Crypto Weekly | Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Altcoin and ICO news from the week

Honestly, this was recorded quite some time ago so I can't quite remember what we spoke about BUT, here goes: - KuCoin is hacked to the tune of $200million, however apparently in another blatant copy of Binance policy, your funds are safu. - JP Morgan get caught with their pants down. In the financial world that means 10 years of spoofing the price of gold and silver. - CEO of Coinbase, Brian Armstrong, has offered severance packages to anyone more interested in political activism than furthering the mission of Coinbase. - Michael Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy, dumps all of the company's cash reserves into Bitcoin. Plus more! Sorry for the delay friends!

This week in the news: - As HEX begin advertising huge gains at the sportsball, the side of buses and on taxis, we ask the most important question. Is this the new BitConnect and are we too late? - Augur V2 is here! Now it's even easier to become a degenerate gambler on almost anything. - One of the Twitter Bitcoin scammers is outed as a 17 year old from Florida. - Ethereum V2 is right around the corner. How soon can we expect it and how much money are we making?   Plus more!

THE COVID HIATUS IS OVER. This week in the news: - Somebody gained access to Twitter's support management tools and used this power to scam 13 BTC from the followers of high profile accounts. - Chainlink has been approaching the singularity. Why? - Rumours that Coinbase could be going public fairly soon. - We discuss yield farming, what it is and when will this bubble burst? All this and more! Oh yeah, contractually obliged to put this beaxy link in here: https://bit.ly/3iR1tGv

Crypto Weekly Episode 113. If you aren't already, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptoweekly Check out past episodes here: https://coinhq.tv/shows/crypto_weekly.php CoinHQ: https://coinhq.tv/

Crypto Weekly Episode 112. - Fixed rate lending is coming to ETH via a new start up. - Zoom acquire Keybase. - A legitimate hedge fund big shot is looking to go long on some Bitcoin futures. Plus more! If you aren't already, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptoweekly Check out past episodes here: https://coinhq.tv/shows/crypto_weekly.php CoinHQ: https://coinhq.tv/

Binance and Huobi back Justin Suns fork of Steem. No surprises there. Andreesen Horowitz raises $515 million for a crypto VC fund. Telegram are offering 72% of their investors money back as they push the launch back a year. We deep dive into China’s BSN.

Crypto Weekly Episode 110. Some chat on oil prices, but mainly cryptocurreny. Always mainly cryptocurrency. If you aren't already, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptoweekly Check out past episodes here: https://coinhq.tv/shows/crypto_weekly.php CoinHQ: https://coinhq.tv/

Crypto Weekly are back for the regular lockdown livestream - this week with less Icke (probably)! If you aren't already, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptoweekly Check out past episodes here: https://coinhq.tv/shows/crypto_weekly.php CoinHQ: https://coinhq.tv/

Re upload of our Livestream. This week we get a bit David Ickey.   The London lockdown makes it quite difficult for us to all sit in a room together and churn out cryptos most informative and entertaining podcast - so instead we're going live every Friday at 7pm BST!   If you aren't already, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptoweekly   Check out past episodes here: https://coinhq.tv/shows/crypto_weekly.php   CoinHQ: https://coinhq.tv/

Re upload of our Livestream. The London lockdown makes it quite difficult for us to all sit in a room together and churn out cryptos most informative and entertaining podcast - so instead we're going live every Friday at 7pm BST! If you aren't already, subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cryptoweekly Check out past episodes here: https://coinhq.tv/shows/crypto_weekly.php CoinHQ: https://coinhq.tv/

This week in the news: - Maker of MakerDAO fame kick off their auctions of MKR for DAI due to the recent crashes in ETH price. - BNB can now be used with NEO smart contracts and nobody cares. - Bitcoin can be used to donate to a independent researches looking for a coronavirus vaccine. - Plus more corona chat, of course.

This week we go a little off topic as we discuss the fallout from the ride in coronavirus cases.

This week in the news: - Mummy Hester Pierce of the SEC slams them for having an anti Bitcoin bias.   - Iranian military commanders take the orange coin pill aka Zoomer Gold aka Bitcoin.   - Robinhood app is down for a day because they haven't accommodated for a leap year.   - Justin Sun gets blown out by the Steem community.

This week in the news: - EOS block producers are apparently buying votes - Justin Sun fails to convince Buffett to get into crypto - Craig Wright claims to know how Kleiman died Plus more!

