The Bitcoin News Show for the week of Oct 8th with your host @theonevortex and panelists: -Samson Mow (@Excellion) -Dhruv Bansal (@dhruvbansal) -Francis Pouliot (@francispouliot_) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quick Bits: There's A Giant Bitcoin Rat on Wall Street And It's Staring Down the Fed https://www.coindesk.com/theres-a-giant-bitcoin-rat-on-wall-street-and-its-staring-at-the-fed/ Coinbase Confirms Shutdown of Crypto Index Fund Product https://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-confirms-shutdown-of-crypto-index-fund-product/ The privacy focused wallet Samourai Prepares for Internet-Free Bitcoin Transactions With TxTenna Launch https://bitcoinist.com/samourai-prepares-for-internet-free-bitcoin-transactions-with-txtenna-launch/ IMF: Crypto Growth ‘Could Create Vulnerabilities’ In Economy https://bitcoinist.com/imf-crypto-growth-could-create-vulnerabilities-in-economy/ Ethereum has fallen to 2016 price levels when priced in bitcoin https://twitter.com/BTCbenny/status/1050515554572750848 Railroaded - The Targeting & Caging of Ross Ulbricht is now available to listen to on the What Bitcoin Did Podcast https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/railroaded-the-targeting-and-caging-of-ross-ulbricht Pierre Rochard released a new article this week titled Beware the Siren Song of “Crypto VC” where he dives into the real adoption drivers of bitcoin https://medium.com/@pierre_rochard/beware-the-siren-song-of-crypto-vc-aa24928698f0 -Tone Vays's Unconfiscatable Conference! A bitcoin not blockchain conference and celebrity poker tournament to be held in Las Vegas, NV Jan 23-26. Ticket prices starting at 0.05 BTC. Poker game buy in is 0.1 BTC. http://unconfiscatable.com Topics: Crypto Defender Spars With Famed Critic During US Senate Hearing: Two divergent viewpoints on the topic of cryptocurrency collided before a group of U.S senators on Thursday. https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-defender-spars-with-famed-critic-during-us-senate-hearing/ Liquid Goes Live: Blockstream's First Bitcoin Sidechain Has Finally Arrived: Built off of the live blockchain, Liquid will now be used to carry large volumes of transactions at a higher speed for several of bitcoin's largest companies. https://www.coindesk.com/liquid-goes-live-blockstreams-first-bitcoin-sidechain-has-finally-arrived/ -Audio stream https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/cryptocastnetwork -Support the channel with merch! https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=w_bl_sl_s_ap_web_7141123011?ie=UTF8&node=7141123011&field-brandtextbin=Crypto+Cast+Network -Support the channel with bitcoin! https://www.smartbit.com.au/address/3BTbsNttiaUfVQ4NQJjwpw32XFDex4Jf2d -Helpful links https://btcinformation.org https://lopp.net https://bitcoinops.org/ Crypto Cast Network: http://cryptocast.network https://twitter.com/cryptocastnet #bitcoin #blockchain