r/Bitcoin recap - June 2018

Hi Bitcoiners!I’m back with the eighteenth 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 June 201801: The Visa network breaks down in Britain stopping any card transactions from working02: Bitcoin on the front page of the IMF website & An infographic of 152 fiat currencies that failed due to hyperinflation03: 70 shops accept bitcoin in Rovereto in Italy04: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak hopes bitcoin will become a single global currency & Microsoft buys coding site GitHub where the Bitcoin source code repository is hosted05: GMO unveils its new miner & Stop focusing on price, start focusing on adoption06: The SEC chairman says Bitcoin is not a security07: The total mining power on the Bitcoin network rose by 5 exahashes over the last 2 weeks08: An idea for a phone where the caller must pay you in bitcoin and is refunded after 2 minutes & A discussion on applications that could be built on top of Lightning & More atomic swaps between Bitcoin and Litecoin over the Lightning Network09: The narrative on r/Bitcoin begins to move towards adoption10: A discussion on Austrian Economics in relation to Bitcoin11: Someone’s Lightning Network experience of 42 transactions & Satoshis.place - A Lightning Network powered pixel art game12: bitcoin accepted in a shop in a 550 year old market in Istanbul & You can pay with bitcoin to advertise on this billboard13: The psychology of a market cycle & A discussion on whether Tether played any role in the bitcoin price rise last year14: A discussion to stop focusing on the bitcoin price and start focusing on adoption & The SEC says Bitcoin is not a security & William Shatner becomes the spokesperson for a solar mining operation in the US15: Bitcoin Core 0.16.1 is released & According to Bloomberg a recent study on Tether manipulating cryptocurrency prices is underwhelming16: An anti-electricity cartoon from 1900, reminiscing of the media on Bitcoin today17: Someone built a collaborative, livestreamed Pokemon Yellow game on the Lightning Network18: Square obtains a Bitlicense in New York & BitGold in 1998 vs. Bitcoin in 2008 & The correlation between the amount of comments on r/bitcoin and the daily trading volume19: The most southern Bitcoin node in the world20: Bithumb exchange loses $30M from a hack21: An example of the importance of running a full node & Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam allows you to exchange local euros for global bitcoins in a 6 month pilot & An AI startup is building on the Lightning Network22: A reminder of why we needed SegWit or any malleability fix before the Lightning Network & An online Fiverr-like marketplace built on the Lightning Network & Someone in Austria got robbed for €216.000 in cryptocurrency23: A reminder that the cost to mine a bitcoin does not determine its price24: A discussion on the amount of hashpower controlled by Bitmain25: A comparison between BLS signatures and Schnorr signatures & Blockstream announces C-Lightning 0.626: VC firm Andreessen Horowitz launches a $300M Bitcoin and cryptocurrency fund & Facebook is reversing its ban on cryptocurrency ads because money27: Pieter Wuille is working on a proposal for Schnorr signatures & A discussion on why supporting privacy in Bitcoin doesn’t make you a criminal28: Someone spent $0.04 to move $298M & A discussion on Nick Szabo29: The feeling when sending bitcoin transactions30: An overview of historical bitcoin price corrections & Andreas Antonopoulos on the Lightning NetworkSee you next month! via /r/Bitcoin http://bit.ly/2KqfhdH