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Price Update

⬇️  Bitcoin: $46,431 ( -0.71%)

⬇️  Ethereum: $3,582 ( -1.77%)

⬆️  Dogecoin: $0.5137 ( +0.99%)

⬆️  Solana: $45.85 ( +7.74%)

⬆️  SushiSwap: $16.57 ( +2.37%)

Prices as of 11 PM EST 05/16, data from FTX.com

• Markets: Deep dippage. While stocks rallied back on Friday, the cryptocurrency market took its biggest dive of the year this weekend, with the total crypto market cap down over 10%. Is the bottom in?

• World: Israeli warplanes continued bombarding Gaza City overnight, bringing the death toll to over 200 Palestinians—half of which are women and children. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday the attacks will continue at "full-force" and will "take time." Diplomatic efforts by the U.S. and U.N. Security council have been stepped-up, but show no signs of progress.

CRYPTO TWITTER

Another Wholesome Act

You remember our story on @CryptoCobain and the rest of crypto Twitter raiding the Twitch stream of digital artist YamerPro and donating the artist over $30,000 in crypto throughout the stream?

Well, Cobie and friends were at it again this weekend, this time donating over $800,000 to leukemia survivor J.O. and family via cryptocurrency donations.

Summary

After seeing a viral video of a child returning to school after recovering from leukemia, crypto Twitter personality @MilkMan2228 contacted the child’s family. Upon discovering the family could use help with hospital bills, @MilkMan2228 set the family up with an Ethereum wallet and tweeted out the address to his followers. The donation wallet was soon shared by crypto thought-leader @CryptoCobain, sparking hundreds of donations to the donation wallet. Some donations came from big names including CEO of FTX exchange Sam Bankman-Fried. The donation wallet ended up receiving over $800,000 in various cryptocurrencies.

Here is J.O. giving some thank you messages to Crypto Twitter:

John Zippay @john_zippay

J.O. continues to inspire so many, and his battle with Cancer is a message of HOPE. From the bottom of our hearts we would like to thank everyone helping to support our family and blessing him with a great future.

May 14th 2021

987 Retweets7,649 Likes

John Zippay @john_zippay

@CryptoCobain

May 15th 2021

611 Retweets3,546 Likes

Donations so far

• Over $45K to Digital artist Yamer

• $200K to guitarist Mela Bee

• $800K to Leukemia survivor J.O. and family

DRAMA

The Ugly 😖

The wholesomeness didn’t last long. Did you think the Dogecoin saga was over? A lot of name-callings, back-and-forth with frogs, and debating went down over the weekend. Here’s what happened.

Doge Founders Speak Out

One of the Dogecoin co-founders logged into his inactive Twitter account to comment on the centi-billionaire’s interest in Dogecoin.

∞ CO฿IE @CryptoCobain

My man came back from the shadow realm to dunk on Elon and leave again

May 14th 2021

404 Retweets3,187 Likes

The Founder of Cardano Makes a Pitch

The exchanges with Elon weren't the only spicy twitter debates that occurred over the weekend.

Founder of controversial cryptocurrency Cardano, Charles Hoskinson, pitched Cardano to new DeFi participant Mark Cuban. Looks like Charles needs to work on his shark tank pitch

Mark Cuban @mcuban

Levity aside Charles, whenever someone pitching me tells me it has to be in person, that's a red flag. I know this isn't a pitch. But would love to know , Where do you use ADA on a daily basis ? How should or could I use it today ? I can answer this for all the crypto I own.

Charles Hoskinson @IOHK_Charles

@mcuban You're breaking my heart mark.... But levity aside. Come by the farm in Colorado sometime and let's chat.

May 15th 2021

792 Retweets5,669 Likes

We pissed off Elon

Some members of the Bitcoin community have been hard at work writing Twitter threads defending Bitcoin and criticizing Elon for supporting Dogecoin. Elon apparently decided he’d had enough and decided to shake things up, again.

