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    TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

    TFTC is a podcast hosted by Marty Bent about Bitcoin. Join Marty, Editor in Chief of “the best newsletter in Bitcoin”, as he sits down to discuss Bitcoin with interesting people.

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    #342: Dissecting the contagion with Parker Lewis Jun 29, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Parker Lewis to discuss the contagion ripping through bitcoin markets and the incumbent financial system.
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    #341: The death of Capitalism via three-letter acronyms with Vivek Ramaswamy Jun 24, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Vivek Ramaswamy, Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Strive Asset Management, to discuss the death of modern day capitalism.
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    #340: Truth in an insane world with Dr. Brooke Miller Jun 21, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Dr. Brooke Miller to discuss the insanity of today's world in the context of cattle ranching and medical tyranny.

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    #339: The importance of bitcoin self-custody with Tyler Campbell Jun 18, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Tyler Campbell from Unchained Capital to discuss the importance of bitcoin self-custody and multisig and what it's been like onboarding hundreds of people to Unchained's collaborative custody products.


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    #338: Powering the future with Daniel Turner Jun 14, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Daniel Turner from Power the Future to discuss the state of energy policy in America and how we can move forward.

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    #337: Q1 2022 Monetary Base Update with Matthew Mežinskis Jun 08, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits back down with Matthew Mežinskis of Porkopolis Economics to discuss the Q1 2022 monetary base update.

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    Read everything discussed at: Porkopolis Economics



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    #336: A Texas history lesson with Texas Slim and Parker Lewis May 26, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Texas Slim and Parker Lewis to discuss the history of Texas.


    Follow Texas Slim on twitter.

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    #335: The overlooked tradeoffs of "renewable" energy with Brian Gitt May 23, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Brian Gitt to discuss the overlooked tradeoffs of "renewable" energy.

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    Rabbit Hole Recap #200: The podcast stream has officially been moved May 19, 2022

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - financial leaders of 44 countries meet in El Salvador to discuss bitcoin

    - Luna foundation sold 80000 bitcoin amid "stablecoin" crash

    - texas pacific land corp announces bitcoin mining venture

    - canaan revenues increased by 237%

    - cambridge numbers are flawed

    - EU wants to scan all your private messages

    - summer of bitcoin mentorship program gets over 20K applicants

    - bitcoin education initiative launches in 40 high schools in Argentina

    - coincorner releases Bolt Card, a lightning payment card

    - Brink funds Michael Ford

    - BitMEX extends Gleb Naumenko's grant

    - a guide for bitcoin open source grant seekers

    - Ministry of Nodes Bitcoin Node Box Guide 2022

    - bitcoin seed tool v1.0.5

    - sparrow wallet v1.6.4

    - gloria zhao releases package relay proposal

    - pieter wuille on private authentication protocols

    - new stablecoin backed by coldcards

    - this month in bitcoin privacy

    - fiatjaf on lightning penalty transactions

    - adopting bitcoin 2022 announced

    - mccormack releases film about el salvador

    - how bitcoin should be upgraded in the future

    https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/how-to-upgrade-bitcoin

    - Former lead of Facebook's shitcoin project launches lightning project https://www.lightspark.com

    - SBF buys 7.6% stake in Robinhood https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/05/12/ftx-ceo-sam-bankman-fried-buys-56m-position-in-robinhood/


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    #334: Energy, food, ESG, and Bitcoin with Doomberg May 18, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Doomberg to discuss the unfolding energy and food crises, the nature of ESG, and bitcoin.

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    #333: Building beautiful small towns on a Bitcoin Standard with Jaime "the storefront guy" May 16, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Jaime "the storefront guy" to discuss building strong local communities with beautiful aesthetics and sound money.

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    Rabbit Hole Recap 199: Bitcoin is dead, we're cancelling the show May 12, 2022

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - terra "stablecoin" blows up

    - treasury sanctions custodial bitcoin mixer blender(.)io

    - cashapp $1.73B in bitcoin sales Q1, $43M profit

    - coinbase $309B volume Q1, $430M loss

    - chainalysis valued at $8.6B

    - joinmarket v0.9.6

    - arti v0.3.0 Tor rust client

    - casa launches api

    - rusty russell releases alternative covenants proposal

    - conversation with rusty on his proposal on dispatch

    - spiral post on supporting open source

    - georgetown law research shows ICE tracks 75% of Americans

    - grayscale privately met with SEC trying to get GBTC approved as an etf

    - costa rica declares national emergency over ransomware attacks

    - CD64: BIP119, CTV, and the bitcoin development process with @rusty_twit and @brian_trollz
    - brian armstrong thread

    - ishares high yield


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    #332: Developing bitcoin developers with Kyle Murphy and Lisa Neigut May 11, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Kyle Murphy and Lisa Neigut to discuss what it takes to attract and train bitcoin developers who go on to build companies.

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    #331: The state of global energy markets with Anas Alhajji May 09, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Anas Alhajji to discuss the state of global energy markets.

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    #330: Preventative care with Dr. Mary Caire May 06, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Dr. Mary Caire to discuss the perverse incentives of the pharmaceutical industry.

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    Rabbit Hole Recap #198: The government spies and lies May 05, 2022

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - coinbase launches revamped surveillance product

    - SEC doubles size of "crypto assets" unit

    - cdc tracked the location of millions of americans without a warrant

    - fbi did millions of searches of americans data last year without a warrant

    - bitcoin mining council submits letter to EPA

    - how women view bitcoin

    - mycitadel v1.0

    - seed tool v1.0.4

    - tor v0.4.7.7

    - cold card upgrade

    - lightning multiplexer

    - new lightning only vpn

    - voltage podcast index study

    - Mexican bitcoin exchange Tauros adds lightning

    - currency of last resort by gladstein

    - paypal being used to censor speech

    - all internet and payment providers ordered to block three streaming sites by federal judge


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    #329: Back to basics with the TFTC Godfather Louis Roberts May 04, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Louis Roberts to reminisce about the last five years of TFTC.
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    #328: The pitfalls of the Fiat Standard with Dr. Saifedean Ammous May 03, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Dr. Saifedean Ammous to discuss the pitfalls of the Fiat Standard.

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    #327: Healthcare on a Bitcoin Standard with Andy Schoonover May 03, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Andy Schoonover, CEO of CrowdHealth, to discuss the problems with the health care system, how CrowdHealth is providing better product, and how bitcoin can fix the health insurance industry.

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    Rabbit Hole Recap #197: The Disinformation Governance Board is here to tell you how to think Apr 28, 2022

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - ukraine central bank bans bitcoin

    - binance and the FSB

    - HRF announces five bitcoin in new grants

    - central african republic makes bitcoin a legal tender

    - bitcoin core v23.0

    - btcpay v1.5.0

    - fountain podcasts v0.3.16

    - braiins farm proxy reduces data usage

    - amboss magma

    - synonym launches blocktank LSP

    - americans can now pay bills through bitrefill

    - bitcoin jungle in costa rica

    - Apple Private Relay causes VPN leaks

    - farrington: I Finance the Current Thing

    - Negative GDP print

    - New “Disinformation Governance Board” formed in the US

    - German PPI

    - Ruble strength / yen weakness


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    #326: Understanding Taro with Olaoluwa Osuntokun Apr 25, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Olaoluwa Osuntokun AKA @roasbeef, CTO at Lightning Labs, to discuss Taro - Taproot Asset Representation Overlay and what it means for the LNP/BP stack.

