Block Digest #23 - BTCC Will Suspend All Trading - Bitcoin Market Cap Sheds $27 Billion

Welcome to episode #23 of Block Digest! (Thursday, September 13th 2017) Join us: https://bitcoinmumble.com/ Credits ======== Special Guest: Shinobius - https://twitter.com/brian_trollz Chris Ellis - https://twitter.com/MrChrisEllis Janine - https://twitter.com/J9Roem and Rick M. https://twitter.com/cryptorick Special mention @JimBTC on Twitter for his meme https://twitter.com/JimBTC/status/884... This video is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Links ===== # Chinese Bitcoin Exchange BTCC Announces Suspension of All Trading Bitcoin took a major dive after a big Chinese exchange said it is closing - CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/14/bitco... Jihan a few days before this announcement https://twitter.com/JihanWu/status/90... https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pip... We already reported on this in BD #20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9vtC... # Bitcoin sheds 27 Billion in Market Cap http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bitc... Marketwatch blames the drop on Dimon’s comments and China’s shut down of exchanges. Article says this situation “...could determine whether bitcoin, or some other cryptocurrency becomes a mainstream instrument, challenging fiat currencies like the U.S. dollar” “I deleted my tweets from 2 days ago because I was tired of reading the curses and threats thrown at me. And yes, I really did HODL my coins.” https://twitter.com/SatoshiLite/statu... # Bitcoin Core 0.15.0 released Run down of changes by Aaron van Wirdum https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/... Download 0.15.0 here https://bitcoin.org/en/download # Equifax Update Failure to patch two-month-old bug led to massive Equifax breach https://arstechnica.com/information-t... From the 8th Sept 2017: 44 million UK citizens (67% of population) affected by Equifax breach http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology...