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00:18:37

BREAKDOWN: The Productization of Bitcoin Maximalism

CoinDesk Podcast Network ·

2019/12/17

NLW discusses the rise in bitcoin only businesses and “blockchain not crypto” in China vs. “digital assets not blockchain” in US financial firms.

00:30:42

Announcing: The Road to Consensus! (link in shownotes)

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2019/03/11

Subscribe to Road to Consensus here: https://art19.com/shows/road-to-consensus-by-coindesk We've launched a new podcast featuring interviews with leaders of the blockchain industry. If you like this first episode, please subscribe at the link above! And if you want more info about Consensus in New York on May 13, visit Consensus2019.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

00:07:07

800k Bitcoin Miners Recently Shut Down

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2018/11/26

F2pool, believes that anywhere from 600k to 800k bitcoin miners have shut down since mid-November as the bitcoin network’s hashrate - and the cryptocurrency’s price - have declined.Ripple has released the latest version of its most popular product, xCurrent. Porn startup SpankChain raised $6 million in an initial coin offering in 2017.Ohio has officially become the first US state to accept bitcoin for taxes. Late Confirmation is a CoinDesk production. For more information, visit

00:06:59

Giga Watt Declares Bankruptcy

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2018/11/21

The U.S-based crypto mining firm Giga Watt filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy this past Monday, but it still owes creditors some $7 million.Insurance coverage in the crypto space totals about $6 billion, a mere drop in the bucket for a market cap of $140 billion.Six days after the bitcoin cash hard fork, it appears that the chains will be permanently split.Silvergate Bank has 483 crypto startups as its clients, according to a filing it made as part of an initial public offering. Late Confirmation is

00:06:55

Bakkt delays its launch until next year

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2018/11/20

The ICE’s bitcoin futures trading platform Bakkt is delaying its product launch. The U.K.’s FCA is considering a ban on some cryptocurrency-based derivatives, a senior executive has said.The Alabama Securities Commission is taking a hard stance on would-be ICO frauds.The U.S. Department of Justice is increasingly focusing a months-long investigation into crypto market manipulation on the tether stablecoin. Late Confirmation is a CoinDesk production. For more information, visit

00:05:02

Bitcoin drops below $5K

CoinDesk Podcast Network ·

2018/11/19

Bitcoin’s price fell below $5,000 for the first time since October 12, 2017, dropping more than $500 to hit $4,981 earlier today.Despite the falling crypto prices, developers and entrepreneurs are still moving into the crypto space.Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is calling on Interpol’s member nations to cooperate in preventing cryptocurrencies from being used for illicit purposes. The U.S. Federal Election Commission may allow people to mine cryptocurrencies to support political

00:05:10

Bitcoin, the Evil Spawn

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2018/11/16

A European Central Bank executive board member said this week that blockchain is promising – but that bitcoin is “the evil spawn of the financial crisis.”Two cryptocurrency startups have agreed to register their initial coin offering tokens as securities after settling charges with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.Interest from both employers and job seekers in blockchain and cryptocurrency-related jobs has declined in the past year, new data indicates.After yesterday’s split of the

00:06:16

Bitcoin Cash War Begins

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2018/11/15

Bitcoin cash's contentious hard fork happened today around 1 pm eastern time. Notable consumer bitcoin mining pioneer Baliji Srinivasan is backing a startup seeking to take another stab at popularizing in-home crypto mining.Police in Tokyo have arrested eight men alleged to have run a cryptocurrency pyramid scheme that collected 7.8 billion yen (almost $69 million) from thousands of victims across the country. Late Confirmation is a CoinDesk production. For more information, visit

01:04:14

SPECIAL: MarketWatch & CoinDesk Survey Results

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2018/11/14

Bitcoin fell to its lowest price in over 12 months on Wednesday amid a broader cryptocurrency market sell-off.A new BitLicense has been issued by the New York State Department of Financial ServicesMessenger app maker Kik is quitting Ethereum for good as it continues to develop its own cryptocurrency.One of the bitcoin community’s most beloved veterans just got a promotion. SPECIAL on today's episode: CoinDesk's Nolan Baurle and MarketWatch's Andrew Neary discuss the results of a study comparing

00:05:24

Oil is the New Data

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2018/11/13

It's increasingly looking like Bitcoin Cash mining pools will run a version of the software called Bitcoin SV.An ongoing legal battle between XRP investors and payments startup Ripple is entering its next phase.Japanese IT giant GMO has reported a loss of about $5.6 million for its cryptocurrency mining business in the third quarter of 2018.Oil industry giants Shell and BP are among a group of firms planning to launch a blockchain platform to automate post-trade processes in the energy industry by

00:07:17

Banned From Trading Forever

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2018/11/12

Ironic? A fractious divide in the Bitcoin Cash community has raised fears that the cryptocurrency – the fourth largest by market cap – could split into two.The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the country's stock exchange, Singapore Exchange (SGX), have developed a settlement system for tokenized assets that can work across different blockchains.Global professional services giant Accenture has rolled out a new software license management application built with tech from distributed ledger

00:07:01

Take Me to Constantinople

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2018/11/09

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00:07:31

The SEC Sends a Shot Across the Bow

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2018/11/08

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00:05:23

Egg Freezing

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2018/11/07

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00:06:15

"The Largest Crypto Giveaway in History"

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2018/11/06

Bitmain is launching two new Antminer models targeting the bitcoin mining industry. U.S. elections drama may be dragging Augur out of the doldrums. Crypto wallet provider Blockchain says it's about to stage what it's calling the "largest crypto giveaway in history." Cryptocurrency mining technology firm Bitfury Group has just closed an $80 million funding round led by venture capital firm Korelya Capital. Late Confirmation is a CoinDesk production. For more information, visit

00:05:23

ICO Guidance in "Plain English"

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2018/11/05

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) plans to clarify when and how cryptocurrencies may be classified as securities, and will do so in "plain English."The chairman of Deltec Bank & Trust says a widely scrutinized letter about stablecoin issuer Tether's account at the Bahamas-based institution is "authentic." Switzerland's Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) is giving tough guidance to banks wanting to trade in crypto assets. A little-known ethereum project called Lition

00:05:59

Kik Growth

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2018/11/02

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00:06:30

Tether's Scribble

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2018/11/01

Tether, the company behind the controversial stablecoin of the same name, published a letter purporting to be from Deltec Bank and Trust Limited today, confirming that it has about $1.8 billion in its account as of October 31. However, the letter - dated November 1 - does not have a name attached to it, and the signature is essentially a curve. Coinbase’s head of trading, Hunter Merghart, has resigned after just six months on the job, according to individuals familiar with the situation. Dapper

00:07:43

Lost Crypto?

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2018/10/31

The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance has frozen accounts that received more than 93,000 ether from two wallets indirectly linked to the troubled Russian exchange WEX. Former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen has been gifted a small amount of bitcoin. The Indian government is considering imposing a ban on what it calls "private cryptocurrencies" in the country. The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) has teamed up with distributed ledger startup Digital Asset to develop a blockchain

00:06:02

Jail Time

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2018/10/30

U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has just announced $300 million in new funding The developer that formalized the code underlying most initial coin offerings (ICOs) – ethereum's ERC-20 token standard – has proposed a new approach in a bid to make the funding schemes more safe for would-be investors A 21-year-old bitcoin trader from California has pleaded guilty to operating an unlicensed money transmission business and now faces a maximum of five years in prison. Bitcoin's (BTC) downside

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