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42 - The Global Game of Crypto | Bruno Maçães Bruno Maçães is a political philosopher, the author of several books surrounding the different types of cultural civilizations that define the globe.

Bruno has a strong familiarity with crypto and recently wrote an article called “The Crypto State?” which explored the emergency of a new civilization in Crypto

We brought him on to help us understand what’s going on with the geopolitical shifts of the world, and what this means for crypto.

Bruno on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MacaesBruno

The Crypto State? https://www.city-journal.org/technological-developments-new-systems-of-governance

Book Trailer of History Has Begun: https://twitter.com/MacaesBruno/status/1303653609880551428?s=20

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BTC Price- Hit ATH- BTC on Ethereum down 3,300 BTC from 151,700 to 147,400!

ETH Price

- Extremely volatile lately!- Bouncing between $570 and $620- Currently $615- David thinks its launch time, any minute now

Is $ETH Bitcoin in 2015? https://twitter.com/IamCryptoWolf/status/1333720041553088515?s=20 ETH p/s is 86!!! Lower than Zoom

TVL in DeFi- $14.1B to $14.7B- $DPI: $108 to $116.30

Stablecoins

- $20B of them

https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1334124165033549826?s=20 https://www.coindesk.com/stablecoins-asset-value-20-billion

DeFi Lending ATH- $7.6B in November, up 88% since Octoberhttps://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1334124188421009408/photo/1

RELEASES

The first block of Ethereum 2.0 was mined!https://beaconscan.com/slot/1

Ether Capital prospectus https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sZb6mMlRoGl6UZNf7rzNadUdL76vnY-J/view - A really good read for understanding how publicly traded companies speak about ETH and Ethereum- Ether capital running a staking nodehttps://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201201005696/en/Ether-Capital-Corporation-Announces-Initial-Commitment-to-Staking-on-Ethereum-2.0

Centralized Staking-as-a-Service providers are flocking

- Coinbasehttps://blog.coinbase.com/ethereum-2-0-staking-rewards-are-coming-soon-to-coinbase-a25d8ac622d5?gi=8a516790f190

- Binancehttps://twitter.com/binance/status/1333762624731930627?s=20 2x rewards??

Tim Roughgarden EIP1559 reporthttp://timroughgarden.org/papers/eip1559.pdf  - Highly anticipated, long-awaited, in-depth academic report on EIP1559- Take off all remaining breaks on EIP1559https://twitter.com/nicksdjohnson/status/1334261078692306944?s=20

Vitalik comprehensive Ethereum roadmaphttps://twitter.com/vitalikbuterin/status/1333922620857745408?s=21

Aave V2 is on Mainnethttps://medium.com/aave/the-aave-protocol-v2-f06f299cee04

Loopring built an AMM on it’s zkRollups L2https://medium.com/loopring-protocol/looprings-zkrollup-amm-is-live-2f8251cd0fcd - Looks like Uniswap, but acts like Loopring

Fireblockshttps://www.fireblocks.com/blog/fireblocks-defi-for-institutional-trading-lending-and-staking/

- Institutional bridge for yield in DeFi?

Gnosis Safe introduces spending limitshttps://blog.gnosis.pm/gnosis-safe-spending-limits-f05b775d06b3 - One more step in replicating the legacy experience with crypto-infrastructure

Track Whale traders on Uniswaphttps://www.uniwhales.io/

Staking Liquidity services cropping uphttps://www.stafi.io/https://lido.fi/ - Sign of things to come!

NEWS

ETH 2 in the mainstream newshttps://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/01/ethereum-2point0-eth-cryptocurrencys-network-starts-a-major-upgrade.html

Visa Partners with Circle / USDC to get USDC to run through the Visa networkhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2020/12/02/visa-partners-with-ethereum-digital-dollar-startup-that-raised-271-million/amp/?sh=2857044f4b1f&__twitter_impression=true

S&P index for crypto:https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1334499320838631424?s=20

Bad Governance:

Rashida Tlaib introduces legislation around stablecoins and bankinghttps://tlaib.house.gov/media/press-releases/tlaib-garcia-and-lynch-stableact

Good Governance:

Canada accelerating digital currency planshttps://decrypt.co/50213/bank-of-canada-digital-currency-pandemic

Libra rebrands to Diem ahead of 2021 launch https://www.coindesk.com/libra-diem-rebrand

China has seized over $4.2B from the PlusToken Ponzi https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/85873/china-seize-billion-cryptos-from-plustoken-crackdown

194,775 BTC - $3.3B833,083 ETH - $435M

Oracle failure leads to $88M in liquidations in Compound

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/85850/dai-compound-dydx-liquidations-defi

- DAI price spiked to $1.30 on Coinbase, which Compound uses as an oracle.- 124 unique accounts got liquidated- It is worth noting that such massive liquidations at Compound have occurred for the first time.

More Ethereum nodes than Bitcoin nodes

https://twitter.com/etherchain_org/status/1333173744089640960?s=20 - Bitcoin = 10,981- Ethereum = 11,137

Venezualean government continues to leverage Bitcoin out of necessity

https://cointelegraph.com/news/venezuelan-army-starts-mining-bitcoin-to-make-ends-meet

- Making revenue via Bitcoin mining

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State of the Nation #25

The Road to Ethereum 2.0

With Ryan Watkin and Wilson Withiam of Messari

Ryan Watkins and Wilson Withiam lead the effort behind Messari's 'The Road to ETH 2.0' report. 

Both Ryan and David agree: this is the best piece of literature that has ever been produced about Ethereum, ever. 

This report will serve as an accurate guide to the uninformed as to the nature of Ethereum and the types of economies it can support. 

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We bring Ryan and Wilson on to discuss the production of this report, and some of the decision-making that went on behind the scenes. 

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A Crypto Civilization | Balaji Srinivasan

No one blends the academic, startup, & venture world quite like Balaji Srinivasan. With multiple engineering degrees, multiple exits, being early into Bitcoin, selling a company to Coinbase, being CTO to Coinbase, Balaji lives on the cusp of the frontier of human innovation. 

Rumor is that he’s trying to create a digital country, we’re gonna talk about it. 

- Legacy of COVID creating distrust In Institutions Balaji thinks that the world is ready for new institutions and that the movement of time is to generate new solutions rather than repair old ones. 

- ‘Crypto-civilization’, or what Balaji calls: The Network StateThe leveraging of the most useful modern technology and coordination tools, to produce structurally independent organizations 

- Digital Nations vs the Nation-StateHow might this independence generate friction with the status quo?

And of course, how does a new 'crypto civilzation' actually manifest. 

Balaji is a real Big Brain thinker, so strap yourself in!

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