Marty dons a very cool and stylish hat while Matt rations his wifi.

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Pod
3:16 - Opening riff
5:02 - Dashboard
7:37 - Balaji's prediction
10:13 - Powell is nervous
14:54 - Regulatory crackdown
21:00 - Wells notices
24:34 - Bitcoin's official separation from shitcoins?
28:03 - Foreign power grabs while US banks fail
30:54 - Individual states opposed to CBDCs
35:11 - Bitcoin feels scarce
37:58- They're scared shitless
42:57 - Dollar reserve on shaky ground if Saudis bail
44:53 - Matt gets internet rationed
46:56 - Hash value and price divergence
50:01 - Matt's presidential campaign
51:45 - Difficulty adjustment live on air
52:59 - Nostrica
56:23 - Habla
1:00:53 - Hindenberg accuses Block of fraud
1:05:17 - White house disses Bitcoin
1:06:30 - Priorities
1:11:05 - Central bank paper bitcoin
1:16:04 - Shoutouts and boostagrams

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silvergate, silicon valley bank, and signature bank failures

bailout of remaining banks

robosats disables swap feature due to vulnerability https://nitter.at/RoboSats/status/1635432123648622593

luxor releases custom mining firmware https://luxor.tech/firmware

lnbits diy nostr signing device https://github.com/lnbits/nostr-signing-device

specter v2.0.0 https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop/releases/tag/v2.0.0?ref=no-bullshit-bitcoin

start9 embassy v0.3.4 https://github.com/Start9Labs/embassy-os/releases/tag/v0.3.4

ronindojo team is now offers degoogled phones https://ronindojo.io/en/roninmobile

custodial mixer chipmixer shut down https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/international-authorities-take-down-chipmixer/

4:41 - Ninja launch
9:06 - Dashboard
10:40 - Banks melting
20:05 - Thomas joins
33:27 - Companies splitting up bank accounts
35:14 - Bitcoin fixes this
36:54 - Is this an attack on Bitcoin?
45:41 - What happens next?
50:12 - Lionel Shriver the Bitcoiner
42:46 - Banking crisis in the age of social media
55:28 - LuxOS
58:29 - Inscriptions
1:05:01 - Mempools will (never) be empty
1:10:41 - Are we in the storm's eye?

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4:41 - It's happening!
11:43 - Matt's bank run rabbit hole
15:39 - Mechanics of what's happening
18:46 - The speed of events
27:16 - Fed pivot
28:40 - Marty's bluecheck
30:08 - Dashboard flashed
30:34 - USDC
34:19 - Exchanges impacted by banks
44:25 - Slow mo into collapse
1:00:05 - Bitcoin's going to be blamed
1:04:30 - Final thoughts, wrapping up

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Silvergate Bank in trouble https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/03/02/silvergate-stock-drops-over-50-as-crypto-clients-flee-beleaguered-bank/ & https://twitter.com/DylanLeClair_/status/1593630883889778689/photo/2

Cashapp users bought $7.11 billion in bitcoin last year https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/content/files/2023/02/Block_Shareholder-Letter-4Q22.pdf

Block details global self custody wallet ambitions https://wallet.build/helping-customers-move-between-fiat-and-bitcoin-how-well-build[…]-to-bring-more-people-to-self-custody/

Block announces LSP operated by TBD https://cequals.xyz/

BTCPay Server Coinjoin Plugin https://twitter.com/MrKukks/status/1630221270246719489

Seedsigner v0.6.0 https://github.com/SeedSigner/seedsigner/releases/tag/0.6.0

ColdCard MK4 v5.1.0 https://blog.coinkite.com/5.1.0-released/

Sparrow Wallet v1.7.3 https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/1.7.3

BTCPay Server v1.8.0 https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver/releases/tag/v1.8.0

Stack Wallet v1.5.44 https://github.com/cypherstack/stack_wallet/releases/tag/build_131

Nunchuk and Coinkite Strategic Partnership https://nunchuk.io/blog/nunchuk-coinkite

Naira Crisis Fueling Bitcoin Adoption https://www.forbes.com/sites/abubakarnurkhalil/2023/03/01/nigerian-election-and-naira-crisis-is-fueling-bitcoin-adoption/

Bitcoin Optech Launches Podcast https://twitter.com/bitcoinoptech/status/1630613222389694474

Freedom Money EP5 https://youtu.be/kXzcVAXiZeE

6:36 - Opening riff

32:47 - Dashboard

34:24 - Matt's the Jim Cramer of mempools

47:05 - Silvergate

1:06:18 - Mandibles Mandibles Mandibles

1:21:34 - Cashapp bitcoin sales

1:26:52 - Block wallet

1:31:24 - Block LSP

1:34:14 - BTCPay WabiSabi

1:54:26 - Seedsigner v0.6.0

1:56:17 - ColdCard Mk4 v5.1.0

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2:02:22 - Stack Wallet v1.5.44

