Navigating Economic Policies and Crypto Insights

5th Week of September, 2022

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----- Topics Covered

0:00 Intro 3:44 BTC Price 4:15 ETH Price 4:33 ETH/BTC Ratio 5:40 Crypto Market Cap 6:27 DYX at 20 Year High https://www.tradingview.com/x/nRFvPloa/  9:10 U.S. Economy ~25% of World GDP https://twitter.com/biancoresearch/status/1573699077228957697  9:50 Current Depreciation Relative to Dollar https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/xn13w5/oc_how_much_other_currencies_have_depreciated/  10:15 All is Not Well in the Bond Market https://twitter.com/biancoresearch/thread/1574877075336470537  12:10 Drawdown of Equity and Fixed Income https://twitter.com/dtapcap/status/1574883689242279941  13:35 Rumor UK Pension Funds Breaking https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-news-today-09-29-2022/card/private-assets-fueled-VqnloBS8V3GaU2qzurea  17:20 ETH Economy… https://ultrasound.money/  18:25 Miner Payouts Artificially Increased Gas Prices https://twitter.com/Butta_eth/status/1573601195847041026  21:22 Ethereum Weekends vs. Weekdays https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1574792875539402754  22:40 Profitability New Meta? https://tokenterminal.com/leaderboards/earnings 

28:13 CFTC Prosecuting DAO Token Holders? https://twitter.com/tier10k/status/1573069619895615488  https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8590-22  https://twitter.com/DeFiDefenseLaw/thread/1575071268000665601  33:08 Jake Chervinsky Take https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1573082859358851073  34:10 Everything Might Be Okay? https://twitter.com/BillHughesDC/status/1573090075004608513  34:55 Dissent! It Didn’t Have to Be This Way https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/SpeechesTestimony/mersingerstatement092222 

38:26 Are NFTs Back? 38:30 Tyler Hobbes Sells 2nd Collection for $17.6m https://twitter.com/Loopifyyy/status/1575179183864434688  https://twitter.com/Loopifyyy/status/1575180053859643393  https://twitter.com/realrubberjesus/thread/1574031608297836545  40:40 Christies 3.0 - Metaverse Auction House https://nft.christies.com/?cid=EM_SM_O_TW_Inc_DPT____________ 

46:56 Disney Doubles Down https://decrypt.co/110572/disney-pushes-further-into-crypto-defi-nfts-with-recent-job-post  51:44 $4.4M Punk Sale https://twitter.com/cryptopunksbot/status/1575238937081221128  https://twitter.com/PabloPunkasso/status/1575245441293119488  54:00 First NFT Spotted on Instagram https://imgur.com/BXHWP5U  57:07 Apple Wants to Impose 30% Commission on NFTs https://cointelegraph.com/news/grotesquely-overpriced-apple-s-app-store-wants-30-cut-on-nft-sales  58:30 Tim Sweeney (Epic Games) Denounces Apple https://twitter.com/timsweeneyepic/status/1573377990100238338 

1:00:44 New Cosmos White Paper https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2022/09/26/new-cosmos-white-paper-revamps-cosmos-hub-atom-token  1:02:44 Reversables Transactions? https://twitter.com/kaili_jenner/status/1573727505491673088  1:05:12 Lark Bad https://twitter.com/zachxbt/status/1575494380072611847 

1:09:50 Robinhood Selects Polygon to Launch Web3 Wallet https://blog.polygon.technology/robinhood-selects-polygon-to-launch-web3-wallet-beta/  1:10:44 SafeDAO and SAFE… https://twitter.com/safe/status/1575047966183653376  https://safe.mirror.xyz/p1aonqM1NSZeOFN8iY2_Ms8y6Ikuz5E76HRiEPKnCEA  1:11:10 Opensea Live on Optimism https://twitter.com/opensea/status/1574799977649422339  1:11:20 Sound Protocol https://twitter.com/soundxyz_/status/1572633595818422272  1:12:00 USDC on 5 New Chains https://decrypt.co/110800/circle-expands-usdc-stablecoin-support-to-five-new-blockchains 

1:16:08 JOBS https://pallet.xyz/list/bankless/jobs 

1:19:18 NATION QUESTIONS https://twitter.com/wesleytate/status/1575156426493857792  https://twitter.com/DiscoverCrypto1/status/1575171727117545477  https://twitter.com/seangilll23/status/1575490743422005249 

1:30:00 TAKES https://twitter.com/ryansadams/status/1573356668439728128  https://twitter.com/onewayfunction/status/1573346913856131073  https://twitter.com/0xtuba/status/1573910439842357248  https://twitter.com/kevinolearytv/status/1574822440110362642  https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1575529128862027776  https://twitter.com/punk4156/status/1574072728482627592  https://twitter.com/ryansadams/status/1575279081070944257 

1:39:00 What We’re Bullish On

1:42:24 MEME of the Week https://twitter.com/0xLawl/status/1574823004382662664 

1:44:00 Closing & Disclaimers

1:44:18 Moment of Zen https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ/status/1573255803724861445 

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