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2022-09-30
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Rabbit Hole Recap #219: A Tale of Two Powells

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- riot and blockware release transaction fee paper https://blockwaresolutions.com/s/Bitcoin-Transaction-Fees-Final-Draft.pdf

- jesse powell steps down as ceo of kraken https://www.wsj.com/articles/ceo-of-crypto-exchange-kraken-steps-down-11663778989

- lnbits v0.9.3 https://github.com/lnbits/lnbits/releases/tag/0.9.3

- fountain v0.4.9 https://fountainpodcasts.substack.com/p/fountain-0-4-9

- trezor suite v22.9.3 https://blog.trezor.io/coin-control-in-trezor-suite-92f3455fd706

- specter v1.13.0 https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop/releases/tag/v1.13.0

- new privacy focused block explorer called spiral https://btc.usespiral.com/

- signet fedimint instance https://faucet.sirion.io/

- bitgo adds lightning https://blog.bitgo.com/bitgo-unveils-custodial-lightning-898554d3b749

- bolt.fun announces global tournament https://makers.bolt.fun/tournaments/1/overview

- mullvad announces hardware security key https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/9/19/mullvad-creates-a-hardware-company/

- border agents searching without warrants https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/content/files/2022/09/Wyden-letter-to-CBP-on-border-searches-of-devices.pdf

- us military captures 90% of global internet traffic https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3pnkw/us-military-bought-mass-monitoring-augury-

Marty Bent, [Sep 22, 2022 at 9:23:42 AM]:

- Clinton Global Initiative IMF/World Bank/Big bank merger https://twitter.com/willhild/status/1572300270499139586?s=46&t=1YrR-8UkzzsWh3IT_vwRCw

- Clinton Global Initiative climate printers https://twitter.com/willhild/status/1572301306530009090?s=46&t=1YrR-8UkzzsWh3IT_vwRCw

- Ghoulish rep https://twitter.com/martybent/status/1572791766369341440?s=46&t=1YrR-8UkzzsWh3IT_vwRCw

- Jamie dimon bitcoin https://twitter.com/business/status/1572696812351258624?s=46&t=1YrR-8UkzzsWh3IT_vwRCw

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2022-09-22
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Rabbit Hole Recap #218 Greenpeace Can Go Fork Themselves

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- ethereum switches to proof of stake

- greenpeace continues to FUD bitcoin

- hodlonaut trial starts in Norway

- ledger hardware wallets now available at best buy stores

- fidelity and charles schwab launch bitcoin exchange

- mining pool Poolin announces IOUs amid solvency concerns

- Alby v1.15.0

- LDK v0.0.111

- Phoenix v1.4.23

- LNMarkets increases trade limits and moves to nodl cloud

- red dirt mining open source mining profitability calculator

- OFAC releases additional guidance on tornado cash sanctions

- yooper crate guide

- brother of former coinbase employee pleads guilty to insider trading

- increased surveillance of gun purchases with credit cards

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2022-09-16
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Rabbit Hole Recap #217: The Queen is dead and the Biden Administration hates mining

This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- white house mining report
- poolin appears insolvent
- coinbase funding legal challenge to tornado cash sanctions
- russia to use cryptocurrency for international trade
- HRF donates $325K to bitcoin development
- australian feds form unit dedicated to tracking and seizing bitcoin
- fountain v0.4.8
- zeus v0.6.6
- this month in bitcoin privacy
- arcane research on bitcoin mining and energy industry
- IRS doxxes 120K tax payers
- hosted vpn providers shut down in india
- law enforcement using new location tracking tool without warrants

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2022-09-08
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Rabbit Hole Recap #216: DC targets Saylor while NYDIG launches Wolf

This week Marty and Matt are joined by Adam Curry, Ryan Gentry of Lightning Labs and Grant Gilliam of Ten31 to have a Bit Block Boom rip.

- DC accuses saylor and microstrategy of tax fraud

- mining difficulty increases by 9.25%

- mempool launches lightning explorer

- nydig launches lightning accelerator

- Iran approves bitcoin for imports

- joinmarket v0.9.7

- lnd v0.15.1-beta

- btcd v0.23.1-beta

- Odell 50yrs poll 1 poll 2

- announcing rapid gossip sync

- block hardware wallet update

- TBD on self sovereign identity

- second largest data leak in history, 800M chinese records exposed

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2022-09-02
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Rabbit Hole Recap #215: Bit Block Boom rip with Adam, Ryan and Grant

This week Marty and Matt are joined by Adam Curry, Ryan Gentry of Lightning Labs and Grant Gilliam of Ten31 to have a Bit Block Boom rip.

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2022-08-31
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Rabbit Hole Recap #214: Austin party rip with Jevi and Adam O

This week Marty and Matt are joined by Jevi from Unchained Capital and Adam O from Upstream Data to have a party rip.

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2022-08-26
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Rabbit Hole Recap #213: Censorship resistance should be the priority

This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Tornado Cash Developer Arrested in Amsterdam
- coincenter on tornado cash
- us bans export of 3nm chip tech
- Casa discloses data breach of store
- Vinteum launched to support bitcoin dev in brazil
- bitmain and antpool launch new miner loan program
- bitcoin ekasi in south africa
- telcos could get hundreds of millions in fines waived for location tracking
- iOS VPN support leaks data
- Inflation Reduction Act passed, Bill Gates lobbied hard for it
- channel jamming research

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2022-08-19
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Rabbit Hole Recap #212: The privacy wars have escalated

This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- ethereum privacy tool tornado cash sanctioned
- tornado cash github repo taken down, same with dev accounts
- coincenter on sanctions
- btc-e exchange operator extradited to US
- proposal to require large hedge funds to disclose cryptocurrency positions
- blackrock launches bitcoin private trust
- tropic square open source secure chip begins production
- easy inbound liquidity using voltage
- more details on Block's hardware wallet
- motiv launches 16 circular economies in Peru
- sms provider twilio compromised
- email provider Klaviyo compromised, impacts customers of 44 bitcoin companies including swan
- border wallets explained
- fiatjaf on value4value

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2022-08-12
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Rabbit Hole Recap #211: Is the Fed buying bitcoin?