2:04:32 - Boostagrams

2:18:40 - Nunchuck Coinkite

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2:22:00 - Abubakar Article

2:24:25 - Freedom Money Ep 5

2:26:47 - Layoffs

2:39:57 - Wrap up

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This week Marty and Matt discuss

bluewallet shutting down default lightning wallet april 30th https://bluewallet.io/sunsetting-lndhub/

marco falke stepping down as maintainer https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/marco-falke-steps-down/

tropic square open source secure elements completes first round of testing https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/tropic-square-completes-initial-testing-on-chip

OP_Vault proposal https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/0204c9a1f9a9075f2483450f1bab034d453270b7/bip-vaults.mediawiki

Congressman Tom Emmer introduces anti CBDC bill https://twitter.com/GOPMajorityWhip/status/1628397390024638466

blastr nostr relay implementation https://github.com/MutinyWallet/blastr

twitter launches “coins” https://twitter.com/Tree_of_Alpha/status/1628466657789202440

freedom money ep 4 https://youtu.be/MWmfDSxtvi0

nashville energy and mining summit panels released to podcast feed https://twitter.com/bitcoinpark_/status/1627700730030342144

coinbase launches shitcoin layer 2 network “base” 

https://base.org/

0:00 - Is Last of Us the first good video game adaptation?
4:24 - Mandibles Mandibles Mandibles interview
7:59 - Dashboard interrupted by real estate shower thoughts
19:10 - Marty sets up to lose some sats
20:41 - Blue Wallet closing custodial lightning
34:44 - Twitter vs Nostr
43:58 - Marco Falke steps down
54:30 - OP_VAULT and speedy trial
1:13:50 - Tom Emmer anti-CBDC bill
1:29:00 - Mutiny Wallet Blastr
1:32:57 - Freedom Money episode 4
1:34:27 - Bitcoin Park Mining Summit podcast release
1:35:50 - Coinbase Base
1:40:00 - Flow 2.0
1:42:58 - Shoutouts and Booatagrams
1:55:06 - Marty pays up

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“Stable Coins” Under Fire https://twitter.com/ODELL/status/1590454881223028736

Fedimint Hackathon Winners https://www.fedi.xyz/blog/fedimint-hackaton-winners

Strike launches Sending API https://docs.strike.me/walkthrough/sending-payments/

Breez launches SDK https://medium.com/breez-technology/lightning-for-everyone-in-any-app-lightning-as-a-service-via-the-breez-sdk-41d899057a1d

Jam v0.1.5 https://github.com/joinmarket-webui/jam/releases/tag/v0.1.5

Elements v22.1 https://github.com/ElementsProject/elements/releases/tag/elements-22.1

Blixt v0.6.4 https://github.com/hsjoberg/blixt-wallet/releases/tag/v0.6.4

Passport v2.0.6 https://github.com/Foundation-Devices/passport2/releases/tag/v2.0.6

Seed Tool v2.0.2 https://github.com/BitcoinQnA/seedtool/releases/tag/2.0.2

Wyoming Private Keys Bill https://wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2023/HB0086

SATSx Hackathon https://www.meetup.com/pleb-lab/events/290888354/

Freedom Money E3 with Janine https://youtu.be/xTfY5TjuN2A

6:13 - Chemical fires, UFOs, and the Eagles lost
14:30 - Silent.link shill
16:49 - Dashboard
22:03 - Stablecoins unstable
33:06 - Fediment hackathon winners
40:20 - Bing became Skynet
42:48 - Strike sending API
46:30 - Breez SDK
50:21 - JAM v0.1.5
53:33 - Elements v22.1
55:04 - Blixt v0.6.4
55:32 - Passport v2.0.6
56:45 - Seed Tool v2.0.2
58:29 - Shoutouts and boostagrams
1:08:53 - Mr. Bent weather report
1:12:58 - Wyoming private keys bill
1:17:53 - Sad news for a ride or die freak
1:19:38 - Bitcoin events to attend instead of SXSW
1:28:18 - Freedom Money episode 3
1:30:22 - Macro brief
1:37:52 - Wrap up

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Sparrow Wallet v1.7.2 https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/1.7.2

