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🚀 SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER: http://bankless.substack.com/ ✊ STARTING GUIDE BANKLESS: https://bit.ly/37Q17uI ❤️ JOIN PRIVATE DISCORD: https://bit.ly/2UVI10O 🎙️ SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST: http://podcast.banklesshq.com/ 👕 BUY BANKLESS TEE: https://merch.banklesshq.com/ ----- GO BANKLESS WITH THESE SPONSOR TOOLS:  ⭐️LEDGER - BEST HARDWARE WALLET TO SECURE YOUR CRYPTO https://bankless.cc/ledger 🚀 ARGENT - INVEST IN DEFI FROM ONE PLACE (download it now!) https://bankless.cc/argent 💳 MONOLITH - GET THE HOLY GRAIL OF BANKLESS VISA CARDS https://bankless.cc/monolith 🤖YEARN - YIELD-SEEKING MONEY ROBOT THAT FARMS DEFI FOR YOU  http://bankless.cc/yearn ------ ROLLUP: 2nd Week of December MARKET  BTC Price - 18,297.90 BTC on Ethereum - Down from to 147K to 145K - BTC above 18k for 9 days in a row.  - In 2017, BTC wasn’t above 18k for like 9 hours ETH Price - $560 TVL in DeFi - $14.7B to $14B - $DPI from $116 to $101 Ethereum 2.0 1 week stats https://twitter.com/AlexanderFisher/status/1336280548084477953 - ETH 2 deposit contract adding 40k ETH per day - 3x more ETH than what is being issued per day - Over 1% ETH in the deposit contract USDC outpacing Tether https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46c07bef-9100-4d24-9a57-b8b26801f9bd_1200x726.png (RELEASES) What got released? Messari 2.0 https://messari.io/ Yearn quarterly report https://github.com/iearn-finance/yearn-pm/blob/master/financials/reports/2020Q3-yearn-quarterly-report.pdf 4 Takeaways from ETH 2 deposits  - Blog from Etherscan https://medium.com/etherscan-blog/4-takeaways-from-deposits-into-eth2-28c64dd2863 Circle launches payments platform for USDC https://www.circle.com/blog/circle-launches-major-platform-upgrade-aimed-at-bringing-digital-dollar-stablecoins-mainstream New Square competitor Maker Governance vote to add https://twitter.com/MakerDAO/status/1335993149076869123?s=20 - AAVE - DAI-ETH LP token - USDC-ETH LP token (NEWS) What’s in the news? 8,000 Nodes live outside the US https://twitter.com/PhABCD/status/1335349619467968519 - More than the total number of ETH nodes from just a few months ago The STABLE Act - Unintended consequences https://www.coincenter.org/the-unintended-consequences-of-the-stable-act/ MicroStrategy issues $400 in convertible debt to buy $BTC https://cointelegraph.com/news/microstrategy-will-issue-400-million-in-securities-to-buy-more-bitcoin MassMutual buying $100M BTC https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/87378/massmutual-bitcoin-insurance-purchase - More legit than Microstrategy according to Joey Krug "measured yet meaningful exposure to a growing economic aspect of our increasingly digital world." Ray Dalio warming to BTC in Reddit AMA https://twitter.com/RyanWatkins_/status/1336438172142739458?s=20 The Ether Fund - 3iQ Corp IPO closes Dec 10th (today), raising a maximum of $107M, already raised $75M so far Tyler Winklevoss Tweet: https://twitter.com/tyler/status/1336839087093919744 France maybe extending KYC laws https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/87001/france-crypto-rules-mandatory-kyc-crypto-to-crypto Rumors that Steven Mnuchin is thinking about regulations on Digital Self Hosted Wallet -Warren Davidson getting ahead of the issue with a letter to Mnuchin https://twitter.com/WarrenDavidson/status/1336804544320327683?s=20 Paxos files for a Federal Bank Charter https://www.coindesk.com/paxos-becomes-latest-crypto-firm-to-file-for-federal-bank-charter Venezuela pays for Imports from Iran/Turkey with Bitcoin https://news.bitcoin.com/venezuela-pays-imports-iran-turkey-bitcoin-evade-sanctions/ JP Morgan says that Gold will suffer because of Bitcoin https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-09/jpmorgan-says-gold-will-suffer-for-years-because-of-bitcoin Yahoo Finance also speaking more positively for Bitcoin  CoinGecko is better than CoinMarketCap https://out.reddit.com/t3_k8jct1?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmaxbit.cc%2Fcoingecko-looks-to-overtake-coinmarketcap-with-huge-uptick-in-traffic%2F&token=AQAA_YjSXxU46BXDalbUf4Pv-UkKhy4yT938Vzi-qo7VV6usja4b&app_name=reddit.com   ------ Don't stop at the video! Subscribe to the Bankless newsletter program http://bankless.substack.com/ Visit the official Bankless website for resources http://banklesshq.com/ Follow Bankless on Twitter https://twitter.com/BanklessHQ Follow Ryan on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryansadams Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/TrustlessState Disclosure. From time-to-time we may add links in this channel to products we use. We may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. We'll always disclose when this is the case