Block Digest #61 - Back to the Futures
Channel: Block Digest
Date: 09/12/2017

Welcome to episode #61 of Block Digest! (Saturday, December 9th 2017)

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Credits
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Shinobius - https://twitter.com/brian_trollz
Aknix (2.0) - https://twitter.com/rm0rf
Rick M. https://twitter.com/cryptorick
Janine - https://twitter.com/J9Roem

Welcome back! 0:00
DragonMint 12:47
Lawsky Joins Ripple Board 25:30
Coinbase Gives Trading Records to IRS; CryptoKitties over SegWit 34:21
Futures Market Delayed? 48:22
OpenBazaar, Stash Node, Brave Tokens 1:04:45
SEC Taking Action Against ICOs; Are CryptoKitties Securities? 1:13:00
OpenDime and Coinkite Hardware Wallets 1:22:06
Lightning Network on Bitcoin Mainnet 1:29:12
$1.7 million in donations to Andreas Antonopoulos 1:46:00
Bitcoin Seizures and Exchange Shutdowns 1:58:18
Cobra and Coinbase Argument 2:17:13

This video is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

Links
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#DragonMint releases more efficient mining hardware
“The Dragons Den has been busy.” https://twitter.com/btcdrak/status/933326836800598016 
https://twitter.com/halongmining/status/933323299991339008 
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-developer-about-take-mining-hardware-industry/ 

#Ebang announces 10 nanometer chips
https://twitter.com/Excellion/status/933576948575387648 

#Ben Lawsky joins Ripple board of directors
https://twitter.com/BenLawsky/status/933060410743377920 
https://twitter.com/Ripple/status/933013245241188352 

#Coinbase vs. IRS
https://twitter.com/HowellONeill/status/935995369510526976 

#Brian Armstrong Says on Bloomberg Customers Not Interested in SegWit
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7i4ikm/brian_armstrong_on_bloomberg_saying_segwit_isnt_a/

#JPMorgan Considers Trading Bitcoin Futures
https://www.wsj.com/articles/maybe-bitcoin-isnt-untouchable-at-j-p-morgan-after-all-1511289925 

#NASDAQ to Launch Bitcoin Futures
https://www.wsj.com/articles/nasdaq-plans-to-launch-bitcoin-futures-in-first-half-2018-1511968313

#Surprising Bitcoin Price Action
https://twitter.com/PeterLBrandt/status/935698728639328256 

#Bitcoin Price Almost Hit 19K
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2017/12/07/bitcoin-hits-almost-19k-coinbase-crashes-under-buying-pressure
http://archive.is/vvTQ7

#OpenBazaar Launching… A Token :(
https://twitter.com/OB1Company/status/938124607151902720 

#History: OpenBazaar and Stash Node founders against ICOs
https://twitter.com/keonne/status/938348097356419072 
https://web.archive.org/web/20171207031706/https:/twitter.com/BlockInTheChain/status/851677213959303168?lang=en 
https://web.archive.org/web/20171207150520/https://blog.openbazaar.org/why-openbazaar-token-doesnt-exist/#.WilYyell83U 

#SEC Shuts Down Quebec ICO Plexcoin
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2017-219

#Opendime announces Coinkite
http://blog.opendime.com/coldcard-annoucement/

#Lightning Network v1.0 Goes Live
https://medium.com/@lightning_network/lightning-protocol-1-0-compatibility-achieved-f9d22b7b19c4

#Lightning Network Explorer Alpha Goes Live
https://medium.com/@ACINQ/releasing-our-lightning-network-explorer-93e87de150bb

#Bitcoin Takes a Tumble Ahead of Cboe Futures
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/bitcoin-tumbles-after-dramatic-gains-ahead-of-futures-launch-20171208-00602

#Crypto Kitties Dominate Ethereum
https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/03/people-have-spent-over-1m-buying-virtual-cats-on-the-ethereum-blockchain/

#Andreas Antonopoulos Gets Justice in Bitcoin
https://qz.com/1151233/andreas-antonopoulos-got-1-5-million-in-bitcoin-donations-after-roger-ver-bitshamed-him/

#Bulgarian Government Shocked to Become Bitcoin Billionaires
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-08/bulgaria-government-shocked-discover-it-owns-3-billion-bitcoin

#Bulagarian Banks Coordinate to block Bulgarian Exchanges using banks
https://www.altcoinss.com/news/news-bankers-have-shut-down-all-of-bulgaria-s-bitcoin-exchanges?uid=3756 


US Silk Road Bitcoin 144,000 @ $15,000 = 2,160,000,000. Sold for 28,500,000