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#10: Journalism and the Blockchain with Maria Bustillos / Telegram's ICO
Episode 10

#10: Journalism and the Blockchain with Maria Bustillos / Telegram's ICO

Aaron and Jay talk about the Telegram ICO and its tplen, and then bring on Maria Bustillos to talk about the Civil project which aims to bring the blockchain to journalism and includes her Popula publication.

CoinTalk™️ · Aaron Lammer & Jay Kang

February 23, 20181h 8m

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Show Notes

Aaron and Jay talk about Robinhood, the Telegram ICO and the TON token, and then bring on Maria Bustillos to talk about the Civil project which aims to bring the blockchain to journalism and includes her Popula publication.

8:32 Brokerage App Robinhood Thinks Bitcoin Belongs in Your Retirement Plan (Max Chafkin, and Julia Verhage, Bloomberg)

10:45 Bitcoin Thieves Threaten Real Violence for Virtual Currencies (Nathaniel Popper, New York Times)

21:19 @EricWl "Just looked through the Telegram ICO 132-page whitepaper for their TON Blockchain. Essentially a 100% premined, centrally issued, unbounded supply, PoS sharding shitcoin. One of the worst whitepaper I ever read. Full of blockchain armchair guessing and baseless estimates. 0/10."

29:40 Popula