Translation of the documents at https://twitter.com/btcdrak/status/908998917995552776

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In order to block all the BTC exchange out of China before Sep. 30th, the expert in Network Bureau, Network Safety Bureau would use the following technical ways to:

1. In the main route exit, block the access to main BTC exchange abroad from mainland China, including Coinbase, Bitfinex, Localbitcoin. The ways to block includes web access, app access, and API access. (See appendix 1 main BTC exchanges abroad)

2. In the main exit of the router, block the access to BTC seed node addressing. (See appendix 2 list of DNS seed addresses)

3. In the GFW, with DPI identification, the BTC network would be forced to abandon the sync of BTC (Block) exchange.

The government will take the following action:

1. According to the appendix 1, analyze all the DNS and IP address of web/App/API access to BTC exchange, and hand in the list to IT Bureau before Sept. 25.

2. Network Safety Bureau needs to confirm the validation of the BTC seed node addressing in Appendix 2 and hand in the final list to IT bureau.

3. According to research of Network Safety Buearu, through the DPI identification system in the GFW to abandon the block data, the ability of Block(Bill)'s sync will be disabled. This action needs configuration in L1 authorization of GFW. The IT Bureau will responsible for it.

Meanwhile, to prevent the domestic block nodes to sync with nodes abroad, government will monitor the communication between the domestic block node with the pool(appendix 4). In case of emergency, cut down the network of the pool.

4. Monitor highly on the BTC network's communication via bridge connection, TOR and VPN etc. Inform the most frequent request.

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W3C Payment Request API implementation in Webkit went from “Under Consideration” to “In Development.” That means that the API is being implemented in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Webkit, as well as Samsung Internet Browser and Facebook

https://www.w3.org/blog/wpwg/2017/09/14/payment-request-api-now-being-implemented-in-all-major-browsers-advances-on-the-recommendation-track/

More detailed technical info here
https://www.w3.org/TR/payment-request/

http://lopp.net/bitcoin.html
A wonderful collection of links to high quality info and resources

Yes! It’s a 46 Minute read.
Yes I read it all.
Yes! It’s worth the time :)
https://medium.com/@slavasolodkiy_67243/the-bubble-generation-manifesto-8b0a101fee0c

Live feed from the Scaling Bitcoin event.

https://scalingbitcoin.org/live/BPNs9EVxWrA

https://simplecast.com/s/bd660142

Great interview with Andreas M. Antonopoulos is the author of Mastering Bitcoin

In case you were wondering what happened to the Bitcoin markets this afternoon -

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7oxivj/cmc_just_tumbled_the_whole_market_with_one_move/

https://btcdiv.com/

Upcoming airdrops and forks promising dividends to Bitcoin owners below. Note that a lot of these will never get out of the planning stage and some might be outright scams!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VABppufTdpA

Bitcoin has no such reliable record like LWN (and a huge number of unreliable ones!), so it's near-impossible to keep up with the flow of ideas from prototypes, academic research and development into the Bitcoin ecosystem. From outside it may seem like nothing is happening, but it's simply never been laid out in one place. This talk delivers hard-won insight based on years of working with core developers and coders which you won't get anywhere else, and is delivered by someone passionate about the technology and uninterested in the drama.

Nick Szabo recenlty tweeted a link to this great archive of significant cypherpunk writings:-

https://github.com/tombusby/cypherpunk-research#technical-sources

https://medium.com/@vijayb_24615/the-bullish-case-for-bitcoin-6ecc8bdecc1

40 minute read -

The Bullish Case for Bitcoin

With the price of a bitcoin surging to new highs in 2017, the bullish case for investors might seem so obvious it does not need stating. Alternatively it may seem foolish to invest in a digital asset that isn’t backed by any commodity or government and whose price rise has prompted some to compare it to the tulip mania or the dot-com bubble. Neither is true; the bullish case for Bitcoin is compelling but far from obvious. There are significant risks to investing in Bitcoin, but, as I will argue, there is still an immense opportunity.

Arguably the best show in Crypto currently

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVVDsIYJBQ_C7Bh_aI3ZMxQ

ANNOUNCEMENT:

Andreas M. Antonopoulos is coming to Ireland! Mark your calendars now for the evening of May 23, 2018 in Dublin and the evening of May 25, 2018 in Limerick. Tickets will go on sale in early May, watch your email and twitter for links to tickets when they go on sale. We expect they'll go fast. At each event, Andreas will share his thoughts on the future of programmable money, then he will answer questions from the audience. After the presentation, there will be a book signing, for those of you who are interested.