Zeus v0.7.2 https://github.com/ZeusLN/zeus/releases/tag/v0.7.2

BTCPay Server v1.7.6 https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver/releases/tag/v1.7.6

coldcard q1 https://coldcard.com/docs/coldcard-q1

local bitcoins shutting down https://localbitcoins.com/service_closure/

search Freedom Money on youtube to watch ODELL's new series



4:03 - Surprise party rip!
6:16 - Bitdevs open source
14:19 - Coldcard Q1
24:12 - Nostr
38:20 - Fedi pool
47:51 - Matt the pro surfer
51:20 - Regulatory clamp down and its effects
1:21:51 - NVK the pro podcaster
1:25:48 - Cathedra underclocking data
1:32:21 - Software updates
1:36:19 - Shoutouts and boostagrams
1:42:13 - Scrib shill
1:50:13 - RIP LocalBitcoins
1:51:59 - Gary: not your keys not your coins
1:54:50 - Wrap up


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Lebanon officially devalues currency 90% https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/lebanon-sharply-devalues-official-exchange-rate-central-bank-says-2023-02-01/

prime trust loses texas license, swan and fold users can no longer buy, strike unaffected

ordinal inscriptions controversy

strike commerce launches with clover point of sale systems https://twitter.com/jackmallers/status/1618731420998049798

joinmarket v0.9.9 https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket-clientserver/releases/tag/v0.9.9

btcpay critical vulnerability disclosure https://blog.btcpayserver.org/btcpay-server-cve-2022-32984/

strike expands remittance service to phillipines https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/strike-expands-remittance-feature-to-phillipines/

eu chat control law is fucked up https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/2/1/eu-chat-control-law-will-ban-open-source-operating-systems/

freedom money ep 1 with gigi https://youtu.be/6Tr4-DL1c1s


5:54 - Opening riff
7:53 - Dashboard
11:53 - Nation state rug pulls
33:33 - Prime Trust out of Texas
43:35 - Governments hate milk and eggs
54:58 - Ordinals controversy
1:24:26 - Luxor ASIC exchange
1:27:22 - Strike Phillipines remittances
1:30:03 - Shoutouts and boostagrams
1:43:16 - An abrupt wrap up


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blockstream raises $125M https://www.prweb.com/releases/2023/1/prweb19127332.htm

strike launches first clover merchant https://twitter.com/jackmallers/status/1618731420998049798

fold launches enterprise api https://foldapp.com/api

prime trust cut from texas, swan and fold impacted https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/prime-trust-texas-issues/

tails v5.9 https://tails.boum.org/news/version_5.9/

lnbits v0.9.6 https://github.com/lnbits/lnbits/releases/tag/0.9.6.1

freedom money https://twitter.com/ODELL/status/1618353021330628632

5:54 - Opening riff
8:24 - Freedom Money
13:47 - War stories from potty training
15:59 - Bitcoin, cash, and CBDC in/convenience
37:04 - Dashboard
38:13 - Blockstream funding
40:27 - Strike Clover integration
45:16 - Fold api
48:44 - Prime Trust cut off from Texas
54:43 - Voger Ver owes Genesis who owes users
58:59 - Matt reads a shoutout with extra pep and pizazz
1:04:40 - Event shilling
1:09:31 - Tails v5.9
1:10:02 - v0.9.6
1:20:02 - A final shill and wrapping up

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- 196 Members of Congress Took FTX Money https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/01/17/congress-ftx-problem-1-in-3-members-got-cash-from-crypto-exchanges-bosses/

- Congo National Park Relies on Hydro Powered Bitcoin Mine https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/13/1066820/cryptocurrency-bitcoin-mining-congo-virunga-national-park/

- BIP 329 Merged: Standard for Wallet Label Exports and Imports Between Wallets https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0329.mediawiki

- Blixt Wallet v0.6.2 https://github.com/hsjoberg/blixt-wallet/releases/tag/v0.6.2

- Understanding The COLDCARD Mk4 Security Model and Secure Element Use https://blog.coinkite.com/understanding-mk4-security-model/

- US Law Enforcement Agencies Surveil Over 150M Financial Transactions of Americans Without a Warrant https://www.wsj.com/articles/little-known-surveillance-program-captures-money-transfers-between-u-s-and-more-than-20-countries-11674019904

- Lightning Summit at Bitcoin Park https://www.meetup.com/bitcoinpark/events/291052525/

5:55 - Safari Matt
11:18 - Mining Summit recap
35:34 - FAA theories
39:42 - Dashboard
42:25 - Lightning Summit and Bitcoin Takeover
44:40 - FTX money went to 1/3 of Congress
46:26 - GTX
52:59 - Congo hydroelectric mining
59:19 - Breaking Cashapp LN news
1:02:08 - Bitzlato
1:07:21 - Marty leaks security details
1:08:10 - BIP 329
1:14:40 - Shoutouts and Boostagrams
1:20:58 - Blixt 0.6.2
1:22:06 - Understanding Coldcard security
1:29:49 - US financial surveillance
1:35:29 - Mandibles Section: Bank of Japan rushes in
1:38:56 - We're already in a recession
1:47:22 - Tech layoffs
1:51:21 - Saudi fading petrodollar

