Podcasts about localcoinswap

In this episode, I meet Nathan Worsley - the Chief Technical Officer at LocalCoinSwap - a P2P cryptocurrency exchange, allowing anyone globally to buy and sell crypto assets directly with each other securely, completely privately, without any KYC using over 250 different payment methods. This is yet another project that is removing financial borders and therefore I had to feature them on the Borderless Crypto podcast. Even if you are in countries which ban crypto, like Venezuela for example, with the LocalCoinSwap platform you can still buy Bitcoin, Ether, Stablecoins and escape your local reality. In this talk, Nathan shares his story of entering crypto in 2011, how he traded crypto in the early days, how he and his team raised a $12M ICO and everything around LocalCoinSwap and its company challenges. Nathan also shares his investment philosophy, which stands out from what most investors in the space do. LocalCoinSwap and Nathan’s Contact: https://localcoinswap.com/en/ Nathan - https://twitter.com/NathanWorsley_ LCS - https://twitter.com/Localcoinswap_ Evangelists who converted Nathan into crypto: Satoshi Nakamoto & his Bitcoin White Paper Nathan also learned a lot from Gavin Anderson (@gavinandresen) Nathan recommends reading and following: Bitcoin subreddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/ BTC subreddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/ Vitalik Buterin, founder of Ethereum - https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin Riccardo Spagni, Project Lead at Monero - https://twitter.com/fluffypony

This episode includes an audio blog of the recent post “Help me buy some cryptocurrency!”, which was written *before* the crazy price action of May 2019... but stands by every word of warning about responsible investing, doing your own research, and not getting carried away. If you have either listened or read and you want to get started buying your first cryptocurrency, here's the link to Coinbase as discussed. This link helps support the show, and fund the creation of educational material like this. We also return to our much-missed Crypto Alphabet, and have a look at "network effects" - did you know that this is fundamental to the successful functioning of any means of exchange or communication, not just cryptocurrency? But it's something we take for granted, until we have to engineer it in the first place, or understand why it's so important. Learn more in today's episode. And if you like what you hear, we’ll be sharing new episodes every fortnight. So please subscribe via your podcast app of choice. Keep in touch with us on Facebook at Crypto Confidence, and the official BlockSparks page too. Tweet us with your questions, or email hello@blocksparks.io And now you can join our NEW community on Facebook! Be one of the founding members, and join in the conversation. We recommend Local Coin Swap, for your peer-to-peer cryptocurrency transactions, once you're ready to graduate from Coinbase. And remember: nothing in this podcast or our related social media, nor anything else published by BlockSparks OU at any location, is intended as financial, investment or trading advice. Everything we share represents our personal opinions, for your information, education, and entertainment only. You should not make any decisions based on anything we share with you, not without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with appropriate professional advisors. CryptoConfidence is all about being smart and informed and making the right choices for YOU.

The show this week is a celebration of books and we have some recommendations, from some great people in the Blockchain space, of some of the best books to learn about blockchain and crypto. Here’s a list of the recommended books and where you can find them: Crypto Made Easy by Angela Wright https://makecryptoeasy.com/misc-19380818 Blockchain Revolution by Don and Alex Tapscott https://amzn.to/2vd5o8Y The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous https://amzn.to/2PhrQXP Blockchain in Practice by Lucas Cervigni https://amzn.to/2vd3tS4 The Internet of money by Andreas Antonopoulos https://amzn.to/2PkxCI1 Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore https://amzn.to/2v9fU19 If this is a man by Primo Levi https://amzn.to/2KOoInJ People over profit by Dale Partridge https://amzn.to/2KPxWjE   Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari https://amzn.to/2GvSs4w The Power of Blockchain for Healthcare by Peter B. Nichol https://amzn.to/2vcPXha CRYPTO 101: Johnny's Guide to Cryptocurrency https://amzn.to/2KMBQK5 Authors and the Blockchain If you would like to connect with any of our guests today here’s a list of the places you can find them: Alice Hildkova is @alicehlidkova on Twitter Angela Wright is @happyangela on Twitter and on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelakwright/ Diana Berryman is @BlockSparks on Twitter and on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianaberryman/ Felicity Feinman is @felicityfeinman on Twitter and on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/felicityfeinman/ John Boatman is @johnboatman_UK on Twitter and on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-boatman-a048b6/ Kyle Graden is @KyleGraden on Twitter and on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylegraden/ You can find Mario Butler-Chatman on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/ironmanico/ Matthew Aaron is @Matthew__101 on Twitter and on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-aaron-21212726/ Nathan Worsley is @NathanWorsley_ on Twitter and on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-worsley-7b3489153/ Shawn McBride is @McBrideForBus on Twitter and on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/rshawnmcbride/ You can find Sukhi Jutla on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sukhijutla/ You can find Vickie Mckennzie on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/mckennavickie   If you like what you hear, we’ll be sharing new episodes every fortnight. So please subscribe via your podcast app of choice.   Keep in touch with us on Facebook at Crypto Confidence,  and the official BlockSparks page too.  Tweet us with your questions, or email hello@blocksparks.io And from this week you can join our NEW community on Facebook! Be one of the founding members, and join in the conversation.   Want to get started buying your first cryptocurrencies? We recommend Local Coin Swap https://localcoinswap.com/#/register/?referral=3846b08d-d382-4ae0-88c8-c48b411cd913, and Coinbase https://www.coinbase.com/join/59e9e75fa4c3a001f015ee52 - these links help support the show. And remember: nothing in this podcast or our related social media, nor anything else published by BlockSparks OU at any location, is intended as financial, investment or trading advice. Everything we share represents our personal opinions, for your information, education, and entertainment only. You should not make any decisions based on anything we share with you, not without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with appropriate professional advisors.  CryptoConfidence is all about being smart and informed and making the right choices for YOU

