The Bitcoin Magazine team is working remote, so that means our podcasts are quarantined, too. For this Weekly Bits special, Bitcoin Magazine's web master Flip joins Colin to discuss life in isolation, the market mayhem and the Fed's cash injections.
Helix, Coin Mixing And Transaction Privacy by Flip
For this week’s issue, we decided to take a deeper look at the case to understand the potential implications of the court’s decisions and break down the differences between how Helix worked compared to other privacy solutions.
The bitcoin price has settled into a new range around $5,000 as the spread of coronavirus has become a global concern.
When looking at the hashrate over the last year, it has continuously marched upward. However, with the recent drop in prices came a subsequent drop in hashrate as many miners were not able to mine profitably at these levels.
Tweet Of The Week This week's Tweet Of The Week is an assessment from Raoul Pal on the current financial turmoil the central banks around the world are facing.
Rabbit Hole Read Of The Week
"If the intent was to boost the economy or the markets, the Fed's 50-basis-point emergency rate cut a couple weeks ago was an exercise in futility. Doubling down on that failed strategy — by announcing an additional 100-basis-point cut Sunday evening — was just useless and desperate."
Click here to read this CNN Business op-ed on the Federal Reserve's latest moves.