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This week Marty and Matt party it up in Nashville!

https://bitcoinpark.co

7:05 - Party rip!
8:51 - PubKey
12:05 - Introducing guests and year in review
15:45 - Exchange degeneracy
18:35 - Interest rate hikes
21:34 - Talking about the future
24:50 - Samuel Deep Fried Bankrupt Man
27:25 - Rich history of scams and rug pulls
33:40 - Mining predictions
38:19 - ASIC loans
42:13 - Favorite mining scam
48:02 - Having fun watching Barry vs Winklevii
55:22 - Is the bottom in?
56:51 - Hunting Satoshi
1:01:20 - Wrapping up


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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- winklevoss blast silbert https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/gemini-cofounder-cameron-public-letter/

- dcg fires 30% of employees at genesis https://www.wsj.com/articles/crypto-lender-genesis-lays-off-30-of-staff-11672939434

- dcg shutters wealth management division https://www.theinformation.com/articles/genesis-parent-company-dcg-shutters-its-wealth-management-division

- silvergate lost $700m during ftx panic bank run https://www.wsj.com/articles/silvergate-raced-to-cover-8-1-billion-in-withdrawals-during-crypto-meltdown-11672895207

- coinbase pays NY Gov $50M implements stricter KYC https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/04/business/coinbase-settlement-anti-money-laundering.html

- electrum v4.3.3 https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES

- zeus v0.7.1 https://github.com/ZeusLN/zeus/releases/tag/v0.7.1

- bdk v0.26.0 https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/releases/tag/v0.26.0

- rust whirlpool implementation https://github.com/straylight-orbit/whirlpool-client-rs

- nunchuk adds collaborative custody subscriptions https://nunchuk.io/blog/introducing-the-honey-badger-wallet

- fedimint hackathon https://www.fedi.xyz/fedimint-hackathon

- new zoltan https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/content/files/2022/12/ZoltanPozsar-CreditSuisse-WarandCommodity-Encumbrance.pdf


10:30 - Opening riff
14:18 - Dashboard fakeout
16:12 - You could ski down the Dow Jones chart
19:50 - Dashboard for real
24:08 - Recession
31:53 - DCG
34:36 - Cameron Winklevoss's letter
36:11 - More DCG
40:19 - What's Gemini Earn?
47:24 - Cognitive dissonance of finance and crypto
50:25 - Humble stackers win out
52:32 - Luke Dashjr lost his coins
58:09 - Matt's new Coldcard guide
1:01:05 - Genesis cascade effect and Silvergate bank run
1:05:21 - IndyMac clip, volume warning
1:10:22 - Back to Silvergate
1:12:57 - Bitcoin over gold
1:18:52 - Bitcoin's marshmallow test
1:25:36 - Coinbase pays NY, gets stronger KYC
1:27:38 - Software updates lightning round
1:28:35 - Straylight Orbit
1:29:22 - Nunchuck
1:34:58 - The Coinbase ad
1:37:37 - Fedi hackathon
1:38:45 - Boostagrams
1:40:43 - Zoltan's back
1:45:25 - Closing riff

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Another reminder to protect yourself if you used lastpass

- SBF “$250M bond” was BS 

- Bitfarms CEO resigns 

- Gemini users file class action lawsuit 

- Samourai v0.99.98g 

- BTCPay v1.7.3 

- JAM now available on most major node packages 

- FROSTR multisig nostr 

- Twitter Data Breach 

- US Housing Chart 

- Energy and Mining Week in Nashville

- Free Open Source Contributor Tickets to Bitcoin 2023 

- Demand response affecting hashrate 

- Argo sells Helios site to Galaxy for $65m and gets a $35m line of asic backed credit from Galaxy 

10:19 - Marty visited Pubkey
15:21 - The year of self custody
32:54 - Gemini class-action
34:00 - Dashboard
35:41 - Did miners save Texas from the arctic blast?
45:52 - Heating the house with miners
54:09 - Defending from infrastructure failure
1:03:44 - Mining summit in Nashville
1:04:50 - Galaxy acquires Argo Helios
1:10:27 - Reminder to protect yourself from LastPass breach
1:17:22 - SBF bullshit bond
1:22:00 - Stay humble and stack sats
1:24:32 - Bitfarms new CEO
1:28:40 - Boostagrams
1:31:32 - Samourai v0.99.98g
1:34:25 - BTCPayserver, same as last week
1:34:52 - JAM
1:37:16 - FROSTR
1:42:16 - Twitter data breach
1:48:17 - US housing market
1:53:37 - Open source tickets for Bitcoin 2023
1:58:24 - Closing the year