Jen Greyson is the CEO and founder of CoCo, the airbnb of office space.  Her career began in corporate America, and found her way to the blockchain world about 2 years ago - finding a huge contrast between the secrecy of the business world and the transparency and collaborativeness of blockchain projects, as well as the speed of change of and development. She also felt an immediate sense of connection and fit, with the community and everything it’s working to accomplish. Jen’s present project was borne out of a need as a digital nomad and parent, to find accessible and affordable office space on the road. With so many empty desks around the world, and so many people needing temporary spaces to get on and work, they’re bringing the two communities together on the blockchain.  Using blockchain and smart contracts makes so much sense, to create the transparency and accountability needed for both parties and eliminate foreign exchange arbitrage. And soon every travelling worker will be able to find a desk or a meeting room anywhere in the world... We also discussed the role of women in blockchain, and Jen expressed admiration for the pioneering work of women in the space who are leaning in and opening doors, making space for every skill that the industry needs (far more than technical skills).  Blockchain needs more women, as users and problem solvers and business people… So that we can develop solutions which meet real needs in society “if women aren’t part of the conversation, they can’t be part of the change”. Women are part of so many decisions and processes in society, and blockchain is going to impact on many of these areas of life, we must ensure we’re part of the dialogue. Women care about who else will be impacted, and we’ll move heaven and earth to create change for people.   We talk about the ‘marmite’ nature of the space – to which nobody ever seems to be indifferent. And the way crypto years run differently to normal time!  But there’s a warm welcome guaranteed for everyone, so come on in! Keep in touch with Jen and her work at CoCo: https://twitter.com/JenGreyson https://gowithco.co https://www.linkedin.com/in/jengreyson/ “I'm @jengreyson on every platform, so I'm super easy to find”   M is for Mimblewimble  A new blockchain protocol, enabling some very specific privacy and scalability properties. Dark art, or the future of privacy? That remains to be seen. Cryptocurrency implementations include Grin and Beam If you like what you hear, we’ll be sharing new episodes every fortnight. So please subscribe via your podcast app of choice. Keep in touch with us on Facebook at Crypto Confidence,  and the official BlockSparks page too.  Tweet us with your questions, or email hello@blocksparks.io And from this week you can join our NEW community on Facebook! Be one of the founding members, and join in the conversation. Want to get started buying your first cryptocurrencies? We recommend Local Coin Swap https://localcoinswap.com/#/register/?referral=3846b08d-d382-4ae0-88c8-c48b411cd913, and Coinbase https://www.coinbase.com/join/59e9e75fa4c3a001f015ee52 - these links help support the show. And remember: nothing in this podcast or our related social media, nor anything else published by BlockSparks OU at any location, is intended as financial, investment or trading advice. Everything we share represents our personal opinions, for your information, education, and entertainment only. You should not make any decisions based on anything we share with you, not without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with appropriate professional advisors.  CryptoConfidence is all about being smart and informed and making the right choices for YOU

