Podcast appearances and mentions of marco santori

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There's no doubt that the SEC dealt Kraken—and the outlook for crypto staking products in the U.S.—a big blow when it announced a $30 million settlement and ordered the company to stop offering the service to its customers in the states in February. Now Marco Santori, the company's chief legal officer, says the exchange is eager to move on from it. That means reckoning with a really challenging regulatory environment and growing its customer base overseas. And as Santori quips: "Kraken's master account application has not yet been rejected."For more from Decrypt, visit decrypt.co and follow @gmdecrypt on Twitter.Be sure to join the gm Telegram room for direct access to our hosts and guests.Hosts and guests:Dan RobertsTwitter: @readDanwriteStacy ElliottTwitter: @stacyannjMarco SantoriTwitter: @msantoriESQPodcast thumbnail art by Grant Kempster Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

TD Bank agreed to pay ~$1.2B yesterday to settle a lawsuit alleging the institution was involved in facilitating R. Allen Stanford's $7B Ponzi scheme. Meanwhile, Kraken chief legal officer Marco Santori said that Kraken Bank was “very much on track to launch, very soon.”~This episode is sponsored by Kraken~Kraken website ➜ https://bit.ly/KrakenPBN

Marco Santori is the Chief Legal Officer for Kraken — the crypto exchange recently charged by the SEC for failing to register the offer and sale of its "crypto asset staking as-a-service program" in the U.S. In this episode, Santori explains how recent regulatory actions in the U.S. have caused banks to become hesitant to accept crypto companies as new clients, and how this favors 'incumbent' crypto players such as Coinbase and Kraken. During this episode, Chaparro and Santori also discuss: 'Operation Choke Point 2.0' Kraken's efforts to establish a bank How regulators view DeFi This episode is brought to you by our sponsors Circle, Railgun, Flare Network About Circle Circle is a global financial technology company helping money move at internet speed. Our mission is to raise global economic prosperity through the frictionless exchange of value. Visit Circle.com to learn more. About Railgun Railgun is a private DeFi solution on Ethereum, BSC, Arbitrum and Polygon. Shield any ERC-20 token and any NFT into a Private Balance and let Railgun's zero-knowledge cryptography encrypt your address, balance and transaction history. You can also bring privacy to your project with Railgun SDK, and be sure to check out Railgun with partner project Railway Wallet, also available on iOS and Android. Visit Railgun.org to find out more. About Flare Flare is an EVM-based Layer 1 blockchain designed to allow developers to build applications that can use data from other blockchains and the internet. By providing decentralized access to a wide variety of high-integrity data from other blockchains and the internet, Flare enables new use cases and monetization models. Build better and connect everything at Flare.Network.

Priceline CEO Brett Keller shares his thoughts on the spring travel season. Dr. Ian Lustbader, Clinical Professor of Medicine at NYU Langone, discusses diagnosing and treating dementia. Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Joel Weber and Bloomberg News Economics Reporter Jonnelle Marte provide the details of Jonnelle's Businessweek Magazine story Female Executives Are Exhausted, Frustrated and Calling It Quits. Ross Gerber, CEO at Geber Kawasaki Wealth Management, talks about Tesla's investor day and ending his bid for a board seat with the company. Marco Santori, Chief Legal Officer at Kraken, talks about the SEC looking into firm's staking services. And we Drive to the Close with Jeff Krumpelman, Chief Investment Strategist at Mariner Wealth Advisors. Hosts: Carol Massar and Jess Menton. Producer: Paul Brennan.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Priceline CEO Brett Keller shares his thoughts on the spring travel season. Dr. Ian Lustbader, Clinical Professor of Medicine at NYU Langone, discusses diagnosing and treating dementia. Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Joel Weber and Bloomberg News Economics Reporter Jonnelle Marte provide the details of Jonnelle's Businessweek Magazine story Female Executives Are Exhausted, Frustrated and Calling It Quits. Ross Gerber, CEO at Geber Kawasaki Wealth Management, talks about Tesla's investor day and ending his bid for a board seat with the company. Marco Santori, Chief Legal Officer at Kraken, talks about the SEC looking into firm's staking services. And we Drive to the Close with Jeff Krumpelman, Chief Investment Strategist at Mariner Wealth Advisors. Hosts: Carol Massar and Jess Menton. Producer: Paul Brennan.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Marco Santori (@msantoriESQ) is the Chief Legal Officer of Kraken Digital Asset Exchange. Known as the "Dean of Digital Currency Lawyers," Marco is a recognized authority in the law and policy of blockchain technologies. Prior to his move to Kraken, Marco was the Chief Legal Officer of Blockchain.com, as well as a Partner at both Cooley LLP and Pillsbury Winthrop, where he counseled banks, broker-dealers, exchanges, digital wallets, payment providers, and other companies making new and exciting uses of distributed ledger technology. Marco is an author of the SAFT Project Whitepaper, a self-regulatory effort to curb Initial Coin Offerings. He is an advisor to the International Monetary Fund, the Blockchain Ambassador to the State of Delaware, and was the Chairman of the Regulatory Affairs Committee of the Bitcoin Foundation. He has been quoted by the Congressional Research Service, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Coindesk, Washington Post, The New Yorker, Wired, Entrepreneur.com and Crain's New York Business. In this interview, Marco shares his journey from litigator to crypto lawyer, the importance & downside of big law, and the future of NFTs & DAOs with respect to the fourth prong of the Howey test. Show highlights: [2:15] Marco's introduction to crypto (& subsequent rug pull) [11:35] Making great decisions [18:40] Marco's journey to Kraken [21:13] Building in crypto law [26:40] Environmental misconceptions [34:20] Building a crypto bank: Bank Charter Application [39:10] Convincing regulators with examples [44:00] DAOs & the "efforts of others" [53:11] Stoicism Links: Marco's website marcosantori.com Daily stoic newsletter If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review. You can subscribe to our newsletter to stay updated on the latest episodes.

Bitcoin 2022 was the largest Bitcoin event in history, exploring the technological advancements, financial empowerment and countercultural influence that surround this open-source technology. During Bitcoin 2022, U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis offered details on a bipartisan bill, The Responsible Financial Innovation Act, that she hopes will establish favorable Bitcoin regulation during a fireside chat with Marco Santori, the chief legal officer of Kraken. There becomes an obvious burden as nation states recognize the success of Bitcoin and attempt to apply existing regulations to govern its use or create new laws to do so. In the U.S., Lummis shared that she sees legislators becoming increasingly open to the idea of passing favorable rules catered to Bitcoin that would foster innovation in the country. Legislation and the cryptocurrency space have been increasingly at odds for some time now. In July 2021, for instance, Bitcoiners were abruptly disturbed on a late-Wednesday night as the announcement of a new infrastructure bill in the U.S. looked to require that know-your-customer (KYC) reporting criteria be collected on people sending over $10,000 in bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies. The pseudonymic nature of bitcoin prevents this kind of information from ever being collected, which raised concerns, and suddenly it seemed, Bitcoiners became highly political. Canaan has officially released four standards for its Avalon products, engineers, cooperative mines and after-sales service in order to promote sustainable mining construction. Lu also shared his views on immersion liquid cooling technology to promote the transformation of mining infrastructure to "green" solutions. The company released its three key pillars of green mining: energy, miner and infrastructure (EMI). For energy, bitcoin mining plays an active role in both traditional energy power and clean energy power. Miners look for low-cost or free electricity to power their machines. It is common for mining equipment to be deployed in oil and gas fields and hydroelectric power stations. By deploying mining equipment on oil and gas sites, the carbon footprint of the extraction process is reduced. The reason there is no other way to do this is because other industries lack the flexibility of Bitcoin mining. Strike CEO Jack Mallers announced at Bitcoin 2022 that the company has partnered with three of the world's largest payments providers, Shopify, NCR and Blackhawk Network to enable bitcoin payments at stores throughout the country. He explained that the integration eliminates legacy banks from the payments process, saving merchants on fees and enabling privacy for shoppers.