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    Rabbit Hole Recap #196: Sanctions on Russian bitcoin miners and the escalating energy and food crisis Apr 21, 2022

    This week Marty and Matt as they discuss:


    - TSMC Raises $3.5 Billion to build facility in Arizona

    - Binance Accounts of Russians with over 10K Euros will be closed in 90 days

    - Russian Mining Firm Bitriver hit with sanctions

    - Compass Mining announces they were using Bitriver for russian hosting and all miners will be shut off and liquidated

    - NY Man running Bitcoin ATMS charged with money laundering

    - Bitcoin for Local Businesses

    - Bitcoin Magazine Partners with Ukranian NBA Players for Humanitarian

    Relief

    - Flared-Gas Bitcoin Miner Crusoe Energy Raises $350M

    - CipherTrace Ransomware Report

    - How Bitcoin Miners Were Airlifted From China to the US

    - How Democracies Spy on their Citizens

    - Yellen walking out of G20 meeting

    - Food supply chain under attack

    - FBI warns of ransomware attacks targeting US agriculture sector

    - Global energy crisis

    - Thoughts on Ukraine, The Martyrmade Podcast


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    #325: Texas beef and decentralizing the food supply with Texas Slim, Cole Bolton, and Parker Lewis Apr 19, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Texas Slim, Cole Bolton and Parker Lewis to discuss the decentralization of our food supply.
    Get Tickets to The Beef Initiative Conference

    Learn more about The Beef Initiative

    Purchase meat from K and C Cattle

    Follow Texas Slim on Twitter

    Follow Parker Lewis on Twitter
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    #324: There is no climate emergency with Tom Nelson Apr 18, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Tom Nelson to explain why there is no climate emergency.

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    Read everything Tom writes at Tom Nelson and Blogspot


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    Rabbit Hole Recap #195: The nation state bankruptcy wave is upon us Apr 14, 2022

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Official US inflation number hits 8.5%, 40 year high

    - Sri Lanka declares bankruptcy

    - Eth Dev sentenced to over 5 years in jail for sanctions violation

    - Strike to bring lightning to merchants

    - Robinhood enables withdrawals and adds lightning support

    - Bitpay adds lightning support

    - Janet Yellen explains bitcoin

    - CNBC on bitcoin helping refugees with cross border payments

    - New bitcoin seed tool

    - New Zoltan piece


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    #323: The Global Spring has sprung with Tom Luongo Apr 12, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Tom Luongo to discuss the state of the world.

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    Read everything Tom writes at Gold Goats 'n Guns


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    Rabbit Hole Recap #194: Live from the open source stage Apr 12, 2022

    This week Marty and Matt are in Miami for the Bitcoin 2022 Conference. They are joined live on the Open Source stage with Craig Raw, Wiz and Steve Barbour.


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    #322: Building the reputation layer for social with Maciek Apr 06, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Maciek of Hive one


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    #321: Unapologetic freedom with Justin Rezvani and JP Sears Apr 04, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Justin Rezvani and JP Sears


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    Rabbit Hole Recap #193: The unjust laws are on the rise Apr 01, 2022

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:


    - EU Parliament votes for more bitcoin surveillance and restrictions

    - mempool space launches new mining dashboard

    - kraken adds lightning support

    - new hub for bitcoin bounties

    - c-lightning changes name to core lightning

    - bitmex bank purchase falls through

    - nix-bitcoin launches security fund

    - chrome vulnerability update asap

    - gitlab vulnerability update asap

    - standard sats proposal

    - joinmarket webui v0.0.5

    - sparrow wallet v1.6.3

    - btcpay server v1.4.8 fixes shopify bug

    - specter v1.9.0 adds extensions

    - how the freedom convoy could have used bitcoin privately

    - wasabi blacklisting update

    - zbd streamer

    - strategic partnership between ten31 and seetee


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    #320: Pushing the design limits of bitcoin with Super Testnet Mar 31, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Super Testnet.
    Find everything Super creates on his Github

    Follow Super on Twitter

    Find out more about Lightning Escrow

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    #319: The "adults in the room" are beating the war drums with Michael Tracey Mar 30, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with journalist Michael Tracey to discuss the current corporate press coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war and what the "adults in the room" are pushing for.


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    #318: Circular economy, freelancing and earning bitcoin with John Zaprite Mar 29, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with John from Zaprite

    Find out more about Zaprite
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    Rabbit Hole Recap #192: Bitcoin Merges with the Energy Sector Mar 25, 2022

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - hubspot data leak impacted 30 cryptocurrency companies including nydig, swan, and blockfi

    - if you were affected by hubspot compromise read this thread

    - exxon expands bitcoin mining pilot to four countries

    - russia open to selling natural gas for bitcoin, gold, and non dollar fiat

    - thailand announces bitcoin payments ban

    - wasabi ceo says censorship decision and chain surveillance partnership was voluntary

    - alby v.17.0 adds keysend support

    - sparrow wallet v1.6.2 adds full bip47 support

    - PR to add support for BIP47 to BDK


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    #317: Exposing environmental LARPs with Mike Umbro Mar 22, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Mike Umbro.
    Follow Mike on Twitter

    Read more about Mike at FieldView Capital


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    #316: Discussing critical thinking in today's age with Edward Dowd Mar 22, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Edward Dowd. I'm sitting down with to discuss critical thinking in today's age.

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    Rabbit Hole Recap 191: The Gang is back in person Mar 17, 2022

    This week Marty and Matt are discussing:


    - Unchained Data Leak

    - Arthur Hayes. Energy Cancelled

    - Stratum V2

    - Wasabi doing chain surveillance

    - Kazakhstan Mining Equipment / Did not ban proof of work

    - Block releases hardware wallet info

    - UK Bitcoin ATMs forcing shutdown



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    #315: The return of NVK Mar 16, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with NVK, the fearless leader of Coinkite, to talk about a little bit of everything.
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    Follow Coinkite on Twitter

    Purchase all Coinkite products discussed on the show.
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    #314: Group hang with CK, Pete Rizzo and Dylan LeClair Mar 15, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with CK, Pete Rizzo and Dylan LeClair from Bitcoin Magazine to talk about Bitcoin 2022 and building BTC Media into what it is today.
    Follow CK on Twitter

    Follow Pete Rizzo on Twitter

    Follow Dylan LeClair on Twitter


    Read more from all the guys at Bitcoin Magazine.


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    #313: The financial costs of war with Alex Gladstein Mar 15, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Alex Gladstein to discuss how America has funded its wars over the last 70 years.

    Follow Alex Gladstein on Twitter

    Purchase Alex Gladstein new book, Check Your Financial Privilege


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    #312: The popping of the 100 year sovereign debt bubble with Luke Gromen Mar 14, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Luke Gromen to discuss the global sovereign debt bubble that has been building for a century and why it may be beginning to pop.
    Follow Luke Gromen on Twitter

    Read more from Luke at: FFTT, LLC


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    Rabbit Hole Recap #190: Sanctions and the fall of the dollar Mar 10, 2022

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - biden executive order is a nothing burger

    - 600K azteco locations in Nigeria, azteco locations in Canada

    - ukraine buys military gear with cryptocurrencies directly

    - warren crafts bill targeting cryptocurrency in russia sanctions

    - coinbase on their compliance and surveillance protocol

    - ftx on their compliance and surveillance protocol

    - senators look to lock down russias gold reserves

    - credit suisse "bretton woods II"

    - new initiative to roll out mesh nets in ukraine

    - bisq v1.8.4

    - twitter adds native Tor support

    - foundation devices teases new hardware and app

    - bitmex cofounder sam reed pleads guilty to bank secrecy violation

    - Bitcoin and U.S. National Security: An Assessment of Bitcoin as a Strategic Opportunity for the United States

    - bitcoin and cuban embargo

    - secret surveillance program collects americans money transfer data

    - ministry of nodes: starting your bitcoin journey

    - Cathedra shareholder letter

    - odell coindesk interview on privacy


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    #311: Surging commodities prices, de-dollarization and bitcoin with Lawrence Lepard Mar 07, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits back down with Lawrence Lepard and discuss surging commodities prices, de-dollarization and bitcoin.

