Navigating Alternate Universes: Humor and Crypto Reflections

Bankless Friday Weekly Rollup 3rd Week of July 2024

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3:44 Politics and Crypto  https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/15/bitcoin-jumps-as-markets-see-increased-odds-of-trump-victory.html  4:28 Trump selects JD Vance as his VP https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112792061935980928  https://nypost.com/2024/07/17/us-news/trump-picking-jd-vance-as-vp-is-big-for-the-bitcoin-crowd/  https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1812933662880514479  https://www.standwithcrypto.org/politicians/person/jd---vance https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1812936021543149758  https://x.com/taylorjbarr/status/1812930126843126174  https://x.com/shayne_coplan/status/1812931244621000896  https://polymarket.com/  13:05 Trump considers Jamie Dimon as Treasury Secretary  https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1813666502526329035  13:59 Trump wants the US to beat China in the crypto race https://www.theblock.co/post/305771/trump-wants-us-in-charge-of-crypto-before-china 

15:46 Vitalik released a Blogpost:  https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/07/17/procrypto.html  https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1813596134020895138  https://x.com/valkenburgh/status/1813634877910319499  https://x.com/tusharjain_/status/1813663311591870495  https://x.com/jchervinsky/status/1813635524026048908  https://x.com/MarconiWight/status/1813320579631706598 

25:02 MARKETS L2 Update Scroll TVL increased by 21.9% to $1.01B in the past 7 days https://x.com/WuBlockchain/status/1812732829345947915  Base now 30% bigger https://x.com/jessepollak/status/1811080797706932468 

34:19 Bitcoin liquidity Events (Gox and Germany)  https://x.com/News_Of_Alpha/status/1813167748115292467  What can MtGox do to the price?  https://x.com/ki_young_ju/status/1813277728998609338  Germany is most likely done with selling https://x.com/ArkhamIntel/status/1811830991708639719  How much Germany sold?  https://x.com/ArkhamIntel/status/1813601540516524291 

38:24 ETH ETF next week!!  https://x.com/EricBalchunas/status/1812930206933655759  https://x.com/NateGeraci/status/1812961815833305104  https://x.com/jseyff/status/1813693107214717181  https://x.com/NateGeraci/status/1813698463403765780  https://x.com/coinage_media/status/1813539741851365812  https://x.com/jchervinsky/status/1813571352105979946  . 49:14 BTC ETF daily net flows trending up over the last two weeks https://x.com/WClementeIII/status/1812996129648439633  https://x.com/ericbalchunas/status/1813187237762244840  https://x.com/EricBalchunas/status/1812864261170905281 

53:39 Uniswap Extension is now open to everyone!  https://x.com/Uniswap/status/1813212643139711384 

54:58Crypto Wars 2.0 Positive developments in Roman Storm's Tornado Cash defense https://x.com/valkenburgh/status/1811851516833394994  https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/07/12/conduct-versus-code-may-be-the-defining-question-in-roman-storm-prosecution/ 

58:15 Molly White launched her new crypto initiative  https://x.com/molly0xFFF/status/1811836793353884053  https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1812950495218045424 

1:03:27 MEME of the Week https://x.com/GoingParabolic/status/1813012646339465334 

1:04:47 Moment of Zen Bitwise’s new ETH commercial is out!  https://x.com/BitwiseInvest/status/1813553235703263276 

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