Block Digest #25 - Exit Scam 2023 - Monero’s Riccardo Spagni Talks Crypto Scams & Anonymity

Welcome to episode #25 of Block Digest! (Monday, September 18th 2017) Join us: https://bitcoinmumble.com/ Credits ======== Special Guest: Riccardo Spagni aka Fluffy Pony https://twitter.com/fluffypony Special Guest: Manfred Karrer https://twitter.com/manfred_karrer Shinobius - https://twitter.com/brian_trollz Chris Ellis - https://twitter.com/MrChrisEllis Janine - https://twitter.com/J9Roem and Rick M. https://twitter.com/cryptorick Learn more about Monero at: https://getmonero.org This video is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Book of the Week ================ The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... PDF: https://ia800205.us.archive.org/25/it... Links ===== # How Far Will China Go & Bitcoins Resiliency https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-wi... Non-paywall version: http://archive.is/LhN1P Article talks about the possible clampdown on Chinese mining and p2p exchanges. Alternatives to Local Bitcoins like the Bisq Network: https://bisq.network/ Allows users to trade cryptocurrencies peer-to-peer even with fiat. @BTCDrak recently posted on the Bitcoin ban in China, including p2p exchanges https://twitter.com/btcdrak/status/90... # Here’s why the worst of the bitcoin pullback might be still to come https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/18/why-t... # Bitcoin Payments API in Major Web Browsers https://www.w3.org/TR/payment-request/ https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-brow... Discusses the integration of cryptocurrency payment requests into W3 standards and most major web browsers(Google's Chrome, Microsoft's Edge, Apple’s Webkit, Mozilla’s Firefox, the Samsung Internet Browser and Facebook's in-app browser). @BryanLunduke: This is big: W3C DRM appeal fails, votes kept secret: https://twitter.com/BryanLunduke/stat... Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h94ZK... CORRECTION: At 1:02:10, I said that Bryan Lunduke was the only journalist at the press conference. There were actually two journalists present, but Bryan was the only journalist asking them questions. https://www.networkworld.com/article/... On why the DRM vote was kept secret: “Our members think it is good some things are public, some things are confidential” https://twitter.com/w3c/status/909128... # Derose Writing on Scaling Bitcoin’s Diversity Committee https://medium.com/@derosetech_10334/... # CCTV Lip Reading Technology http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/... https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/24/1...