Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.09.03

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In this edition of Rabbit Hole Recap Matt + Marty discuss: Emerging Market currency crises Iran give Bitcoin mining the go-ahead Ethereum FOMC meeting Infura centralization ShapeShift Casa's new plug and play all-in-one Bitcoin full node + Lightning node Discussions of a new Bitcoin testnet Links: https://twitter.com/WallSt_Dropout/status/1037004709419278336 https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1003680779535290369?s=19 https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1003680779535290369?s=19 https://mailchi.mp/08ea1d23655e/martys-bent-september-5th-2018-issue-311 https://info.shapeshift.io/blog/2018/09/04/introducing-shapeshift-membership/ https://twitter.com/ConsenSys/status/1037339692981727233 https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2018/09/04/

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0:00.0	Welcome, guys, to another episode of Rabbit Hole Recap. I'm Matt O'Dell. I'm here with Marty Bent.
0:07.5	What's up, Freaks? Today's September 5th, 2018. And the official Bitcoin price is $6,901 and 22 cents on BitStamp right now. It's about 7 o'clock here on the East Coast.
0:22.5	Indeed it is.
0:23.8	Today we'll be talking about emerging market currencies,
0:27.2	and they've been having a lot of issues lately.
0:29.4	We've talked about Iran mining, mining in Iran.
0:33.5	The recent Ethereum meeting.
0:36.6	The FMC, the Ethereum FMC meeting.
0:38.3	Exactly.
0:39.3	We'll hop into that.
0:40.3	Whether Bitcoin is fair money or whether it's not.
0:43.1	Got some thoughts on that.
0:44.4	It is.
0:46.3	Shapeshift, as recently added K-Y-C or they're about to.
0:50.0	Very interesting story.
0:51.4	We got Casa Hodel.
0:53.7	They've come up with a lightning note in a box.
0:56.8	I've been talking about plug-and-play for a while.
0:58.5	Excited to talk about this.
0:59.9	And then we have the most recent Bitcoin Optech newsletter where they talk about the
1:04.0	test net being reset.
1:05.7	Potentially.
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