Joël Valenzuela has been living without a banked account (or “unbanked”) since 2016. Hes began with Bitcoin, but when that became too expensive he began transacting with Dash instead and now he actually works for the firm! Dash is part of the digital cash race, alongside Dogecoin, Bitcoin Lightning Network, BCH, BSV, and…
Category: Crypto and Blockchain
Chatter #202 [Live] – Kurt Wuckert Jr. On El Salvador, Bitcoin Cash, and The Bitcoin Civil War
The civil war raging within the bitcoin community is one that I first came across in my interview with Brad Mills. Kurt Wuckert Jr is a strong advocate for Bitcoin cash and has written extensively in support of BSV, in opposition to many Bitcoin Maximalists like Anthony Pompliano. So I wanted to get…
First Bitcoin Futures ETF Approved – Becomes Fastest Fund Ever To Reach $1 Billion
The first Bitcoin Futures ETF to be approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission began trading on Tuesday. It has become the fastest fund ever to reach $1 billion in assets under management (AUM). The previous record-holder was a gold-based ETF with the ticker GLD, which took 3 days to hit $1…
Chatter #201 [Live] – Ethan Lou On North Korea, Virgil Griffith, and The Ethereum Foundation
It’s no secret that I have been exploring some of the ideas of crypto currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum on this show. North Korea is also a fascinating story to me, I’ve been thinking about it a lot since the string of interviews conducted by North Korean defector Yeon-mi Park. So when this…
COTI To Issue Djed, Cardano’s First Stablecoin
Among the many announcements to come out of the Cardano Summit 2021 was more information on the first stablecoin coming to the Cardano blockchain. It will be named ‘Djed’, after the pillar-like structure in Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs that represented stability. Djed will be issued by COTI, a decentralised payment platform that already acts…
Solana Network Back Online After 18 Hours
The Solana Mainnet Beta experienced a denial of service due a large spike in transactions. Engineers across the ecosystem attempted to stabilise the network but were unsuccessful. The validator community decided to coordinate a complete restart of the network. The network is back online again after 80% of the validators restarted and upgraded…
