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Category: 2019

December 27, 2019by Laura Shin

How I Got SIM Swapped — and How to Protect Yourself

Laura recounts the tale of how she got SIM swapped, what mistakes she made, and what she did to secure her accounts and get her phone number back. She also[…]

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Posted in: 2019, Shows, UnconfirmedTagged in: hack, phone hijackings, Sim Swapping, sim-swap

December 20, 2019by Laura Shin

Meltem Demirors on the First Decade of the Existence of Bitcoin

Meltem Demirors, chief strategy officer of Coinshares, talks about how the emergence of Bitcoin fits within the larger technological and financial shifts of the last decade, how crypto can integrate[…]

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Posted in: 2019, Shows, UnconfirmedTagged in: bitcoin, blockchain, crypto, Cryptocurrencies, cryptocurrency, ethereum, finance, investment, libra

December 13, 2019by Laura Shin

Larry Cermak of The Block on What 90% of Bitcoin Trading Is For

Larry Cermak, director of research at The Block, looks at the macro trends in Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, including what can be gleaned from derivative data, why many hedge funds are[…]

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Posted in: 2019, Shows, UnconfirmedTagged in: bitcoin, blockchain, hedgefund, invesment, trade

December 6, 2019by Laura Shin

What Quadriga Really Was: 3 Theories About Gerald Cotten

Writer Nathaniel Rich discusses his recent long-form Vanity Fair article diving into what really happened with the Quadriga exchange debacle, what Gerald Cotten’s past really was, his relationship to his[…]

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Posted in: 2019, Shows, UnconfirmedTagged in: bitcoin, blockchain, exchange, quadriga, scam

November 29, 2019by Laura Shin

How to Get 7% of Your Purchases Back in Bitcoin

For Black Friday, Alex Adelman, cofounder and CEO of Lolli, talks about how, with the Lolli browser extension, shoppers can earn back, on average 7%, but as much as 45%, of[…]

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Posted in: 2019, Shows, UnconfirmedTagged in: bitcoin, blockchain, interest

November 22, 2019by Laura Shin

How MakerDAO Now Features a Risk-Free Rate

Steven Becker, president and chief operating officer of the Maker Foundation, discusses the MakerDAO system’s transition to multi-collateral Dai, what benefits it gets from having multiple collateral types, why it[…]

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Posted in: 2019, Shows, UnconfirmedTagged in: Dai, Defi, ethereum, makerdao, smart contracts

November 15, 2019by Laura Shin

An Interview With the Anonymous Developer of HKmap.live

This episode features an email interview with Kuma, the pseudonymous administrator of HKmap.live, a site showing a real-time crowd-sourced map of protests in Hong Kong, which Kuma believes is the first[…]

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Posted in: 2019, Shows, UnconfirmedTagged in: bitcoin, censorship, crypto, democracy

November 8, 2019by Laura Shin

Why Employees Cheered After Jihan Wu’s Coup at Bitmain

Wolfie Zhao, Asia editor at CoinDesk, details how Jihan Wu ousted his cofounder Micree Zhan at the Bitcoin mining giant Bitmain last week, how he justified the coup at a[…]

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Posted in: 2019, Shows, UnconfirmedTagged in: bitcoin, bitcoin cash, Bitmain, blockchain, IPO, mining

November 1, 2019by Laura Shin

Why the Digital Yuan Could One Day Be Seen as a Blunder

Alex Gladstein, chief strategy officer of the Human Rights Foundation, explains why he believes China’s new pro-blockchain stance could turn out to be a blunder for the country and why[…]

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Posted in: 2019, Shows, UnconfirmedTagged in: bitcoin, blockchain, CBDC, chaina, democracy, human rights

October 25, 2019by Laura Shin

How the Hong Kong Protests Gave a Boost to Gods Unchained

James Ferguson, CEO of Immutable, the creators of Gods Unchained, talks about how the video game recently doubled its number of users. In early October, after a winner of a[…]

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Posted in: 2019, Shows, UnconfirmedTagged in: blockchain, decentralization, free speech

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