ROLLUP: 4th Week of April (Venmo Crypto, Canada ETH ETF, Dogecoin & Safemoon, Ampleforth Airdrop)
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Bitcoin Mining Vulnerabilities and Regulatory Shifts
This chapter explores the recent decline in Bitcoin's mining hash rate due to Chinese government blackouts, highlighting the implications for network centralization. It also examines the transition of former regulators into the crypto industry, raising concerns about regulatory capture and the future of cryptocurrency regulation.
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1:55 MARKETS 2:06 BTC Price & Dominance 6:14 ETH Price & ETH/BTC https://twitter.com/RaoulGMI/status/1384990262586351617?s=20
https://twitter.com/PeterLBrandt/status/1385023257774985219?s=20 11:05 DeFi Action Liquity Protocol https://twitter.com/koltenb_/status/1384485634929135622?s=21 14:45 Ethereum on-chain metrics https://twitter.com/DocumentEther/status/1384722805434978304?s=20 https://twitter.com/DocumentEther/status/1385278391406891008?s=20 https://twitter.com/DocumentEther/status/1383359905264926723?s=20 https://twitter.com/eliasimos/status/1385182472032370688?s=21 17:01 Ultra Sound Money https://twitter.com/drakefjustin/status/1385193694463135746?s=20 https://twitter.com/drakefjustin/status/1384124998084792324?s=20 21:14 Day 1 of Canadian ETH ETF https://twitter.com/EricBalchunas/status/1384836477675315203 22:24 Largest liquidations Ever https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/102007/bitcoin-plunge-7-billion-liquidation
24:29 RELEASES 26:00 Venmo Crypto https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/102295/paypal-venmo-crypto 28:27 Etherscan MEV Dark Forest https://twitter.com/etherscan/status/1384118330710056969?s=20 30:14 Alpha Homora V2 Relaunch https://blog.alphafinance.io/upcoming-alpha-homora-v2-relaunch-what-is-included/ 31:57 Ampleforth Gov Token https://www.ampleforth.org/governance/claim/ 33:58 Real World Assets in MakerDAO https://twitter.com/centrifuge/status/1384946100185014280?s=20 https://twitter.com/nomos_paradox/status/1384526932423806981?s=20
37:04 NEWS 37:14 First 13m Gas Block https://etherscan.io/block/12278017 https://twitter.com/sassal0x/status/1384540509293596676?s=20 41:16 Dollars to DeFi Dharma https://twitter.com/Dharma_HQ/status/1384603495198642180?s=20 44:30 PleasrDAO Purchases Snowden NFT - $5.5M https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1383155552793026560?s=20 47:50 Brazzers NFT Collection https://twitter.com/brazzers/status/1384537381739565060?s=21 49:16 BTC hashrate drop from china blackout https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/bitcoin-mining-hash-rate-drops-as-blackouts-instituted-in-china-2021-04-16 https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1384938089748041730/photo/1 53:52 Regulatory Capture https://twitter.com/blockfizac/status/1384496587737640960?s=21 https://www.wsj.com/articles/cryptocurrency-giant-binance-hires-former-top-bank-regulator-11618912800
56:40 TAKES 58:00 Arthur Hayes Bullish on ETH https://cryptohayes.medium.com/yes-i-read-the-whitepaper-59cfa2ea9c2c 1:03:27 Coinbase in 5 Years https://twitter.com/pythianism/status/1383983650480349189?s=20 1:06:00 Binance is a Short-Term Game https://twitter.com/defiprime/status/1384876305129291780?s=20 1:13:58 Teach a Man to Stake https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/mvp9io/give_a_man_a_steak_and_hell_eat_for_a_day_teach_a/ 1:15:30 Three Halvenings Capital https://twitter.com/zhusu/status/1385073821699371016?s=20
1:18:04 What David’s Excited About
1:19:20 What Ryan’s Excited About
1:24:15 MEME of the Week https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1384930095446511616?s=20
1:29:00 Closing & Disclaimers
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