A pochi giorni dalla conclusione della Bitcoin2022 analizziamo gli annunci più succosi della conferenza commentando le tecnologie più interessanti per individuare qual'è la direzione che Bitcoin sta prendendo dopo il summit di Miami.Lift off!

In the weeks since the invasion of Ukraine, the US and others have levied heavy sanctions against Russia. Financial businesses, including crypto firms, are now expected to comply with regulations by blocking a growing number of sanctioned entities. Some businesses, like PayPal and Revolut, have chosen to block Russian users altogether, despite this not being a requirement under the current sanctions regime. Others, like Kraken, have made it clear that while they block all sanctioned entities, they will continue to serve Russian users until political forces definitively direct them to stop. And still others, like FTX, have chosen to cut off some Russian accounts that aren't on the sanction list in addition to the sanctioned entities but continue to serve most Russian users. The varying approaches to sanctions compliance have left some wondering where the lines are, both legally and ethically. Meanwhile, some lawmakers are floating proposals to empower the Treasury to bar crypto services providers from transacting with any addresses associated with Russia.  In this week's episode of Policy Scoop, The Block's Aislinn Keely sits down with a sanctions expert and the legal chiefs from Kraken and FTX to parse out the complexities around Russian sanctions and the impact on the crypto industry as it stands today. Episode 24 of Season 4 of The Scoop was recorded remotely with The Block's Aislinn Keely and Marco Santori, CLO at Kraken, Caroline Brown, former White House sanctions attorney at Crowell & Moring, & Mark Wetjen, Head of Policy and Regulatory Strategy at FTX.US. Listen below, and subscribe to The Scoop on Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher or wherever you listen to podcasts. Email feedback and revision requests to podcast@theblockcrypto.com. This episode is brought to you by our sponsors Fireblocks, Coinbase Prime & Chainalysis Fireblocks is an enterprise-grade platform delivering a secure infrastructure for moving, storing, and issuing digital assets. Fireblocks enables exchanges, lending desks, custodians, banks, trading desks, and hedge funds to securely scale digital asset operations through the Fireblocks Network and MPC-based Wallet Infrastructure. Fireblocks serves over 725 financial institutions, has secured the transfer of over $1.5 trillion in digital assets, and has a unique insurance policy that covers assets in storage & transit. For more information, please visit www.fireblocks.com. About Coinbase Prime Coinbase Prime is an integrated solution that provides institutional investors with an advanced trading platform, secure custody, and prime services to manage all their crypto assets in one place. Coinbase Prime fully integrates crypto trading and custody on a single platform, and gives clients the best all-in pricing in their network using their proprietary Smart Order Router and algorithmic execution. For more information, visit www.coinbase.com/prime. About Chainalysis Chainalysis is the blockchain data platform. We provide data, software, services, and research to government agencies, exchanges, financial institutions, and insurance and cybersecurity companies in over 60 countries. Our data powers investigation, compliance, and market intelligence software that has been used to solve some of the world's most high-profile criminal cases and grow consumer access to cryptocurrency safely. Backed by Accel, Addition, Benchmark, Coatue, Paradigm, Ribbit, and other leading firms in venture capital, Chainalysis builds trust in blockchains to promote more financial freedom with less risk. For more information, visit www.chainalysis.com.

Marco Santori, Chief Legal Officer for Kraken, discusses cryptocurrency regulation. Jeff Camarda, Chairman & CEO of Camarda Wealth Advisory Group, talks markets and inflation. Shawn Snyder, Head of Investment Strategy at Citi US Consumer Wealth Management, discusses markets and macro trends. Rania Sedhom, Managing Partner of the Sedhom Law Group, discusses workplace toxicity. Hosted by Paul Sweeney and Matt Miller. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bully sits down with Marco Santori (https://twitter.com/msantoriESQ), Chief Legal Officer at Kraken Exchange, and a legal legend in the crypto space. They discuss his history in Bitcoin, from the Delaware Blockchain Initiative to his time in private practice advising crypto companies, to his current role as CLO. He discusses the process Kraken undertook to get the WY banking charter and what benefits this new approval will bring to Kraken's customers. ––– Node40 Buy, sell or exchange crypto this year? With NODE40, crypto-savvy investors can easily determine their tax obligation and report it accurately. This year, you’ll be required to report your crypto activity to the IRS. Whether you owe or have losses to claim, NODE40 allows you to file with confidence. NODE40... Bulletproof crypto tax reporting. Sign up today at node40.com/bully. ––– Crypto.com Crypto.com serves 10M+ customers, providing them with a powerful alternative to traditional financial services through the Crypto.com App, Crypto.com Visa Card, Exchange and DeFi offerings.  Crypto.com is giving away four Teslas! To enter the lucky draw, download the Crypto.com App and buy at least $100 of Bitcoin before March 8th. New users will also enjoy 0% credit & debit card fees in your first month. More details.  ––– Gemini Gemini is a cryptocurrency platform that allows customers to buy, sell, and store more than 30 cryptos like bitcoin, bitcoin cash, ether, litecoin, and Zcash. Gemini is a New York trust company subject to the capital reserve requirements, cybersecurity requirements, and banking compliance standards set forth by the New York State Department of Financial Services and the New York Banking Law.  Open a free account in under 3 minutes at gemini.com/bully. ––– Listen on Apple. Listen on Spotify. This podcast is presented by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: http://blockworks.co.

In this episode, Jonathon speaks with Marco Santori, Chief Legal Officer for Krakenand cryptocurrency legal expert about the role of regulation in the crypto and digitalassets space.The interviews and discussions in this podcast are opinions only and not financial or investment advice. Listeners should obtain independent advice based on their own circumstances before making any financial decisions.

