show notes boyyyys here, we, go:

• G: Taliban raid the embassy and people rush to the banks to get their money out: https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1426980277256138756?s=20

• G: Coinbase Earnings, SMASHED IT: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/11/fintech-earnings-bonanza-as-coinbase-and-upstart-grow-sales-11-fold.html

• G: Bulgaria owns 213,000 bitcoin (1% of all of them) https://www.coininsider.com/bulgarian-government-owns-3-billion-usd-bitcoin/

• G: Argentina onto the bitcoin standard?  https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/president-of-argentina-open-to-adopting-bitcoin-as-legal-tender-2021-08-13

• Rekt of the week: poly hacked for $600m, many people rekt, lol https://twitter.com/boxmining/status/1425135332354232321?s=21 please can we have our money back https://twitter.com/polynetwork2/status/1425123153009803267?s=21 amazing thing is IT ACTUALLY worked and the hacker returned the money and Poly then gave them $500k ‘bug bounty’ - was this all a marketing ploy, it did this really happen?

• FUD of the week: Doge is better money than bitcoin says Mark Cuban, who owns a massive $494 of Doge, LARP https://twitter.com/mcuban/status/1426978389982949379?s=20

• G: Bitcoin Lesson: lightning UI just got better: https://twitter.com/andreneves/status/1425909205593174022?s=20

• G: shitcoin corner: Arsenal have a shitcoin https://twitter.com/socios/status/1425467527484817411?s=20

• aaaaaand finally: one of the best cope reddit threads EVER https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/p4woi7/cryptocurrency_is_an_abject_disaster/