CoinTalk™️
115 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 107 ratingsThe official podcast of Bitcoin crashes. Hosted by Aaron Lammer & Jay Caspian Kang.
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#55: ＱThe Bull Case for Initiative Q
November 21, 2018 18:46 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MB🗳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!
#54: 🦁Brave 🦇BAT
November 14, 2018 23:32 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBAaron & Jay download the Brave browser and attempt to use the 25 BAT that come with it.
#53: 👨💻 Are We Crypto Influencers?
November 07, 2018 16:23 - 57 minutes - 53.3 MBAaron & Jay discuss old tweets, altcoin hypocrisy, and what standards we should hold our crypto influencers to. Plus: some hot TI-82 takes.
#52: 💉 Hopium Is A Helluva Drug w/ Doug Kim
October 31, 2018 15:30 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MBActor-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.
#51: 🍿 But What Do You Really Think About Civil (CVL)?
October 25, 2018 12:00 - 58 minutes - 54.1 MB💾 Aaron & Jay finally get around to talking about the failed Civil (CVL) token sale. 💸 Tether ceases to be a stable coin
#51: 🍿 But What Do You Really Think About Civil (CVL)?
October 25, 2018 12:00 - 58 minutes - 54.1 MB💾 Aaron & Jay finally get around to talking about the failed Civil (CVL) token sale. 💸 Tether ceases to be a stable coin
#50: 🐟 "If Vitalik is a 9/10, I'm a 2/10" ft. Nick Paumgarten from The New Yorker
October 22, 2018 14:52 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBNick Paumgarten comes on to talk about his new crypto piece in The New Yorker and Aaron proposes a Talk of the Town about Sumokoin.
#49: 🎸 Senate Hearing Jam Session Pt. 2 w/ Brian Patrick Eha from Breaker Magazine
October 15, 2018 17:16 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MBBrian Patrick Eha, who has covered crypto lobbying for Breaker, calls in to talk about the Senate Hearings. Part 1 here.
#48: 🎸 Senate Hearing Jam Session Pt. 1 w/ Zack Voell from Messari
October 12, 2018 15:26 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBA first hand account of yesterdays Senate Hearing throwdown between Nocoiner Roubini and Procoiner Valkenburg (a former guest!) from Zack Voell (Messari) who was there. Zach's podcast The Coin Pod (returning in 2019 - subscribe!) Messari - Crypto News, Pricing, and Research
#47: 🐛 Bitcoin Bugz / 🌱 Weed Stock Mania
October 03, 2018 11:02 - 1 hour - 57.5 MB🐞 Bitcoin gets bedbugs 🌱 Weed is the new crypto 🎤 Tokenized Soundcloud rap 🎟 Aaron gets a CVL token sale ad in his Instagram feed 😴 Is Bitcoin stable?
#46: 📉 Are We Ready To #CallABottom?
September 19, 2018 15:11 - 1 hour - 66.4 MB🕳 Aaron & Mike Novogratz #callabottom 🧐 Tracking crypto by the BGCI (Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index) rather than BTC price 🎉 Con Con, the Coin Talk conference for crypto moderates 👽 Vitalik's brutal honesty 📉 The crypto crash is now worse than the Dot Com bubble
#45: 🌍 'The Psychology of Mass Movements' w/ Tony Sheng
September 12, 2018 22:27 - 1 hour - 75.1 MB🍑 ViaCoin (VIA) related ass-eating 🤥 Aaron's reluctant turn towards ETH buying 🎭 Shapeshift, Changelly, and the end of anonymity 🌍 Tony Sheng (writer and Product Lead at Decentraland) talks about applying the ideas of Eric Hoffer's 1951 book "The True Believer: Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements" to crypto
#45: 🌍 'The Psychology of Mass Movements' w/ Tony Sheng
September 12, 2018 22:27 - 1 hour - 75.1 MB🍑 ViaCoin (VIA) related ass-eating 🤥 Aaron's reluctant turn towards ETH buying 🎭 Shapeshift, Changelly, and the end of anonymity 🌍 Tony Sheng (writer and Product Lead at Decentraland) talks about applying the ideas of Eric Hoffer's 1951 book "The True Believer: Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements" to crypto
#44: 🤷🏻 'Wut Is Governance?' w/ Brady Dale from CoinDesk
September 04, 2018 18:30 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBAaron and Jay welcome back on Brady Dale from CoinDesk to talk EOS, what "governance" actually means, and exchange-issued coins like Binance's BNB.
