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2019 Crypto Tax Filing And What You Should Know
This Week in Crypto - March 11, 2020 07:49 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsTokenTax reports cryptocurrency capital gains and income taxes and supports over 30 exchanges. TokenTax provides a global perspective on crypto tax regulations as well as common practices for U.S. taxpayers. Zac McClure, co-founder of TokenTax, will join us to discuss the implications of taxes o...
Mar. 5th: Crypto Fund Hack Results In Massive Data Leak
This Week in Crypto - March 05, 2020 06:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsQuick Take South Korean lawmakers amend the Financial Information Act in alignment with FATF guidelines. The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) warns BitMex it is not authorized to operate in the U.K. Lending startup Babel Finance reaches a record of $380 million in outstanding loans. ...
Mar. 4th: India Lifts Ban On Cryptocurrency Trading
This Week in Crypto - March 04, 2020 17:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsQuick Take The Supreme Court of India lifts a cryptocurrency ban, enabling crypto firms to access baking services. Decrypt to launch its own token that rewards readers for interacting with brands. ConsenSys and EY launch enterprise-targeted Baseline Protocol. HTC announces the EXODUS 5G H...
Celer Network Off-Chain Layer-2 Scaling And State Channels
This Week in Crypto - March 02, 2020 04:38 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsCeler Network is a leading layer-2 scaling platform that enables fast, easy and secure off-chain transactions for not only payment transactions, but also generalized off-chain smart contracts. 📧 Read the full story 📖 Sign up for our newsletter 🐣 Follow us on Twitter
SKALE Blockchain Smart Contract Scaling
This Week in Crypto - February 27, 2020 06:14 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsSKALE Labs is a blockchain scalability platform that provides high-speed consensus and empowers dApps to run smart contracts. SKALE acts as a middle-ware layer which provides high-speed consensus and empowers dApps to run smart contracts at the rate of millions per second on platforms such as Et...
P2P Trading, Atomic Swaps, and Node Operators with RADAR
This Week in Crypto - February 25, 2020 04:51 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsRADAR is building products for access to financial infrastructure. Its REDSHIFT product bridges payments between the Bitcoin Lightning Network and Ethereum. They've also built ION, which services to educate and onboard users to the Lightning Network. Their latest project, DEPLOY is a node operat...
3Box Shared Backend Platform For Web3 Applications
This Week in Crypto - February 23, 2020 02:12 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratings3Box is an open-source data storage solution for web3 that allows end-users to manage their public and private information on the decentralized web. 3Box CEO Michael Sena joins me to discuss blockchain identity, decentralized storage, and enabling applications with zero backends. 📧 Read the ful...
Aave Flash Loans And Lending Protocol
This Week in Crypto - February 21, 2020 17:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsAave is an open-source and non-custodial protocol to earn interest on deposits and borrow assets with a variable or stable interest rate. Aave Founder Stani Kulechov joins us to discuss the Aave lending protocol, risk assessment framework, and flash loans. 📧 Read the full story 📖 Sign up for...
Gasless Ethereum Transactions With Biconomy Relayer Network
This Week in Crypto - February 20, 2020 08:38 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsBiconomy is a relayer infrastructure network and transaction platform enabling developers to build applications easily and reduce the friction between your applications built on the blockchain and your end-users. 📧 Read the full story 📖 Sign up for our newsletter 🐣 Follow us on Twitter
Orchid Decentralized VPNs And Following The White Rabbit
This Week in Crypto - February 19, 2020 05:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsOrchid is building open source tools for custom VPN configurations and privacy services. CEO Steven Waterhouse talks about the vulnerabilities of today’s VPNs, the purpose of OXT, and shares his experience with being SIM swapped. 📧 Read the full story 📖 Sign up for our newsletter 🐣 Follow ...
