Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.04.29
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
4.8 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Bitcoin v.0.18.0 released https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-core-0180-release-heres-whats-new/
- Bitfinex spread increases, https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/bitfinex-plans-to-raise-as-much-as-1-billion-through-an-ieo-shareholder-says/
- Cashapp $65.5M quarterly bitcoin sales
- Amazon Managed Blockchain https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/amazon-made-its-blockchain-service-available-to-the-public/
- #dropgold campaign - dropgold.com
- Ethereum is now money according to ethereum.org
- CoinJoins as a Percentage of All Bitcoin Payments Have Tripled to 4.09% Over the Past Year https://www.longhash.com/news/coinjoins-as-a-percentage-of-all-bitcoin-payments-have-tripled-to-409-over-the-past-year
- Samourai Whirlpool enters mainnet testing phase
- Nine in 10 Americans have heard about bitcoin, Blockchain Capital survey finds https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/nine-in-10-americans-heard-about-bitcoin-survey-finds/
- Fidelity surveys 400 institutional investors, 22% already have exposure, 47% think exposure makes sense: https://medium.com/@FidelityDigitalAssets/new-research-institutional-investments-likely-to-increase-over-next-5-years-729fb1ca3c52
- eTrade joining the party, plans to offer bitcoin trading to its ~5M customers https://twitter.com/nathanielpopper/status/1121868559330598912
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What is up freaks? |
| 0:02.0 | Chipoy Marty Bent here on a beautiful Thursday afternoon in Brooklyn, New York. |
| 0:07.0 | For this week's edition of Rabbit Hole Recap, right now, the Bitcoin XBX Index, according to trade block, is sitting at $5,39.66. |
| 0:19.0 | Matt, do you have the block at hand? |
| 0:22.2 | No, I do not, but I'm ridiculously bullish. |
| 0:25.1 | I am as well. |
| 0:25.7 | I'm super excited this week. |
| 0:27.0 | We've got a lot of topics. |
| 0:28.1 | Before we dump into them, let's give a shout out to our sponsors. |
| 0:31.2 | This week's edition, Rabbit Hole Recap is brought to you by Unchained Capital. |
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| 1:02.8 | On top of this, if you sign up now using RFLink, which will be provided in the links, |
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| 1:22.9 | that we provide in the show notes. Got an old sponsor coming back, Matt. |
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