BTC Sessions

Ben Perrin
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Sep 7, 2020 • 22min

BTC Double Bottom, Draper Hacked, Spencer Schiff Stacking Sats EP094

SUPPORT THE SHOW: LEDN offers Bitcoin backed loans – Sign up and get $50 free https://bit.ly/3gZFPOl Get Wasabi wallet and enjoy your Bitcoin privacy https://wasabiwallet.io/ Buy a Cobo Vault to secure your Bitcoin! https://bit.ly/2GgMFlH Crypto Cloaks: Get the BEST Bitcoin swag out there https://www.cryptocloaks.com/shop/ If you value my work and would like to send me a tip, they are always appreciated! LIGHTNING tips: https://tippin.me/@BTCsessions Join my Telegram channel! https://t.me/btc_sessions SHOW RESOURCES: Bitcoin price – possible double bottom, but CME gap still needs to be filled at $9650 https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-price-charts-hint-at-double-bottom-relief-rally-to-10-800 Bisq to add segwit support after new $45K grant https://www.btctimes.com/news/peer-to-peer-trading-platform-bisq-to-support-segwit Bitcoin QNA covers non-KYC Bitcoin options https://bitcoinqna.github.io/noKYConly/ Tim Draper hacked, account shills Bcash https://www.btctimes.com/news/opennode-co-founder-tim-drapers-bitcoin-cash-tweet-was-from-a-hacker Umbrel drops new update. Get early access here https://getumbrel.com/ Michael Flaxman creates guide for Multisig using Coldcard/Cobo/Specter/Paper Wallet https://btcguide.github.io/ Peter Schiff asks twitter who they trust more: Him or his 18 year old Bitcoiner son. Vote! https://twitter.com/PeterSchiff/status/1303009420713111553
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Sep 5, 2020 • 34min

Bitcoin Dips Below $10K, Sushiswap Exit Scam, Upgrade Wasabi EP093

SUPPORT THE SHOW: LEDN offers Bitcoin backed loans – Sign up and get $50 free https://bit.ly/3gZFPOl Get Wasabi wallet and enjoy your Bitcoin privacy https://wasabiwallet.io/ Buy a Cobo Vault to secure your Bitcoin! https://bit.ly/2GgMFlH Crypto Cloaks: Get the BEST Bitcoin swag out there https://www.cryptocloaks.com/shop/ If you value my work and would like to send me a tip, they are always appreciated! LIGHTNING tips: https://tippin.me/@BTCsessions Join my Telegram channel! https://t.me/btc_sessions SHOW RESOURCES: It’s all over, according to Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2020/09/03/if-bitcoin-drops-below-10000-its-all-over-heres-why/#7feb5530621c V shaped recovery unlikely https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-crypto-recovery-price-analysts Sushi-swap gets dumped by founder https://decrypt.co/40976/founder-of-sushiswap-defi-protocol-cashes-out PlanB, Preston Pysh and Jeff Booth get bullish https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/bitcoin-has-entered-phase-5 Zug Switzerland accepting Bitcoin for taxes https://www.btctimes.com/news/zug-will-start-accepting-taxes-in-bitcoin Upgrade Wasabi wallet, responsible disclosure https://blog.wasabiwallet.io/responsible-disclosure-v4-hard-fork/ Upgrade Trezor/Keepkey – passphrase vulnerability found https://www.btctimes.com/news/developer-discovers-ransom-attack-explot-within-keepkey-and-trezor-wallets Coinbase discusses Poop tokens. Actually. https://blog.coinbase.com/around-the-block-8-the-promise-and-potential-of-synthetic-assets-9fbb15c2b24e Sparrow wallet now available https://www.sparrowwallet.com/
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Sep 2, 2020 • 32min

Ecoinometrics: $41K BTC This Year, Bithumb Exchange Raided, DeFi Circus Continues EP092