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- Core Scientific Files for Bankruptcy 

- Two FTX Execs Plead Guilty to Criminal Charges 

- SBF Released on $250M bond 

- Twitter announces policy banning nostr and other social promotion 

- QuadrigaCX addresses thought to be dead wake up 

- Greenidge Sells Hash to NYDIG to Avoid Bankruptcy 

- HRF Awards $325K in new grants 

- Zeus v0.7.0 

- Alby v1.21.0 

- Tails v5.8 

BTCPay Server v1.7.2 

- BTCPay v1.7.3 

- LDK v0.0.113 

- Breez Satscard Bounty 

- Sztorc Launches Company Focused on Drivechains

- LastPass Compromised

10:19 - Merry Christmas!
14:02 - Jan 11th Bitcoin Park meetup
20:25 - Dashboard
23:13 - Nostr is doing great
30:23 - CoreSci bankrupt
49:09 - ASIC are cool
56:16 - FTX execs plead guilty
1:06:34 - Elon doesn't like privacy
1:15:47 - QuadrigaCX awakens
1:28:18 - HRF grants
1:31:12 - Shoutouts
1:37:10 - Zeus v0.7.0
1:42:43 - Alby v1.21.0
1:43:56 - Tails v5.8
1:47:02 - Btcpay Server v1.7.2 and v1.7.3
1:47:38 - LDK v0.0.113
1:47:50 - Breez Satscard bounty
1:50:47 - Paul Sztorc Layer Two Labs
1:53:54 - Last Pass security incident
1:59:00 - Shoutout to oil and gas workers
2:01:33 - Boostagrams

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- SBF arrested in Bahamas 

- EU to force companies to report user holdings 

- US senate bill proposed to outlaw private bitcoin development and usage 

- Coinbase received 12320 government demands for customer info this year 

- SBF secretly funded the block news org, ceo steps down 

- Jack Dorsey provides 14 bitcoin grant to Nostr 

- Bitcoin Core v 0.24.0 had coin selection bug, latest version is v 0.24.1

- Twitter had FBI/CIA agents directing policy

- US Interest payment expense at $766B 

- Binance outflows and withdraws delayed



9:02 - Self custody ATH
21:23 - BullBitcoin trouble with RBC
27:54 - Dashboard
33:27 - Matt's dogs love palindrome blocks
34:30 - SBF arrested in Bahamas
43:30 - Zombie McAfee
47:04 - EU forcing privacy violations
58:04 - DAAML
1:06:49 - Bitcoin cannot be centrally controlled
1:18:54 - Coinbase transparency report
1:24:54 - SBF secretly bought The Block
1:37:39 - Bitcoin Core v0.24.1
1:41:49 - Shoutouts
1:54:29 - Jack Dorsey donates to Nostr
2:04:09 - Bitcoin Takeover
2:06:26 - Twitter files
2:22:35 - US interest expense
2:24:30 - Boostagrams
2:28:02 - Who would lend the US money?

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• DCG owes gemini customers $900M 
• Strike launches remittance product for Africa 
• Legends of Lightning tournament winners announced 
• Block funds African rural mining company ‘Gridless’ 
• Ledger announces new hardware wallet ‘Stax’ 
• Core Lightning v22.11 
• BDK v0.25.0 
• Tor Browser v12.0 
• Threema encrypted messenger adds new communication protocol 
• Silvergate CEO Alan Lane public letter 
• FTX full venture portfolio released 
• This month in bitcoin privacy 
• New zoltan, world war III has already started 

8:54 - Ranch pills and orange pills 

32:31 - Dashboard 3

7:35 - DCG owes $900 million 

43:10 - Matty Jones: Brady and Giselle split to avoid FTX fallout 

48:08 - Strike launches Africa remittance feature 

51:06 - More Beef Initiative talk 

1:04:33 - KYC is the enemy 

1:06:53 - Bullshit jobs 

1:14:04 - Legends of Lightning winners 

1:18:22 - Gridless African mining 

1:25:22 - New Ledger wallet 

1:40:53 - Shoutouts 

1:47:41 - Core Lightning 

1:48:11 - BDK 

1:48:41 - TOR 

1:49:36 - Threema's Ibex, different from IBEX 

1:51:19 - Alan Lane's public letter 

1:54:11 FTX-Alameda portfolio 

1:58:11 - This Month in Bitcoin Privacy 

2:00:36 - Zoltan, WWIII already here 

2:07:06 - Final thoughts from Slim and Jason 

2:08:51 - Boostagrams

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- El Salvador Bitcoin Treasury Lacks Transparency 

