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The TCB Weekly News Roundup – Signals from 10,000 feet. June 2, 2024

Brian in Chicago

June 2

Enjoy and be well, Everyone.

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The Week's Posts

Reports:
What is a CoinJoin and how do they work?
NYDIG: "Mt Gox Fears May Be Overblown"

This Week In Twitter

WHY WOULD SOMEONE BUY AN AIRLINE MILES ETF???https://t.co/BegZ642fVo

— B. Rocks (@TinyCryptoBlog) June 2, 2024

It was just a few weeks ago that @brave passed the 5-year anniversary of offering Brave Rewards. $BAT https://t.co/5BlhKrakfg

— B. Rocks (@TinyCryptoBlog) June 1, 2024

Bubble symmetry: The prospect of a 60% or 80% decline in the NASDAQ index is only horrifying if we stay invested in the index all the way down. https://t.co/3Gomo55tVZ pic.twitter.com/qzez0IQ7gm

— Charles Hugh Smith (@chsm1th) May 31, 2024

Headlines

Adoption, Implementation and Infrastructure
-Mastercard's crypto credentials P2P pilot program goes live

CBDCs (are just Surveillance Tokens)
*CBDC Tracker 1*
*CBDC Tracker 2*

COMMENTARY, GOSSIP and OPINION
-ChatGPT-coded memecoin reaches $638M market cap
-Bitcoin in 42-day 'boredom zone' — traders debate next move

COMPANIES & PROTOCOLS
-Celo integrates Chainlink's CCIP interoperability protocol
-EOS Network approves new tokenomics, promises 'new era'

CRIMES AND SCAMS

DEFI, CEFI, AND LENDING
**DeFi Scanner - check if a DeFi protocol is a scam**

Exchanges
-Gemini returns $2.18B to Earn users following 18-month withdrawal freeze

Mining and Energy
*Live Mining Statistics*
*Bitcoin Mining Articles by Compass Mining*

Mining stats via NOBSBitcoin
-Tether invests $150M in Jihan Wu's crypto mining firm Bitdeer
-Paraguay seizes 2,738 ASICs as power theft crackdown continues
-$2.7B worth of electricity spent on US Bitcoin mining in 2024 — analyst
-Jack Dorsey-backed Bitcoin mining pool opens headquarters in El Salvador

Nation States (and other political jurisdictions)

NFTs / Metaverse / Web3 / DAOs

Regulation, Legislation, Legal Matters & Taxation
-Terraform, Do Kwon to reach fraud settlement with SEC

STABLECOINS

Taxation

Wall Street and Big Money
*BitcoinTreasuries*
*Bitcoin Worldwide (treasuries)*
*Bitcoin ETF Flow* *Notepad version*
-BlackRock adds own Bitcoin ETF to income and bond funds
-Ethereum ETF June launch 'legit possibility' as BlackRock files S-1
-Bitcoin exchange-traded products now hold over 1 million BTC

We're currently tracking 113 entities, including:

- 48 public companies
- 13 private companies
- 39 ETFs/funds
- 11 government entities
- Wrapped BTC on Ethereum

Note: data is community-sourced and may be inaccurate. Help us by contributing on https://t.co/7lHaYqHtbz! pic.twitter.com/vYEP4ZDyBo

— BitcoinTreasuries.NET (@BTCtreasuries) May 31, 2024