My annual catch up with Camila Russo 👇

🟠 Stacks Prepares for Nakamoto Upgrade

The Bitcoin L2's largest hard fork ever is expected to reduce block times to 5-10 seconds, from the current 10 minute confirmation time.

With comments from muneeb.btc & Rena Shah 🟧

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Stripe Adds Crypto Payments, Consensys Sues SEC, Renzo's $ezETH DEPEGS

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0:36 Headlines
1:03 Stripe Adds Crypto Payments
5:40 Consensys Sues SEC
10:00 Renzo $ezETH Depegs
13:03 Restaking Overtakes Liquid Staking
15:42 Franklin Templeton
17:14 Bitcoin

🚨 BEWARE: SCAMMERS ARE IMPERSONATING THE DEFIANT TEAM MEMBERS

Scammers impersonating The Defiant team members are reaching out to people offering to interview them for articles and potential jobs.

If one of our team members contacts you via email, the ONLY domain The Defiant

This is huge.

Right now more than a third of all global payments are done via Stripe. Google, Amazon, Lyft, Apple, Walmart, Target, all use Stripe.

And now crypto (specifically USDC on Ethereum, Solana and Polygoin) will be a native payment option in the flows of all those

A while ago I interviewed 60+ subscribers of The Defiant. Adding to those interviews are years of covering DeFi & crypto.

I'm convinced the three reasons why 99% of people come to crypto are:

1. making money
2. having fun
3. finding community

in that order.

that means,

👀 Arthur Hayes Says Ordinals ‘Bring Human Culture’ To Oldest Crypto Community

The investor’s fund, Maelstrom, is focused on assets that gave rise to crypto meme culture.

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How Blockchains and Tokens Are Powering the Next Internet Revolution

0:50 Panel with cdixon.eth
1:50 Read, Write, Own
6:55 Tokens
14:33 Hyper-financialization
19:01 Main Use Cases of Crypto
27:14 Plutocracy
33:42 Corporatization in Web3
42:20 AI Content
50:05 POS Blockchain Risks

👋 Bookmark this to share with friends new to crypto, created in collaboration with my friends at the The Defiant.

🙏 And special thx to DeFi Saver for sponsoring the video--I've been a proud user of DeFi Saver since 2020.
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DeFi Dad ⟠ defidad.eth Introduction to DeFi: The Future of Finance

0:00 DeFi
0:40 Trustless
0:57 Permissionless
1:16 Decentralized
2:08 DeFi vs CeFi
2:34 DEX vs CEX

Special thanks to DeFi Saver for sponsoring this video!

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🍃 PayPal has partnered with Energy Web to design an economic incentive system for Bitcoin miners adopting clean energy. Energy Web will provide 'green keys' to eligible miners, who can then mine transactions offering exclusive rewards 👀

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is there an L2BEAT 💗 for bitcoin l2 data?

Interviewing danielfogg.rsk of RootstockLabs in a couple of hours about DeFi on Bitcoin

What should I ask?

The hype around Runes has reached a fever pitch ahead of the imminent Bitcoin halving.

As a result, transaction fees on the Bitcoin network have quadrupled in the past week.

Read more:
thedefiant.io/news/blockchai…

In #CodeIsLawMovie the people behind #TheDAO tell their story on screen for the first time - the “largest crowdfunding in history” that was “a huge target for any attacker”

To support the film’s release visit juicebox.money/v2/p/664

The Web Summit Rio is all about #startups .

Events like this bring together the global community interested in new technologies and disruptive business models. From flying cars to robots that think like humans, and, of course, the cryptoeconomy.

I had the pleasure of

If I were to create the experiment of testing out all major L1s and L2s, comparing the same actions in each one, what do you think the journey should be?

Something like, download most popular wallet, buy native token, swap in biggest dex, cash out via off ramp .. ?

A couple

Interviewing Stani^ in a couple of hours about Lens Protocol and the rest of the Avara^ fam

what do you want to know?