This week in the news: - FCoin slowly lose $120 million through terrible accounting and close their doors. - Flash ETH loans seem to be a license to print money as two separate instances of their use net the exploiters thousands in ETH. - IOTA notice some critical bugs in their wallet and so simply pause their blockchain for a bit. Their decentralised blockchain. - UEFA fall for the blockchain meme as they will apparently distribute 1 million tickets this summer using the technology. Plus more!

This week in the new century of Crypto Weekly news: - Peter McCormack meets with Justin Sun and cannot be a positive influence on humanity for one evening. - Poloniex rewrite 30 minutes of trading after discovering a bug. - Hester Pierce of the SEC suggests a very sensible piece of legislation involving cryptocurrency start ups. Plus much much more!

We made it. Thanks to you guys. The century. We doff our cricket helmets to you all. This week in the news: - New York falls for the banking the unbanked meme. - Sport and Cryptocurrency are inherently linked according to Chilliz. - Coinbase place $10 a day withdrawal limits on some users. Plus all kinds of nostalgia about the past two years!

This week in the crypto news: - Justin Sun sued for being racist - Japanese central bank considering issuing a digital currency - Bittrex gets insured bigly - Rumours that Ripple is IPOing in 12 months - PSG launch a fan token - Iran trying to get dat crypto paper by firing up loads of miners All this and more!

This week in the crypto news: - Holo CEO moonlights with very few clothes on. - Craig Wright pumps and then dumps the price of BSV on claims he has the keys to the Satoshi wallet - A Boomer, Peter Schiff, loses his Bitcoin and gets angry at the world. - Tether proves entirely degenerate as PornHub add it as a payment option. Plus lots more!

This week in the news: - In an upsetting turn of events, Shill Nye aka Michael Nye has launched a music career. - Ripple will find out this week if their case to decide if XRP is a security or not will be thrown out of court. - Spencer Dinwiddie, NBA player, is tokenising his contract on the Ethereum network. - Virgil of the Ethereum Foundation is released on bail after being locked up for illegally travelling to North Korea. Plus more!

This week in the news: - Binance begin to support leverage trading XRP. Be prepared for a lot of bankrupt cRipples incoming. - Tensions heat up in Iran and the price of Bitcoin rises. There are also claims that Bitcoin is being traded for a premium there. - Could we be seeing Venezuela begin selling Oil for Petro? - John McAfee admits that he was never going to eat his penis. Trust in people on the internet at an all time low.

This week in the news: - The VeChain foundation loses $6.7 million to a hacker and suspected insider. - A Russian Darknet marketplace is looking to expand by raising money through an ICO. Obvious exit scam or riskiest investment ever? - An American woman loses $150k to a couple of amateur Canadian scam artists. - We give a yearly roundup of the Venezuelan Petro news. Plus more!

This week in the news: - Matic brings us some nostalgia by pretending its 2017 and dropping 70% in an hour. That is one large red candle. - An exploit is found in the Maker DAO smart contract that could allow an attacker to turn $20 million into $340 million. - ETH gets a hard fork update by the name of Istanbul. We take you through the main highlights including an option to achieve up to 3000 tps on the Ethereum network. - Binance may or may not be purchasing a bank. CZ world takeover still on the cards.

This week in the news: - Virgil Griffith, Ethereum foundation researcher, is arrested for travelling to North Korea to discuss the Ethereum network with the DPRK. - Poloniex, now part owned by Justin Sun, purchases a TRON Dex and there's nothing weird about that at all. - German banks will be able to hold cryptocurrency from 2020. - There was a Cheese Wizards tournament and somebody walked away with $275k.

This week in the news: - Binance allegedly had one of their China offices raided. Or is it just slander from the block? - Bakkt begin to see some real growth in their daily volume. - Bitfinex and Tether are subject to a class action lawsuit over the manipulation of the Bitcoin market. Plus more!

This week in the news: - Binance banned by 'Chinese Twitter', Weibo. - Tether are to release another stablecoin, this time backed by every boomer's favourite asset: gold. - The Chinese Army look to blockchain to achieve world domination through ERC20 tokens as rewards. - Andrew Yang, democratic nominee hopeful, announces that he wishes to regulate cryptocurrency at a federal level.

This week in the news: - CEO of Stripe, formerly head of a company looking to kick start Libra, suggests that cryptocurrencies may never work. - Bitmain use their sweet connections with the Communist party in China to have their rivals locked up. - China double down on their support for Bitcoin; raising a few eyebrows. - Ripple gets some actual use as MoneyGram use it for cross border payments.

