Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.12.24

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week we discuss:

Trezor + Ledger hacks - wallet.fail - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/researchers-demo-crypto-hardware-wallet-vulnerabilities-at-tech-conference/

Electrum hack - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/hackers-used-a-clever-tactic-to-steal-over-700k-from-users-of-a-popular-bitcoin-wallet/

New Joule version out - Pierre Rochard's node launcher

Indian gov possibly loosening regs - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/indian-government-panel-suggests-possible-rule-change-around-legal-status-of-cryptocurrencies/

Bitcoin Private- https://coinmetrics.io/bitcoin-private/

Facebook + crypto - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-21/facebook-is-said-to-develop-stablecoin-for-whatsapp-transfers

US Government Shutdown

Civil token relaunch

Tuur Demeester's thread on ETH: https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester/status/1078682801954799617

Bitmain layoffs - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/bitmain-layoffs-underway-may-impact-up-to-50-of-staff/

Consensys layoffs - https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/20/18150036/consensys-layoffs-employees-pending-startup-ethereum

GMO exiting mining biz - https://ir.gmo.jp/en/pdf/irlibrary/gmo_disclose_info20181225_e.pdf

Difficulty leveling off - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/bitcoins-mining-difficulty-drops-another-9-but-hash-rate-picks-up/

7-month trading volume highs - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/bitcoin-and-ethereum-weekly-trading-volume-reached-7-month-highs/

Highest single day trade vol for tether - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/exchange-volume-for-tether-sees-all-time-high/

Civic takedown - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/2018/12/21/civics-token-illustrates-why-companies-masquerading-tokens-will-fail/

Iterative Capital NYC Event - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bitcoin-10-year-anniversary-live-w-marty-bent-aaron-lammer-jay-kang-tickets-51666739609

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Transcript

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0:00.0	What is up Freaks?
0:03.2	Welcome back to Rabbit Hole Recap, recording at an odd day, a Friday, because of the holiday season here.
0:10.4	I was just home for Christmas with the fam. Matt, how was your Christmas? Was it a good one?
0:14.5	Merry fucking Christmas.
0:15.8	Yeah, Merry Christmas.
0:16.8	I love this holiday. It's a great holiday.
0:18.4	I do, too. Though when it falls on like a Tuesday, I always get so out of whack, forgetting what day of the week it is.
0:25.4	It is really weird, especially like work-wise, like go in the next day.
0:29.7	Do you not?
0:30.6	Yeah, it's really...
0:31.7	Is someone really going to email me at that time?
0:34.1	Probably not.
0:36.1	Really dampers productivity.
0:38.2	Markets were open.
0:39.2	Markets were open.
0:40.3	Very volatile a week in the traditional financial markets.
0:43.4	We don't even have that on the list, but...
0:45.4	Well, I have the government shut down on the list.
0:47.6	Yeah, that's on the list.
0:48.3	We'll get to it.
0:48.8	So we'll get to that.
0:50.7	Yeah, it's been a long week. I'm actually happy that we're recording right now because I feel like it's giving me a sense of structure back in my life getting some content out there. So I'm very excited for this episode in particular. And before we get into everything, this episode is brought to you by BlockFi. A lot of people are forced to sell their crypto to pay their capital gains taxes. Don't be one of those people. BlockFi helps Bitcoin, Ether, and Lightcoin investors use their crypto to pay for
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