The Fed Raising Rates

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Not even one percent move on either Bitcoin or Ether or the same, both just flat flat. The most interesting thing about Ether right now is that there are three eights in the price. We haven't been higher in interest rate,. um, what was 16 years ago? When was that David? It was before 2008, before the, you know, financial crash.

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3:30 MARKETS 4:42 FED raised rates by 25 basis points https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20230503a.htm https://twitter.com/carlquintanilla/status/1653822271520223232 https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1653856569145081856 10:31 Jim Bianco’s take: THEY KNEW THE RISKS https://twitter.com/biancoresearch/status/1653777745791401986

15:20 Banks Failure - Season 2! https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2023/pr23034.html 24:40 Comparison of the US banks’ failures since 2002 https://twitter.com/mbostock/status/1653221977895882752 27:49 Arthur Hayes’ take: The U.S. Banking System is now Nationalized https://twitter.com/CryptoHayes/status/1653175131123126272

33:41 Meanwhile, Balaji lost the Bitcoin bet https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1653451860488130565 https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1653449321185169409 https://imgur.com/a/Eu4aIIb https://imgur.com/a/Zg9Gh8r

41:48 Coinbase Going International https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/1653385513011740672 https://www.coinbase.com/blog/introducing-coinbase-international-exchange 44:44 In good news…Gary’s GOT 10 DAYS https://twitter.com/iampaulgrewal/status/1653898889311948800

48:35 VENMO bringing Wallets to 60M Americans https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1652049681050943489 51:00 EigenLayer Stage 1 Mainnet is set to launch https://twitter.com/eigenlayer/status/1653536292171567104 55:20 Sui Mainnet https://twitter.com/SuiNetwork/status/1653731940107956225 SUI coming in at a $13B valuation https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/sui https://thedefiant.io/sui-raises-300m 59:10 Alexlar https://twitter.com/axelarcore/status/1653384907085737985 Bankless Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erZyGlxchsA 1:01:59 Lens Layer 3 https://twitter.com/StaniKulechov/status/1651898620973576193

1:03:30 New Zachxbt Victim https://twitter.com/zachxbt/status/1651238822963826694 https://twitter.com/CoinGurruu/status/1651250297530974208

1:04:40 Biden proposes 30% climate change tax on cryptocurrency mining https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2023/05/02/cost-of-cryptomining-dame-tax/

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1:11:24 Questions from the Nation

1:16:27 Takes of the Week https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1653011542563069952 https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1653674756715978752 https://twitter.com/erikvoorhees/status/1653935801338822663

1:20:44 What David’s Bullish On https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1652053503307644930 1:24:34 What Ryan’s Bullish On

1:26:41 MEME of the Week https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1625850766039842824

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