If you have been with us for a little while then you’ll know we talk a lot about some of the challenges and implications of managing your cryptocurrencies and holding them securely. But, it’s important to understand that there are alternatives to direct investment, and there exist a growing range of funds and managed products, which provide other opportunities. You don’t have to buy and hold cryptocurrencies yourself, to be exposed to the growth potential. To discuss this we’re very pleased to be joined by Veronica Mihai, who is the Founding Partner & Head of Investor Relations at Bloomwater Capital. Her diverse interests and wiggly career path to this role reflect everything we love about the crypto journey, and makes for a great conversation - ranging from women in tech to lifelong learning. And of course we talk about Bloomwater Capital, and what a hedge fund does - who is allowed to invest in them, how they are regulated. And we also discuss other funds and investment vehicles for digital assets, including derivatives and index funds, and the prospects for crypto-based ETFs. Lots of ways to try and master the volatility of this asset class... But we don’t give any financial advice or recommendations, not on this podcast! Let us know what you think, about Veronica’s insights and views on this important subject. And keep in touch with Veronica: linkedin.com/in/veronicamihaidas bloomwater.com vero@bloomwater.com @AleenaVero on Twitter   Crypto Alphabet: L is for the Lightning network A second layer payment protocol, which sits on top of the cryptocurrency (such as bitcoin) - a direct payment channel which enables faster smaller payments to happen, without each one getting written to the blockchain itself. It has the potential to revolutionise the way bitcoin and other cryptos work, because it addresses many of the scalability issues the network faces. We really want to find an expert to come and explain it to us in an interview soon, but for now here’s an introduction to the Lightning network, and second layer protocols in general. _________________ If you like what you hear, we’ll be sharing new episodes every fortnight. So please subscribe via your podcast app of choice. Keep in touch with us on Facebook at Crypto Confidence,  and the official BlockSparks page too.  Tweet us with your questions, or email hello@blocksparks.io And from this week you can join our NEW community on Facebook! Be one of the founding members, and join in the conversation. Want to get started buying your first cryptocurrencies? We recommend Local Coin Swap https://localcoinswap.com/#/register/?referral=3846b08d-d382-4ae0-88c8-c48b411cd913, and Coinbase https://www.coinbase.com/join/59e9e75fa4c3a001f015ee52 - these links help support the show. And remember: nothing in this podcast or our related social media, nor anything else published by BlockSparks OU at any location, is intended as financial, investment or trading advice. Everything we share represents our personal opinions, for your information, education, and entertainment only. You should not make any decisions based on anything we share with you, not without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with appropriate professional advisors.  CryptoConfidence is all about being smart and informed and making the right choices for YOU

Today The Crypto Confidence podcast talks to an expert in the principles of peer-to-peer crypto trading, to bring this important concept to life for listeners seeking to better understand the way bitcoin was originally envisaged. Nathan Worsley, CTO of LocalCoinSwap (LCS) details how the LCS exchange is bringing the original vision of Nakamoto to life. He says, “Peer-to-peer was the original principle of the Satoshi whitepaper in 2009. There was nothing in there about vast centralised portals holding private keys for third parties and making massive profits.  By creating a platform where traders can connect to one another, we’re being true to the vision of Nakamoto and facilitating direct transactions from one individual to another in an open global network”. For further information on LocalCoinSwap take a look at their website: https://localcoinswap.com/en/ Follow them on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Localcoinswap_ Or join their Telegram group: https://t.me/localcoinswap   Crypto Alphabet: J is for JOMO; the ‘joy of missing out’ OK, I don’t mind admitting that we struggled a bit with J. It doesn’t even exist in some languages! And whilst we could have hit you with a discussion J-curves, we decided instead to talk about the Joy of Missing Out. Yes, today we celebrate JOMO - which is the antonym the more frequently used term FOMO, the FEAR of missing out. Because during this crypto winter particularly, missing out really rocks sometimes! If you like what you hear, we’ll be sharing new episodes every fortnight. So please subscribe via your podcast app of choice. Keep in touch with us on Facebook at Crypto Confidence,  and the official BlockSparks page too.  Tweet us with your questions, or email hello@blocksparks.io We also have a new Telegram group, for all things crypto - come and chat! https://t.me/CryptoConfidencePodcast (if you’re new to Telegram don’t worry, it’s just another messaging app, and very easy to get started with) Want to get started buying your first cryptocurrencies? We recommend Local Coin Swap https://localcoinswap.com/#/register/?referral=3846b08d-d382-4ae0-88c8-c48b411cd913, and Coinbase https://www.coinbase.com/join/59e9e75fa4c3a001f015ee52 - these links help support the show. And remember: nothing in this podcast or our related social media, nor anything else published by BlockSparks OU at any location, is intended as financial, investment or trading advice. Everything we share represents our personal opinions, for your information, education, and entertainment only. You should not make any decisions based on anything we share with you, not without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with appropriate professional advisors.  CryptoConfidence is all about being smart and informed and making the right choices for YOU