#43: 🇨🇳 Impressions of Crypto China w/ Chris Dannen
August 28, 2018 16:52 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBChris Dannen, who mines and manages a crypto fund (Iterative Capital), talks about a research trip to Shenzhen and Beijing. Listen to our previous interview with Chris from June 2018. Thanks for our friends at Medium for helping make this show possible!
#42: 🇧🇶 Excerptoshi Truthers!!! / Ethereum and the End of the ICO Boom
August 22, 2018 18:49 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MB💣 Excerptoshi truth bombs and new revelations from the shadowy Nakamoto Family Institute ☠️ What happens to ETH after ICOs? ⚽️ eToro pays 7 English Premiere league teams in BTC
#41: 🍴Where Were You When BCash Forked?
August 16, 2018 18:28 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBJay & Aaron use the 1-year anniversary of the BCash fork as an excuse to review the last year in crypto: the winners, the losers, the narratives and the fake outs. Thanks to our partners at Medium.
#40: 📭 Mailbag! Vol. 2
August 13, 2018 18:58 - 37 minutes - 35 MBAaron & Jay read and answer questions listeners have emailed in.
#39: 🤷 We Called a Craigslist "Crypto Consultant"
August 10, 2018 12:53 - 59 minutes - 55.1 MB💳 Vitalik says the future is $5-10 crypto gift cards 🇨🇳 The Bitmain IPO and Crypto Power Rankings 📞 Aaron and Jay seek advice from a Craigslist "Crypto Consultant" Thanks to Zach from nycryptoconsulting.com and to our partners at Medium.com where you can find all the best writing about crypto.
#38: 🥃 No Market, No Bounce ft. Doug Kim
August 02, 2018 19:05 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBWe talk mini-bounces, Bitcoin ETF hype, the Chinese mining business is a good business, and Doug returns from the World Series of Poker for a trip through altcoin nostalgia. Thanks to the Techeme Ride Home podcast for sponsoring the show! And thanks to our partners at Medium.
#37: 💣 Decentralized Assassinations + Pee-Tape Markets + Interview w/ @Coinyeezy and @NonDualRandy of Honeyminer
July 30, 2018 21:54 - 1 hour - 60.5 MBJay and Aaron talk about the coverage of Augur assassination markets and Aaron loads up his Metamask account with REP to make a live betting market based on whether the Trump pee tape will come out. Then Aaron interviews @Coinyeezy and @NonDualRandy about making crypto products that people can actually use like Honeyminer, which you can use to mine with a spare computer.
