Synopsis
Weekly round up of the latest cryptocurrency news. Analysis from Crypto Beak, Geordie Prince, P Money, Bitcoin Bublé and guests, hosted by Crypto Ken. Stay up to date and expertly informed on all crypto, ethereum, bitcoin, altcoin and ICO news.
Episodes
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Ep. 36 | USDC on Coinbase, HTC release a crypto phone, IDEX bans and Bitcoin murders
26/10/2018 Duration: 51minCrypto Weekly is back! More news, more discussion and more analysis. This week: - Coinbase gets on the stable coin band wagon by adding support for Circle's USDC. - HTC release a phone come hardware wallet that can ONLY be purchased with ETH or BTC. - IDEX, the decentralised exchange, bans users from New York. Or have they? - Hold Tight Tokens and Cryptographic Universally Negative Tokens are minted and distributed!
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Ep. 35 | Nouriel Roubini talks nonsense, BNB burns, Tether wobbles and Tone Vays shorts Bitcoin
19/10/2018 Duration: 52minThis week in the news: Nouriel Roubini speaks to the Senate about cryptocurrency and sensationalises it a whole deal, while also proving he knows very little about it. Fidelity announce a full on crypto branch to bring institutional money from Wall Street into crypto. Tether is now not worth $1. Arbitrage opportunity or get out while you can? Tone Vays continues to have terrible hair and shorts Bitcoin, possibly at the bottom. All this and more on this week's Crypto Weekly! Hold Tight.
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Ep. 34 | Binance cleaning house, Soulja boy ruins crypto, Petro updates and more!
12/10/2018 Duration: 45minThis week on Crypto Weekly: - Mandatory uses of Petro begin in Venezuela: at what point will oil have to be bought from the country in Petro ? - Binance announces their intention to donate all listing fees to charity AND the removal of some of the lesser quality coins on the exchange. - The Preying Mantis malware starts to mine Monero; unless you live in Japan! - The Yale endowment invest in two separate Crypto funds. More to follow? - Ken's Coin of the Week returns! Praises be!
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Ep. 33 | Blockchain solves Brexit, Coinbase funding, EOS scandal, Public Petro and more!
05/10/2018 Duration: 47minAfter heading on over to https://zenvst.com/weekly listen to some news: - Philip Hammond claims that Blockchain could be the saviour of the Brexit Irish border issue. We examine why this is total bollocks. - A voting scandal emerges involving Huobi and the EOS network. Who could have predicted that 21 block producers was a bad idea..? - Geordie Prince is elated as the Petro goes on public sale! - Shapeshift involved in a smattering of money laundering. How does it weigh up to existing financial institutions? - The Contest wraps up! Who is the winner? Big shout out to Kevin Macleod for his song: Local Forecast - Elevator Music.
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Ep. 32 | Bitmain IPO official, XRP pump, Quorum from JP Morgan, Holo FUD and more!
28/09/2018 Duration: 51minIt's here! Raw and uncut episode 32 of Crypto Weekly! This week: XRP pumps: what is the cause? JP Morgan step up with Quorum. What's the Crypto Weekly consensus. Bitmain IPO is official. Should we be dusting off our HK citizenship? Beak brings out the Holochain FUD in market watch. Google ends the advertisement ban on regulated cryptocurrency exchanges!
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Ep. 31 | Tezos launch, LOOM updates, Craig Wright controlling BCH and BTC vulnerability!
21/09/2018 Duration: 46minThis week in the news: - Tezos launch, what's the run down and consensus? - BTC vulnerability found (hold tight Cadel) - what could have gone wrong? - Craig Wright controls BCH...which we already knew. - Attorney General's of the US reports on exchanges operating in New York - the report is pretty comfy. - Update on EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) 2.0 coming to Ethereum! All this and more in this week's Crypto Weekly!
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Ep. 30 | SEC suspends crypto securities, OKEx founder arrested in China, Novogratz calls the bottom and Beak has some exciting product updates in his pick of the week.
16/09/2018 Duration: 39minThis week in the news SEC suspends trading of two crypto securities. OKEx founder Star Xu arrested in China on fraud charges. Plasma sees real-life usage after Bankex launches coffee vending machine payment system. Justin Sun of Tron fame fires back at Vitalik. Novogratz thinks we've hit the bottom. Also in the show Beak has some exciting news in his pick of the week. Bublé gives us a spreadsheet-drive update on 'The Contest'. If you enjoy the show then head on over to https://www.patreon.com/cryptoweekly and support us! You now get free crypto weekly swag with the chance to win more AND receive the show earlier than the normies.