This week in the news: - Stellar burn over 50% of the total supply of XLM and causes a huge pump in the price. - Craig Wright decides not to continue with the settlement process of the court case he lost against the Kleiman estate. - Binance bring another fiat on ramp into play for US residents as Binance US now offers debit card purchases. - BitMEX had themselves a terrible week as they leaked the majority of their users' email addresses.  Plus more!

This week in the news: - Bakkt release a consumer facing app that will provide loyalty and possible crypto functionality for Starbucks and more. - Xi Jinping announced that China will be investing heavily in blockchain. - A power struggle occurs at the head of Bitmain, with Jihan Wu forcing out fellow co founder Micree Zhan. - Spurious claims from reddit suggest that 50% of the Bitcoin Cash blocks mined in one day went to a single address.

This week in the news: - Bitcoin payment history is used to bust a paedophile ring spanning the entire globe. Anonymous Bitcoin fud blown out. - Ripple continue to sell off their XRP holdings with the headlines this month that it's 73% less than last quarter. - Opera Android now supports Bitcoin payments. Will this help adoption? - A former nominee for the Federal Reserve is now looking to releasing a fractional reserve backed stablecoin, FRAX.

This week in the news: - VISA, MasterCard, eBay and others pull out of the Libra Association as US senators put huge amounts of pressure on them to do so. - The head of the CFTC, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, says that he believes that Ether is a commodity. - A G7 report suggests that stable coins could be a threat to global financial stability. - Coinbase get prepared for a post Brexit world. Plus more!

This week in the news: - PayPal quit the Libra association citing their need to "focus on their core business". - The potentially dead Quadriga CEO's widow pledges to use some of her estate to pay back those who had funds stolen by her late husband. - BitFinex and Tether under threat from a lawsuit filed in New York. - The Sacramento Kings, apparently a basketball team in America, release a new app with a cryptocurrency alongside it to be used in the stadium. We give our run down. Plus more!

This week in the news: - EOS main block producer and creators of the blockchain, block one, have been fined $24 million for the $4 billion ICO of the token; deemed an unregistered security. - Google announce that they have successfully completed tests on a quantum computer, cracking an encryption in 3 minutes that would usually take a super computer 10,000 years. - FairWin, a ponzi scheme smart contract on the Ethereum network, have closed up shop and run off with all the Ether in the smart contract. - Overstock executives are in hot water over alleged securities fraud. The Prince takes us through his favourite furniture retail CEOs actions.

This week's news powered by Brew Dog:   - Libra announce the basket of currencies they will use to back the cryptocurrency with. - Bakkt's physically settles Bitcoin futures finally launch to an underwhelming response. - £500k of seized Bitcoin is being auctioned off by Wilson Auctions: maybe grab yourself a bargain. - Kik close down their messaging app to focus entirely on the KIN currency and double down in their defence against the SEC.   Plus more!

This week in the news: - An attacker uses features of EOS to do away with over $100k in EOS from gambling dapp, EOS Play. - OkEx, the South Korean exchange, remove five privacy coins: ZCash, Monero, Dash, Horizen and Super Bitcoin. - The co creator or Libra, David Marcus, insists that governments have nothing to fear from Facebook getting involved in the money printing game. Angela Merkel suggests otherwise. - Premier League football team, Watford FC, will have the Bitcoin logo emblazoned on their shirt sleeves this season thanks to SportsBet - Crypto Weekly's gambling choice.

This week in the news: - It transpires that Epstein was a Bitcoin maximalist. I wonder why... - Ahead of the US Binance release, CZ informs us that there will be Binance stablecoin - the BUSD. - NASDAQ now have a decentralised finance index and the beak gives them a call to see whats up. - Akon informs us that Bitcoin is better than the military backed US dollar. - LG take on Samsung in the blockchain friendly smartphone market.

This week in the news: - Binance acquires JEX to break into the futures and derivatives market - Security vulnerabilities are found in the Lightning Network - Telegram's blockchain to start public testing - Manny Pacquiao launches his own crypto - Brazilian payment processor to accept Bitcoin All this and more!

This week in the news: - Craig Wright has effectively lost his case in the United States against the Kleinman estate. This particular set of proceedings included some rather choice comments from the judge... - Tether to release a stablecoin pegged to the Chinese Yuan. - You can now lend out your BNB and earn up to 15% interest! - Some life heroes of ours have siphoned off electricity from a nuclear power plant in the Ukraine in order to mine cryptocurrency.