Elon Musk @elonmusk

@PeterMcCormack Obnoxious threads like this make me want to go all in on Doge

May 16th 2021

16,497 Retweets79,230 Likes

An Educational Frog

Twitter user @ChainLinkGod chimed in to offer a criticism of Dogecoin, hoping to educate Elon:

ChainLinkGod.eth 2.0 @ChainLinkGod

@elonmusk @PeterMcCormack Elon, while the thread is a bit adversarial in it's tone, it does have its truth in that Dogecoin is orders of magnitude more centralized in both terms of node count and supply distribution than existing cryptos like Bitcoin, people will lose money when these whales dump

May 16th 2021

226 Retweets4,962 Likes

But, it looked as if the damage had already been done, and Mr. Musk wasn't having it:

Elon Musk @elonmusk

@ChainLinkGod @PeterMcCormack Hey cryptocurrency “experts”, ever heard of PayPal? It’s possible … maybe … that I know than you realize about how money works.

May 16th 2021

6,637 Retweets42,230 Likes

A lot to keep up with, we know.

If you want to read the entire exchange and/or learn a bit about decentralization yourself, ChainLinkGod put together a nice thread, explaining the differences between Bitcoin and Dogecoin in regards to decentralization.

These exchanges led to some people having the theory that Tesla is going to, or has already dumped their Bitcoin. This is just a theory/rumor that has in no way been confirmed. But Elon being Elon perpetuated the rumor with more ominous tweets.

Later in the evening, he attempted to clear things up:

Elon Musk @elonmusk

@BTC_Archive To clarify speculation, Tesla has not sold any Bitcoin

May 17th 2021

9,467 Retweets36,924 Likes

TLDR;

Twitter user ashtoshi summed the weekend up pretty well with this statement:

Ashtoshii @ashtoshii

Crypto Twitter is weird. One day we are euphorically raising money for a little boy with leukemia, the next day we are bullying a billionaire with Aspergers while our net worths plummet.

May 16th 2021

4 Retweets49 Likes

STATZ

lf Numbers Are Your Thing

Bitcoin dominance reached its lowest since 2018

What does this mean? Bitcoin Market Dominance is a term for the percentage of the total cryptocurrency market cap that Bitcoin commands.

Out of all the USD invested in cryptocurrencies, 40.2% of them are in Bitcoin, the lowest since 2018. Bitcoin commanded 69.7% of the total cryptocurrency market cap at its highest point this bull run. Ethereum is 2nd to Bitcoin in market dominance, commanding 19.2% of the total cryptocurrency market cap at the time of writing.

This chart shows the decline of Bitcoin’s dominance since the beginning of 2021

Is the king being overthrown?

TECH

Epic v. Apple 🥊

The Apple vs. Epic Games saga continues. If you’re not caught up, Epic games and Apple are in a long court battle over Apple’s control of what apps can and cannot do, and most recently, what even is considered a game?

What Epic Wants

1. To prove that Apple has a monopoly over apps in their App Store

2. For users to be able to pay for in-app items using Epic’s own payment processing, bypassing the 30% cut taken by Apple

3. To eventually allow a "metaverse" where players and creators can buy and sell content within the app and play games across platforms

What Apple Wants

1. To prove that it is competing within its own app store with only about a third of the market share, and therefore cannot be a monopoly

2. To prevent a “store within a store” that could bypass Apple’s review process, potentially enabling the purchase of inappropriate or harmful apps.

3. To keep their 30% cut of all app-store purchases

Epic Financial Insights

Epic isn’t a publicly traded company, so its financial data isn’t widely available. However this court case has brought to light some interesting figures:

• Fortnite made $9.1 billion in two years

• Epic has spent at least $1 billion on exclusives

• Epic offered Sony $200 Million for Playstation exclusives

• Epic has spent more than $11M on free games

• Sony charges for cross-play support to protect PSN Network’s income

The Verdict

Epic’s push back on Apple controlling how much developers can make sets a precedent going forward. Even if Epic loses, their continuous pressure has proven effective in nudging the industry towards Epic’s overall goal.

Other Newz

• Bill Gates hides out at a fancy California country club

• Golden State Warriors will face Los Angeles Lakers in the first round of the 2021 NBA playoffs

• The Suez Canal will be widened by 131 feet to avoid another blockage

• Fish can feel pain

Thanks for reading! 👋

written by Bay & JB

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