r/Bitcoin recap - May 2018

Hi Bitcoiners!I’m back with the seventeenth monthly Bitcoin news recap.For those unfamiliar, each day I pick out the most popular/relevant/interesting stories in r/Bitcoin and save them. At the end of the month I release them in one batch, to give you a quick (but not necessarily the best) overview of what happened in bitcoin over the past month.You can see recaps of the previous months on Bitcoinsnippets.comA recap of Bitcoin in May 201801: SegWit adoption rises to 35% & Peter Thiel backs a venture that brings Wall Street trading expertise to Bitcoin02: Giacomo Zucco about Bitcoin and the possibility of Altcoins overtaking it & What the Lightning User experience may look like in every day life & The CFTC chairman on respecting this generation’s interest in Bitcoin03: Cryptocurrencies and blockchains in a newspaper in Uganda04: Vaultoro is the first bitcoin exchange to accept bitcoin deposits through the Lightning Network05: Coinmarketcap removes a misleading website from its Bitcoin page06: Goldman Sachs announces they will launch a Bitcoin futures trading platform07: Ask what you can do for Bitcoin08: The New York Stock Exchange is planning to create a cryptocurrency exchange09: Bitcoin on the front-page of the New York Times & Satoshi Nakamoto on unofficial Bitcoin sites10: Rawtx, a mobile Lightning wallet is released for test net & A farewell from the Pineapple Fund11: A lecture on how Bitcoin Script works & Decompiling a malware wallet12: Anonymous buying and selling will not be possible on Localbitcoins.com anymore & Nvidia made $289M from selling mining equipment in Q1 2018 & Samourai wallet even checks your clipboard to help you stay safe13: The current state of cryptocurrency mining & The amount of contributions to the Bitcoin Github & A discussion on the “release schedule” of the 21m bitcoins14: Microsoft shows off their decentralised identity proof of concept on Bitcoin at Consensus 2018 & The reserve bank of Zimbabwe bans Bitcoin & Japanese giant GMO is developing 7nm ASIC mining chips15: People are upset about Gemini exchange still not supporting SegWit & A discussion on places where Bitcoin is accepted for tax payments16: The French finance minister on his passion for cryptocurrency & The CEO of Twitter on the currency of the Internet: Bitcoin17: The Lightning Network becomes more distributed as big hubs get attacked & Christian Decker on scalability of the Lightning Network18: The Lightning Network now has 2000 nodes & A bank in the Philippines mined some bitcoin as an experiment19: The top 10 cryptocurrencies by marketcap on coinmarketcap 5 years ago20: 37.7% of bitcoin transactions are using SegWit and they pay for 14% of total fees & A reminder to not get involved in Cloud mining21: A guide to using decentralised cryptocurrency exchanges & Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 118 brings an improvement to disputes over payment channels22: A new bitcoin payment processor which also works with the Lightning Network & A former VISA UK CEO moves to a cryptocurrency startup & Bitcoiners celebrate bitcoin pizza day23: A bank in Argentina allows customers to use bitcoin for international payments & People have forked the Bitcoin code 44 times over the past year to create their own version24: MIT launches a new Lightning app development tool & The US Justice Department opens a criminal probe into bitcoin price manipulation & Zimbabwe lifts its cryptocurrency ban25: Xapo finally implements SegWit & The Opera browser allows you to convert currency to BTC & A UK company trademarks the word Bitcoin & A discussion about Bitcoin and gold26: Andreas Antonopoulos on digital communities27: A reminder of the Crypto Anarchist Manifesto from 1988, describing something like Bitcoin28: A discussion on technical analysis in Bitcoin & A reminder to not tell friends and family to invest in Bitcoin, but to encourage them to explore it & Rootstock did an ICO29: A new store to buy games using the Lightning Network30: Exploring Lightning Network routing31: Bitcoin’s transaction costs are the lowest in 7 years & Bittrex exchange adds USD-BTC trading via /r/Bitcoin http://bit.ly/2snpcFK