The #Bitcoin News Show #69 - CB & Lightning, Mining in Quebec, Bitcoin P...

The Bitcoin News Show 2 Hour Special for the week of Feb 12th with your host @theonevortex and panelists @LightningRamp @nopara73 @francispouliot_ @TuurDemeester @DecentralizedTV and special guest Trace Mayer (@TraceMayer)!

Quick Bits:
Microsoft research says on-chain scaling reduces/degrades decentralization and fails to meet capacity needs. Further Microsoft stated that layer 2 solutions are necessary for blockchains to scale.
https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/ente...

Ellen introduces millions to bitcoin
https://bitcoinist.com/ellen-degenere...

Switzerland's finance regulator has published new guidelines that indicate it will treat some tokens sold during initial coin offerings as securities.
https://www.coindesk.com/switzerland-...

CoinTippy made a tip-bot for Twitter, Reddit and Telegram that accepts mainnet LN deposits
https://twitter.com/alexbosworth/stat...

Coinbase suffered double spend issues draining some users accounts. Visa then owned up to the issue but coinbase was the only company effected.
https://bitcoinist.com/visa-owns-up-t...

Bitcoin fees have been lower than BCash fees
https://twitter.com/verretor/status/9...

Trace tweeted out that the Federal Reserve have 'Discontinued' publishing the interbank loans charts.
https://twitter.com/TraceMayer/status...

Calendar launched - Come out and meet me!
http://theonevortex.com/#calendar


Topics:
New app to allow lightning use with Coinbase
https://bitcoinist.com/new-app-links-...

Is bitcoin becoming more private/fungible? We discuss some upcoming tech.
https://medium.com/@nopara73/anonymou...

Mining to explode in Quebec and Iceland
https://www.coindesk.com/hundreds-cry...
https://btcmanager.com/instead-sellin...
https://bitsonline.com/iceland-bitcoi...