Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.08.27
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
English - August 29, 2018 13:57 - 59 minutes - 44.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 601 ratingsTechnology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Tales from the Crypt #40: Joe Weisenthal
Next Episode: Tales from the Crypt #41: Ryan Selkis
In this episode we discuss:
Vitalik Buterin's recent blog post on how to scale with layers
The importance of soft forks
CNBC's trash coverage
WeChat and Alipay banned cryptocurrency commerce and chats
The recent jump in hash rate
Laurent's piece on measuring the value secured by PoW
NIRP in Germany
CFTF fine of German Bank for manipulating USD derivatives
ETF denial then subsequent "reevaluation"
Links:
https://vitalik.ca/general/2018/08/26/layer_1.html
https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/963086673537126400?s=19
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS
https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1019675622581391361
https://medium.com/@laurentmt/gravity-10e1a25d2ab2