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Much of the Crypto Twitter conversation this weekend was dominated by talk of Twitter’s suspension of ZeroHedge. @nlw explores why the specifics of the infraction or the quality of the publication aren’t the important part of the conversation, and why he thinks we’ll see arguments for social media platforms to be turned into public utilities in the years ahead. 

Also on this episode:

• Debates around Ethereum marketing. Does the community need to spend more resources telling the story and recruiting new users or should the tech speak for itself? 
• What Brexit means for the crypto community - practically and metaphorically. 

The last section features comments from Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier. 

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Hong Kong’s GDP report released today reflects the squeeze that enormous protests at home and economic headwinds on the mainland have put on the territory—and that was before the coronavirus outbreak. Inequality in Brazil is bad and getting worse; we ask why the government is chipping away at a much-praised social safety-net. And a look at the self-help craze gripping Ethiopia. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/radiooffer

The news to know for Monday, February 3rd, 2020!

Today we're talking about the Iowa caucuses (how they work & why they matter), and why the Super Bowl had history-making moments...

Plus: a newly-approved drug for peanut allergies, what is Palindrome Day, and Elon Musk has a new.... song.

Those stories and more -- in less than 10 minutes!

Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you. 

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Sources:

Iowa Caucuses: AP, Washington Post, CBS News, NYT

Impeachment Trial Next Steps: NYT, Politico, WSJ

Coronavirus Latest: AP, BBC, CNN,  NBC News 

Super Bowl Highlights: USA Today, ABC News, Vox, Sporting News, Sports Illustrated

First FDA-Approved Peanut Allergy Drug: Business Insider, WSJ, FDA

Palindrome Day: CNN, Mashable

Groundhog Day: Weather Channel, USA Today

Elon Musk’s New Song: Cnet, The Verge

Box Office Winner: Variety, Hollywood Reporter

Money Monday –Tax Season: Fox Business, USA Today, CBS News

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) continue to play a critical role in training and advancing the next generation of leaders.

Dr. Wayne Frederick, president of Howard University, joins The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss how HBCUs are advancing higher education. He also shares his personal story of a dual career in medicine and academia.

Also on today's show:

• Kay Coles James, Heritage Foundation President, share her own pro-life story.
• We read your letters to the editor.

To listen to Rachel del Guidice's interview with Jaco Booyens about his work in the fight against human trafficking, click here: His Sister Was Sex-Trafficked for 6 Years. Here’s How He’s Devoted His Life to Fighting It.

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In “Libre Not Libra: Facebook’s Blockchain Project,” Andreas answers the burning question… Has he tried haggis? Just kidding… He shares his thoughts on the recently released Libra whitepaper, as part of a permissioned blockchain project spearheaded by Facebook.

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Years of jokes about “FaceCoin” and “ZuckBucks” have finally come to life – sort of. In a previous episode, he talked about how some venture capitalists are monkeying around by downplaying the killer applications of open blockchains in favor of… bananas. Now he makes us wonder whether Libra will even survive to become a production network. Is Silicon Valley coming for banking? Will Libra’s challenges have any impact on open public blockchains?

This talk took place on June 19th 2019 at the Scottish Blockchain Meetup in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Andreas's live talks released in podcast form

Episode Credits:

Today’s show featured Andreas M. Antonopoulos, with a little narration by Stephanie Murphy and Adam B. Levine, as well as the live crowd and that guy with the great laugh about three quarters through. 

Original Photo by Anna Tukhfatullina Food Photographer/Stylist on Unsplash

This episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin! is sponsored by Brave.com and eToro.com

This episode featured music by Jared Rubens, Orfan and general fuzz. Production support was provided by Erica and Jessica, with sound editing by Dimitris of Sampi Media. 

Want to hear more of Andreas’s Live talks? Check out new episodes every week on Unscrypted, or just head over to aantonop.com . 

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On this special interview episode, @nlw talks with Sergey Nazarov and Kain Warwick, the founders of Chainlink and Synthetix respectively about: 

• The evolution and goals of Synthetix, a novel type of derivatives exchange where users can interact with any asset with a price feed. 
• The challenge Synthetix faced around spinning up their own oracles around price feeds
• The history of their collaboration and how Synthetix came to work with Chainlink
• Chainlink approach to building decentralized oracles for data such as price feeds
• Chainlink’s announcement yesterday about the new published price reference data for 25 oracle networks
• The state of the idea of decentralization, and how what was previously a concept is becoming operationalized
• One thing that gives them pause or scares them about DeFi and crypto and one thing that makes them excited for the future 

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The costs of leaving the European Union are likely to outweigh the benefits. But as Britain re-aligns itself in the world, those benefits should be seized. The outcome of America’s impeachment proceedings is all but assured, and that is an insight into the Senate, the presidency and impeachment itself. And why pregnancy was absent for so long in British art.

The news to know for Friday, January 31st, 2020! 

What to know about what could likely be the final day in the impeachment trial, what happens now that Brexit is finally here, and all the things to know about Super Bowl Sunday!

Plus: Apple Maps gets an upgrade, the newest emoji coming soon, and Snapchat's Saturday morning cartoons...

Those stories and more in less than 10 minutes!

Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you. 

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Sources:

Impeachment Trial’s Final Day?: Washington Post, The Hill, Politico

Brexit Day: BBC, WSJ, AP

Global Health Emergency: NYT, Fox News, NPR, Reuters

Black History Month: History

Super Bowl LIV: NBC Sports, CBS Sports, CNN, Billboard, Deadline, CBS News

Electric Hummer Revealed: USA Today, TechCrunch

Apple Maps Upgrade: Engadget, CNBC

2020’s New Emoji: TechCrunch, Engadget

Bitmoji TV: Variety

Brewery Features Adoptable Dogs: CBS News

Super Bowl Ad Thanks Vet: CNN

Today we have exclusive interviews with Roslyn Clark Artis, president of Benedict College, and Lt. Gen. Gwen Bingham, a retired chief of staff for installation management at the United States Department of the Army. They share their personal stories and how they have shattered glass ceilings in their perspective careers, as well as their ideas for reform for higher education and the military.

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The best way to fund open source projects remains a question, and one that - in the context of crypto protocols - has never had higher stakes. Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen live action experiments in a number of different approaches. 

Gitcoin grants used a quadratic funding program to match grants to technology builders and media creators in Ethereum 

After months and months of concerted community debate and conversation, Zcash will implement a new Dev Fund of 20% of the block rewards after the Founders Reward runs out in November, splitting it between the Electric Coin Co (7%), Zcash Foundation (5%) and 3rd party developers (8%)

A consortium (cartel?) of the 4 largest BCH mining pools tried to insist upon a 12.5% block reward diversion to a new dev fund, with a threat to orphan blocks that didn’t comply. The plan ran into a barrier when Roger Ver’s bitcoin.com backed away. 

Also in this episode, @nlw looks at the latest in CBDCs - including Japan’s continued hedging that they’re preparing for the possibility of needing to move quickly and Cambodia’s announcement that they will be implementing a CBDC this quarter. 

Finally, Andrew Yang took a few minutes yesterday to talk about cryptocurrencies and why regulation with the intent to stop them would be doomed to fail.

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