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    Read more from Lawrence at Equity Management Associates


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    #310: Q4 2021 monetary base update and the macro landscape with Matthew Mežinskis Mar 04, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits back down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss the Q4 2021 monetary base update and the macro landscape.


    Follow Matthew Mežinskis on Twitter

    Read everything discussed at: Porkopolis Economics


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    Rabbit Hole Recap #189: Ti wuz here Mar 04, 2022

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - how bitcoin helped a Ukraine refugee escape

    - powell mentions need for more bitcoin regs due to sanction

    - biden admin asking crypto exchanges to help ensure russians are not breaking sanctions

    - visa and mastercard block russian banks from networks

    - rust bip47 library

    - robosats p2p exchange

    - bitmex founders plead guilty, $10M fine, 6-12 months prison, each

    - zeus v0.6.0

    - sparrow v1.6.0

    - raspiblitz v1.7.2

    - umbrel v0.4.15

    - block reports $1.96B bitcoin sales last quarter

    - intel's new asic expected to be cheaper and 15% more efficient than S19 Pro

    - this month in bitcoin privacy

    - war funding by gladstein


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    #309: An alternative perspective on the state of the world with London Paul Feb 28, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with London Paul to discuss what is happening in the world right now. Are sanctions effective? What led us to this situation? Is de-dollarization accelerating?

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    Check out The Sirius Report


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    Rabbit Hole Recap #188: Chaos in the world Feb 25, 2022

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Russia Ukraine Conflict

    - Canada Protest

    - Marty on Tucker Carlson

    - Wasabi Wallet De-mix

    - "Okay So Your Bank Account Is Frozen" Starter Pack

    - Lightning Labs


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    #308: Becoming un-cancelable with Mark Jeftovic Feb 23, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Mark Jeftovic to discuss Bitcoin, tyranny in Canada, and becoming un-cancelable.

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    Rabbit Hole Recap #187: Freedom Money Feb 18, 2022

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Canada uses "emergency powers" to target bank accounts, bitcoin, funding, and insurance of protestors

    - Bitcoin protest fundraiser voluntarily shuts down while they determine best way to distribute funds

    - Canadian RCMP issues blacklist notice for bitcoin addresses connected to protest

    - Apple patches zero day exploit, update your devices

    - Biden expected to issue an executive order related to bitcoin regulation next week

    - US Gov seizes $7B held by Afghan Central Bank

    - secret unapproved cia data collection program exposed

    - UN negotiating new "cybercrime" treaty

    - GRIID, Argo, and Block to be first customers of intel mining chip

    - ConocoPhillips selling previously flared nat gas to bitcoin miners

    - Congressman Davidson introduces bill to protect private bitcoin usage

    - more info on bitfinex hack investigation released

    - proposed US bill targets el salvadors bitcoin adoption

    - fbi to form new bitcoin surveillance and seizure focused unit

    - btcpayserver v.1.4.5:

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    - lightning terminal v0.6.3-alpha:

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    - thoughts on cashapps lightning user flow

    - satsxsw hackathon announced, march 12th and 13th

    - fidelity launches bitcoin ETP in Europe, ticker FBTC

    - swan launches bitcoin canon education portal

    - coldcard announces $25K bounty for a react native nfc implementation

    - blockfi agrees to pay $100M fine to SEC

    - open source dashboard for asic prices



    #307: Medical censorship with Doc Woods Feb 16, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Dr. Woods, a career long physician who had was fired for prescribing medicine.


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    #306: Bitcoin in Ohio with Josh Mandel Feb 14, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Josh Mandel, Republican Senate Candidate out of Ohio, to discuss Bitcoin, populism, and the inner workings of Ohio politics.


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    #305: Fire, Bitcoin and Teleportation with Aleks Svetski Feb 11, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Aleks Svetski to discuss the parallels between fire, bitcoin and teleportation.


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    Rabbit Hole Recap #186: High inflation, beautiful honking and rising taxes on miners Feb 11, 2022

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - married couple arrested and 96K bitcoin seized over 2016 bitfinex hack


    - canadian protests bitcoin fundraiser over 15 bitcoin


    - KPMG Canada adds bitcoin to treasury


    - Russia shares bitcoin regulation plan


    - bitcoin design guide v2 launched


    - Kazakhstan floats 500% tax increase on bitcoin miners


    - EARN IT Bill proposed to scan all online messages


    - sensei lightning node implementation released


    - cypherpunkpay v1.0.13


    - lnd v0.4.2-beta


    - electrs v0.9.5


    - lnbits v0.6.0


    - btcpayserver v1.4.4


    - umbrel v0.4.14


    - blixt v0.4.1


    - galoy v0.1.9


    - mercury wallet v0.6.2


    - hexa wallet v2.0.69


    - whirlpool v0.10.13


    - valkyrie bitcoin miners etf launches with ticker WGMI


    - deventralized social media project bluesky announces independent Public Benefit LLC and board members


    - kraken funding full time bitcoin rust maintainer


    - Bitcoin is funding Ukraine defense


    - fountain podcaster wallet launched


    - opennode raises $20M, now valued at $220M


    - binance buys a stake in forbes


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    #304: Bitcoin and Energy with Max Gagliardi Feb 09, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Max Gagliardi, host of Talk.Energy, to discuss the state of Bitcoin and energy.

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    #303: Falling down the WEF rabbit hole with Jesse Matchey Feb 08, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with retired Army Blackhawk Pilot Jesse Matchey to discuss the WEF rabbit hole.

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    #302: The state of our food supply with Texas Slim and Cole Bolton Feb 04, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Texas Slim, founder of The Beef Initiative, and Cole Bolton, founder of K&C Cattle Co, to discuss the state of the food supply.

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    Rabbit Hole Recap #185: Currency crises, cold weather, and good bitcoin mining tax news Feb 03, 2022

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - canadian truckers gofundme suspended "under review"

    - sparrow, bluewallet, and trezor remove AOPP support

    - why AOPP is a risk

    - Biden considering executive order against bitcoin

    - Congressman Davidson supports financial privacy

    - bill introduced to make bitcoin a legal tender in arizona

    - IRS signals retreat on block reward taxation

    - Kraken launches proof of reserves tool

    - Fulcrum electrum server much more performant than electrs or electrumx

    - Saylor and Dorsey keynote

    - BTCPay Server v1.4.2

    - Mempool v2.3.1

    - Sparrow Wallet v1.5.6

    - Specter Desktop v1.8.1

    - BlueWallet v6.2.18

    - Eclair v0.7.0

    - Umbrel v0.4.13

    - Mercury Wallet v0.6.0

    - Zap Android v0.5.5-beta

    - Nix bitcoin v0.0.64

    - proposal to remove memo's from lightning invoices

    - ben's bytes dev mommy blog

    - trezor has disabled web wallet, users must now use trezor suite

    - FTX valued at $32B

    - Shopify founder joins coinbase board

    - surveillance firm ciphertrace uses honeypots

    - impervious browser to launch at bitcoin 2022


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    #301: A Check-in with Dave Collum Jan 31, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Dave Collum to discuss the state of the world.

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    #300: Doomer optimism with Tucker Max Jan 28, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Tucker Max to discuss doomer optimism and Bitcoin.