- BlockFi Declares Bankruptcy: High Risk Loans Resulted in Insolvency 

- Major Bitcoin Banking Partner Prime Trust Has Fired CEO Tom Pageler 

- BTCPay v1.7.0: new checkout page, unified QR for onchain and lightning, store branding, and white labeling, and more 

- Coinkite Launches ‘BinaryWatch’ Hub: Tracks Popular Bitcoin Software Signature Verification 

- New Open Source Lightning Privacy Research Portal Launches 

- Casa adds ethereum support 

- Crypto Garage DLC executed on mainnet lightning 

- Honda, Nissan, Infiniti, and Acura vehicles remotely hacked 

- Fed speaking like they may be tampering down hikes 

- SBF redemption tour

9:34- Bottom's not in and plastic trees
20:24 - Dashboard
23:00 - Russian hashrate
24:01 - El Salvador bitcoin transparency
29:02 - New sponsors
34:39 - Coinkite BinaryWatch
46:05 - Prime Trust fires Tom Pageler
49:45- Advice on bitcoin privacy
1:03:34 - Btcpay Server v1.7.0
1:09:14 - Riffing
1:13:13 - Open source lightning privacy research portal
1:16:14 - BTC++ in Mexico City
1:20:03 - Casa ETH support
1:32:22 - AI knows why to stay humble and stack sats
1:34:25 - AI discussion and linguistic disagreements
1:45:53 - Shoutouts
1:52:02- Powell may lower interest rate increases
1:53:06 - Real estate is not liquid
1:58:06 - SBF Redemption tour
2:01:46 - BlockFi hit by contagion
2:03:14 - Rod gets shooed
2:09:16 - Credit Suisse in trouble
2:12:20 - Railroad strike
2:14:00 - Lord Elon
2:18:05 - Rancher's Rip next week
2:20:52 - Boostagrams

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- The Securities Commission of The Bahamas Seized Digital Assets of FTX After Bankruptcy Declared in US 

- Bitcoin Core v24.0 

- Sparrow Wallet v1.7.1 

- Hoseki Launches Real-Time Proof of Reserves Hub 

- ‘SatsCrap’ Bitcoin P2P Marketplace 

- Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev to Remain in Jail Until at Least Late February 

- Genesis Balance Sheet Reveals $2.8 billion in Outstanding Loans: 30% made to related parties including parent company Digital Currency Group 

- 3AC, DCG & Amazing Coincidences 

- FTX and Gemini bought a large stake in a bank 

- Mutiny wallet node in the browser 

- FTX "hacker" sends bitcoin to centralized mixer 

- Lightning Legends Tournament 

- SURVIVAL by ODELL 

TIMESTAMPS:
13:05 - Dashboard
15:49 - The contagion continues with Genesis
19:40 - GBTC money printer
25:05 - Once more, control your keys
32:45 - DCG's massive portfolio
35:25 - Get your Black Friday wallets
37:15 - Bahamas ChipMixer
43:30 - FTX and Farmington
50:40 - SBF NYT speaker
52:05 - Chaos out there, stay humble stack sats
1:00:25 - BTC Core 24.0
1:04:45 - Sparrow 1.7.1
1:05:40 - Hoseki real time proof of reserves
1:10:00 - SatsCrap
1:14:20 - Tornado Cash dev in jail till February
1:18:55 - Mutiny Wallet
1:20:35 - Legends of Lightning
1:21:55 - Shoutouts and Boostagrams
1:27:05 - Closing riff

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Contagion continues

- Matt didn't make a list

- Party rip

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- FTX files for bankruptcy 

- Timeline of events that lead to it 

- BlockFi halts withdrawals, most likely insolvent 

- Ledn exposed to Alameda 

- Remove your bitcoin from custodians and learn how to self custody 

- CZ & SBF conspiracy 

- Marty Jones rant state attack conspiracy 

- Silvergate 

- Ben Carman's Vortex 

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Another LND bug causes nodes to fall out of sync again, update your node

- Tony explains how a malicious attacker could have used lnsploit to steal funds

- Replace By Fee Debate Spills onto Twitter

- Coinbase led surveillance group expands to europe with 67 companies supporting 

- CashApp sold $1.76B worth of bitcoin to users last quarter

- Block releases more details on upcoming hardware wallet 

- LDK v0.0.112

- Blixt Wallet v0.6.0

- Electrs v0.9.10

- Tor Project Annual Statements

- 1628 Supermarkets in South Africa to Accept Lightning

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Largest Mining Firm Core Scientific Appears Insolvent 