This week in the news: - Bakkt confirm Bitcoin futures will launch in September, for real this time. - Barclays have withdrawn their banking services to Coinbase, affecting UK customers - Another claimant to the title of Satoshi has been unveiled, and it working in IT for NHS   All this and more! (Of the usual stuff)

This week in the news:   - Coinbase ban UK citizens from purchasing, holding or selling ZCash. Has the UK government has taken a dim view to privacy coins?   - You can now get paid your salary in Bitcoin in New Zealand.   - Binance may or may not have suffered a hack on their KYC information.   - Central Bank of China come up with their own digital currency, which presumably they already had.   All this and more!

This week in the news:   - Orange Man causes Orange coin pump with Chinese trade war   - North Korea funds nuclear programme with crypto hacks (and bank hacks but that's not newsworthy).   - Litecoin halvening happens   - Bitmain post $310m loss   - Earn 8% on your BNB bags   - We deep dive into /biz/ because why not?

This week in the news: - Facebook admit that Libra may never launch due to pressure from world governments. - The Chinese are purchasing vast amounts of Tether to get around restrictions swapping Russian Roubles for Yuan. - The IRS send out letter to those they suspect of owing taxes due to crypto currency trading. - You can now spend your hard earned Bitcoin on public transport in Brazil's 5th largest city! The possibilities are endless.

This week in the news: Iran attempt to avoid sanctions by developing their own gold backed cryptocurrency while also lifting bans on mining. Justin Sun postpones his lunch with Warren Buffett over kidney stones. Rumours begin that he is actually held in mainland China. Daimler, the parent company of Mercedes Benz, announce work on hardware wallets within their vehicles "unlocking boundless opportunities". Bakkt begin testing out their contracts for physically settled Bitcoin futures.

This week in the news: US government absolutely quaking in their boots over Libra and table plans to stop any tech firm creating a digital currency. US treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin blows out cryptocurrencies claiming that criminals are ruining them for everybody. The UK introduce their own crime plan to combat financial crimes involving cryptocurrencies. Some absolute mad man has been embezzling funds and using them to pump our bags. Hold tight Dennis Blieden. Plus more!

This week in the news: - Videos circulate of police at an office affiliated with TRON and the internet blows it out of proportion. - Bitcoin hash rate hits an all time high. - Maduro back on the Petro grind. - China to create their own Libra competitor? - SEC release a statement on the custody of digital assets for brokers. - We deep dive into Ken's charity boxing match! Plus more!

This week in the news: Craig Wright allegedly sheds multiple tears in court in the US. The G20 announce plans to demand user data from cryptocurrency exchanges. Get ready to pay your taxes. Native BAT tipping is coming to Reddit if you use the Brave browser. We deep dive into Technical Analysis. Plus more!

This week in the news: Craig Wright officially misses his court deadline to declare his Bitcoin holdings. Various government around the world get mad about Facebook's plans for Libra. Deceased Quadriga CEO was found to be playing fast and loose with customer funds. We take a deep dive into ChainLink. Plus more!

This week in the news: - Binance will block US users from their main exchange with a region specific one set to open together with a more limited array of tokens for purchase. - Craig Wright is in danger of being held in contempt of court in Florida and we cannot say that we are upset about it. - Facebook unveil a whitepaper and further information about Libra, their new cryptocurrency. We deep dive into it for you, the glorious listener. All this and more!

This week in the news: - CCN close its doors citing a recent Google update causing a 50% drop in traffic. - India propose a bill that would put people behind bars for 10 years for holding, sending or pretty much having anything to do with cryptocurrency. - Dharma open up a $100ml cryptocurrency fund and are apparently going long on ETH. - We deep dive into Ethereum! Plus more!

This week in the news: - Justin Sun pays $4.5ml to have lunch with Warren Buffett. Possibly the worst candidate to shill the oracle of Omaha on crypto? - KIK refuse to back down to the SEC's claims that their ICO was an illegal security offering. - Peter McCormack finally hires some lawyers. - A conspiracy theory arises linking the criminal Paul Le Roux to Satoshi. - We deep dive into margin trading. The dos, donts and how to stay safe out there. Plus more!

This week in the news: - Mark Zuckerberg details plans to launch a cryptocurrency for use with Facebook; named GlobalCoin. - A bug in Bitcoin Cash leads to a reorganisation of the blockchain after a $1.3million double spend. - You chose it so we must cover it. We deep dive into WAX. All this and more!