122. ETH 2.0, Bitcoin the asset & blockchain for banking

Simon Taylor is back in London this week with some amazing returning guests:

• Richard Crook - Director of Lab577
• Vinay Gupta - CEO of Mattereum

Together they talk about the latest in blockchain, Bitcoin and Crypto news including:

• Ethereum's Istanbul hard fork release date is confirmed by core developer (01:46)
• Bakkt's monthly bitcoin futures hit all-time-high of $15M (08:09)
• The UN accuses North Korea of laundering money through a blockchain firm (15:48)
• FBI Director says crypto is a ‘significant issue’ for law enforcement (22:00)
• Ray Dalio writes about the financial system and why he thinks it's broken (34:16)

The Tweet of the Week comes from @PeterMcCormack about his honest opinions on DAI! Why not send us your best tweets? See if you can get a shout out on the show! (44:56)

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Special Guests: Richard Crook and Vinay Gupta.

Links:

• Ethereum's Istanbul hard fork release date is confirmed by core developer
• Bakkt's monthly bitcoin futures hit all-time-high of $15M
• The UN accuses North Korea of laundering money through a blockchain firm
• FBI Director says crypto is a ‘significant issue’ for law enforcement
• Ray Dalio writes about the financial system and why he thinks it's broken