Block Digest #61 - Back to the Futures

Welcome to episode #61 of Block Digest! (Saturday, December 9th 2017) Join us: https://bitcoinmumble.com/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/blockdigest Credits ======== Shinobius - https://twitter.com/brian_trollz Aknix (2.0) - https://twitter.com/rm0rf Rick M. https://twitter.com/cryptorick Janine - https://twitter.com/J9Roem Welcome back! 0:00 DragonMint 12:47 Lawsky Joins Ripple Board 25:30 Coinbase Gives Trading Records to IRS; CryptoKitties over SegWit 34:21 Futures Market Delayed? 48:22 OpenBazaar, Stash Node, Brave Tokens 1:04:45 SEC Taking Action Against ICOs; Are CryptoKitties Securities? 1:13:00 OpenDime and Coinkite Hardware Wallets 1:22:06 Lightning Network on Bitcoin Mainnet 1:29:12 $1.7 million in donations to Andreas Antonopoulos 1:46:00 Bitcoin Seizures and Exchange Shutdowns 1:58:18 Cobra and Coinbase Argument 2:17:13 This video is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Links ===== #DragonMint releases more efficient mining hardware “The Dragons Den has been busy.” https://twitter.com/btcdrak/status/933326836800598016 https://twitter.com/halongmining/status/933323299991339008 https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-developer-about-take-mining-hardware-industry/ #Ebang announces 10 nanometer chips https://twitter.com/Excellion/status/933576948575387648 #Ben Lawsky joins Ripple board of directors https://twitter.com/BenLawsky/status/933060410743377920 https://twitter.com/Ripple/status/933013245241188352 #Coinbase vs. IRS https://twitter.com/HowellONeill/status/935995369510526976 #Brian Armstrong Says on Bloomberg Customers Not Interested in SegWit https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7i4ikm/brian_armstrong_on_bloomberg_saying_segwit_isnt_a/ #JPMorgan Considers Trading Bitcoin Futures https://www.wsj.com/articles/maybe-bitcoin-isnt-untouchable-at-j-p-morgan-after-all-1511289925 #NASDAQ to Launch Bitcoin Futures https://www.wsj.com/articles/nasdaq-plans-to-launch-bitcoin-futures-in-first-half-2018-1511968313 #Surprising Bitcoin Price Action https://twitter.com/PeterLBrandt/status/935698728639328256 #Bitcoin Price Almost Hit 19K https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2017/12/07/bitcoin-hits-almost-19k-coinbase-crashes-under-buying-pressure http://archive.is/vvTQ7 #OpenBazaar Launching… A Token :( https://twitter.com/OB1Company/status/938124607151902720 #History: OpenBazaar and Stash Node founders against ICOs https://twitter.com/keonne/status/938348097356419072 https://web.archive.org/web/20171207031706/https:/twitter.com/BlockInTheChain/status/851677213959303168?lang=en https://web.archive.org/web/20171207150520/https://blog.openbazaar.org/why-openbazaar-token-doesnt-exist/#.WilYyell83U #SEC Shuts Down Quebec ICO Plexcoin https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2017-219 #Opendime announces Coinkite http://blog.opendime.com/coldcard-annoucement/ #Lightning Network v1.0 Goes Live https://medium.com/@lightning_network/lightning-protocol-1-0-compatibility-achieved-f9d22b7b19c4 #Lightning Network Explorer Alpha Goes Live https://medium.com/@ACINQ/releasing-our-lightning-network-explorer-93e87de150bb #Bitcoin Takes a Tumble Ahead of Cboe Futures http://www.nasdaq.com/article/bitcoin-tumbles-after-dramatic-gains-ahead-of-futures-launch-20171208-00602 #Crypto Kitties Dominate Ethereum https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/03/people-have-spent-over-1m-buying-virtual-cats-on-the-ethereum-blockchain/ #Andreas Antonopoulos Gets Justice in Bitcoin https://qz.com/1151233/andreas-antonopoulos-got-1-5-million-in-bitcoin-donations-after-roger-ver-bitshamed-him/ #Bulgarian Government Shocked to Become Bitcoin Billionaires http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-08/bulgaria-government-shocked-discover-it-owns-3-billion-bitcoin #Bulagarian Banks Coordinate to block Bulgarian Exchanges using banks https://www.altcoinss.com/news/news-bankers-have-shut-down-all-of-bulgaria-s-bitcoin-exchanges?uid=3756 US Silk Road Bitcoin 144,000 @ $15,000 = 2,160,000,000. Sold for 28,500,000