It's impossible to keep up with crypto-media. TL;DL sifts through crypto podcasts to find the ones worth hearing.
This is a fleeting fledgling idea, it is imperfect. Stick with me while it improves. I welcome all the feedback I can get. If you're so inclined, email me at oshkoshbijosh@gmail.com.
This is the list of the crypto podcasts I'm actively listening to.
Week of Nov. 26th, 2018
Off the Chain: Building Accountability in Crypto - 58 min.
When transparency finally comes to crypto, it will be like putting on glasses and realizing how bad your vision actually was. Pomp and Ryan Selkis talk about Messari’s mission to bring crypto into focus.
iTunes, Spotify
Stephan Livera Podcast: Justin Moon - Teaching Bitcoin Hodlers to Code - 59 min.
If you’re wondering if you could learn to code, this is a good place to start. Justin tells the story of his path to Bitcoin and how he began to help others lay their own foundation in coding.
iTunes
What Bitcoin Did: Crypto Regulations with the SEC's Hester Pierce - 56 min.
For anyone speculating on crypto, which is all of you, the SEC's actions can have a profound impact. Peter McCormack's discussion with Hester Peirce sheds light on the SEC's inner workings. You NEED to hear it.
iTunes, Spotify
Stay Tuned with Preet: All the President’s Lawyers (with Bob Bauer) - 64 min.
Granted Stay Tuned is not a crypto podcast, but as a world citizen it is borderline irresponsible to not listen to this podcast. Bob Bauer, former counsel to Barack Obama and Preet Bharara, for US attorney, consider America’s predicament.
iTunes
Week of Nov. 19th, 2018
Flippening: At A High-Volume Crypto OTC Desk w/ Kevin - 58 min.
Kevin Zhou speaks openly with Clay Collins about the Otherwise opaque world of OTC bitcoin transactions. Unless you’re on the inside already, you should sit down and take notes when you listen to this podcast.
iTunes, Spotify
Unchained: Monero's Riccardo Spagni, aka Fluffypony, on How He Feels About Monero Being Used for Crime - 61 min.
Put this in podcast in your back pocket to share with people who “have nothing to hide”. Ricardo Spagni explains what privacy is and how Monero works to maintain it. Don’t cut out early if u want to know the origin of the name @fluffypony.
iTunes, Spotify
Ledgercast: How governments will redefine digital currency, with Erik Townsend - 76 min.
If you’re waiting for bitcoin to make over the world and subvert government tyranny, here’s your contrarian viewpoint from Erik Townsend of the Macro Voices podcast.
iTunes
Week of Nov. 12th, 2018
Cryptovoices: Robert P. Murphy - Bitcoin in the Free Market - 61 min.
Hosts Matthew Mežinskis & Fernando Ulrich jabber on with economist Robert Murphy about the ins and outs of fiat money, taxes, regulation and, you guessed it, bitcoin.
iTunes
Off the Chain: Bill Barhydt: Ex-CIA and Goldman Sachs Entrepreneur on What’s Next for Bitcoin - 60 min.
Cryptography OG Bill Barhydt take a look under the hood of his company Abra - which is taking leaps and bounds towards democratized money.
iTunes, Spotify
Messari: The unintended consequence of product designed - 19 min.
Katherine and Taylor discuss striking the balance between flawlessly easy UX, and the friction caused by getting new crypto users to understand what they’re taking on.
iTunes, Spotify
Week of Nov. 5th, 2018
Crypto Bobby: State of EOS, dApp Users, China and Stablecoins - 53 min.
with Myles Snider of Aurora EOS
iTunes, Spotify
ZeroKnowledge: Zooko talks Zcash on out 50th Episode - 87 min.
Zooko and the Zero Knowledge gang cover everything Zooko, everything Zcash, and summarizes the “Sapling” network upgrade. Stick around until the end for an in depth description of how Zcash achieves privacy.
iTunes, Spotify
Cointalk: Are We Crypto Influencers? - 57 min.
