The Bitcoin News Show #70 - State Sponsored Crypto, Bulletproofs, Low Fees The Bitcoin News Show for the week of Feb 19th with your host @theonevortex. Quick Bits: Original Pizza Day Purchaser Laszlo Hanyecz Does It Again With Bitcoin Lightning Network https://cointelegraph.com/news/original-pizza-day-purchaser-does-it-again-with-bitcoin-lightning-network Just completed an interview with Peter Kallos for his Hungarian bitcoin audience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6JpJSE4O6c&feature=youtu.be Trezor is updating their software as they are phasing out their google chrome plugin as google phases out it's chrome apps https://blog.trezor.io/introducing-new-trezor-bridge-v2-2b7ea5478d65 Robinhood has launched it's crypto currency trading platform to several states here in the US and to date has millions of sign-ups for it's new app http://blog.robinhood.com/news/2018/2/21/robinhood-crypto-trading-is-here Topics: -With more countries creating state sponsored cryptos such as Venezuela, Iran, Turkey and more, and now even Putin saying that Russia can't be left behind in the blockchain space, will these state sponsored cryptos eventually take over, do they pose any threat at all to traditional crypto? https://bitcoinist.com/vladimir-putin-endorses-blockchain-russia/ -Blockstream just released a new paper called Bulletproofs: Faster Rangeproofs wherein they detail extraordinary advances to the tune of several orders of magnitude in scaling this new privacy tech. Will this really improve fungibility on bitcoin and when can we expect to see this privacy tech take off in bitcoin? https://twitter.com/TraceMayer/status/966700884825706501 -Bitcoin fees have sunk to near record lows and Bitfinex and coinbase are now supporting Segwit and Batching adoptions, is the high fee era of bitcoin over, or will we expect high fees to come back? https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/segwit-coming-coinbase-and-bitfinexs-bitcoin-exchanges/