Today's show is very very crypto. Not that it isn't generally, but most of the time we tend to touch on other issues too - politics, economics, business - but not today. Today's episode is all about cryptocurrency: we talk about Nano's lightning fast confirmation times, Bitcoin's new milestone of 85% of its total supply mined, as well as Litecoin's imminent halving, with the reward going down to 12.5 LTC per block.

Additionally, a sort of motif is present throughout this entire episode. One not very pleasant, one could say. I mean we've got senator Crapo talking about Bitcoin's resilience one one hand, and a "Shitcoin Futures Index" on the other... everything's a bit poopy. This is not a shitty episode however - and that's for sure.

Dive into the cryptoverse with us on today's Flagship Friday.  

Links from the show: 

-V19 Nano confirmation times are happening very fast. Here's a pic of it happening in .18 seconds: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/cjsngc/v19_nano_confirmation_times_are_approaching/ 

-Q2 Summary of dApps. 1460 active dApps - Ethereum, 664 Ethereum, 354 EOS, 338 Tron. 71 Steem, 19 IOST, 14 TOMOCHAIN: https://i.redd.it/6pb7t5ylwgd31.png 

-The IOTA Foundation Announces a $5Mil Grant For Coordicide-related Research: https://blog.iota.org/iota-announces-5-million-in-grants-for-coordicide-related-research-e586547cc948 

-CoinJazeera Reports Brock Pierce Running for Gov of Puerto Rico in 2020 lol: https://coinjazeera.news/brock-pierce-running-for-governor-of-puerto-rico-in-2020/?fbclid=IwAR2dvzg67ycGt96Q0gT7grJwxnW_rCWBbHwKupYysYLB2yvs2aJxMfzE51A 

-US Senator Crapo (R) says that we couldn't ban Bitcoin even if we wanted to: https://www.ccn.com/news/us-senator-wanted-to-we-couldnt-ban-bitcoin/2019/07/31/ 

-Litecoin Halving is imminent. Block reward going down to 12.5 LTC per block on August 5th: https://www.coindesk.com/litecoin-is-halving-soon-whats-happening-and-what-you-should-know 

-Bitcoin Passes New Milestone as Network Mines 85% of Its Total Supply: https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-passes-new-milestone-as-network-mines-85-of-its-total-supply 

-Bitcoin Experiences it's first Fed interest rate cut: https://www.ccn.com/fed-interest-rate-cut-bitcoin/ 

-Bullish or Bullshit - Crypto Exchange Launches 'Shitcoin Futures Index': https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-exchange-launches-shitcoin-futures-index-offering-new-way-to-short-alts

 
-NBA is launching blockchain souvenirs from the maker of CryptoKitties, Dapper Labs: https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/nba-is-going-crypto-launching-blockchain-souvenirs-from-the-maker-of-crypto-kitties-185727384.html 

-Weiss Ratings Plagiarism: https://twitter.com/G0JlRA/status/1154817874420215809 

 

-Bitcoin Has 'No Intrinsic Value,' As U.K. 'Moves Towards' Crypto Ban: https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2019/08/01/bitcoin-has-no-intrinsic-value-as-uk-moves-towards-crypto-ban/#40ddcdeb2d27