SUPPORT THE SHOW: LEDN offers Bitcoin backed loans – Sign up and get $50 free https://bit.ly/31QduW7 Get Wasabi wallet and enjoy your Bitcoin privacy https://wasabiwallet.io/ Buy a Cobo Vault to secure your Bitcoin! https://bit.ly/2GgMFlH Crypto Cloaks: Get the BEST Bitcoin swag out there https://www.cryptocloaks.com/shop/ If you value my work and would like to send me a tip, they are always appreciated! LIGHTNING tips: https://tippin.me/@BTCsessions Join my Telegram channel! https://t.me/btc_sessions SHOW RESOURCES: Ecoinometrics projects $41K bitcoin by the end of the year https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-mirrors-gains-of-past-halvings-suggesting-41k-price-in-2020 Korean Exchange Bithumb raided by police https://www.coindesk.com/police-raid-headquarters-for-bithumb-koreas-largest-exchange European stock exchange adds first Bitcoin product https://decrypt.co/40517/major-european-stock-exchange-lists-first-bitcoin-product $500M in BTC now tokenized for DeFi projects https://cointelegraph.com/news/messari-500m-in-btc-tokenized-for-defi-is-just-the-beginning The DeFi circus continues with massive misallocation of capital https://cointelegraph.com/news/27m-of-sushi-funds-could-disappear-at-the-drop-of-a-chef-s-hat https://decrypt.co/40526/new-defi-protocol-locks-in-500m-in-hours Everyone’s fav adult site now accepts Bitcoin https://decrypt.co/40591/pornhub-adds-bitcoin-proving-satoshi-nakamoto-right Bcash set to fork… yet again! https://cointelegraph.com/news/roger-ver-to-bitcoin-abc-stick-a-fork-in-it-you-re-done
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Sep 1, 2020 • 33min

Plan B: $288K Bitcoin Nears, Raoul Pal Expects 50X, DeFi Bubble Insanity EP091

SUPPORT THE SHOW: LEDN offers Bitcoin backed loans – Sign up and get $50 free https://bit.ly/2YC32Q1 Get Wasabi wallet and enjoy your Bitcoin privacy https://wasabiwallet.io/ Buy a Cobo Vault to secure your Bitcoin! https://bit.ly/2GgMFlH Crypto Cloaks: Get the BEST Bitcoin swag out there https://www.cryptocloaks.com/shop/ If you value my work and would like to send me a tip, they are always appreciated! LIGHTNING tips: https://tippin.me/@BTCsessions Join my Telegram channel! https://t.me/btc_sessions SHOW RESOURCES: Stock to flow working “like clockwork” according to Plan B. $288K inevitable? https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-is-targeting-288k-stock-to-flow-price-like-clockwork-planb https://digitalik.net/btc/s2fx Fed zero rates “for years” and increased inflation https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/31/the-fed-could-be-locked-into-zero-rates-for-five-years-or-even-longer.html Raoul Pal says BTC to outperform gold, could 50-100X https://www.btctimes.com/news/raoul-pal-bitcoin-to-outperform-gold-has-potential-to-50x Miners see 23% revenue increase for August https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-mining-august-revenue-increase Swiss online retailer Digitec enourages full node use, maximalism, coin mixing and great podcasts https://twitter.com/simonlutz21/status/1300822063154855936 Electrum wallet phishing scam https://decrypt.co/40253/bitcoin-holder-loses-16-million-in-btc-to-well-known-scam https://decrypt.co/40408/another-bitcoiner-claims-he-lost-430000-in-electrum-wallet-scam DeFi Bubble getting insane https://cointelegraph.com/news/defi-bubble-still-growing-fast-data-from-twitter-analyst-shows https://cointelegraph.com/news/vitalik-buterin-compares-defi-tokenomics-to-the-fed-s-money-printer Tether flippens XRP https://cointelegraph.com/news/tether-surpasses-xrp-by-market-cap-again
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Aug 26, 2020 • 32min

