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Paypal Has a Crypto Future! Who is Next? #115
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - August 17, 2020 18:59 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsPaypal and Venmo are going crypto! PayPal apparently is going to allow the buying and selling of crypto to its 325 million users which will ramp up adoption and of course, add legitimacy to digital currency – and Venmo is looking to do more of the same. It is all remarkably interesting, but what...
Kodak Moments: A Snapshot of a Company in Trouble? #114
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - August 11, 2020 23:19 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIt's a Kodak Moment for sure! On July 28 of 2020, Kodak announced it was allegedly getting a $765 million loan from the US Government to aid it in producing drug ingredients. What happened next was obvious - the news about this federal support led to its stock to explode by 2,190% the next day....
Wirecard: How to make Billions Disappear! #113
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - August 03, 2020 19:47 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings“Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive”, said Sir Walter Scott, and how right he was! Billions are missing from Wirecard’s coffers, and no one knows yet where it went, but there are many ideas. Wirecard has taken part in what the head of Germany's financial watchdo...
The Unequal Scales of Justice? The Roulette Wheel of Fines, Penalties, Disgorgements and Jail Time #112
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - July 21, 2020 22:56 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsYou do the crime, you do the time – so they say, but sometimes punishments for identical crimes are unequal and even puzzling. Let us start with the case of Charles C. Liu and Xin Wang, a married couple and U.S. citizens in California, who raised over $27 million USD from Chinese companies claim...
Unplug from Social Media and #StopTheHate Permanently? Yes #111
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - July 07, 2020 20:31 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhat is happening with the human race? How is it that we are now so addicted, so believing, so sheep-like, so affected by Social Media? Is it Fear Of Missing Out? Are we happier being pissed off all the time? Are we looking for anger? Join me, Aviva Ounap, host of Crypto and Blockchain Talk as I...
Why the Hell are Institutional Investors Investing in Crypto? #110
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - June 26, 2020 16:54 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhy in the world would institutional investors invest in crypto? What are institutional investors and how do they differ from retail investors? Join Ben Jessel from Forbes. com and Aviva Õunap, host of Crypto and Blockchain Talk, as we discover why institutions would invest in something so volat...
Fifty (50) BTC Just Moved for First Time Since 2009, Satoshi, is that you? #109
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - June 07, 2020 18:04 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsSatoshi, is that you? It seems that 50 Bitcoin moved for the first time since 2009, and the world is effervescent with guesses – it is Satoshi? This hoard of BTC has not been touched since being rewarded for mining block 3654 in 2009, but to be fair, there were several early miners on the Bitcoi...
Let's talk about Sachs, Baby! Is Goldman Sachs telling their investors to run from Bitcoin? #108
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - June 07, 2020 15:43 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsGoldman Sachs told their investors that Bitcoin is not a suitable investment and they gave five reasons why they feel Bitcoin is "not an asset class", including that it is primarily used as a conduit for illicit activity (um, like cash isn’t?). They made many other claims, but what they forgot t...
A $1.7 BILLION DOLLAR REFUND? Can I have that in ones, please? #107
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - May 25, 2020 11:29 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsHave the legal woes of Telegram set a precedent for every ICO under the SEC's watchful eyes? What does the Telegram lawsuit and ruling tell us about the present and future conditions which will be enforced by the SEC for all blockchain companies? Why didn't Telegram just comply with the SEC and ...
What is the Latest with Facebook's Libra Association? #106
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - May 12, 2020 19:04 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsInteresting developments are happening in the world of the Libra Association, aka Facebook's foray into blockchain and cryptocurrency. What is happening, you ask? Join me, host Aviva Ounap, and Igor Pejic, author of "Blockchain Babel" and winner of the Independent Press Award for the Best Techno...
Savings? Nope. Debt? Yes. Humans Suck at Finance. It is a fact. #105
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - April 28, 2020 07:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsSavings? Nope. Debt? Yes. Humans Suck at Finance. It is a fact. We have no clue about saving and spending as a species. The average human has almost no savings and is full of debt, despite working. Should we be teaching finance in schools, from kindergarten? I certainly think so! It should be ri...
A Perfect Storm? How the news of last week could influence the crypto market #104
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - April 17, 2020 21:53 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThere are many stories in the news lately that could impact the future of the crypto market, that perhaps the subtlety of some of them are being overlooked in terms of how, when grouped altogether, they could alter the bigger picture. Join me, host Aviva Ounap and Michael McCarty from Shrimpy.io...
DeFi dreams? More like DeFi pipedreams. #103
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - April 10, 2020 11:16 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsDeFi has been in the news a lot lately, and the headlines are more bad than good, Besides knowing that DeFi stands for Decentralised Finance, what else do you know and understand about it? As Jon Evans from Github stated in a recently published article, "DeFi seems to me more like cosplaying a f...
Digital Dollar Deleted? #102
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - April 03, 2020 21:51 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe Digital Dollar project has been around now for some time and was supposed to have its debut officially unveiled within the US coronavirus stimulus bill that was signed into law on March 27th. But guess what - there was not a whisper of it anywhere within the entire document. Of course, it wo...
Coronavirus and the Global Economic Impact #101
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - March 24, 2020 17:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWell, we are in the thick of it. A pandemic of global proportions which is impacting the world’s economies on an epic scale. Countries one after the other have rolled out rescue packages and stimulus bills to support troubled economies, and many people are feeling the effects in their pockets as...