We take a look a how to find under the radar coins, what they look like, and why you want them, also we take a look at LocalCoinSwap ahead of it hard launch

I’m flying solo today as I wanted to talk to you today about a concept in digital currency which we bump into a lot, but can require a bit of explanation. That is the idea of tokenisation.  This is a fundamentally disruptive idea (sorry, there’s that word again, but it’s true - the fortunate thing is, the disruption is largely at the institutional stage, with relatively little impact on you as the user) If you like, tokenisation is the disruption of money So to appreciate this, we have to first understand exactly what money is. Money can be understood in many ways, such as a store of wealth and value, and a way of accounting for things. Day to day though, money is our means of exchange - and this makes it very different from other forms of wealth such as property, or jewellery, or other kinds of assets like bullion or stocks. Listen to the podcast to hear more about this. Crypto Alphabet I is for ICO ICO stands for initial coin offering, and this is a way in which new cryptocurrency projects can raise funds to launch their business, by selling their own crypto tokens. It’s a bit similar to the way investors buy shares in a company through an initial public offering, but it’s got some important differences. Not least, the fact that ICO tokens can usually only be bought using bitcoin and ether (although some projects have found innovative ways to offer fiat currency payment gateways). If you like what you hear, we’ll be sharing new episodes every fortnight. So please subscribe via your podcast app of choice. Keep in touch with us on Facebook at Crypto Confidence,  and the official BlockSparks page too.  Tweet us with your questions, or email hello@blocksparks.io We also have a new Telegram group, for all things crypto - come and chat! https://t.me/CryptoConfidencePodcast (if you’re new to Telegram don’t worry, it’s just another messaging app, and very easy to get started with) Want to get started buying your first cryptocurrencies? We recommend Local Coin Swap https://localcoinswap.com/#/register/?referral=3846b08d-d382-4ae0-88c8-c48b411cd913 , and Coinbase https://www.coinbase.com/join/59e9e75fa4c3a001f015ee52 - these links help support the show. And remember: nothing in this podcast or our related social media, nor anything else published by BlockSparks OU at any location, is intended as financial, investment or trading advice. Everything we share represents our personal opinions, for your information, education, and entertainment only. You should not make any decisions based on anything we share with you, not without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with appropriate professional advisors.  CryptoConfidence is all about being smart and informed and making the right choices for YOU

- with Chris Wessels from Paybase So what does happen when you click ‘pay now’? Chris Wessels, the CTO Of Paybase, explained the tremendous difference between a simple shopping cart - where payment goes from shopper to the merchant via a simple gateway - compared with a marketplace scenario involving multiple buyers and sellers. Paybase is the most flexible payments solution for platform businesses. Online marketplaces, gig/sharing economy platforms and cryptocurrency businesses are all being undeserved by current payment providers. This is due to the rigid and uncompromising approach that exists within payments, which is causing many innovative firms to fail to reach market. If you would like to get in touch with Paybase you can do so in the following ways: On their website: https://paybase.io/ On Twitter: https://twitter.com/paybase On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/paybase/ Paybase also have a survey that you can take part in. take a look here: https://jessyconflon.typeform.com/to/xWccTn  If you like what you hear, we’ll be sharing new episodes every fortnight. So please subscribe via your podcast app of choice. Keep in touch with us on Facebook at Crypto Confidence,  and the official BlockSparks page too.  Tweet us with your questions, or email hello@blocksparks.io We also have a new Telegram group, for all things crypto - come and chat! https://t.me/CryptoConfidencePodcast (if you’re new to Telegram don’t worry, it’s just another messaging app, and very easy to get started with) Want to get started buying your first cryptocurrencies? We recommend Local Coin Swap https://localcoinswap.com/#/register/?referral=3846b08d-d382-4ae0-88c8-c48b411cd913 , and Coinbase https://www.coinbase.com/join/59e9e75fa4c3a001f015ee52 - these links help support the show. And remember: nothing in this podcast or our related social media, nor anything else published by BlockSparks OU at any location, is intended as financial, investment or trading advice. Everything we share represents our personal opinions, for your information, education, and entertainment only. You should not make any decisions based on anything we share with you, not without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with appropriate professional advisors.  CryptoConfidence is all about being smart and informed and making the right choices for YOU  

