Rabbit Hole Recap

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Rabbit Hole Recap #234: Where's the money, Barry?! Jan 07, 2023

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- winklevoss blast silbert https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/gemini-cofounder-cameron-public-letter/

- dcg fires 30% of employees at genesis https://www.wsj.com/articles/crypto-lender-genesis-lays-off-30-of-staff-11672939434

- dcg shutters wealth management division https://www.theinformation.com/articles/genesis-parent-company-dcg-shutters-its-wealth-management-division

- silvergate lost $700m during ftx panic bank run https://www.wsj.com/articles/silvergate-raced-to-cover-8-1-billion-in-withdrawals-during-crypto-meltdown-11672895207

- coinbase pays NY Gov $50M implements stricter KYC https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/04/business/coinbase-settlement-anti-money-laundering.html

- electrum v4.3.3 https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES

- zeus v0.7.1 https://github.com/ZeusLN/zeus/releases/tag/v0.7.1

- bdk v0.26.0 https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/releases/tag/v0.26.0

- rust whirlpool implementation https://github.com/straylight-orbit/whirlpool-client-rs

- nunchuk adds collaborative custody subscriptions https://nunchuk.io/blog/introducing-the-honey-badger-wallet

- fedimint hackathon https://www.fedi.xyz/fedimint-hackathon

- new zoltan https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/content/files/2022/12/ZoltanPozsar-CreditSuisse-WarandCommodity-Encumbrance.pdf

10:30 - Opening riff
14:18 - Dashboard fakeout
16:12 - You could ski down the Dow Jones chart
19:50 - Dashboard for real
24:08 - Recession
31:53 - DCG
34:36 - Cameron Winklevoss's letter
36:11 - More DCG
40:19 - What's Gemini Earn?
47:24 - Cognitive dissonance of finance and crypto
50:25 - Humble stackers win out
52:32 - Luke Dashjr lost his coins
58:09 - Matt's new Coldcard guide
1:01:05 - Genesis cascade effect and Silvergate bank run
1:05:21 - IndyMac clip, volume warning
1:10:22 - Back to Silvergate
1:12:57 - Bitcoin over gold
1:18:52 - Bitcoin's marshmallow test
1:25:36 - Coinbase pays NY, gets stronger KYC
1:27:38 - Software updates lightning round
1:28:35 - Straylight Orbit
1:29:22 - Nunchuck
1:34:58 - The Coinbase ad
1:37:37 - Fedi hackathon
1:38:45 - Boostagrams
1:40:43 - Zoltan's back
1:45:25 - Closing riff

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Rabbit Hole Recap #233: A Final Recap For The Rollercoaster Of A Year That Was 2022 Dec 29, 2022

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Another reminder to protect yourself if you used lastpass

- SBF “$250M bond” was BS

- Bitfarms CEO resigns

- Gemini users file class action lawsuit

- Samourai v0.99.98g

- BTCPay v1.7.3

- JAM now available on most major node packages

- FROSTR multisig nostr

- Twitter Data Breach

- US Housing Chart

- Energy and Mining Week in Nashville

- Free Open Source Contributor Tickets to Bitcoin 2023

- Demand response affecting hashrate

- Argo sells Helios site to Galaxy for $65m and gets a $35m line of asic backed credit from Galaxy

10:19 - Marty visited Pubkey
15:21 - The year of self custody
32:54 - Gemini class-action
34:00 - Dashboard
35:41 - Did miners save Texas from the arctic blast?
45:52 - Heating the house with miners
54:09 - Defending from infrastructure failure
1:03:44 - Mining summit in Nashville
1:04:50 - Galaxy acquires Argo Helios
1:10:27 - Reminder to protect yourself from LastPass breach
1:17:22 - SBF bullshit bond
1:22:00 - Stay humble and stack sats
1:24:32 - Bitfarms new CEO
1:28:40 - Boostagrams
1:31:32 - Samourai v0.99.98g
1:34:25 - BTCPayserver, same as last week
1:34:52 - JAM
1:37:16 - FROSTR
1:42:16 - Twitter data breach
1:48:17 - US housing market
1:53:37 - Open source tickets for Bitcoin 2023
1:58:24 - Closing the year

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Rabbit Hole Recap #232: Merry Christmas! Dec 23, 2022

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This week Marty and Matt discuss so many things that we hit the character limit in the description.

