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 Mars 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 Mars 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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Feb 202020min
COINDESK EXPLAINS: Sim Card Hacks
In the pantheon of crypto hacks, “SIM jacking” is one of the worst. The hack, which is less a hack and more social engineering, is basically a form of identity theft, with the attacker swapping a vict...
26 Feb 20207min
BREAKDOWN: 6 Explanations for Crypto's Fascination With Coronavirus
The spread of Coronavirus has dominated the news cycle across industries, but the discussion has been particularly fierce in both the finance and tech worlds, with crypto right in the lead. For a mon...
25 Feb 202023min
BREAKDOWN: Caitlin Long on Coronavirus, Crypto Custody and Building a Bank
An incredible amount of work has gone into convincing institutional investors that bitcoin and crypto should be on their radar. Now that many are convinced, however, they face some significant limitat...
24 Feb 202020min
