Block Digest #13: Renegade Miner - F2Pool Pulls Out of New York Agreement
Channel: Block Digest
Date: 2017-08-31

Welcome to episode #13 of Block Digest! (Thursday, August 31th 2017)

Join us: https://bitcoinmumble.com/

Credits
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Shinobius - https://twitter.com/brian_trollz
Chris Ellis - https://twitter.com/MrChrisEllis

Inline Producers
MrHodl - https://twitter.com/MrHodl
Janin - https://twitter.com/J9Roem

Links
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F2Pool Reneges on Segwit2X Agreement
https://www.coindesk.com/f2pool-reneges-mining-pool-pulls-segwit2x-support-hard-fork/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6x94o0/f2pool_reneges_bitcoin_pool_pulls_segwit2x/?st=j70x4ims&sh=abb0978b

Could BitPay be next?
https://twitter.com/BitPay/status/903349116843032578

Bitmain Patents
https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2017012371&recNum=1&maxRec=&office=&prevFilter=&sortOption=&queryString=&tab=FullText

BTC-e Back Online and Cucked
https://twitter.com/btcecom/status/903257047256317952
https://twitter.com/CryptOrca/status/902933302272819201
https://twitter.com/btcecom/status/902932502481846273

'Misunderstanding': Vitalik Buterin to Create New Entity for Russian Bank Deal
https://www.coindesk.com/misunderstanding-vitalik-buterin-create-new-entity-russian-bank-deal/?utm_content=buffer2f2ec&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Show notes 
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00:00 - Blockheight & Introduction
00:14 - F2Pool Pulls out of NYA
05:50 - Bitcoin Fungibility & Regulation Clampdown
14:10 - Bitmain's Patent Circus
22:00 - Ethereum Russia
27:10 - Closing thoughts