Coloring Crypto

Chapes and Daniel are back on the podcast with host Gabe Colors. The team convened last month for our annual-ish review of the state of crypto.  20:00 Prices of BTC and ETH predictions HODL 25:00 Facebook and Impeachment  

Facebook Coin. Facebook enters the crypto space. Does that mean I can put this podcast back on my resume? Does it validate the space? Is Bitcoin threatened? What does this mean for alt-coins? Wait, did I just say alt-coins?  Miko Matsumura and Tegan Kline discuss and debate the potential impacts of Mark Zuckerberg and his country, I mean company, stepping into the world of cryptocurrency with Facebook Libra.  3:00 Miko's definition of Facebook coin 8:00 Summary of the problem that Facebook is claiming to solve 14:00 The risks of Facebook as the core player as reckless as they are 28:00 How Facebook Libra works, the basket, the consortium 41:00 Open Source money   Guests:  Miko Matsumura http://miko.com is a General Partner with Gumi Cryptos, a US $30M venture capital fund focused early stage blockchain startups and a Venture Partner with BitBull Capital, a cryptocurrency fund-of-funds. He is also an advisor to Arrington XRP Capital. He has been a keynote speaker at dozens of blockchain conferences around the world. He is also cofounder of crypto exchange Evercoin.  Tegan Kline heads up International Business Development and Investor Relations for Orchid, where they are working to open up the internet to everyone, everywhere. Prior to Orchid, Tegan was a blockchain technology consultant, helping leaders and innovators connect more deeply with stakeholders across the blockchain ecosystem. Tegan's professional experience has been with Fortune 500's and startups, most recently as Executive VP of a patent marketplace powered by blockchain, analyzed by AI. She began her career in Investment Banking at BAML and, prior to discovering blockchain, worked in Sales and Trading at Barclays. Tegan is working to redistribute resources and income using blockchain and AI with Nature 2.0, Co-Founder of Blockchain Code of Ethics, Head of the U.S. for Triangles, a group that supports female founders and Ambassador to Buckminster Fuller Institute, helping to make the world work for 100% of us. https://www.linkedin.com/in/tegan-kline-17306b60 https://twitter.com/theklineventure  Facebook Libra Whitepaper: https://libra.org/en-US/white-paper/ https://developers.libra.org/docs/state-machine-replication-paper https://libra.org/en-US/about-currency-reserve/#the_reserve https://libra.org/en-US/permissionless-blockchain/#overview           

Aint nobody got time for 44 Steps. Taylor, Founder and CEO of MyCrypto brings up the biggest question we have got to answer on our way to massive crypto adoption. How do we onboard fiat to useful digital wallets. In the meantime, Taylor and MyCrypto are doing fine. Referenced during the conversation: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-24-delivering-crypto-to-masses-erik-voorhees-ceo/id1432912612?i=1000430652035&mt=2 Google Podcasts [Google Podcasts - Wyre Talks - Ep 24, Delivering Crypto to the Masses with Erik Voorhees, CEO of ShapeShift and Taylor Monahan, CEO of MyCrypto.](https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9yc3Muc2ltcGxlY2FzdC5jb20vcG9kY2FzdHMvNzIxMi9yc3M&episode=ZDI3NGVhMzEtZjdmMi00YTcxLWI4OWQtZTQ1ZTc3ZjhiNzcx) And this usability panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WufVY9Jq9k [Gustavo Esquinca ~ UX & Usability Panel - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WufVY9Jq9k) Contact: @tayvano_ @MyCrypto

Yesterday, Bill Ottman was on Joe Rogan's podcast, Episode 55 of Coloring Crypto brings a different set of questions to the same guest. Facebook is Dead? Wishful thinking as of early 2019 no doubt. But I'm a believer that we will look back years from now and see that clearly it's evil.Reach CEO and founder of Minds.com at http://minds.com/ottman

