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The Crypto Bubble Podcast hosts Stas Zlobinski, the co-founder and project lead of Hedgie. Daniel and Stas discuss the game, the fungible and non-fungible blockchain assets used in the game, as well as the partnerships with physical businesses that facilitate the acceptance of the in-game currency of Hedgie. Have a look at the Hedgie project, and watch out for the first version of the game coming out later in 2018. https://www.hedgie.io/ https://t.me/hellohedgie https://twitter.com/hellohedgie https://twitter.com/stazie  

Intro Discussion - Coinbase Fund Pivot Coinbase Ditches Its Index Fund News Story - Researchers Suggest Bitcoin’s Astronomical Rise Last Year Was Buoyed by Market Manipulation Bitcoin’s rise last year was buoyed by market manipulation Bitcoin Manipulation Paper Bots Are Manipulating Price of Bitcoin Crypto Investing Groups Are Responsible for $1 Billion in Market Manipulation Throughout 2018 U.S. Launches Criminal Probe into Bitcoin Price Manipulation Topic - A Review of Memes in Cryptocurrency Crypto Meme Feed Bogdanoff Twins Pepe Wojak Pepe and Wojak Analysis Hide The Pain Harold Astronauts Bart Simpson Vegeta Good Vs. Bad Times This Is Fine - Know Your Meme This Is Fine Example Distracted Boyfriend - Know Your Meme Distracted Boyfriend Example Left Exit 12 Off Ramp - Know Your Meme Left Exit 12 Off Ramp Example He Thinks / She Thinks Waiting

Intro Discussion - Unusual Tether Price Action One Coindesk article regarding Tether News Story - Thailand’s Central Bank Eyes Creating Its Own Digital Currency for Interbank Settlements Potential Thailand CBDC Topic - Inheritance Planning for Digital Assets Epicenter BTC Episode w Pamela Morgan Medium article - Start here for inheritance planning Medium article - 3 steps in 3 minutes Medium article - Letter to your loved ones Developing a recovery plan Pamela Morgan's book Pamela Morgan on Twitter

Intro Discussion - Recent price action including the big gains by XRP. CNBC article about XRP gains News Story - Thousands of Cryptocurrency Projects Are Already Dead deadcoins.com coinopsy.com techcrunch - dead coins Topic - How to Invest in Cryptocurrency cryptoira.com coinbase fund What I Learned Losing A Million Dollars

The Crypto Bubble Podcast hosts fellow podcaster Peter McCormack of the What Bitcoin Did Podcast. They discuss Peter's introduction to interviewing through a music fanzine, how he got into cryptocurrency, his podcast, and a finally his opinions on some contemporary crypto topics. If you haven't already, check out Peter's outstanding podcast! https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/ https://twitter.com/WhatBitcoinDid

Special guest Jeffrey Schneider joins Daniel for a special conversation on the topic of cryptocurrency taxes in the United States. If you would like to contact Jeffrey about crypto tax questions, you can email him at info@sfstaxacct.com. Or you could visit his website at https://sfstaxacct.com/. Topic - Dealing with Taxes Notice 2014-21 Coinbase Taxes FAQ bitcoin.tax Forbes - What You Need To Know About Taxes & Cryptocurrency Wikipedia - Like Kind Exchanges Long-Term Capital Gains Tax Rates in 2017

Intro Discussion - Shapeshift Ends Anonymity With Announcement Of Mandatory KYC Data Collection Article on Bitcoinmagazine.com Article on Bitcoinist.com News Story - Nvidia Overestimated Bitcoin Mining Demand, Stuck with Excess GPUs Article on Gadgets.ndtv.com Topic - How Should We Judge Cryptocurrencies?

The Founder and CEO of Internxt, Fran Villalba Segarra, joins Daniel for an interview where they discuss X Cloud, X Core, and the INTX token. https://internxt.com/ https://twitter.com/Internxt https://twitter.com/fvsegarra

Nicholas and Daniel talk about the tough week in the market and discuss what might have been the cause. BTC and ETH ETFs Suspended Goldman Sachs Crypto Desk Still On "Blockchain Association" Lobbying Group News Story - Cryptocurrency projects aiming to be ‘ASIC resistant’ having little success ASIC Resistance Hard To Achieve Table of Hashing Prefixes crypto51.app What To Mine Topic - Mining Basics Zoolander Mining bitcoinmining.com SPV Nodes XRP Ledger Technical FAQ

