Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.02.04

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Matt handing off the LN torch to @jack

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1092891165966229509

- Matt Ahlborg's LocalBitcoins analysis and new metric

https://medium.com/@mattahlborg/nuanced-analysis-of-localbitcoins-data-suggests-bitcoin-is-working-as-satoshi-intended-d8b04d3ac7b2

- Koala Studio Lightning Chess

https://koalastud.io/

- Blockstream Proof of Reserve

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/blockstream-open-sources-development-its-proof-reserves-tool/

- ZCash inflation vulnerability disclosed

https://z.cash/blog/zcash-counterfeiting-vulnerability-successfully-remediated/

- Abra releases new equities exposure product

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/abra-users-can-now-buy-stocks-and-etfs-using-bitcoin/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	What is up Freaks? Welcome back to this week's edition of Rabbit Hole Recap. It is Friday, February 8th, 2019, the year of our Lord. The Bitcoin price on the XBX index is $3,629. A bit of a pump today, freaks. Exciting Friday here at Bitcoin markets. It's been dull for a while, but it's been a crazy week.
0:21.8	Big come-up week for the pod for this crew right here. But before we get into all the topics
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1:07.7	Save on those taxes, freaks.
1:09.7	Every Satoshi that you can Matthew speaking of
1:12.6	Satoshi's you handed some off this week probably the biggest news item of the week
1:17.1	you were involved in it pretty fucking badass yeah did so for you freaks that
1:21.9	were living on a rock all week Matt what was this? Tuesday? Wednesday?
1:30.0	Two days ago?
1:31.4	Two days ago. Was it?
1:33.5	I don't know. It's been a blur. It's been a blur.
1:34.4	It feels like years.
1:34.7	Yeah.
1:39.5	So you were holding the torch, the Lightning Network torch that's been passed around.
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