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The Breakdown

Bitcoin bank-ification / Do airdrops work? / Apple, Amazon & crypto

The Breakdown

Blockworks

Investing, Business

4.8806 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

A new product from Gemini which allows custody customers to trade without moving their coins out of cold storage has sparked discussions about bankification that go all the way back to the beginnings of bitcoin. Meanwhile, Stellar announces a ~$120m airdrop to Keybase users prompting the question: do airdrops work? Have they ever worked? And if so, for what? Finally, on the occasion of Apple's most recent product event, what do we know about their crypto strategy?  Watch: https://www.youtube.com/nathanielwhittemorecrypto

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to another crypto daily 3 at 3. All right guys, happy Tuesday. It is Tuesday, September 10th, and we're going to be looking at three things. First,

0:21.5

we're going to be looking at AirDrops, a specific AirDrop with the Stellar Foundation, and then

0:25.6

the idea of AirDrops more broadly. Second, we're going to be looking at the bankification

0:31.9

of Bitcoin in the context of some recent news from Gemini. And third, we're going to be looking

0:36.7

at Apple's ambitions in the crypto space or lack thereof.

0:40.5

Apple just had its big product event most recently today.

0:45.0

So the question is whether there was going to be anything about crypto based on some recent rumbling.

0:50.5

So let's dive in.

0:51.5

First, we're going to talk about Airdrop.

0:52.9

So the Stellar Foundation is set to

0:55.2

AirDrop something like $120 million worth of XLM tokens to users of the chat app Keybase. Keybase is not a

1:04.6

native crypto app. It's sort of a privacy encryption focused chat app competing with Slack

1:10.4

and WhatsApp and telegram and everything

1:11.8

else um and uh basically the the seller foundation is going to be air dropping a a big chunk of

1:19.6

uh their token over the course of the next 20 months uh users of um of keybase are able to get up to $500 worth of XLM.

1:30.3

And this is not the first time that Stellar has done this before.

1:34.3

So Stellar partnered with blockchain, the blockchain wallet, or specifically, and airdropped

1:42.3

125 million worth of XLM on that set of users.

1:47.7

They've worked with Coinbase's Earn, blah, blah, blah, blah.

1:50.2

And so for Stellar, obviously, the idea here is to get their token in the hands of a network of users, right?

1:56.9

In a lot of ways, Airdrops in this context almost become a different form of advertising

2:02.6

where instead of paying a third-party advertiser, you're giving the money that you would

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