We're back with another Friday Fundamentals. Stats of note this week are the number of shorts falling off a cliff, the difficulty not budging despite almost 2x in price movement in 2 months, CME volume is surging again, and mempool being elevated. Our one news item in this episode is the Microsoft Decentralized Identity System called ION. I speak about it for a few minutes as a layer 2 for Bitcoin.

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