Andy Pickering

Richard Sanders is a co-founder and lead investigator at CipherBlade, an elite blockchain investigation agency that works closely with top crypto exchanges, blockchain protocols, and the FBI. The agency uses a potent mix of on-chain and off-chain analytics and investigative techniques to track the most sophisticated cyber criminals on the planet.

After a record-breaking surge in November, today, the 1st of December, Bitcoin hit a new all time high USD price of $19,764.5

After a record-breaking surge this month, Bitcoin is now trading at above $19,000 for the first time in three years. The world’s best-known crypto asset is just 4% short of testing the record high of $19,780.

Nansen is an analytics platform for the Ethereum blockchain. Nansen combines on-chain data with a massive database of millions of wallet addresses. Nansen helps crypto investors and product teams surface the signal from blockchain data.

Mark Yusko is the CEO of Morgan Creek Capital. Mark is one of the most insightful investors and most articulate Bitcoin bulls on the planet. Mark’s investment thesis is that the greatest wealth is created by being an early investor in innovation. Making that investment requires believing in something before the majority of people understand it.

Decred is a hybrid proof-of-work/proof-of-stake store of value crypto asset for the digital age. It has strong governance, good security, privacy, and an innovative incentive alignment. If Bitcoin is about being your own bank, Decred is about being your own bank and having a say in bank policy. Decred has launched a new DEX with no trading fees.

Jed McCaleb is the co-founder and Chief Architect of the Stellar Development Foundation, an open network working to connect the world’s financial infrastructure. In 2014, Jed created Stellar, an open-source blockchain network designed to democratize economic participation by making money more fluid, markets more open, and people more empowered.

Rekt Capital, a Forbes featured crypto technical analyst and trader returns for his second appearance on the Crypto Conversation. As Bitcoin surges through $15,000 to hit its highest price since January 2018, Rekt Capital says this bull cycle is just getting started.

The Celsius crypto financial services platform has integrated Chainlink’s decentralized price feeds as a key component of its pricing services.

Bruce Pon is the founder of Ocean Protocol. Ocean helps developers build marketplaces so that organizations can privately and securely publish, exchange, and consume data. Ocean Protocol is building the new data economy.

Bitcoin price surges to a new 2020 high as a series of bullish news events push crypto markets up

Josh Olszewicz is a professional crypto trader and analyst. In this episode, Josh explains why he thinks a Bitcoin price target of $20K by January is reasonable. Plus Josh gives his views on DeFi, Monero, and his new crypto analysis YouTube channel for Brave New Coin.

Waves Association, the non-profit organization that supports the Waves blockchain ecosystem has launched a new grant program with 1 million WAVES tokens

The privacy coin project aims to balance privacy innovation with user simplicity

Fernando Martinelli is the founder and CEO of Balancer, an automated asset management platform for programmable liquidity. Balancer allows anyone to create public or private liquidity pools for up to 8 assets with customizable weighting.

Anton Bukov is the co-founder and CTO of the 1inch exchange. 1inch is a DEX aggregator that executes a swap of tokens at the best price in one single transaction. Anton is a software developer with more than 15 years experience.

Controversial tech entrepreneur John McAfee has been arrested in Spain where he faces extradition to the U.S. on multiple charges of promoting unregistered ICO offerings and tax evasion.

Shayne Coplan is the founder of Polymarket, an information markets platform. Speculators can bet on the world's most highly-debated topics like the upcoming US elections, COVID-19, DeFi, cryptocurrencies, and more.

U.S. authorities have filed charges against Bitcoin exchange BitMEX, accusing the Hong-Kong based company and its founders of allowing unregistered trading and ongoing violations of U.S. anti-money laundering rules

While Bitcoin remains the world’s most valuable cryptocurrency, as a first- generation blockchain, it faces a number of challenges. The upcoming Schnorr/Taproot soft fork addresses some of these challenges and will be the most significant update to Bitcoin since the SegWit soft fork of August 2017.