Oct 29, 2024 | Episodes, General
In a world where greed and corruption run deep, a group of outliers who, weary of the broken system embraced a mysterious new currency that promises freedom but comes at a cost. Dirty Coin, the movie, probes into the underbelly of finance, crime, and rebellion. The film follows As bitcoin miners battle corrupt governments, environmental myths, and mainstream misinformation, the line between revolution and destruction becomes razor-thin. With regulators circling and temperatures rising, the stakes have never been higher. Join us for a talk with the Director of the new award-winning movie, Dirty Coin, on episode #748 of The Bad Crypto Podcast.
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Alana Mediavilla is a Puerto Rican filmmaker who previously produced and directed videos at Google, with a deep background in Silicon Valley’s tech scene. She owned a creative production agency, where she produced content for top tech companies. In 2021, Alana returned to Puerto Rico and founded Campo Libre, a production company dedicated to creating innovative films and shows that focus on stories designed to open minds and push humanity forward.
Dirty Coin, a groundbreaking documentary on Bitcoin mining, premiered in Warsaw at the Bitcoin Film Festival, where it took home the Best Movie award. Since then, the film has received five nominations for Best Feature Documentary across several US and international festivals including the New York Independent Film festival. With 13 screenings to date, including a recent showing in Washington, DC, Dirty Coin continues to make waves. It has also been featured in Bitcoin Magazine and Forbes, drawing attention to its timely message about Bitcoin’s role in addressing global energy issues.
In an innovative move, Dirty Coin is being distributed independently through screenings on demand. This model allows audiences to request local showings, creating an opportunity for fans to become movie captains. By doing so, they can host events and even earn profits, as we bypass traditional Hollywood routes to bring the film directly to the people.
This fall, Dirty Coin will be distributed through Indie Rights, an independent film distributor specializing in bringing indie films to a global audience. In addition to our screenings on demand, we’ll be hitting major film markets to target TV channels, airlines, and streaming platforms. Our goal is to make Dirty Coin accessible to viewers at home, on the go, or in the air, reaching a broader audience and sparking deeper conversations about Bitcoin and its role in solving global energy challenges.
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Oct 27, 2022 | News
Bitcoin and crypto have had an up day and we think we know why. Green is always better than red, unless you are a short-seller. Meanwhile, there’s a bunch of bitcoin miners just sitting in boxes, reddit has out-NFT’d OpenSea, and Elon Musk is finally buying Twitter this week. Liberals are angry. What else is new?
Let’s take a look a the big news for the day and make fun of people worthy of mocking on our Bad News episode #639 of The Bad Crypto Podcast.
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- 00:00 – Intro
- 02:00 – Crypto marketcap review
- 03:40 – What’s Elon going to do with Twitter, and will it involve $DOGE? X.com? Catch our interview with Dogechain in http://badco.in/638
- 05:40 – Crypto Markets See Largest Short Liquidations in 15 Months
- 08:20 – Bitcoin mining rigs sitting unused
- 09:33 – UK has a new name for stablecoins
- 12:20 – Elon Musk finally buys Twitter
- 17:18 – Reddit has Out-NFT’d OpenSea, onboarding 3 million users to web3
- 21:20 – Become a member of The Bad Crypto Nifty Club to get airdropped NFTs at http://badcrypto.uncut.fm
- 22:40 – Closing Remarks
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Oct 13, 2021 | Episodes
Jihan Wu: Mining His Own Business
After doing this show for almost 4 ½ years, some consider us OGs in the space. We aren’t unless OG means “old guys”. In episode 557, we speak with an actual OG in the Bitcoin world. Jihan Wu has been into Bitcoin for more than ten years and founded Bitmain, a multi-billion dollar semiconductor company specializing in chips for crypto mining.
Now Jihan is the founder of Matrixport, Asia’s fastest-growing digital asset platform. Jihan is very thoughtful and methodical in choosing his words., so you’ll want to listen carefully as he takes us on his journey through the crypto space.
We’re glad to finally have the inspiration for the Blockchain Hero Megamine on this show. So join us in saying Woo hoo! as we welcome Jihan Wu to episode #557 of The Bad Crypto Podcast.
