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Will Ethereum 2.0 Make ETH a Security? #144
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - April 11, 2021 16:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn 2018, when William Hinman was the Director of the Division of Corporation Finance within the SEC, he stated that it was felt that ETH (Ethereum) was initially offered through a securities offering, but that it was now no longer a security due to its decentralization and some other reasons whi...
There's a NEW OLD Sheriff in Town! Binance, Tron and McAffee in the Crosshairs? #143
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - April 07, 2021 20:22 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsSo, you would think that people would learn a lesson from Al Capone, that lesson being "Don't Piss off the US Government Financial Regulators"! Of course, not everyone is trying to do it on purpose and it may be that because the laws are not clear, people may not have been aware that any laws we...
How Much Does Bitcoin Influence the Stock and Gold Markets? #142
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - April 04, 2021 16:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsBitcoin is not just a power player in the crypto markets! The power of Bitcoin is now being talked about as being a main influencer within the traditional stocks and commodities markets. But this can only be a good thing, right? Join the host of Crypto and Blockchain Talk, Aviva Õunap, as she ta...
We talk to Famous Photographer Jesse Dittmar on the Sale of his Photos as NFTs #141
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - March 31, 2021 20:59 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsEXCLUSIVE PODCAST SPECIAL! This week, the host of Crypto and Blockchain Talk, Aviva Ounap, has the privilege of interviewing one of the most famous photographers of our time, Jesse Dittmar. Jesse is releasing his works as an exclusive NFT gallery on OpenSeas, and she will be asking him questions...
They Said Bitcoin is Gonna WHAT? How to Stay Sane in a BTC World #140
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - March 26, 2021 16:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsBitcoin is like Marmite. Some countries love it, some countries hate it. And the Marmite effect does not just apply to countries! It applies to people as well who perhaps are likening the world of crypto with some very unflattering parallels, such as the subprime mortgage bubbles which led to ma...
Blockchain on a Grand SKALE Jack O'Holleran from Skale Labs gives us the latest #139
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - March 24, 2021 16:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe SKALE Network was created to improve the user experience of decentralized applications, or dApps, while significantly increasing speeds, lowering costs, and creating seamless workflows for end users and developers. As the blockchain world knows, Ethereum is slow to verify and authorize tra...
hCaptcha, at the forefront of user privacy! Alex Newman of Human Protocol explains #138
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - March 20, 2021 16:03 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsCAPTCHA is short for 'Completely Automated Public Turing Test', which is the test that you see on many websites which allows those very websites to tell computers and humans apart. More importantly, CAPTCHA solutions keep the bots out and add a layer of protection for sensitive data - as bots ca...
NFTs! The future of tokenizing everything? Here to stay or going away? #137
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - March 10, 2021 21:39 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWe are now really starting to hear about NFTs on a daily basis, so with this podcast we go back to basics and discuss what exactly NFTs are and whether they have a future, Join the host of Crypto and Blockchain Talk, Aviva Ounap, and Rob Levy of HXRO,io as they talk about NFTs and the boundaries...
Does NFT now mean New for Terrorists? Scams and Illegal Activity within the Crypto World #136
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - March 04, 2021 12:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsEvery currency in the world is used for nefarious purposes, and this absolutely includes crypto. The thing is, as the introduction of new product offerings in the cryptosphere increase - such as NFTs and DeFi - there are more and more ways for people and organizations to use these offerings in w...
Is Musk Going To Pi** off the SEC Again? #135
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - February 27, 2021 16:09 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWell, we recorded this podcast before this news came out – but we saw this one coming…Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk is reportedly under SEC scrutiny over some alleged cryptocurrency manipulation and it is not over Bitcoin – it is over Dogecoin. Musk and the SEC have more of a hate-hate relationship th...
Will Other Corporations Follow Tesla and Invest Billions into Bitcoin? #134
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - February 17, 2021 18:57 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsFollowing Overstock and MicroStrategy, Tesla made the move into crypto with a $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin and signaled that they were keen to invest in other digital assets, prompting a bull run of bitcoin. Although, as we have shown, Tesla is not the first in this space, it is a global b...
DEFI Special! What is the Fuss? Learn Now Before Elon Tweets! #133
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - February 14, 2021 17:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsPure and simple, this week's podcast goes into DeFi as pundits like Elon Musk and Mark Cuban talk about something we have known for years - crypto is here to stay and adoption is absolutely growing in the institutional investors' and retail investors' markets alike. FOMO is real, so join Aviva O...
ETFs, Funds and Crypto - What are ETFs and are they needed? #132
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - February 10, 2021 17:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsETFs, or Exchange Traded Funds, are baskets of securities that trade on an exchange - and the crypto community has been trying to get them for crypto for longer than this podcast has been running. So how are ETFs a good idea for the crypto community, and how do they compare to trusts, like the G...
FinCENs New Crypto Monitoring Rule: One Rule for All or Stifling Adoption and Innovation? #131
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - February 03, 2021 22:44 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe US Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, FinCEN, announced that they were extending the window for responses, or comments, to a new rule which was deemed as rushed and anti-crypto. This rule proposes new ways to monitor cryptocurrency transactions, with proposed reporting requirem...
The Volatile Marketplace, Robinhood, Game Stop and WSB. What is it all about? #130
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - February 02, 2021 00:10 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThese are very interesting times, and whether you are into the stock or crypto markets or not, you need to know what is going on. With retail traders pushing GameStop and other stocks like AMC to record highs, investing app Robinhood temporarily restricted trades, a move which many think is more...
