NYDIG: 100s Of Banks Want To Offer Bitcoin ep171

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📰 Hyper-Integration: NYDIG says hundreds of US banks will enable customers to buy, sell, and hold Bitcoin through existing accounts by year’s end.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/05/05/bitcoin-is-coming-to-hundreds-of-us-banks-says-crypto-firm-nydig-.html

📰 Blockchain data provider Coin Metrics gets a $2.2 trillion institutional investment — lead by Goldman Sachs.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-05/goldman-sachs-leads-investment-in-crypto-data-firm-coin-metrics

📰 Ebay CEO says “cryptocurrency” could be a future payment option on its platform.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ebay-ceo-says-looking-cryptocurrency-145737517.html

📰 Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary predicts that “sustainably” mined Bitcoin could command a premium among institutional investors.

https://twitter.com/YahooFinance/status/1389289214156673029?s=09

📰 Comically Weak FUD: Bill Maher mocks Bitcoin and Elon Musk while invoking climate-change fears…

https://decider.com/2021/05/01/bill-maher-ridicules-bitcoin-elon-musk-hbo-real-time/

… leading to an easy debunking from Nic Carter…

https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1388616111579713537?s=09

… and an easy reminder from the Internet about his Peter Schiff-esque prescience.

https://twitter.com/PessimistsArc/status/1388657288810991623

📰 Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger calls Bitcoin “disgusting”. It could change civilization as we know it, you guys 😲

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/01/charlie-munger-calls-bitcoin-disgusting-and-contrary-to-the-interests-of-civilization.html

📰 Alex Gladstein publishes an epic deep dive on the “hidden costs” of the US Petrodollar.

https://twitter.com/gladstein/status/1388207306110689281?s=09

📰 All eyes are on miners as the Taproot signaling period begins 👀.

https://taproot.watch/

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