The Bitcoin Podcast

Special holiday episode. This time we keep things light as we have a bunch of listeners call in on the show! Mainly we discuss if Bitcoin is still cool. Is it cool baby? Sure, or else we wouldn't be here. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone. This past year has been a roller-coaster ride for many. We aren't trying to add to the FUD, it's just a good time. Hit play!

In Episode 15 of The Bull Pen Podcast, The Crypto Bully takes some time to speak with all his listeners directly. It’s been a busy and somewhat chaotic past few weeks for both Lyndon and the crypto markets so he wanted to discuss topics like market sentiment, ways he plans on taking advantage of the current bear market and his big plans for the podcast going into 2019. Timestamps 00:00:00 – Previe...

File storage has long been known as a centralized solution. Storj seeks to change this with their decentralized file storage and retrieval architecture. We'll go over their design, engineering goals, and challenges. We dive deep into how erasure codes can be used to mitigate replication requirements, how trust is managed on their decentralized platform, and how one can be incentivized to donate th...

Ronnie Moas, the founder of Standpoint Research, a top-ranking stock and crypto picker, comes on our show to talk about the $DIG fiasco that has been frustrating him lately and wants to set the record straight. However, unlike the other guys (we ain't naming names!), you know we give people a platform to speak but we also know a lot of concerned followers of his have questions that need answered....

Plasma is one of the strongest candidates for Layer 2 scaling solutions. Since the Plasma whitepaper was released in August 2017, there's been a multitude of Plasma implementations experimenting with the idea. On this episode we feature Georgios Kosntantoploulos, Lead Researcher at Loom Network, to talk about Plasma, the different variations, and the future of scaling through Layer 2 solutions. ht...

This is a weekly headline show where Dee and Jessie Broke do their best to highlight bits of nonce-sense from Crypto News. We only choose three articles, essentially at random, from the litany of blockchain news that is syndicated throughout a week. If you are interested in all the news articles that we horde in a week, please visit the link below to look at our collection. Topics: -Basis coin, a...

We are back with our regular format where this week Bijan and Lucian talk about scaling Ethereum and the different directions that can be taken. We cover if sharding is necessary, and how close we are to some promising ideas like using STARKS or Random Beacons. Lastly, we debate if the Ethereum Foundation should change due to the massive increase in the size of the community.

This is a weekly headline show where Dee and Jessie Broke do their best to highlight bits of nonce-sense from Crypto News. We only choose three articles, from the litany of blockchain news that is syndicated throughout a week. If you are interested in all the news articles that we horde in a week, please visit the link below to look at our collection. This week: -Coinbase adds ZEC. -Intel wins a p...

We dive deep this week as we discuss Zcash Vs Ethereum Classic Comparison, crypto mining hardware ASICs in late 2018 and take calls again LIVE on air. This time our pal Wayne joins us and we chat and talk about our new book a bit '10 Words of Less'. In addition, Max & Cam swing by to chat about Cent. The income-generating social network, enabling anyone to earn money by sharing their wisdom and cr...

Grid+ is one of the most legitimate and exciting products utilizing blockchain in the space, so we're very excited to present Alex Miller (CTO) and Karl Kreder (VP Hardware) on our program. We discuss their line of blockchain appliances, how they're built, their design philosophies, and the challenges in building hardware for blockchains. We get to hear some of their thoughts on the future of bloc...

Bijan is live at the LA Blockchain Invest Summit talking to entrepreneurs who are providing services to the ecosystem. Abstract Tokenization is lowering the bar to real-estate investing. Expert Dojo is an accelerator looking to offer seed funding individuals who have a strong person brands. Rootmont provides data science reports for crypto traders. Marketing Maven will help your company look good...

In Episode 14 of The Bull Pen Podcast, The Crypto Bully steps into the Bull Pen with Harish D. Gupta who has a background in financial economics and has worked for the well-known financial institutions Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan and Barclays. As the Co-Founder and CEO of a multi-asset global exchange platform, Harish and Lyndon go into detail on what exactly Polybird is aiming to accomplish once...

Music producer DJ Khaled and boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. were charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with promoting investments in initial cryptocurrency coin offerings without revealing that they'd been paid. Cello explains why this is important to focus on for a second. Then Trent McConaghy swing by to chat about how data scientists will be key users of Ocean Protocol. What is that? We...