Kyber Network On-Chain Token Swaps And Decentralized Liquidity Pool
This Week in Crypto - February 17, 2020 17:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsKyber Network is an Ethereum-based protocol that allows for the instant exchange and conversion of digital assets and cryptocurrencies with high liquidity. It’s similar to the 0x project but instead performs all its actions on the blockchain. Deniz Omer, Head of Growth at Kyber Network, joins us...
Rise of the DAO’s with James Duncan
This Week in Crypto - February 08, 2020 17:30 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsJames Duncan is the co-founder at Abridged, a toolkit for rapid blockchain application development. Previously, James worked at the Ethereum Foundation, managing a multimillion-dollar grant budget that funded projects like Gitcoin, Uniswap, and DappNode. In this week’s episode, we discuss the hi...
Jan. 23rd: World Economic Forum Develops CBDC Framework
This Week in Crypto - January 23, 2020 17:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsQuick Take Amun launched “21Shares Short Bitcoin ETP (SBTC),” enabling traders to short bitcoin. BitMEX announced the launch of an XRP-USD quanto swap. Gemini passed the SOC type 2 security compliance examination conducted by Deloitte. Pornhub adds support for Tether (USDT) via the TRONli...
Jan. 22nd: BCH Fork Will Cut Block Rewards By 12.5 Percent
This Week in Crypto - January 22, 2020 17:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsQuick Take Bakkt plans to launch a consumer app later this year. Bitcoin cash miners plan to execute a soft fork that would cut block rewards by 12.5 percent. Grayscale has extended financial support for the Ethereum Classic Cooperative. Binance has invested in open-data framework provide...
Jan. 21st: Vodafone Leaves Libra Association To Focus On M-Pesa
This Week in Crypto - January 21, 2020 17:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsQuick Take Square Crypto launched a Lightning Development Kit (LDK) for integrating Lighting on bitcoin wallets. BTCPay Server released “BTCPay Vault,” a desktop application for integrating hardware wallets. British telecom company Vodafone left the Libra Association to focus on expanding M...
Jan. 20th: Australian Regulators Approve Raiz Invest Bitcoin Fund
This Week in Crypto - January 20, 2020 17:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsQuick Take: Bitfinex-backed startup RenrenBit yielded $1.4 million in revenue for Q4 2019. South Korean regulators review a taxation plan with a virtual currency tax rate of 20%. Australia-based Raiz Invest was granted approval for a retail bitcoin fund. Mining operator Argo Blockchain gr...
Jan. 17th: KyberSwap Leaves EU Amid 5AMLD Regulations
This Week in Crypto - January 17, 2020 17:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsQuick Take: KyberSwap leaves Malta for British Virgin Islands due to the EU's new 5AMLD regulation. Libra forms Technical Steering Committee to oversee development of the project. Grayscale surpasses $1 billion in total investments. Binance is in talks with Z Corporation, a subsidiary of ...
Jan. 16th: Gemini Launches “Nakamoto Ltd.” Captive Insurance
This Week in Crypto - January 17, 2020 01:16 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsQuick Take Gemini launched Nakamoto Ltd., a captive insurance company with a $200 million insurance policy. Former CFTC Chair Christopher Giancarlo has formed the Digital Dollar Foundation. CSA notice suggests custodial crypto exchanges are subject to Canadian securities laws. Lawmakers p...
Jan. 15th: Enterprise Ethereum Alliance Launches A TestNet
This Week in Crypto - January 15, 2020 18:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsTLDR: EEA launched a TestNet in partnership with Whiteblock, enabling members to develop in a sandbox environment. Kadena fully launched its hybrid blockchain, enabling human-readable smart contracts and interoperability between public and private chains via Pact. Bitwise withdrew its bitco...
