Block Digest #109 - Why Won't You Love Me Brian?
Channel: Block Digest
Date: 2018-06-27

Welcome to episode #109 of Block Digest! (Wednesday, June 27th 2018)

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Credits
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Shinobius - https://twitter.com/brian_trollz
Aknix - https://twitter.com/rm0rf
Janine - https://twitter.com/J9Roem
Rick - https://twitter.com/cryptorick
Nopara - https://twitter.com/nopara73

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Links
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Entire Country Loses Major International Banking Connection
https://www.wsj.com/articles/unbanked-marshall-islands-gets-further-cut-off-from-the-worlds-money-1529665201  
http://archive.is/NOG83

Erik Voskuil’s Response to Betterhash Proposal
https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin/wiki/Decoupled-Mining-Fallacy 

Secret Service Asking Congress for Private Crypto Regulations/Laws
https://web.archive.org/web/20180627090816/https://financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/hhrg-115-ba01-wstate-rnovy-20180620.pdf 
https://web.archive.org/web/20180627091406/http://www.blockchainalliance.org/ 
https://web.archive.org/web/20130417030326/https://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2013/03/bitcoin-zerocoin.html 
https://twitter.com/J9Roem/status/1011881983163686912 
https://twitter.com/ummjackson/status/1011690888651657216 

Undercover Operation Targeting Darknet Markets Results in 35 Arrest
https://twitter.com/kyletorpey/status/1011753804818247682
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/first-nationwide-undercover-operation-targeting-darknet-vendors-results-arrests-more-35
https://www.ccn.com/us-justice-department-seizes-20m-in-bitcoin-in-nationwide-drug-bust/

Ripple Begging Coinbase to List XRP
https://www.ccn.com/ripple-ceo-says-xrp-should-be-added-on-coinbase-publicly-for-first-time-not-a-security/ 

Andreessen Horowitz Shitcoin Fund
http://bitcoinist.com/andreessen-horowitz-launches-300-million-a16z-cryptocurrency-fund/ 

Metronome ICO Disaster
http://bitcoinist.com/jeff-garziks-metronome-ico-sells-50-of-tokens-to-three-investors/ 

Australia and New Zealand State “No Central Bank Crypto” Coming Anytime Soon
https://www.coindesk.com/2-apac-nations-have-ruled-out-central-bank-digital-currencies/ 

Follow Up On Bitpico Bcash Attack
https://pastebin.com/bJjGvUTu 

C-Lightning Moves Into Beta
https://twitter.com/Blockstream/status/1011299943154413568 

Casa’s Privacy Model
https://medium.com/casa/casa-privacy-model-ee6d1a08fd82 

Janine's ZIP
https://github.com/zcash/zcash/issues/3362

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