The Bitcoin News Show for the week of June 18th with your host @theonevortex and special guest Andrew Kiguel from @Hut8Mining! Quick Bits: A new site 1ml.com has launched which has a count down to 1 million LN nodes! It also has a great set of stats so check it out! https://twitter.com/theonevortex/status/1009802511224459265 The Time Value of Bitcoin, a new article written by Nik Bhatia about how LN could pave a path to bitcoin becoming the world reserve currency. https://medium.com/@timevalueofbtc/the-time-value-of-bitcoin-3807b91f02d2 LN being integrated into more and more video games, here's a video of someone purchasing a UASF hat inside an android mobile unity game. https://twitter.com/MandelDuck/status/1007305707949981696 Alex Bosworth has a new video out describing Submarine Swaps on the Lightning Network https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASkyu0w_8Q8&feature=youtu.be Banks are spending $1.7 billion a year on developing blockchain products. After 2 years, this is what executives had to say. “Half of the executives told us that implementing DLT [Distributed Ledger Technology] was harder than they expected.” https://twitter.com/iamjosephyoung/status/1006669250616967168 EOS locking accounts and Zcash community paying off devs to avoid a chainsplit. Be careful in those alt coins people, most of them do not have a leg to stand on. https://www.coindesk.com/eos-locked-7-accounts-implications-everyone-crypto/ https://www.coindesk.com/eos-locked-7-accounts-implications-everyone-crypto/ I'll be speaking at Bitcoin Rodeo coming up on July 8th in Calgary! http://bitcoinrodeo.com/ Topics: Hut8Mining SEC announces cryptocurrency ether is not a security https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/finance/news/sec-announces-ether-not-security-162658147.html Crypto Winter