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The TCB Weekly News Roundup, ending August 14, 2023 – The Landscape Unfolds

By Just Brian on August 14, 2023 • ( 0 )

We’re starting to see what the landscape of the cryptospace for the next bull run will be like. Very different than 2018-19. Independent players have been pushed off the US playing field by regulations and SEC fines and lawsuits. The ETFs will be how the established money players and institutions get their exposure.

Also in the news: FTX legal actions.

Enjoy and be well, Everyone.

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The Week’s Posts
Tuesday Post- Charles Hughes Smith: Lessons from the Unraveling of the Roman Empire: Simplification, Localization

The Week in Videos ending August 13, 2023 – Watch Out

Reports:

This Week In Twitter

The ETF experts suggest that if they approve, it'll likely be all of them at once (thus they'd delay Ark until other deadlines), potentially catalyzed by the Grayscale decision, which is TBD (but coming any day now iirc?).https://t.co/tTKZDVSyn0
— Dan McArdle (@robustus) August 11, 2023

More bias confirmation, money printing and currency #devaluation, from CHS' latest. Get into hard assets.https://t.co/Ilgog7UbuH pic.twitter.com/qonmqU1DjS
— B. Rocks (@TinyCryptoBlog) August 7, 2023

All of the changes being phased in at Twitter "X" are a slippery slope. ID verification, banking and tying it all to your social media/Twitter posts is the plan. The problem w a slippery slope is that the farther you go down, the harder it is to get back up and off the slope.
— Whitney Webb (@_whitneywebb) August 10, 2023

She has no idea whats comes next…pic.twitter.com/6gh4mjC1Da
— Chris "Context Matters" Martenson, PhD (@chrismartenson) August 6, 2023

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— clif (@Cllf_high) July 30, 2023

A reminder…

Headlines
Arca: “That’s Our 2 Satoshis” – The Impact of Coinbase and PayPal News on Crypto

Adoption, Implementation and Infrastructure
–Fold Card: Coming Soon: Card Boosts in Early Access (you can sign up at the referral link at the bottom, and we both get a thank you prize)
–Fireblocks discloses massive vulnerability affecting crypto wallets
–Circle CEO: 70% of USDC adoption comes from outside the US
–USDC issuer Circle launches MPC wallet beta for Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche
–Bitcoin Depot CEO Mintz Wants to Consolidate Business of ATMs for BTC

CBDCs (are just Surveillance Tokens)
*CBDC Tracker 1*
*CBDC Tracker 2*
–Brazilian CBDC gets official name and logo

COMMENTARY, GOSSIP and OPINION
–Temasek, Sequoia Capital, Softbank, leading VCs face lawsuit for “abetting” FTX fraud
–Stablecoin Market to Grow to Almost $3T in Next 5 Years: Bernstein
–Why I Don’t Feel Bad for HEX Founder Richard Heart’s Victims

COMPANIES & PROTOCOLS
–The Sandbox implements KYC measures for protocol staking
–Rising Dormant Bitcoin Numbers Suggest Holding Is a Preferred Investment Strategy
–Paxos Has Other ‘White Label’ Stablecoin Opportunities in the Works in Addition to PayPal USD
–Visa (V) Tests Way to Make Paying Ethereum Gas Fees Easier

CRIMES AND SCAMS
–https://cointelegraph.com/news/alex-mashinsky-electronic-monitoring-bail-judge-signs-protective-order
–Alchemix reports return of all stolen funds from Curve pools

DEFI, CEFI, AND LENDING
**DeFi Scanner – check if a DeFi protocol is a scam**

Exchanges
–Bitstamp to suspend trading of major altcoins for US users

Mining and Energy
*Live Mining Statistics*
–Core Scientific’s bankruptcy plan includes equity stake for Bitmain and Anchorage
–Tether unveils mining software to boost efficiency and capacity

Nation States (and other political jurisdictions)

NFTs / Metaverse / Web3 / DAOs

Regulation, Legislation, Legal Matters & Taxation
–Kenyan Police Raided Worldcoin’s Warehouse and Seized ‘Machines That Store Data’
–Former FTX exec Ryan Salame and US prosecutors are discussing a plea deal: Report
–FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Jailed Ahead of Trial
–FTX’s former law firm hit with lawsuit alleging it set up shadowy entities

STABLECOINS
–UK’s Central Bank Forges Ahead With Plans for a Systemic Stablecoin Regime
–Breaking: PayPal launches PYUSD stablecoin for payment

Taxation

Wall Street and Big Money
*BitcoinTreasuries*
*Bitcoin Worldwide (treasuries)*

Time Capsule

Outside News
–MIshTalk: China Abandons Clean Energy Goals Making U.S. Efforts Painful and Pointless

You Do Not Change Bitcoin. Bitcoin Changes You.
“Bitcoin will eat the world.” And it is.

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