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Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education

Bitcoin, blockchain, distributed ledger, and cryptocurrency will change our future. They are terms to describe components of a technological and social revolution on the horizon. Yet, any talk of bitcoin, alternative coins (alt coins) such as ethereum, eos, ripple, or initial coin offerings (ICO’s) often come with significant speculation and hype that makes it difficult to take seriously the extraordinary underlying technology of distributed ledgers and their impact to our future. Consensus Network

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EP36: Buy, Borrow and Die: Bitcoin Style

Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education ·

2019/10/06

I am in a financial position that may seem somewhat unusual to you. You see, the IRS rewards me for my real estate investments by taxing me less. If, on the other hand, I keep my income in the bank, or invest it in traditional equities or bonds, the IRS shows me no mercy! Admittedly this is by design. I am a real estate professional. One of the great benefits to that designation is that all of my passive losses flow through my personal tax returns. In other words, all that depreciation and mortgage

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EP35: Cryptocurrency and Asymmetric Risk with Teeka...

Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education ·

2019/09/08

Up to 10 percent of my liquid assets are in very risky stuff—specifically digital assets and startups. A lot of people people think I am being irresponsible—particularly because I have a captive audience with whom I have influence. Now if I was shooting at the hip and telling you to put all your money in this stuff, I would understand. But even highly volatile investments (ie. gambling) may have their role in your portfolio. To be clear, every year, I allocate no less than 80 percent of the money I

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EP34: Bull Markets in the Least Ugly Economy in the...

Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education ·

2019/05/26

I am a lousy trader. I’ve said it before and I fully recognize this fact. That’s why, I try very hard to stay focussed on investing rather than trading. Nevertheless, I still get trapped in behaviors that I invariably regret. For example, you may know that I am a believer in bitcoin. I truly believe this will be one of the best investments of my lifetime over the course of the next few years. That’s why when it dropped to $3100, I should’ve bought some more. But, I didn’t because I got greedy. I

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47:09

EP33: Crypto thaw and Crypto Law

Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education ·

2019/04/28

This past week or two got a lot of people excited. Bitcoin broke through $5K and seemed to be headed to $6K. The usual bulls were out stomping on the grave of the crypto bears. But then the New York Attorney General filed a complaint against Bitfinex, one of the largest crypto trading platforms. It had to do with a stable coin called Tether and how Bitfinex dipped into its funds to cover other shortfalls. This is an old story that the AG has finally moved on so it should not have been a surprise

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EP32: The Separation of Money from State

Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education ·

2019/04/14

It’s funny how long lasting paradigms perpetuate without question for centuries without being questioned. It used to be in most places, specific religions were mandated by the government to its people and heretics were persecuted. Of course that still exists in many parts of the world but the point is that a large part of the world does not see that as simply status quo anymore. If you live in the United States, for example, you would likely feel very uncomfortable with the idea that the government

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42:04

EP31: Blockchain, Crowd Wisdom, and AI with Cindicator

Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education ·

2019/03/17

As the story goes, in 1906, the great statistician Francis Galton observed a competition to guess the weight of an ox at a country fair. Over 800 people entered that contest. Galton, being a numbers guy was curious about how the crowd faired with its guesses. What he discovered was that the average guess, 1,197lb, was extremely close to the actual weight of the ox at 1,198lb. No one person had made a guess as good as that of the combined wisdom of the crowd. Since then, there have been lots of

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EP30: Dentacoin? What?

Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education ·

2019/03/03

Let’s talk about some things happening in the crypto space right now. Nasdaq launched real-time information on two new indices linked to the crypto asset market —Bitcoin liquid index (BLX) and Ethereum Liquid Index (ELX) were both incorporated into the Nasdaq platform on February 25th. This is sort of like the Nasdaq composite with the end goal to bolster mainstream adoption by fusing crypto assets into traditional entities like the stock market. Bitcoin surpassed PayPal in yearly transaction

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Ep29: Power Ledger: Peer to Peer Energy

Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education ·

2019/02/17

We’ve had a lot of high profile folks on the show lately that represent the “bitcoin maximalist” crowd. In other words, they believe that bitcoin is the only worthwhile blockchain and that every other project/token out there is a “shitcoin”. There is all sorts of terminology for this—the bitcoiner, the multicoiner, the nocoiner, and then there is the full spectrum in between. What am I? Well, it’s funny because a couple of years ago I would have been one of those people who said, “blockchain not

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Ep28: Does Crypto Need Rules?

Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education ·

2019/01/27

I’ve been off the air for a while with Consensus Network through the holidays. The good or the bad news is that there isn’t a lot of movement in bitcoin prices. Infrastructure continues to grow and projects continue to develop throughout crypto winter. Even though prices aren’t moving dramatically, the technology and laws around it are. My guest today is at ground zero for all of those developments. Her name is Amy Wan. The last time I interviewed her, it was for Wealth Formula about real estate

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27: Crypto 202 with Chris Coney

Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education ·

2019/01/06

We are in a bear market with cryptocurrency. There is no doubt about that. How long will it last? I have no idea.However, one day a bull market shall return just as the dotcom’s did after the bubble burst in the late 90s. Then we will see the blockchain versions of Amazon and Apple skyrocket in value. In the meantime, it is winter.Now is the time where you learn about projects and buy them at a steep discount. The truth is that the vast majority of these cryptocurrencies will never recover. But the

