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ROLLUP: 2nd Week of May, 2021 Vitalik Rugs For Charity | Elon & Bitcoin | Balancer V2

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🗓️ 14 May 2021

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Download the crypto meta to your brain in this weekly show. Rug Week.

2nd Week of May, 2021

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Topics Covered:

0:00 Intro

3:18 MARKETS
3:30 BTC Price
5:13 ETH Price
9:02 ETH/BTC Ratio
https://ratiogang.com/ 
12:17 DeFi Action
15:45 Garbage Szn
https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1391979415547035650?s=20 
20:00 ETH Market Cap
https://twitter.com/documentether/status/1392355955816353793?s=21 
21:00 ETH Fees
https://twitter.com/LucasOutumuro/status/1392152205323603970?s=20 
22:11 Justin Drake Analysis
https://twitter.com/drakefjustin/status/1391998216044953601?s=20 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U9cGxGY3_t7m4MEIpjKWtRcA2zRajywaxMCZYqbF9eI/edit#gid=0 

29:30 RELEASES
30:40 Dfinity Internet Computer
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/104146/dfinity-launches-internet-computer 
35:45 Balancer V2
https://medium.com/balancer-protocol/the-most-flexible-and-efficient-amm-is-live-meet-balancer-v2-2451a22779b3 
37:48 Arbitrum Mainnet for Devs
https://twitter.com/arbitrum/status/1392568807995097089 
40:37 BTCx2 FLI Index Coop
https://medium.com/indexcoop/introducing-the-btc-2x-flexible-leverage-index-38688749b1ab 

43:10 NEWS
43:30 Elon Rug Pull
https://twitter.com/elonmusk 
45:56 Vitalik Rugs for Charity
https://twitter.com/hudsonjameson/status/1392554160952905728?s=21 
50:50 Vitalik: UNI should be Oracle Token
https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ/status/1392313805955162113?s=20 
55:40 VanEck files for ETH ETF
https://twitter.com/EricBalchunas/status/1390738518536769543?s=20 
56:20 $1B in Volume
https://twitter.com/ukolodny/status/1390601561173381125 
https://twitter.com/kwenta_io/status/1390038926006624257 
57:16 Sushi swipes UNI url
https://twitter.com/TheBlock__/status/1391950806857965574?s=20 
58:50 Yearn drops WOOFY
https://cointelegraph.com/news/yearn-finance-surges-45-as-it-joins-dog-pack-with-woofy 
1:03:04 CryptoPunks Christie’s Auction
https://decrypt.co/70609/cryptopunks-christies-sale 
1:06:03 Taproot Activation
https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-taproot-activation-begun-miners-3-months-onboard 
1:08:39 GBTC 20% discount
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/104801/gbtc-record-low-over-20-discount 
1:10:08 Tom Brady Laser Eyes 
https://twitter.com/TomBrady?s=20 
1:10:30 Binance IRS & DOJ 
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/104836/binance-crypto-irs-us-government-investigation-report 

1:16:20 TAKES
1:18:20 Everyone gets a private key!
https://twitter.com/BrantlyMillegan/status/1389270115884097536 
1:22:37 No fees, no validators
https://twitter.com/wongisrite/status/1391924914567876609?s=20 
1:27:27 Ethereum Distributing Wealth
https://twitter.com/santiagoroel/status/1392325085407563784?s=21 
1:31:50 Fed’s Playing with Fire
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fed-is-playing-with-fire-11620684980 
1:33:48 Ultra Sound Community
https://twitter.com/ultrasoundmoney/status/1391746346076540932?s=20 
1:35:28 MEME of the Week
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/nb7tgh/its_done_boiz/ 

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0:00.0

Hey guys, happy Friday. It is the second week of May and it's roll-up time. David, how

0:12.7

are you doing today? Absolutely. Fantastic. In a different spot in the world, this particular

0:18.2

week of May, I'm in San Diego today. So that's why you see this different Airbnb background.

0:23.3

It's looking nice. Are you sure that's not a synthetic background? This is not a green

0:27.2

screen. This is not a green screen. No, this is a real place, a real physical place in the

0:31.1

world. Uh, finally enough, I have all of my same equipment with me. I just brought it all

0:35.3

down, but it's a new spot, same equipment, same roll-up, same, uh, same weekly roll-up

0:40.4

that we are going to get into right now. Well, David has gone portable. This is awesome.

0:44.6

So if this is your first weekly roll-up, we do markets, we do releases, we do news, then

0:49.5

some takes, we talk about what we're excited about and stay tuned to the end for the meme

0:54.4

of the week. I think we've got some special stuff on meme of the week. This comes at you

0:58.8

every Friday. Check it out on YouTube. That's the best place to view it, but also on the

1:02.7

podcast. If you are more audio inclined, uh, hopefully this comes at you in the morning

1:08.7

for your morning coffee. So enjoy it on your Fridays. The best way to download the

1:12.9

week that was in crypto. David, before we get into markets, we got to mention consensus,

1:18.9

invest, the conference is coming up. This is consensus 2020 coin-based conference. This

1:24.6

is the big one, the big conference, crypto conference to attend. And you know that because

1:29.8

it's got some really fantastic people. Uh, it's got Ray Dalio, Brian Brooks from, um,

1:37.1

the OCC, uh, David, who are some of the other people? Lynn Alden, I think I saw mentioned.

1:42.2

Yeah. And I'm actually speaking there twice. Not as big as Ray Dalio or Lynn Alden, but

1:47.6

I have two talks that I'm talking about, talking about ultra sound money. Uh, and the,

1:52.0

I think the evolution of the investment thesis of ether over time, starting with the triple

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