Everyone, as you can tell by our festive clothing
this is Coffee & Crypto holiday
edition.
My name is Jackson I am a video journalist
at Cointelegraph and I'm
Maxwell I'm the head of copy editing.
What are we gonna be talking about today,
Max?
We've got a lot on the agenda, we'll see how
much we get through but main
things we want to talk about it is the end
of the year, a lot happened this year, so
we're gonna try to cover as much as we can
and we're gonna talk about the
decade as a whole, so we can come up with
holistically and neither of us are
really like you know beat reporters we're
not specific into one side of the
industry so we're gonna take a more holistic
approach view the you know.
I used this word already.
Did you use holistic?
Oh so we're gonna cover we're gonna cover
various things.
We are going to talk about the corporatization
of crypto,we're gonna talk about the year
and
we're gonna talk about the decade and we're
gonna make some predictions and maybe
play a game or two.
it's gonna be somegood shite and with coffee
of course
To crypto in 2020 and beyond, there's no alcohol
in this by the way...unfortunately
well let's let's start first with kind of
the most obvious how the year started
It was the winter and was the crypto winter
and we have since come out
of the crypto winter and people had a lot
of big expectations for 2019
especially in terms of Bitcoin you know they
thought this was gonna be the bull
run year the year to make it, past the20k
mark to up and beyond the moon etc
all that and it didn't really live up to those
expectations but it is still doing
a lot better than it was at the start of the
year and I would also say that I mean I
think the crypto winter was quite long and
so I mean at some point - I mean I
was hired actually kind of right at the start
of the crypto winter and as it was
progressing I was kind of just like hmmI wonder
about the job security here you
know what if the you know what if this whole
industry goes down and I mean I
wasn't expecting it I wasn't hoping for it
but I think that in some ways that
you know bull run in the summer the beginning
of the crypto spring I guess
was actually quite I don't know quite a statement
for the industry and kind
of it's you know longevity.
How do you feel about crypto not breaking
that 20k
mark I mean I made up to 13 K but how do you
see that playing out?
I don't
for me personally I don't see that like a
certain price point being like we have
to break through this.
You know the people that I've talked to in
the
industry saw what happened 2017 and that kind
of like massive bubble and it
kind of was outpacing the actual fundamental
technology so I think the
price can you know eventually might break
through it could be a matter for
debate and if anyone has any interest in chiming
in on this
leave a comment we'll check it out!
All right so let's say move on!
Right now I think our producers told us that
we have some sort of game to play
okay festive alright.
All the family get-togethers have like the
worst
Christmas games right?
So we're gonna try and top that yeah all right
all right
so our producers they sent us a list of questions
I think and we're gonna try to
answer them and we can work together and come
up with the answers and then
they'll tell us we got them right or not and
the winner gets to have another cup
of delicious coffee.
Bitcoin pizzas back in 2011 Laszlo Haniec
bought two pizzas for bitcoin.
Do you remember how much hepaid?
Do you?
I know the answer.
You know the answer?
I know what he paid in dollars but I don't
know hold on let me
think so the options are one Bitcoinobviously
not one thousand bitcoins I
don't think so 10,000 or 100,000 I know it's
worth
today it's worth $80 million so that is quite
a bit of money although I guess
it's part of the original article had 800
million which I thought was just
a little too much so I think I did look it
up is it is it 10,000 10,000 10,000
sir yeah all right oh yeah okay next one this
is a yes/no question and I'm gonna
read names and you tell me whether these are
real or whether they are not real.
Actually that's going to come hard this is
going to be difficult yeah okay so I
don't know the answers to this.
But the first one is garlic coin.
Is that a crypto?
Garlic coin.
Mmm garlic coin.
What would that use-case be what would what
would garlic coin - actually I think itis
do you think it is yeah what do you
think it is though like what does it do?Man,
it tokenizes garlic.
Yeah backed
by garlic.
One coin one garlic coin equals one clove
of garlic.
I say no, you say yes?
Who is correct?
It is a coin!
Okay all right well this is
not an endorsement, but I'm gonna go look
up garlic coin.
I'm gonna see what they do.