If you need a break from listening to podcasts where you “learn something” take a break from that mindset and crack a smile while listening to Aaron Lammer and Jay Kang banter. It will take the edge off, and you might just learn something.
iTunes, Spotify
Crypto 101: Lending 101 with Lending Block - 39 min.
This episode is a great primer on everything Crypto-lending related. Aaron Paul and Linda Wang cover what’s out there now and what lending block is hoping to build. I might just give you another reason to hodl.
iTunes
Week of Oct. 29th, 2018
Off the Chain: Murad Mahmudov: The Ultimate Bitcoin Argument - 101 min.
This episode of Off the Chain with is one you should save a permanent link to. It is a timeless explanation of bitcoin that you can share with people in need of a better understanding.
iTunes, Spotify
Unconfirmed: Charlie Lee, aka Satoshi Lite, on the 10-Year Anniversary of the Bitcoin White Paper - 24 min.
Charlie Lee and Laura Shin marvel at how far bitcoin has come and how far it has to go.
Charlie and Laura Shin
iTunes, Spotify
Tales from the Crypt: Jack Mallers - 74 min.
Marty and Jack Mallers, of the Zap wallet, talk about everything from rap, to the lightening network, to UX.
iTunes, Spotify
Week of Oct. 22nd, 2018
Zero Knowledge:
The people of the Zero Knowledge Podcast rap with Taylor Monahan about anything and everything required to get people to take care of their crypto.
iTunes
Hidden Forces: How the Internet Happened: From Netscapre to the iPhone | Brian McCullough- 71 min.
This episode is an internet history lesson from Brian McCullough. Listen to it, and consider how we might look back on these times in crypto.
iTunes, Spotify
What Bitcoin Did: Personal Privacy and Safety in the Surveillance Age with Jameson Lopp - 61 min.
As a parent - watching a naked baby carelessly run around is a beautiful thing. Having to coach the notion of privacy into a toddler puts it in a new perspective. Basically the rule is- Start by covering your important parts. That holds true for the rest of your life.
iTunes, Spotify
Week of Oct. 15th, 2018
Off the Chain: Austen Allred, How to fix our broken education system - 55 min.
Anthony Pompliano chats Austen Allred about his project The Lambda School, which allows you to learn to code first, then pay them later with the salary you earn from your new coding job. They also cover learning how to learn - which is all I want a school to teach my children.
iTunes, Spotify
Unchained: Listener Mail - 69 min.
Typically, listening to unchained provides little insight into @laurashin. This past week’s q & a sheds some light on the person asking all the questions, and it’s great.
iTunes, Spotify
Zigzag: Why Civil's Token Sale Failed
Zigzag is the podcast made by Manoush Zomorodi, from the great pocast "Note to Self" and Jen Poyant in cahoots with Civil. They chat with Civil founder, Matthew Iles about Civil’s goals, what went wrong with the token sale, and what’s next.
iTunes
Week of Oct. 8th, 2018
Zero Knowledge: Episode 46 Gavin Wood on Polkadot, Sharding and Substrate
The Zero Knowledge team chat with Gavin Wood about the early days of Ethereum and origin of the Polkadot network.
iTunes,
What Bitcoin Did: Peter McCormack, who has turned his podcast game up to 11 in recent weeks, is running the story of Ross Albrecht on a podcast side chain. It’s a story I don’t know much about, and this is an audio cliff notes version if you want to catch up.
iTunes, Spotify
Flippening:Institutional Cryptoasset Custody w/ Sam Mcingvale
In this first of two parts, Clay Collins and Sam Mcingvale, of Coinbase custody, delve into the much talked about, the but not-so-understood, "custody solutions" that the market is trying to overcome.
iTunes, Spotify
Week of Oct. 1st, 2018
What Bitcoin Did: The Threat of Fractional Reserve Bitcoin from Wall Street with Saifedean Ammous & Caitlin Long - 87 min.
