Episodes
Welcome to the Crypto Basic Podcast! Today Brent is joined by Amrit Kumar, president of Zilliqa, a high-performance, high-security blockchain platform for enterprises and next-gen applications. Amrit goes over the ins and outs of Zilliqa, how it works and what the project's goals for the future are. Tune in to find out more! Ziliqa's Website: https://zilliqa.com/ Amrit's LinkedIn profile: https://sg.linkedin.com/in/amrit-kumar-6aa66151
Published 02/07/20
Hello everyone and welcome to this week's Flagship Friday (Saturday? Who knows at this point) where we go over the most important crypto news of the past week! This week we're talking about smART contracts (not a hard pun to figure out), Justin Sun being sort of a doofus, Dubai going full on tax haven mode on crypto, and much much more. Tune in now! Rapid FireTaxact is charging more for your service if you click "I traded crypto" and it doesn't add any steps. Don't use themIf you make under...
Published 02/01/20
Hello hello hello! Welcome to another episode of Flagship Friday, our weekly show where we cover all kinds of crypto news and shenanigans. This week we're talking about things like new bills concerning taxation and crypto, as well as Canada's fresh new way of looking at things crypto related. Also, Peter Schiff's 7-step program to not making any sense will a-maze you. Finally, Venezuela is unfortunately doing worse and worse, and scammers do, in fact, still be scammin. What a life. Tune in...
Published 01/24/20
Today we have a new episode format for you! It's called Red Flags , and in it we're gonna be going over some of the crypto projects of the world that are, let's say... questionable. After reviewing certain events or clues that might be considered red flaggish, we'll be giving our final verdict. So, for the first installment we'll be going over coss.io, a crypto exchange with a troublesome past and worrisome present. The future still lies ahead, but we're not convinced that it's gonna be good...
Published 01/22/20
Hello everyone! Welcome to Flagship Friday. This week we're going over blockchain development's rise in demand, Akon founding a city and Craig Wright... again. Tune in for more! * Rapid Fire * Blockchain is Most In-Demand Skill in 2020 LinkedIn Report ( https://cryptopurview.com/blockchain-is-the-top-in-demand-skill-in-2020-report-linkedin/ ) Companies weren't even looking at blockchain a year ago and now it's the top in-demand hard skill—beating out other hot skills like AI and cloud...
Published 01/17/20
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, tooo... The Crypties 2019! - our YEARLY award show where we give awards out to the people, companies and even events that deserve them. We've got old categories, new categories, serious categories - like Crypto Person of the Year, and dumb categories - like the Carlos Matos Award (self-explanatory). Join us in the gala and see you in the afterparty! * Favorite Person in Crypto 2019 - K * Charles Hoskinson * Peter McCormack * CZ - WINNER * Andreas Antonopoulos *...
Published 01/13/20
Welcome to the first Flagship of the decade! Unfortunately Adam's preoccupied with other biznis this week, so Brent and Karim are here to start 2020 off, going over the stories that we missed over the holidays. In this episode we talk about Google possibly targeting crypto on their platforms, about the past decade's investing rundown, about Brent finally (maybe) tracking down the guy that scammed him and much, much more - only on the CryptoBasic Podcast. * Rapid Fire * KARIM QUESTION * VICE...
Published 01/03/20
Welcome to this episode of the CryptoConvos series of the Crypto Basic Podcast! Today we've got Grant Blaisdell of Coinfirm on the show, here to talk all about what they do and how they do it over at Coinfirm, a crypto exchange risk assessment service. He goes in depth about the mission of Coinfirm to eliminate the crypto world's tarnished, scammy reputation, as well as help people reclaim their stolen crypto. Grant was super compelling to talk to, and his chat with Brent made for an...
Published 12/24/19
Welcome to Flagship Friday, where we go over the most important crypto news of the week. This time around we're talking about Ethereum's new Istanbul upgrade, about India proposing banning cryptocurrency, and we're going over scams. A lot of them. You'll have to tune in and see. * Rapid Fire * Jack Dorsey Tweet Thread For Open Sourced Social Media Standards ( https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766078468911106?s=20 ) * BitMex Gets Sued By Seed Investor (...
Published 12/14/19
Welcome to this week's Flagship Friday, our weekly series where we discuss all the latest news from the cryptoverse! This episode actually covers the past two weeks, as we skipped last week due to Thanksgiving. So, tune in to hear about crypto CEOs being appointed as senators, crypto developers being arrested for working with North Korea and what the 5 biggest trends for cryptocurrency in 2020 will be. All of the above -and more- in this episode of the Crypto Basic Podcast. * Rapid Fire *...
Published 12/06/19
Welcome to another episode of CryptoConvos, where today we have a VERY special guest who needs no introduction to most of our listeners! He is very well known in the cryptoverse for his educational work and to-the-point, in-depth analysis of various aspects of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. He has published several books about crypto and has been attending conferences as a speaker since as early as 2012. Join us in welcoming Andreas M. Antonopoulos to the CryptoBasic...
Published 11/27/19
Welcome to this week's Flagship Friday, where we discuss all the happenings in the crypto space of the past week! Tune in to find out what China is up to again, what a political simulation revealed about the crypto-Yuan's flexibility and potential, and much, much more. Also, we've got a couple of announcements... a certain Greek SOMEONE will be joining us for an interview next week, so be sure to stay updated! Also, we're excited to announce that we're nearing this year's broadcast of the...
