Rabbit Hole Recap

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...

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 t...

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...

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 f...

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 Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital...

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 go...

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 - M...

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 Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins Ho...

Rabbit Hole Recap #204: When chasing yield goes wrong

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 Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins HodlHodl CrowdHealth Upstream Data...

Rabbit Hole Recap #203: Ripping on a Saturday because a baby arrived

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’...

Rabbit Hole Recap #202: Turns out the inflation was not transitory

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 Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins HodlHodl CrowdHealth...

Rabbit Hole Recap #201: A debrief on the Oslo Freedom Forum

This week Marty and Matt are joined by Jack Mallers to discuss everything that happened at the Oslo Freedom Forum this week. Follow Jack on twitter Learn more about the Oslo Freedom Forum . Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins HodlHodl CrowdHealth...

Rabbit Hole Recap #200: The podcast stream has officially been moved

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 B...

Rabbit Hole Recap #199: Bitcoin is dead, we're cancelling the show

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 tra...

Rabbit Hole Recap #198: The government spies and lies

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 - Me...

Rabbit Hole Recap #197 The Disinformation Governance Board is here to tell you how to think

Rabbit Hole Recap #196: Sanctions on Russian bitcoin miners and the escalating energy and food crisis

Rabbit Hole Recap #195: The nation state bankruptcy wave is upon us

Rabbit Hole Recap #194: Live from the open source stage

Rabbit Hole Recap #193: The unjust laws are on the rise

Rabbit Hole Recap #192: Bitcoin Merges with the Energy Sector

Rabbit Hole Recap #191: The Gang is back in person

Rabbit Hole Recap #190: Sanctions and the fall of the dollar

Rabbit Hole Recap #188: Chaos in the world

Rabbit Hole Recap #187: Freedom Money

Rabbit Hole Recap #186: High inflation, beautiful honking and rising taxes on miners

Rabbit Hole Recap #185: Currency crises, cold weather, and good bitcoin mining tax news

Rabbit Hole Recap #184: The IRS wants your face and the Treasury hates you

Rabbit Hole Recap #183: Intel hopping in the Bitcoin mining game and Presidents meeting to talk Bitcoin

Rabbit Hole Recap #182: CBDCs are treasonous and prices are rising