This must-hear is a class of the titans with Peter McCormack, Caitlin Long and Saifedean Ammous. The 3 of them talk about the implications of low-lying interest rates and the potential downside of a bitcoin ETF getting traction and, finally. Rothko!
iTunes, Spotify
Unchained: How Binance Became the Most Popular Crypto Exchange in 5 Months.
There’s nothing better than listening to Laura Shin fire tough q’s at CZ from Binance. They talk about the meteoric rise of Binance. Whether $BNB token is a security and about what the future holds for Binance.
iTunes, Spotify
Ledgercast: Peter McCormack of What Bitcoin Did - 67 min.
On Ledgercast, @ledgerstatus and Peter McCormack have what is, IMHO, a must hear discourse about curiosity, idealism and journalism in the world of crypto podcasting.
iTunes
Recode Decode: World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim - 56 min.
Not fully crypto, but fully engrossing. Jim Yong Kim talks about many issues facing the world, and his efforts to help. Among the topics: Kahn academy's AI that learns how you learn, then teaches you that way, drones delivering blood in Africa, Chinese citizens save 40% of their income. And yes, crypto currencies.
iTunes, Spotify
Venture Stories: The EOS Bull Case as Presented by Myles Snider - 70 min.
To maintain perspective, listen to Myles makes the controversially held bull case for EOS.
iTunes, Spotify
Week of Sept. 17th, 2018
Invest Like the Best: Trail Magic: Lessons from Two Years of the Podcast - 11 min.
Whatever you do, this quick podcast will give you ways to think about how to do it better. It’s very much worth 11 minutes of your day.
iTunes, Spotify
Epicenter: The Case for Treating Developers as Fiduciaries in Public Blockchains - 72 min.
Angela Walch discusses the controversial view that developers should be held as fiduciaries - I.e. - their actions (code) should be in the best interest of hodlers.
iTunes, Stitcher
What Bitcoin Did: Interview with Ricardo Spagni - 59 min.
As a parent of young children: I sometimes have to help them understand what should be private and why. If you need that same direction, then you should listen to this chat between Peter and fluffy.
iTunes, Spotify
Off the Chain: The Secrets of a Crypto Trader - 98 min.
If you think you’re doing an ok job trading based on your TA, you NEED to listen to this podcast to understand what your actually trading against.
iTunes, Spotify,
Week of Sept. 10th, 2018
Venture Stories: Crypto Stories: The Bull Case For Ethereum With Spencer Noon, Cyrus Yunesi And Tony Sheng - 56 min.
Spencer, Cyrus and Tony throwing out talking points on why they see promise and value in ethereum.
iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify
Unchained: Tuur Demeester on Why He's a Bitcoin Maximalist and Bearish on Ethereum - Ep.81 - 59 min.
Laura Shin asks Tuur Demeester about the strengths of btc and inherent pitfalls of eth.
iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify
Hidden Forces: Quantum Uncertainty And Spooky Correlations At The Zero-Bound - 67 min.
“I’m just trying to have a conversation I’m genuinely interested in.” - Grant Williams. Less interview and more eavesdropping on a genuinely interesting conversation. They cover a possible looming economic crisis and cryptocurrency.
iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify
Week of Sept. 3rd, 2018
Flippening: Tokenize the World: A Security Token Documentary (3 parts)
While this isn’t from last week, it IS something you should listen to closely. Clay Collins puts together a detailed spread of knowledge addressing what exactly a security is and specifically how they're being tokenized.
Part1, Part 2, Part 3
Noded: 0.24.0 with Alex Gladstein 68 min.
If you need a break from thinking about price action, then listen to this chat between Pierre Rochard, Michael Goldstein and Alex Gladstein. It's a good refresher course on the humanitarian promise of bitcoin and, as Pierre says, “I think the human angle gets taken for granted.”
iTunes, Sticher
Messari Podcast #4: Conversation with Nic Carter on crypto data quality and integrity - 11 min.
