The Bitcoin News Show #82 – Hut 8 Mining, Ether not a security, Crypto Winter

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

The Bitcoin News Show #82 – Hut 8 Mining, Ether not a security, Crypto Winter

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