Cryptocurrency Podcast by Coin.FM - Bitcoin, Crypto and Blockchain News

Episode #27 The winds of change are starting to blow in the world of cryptocurrency as governments and large investors begin to take the market more seriously. George Soros is a world-renowned investor worth $8 Billion, according to Forbes. For decades, he’s been a trusted influencer in the world of finance and just weeks ago he called Bitcoin a bubble. However, in a surprising turn of events, His $26 billion hedge fund, Soros Fund Management has just announced new plans to… you guessed it...

Episode #26 Chad Barraford, CEO of Cryptocades.com, gave us the pleasure of stopping by the Coin.FM Podcast to discuss his latest project — a free-to-play blockchain gaming platform, where players use their skills and computer power to win Bitcoin. This hands-on founder leads a team of diverse globetrotting digital nomads and he’s best known for creating Project Jarvis, where he preceded today’s products like Siri or Google Home, and which is similar to Mark Zuckerberg’s more recent Project...

Episode #25 According to data.coin.fm, Bitcoin Cash – which trades as BCH on many exchanges – has experienced an extraordinary 83% rise just in the past week. Since hitting a low this year of $610 USD on April 6th, the value of Bitcoin Cash has more than doubled to trade at $1440 USD, at current press time on April 23rd. The vertical breakout started at $759 price level on April 17th and has continued with steady double digit percentage point gains day on day. So what’s behind the bullish...

Episode #24 Polish prosecutors may have seized around €400 mln from 2 bank accounts allegedly linked to top cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex, according to unconfirmed reports from media outlets on April 7. Trustnodes.com published possible connections between Btifinex, Crypto Capital Corp, an alleged for-hire Panamanian company nominee director, and a tiny bank in the Polish country side, in November 2017 investigative report....

Episode #23 Early on the morning of March 22nd, the Nikkei Asian Review published an article with the headline "Japan to warn Hong Kong-based crypto exchange: Criminal charges to be filed if Binance fails to halt Japan operations." Yikes -- It certainly got our attention! The FSA has been clamping down on cryptocurrency venues after a $500 million theft from Japanese exchange Coincheck in January. CZ, the CEO of Binance, took to Twitter saying, "Nikkei showed irresponsible journalism. We are...

Episode #22 After dipping to a one-month low of under $7900 USD on March 18th, Bitcoin is on a fresh rally thanks to leaders of the G20 nations. The verdict for now –- when it comes to crypto regulations, the world's economic decision makers are going to take a beat and regroup in July. The fear among some speculators was that the G20 would completely squash the rise of cryptocurrency through collaborative policies and policing across nations, but it looks like we've been spared... for now....

Episode #21 Google finally officially announced it's decision to block all crypto-related ads from all of its platforms beginning June 2018. For weeks, several crypto advertisers had been publicly complaining that their accounts were seeing significantly reduced traffic due to ads not being fully served by Google. Support reps of the search engine giant initially denied any change to their policy, but, it turns out, that was either wrong or simply untrue. This decision follows Facebook's...

Episode #20 The Wyoming State Legislature has passed 5 bills geared to make defining and regulating digital currencies easier than ever. Once signed by the Governor, they will become law. Forbes is reporting that the US State of Wyoming created a new new class of assets in defining cryptocurrency as “Utility Tokens.” While the CFTC and SEC are playing tug of war over whether cryptos should be regulated as commodities or securities, Wyoming has taken a pragmatic, proactive approach to...

Episode #19 Cryptocurrency exchanges are raking in millions of dollars, especially the top 10 exchanges, which are estimated to pull in a whopping $3 million USD each day. Interested in starting a crypto exchange business or a bitcoin franchise? Check this out... Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-05/crypto-exchanges-raking-in-billions-emerge-as-kings-of-coins

Episode #18 March 7th was one of the most active days we've seen in a while. The CFTC finally got it's ruling in Federal Court, the SEC made an official statement following up on subpoenas issued to ICOs, and Binance came down with a severe case of the bots. A U.S. district judge ruled in favor of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) definition of cryptocurrencies as commodities, which the regulator has observed since 2015. However, in it's own statement, the SEC announced...