ROLLUP: Why BlackRock CEO is Bullish Bitcoin

Bankless Weekly Rollup
1st Week of July 2023

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TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES

0:00 Intro 

4:20 Markets  

22:50 NFT winter has come 
https://twitter.com/hosseeb/status/1675925861030334465 
https://twitter.com/asvanevik/status/1675745010191601664 
https://twitter.com/waleswoosh/status/1673781004031361025 
https://nftpricefloor.com/ 
https://twitter.com/loopifyyy/status/1675517840542056448 
https://twitter.com/avichal/status/1676090350291816448 

37:50 BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Says Bitcoin Could ‘Revolutionize Finance’
https://twitter.com/WatcherGuru/status/1676685754922151941 
https://twitter.com/thekriskay/status/1676686395862024195 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/sec-says-spot-bitcoin-etf-filings-are-inadequate-390336e8 
Eric Balchunas https://twitter.com/EricBalchunas/status/1674777296438165505 

47:35 Is Gary resigning? 
https://www.thecryptoalert.com/post/sec-sources-confirm-gary-gensler-resignation 
Should Gary be actually resigning? 
https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1674464911714398229 

58:12 Cameron Winklevoss sent a final offer to Barry Silbert 
https://twitter.com/cameron/status/1676024844641550337 

Base
1:05:30 https://twitter.com/BuildOnBase/status/1674543151388966912 

1:10:00 L2s keep improving - Impact of Bedrock update 
https://twitter.com/OPLabsPBC/status/1674823794949603350 

1:15:00 Polygon 2.0 architecture -  ZK-Based protocol architecture
https://twitter.com/0xPolygonLabs/status/1674538238835343361 

1:17:30 Can Solana become an L2?
https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko/status/1675146337174843392 

1:21:00 Vitalik’s AMA on Tau Day  
https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1674017688300011520 

1:23:15 RFK wants to make holding Bitcoin an inviolable right as a President 
https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1673812201457479681 

1:25:55 Belarus banning peer-to-peer crypto transactions
https://www.theblock.co/post/237523/belarus-wants-to-ban-peer-to-peer-crypto-transactions 
https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1676606907233054721 

1:33:34 Questions from the Nation

1:37:45 Takes
https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1676920622415245312 
https://twitter.com/rss_d4/status/1675220831461335042 
https://twitter.com/RyanSAdams/status/1675955239466196992 

1:50:50 MEME of the Week
https://twitter.com/zengjiajun_eth/status/1675677672566030336 

1:52:00 Daily Gwei 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvCp6vKY5jDr87htKH6hgDA 

1:54:30 Closing & Disclaimers 

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