“The bottom line is that a bank is a big deal… banking is the granddaddy of it all, it’s the bottom of the financial services stack.”— David KinitskyLocation: SquadcastDate: Wednesday 23rd September Company: Kraken Financial & KrakenRole: CEO & Chief Legal OfficerLast week Kraken announced that the Wyoming Banking Board had voted in favour of the exchange's application for a banking charter under Wyoming's Special Purpose Depository Institution statute. This charter makes Kraken the first cryptocurrency company to gain banking status.Receiving the banking charter opens traditional rails in the finance world that had previously been unavailable to the exchange, and in turn, will lead to the development of a range of innovative new banking services.In this interview, I talk to Kraken Financial CEO David Kinitsky and Kraken's Chief Legal Officer Marco Santori. We discuss the creation of a crypto bank, what it will mean to both the industry and Kraken customers and why they chose Wyoming.This episode’s sponsors:Kraken - The best place to buy, sell & trade BitcoinBlockFi - The future of Bitcoin financial services Sportsbet.io - Online sportsbook & casino that accepts BitcoinCasa - The leading provider of Bitcoin multisig key security.Least Authority - Helping projects improve their security and build secure technology.-----WBD263 Show Notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-worlds-first-crypto-bank-----If you enjoy The What Bitcoin Did Podcast you can help support the show my doing the following:Become a Patron and get access to shows early or help contributeMake a tip:Bitcoin: 3FiC6w7eb3dkcaNHMAnj39ANTAkv8Ufi2SQR Codes: BitcoinIf you do send a tip then please email me so that I can say thank youSubscribe on iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | SoundCloud | YouTube | Deezer | TuneIn | RSS FeedLeave a review on iTunesShare the show and episodes with your friends and familySubscribe to the newsletter on my websiteFollow me on Twitter Personal | Twitter Podcast | Instagram | Medium | YouTubeIf you are interested in sponsoring the show, you can read more about that here or please feel free to drop me an email to discuss options.

Today, Kraken Financial, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kraken, became the first financial institution to receive the Special Purpose Depository Institution (SPDI) charter from the State of Wyoming. To celebrate this major milestone, David Kinitsky, CEO of Kraken Financial, and Marco Santori, Kraken CLO, joined us on the show. In this episode:  Why Kraken decided to open an office in Wyoming and pursue the SPDI Why David and Marco chose to join Kraken and work on this project Kraken's journey to obtaining the SPDI and what's next Why Kraken Financial will not seek oversight from the FDIC – and why it doesn't need deposit insurance What an SPDI will enable Kraken to do What distinguishes a full reserve bank – and why take that approach How Kraken Financial would distinguish itself from the standard banks that service crypto companies and from full reserve bitcoin custodians Whether Kraken expects NY to honor reciprocity for the Wyoming SPDI The relationship between Kraken group and Kraken Financial The next steps to take the SPDI approval and become an operational, fully-fledged deposit taking institution What the SPDI will mean for existing Kraken customers  Read more about the SPDI here. 

— Ethereum spikes by 15% to reach $173 — Bitfinex launches staking with 10% annual return — Gemini to list the Basic Attention Token — Kraken hires Marco Santori as Chief Legal Officer — Roger Ver confirms Bitcoin.com laid off only 10% of staff — HDR Global Trading offer grant to Shadowserver — Researchers develop a blockchain-based digital court

Marco Santori, president & chief legal officer of Blockchain.com who’s also known as the ‘Dean of Digital Currency Lawyers’ joins us today on Untold Stories. Marco believes that a good lawyer doesn’t just say ‘no’ but rather explains the law, risks and potential rewards of a given strategy. He goes on to state that a great lawyer has to be involved in both advocacy and advisory work which can eventually change the law in order to reduce risk. Marco reminisces on his work developing the 1st FINCEN guidance and how it was vital to engage and not ignore the regulators. He points out that the press at the time were only reporting on negatives and how they had to wrestle control of the narrative in crypto. Marco also explains the funds travel rule and discusses the importance of maintaining non-custodial solutions in crypto. He explains his work with the SAFT project and expands on its achievements. In the end he states the core constant of Blockchain.com and its plans for the future. --- BitPay gives you the tools to live life on crypto. Whether you want to send crypto to friends, use crypto to buy video games or computer parts, or turn crypto into gift cards for more than 100 mainstream brands, the BitPay app has you covered. You can hold your own private keys in a secure wallet while accessing the best of crypto commerce. Get started at bitpay.com/wallet. --- Bitpanda is a fintech based in Vienna, Austria founded in 2014 by Eric Demuth, Paul Klanschek and Christian Trummer. The company is a firm believer in the innovative power of cryptocurrencies, digitised assets and blockchain technology. Bitpanda’s mission is to tear down the barriers to investing and bring traditional financial products to the 21st century. Today, Bitpanda has more than 1 million users and 120 team members. With a PSD2 payment service provider license, state-of-the-art security and streamlined user experience, Bitpanda has grown into a popular trading platform for newbies and experts alike. Users can currently trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, gold and over 20 other digital assets. --- Pepo was founded by Jason Goldberg, who has been building user experiences for creators and communities for decades. Jason has worked at AOL, Jobster, Social Median, and more recently he connected designers at Hem and Fab. Visit us at Pepo.com/stories for more information. --- If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and subscribe.This podcast is presented by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: https://www.blockworksgroup.io

Marco Santori, president & chief legal officer of Blockchain.com who’s also known as the ‘Dean of Digital Currency Lawyers’ joins us today on Untold Stories. Marco believes that a good lawyer doesn’t just say ‘no’ but rather explains the law, risks and potential rewards of a given strategy. He goes on to state that a great lawyer has to be involved in both advocacy and advisory work which can eventually change the law in order to reduce risk. Marco reminisces on his work developing the 1st FINCEN guidance and how it was vital to engage and not ignore the regulators. He points out that the press at the time were only reporting on negatives and how they had to wrestle control of the narrative in crypto. Marco also explains the funds travel rule and discusses the importance of maintaining non-custodial solutions in crypto. He explains his work with the SAFT project and expands on its achievements. In the end he states the core constant of Blockchain.com and its plans for the future. --- BitPay gives you the tools to live life on crypto. Whether you want to send crypto to friends, use crypto to buy video games or computer parts, or turn crypto into gift cards for more than 100 mainstream brands, the BitPay app has you covered. You can hold your own private keys in a secure wallet while accessing the best of crypto commerce. Get started at bitpay.com/wallet. --- Bitpanda is a fintech based in Vienna, Austria founded in 2014 by Eric Demuth, Paul Klanschek and Christian Trummer. The company is a firm believer in the innovative power of cryptocurrencies, digitised assets and blockchain technology. Bitpanda’s mission is to tear down the barriers to investing and bring traditional financial products to the 21st century. Today, Bitpanda has more than 1 million users and 120 team members. With a PSD2 payment service provider license, state-of-the-art security and streamlined user experience, Bitpanda has grown into a popular trading platform for newbies and experts alike. Users can currently trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, gold and over 20 other digital assets. --- Pepo was founded by Jason Goldberg, who has been building user experiences for creators and communities for decades. Jason has worked at AOL, Jobster, Social Median, and more recently he connected designers at Hem and Fab. Visit us at Pepo.com/stories for more information. --- If you enjoyed this conversation, share it with your colleagues & friends, rate, review, and subscribe.This podcast is presented by BlockWorks Group. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at: https://www.blockworksgroup.io