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    Rabbit Hole Recap #184: The IRS wants your face and the Treasury hates you Jan 27, 2022

    This week Marty and Matt discuss: - new bill would allow US Treasury to prohibit any transaction without public notice or input

    - robinhood starts rollout of bitcoin withdrawals

    - coldcard MK4 presales open

    - bitcoin mining difficulty hits new all time high

    - Phoenix v1.4.20

    - Bisq v1.8.2

    - Zap v0.7.6-beta

    - Joininbox v0.6.6

    - BTCPay Server v1.4.0

    - nix-bitcoin v0.0.63

    - Sphinx Relay v2.2.5

    - Lightning Terminal v0.6.2-alpha

    - satoshi energy raises 60 bitcoin with focus on bitcoin mining infrastructure

    - IRS begins requiring selfies for some services using third party company

    - puerto rico tax breaks for outsiders stirs outrage

    - free four day passes to Bitcoin 2022 for contributors of 30 open source projects


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    #299: North American mining (pools) with Alex Brammer Jan 27, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Alex Brammer from Luxor Mining to discuss the state of North American Bitcoin mining.

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    #298: Is it a BLIP or a BOLT with Lisa Neigut Jan 22, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Lisa Neigut to discuss everything going on with the Lightning Network.

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    Rabbit Hole Recap #183: Intel hopping in the Bitcoin mining game and Presidents meeting to talk Bitcoin Jan 20, 2022

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Intel to announce new bitcoin ASIC in feb

    - GRIID has signed a deal with Intel for their ASICs

    - BitMEX to acquire 268 year old German Bank

    - Taproot funds burned

    - mempool v2.3.0

    - mercury wallet v0.5.9

    - onionshare v2.5

    - simple bitcoin wallet v2.4.27

    - lightning pool v0.5.4-alpha

    - umbrel v0.4.11

    - tdex v1.2.4

    - El Salvador Gov is using pegasus spyware against journalists

    - Bukele meets withs Erdogan

    - UK Gov planning publicity campaign against encrypted communication

    - Ethiopia should turn to bitcoin

    - Congressional Hearing on Bitcoin

    - btcpolicy.org fact sheet focused on the hearing

    - Citadel Dispatch will no longer be on TFTC podcast feed going forward, search Citadel Dispatch in your favorite podcast app


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    #297: Becoming a cockroach in the Bitcoin mining world with AJ Scalia and Drew Armstrong Jan 20, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with AJ Scalia and Drew Armstrong from Cathedra Bitcoin to discuss the Bitcoin mining world.

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    #296: Messianic Bitcoin with Erik Cason Jan 20, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Erik Cason to discuss Messianic Bitcoin and other cosmic topics.

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    #295: Going against the mainstream narrative with Jordan Schachtel Jan 18, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Jordan Schachtel, an Independent Journalist and founder of The Dossier on Substack, to discuss going against the mainstream narrative in 2022.

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    Rabbit Hole Recap #182: CBDCs are treasonous and prices are rising Jan 13, 2022

    This week Marty and Matt:

    - inflation running rampant Marty Bent,

    - Argentina rolling 12-month inflation

    - Turks diving in

    - Legal defense fund

    - Strike in Argentina

    - Bill Miller is bullish

    - Kazakhstan update

    - electrs v0.9.4

    - bluewallet v6.2.16

    - mercury wallet v0.5.6

    - tdex v1.2.2

    - foundation passport v1.0.8

    - hexa wallet v2.0.67

    - samourai wallet v0.99.98b

    - fidelity bullishness

    - Rep Emmer no CBDC

    - ESG is a plague

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    #294: Gordian principles and the standardization of Bitcoin software with Christopher Allen & Wolf McNally Jan 13, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Christopher Allen and Wolf McNally to discuss Gordian principles and standardization of Bitcoin software.

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    Rabbit Hole Recap #181: Internet Blackouts and More Consolidation Jan 06, 2022

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - internet access cut in kazakhstan in response to massive protests, 12% of hash rate disconnected

    - HRF announces new round of grants

    - proposal for privacy preserving reusable taproot addresses

    - electrs v0.9.4

    - bluewallet v6.2.16

    - mercury wallet v0.5.6

    - tdex v1.2.2

    - foundation passport v1.0.8

    - hexa wallet v2.0.67

    - samourai wallet v0.99.98b

    - gigi on value for value

    - electrum server performance analysis

    - bitcoin circular economies

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    #293: Bitcoin and the Looming US Fiscal Crisis with Avik Roy Jan 05, 2022

    Join Marty as he sits down with Avik Roy, President of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, to discuss:

    - Think tanks

    - Energy policy and its affect on lower income individuals

    - Education

    - Healthcare

    - The looming US Fiscal Crisis

    - Why Bitcoin is an imperative for America moving forward

    - Educating DC about the opportunities Bitcoin provides

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap #180: End of 2021 roundup Dec 30, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Patriots QB Mac Jones gifts bitcoin to offensive line

    - Iran halts bitcoin mining until March 6th

    - Log4j fix released

    - RTL v0.12.0

    - samourai wallet v0.99.98

    - mercury wallet v0.5.3

    - casa keyfest jan 5-7

    - ronindojo tanto released

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    #292: Diving into tbDEX with Mike Brock Dec 29, 2021

    Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Mike Brock, lead at TBD, to discuss:

    - What "is" and what "ought" to be

    - Mike's history at Block

    - How bitcoin got integrated at Cash App

    - How TBD came to be

    - Creating a decentralized system with limited trust in tbDEX

    - Creating bitcoin on-ramps for people is a massive hurdle right now

    - Is tbDEX transitional?

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap #179: End of year holiday chop special Dec 27, 2021

    Happy Holidays from Marty and Matt. Enjoy this end of year holiday chop special of Rabbit Hole Recap from 2021.


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    Rabbit Hole Recap #178: We got a strike Dec 23, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - SEC delays Bitwise and Grayscale spot ETF proposals

    - Underground bitcoin mining is thriving in China

    - HRF, Strike, Opensats announce three lightning focused

    - Opensats receives approval to operate as tax deductible 501c3

    - BTCPay Server v1.3.7

    - Rust Lightning v0.0.104

    - lnbits v0.4.0

    - Specter DIY v1.6.2

    - Mercury Wallet v0.5.1

    - Simple Bitcoin Wallet v2.4.24

    - Hexa Wallet v2.0.65

    - Blockstream sponsors mempool project


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    Rabbit Hole Recap #177: The gaslighting heats up Dec 16, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Jack announces independent board to run BTrust initiative funded with 500 bitcoin donation from him and Jay-Z to fund bitcoin development in Africa and India

    - nonprofit "Sats Center" launches to educate regulators on bitcoin

    - Surveillance company "Chainalysis" launches lightning network product

    - Coinbase received 5562 law enforcement requests the first three quarters of this year

    - Payment Pools proposal

    - Mercury v0.4.65

    - Sparrow v1.5.5

    - Bisq v1.8.0

    - BlueWallet v6.2.15

    - Caravan v0.3.13

    - Zap desktop v0.7.5-beta

    - Umbrel v0.4.10

    - Galoy Raises $3M

    - Ledn raises $70M valued at $540M

    - NYDIG raises $1B valued at $7B

    - white house inflation comments

    - Kollider LN analysis

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    #291: Getting to the source of the seed with Texas Slim Dec 16, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits back down with Texas Slim to discuss:

    - The Beef Initiative

    - Low time preference

    - Small towns in Texas

    - Seed oils

    - Processing plants

    - Fertilizer

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap #176: Party rip Dec 10, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Swan adds taproot support and api, no longer supporting ny

