The Bitcoin News Show for the week of Dec 3rd with your host @theonevortex and panelists: @HillebrandMax, @francispouliot_ and @btcsessions -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quick Bits: The US officially sanctions bitcoin addresses https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm556 BitGive Launches Bitcoin Donation platform 1.0 on mainnet Using the platform, donations can be made with bitcoin, allowing donors to track the progress of the funds in real time, ensuring donations make it to the intended charities and get used for their intended causes. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitgive-launches-bitcoin-donation-platform-givetrack-10-mainnet/ U.S. SEC Delays Decision on VanEck's Bitcoin ETF Until February 2019 https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/us-sec-delays-decision-vanecks-bitcoin-etf-until-february-2019/ Nasdaq has confirmed launch of Bitcoin Futures in 'First Half' of 2019 https://cointelegraph.com/news/confirmed-nasdaqs-bitcoin-futures-will-launch-in-first-half-of-2019 Another $170k of bitcoin lost, make sure you got those private keys backed up! https://twitter.com/TraceMayer/status/1071651628187561984 Lower cryptocurrency prices and decreased mining activity has resulted in vulnerabilities in the security of small crypto-networks seeing many coins get 51% attacked including Vertcoin. https://www.theblockcrypto.com/2018/12/03/long-tail-cryptocurrency-is-51-attacked-vertcoin-edition/ Lightningspin.com just hit 10,000 paid invoices as LightningNetwork continues to hit new capacity highs in number of channels and liquididty! https://twitter.com/ruigomeseu/status/1071489960346312705 Jack's Cash App is #1 in the app charts again. Cashapp is of course the app that let's you buy bitcoin from your phone. https://twitter.com/jack/status/1071486901515902979 Everyone seems to be starting crypto currency newsletters these days as there is just so much noise vs signal in the space, and now MIT's Digital currency initiative is joining in with their new bi-weekly Cryptocurrency Reserch Review publication. https://mitcryptocurrencyresearch.substack.com/p/mit-dcis-cryptocurrency-research Ethereum permabull ConsenSys has has announced that it will lay off 13% of its staff as part of a wider strategic shift. Meanwhile Blockstream has nearly doubled their staff this year and continues to launch useful important products for the entire ecosystem. https://twitter.com/coindesk/status/1070748471685275648 Forbes released a great article this week titled "Cryptopia In Crisis: Joe Lubin’s Ethereum Experiment Is A Mess. How Long Will He Prop It Up?" https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkauflin/2018/12/05/cryptopia-in-crisis-billionaire-joe-lubins-ethereum-experiment-is-a-mess-how-long-will-he-prop-it-up/#4c8d93d52f0a Blockstream launches Explora, A high performance and accurate #BlockExplorer and then releases the source code for it making it 100% open sourece. This is of course right after launching Liquid and the repo for Simplicity. https://twitter.com/Blockstream/status/1070727432129404928 Hasu has released the second part of his great article series for new entrants into the space titled "A skeptic's Guide to Bitcoin" https://medium.com/@hasufly/bitcoins-social-contract-1f8b05ee24a9?sk=27e8cf65d45c46ffae1466ce2ac31b48 Congratulations r/Bitcoin on reaching 1,000,000,000 subscribers! https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/a2jz81/congratulations_you_are_the_one_millionth/ Topics: -Bitcoin’s Tech Trends of 2018: What This Year Brought Us (Part 1) https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoins-tech-trends-2018-what-year-brought-us-part-1/ -Bitcoin’s Network Just Experienced Its Second Largest Downward Adjustment https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoins-network-just-experienced-its-second-largest-downward-adjustment/ https://www.ccn.com/bitcoin-miners-are-selling-old-asics-for-scrap-metal-as-price-decline-hastens-obsolescence/ -Bull Bitcoin https://bullbitcoin.com/ -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