- Publicly Traded Mining Firms are 25% of Hash 

- Cash App Adds Lightning Receive Support 

- One of Cash App’s Lightning Nodes 

- Amboss Adds Controversial Data Sharing Feature 

- Biden Wants to Make it Easier to Seize Bitcoin 

- Sparrow Wallet v1.7.0 

- Alby v1.18.0 

- Kollider Exchange & Synthetic Stablecoins Launch 

- Chinese Spies Paid Double Agent with Bitcoin 

- New British PM Wants Surveillance Money 

- MakerDAO Deposits $1.6B in Coinbase 

- Binance at Over 50% of Global Trade Volume 

- Rishi Sunak made PM of England

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- hodlonaut defeats csw 

- bitcoin mining council releases statement on energy use, claims to represent nearly 50% of hash 

- bitmex renews calvin kims grant for utreexo work 

- LND v0.15.3-beta 

- Echo v0.0.1 

- Impervious Browser Alpha for Mac and Linux 

- Fund Tor nodes with bitcoin 

- Riot announces new mining facility in Texas 

- Fall of Hydra Market 

- Erlay progress 

- BOJ announces bond buying 

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- large taproot multisig transaction breaks btcd and lnd, update lnd to fix issue

- spiral, braiins, and others collaborate on stratum v2

- coincenter suing OFAC over Tornado Cash 

- bny mellon partners with fireblocks to custody bitcoin 

- crusoe acquires great american mining 

- bitcoin ekasi launches education center in south africa 

- google partners with coinbase to accept bitcoin and cryptocurrencies 

- validity rollups on bitcoin 

 - btcpay v1.6.12 

- bitcoin-s v1.9.6

- btcd v0.23.2 

- onion share v2.6 

- android leaks traffic when using vpn 

- proton releases new vpn protocol that is harder to detect 

- commercial paper drying up 

- Stock market intraday volatility

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- celsius releases personal info on all users

- foundry and grayscale announce new mining investment vehicle

- eu “bans” users from interacting with russian bitcoin addresses

- alby v1.17.0

- foundation v2.0.4

- coldcard mk4 v5.0.7

- start9 v0.3.2

- fountain v0.5.1

- tornado cash dev denied bail, assets being auctioned

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- Mining hosting provider compute north files for bankruptcy https://www.theblock.co/post/172246/compute-north-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy

- Brink now funding 11 devs https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitcoin-non-profit-brink-funds-11-bitcoin-lightning-developers

- Bitnob launches in kenya, integrates mpesa https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bitnob-kenya-mpesa/

- Strike Raises $80m in New Funding Led https://fortune.com/crypto/2022/09/27/bitcoin-rapid-payment-service-strike-raises-90m-takes-aim-at-visa/

- Swan acquires specter https://www.swanbitcoin.com/swan-acquires-specter-solutions/

- Core Lightning v0.12.1 https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/releases/tag/v0.12.1

- BTCPay Server v1.6.11 https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver/releases/tag/v1.6.11

- Blockstream Jade v0.1.38 https://github.com/Blockstream/Jade/releases/tag/0.1.38

- Electrum v4.3.2 https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES

- Samourai Wallet v0.99.98f https://medium.com/samourai-wallet/wallet-update-0-99-98f-db062dd0e1ec

- Initial code release for Taro https://lightning.engineering/posts/2022-9-28-taro-launch/

- Bitmatrix brings uniswap-like project to liquid https://blog.liquid.net/bitmatrix-mainnet-is-live/

- TBD partners with Circle https://developer.tbd.website/blog/tbd-circle-partnership/

- When taproot launches to encourage adoption https://whentaproot.org/

- Cloudflare launches free CAPTCHA alternative https://blog.cloudflare.com/turnstile-private-captcha-alternative/

- Hoseki donates $25K to BPI https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hoseki-announces-donation-to-bitcoin-policy-i[…]-transparency-and-proof-of-reserves-research-301633003.html

- Ergo piece on bitcoin privacy in unredacted magazine https://unredactedmagazine.com/issues/004.pdf

- Feds seize $86M held in safe deposit boxes in beverly hills https://archive.ph/e5Omu

- Major australian isp exposes user details via open api https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/optus-under-1-million-extortion-threat-in-data-breach-a-20142

- BlackRock threatened to halt trading at height of UK market tumult https://www.ft.com/content/0f32fdf3-8823-4a9c-ba70-d087860cfe6c

