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CoinDesk Podcast Network - LTB!: Mainstream Moments and the CompuServe of Crypto

The best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. With the price of bitcoin headed up again, the idea of blockchains and digital currencies has never been more palatable to the mainstream. We've seen this cycle before, but could this time be different?

This episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin! is sponsored by Brave.com and eToro.com

Today's discussion features Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Stephanie Murphy and Adam B. Levine

Editing by Jonas, featuring music by Jared Rubens and Gurty Beats

Today's episode features audio clips from CNBC, C-SPAN and Figure.com

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More or Less: Behind the Stats - WS More or Less: Coronavirus – The Numbers

A lot has changed since our last episode covering the numbers behind the coronavirus - for a start it now has a name, Covid-19. This week news has broken that deaths are 20 per cent higher than thought, and the number of cases has increased by a third. Tim Harford talks to Dr Nathalie MacDermott, a clinical lecturer at King?s College London about what we know ? and what we still don?t.

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - RESEARCH: We Think 10-Minute Settlement Is Slow, but That’s Crazy, Feat. CoinDesk Research’s Noelle Acheson

CoinDesk's Head of Research Noelle Acheson joins Ophelia (Amun's co-founder and president) and Lanre (Amun's researcher) to discuss the advantages, disadvantages and eccentricities of crypto markets, exchanges, settlement and more.

The group discusses the differences in the market microstructure between the crypto asset industry and traditional capital markets. The guests drew from their experience within capital markets understand the intricacies of the crypto market.

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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Election Meltdown, Part 4

In the fourth part of this special five-part series of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by election law professor Rick Hasen and Professor Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and author of  One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy.

Together, they try to sort through the rhetoric and the reality of “stolen” elections. 


Rick Hasen’s new book Election Meltdown forms the basis for this special series of Amicus. 


Join Slate for the Election Meltdown live show on Feb. 19 in Washington. 


Podcast production by Sara Burningham.

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The Gist - Why Iran-Contra Hardly Rings a Bell

On the Gist, the Houston Astros cheating scandal is like the US Democracy.

Mike and former host of Slow Burn, and current host of Luminary Podcast network's Fiasco, Leon Neyfakh get into the details of the Iran-Contra Affair. They discuss the key players in the saga, why this story was such a fiasco and the new Slow Burn TV-show.

In the spiel, let's just go with Caucus debacle avoidance.

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