It may be the Great Gestation in blockchain, but now's the time to get a career in crypto. Our guest is Tom Hamilton, a blockchain recruiter who's worked with or for, Electronic Arts, Second Life, Playstation, SpaceX, and Kernel. This is Part 1 as we realized we have more questions than answers. (35:00) Is where we dive deep on the topic. Read “How to get a job in Crypto” on Medium https://medium.com/@gabemott Tweet: @gabecolors Complete Show Notes on Coloring Crypto website, coloringcrypto.com Guest Tom Hamilton https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomhamilton/ tom@tomhamilton.com Summary AKA TL;DR ;) *Make work and acquire skills* 1. Become really good 2. Learn social skills and Networking strategies 3. Be a good human being,able to communicate, and be positive *1. An encouraging word* In tech, Don’t be intimidated that others know more than you because in 6 months it will all change tom If it feels saturated it’s not *2. Beware* Whether high season or low season, it’s your brand… guess what, those records are there for good..! *3. Self evaluate* If you are doing it because you think it’s cool, but not really passionate, you are going to fail. don’t apply for jobs you are not passionate about . hard to fake enthusiasm Identify how much “Real experience” you have. Not just Audacity, Udemy courses… “Are you getting paid to build and deliver a product” *4. Now what you can do* Make your own product Go to the best school If you are out of school, become as active in the industry as you can Join the clubs Get involved in open source development products *5. Analyze prospective company/industry* Do your homework, research the company “Where do you want to participate in the blockchain?” Currency? Infrastructure? Which part ? Is the company traditional tech going into blockchain? Do they already have their expertise? *Links:* [17:00] Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc [19:15] Mike Dillard “Self Made Man” Is This the Start of the Next Bitcoin Bull Run? [Self Made Man™ - For Men With Ambition](https://www.selfmademan.com/podcasts/teeka-tiwari/2fjPAh6E8EIGcCI2GgSi0C?utm_source=Main%20Broadcast&utm_campaign=cf3397fd2b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_12_15_04_29_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_da6a2f1a17-cf3397fd2b-224063757) Teeka Tiwari from PalmBeachBitcoin.com [28:00] Bryan Johnson [Bryan Johnson | Entrepreneur](https://bryanjohnson.co/) [Bryan Johnson – Medium](https://medium.com/@bryan_johnson) @bryan_johnson @OSFund [OS Fund](https://osfund.co/) Kernel [Kernel](https://kernel.co/) technologies enhancing human cognition [32:30] Elon Musk [Neuralink](https://www.neuralink.com/) ultra high bandwidth neural interfaces (medical devices) Ray Kurzwel | Singularity [The Singularity Is Near - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near) SPACEX [SpaceX](https://www.spacex.com/)  

The dot com days are related, it's all the same.

With the return after our break, Coloring Crypto revisits the top Spotify episode from 2018 with the team's predictions in Crypto. Tweet @gabecolors

Coloring Crypto goes on a 6 week hiatus, ushered in with this chapter close from: None other than my Mom. If I am smart at all, or in whichever smart dynamic I got, my Mom, well her whole family including the aunts an uncles, had something to do with it. If I was to say, what the Coloring Cryptp family member guests have had in common-- now having had Che, Cousin David, Aunt Terrie and now the most recent guest, Episode 51, Bonnie Mott, Coloring Crypto is a family affair. Growing up seeing your sigh in my bathroom: "Washington State has had an equal rights amendment" I thought racism would be gone, gender equality would exist, with bitcoin the rich got richer.. but the concept of a decentralized ledger is going to be good.  #ColoringCrypto

Guest Matthew Sullivan of QuantmRE Los Angeles, Blockchain, Crypto backed by property, an alternative for home owners thinking of re-financing. http://QuantmRE.com

KYC AML   "asynchronous messaging platform, exchanging value for trust" chain agnostic   predictions: lawsuits books:  Cryptonomicon: Neal Stephenson Bruce sterling 1989: Islands in the Net  Predictions like: Drone  assassination,  Data havens  Bahamas blockchain and  Crypto foreigners  Govt from Bahamas  Bahamian whales 

In claiming the summer of 2018 as the Great Gestation, new terms and phrases arose in these interviews and I got seriously scared of what decentralization feels like. In Part 1, Rebekah coins "access equality" and "decentralized success" in the closing episode here @miko coins "consensus currencies" and tells the story of what might the original decentralized currency in the stone age.   

