November 21st from NYC: This was another great show, started off a little slow so I start the video below with the news topics, here is the TLDR.
1. Goldman Sachs and Santander leaving R3 – This has been another interesting development that some of us (me included) have been saying for about a year. R3 does not know what a #Blockchian is nor what they are doing so banks dropping out come as no surprise.
2. Coinbase & IRS – Once again i state my case that no one in the US should have ever used their bitcoins in a way that connects them to their name and or address, the IRS is a ruthless entity that ruin peoples lives. They will most likely only go after big traders but technically, every bitcoiner is breaking the law if they mis a penny of capital gains appreciation. There is nothing ‘currency’ like in IRS’s interpretation of Bitcoin
3. 1 in 4 nodes have upgraded to SegWit – We need SegWit to pass for the future of bitcoin’s future, I find it frustrating this topic is even debatable.