ROLLUP: Goerli Merge | Tornado Cash Ban | Coinbase BlackRock Deal | Fake Solana DeFi?
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🗓️ 12 August 2022
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Summary
2nd Week of August, 2022
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Topics Covered:
0:00 Intro
5:00 MARKETS
7:30 ETH BTC Ratio
12:30 Gas Markets
https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1555560926945939457?s=20&t=VcAg464--JOGiSzeNbyayA
15:45 CPI Interest
https://twitter.com/business/status/1557345174015066113
20:00 Layer 2 TVL
20:40 VC Money
https://twitter.com/fintechintern/status/1556444033555234816?s=21&t=XxUVGr0qz0svCx83Xdo7Rg
22:00 EIP-1559 Anniversary
https://twitter.com/takenstheorem/status/1555531313939087363?s=20&t=ptIP5_rsdZo0gUdYXg7U5A
26:30 NEWS
27:15 Goerli Testnet Merge
Announcement: https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ/status/1557544247619878913?s=20&t=-_fuRP3eW2MCE2WHkiWXyQ
Pandas! https://twitter.com/TimBeiko/status/1557543798523146240?s=20&t=-_fuRP3eW2MCE2WHkiWXyQ
Details: https://twitter.com/vdWijden/status/1557555377314701312?s=20&t=-_fuRP3eW2MCE2WHkiWXyQ
33:00 Tornado Cash Ban
Press Release: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0916
37:10 Secretary Blinken
https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/1556661834287140868?s=20&t=4wDLBQG8U7PusK0R-3UCTQ
Full Story: https://youtu.be/lJZx8RyeJys
38:20 Freezing USDC
https://twitter.com/bantg/status/1556712790894706688?s=21&t=iEzJRHGq48PgLH0Id10pNw
39:40 Github Suspensions
https://twitter.com/semenov_roman_/status/1556717890308653059?s=20&t=-Um1R1tQa_4YPLFEAY9GGw
40:30 Summary Thread
https://twitter.com/SethHertlein/thread/1557442355678117889
44:05 MakerDAO Impact
https://thedefiant.io/tornado-impact-makerdao-dai
48:30 Normalizing Tyranny
https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1557121749334065154?s=20&t=uv3Ux69ZVUrVvYjhUE9Okw
55:30 Fake Solana DeFi?
1:02:00 Coinbase BlackRock Partnership
1:03:00 Arbitrum Nova
https://twitter.com/arbitrum/status/1557025237769805825
1:06:35 Uniswap Foundation
https://gov.uniswap.org/t/temperature-check-create-the-uniswap-foundation/17358
1:07:30 MakerDAO HVBank
https://twitter.com/SebVentures/status/1555234746539581444?s=20&t=rtTTlkxuLHK_73JuqFqrSA
1:09:05 Meta Instagram NFTs
1:09:30 Voyager Bankruptcy
https://decrypt.co/106791/voyager-digital-approved-return-270-million-clients
1:10:10 Immutable Gamestop
https://twitter.com/Immutable/status/1556797772275208192
1:10:30 Vitalik Compression
https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1554983955182809088?s=20&t=CP_wmjSv-X4KGDtdVjhk6A
1:12:30 Jobs
https://pallet.xyz/list/bankless/jobs
1:16:00 Questions from the Nation
https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ/status/1557397382744006656?s=20&t=D9vf5Thb0BlBK7osdhdYyg
1:16:30 How to get the PoW fork?
https://twitter.com/accounthome11/status/1557469851270238212?s=20&t=-_fuRP3eW2MCE2WHkiWXyQ
1:18:35 Bridge Risk
https://twitter.com/avi_g_/status/1557406430977994752?s=20&t=-_fuRP3eW2MCE2WHkiWXyQ
1:22:00 Staking Wait Time
https://twitter.com/mmaatt78/status/1557471309554237440?s=20&t=-_fuRP3eW2MCE2WHkiWXyQ
1:22:30 TAKES
1:23:00 Pausing OP Incentives
https://twitter.com/apolynya/thread/1556848533596037120
1:24:10 NFT Roulette
https://twitter.com/ryananderson/status/1555639880612564992
1:25:20 Banning SSL
https://twitter.com/phunk9871/status/1557309945841958912?s=21&t=V2jbdxuDNkHwLw9ZWbuQyA
1:26:50 State of Market
https://twitter.com/notthreadguy/status/1557370241377763329?s=20&t=FAvjCgR1WvvG4Fko8XHcug
1:27:30 What David’s Bullish On
1:30:10 What Ryan’s Bullish On
1:34:00 Meme of the Week
https://twitter.com/calebini/status/1556090898487816192?s=20&t=qS3xmkeCe0NChYWbcVIgiA
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| 0:00.0 | Merge is scheduled inflation down now. Hopefully that continues |
| 0:04.4 | L2 tokens are up feet tokens are up like not only is ETH bullish and proof of state bullish |
| 0:09.7 | But tokens are also bullish |
| 0:14.4 | Bangladesh nation happy second Friday of august David what time is it oh Ryan? |
| 0:19.0 | It's the Friday Banque this weekly roll-up time where we cover the entire week of news in crypto |
| 0:23.6 | Which is always an emissions endeavor yet we persevere nonetheless Ryan. There's a good news week this week |
| 0:29.6 | Well, actually, it was very nice, it was very, |
| 0:31.7 | it was very, we started on a bad note, |
| 0:33.9 | ended on a very, very high note. |
| 0:35.8 | Yeah, exactly, and so I missed a lot of the week, |
| 0:38.1 | so I was over in the UK with my family for vacation, |
| 0:41.3 | and you know how I usually say, grab your morning coffee, |
| 0:43.8 | and the UK, David, I discovered that coffee |
| 0:45.5 | means something different than it does in the US. |
| 0:47.6 | What? |
| 0:48.4 | At least it was more like, when I would ask for coffee, |
| 0:51.7 | it'd be like, okay, what type of coffee would you like? |
| 0:54.8 | And the options are espresso, cappuccino, macchiato, |
| 0:59.2 | like it's like an array of coffee beverages. |
| 1:02.5 | Wait, that feels horrible. |
| 1:04.2 | Not for me though, like in the US, |
| 1:06.2 | if you're like, hey, I want a coffee, |
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