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Blockstream's liquid sidechain, created especially for high-volume traders and exchanges to use as a high-liquidity network between each other, officially launched in Beta today and has 27 member exchanges signed up already.

https://blockstream.com/2018/10/10/liquid-launch.html

According to Blockstream CEO Back, they're already representing 50%-60% of the Bitcoin TX volume with these exchanges.

https://twitter.com/notgrubles/status/1050095663302758402

It's free to get involved as a beta node user, but there isn't much documentation yet on how to get involved as a trader.

This won't work for some vendors who are selling lots of digital products, but it's a great solution for everyone else... Firefox has a beta app called firefox send:

http://send.firefox.com

that lets anyone turn any file -up to 1 GB in size- into a fully encrypted share link and hosts the file for you as well. Firefox claims they cannot access the content of the file so some competent dev needs to check their github repo and verify if that is true.

By default, when the link is shared (at the sale of a product) and teh encrypted file downloaded to the buyer's machine, the link expires. It also expires after 24 hours, so the link must be generated close to the time of the sale, not just onc

I have no way of confirming this theory, but maybe between us we can.

I believe this whole firesale was driven down by.... Chinese investors. Again... But if so, then for the last time.

From this week going forwards, the Chinese may be limited to decentralized trading only, which will make moving from Fiat to crypto extremely hard on them.

Here's the logic on this: We know that tons of Chinese were in love with bitcoin from back before Jan 2017 when the exchanges got swatted down. It was the highest-volume country in the world for trading bitcoin, and bitcoin was the country's lowest-friction way to get money outside of the country, a task the upper-income Chinese seem to all do before

The guy who sells the first nice, fully-configured Kodi boxes. Oh boy is that going to be a nice market.

https://www.wired.com/story/kodi-box-piracy/

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