Block Digest #73 - Bitcoin Maxwellists and the Invisible Cyber-Hand

Welcome to episode #73 of Block Digest! (Saturday, January 20th 2018) 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 JW Weatherman - https://twitter.com/WeathermanIam This video is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Links ===== Fuck Off Blockstream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCllEvfvgUY Pending Transaction Fees Drop https://core.jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#4d Metropolitan Bank Denies Blocking Crypto Wires https://www.coindesk.com/metropolitan-bank-denies-reports-of-crypto-wire-transfer-ban/ Russian Blogger Robbed of 425k After Bragging of Crypto Riches https://cointelegraph.com/news/russia-blogger-who-boasted-about-crypto-wealth-beaten-and-robbed-for-425k Mitsubishi Group Crypto http://bitcoinist.com/japans-largest-financial-group-launch-virtual-currency/ Blockstream Lightning Store https://blockstream.com/2018/01/16/lightning-charge.html https://twitter.com/verretor/status/954027767351447554 Schnorr-Based Multi-signature Scheme for Bitcoin Gregory Maxwell, Andrew Poelstra, Yannick Seurin, and Pieter Wuille https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/068 BitMEX Research - Mining Incentives pt. 3 https://blog.bitmex.com/mining-incentives-part-3-long-term-incentives-vs-short-term-profit-maximisation/ Coinbase Whistleblower Back on Twitter https://twitter.com/LDTmike/status/954402974209662977 https://twitter.com/alexbosworth/status/954052215425056768 AWS Wallet.dats Exposed? https://twitter.com/0xDUDE/status/953374654068031489 ‘Infatuated’ with Bitcoin - Spouses and Family Members Don’t Know What To Do https://archive.is/Q9AIO “Matt Lundquist, a therapist in New York City, says his couples counseling has been sidetracked recently by arguments over bitcoin. In several sessions, aggrieved spouses just couldn’t get their heads around their partners’ infatuation.” Venezuelan Government Pitching Their Petro-Cryptocurrency to Qatar https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-17/venezuelan-officials-said-to-visit-qatar-to-pitch-cryptocurrency UK Study Finds Less than 1% of Transactions to Exchanges Are “Illicit” https://coincenter.org/link/a-new-study-finds-less-than-1-of-bitcoin-transactions-to-exchanges-are-illicit https://info.elliptic.co/whitepaper-fdd-bitcoin-laundering http://www.defenddemocracy.org/content/uploads/documents/MEMO_Bitcoin_Laundering.pdf South Korean Insider Trading https://news.bitcoin.com/south-korean-officials-caught-trading-on-insider-knowledge-of-crypto-regulations/ South Korean Crypto Meltdown http://www.businessinsider.com/cryptocurrency-traders-in-korea-react-to-bitcoin-bloodbath-2018-1/#this-user-said-that-he-wouldnt-trade-anymore-and-that-he-threw-his-laptop-after-calming-down-he-said-he-opened-it-to-discover-it-was-broken-2 ECB Poll https://twitter.com/ecb/status/953945215299194880 Samourai Shows First Mule-Tools Proof of Concept App https://twitter.com/SamouraiWallet/status/954271930365947904 https://twitter.com/BlockchainNet/status/954662419636383745 Added Links =========== Government Shutdown https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-20/now-government-has-shut-down-heres-what-actually-shuts-down Frances Coppola on LN https://twitter.com/Frances_Coppola/status/954786308592893952 Biggest Block Ever https://twitter.com/roasbeef/status/954808681425588224 Donate to Block Digest with bitcoins: 3NG9TkTztxUEg44Mcby4Uk3poNn9s6pYjV