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Jihan Wu, Matrixport
- Jihan Wu is the co-founder and chairman of Chinese mining-chip giant Bitmain Technologies.
- Founded in 2013, Bitmain is China’s largest cryptocurrency mining-chip company; it specializes in selling ASIC-chip miners.
- Bitmain reportedly filed for a U.S. IPO in October 2019, more than a year after a failed attempt to go public on Hong Kong’s stock exchange.
- Wu received a dual degree in economics and psychology from Peking University.
- He co-founded a crypto-financial services startup called Matrixport in February 2019.
- He owns about 20% of Bitmain, which is less than Zhan’s 36% stake.
Jihan Wu (Chinese: 吳忌寒; born 1986) is a Chinese billionaire cryptocurrency entrepreneur. Together with Micree Zhan, he co-founded Bitmain in 2013, which has become the world’s largest computer chip company for bitcoin mining, with US$2.5 billion in revenue in 2017. He is a leading supporter of Bitcoin Cash, a hard fork of bitcoin created in 2017 with increased transaction capacity. He topped Forbes’ 2020 World’s Billionaires List as one of the five youngest billionaires in Asia.[1]
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Jihan Wu (Chinese: 吳忌寒; born 1986) is a Chinese billionaire cryptocurrency entrepreneur. Together with Micree Zhan, he co-founded Bitmain in 2013, which has become the world’s largest computer chip company for bitcoin mining, with US$2.5 billion in revenue in 2017. He is a leading supporter of Bitcoin Cash, a hard fork of bitcoin created in 2017 with increased transaction capacity. He topped Forbes’ 2020 World’s Billionaires List as one of the five youngest billionaires in Asia.[1]
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Feb 25, 2021 | Episodes, News
The Fed Goes Down… Literally
The crypto markets had the anticipated pullbacks this week as we saw Bitcoin drop over $10,000 in the blink of an eye. Are we going back up soon or will the bears take over for a time?
Bitcoin and pizza are in the news once again as delivery driver received a pretty awesome tip. Merchants are looking towards crypto as VISA and Mastercard raise their rates. And the Federal Reserve’s wire and ACH systems went down. And we don’t mean downtown. We mean literally.
Crypto.com is burning 70B of their CRO tokens, Square generates $1.7 billion in crypto revenue, and the NFT world has reached into the physical world as Topps’ Garbage Pail Kids crossover into the retail space.
Here’s a riddle for you. If the Federal Reserve is unable to do their business and none of us pay attention, does anyone really give a crap? Let’s discuss this and more on our bad news episode #490 of The Bad Crypto Podcast.
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The AnyTaskTM Platform, a freelance marketplace, is the only place that allows freelancers to sell digital Tasks and earn ETN, Electroneum Ltd’s cryptocurrency; alleviating the need for a bank account and with no fees for Sellers.
Are you an artist, illustrator, designer, or animator? AnyTask.com is looking for artists like you to join their new NFT category. NFTs are digital assets that represent a variety of unique items, including digital art – which is where you come in. You don’t need to have any technical knowledge at all, your skills as an artist are exactly what the AnyTaskTM Platform are looking for to grow this category and meet the demands of Buyers.
The ETN-Network has gained widespread adoption as a mobile-first payment solution for global eCommerce applications and over the last three years has attracted more than 4 million users worldwide.
Yield.app, our favorite up and coming DeFi application, gives you 20% APY with 10% paid out in stablecoins for holding funds in your wallet, covering you against the volatility that scares even the most experienced crypto investor. Check them out at Yield.app to learn more!
That was an exciting week! Steady accumulation might have been easier than the rollercoaster that Bitcoin went through over the last seven days but having dropped more than 20 percent, it ends the week down under 4 percent and still above $50,000. Despite the liquidation of $1.64 billion worth of Bitcoin futures, a number of metrics suggest there are still plenty of reasons to remain bullish. And those reasons include the possibility of being able to cash in with handsome profits—as one delivery driver has recently done.
The driver delivered a pizza to a Bitcoin holder in 2013, and agreed to accept his five-dollar tip in Bitcoin. He’s now cashing it in for $400. Square is hoping to do even better. The company has announced that it’s investing another $170 million in Bitcoin, in addition to the $50 million investment it made in October.