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Ep. 29 | Bitcoin Cash stress test, ETH burn proposal, The contest and more!
08/09/2018 Duration: 56minIf you enjoy the show then head on over to https://www.patreon.com/cryptoweekly and support the show! You now get free crypto weekly swag with the chance to win more AND receive the show earlier. This week in the news: - Bitcoin Cash stress test their network to the tune of 2.1 million transactions in a single day. Roger Ver larps intensify. - Vitalik Buterin brings to light the possibility of Ether being burned with every transaction in the future according to two separate EIPs. - Petro may not be as popular as you think! - The Crypto Weekly crew receive some news from a fan and the contest begins!
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Ep. 28 | Brenna Sparks prophecy fulfilled, more index funds announced, more EOS bugs and more crypto analysis!
01/09/2018 Duration: 53minThis week in the news: What a strange subculture crypto has. A Pornstar receives a sexual act from a crypto dev and all the prices pump due to a 'prophecy' being fulfilled. What is happening. Glaring EOS issue found with users able to jack each other's RAM. Elon Musk sort of tweets about ETH Now you can finally earn money watching pornography! The dream is real! All this and more in episode 28 of Crypto Weekly!
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Ep. 27 | EPL Football and eToro trial blockchain, Bitcoin Cash forking, more ETF delays and Bakkt to ruin Wall Street?
24/08/2018 Duration: 52min- eToro partners with 7 English Premier League Clubs to spread the word about crypto assets. Bitcoin to be used for player transfers in the future? - Trouble in Paradise as Jihan Wu and Craig Wright fall out over block sizes and op codes. Fake Satoshi confirmed? - Another, poor quality, Bitcoin ETF is going to be delayed. This should have been priced in, but is the market too irrational? - Geordie Prince delights us with his take on how Bakkt could fundamentally change Wall Street forever.
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Ep. 26 | Markets in the floor, McAfee's BitFi hacked, Bakkt update and more!
17/08/2018 Duration: 50minIf you enjoy the show, head on over to www.patreon.com/cryptoweekly and support us! You get sweet perks and giveaways! 6 months of crypto weekly down and to celebrate the markets crash through the floor! This week: - Hold firm? What's causing this new bottom? Is it over? Why are crypto assets so difficult to value accurately? - McAfee's 'unhackable' BitFi wallet is successfully hacked by a team of researchers. How will he claim that they haven't this time? - Update on NYSE's crypto on ramp startup, Bakkt, as more details emerge.
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Ep. 25 | NYSE announce Bakkt, 37 cryptos on Coinbase's list, WSJ behind the times and more!
10/08/2018 Duration: 50min- NYSE announce their new startup, Bakkt, to give retail investors an on ramp into cryptocurrency; specifically Bitcoin. On tap of that, they plan to de-blockchain transactions of the crypto... - Coinbase custody announce 37 potential crypto assets they may begin to support and there are some strange names on the list. - Wall Street Journal finds out about pump and dump schemes and attempts to give the inside scoop on what they perceive to be market manipulation to the tune of $825 million. - Ethorse provides a project update to change all project updates! Horse is back!
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Ep 24. | Rise of the DApps, Bitmain IPO, Bill Clinton wanders into XRP, Kim K buys Bitcoin and more!
02/08/2018 Duration: 43minHuge news, Crypto Weekly is here with another episode! This week: - Kimmy K uses Bitcoin at a poker tournament and price does not move - what a tough market we are in. - Bitmain could be IPOing after $1billion profit in Q1 2018. - Bill Clinton is announced as opening Ripple's Swell 2018 conference. Everyone is confused. - DApps take over everyone's imaginations again as Dope Raiders enters the limelight.
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Ep. 23 | Congress talks Crypto, Markets rebound, Fomo3d takes hold and more!
26/07/2018 Duration: 40minIf you enjoy Crypto Weekly then head over to www.patreon.com/cryptoweekly and support the show. This week in the news: - US Congress has two sessions discussing cryptocurrency and digital assets. Brad Sherman continues to larp around pretending he knows anything about it. - Cryptocurrency markets rebound with Bitcoin back over $8000. Is it just the ETF announcement causing this? - Fomo3d manages to build a prize pot of over 20,000 Ethereum. What is this strange game and why are people enamored by it? - Coinbase adds a new way of cashing out: purchasable gift cards with cryptocurrency!
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Ep. 22 | Bitcoin ETFs, new Coinbase tokens, Ethereum network congestion conspiracy and Blackrock incoming?