    - Major swiss tech company ceo runs surveillance operation

    - Malicious actor appears to be attacking Tor

    - Sparrow Wallet v1.5.3

    - Mercury Wallet v0.4.62

    - btc-rpc-explorer v3.3.0

    - Zap android v0.5.4-beta

    - Lightning Terminal v0.6.1-alpha

    - Lightning Pool v0.5.3-alpha

    - Elements v0.21.0.1

    - Private home mining using a VPN guide

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    #290: Continuing the dissection of the Great Reset with LaserHodl Dec 04, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits back down with LaserHodl to discuss:

    - The acceleration of the Great Reset

    - Why nothing makes any logical sense

    - The emergence of internment camps

    - The Marxist creep into schooling

    - Mesh networks

    - Why we wouldn't want to be the state right now

    - Ten pieces of advice to inoculate yourself from the madness

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap #175: Don't live in fear Dec 02, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - square changes name to block

    - square crypto changes name to spiral

    - ledger adds support for psbts, multisig, and taproot

    - microstrategy buys 7002 bitcoin

    - silent link adds support for US burner phone number esims

    - lnd v0.14.1-beta

    - mercury wallet v0.4.56

    - joinmarket v0.9.4

    - bluewallet v6.2.13

    - specter desktop v1.7.2

    - umbrel v0.4.9

    - passport v1.0.8-beta

    - hexa wallet v2.0.5

    - simple bitcoin wallet v2.4.22

    - immortan v0.5.7

    - bitcoin dev kit v0.14.0

    - nix-bitcoin v0.0.59

    - joininbox v0.6.4

    - nodlito formally announced

    - this month in bitcoin privacy

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    #289: Bitcoin is about to surpass the British Pound with Matthew Mežinskis Dec 01, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits back down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss:

    - The growth of the global monetary base in Q3 2021

    - Bitcoin is the sixth largest base money in the world

    - Bitcoin should surpass the Great British Pound around $68,000

    - The history of the Bank of England

    - Lack of transparency from central banks

    - Growing tyranny around the world

    - Lessons from history

    - much more

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    #288: Bringing a design focus to Bitcoin with Patricia Nov 29, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Patricia, a designer focused on bringing better experiences to Bitcoin, to discuss:

    - Designing in an open source environment

    - How bad design can turn people away

    - Observing how users interact in ways one doesn't expect

    - How to gather feedback on open source software design

    - A call to action for new designers

    - Bitcoin provides a wide open slate to bring design innovation to market

    - Skating

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap #174: Much to be thankful for Nov 24, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - el salvador announces bitcoin city and a bitcoin bond

    - US 'pauses' relations with el salvador

    - OBJ to convert his entire yearly salary to bitcoin

    - samsung to build $17B chip factory in texas

    - fold partners with pokemon go creator niantic

    - lnd v0.14.0-beta

    - electrs v0.9.3

    - btcpayserver v1.3.6

    - mercury wallet v0.4.53

    - simple bitcoin wallet v2.4.19

    - seedsigner v0.4.5

    - btcpayserver v1.3.6

    - sphinx relay v2.2.2

    - ledger live desktop v2.35.2

    - lnd v0.14.0 is not compatible with other implementations

    - gemini sponsors fanquake

    - how to verify dice rolls on seedsigner

    - compact block filters deep dive

    - amazon does not want you to have privacy

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    #287: EmbassyOS v0.3.0, building out the independent stack, and philosophy with Matt Hill Nov 22, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Matt Hill, co-founder of Start9 Labs, to discuss:

    - EmbassyOS v0.3.0

    - Lessons learned from v0.1.0 and v0.2.0

    - Focusing on onboarding younger people

    - Personal AI

    - Philosophy

    - Nihilism v. Optimism

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.11.15 Nov 19, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - taproot activates successfully at block 609732

    - muun wallet adds taproot support

    - SEC rejects VanEck spot bitcoin etf

    - Perth Heat baseball team adopts the bitcoin standard

    - crypto dot com spends $700M to rename Staples Center for 20 years

    - tether announces new subsidiary 'Synonym' to bring tokens and other features to lightning

    - Senators Wyden and Lummis submit bill to restrict bitcoin tax reporting rules in infrastructure bill

    - Senator Cruz submits bill to repeal bitcoin portion of infrastructure bill

    - IRS expects billions of dollars worth of 'crypto' seizures next year

    - btcpayserver v1.3.5

    - lnd v0.14.0-beta

    - mercury wallet v0.4.51

    - simple bitcoin wallet v2.4.18

    - immortan v0.5.6

    - fully noded v0.2.30

    - umbrel v0.4.8

    - hexa wallet v2.0.2

    - ledger live desktop v2.35.1

    - bitcoin banking for communities

    - reason minidoc on environmental impact of bitcoin

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    #286: Securitizing natural assets and manufactured energy and food shortages with Whitney Webb Nov 18, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits back down with Whitney Webb to discuss:

    - The plan to securitize the natural world

    - Why a botched vaccine passport rollout is important

    - The looming food and energy shortages

    - How to reach both sides of the political aisle

    - The plan to monopolize the extraction of rare earth metals

    - Bankers taking over governments

    - much more

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    #281b: Announcing Synonym with John Carvalho Nov 17, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with John Carvalho to discuss Synonym's emergence from stealth mode.

    - Why did he build Synonym

    - What is it?

    - Building reputation systems

    - Tokens on Lightning

    - Slashtags

    - Building truly unstoppable apps

    - much more

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    #285: From bars to Bitcoin with Justin Rhedrick Nov 12, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Justin Rhedrick, author of From Bars to Bitcoin, to discuss:

    - How a high time preference decision landed Justin in prison

    - The prison economy

    - Getting out of prison and diving into Bitcoin

    - Teaching people about low time preference

    - How Bitcoin has changed Justin's life

    - How to explain Bitcoin

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.11.08 Nov 12, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - taproot activates in two days (block 709632)

    - new bitcoin all time high

    - miami to airdrop bitcoin to residents

    - complaints about compass mining

    - btcpayserver v1.3.4

    - specter desktop v1.7.1

    - mercury wallet v0.4.48

    - lnd v0.13.4-beta

    - umbrel v0.4.7

    - nix bitcoin v0.0.58

    - bitcoinblackfriday.org

    - robinhood data breach impacts 7 million customers

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    #284: Surviving brain surgery, coming to grips with death, and pushing the limitations of the Lightning Network with Justin Rezvani Nov 09, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Justin Rezvani, founder of Zion, to discuss:

    - Surviving brain surgery

    - A new lease on life

    - Founding and selling an influencer marketing company by 27

    - Building a social media app on the Lightning Network

    - Pushing the Lightning Network to its limits

    - Forking the Sphinx codebase

    - The ills of the advertising industry

    - much more

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    #283: How we messed up our food and how we fix it with Texas Slim Nov 06, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Texas Slim, founder of the Texas Beef Initiative, to discuss:

    - Texas history

    - How Monsanto ruined our food

    - Monocropping

    - The Texas Beef Initiative

    - Regenerative farming

    - How the Regime is trying to make us nutritionally bankrupt

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.11.01 Nov 04, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - lightning channel jamming research

    - largest bank in australia to add bitcoin payments

    - Miami mayor to take next paycheck in bitcoin, NYC mayor elect to take first three paychecks in bitcoin

    - aaron rodgers to get paid in bitcoin

    - Navajo Nation mining bitcoin

    - african bitcoin startup chipper cash raises $150M

    - mercury wallet v0.4.45

    - btcpayserver v1.3.1

    - electrs v0.9.2

    - nix-bitcoin v0.0.57

    - sparrow wallet v1.5.2

    - rust lightning v0.0.103

    - c-lightning v0.10.2

    - wasabi wallet v1.1.13.0

    - phoenix v1.4.19

    - nth key v1.0.6

    - hexa wallet v2.0.0

    - compass mining doubles capacity with new deal

    - facebook dumping face recognition

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    #282: River adds bitcoin mining, the Metaverse, physical landscapes, and the CIA with Alexander Leishman Nov 03, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Alexander Leishman, CEO & CEO of River Financial, to discuss:

    - River adding mining services

    - What does the future of bitcoin exchanges look like?