What's happening with Crypto in the middle of 2018? [2:50] My friend Lenny is done with Crypto [10:00] Amy Wan, CEO Co-Founder of Sagewise says just chill [23:00] Terrence Yang says adoption is abysmal @gabecolors

Interviewing 12 guests, I felt like I got 144 different answers to the state of Crypto in the summer of 2018. Nothing is happening, everything is coming, this is the Great Gestation. Part 1 starts in the middle with a trader and a visionary.  @gabecolors @shegrows

(00:50) The "Great Gestation Episode", preview of the upcoming Coloring Crypto episode(s) with Amy Wan, Terrence Yang, Miko Matsumura. Something is coming, tell us what you think @gabecolors (06:00)Guest CEO and Founder Julie Benlevi-Zeff. Announcing the Blinked Token available now at http://blinked.live from our sponsor, Blinked (available on the App Store) @gabecolors

@BenSig on twitter, just released Squirrel, an app same same but different as Blockfolio. He's from our LA blockchain community and we talk DNA, EOS, Brock Pierce and John Oliver, and just as he points out, getting eyeballs is getting eyeballs. https://getsquirrel.io https://medium.com/@bensig/ https://twitter.com/bensig List of crypto infographics: http://www.topchart.io/lists/interesting-cryptocurrency-infographics

Home Mortgages on the Blockchain with Morlabs.io. 20 million people that are worthy of buying a house are decared ineligible. What up with that? This is something tantalizing, something so clear and obvious (2:20) Satoshi White Paper, Mortgages, birth seeds (03:00) Morlabs  (03:15) Morlabs.io

The promise of technology to improve education IMHO has yet to be fulfilled, Easy Tutor claims to have a solution, today, Phil Anderson, the founder, explains how and why they will do this on the blockchain.  CEO of EasyTutor Phil Anderson 801–256-6876 EasyTutor is a client of Coloring Crypto As Always: let me know what you think @gabecolors on twitter

Tegan Kline Exec. VP at IPwe. Lessons on getting into Crytpo: Meetups, Facebook, Book of Satoshi , Bitcoin WP  Knowledge (23:00) Capital age Richard burton Balance.io Miko podcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/12-open-source-open-money-with-miko-matsumura/id1291606679?i=1000395305126&mt=  Jason Page, Intercoin,  Hyperledger, hash, Stellar payments layer  Use cases that makes Sense  Bi weekly 7:30 galvanize  38:00 Ray Dalio bridgewater.  contact Tegan@ipwe       

Guest Jason Flack from Arbitraj.io shares tools for committed cryptocurrency traders, if you are an expert skip to (11:00) but before we get into arbitrage we tell you how we use exchanges to buy and sell crypto. Beginners welcome! http://arbtraj.io

SEC gets clever and copies our April Fools joke with HoweyCoins.com and special guest (02:12) Erica Amatori of TheBit shares the action at Consensus 2018 in New York May 14-16. 

First, check out our favorite crypto news email The Bit, we'll have the co-founder on Coloring Crypto next week. (05:15) In this episode the mind behind Lyft's referral/affiliate growth program takes on the blockchain by emphasizing authenticity. Tribecoin with founder Joshua Renfro. Visit our referral, affiliate AKA sponsors!

How do you structure an Initial Coin Offering now that the SEC has said "every token is a security"? Our client 27V, is blazing a path I suspect many others will follow. CEO Dave Butler, of this new restaurant review platform, explains the structure he and lawyers have landed upon while announcing their launch date. In the second segment, CTO Darin Holbrook opens up the hood on his process to building their token. Don't miss the serendipitous story on how the two met. http://27v.io Dave@27v.io Darin@27v.io 27v is a client of Coloring Crypto's parent company Chapin Labs. Visit all of our sponsors.  

Auntie Terrie shares what it was like being a woman working in tech at IBM in the 60's along with her take on cryptocurrency. In part 2, Che Mott gives a European perspective to regulation of the blockchain and privacy with the new GDPR law, while announcing the Global Venture Forum in San Francisco on May 11 and 12th. http://gvxchange.com/globalventureforum Tech Advisors: Samsung Vs, GE Vs, Adobe, ServiceNow, IBM Vs, Blockchain@BerkeleyPartners: TheHeart, Mind The Bridge, Flanders Investment & Trade Agency, Startup Estonia, Open Austria, Berkeley alumni and MBAs Details on The Global Venture Forum: Brings insight, networks and paths to cooperation with industry, May 11 and 12th Speakers:  Christopher "Che" Mott, CEO GVF Raymond Liao - MD Samsung NEXT, Industry & Investor leaders.  Alexandra Johnson, Managing Director, DFJ VTB Aurora Deborah Magid - Director Software Strategy, IBM Ventures Ivar Siimar, Trind Ventures Sam Lee, CEO, Blockchain Global Peter Braun, European Business Angel Network Board Member Jesse DeMesa, Principal Partners, Momenta Partners Mo Gaber, Global Practice Director, Digital Strategy, Adobe Abhishek Shukla, Managing Director, Software Investments, GE Ventures Rodrigo Prudencio, Leads Alexa Accelerator - Amazon Alexa Fund Moderator: Marco Marinucci - CEO, Mind The Bridge w Startup Europe Partnership Tomasz Rudolf, CEO TheHeart  

