Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.12.23

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- BitBox02 brute force vulnerability disclosed, update to firmware V5.0.0 asap (h/t @freedomisntsafe)

- BLW on Android adds support for hosted channels

- Argentina local bitcoins volume hits ATHs amid further capital controls

- As expected CSW makes excuses ahead of "tulip trust" access date

- Ethereum Co-Founder Jeffrey Wilcke dumps $11.5M worth of ETH from premine

- The Venezuelan Petro update

- HK Police freeze $9M raised by activists via Spark Alliance

- Popular chat app ToTok removed from app store due to concerns it is a UAE spy tool

- US gov issues warning to service members asking them not to use DNA testing services

- @dergigi releases 21 Lessons book

- Kiara Bickers (@kiarabickers) releases Bitcoin Clarity book

- Proof of Keys next week

- John Newbery thread

- German gold capital controls

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Transcript

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0:00.0	What is up freaks?
0:04.1	Welcome back to Tales from the Cryptit Your Boy Marty Bent here on a Friday.
0:09.2	It's a Friday afternoon, right?
0:10.8	Morning, Friday morning.
0:12.2	What day is Friday?
0:13.7	It is Friday.
0:15.1	It's December 27th.
0:18.2	It is Friday, December 27th.
0:20.0	We're back for another rip of TFTC.
0:23.1	It's the holiday season, but we're here for you freaks.
0:27.8	And we're actually not here together for you, Freaks.
0:30.8	We're remote.
0:31.9	And I'm actually getting some feedback, Matt.
0:33.7	How are things in Long Island right now?
0:35.6	Were you hearing feedback from me?
0:38.2	I think you're good. You're good. It's better now.
0:40.6	Either way, the mic, the freaks aren't getting feedback, so that's good.
0:44.9	Yes, we're recording locally.
0:47.6	Currently, the price of Bitcoin, according to the TFTC.io ticker, is $7,.33.39. Current block height is 610,026, or less than 20,000
1:03.0	blocks away from the halving freaks. Don't have the hash rate. We're still getting that back
1:07.6	on the site. And it's been a, it's been a week. How was your
1:12.5	Christmas, Matt? Christmas. Christmas was fantastic. A lot of family, a lot of love. It's just a
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