Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.05.20

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Who would you want to tweet about Bitcoin?

- LN node update https://1ml.com/node/02d419c9af624d0e7a7c90a60b9ffa35f4934973a9d7d3b4175cc3cc28b7ffcde1

- SIM Swaps https://medium.com/coinmonks/the-most-expensive-lesson-of-my-life-details-of-sim-port-hack-35de11517124

-lncast.com launch

- 60 Minutes https://www.cbs.com/shows/60_minutes/video/HaKmux455gSICzgSiGqzyUPIfGhuxnTG/bitcoin-s-wild-ride/

- $8 trillion hidden around the world and Elizabeth Warren wants to tax it https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-23/the-wealth-detective-who-finds-the-hidden-money-of-the-super-rich

- BestMixer shutdown: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/dutch-authorities-shut-down-bestmixer/

- CoinCenter - Non-custodial cryptocurrency mixer developers are not subject to U.S. regulation. - https://coincenter.org/link/non-custodial-cryptocurrency-mixer-developers-are-not-subject-to-u-s-regulation

- Bull Bitcoin starts mixing user funds: https://twitter.com/francispouliot_/status/1131309370900402178?s=19

- Kraken equity offering at 4B valuation, $1000 min: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/kraken-is-offering-itself-to-customers-in-chunks-as-small-as-1000-for-its-fundraising-round/

- Bitfinex LEO token: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/bitfinex-to-start-trading-its-exchange-token-leo-on-may-20/

- Polo/Circle blocks tokens from US customers, lays off 30 employees https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/poloniex-continues-to-advocate-for-better-crypto-regulation-as-it-goes-on-a-delisting-spree-in-the-us/ https://twitter.com/jerallaire/status/1130912877991333891?s=19

Shoutout to this week's listener contributor @mdotbit (https://twitter.com/mdotbit)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	What is up, freaks?
0:02.2	Welcome back to this week's edition of Rabbit Hole Recap.
0:04.8	It's your boy Marty Bent sitting down with Matt O'Dell.
0:07.7	Just 101 for the first time in a few weeks.
0:09.2	What's going on, dude?
0:10.7	I'm excited to be intimate with you.
0:14.3	A lot to talk about this week.
0:16.7	Fucking exciting week.
0:17.9	Very exciting week.
0:20.6	A lot of good, healthy conversations being had this week.
0:23.3	So excited to expound upon those.
0:25.4	First, before we hop into it, the price according to the trade block XPX index is $7,797.42.
0:34.3	And according to my node, which was launched using pierre richard's node launcher
0:38.4	we're at block 577 436 where i think we're officially within a year of the block having
0:46.0	yeah probably a little bit sooner yeah because hash rate keeps going up yeah and we're at 12,800
0:53.0	sats per dollar right now.
0:55.2	Bus.
0:55.8	Bus.
0:56.8	Again, the dime is not going as far as it used to.
1:00.4	I've been checking the dime bag on TFTC.io, and we're getting less to-oches per dime.
1:06.9	It's a shit coin.
1:07.6	What can I tell you?
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