10 years after Lehman, Bitcoin and Wall Street are closer than ever.

Good evening. I'm Bailey Reitzel, and this is late confirmation from CoinDesk, bringing you the top stories from September 13, 2018.

So for today, Ethereum's next big upgrade is coming soon.

BitGo just launched its own regulated custodian for crypto assets,

and Foam's decentralized world map is now live. At the end of the show, we'll be speaking with

Coin desk reporter Christine Kim about Ethereum's next major upgrade, which has been dubbed

Constantinople. It's not as if the debate surrounding Constantinople and going into Constantinople is entirely over.

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Oxfordexecfintech.com. Saturday marks the 10th anniversary of Megabank Lehman Brothers

filing for bankruptcy and starting the unfolding of the 2008

financial crisis. It's a notable time for the crypto community, since Bitcoin's pseudonymous creator,

Satoshi Nakamoto, used the financial crash as an opportunity to display why his creation was so

needed. Over the years, people have seen different things in Bitcoin,

but for many, it represented an alternative to fiat currency issued by central banks, which

had just fired up the proverbial printing presses again, and the fractional reserve banking system,

which had nearly collapsed beneath a mountain of lending. But perhaps most of all, it promised to bypass the financial

institutions the crisis had cast doubt upon. Still, Wall Street banks not only survive the crash,

but in some cases they've grown bigger. And today, more than ever, legacy financial institutions

are trying to figure out how to employ the technology Bitcoin created, and vice versa,

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