It's been said that the blockchain is a solution crying out for a problem. In our last episode we questioned its relevance. Today Intimate.io co-founder Leah Callon-Butler, presents that case that the adult industry, with the ability to be pseudonymous for one, may be one of the most fitting applications yet: paid encounters, that yes, may include sex. We also cover the recent US government crackdown on human trafficking and how it may make people less safe. https://intimate.io/      

"Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain", was our guest's first viral article on the blockchain, and last week his second went viral again: "Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future" We came up with few counter arguments, but not many. What do you think? Granted, Kai Stinchcombe is not in the blockchain industry, but he is in the financial industry as founder and CEO of True Link Financial https://hackernoon.com/@kaistinchcombe    

Back in episode 6, our guest was the founder of Munchee to promote their ICO. Within 2 months they had been subpoenaed by the SEC and on the all the investors had to be refunded. Here's one of their advisors from Chapin Labs to tell us the mistakes they made and what we can learn about the SEC and launching an ICO today.  

Shitomi Nakamormoni, responsible for 29 million dollar gift to teachers on DonorsChoose.org, founding Blockchain, and Coinbase, announces revolutionary initial coin offering solving climate change with guaranteed financial returns for investors.

Asking previous guests how the blockchain could do good, the most common response is that it could empower the two thirds of the worlds with no access to financial systems. We cover SXSW and then go deep on how badly much of the world could use a better solution to existing currency models. Guest: Tricia Martinez Founder & CEO Wala and Director Dala Foundation https://twitter.com/TriciaTita https://www.linkedin.com/in/tricianmartinez/ https://getwala.com/

Satiate your FOMO. Did you miss out on the 700+ sessions of blockchain at SXSW, the HederaHashgraph splash in NYC, or #blockchainUnbound in Puerto Rico this week? Share IntivaHealth's, John Hartigan's 5 day flurry adventure thru fire and ice. http://intivahealth.com/ https://blockchainunbound.com/ https://www.hederahashgraph.com/    

One story of the origin of Dogecoin, that the creators of dogecoin just changed the Bitcoin font to comic sans and then slapped a dog on it, makes it a hilarious story… but as you’ll hear today, it’s a little bit more complicated than that… maybe alot. Interview with Ross Nicoll who joined the Core Development team of Dogecoin within months of it’s launch. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrossnicoll/ @JRossNicoll we cover: The version release pipeline, a possible ethereum doge sidechain, -testing environments - Main Net, Test Net -if you were starting from scratch what would you use to make a new crypto coin today? -How many alt coins out there are derived from - could you look at other repos of other crypto currencies and understand what they are doing. -Is dogecoin creating it’s own independent chain? - When you cap a coin at a certain number of total coins, how do you incentivize the miners? -which version will be released -an apology for delays in release… -use technology from 1. merge mining tech from namecoin 2. script mining from litecoin -dogecoin ethereum side chain -inflation being positive -advice at the end, don’t lose your crypo, get off exchanges.

Recorded today, released today: What happened with the drop of Bitcoin in the last week from 11k to under 9k and other hot topics with two of our listeners' favorite guests from previous episodes. Let us know what you think of this immediate release format. Visit our sponsors: http://coloringcrypto.com/sponsors Usman Majeed  @usgoose Mutual Coin Fund  Ep8: http://coloringcrypto.com/index.php/2017/10/23/5-how-crypto-looks-when-you-never-experienced-the-dot-com-crash/ David Silva Smith AKA Cuz D @davidsilvasmith Bitcoin Bulls Ep8: http://coloringcrypto.com/index.php/2017/10/30/the-origin-of-coloring-crypto-with-cousin-david/ Ep14: http://coloringcrypto.com/index.php/2017/12/10/14-back-by-popular-demand-cousin-david-returns-as-bitcoin-skyrockets-for-crypto-newbies/  

