The Ransomware Ripple: Bitcoin's Image Under Fire

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4th Week of May, 2021

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0:00 Intro

2:15 MARKETS 2:25 BTC Price Fear & Greed: https://twitter.com/BitcoinFear  4:48 ETH Price Fear & Greed: https://twitter.com/EthereumFear/status/1402566188144726021?s=20  7:47 ETH/BTC Ratio Episode w/ Ledger: https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/-sotn-49-the-state-of-the-charts  8:57 DeFi Action 12:08 Cooldown https://twitter.com/joel_john95/status/1402177944001269760?s=20  15:49 NFT Bubble https://protos.com/nft-market-bubble-popped-crypto-collectibles-are-over/  18:39 ETH Trading Volume https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1402240262911496192?s=20  20:10 DeFi Lending Protocols https://twitter.com/tokenterminal/status/1401901076903776260?s=20 

22:00 RELEASES 24:00 Uniswap V3 on Arbitrum https://twitter.com/Uniswap/status/1400847744596598792?s=20  27:45 Graph Protocol on Arbitrum https://twitter.com/arbitrum/status/1402023407609421830?s=20  28:11 Uniswap V3 Calculator https://uniswapv3.flipsidecrypto.com/  34:33 Curve Volatility Algorithm https://twitter.com/curvefinance/status/1402673150425509890?s=21  37:00 Polygon Polygon Scan: https://twitter.com/0xPolygon/status/1402590551619162116  HopProtocol: https://twitter.com/HopProtocol/status/1397983455821041664  OKEx Withdrawals: https://twitter.com/OKEx/status/1402630589551890436  Matcha Aggregator: https://twitter.com/matchaxyz/status/1402645756834553864 

42:45 NEWS 42:55 El Salvador The Bill: https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1402446890466217985?s=20  Thread: https://twitter.com/CaitlinLong_/status/1401334421773504517?s=20  Volcano Mining: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1402773957653241861?s=20  1:02:25 NFTs on Aave https://metaversal.banklesshq.com/p/nfts-are-coming-to-aave  1:04:09 Bitcoin Ransomware Attacks FBI Recovers: https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/1401973177346109443?s=20  $11M Payment: https://www.coindesk.com/ransomware-jbs-holdings-meat-producer  1:07:25 Microstrategy BTC Bond https://twitter.com/Blockworks_/status/1401881368355876868?s=20  1:13:22 Elizabeth Warren https://twitter.com/senwarren/status/1402725005113364486?s=21  Knives Out: https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1402755502715645953?s=20  1:20:55 Quick News Takes IRS: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/107590/irs-seeks-millions-in-fresh-funding-to-expand-crypto-tax-enforcement-and-hire-outside-experts  CFTC: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/107769/cftc-commissioner-criticizes-defi-decries-lack-of-intermediaries  Consumer Inflation: https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-inflation-rates/  Amazon DeFi: https://twitter.com/CoinDesk/status/1402223350563344385?s=19  BlockFi Raise: https://twitter.com/fintechfrank/status/1402344595279822853?s=20  Ledger Raise: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/107775/ledger-380-million-series-c-raise-dan-tapiero-10t-fund  Solana Raise: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/107749/solana-labs-raises-314-million-funding-a16z-polychain-capital  Coinbase 401k: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/108034/coinbase-forusall-401k-advisor-crypto-retirement-accounts 

1:24:30 TAKES 1:25:20 New Vision for Crypto https://twitter.com/TheStalwart/status/1401842475564687361  1:27:30 Gen Z is Coming https://twitter.com/ryansadams/status/1402462536419753985?s=21  1:29:25 Single-Sign On https://twitter.com/BrantlyMillegan/status/1402388133086367751  1:31:14 BTC Physical, ETH Digital 1:34:09 Listener Question

1:36:25 What David’s Excited About 1:38:22 What Ryan’s Excited About Panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mUCFRu4fkk 

1:40:50 MEME OF THE WEEK https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/nvojaa/this_is_exactly_why_i_want_to_go_bankless/ 

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