Lopp Token Blowback, BTC Index Fund, RunTheNumbers Day EP090

SUPPORT THE SHOW: LEDN offers Bitcoin backed loans – Sign up and get $50 free https://bit.ly/34GvrZp NordVPN helps with your internet privacy – Get 70% off https://nordvpn.org/btcsessions Get Wasabi wallet and enjoy your privacy https://wasabiwallet.io/ Get a Ledger Backup Pack – Secure Your Bitcoin! https://shop.ledger.com/products/ledger-backup-pack?r=faca MY ALL-ENCOMPASSING GUIDE TO GETTING STARTED WITH BITCOIN https://www.btcsessions.ca/post/how-to-buy-sell-and-use-bitcoin-in-canada Buy Bitcoin in Canada on Coinberry and get $20 after your first $50 purchase https://app.coinberry.com/invite/c5d52730857 Buy Bitcoin in Canada using Shakepay and get $10 for free after your first $100 purchase: https://shakepay.me/r/HUQFI60 If you value my work and would like to send me a tip, they are always appreciated! LIGHTNING tips: https://tippin.me/@BTCsessions Join my Telegram channel! https://t.me/btc_sessions SHOW RESOURCES: Jameson Lopp and other Bitcoiners seem to be shilling an ERC20 based exchange token for its IPO https://decrypt.co/39769/bitcoin-backer-jameson-lopp-defends-support-inx-token-ipo https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-maximalists-accused-of-shilling-an-sec-cleared-token Fidelity Chief Strategist Starts BTC Index Fund https://www.coindesk.com/fidelitys-chief-strategist-starts-bitcoin-index-fund DeFi Boom is just ICOs 2.0 https://www.coindesk.com/defi-ico-boom-regulators-circling Largest synchronized Bitcoin supply audit coming September 23rd https://www.btctimes.com/news/bitcoin-supply-to-see-synchronized-audit Shakepay does proof of reserves, gets cold wallet insurance https://www.coindesk.com/canada-cryptocurrency-exchange-shakepay-insurance-audit LND upgrade lifts removes channel size limits https://www.btctimes.com/news/major-lnd-upgrade-enables-bigger-lightning-channels
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Aug 24, 2020 • 29min

IMF Misses The Point, IRS Pries Into Your Hodlings, Snappa Has BTC Reserves EP089

SUPPORT THE SHOW: LEDN offers Bitcoin backed loans – Sign up and get $50 free https://bit.ly/34GvrZp NordVPN helps with your internet privacy – Get 70% off https://nordvpn.org/btcsessions Get Wasabi wallet and enjoy your privacy https://wasabiwallet.io/ Get a Ledger Backup Pack – Secure Your Bitcoin! https://shop.ledger.com/products/ledger-backup-pack?r=faca MY ALL-ENCOMPASSING GUIDE TO GETTING STARTED WITH BITCOIN https://www.btcsessions.ca/post/how-to-buy-sell-and-use-bitcoin-in-canada Buy Bitcoin in Canada on Coinberry and get $20 after your first $50 purchase https://app.coinberry.com/invite/c5d52730857 Buy Bitcoin in Canada using Shakepay and get $10 for free after your first $100 purchase: https://shakepay.me/r/HUQFI60 If you value my work and would like to send me a tip, they are always appreciated! LIGHTNING tips: https://tippin.me/@BTCsessions Join my Telegram channel! https://t.me/btc_sessions SHOW RESOURCES: IMF video on “cryptocurrency” falls flat, seems to miss the point https://cointelegraph.com/news/so-many-things-wrong-with-imf-education-video-says-crypto-twitter IRS puts your Bitcoin and crypto holdings front and center this tax season https://www.btctimes.com/news/irs-moves-crypto-tax-section-to-the-top-of-the-tax-declaration-form Canadian company Snappa announces significant portion of reserve assets now Bitcoin https://twitter.com/cgimmer/status/1297891383227842561 https://chrisgimmer.com/bitcoin-reserve-asset/?s=09 Ryanair CEO: “Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme” https://decrypt.co/39584/ryanair-ceo-calls-bitcoin-a-ponzi-scheme-after-scam-fakes-endorsement Court rules exchanges not liable for forks and airdrops https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2020/a157690.html Grab a copy of Citadel21! https://www.citadel21.com/ How To Audit Bitcoin https://www.academy.btse.com/post/audit-bitcoin Lily Wallet multisig tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5UIvCi9FSM
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Aug 19, 2020 • 31min

Is $100K BTC Inevitable, Paris Hilton Cat Art Nets $17K ETH, Hashrate Falls Due To Floods EP088

