📺 ROLLUP: 3rd Week of May (Dip Week, The Rise of Polygon, Elon Crypto, Coinbase Outage, China)
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🗓️ 21 May 2021
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Download the crypto meta to your brain in this weekly show. Rug Week.
3rd Week of May, 2021
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
4:08 MARKETS
4:18 BTC Price
5:25 ETH Price
6:50 ETH/BTC
8:05 Going a Full Cycle
12:00 What Caused the Dip?
https://twitter.com/BTCization/status/1395053801061634049?s=20
18:40 The Rektoning
https://twitter.com/dytfin/status/1395007097461477379?s=21
20:30 Now vs 2013
https://twitter.com/raoulgmi/status/1395150660660862987?s=21
22:20 Exchange Outages
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/105366/exchanges-outages-market-volatility-eth
22:57 DeFi Action
24:26 Greed & Fear Index
https://alternative.me/crypto/fear-and-greed-index/
27:00 EIP-1559 Bullish
https://twitter.com/hasufl/status/1395006497164308480?s=20
29:07 RELEASES
30:30 Uniswap V3 Success
https://imgur.com/H53upPS
33:50 Slingshot Launch
https://app.slingshot.finance/trade/m/MATIC/USDC
35:14 Coinbase Wallet Extension
https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/1394369329408454668?s=20
37:05 Miso
https://miso.sushi.com/
41:40 NEWS
41:55 Erratic Elon Musk
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1393995872413888518?s=20
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1395352073550532613?s=20
48:07 The Rise of Polygon
https://twitter.com/SushiSwap/status/1393215036076658688?s=20
https://www.delphidigital.io/reports/polygon-the-swiss-army-knife-of-scaling-solutions/
https://twitter.com/0xPolygon/status/1395047808860708870?s=20
57:48 Sleuthing Mark Cuban
https://twitter.com/0xBay/status/1393987720649662464?s=20
58:38 Cathie Wood & ETH
https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1394761387302432769?s=20
59:50 Ebay NFT Sales
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/104508/ebay-offering-nft-sales
1:00:18 BlockFi BTC Oops
https://www.coindesk.com/blockfi-botches-promo-outsized-bitcoin-reward-payments
1:02:15 China Crypto Stance
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/105190/china-self-regulatory-organizations-crypto
1:03:25 Bank of America on Ethereum
https://blockworks.co/bank-of-america-leans-into-blockchain-to-speed-settlements/?oly_enc_id=9918E2523689A0T
1:04:05 Wells Fargo & Crypto?
https://cointelegraph.com/news/wells-fargo-investment-institute-to-onboard-crypto-clients-by-next-month
1:04:22 BSC Instability
https://twitter.com/ProofOfBags/status/1395235478216060935?s=20
1:06:40 News Quick Bites
https://www.microstrategy.com/en/investor-relations/financial-documents/microstrategy-acquires-additional-10m-in-bitcoin-at-average-price-of-43-663_05-18-2021
https://thedefiant.io/yearn-finance-seizes-dip-and-buys-back-1-47m-of-yfi-token/
https://twitter.com/ProofOfBags/status/1395235478216060935?s=20
https://twitter.com/argentHQ/status/1394584739160469504?s=20
https://blog.deversifi.com/deversifi-closes-oversubscribed-round-lead-by-parafi
https://www.coindesk.com/defi-dashboard-zapper-raises-15m-to-build-on-platform-app-store
1:09:40 TAKES
1:11:00 DeFi Summer Round 2
https://twitter.com/rewkang/status/1394788692749922304?s=21
1:15:48 Dave Portnoy & Meme Coins
https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1394379356487757834?s=20
https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1394402282658308100?s=20
1:18:48 Volatility Scares Institutions
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-17/elon-musk-is-now-blowing-up-the-wall-street-case-for-bitcoin
1:20:05 What David’s Excited About
1:21:17 What Ryan’s Excited About
1:23:10 MEME of the Week
https://twitter.com/NeerajKA/status/1395344179371421697?s=20
https://twitter.com/DocumentEther/status/1394982948085116932?s=20
1:24:15 Closing & Disclaimers
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| 0:00.0 | Thankless Nation. It is the third week of May and it is Friday morning. That means it's |
| 0:18.0 | roll up time and this is Dip Week, David. Dip Week, David. Roll up time too. Are you excited? |
| 0:25.2 | Dip Week, David. Also all time high week and dip week all in the same week. Yeah. Either it's all |
| 0:31.5 | time high in the Friday after we recorded the last week of the roll up and then crypto also crash |
| 0:37.2 | all in the same week. Guys, we're going to be talking about all of that. That's going to be in the |
| 0:41.4 | market section. That's what we do here every Friday morning. We try to cram as much of the week that |
| 0:45.8 | was crypto into your brain where we cover markets, releases, news, takes and then we end with what |
| 0:51.5 | we're excited about. Except that we don't end there. We actually end with the meme of the week. |
| 0:55.3 | So stay tuned for the meme of the week. This comes at you every Friday. All right, David. Before we |
| 1:00.4 | get in, we got to talk about consensus. Big crypto conference. Comment right up. People can get |
| 1:04.6 | their tickets. This is the last chance though to get their tickets. David, you're going to be speaking. |
| 1:08.6 | What are you speaking about? Ultra Sound money on Monday. Still working on my presentation but |
| 1:13.3 | it's going to be hot. Ultra Sound money gets its debut at consensus and then I'll also be speaking |
| 1:18.3 | on a panel about the current state of DeFi and of course how to live a life without banks. So |
| 1:23.8 | bankless also getting its debut at consensus. Really excited for this particular year of consensus |
| 1:30.3 | because so many of Ethereum things have gone mainstream as we expected them to for years and years |
| 1:36.1 | but now they are finally here. Now they have like the front stage at consensus DeFi NFTs so much to |
| 1:41.8 | talk about. Really excited to talk about all those things and listen to the other conversations |
| 1:46.7 | that are going on. Radolio is going to be there. Michael Sailor is going to be there. |
| 1:50.7 | Anyone who's anyone in crypto is going to be there. So you should be there too. Awesome. |
| 1:53.9 | Yes, I'm definitely going to be there and bankless listeners, you still have a chance. |
| 1:57.8 | I think two more days from today to get your ticket. 20 dollars off with the bankless |
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