On the Crypto Confidence Podcast today I’m talking to Felicity Feinman from ArgoMining So many of our listeners are curious about crypto mining so Felicity joins us to explain more about that, about what ArgoMining are doing and how anyone can get involved. Follow ArgoMining on their social media such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram and of course you should visit their website if you want to get started in crypto mining. Crypto Alphabet: H is for hashing (and hashrate and hash power) This is a great fit with today’s theme about mining, and because hash is one of those terms you’ll hear bandied around the crypto mining community a lot, specifically cryptographic hash algorithms. These algorithms are what keeps the bitcoin network and other networks secure, they’re the very building blocks of the cryptocurrency economy. Listen all the way to the end of this podcast to learn more about hashing. If you like what you hear, we’ll be sharing new episodes every fortnight. So please subscribe via your podcast app of choice. Keep in touch with us on Facebook at Crypto Confidence,  and the official BlockSparks page too.  Tweet us with your questions, or email hello@blocksparks.io We also have a new Telegram group, for all things crypto - come and chat! https://t.me/CryptoConfidencePodcast (if you’re new to Telegram don’t worry, it’s just another messaging app, and very easy to get started with) Want to get started buying your first cryptocurrencies? We recommend Local Coin Swap https://localcoinswap.com/#/register/?referral=3846b08d-d382-4ae0-88c8-c48b411cd913 , and Coinbase https://www.coinbase.com/join/59e9e75fa4c3a001f015ee52 - these links help support the show. And remember: nothing in this podcast or our related social media, nor anything else published by BlockSparks OU at any location, is intended as financial, investment or trading advice. Everything we share represents our personal opinions, for your information, education, and entertainment only. You should not make any decisions based on anything we share with you, not without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with appropriate professional advisors.  CryptoConfidence is all about being smart and informed and making the right choices for YOU

On the Crypto Confidence Podcast today I’m talking to my BlockSparks colleague and PR expert, Helen Moore, about what has been said about Blockchain in the media in 2018. We chat about the way that crypto and blockchain are portrayed in the media, how sentiment can affect the markets and what the big news stories of the year were. Follow Helen on Twitter here. Read more about Google’s most asked question of 2018 “What is Bitcoin?”. Find out about Coinbase adding Paypal to their platform. Crypto Alphabet: G is for gas. Gas is a small amount of ethereum paid to people who use their computers to record transactions and do other software acts, on the ethereum blockchain. It’s the cost of doing business. Remember that cryptocurrencies can’t make more money out of the mere existence of your money, in the way that central banks can - such as by fractional reserve lending. So simply processing and sending transactions always has a tiny cost involved for the miners, which has to be paid somewhere along the line. If you like what you hear, we’ll be sharing new episodes every fortnight. So please subscribe via your podcast app of choice. Keep in touch with us on Facebook at Crypto Confidence,  and the official BlockSparks page too.  Tweet us with your questions, or email hello@blocksparks.io We also have a new Telegram group, for all things crypto - come and chat! https://t.me/CryptoConfidencePodcast (if you’re new to Telegram don’t worry, it’s just another messaging app, and very easy to get started with) Want to get started buying your first cryptocurrencies? We recommend Local Coin Swap https://localcoinswap.com/#/register/?referral=3846b08d-d382-4ae0-88c8-c48b411cd913 , and Coinbase https://www.coinbase.com/join/59e9e75fa4c3a001f015ee52 - these links help support the show. And remember: nothing in this podcast or our related social media, nor anything else published by BlockSparks OU at any location, is intended as financial, investment or trading advice. Everything we share represents our personal opinions, for your information, education, and entertainment only. You should not make any decisions based on anything we share with you, not without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with appropriate professional advisors.  CryptoConfidence is all about being smart and informed and making the right choices for YOU

