Latest Badnews Podcast Episodes
EP36: Buy, Borrow and Die: Bitcoin Style
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education - October 06, 2019 08:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsI am in a financial position that may seem somewhat unusual to you. You see, the IRS rewards me for my real estate investments by taxing me less. If, on the other hand, I keep my income in the bank, or invest it in traditional equities or bonds, the IRS shows me no mercy! Admittedly this is by...
EP35: Cryptocurrency and Asymmetric Risk with Teeka Tiwari
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education - September 08, 2019 14:19 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsUp to 10 percent of my liquid assets are in very risky stuff—specifically digital assets and startups. A lot of people people think I am being irresponsible—particularly because I have a captive audience with whom I have influence. Now if I was shooting at the hip and telling you to put all...
EP34: Bull Markets in the Least Ugly Economy in the World!
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education - May 26, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsI am a lousy trader. I’ve said it before and I fully recognize this fact. That’s why, I try very hard to stay focussed on investing rather than trading. Nevertheless, I still get trapped in behaviors that I invariably regret. For example, you may know that I am a believer in bitcoin. I truly b...
EP33: Crypto thaw and Crypto Law
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education - April 28, 2019 16:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsThis past week or two got a lot of people excited. Bitcoin broke through $5K and seemed to be headed to $6K. The usual bulls were out stomping on the grave of the crypto bears. But then the New York Attorney General filed a complaint against Bitfinex, one of the largest crypto trading platforms....
EP32: The Separation of Money from State
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education - April 14, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsIt’s funny how long lasting paradigms perpetuate without question for centuries without being questioned. It used to be in most places, specific religions were mandated by the government to its people and heretics were persecuted. Of course that still exists in many parts of the world but the ...
EP31: Blockchain, Crowd Wisdom, and AI with Cindicator
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education - March 17, 2019 16:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsAs the story goes, in 1906, the great statistician Francis Galton observed a competition to guess the weight of an ox at a country fair. Over 800 people entered that contest. Galton, being a numbers guy was curious about how the crowd faired with its guesses. What he discovered was that the aver...
EP30: Dentacoin? What?
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education - March 03, 2019 05:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsLet’s talk about some things happening in the crypto space right now. Nasdaq launched real-time information on two new indices linked to the crypto asset market —Bitcoin liquid index (BLX) and Ethereum Liquid Index (ELX) were both incorporated into the Nasdaq platform on February 25th. Thi...
Ep29: Power Ledger: Peer to Peer Energy
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education - February 17, 2019 17:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWe’ve had a lot of high profile folks on the show lately that represent the “bitcoin maximalist” crowd. In other words, they believe that bitcoin is the only worthwhile blockchain and that every other project/token out there is a “shitcoin”. There is all sorts of terminology for this—the bitco...
Ep28: Does Crypto Need Rules?
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education - January 27, 2019 17:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsI’ve been off the air for a while with Consensus Network through the holidays. The good or the bad news is that there isn’t a lot of movement in bitcoin prices. Infrastructure continues to grow and projects continue to develop throughout crypto winter. Even though prices aren’t moving dramat...
27: Crypto 202 with Chris Coney
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education - January 06, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWe are in a bear market with cryptocurrency. There is no doubt about that. How long will it last? I have no idea. However, one day a bull market shall return just as the dotcom’s did after the bubble burst in the late 90s. Then we will see the blockchain versions of Amazon and Apple skyrocke...
Ep26: Weekly Cryptocurrency News 12/19/18
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education - December 19, 2018 21:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsConsensus Network Weekly Cryptocurrency News 12/19/18 Cryptocurrency Market Capitalization: $125 Billion Bitcoin Price (Coinbase): $3791 Crypto Come Back or Dead Cat Bounce? Bitcoin was up just under 7 percent this week. According to theblockcrypto.com, senior market analysts believe tha...
Ep25: Nic Carter and the REAL Value of Blockchain
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education - December 16, 2018 17:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsI don’t know if you’ve noticed, but people are overusing the word blockchain. In fact, a recent article I read exposed twelve publicly traded companies that reaped huge valuation rewards simply by adding the word “bitcoin” or “blockchain” to their name. Now listen, this technology that is comi...
Ep24: Weekly Cryptocurrency News 12/12/18
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education - December 12, 2018 18:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsConsensus Network Weekly Crypto News 12/12/18 Cryptocurrency Market Cap: $111 Billion Bitcoin Price (Coinbase): $3463 SEC Decision on Bitcoin ETF Set for February The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has postponed their decision on a bitcoin ETF again to a final deadline of Febr...
Ep23: How to Scale Bitcoin with Samson Mow
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education - December 09, 2018 17:55 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsIf you follow the crypto world like I do, it seems almost a little bit ridiculous sometimes with all of these personalities threatening each other and massively volatile digital asset prices. My friend Teeka Tiwari calls these conflicts the “nerd wars” and thinks we should ignore the noise. I ...
Ep22: Weekly Cryptocurrency News 12/5/18
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education - December 05, 2018 18:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsConsensus Network Weekly Crypto News 12/5/18 Cryptocurrency Market Capitalization: approx $124 Billion Bitcoin Price (Coinbase): $3713 SEC Meets with VanEck SolidX/CBOE to discuss bitcoin ETF…Again We have been talking about this bitcoin ETF for some time now that involves a couple of ma...
