BTC Sessions

Coincards lets you use Bitcoin and Lightning to easily buy gift cards and top off your mobile!

https://www.btcsessions.ca/post/how-to-buy-sell-and-use-bitcoin-in-canada

MY ALL-ENCOMPASSING GUIDE TO GETTING STARTED WITH BITCOIN

Buy Bitcoin in Canada on Coinberry and get $20 after your first $50 purchase

https://shop.ledger.com/products/ledger-backup-pack?r=faca

Get the Ledger Backup Pack – Includes Ledger Nano X & S

NordVPN helps with your internet privacy – Get 70% off

Buy Bitcoin in Canada using Shakepay and get $10 for free after your first $100 purchase:

If you value my work and would like to send me a tip, they are always appreciated!

LIGHTNING tips:

Join my Telegram channel!

https://www.coindesk.com/trump-told-treasury-secretary-to-go-after-bitcoin-bolton-book-reportedly-claims

SHOW RESOURCES:

Trump asked Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to “go after” Bitcoin

Crypto debit card issuer fraudulently claimed $2billion in cash

https://cointelegraph.com/news/major-crypto-debit-card-issuer-reportedly-missing-21b-in-cash

New Land Rover ad features Bitcoin launch as an important historical event

https://cointelegraph.com/news/land-rover-car-company-acknowledges-historical-significance-of-bitcoin-network

Lighting VS Liquid – Which one is for you?

https://www.academy.btse.com/post/lightning-vs-liquid

Comparing Bitcoin nodes

https://www.bitcoinqna.com/nodecompare

Scamming a scammer

Today’s attempt:

https://twitter.com/BTCsessions/status/1273675685211455489

Last summer’s success

https://www.btcsessions.ca/post/scamming-bitcoin-scammers-for-charity

Death Spiral Theory REKT, Fed Buying Corporate Bonds, Solar BTC Nodes EP071 Jun 16, 2020

Show notes

SUPPORT THE SHOW:

LEDN offers Bitcoin backed loans – Sign up and get $50 free

https://bit.ly/2B9hAxN

Get Wasabi wallet and enjoy your privacy

Coincards lets you use Bitcoin and Lightning to easily buy gift cards and top off your mobile!

https://www.btcsessions.ca/post/how-to-buy-sell-and-use-bitcoin-in-canada

MY ALL-ENCOMPASSING GUIDE TO GETTING STARTED WITH BITCOIN

Buy Bitcoin in Canada on Coinberry and get $20 after your first $50 purchase

https://shop.ledger.com/products/ledger-backup-pack?r=faca

Get the Ledger Backup Pack – Includes Ledger Nano X & S

NordVPN helps with your internet privacy – Get 70% off

Buy Bitcoin in Canada using Shakepay and get $10 for free after your first $100 purchase:

If you value my work and would like to send me a tip, they are always appreciated!

LIGHTNING tips:

Join my Telegram channel!

https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-biggest-jump-in-29-months

SHOW RESOURCES:

Mining difficulty makes biggest jump in 29 months

Fed to start buying up individual corporate bonds

https://decrypt.co/32518/us-federal-reserve-corporate-credit

Eric Savics to return donations after losing all his Bitcoin

https://decrypt.co/32497/phishing-victim-eric-savics-to-return-donated-bitcoin

Solar Bitcoin nodes in Africa

https://www.coindesk.com/one-mans-mission-to-deploy-solar-powered-bitcoin-nodes-across-africa

Blockstream Esplora Electrum Server alternative to ElectrumX

https://blockstream.com/2020/06/16/en-esplora-and-other-alternatives-to-electrumx/

BTSE Announces Elite/Debit Card + BTC Cashback

https://www.blog.btse.com/post/btse-elite-membership

https://www.btse.com/en/debit-card/

Half Surveyed Trust BTC Over Banks, Coinsquare Wash Trades, Bitcoin Irreversibility EP070 Jun 15, 2020

