Block Digest #24 - Oh Jeez, China Really Did It This Time

Welcome to episode #24 of Block Digest! (Friday, September 13th 2017) Join us: https://bitcoinmumble.com/ Credits ======== Shinobius - https://twitter.com/brian_trollz Chris Ellis - https://twitter.com/MrChrisEllis Janine - https://twitter.com/J9Roem and Rick M. https://twitter.com/cryptorick This video is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Links ===== # China’s Bitcoin Exchanges Receive Shutdown Orders Chart by BB: https://www.tradingview.com/x/ZSVBx436/ Opening GIF: https://twitter.com/btcArtGallery/sta... China ban will prove tricky https://twitter.com/brucefenton/statu... https://www.coindesk.com/document-lis... https://www.huobi.com/p/content/notic... https://www.okcoin.cn/t-2510731.html https://twitter.com/JihanWu/status/90... https://twitter.com/WhalePanda/status... BTCC updates their statement to say they’re permanently closing Sept. 30th https://twitter.com/YourBTCC/status/9... ViaBTC announces closure of viabtc.com https://www.viabtc.com/announcement/d... # China’s new regulations for online groups https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl... Regulations handed out Sept. 7th order online groups to police themselves, to take effect Oct. 8th 2017. "If you are a group chat leader you have two choices, either you are going to super actively monitor the group, because your livelihood is at stake, or you’re going to delete the group, it’s a chilling effect." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl... http://www.cac.gov.cn/2017-09/07/c_11... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_Na... All these regulations have been trying to ‘clean house’ for this congressional meeting # Bitcoin Mining Could Help Get Solar Farms in Space https://www.forbes.com/sites/ktorpey/... Kyle Torpy brings up Peter Todd’s hypothesized space solar mining farm in Forbes Julian Oliver’s HARVEST project: https://twitter.com/julian0liver/stat... https://julianoliver.com/output/harvest # Shout-out: Barrett Brown & Jeffrey Tucker https://twitter.com/PursuanceProj/sta... https://pursuanceproject.org/ “The DOJ just sent me a letter informing me they'll be garnishing my income for restitution to @Stratfor, the firm FBI allowed to be hacked” https://twitter.com/BarrettBrown_/sta... Jeffrey Tucker: https://fee.org/articles/jamie-dimon-...