SUPPORT THE SHOW: LEDN offers Bitcoin backed loans – Sign up and get $50 free https://bit.ly/3iXrZxi NordVPN helps with your internet privacy – Get 70% off https://nordvpn.org/btcsessions Get Wasabi wallet and enjoy your privacy https://wasabiwallet.io/ Get a Ledger Backup Pack – Secure Your Bitcoin! https://shop.ledger.com/products/ledger-backup-pack?r=faca MY ALL-ENCOMPASSING GUIDE TO GETTING STARTED WITH BITCOIN https://www.btcsessions.ca/post/how-to-buy-sell-and-use-bitcoin-in-canada Buy Bitcoin in Canada on Coinberry and get $20 after your first $50 purchase https://app.coinberry.com/invite/c5d52730857 Buy Bitcoin in Canada using Shakepay and get $10 for free after your first $100 purchase: https://shakepay.me/r/HUQFI60 If you value my work and would like to send me a tip, they are always appreciated! LIGHTNING tips: https://tippin.me/@BTCsessions Join my Telegram channel! https://t.me/btc_sessions SHOW RESOURCES: Bitcoin price talk – is $100K inevitable? https://cointelegraph.com/news/a-critical-mass-of-long-term-btc-hodlers-seem-to-be-making-100k-inevitable https://cointelegraph.com/news/98-of-all-bitcoin-is-now-worth-more-than-when-you-bought-it https://cointelegraph.com/news/only-something-unexpected-can-stop-bitcoin-price-bull-run-bloomberg https://digitalik.net/btc/ US Wants Edward Snowden’s money – including proceeds from talks at Bitcoin conferences https://decrypt.co/39130/edward-snowden-paid-35000-talk-bitcoin Paris Hilton sells digital cat picture for $17,000 of ETH – natural selection continues to function as intended https://cointelegraph.com/news/paris-hilton-drew-a-cat-and-it-somehow-sold-for-17-000-in-eth Former contestant/winner of Deal Or No Deal gets scammed out of $39,000 from fraudulent Bitcoin investment ad on Facebook https://www.coindesk.com/facebook-scam-bitcoin Rainstorms and flooding in China drop global hashrate https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-mining-hash-rate-rainstorms-china Lily Wallet new release includes Trezor/Ledger support http://lily.kevinmulcrone.com/#download https://github.com/KayBeSee/lily-wallet/releases/tag/v1.0.0 myNode new release with updates to Spectre, Thunderhub and more https://mynodebtc.com/ https://twitter.com/mynodebtc/status/1294836783063105541
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Aug 14, 2020 • 30min

Dave Portnoy Buys BTC With Winklevoss, FEDcoin, BitMEX Sweeping KYC EP087

SUPPORT THE SHOW: LEDN offers Bitcoin backed loans – Sign up and get $50 free https://bit.ly/3gYAGXz NordVPN helps with your internet privacy – Get 70% off https://nordvpn.org/btcsessions Get Wasabi wallet and enjoy your privacy https://wasabiwallet.io/ Get a Ledger Backup Pack – Secure Your Bitcoin! https://shop.ledger.com/products/ledger-backup-pack?r=faca MY ALL-ENCOMPASSING GUIDE TO GETTING STARTED WITH BITCOIN https://www.btcsessions.ca/post/how-to-buy-sell-and-use-bitcoin-in-canada Buy Bitcoin in Canada on Coinberry and get $20 after your first $50 purchase https://app.coinberry.com/invite/c5d52730857 Buy Bitcoin in Canada using Shakepay and get $10 for free after your first $100 purchase: https://shakepay.me/r/HUQFI60 If you value my work and would like to send me a tip, they are always appreciated! LIGHTNING tips: https://tippin.me/@BTCsessions Join my Telegram channel! https://t.me/btc_sessions SHOW RESOURCES: Dave Portnoy hosts Winklevoss twins to buy Bitcoin https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1293993222868369408?s=09 https://twitter.com/BTCsessions/status/1294330485586276353 Federal Reserve experimenting with “Fedcoin” https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fed-says-it-is-developing-an-experimental-digital-currency-11597352302 BitMEX Announces sweeping KYC https://blog.bitmex.com/announcing-the-bitmex-user-verification-programme/ An examination of Bitcoin as a reserve asset in the wake of the Microstrategy treasury buy https://blog.knoxcustody.com/bitcoin-safest-reserve-asset/ https://twitter.com/PrestonPysh/status/1294247459993116676 Wasabi wallet blog on the recently found Tor vulnerability targeting Bitcoiners https://blog.wasabiwallet.io/wasabi-wallet-tor-ssl-stripping-attack/amp/?__twitter_impression=true New release of Spectre multisig for desktop https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop/releases/tag/v0.6.1 Using Lightning Network with varying levels of control (BTSE Academy) https://www.academy.btse.com/post/using-lightning-network
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Aug 12, 2020 • 22min