From DevCon 5 in Osaka, Japan, Deborah Simpier, COO and cofounder of Althea Network, describes how this decentralized internet service provider works, what problem it's trying to solve, and how it uses Ethereum. She describes how neighbors provide each other with internet access, and how they pay each other automatically on pay-as-you-go plans using a stablecoin. She also covers how she came to found Althea, what challenges she faced in explaining how it worked to her non-crypto neighbors,  and Althea's plans to expand to other areas, including urban areas and Nigeria.   Thank you to our sponsors!  Crypto.com: https://crypto.com/ eToro: https://crypto.com/en/index.html CipherTrace: http://ciphertrace.com/unconfirmed Episode links:  Althea Network: https://althea.net/ Deborah Simpier: https://twitter.com/DeborahSimpier Case study on Clatskanie: https://althea.net/clatskanie-case-study Deborah’s talk at ETH Berlin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD1tB0UFx78 https://breakermag.com/how-mesh-networks-and-crypto-can-fill-the-rural-broadband-gap/ Weekly news recap links: IRS Guidance IRS press release: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/virtual-currency-irs-issues-additional-guidance-on-tax-treatment-and-reminds-taxpayers-of-reporting-obligations Guidance on hard forks and airdrops: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/rr-19-24.pdf Coin Center response: https://coincenter.org/entry/irs-cryptocurrency-guidance-answers-some-questions-while-raising-messy-new-ones IRS scenario that never happened: https://twitter.com/valkenburgh/status/1182022188343418880?s=20 Marco Santori take: https://twitter.com/msantoriESQ/status/1181975909567475713?s=20 Patrick Murck take: https://twitter.com/virtuallylaw/status/1181997761811628038?s=20 Ethereum 2.0 The transition from Ethereum 1.0 to 2.0: https://ethresear.ch/t/the-eth1-eth2-transition/6265 Ethereum 2.0 cross-sharding composability: https://ethresear.ch/t/cross-shard-defi-composability/6268 Wired article on Facebook/Libra connections: https://www.wired.com/story/ties-bind-facebooks-libra/  Bitwise Bitcoin ETF Rejection:  https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/42711/bitwises-bitcoin-etf-the-last-hope-has-been-denied https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/nysearca/2019/34-87267.pdf https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bitwise-comments-on-the-secs-order-regarding-the-bitwise-bitcoin-etf-trust-300935107.html https://twitter.com/BitwiseInvest/status/1182115344510402560?s=20 https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1182149164177608704?s=20 MakerDAO: https://blog.makerdao.com/breaking-launch-date-of-multi-collateral-dai-announced-at-devcon-5/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-10-05/crypto-rebels-trip-over-each-other-en-route-to-financial-utopia https://unchainedpodcast.com/rune-christensen-of-makerdao-part-1-how-to-keep-a-crypto-collateralized-stablecoin-afloat/ https://unchainedpodcast.com/rune-christensen-of-makerdao-part-2-how-dai-stayed-at-1-while-eth-crashed-from-1400-to-85/ Placeholder on protocols: https://www.placeholder.vc/blog/2019/10/6/protocols-as-minimally-extractive-coordinators Ali Yahya on why there will be multiple dominant blockchains: https://twitter.com/ali01/status/1181161407406071808?s=20 QuadrigaCX widow to pay $9 million to affected users: https://www.coindesk.com/quadrigacx-founders-widow-will-cough-up-9-million-to-repay-users

Heads up, everybody! We are launching a weekly news recap, so stay tuned after the interview to find out about the top stories in crypto this week! (Links below.) Zachary Fallon, principal at Blakemore Fallon and former SEC staffer, explains why the SEC penalty against Block.One, which raised $4 billion in a yearlong ICO, got a penalty of just $24 million and didn't have to register EOS tokens as securities. He also discusses how this differs from the Kik case, what we can learn from another SEC order this week against Nebulous and what other gray areas remain for potential token issuers who may want to sell to U.S. citizens. We also go over the Crypto Rating Council, and what significance those ratings could have on the way they are regulated, if any. Thank you to our sponsors!  eToro: https://www.etoro.com Crypto.com: https://crypto.com CipherTrace: http://ciphertrace.com/unconfirmed Episode links:  SEC press release about the Block.One settlement: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2019-202 SEC Order re. Block.One: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2019/33-10714.pdf Cooley letter on Block.one: https://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/cf-noaction/2019/block.one-093019-506.pdf Katherine Wu’s annotated settlement: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ac136ed12b13f7c187bdf21/t/5d92c33d937a3466c0c723a9/1569899329538/33-10714.pdf SEC action on Nebulous: https://www.sec.gov/enforce/33-10715-s Jake Chervinsky tweet storm on the settlement: https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1179162527541993472?s=20 Marco Santori tweet storm on the settlement: https://twitter.com/msantoriESQ/status/1178811671621591040?s=20 Crypto Rating Council: https://www.wsj.com/articles/cryptocurrency-exchanges-including-coinbase-to-rate-digital-assets-11569835801 CRC ratings thus far: https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1178627290676301824?s=20 Articles from this week’s news recap: Paypal to Back Out of Libra Association: https://www.ft.com/content/6af11092-e5fd-11e9-9743-db5a370481bc Visa, Mastercard, Other Libra Association Members Jittery: https://www.wsj.com/articles/visa-mastercard-others-reconsider-involvement-in-facebook-s-libra-network-11569967023 Federal Advisory Doesn’t Like Libra: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-30/bankers-advising-fed-board-describe-libra-as-a-monetary-threat SEC press release about the order: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2019-202 The order itself: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2019/33-10714.pdf Larry Cermak of The Block on the order: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/41612/dont-ask-for-permission-hire-good-lawyers-and-then-ask-for-forgiveness Letter from House Reps re digital dollar: https://static.coindesk.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Foster-Hill-US-Crypto.pdf Crypto Rating Council: https://www.wsj.com/articles/cryptocurrency-exchanges-including-coinbase-to-rate-digital-assets-11569835801 Cermak tweet storm: https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1178622451451867136?s=20 Blockchain executive departures: http://thein.fo/9a4fd2f9cab44d7d LedgerX-CFTC dispute: https://www.coindesk.com/ledgerx-claims-personal-animus-drove-ex-cftc-chair-to-stall-approvals Tweets by Paul Chou directed at the CFTC: https://twitter.com/paul_l_chou/status/1177689857763807235?s=20 https://twitter.com/paul_l_chou/status/1177690348883197953?s=20 https://twitter.com/paul_l_chou/status/1177693761050157058?s=20 https://twitter.com/paul_l_chou/status/1177694467043680256?s=20 https://twitter.com/paul_l_chou/status/1177711475760218113?s=20 https://twitter.com/paul_l_chou/status/1177715093251018752?s=20 https://twitter.com/paul_l_chou/status/1177722516497928192?s=20 https://twitter.com/paul_l_chou/status/1177724302927581185?s=20 https://twitter.com/paul_l_chou/status/1177724477439971328?s=20 Paul Chou’s tweet storm: https://twitter.com/paul_l_chou/status/1178328955859951617?s=20  Explanation of the Fairwin Ponzi: https://medium.com/@PhABC/the-collapse-of-fairwins-125m-ponzi-scheme-61a66b273420 Martin Koeppelman graph on Fairwin: https://twitter.com/koeppelmann/status/1178781425585328129/photo/1 Fun Bits:  Bloomberg interview with Jered Kenna: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-03/an-early-bitcoin-millionaire-loses-his-love-for-the-industry My Forbes story on how Kenna lost his Bitcoin: https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2016/12/20/hackers-have-stolen-millions-of-dollars-in-bitcoin-using-only-phone-numbers/