Today we are joined by Melissa Tate from DOVU which is a crypto-rewards platform for travel. Melissa tells us about how their platform and token works, about how the way we get around is changing and how there was a need for a solution to an increasing travel problem. DOVU collects data to help create better infrastructure to assist cities to make travel easier and more efficient. This will include buses, trains, cars, bikes and more. Earn tokens by sharing data about the kind of travel that you do! To follow and keep up to date with DOVU take a look their social media which includes: Twitter: https://twitter.com/dovuofficial Telegram: https://t.me/dovuofficial Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxiQtFv5gIaxIr1hnF1PQOw Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DOVU/ Their website is: https://dovu.io/ You can sign up for their Beta platform here https://dovu.io/beta/ Crypto Alphabet: F is for fork A hard fork is when a single cryptocurrency splits in two. ... So both fork types create a split, but a hard fork is meant to create two blockchain/coins, and a soft fork is meant to result in one. Let us explain further in our crypto alphabet series... If you like what you hear, we’ll be sharing new episodes every fortnight. So please subscribe via your podcast app of choice. Keep in touch with us on Facebook at Crypto Confidence,  and the official BlockSparks page too.  Tweet us with your questions, or email hello@blocksparks.io We also have a new Telegram group, for all things crypto - come and chat! https://t.me/CryptoConfidencePodcast (if you’re new to Telegram don’t worry, it’s just another messaging app, and very easy to get started with) Want to get started buying your first cryptocurrencies? We recommend Local Coin Swap https://localcoinswap.com/#/register/?referral=3846b08d-d382-4ae0-88c8-c48b411cd913 , and Coinbase https://www.coinbase.com/join/59e9e75fa4c3a001f015ee52 - these links help support the show. And remember: nothing in this podcast or our related social media, nor anything else published by BlockSparks OU at any location, is intended as financial, investment or trading advice. Everything we share represents our personal opinions, for your information, education, and entertainment only. You should not make any decisions based on anything we share with you, not without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with appropriate professional advisors.  CryptoConfidence is all about being smart and informed and making the right choices for YOU

I just had a chat with a friend, one from the list of Crypto Conversations, that we all have to have with people who don’t understand it. No, not the “but it isn’t backed by anything” one, or even the “surely it’s for drug dealers and terrorists” one. It was the one I think of affectionately as “number 3”, the one about energy use. It comes in the top 3 because, depending on which tabloid headline you read, cryptocurrency mining is of course single-handedly responsible for global warming, the melting of the polar ice caps, impeding the search for alien life forms, and even slowing down time itself (well, atomic clocks) through its greedy demands for power. I came across an article (admittedly from last year) from Alex Hern in the Guardian, which stated the statistic that Bitcoin mining consumes more electricity per year than does the country of Ireland. And I felt that this was a spectacularly meaningless and unhelpful comparison for various reasons (and a statement which has been contested in any case).  It reminded me of those questions on the back of hula hoop packs, asking you to work out how many would reach to the moon or the top of the Eiffel tower… But I think it came about as a reflection of the general failure to grasp what Bitcoin actually is, and how to compare like-with-like for things which are fundamentally intangible in the first place. And this is not just a problem for journalists. For example, another report in my newsfeed more recently from Nature has made a different stab at comparing apples to oranges, by stating that “Independent researchers Max Krause and Thabet Tolaymat calculated that it takes about 17 megajoules of computer power to generate US$1 in Bitcoin... By comparison, it takes 5 megajoules to mine US$1 in gold and 7 megajoules to mine an equivalent value of platinum”. So what do the headlines scream, once this is reported by secondary sources? “Bitcoin costs twice as much energy to mine as platinum or gold!”  Shock, horror, and further proof that Bitcoin is an environmental nightmare. Crypto Alphabet: E is for Ethereum Well for B we defined Bitcoin, so it seems only fair to look at Ethereum for the letter E. Especially as last time we learned about decentralisation Ethereum runs on its own currency called Ether, abbreviated to ETH, and the currency is often erroneously called Ethereum.  Ether has become the second largest cryptocurrency by marketcap, though it’s value has dropped a lot over the course of 2018 from all-time-highs in December and January. If you like what you hear, we’ll be sharing new episodes every fortnight. So please subscribe via your podcast app of choice. Keep in touch with us on Facebook at Crypto Confidence,  and the official BlockSparks page too.  Tweet us with your questions, or email hello@blocksparks.io We also have a new Telegram group, for all things crypto - come and chat! https://t.me/CryptoConfidencePodcast (if you’re new to Telegram don’t worry, it’s just another messaging app, and very easy to get started with) Want to get started buying your first cryptocurrencies? We recommend Local Coin Swap https://localcoinswap.com/#/register/?referral=3846b08d-d382-4ae0-88c8-c48b411cd913 , and Coinbase https://www.coinbase.com/join/59e9e75fa4c3a001f015ee52 - these links help support the show. And remember: nothing in this podcast or our related social media, nor anything else published by BlockSparks OU at any location, is intended as financial, investment or trading advice. Everything we share represents our personal opinions, for your information, education, and entertainment only. You should not make any decisions based on anything we share with you, not without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with appropriate professional advisors.  CryptoConfidence is all about being smart and informed and making the right choices for YOU