Welcome to our flashback series where we give you access to archived shows on our feed that are so outdated you can’t find it on our feed anymore. With crypto being so unpredictable, we thought it would be fun for our new listeners to check out episodes of our older content. It’s like opening up a time capsule! Originally aired in February 2016, Episode 38 focused on the question of “how to store...

This is a weekly headline show where Dee and Jessie Broke do their best to highlight bits of nonce-sense from Crypto News. Topics: - Coinbase Pros gets fully torqued for ZEC! - Miners are having to turn off the switches. - Decentralized exchanges get a centralized investment. - Jessie likes Korean fried chicken.

On this episode, Amy interviews David Silver, an investment fraud lawyer and founder of the Silver Miller law firm. He is suing cryptocurrency companies such as Coinbase, Kraken, Nano, and others in an attempt to protect investors from fraud. Recently he has opened suits against ATT, Sprint, and T-Mobile for their alleged involvement with the crypto-jacking and SIM swapping.

Bijan is live at the LA Blockchain Invest Summit talking to entrepreneurs who want to use crypto payment in ways we've never heard of before. CryptoFuse allows for safe transfer of digital assets in areas with inconsistent internet access, Please.com allows for peer to peer payments for curated travel experiences, and GuruMd provides emergency telemedicine for tokens.

This episode features Michael O'Rourke (CEO) and Luis C. de Leon (CTO) of Pocket. Pocket is a chain-agnostic decentralized AWS for blockchain full nodes. In a world where full nodes become more expensive to run, Pokt aims to have people host their nodes in their network by registering it with their Proof of Stake blockchain. Using Pokt tokens, someone can rent usage of the full node, using the nod...

The winter is real. Low hanging fruit is we talk about the price and what that means for the community, but more importantly we evaluate what it means for developers and the interest as a whole. In addition, Vinny Lingham the OG internet entrepreneur who is the co-founder & CEO of Civic - an identity protection and management startup - joins us in the studio. He was also previously the founder and...

Amy and Justin Newton discuss the state of anti-money launder (AML) and know-your-customer (KYC) laws as it pertains to blockchain technology and crypto. Justin Newton is an early internet pioneer and technology startup veteran. His last four companies (BlackLine, Demand Media, NetZero and Above Net) all exited with +$1 Billion IPOs. He was responsible for architecting each company’s platform for...

In this bonus episode of The Bull Pen Podcast, The Crypto Bully and DJsNeverEndingStory team up to chat about the possibility of Bitcoin hitting $169 dollars by 2020. DJ is the host of Crypto Until Infinity Podcast, also on The Bitcoin Podcast Network, has experience as a successful music producer and audio engineer and is the 15+ year friend responsible for getting Lyndon interested and active in...

On this episode, we have the extreme pleasure of interviewing Michael Yuan, Chief Scientist at CyberMiles. CyberMiles is building a blockchain platform targeted for e-commerce with those concerns in mind. Using a fork of Ethereum and the Ethereum toolsets, CyberMiles has an upgraded EVM with support for extended and extensible opcodes and a dPoS consensus system for validators to stake into the ne...

In Episode 13 of The Bull Pen Podcast, The Crypto Bully steps into the Bull Pen with Dr. Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, Doctor of Philosophy and the current CIO (Chief Information Officer) of Everipedia. During this chat Dr. Sanger gives a back story on his past leading up to Wikipedia, his involvement in Wikipedia’s creation, his decision to walk away from Wikipedia in 2002 and what he be...

Today we talk with Patrick Camuso, the founder of Camuso CPA who set out to design a firm that transcends the standard industry client service models by taking an entrepreneurial approach to deliver clients the level of service and attention they require in an increasingly complex and rapidly developing business landscape. Camuso CPA takes a proactive approach to save you money, time, and piece of...

Another week, another episode! Taylor Monahan - Founder & CEO of MyCrypto joins us as we talk about lightning network, hash rates, and getting LIT. Also, for the first time we invite a fellow podcaster on. In fact, he started listening to us years ago before he started his own. Matthew Aaron of Crypto101 fame swings by to cross pollinate the airwaves before we appear on his show next week. Also, b...