Katherine Wu and Nic consider the validity of sources of the data that many people use to make decisions in crypto. Strangely enough, there is no mention of dice . . .
iTunes, Spotify
Week of Aug. 27th, 2018
Unchained: Joey Krug on How Augur Is Like Any Other Tool - 51 min.
Joey Krug, co-founder of Auger, discusses the long reaching potential of prediction markets and how Auger makes them vastly more accessible. Laura Shin, who never ceases to kick ass, poses some of the tougher questions around the ethics, liability and business of predictions markets.
iTunes, Spotify, Sticher
Ledgercast: Managing all crypto price data, with Clay Collins of Nomics - 61 min.
Clay Collins gives us the rundown on Nomics.com, which provides uber-broad token/coin data and has a great free API. He also talks about the the insane amount of crypto-data out there and his future plans for Nomics.
The icing on the cake: this episode clued me into his podcast Flippening.
iTunes, Google Play, Sticher
Coin Talk: impressions of Crypto-China w/ Chris Dannen
Hosted by Arron Lammer, of the Longform podcast, and Jay Kang, Coin Talk is an underappreciated crypto podcast. In this episode, Chris Dannen recounts his crypto-business trip to China, providing a window into a side of crypto that not many of us are exposed to.
iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher
Week of August 20th, 2018
Venture Stories: Bill Tai and Eric Hsue on Mining, Exchanges, and the History and Future of Money - 79 min.
Host Erik Torenberg chats with Bill Tai, of Bitfury, and Derek Hsue, of Blockchain Capital, about the past, present and future of mining. Their combined breadth of experience and the depth of this conversation make it one worth hearing.
iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify
What Bitcoin Did: Interview with Ari Paul - 55 min.
Peter McCormack and Ari David Paul skip the usual “podcast intro fluff” and cut strait to providing insight into Ari’s own way of thinking about where value lies in the crypto industry. Maybe most interestingly, he goes back over his 2018 predictions, where he was wrong (or not really wrong), and why. They also brush on the “Fat Protocol Thesis”, the Bitmain IPO and the potential of blockchain games to drive adoption.
iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify
Week of August 13th, 2018
The Indicator - from Planet Money - Cryptokitties - The Download on Digital Cats - 10 min.
Bite-sized insight into what cryptokitties are and some anecdotes from a successful “breeder”.
iTunes, Spotify
Tales From The Crypt: #38: Nic Carter - 106 min.
Nic Carter debriefs on his personal history, the current crypto landscape and Augur. He also elaborates on coinmetrics.io and what we can learn from it.
iTunes, Spotify
Bottomshelf Bitcoin: Adam Gibson on Utxos And Funigility - 96 min.
A very in depth exposition of bitcoin utxo's (unspent transaction outputs). Including various measures one can take to achieve privacy when using bitcoin.
iTunes, RSS
Week of August 6th, 2018
Block Zero: The fastest blockchain on earth? - 53 min.
Kevin Rose and Solana founder, Anatoly Yokavenko, go on about how Solana might achieve a 100,000x improvement on bitcoin’s transactions per second. Expect LOTS of computer words in this discussion.
iTunes, Google Play, MP3
Epicenter: Ryan Selkis | Messari - Bringing Transparency and Self-Regulation to the Blockchain Industy - 67 min.
Ryan Selkis, the guy behind Messari.io, gives a little personal history and elaborates on incentivizing transparency via a token curated registry.
iTunes, Soundcloud
Unconfirmed: Why The Ice/Bakkt News Makes Some Crypto Investors Nervous - Ep.032- 23 min.
The Ice/bakkt news struck some of crypto twitter as great news for bitcoin, but the price didn’t reflect this optimism. This chat between Laura Shin and Caitlin Long provides insight into why the Ice/Bakkt news could be a double edged sword. Leading to adoption and ease of use, but also potentially undermining bitcoin’s scarcity.
iTunes, Google Play, Spotify
Crypto Cousins: Saifedean Ammous at Bit Block Boom - 71 min.
