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Rabbit Hole Recap

ODELL and Marty Bent

Join ODELL and Marty as they sit down to discuss the latest news in Bitcoin every week.

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01:38:14

Rabbit Hole Recap #225: Bear Markets Are for Arguing

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2022/11/04

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

02:21:12

Rabbit Hole Recap #224: Largest Bitcoin Miner...

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2022/10/27

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

01:53:31

Rabbit Hole Recap #223: Miner Pain Is Here

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2022/10/20

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 Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained

01:53:06

Rabbit Hole Recap #222: Liquidity is drying up

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2022/10/14

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 -

01:24:56

Rabbit Hole Recap #221: KYC/AML is Putting People in...

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2022/10/07

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 Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins HodlHodl CrowdHealth TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main

02:40:46

Rabbit Hole Recap #220: Bonds and pipelines are...

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2022/09/29

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - 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

01:25:08

Rabbit Hole Recap #219: A Tale of Two Powells

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2022/09/22

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

01:56:47

Rabbit Hole Recap #218 Greenpeace Can Go Fork Themselves

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2022/09/16

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

01:55:38

Rabbit Hole Recap #217: The Queen is dead and the...

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2022/09/08

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

01:41:44

Rabbit Hole Recap #216: DC targets Saylor while NYDIG...

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2022/09/01

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

00:51:37

Rabbit Hole Recap #215: Bit Block Boom rip with Adam,...

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2022/08/31

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. Shoutout to our sponsors: AmmoSeek Unchained Capital Braiins HodlHodl Upstream Data TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel Clips YT Channel Website Twitter Instagram Follow Marty Bent: Twitter Newsletter Podcast Follow Odell: Twitter Newsletter Podcast

02:59:09

Rabbit Hole Recap #214: Austin party rip with Jevi...

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2022/08/26

This week Marty and Matt are joined by Jevi from Unchained Capital and Adam O from Upstream Data to have a party rip. Shoutout to our sponsors: AmmoSeek Unchained Capital Braiins HodlHodl Upstream Data TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel Clips YT Channel Website Twitter Instagram Follow Marty Bent: Twitter Newsletter Podcast Follow Odell: Twitter Newsletter Podcast

02:00:51

Rabbit Hole Recap #213: Censorship resistance should...

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2022/08/19

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

02:18:12

Rabbit Hole Recap #212: The privacy wars have escalated

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2022/08/11

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

02:05:05

Rabbit Hole Recap #211: Is the Fed buying bitcoin?

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2022/08/04

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

02:14:57

Rabbit Hole Recap #210: Salty senators insider trading

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2022/07/28

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 -

01:38:13

Rabbit Hole Recap #209: Pouring some out for the weak...

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2022/07/21

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

02:34:01

Rabbit Hole Recap #208: Party rip at Bitcoin Park

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2022/07/15

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

02:31:05

Rabbit Hole Recap #207: The Liberal World Order is Here

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2022/07/08

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

02:48:31

Rabbit Hole Recap #206: More pain is on the way

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2022/06/30

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

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