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  • This week in crypto: FTX plans to repay customers in full 🚀
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    This week in crypto: FTX plans to repay customers in full 🚀

    Read on for some of the Tweets, articles & memes from the past week.

    8th Feb, 2024

  • 108 - A Crypto Christmas Ep: Ben & Bergs Join the Festive Forecast🎙️🎄✨

    108 - A Crypto Christmas Ep: Ben & Bergs Join the Festive Forecast🎙️🎄✨

    This week's episode takes an intriguing turn as we explore Sotheby's landmark Bitcoin Ordinals auction and its implications for the digital art world.

    13 December

  • 100 - Crypto Curious Cracks A Ton: A Milestone Celebration

    100 - Crypto Curious Cracks A Ton: A Milestone Celebration

    Join us in celebrating our 100th episode of the Crypto Curious podcast, proudly brought to you by the Bamboo App.

    19 October

  • 97 - NFTs Are Dead - AGAIN, Amazon's AI Race Aids FTX Creditors and Immutable's Rise

    97 - NFTs Are Dead - AGAIN, Amazon's AI Race Aids FTX Creditors and Immutable's Rise

    Tracey, Blake, and Craig are back to bring you up to speed on the latest happenings in the crypto universe!

    27 September

  • This week in crypto: Standard Chartered 2024 bitcoin forecast: $120k 🚀
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    This week in crypto: Standard Chartered 2024 bitcoin forecast: $120k 🚀

    This week in crypto: Standard Chartered 2024 bitcoin forecast: $120k 🚀 Read on for some of the Tweets, articles & memes from the past week.

    13th Jul, 2023

  • This week in crypto: Binance shuts down operations in Canada 🚀
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    This week in crypto: Binance shuts down operations in Canada 🚀

    This week in crypto: Binance shuts down operations in Canada 🚀 Read on for some of the Tweets, articles & memes from the past week.

    18th May, 2023

  • This week in crypto: Pepecoin’s Bewildering 5,000,000% Rise 🚀
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    This week in crypto: Pepecoin’s Bewildering 5,000,000% Rise 🚀

    This week in crypto: Pepecoin’s Bewildering 5,000,000% Rise 🚀 Read on for some of the Tweets, articles & memes from the past week.

    11th May, 2023

  • 68 - Exploring the Intrigue Behind CryptoQueen's Murder, Coinbase Layer 2, and the NFT Market's Record Plunge

    68 - Exploring the Intrigue Behind CryptoQueen's Murder, Coinbase Layer 2, and the NFT Market's Record Plunge

    This week's episode uncovers the hottest topics in the world of cryptocurrency. We discuss Coinbase's Layer 2 solution named BASE, and it's potential impact on the crypto market.

    2 March

  • 67 -  Exploring the World of Ordinal NFTs, the SEC's Crackdown, CBDCs & the emergence of Blur Marketplace

    67 - Exploring the World of Ordinal NFTs, the SEC's Crackdown, CBDCs & the emergence of Blur Marketplace

    Tracey, Blake and Craig dive into the latest happenings in the digital asset world!

    23 February

  • 65 - Where is Crypto going? Bitcoin NFTs Arrive, Token Mapping Simplified, plus FTX & SBF updates!

    65 - Where is Crypto going? Bitcoin NFTs Arrive, Token Mapping Simplified, plus FTX & SBF updates!

    This episode we welcome Ben Simpson from Collective Shift, a leading Crypto Education Platform.

    9 February

  • This week in crypto: Bitcoin up 40% in 2023.. Is it back?
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    This week in crypto: Bitcoin up 40% in 2023.. Is it back?

    While we don't have a strong view on crypto here at Equity Mates, we are fascinated to watch the story unfold. Read on for some of the most interesting Tweets, articles and memes from the past week below.

    2nd Feb, 2023

  • 60 - NFT Wrap, FTX SBF BS continues & the Mango Project hack.

    60 - NFT Wrap, FTX SBF BS continues & the Mango Project hack.

    Blake gave Trace & Craig his wrap up of the Aussie NFT Fest from last week. There’s been some very unusual updates in the FTX Saga to discuss.

    30 November

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  • 59 - Genesis fallout, CZ & the Coinbase tweet storm & JP Morgan's Digital Wallet plans

    59 - Genesis fallout, CZ & the Coinbase tweet storm & JP Morgan's Digital Wallet plans

    Tracey and Craig are holding down the fort as Blake is away at NFT Fest with half of the Aussie Crypto scene.

    28 November

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  • What's an NFT?
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    What's an NFT?

    NFTs have been circulating in recent headlines, along with words like "blockchain" and "cryptocurrency". So, what exactly is an NFT and what's all the hype?

    23rd Nov, 2022

    Source: Vanguard

  • 58 - FTX Part 2, More Platforms In Trouble & the latest NFT news

    58 - FTX Part 2, More Platforms In Trouble & the latest NFT news

    In this week's episode Trace, Blake and Craig give the most up to date information in the FTX / Sam Bankman Fried saga - and there is a LOT to cover off on!