Get the full transcription on our steemit page Just when we were starting to finally understand the blockchain, along comes Hashgaph. Just like the Blockchain, Hashgraph is is a Distributed Ledger Technology. In the first portion of episode 27, we get the download on Hashgraph. And then a use case, Intiva Health, providing doctor credentialing tools on Hashgraph. http://hashgraph.com http://intivahealth.com http://coloringcrypto.com/sponsors Guests: Paul Madsen with Swirlds, creator of Hashgraph John Hartigan with Intiva Health, one of the first companies to implement on Hashgraph

Today we have Amy Seidman with BFlow, and well I call this category "blockchain for good". Much promise has been made that the blockchain is Internet 3.0 and that we can expect significant impacts on society at large, but most of the conversation, even here, still seems to be about currency, how much *is* Bitcoin today? This conversation with the founder of BFlow is a refreshing change--hear the plan to provide trust and transparency to the supply chain.

RetailCoin is a new token, out of Europe from a company with a track record creating digital loyalty solutions, now bringing it to the blockchain. Hugo Leijtens is the co-founder and architect, they are the first ICO to secure approval from the largest bank in Holland. Reward programs are ripe for disruption on the blockchain. Hear Hugo's story, including trips to raise money in China and prevailing over Dutch skepticism. RetailCoin is a client of Coloring Crypto. https://retailcoins.eu/

When I asked Rahul, founder of esports gambling blockchain company UNIKRN, what he would tell a major bank executive if they called for advice on what to do about the blockchain, it turns out they already had, and it's a revealing story giving bold believers in the transformative power of the blockchain some hope. "Gold is the biggest ponzi scheme" (03:04) Youtube "League of Legends in Beijing" Are these the opening ceremonies for the Olympics? https://youtu.be/fn5kSCj-VNM?t=7m12s  (13:10) UNIKRN announces a first of its kind agreement with Malta on crypto betting in Europe https://twitter.com/i/web/status/964151605267501056 (22:00) Major financial institutions ask start up founders for help and the result is a little embarrassing. (25:00) Bitcoin and blockchain predictions for 2018 (35:30) Links: https://twitter.com/UnikoinGold https://news.unikrn.com/ https://twitter.com/unikrnco https://twitter.com/rahulsood Visit our sponsors: http://coloringcrypto.com/sponsors                

Jackson Palmer and friends, created Dogecoin in 2013, as satire, and today it's ranked among the top 40 cryptocurrencies on coin market cap. We got him to tell the whole story and asked if he any regrets.  If you want to learn anything, let alone cryptocurrency, study the outliers. The story of Dogecoin has more to teach us than we may want to know.  

Eric Ly, co-founder of Linkedin, and current CEO of Presdo and Hub, 1. tells us how his background in computer science and social networks, helped to shape and color his understanding of how the blockchain works. https://www.hubtoken.org/ https://match.presdo.com/

A triad of guests on this weeks episode include Michelle Tsng, author of "201 Thought Leaders in Crypto and Blockchain", Crystal Rose from Sensay, and Daniel Shanken with the CryptoPsychedelic conference, happening in Tulum Feb 2-4. Crystal Rose is a technologist and successful entrepreneur. She is the co-founder and CEO of Sensay, a Los Angeles-based artificial intelligence (A.I.) and communications platform and SENSE, a blockchain protocol. She raised $21M in capital with prominent institutional VCs, most recently completing a successful ICO for the SENSE digital token (makesense.com). Michelle Tsing worked at PayPal for 6 years and now is into crypto- last week, she posted online a request for the names of 100 women in crypto to pay attention.  Within days the list blew up to over 200 the list, 200+,Thought Leaders in Crypto and Blockchain  is now trending on Medium. https://medium.com/@michelletsng/201-thought-leaders-in-crypto-and-blockchain-the-ultimate-crypto-list-for-event-planners-9e712186cbfb

Women in crypto. It’s a worthy paintbrush. Today we feature Rachel Cook of Seeds and talk about the difference in raising money through traditional venture capital channels vs. raising money with a token sale, particularly in the context of gender. The second portion (41:45) of this episode features a paid interview with Martin Wichmann at ETHlend. ETHlend is a decentralized peer to peer lending market. Visit www.seedstokens.com and receive 30% off with code COLORINGCRYPTO when you spend 0.1 ETH or more. Rachel Cook is a Duke University alum and former stock trader who went on to direct and produce The Microlending Film Project, a feature documentary exploring the impact of microloans on women around the world, which was the Feature Presentation at the Chicago International Social Change Film Festival in 2012. From there, Rachel founded a startup called Seeds, which went through Boost VC, the Bitcoin-focused startup accelerator, in 2014, Techstars in NYC in 2015, and was a 2016 Techcrunch Disrupt Battlefield competitor.   The Seeds front-end products are the easiest way to build good into apps, and Seeds tokens allow anyone to ask the blockchain for help, and receive it as a gift, with no strings attached. Rachel spent the night in a Kenyan jail while working on Seeds, and is currently homeless while awaiting the building of her shipping crate home in California. **** Visit www.seedstokens.com and receive 30% off with code COLORINGCRYPTO when you spend 0.1 ETH or more. Articles discussed: https://www.forbes.com/sites/geekgirlrising/2017/09/19/3-women-making-waves-in-the-cryptocurrency-industry/ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/style/bitcoin-millionaires.html?_r=0

