ROLLUP: Ethereum Merge Bellatrix Upgrade | Binance USDC Stablecoin Wars | Coinbase Treasury Tornado Lawsuit

1st Week of Mergetember, 2022

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro
3:05 Merge NFTs
https://bankless.cc/themerge
3:47 Converge 2022
https://bankless.cc/Circle

4:55 MARKETS
6:30 Crypto Market Cap
https://www.coingecko.com/en/global_charts
7:20 Ethereum Gas Fees
https://dune.xyz/hildobby/Gas
9:16 Merge Estimator
https://bordel.wtf/
10:00 Staking Unlocks
https://twitter.com/TrustlessState/status/1565699759754592259
14:10 Ethereum Revenue
https://www.theblock.co/post/167488/ethereum-miners-made-756-million-in-revenue-in-august-ahead-of-the-merge
15:10 EU Energy Crisis
https://twitter.com/biancoresearch/thread/1566180431984205824
18:50 Energy Fallout
https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/09/05/energy-bills-are-soaring-in-europe-what-are-countries-doing-to-help-you-pay-them
20:50 WAR!
https://entrepreneurshandbook.co/for-the-war-fd5509d525d

29:00 MERGE UPDATES
30:17 Bellatrix Upgrade
https://twitter.com/terencechain/status/1567115533233049606
32:35 Node Updates
https://twitter.com/ajsutton/status/1567117139810873344
33:20 Economist Article
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2022/09/06/the-future-of-crypto-is-at-stake-in-ethereums-switch
34:05 ETH PoW Fork
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/ethereum-pow-iou
37:35 Stake From Home
https://twitter.com/songadaymann/status/1562930578571272192

43:45 STABLECOIN WARS
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/09/05/binance-to-convert-users-usdc-usdp-tusd-into-its-own-stablecoin-busd/
47:00 Good for USDC
https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/09/06/who-benefits-from-binance-converting-usdc-to-its-own-stablecoin/

50:05 Coinbase MakerDAO Proposal
https://forum.makerdao.com/t/mipxx-coinbase-usdc-institutional-rewards/17703

55:00 1inch Optimism Airdrop
https://cointelegraph.com/news/1inch-users-on-optimism-to-receive-airdrop-of-300-000-op-tokens
56:4