Ethereum Wallets with Authereum Co-founder Chris Whinfrey
This Week in Crypto - January 13, 2020 20:33 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsAuthereum is a login and wallet solution for dApp developers who want to provide their users with a web2-like user experience while maintaining censorship resistance. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HUA7BbvXtlI Show Links Authereum Chris Whinfrey on Twitter The Gas Siphon Attack
Inter Blockchain Communication (IBC) with Zaki Manian and Dean Tribble
This Week in Crypto - December 17, 2019 19:11 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsIBC is a standard that permits anyone to quickly and securely transfer money across the web. Zaki Manian is the head of research at Tendermint Inc, an implementation of BFT consensus algorithm & PoS cryptoeconomics and a core contributor to the Cosmos Network. Dean Tribble, CEO at Agoric, is wor...
Week of December 13, 2019
This Week in Crypto - December 13, 2019 17:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsHere’s the rundown from This Week in Crypto: More than 80 Japanese banks have expressed interest in joining JP Morgan’s Interbank Information Network (IIN), a platform for exchanging information related to international payments. Nike has been granted a patent for tokenizing shoes as an NFT o...
Nov. 22nd: EIF Invests €100 Million In Blockchain Fund
This Week in Crypto - November 22, 2019 11:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis is your daily roundup for Friday, November 22, 2019. The European Investment Fund invests €100 million in a blockchain fund, Coinbase Custody expands Tezos staking internationally, and China cracks down on crypto related activities in Shenzhen. 📧 Subscribe to my newsletter: https://thiswe...
Nov. 21st: Chainalysis Lays Off 39 Employees
This Week in Crypto - November 21, 2019 11:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis is your daily roundup for Thursday, November 21, 2019. Chainalysis lays off 39 employees, Shanghai police allegedly raid Binance offices, and Silvergate Bank announces plans to launch crypto lending and custody services. 📧 Subscribe to my daily newsletter on https://mota.substack.com.
Nov. 20th: Polymath Migrates Polymesh To Parity Substrate
This Week in Crypto - November 20, 2019 11:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsPolymesh migrates from ethereum to Parity’s Substrate, the U.S. Federal Reserve responds to a letter in regards to a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), and ShapeShift launches its “FOX” exchange token. 📧 Subscribe to my daily newsletter on https://mota.substack.com.
Nov. 19th: Fidelity Granted Trust License By NYDFS
This Week in Crypto - November 19, 2019 11:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis is your daily roundup for Tuesday, November 19, 2019. The IRS investigates Bitcoin ATMs, Fidelity Digital Asset Services has been granted a trust license, and Grayscale Investments seeks SEC reporting company status. 📧 Subscribe to my daily newsletter on https://mota.substack.com.
Nov. 18th: Introducing Multi-collateral DAI
This Week in Crypto - November 18, 2019 11:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis is your daily roundup for Monday, November 18, 2019. Visa introduces the LucidiTEE blockchain, the SEC reviews Bitwise bitcoin ETF rejection, and Cashaa plans to offer banking for US crypto firms. 📧 Subscribe to my daily newsletter on https://mota.substack.com.
Nov. 17th: Federal Reserve Releases Stablecoin Guidelines For Issuers
This Week in Crypto - November 17, 2019 11:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis is your daily roundup for Sunday, November 17, 2019. A Wyoming law exempts New York’s bitlicense requirement, Andrew Yang addresses regulating crypto, and the Federal Reserve releases stablecoin guidelines for issuers. 📧 Subscribe to my daily newsletter on https://mota.substack.com.
Nov. 16th: China Stays Firm On Cryptocurrency Restrictions
This Week in Crypto - November 16, 2019 11:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis is your daily roundup for Saturday, November 16, 2019. Tether denies allegations in its class action lawsuit, China stays firm on its cryptocurrency restrictions, and Alibaba denies any form of partnership with Lolli. 📧 Subscribe to my daily newsletter on https://mota.substack.com.
Week of November 15, 2019
This Week in Crypto - November 15, 2019 23:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis is your roundup for the week ending November 15, 2019. Bithumb Launches Bithumb Coin (BT), CME Group plans to offer bitcoin options in 2020, and Multi-Collateral Dai (MCD) will launch next week. 📧 Subscribe to my daily newsletter on https://mota.substack.com.
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