Celebrating the Merge: Personal Anecdotes and Crypto Investment Insights

4th Week of September, 2022

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----- Topics Covered

0:00 Intro 3:00 BTC Price 3:54 ETH Price https://ultrasound.money/  14:00 Relayer and Builder Market https://www.mevboost.org/  18:13 FED WATCH 18:25 Fed Rate Hike this Week https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/21/economy/fed-rate-hike-september/index.html  19:45 Risk on Assets Falls https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/09/21/federal-reserve-hikes-rates-to-highest-since-2007-bitcoin-falls-to-19000/  21:44 Houses! Interest Rates on Houses Spiking https://twitter.com/charliebilello/status/1570413955637460993  https://twitter.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1571522450386735112  24:00 Flat Markets Prediction? https://twitter.com/GoldTelegraph_/status/1570738647254831105 

29:27 NEWS 29:30 White House & U.S. Regulatory https://twitter.com/coingecko/status/1570769375212470272  https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/09/16/fact-sheet-white-house-releases-first-ever-comprehensive-framework-for-responsible-development-of-digital-assets/  31:20 Terra Screwed Things Up https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1571991546291159042  https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1570774337254461446  https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1572095723306627073  34:35 Draft Stablecoin Bill https://www.theblock.co/post/171565/draft-stablecoin-bill-in-congress-to-require-fed-state-regulator-approval  https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1572586178502864896  39:05 Senate Banking Committee Hates Crypto https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-money/2022/09/22/sherrod-brown-turns-up-the-heat-00058202  40:00 Interaction Between Toomey and Gensler https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ/status/1570808589148909569 

41:41 $160M Wintermute Hack https://t.co/Kkk445dLyv  41:50 Experts Blame Vanity Address https://www.theblock.co/post/171192/experts-blame-a-vanity-address-bug-for-wintermutes-160-million-hack  42:00 More Details on What Happened https://twitter.com/evgenygaevoy/status/1572329148411936770 https://halborn.com/explained-the-profanity-address-generator-hack-september-2022/ 

44:16 David and Ryan Discuss: What’s Next? https://twitter.com/iamDCinvestor/status/1572927876546297859  https://wrongalot.substack.com/p/the-next-big-crypto-narrative 

54:24 PoW Ethereum Fork Dead? https://thedefiant.io/ethpow-rough-start-after-merge  54:46 Infura Decentralized Infrastructure Network  https://twitter.com/infura_io/status/1570794318067290112  56:00 zkSync Devs Found Bug https://twitter.com/StarkWareLtd/status/1567888940123983874  https://twitter.com/iamDCinvestor/status/1567889575128727552  https://twitter.com/zksync/status/1570073596709462018  56:55 OpenSea on Arbitrum https://twitter.com/opensea/status/1572250900198203392 

57:17 Universal Studios NFT Scavenger Hunt https://twitter.com/banklesshq/status/1572619172454232064  https://twitter.com/0xferg/status/1572068539049058304 

58:15 Tether: Show Us What’s Backing USDT https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stablecoin-issuer-tether-ordered-produce-041706661.html  59:31 FTX in the Lead to Buy Voyager https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/09/15/ftx-is-in-the-lead-to-buy-crypto-lender-voyager-digitals-assets-out-of-bankruptcy-source  https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/09/20/crypto-exchanges-binance-and-ftx-have-both-bid-roughly-50m-for-voyagers-assets-report  1:00:42 Do Kwon on the Run? https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/09/19/s-korean-authorities-ask-interpol-to-issue-red-notice-for-terra-co-founder-do-kwon-report/  1:01:13 Rari Fuse Hack Victim Compensation https://twitter.com/joey__santoro/thread/1571898748405714947 

1:04:16 Helium Signs Agreement with T-Mobile https://twitter.com/tier10k/status/1572244764237471749  https://twitter.com/TusharJain_/status/1572248774893834240  1:06:13 Kraken’s CEO Stepping Down https://www.theblock.co/post/171847/krakens-jesse-powell-stepping-down-as-ceo-of-crypto-exchange 

1:06:31 Nasdaq Launching Institutional Crypto Custody Services https://twitter.com/fintechfrank/status/1572186768132161536  1:07:05 Liquid Collective https://twitter.com/liquid_col/thread/1572164626535563265 https://liquidcollective.io/  1:07:55 Coinbase Cloud https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-cloud-launches-platform-for-web3-developers-472eb355b1fa 

1:08:45 FTX Reloading https://cointelegraph.com/news/ftx-in-talks-with-investors-to-raise-1b-for-further-acquisitions-cnbc  1:09:10 Messari Raises $35M Series B https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/messari-announces-at-mainnet-2022-summit-raising-35-million-in-series-b-funding-301629624.html 

1:11:00 JOBS https://pallet.xyz/list/bankless/jobs 

1:14:19 NATION QUESTIONS https://twitter.com/bbbFollowOnly/status/1572948809063317510  https://twitter.com/mmaatt78/status/1572638221720498176 

1:20:45 TAKES 1:20:50 VCs Against Bitcoin https://twitter.com/TheStalwart/status/1570485528633417730  1:21:55 Say No to Bitcoin Fundamentalism https://twitter.com/danheld/status/1570839132028674048  1:23:35 Ethereum & Crypto Haters https://twitter.com/haydenzadams/status/1570459984206381058  https://twitter.com/haydenzadams/status/1571535610279510021  1:25:25 Rollups Today https://twitter.com/jon_charb/status/1572395334516748290 

1:27:31 What We’re Bullish On

1:30:53 MEME of the Week https://twitter.com/banklesshq/status/1571984307748569088 

1:33:41 Closing & Disclaimers

1:33:50 Moment of Zen https://twitter.com/gabrielhaines/status/1572927657049980929 

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