Terrence Yang is a vocal crypto presence on Facebook, Quora and Twitter. He had to bail out a family member who got over leveraged in the dot com boom and has sober advice to newbies with gold bars twinkling in their eyes. Topics include bubbles, store of value, capital flight conduits, and Venezuelan merchants. As well, potential of a truly decentralized coin that has decentralized subsystems, meaning rig makers, miners, client implementations, devs w/ multiple commits that matter, ownership, exchanges, wallets. https://twitter.com/YangVentures Notes: Emin Gun Sirer https://twitter.com/el33th4xor Luke Dash https://twitter.com/lukedashjr?lang=en Vitalik https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin Peter Todd https://github.com/petertodd  

today’s guest illuminating the blockchain is jackson Palmer, who in 2013, created Dogecoin. Created partly as satire, it's valued in total at over 1 billion dollars today—we are going to tell the origin story of Dogecoin in a future episode, but today we tap Jackson’s rare insight, starting with his take on the last year in crypto— and how in terms of crypto as an investment, it may have been great but in terms of proving the purpose of crypto as a currency may have actually been a bad year.  It’s ironic in a way that a coin made as joke may actually prove to have more integrity and more utility than most of the coins created this last year. Finding a voice of reason amidst the flurry of hype in this space is rare, and I’m grateful for Jackson’s humility, wisdom and effort to being clarity to the picture we are painting of the blockchain. http://ummjackson.com http://coloringcrypto.com/sponsors  

Predictions, reflections, and good laughs are all in store as the Coloring Crypto team looks back on their first 16 Episodes with some of the teams favorite moments, and forward to the future, with some interesting predictions for 2018 about the price of Bitcoin, the status of Altcoins, and potential regulations. As always visit our sponsors to support us and leave a review on iTunes!  We love to hear from you! How can we improve and serve you better in 2018? @ColoringCrypto

We want to thank all our listeners for continuing to grow their crypto knowledge with us over these first sixteen episodes.  We're taking the week to spend the holidays with our families and loved ones while preparing for next weeks roundtable discussion where you'll get to meet our entire team. They'll talk about their favorite moments of the show from 2017, and make their predictions for the upcoming year. We're looking for your input, too!  Give us your predictions for 2018 by either calling our listener wallet at (925) 238-3724, or on Twitter @ColoringCrypto, and use #CryptoPredictions2018 and we'll read them on the show next week!

The Chairman of the United States' Securities and Exchange Commission released a statement on Initial Coin Offerings this week. Our guest Any Wan of Bootstrap Legal explains what it means.   1:00 Current status of how the US Government is addressing cryptocurrency with regulation 5:00 SEC Chairman Statement 10:00 Former guest under the microscope 20:00 Potential of Self Regulation, The ICO Governance Foundation 30:00 Vulnerabilities of Smart Contracts, risks in coding cryptocurrency   Amy Wan @amyywan https://twitter.com/amyywan @ColoringCrypto https://twitter.com/coloringcrypto