Ep21: The Conservative Investor’s Case for Bitcoin
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education - December 02, 2018 17:53 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsOne of the favorite words in crypto-Twitter these days is “Institutional”. What does that even mean? What is the big deal about these institutional investors coming in and why in the world do we care? There has been big money in the crypto markets for a while in the form of hedge funds, famil...
Ep20: Weekly Cryptocurrency News 11/28/18
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education - November 28, 2018 20:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsConsensus Network Weekly Crypto News 11/28/18 Cryptocurrency Market Capitalization: $138 billion Bitcoin Price (Coinbase): $4196 Bitcoin Upturn or Dead Cat Bounce? Bitcoin broke through the $4000 level and flirted with $3500. Today, everyone is getting excited because the market is up. I...
Ep19: Hunter Horsley with Bitwise Management on Buying the Market
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education - November 25, 2018 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsThere is blood in the streets of blockchain and I won’t be surprised if there is more. I suspect that it will get worse before it gets better. This whole thing started out with a consolidation and an uncharacteristically low volatility in crypto. The question was whether it was going to br...
Ep18: Institutional Interest in Cryptocurrency with Michael Moro
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education - November 18, 2018 17:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsIt used to be that bitcoin was just for quirky libertarian computer scientists but somehow the virus has spread gradually into big money. How something that was never advertised goes from nothing to over $100 billion market cap in 10 years and ushers in an entirely new digital currency asset c...
Ep17: Weekly Cryptocurrency News 11/14/18
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education - November 14, 2018 23:01 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsConsensus Network Weekly Crypto News: 11/14/18 Cryptocurrency Market Capitalization: $188 billion Bitcoin Price (Coinbase): $5588 Bitcoin Bloodbath! Bitcoin prices fell by almost 10 percent today all the way down to $5555.34 on Coinbase. Listeners of this podcast heard Tyler Jenks with L...
Ep16: Leveraging your Crypto with Fiat Loans: Zac Prince of BlockFi
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education - November 11, 2018 17:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsAs bitcoin, blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies become more mature, you will see a lot of the same financial models as you do for traditional assets like real estate and stocks—models that have been around for a long time. For example, the earliest recognized futures trading e...
Ep15: Weekly Cryptocurrency News 11/07/18
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education - November 08, 2018 01:20 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsConsensus Network Weekly Crypto News November 7th, 2018 Cryptocurrency Market Capitalization: $220 billion Bitcoin Price (Coinbase): $6510 The News: SEC to Publish ICO Guidance: A high ranking official at the SEC, William Hinman announced last week that the SEC is planning to publish cle...
Ep14: Bitcoin Boom or Bust with Tyler Jenks
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education - November 04, 2018 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsTyler Jenks has been around for a long time. In fact, he started trading the year my wife was born. You don’t see a lot of guys who are Tyler’s age in the cryptocurrency world. What that means is that we often lack the historical perspective of a new asset and the way markets mature. In fact...
Ep13: Weekly Cryptocurrency News 10/31/18
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education - October 31, 2018 19:48 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsConsensus Network Weekly Crypto News October 31, 2018 Today is the 10th anniversary of the Bitcoin white paper! Wednesday October 30th, 2018 Cryptocurrency Market Capitalization: $203 billion Bitcoin Price: $6308 on Coinbase JP Morgan Chase to Tokenize Gold Bars: Yes. You heard...
Ep12: Mance Harmon, Hashgraph and the Future of Distributed Ledgers
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education - October 28, 2018 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsThere is more to blockchain than bitcoin. And there is more to distributed ledgers than blockchain. Blockchain describes only one type of decentralized consensus mechanism. Although it is really the dominant system in this new distributed world, it’s not the only one. I’m no computer scienti...
Ep11: Weekly Cryptocurrency News 10/24/18
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education - October 24, 2018 23:56 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsConsensus Network™ Weekly Crypto News for 10/24/18 Cryptocurrency Market Capitalization: Approx. $210 billion Bitcoin Price: $6423 Bakkt Announces Launch Date. CBOE meets with SEC to discuss ETF. Goldman Sachs makes Huge Investment in Crypto Custodian. Coinbase DOMINATES the Crypto Wo...
Ep10: Bitcoin in Historical Perspective
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education - October 21, 2018 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsLast week on the news I told you about how Yale University has decided to get into the crypto market through its endowment. It’s just another sign of the inevitability of this technological phenomenon. The major universities have accepted that it’s real. We already know that Wall Street has as...
Ep9: Weekly Cryptocurrency News 10/17/18
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education - October 17, 2018 23:17 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsMarket Cap about 211 Billion Bitcoin: 6444 1) Fidelity Announces a New Custody and Trading Service 2) Tether is Untethering 3) Is Bitcoin Correlated to the Markets?
Ep8: WAX Token with Malcolm CasSelle
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education - October 14, 2018 16:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsYou've probably heard of people buying virtual items online like crypto kitties for example. They live only on-line so why in the world would you buy one? Well, what if you spend several hours per day on the internet. Is your cyber-bling any less important than the ones we consider "real"? ...
Ep7: Weekly Crypto News 10/08/18
Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education - October 08, 2018 20:39 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsToday is Monday October 8th, 2018 The crypto market cap is about 221 billion. Bitcoin is trading at around $6650. Yale University gets into the Crypto World Competition for BAKKT Institution buyers are making their move!
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