Bitcoin & Markets

This week in Bitcoin was dominated by the price and the budding of a culture war. People bring their own bias to Bitcoin, there's no dominant bitcoin culture. You see what you want to see. This week we also saw a new All Time High is hashrate and difficulty in Bitcoin. Lastly, I discuss the Lightning Network Plateau. More at https://bitcoinandmarkets.com/e168

We're back with another Friday Fundamentals. Stats of note this week are the number of shorts falling off a cliff, the difficulty not budging despite almost 2x in price movement in 2 months, CME volume is surging again, and mempool being elevated. Our one news item in this episode is the Microsoft Decentralized Identity System called ION. I speak about it for a few minutes as a layer 2 for Bitcoin. - https://bitcoinandmarkets.com/e167

In this Friday Fundamentals episode, we hit some conflicting metrics from around the space, including technical divergence, stubborn sentiment, slow mining reaction, and lightning dynamics. For news we hit Representative Sherman's stupid crypto bill, the Binance hack and a Tether update. Show notes can be found at https://bitcoinandmarkets.com/e166

This is a Friday Fundamentals episode where I go over the Bitcoin price, market sentiment, mining, and news that affect the fundamentals. Tether is grabbing headlines right now, but there's a split growing among Bitcoin supporters. The old-timers seen to support Tether and Bitfinex, while others are overly harsh. I breakdown that dynamic and explain that Tether is the front line in the currency war. Full show notes at: https://bitcoinandmarkets.com/e165

Bitcoin & Markets E164 | This is the sixth episode in our Bitcoin Banter series, where our community gets together and chats on our discord server (link in the show notes). We bring our own topics and take questions from Twitter. We have a great episode this time! We talk about Satoshi's Treasure, Wasabi wallet and privacy, and wrap it up with a price and macro discussion. Show notes: https://bitcoinandmarkets.com/e164 Free newsletter Weekly Macro Analysis: https://bitcoinandmarkets.com/report SUBSCRIBE -  iTunes: https://goo.gl/X8Rej1 -  Stitcher: https://goo.gl/dVPuaA -  Google Podcasts: https://goo.gl/TM5uP9 -  YouTube: https://goo.gl/xoeAkq -  Discord: https://discord.gg/SjjHESF WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT -  Big list of free ways to support us: https://bitcoinandmarkets.com/support -  PATREON Become a member, get more content: https://www.patreon.com/bitcoinandmarkets AFFILIATES -  The Most Powerful and Beneficial CBD Available  https://goo.gl/c7LU9P -  Get started in 5 mins with Bitcoin/Lightning! : https://goo.gl/nrxoiC -  2 FREE audio books from Audible: https://amzn.to/2EvxmlH -  Professional charting with TRADINGVIEW: https://tradingview.go2cloud.org/SH35L -  Sticker Shop!!! https://citizenbitcoin.shop/markets FOLLOW -  @AnselLindner: https://twitter.com/AnselLindner -  @btcmrkts: https://twitter.com/btcmrkts THANK YOU LISTENERS! Music: Rest by Otis McDonald **DISCLAIMER: This is not investment advice, do your own research.** https://bitcoinandmarkets.com/disclaimer/

On our Friday Fundamentals episodes we discuss price, sentiment of the market, mining, lightning and development. This episode we also discuss the big Bitcoin news of the day with the Tether and Bitfinex situation. SHOW NOTES https://bitcoinandmarkets.com/e163 GET OUR FREE WEEKLY MARKET ANALYSIS https://goo.gl/jJcMVR SUBSCRIBE -  iTunes: https://goo.gl/X8Rej1 -  Stitcher: https://goo.gl/dVPuaA -  Google Podcasts: https://goo.gl/TM5uP9 -  YouTube: https://goo.gl/xoeAkq -  Discord: https://discord.gg/SjjHESF WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT -  Big list of free ways to support us: https://bitcoinandmarkets.com/support -  PATREON Become a member, get more content: https://www.patreon.com/bitcoinandmarkets AFFILIATES -  The Most Powerful and Beneficial CBD Available  https://goo.gl/c7LU9P -  Get started in 5 mins with Bitcoin/Lightning! : https://goo.gl/nrxoiC -  2 FREE audio books from Audible: https://amzn.to/2EvxmlH -  Professional charting with TRADINGVIEW: https://tradingview.go2cloud.org/SH35L -  Sticker Shop!!! https://citizenbitcoin.shop/markets FOLLOW -  @AnselLindner: https://twitter.com/AnselLindner -  @btcmrkts: https://twitter.com/btcmrkts EPISODE LINKS Bitfinex/Tether 1 https://cointelegraph.com/news/tether-hits-back-at-claims-its-reserves-were-used-to-cover-850-million-loss-at-bitfinex Bitfinex/Tether 2 https://news.hodlhodl.com/news/state-of-ny-alleges-bitfinex-used-850m-of-tether-funds-to-hide-losses-bitfinex-refutes-3060 Optech newsletter https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2019/04/23/ THANK YOU LISTENERS! Music: Rest by Otis McDonald **DISCLAIMER: This is not investment advice, do your own research.** https://bitcoinandmarkets.com/disclaimer/

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