Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell

In this conversation with Lyn Alden from the Oslo Freedom Forum in Norway we discuss:

Market selloff

Bitcoin as a payment system in developing nations

Crypto winter

LUNA/Terra Meltdown

Future of stable coins

Inflation and Fed tightening

Lyn Alden is a full-time investor and independent financial analyst. She has been performing investment research for over 15 years in various public and private capacities, and founded Lyn Alden Investment Strategy in 2016. Her goal is to provide institutional-level research in plain English, so institutional and retail investors can benefit. Follow Lyn on Twitter at www.twitter.com/LynAldenContact and www.LynAlden.com.

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Visit https://www.okcoin.com/natalie for $50 in Bitcoin when you sign up.

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Hong Fang is the CEO of Okcoin, a global, US-licensed cryptocurrency platform serving 190+ countries — the largest reach of any US-based exchange. Having experienced the opening of China’s economy, Hong worked at Goldman Sachs for nearly a decade, driven by her passion for free markets. She left Wall Street for cryptocurrency after realizing digital assets offer the financial inclusion that traditional finance only claims to. Hong joined Okcoin in 2019 after making a growth equity investment in the company, and has since overseen the company’s rapid growth. She holds an MBA in Finance, Accounting and Entrepreneurship from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. REFERRAL LINKS: Coin Stories is powered by BITCOIN 2023, which will be the BIGGEST BITCOIN EVENT IN HISTORY held in April 2023. If you missed Bitcoin 2022, make sure to head to @Bitcoin Magazine to find videos and highlights of all the biggest events and panels. You can get an early bird pass for Bitcoin 2023 at a steep discount if you head to: https://b.tc/conference/2023. Use code HODL for 10% off your pass.

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Okcoin is on a mission to make crypto investing and trading easily accessible to anyone around the world. We are building the next generation of tools to help onboard the investors and traders who have been on the fence about crypto. Okcoin is a globally licensed exchange with offices in San Francisco, Miami, Malta, Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan. We are a collective of global citizens with a common passion to help decentralize finance and level the economic playing field for everyone around the world. Visit https://www.okcoin.com/natalie for $50 in Bitcoin when you sign up.

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With iTrustCapital, you can actually invest in crypto without worrying about taxes, or fees. iTrustCapital allows their clients to invest in crypto through an individual retirement account, or an IRA. IRAs are tax sheltered accounts, which means all your crypto trading is tax-free and can even grow tax-free over time. The best part is that it’s totally free to open an account, and there are no hidden fees. You don’t need to pay any monthly subscription or membership fees either. If you open and fund an account, you will get a $100 funding bonus added to your account. To learn more, click the link below and open a free account to learn more. https://itrust.capital/nataliebrunell

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Time codes:

00:00 Promo codes 01:59 Live from Oslo Freedom Forum 02:36 Bitcoin price drop 03:34 Are we in a market or crypto winter? 05:55 Is this a crypto winter? 07:25 Federal Reserve actions 10:29 Terra LUNA meltdown 14:30 Coinbase, possible bankruptcy, exchange security 19:10 iTrustCapital break 19:58 Fold app break 20:30 Okcoin asset security 22:16 BTC in 2022 23:57 Okcoin delisting process 26:02 LUNA on Okcoin 26:37 Gambling on LUNA 28:55 Bringing Bitcoin to billions of people 31:05 Nerves over price fluctuations

In this Special Episode of Coin Stories I wanted to explore why some of Bitcoin's all-stars and most knowledgeable leaders have conviction in Bitcoin over other cryptocurrencies.

This week’s guests:

-Preston Pysh

-Robert Breedlove

-Mark Moss

-Alex Gladstein

-Aleks Svetski

-Cory Klippsten

-Max Keiser

Bios:

Robert Breedlove is the Founder and CEO of Parallax Digital, a global Bitcoin-focused hedge fund and consultancy firm. He is a freedom maximalist, a philosopher, writer, and podcaster eager to spread the message that Bitcoin is Honest Money.

Alex Gladstein is Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation. He has also served as Vice President of Strategy for the Oslo Freedom Forum since its inception in 2009. He is an advocate for Bitcoin as a tool for freedom and human rights, and writes thought-provoking articles on how Bitcoin transforms lives.

Max Keiser is a podcaster and revered by some as the High Priest of Bitcoin. He’s been on a mission since 2011 to Orange Pill the world so countries, companies and people can mine and hoard Bitcoin to escape the despair of fiat money inflation and the impracticality of gold as a store of value.

Cory Klippsten is CEO of SwanBitcoin.com. He also serves as an advisor to Riot Blockchain, Unchained Capital, and Bitcoin Venture Fund, and is a partner in Bitcoiner Ventures. As an advisor he has supported more than $250M of fundraising since 2016, and as an angel has funded 20+ early stage startups.

Mark Moss is a professional investor, and host of the Market Disruptors YouTube channel and podcast. He is a startup and growth expert, helping six companies to reach seven figures in their first year, and leading businesses to the Fortune 500 promise land.

Preston Pysh hosts one of the top-ranked investing podcasts on Apple Podcasts, We Study Billionaires. He's written numerous books on investing and leadership and has been ranked as a top 35 business author on Amazon. Preston also provides independent research of the stock market and central banking policy.

Aleks Svetski is a writer, entrepreneur, advisor and a member of The Remnant. Svetski is also a Co-founder of Amber, a digital currency exchange, wallet and round up app.