Other people haven’t been so happy this week. An operational error brought down the Federal Reserve’s online portal for more than an hour. And winter storms turned off the electricity system in Texas but the mining operation in the state is too small to have contributed.
Some people in Texas who managed to keep the lights on found themselves with big fees. They’re not the only ones. Visa and Mastercard are both planning to raise their swipe fees, a move that could make cryptocurrencies more attractive. That can only happen, though, if gas fees fall. SushiSwap has proposed bringing them down by building Ethereum’s platform on the Solana ecosystem and integrating with Raydium’s platform.
Electroneum is trying to help people take off. Its recently updated app now accepts ETN as payment for parking reservations at most airports in America.
In Nigeria, the Securities and Exchange Commission has said that the crypto market could be a valuable way to attract foreign investment. The SEC will work with the central bank to build a regulatory framework. In Switzerland, ETP issuer 21Shares is already roaring ahead. The company has doubled the value of its managed assets from $500 million to $1 billion in less than two weeks. And in China, MYBank and WeBank, which are owned by ANT Group and Tencent, will take part in a trial of the digital Yuan.
It’s not all forward progress though. OKCoin has delisted the two Bitcoin forks, BSV and BCH. The exchange cited a “malicious misinformation war” by Craig Wright and others. And Bitfinex and Tether have settled with the New York Attorney General’s office. The companies agreed to pay $18.5 million without admitting liability. The Attorney General’s office had accused Bitfinex of using Tether’s funds to cover $850 million lost to payment processor Crypto Capital in 2018.
The world of NFTs has been taking off, and it’s now joining the mainstream. Topps, which has been selling tradable cards for more than 80 years, will include code cards in the Garbage Pail Kids packs it sells in Walmart and Target. The cards sell on the WAX blockchain, which is increasingly showing the value of no-gas transactions.
Let’s hope next week is quieter.
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Feb 7, 2021 | Episodes
Is DUST the Crypto of the Internet?
A decade ago in this very galaxy, anyone could set up a bitcoin miner. You’ll be pulling down 55 bitcoin in nothing flat. You could even go to an online faucet, open it up, and bitcoin would flow into your wallet. Those days are gone. But finding ways to innovate making crypto accessible to all is something that continues to this very day.
In this episode, we’re pleased to welcome a previous guest back to the show to tell you the story of DUST, a crypto that you easily mine just by doing things you are already doing online. Kurt Braget will join us and share all the dusty goodness. You might find yourself being a dust aficionado before the show is over.
I’m going to wave my magic wand, sprinkle some dust into the atmosphere, and POOF, you’re listening to episode #485 of The Bad Crypto Podcast.
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The AnyTaskTM Platform, a freelance marketplace, is the only place that allows freelancers to sell digital Tasks and earn ETN, Electroneum Ltd’s cryptocurrency; alleviating the need for a bank account and with no fees for Sellers.
Are you an artist, illustrator, designer, or animator? AnyTask.com is looking for artists like you to join their new NFT category. NFTs are digital assets that represent a variety of unique items, including digital art – which is where you come in. You don’t need to have any technical knowledge at all, your skills as an artist are exactly what the AnyTaskTM Platform are looking for to grow this category and meet the demands of Buyers.
The ETN-Network has gained widespread adoption as a mobile-first payment solution for global eCommerce applications and over the last three years has attracted more than 4 million users worldwide.
HODLCommunity uses altruistic tokenomics and algorithmic finance to offer reliable growth that’s mathematically based on time and transactions. Joining the HODLCommunity means joining progressive thinking individuals excited about a sustainable DeFi economy.
HODLCommunity assets are built on predictable growth, which removes volatility and manipulation. Their ledger-agnosticism and cross-chain compatibility attract a wide range of community members, merchants, and business initiatives to achieve mass adoption without the end-user having to understand ‘crypto’ or yield finance.
Lattice is a digital asset exchange, unlike any other currently operating in the DeFi market. The team behind this project has designed the exchange focused on liquidity providers and the DeFi users alike. This protocol is built for security, speed, affordability, and scalability all from a decentralized governance – for a truly open financial network
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