Marco Santori, the president and chief legal officer of Blockchain, discusses this week's big regulatory news — the SEC's guidance on initial coin offerings and its first no-action letter. We talk about what guidance actually means and how much weight it has in court, how much clarity this guidance actually brought, and how the framework could affect also future attempts at future fundraising/token distribution events and airdrops. We also cover the no-action letter and the ways in which the token of TurnKey Jet, which received the no-action letter, is quite different from most other crypto-tokens and how helpful that example is for crypto projects. Thank you to our sponsor! CipherTrace: http://ciphertrace.com/unconfirmed Episode links: SEC guidance: https://www.sec.gov/files/dlt-framework.pdf No-action letter: https://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/cf-noaction/2019/turnkey-jet-040219-2a1.htm Marco Santori: https://twitter.com/msantoriesq Marco's tweet storm on the guidance and no-action letter: https://twitter.com/msantoriESQ/status/1113458502264074246 Coin Center's analysis: https://coincenter.org/entry/coin-center-analysis-of-sec-cryptocurrency-guidance Jake Chervinksy tweetstorm: https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1113672285595086848 Skeptic Preston Byrne tweetstorm: https://twitter.com/prestonjbyrne/status/1113463999591518209 Meltem Demirors tweetstorm: https://twitter.com/melt_dem/status/1113457795792293889 Katherine Wu tweetstorm: https://twitter.com/katherineykwu/status/1113452950041649157 Gabriel Shapiro tweetstorm: https://twitter.com/lex_node/status/1113461396593713152 SAFT white paper: http://saftproject.com/#saft-whitepaper Article on SAFT white paper: https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2017/10/02/are-icos-for-utility-tokens-selling-securities-prominent-crypto-players-say-yes/ More on the no-action letter: https://www.coindesk.com/sec-issues-first-ever-no-action-letter-clearing-ico-to-sell-tokens-under-us-law https://www.coindesk.com/secs-first-crypto-no-action-letter-took-11-months-to-secure Letter from TurnKey Jet prompting the no-action letter: https://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/cf-noaction/2019/turnkey-jet-040219-2a1-incoming.pdf Unchained episode with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce: https://unchainedpodcast.com/sec-commissioner-hester-peirce-come-talk-to-the-sec/

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Simon's in the studio with Anthony Macey at our brand new offices in Devonshire Square. First up, Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled pay SEC cryptocurrency penalties. The US financial regulator said the men failed to disclose payments they received to promote certain cryptocurrency investments.The men neither admitted nor denied the claims, but agreed to pay combined penalties totalling more than $750,000. The SEC said Mr Mayweather received $300,000 to promote three separate offerings, including one by Centra Tech. Defrauding Investors of $4 Million. AriseBank CEO Jared Rice, Sr. was arrested by the FBI on Wednesday, charged with duping hundreds of investors out of more than $4 million in a cryptocurrency scheme. Mr. Rice was indicted on three counts of securities fraud and three counts of wire fraud. He allegedly lied to would-be investors. Nasdaq Plans to Pursue Bitcoin Futures Despite Plunging Prices, Sources Say. Nasdaq Inc. is moving ahead with a plan to list Bitcoin futures, betting on sustained interest despite the cryptocurrency’s dramatic plunge over the past year. They have been working to satisfy the concerns of the U.S.’s main swaps regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, before launching the contracts. Behind Coinbase's quiet roll-out of OTC crypto trading this month. Coinbase rolled out an over-the-counter cryptocurrency trading desk earlier this month, but until now has been hesitant to openly discuss its ambitions. Tim Plakas, head OTC trades for Coinbase "We wanted to make sure we had all the boxes checked before we went public. We needed to have some of our trusted institutional clients on board and were in a beta mode to make sure that all the pipes were working." AWS launches a managed blockchain service. It’s a managed blockchain service. It supports Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric. AWS promises that the service will scale to thousands of applications and will allow users to run millions of transactions (though the company didn’t say with what kind of latency). Messari Opens Disclosure Registry for Crypto Projects. The registry, will share a range of typically non-public information, including token design, supply details, any audits of the technology, official communication channels, treasury management and details of team members. Ryan Selkis commented: “What we’re trying to do is make key information about these various crypto assets available to anyone, whether it’s a retail investor, a regulator, an academic or a mutual fund.” Coinbase Backs Security Token Startup’s $12.7 Million Funding Round. Led by Blockchain Capital, the equity investments were made to help the company bring on “knowledgeable investors” as it prepares for a security token offering. CEO Carlos Domingo explained that the company wants to transition the securities industry, currently estimated at some $7 trillion, to decentralized ledgers as they are more transparent, auditable and can facilitate instantaneous transactions. Harbor Launches its First Securities Offering With Sale of $20 Million USC (Carolina) Dormitory Facility. The total investment opportunity is valued at $20 Million with each token is going for a cool $21,000. A total of 955 shares/tokens will be up for sale. We also have a great Tweet of the Week from Marco Santori on the US Department of the Treasury adding two Bitcoin addresses to it's list of sanctioned parties. All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show! We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe! Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes. This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Alex Woodhouse. Special Guest: Anthony Macey.

Marco Santori is the President and Chief Legal Officer of Blockchain, the easy way to send, receive, store, and trade digital currencies. In this conversation, Santori and Anthony Pompliano discuss what Santori's original conversations with federal regulators were like, how the SAFF Document became so popular, why ICOs have essentially disappeared in the U.S., and what Marco believes is the most view of crypto's potential impact on the world.

After the ICO craze of 2017, such offerings have raised extremely little so far this fall, with total sales in October down 94% since February, according to Token Data. Why? And where to next? Andy Bromberg, president of CoinList, and Marco Santori, president and chief legal officer of Blockchain, discuss the changing nature of token sales. Andy reveals how the projects approaching CoinList have changed over the last year, how investors are changing their approach to due diligence in the space, and how CoinList complies with various regulations. Marco explains the origin of the SAFT framework, what laws would apply outside of securities regulation and why rulings in civil lawsuits and no-action letter are likely the next way we'll get regulatory clarity. We also discuss why the Civil token sale failed, why airdrops could be a better than ICOs for seeding usage on networks and how to figure out which wallets to target in an airdrop. Plus: Marco and Andy disagree on one aspect or how regulation could apply to airdrops. Thank you to our sponsors! WeTrust: Donate in crypto and have your donation matched by WeTrust through Giving Tuesday, November 27! http://wetrust.io/unchained Abra: Click this special link for a free $25 in Bitcoin! https://www.abra.com/unchained Episode Links Andy Bromberg: https://twitter.com/andy_bromberg CoinList: https://coinlist.co Marco Santori: https://twitter.com/msantoriESQ Blockchain: https://www.blockchain.com Autonomous Next data on September ICOs down 90% since January: https://next.autonomous.com/thoughts/crypto-september-icos-90-down-from-january-but-venture-funding-is-ray-of-hope Token Data on October ICOs down 94% since February: https://twitter.com/TokenData/status/1057953301440983040 SAFT project: https://saftproject.com Previous episode with Marco and Joshua Ashley Klayman including her concerns about the SAFT framework: http://unchainedpodcast.co/how-crypto-and-blockchain-technology-should-be-regulated SEC Director of Finance Bill Hinman's comments that ether is not a security (5:25): https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sec-announces-ether-not-security-162658147.html Jay Clayton's comments that every ICO he's seen is a security: https://www.coindesk.com/sec-chief-clayton-every-ico-ive-seen-security/ Civil token sale: https://tokenfoundry.com/projects/civil Blockchain's Airdrop program: https://www.blockchain.com/airdrop CoinList's Airdrops program: https://airdrops.coinlist.co