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Okcoin is on a mission to make crypto investing and trading easily accessible to anyone around the world. We are building the next generation of tools to help onboard the investors and traders who have been on the fence about crypto. Okcoin is a globally licensed exchange with offices in San Francisco, Miami, Malta, Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan. We are a collective of global citizens with a common passion to help decentralize finance and level the economic playing field for everyone around the world. Visit https://go.okcoin.com/natalie for $10 in Bitcoin when you sign up.

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With iTrustCapital, you can actually invest in crypto without worrying about taxes, or fees. iTrustCapital allows their clients to invest in crypto through an individual retirement account, or an IRA.

IRAs are tax sheltered accounts, which means all your crypto trading is tax-free and can even grow tax-free over time. The process of signing up with iTrustCapital is really easy, and the service is awesome. The platform has a dedicated client experience team, and you can tell that they really care about helping.

The best part is that it’s totally free to open an account, and there are no hidden fees.You don’t need to pay any monthly subscription or membership fees either. An important thing to consider in the crypto space is security. iTrustCapital happens to be best-in-class for security, as they have partnered with Coinbase Custody to keep all their crypto assets in institutional storage.

The platform also offers a growing list of over 25 different cryptocurrencies to invest in, with more being added all the time, so it’s easy to diversify your portfolio.

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Jeet Sidhu is a fintech executive, former leveraged finance investor, and Bitcoin twitter enthusiast (@jeetsidhu_). In his free time he runs a Tik Tok on financial history(@thebitcoinfiles).

After requesting knowledgable sources on the Russia-Ukraine war on Twitter, many in the Bitcoin space urged me to reach out to Sidhu, who has been tweeting updates on the conflict and threads with compelling data, articles, videos and photos.

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Coin Stories is brought to you in part by The Bitcoin Conference and Okcoin. BITCOIN 2022 will be the BIGGEST BITCOIN EVENT IN HISTORY held in Miami on April 6-9, 2022. For 10% Off your Bitcoin Conference Ticket head to https://b.tc/conference and use code COINSTORIES

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Okcoin is on a mission to make crypto investing and trading easily accessible to anyone around the world. We are building the next generation of tools to help onboard the investors and traders who have been on the fence about crypto. Okcoin a globally licensed exchange with offices in San Francisco, Miami, Malta, Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan. We are a collective of global citizens with a common passion to help decentralize finance and level the economic playing field for everyone around the world. Visit https://go.okcoin.com/natalie for $50 in Bitcoin when you sign up.

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D++ is a computer engineer, coding professor, entrepreneur, and #Bitcoin educator known for her work in pioneering PLEBNET, a community dedicated to furthering Bitcoin's Lightning Network adoption worldwide. She also recently started corporate Bitcoin education company Cypher Institute. Follow her at www.twitter.com/D_plus_plus REFERRAL LINKS:

Coin Stories is powered by BITCOIN 2023, which will be the BIGGEST BITCOIN EVENT IN HISTORY held in April 2023. If you missed Bitcoin 2022, make sure to head to @Bitcoin Magazine to find videos and highlights of all the biggest events and panels. You can get an early bird pass for Bitcoin 2023 at a steep discount if you head to: https://b.tc/conference/2023

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Okcoin is on a mission to make crypto investing and trading easily accessible to anyone around the world. We are building the next generation of tools to help onboard the investors and traders who have been on the fence about crypto. Okcoin is a globally licensed exchange with offices in San Francisco, Miami, Malta, Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan. We are a collective of global citizens with a common passion to help decentralize finance and level the economic playing field for everyone around the world.

Visit https://www.okcoin.com/natalie for $50 in Bitcoin when you sign up.

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With iTrustCapital, you can actually invest in crypto without worrying about taxes, or fees. iTrustCapital allows their clients to invest in crypto through an individual retirement account, or an IRA. IRAs are tax sheltered accounts, which means all your crypto trading is tax-free and can even grow tax-free over time. The best part is that it’s totally free to open an account, and there are no hidden fees. You don’t need to pay any monthly subscription or membership fees either. If you open and fund an account, you will get a $100 funding bonus added to your account. To learn more, click the link below and open a free account to learn more. https://itrust.capital/nataliebrunell

***

Fold is the best Bitcoin rewards debit card and shopping app in the world!

Earn Bitcoin on everything you purchase with the Fold's Bitcoin cashback debit card and spin the Daily Wheel to earn free Bitcoin. Head to https://www.foldapp.com/natalie for 5,000 in free sats!

#bitcoin #cryptocurrency #inflation

Timecodes:

00:00 Promo codes

01:58 Explaining the meaning behind D++

04:41 What is C++?

05:12 Always interested in computer science?

05:42 Discovering BTC

06:16 Understanding Bitcoin mining

06:48 Simplest explanation of Bitcoin mining

07:38 Hashing operations

10:52 SHA-256

13:15 Same input will yield same output

14:53 SHA-256 demonstration

17:02 Bitcoin mining and blockchain demonstration

18:47 What is a nonce?

22:00 BTC mining computers aren't solving cryptographic puzzles

23:50 Finding the nonce

26:46 iTrustCapital break

27:34 Fold app break

28:07 Difficulty target adjustment and importance

30:04 Difficulty target is like a bicycle lock

32:08 Miners and nodes

33:17 Why is understanding BTC intimidating?

34:01 Why is the Bitcoin network rock solid?

34:47 Energy consumption

36:39 Mining pools

38:12 Threats to Bitcoin?

38:31 Cypher Institute: corporate Bitcoin education