Understanding The Risks of Investing in Bitcoin, and Crypto in General #129
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - January 28, 2021 19:06 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe crypto world is like any other financial field, with pitfalls, risks and wins. If you are going to invest in bitcoin, or any cryptocurrency, you have to keep your eyes on the news, look at the market in general and really understand what is behind these digital currencies. Risk is something ...
Bitcoin, Gold or...Corn? We talk to Rob Levy, Trader Extraordinaire and Co-Founder of HXRO #128
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - January 21, 2021 01:34 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsSo many choices for investing, whether it is Bitcoin, Gold or… Corn? In this episode of Crypto and Blockchain Talk, we have a chat with Rob Levy, Co-Founder of Hxro, the cryptocurrency predictions platform that offers a simplified way to interact with the market. Rob has extensive experience as ...
Blockchain Interoperability! Key to Mass Adoption? We talk to Rafael Belchior about the Future of Blockchain #127
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - January 12, 2021 23:20 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings“Blockchain interoperability is emerging as one of the crucial features of blockchain technology, but the knowledge necessary for achieving it is fragmented”, says Rafael Belchior, and we agree with him! Rafael and his team presented the paper, “A Survey on Blockchain Interoperability: Past, Pre...
The REGULATION TAKEOVER PODCAST! IS CRYPTO UNDER ATTACK? New Year's Edition #126
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - January 01, 2021 22:14 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsAs Bitcoin shot above 25K, the SEC finally announced their new office dedicated to digital assets and blockchain. Crypto certainly has their attention now, and perhaps in not a good way, as the SEC launched their lawsuit against Ripple, its CEO, and its chairman, for illegally selling unregister...
Bitcoin Rises, Facebook Feels the Heat and Coinbase's Confidential IPO! All in this weeks episode! #125
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - December 22, 2020 15:14 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsBitcoin is rising, Facebook is being slammed with lawsuits left, right, and center in the United States and Coinbase has filed their S1 in preparation for their IPO! It is a whirlwind of activity in the cryptosphere, so join Aviva Ounap, host of Crypto and Blockchain Talk, and Jonathan Dunsmoor,...
The Sand Dollar Beats the Digital Dollar Release! Hey USA! Where is your CBDC? #124
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - December 11, 2020 19:21 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe Bahamas have just come out with their new CBDC, the Sand Dollar, which is something to be celebrating! China and Thailand are working on delivering their crypto to the masses and now the Bahamas follows suit with their Central Bank Digital Currency. The only question is now, why is the Unite...
The Crypto World Roundup! The Latest and Greatest of Countries and Crypto... #123
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - December 01, 2020 19:49 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this week's episode we talk about what is happening in Russia, China, Malaysia, Thailand, and many other places, and people within those places, and how they are influencing crypto, or how cryptocurrency is influencing them! It's always a good time with Aviva Ounap, host of Crypto and Blockch...
Vitalik said 'No' to Yield Farming! Shi Khai Wei of Longhash Ventures Explains #122
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - November 19, 2020 10:22 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsVitalik Buterin, the man behind Ethereum said a resounding “NO” to yield farming where others are giving it the two thumbs up! Of course, Vitalik’s Ethereum protocol is the backbone behind most DeFi products, so should you trust in yield farming? To give us a background and a clear understanding...
Bonkers for Bitcoin? You Betcha! Edan Yago Tells Us Why #121
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - November 10, 2020 17:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsBitcoin is on the up! As you have seen from our last podcast episodes, global companies such as PayPal and Square are putting their money (or bitcoin) where their mouth is and giving Bitcoin the validity that it so surely needed. Many people knew from the word go that Bitcoin was going to be a g...
50 Shades of Grayscale! Is Bitcoin the Investors Safe Word? #120
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - October 29, 2020 14:54 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe Grayscale Bitcoin Trust is a digital currency (cryptocurrency) investment product that investors can buy and sell in their own brokerage accounts. On January 21, 2020, it became an SEC reporting company, registering its shares with the Commission and designating the Trust as the first digita...
50 Shades of Grayscale! Is Bitcoin the Investors Safe Word? #220
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - October 29, 2020 14:54 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe Grayscale Bitcoin Trust is a digital currency (cryptocurrency) investment product that investors can buy and sell in their own brokerage accounts. On January 21, 2020, it became an SEC reporting company, registering its shares with the Commission and designating the Trust as the first digita...
It’s a Square Deal! Square purchases $50m of BTC! #119
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - October 21, 2020 20:10 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsEnter cryptosphere, stage right! Square has just announced buying $50m worth of bitcoin, which is only 1% of its assets from Q2 of 2020. They apparently just realized that crypto holds great potential to bring empowerment and it aligns with Square goals. What is even more interesting is that Squ...
What is Blockchain #118
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - October 12, 2020 20:11 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhat is Blockchain? You’ve heard this word everywhere lately, but what does it really mean? Simply put, it’s a way of structuring and storing data. Think of how you pack things up to move. Things are put in boxes, the boxes are labeled with the contents, and then it is stacked inside the movin...
Federally chartered banks and thrifts may provide custody services for crypto assets #117
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - September 18, 2020 21:51 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsDid you know that now, Federally Chartered Banks and Thrifts May Provide Custody Services For Crypto Assets? Do you even know what this means? Well, we can tell you that The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today published a letter clarifying national banks' and federal savings as...
The Crypto Roundup, World View #116
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - September 05, 2020 18:38 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIt’s the Crypto Roundup, World View episode! We talk about Ethereum’s increasing popularity due to DeFi, stablecoins in China and so much more. Join the host of Crypto and Blockchain Talk, Aviva Ounap, and Ben Jessel of Forbes.com today and tune into this week’s educational and interesting podca...
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