Show notes

SUPPORT THE SHOW:

LEDN offers Bitcoin backed loans – Sign up and get $50 free

https://bit.ly/2B9hAxN

Get Wasabi wallet and enjoy your privacy

Coincards lets you use Bitcoin and Lightning to easily buy gift cards and top off your mobile!

https://www.btcsessions.ca/post/how-to-buy-sell-and-use-bitcoin-in-canada

MY ALL-ENCOMPASSING GUIDE TO GETTING STARTED WITH BITCOIN

Buy Bitcoin in Canada on Coinberry and get $20 after your first $50 purchase

https://shop.ledger.com/products/ledger-backup-pack?r=faca

Get the Ledger Backup Pack – Includes Ledger Nano X & S

NordVPN helps with your internet privacy – Get 70% off

Buy Bitcoin in Canada using Shakepay and get $10 for free after your first $100 purchase:

If you value my work and would like to send me a tip, they are always appreciated!

LIGHTNING tips:

Join my Telegram channel!

https://cointelegraph.com/news/survey-respondents-are-split-50-50-between-bitcoin-big-banks

SHOW RESOURCES:

Bitcoin trust vs big banks rises 30% to be favored by half of respondents

Coinsquare allegedly forcing employees to wash trade

https://decrypt.co/32255/coinsquare-ceo-allegedly-forced-fake-exchange-volumes

Casa releases new hot wallet

https://blog.keys.casa/casa-wallet-a-simple-secure-wallet-for-bitcoin/

New website catalogues KYC free exchange services

https://kycnot.me/

Wasabi wallet advises people not to upgrade Trezor or Wasabi until compatibility issues fixed

https://medium.com/@jmacato/wasabi-wallets-advisory-for-trezor-users-7d942c727f92

How to deal with “doxxic change” from coinjoins

https://www.bitcoinqna.com/post/dealing-with-coinjoin-change-outputs

Bitcoin Irreversibility – what sets Bitcoin apart from the rest?

https://www.academy.btse.com/post/bitcoin-irreversibility

HRF $50K Grant For BTC Privacy, Bitcoin US P2P Record, Microsoft ION on BTC EP069 Jun 11, 2020

Show notes

SUPPORT THE SHOW:

LEDN offers Bitcoin backed loans – Sign up and get $50 free

https://bit.ly/3cNXo1G

Get Wasabi wallet and enjoy your privacy

Coincards lets you use Bitcoin and Lightning to easily buy gift cards and top off your mobile!

https://www.btcsessions.ca/post/how-to-buy-sell-and-use-bitcoin-in-canada

MY ALL-ENCOMPASSING GUIDE TO GETTING STARTED WITH BITCOIN

Buy Bitcoin in Canada on Coinberry and get $20 after your first $50 purchase

https://shop.ledger.com/products/ledger-backup-pack?r=faca

Get the Ledger Backup Pack – Includes Ledger Nano X & S

NordVPN helps with your internet privacy – Get 70% off

Buy Bitcoin in Canada using Shakepay and get $10 for free after your first $100 purchase:

If you value my work and would like to send me a tip, they are always appreciated!

LIGHTNING tips:

Join my Telegram channel!

https://www.coindesk.com/human-rights-foundation-bitcoin-privacy-tools-developer-fund

SHOW RESOURCES:

Human rights foundation backs Bitcoin privacy tech with $50,000 grant

US sets new record for P2P bitcoin trading

https://cointelegraph.com/news/united-states-sets-new-record-for-p2p-bitcoin-trading

Microsoft is building identity system ION on Bitcoin as a layer 2 technology

https://decrypt.co/31949/microsoft-builds-identity-system-that-runs-on-bitcoin

China losing mining dominance as other areas of the globe chip away at its share

https://decrypt.co/31915/crypto-bitcoin-china-mining-industry

US National Debt tops $26 Trillion

https://decrypt.co/31935/us-national-debt-26-trillion

More stimulus on the way

https://www.businessinsider.com/treasury-secretary-steven-mnuchin-opens-door-another-round-stimulus-checks-2020-6

