Block Digest #69 - Ghost in Your Machine

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Welcome to episode #69 of Block Digest! (Tuesday, January 4th 2018) Join us: https://bitcoinmumble.com/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/blockdigest Credits ======== 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 This video is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Links ===== #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 Donate to Block Digest with bitcoins: 3NG9TkTztxUEg44Mcby4Uk3poNn9s6pYjV

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