    - The Metaverse

    - The physical world

    - The TSA

    - Federal travel mandates

    - Population domination

    - The CIA

    - Engaging in politics; how to do it

    - much more

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    #281: Chinese mining theory, bitcoin divisibility, and UTXOs with John Carvalho Nov 02, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with John Carvalho to discuss:

    - John's Chinese mining theory

    - Is bitcoin divisible?

    - The UTXO set

    - The Lightning Network

    - Public mining companies

    - Holding your own keys

    - much more

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    Special Announcement: Ten31 Oct 31, 2021

    Introducing Ten31

    Investing in Bitcoin-native companies. Founded and backed by Bitcoiners.

    Our Mission: To facilitate the freedom of mankind through individual sovereignty.

    • Investing in Bitcoin-native companies.
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    • Low time preference philosophy.
    • Management fees directed toward Bitcoin core and Lightning developers.

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    #280: A spooky Halloween special with our good friend @arbedout Oct 30, 2021

    Marty and Matt sit down with their good friend @arbedout to discuss:

    - Joining Unchained Capital

    - Writing a book

    - Has Lightning been attacked?

    - Is Tor reliable?

    - Is Bitcoin sufficiently robust without robust alternative transaction relay networks?

    - How are we going to transition from HTLCs to PTLCs

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.10.25 Oct 30, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - FATF releases updated guidance

    - el salvador now holds 1120 bitcoin

    - river launches hosted mining service

    - blockstream sponsors minimint

    - btcpay v1.3.0

    - sparrow v1.5.2

    - nix-bitcoin v0.0.55

    - specter diy v1.6.1

    - joininbox v0.6.3

    - simple bitcoin wallet v2.2.17

    - umbrel v0.4.6

    - immortan v0.3.6

    - bisq v1.7.5

    - BlueWallet v6.2.12

    - voltage releases Flow, an easy to use interface for Lightning Pool

    - umbrel raises $3M in seed round

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    #279: Avoiding oblivion, the state of Chicago, and bitcoin smart contracts with Chris Stewart Oct 27, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Chris Stewart, founder of Suredbits, to discuss:

    - Recording podcasts with our grandmothers

    - Avoiding oblivion in the Digital Age

    - Chicago crime

    - Necessary police reform

    - DLCs

    - AJ Towns' Taproot + PTLC proposal

    - Will there be a fee market?

    - much more

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    #278: Dissecting the Clown World with Ben Kaufman Oct 25, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Ben Kaufman, Chief Conspiracy Theorist at Clown World Today, to discuss:

    - The madness of the last 18-monhts

    - Logical inconsistencies around COVID medical advice

    - The power of propaganda

    - Vaccine passports

    - How to push back

    - Using humor to highlight absurdities

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap LIVE with @arbedout: Week of 2021.10.18 Oct 23, 2021

    This week Marty, Matt, and @arbedout recorded live from the Unchained Capital offices in Austin, Texas and discussed:

    - bitcoin hits new all time high

    - first bitcoin ETF launches

    - hacker steals identification info of every argentinian via government database

    - Jonas Schnelli steps down from role as bitcoin core maintainer

    - worldcoin launches

    - electrs v0.9.1

    - rust-lightning v0.0.102

    - specter-desktop v1.7.0

    - elements v0.21.0

    - nthkey v1.0.5

    - joinmarket v0.9.3

    - joininbox v0.6.2

    - fully noded v0.2.28

    simple bitcoin wallet v2.2.15.1

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    #277: Slowly getting bitcoin, why gold is already demonetized, and the virtue of Bitcoin with Larry Lepard Oct 20, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Investment Manager Larry Lepard to discuss:

    - How the government and central banks have manipulated gold

    - Slowly coming to understand Bitcoin

    - Why fiat is bad for the environment

    - Why bitcoin is virtuous

    - What is the upside potential?

    - Sound money advocates are the Remnant

    - much more

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    #276: Starting an exchange in Guatemala, onboarding enterprise clients, and freedom money with the IBEX Mercado team Oct 18, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Jose Lemus, Juan Pablo Lemus, & Estaban de la Peña; the IBEX Mercado founding team, to discuss:

    - Why they built the exchange

    - International banking restrictions in Guatemala

    - How they ended up with their non-custodial model

    - Communicating with regulators

    - Avoiding having to KYC kids

    - Banking the unbanked

    - Bitcoin's perfect incentives

    - much more

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    #275: Supply chains, government incompetence, Bitcoin, and Uranium with Kuppy Oct 15, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Kuppy, Founder and CIO of Praetorian Capital and the man behind the Adventures in Capitalism blog, to discuss:

    - Supply chain disaster

    - Government incompetence

    - What lies ahead

    - Energy markets

    - Bitcoin

    - Why Kuppy is very bullish on Uranium

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.10.11 Oct 14, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - US Gov asks chipmakers for client data

    - US takes top mining spot

    - eclair v0.6.2

    - umbrel v0.4.4

    - bluewallet v6.2.10

    - raspiblitz v1.7.1

    - immortan v0.3.5

    - sparrow v1.5.1

    - nix-bitcoin v0.0.53

    - lightning terminal v0.5.2-alpha

    - Gladstein on the early cypherpunks and adam back

    - antpool blocks mainland chinese users

    - jstark documentary

    - aj towns taproot + ptlc proposal

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    #274: Canada's nonsensical restrictions, home mining, and oil & gas companies mining bitcoin with Steve Barbour Oct 13, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Steve Barbour, founder and CEO of Upstream Data, to discuss:

    - Canada during COVID

    - Mouth breathing regulations

    - Building products for home miners

    - Oil and gas companies mining bitcoin

    - Are we reaching a tipping point?

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.10.04 Oct 08, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - hackers compromise 6000 coinbase accounts due to 2FA flaw

    - liquid network downtime and hard fork

    - lightning network vulnerability disclosure

    - el salvador starts mining with volcano energy

    - Binance hires two former IRS investigators

    - bluewallet v6.2.9

    - electrs v0.9.0

    - lnd v0.13.3-beta

    - umbrel v0.4.3

    - joinmarket v0.9.2

    - joininbox v0.6.1

    - sparrow wallet v1.5.1

    - eclair v0.6.2

    - analysis of ransomware payments

    - 30 countries launch ransomware initiative

    - U.S. Justice Dept launches new initiatives on cryptocurrencies

    - this month in bitcoin privacy

    - https://oslofreedomforum.com

    - https://oslofreedomforum.com/bitcoin-academy-off2021

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    #273: Supply chain problems, a proposed solution, and Bitcoin + Natural Rights with Ross Kennedy Oct 06, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Ross Kennedy, founder of Fortis Analysis, to discuss:

    - The global supply chain issues

    - How the California ports work

    - Why there is no easy fix

    - How Ross thinks we can fix the problem

    - Our over dependence on Southeast Asia

    - Woes of the Cold War mentality + USD reserve status

    - Bitcoin as an extension of Natural Rights

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.09.27 Sep 29, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - bitcoin.org compromised

    - missouri mayor to give all residents $1K worth of bitcoin

    - three new iOS zero day exploits

    - african bitcoin exchange Yellow Card raises $15M in investment

    - Samourai supports Tor Foundation with $50K donation

    - President Biden and Treasury Secretary Yellen express support of wealth taxes

    - Samourai Wallet v0.99.97a

    - Sparrow Wallet v1.5.0

    - Bisq v1.7.4

    - Btcpayserver v1.2.4

    - Fully Noded v0.2.27

    - Nix-bitcoin v0.0.52

    - Simple Bitcoin Wallet v2.1.14

    - Immortan v0.2.5

    - Rust-lightning v0.0.101

    - Bluewallet rn-ldk v0.2.14

    - OnionShare v2.4

    - blockstream satellite walkthrough

    - verifone to accept bitcoin payments via bitpay

    - AP links bitcoin usage to extremist groups

    - CIA had plans to kidnap or assassinate Assange

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    #272: Evergrande, sovereign debt, and the convergence of bitcoin + the energy sector with Greg Foss Sep 23, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Greg Foss the boss, of Validus Power, to discuss:

    - The ongoing Evergrande situation

    - Will its collapse cause contagion?