Protests Embrace BTC, Bitcoin Billionaires Movie, Liquid Settlenet EP068 Jun 09, 2020

Show notes

SUPPORT THE SHOW:

LEDN offers Bitcoin backed loans – Sign up and get $50 free

https://bit.ly/3cQoLrT

Get Wasabi wallet and enjoy your privacy

Coincards lets you use Bitcoin and Lightning to easily buy gift cards and top off your mobile!

https://www.btcsessions.ca/post/how-to-buy-sell-and-use-bitcoin-in-canada

MY ALL-ENCOMPASSING GUIDE TO GETTING STARTED WITH BITCOIN

Buy Bitcoin in Canada on Coinberry and get $20 after your first $50 purchase

https://shop.ledger.com/products/ledger-backup-pack?r=faca

Get the Ledger Backup Pack – Includes Ledger Nano X & S

NordVPN helps with your internet privacy – Get 70% off

Buy Bitcoin in Canada using Shakepay and get $10 for free after your first $100 purchase:

If you value my work and would like to send me a tip, they are always appreciated!

LIGHTNING tips:

https://twitter.com/iamTheCharacter/status/1269762148135100417

SHOW RESOURCES:

BLM protester cites Bitcoin as a way to level the playing field

Bitcoin Billionaires book is becoming a movie!

https://deadline.com/2020/06/social-network-winklevoss-twins-ben-mezrich-bitcoin-billionaires-greg-silverman-stampede-ventures-1202954006/

Reddit user may have almost recovered $5 million worth of bitcoin

https://decrypt.co/31701/bitcoin-blockchain-redditor-lost-money

Blockstream “Settlenet” launches for OTC atomic swaps

https://blockstream.com/2020/06/08/en-otc-bitcoin-trading-on-the-liquid-network-with-settlenet/

Macro madness abounds, as the markets are backwards AF

https://fortune.com/2020/06/08/nasdaq-today-record-high-stocks-wall-street-stock-market/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/job-figures-trump-labor-unemployment-misclassification-1.5601733

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/hertzs-stock-rockets-to-erase-all-post-bankruptcy-losses-2020-06-08

Is a crash in the dollar coming?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/crash-dollar-coming-210024166.html

Digital Yuan threatens US Banking as we know it?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2020/06/08/china-could-force-donald-trump-and-the-fed-to-destroy-the-us-banking-system/#3cad9a724f5f

Bitcoin vs The Pentagon, Delete Coinbase AGAIN, Brave Reflink Fail EP067 Jun 08, 2020

Show notes

SUPPORT THE SHOW:

LEDN offers Bitcoin backed loans – Sign up and get $50 free

https://bit.ly/304rivR

Get Wasabi wallet and enjoy your privacy

Coincards lets you use Bitcoin and Lightning to easily buy gift cards and top off your mobile!

https://www.btcsessions.ca/post/how-to-buy-sell-and-use-bitcoin-in-canada

MY ALL-ENCOMPASSING GUIDE TO GETTING STARTED WITH BITCOIN

Buy Bitcoin in Canada on Coinberry and get $20 after your first $50 purchase

https://shop.ledger.com/products/ledger-backup-pack?r=faca

Get the Ledger Backup Pack – Includes Ledger Nano X & S

NordVPN helps with your internet privacy – Get 70% off

Buy Bitcoin in Canada using Shakepay and get $10 for free after your first $100 purchase:

If you value my work and would like to send me a tip, they are always appreciated!