You can file this talk by Saifedean under “talks everyone should hear when when getting into bitcoin”. It provides solid insight into the economics behind bitcoin and why Austrian economists hate modern art.
iTunes, Google Play, Spotify
This is a fleeting fledgling idea, it is imperfect. Stick with me while it improves. I welcome all the feedback I can get. If you're so inclined, email me at oshkoshbijosh@gmail.com.
This is the list of the crypto podcasts I'm actively listening to.
Week of Nov. 26th, 2018
Off the Chain: Building Accountability in Crypto - 58 min.
When transparency finally comes to crypto, it will be like putting on glasses and realizing how bad your vision actually was. Pomp and Ryan Selkis talk about Messari’s mission to bring crypto into focus.
iTunes, Spotify
Stephan Livera Podcast: Justin Moon - Teaching Bitcoin Hodlers to Code - 59 min.
If you’re wondering if you could learn to code, this is a good place to start. Justin tells the story of his path to Bitcoin and how he began to help others lay their own foundation in coding.
iTunes
What Bitcoin Did: Crypto Regulations with the SEC's Hester Pierce - 56 min.
For anyone speculating on crypto, which is all of you, the SEC's actions can have a profound impact. Peter McCormack's discussion with Hester Peirce sheds light on the SEC's inner workings. You NEED to hear it.
iTunes, Spotify
Stay Tuned with Preet: All the President’s Lawyers (with Bob Bauer) - 64 min.
Granted Stay Tuned is not a crypto podcast, but as a world citizen it is borderline irresponsible to not listen to this podcast. Bob Bauer, former counsel to Barack Obama and Preet Bharara, for US attorney, consider America’s predicament.
iTunes
Week of Nov. 19th, 2018
Flippening: At A High-Volume Crypto OTC Desk w/ Kevin - 58 min.
Kevin Zhou speaks openly with Clay Collins about the Otherwise opaque world of OTC bitcoin transactions. Unless you’re on the inside already, you should sit down and take notes when you listen to this podcast.
iTunes, Spotify
Unchained: Monero's Riccardo Spagni, aka Fluffypony, on How He Feels About Monero Being Used for Crime - 61 min.
Put this in podcast in your back pocket to share with people who “have nothing to hide”. Ricardo Spagni explains what privacy is and how Monero works to maintain it. Don’t cut out early if u want to know the origin of the name @fluffypony.
iTunes, Spotify
Ledgercast: How governments will redefine digital currency, with Erik Townsend - 76 min.
If you’re waiting for bitcoin to make over the world and subvert government tyranny, here’s your contrarian viewpoint from Erik Townsend of the Macro Voices podcast.
iTunes
Week of Nov. 12th, 2018
Cryptovoices: Robert P. Murphy - Bitcoin in the Free Market - 61 min.
Hosts Matthew Mežinskis & Fernando Ulrich jabber on with economist Robert Murphy about the ins and outs of fiat money, taxes, regulation and, you guessed it, bitcoin.
iTunes
Off the Chain: Bill Barhydt: Ex-CIA and Goldman Sachs Entrepreneur on What’s Next for Bitcoin - 60 min.
Cryptography OG Bill Barhydt take a look under the hood of his company Abra - which is taking leaps and bounds towards democratized money.
iTunes, Spotify
Messari: The unintended consequence of product designed - 19 min.
Katherine and Taylor discuss striking the balance between flawlessly easy UX, and the friction caused by getting new crypto users to understand what they’re taking on.
iTunes, Spotify
Week of Nov. 5th, 2018
Crypto Bobby: State of EOS, dApp Users, China and Stablecoins - 53 min.
with Myles Snider of Aurora EOS
iTunes, Spotify
ZeroKnowledge: Zooko talks Zcash on out 50th Episode - 87 min.
Zooko and the Zero Knowledge gang cover everything Zooko, everything Zcash, and summarizes the “Sapling” network upgrade. Stick around until the end for an in depth description of how Zcash achieves privacy.
iTunes, Spotify
Cointalk: Are We Crypto Influencers? - 57 min.