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Ep26: Weekly Cryptocurrency News 12/19/18

Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education ·

2018/12/19

Consensus Network Weekly Cryptocurrency News 12/19/18 Cryptocurrency Market Capitalization: $125 Billion Bitcoin Price (Coinbase): $3791 Crypto Come Back or Dead Cat Bounce? Bitcoin was up just under 7 percent this week. According to theblockcrypto.com, senior market analysts believe that this might be the result of traders closing out short positions. According to Math Greenspan of eToro, “Closing short sell positions creates an upward pressure on prices. Evidence: BCH is up the most.” BCH or

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Ep25: Nic Carter and the REAL Value of Blockchain

Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education ·

2018/12/16

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but people are overusing the word blockchain. In fact, a recent article I read exposed twelve publicly traded companies that reaped huge valuation rewards simply by adding the word “bitcoin” or “blockchain” to their name. Now listen, this technology that is coming through is special. I have no doubt about it. But even actual blockchain projects may not have a real reason to include distributed ledgers. All of this, of course, is going to flush out over the next

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Ep24: Weekly Cryptocurrency News 12/12/18

Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education ·

2018/12/12

Consensus Network Weekly Crypto News 12/12/18 Cryptocurrency Market Cap: $111 Billion Bitcoin Price (Coinbase): $3463 SEC Decision on Bitcoin ETF Set for February The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has postponed their decision on a bitcoin ETF again to a final deadline of February 27, 2019. The ETF in question is the one everyone was excited about because of the sponsors, the Chicago Board of Options Exchange (CBOE) and VanEck SolidX. The big issue of concern voiced repeatedly by

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Ep23: How to Scale Bitcoin with Samson Mow

Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education ·

2018/12/09

If you follow the crypto world like I do, it seems almost a little bit ridiculous sometimes with all of these personalities threatening each other and massively volatile digital asset prices. My friend Teeka Tiwari calls these conflicts the “nerd wars” and thinks we should ignore the noise. I tend to agree in the larger scheme of things. However, I do think that this kind of chatter hurts the evolution of this asset class. In times like these it is important to understand that underlying all of this

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Ep22: Weekly Cryptocurrency News 12/5/18

Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education ·

2018/12/05

Consensus Network Weekly Crypto News 12/5/18 Cryptocurrency Market Capitalization: approx $124 Billion Bitcoin Price (Coinbase): $3713 SEC Meets with VanEck SolidX/CBOE to discuss bitcoin ETF…Again We have been talking about this bitcoin ETF for some time now that involves a couple of major players including the Chicago Board of Options Exchange (CBOE). A lot of people believed that given the CBOE involvement that this ETF would eventually find its way through the SEC. So representatives from all of

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Ep21: The Conservative Investor’s Case for Bitcoin

Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education ·

2018/12/02

One of the favorite words in crypto-Twitter these days is “Institutional”. What does that even mean? What is the big deal about these institutional investors coming in and why in the world do we care? There has been big money in the crypto markets for a while in the form of hedge funds, family offices, and wealthy individuals—all of which tend to have a greater appetite for risk than say a pension fund or a University endowment. The latter are more conservative because their primary

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Ep20: Weekly Cryptocurrency News 11/28/18

Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education ·

2018/11/28

Consensus Network Weekly Crypto News 11/28/18 Cryptocurrency Market Capitalization: $138 billion Bitcoin Price (Coinbase): $4196 Bitcoin Upturn or Dead Cat Bounce? Bitcoin broke through the $4000 level and flirted with $3500. Today, everyone is getting excited because the market is up. In fact, bitcoin is up almost 20 percent since yesterday. I’m not a trader. I’ve made that very clear in the past so I don’t buy and sell on short-term market movements. However, I am looking for a bottom because my

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01:07:08

Ep19: Hunter Horsley with Bitwise Management on...

Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education ·

2018/11/25

There is blood in the streets of blockchain and I won’t be surprised if there is more. I suspect that it will get worse before it gets better. This whole thing started out with a consolidation and an uncharacteristically low volatility in crypto. The question was whether it was going to break up or break down. For those of us looking solely at the macro picture, the involvement of institutions and the potential for an ETF made us believe things were going to break for the better. In the meantime,

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Ep18: Institutional Interest in Cryptocurrency with...

Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education ·

2018/11/18

It used to be that bitcoin was just for quirky libertarian computer scientists but somehow the virus has spread gradually into big money. How something that was never advertised goes from nothing to over $100 billion market cap in 10 years and ushers in an entirely new digital currency asset class is mind-boggling to me. So, it is particularly interesting to people who watched it happen. Michael Moro has been involved with bitcoin trading before the infamous Mount Gox hack and has watched it mature

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Ep17: Weekly Cryptocurrency News 11/14/18

Consensus Network: Cryptocurrency News & Education ·

2018/11/14

Consensus Network Weekly Crypto News: 11/14/18 Cryptocurrency Market Capitalization: $188 billion Bitcoin Price (Coinbase): $5588 Bitcoin Bloodbath! Bitcoin prices fell by almost 10 percent today all the way down to $5555.34 on Coinbase. Listeners of this podcast heard Tyler Jenks with Lucid Investments last week hint at some of the chart analysis that indicated a potential drop in the market. Well, I guess he was right. Now Tyler also suggested bitcoin prices could go A LOT lower (around $1000). If

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