After the ICO craze of 2017, such offerings have raised extremely little so far this fall, with total sales in October down 94% since February, according to Token Data. Why? And where to next? Andy Bromberg, president of CoinList, and Marco Santori, president and chief legal officer of Blockchain, discuss the changing nature of token sales. Andy reveals how the projects approaching CoinList have changed over the last year, how investors are changing their approach to due diligence in the space, and how CoinList complies with various regulations. Marco explains the origin of the SAFT framework, what laws would apply outside of securities regulation and why rulings in civil lawsuits and no-action letter are likely the next way we'll get regulatory clarity. We also discuss why the Civil token sale failed, why airdrops could be a better than ICOs for seeding usage on networks and how to figure out which wallets to target in an airdrop. Plus: Marco and Andy disagree on one aspect or how regulation could apply to airdrops. Thank you to our sponsors! WeTrust: Donate in crypto and have your donation matched by WeTrust through Giving Tuesday, November 27! http://wetrust.io/unchained Abra: Click this special link for a free $25 in Bitcoin! https://www.abra.com/unchained Episode Links Andy Bromberg: https://twitter.com/andy_bromberg CoinList: https://coinlist.co Marco Santori: https://twitter.com/msantoriESQ Blockchain: https://www.blockchain.com Autonomous Next data on September ICOs down 90% since January: https://next.autonomous.com/thoughts/crypto-september-icos-90-down-from-january-but-venture-funding-is-ray-of-hope Token Data on October ICOs down 94% since February: https://twitter.com/TokenData/status/1057953301440983040 SAFT project: https://saftproject.com Previous episode with Marco and Joshua Ashley Klayman including her concerns about the SAFT framework: http://unchainedpodcast.co/how-crypto-and-blockchain-technology-should-be-regulated SEC Director of Finance Bill Hinman's comments that ether is not a security (5:25): https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sec-announces-ether-not-security-162658147.html Jay Clayton's comments that every ICO he's seen is a security: https://www.coindesk.com/sec-chief-clayton-every-ico-ive-seen-security/ Civil token sale: https://tokenfoundry.com/projects/civil Blockchain's Airdrop program: https://www.blockchain.com/airdrop CoinList's Airdrops program: https://airdrops.coinlist.co

Live from Money20/20 USA, we start this episode with an in-depth interview with Marco Santori on where the crypto industry is right now. We also have a panel on the relationship between crypto investors and regulators. Regulation is evolving but remains patchy, with uncertainty on issues ranging from exchanges and ICOs to securities laws. As institutional players move into crypto, these issues have taken on a new urgency. Tanaya Macheel from Cheddar, Marco Santori, the "Dean of Blockchain lawyers," and Brent McIntosh, General Counsel at The U.S. Department of the Treasury, provide insight into the future of regulation and how investors should respond to this uncertainty. All this and so much more on this week's episode of Blockchain Insider. And if you enjoyed our tweet of the week why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show! We hope you enjoy the show and, as ever, don't forget to subscribe! Want to join the conversation on all the topics discussed? Tweet the show @bchaininsider and if you really love the show, please leave us a review on iTunes. This week's episode of Blockchain Insider was produced by Laura Watkins and Petrit Berisha. Edited by Michael Bailey. Special Guests: Brent McIntosh, Marco Santori, and Tanaya Macheel.

In this live recording of a panel discussion at the CoinAlts Fund Symposium, Marco Santori, president and chief legal officer of Blockchain, managing director at Grayscale Investments, and Barbara Minuzzi, cofounder and managing partner of Ausum Ventures take stock of the 2017 year and discuss a range of trends they're seeing in the industry. Santori describes what the ICO wave was like from his seat as one of the most in-demand lawyers for ICOs, and why he doesn't actually think that securities (such as a SAFT) can later transform into something that is a non-security. He also talks about how big corporations are thinking about use blockchain technology -- and why we haven't yet seen much activity on that front in the market. We talk about the current clouds over the industry -- custody and regulation -- and Sonnenshein explains why investors choose Grayscale's investment products, such as the Bitcoin Investment Trust, rather that investing in the coin directly, and  Blockchain.info: https://blockchain.info Grayscale Investments: https://grayscale.co Ausum Ventures: https://www.ausum.vc Thank you to the CoinAlts Fund Symposium for hosting the panel: https://www.coinaltsfundsymposium.com For more on regulatory issues, check out these past episodes: Perianne Boring and Amy Kim of the Chamber of Digital Commerce on crypto regulation: http://unchainedpodcast.co/the-chamber-of-digital-commerces-perianne-boring-and-amy-kim-on-why-us-crypto-regulation-is-complicated-and-confusing The Tax Rules That Have Crypto Investors Aghast: http://unchainedpodcast.co/the-tax-rules-that-have-crypto-users-aghast How Crypto and Blockchain Technology Should Be Regulated: http://unchainedpodcast.co/how-crypto-and-blockchain-technology-should-be-regulated Jerry Brito and Peter Van Valkenburgh of Coin Center: http://unchainedpodcast.co/how-coin-center-is-helping-define-the-big-fuzzy-gray-area-of-blockchain-and-cryptocurrency-law Caitlin Long on How 'Utility Tokens' Are Now Legal in Wyoming: http://unconfirmed.libsyn.com/caitlin-long-on-how-utility-tokens-are-now-legal-in-wyoming Former DOJ Prosecutor Kathryn Haun on What the SEC Subpoenas and FinCen Letter Likely Mean: http://unconfirmed.libsyn.com/sxsw-episode-former-doj-prosecutor-kathryn-haun-on-what-the-sec-subpoenas-and-fincen-letter-likely-mean For more on custody issues, check out the episode with Mike Belshe of BitGo and its acquisition of Kingdom Trust: http://unchainedpodcast.co/mike-belshe-on-what-bitgos-kingdom-trust-acquisition-means-for-crypto-and-how-security-will-develop-in-the-future Thank you to our sponsors! Ethereal Summit: https://etherealsummit.com Quantstamp: https://www.quantstamp.com StartEngine: https://www.startengine.com/unchained