    21 November

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  • 57 - The NFT Episode | Insta goes Digital Collectibles, OpenSeas and the Royalties Debate, a Market Update plus all you need to know about NFT Fest Australia!!

    57 - The NFT Episode | Insta goes Digital Collectibles, OpenSeas and the Royalties Debate, a Market Update plus all you need to know about NFT Fest Australia!!

    This week Trace and Craig are joined by a special guest and NFT Godfather here in Australia - Greg OakFord. Greg is the co-founder of NFT Fest Aus and is not only super knowledgeable in the NFT space in general, but has a good grasp on how things could shape the future for marketing and digital identity.

    14 November

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  • 55 - Eth Pump, Aptos Blockchain, NFT Royalties and regulation speculation from Sam Bankman-Fried discussed.

    55 - Eth Pump, Aptos Blockchain, NFT Royalties and regulation speculation from Sam Bankman-Fried discussed.

    This week it’s Blake and Trace again and they talk about the newly launched Aptos Blockchain, FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried’s published thoughts on the future of regulation and the success of Reddits users NFT profile pictures. Plus, how much have NFT creators been paid out in royalties since inception?

    31 October

  • 47 - We explain why its called SeptemBEAR, Merge Count Down, TicketMaster NFTs & Russia backflips on Crypto.

    47 - We explain why its called SeptemBEAR, Merge Count Down, TicketMaster NFTs & Russia backflips on Crypto.

    Coming up in this episode we explain why we call September the peak of bear season. We look at how the Merge is progressing… and Ticketmaster is finally unveiling their NFTs rollout. We touch on Russia looking to legalize the use of crypto for international trade and explain the DXDY exchange doxing promotion which didn't going down well with the public.

    12 September

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  • A third of ASX companies are Zombies! Eat your brains!

    A third of ASX companies are Zombies! Eat your brains!

    Thomas reckons the Jobs and Skills Summit last week was a trojan horse. Up to a third of the ASX is already zombified on one measure, NFT trading has collapsed, and Japan wants you to tell them how to sell beer. All this and more on this week's Comedian v Economist.

    7 September

  • 46 - Recent Volatility Explained, Is the NFT Market Bottoming Out and a look at UniSwap King of Decentralized Exchanges

    46 - Recent Volatility Explained, Is the NFT Market Bottoming Out and a look at UniSwap King of Decentralized Exchanges

    In today's episode Trace & Craig explain why Jerome Powell's annual Jackson Hole speech was among a few other markers that contributed to the recent market volatility. They cover the downward spiral of the NFT market and go over the recent numbers published by Opensea. As always there's plenty in the short-sharp news bites for the week which includes the story of the woman who was accidentally given $10 million instead of $100 as a refund by a popular crypto exchange.

    5 September

  • This Week in Crypto - Is Bitcoin really an inflation hedge?
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    This Week in Crypto - Is Bitcoin really an inflation hedge?

    While we don't have a strong view on crypto here at Equity Mates, we are fascinated to watch the story unfold. Read on for some of the most interesting Tweets, articles and memes from the past week below.

    18th Aug, 2022

  • Celebrity crypto endorsements haven't turned out so well

    Celebrity crypto endorsements haven't turned out so well

    Celebrities love cryptocurrency. Well, probably more accurately, celebrities are willing to endorse anything for the right deal. To paraphrase Warren Buffet, the tide has gone out, and now we get to see who is swimming naked. Today Alec and Sascha review the worst offenders and give us a review of the past few years of celebrity crypto projects.

    13 August

  • This Week in Crypto - Another platform goes under
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    This Week in Crypto - Another platform goes under

    While we don't have a strong view on crypto here at Equity Mates, we are fascinated to watch the story unfold. Read on for some of the most interesting Tweets, articles and memes from the past week below.

    7th Jul, 2022

  • 37: Uh-oh…More Platforms in Trouble. Will Goldman Sachs or FTX Save the Day?

    37: Uh-oh…More Platforms in Trouble. Will Goldman Sachs or FTX Save the Day?

    It’s been a fortnight since our last news update and as always - there is never a dull moment in crypto. Crypto Winter has more Cefi Platforms in trouble leaving customers stuck with their funds frozen, questions unanswered and investments fate discussed in the boardroom battleground as some big name firms line up to pick up the pieces for pennies on the dollar. Despite this more adoption continues on the back of the NFT NYC event, which Blake attended and Solana announced that they’re launching a world first crypto mobile!

    4 July

  • This Week in Crypto - Is Bitcoin now a commodity?
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    This Week in Crypto - Is Bitcoin now a commodity?

    While we don't have a strong view on crypto here at Equity Mates, we are fascinated to watch the story unfold. Read on for some of the most interesting Tweets, articles and memes from the past week below.

    30th Jun, 2022

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