    - Is it similar to Lehman?

    - Global supply chain issues

    - Bitcoin + Energy

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin week of 2021.09.20 Sep 22, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - tax change in infrastructure bill

    - wasabi wallet 2.0 blog

    - el salvador owns 700 bitcoin

    - compass adds at home mining option

    - chainalysis runs a block explorer to track users

    - Simple Bitcoin Wallet v2.1.12

    - Blue Wallet v6.2.7

    - Lightning Terminal v0.5.1-alpha

    - Immortan v0.2.4

    - gladstein on el salvador

    - US Treasury sanctions Russian bitcoin exchange

    - Doconomy carbon limits credit card

    - Evergrande

    - UK nat gas crisis

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.09.13 Sep 16, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - HRF provides 3.75 bitcoin in development grants

    - el salvador bitcoin tax exemptions for foreigners

    - imessage zero click exploit

    - Bitcoin Core v22.0

    - Simple bitcoin wallet v2.0.12

    - Zap android v0.5.1-beta

    - Umbrel v0.4.2

    - Nix-bitcoin v0.0.5

    - namecheap has done 190k bitcoin transactions since implementing btcpayserver a year ago

    - crew energy mining bitcoin

    - lagarde thinks bitcoin isn't currency

    - fode diop, bitcoin + senegal

    - aswath damodaran ESG blog

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.09.06 Sep 09, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - bitcoin is now legal tender in el salvador

    - bullbitcoin adds lightning support

    - irs undercover operation on localcryptos p2p exchange

    - mastercard acquires ciphertrace

    - Phoenix v1.4.17

    - Simple Bitcoin Wallet v2.0.9

    - Caravan v0.3.11

    - Mempool v2.2.2

    - BlueWallet v6.2.5

    - Btcpayserver v1.2.3

    - this month in bitcoin privacy

    - intro to samourai wallet, wednesdays at 1800 UTC

    - blockstream and macquarie form 'green' bitcoin mining partnership

    - new law in ukraine legalizes and regulates bitcoin trading

    - bitcoin is for everyone campaign

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    #271: Health v. Control, the decay of empires, and Bitcoin as Freedom money with George Gammon Sep 08, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with George Gammon to discuss:

    - The COVID reaction; is it about health or control?

    - The erosion of civil liberties

    - The emergence of states asserting their autonomy

    - Trends that emerged as empires have fallen throughout history

    - Bitcoin as Freedom money

    - How weak men are creating hard times

    - much more

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    #270: Better Understanding Monetary Reset with LaserHodl Sep 03, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits back down with LaserHodl to continue their conversation about Monetary Reset.

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.08.29 Sep 02, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - salvadorian gov approves $150M bitcoin trust

    - twitter beta testing lightning tipping service through strike partnership

    - simple bitcoin wallet v2.0.5

    - specter desktop v1.6.0

    - specter diy v1.6.0

    - seedsigner v0.4.4

    - blue wallet v6.2.4

    - coldcard v4.1.3

    - human rights foundation bitcoin academy for activists 4th and 5th

    - adopting bitcoin lightning summit in el salvador nov 16

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    #269: Hollywood, the NBA, China and Bitcoin with Chris Fenton Sep 02, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Chris Fenton, author of Feeding the Dragon: Inside the Trillion Dollar Dilemma Facing Hollywood, the NBA, & American Businesses, to discuss:

    - Chinese propaganda in Hollywood

    - China + the NBA

    - How interconnected are the US and Chinese markets?

    - What is needed to combat the CCP at the business level?

    - much more

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    #268: Q2 Global Monetary Base Update with Matthew Mežinskis Sep 01, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss his report on the Q2 2021 Global Monetary Base.

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    #267: Free private cities, economic zones, and gradual progress with Rahim Taghizadegan Aug 30, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Rahim Taghizadegan, President of Free Private Cities, to discuss:

    - Citadels

    - Creating free private cities

    - How economic zones work

    - Examples of successful free private cities

    - How to get started

    - Where are free cities most likely to pop up?

    - much more

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    #266: Complacency in the US, reworking public education, and changing the system from within w/ Blake Masters Aug 24, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Blake Masters, COO of Thiel Capital - President of The Thiel Foundation - Running for US Senate in Arizona, to discuss:

    - Why leave the private sector for the Senate?

    - What policies are important to focus on?

    - Complacency in the US

    - The pitfalls of public education

    - Energy policy

    - Balkanization

    - Bitcoin Permanent Funds

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.08.16 Aug 19, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - bitcoinsmiles.org crowdfunding campaign launches to provide dental care to salvadorians

    - bitmex demonstrates new proof of reserves and liabilities method

    - bull bitcoin acquires veriphi

    - bitmex, deribit, binance, bitfinex, and others are using shyft for 'travel rule' compliance

    - binance hires former IRS official

    - unchained capital sponsoring mempool project and implementing fee estimation

    - mempool v2.2.1

    - joinmarket v0.9.1

    - joininbox v0.6.0

    - nix-bitcoin v0.0.49

    - zap desktop v0.7.4-beta

    - rust lightning v0.0.100

    - simple bitcoin wallet v2.0.2

    - blockstream launches new mining service targeting stranded renewable energy

    - founder of helix bitcoin mixer pleads guilty

    - tmobile data breach leaves up to 100M customers exposed

    - terrorist watchlist exposed, includes data on 2M people

    - digital identity cards and biometric data collected by US in Afghanistan may be used by Taliban against opposition

    - robinhood rev 40% crypto, 62% of that doge

    - vitalik and musk join doge foundation board

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.08.09 Aug 13, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - infrastructure bill amendments fail

    - beyer bill proposed

    - large number of potential malicious bitcoin nodes graphing the network

    - compass mining provides $80K grant to Jon Atack

    - bitmex pays $100M to resolve charges with CFTC and FinCEN

    - lightning addresses using lnurl

    - phoenix v1.4.15

    - specter v1.5.1

    - trezor suite v21.8.1

    - btcpayserver v1.2.0

    - mining bitcoin at home

    - cuba and bitcoin by gladstein

    - lightning liquidity management guide by lopp

    - bitcoin 2022 april 6-9 in miami beach

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.08.02 Aug 06, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - hodlhodl vulnerability

    - bitaroo exchange now requires video verification for withdrawals

    - infrastructure bill

    - SeedSigner v0.4.3

    - umbrel v0.4.0

    - nth key v1.0.3

    - fully noded v0.2.23

    - lightning pool v0.5.1

    - joinmarket v0.9.0

    - NCR buys libertyx

    - this month in bitcoin privacy

    - chain analysis and bitcoin privacy guide

    - solarwinds hackers accessed emails of 27 DOJ offices

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    #265: Monetary reset, Malthusian wizardy, and Bitcoin as way out with LaserHodl Aug 04, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with LaserHodl to discuss:

    - Monetary reset

    - Zooming out and viewing the world through a specific lens

    - Tactics used by the power structure to divide

    - The 2030/2050 Agendas

    - Why Bitcoin throws a wrench in all of this

    - much more

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    #264: Energy poverty, nonsensical energy policy, and the miracle of petroleum with Chris Wright Jul 30, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Chris Wright, Founder and CEO of Liberty Oilfield Services, to discuss:

    - Energy poverty

    - Lack of education around energy extraction and delivery

    - Energy density

    - Does fracking pollute water?

