Block Digest #24: Oh Jeez, China Really Did It This Time
Channel: Block Digest
Date: 15/09/2017

Welcome to episode #24 of Block Digest! (Friday, September 13th 2017)

Join us: https://bitcoinmumble.com/

Credits
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Shinobius - https://twitter.com/brian_trollz
Chris Ellis - https://twitter.com/MrChrisEllis
Janine - https://twitter.com/J9Roem
and Rick M. https://twitter.com/cryptorick

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

Links
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# China’s Bitcoin Exchanges Receive Shutdown Orders

Chart by BB: https://www.tradingview.com/x/ZSVBx436/ 
Opening GIF: https://twitter.com/btcArtGallery/status/908746353748058112 

China ban will prove tricky
https://twitter.com/brucefenton/status/908664166029852674 

https://www.coindesk.com/document-lists-closure-steps-for-chinas-bitcoin-exchanges/
https://www.huobi.com/p/content/notice/getNotice?id=641
https://www.okcoin.cn/t-2510731.html
https://twitter.com/JihanWu/status/908667544990507013
https://twitter.com/WhalePanda/status/908670215919108096
BTCC updates their statement to say they’re permanently closing Sept. 30th
https://twitter.com/YourBTCC/status/908647195141799942
ViaBTC announces closure of viabtc.com
https://www.viabtc.com/announcement/detail?id=11

# China’s new regulations for online groups

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-15/china-s-wechat-crackdown-drives-bitcoin-devotees-to-telegram
Regulations handed out Sept. 7th order online groups to police themselves, to take effect Oct. 8th 2017.

"If you are a group chat leader you have two choices, either you are going to super actively monitor the group, because your livelihood is at stake, or you’re going to delete the group, it’s a chilling effect."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-12/china-s-latest-crackdown-on-message-groups-chills-wechat-users

http://www.cac.gov.cn/2017-09/07/c_1121624277.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_National_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_China
All these regulations have been trying to ‘clean house’ for this congressional meeting


# Bitcoin Mining Could Help Get Solar Farms in Space

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ktorpey/2017/09/15/how-bitcoin-mining-could-solve-one-of-the-issues-with-space-based-solar-power/#14fe453e2c8d
Kyle Torpy brings up Peter Todd’s hypothesized space solar mining farm in Forbes

Julian Oliver’s HARVEST project:
https://twitter.com/julian0liver/status/908695706604654595 
https://julianoliver.com/output/harvest 


# Shout-out: Barrett Brown & Jeffrey Tucker

https://twitter.com/PursuanceProj/status/908750782731882496 
https://pursuanceproject.org/ 

“The DOJ just sent me a letter informing me they'll be garnishing my income for restitution to @Stratfor, the firm FBI allowed to be hacked”
https://twitter.com/BarrettBrown_/status/908397818682933248 

Jeffrey Tucker: https://fee.org/articles/jamie-dimon-fears-his-job-is-obsolete/