Coronavirus and the Crypto Markets. What’s going on? #100
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - March 23, 2020 21:51 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsCoronavirus and the Crypto Markets. What’s going on? What is going on with the Crypto Marketplace during this time of the COVID-19 outbreak, otherwise known as the coronavirus pandemic? On March 12 of this year, Bitcoin (BTC) experienced the biggest single-day drop since 2013, losing around 40...
Limechain admitted as a Hyperledger Fabric Certified Partner #99
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - March 17, 2020 22:42 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJoin me, Aviva Õunap, the host of Crypto and Blockchain Talk as we talk to Nick Todorov, the Co-Founder, and CEO of Limechain, and get a quick explanation of what Hyperledger and Hyperledger Fabric are, and how Limechain is now one of the eight companies worldwide admitted as a Hyperledger Fabri...
Tether and Bitfinex? You’ve been served! Or so the saying goes… #98
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - March 10, 2020 00:32 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) Office allege that Bitfinex and associated stablecoin firm Tether covered up an $850 million loss and in doing so, misled investors in the state of New York. Instead, Bitfinex, once the world’s largest exchange, claims to have borrowed this money from Tet...
Fake Volume in Crypto Exchanges? Yes. Loads. #97
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - March 03, 2020 16:04 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsA report was produced by Bitwise Asset Management showing the existence of faked volumes in the bitcoin market – 95% of total volume according to its research. So, what is going on here and how can we move forward in the cryptosphere when one of the basic trading tools for these financial instru...
What is this garbage? It is the SEC Safe Harbor Proposal, Believe it or Not! #96
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - February 24, 2020 12:22 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsSEC Commissioner Hester Peirce outlined details of a proposal that would provide crypto projects with a three-year safe harbor within which they could mature their token in order to successfully pass the SEC’s securities evaluation processes. In this no-holds-barred commentary from my side, I ca...
It's NO BULL! Making it in Business is not easy, but Joe Lallouz, CEO of Bison Trails, tells us the game plan! #95
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - February 19, 2020 16:13 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIt is NO BULL! Making it in the business world is hard as heck. There is no easy way to make it but to put in the hard work and sweat. Sometimes you just want to jack it all in and run for the woods. That is what Founder and CEO of Bison Trails, Joe Lallouz, will tell you, but $30M in funding la...
What do you do after NASA? Build Shrimpy.io, Of Course! #94
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - February 11, 2020 10:50 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhat do you do after working at NASA, Boeing, and Samsung? You open a company called Shrimpy.io and make a crypto exchange trading bot for portfolio management, indexing the market, rebalancing, and strategy backtesting! Join Michael McCarty, the CEO of Shrimpy and me, Aviva Ounap, as we discuss...
The Digital Dollar or Euro, By Accenture? I sure hope not! #93
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - February 01, 2020 19:04 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe former CTFC Chairman, J. Christopher Giancarlo, and Accenture have launched a "Think Tank" To digitize the U.S Dollar, but does this really need to be organized outside of government departments and their employees? Is the next step that Amazon will be leading a "Think Tank" on minting and i...
WILL Lightnet Really Move $50 Billion Of International Payments BY 2022? #92
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - January 23, 2020 14:24 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsI love the smell of a legitimate project, which is the reason why I found this podcast topic to be of interest. Lightnet, a project based on the Stellar blockchain, will apparently be moving $50 Billion of International Payments by 2022 by targeting the Southeast Asian region. But I never heard ...
Quantum Tricorder and other Space Tech by 2025 #91
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - January 20, 2020 14:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsMattias Bergstrom, CEO of Quantum1Net has been right about many things, so how will his predictions for the next decade fare? Join me, Aviva Õunap, as I talk to Mattias about some of his thoughts on developments within the tech space over the next ten years and have a chat about general related ...
Exchange Traded Funds! Yeah, Baby! What are ETFs? Listen and Find Out! #90
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - January 14, 2020 20:11 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsBeing financially savvy is important these days, and ETFs have been around for a while. But what are they? And what do they have to do with crypto and blockchain? Tune in and listen to me, Aviva Õunap and Forbes.com writer Ben Jessel explain what ETFs are and what they do, and how it may impact ...
Brand New Decade, Same old Scams! #89
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - January 02, 2020 23:40 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWelcome to a brand new decade, with the same old scams! It may be the roaring '20s all over again, with the SEC coming out of the gates like a lion, looking to pounce on any companies trying to offload their coins and tokens without properly registering them as securities. The SEC has fined BC...
ONECOIN: The Scam That Lives On #88
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - December 30, 2019 01:25 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings“As alleged, these defendants created a multibillion-dollar ‘cryptocurrency’ company based completely on lies and deceit. They promised big returns and minimal risk, but, as alleged, this business was a pyramid scheme based on smoke and mirrors more than zeroes and ones. Investors were victimize...
Alan Goodman: Creating Trust in a Crypto and Blockchain World #87
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - December 18, 2019 21:39 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsAlan Goodman is not just one of the geniuses behind MTV. He is a branding God, and one who applies his knowledge of branding, marketing and trust to crypto and blockchain. Listen to this fabulous podcast where I, Aviva Ounap, talk to the man who has created global brands from fairy dust, as we e...
A QUANTUM PROOF BLOCKCHAIN? #86
Crypto and Blockchain Talk - Making You Smarter - December 09, 2019 05:47 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsMattias Bergstrom, CEO of Quantum1Net does not fear the future. Nor should you, when people like him are on the scene. Yes, the future of blockchain is still young and confusing for many, and with new technology like Quantum coming onto the scene, what will happen to our lovely blockchain? Yes, ...
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