WallStreetBets Captures The Ethos Of Bitcoin ep142 - a podcast by Ben Perrin

📰 r/WallStreetBets triggers institutional pearl-clutching after sending GameStop shares to the moon. https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22249458/gamestop-stock-wallstreetbets-reddit-citron https://kotaku.com/discord-bans-r-wallstreetbets-server-for-hateful-conten-1846146359 https://twitter.com/denverbitcoin/status/1354227501304852492 https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1354577605744226307

📰 Marathon Patent Group buys $150 million worth of bitcoin for its treasury reserves. https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/92378/nasdaq-marathon-patent-group-buys-bitcoin-btc-treasury-reserves  

📰 Pakistan’s government commissions the funding of two Bitcoin mining farms. https://bitcoinmaximalist.net/pakistan-government-funding-two-bitcoin-mining-farms/  

📰 Valkyrie Digital Assets Files with the SEC for a Bitcoin ETF, adding to the push for a 2021 approval. https://www.coindesk.com/valkyrie-digital-assets-files-for-bitcoin-etf  

📰 Grayscale is matching donations to Coin Center, up to a cool  $1 million. https://www.coincenter.org/grayscale-is-matching-donations-to-coin-center-up-to-1-million/  

📰 Silent Stackers: Reports suggest that Harvard, Yale, and Brown University’s endowments have been buying Bitcoin off exchanges for at least a year. https://www.coindesk.com/harvard-yale-brown-endowments-have-been-buying-bitcoin-for-at-least-a-year-sources  

📰 FinCEN extends the comment period for its highly contentious exchange regulation proposals. https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-extends-reopened-comment-period-proposed-rulemaking-certain-convertible  

📰 Lightning’s Exchange Adoption continues. This time: OKCoin and Vietnam’s VBTC. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/okcoin-to-integrate-lightning-network https://news.bitcoinvn.io/vbtc-adding-lightning-batched-segwit-withdrawals/?lang=en

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