BREAKDOWN: Why Bitcoin Mining Might Be the New Business Model for US Power Plants
It was another good day for global crypto, as South Korea votes to formally integrate the industry into the existing financial system, opening the market to new players and potentially improving servi...
5 Maalis 202016min
BREAKDOWN: Libra Plus? A New Global Digital Currency Strategy for Facebook
Yesterday, The Information reported that Facebook’s Calibra wallet would be abandoning the backed-by-a-basket-of-currencies Libra for a set of fiat-backed digital currencies for different regions. The...
4 Maalis 202016min
BREAKDOWN: Super Tuesday Special: What Us Election Outcome Is Best for Bitcoin?
Today is Super Tuesday - the biggest day of the US primary election season. Increasingly, prediction markets and pollsters suggest it’s a two person race between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders (although...
3 Maalis 202025min
BREAKDOWN: The View From China: Crypto, Crisis and Digital Currencies Feat. Matthew Graham
When everyone wrote their 2020 crypto prediction pieces, China featured prominently in everything from the exchange business to enterprise blockchain to the potential impact of a forthcoming digital y...
2 Maalis 202026min
LTB!: Coronavirus Impacts on Bitcoin (And the IRS's Dumb Singularity)
The best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Earlier this week the Let's Talk Bitcoin! Show gathered to discuss Coronavirus and its potential impacts or disruptions to the decentralized...
1 Maalis 202054min
BREAKDOWN: Understanding This Week's Market Whiplash, Feat. Scott Melker
After weeks of not reacting to Coronavirus, the markets took a profound turn for the worse this week, leading ultimately to the fastest correction - i.e. loss of 10% - in recorded history. In this ep...
28 Helmi 202025min
BREAKDOWN: A 101 Guide to Ethereum's ProgPOW Controversy
Last Friday on Ethereum’s core developer call, the devs agreed to push forward a controversial anti-ASICs consensus algorithm switch known as ProgPoW. The broader Ethereum community was not pleased, ...
27 Helmi 202026min
BREAKDOWN: Is Bitcoin a Safe Haven or 'Schmuck Insurance'?
Bitcoin is having a terrible, horrible, no good very bad day. Many are using the dump - which from a timing perspective aligns with a broader market selloff among Coronavirus fears - as a way to dimin...
26 Helmi 202020min