- Core Scientific Files for Bankruptcy

- Two FTX Execs Plead Guilty to Criminal Charges

- SBF Released on $250M bond

- Twitter announces policy banning nostr and other social promotion

- QuadrigaCX addresses thought to be dead wake up

- Greenidge Sells Hash to NYDIG to Avoid Bankruptcy

- HRF Awards $325K in new grants

- Breez Satscard Bounty

- Sztorc Launches Company Focused on Drivechains

- LastPass Compromised

10:19 - Merry Christmas!
14:02 - Jan 11th Bitcoin Park meetup
20:25 - Dashboard
23:13 - Nostr is doing great
30:23 - CoreSci bankrupt
49:09 - ASIC are cool
56:16 - FTX execs plead guilty
1:06:34 - Elon doesn't like privacy
1:15:47 - QuadrigaCX awakens
1:28:18 - HRF grants
1:31:12 - Shoutouts
1:37:10 - Zeus v0.7.0
1:42:43 - Alby v1.21.0
1:43:56 - Tails v5.8
1:47:02 - Btcpay Server v1.7.2 and v1.7.3
1:47:38 - LDK v0.0.113
1:47:50 - Breez Satscard bounty
1:50:47 - Paul Sztorc Layer Two Labs
1:53:54 - Last Pass security incident
1:59:00 - Shoutout to oil and gas workers
2:01:33 - Boostagrams

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Rabbit Hole Recap #231: There's a run on the bitcoin banks! Dec 15, 2022

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- SBF arrested in Bahamas

- EU to force companies to report user holdings

- US senate bill proposed to outlaw private bitcoin development and usage

- Coinbase received 12320 government demands for customer info this year

- SBF secretly funded the block news org, ceo steps down

- Jack Dorsey provides 14 bitcoin grant to Nostr

- Bitcoin Core v 0.24.0 had coin selection bug, latest version is v 0.24.1

- Twitter had FBI/CIA agents directing policy

- US Interest payment expense at $766B

- Binance outflows and withdraws delayed

9:02 - Self custody ATH
21:23 - BullBitcoin trouble with RBC
27:54 - Dashboard
33:27 - Matt's dogs love palindrome blocks
34:30 - SBF arrested in Bahamas
43:30 - Zombie McAfee
47:04 - EU forcing privacy violations
58:04 - DAAML
1:06:49 - Bitcoin cannot be centrally controlled
1:18:54 - Coinbase transparency report
1:24:54 - SBF secretly bought The Block
1:37:39 - Bitcoin Core v0.24.1
1:41:49 - Shoutouts
1:54:29 - Jack Dorsey donates to Nostr
2:04:09 - Bitcoin Takeover
2:06:26 - Twitter files
2:22:35 - US interest expense
2:24:30 - Boostagrams
2:28:02 - Who would lend the US money?

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Rabbit Hole Recap #230: Building in the Bear Party Rip Dec 09, 2022

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

8:54 - Ranch pills and orange pills

32:31 - Dashboard 3

7:35 - DCG owes $900 million

43:10 - Matty Jones: Brady and Giselle split to avoid FTX fallout

48:08 - Strike launches Africa remittance feature

51:06 - More Beef Initiative talk

1:04:33 - KYC is the enemy

1:06:53 - Bullshit jobs

1:14:04 - Legends of Lightning winners

1:18:22 - Gridless African mining

1:25:22 - New Ledger wallet

1:40:53 - Shoutouts

1:47:41 - Core Lightning

1:48:11 - BDK

1:48:41 - TOR

1:49:36 - Threema's Ibex, different from IBEX

1:51:19 - Alan Lane's public letter

1:54:11 FTX-Alameda portfolio

1:58:11 - This Month in Bitcoin Privacy

2:00:36 - Zoltan, WWIII already here

2:07:06 - Final thoughts from Slim and Jason

2:08:51 - Boostagrams

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Rabbit Hole Recap #229: The Bankruptcies and Executive Departures Continue Dec 01, 2022