If you need a break from listening to podcasts where you “learn something” take a break from that mindset and crack a smile while listening to Aaron Lammer and Jay Kang banter. It will take the edge off, and you might just learn something.
iTunes, Spotify
Crypto 101: Lending 101 with Lending Block - 39 min.
This episode is a great primer on everything Crypto-lending related. Aaron Paul and Linda Wang cover what’s out there now and what lending block is hoping to build. I might just give you another reason to hodl.
iTunes
Week of Oct. 29th, 2018
Off the Chain: Murad Mahmudov: The Ultimate Bitcoin Argument - 101 min.
This episode of Off the Chain with is one you should save a permanent link to. It is a timeless explanation of bitcoin that you can share with people in need of a better understanding.
iTunes, Spotify
Unconfirmed: Charlie Lee, aka Satoshi Lite, on the 10-Year Anniversary of the Bitcoin White Paper - 24 min.
Charlie Lee and Laura Shin marvel at how far bitcoin has come and how far it has to go.
Charlie and Laura Shin
iTunes, Spotify
Tales from the Crypt: Jack Mallers - 74 min.
Marty and Jack Mallers, of the Zap wallet, talk about everything from rap, to the lightening network, to UX.
iTunes, Spotify
Week of Oct. 22nd, 2018
Zero Knowledge:
The people of the Zero Knowledge Podcast rap with Taylor Monahan about anything and everything required to get people to take care of their crypto.
iTunes
Hidden Forces: How the Internet Happened: From Netscapre to the iPhone | Brian McCullough- 71 min.
This episode is an internet history lesson from Brian McCullough. Listen to it, and consider how we might look back on these times in crypto.
iTunes, Spotify
What Bitcoin Did: Personal Privacy and Safety in the Surveillance Age with Jameson Lopp - 61 min.
As a parent - watching a naked baby carelessly run around is a beautiful thing. Having to coach the notion of privacy into a toddler puts it in a new perspective. Basically the rule is- Start by covering your important parts. That holds true for the rest of your life.
iTunes, Spotify
Week of Oct. 15th, 2018
Off the Chain: Austen Allred, How to fix our broken education system - 55 min.
Anthony Pompliano chats Austen Allred about his project The Lambda School, which allows you to learn to code first, then pay them later with the salary you earn from your new coding job. They also cover learning how to learn - which is all I want a school to teach my children.
iTunes, Spotify
Unchained: Listener Mail - 69 min.
Typically, listening to unchained provides little insight into @laurashin. This past week’s q & a sheds some light on the person asking all the questions, and it’s great.
iTunes, Spotify
Zigzag: Why Civil's Token Sale Failed
Zigzag is the podcast made by Manoush Zomorodi, from the great pocast "Note to Self" and Jen Poyant in cahoots with Civil. They chat with Civil founder, Matthew Iles about Civil’s goals, what went wrong with the token sale, and what’s next.
iTunes
Week of Oct. 8th, 2018
Zero Knowledge: Episode 46 Gavin Wood on Polkadot, Sharding and Substrate
The Zero Knowledge team chat with Gavin Wood about the early days of Ethereum and origin of the Polkadot network.
iTunes,
What Bitcoin Did: Peter McCormack, who has turned his podcast game up to 11 in recent weeks, is running the story of Ross Albrecht on a podcast side chain. It’s a story I don’t know much about, and this is an audio cliff notes version if you want to catch up.
iTunes, Spotify
Flippening:Institutional Cryptoasset Custody w/ Sam Mcingvale
In this first of two parts, Clay Collins and Sam Mcingvale, of Coinbase custody, delve into the much talked about, the but not-so-understood, "custody solutions" that the market is trying to overcome.
iTunes, Spotify
Week of Oct. 1st, 2018
What Bitcoin Did: The Threat of Fractional Reserve Bitcoin from Wall Street with Saifedean Ammous & Caitlin Long - 87 min.
