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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.03.15

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8764 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- FTX negotiating naming rights to miami heat arena https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article249892678.html

- miner revenue priced in dollars hits all time high https://twitter.com/_Checkmatey_/status/1370901101403238400

- Kentucky passes tax breaks to bitcoin miners https://www.coindesk.com/kentucky-approves-bills-providing-incentives-for-crypto-miners

- Pakistani province experimenting with mining using hydro https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currency-pakistan/pakistani-province-plans-to-build-pilot-crypto-currency-mining-farms-idUSKBN2BA0KW

- Oakland Athletics bitcoin suites https://twitter.com/AthleticsPR/status/1371144942735609859

- Morgan Stanley wealth management now offering bitcoin funds https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/17/bitcoin-morgan-stanley-is-the-first-big-us-bank-to-offer-wealthy-clients-access-to-bitcoin-funds.html

- Signal now accepting bitcoin https://signal.org/donate/#cryptocurrency

- India attempted ban rumored https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-cryptocurrency-ban-idUSKBN2B60R0

- JPMorgan says retail flows comparable to institutional https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-15/retail-bitcoin-traders-rival-wall-street-buyers-as-mania-builds

- Third coincenter letter to fincen about proposed enhanced kyc https://www.coincenter.org/coin-center-uses-additional-time-provided-by-fincen-to-file-another-comment-in-ongoing-surveillance-rulemaking/

- Binance probed by CFTC https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-12/crypto-exchange-binance-investigated-by-u-s-over-who-s-trading

- BitMEX cofounder Ben Delo surrenders and released on $20M bail https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-15/bitmex-founder-delo-surrenders-to-face-u-s-laundering-charges

- Coldcard v4.0.0 https://blockclockmini.com/firmware/

- Blockclock mini v1.0.8 https://blog.coinkite.com/version-4.0.0-released/

- HWI v2.0.0 https://github.com/bitcoin-core/HWI/releases/tag/2.0.0

- Nodl dojo v0.1.2c

- Rudefox Burrow v0.1.1 https://www.rudefox.io/burrow/quick-start.html

- Anthony Towns on UASF http://www.erisian.com.au/wordpress/2021/03/14/fixing-uasf

- Ryan Gentry on bitcoin governance https://ryanthegentry.medium.com/a-theory-of-bitcoin-governance-13510eff42a6

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Transcript

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0:00.0

So, freaks at your boy Marty Bent here to introduce this episode of Rabbit Hole Recap, Matt and I

0:04.3

just ripped it! Still recovering from my fall. Huge gash down my arm. Heads a bit foggy.

0:16.4

Messed up some some acronyms on the rip this this week so please forgive your your boomer uncle marty

0:22.2

as he attempts to recover from his his stairfall back hurts heads a little foggy scratched down my arm

0:30.1

but fighting through producing content trying to bring it to you freaks every day.

0:39.0

I gotta go write a bent after this.

0:40.6

It's almost 6 p.m.

0:41.8

I got a dinner date starting at 7 p.m.

0:45.1

So I gotta record this, post this, write a bent, post that, and then get ready for dinner.

0:52.7

Let's see Uncle Marty and never do anything for you freaks, okay?

0:55.9

This episode is brought to you by our good friends

0:57.3

at the motherfucking cash-up.

0:59.3

Cash-ups, don't you stack sats,

1:00.5

send sats, receive sats, and sell sats,

1:02.1

if you so please.

1:03.0

Not recommended here.

1:05.2

Saying sats, sats, sats, sats,

1:06.2

because sats are the standard.

1:08.8

You guys know the spielers. 100 million sats and a whole Bitcoin.

1:11.5

You don't have to buy a whole Bitcoin.

1:12.7

You buy this little, there's one cuck buck worth of sets on the cash app.

1:16.0

I guess an important thing.

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