Coming to the end of this year I've been asking
a lot of my
friends a question andI guess I'll ask the
audience to and
then I'll ask you but what do you think the
2010s will be remembered as?
What's going to be the defining you know developments
in this decade so leave a
comment and tell us what you think the2010s
will be marked by and Jackson what
do you think?
You don't have to say crypto.
I'm not going say crypto.
You don't think that it will be?
No, I think it'll be something bigger than
crypto I think will be the loss of our digital
privacy.
Anyway, my question for you and also the audience
is what is the
single biggest crypto event in the past decade
the one that will define the
future.
What do you think?
Crypto not just bitcoin, we'll talk a lot
about Bitcoin
yeah kinda like not be so Bitcoin centric
as much as we can be.
Corporate power is really starting to test
the bounds of you know more traditional you
know government power and so I think in the
last year or in the last ten years
like what could be the biggest defining moment
would be something like Libra
imagining that in a maybe you know hypothetical
future that Libra actually
becomes a global currency that we've then
seeded our control of our monetary
supply usually you know that's always traditionally
ever since the beginning
of money you know that's been something regulated
by the government versus now
we're seating that to a you know private corporation
so I mean I think that
sounds a little dystopian.
But it's good thing hasn't happened yet.
right and I know people are thinking about
this too I mean obviously the regulators
and you know the US Congress had quite a few
questions for Mark Zuckerberg and
David Marcus about this I'm sure the audience
might not be too happy to hear
but let us know what you think aboutLibra
and its possible significance
Okay we're gonna now make some very expert
and truthful predictions about
what's gonna happen in the future because
you know we're savants so yes
Let's do some price shit first, because that's
always fun and that's the thing
that we know have to base any knowledge on.
So let's see Bitcoin price by the end of 2020,
what do you think?
I mean are we going with like the kind of
the way that everyone makes a
prediction is say like some like where's my
hat?
I think that Bitcoin will break 2020.
Will break 20,000 in 2020 briefly and very
slightly.
I think there will be a bull run that will
go up because yeah I mean who's to say it
won't!
I don't think it will happen.
You think we'll break 15?
No.
Do you think that the price of
Bitcoin at the end of like December 31st 2020
will be worth more or less than it
is January 1st 2020 and we're seeing this
scrunch action.
Okay I can see that but I also see you know
lots of potential.
I mean look at
everything that happened this year the fruits
of those might actually start to bear.
In the year it's like what something is saying
like
400% up since January.
If anyone has a prediction of their own write
it in the
comments let's say price what's it going to
be January 1st 2021
If we were to create a cryptocurrency right
now we can choose its name but
like it has to be centered aroundChristmas
we have to find some Christmas
why Christmas why can't would be inclusive
so we have to have a holiday
themed cryptocurrency and we need to come
up with a concept for the white
paper well let's think.
You know in order to pull off this ICO scam
you only really need to
come up with the name and the logo.
We're not going to launch this or if
it's already launched we are not endorsing
this so yeah there's no way
but hypothetically.
We give ourselves one minute.
Speed round.
when we fail to come up with any ideas you
guys
okay I got one
How about a token blockchain that rewards
you every day
for keeping your new year's resolution and
dissing and when you fail it like
you stick tokens right and if you fail you're
your challenge then everything
then you well not everything but like you
know every day that you do it you
get plus a token every day that you don't
do it you're minus the token and
there was plus and minuses go to you know
throughout the community.
What do you think?I don't know.
This sounds like a scam but
There's a Santa coin.
A Santa coin?
I don't think it exists.
Don't tell your kids!
Redeem for presents at one time of the year
Only spendable on like Christmas Day
Sounds stupid, yeah that's a dumb one.
All right cool well we're gonna find out our
predictions over the next year and
until then I think we deserve a well-deserved
break so, Jackson.
Coffee break?
Coffee break.
Well thank you, everyone, for watching, we
appreciate it
This has been coffee crypto holiday edition.
I'm Jackson.
I'm Maxwell.
Always remember to like, subscribe and hodl.
and of course the dad joke
see you in a year or is it see you next year?