This must-hear is a class of the titans with Peter McCormack, Caitlin Long and Saifedean Ammous. The 3 of them talk about the implications of low-lying interest rates and the potential downside of a bitcoin ETF getting traction and, finally. Rothko!
iTunes, Spotify
Unchained: How Binance Became the Most Popular Crypto Exchange in 5 Months.
There’s nothing better than listening to Laura Shin fire tough q’s at CZ from Binance. They talk about the meteoric rise of Binance. Whether $BNB token is a security and about what the future holds for Binance.
iTunes, Spotify
Ledgercast: Peter McCormack of What Bitcoin Did - 67 min.
On Ledgercast, @ledgerstatus and Peter McCormack have what is, IMHO, a must hear discourse about curiosity, idealism and journalism in the world of crypto podcasting.
iTunes
Recode Decode: World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim - 56 min.
Not fully crypto, but fully engrossing. Jim Yong Kim talks about many issues facing the world, and his efforts to help. Among the topics: Kahn academy's AI that learns how you learn, then teaches you that way, drones delivering blood in Africa, Chinese citizens save 40% of their income. And yes, crypto currencies.
iTunes, Spotify
Venture Stories: The EOS Bull Case as Presented by Myles Snider - 70 min.
To maintain perspective, listen to Myles makes the controversially held bull case for EOS.
iTunes, Spotify
Week of Sept. 17th, 2018
Invest Like the Best: Trail Magic: Lessons from Two Years of the Podcast - 11 min.
Whatever you do, this quick podcast will give you ways to think about how to do it better. It’s very much worth 11 minutes of your day.
iTunes, Spotify
Epicenter: The Case for Treating Developers as Fiduciaries in Public Blockchains - 72 min.
Angela Walch discusses the controversial view that developers should be held as fiduciaries - I.e. - their actions (code) should be in the best interest of hodlers.
iTunes, Stitcher
What Bitcoin Did: Interview with Ricardo Spagni - 59 min.
As a parent of young children: I sometimes have to help them understand what should be private and why. If you need that same direction, then you should listen to this chat between Peter and fluffy.
iTunes, Spotify
Off the Chain: The Secrets of a Crypto Trader - 98 min.
If you think you’re doing an ok job trading based on your TA, you NEED to listen to this podcast to understand what your actually trading against.
iTunes, Spotify,
Week of Sept. 10th, 2018
Venture Stories: Crypto Stories: The Bull Case For Ethereum With Spencer Noon, Cyrus Yunesi And Tony Sheng - 56 min.
Spencer, Cyrus and Tony throwing out talking points on why they see promise and value in ethereum.
iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify
Unchained: Tuur Demeester on Why He's a Bitcoin Maximalist and Bearish on Ethereum - Ep.81 - 59 min.
Laura Shin asks Tuur Demeester about the strengths of btc and inherent pitfalls of eth.
iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify
Hidden Forces: Quantum Uncertainty And Spooky Correlations At The Zero-Bound - 67 min.
“I’m just trying to have a conversation I’m genuinely interested in.” - Grant Williams. Less interview and more eavesdropping on a genuinely interesting conversation. They cover a possible looming economic crisis and cryptocurrency.
iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify
Week of Sept. 3rd, 2018
Flippening: Tokenize the World: A Security Token Documentary (3 parts)
While this isn’t from last week, it IS something you should listen to closely. Clay Collins puts together a detailed spread of knowledge addressing what exactly a security is and specifically how they're being tokenized.
Part1, Part 2, Part 3
Noded: 0.24.0 with Alex Gladstein 68 min.
If you need a break from thinking about price action, then listen to this chat between Pierre Rochard, Michael Goldstein and Alex Gladstein. It's a good refresher course on the humanitarian promise of bitcoin and, as Pierre says, “I think the human angle gets taken for granted.”
iTunes, Sticher
Messari Podcast #4: Conversation with Nic Carter on crypto data quality and integrity - 11 min.