19/07/2018 Duration: 44minCrypto Weekly is back! If you enjoy the show then head on over to https://www.patreon.com/cryptoweekly and support the show. You get sweet perks such as early episode access and monthly livestreams! This week... - Bitcoin ETFs could become a possibility as early as August of this year. We investigate how likely this actually is. - Coinbase announces the coins that they are considering next adding to their platform, including: Basic Attention Token (BAT), 0xProject (ZRX), Cardano (ADA), Stellar (XLM) and ZCash (ZEC). - A conspiracy is a foot that EOS is behind the recent Ethereum network congestion! While a juicy story there may not be as much truth to it as you think... - Crypto social media goes wild once again at the prospect of institutional money entering the market in the form of Blackrock.
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Ep. 21 | Bancor hack, Bitcoin Economist FUD, Vitalik hates centralisation and Kendex results!
13/07/2018 Duration: 52minIf you like Crypto Weekly head on over to https://www.patreon.com/cryptoweekly and help support us and the show! Crypto Ken returns to his usual spot steering the podcast in a week overshadowed by England's exploits in the World Cup. While football won't unfortunately be coming home, in crypto news: - Bancor is hacked to the tune of $12 million with details still coming in on how attackers gained access to key smart contract wallets. - A trio of leading economists claim that Bitcoin will not be around as soon as governments step up their regulation. - Vitalik, creator of Ethereum, absolutely blasts centralised exchanges, claiming that they should "burn in hell". We also have a huge segment led by the Geordie Prince taking a look at the performance of Ken's Coin of the Week picks! You may be surprised at how many legitimate crypto funds have lost out to the glorious Ken Dex...
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Ep. 20 | Binance isn't hacked, Coinbase lures institutional investors, FCoin clogs Ethereum network, Clipboard malware targets Windows users
05/07/2018 Duration: 54minThis week Ken is not here so we miss out on the notorious Ken's coin of the week, but we do however take a look at the Syscoin/Binance disaster. What happened and who can we blame? Pro tip: Binance probably didn't get hacked. Coinbase Custody has gone live, will this make us all rich on institutional fat cat's money? Fcoin congested the Ethereum network, we tell you how annoying that is. Prince gives a full rundown of Beak's coins of the week and compares performance with Mike Novogratz, ex manager of Fortress Capital and Beak gives us some sage advice and has a punt at what may be the best performing coin from the week. As always, NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE. All this, and more, from another prime episode of Crypto Weekly. Dangerously close to educational.
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Crypto Weekly Extra | Interview with CEO of INXT
04/07/2018 Duration: 27minThe Crypto Weekly crew chat with the CEO of INXT, Fran Villalba Segarra about the decentralised file storage landscape, their X Cloud Platform, INXT token economics and their upcoming beta.
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Ep. 19 | $250ml Tether, a16z cryptocurrency investment, Bitmain 51% Bitcoin attack
28/06/2018 Duration: 57minIf you enjoy the show then head on over to www.patreon.com/cryptoweekly and sign up for exclusive and early access content - including live Q & As with the Crypto Weekly team! This week we take a look at the $250 million printed by Tether. Is this coming out of thin air? Is the price of Bitcoin being manipulated from it? The answer: probably not. Andreeson Horowitz, a16z, announce $300 million investment in the cryptocurrency space. How much of a big deal is this? EOS is ranked number 1 by a Chinese cryptocurrency index. The Crypto Weekly team discuss why this is absolutely hilarious - Bitcoin only making it to 17th in the same index. The final Ken's Coin of the Week considers whether or not 'Akoin' is a joke or a genuinely potential gem for the continent of Africa. Beak gives us some sage advice and has a punt at what may be the best performing coin from the week. As always, NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE. All this, and more, from another prime episode of Crypto Weekly. Dangerously close to educational.
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Ep. 18 | Bithumb hack, ETH not a security, Tether token check and EOS launch hiccups
21/06/2018 Duration: 01h04minIf you enjoy the show head on over to www.patreon.com/cryptoweekly and support the time and effort we put in to creating such a wonderful work of art. Or don’t, no pressure! This week the big news finally came that the SEC does not consider Ether to be a security. The Bitcoin maximalists went absolutely wild, but no one on the Crypto Weekly team was surprised. What does this mean going forward? EOS mainnet launch continues to get off to a rocky start as their blockchain is paused after just two days. In addition, an ‘order’ is put through to block producers to halt all transactions for a set of addresses. Crypto Weekly question if the launch of EOS could have possibly gone any worse and whether or not they have even achieved decentralisation. Bithumb gets hacked, again, but the Crypto Weekly team attempt to put a more positive spin on things. The news culminates in a look at the most recent ‘audit’ for Tether. Ken’s Coin of the Week moves back into NEET territory to discuss the possibility of monetizing in ga