ROLLUP: Friend.Tech | SBF to Jail | SEC vs Coinbase
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🗓️ 18 August 2023
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
WRU 3rd Week Of August
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TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES
0:00 Intro
3:46 MARKETS
4:52 L2 Beat Check
https://l2beat.com/scaling/summary
5:44 US GDP Aint Bad
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/atlanta-fed-model-lifts-us-third-quarter-gdp-view-58-2023-08-16/
8:38 Base Activity UP
https://l2beat.com/scaling/projects/base
13:51 Permissionless Party!
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1141000052253397112/1141127988935655485/BK_invite.jpg?width=1620&height=2096
18:00 Friend.Tech
https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ/status/1690137625414569986?s=20
https://twitter.com/_ThePinkyToe/status/1691818070317081080?s=20
https://twitter.com/0xfoobar/status/1689961952007561216
24:36 FriendMEX
https://friendmex.com/
https://twitter.com/nnnnicholas/status/1691591282395619686?t=aB2QdT8F3LV0pNh1rZCCDA&s=19
31:31 SEC vs. Coinbase
https://dailyhodl.com/2023/08/14/blockchain-association-supports-coinbase-in-amicus-brief-filing-says-sec-short-circuiting-legislative-process/
https://twitter.com/MetaLawMan/status/1690355411373772800
35:36 SBF In Jail
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.590939/gov.uscourts.nysd.590939.200.0.pdf
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-existence-is-pretty-bleak-the-harsh-conditions-sam-bankman-fried-will-face-behind-bars-202511231.html
https://twitter.com/MetaLawMan/status/1691200324269228032
41:37 Fraud Proofs! Do they matter?
https://twitter.com/MattFiebach/status/1691600391635427360?s=20
https://twitter.com/koeppelmann/status/1690395159538634753?s=20
https://twitter.com/DCbuild3r/status/1691610447663735288?s=20
50:21 Gitcoin partnered with Shell
https://twitter.com/gitcoin/status/1691092823872073728
https://imgur.com/ekdl7LP
https://twitter.com/owocki/status/1691488210315288576
54:56 CoW Swap releases TWAP orders
https://twitter.com/CoWSwap/status/1692152855694803112?s=20
56:07 Visa testing onchain payments
https://twitter.com/digitalmustafa/status/1689741716084215809?s=20
58:24 Argentina's Pro Crypto Candidate
https://www.thestreet.com/cryptocurrency/argentina-pro-bitcoin-candidate-javier-milei
1:00:05 Donald Trump's Crypto Wallet
https://twitter.com/ArkhamIntel/status/1691875444809781337?s=20
1:01:59 3AC in trouble again
https://twitter.com/CoinDesk/status/1691791478815641859?s=20
1:03:38 Bankless Airdrop Hunter!
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1:09:26 BitGo Raises
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/08/16/bitgo-raises-100m-after-scrapping-prime-trust-deal-bloomberg/
1:12:35 Questions from the Nation
https://discord.com/channels/615592155481767941/1058053004705669211/1138917318899027988
1:17:54 Takes Of The Week
https://twitter.com/pythianism/status/1690106630610829312?s=46
1:20:10 What Are We Bullish On
1:25:21 Meme Of The Week
https://twitter.com/josephdelong/status/1691961456491639022?s=20
1:26:40 Outro and Disclosures
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| 0:00.0 | Now Ethereum is going to become Uber, now Ethereum is going to become decentralized Twitter, |
| 0:04.8 | and it just never seemed to kind of click for me. |
| 0:07.0 | We made some progress, we did episodes of like, |
| 0:09.1 | Farkaster, for example, and Lens, |
| 0:10.9 | cautiously excited about those and bullish on those when I started seeing them, |
| 0:15.4 | but the question is always, how do we get massive options? |
| 0:18.1 | Friend.tech and this experiment. |
| 0:20.1 | Again, I'm not saying it's going to be Friend.tech guys. |
| 0:22.4 | Okay, don't hear me. |
| 0:23.1 | This is a POC, okay? |
| 0:25.6 | This experiment showed me how it can work. |
| 0:27.9 | In the same way that CryptoKitties showed me how NFTs can work. |
| 0:35.3 | Bankless Nation, happy third Friday of August. |
| 0:38.0 | David, what time is it? |
| 0:39.2 | It's the Bank this Friday weekly roll-up, |
| 0:40.8 | where we cover the entire weekly news in crypto, |
| 0:42.8 | which is always an ambitious endeavor. |
| 0:44.4 | Yet, we persevere nonetheless into the frontier. |
| 0:47.2 | How are you doing, Ryan? |
| 0:48.3 | I'm doing fantastic. |
| 0:49.9 | I'm excited to talk about friends, |
| 0:52.1 | how you sell your friends this week, |
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