Pierre Rochard Angers Ethereans, MicroStrategy Buys 21K BTC, New Grayscale Ad EP086

SUPPORT THE SHOW: LEDN offers Bitcoin backed loans – Sign up and get $50 free https://bit.ly/2XNH7oE Get a Ledger Backup Pack – Secure Your Bitcoin! https://shop.ledger.com/products/ledger-backup-pack?r=faca NordVPN helps with your internet privacy – Get 70% off https://nordvpn.org/btcsessions Get Wasabi wallet and enjoy your privacy https://wasabiwallet.io/ MY ALL-ENCOMPASSING GUIDE TO GETTING STARTED WITH BITCOIN https://www.btcsessions.ca/post/how-to-buy-sell-and-use-bitcoin-in-canada Buy Bitcoin in Canada on Coinberry and get $20 after your first $50 purchase https://app.coinberry.com/invite/c5d52730857 Buy Bitcoin in Canada using Shakepay and get $10 for free after your first $100 purchase: https://shakepay.me/r/HUQFI60 If you value my work and would like to send me a tip, they are always appreciated! LIGHTNING tips: https://tippin.me/@BTCsessions Join my Telegram channel! https://t.me/btc_sessions SHOW RESOURCES: Ethereum’s unknown supply queried by Pierre Rochard https://decrypt.co/38442/ethereums-unknown-supply-puts-its-users-at-risk-says-pierre-rochard MicroStrategy buys 0.1% of the entire Bitcoin supply https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200811005331/en/MicroStrategy-Adopts-Bitcoin-Primary-Treasury-Reserve-Asset Leger Nano X/S get firmware updates https://www.ledger.com/first-ever-firmware-update-coming-to-the-ledger-nano-x Vulnerability details https://www.ledger.com/enhancing-the-ledger-nano-xs-security New Grayscale ad https://twitter.com/Grayscale/status/1292913760982765572 BTSE Academy piece on Bitcoin meeting people’s needs differently https://www.academy.btse.com/post/bitcoin-freedom-trojan-horse
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Aug 5, 2020 • 28min

Dave Portnoy Wants Bitcoin, Cashapp BTC Volume Explodes, Bcash Fork Fail EP085

SUPPORT THE SHOW: LEDN offers Bitcoin backed loans – Sign up and get $50 free https://bit.ly/3k7Xt5j NordVPN helps with your internet privacy – Get 70% off https://nordvpn.org/btcsessions Get Wasabi wallet and enjoy your privacy https://wasabiwallet.io/ MY ALL-ENCOMPASSING GUIDE TO GETTING STARTED WITH BITCOIN https://www.btcsessions.ca/post/how-to-buy-sell-and-use-bitcoin-in-canada Buy Bitcoin in Canada on Coinberry and get $20 after your first $50 purchase https://app.coinberry.com/invite/c5d52730857 Buy Bitcoin in Canada using Shakepay and get $10 for free after your first $100 purchase: https://shakepay.me/r/HUQFI60 If you value my work and would like to send me a tip, they are always appreciated! LIGHTNING tips: https://tippin.me/@BTCsessions Join my Telegram channel! https://t.me/btc_sessions SHOW RESOURCES: Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports is going to buy Bitcoin https://decrypt.co/37582/barstool-sports-president-buy-all-the-bitcoin https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1291033336249556992 Fed looks to target increased inflation of 2-4% https://decrypt.co/37655/bitcoin-gets-its-moment-as-us-feds-consider-inflation-raise Bloomberg claims Bitcoin stabilizing at 6X gold price, could go to $1800 https://cointelegraph.com/news/bloomberg-bitcoin-is-stabilizing-at-6x-the-price-of-gold Cashapp volume up 150% from last quarter https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1290796533328285696 Looks like we may have another bcash fork on our hands. Grab your popcorn. https://cointelegraph.com/news/tensions-flare-is-bitcoin-cash-headed-to-another-catastrophic-fork https://twitter.com/deadalnix/status/1291000893127696384 New wasabi wallet release adds payjoin https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WalletWasabi/releases/tag/v1.1.12 Trampoline nodes explained on the BTSE Academy https://www.academy.btse.com/post/trampoline-nodes

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