Today we are hugely privileged to welcome Matthew Aaron from Crypto101 podcast to our own podcast. We talk to Matthew about the heartbreaking personal losses he suffered in his family, which he later realised could have been averted, had cryptocurrencies and blockchain been available solutions. Solutions which literally have the power to save lives. Matthew’s search for better answers led to the creation of one of the podcasts which inspired us to launch Crypto Confidence. He wanted to create a place to find the basic answers to the questions we all have, that are well researched, helpful and well-informed and so the Crypto101 podcast was born. Matthew isn’t afraid to ask those 101 questions and find the answers for them. If you'd like to listen to the Crypto101 Podcast you can find them here and also on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.   Crypto Alphabet: D is for decentralised. In the crypto space decentralised means that no single entity can make arbitrary changes to the way something works because the decisions have to be made collectively. Decentralised currencies on a distributed ledger are very hard to damage, resistant to attack and no government can switch it off. Read more: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/decentralization.html   If you like what you hear, we’ll be sharing new episodes every fortnight. So please subscribe via your podcast app of choice. Keep in touch with us on Facebook at Crypto Confidence,  and the official BlockSparks page too.  Tweet us with your questions, or email hello@blocksparks.io We also have a new Telegram group, for all things crypto - come and chat! https://t.me/CryptoConfidencePodcast (if you’re new to Telegram don’t worry, it’s just another messaging app, and very easy to get started with) Want to get started buying your first cryptocurrencies? We recommend Local Coin Swap https://localcoinswap.com/#/register/?referral=3846b08d-d382-4ae0-88c8-c48b411cd913 , and Coinbase https://www.coinbase.com/join/59e9e75fa4c3a001f015ee52 - these links help support the show. And remember: nothing in this podcast or our related social media, nor anything else published by BlockSparks OU at any location, is intended as financial, investment or trading advice. Everything we share represents our personal opinions, for your information, education, and entertainment only. You should not make any decisions based on anything we share with you, not without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with appropriate professional advisors.  CryptoConfidence is all about being smart and informed and making the right choices for YOU.

Today we talk about jobs in tech and Blockchain with the wonderful Natalie Furness co-founder of WiTechRev, a regular meet up for women to get into sexy Industry 4.0 technologies; Blockchain, Crypto, AI/ML, Big Data, VR, AR, Automation, Cyber Security, IoT. We discover what Natalie’s background is, how she became interested in technology, primarily for healthcare in the beginning, and how those technologies can help make information clearer for all concerned. This then morphed into an interest in Blockchain and how it can improve processes across all industries. You can get in touch with Natalie via her website https://www.witechrev.com/ on her own Twitter https://twitter.com/Natalie_Furn on the WiTechRev Twitter https://twitter.com/WiTechRev and on the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/WITechRev/ Crypto Alphabet: C is for Consensus. So many possibilities for the letter C but Consensus won. Consensus is generally an agreement about something : an idea or opinion that is shared by all the people in a group. A consensus mechanism is a fault-tolerant mechanism that is used in computer and blockchain systems to achieve the necessary agreement on a single data value or a single state of the network among distributed processes or multi-agent systems. It is useful in record-keeping, among other things. Listen to the podcast for more about this and next time we’ll delve into the letter D. If you like what you hear, we’ll be sharing new episodes every fortnight. So please subscribe via your podcast app of choice. Keep in touch with us at The Crypto Confidence Podcast and BlockSparks on Facebook at Crypto Confidence,  and the official BlockSparks page.  Tweet us with your questions, or email hello@blocksparks.io We also have a new Telegram group, for all things crypto - come and chat! https://t.me/CryptoConfidencePodcast (if you’re new to Telegram don’t worry, it’s just another messaging app, and very easy to get started with) Want to get started buying your first cryptocurrencies? We recommend Local Coin Swap https://localcoinswap.com/#/register/?referral=3846b08d-d382-4ae0-88c8-c48b411cd913 , and Coinbase https://www.coinbase.com/join/59e9e75fa4c3a001f015ee52 - these links help support the show. And remember: nothing in this podcast or our related social media, nor anything else published by BlockSparks OU at any location, is intended as financial, investment or trading advice. Everything we share represents our personal opinions, for your information, education, and entertainment only. You should not make any decisions based on anything we share with you, not without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with appropriate professional advisors.  CryptoConfidence is all about being smart and informed and making the right choices for YOU  

