Last week, two federal U.S.agencies brought charges against BitMEX, one of the world’s largest crypto derivatives trading platforms, alleging the company violated multiple laws by allowing U.S. customers to trade its options contrac...
Stablecoin Fail in Venezuela and the FinCEN Files
September 24, 2020 12:00 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBFrom the CoinDesk Global Macro newsdesk, this is Borderless - A twice-monthly roundup of the most important stories impacting bitcoin and the crypto sector from around the world. It's created by reporters Nikhilesh De, Anna Baydakova and Danny Nelson On today’s show: the FinCEN files, AirTM isn’t working in Venezuela the way people hoped and stablecoin regulations are reappearing in the U.S. and Europe. CoinDesk's inaugural episode of Borderless discusses the FinCEN Files, which s...