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02nd August: Crypto & Coffee at 8 🎙️
🟠 MicroStrategy to buy more #BTC ⚡ Lightning Network Challenges by David Marcus 🛑 GameStop No to digital wallets 🚗 Toyota GR Cup digital 🏆

📊 Bitcoin Trading Volume to the 🚀 more than doubled since the last 24 hours See slides 1 & 2 below to get a snapshot of the crypto market

🟠 MicroStrategy may raise up to $750 million by selling more stock and plans to use the proceeds to buy more Bitcoin, among other things. Official info via U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing here https://lnkd.in/d8KuVhyZ The company owned 152,800 bitcoin as of July 31, which are now worth about $4.5 billion.

❗ Is the Accumulation of #Bitcoin among Multibillionaires, Millionaires, Celebrities and Influencers a good thing?

❗ What happens if they are directly or indirectly required to sell/dump the Bitcoins?

🟠 David Marcus, CEO and founder of Lightspark has outlined the challenges of building on the Bitcoin Lightning Network. He stated that hat building on Lightning and Bitcoin is about five times more difficult than developing on other protocols.

🔸 Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has previously pointed out that integrating Lightning Network services on Binance was more complex because of the usage of on-demand invoices, which are different from pre-generated addresses. More info via NEWSBTC here https://lnkd.in/dJcp34vj

🎙️ Check out Blockchain DXB’s Crypto & Coffee at 8 podcasts where we go in detail and share our commentary on this
 

❌ No More Crypto: Gamestop
- Gaming retail company GameStop has announced it will remove its digital wallets from the market starting in November, citing “regulatory uncertainty of the crypto space.” Cointelegraph has reported that In a notice posted to its website, GameStop said iOS and Chrome Extension wallets will no longer be available starting on Nov. 1, advising users to ensure they have access to their secret passphrases by Oct. 1. The wallets, launched in May 2022, allow users to manage cryptocurrencies and nonfungible tokens, or NFTs. Article here https://lnkd.in/dzrFTS6z

🚗 Toyota Motor Corporation announced that the Toyota GR Cup will award digital trophies on the Polyg