Today we explore learning about the Blockchain, because this is a forever ongoing process! I am joined by my colleague Diana Berryman, who runs social media at BlockSparks, for ourselves and for our clients. I recruited her to the team based on her expertise in this particular craft, so she had to get up to speed fast on the brave new world of blockchain and crypto.   So I wanted to talk to Diana about what helped her to do this, which resources she found most useful at the start. Our discussion ranges from Youtube influencers, to staying on top of rolling news via the Twitter lists she is curating daily anyway - the perfect way to scan the important conversations.  And we also touch on the University of Nicosia’s MOOC, ‘Introduction to Digital Currencies’, which she and some of our colleagues are currently undertaking, joining a global cohort of thousands. A comprehensive and well-structured overview of the key areas in crypto and blockchain, and it’s FREE - what more can you ask? Find out more about the course here:  https://digitalcurrency.unic.ac.cy/free-introductory-mooc/ We also recommend the Jameson Lopp list of Bitcoin Resources https://lopp.net/bitcoin.html And check out our social media feeds that Diana manages, sharing the best in crypto news and info: https://twitter.com/BlockSparks https://www.facebook.com/blocksparks.io/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/blocksparks/   Crypto Alphabet: B is, of course, for Bitcoin. The original cryptocurrency, minted in January 2009 - it remains the highest priced and highest market cap by a wide mile, and for many it’s the only crypto in existence.  Learn about where it all began! If you like what you hear, we’ll be sharing new episodes every fortnight. So please subscribe via your podcast app of choice. Keep in touch with us on Facebook at Crypto Confidence,  and the official BlockSparks page too.  Tweet us with your questions, or email hello@blocksparks.io We also have a new Telegram group, for all things crypto - come and chat! https://t.me/CryptoConfidencePodcast (if you’re new to Telegram don’t worry, it’s just another messaging app, and very easy to get started with) Want to get started buying your first cryptocurrencies? We recommend Local Coin Swap https://localcoinswap.com/#/register/?referral=3846b08d-d382-4ae0-88c8-c48b411cd913 , and Coinbase https://www.coinbase.com/join/59e9e75fa4c3a001f015ee52 - these links help support the show. And remember: nothing in this podcast or our related social media, nor anything else published by BlockSparks OU at any location, is intended as financial, investment or trading advice. Everything we share represents our personal opinions, for your information, education, and entertainment only. You should not make any decisions based on anything we share with you, not without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with appropriate professional advisors.  CryptoConfidence is all about being smart and informed and making the right choices for YOU  

The Blockchain Doesn’t Care About You What is this blockchain, on which we store our cryptocurrency? It's not your bank: it has no customer service department, no helpdesk, no pens on the end of bits of string. It won't lend a sympathetic ear if you fall on hard times.  But it can't control or reverse your transactions either, or decide who you can and can't pay. It's challenging, and liberating, at the same time - because it's certainly not what we're used to. No wonder it takes a little while to acquire the necessary Crypto Confidence - but we're here to help.   Also, our Crypto Alphabet starts today: A is for Altcoin - Bitcoin was the original, but now over 2000 alternative crypto coins and tokens exist. They all have different properties, and fulfill different needs and roles.  Find out more in today's show!   If you like what you hear, we’ll be sharing new episodes every fortnight. So please subscribe via your podcast app of choice. Keep in touch with us on Facebook at Crypto Confidence,  and the official BlockSparks page too.  Tweet us with your questions, or email hello@blocksparks.io We also have a new Telegram group, for all things crypto - come and chat! https://t.me/CryptoConfidencePodcast (if you’re new to Telegram don’t worry, it’s just another messaging app, and very easy to get started with) Want to get started buying your first cryptocurrencies? We recommend Local Coin Swap https://localcoinswap.com/#/register/?referral=3846b08d-d382-4ae0-88c8-c48b411cd913 , and Coinbase https://www.coinbase.com/join/59e9e75fa4c3a001f015ee52 - these links help support the show. __________________________________ And remember: nothing in this podcast or our related social media, nor anything else published by BlockSparks OU at any location, is intended as financial, investment or trading advice. Everything we share represents our personal opinions, for your information, education, and entertainment only. You should not make any decisions based on anything we share with you, not without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with appropriate

Esta semana trazemos uma plataforma muito interessante que está atualmente em fase de ICO. Esta é uma exchange P2P totalmente descentralizada e governada pela comunidade. Entre alguns pontos positivos da LocalCoinSwap temos o facto de 100% dos lucros da exchange serem divididos pelos detentores de cryptoshares (o token da plataforma) todos os trimestres, i.e., se tiverem x% dos cryptoshares, vão receber x% dos lucros da exchange. Para além disto, um sistema de votação faz com que os mesmos detentores tomem as decisões que ditam o futuro da LocalCoinSwap. Tudo isto implementado em smart contracts na blockchain. -> Visitem o site em https://www.localcoinswap.com/?utm_source=CriptoConversas -> Para obterem 5% de desconto no ICO, usem o código QFE2754 no registo.