The #Bitcoin News Show #66 - Government Shutdown, Bitcoin Regulation, Sch...

The Bitcoin News Show #66 - Government Shutdown, Bitcoin Regulation, Schnorr Paper, Lightning Charge

The Bitcoin News Show for the week of Jan 15th with your host @theonevortex and panelists: @Ragnarly @francispouliot_ @AnselLindner @GabrielDVine and special guest Christian Decker (@Snyke)!


Announcements:
Lightning network growing by about 40% per day https://p2sh.info/dashboard/db/lightn...

Milestone: Cboe's First Bitcoin Futures Contract Expired
https://www.coindesk.com/cboes-first-...

2.1mb block mined by BitGo
https://twitter.com/BitGo/status/9549...


Topics:
-How will the Government shutdown affect BTC?

-India sending tax notices, PBoC wants services to stop serving crypto traders, South Korea looking to regulate more deeply
https://www.coindesk.com/report-india...
https://www.coindesk.com/pboc-reporte...

-The long awaited Schnorr Paper has been released
https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-devs...
https://twitter.com/alexbosworth/stat...

-Lightning Charge (discussion and demo)
https://twitter.com/Blockstream/statu...
https://twitter.com/businessinsider/s...