LIGHTNING tips:

Join my Telegram channel!

https://theintercept.com/2020/06/05/pentagon-war-game-gen-z/

SHOW RESOURCES:

The Pentagon has modeled a war game in which an American uprising in the mid 2020s called Zbellion uses Bitcoin to undermine the establishment

Coinbase selling tracking software to IRS/DEA

https://decrypt.co/31485/coinbase-license-analytics-irs-dea

Learn more about why you should #DeleteCoinbase

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l1KwAZKGts

Brave sneakily auto-fills affiliate links when users type in certain URLs to their browser

https://cointelegraph.com/news/brave-comes-under-fire-for-binance-affiliate-link-autofill

Not just Binance:

https://twitter.com/WhalePanda/status/1269321600148660227

Marty Bent knocks it out of the park in today’s issue of The Bent – “The Danger of the Collective WE”

https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-754/

Exploring BIP 119 on the BTSE Academy

https://www.academy.btse.com/post/bip-119

Jameson Lopp provides the Dos and Don’ts of Bitcoin Key Management

https://blog.keys.casa/the-dos-and-donts-of-bitcoin-key-management/

Bitcoin Bart Patterns | OG Coins | Will Tether Flippen ETH EP066 Jun 05, 2020

Show notes

SUPPORT THE SHOW:

LEDN offers Bitcoin backed loans – Sign up and get $50 free

https://bit.ly/304rivR

Get Wasabi wallet and enjoy your privacy

Coincards lets you use Bitcoin and Lightning to easily buy gift cards and top off your mobile!

https://www.btcsessions.ca/post/how-to-buy-sell-and-use-bitcoin-in-canada

MY ALL-ENCOMPASSING GUIDE TO GETTING STARTED WITH BITCOIN

Buy Bitcoin in Canada on Coinberry and get $20 after your first $50 purchase

https://shop.ledger.com/products/ledger-backup-pack?r=faca

Get the Ledger Backup Pack – Includes Ledger Nano X & S

NordVPN helps with your internet privacy – Get 70% off

Buy Bitcoin in Canada using Shakepay and get $10 for free after your first $100 purchase:

If you value my work and would like to send me a tip, they are always appreciated!

LIGHTNING tips:

Join my Telegram channel!

https://cointelegraph.com/news/patoshi-researcher-satoshi-wont-use-his-coins-ever

SHOW RESOURCES:

Will Satoshi ever move his coins?

Tether flippened XRP. Is ETH next?

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bloomberg-only-a-matter-of-time-before-tether-overtakes-ether-as-2

Adam Back: $300K BTC, Hidden Bitcoin Mines, Core Ditches BIP70 EP065 Jun 03, 2020

Show notes

SUPPORT THE SHOW:

LEDN offers Bitcoin backed loans – Sign up and get $50 free

https://bit.ly/3crbnKw

Get Wasabi wallet and enjoy your privacy

Coincards lets you use Bitcoin and Lightning to easily buy gift cards and top off your mobile!

https://www.btcsessions.ca/post/how-to-buy-sell-and-use-bitcoin-in-canada

MY ALL-ENCOMPASSING GUIDE TO GETTING STARTED WITH BITCOIN

Buy Bitcoin in Canada on Coinberry and get $20 after your first $50 purchase

https://shop.ledger.com/products/ledger-backup-pack?r=faca

Get the Ledger Backup Pack – Includes Ledger Nano X & S

NordVPN helps with your internet privacy – Get 70% off

Buy Bitcoin in Canada using Shakepay and get $10 for free after your first $100 purchase:

If you value my work and would like to send me a tip, they are always appreciated!