News story - Bitmain weighs a potential $18 billion IPO. Coindesk - Bitmain IPO CCN - Bitmain IPO Wikipedia - Bitmain Topic - What Is Your Crypto Scoreboard? Fund Denominated in XRP

News Story - Arrington-backed startup launches crypto-for-cash credit platform Coindesk - Nexo Nexo Website News Story - Nick Szabo tweets cryptocurrency improvement recommendations Szabo's tweet Article about the tweets Unenumerated blog Tim Ferriss podcast with Szabo News Story - Outraged pro-BTC community alleges bitcoin.com is misleading investors Cointelegraph article News Story - Charlie Lee: Selling his coins and stepping away Charlie Lee on selling his litecoins Charlie Lee stepping away

News story - Goldman Sachs close to opening digital assets trading desk Goldman Sachs to Open a Bitcoin Trading Operation Goldman Sachs Hires Crypto Trader Justin Schmidt Goldman Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk Topic - Advantage to the Early Investors Best Bitcoin Success Stories Everyone Is Getting Hilariously Rich and You’re Not

Daniel and Nicholas discuss the Chinese Bitcoin miners coming to the United States to buy subsidized electricity in the USA. News Story - Japanese crypto exchanges are facing pressure to delist privacy coins Topic - Avoiding crypto scams 7 Most Common Types Of Cryptocurrency Scams BEWARE: Avoid These 7 Cryptocurrency Scams Happening Right Now Five Largest ICO “Exit Scams”: Expert Take BitConnect — Anatomy of a Scam US SEC is hunting down pump & dump groups

News story - $3 Million of Bitcoin stolen from Coinsecure in India Coincheck NEM Theft BitGrail Nano Theft Mt. Gox BTC Theft Topic - Basic security practices. A Guide to Cryptocurrency Security An Introduction to Google Advanced Protection

Daniel and Nicholas discuss Poloniex’s new KYC requirements. News Story - Likely New York Fed president says cryptocurrency “doesn’t pass the basic test” for a currency. Topic - Uses of money. Attributes of money. How does cryptocurrency stack up? Infographic: The Properties of Money Why money is best thought of as an adjective not a noun

In this episode of The CBP Nicholas and Daniel get technical. Today they'll explore the world of cryptography to help shed light on its importance as the backbone of blockchain, as well as some of the actual mechanics of cryptographic functionality. Topic - What is cryptography and how do blockchains use it? Blockchain Cryptography Explained Cryptography for Cryptocurrency How secure is 256 bit security? Explain Like I’m 5: Zero Knowledge Proof On Zero-Knowledge Proofs in Blockchains What are zk-SNARKs?

In this episode of The CBP our hosts Nicholas and Daniel discuss Bitcoin's "Crypto Winter", as well as international cryptocurrency bans and how they affect the cryptocurrency markets at large. In their topic section, they discuss whether cryptocurrency is necessary for blockchains and the differences between public and private blockchains. News Story - Iran bans the use of cryptocurrencies. Topic - How are cryptocurrency and blockchain related? What Are Private Blockchains & How Are They Different From Public Blockchains? Where Have All the Private Blockchains Gone? What Does Cryptocurrency Have to Do With Blockchain Anyway? Does a Blockchain Need a Token? The difference between public and private blockchain

In this episode of The CBP we discuss the nitty gritty of what a cryptocurrency actually is and the utility it has in modern society. Nicholas and Daniel also engage in a spirited discussion about Ethereum's recent announcement to change their consensus mechanism. News Story - The code for a change to the method of consensus for Ethereum is being reviewed. Topic - What is cryptocurrency and why is it useful? What Does Cryptocurrency Have to Do With Blockchain Anyway? Cryptocurrency vs Assets The Rise Of Asset-Backed Cryptocurrencies

In this episode of The CBP Nicholas and Daniel discuss Warren Buffet's perspective on Bitcoin as an investment, as well as provide a more fundamental glimpse at some of the key blockchain terminology and definitions. News Story - Warren Buffett says Bitcoin isn’t an investment. Topic - What is blockchain and how will it be used? What Is "Blockchain" Anyway? What Is Blockchain...Forbes

Our hosts, Nicholas and Daniel, chat about Nicholas' recent adventures in Puerto Rico's Crypto Utopia, then delve into a coin review for XRP. In addition to XRP, the company Ripple is frequently discussed. XRP Coin Review document posted on podcast website.