Welcome to episode #69 of Block Digest! (Tuesday, January 4th 2018)
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Credits
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Shinobius - https://twitter.com/brian_trollz
Aknix (2.0) - https://twitter.com/rm0rf
Rick M. https://twitter.com/cryptorick
Janine - https://twitter.com/J9Roem
JW Weatherman - https://twitter.com/WeathermanIam
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Links
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#Bitcoin’s 9th Birthday
https://twitter.com/mir_btc/status/948338578395947008
#One ECB Official Calling for Taxing Bitcoin Transactions (1:55)
https://www.coindesk.com/ecb-official-calls-for-tax-on-bitcoin-transactions/
https://twitter.com/RNR_0/status/948587170452987905
#Ghana Central Bank Advised to Buy Bitcoin (12:02)
https://www.ccn.com/ghanas-central-bank-should-invest-1-of-its-reserves-in-bitcoin-groupe-nduom-executive/
https://citifmonline.com/2018/01/03/bog-should-invest-1-of-dollar-reserve-into-bitcoin-chiefy-nduom/
Chinese Expansion into South Korea Delayed
https://news.bitcoin.com/chinese-cryptocurrency-exchanges-delay-launching-south-korea-regulation/
#Meryl Lynch Bans Recommending Crypto to Clients (33:58)
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/03/merrill-lynch-bans-its-clients-advisors-from-trading-bitcoin-related-investments-report-says.html
#E-Trade Opens Access to CME Futures (33:25)
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/02/e-trade-begins-cme-bitcoin-trading-as-of-tuesday-evening.html
#Ripple and E-Coin (21:45)
Gene Sperling & Ben Bernanke vs. E-Corp CTO Terry Colby & CEO Phillip Price
https://twitter.com/LachlanCraigie/status/948862891033153536
(picture from the SWELL Ripple conference in Toronto - October 16-18 2017)
https://twitter.com/ECorpCEO/status/946538290508738560
#Rootstock Beta Launch (43:50)
https://www.coindesk.com/rsk-beta-brings-ethereum-style-smart-contracts-closer-bitcoin/
https://news.bitcoin.com/rsk-federation-partners-industry-leaders/
https://faq.rsk.co/en/main/
#China Set To Curb Mining Power Consumption?
https://twitter.com/BlockchainJuice/status/948596025769496576
https://twitter.com/cnLedger/status/948753572514037760
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/03/bitcoin-mining-power-usage-comes-under-government-regulation-in-china.html
#Critical Intel Vulnerabilities: Meltdown and Spectre (1:11:48)
https://meltdownattack.com/
https://twitter.com/misc0110/status/948706387491786752
https://twitter.com/brainsmoke/status/948561799875502080
https://twitter.com/qrs/status/948696003108134912
https://www.wired.com/story/critical-intel-flaw-breaks-basic-security-for-most-computers/
YouTube censors demo video: https://twitter.com/lavados/status/948957297560227840
https://twitter.com/_jonasschnelli_/status/948840693790732288
Linus Torvalds: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/3/797
Exchanges vulnerable: https://twitter.com/peterktodd/status/948699325223391232
Qubes, unknown if affected: https://twitter.com/rootkovska/status/948875166913789958
Trezor unaffected: https://twitter.com/pavolrusnak/status/948863100194836480
Ledger not affected: https://twitter.com/BTChip/status/948956877194432512
https://twitter.com/martijn_grooten/status/948581711696351237
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