Episode 8 of Coloring Crypto was called "the best podcast episode for beginners" and today we have Cousin David back! We cover the astounding growth of Bitcoin since we last talked 2 months ago.  What do newbies do now? Is it too late? What about other coins? The energy conundrum from episode 10. David has friends who listened to episode 12 and now think they are experts!  If you're advance in the blockchain, go back to episode 13 and skip this one, if you're new, jump in here! Episode 14Cousin David Returns as Bitcoin Skyrockets Investment ICOs Ethereum Team Meetups Innovation Concerns with bitcoin FOMO Bitcoin vs. bitcoin cash Are the biggest buyers yet to come? Wall Street Nations Regulations are coming SEC Congress States Maturity is coming Chicago Mercantile Exchange / Chicago Board Options Exchange / NASDAQ Coinbase Funds Cousin David’s announcement - Bitcoin Strategic Trading Fund What’s to come:  Currency Competition Regulatory Competition Doing business with 7.5b humans Financial Innovations Power to the people Links:Cousin Dave’s FundBitcoin Strategic Trading Fund http://bitcoinbulls.net  Dec 11 and 18 Future trading of BitcionChicago Mercantile Exchange / Chicago Board Options Exchangehttp://www.cmegroup.com/http://www.cboe.com/ Tools: Coincap https://coincap.io/ Preev http://preev.com/ Coinmarketcap https://coinmarketcap.com/ Coinbase https://coinbase.com/ Blockchain  https://blockchain.info/  

Democratizing Artificial intelligence by Democratizing Data Access with Dan Gailey, CEO of Synapse.AI. Show Notes 00:40 Welcome 00:50 ICO / First tier 01:25 Tell us about ICO/synapse 02:00 Democratizing Artificial intelligence / Data 04:00 Companies that are already collecting data - book who owns the future 06:30 I don’t have rights to my own data! 8:00 challenges to building this database - further explanation 10:50 ICO elevator pitch what synapse does. 12:00 background and getting into crypto 19:30 when/how did you hear about bitcoin 22:00 how you felt about the space 24:40 hackendo/censoring date 28:20 why do i want more of my information recorded? 31:00 the goal of synapse 33:30 long term view of synapse 38:00 presale info $$$ 41:00 whats your definition of crypto 44:00 ELI5  

This week bitcoin hit $9000 US. If you had bought bitcoin when this podcast started, your money would have more than doubled. I didn’t. We talk about that at the end of this episode. Miko Matsumura, holds a Master’s degree in Neuroscience from Yale, I thought we’d compare the abstract computational neural networks of the blockchain to the brain a metaphor Natalia brought up in Episode 9. . http://coloringcrypto.com/sponsors http://miko.com

With the holidays upon us, we went out for drinks.  Decentralized Drinks is a weekly meetup of Crytpo experts and enthusiasts. We brought our mic and asked: What's your favorite use case of the blockchain? How do you separate the signal from the noise? Interviews: Michael Hunte  @themikehunte Munjal Shah  (Decentralized News Network) Evgenia Barkanova @jeniabark Sara (Experty.io) Terrence  @yangventures Daniel Rice @thdrbits Alexander Uglov alex@uglovs.ru Jehan Tremback @jtremback 

Just this week Ethereum shrugged off a serious security issue with Parity wallets the SEC started to crack down on bounty programs for Initial Coin Os- munchee coin?, the folks we talked to in episode 7 paused their ICO… Segwit2x was called off and the price of bitcoin hit an all time high Man this happens fast. We hear a lot about the transformational potential of the blockchain, but so much of the hype is driven by greed— getting rich— nothing against that, but it’s refreshing to get a guest who’s focused on impact. Get out your crayons, we got some coloring to do. Today Ryan Flint tells us about Kilowatt Hour Coin. According to him, the amount of electricity needed to computer process all of this cryptocurrency could power a small country. Thats a lot of electricity, and if the blockchain is to live up to the hype— its got to be more efficient. We get into the difference between proof of work, proof of stake, and then proof of cooperation. In the first few minutes we cover mining, GPUs, ASIC chips…. IF this is your first time listening— or are at all new to crypto please listen to episode 8 first or even better start at the beginning of coloring crypto Ryan is working with Kilowatt Hour Coin, could this be a solution to the crypto energy conundrum? To understand, we start by talking about the hardware required to mine cryptocurrency,   Show notes 2:00 Energy conundrum with crypto mining. What is the mining inefficiency? 4:30 Creating coins - proof of work vs proof of stake. GPU — ASIC chips, mining pools 6:55 Nodal networks Proof of cooperation - for nodes Raspberry Pi 7:30 A brief history of mining GPU, ASIC chips, mining pools 8:30 cyptonight can’t run on ASIC chips Crypto night - Not possible 9:00 If satoshi could have seen 10 years into the future would he have written the algorithm differently— knowing how centralized and heavy the mining process would become? 10:00 proof of stake vs. proof of work 11:00 examples of coins that have gone wrong with proof of stake ETHASH 28:00 Fair coin - proof of cooperation Nodes - network of bunch of nodes - little points Small little server, instead of competing for a puzzle Each node takes a turn and does a transaction 31:00 CO-HEATING Fair coin, just recording The node that gets paid / whoever wins - Pools are more likely to solve it more often ElEctric chain - co - heating - servers  33:30 Steemeet , Graphenene eco system , Open source block chain bitshares 35:00 how do you make a crytpocurrency “stable” 36:30 Steemit as a replacement for Facebook 38:00 waves platform   Links: Kilowatt Hour Coin http://kwhcoin.com Solar Coin https://solarcoin.org/en/node/6 Electric Chain http://www.electricchain.org/ Micro-grid http://www.electricchain.org/our-projects/project-13/ Soundcloud lecture https://soundcloud.com/ryenflint/solarcryptocurrencywav Fair Coin - https://fair-coin.org/ Steem-it https://steemit.com CryptoNight https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CryptoNight ETHASH https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Ethash GRAPHENE http://docs.bitshares.org/ DEX: decentralized exchange Waves platform https://wavesplatform.com/   Show notes:        