This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Israel bans use of cash for purchases larger than NIS 6000 - roughly $1700
- CSW vs McCormack
- Victorian Gov Coming for your coin
- Foundry funds stratum v2 dev
- Galoy raises $4million, launches stablesats
- Coinbase partners with Blackrock
- Raspiblitz v1.8.0
- Coldcard v5.0.6
- Sparrow Wallet v1.6.6
- Celsius creditor list
- John Cantrell Route Blinding
- Foreigners hold just 33% of US debt: the lowest amount this century
- $80 billion in new funding for the IRS

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2022-08-05
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Rabbit Hole Recap #210: Salty senators insider trading

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- senators salty at fidelity for bitcoin product

- kraken accused of violating sanctions

- senators introduce bill for tax exemption on bitcoin payments smaller

- twitter data break exposes 5.4M accounts

- bitfinex and tether launch p2p communications app Keet

- Lnbits v0.91

- Start9 Embassy v0.3.1.1

- Wasabi Wallet v2.0.1.3

- LDK v0.0.110

- gladstein on fedimints

- three arrows founders give first interview since collapse

- Fed 75bps hike

- Redefining recession

- Ursula von der Leyen's energy comments

- Canada wants farmers to cut nitrogen emissions by 30%

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2022-07-29
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Rabbit Hole Recap #209: Pouring some out for the weak hands

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Tesla sold 75% of their bitcoin

- Largest mining difficulty drop since last year, -%5.01

- Senators ask EPA to require mining companies to disclose energy usage

- Shift Crypto data breach

- BTrust funds first developer

- Coldcard MK4 v5.0.5

- Coinkite looking for an app dev

- Tor Browser v11.5

- Joinstr, using nostr as a coinjoin coordinator

- Border Wallets Tool Launched

- zebedee raises $35M

- Fedi raises $4M

- Coinbase assets listing team member arrested for insider trading

- Beef Initiative Conference in Colorado this weekend

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2022-07-22
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Rabbit Hole Recap #208: Party rip at Bitcoin Park

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Robinhood Enables Bitcoin Transfers

- Half-Aggregation of BIP 340 Signatures

- Compass Mining Lays Off 15% of Team

- China Police Database Was Left Open Online

- Gloria Zhao Added as a Bitcoin Core Maintainer

- BTCPay Server v1.6.1

- Bitcoin ETN Launches in Germany

- Amazon Admits Giving Ring Camera Footage To Police Without A Warrant Or Consent

- Bitcoin Optech

- NYDIG Announces Partnership with the New York Yankees

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2022-07-15
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Rabbit Hole Recap #207: The Liberal World Order is Here

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- OpenNode partners with Lemon Cash to bring lightning to a million Argentines

- More details of blockfi deal with ftx

- Three Arrows Capital files for bankruptcy

- Voyager freezes withdrawals and declares bankruptcy

- Indian exchange Vauld freezes withdrawals due to insolvency

- Core Scientific sold most of their bitcoin

- Rizzo on Maximalism

- Bitcoin Policy Institute submits report to Department of Commerce

- Samourai Wallet v0.99.98e

- Zimbabwe introduces gold coins as inflation worsens

- Tapsigner + Nunchuck

- No reserve requirement

- CDSs popping

- Power costs in Germany soaring

- Nuclear and gas is now "green" in Europe

- Cloud seeding in Australia

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2022-07-08
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Rabbit Hole Recap #206: More pain is on the way

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- $4 Billion in Bitcoin Miner Loans Under Stress

- MicroBT to Get First Access to Samsung 3nm Chips

- Supreme Court Rules Against EPA Limiting Federal Power to Regulate Bitcoin Miners and Other Energy Projects

- Montana Storm Takes 75% of Marathon Hash Offline

- First Batch of My First Bitcoin Diplomas Awarded, Second School Joins Initiative

- Celsius is $2B in the Hole

- Leaked Call Provides More Details on BlockFi Issues

- Compass Mining CEO and CFO Resign

- More Details of Coinbase Surveillance Tools Sale to US Gov Released

- EU to Release FATF Compliant Travel Rule Requirements

- GBTC ETF Conversion Denied, Grayscale Sues SEC

- India Passes New Digital Surveillance Measures

- Coinbase Surveillance

- America: Freedom to Fascism

- Vince Vaughn Freaks out

- BIP 324

- Shares of $GBTC

- Netherlands farmers protest

- Powell gaslighting

- Bent Issue #711: A warning from history

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2022-06-30
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Rabbit Hole Recap #205: Bailouts, uprisings, and gaslighting

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- UK self custody acknowledgement

- FATF report coming

- Putin?s comments on sanctions

- Biden blames gas stations

- Sri Lanka PM declares economic collapse

- BOJ QE in overdrive

- ECB balance sheet ATH

- BIS gaslighting

- BlockFi FTX bailout

- Voyager exposed

- Gazprom + BitRiver

- Bitcoin on DNMs

- Fountain 0.4.0 released

- IBEX onboarding Miami merchants

- DARPA funding (poor) bitcoin research

- much more

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