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Bitcoin News Roundup: Microstrategy & Tether, KPMG Bitcoin ESG Report, SEC Crypto Crackdown, Bitcoin Mining Accelerator, Nostr, U.S. Credit Downgrade (August 2, 2023)

Bitcoin News Roundup for August 2, 2023: the biggest Bitcoin and Bitcoin-adjacent stories of the week. Read the written version of this show here: Bitcoin Weekly News Roundup: August 2, 2023

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7 MicroStrategy Keep Stacking 8 Yesterday MicroStrategy announced their second quarter 2023 financial results.

9 Per executive chairman and gigachat Michael Saylor on Twitter, 10 in July MicroStrategy acquired an additional 467 BTC for $14.

12 And in total those 152,800 Bitcoins, wow that is a lot, were acquired for a total of $4.

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Greetings and salutations my fellow plebs. My name is Walker and this is the Bitcoin podcast.

It's Wednesday, August 2nd, 2023. At the time of recording the Bitcoin block height is 801-404.

And the value of one Bitcoin is still one Bitcoin.

Today's episode is the Bitcoin Weekly News Roundup. I'm going to run through the big stories of the week.

Then zoom out and talk about narrative shifts and Bitcoin mining.

Without further ado, let's get into it.

MicroStrategy Keep Stacking

Yesterday MicroStrategy announced their second quarter 2023 financial results.

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Bitcoin News Roundup for August 2, 2023: the biggest Bitcoin and Bitcoin-adjacent stories of the week. Read the written version of this show here: Bitcoin Weekly News Roundup: August 2, 2023

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