Natalia Ra shares what it’s like to be the CFO of Bitcoin.com and I get to ask her about the possibilities of mapping color perception on the blockchain.    Show notes: 1:00 Difference between Bitcoin.com and bitcoin 5:00 Concept of money 7:00 What underlies the strength or stability of bitcoin 8:30 What is an Asset Class? 9:00 Thoughts on Roger Ver CEO of Bitcoin.com 10:00 Q: What would stop bitcoin? A: Scalability and network congestion  10:30 Q: What is the advantage of bitcoin? Hardfork, Bitcoin Cash,   12:00 Is Bitcoin a functional currency? 13:30 Hardfork 14:00 The Billion Bitcoin Question! 17:00 How does mining work 17:30 How did Bitcoin value maintain and rise with critics and bad news -JP Morgan Jamie Dimon, China cracks down on ICOs 19:00 Hawaii shut down Liquidity 21:00 Sending international currency  22:00 Future outcomes and benefits of the blockchain: Voting 23:00 Color Perception and the blockchain: what is color recognition for artificial intelligence? AI would need to understand color in the way humans do. 24:00 Neural network of the brain is very similar to the blockchain 25:00 How we perceive color and the blockchain   Links. news.bitcoin.com pool.bitcoin.com

Longform candid casual cousin conversation on cryptocurrency.  If you are new and curious about bitcoin (cryptocurrency in general), and have questions, this is a comprehensive overview.     Last July, our extended family gathered in Puerto Vallarta for my parent’s 50th wedding anniversary. I got to talking to my cousin David and realized he is a wealth of information on cryptocurrency. He got into bitcoin enough years ago that he did well. I asked him just about every question I had.   ColoringCrypto is now a weekly podcast releasing new episodes every Sunday for newbies who are curious, and experts who think they understand.  Tweet us @coloring crypto and please leave us a review on iTunes.    2:00 “WHEN I GOT EXCITED IN BITCOIN” 4:00 ARE YOU INVESTED IN OTHER CRYPTO? HOW ARE THEY DIFFERENT? 7:00 WRITING CODE; HOW DIFFICULT IS IT? 9:30 WHY IS BITCOIN AT THE TOP? 11:30 WHAT COULD DETHRONE BITCOIN? 14:00 HOW COULD I BE IDENTIFIED IN A CRYTO WORLD? 16:00 DO YOU PAY ATTENTION TO THE VOLATILITY? 17:30 HOW IS BITCOIN PRICED? 19:30 WHAT WAS YOUR LEARNING PROCESS? 22:30 WHAT IS CRYPTO AIMING TO ACCOMPLISH BY BEING DECENTRALIZED? 25:00 WHAT’S A TYPICAL DAY FOR DAVID? 27:00 WHAT ARE YOUR CHAT TOOLS? 28:30 HOW DOES A BEGINNER GET INVOLVED? 31:30 TRUSTED RESOURCES TO LEARN ABOUT TRENDS 33:00 HOW DID YOU LEARN ABOUT CIVIC 35:00 LEVERAGE TRADING 38:00 FLASH CRASHES 41:00 RESOURCES & QUESTIONS FOR OTHERS - LINKS COINMARKETCAP COINCAP 42:30 WHO CAN CRYPTOCURRENCY DO THE MOST GOOD FOR? 45:00 CRYPTO SECURITY - IDENTIFY THEFT 50:00 HODL