Bitcoin News #50 - Chinese exchanges closing, Core 0.15 released, Crypto...

Bitcoin news for the week of Sep 11th with Special Guest @pierre_rochard from http://nakamotoinstitute.org !

Topics:
We've seen Huobi, OKCoin, ViaBTC and more shutting down, and now are seeing the volume decrease as well down to ~15% and below, what does this mean for bitcoin? Will the volume just move somewhere else? Does bitcoin even care?

Core has released version 0.15 with a bunch of new improvements including improved fee estimation and the ability to auto disconnect from segwit2x (btc1) nodes, is this the final nail in the NYA's coffin?

Google, apple and more are adopting a crypto compatible payments API. Is this a good thing, and will it be better than the current APIs only available via corporations like bitpay?

Links:
https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-brow...
https://www.coindesk.com/document-lis...
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/...