ROLLUP: Saylor Getting Sued | Avalanche Playing Dirty?! | MERGETEMBER | Maker Drama
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Navigating the Ethereum Merge and Market Fluctuations
This chapter explores the volatility of cryptocurrency prices, focusing on Ethereum's prospects and predictions leading up to its imminent merge. The discussion also touches on the implications for miners, the impact of hash rates, and broader economic considerations influenced by recent comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
1st Week of Mergetember, 2022
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----- Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
4:33 MARKETS 4:36 BTC Price 4:56 ETH Price 5:23 ETH/BTC 5:52 Total Crypto Market Cap 6:32 Merge Estimator 10:15 Fed Watch https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/26/powell-warns-of-some-pain-ahead-as-fed-fights-to-lower-inflation.html 12:10 ETH Dives %10 After Powell Rate Hike Signal https://www.thedefiant.io/markets-dive-powell-speech
15:33 Avalanche Playing Dirty? https://cryptoleaks.info/case-no-3 https://medium.com/@kyleroche/my-response-b691563c255b 24:00 Tweet from Emin https://twitter.com/el33th4xor/status/1564006450531377156 25:00 Maybe Not True? https://twitter.com/AriDavidPaul/status/1564253955785461767 26:44 David Take https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1565340995062882311
30:35 Saylor Getting Sued 31:40 Saylor Tax Fraud https://blockworks.co/michael-saylor-and-microstrategy-sued/ https://twitter.com/AGKarlRacine/status/1565031380471382019 https://twitter.com/tier10k/status/1565040637044465666
34:37 Maker 34:40 Drama Summary https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1564716178819653632.html
43:05 NEWS 43:09 ETH 43:13 Coinbase Announces cbETH https://decrypt.co/108180/coinbase-announces-cbeth-wrapped-ethereum-staking-token https://twitter.com/CoinbaseAssets/status/1562476695357358080 https://dune.com/Marcov/coinbase-wrapped-staked-eth 47:43 Abritrum One Upgraded to Nitro Stack https://twitter.com/arbitrum/status/1565041950142730245 48:48 Yesterday’s State of the Nation https://youtu.be/yYzQPRRAs6M 48:55 cOptimism Gas ATH https://twitter.com/MSilb7/status/1565131857464901633 49:55 Data Giant Shocks Ethereum with Ban on Mining https://www.thedefiant.io/data-giant-shocks-ethereum-with-ban-on-mining 54:04 Vitalik Book https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1564804705997361153
55:10 NFTs 55:15 Facebook & Instagram Allow Posting NFTs https://twitter.com/Meta/status/1564282540831248387 56:00 cReddit Subtly Launches NFTs https://twitter.com/itstimconnors/status/1562839909261447168 59:09 Ticketmaster Integrates with DapperLabs’ Flow Blockchain https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/31/ticketmaster-taps-the-flow-blockchain-to-let-event-organizers-issue-nfts-tied-to-tickets/amp/ 59:55 Goose NFT to Bankruptcy Liquidation https://twitter.com/dmitricherniak/status/1563587242777448448
1:01:06 Regulation FBI Issues Warning to Vulnerable DeFi Platforms https://decrypt.co/108542/fbi-issues-warning-over-vulnerable-defi-platforms 1:03:47 Crypto.com $10.5M Accident https://fortune.com/2022/08/31/crypto-com-accidentally-transferred-10-million-to-thevamanogari-manivel/
1:05:40 Releases 1:05:42 Orca Protocol Rebrand to Metropolis https://metropolis.mirror.xyz/ozkx0ZMwIzyahRJiQKpNv_8r7vAhOo-8tucjONhXJHI
1:06:20 Raises 1:06:24 PROOF $50M from a16z & More https://a16zcrypto.com/investing-in-proof/ https://twitter.com/proof_xyz/status/1564689271755137024 1:07:28 Reddit’s Ohanian’s $177M Crypto Fund https://decrypt.co/108560/reddit-co-founder-eyes-177m-crypto-fund-invest-strong-founders-discount-report 1:08:16 Genesis Raise $500M https://cointelegraph.com/news/everything-s-on-sale-reddit-founder-galaxy-and-genesis-execs-raise-big-money
1:08:50 Jobs https://pallet.xyz/list/bankless/jobs
1:12:07 Questions from the Nation https://twitter.com/avi_g_/status/1565192839021363200 https://twitter.com/nextalphaa/status/1565011491304230912 https://twitter.com/HappyjoeNFT/status/1565031005475418114 https://twitter.com/teemu_lens/status/1565008572248899584
1:21:55 TAKES 1:22:00 New take on the cycle https://twitter.com/gasull/status/1564888312157876229 1:23:33 99% of Crypto is a Joke https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1564257934011379713 1:25:12 Gravity Turns Off https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1564637280379502593 1:27:17 Worlds Greatest Bitcoiner https://twitter.com/cobie/status/1565264636445745153
1:30:14 What David’s Bullish On 1:31:23 What Ryan’s Bullish On
1:34:55 MEME of the Week https://twitter.com/hegemony_inc/status/1564357396784263170
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