Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.04.19
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
4.8 • 764 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2021
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Venmo adds bitcoin IOU support, no withdrawals
- WeWork accepting bitcoin as payment and will hodl
- Coin Center responds strongly against FATF
- Turkish Gov attempting bitcoin payments ban
- Turkish bitcoin exhange Thodex apparent exit scam
- OKEx adds lightning support
- Cashapp raises withdrawal minimum to 100K sats frok 10K sats
- Bitcoin Core v0.21.1 RC 1 Taproot Speedy Trial client released
- UASF Taproot client released
- Aaron Van Wirdum write up on the two taproot clients
- myNode v0.2.30
- Start9 adds Sphinx, Onion pages, Photoview
- Square and Ark argue that bitcoin is good for the environment
- Former comptroller of the currency Brian Brooks new CEO of Binance US
- Former CFTC Chair joins BlockFi Board
- The Intelligent Bitcoin Miner, Part II
- Signal hacks hacking company Cellebrite
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, peasants? |
| 0:02.5 | It's your boy, Marty Ben, here to introduce this episode of Rabbit Hole Recap. |
| 0:05.7 | Great rip, great rip. |
| 0:07.4 | As soon as the rip ends, we get the Biden coming in with the increased capital gains tax. |
| 0:14.0 | 43%. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm going to take it from you. |
| 0:18.8 | High net worth individuals or high income individuals. |
| 0:22.3 | Don't know what that threshold is, but come on, guys. |
| 0:24.3 | Come on. |
| 0:25.1 | Come on. |
| 0:26.0 | Uncle Joe. |
| 0:26.7 | Sleepy Joe. |
| 0:27.9 | It's coming in. |
| 0:29.5 | Wasted no time coming after all your gains. |
| 0:31.7 | If the government hasn't provided enough value via the taxes that you've already been paying, |
| 0:36.2 | don't worry. |
| 0:36.7 | They're going to take more. |
| 0:38.4 | And so the value of the services that they're providing should increase. You're loving it, |
| 0:43.1 | right? The government's treating you well. You're getting a lot of value out of the services they're |
| 0:48.1 | providing? Never sell freaks. |
| 0:55.9 | Sat squeeze these motherfuckers. |
| 0:57.5 | It's fucking disgusting. |
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