Cryptocurrency Is an Acid Test for Authoritarianism

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A bill that looks like it will go into law in the us to ban peer-to-peer transactions. Anthony says he thinks this is a sign of an authoritarian surveillance state and we should be very careful about what our countries are doing with respect to crypto wallets. In Australia, Crypto's not really a talking point for our politicians really at all according to anthony. But there can be a slippery slope of if you start to get your travel rules and these kinds of things that that limit exchange withdrawals over a certain size.

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0:00 Intro

4:20 Markets

22:50 NFT winter has come https://twitter.com/hosseeb/status/1675925861030334465 https://twitter.com/asvanevik/status/1675745010191601664 https://twitter.com/waleswoosh/status/1673781004031361025 https://nftpricefloor.com/ https://twitter.com/loopifyyy/status/1675517840542056448 https://twitter.com/avichal/status/1676090350291816448

37:50 BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Says Bitcoin Could ‘Revolutionize Finance’ https://twitter.com/WatcherGuru/status/1676685754922151941 https://twitter.com/thekriskay/status/1676686395862024195 https://www.wsj.com/articles/sec-says-spot-bitcoin-etf-filings-are-inadequate-390336e8 Eric Balchunas https://twitter.com/EricBalchunas/status/1674777296438165505

47:35 Is Gary resigning? https://www.thecryptoalert.com/post/sec-sources-confirm-gary-gensler-resignation Should Gary be actually resigning? https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1674464911714398229

58:12 Cameron Winklevoss sent a final offer to Barry Silbert https://twitter.com/cameron/status/1676024844641550337

Base 1:05:30 https://twitter.com/BuildOnBase/status/1674543151388966912

1:10:00 L2s keep improving - Impact of Bedrock update https://twitter.com/OPLabsPBC/status/1674823794949603350

1:15:00 Polygon 2.0 architecture - ZK-Based protocol architecture https://twitter.com/0xPolygonLabs/status/1674538238835343361

1:17:30 Can Solana become an L2? https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko/status/1675146337174843392

1:21:00 Vitalik’s AMA on Tau Day https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1674017688300011520

1:23:15 RFK wants to make holding Bitcoin an inviolable right as a President https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1673812201457479681

1:25:55 Belarus banning peer-to-peer crypto transactions https://www.theblock.co/post/237523/belarus-wants-to-ban-peer-to-peer-crypto-transactions https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1676606907233054721

1:33:34 Questions from the Nation

1:37:45 Takes https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1676920622415245312 https://twitter.com/rss_d4/status/1675220831461335042 https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1675955239466196992

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1:52:00 Daily Gwei https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvCp6vKY5jDr87htKH6hgDA

1:54:30 Closing & Disclaimers

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