#36: 💸 We Made A Bet on Augur (w/ @LedgerStatus)
July 25, 2018 18:28 - 1 hour - 78.3 MBJay & Aaron download Augur, sync the ETH blockchain, and place their first bet on the decentralized prediction market. Download Augur
#35: 🛍 Coinbase Goes Shopping / 🇷🇺 Russian Hackers Don't Know About Monero
July 18, 2018 14:11 - 55 minutes - 51 MB🇷🇺 Russian hackers used BTC to buy VPNs and domains 🛍 Coinbase goes on a shopping spree and "explores" adding ZRX, ZEC, ADA, BAT and XLM 🎰 Augur launches and we consider betting on some of the more skewed lines
#34: 🕶 The Real Slim Satoshi
July 09, 2018 17:27 - 1 hour - 61.2 MBA book excerpt ("Duality") purportedly from a memoir by Satoshi Nakamoto appeared online. Aaron & Jay do a close read and guess what the real Satoshi has actually been up all these years. Show Notes What Does Crypto Care if Zooko Is a Millionaire? (CoinDesk) Did Satoshi write this book excerpt? (Wired) Duality: An Excerpt (Nakamoto Family Foundation)
#34: 🕶 The Real Slim Satoshi
July 09, 2018 17:27 - 1 hour - 61.2 MBA book excerpt ("Duality") purportedly from a memoir by Satoshi Nakamoto appeared online. Aaron & Jay do a close read and guess what the real Satoshi has actually been up all these years. Show Notes What Does Crypto Care if Zooko Is a Millionaire? (CoinDesk) Did Satoshi write this book excerpt? (Wired) Duality: An Excerpt (Nakamoto Family Foundation)
#33: 🚽 How Tezos Went Awry (w/ Gideon Lewis-Kraus)
July 05, 2018 15:58 - 1 hour - 59 MBWIRED's Gideon Lewis-Kraus visits the crypto cave to discuss his cover story on the tragicomic scandal that is Tezos and how well-intentioned projects can end up just as troubled as scams. Show Notes "The Economic Limits of Bitcoin and the Blockchain" (Eric Budish, University of Chicago Booth School of Business) Gideon Lewis-Kraus Tezos (XTZ) Tezos: Inside the Crypto World's Biggest Scandal (WIRED, June 2018)
#32: 📚 Interview with Saifedean Ammous, economist and author of 'The Bitcoin Standard'
June 27, 2018 20:04 - 1 hour - 55.7 MB📚 The Fake Internet Money Book Club Vol. 1 concludes with a discussion of what a world run on the Bitcoin Standard would look like. Show Notes: @Saifedean The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking (Wiley, 2018) Saifedean Ammous' Blog My 133 favorite quotes from The Bitcoin Standard (Yorick de Mombynes, Medium) Enta Omri - Umm Kulthum
#31: 💩 Kidnapped by the Triads and Other Sh*tcoin Adventures
June 20, 2018 17:16 - 1 hour - 56.8 MB🇨🇳 The CEO of Skycoin claims he was kidnapped by his own Chinese marketing team and encourages investors to dump and rebuy. 💩 Bitcoin maximalists are sick of sh*tcoins. 🏧 Speaking of sh*t, Steve Bannon has come out as a coiner. 🦄 Would Bitcoin be better off if Ethereum had never existed?
#31: 💩 Kidnapped by the Triads and Other Sh*tcoin Adventures
June 20, 2018 17:16 - 1 hour - 56.8 MB🇨🇳 The CEO of Skycoin claims he was kidnapped by his own Chinese marketing team and encourages investors to dump and rebuy. 💩 Bitcoin maximalists are sick of sh*tcoins. 🏧 Speaking of sh*t, Steve Bannon has come out as a coiner. 🦄 Would Bitcoin be better off if Ethereum had never existed?
#30: ⛏ Interview with a Miner (Chris Dannen of Iterative Capital)
June 13, 2018 16:36 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBMost of the miners you'll encounter are secretive and eager to discourage you from getting into mining. Not Chris Dannen–he's a former journalist and the author of two books on Ethereum who now runs Iterative Capital, a crypto fund that runs multiple mining facilities.
#29: ⚰️ R.I.P. SUMOKOIN
June 08, 2018 16:46 - 54 minutes - 50 MB⚰️ Aaron buries his first love $SUMO 🧟♂️ The Monster ICO 💳 Are gift cards a money-laundering scam? Is everything a money-laundering scam? 🙄 What would stable Bitcoin really mean?
#29: ⚰️ R.I.P. SUMOKOIN
June 08, 2018 16:46 - 54 minutes - 50 MB⚰️ Aaron buries his first love $SUMO 🧟♂️ The Monster ICO 💳 Are gift cards a money-laundering scam? Is everything a money-laundering scam? 🙄 What would stable Bitcoin really mean?