LIGHTNING tips:

Join my Telegram channel!

https://cointelegraph.com/news/adam-back-crisis-will-push-btc-to-300k-even-without-institutions

SHOW RESOURCES:

Adam Back’s $300k Bitcoin prediction

Swiss bank refutes Goldman Sachs’ takedown of Bitcoin value

https://decrypt.co/31089/swiss-bank-fires-back-at-goldman-sachs-over-bitcoin-critique

Coinsquare hacker plans sim swap attacks

https://decrypt.co/31103/coinsquare-hacker-reveals-cruel-plan-to-now-steal-bitcoin

Chinese police find secret bitcoin miners hidden underground

https://cointelegraph.com/news/chinese-police-find-secret-bitcoin-mining-operation-in-suspected-tombs

Video: Bitcoiner protester in the street

https://twitter.com/nlebowitz1/status/1268002667042934786

Trezor firmware update, possible attack vector

https://blog.trezor.io/details-of-firmware-updates-for-trezor-one-version-1-9-1-and-trezor-model-t-version-2-3-1-1eba8f60f2dd

Full BIP70 explanation

https://medium.com/the-capital/breaking-down-the-bitpay-bip70-controversy-72448ea2fadb

Newest Bitcoin Core release

https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.20.0#release-notes

Bitcoin Silent Protest, CAD Bitcoin Regulations, Square Crypto Grant EP064 Jun 02, 2020

Show notes

SUPPORT THE SHOW:

LEDN offers Bitcoin backed loans – Sign up and get $50 free

https://bit.ly/3crbnKw

Get Wasabi wallet and enjoy your privacy

Coincards lets you use Bitcoin and Lightning to easily buy gift cards and top off your mobile!

https://www.btcsessions.ca/post/how-to-buy-sell-and-use-bitcoin-in-canada

MY ALL-ENCOMPASSING GUIDE TO GETTING STARTED WITH BITCOIN

Buy Bitcoin in Canada on Coinberry and get $20 after your first $50 purchase

https://shop.ledger.com/products/ledger-backup-pack?r=faca

Get the Ledger Backup Pack – Includes Ledger Nano X & S

NordVPN helps with your internet privacy – Get 70% off

Buy Bitcoin in Canada using Shakepay and get $10 for free after your first $100 purchase:

If you value my work and would like to send me a tip, they are always appreciated!

LIGHTNING tips:

Join my Telegram channel!

https://cointelegraph.com/news/protestors-invoke-bitcoin-in-the-wake-of-george-floyds-death

SHOW RESOURCES:

Some protesters are alluding to Bitcoin as a silent form of protest and defunding the state

Canadian exchanges are now Money Service Businesses

https://medium.com/bull-bitcoin/bitcoin-exchanges-and-payment-processors-in-canada-are-now-regulated-as-money-service-businesses-1ca820575511

New Bitcoin privacy implementation “Coinswap” in the works

https://decrypt.co/30756/bitcoin-privacy-coinswap-chris-belcher

Square Crypto gives out another grant to open source lightning network watchtower developer

https://decrypt.co/30877/square-crypto-awards-grant-bitcoin-lightning-network-watchtower

Miner capitulation? Selling eclipses newly generated coins

https://cointelegraph.com/news/miners-have-been-selling-more-bitcoin-than-they-generate-recent-data-suggests

Goldman Sachs Weak Bitcoin Take, Electrum Shakeup, BTCPay Grant EP063 May 29, 2020

Show notes

SUPPORT THE SHOW:

MY ALL-ENCOMPASSING GUIDE TO GETTING STARTED WITH BITCOIN

https://www.btcsessions.ca/post/how-to-buy-sell-and-use-bitcoin-in-canada

Buy Bitcoin in Canada on Coinberry and get $20 after your first $50 purchase

https://shop.ledger.com/products/ledger-backup-pack?r=faca

Get the Ledger Backup Pack – Includes Ledger Nano X & S

LEDN offers Bitcoin backed loans – Sign up and get $50 free

https://platform.ledn.io/join/0a00cca3dd61dea5909c95cd41f41685

Get Wasabi wallet and enjoy your privacy

NordVPN helps with your internet privacy – Get 70% off

Buy Bitcoin in Canada using Shakepay and get $10 for free after your first $100 purchase:

https://anchor.fm/btcsessions

If you value my work and would like to send me a tip, they are always appreciated!

LIGHTNING tips:

Join my Telegram channel!