Rabbit Hole Recap #187: Freedom Money
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
4.8 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2022
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Canada uses "emergency powers" to target bank accounts, bitcoin, funding, and insurance of protestors
- Bitcoin protest fundraiser voluntarily shuts down while they determine best way to distribute funds
- Canadian RCMP issues blacklist notice for bitcoin addresses connected to protest
- Apple patches zero day exploit, update your devices
- Biden expected to issue an executive order related to bitcoin regulation next week
- US Gov seizes $7B held by Afghan Central Bank
- secret unapproved cia data collection program exposed
- UN negotiating new "cybercrime" treaty
- GRIID, Argo, and Block to be first customers of intel mining chip
- ConocoPhillips selling previously flared nat gas to bitcoin miners
- Congressman Davidson introduces bill to protect private bitcoin usage
- more info on bitfinex hack investigation released
- proposed US bill targets el salvadors bitcoin adoption
- fbi to form new bitcoin surveillance and seizure focused unit
- btcpayserver v.1.4.5:
- bitcoin-s v1.9.0:
- galoy money v0.1.21:
- lightning terminal v0.6.3-alpha:
- mercury wallet v0.6.4:
- nix bitcoin v0.0.66:
- thoughts on cashapps lightning user flow
- satsxsw hackathon announced, march 12th and 13th
- fidelity launches bitcoin ETP in Europe, ticker FBTC
- swan launches bitcoin canon education portal
- coldcard announces $25K bounty for a react native nfc implementation
- blockfi agrees to pay $100M fine to SEC
- open source dashboard for asic prices
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What is up Freaks? It's your boy, Marty Bent, here to introduce this rip of rabbit hole. Recap. |
| 0:09.0 | Don't do, dun, dun, dun, do. What a week. A lot going on. Very dense, tight. Not tight, rip. Two hours, 20 minutes or something like that. |
| 0:19.6 | Dense. Definitely dense. |
| 0:21.4 | Great conversation back and forth with Matt. |
| 0:24.3 | As it always is, weekend, week out. |
| 0:26.9 | Very lucky to be able to do this with a good friend of mine, |
| 0:30.5 | my best friend, Matt Odell, and you freaks. |
| 0:32.8 | Thank you guys for tuning in. |
| 0:34.2 | If you're contributing via podcasting 2.0 app, |
| 0:37.0 | thank you for the sets. |
| 0:38.1 | Thank you for the value. |
| 0:39.4 | I hope you're getting value |
| 0:40.3 | out of this show. |
| 0:41.0 | If you're listening, |
| 0:41.9 | we live in very interesting times. |
| 0:47.5 | Sorry, I had a burp. |
| 0:51.3 | I'm happy to happy freaks. |
| 0:54.4 | Because it was brought to you by a good friend at Unshamed Capital. |
| 0:56.5 | Right down the hall for me, we're on 6th in Congress in Austin, Texas. |
| 0:59.7 | The Bitcoin Capital of the world now, I'm in the Bitcoin Commons, Unshamed Capital's |
| 1:03.4 | offices right behind me. |
| 1:05.4 | And there, they are building the products with Bitcoiners in mine. |
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