- Stan Druckenmiller comments https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1575159503112196101?s=20&t=kSKai-AuztxSYfYl_i95_g

- Iran sanctioned even harder 

- Nordstream pipeline attacked https://twitter.com/anasalhajji/status/1575471322154541068?s=20&t=kSKai-AuztxSYfYl_i95_g

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- 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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- 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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- 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 

- Bitcoin Amsterdam in October

- 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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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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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Celsius, 3 Arrows Capital + BlockFi rumors

- Fed rate hike

- Biden letter to O&G execs

- Japanese government bonds

- much more

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

Jack Dorsey and Jay-Z announce The Bitcoin Academy

Bitcoin Park Launches in Nashville

Telegram is Giving Data to German Feds in Certain Cases

Improving The Privacy Of The Lightning Network’s Gossip Protocol

Senator Lummis and Senator Gillibrand Introduce Landmark Bitcoin Bill

Letter to US Congress on Bitcoin's Humanitarian Impact

LN Summit 2022 Notes & Summary/Commentary

A New Project Using LDK to Probe the Lightning Network for Private Channels

Jack Dorsey’s TBD Presents Bitcoin-based Decentralized Web5

Reviewing Privacy Enhancing Proposals for Bitcoin

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- russia considering bitcoin for international settlement 

- seed tool v1.0.7 

- robosats integrates openpgp encrypted chat 

- new Block report 

- Biden admin considering bitcoin mining regulation

- Yellen backtracking on “transitory”

- Europe cutting off Russian oil 

- Dimon comments + GS comments

- FFR rate of change 

- ESG is dying

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This week Marty and Matt are joined by Jack Mallers to discuss everything that happened at the Oslo Freedom Forum this week.

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This week Marty and Matt discuss: 

- financial leaders of 44 countries meet in El Salvador to discuss bitcoin 

- Luna foundation sold 80000 bitcoin amid "stablecoin" crash 

- texas pacific land corp announces bitcoin mining venture  

- canaan revenues increased by 237%  

- cambridge numbers are flawed  

- EU wants to scan all your private messages  

- summer of bitcoin mentorship program gets over 20K applicants  

- bitcoin education initiative launches in 40 high schools in Argentina 

 - coincorner releases Bolt Card, a lightning payment card  

- Brink funds Michael Ford  

- BitMEX extends Gleb Naumenko's grant  

- a guide for bitcoin open source grant seekers  

- Ministry of Nodes Bitcoin Node Box Guide 2022  

- bitcoin seed tool v1.0.5  

- sparrow wallet v1.6.4  

- gloria zhao releases package relay proposal  

- pieter wuille on private authentication protocols  

- new stablecoin backed by coldcards  

- this month in bitcoin privacy 

- fiatjaf on lightning penalty transactions  

- adopting bitcoin 2022 announced  

- mccormack releases film about el salvador 

- how bitcoin should be upgraded in the future  

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/how-to-upgrade-bitcoin 

- Former lead of Facebook's shitcoin project launches lightning project https://www.lightspark.com 

- SBF buys 7.6% stake in Robinhood https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/05/12/ftx-ceo-sam-bankman-fried-buys-56m-position-in-robinhood/

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 This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- terra "stablecoin" blows up

- treasury sanctions custodial bitcoin mixer blender(.)io

- cashapp $1.73B in bitcoin sales Q1, $43M profit

- coinbase $309B volume Q1, $430M loss

- chainalysis valued at $8.6B

- joinmarket v0.9.6

- arti v0.3.0 Tor rust client

- casa launches api

- rusty russell releases alternative covenants proposal

- conversation with rusty on his proposal on dispatch

- spiral post on supporting open source

- georgetown law research shows ICE tracks 75% of Americans

- grayscale privately met with SEC trying to get GBTC approved as an etf

- costa rica declares national emergency over ransomware attacks

- CD64: BIP119, CTV, and the bitcoin development process with @rusty_twit and @brian_trollz - brian armstrong thread

- ishares high yield

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 This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- coinbase launches revamped surveillance product

- SEC doubles size of "crypto assets" unit

- cdc tracked the location of millions of americans without a warrant

- fbi did millions of searches of americans data last year without a warrant

- bitcoin mining council submits letter to EPA

- how women view bitcoin

- mycitadel v1.0

- seed tool v1.0.4

- tor v0.4.7.7

- cold card upgrade

- lightning multiplexer

- new lightning only vpn

- voltage podcast index study

- Mexican bitcoin exchange Tauros adds lightning

- currency of last resort by gladstein

- paypal being used to censor speech

- all internet and payment providers ordered to block three streaming sites by federal judge

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