#28: 📚 Book Club, "The Bitcoin Standard" (Part 2)
June 04, 2018 18:09 - 1 hour - 67.8 MBThe Fake Internet Money Book Club returns with our second episode on "The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking" by Saifedean Ammous. 🥩 Why return to a "standard" at all? Why Bitcoin not gold? ⏳ Time Preference and Money 😂 Aaron accidentally invents the worlds stupidest stable coin
#27: 🔫 Bitcointopia, Where the Murder Rate is 100%/ Interview: A Real XRP Fan
May 30, 2018 15:05 - 1 hour - 57 MB🤖 After Ripple fans were offended by Jay's suggestion that they are mostly bots, we asked the most reasonable XRP-fanatic we could find to tell us why he is so passionate about Ripple. (Thx, Kieran) 🔫 Should we move to Bitcointopia in the Nevada desert? 💉 Cansecoin is not real, but Jose Canseco's twitter crypto-calls have been DEAD ON.
#26: 🐧 🚀 Penguin Jetpacks w/ Nathaniel Popper from NYT
May 23, 2018 15:26 - 1 hour - 64.3 MB🗞️ An interview with the Nathaniel Popper, who covers crypto for the New York Times ⛴️ The Consensus yacht party where they gave away 2 Aston Martins in exchange for watching an insane 23-minute Jaxx commercial 👘 Aaron's beloved $SUMO rebrands as $RYO and we are all the poorer for it
#25: Fear and Loathing at a Cryptokitty Auction 🙀
May 17, 2018 13:47 - 1 hour - 56.1 MB🏦 ZCash (ZEC) goes "good crypto" legit with a licensed exchange listing on Gemini 🎉 The Supreme Court rules that SPORTS GAMBLING IS LEGAL IN ALL STATES (sort of) 🙀 Jay visits Ethereal and witnesses Mike Novogratz bidding on a $140,000 cryptokitty
#24: 📚 Book Club, "The Bitcoin Standard" (Part 1)
May 14, 2018 20:47 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MB📚Fake Internet Money Book Club: Part 1 🌽 Safidean Ammous ’s The Bitcoin Standard 🚕 The Kang guide to taxi medallion speculation 🚽 How Michael Cohen got rekt by Uber
#23: 🤖💬 Are Ripple (XRP) Fans Bots?
May 11, 2018 14:45 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MBLaura Shin vs Ripple Inc.: Who the hell are these XRP Stans? Coins in Pop Culture: HBO's Silicon Valley ICOs Post-Apocalyptic BTC Spec Scripts: The Bunker with $10 Billion in Bitcoin (Bloomberg)
#22: 🕵️ The Bitcoin-Ransoming of aaronlammer.com w/ Brady Dale from CoinDesk
May 03, 2018 18:58 - 1 hour - 67.2 MBWe talk to Brady Dale, who covers ICOs and more for CoinDesk, plus: the BTC-ransoming of aaronlammer.com Stephon Marbury's Chinese "sports blockchain" Kanye mentions Bitcoin and the market doesn't care Japan moves to ban privacy coins from exchanges the CFTC wants YOU to snitch (on ICOs) the IBM blockchain commercial that plays during the NBA playoffs as a form of torture.
#21: Will ZRX Be the Next Coin Added to Coinbase? 🤯🤯🤯
April 27, 2018 14:49 - 53 minutes - 49.6 MBHow blockchain was deployed to combat Chinese censorship in a #MeToo moment Whether Ether is a security (Preston Byrne) No, ether is not a security. (Peter Van Valkenburgh, Coin Center) Coinbase CEO just retweeted that 0x has done more for ethereum than any ICO. (Reddit) 0x Protocol: 0x is an open, permissionless protocol allowing for ERC20 tokens to be traded on the Ethereum blockchain. Fake Internet Money Book Club #1: The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Ba...
