Bitcoin News #29 Show Notes

Bitcoin News #29 Show Notes
Every other Monday at 8pm pst.
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Intro to the show

Introduce the guests

1 year anniversary
-Quick speech
-Go to founders/panelists and have them say a few words
People to thank:
-WCN Founders: Thomas Hunt and Chris Ellis
-WCN members like Blake Anderson, Dustin from bitcoinartgallery.com, Tone Vays, Theo Goodman, Alex Sterk
-All special guests previous and upcoming like Turr Demester, Paul Sztorc, Paul McNeil, Edward form renegade investor, Victoria Van Eyk
-All regular guests like Ansel from bitcoinandmarkets.com, Daniel from Youmeandbtc.com, Gabriel D Vine, Blake Miles, Julian Smith
-People in the chatroom,
-Apologize to all the people I've missed

We are talking with Chris Burniske (@ARKblockchain) from http://Ark-Invest.com
-How did you get into bitcoin?
-Maybe you could talk a bit about your firm Ark-Invest, how it differentiates from others, and how it sees bitcoin

-Goldman Sachs and Santander leaving R3
-Irs seeking data from Coinbase customers at the same time as the Inspector General telling the IRS it Needs to Overhaul it's Bitcoin Tax Strategy
-1 in 4 bitcoin nodes now upgraded to segwit

Links:
R3
http://www.coindesk.com/goldman-sachs-leaves-r3cev/
http://www.coindesk.com/santander-drops-out-r3-blockchain-consortium/
http://www.coindesk.com/r3-launches-blockchain-lab-singapore/
http://www.coindesk.com/r3-banks-trial-blockchain-identity-registry/

IRS
http://www.coindesk.com/irs-seeking-data-coinbases-bitcoin-customers/
http://www.coindesk.com/irs-overhaul-bitcoin-tax-strategy/

Segwit
http://www.coindesk.com/one-four-bitcoin-nodes-now-upgraded-segwit/
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/why-viabtc-rejects-segwit-soft-fork-in-favor-of-block-size-hard-fork-interview-with-haipo-yang-1479409475?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BitcoinMagazine+%28Bitcoin+Magazine%29