Published 11/23/19
Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to this week's Flagship Friday! We do apologize for last week's absence but Brent had to scramble off to NY and Karim and Adam just couldn't figure out a recording time. Lovely lads. Anyway, enough about our inability to function - today we're looking at topics like Brave 1.0 and the Samsung Blockchain being released, Bitcoin's all time highs going under investigation, scams galore (who would've thought?) and much, much more. Bonus: we don't talk...
Published 11/15/19
Come one, come all, to this week's Flagship Friday, where we cover the week's crypto news and happenings! Today we're taking a look at Uber getting into the crypto world with Uber Money, we're taking a look at China that, in true China fashion, goes bullish on blockchain in the most authoritarian, orwellian way possible, and finally - we're celebrating! Big Daddy Bitcoin is 11 years old as of today!  All of the above and more on today's episode! Dive into the cryptoverse with us on this...
Published 11/02/19
Welcome to another Flagship Friday, where we discuss the most important happenings in the crypto community weekly! Today we're talking a lot about what the big ol' giants have been up to, with Google's quantum computer running big ol' data pretty quickly, and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg doing a big ol' testimony for like, what, the billionth time? Also, we're taking a look at a... questionable feature of the Lightning Network and talking about something very unfortunate that happened to the...
Published 10/26/19
Another week, another Flagship! This week, the CryptoBasic Avengers have assembled to talk s**t about big tech. The roasting session begins with Telegram and ends with Libra, given the fact that all b******t leads to the Big Zucc. Additionally, Epic Games is starting to get its feet wet with crypto and eToro is making... interesting strides in the world of bot trading. All of the above and more on today's episode, so tune in! Dive into the cryptoverse with us on this week's Flagship...
Published 10/19/19
There are scammers out there impersonating us in the Discord arena, we need your help to find them if you can.    
Published 10/18/19
Rapid Fire UNICEF launches crypto fund UNICEF can now receive, hold, and disperse donations of ether and bitcoin cryptocurrencies. Funding open source technology benefiting children and young people around the world Median US Income by year in BTC Vitalik Buterin claimed that Ethereum will be more secure than Bitcoin after it moves to proof of stake over the next few years. POS introduces a system where validators can be questioned. So you can challenge a block for being illegitimate...
Published 10/13/19
This week the team talks about cryptocurrency news regarding Libra, scams and more.   Rapid Fire IKEA just allowed an invoice to be paid via the Ethereum blockchain (This was a stablecoin of some kind) BlockOne was fined 24M by the SEC. Siacoin only had to pay 225k CEO of Beaxy Exchange disappears, looks like they're insolvent. (Crypto Exchanges Creating a Token Rating System) Coinbase Blog - "Introducing the Crypto Rating Council" Create system that rates tokens on how close...
Published 10/06/19
Another week, another flagship. This time, all 3 of the guys are on the show, as Brent's sniffles have subsided and he's pumped up to talk crypto with the crew. Today we go over how Kik's ditching its messaging service to focus on crypto, how Telegram is about to bamboozle libra, as well as the entire crypto space, in the most cool-guys-don't-look-at-explosions way possible, and we're taking a look at 640 crypto projects that haven't pubished a single line of code in over a YEAR. We also...
Published 09/27/19
Welcome once again to Flagship Friday! Although one day late, we're still calling it Flagship Friday to keep our tradition alive. Flagship Extended Weekend didn't sound all that nice. Tune in as Karim and Adam (Brent's got the sniffles :') dive into EOS and its latest scandal, talk about North Korea's crypto project and the Federal Reserve's intervention on the economy, along with some juicy commentary and rants by Karim, our in-house "important things" expert. So if you wanna hear Karim...
Published 09/21/19
The CryptoBasic crew is back from the dead! Last week Brent had the amazing idea of recording an episode while sitting on the passenger seat of his car and talking to the rest of us through his mobile data connection, all while recording NOT through an actual microphone, but an external recorder. This trainwreck of a sentence itself should be, I believe, enough explanation as to why last week's Flagship didn't happen. This week however, all's set to go and we're back at it again! Tune in to...
Published 09/13/19
We're starting the week off with an exciting interview, as we've got Marius Kramer, number #1 writer on Quora for cryptocurrencies and fund manager on Emberfund! We talk all kinds of bitcoin, and of course, all kinds of shitcoin. Marius shares his insights on today's crypto market and its future, goes over his process of evaluating a project and -get this- goes over ALL of the top 300 coins. All of them. If your favourite kinda-red-flaggy coin is on his s**t list... then you're probably gonna...
Published 09/02/19
On today's show, Brent is joined by Kevin Ting, co-founder of CryptoCanary, a website focused on consolidating opinions and reviews of various projects in the cryptocurrency/blockchain world, providing users with a community-driven platform for researching before investing. Kevin talks to us about how the platform works, what shapes a crypto project's rating, how they deal with "review-bombing" issues and inaccurate reviews and what the project's near future looks like. If you wanna know how...
Published 09/01/19
Any Flagship Friday is a happy Flagship Friday when we've got s**t to talk about Craig Wright, scamlord extraordinaire, Satoshi Suck-a-moto, the douchebag to end all douchebags. And guess what: this is a happy Flagship Friday. :) So, JOIN US on this episode to listen to us talk s**t about Craig Wright and discuss his defeat in court, something that we've been longing for for quite some time.  Also, the wonderful People's Republic of China is making a step towards transparency and democracy...
Published 08/30/19