Katherine Wu and Nic consider the validity of sources of the data that many people use to make decisions in crypto. Strangely enough, there is no mention of dice . . .
iTunes, Spotify
Week of Aug. 27th, 2018
Unchained: Joey Krug on How Augur Is Like Any Other Tool - 51 min.
Joey Krug, co-founder of Auger, discusses the long reaching potential of prediction markets and how Auger makes them vastly more accessible. Laura Shin, who never ceases to kick ass, poses some of the tougher questions around the ethics, liability and business of predictions markets.
iTunes, Spotify, Sticher
Ledgercast: Managing all crypto price data, with Clay Collins of Nomics - 61 min.
Clay Collins gives us the rundown on Nomics.com, which provides uber-broad token/coin data and has a great free API. He also talks about the the insane amount of crypto-data out there and his future plans for Nomics.
The icing on the cake: this episode clued me into his podcast Flippening.
iTunes, Google Play, Sticher
Coin Talk: impressions of Crypto-China w/ Chris Dannen
Hosted by Arron Lammer, of the Longform podcast, and Jay Kang, Coin Talk is an underappreciated crypto podcast. In this episode, Chris Dannen recounts his crypto-business trip to China, providing a window into a side of crypto that not many of us are exposed to.
iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher
Week of August 20th, 2018
Venture Stories: Bill Tai and Eric Hsue on Mining, Exchanges, and the History and Future of Money - 79 min.
Host Erik Torenberg chats with Bill Tai, of Bitfury, and Derek Hsue, of Blockchain Capital, about the past, present and future of mining. Their combined breadth of experience and the depth of this conversation make it one worth hearing.
iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify
What Bitcoin Did: Interview with Ari Paul - 55 min.
Peter McCormack and Ari David Paul skip the usual “podcast intro fluff” and cut strait to providing insight into Ari’s own way of thinking about where value lies in the crypto industry. Maybe most interestingly, he goes back over his 2018 predictions, where he was wrong (or not really wrong), and why. They also brush on the “Fat Protocol Thesis”, the Bitmain IPO and the potential of blockchain games to drive adoption.
iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify
Week of August 13th, 2018
The Indicator - from Planet Money - Cryptokitties - The Download on Digital Cats - 10 min.
Bite-sized insight into what cryptokitties are and some anecdotes from a successful “breeder”.
iTunes, Spotify
Tales From The Crypt: #38: Nic Carter - 106 min.
Nic Carter debriefs on his personal history, the current crypto landscape and Augur. He also elaborates on coinmetrics.io and what we can learn from it.
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Bottomshelf Bitcoin: Adam Gibson on Utxos And Funigility - 96 min.
A very in depth exposition of bitcoin utxo's (unspent transaction outputs). Including various measures one can take to achieve privacy when using bitcoin.
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Week of August 6th, 2018
Block Zero: The fastest blockchain on earth? - 53 min.
Kevin Rose and Solana founder, Anatoly Yokavenko, go on about how Solana might achieve a 100,000x improvement on bitcoin’s transactions per second. Expect LOTS of computer words in this discussion.
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Epicenter: Ryan Selkis | Messari - Bringing Transparency and Self-Regulation to the Blockchain Industy - 67 min.
Ryan Selkis, the guy behind Messari.io, gives a little personal history and elaborates on incentivizing transparency via a token curated registry.
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Unconfirmed: Why The Ice/Bakkt News Makes Some Crypto Investors Nervous - Ep.032- 23 min.
The Ice/bakkt news struck some of crypto twitter as great news for bitcoin, but the price didn’t reflect this optimism. This chat between Laura Shin and Caitlin Long provides insight into why the Ice/Bakkt news could be a double edged sword. Leading to adoption and ease of use, but also potentially undermining bitcoin’s scarcity.
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Crypto Cousins: Saifedean Ammous at Bit Block Boom - 71 min.
You can file this talk by Saifedean under “talks everyone should hear when when getting into bitcoin”. It provides solid insight into the economics behind bitcoin and why Austrian economists hate modern art.
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