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- El Salvador Bitcoin Treasury Lacks Transparency

- BlockFi Declares Bankruptcy: High Risk Loans Resulted in Insolvency

- Major Bitcoin Banking Partner Prime Trust Has Fired CEO Tom Pageler

- BTCPay v1.7.0: new checkout page, unified QR for onchain and lightning, store branding, and white labeling, and more

- Coinkite Launches ‘BinaryWatch’ Hub: Tracks Popular Bitcoin Software Signature Verification

- New Open Source Lightning Privacy Research Portal Launches

- Casa adds ethereum support

- Crypto Garage DLC executed on mainnet lightning

- Honda, Nissan, Infiniti, and Acura vehicles remotely hacked

- Fed speaking like they may be tampering down hikes

- SBF redemption tour

9:34- Bottom's not in and plastic trees
20:24 - Dashboard
23:00 - Russian hashrate
24:01 - El Salvador bitcoin transparency
29:02 - New sponsors
34:39 - Coinkite BinaryWatch
46:05 - Prime Trust fires Tom Pageler
49:45- Advice on bitcoin privacy
1:03:34 - Btcpay Server v1.7.0
1:09:14 - Riffing
1:13:13 - Open source lightning privacy research portal
1:16:14 - BTC++ in Mexico City
1:20:03 - Casa ETH support
1:32:22 - AI knows why to stay humble and stack sats
1:34:25 - AI discussion and linguistic disagreements
1:45:53 - Shoutouts
1:52:02- Powell may lower interest rate increases
1:53:06 - Real estate is not liquid
1:58:06 - SBF Redemption tour
2:01:46 - BlockFi hit by contagion
2:03:14 - Rod gets shooed
2:09:16 - Credit Suisse in trouble
2:12:20 - Railroad strike
2:14:00 - Lord Elon
2:18:05 - Rancher's Rip next week
2:20:52 - Boostagrams

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Rabbit Hole Recap #228: DCG & Genesis Getting Dragged into the Contagion Nov 25, 2022

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- The Securities Commission of The Bahamas Seized Digital Assets of FTX After Bankruptcy Declared in US

- Bitcoin Core v24.0

- Sparrow Wallet v1.7.1

- Hoseki Launches Real-Time Proof of Reserves Hub

- ‘SatsCrap’ Bitcoin P2P Marketplace

- Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev to Remain in Jail Until at Least Late February

- Genesis Balance Sheet Reveals $2.8 billion in Outstanding Loans: 30% made to related parties including parent company Digital Currency Group

- 3AC, DCG & Amazing Coincidences

- FTX and Gemini bought a large stake in a bank

- Mutiny wallet node in the browser

- FTX "hacker" sends bitcoin to centralized mixer

- Lightning Legends Tournament

- SURVIVAL by ODELL

TIMESTAMPS:
13:05 - Dashboard
15:49 - The contagion continues with Genesis
19:40 - GBTC money printer
25:05 - Once more, control your keys
32:45 - DCG's massive portfolio
35:25 - Get your Black Friday wallets
37:15 - Bahamas ChipMixer
43:30 - FTX and Farmington
50:40 - SBF NYT speaker
52:05 - Chaos out there, stay humble stack sats
1:00:25 - BTC Core 24.0
1:04:45 - Sparrow 1.7.1
1:05:40 - Hoseki real time proof of reserves
1:10:00 - SatsCrap
1:14:20 - Tornado Cash dev in jail till February
1:18:55 - Mutiny Wallet
1:20:35 - Legends of Lightning
1:21:55 - Shoutouts and Boostagrams
1:27:05 - Closing riff