In this live recording of a panel discussion at the CoinAlts Fund Symposium, Marco Santori, president and chief legal officer of Blockchain, managing director at Grayscale Investments, and Barbara Minuzzi, cofounder and managing partner of Ausum Ventures take stock of the 2017 year and discuss a range of trends they're seeing in the industry. Santori describes what the ICO wave was like from his seat as one of the most in-demand lawyers for ICOs, and why he doesn't actually think that securities (such as a SAFT) can later transform into something that is a non-security. He also talks about how big corporations are thinking about use blockchain technology -- and why we haven't yet seen much activity on that front in the market. We talk about the current clouds over the industry -- custody and regulation -- and Sonnenshein explains why investors choose Grayscale's investment products, such as the Bitcoin Investment Trust, rather that investing in the coin directly, and  Blockchain.info: https://blockchain.info Grayscale Investments: https://grayscale.co Ausum Ventures: https://www.ausum.vc Thank you to the CoinAlts Fund Symposium for hosting the panel: https://www.coinaltsfundsymposium.com For more on regulatory issues, check out these past episodes: Perianne Boring and Amy Kim of the Chamber of Digital Commerce on crypto regulation: http://unchainedpodcast.co/the-chamber-of-digital-commerces-perianne-boring-and-amy-kim-on-why-us-crypto-regulation-is-complicated-and-confusing The Tax Rules That Have Crypto Investors Aghast: http://unchainedpodcast.co/the-tax-rules-that-have-crypto-users-aghast How Crypto and Blockchain Technology Should Be Regulated: http://unchainedpodcast.co/how-crypto-and-blockchain-technology-should-be-regulated Jerry Brito and Peter Van Valkenburgh of Coin Center: http://unchainedpodcast.co/how-coin-center-is-helping-define-the-big-fuzzy-gray-area-of-blockchain-and-cryptocurrency-law Caitlin Long on How 'Utility Tokens' Are Now Legal in Wyoming: http://unconfirmed.libsyn.com/caitlin-long-on-how-utility-tokens-are-now-legal-in-wyoming Former DOJ Prosecutor Kathryn Haun on What the SEC Subpoenas and FinCen Letter Likely Mean: http://unconfirmed.libsyn.com/sxsw-episode-former-doj-prosecutor-kathryn-haun-on-what-the-sec-subpoenas-and-fincen-letter-likely-mean For more on custody issues, check out the episode with Mike Belshe of BitGo and its acquisition of Kingdom Trust: http://unchainedpodcast.co/mike-belshe-on-what-bitgos-kingdom-trust-acquisition-means-for-crypto-and-how-security-will-develop-in-the-future Thank you to our sponsors! Ethereal Summit: https://etherealsummit.com Quantstamp: https://www.quantstamp.com StartEngine: https://www.startengine.com/unchained

Welcome to Ledger Cast, hosted by me, Brian Krogsgard (@ledgerstatus on twitter), and Josh Olszewicz (@carpenoctom). Ledger Cast is a cryptocurrency trading and blockchain ecosystem podcast. You can subscribe to new episodes of Ledger Cast on iTunes, on Google Play, on YouTube and via RSS. We cover technical topics on trading, fundamental analysis and various coins, news of the week, and more. In this episode, we discuss news of the week, and our primary topic is a discussion around buy and sell targets, and how we use various indicators to pick our targets. The information in this podcast should not be construed as investment advice, it is purely educational material and you should always do your own research before buying. News items of the week Crypto hit .5 trillion market cap Pricing since Thanksgiving A new ATH from bitcoin, followed by some alts running Litecoin network speed compared to Bitcoin and Ethereum clogging Charlie Lee on CNBC Crypto Kitties, the first Ethereum dApp!? SEC statement on ICOs and our thoughts on ICO mania’s drawdown. We also speculate on exchanges making adjustments or trying to mature in response to possible crackdowns on coins as securities. Marco Santori’s thread on the SEC announcement. Josh talked to Bitcoin Cashers in real life and has thoughts. We talked a bit about segwit and bitcoin scaling again. Also, discussed how we are aghast at Brian Armstrong and Coinbase’s shrugging of segwit as a priority. Josh thinks Coinbase will list Bitcoin Cash for trading, not just for distribution to customers who held during the fork. Coins discussed Some coins mentioned in this episode (Check out OnChainFX for information on all of these): Bitcoin: consolidating at ATH levels. Ethereum: huge move off USD ascending triangle. Litecoin: huge move beyond all boundaries that make sense to Josh. He did an article on it at Brave New Coin. Dragon Chain ICO and attachment to Disney. Vertcoin: Still on target for us for the weekly Ichimoku edge to edge trade (see my article with that chart). Tezos and the drama around their ICO. Bitcoin Cash and trying to be Bitcoin. A non-starter for Brian to trade or chart it. Doge and market cycles DEX (Decentralized exchange coins): Project 0x, Heat, Waves, Bitshares, Counterparty Anonymous transaction / privacy coins: Monero, Zcash, Pivx, Zcoin, Dash Target, Sir? (Primary topic on picking buy and sell targets) If you skip to minute 33, we start talking about technical analysis and how we choose buy or sell targets. Pattern analysis Generally, Josh trades using pattern analysis (his video on this). An example we used for pattern analysis is Ethereum’s multi-month ascending triangle on the high timeframe, and a flag on the lower timeframe. The measured move of this triangle was around $800, which was already achieved. Bollinger Bands Triggers are used in addition to pattern analysis. In the case of the Ethereum consolidation, Bolinger bands (video) could provide insight to measure volatility. As the bands tighten, the likelihood of a volatile move increases. In conjunction with the pattern, it allows you to predict possible price action. Ichimoku Cloud The Ichimoku cloud gives us a visual snapshot of the trend, with a lot of information. Again using our Ethereum example, the Ichimoku cloud versus the dollar was signaling bullishness prior to the ascending triangle breakout. An entry on this example could’ve been made at several levels: An agressive entry on the bottom diagonal of the triangle Buy the breakout of the Bollinger bands, or the triangle Buy the retest of the triangle top Comparing USD versus BTC pricing We can spend more time on this, but this example shows a Ethereum price comparison versus the dollar. However, the bitcoin relative price is also important. Josh and I both wish to have more bitcoin, so if Ethereum isn’t outpacing Bitcoin, then it’s better to hold Bitcoin. So the ideal here is to let Ethereum consolidate as much as possible while not in, and buy as the biggest portion of the move is about to happen, so that it can outpace Bitcoin’s bullishness. Getting this exactly right could be very difficult. However, both of us think it is worth looking at both the USD and BTC pairs for coins. When the charts align, it presents the most opportunity. Market cycles Market cycles are one of the most important considerations when buying alt coins. Josh gave the example of Doge and how it has these huge pumps relative to Bitcoin. Here’s an example of Doge versus Bitcoin. Note how the Doge/BTC chart is drastically different than the one versus the dollar. Despite Doge versus the dollar being near an all time high, it has failed to keep pace with Bitcoin. Yet, the bitcoin pair is now in the buy zone again, and therefore may present another market cycle opportunity, and a move in the Doge dollar price. Double bottoms / Adam & Eves everywhere Right now in alt coins, there are a lot of double bottoms, which are often presented as an Adam and Eve pattern where it’s a V and a U side by side, where the U is often a higher low than the V. When buying an Adam and Eve, you often see a retest of the pattern break, like you see above. Targets can be the distance of the orange line (middle of two peaks) to the lowest low. Thomas Bulkowski also notes more identification and success metrics for this pattern. Many more patterns We spoke of some patterns but there are many, many more. Josh’s playlist on indicators is very good. There are many ways to trade. We talked about how we tend to do things here, but there are many strategies. Another many crypto traders love is a method of bottom calling, where they try to “catch knives” if you will, and work to catch alt coins at their depths, rather than on trend confirmation. Selling partials One thing we both do is trade in ranges. It’s going to be hard to call an exact top, so when we are selling, we both try to establish a range of possible prices where we sell. For instance, if we want to see .04 btc to sell, maybe we set sells between .035 and .06 depending on how those prices work within various indicators: moving averages, fibonacci extensions, cloud levels, or whatever else. More in the podcast I’ve tried to recap some of what we discussed, but we went into more depth in the show, be sure to listen! Various other links Binance for alts trading Gdax (Same company as Coinbase, better for frequent traders) for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin Altcoin.io for an alts DEX using atomic swaps Bitcoin Tax website for calculating taxes. I have an article coming on this as well in more detail. Josh’s “Top 5” lists for 2018 where he talks about alts to watch, traders, tools, and more. Listener questions We answered the following questions! Question 1. How does the cloud know? Question 2. Why does the BTC rise happen after the USD price move ? Much love. — King Midas (@yahoo_nicolas) December 12, 2017 2018 looks to be the year of the Dex, are you currently trading on any, which ones have u most excited? (@dbrizzy80) December 12, 2017 Q: What do you think about the future of anonymity coins? Do you think anonymity will simply become a feature in BTC / LTC or do you think anonymity coins will survive/go big on their own? — Matt Leskanic (@matt_leskanic) December 12, 2017 I would love to hear your feedback on VTC. Keep up the good work and have fun! — William Reymond (@WilliamReymond) December 12, 2017 Fundamentally and for hodling, which do you like best and why? Monero, zec, or dash? — Flowers (@FloweringPath) December 12, 2017 Ask us a question Every episode, we’ll try to answer one or two audience questions. If you ever have one, just tweet at us or fill out the contact form. Coin of the week Josh: Doge. He’s looking at it for market cycle reason (see charts above). Brian: Waves. I’ve enjoyed the btc chart, as it just broke out of a long term descending triangle, and it’s in an ATH price discovery mode versus the dollar. They’ve also been putting out a lot of news. Find Josh and Brian elsewhere Josh’s articles on Brave New Coin (must read material) Josh’s YouTube channel (His Ichimoku series and Indicator series are especially great) Josh on Twitter @carpenoctom Brian on Twitter @ledgerstatus Interested in sponsoring? We’d love to talk to interested parties about sponsorship opportunities. We are open to suggestions, but are not seeking deals that include promos for ICOs, etc. But if you do something interesting in the space and want to chat, contact us. Music: “Oh, the chains” by Joel Madison Blount

