Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.08.27

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast · Aug 29, 2018 · 59m

In this episode we discuss: Vitalik Buterin's recent blog post on how to scale with layers The importance of soft forks CNBC's trash coverage WeChat and Alipay banned cryptocurrency commerce and chats The recent jump in hash rate Laurent's piece on measuring the value secured by PoW NIRP in Germany CFTF fine of German Bank for manipulating USD derivatives ETF denial then subsequent "reevaluation" Links: https://vitalik.ca/general/2018/08/26/layer_1.html https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/963086673537126400?s=19 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS…