ROLLUP: Ethereum Merge Bellatrix Upgrade | Binance USDC Stablecoin Wars | Coinbase Treasury Tornado Lawsuit

1st Week of Mergetember, 2022

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro
3:05 Merge NFTs
https://bankless.cc/themerge 
3:47 Converge 2022
https://bankless.cc/Circle 

4:55 MARKETS
6:30 Crypto Market Cap
https://www.coingecko.com/en/global_charts 
7:20 Ethereum Gas Fees
https://dune.xyz/hildobby/Gas 
9:16 Merge Estimator
https://bordel.wtf/ 
10:00 Staking Unlocks
https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1565699759754592259 
14:10 Ethereum Revenue
https://www.theblock.co/post/167488/ethereum-miners-made-756-million-in-revenue-in-august-ahead-of-the-merge 
15:10 EU Energy Crisis
https://twitter.com/biancoresearch/thread/1566180431984205824 
18:50 Energy Fallout
https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/09/05/energy-bills-are-soaring-in-europe-what-are-countries-doing-to-help-you-pay-them 
20:50 WAR!
https://entrepreneurshandbook.co/for-the-war-fd5509d525d 

29:00 MERGE UPDATES
30:17 Bellatrix Upgrade
https://twitter.com/terencechain/status/1567115533233049606 
32:35 Node Updates
https://twitter.com/ajsutton/status/1567117139810873344 
33:20 Economist Article
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2022/09/06/the-future-of-crypto-is-at-stake-in-ethereums-switch 
34:05 ETH PoW Fork
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/ethereum-pow-iou 
37:35 Stake From Home
https://twitter.com/songadaymann/status/1562930578571272192 

43:45 STABLECOIN WARS
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/09/05/binance-to-convert-users-usdc-usdp-tusd-into-its-own-stablecoin-busd/ 
47:00 Good for USDC
https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/09/06/who-benefits-from-binance-converting-usdc-to-its-own-stablecoin/ 

50:05 Coinbase MakerDAO Proposal
https://forum.makerdao.com/t/mipxx-coinbase-usdc-institutional-rewards/17703 

55:00 1inch Optimism Airdrop
https://cointelegraph.com/news/1inch-users-on-optimism-to-receive-airdrop-of-300-000-op-tokens 
56:45 Reddit NFTs on OpenSea
https://thecouchcommute.com/reddit-nfts-selling-for-thousands-on-opensea/ 
57:15 ENS August Numbers
https://twitter.com/ensdomains/status/1565374366791057409 
59:37 ProtocolGuild NFTs 
https://twitter.com/trent_vanepps/status/1567177788561424384 
1:01:15 Coinbase Suing the Treasury
https://twitter.com/ViktorBunin/status/1567875895381168132 
1:03:44 Brian Armstrong Statement
https://blog.coinbase.com/defending-privacy-in-crypto-e09db33dece8 

1:05:30 crvUSD Curve Stablecoin
https://twitter.com/chago0x/status/1566874129843757056 
1:06:00 Binance 6% ETH Staking
https://blog.binance.us/eth-staking/ 
1:06:45 Notional Leverage Vaults
https://blog.notional.finance/introducing-leveraged-vaults/ 
1:07:43 Sui Blockchain
https://www.theblock.co/post/168532/mysten-labs-sui-blockchain-fundraise-ftx-ventures 

1:10:15 GET A JOB
https://pallet.xyz/list/bankless/jobs 

1:12:00 QUESTIONS FROM THE NATION
https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ/status/1567544177180672000 
1:13:41 ETH PoW Eligibility
https://twitter.com/johnny_kast/status/1567566362171654144 
1:15:50 Value of ETH PoW
https://twitter.com/mmaatt78/status/1567615122868166657 
1:18:38 What Happens to Merged ETH?
https://twitter.com/HenryJK4/status/1567550561758728192 

TAKES
1:20:20 Surreal Proof of Stake
https://twitter.com/TimBeiko/status/1567197184667578368 
1:21:35 Remember This?
https://twitter.com/ryansadams/status/1565681268913840130 
1:23:45 BSC Network Effect
https://twitter.com/apolynya/status/1566262032319451136 
1:25:27 Reserve Currencies
https://twitter.com/ryansadams/status/1567310589881360385 

1:27:30 What David’s Bullish On
https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1567716721963814912 
1:31:30 What Ryan’s Bullish On

1:34:45 MEME of the Week
https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1567903583563296772 

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