Love Unchained? Please take this extremely brief survey to help us obtain more sponsors: https://survey.libsyn.com/unchained Marco Santori, who leads the blockchain technology team at Cooley, and Joshua Ashley Klayman, who leads the blockchain and smart contracts group at Morrisson and Forrester, explain why they disagree on how to ensure a token sale won't run afoul of securities laws, how they think regulation around crypto will likely be formed and why the Bitcliense has made New York a crypto innovation backwater. Show notes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2017/12/12/how-crypto-and-blockchain-technology-should-be-regulated/ Marco Santori: https://www.cooley.com/people/marco-santori Joshua Ashley Klayman: https://www.mofo.com/people/joshua-klayman.html The SAFT white paper: https://saftproject.com/ The Cardozo Blockchain Project SAFT response, "Not So Fast": https://cardozo.yu.edu/sites/default/files/Cardozo%20Blockchain%20Project%20-%20Not%20So%20Fast%20-%20SAFT%20Response_final.pdf Are ICOs For Utility Tokens Selling Securities? Prominent Crypto Players Say Yes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2017/10/02/are-icos-for-utility-tokens-selling-securities-prominent-crypto-players-say-yes/#107e96e34fa4 IRS Nabs Big Win Over Coinbase In Bid For Bitcoin Customer Data: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2017/11/29/irs-nabs-big-win-over-coinbase-in-bid-for-bitcoin-customer-data/

Love Unchained? Please take this extremely brief survey to help us obtain more sponsors: https://survey.libsyn.com/unchained Marco Santori, who leads the blockchain technology team at Cooley, and Joshua Ashley Klayman, who leads the blockchain and smart contracts group at Morrisson and Forrester, explain why they disagree on how to ensure a token sale won't run afoul of securities laws, how they think regulation around crypto will likely be formed and why the Bitcliense has made New York a crypto innovation backwater. Show notes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2017/12/12/how-crypto-and-blockchain-technology-should-be-regulated/ Marco Santori: https://www.cooley.com/people/marco-santori Joshua Ashley Klayman: https://www.mofo.com/people/joshua-klayman.html The SAFT white paper: https://saftproject.com/ The Cardozo Blockchain Project SAFT response, "Not So Fast": https://cardozo.yu.edu/sites/default/files/Cardozo%20Blockchain%20Project%20-%20Not%20So%20Fast%20-%20SAFT%20Response_final.pdf Are ICOs For Utility Tokens Selling Securities? Prominent Crypto Players Say Yes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2017/10/02/are-icos-for-utility-tokens-selling-securities-prominent-crypto-players-say-yes/#107e96e34fa4 IRS Nabs Big Win Over Coinbase In Bid For Bitcoin Customer Data: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2017/11/29/irs-nabs-big-win-over-coinbase-in-bid-for-bitcoin-customer-data/

Marco Santori, partner attorney at Cooley LLP, discusses legal questions faced by Fintech companies (including bitcoin, cryptocurrency and other blockchain-based companies). Marco Santori leads the FinTech team at Cooley LLP, an international law firm. Marco talks about the regulatory side of these new technologies, government regulations and how these regulations in US are different than other countries. He talks about the friendly and unfriendly regulations of various countries towards cryptocurrency and how the cryptocurrencies will affect their respective economies. Marco also discusses app coins vs. cryptocurrencies, AML, KYC, issues related to ICOs (initial coin offerings) and more. This interview is a MUST LISTEN for any founder or company working in the fintech, bitcoin, blockchain, cryptocurrency or app coin space. Listen, subscribe, and review Future Tech Podcast. Contribute Bitcoin to fuel our interviews and keep us going!

Bitcoin is seriously cool technology with the potential to transform the financial industry — and any other industry that needs trusted transactions. Marco Santori talks with Aaron about what Bitcoin is, the hurdles to its wider adoption, and why every lawyer should accept legal fees in Bitcoin.   Plus, we also talk about why computers are only as secure as the people who use them, which means the computers in most law firms are not very secure.

New York attorney Marco Santori explains Bitcoin law from ground zero.

Siân Jones was recently in London for the Inside Bitcoins conference. She interviewed two people with extensive knowledge of regulation and how it should apply to Bitcoin. Marco Santori is Chairman of the regulatory affairs committee of the Bitcoin Foundation and recently appointed Global policy council of for Blockchain. As the New York Department of Financial Services BitLicense proposal nears the end of it’s second 45-day challenge period, Mr. Santori gives his predictions on what the legislation will look like when it is passed, which he expects to happen by the end of this year. Amor Sexton is a lawyer at Adroit in Sydney Australia, a commercial law firm that specializes in Bitcoin and actively represents the Bitcoin industry when hen liaising with the Australian government. In her talk with Siân, she spoke about the Australian government’s recent guidance and draft ruling on the tax treatment of crypto currencies, with regards to income tax, capital gains tax and GST. They point out how these draft rulings differ from those proposed in other jurisdictions and explore how they will affect merchants and Bitcoin holders in the future. Episode links: Inside Bitcoins London COINsult COINsult Blog This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain and Sébastien Couture. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/041