Bitcoin crosses $18k briefly, and Pat and Amy are there to celebrate! This was an action packed show with discussion about Binance closing off US access, a big hack of OUSD, Pat rants about Blockchain voting (spoiler alert: he really doesn’t think the world is ready for it), and Polychain is investing in YFI, what’s […]
Tag: BTC
Nov 13th, 2020: Alright, Who Accidentally Unplugged Ethereum?
Amy and Pat talk about the recent major Ethereum outage, then Pat is forced to admit that maybe PayPal is going to be good for the crypto ecosystem.
Nov 11th, 2020: CBDC Oil For Sale
ConsenSys is getting into the CBDC game big time, and Australia and Lebanon are tagging along. Plus, Ripple is failing to make a ripple (Pat hates puns but made that one, winter madness is starting to set in apparently), and we answer a great tweet about REN.
Nov 10th, 2020: Quadringa and Tether, Back in the News!
Pat and Amy take a break from politics to talk about some recent developments around Quadringa (you remember them, right?) and Tether (ya, they’re getting sued). Plus, they chat about how Bitcoin and DeFi are correlated, and wow is Bitcoin on a roll!
Nov 9th, 2020: The Election Special
After a long week off watching the news and drinking, Pat and Amy talk all about the election, its effect on the crypto markets, and how the crypto betting markets faired.
Oct 30th, 2020: Bitcoin’s Almost a Teenager
Amy and Pat discuss Bitcoin’s 12th birthday, have a good chuckle at the Trump website hack, talk about AAVE, and would you look at that, Iran is getting into Bitcoin. Happy Halloween!
Oct 28th, 2020: It Stopped Raining In China So BTC Is More Expensive (Seriously)
Amy and Pat talk about the recent moves in Bitcoin and how that could be related to energy supplies in China, plus they look at Ripple and how that blockchain is trying to get in on the DeFi market, and end with a nice discussion about rating DEXes.
Oct 27th, 2020: 2020 BTC ATH
Bitcoin hits a 2020 all-time high of 13,800, OpenZeppelin releases some really cool developer tooling, and fixed-rate DeFi borrowing is hitting the blockchains!
Oct 22nd, 2020: People Getting OKEx’d
OKEx is holding onto people’s money, and Pat and Amy are here to cover it! Plus, Bitcoin crosses $13k (before retreating a bit), Tether is somehow still the leading stable coin, and the US Currency Comptroller says DeFi is inevitable…we could have told you that!
Oct 21st, 2020: The DeFi Dip (But Cryptos Up!)
Pat and Amy talk about Bitcoin hitting nearly 13k, correlation across the crypto markets, PayPal getting into crypto, and better come up with a plan b if you want to get a smart contract audited this year.