Happy Wednesday Blockfolians
The Lede
When news broke that the CIO of Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs would be giving a presentation specifically focused on bitcoin (and gold), bitcoin Twitter got a little hyped. Would this be the latest Paul Tudor Jones-esque traditional market capitulation?
Short answer: Nope.
Instead, it was a full throated argument for why their clients should NOT be interested in bitcoin.
The reaction from the community was swift and clear. First there was the strange dated-ness of the arguments against bitcoin.
Second was the question of why this call was even happening now - and what it might suggest about a swell in interest.
Third was an important contextualization in the model that had made GS so much money for so long.
Fourth and finally was the real, hard to escape significance.
You might even say that bitcoin is, officially, un-ignorable.
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Highly Relevant Reading
A new stock market for art and culture launches, built on Ethereum
BitGo launches BitGo Prime, heating up the race for crypto prime brokerage
Blockchain video network Theta gets Google signed on as a network validator
A new NBA game has just launched on its own blockchain, built by the creators of CryptoKitties
Community Commentary
The Chief Strategy Officer of the Human Rights Foundation argues that full nodes are a key part of bitcoin’s decentralization.
Ryan from Bankless and Primitive’s Dovey Wan disagree about the fundamental drivers of current Ethereum network growth
A Really Big Number We Should Be Paying Attention To
$70,000,000-$100,000,000
That’s the reported price Coinbase just paid for Tagomi, to up their own place in the battle for crypto prime brokerage.
Final Thought
That’s a hell of a journey, Dog.