#20: The Return of FOMO Kang w/ Doug Kim
April 20, 2018 15:49 - 58 minutes - 54 MBPoker shark / actor Doug Kim returns to the show PLUS: Cambridge Analytica-coin crypto-weed why alts hurt at tax time the mysterious hackings of crypto-personalities like Ian Balina
#20: The Return of FOMO Kang w/ Doug Kim
April 20, 2018 15:49 - 58 minutes - 54 MBPoker shark / actor Doug Kim returns to the show PLUS: Cambridge Analytica-coin crypto-weed why alts hurt at tax time the mysterious hackings of crypto-personalities like Ian Balina
#19: Alt Spring on the Campus Quad
April 13, 2018 18:01 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBAlt season on college quads everywhere decentralized videos on DTube George Soros makes the dictator case for Bitcoin the Telegram ICO gets retracted what happens when companies HODL and prices crash James Surowiecki’s MIT Technology Review piece “Bitcoin would be a calamity, not an economy”
#19: Alt Spring on the Campus Quad
April 13, 2018 18:01 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBAlt season on college quads everywhere decentralized videos on DTube George Soros makes the dictator case for Bitcoin the Telegram ICO gets retracted what happens when companies HODL and prices crash James Surowiecki’s MIT Technology Review piece “Bitcoin would be a calamity, not an economy”
#18: 'The Fundamentals Remain Strong' w/ @Ledgerstatus
April 05, 2018 21:01 - 57 minutes - 53.3 MB@Ledgerstatus, the only trader on Twitter that Jay & Aaron trust, returns to the show to talk about why the fundamentals on Bitcoin have never been stronger, the future of altcoins, and how he remains optimistic during downswings. PLUS: The Floyd Mayweather / DJ Khaled-shilled coin Centra is unsurprisingly a scam. Which celebrity ICO promoters would we trust? And a full breakdown of everything we got wrong in our blockchain episodes (thanks to the listener fact-checkers out there!) Ledgers...
#17: It's Like a Mailbag Episode, But Decentralized
March 29, 2018 17:19 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MBMaaaaaaaailbag!!!! Plus the Satoshi Vision Conference and the creepy stuff that's getting logged for eternity into the Bitcoin blockchain (Mailbag starts at 21:00)
#16: The Rise and Fall of Kang & Lammer, America's Worst Crypto Traders
March 26, 2018 14:44 - 52 minutes - 48.6 MBAaron & Jay got into crypto as the market skyrocketed, then rode the crashes down. Now as they sit near break even, they discuss all the mistakes they made as amateur traders: chasing alt highs, panic selling the bottom, getting swept up in Twitter hype, and generally making the wrong decisions at every juncture. 😍😴 🤑 😳😳😳 😳🤢🤮
#15: 'What's So Great About the Blockchain?' Part 2 — Electric Boogaloo w/ Adrianne Jeffries of the Verge
March 23, 2018 14:35 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBAfter failing to internalize the business/humanitarian potential of blockchain technologies in the last episode, Aaron talks to the reporter Adrianne Jeffries about her Verge article "Blockchain is Meaningless". @adrjeffries Adrianne Jeffries' weekly crypto column on The Verge Bitmain’s new $12K cryptocurrency miner might be useless by the time it ships (The Next Web) Blockchain is Meaningless (The Verge) IBM launches a cheaper platform for start-ups to build blockchain projects (CNBC)
#14: What's So Great About the Blockchain?
March 19, 2018 19:07 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBAaron & Jay try (and fail) to wrap their heads about the blockchain itself and how it could be revolutionary in realms outside currency. Can you believe in the blockchain but not Bitcoin? What do companies like IBM want with blockchain technology? Has anyone actually done anything worthwhile with the blockchain other than issuing coins? Thanks to Adrianne Jeffries whose Verge article '‘BLOCKCHAIN’ IS MEANINGLESS' inspired this episode.
#13: Coinbase Index Fund / Did Mt. Gox's Japanese Trustee Personally Crash Bitcoin?
March 10, 2018 01:57 - 51 minutes - 47.7 MBAaron and Jay are back on their bullshit for a late night chat about Coinbase's newly announced Index Fund (which includes a full buffet of the 4 Coinbase coins weighted by market share) and revelations that Mt. Gox's Japanese trustee dumped one of the world's largest cache's of Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash, decimating the market just as it reached an all time high. Plus a really stupid Bitcoin Cash (BCH) rap video.