    - Is Chris anti "renewables"?

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.07.26 Jul 29, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - bipartisan infrastructure bill targets bitcoiners

    - Israel forced bitcoin disclosure bill

    - mexico regulator says 12 bitcoin exchanges are operating illegaly

    - bolt12 spec released http://bolt12.org/

    - fully noded v0.2.20

    - zap android v0.4.2-beta

    - blue wallet v6.2.2

    - bisq v1.7.2

    - coldcard v4.1.2

    - caravan v0.3.9

    - sphinx relay v2.2.0

    - ledger donjon analysis of software wallet

    - liquid truedex launches on mobile

    - lolli raises $10M from celebrities

    - can bitcoin be palestine's currency of freedom

    - french police officer caught selling personal information on darkweb

    - mac malware steals telegram accounts

    - the life cycle of a breached database

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.07.19 Jul 23, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - brink's second round of developer grants

    - seed signer v0.4.2

    - specter desktop v1.5.0

    - samourai dojo v1.10.1

    - eclair v0.6.1

    - electrum v4.1.5

    - lnd v0.13.1-beta

    - blockstream green desktop v0.1.10

    - greenlight by blockstream

    - multisig with better privacy

    - "the b word"

    - EU preparing to implement travel rule

    - NSO spyware

    - critical cloudflare flaw left 12.5% of all sites compromised

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.07.12 Jul 15, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - bitmex dev grant program accepting applications

    - bluewallet mobile focused lightning implementation powered by LDK

    - trezor suite app officially launches

    - bluewallet v6.1.9

    - rust lightning v0.0.99

    - nix-bitcoin v0.0.47

    - zeus v0.5.2

    - fully noded 0.2.18

    - sparrow wallet v1.4.3

    - mint mobile data breach

    - powell on capitol hill

    - unrest around the world

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    #263: The Bitcoin Mining Council and ESG with Michael Saylor, Darin Feinstein, and Austin Storms Jul 14, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Michael Saylor, Darin Feinstein, and Austin Storms to have a discussion about the Bitcoin Mining Council and the ESG movement.

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    #262: Clean water, a prodigal son's journey, and the Bitcoin Water Trust with Scott Harrison Jul 09, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Scott Harrison, Founder and CEO of Charity: Water, to discuss:

    - A prodigal son's journey

    - Nightclub life

    - Hitting rock bottom

    - Turning to a life of charity

    - Volunteering in Liberia

    - Starting Charity: Water

    - How Charity: Water brings clean drinking water to those who desperately need it

    - Running a charity that allocates funds appropriately

    - The Bitcoin Water Trust

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.07.05 Jul 09, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - specter windows vulnerability was a false alarm

    - bisq discloses substantial privacy vulnerability

    - former cftc chair advocates for a bitcoin etf

    - casa client drugged by tinder date in attempted bitcoin theft

    - kaspersky password manager was generating insecure passwords

    - bybit adding kyc

    - fincen hires a "chief digital currency advisor" with justice department experience

    - EU parliament approves mass surveillance of private communications

    - samourai wallet v0.99.96i released

    - mempool v2.2.0 released

    - new feature allows you to coinjoin directly to cold storage using whirlpool

    - brenntag paid a 70 bitcoin ransom to darkside in may

    - nuclear powered mining op in south carolina

    - hydropower mining op in new york

    - this month in bitcoin privacy

    - bitcoin and the american idea by gladstein

    - diverter on freedom

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    #261: The CCP's 100-year anniversary, the geographic distribution of hashrate, and capacity constraints in North America with Edward Evenson Jul 02, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Edward Evenson, Director of Business Development at Braiins, to discuss:

    - The great hashrate migrations

    - What Chinese miners are looking for in co-location partners

    - The 100 year anniversary of the CCP and its significance

    - Will mining return to China?

    - How well is hashrate being distributed as a product of this migration?

    - Braiins update

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.06.28 Jul 01, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - windows version of specter desktop v1.4.6 included a virus

    - largest downward difficulty adjustment in bitcoin history expected tomorrow

    - athena to install 1500 bitcoin atms in el salvador

    - bisq v1.7.0

    - cwtch beta released

    - strike adds buy and hold support

    - proposal for federated blind lightning mints

    - niftynei on dual funded channels and privacy

    - iranian government exempts 30 mining operators amid moratorium

    - binance adds travel rule tool from ciphertrace

    - nearly all 700M linkedin users exposed in API compromise

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    #260: The Great Mining Migration, the market for ASICs, and the near term future of hashrate with Leo Zhang Jun 30, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Leo Zhang, founder of Anicca Research, to discuss:

    - Is this mining ban real?

    - How are Chinese miners reacting?

    - The dynamics of communication between the Chinese and Western mining industries

    - How will this migration affect hashrate in the short and medium term?

    - What does this mean for the market for ASICS?

    - What does capacity in the US look like right now?

    - Hashrate derivatives

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.06.21 Jun 25, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - bitcoin hash drops amid chinese crackdown

    - gbtc redemptions hurting bitcoin demand

    - the b word initiative

    - lnd v0.13.0-beta

    - specter diy v1.5.5

    - rust lightning v0.0.98

    - joinmarket v0.8.3

    - joininbox v0.5.0

    - bluewallet v6.1.6

    - lightning terminal v0.5.0-alpha

    - sparrow wallet v1.4.2

    - umbrel v0.3.13

    - microstrategy buys more bitcoin

    - british FCA cracking down

    - iran seizes miners

    - pysa ransomware targets education organizations

    - gladstein on monetary colonialism

    - mccormack interviews president of el salvador

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.06.14 Jun 17, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - taproot upgrade has locked in, activation expected in november

    - Criminals mailing ledger customers compromised hardware wallets

    - US Bitcoin Mining Council formally launches

    - NY Electricians' union successfully fights bitcoin mining ban

    - G7 leaders say ransomware is a priority

    - Ukrainian raids arrest six tied to CLOP ransomware

    - Biden and Putin meet for four hours with US threatening "cyber response" to ransomware

    - US Dems form "cryptocurrency working group"

    - Microstrategy keeps buying bitcoin

    - Microstrategy considering stock sale

    - Swiss broker Relai raises $2.7M

    - FastBitcoins now available in Australia

    - Russell Okung's letter to the Nigerian government as local support for bitcoin increases

    - Bitcoin Beach article in business week

    - New guide from econoalchemist on coldcard + sparrow

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    #259: Bitcoin layer 3, empowering dissidents, and the power of the Lightning Network with Chase Perkins Jun 15, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Chase Perkins, co-founder and CEO of Impervious.ai, to discuss:

    - Building a VPN that leverages Lightning Network routing nodes

    - Data transfer and user privacy on the Internet

    - Building an API that allows individuals to build privacy preserving apps that leverage Lightning

    - The second iteration of the Internet

    - Node management

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.06.07 Jun 11, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - El Salvador declares bitcoin legal tender

    - Legal tender move pissed off IMF

    - VOLCANO MINING

    - DOJ seizes 63.7 bitcoin connected to Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack

    - Global bank regulators propose burdensome bitcoin capital rule

    - White House advisor disclosures million dollar bitcoin position

    - Blockstream and Square announce solar mining initiative

    - Square announces $5M bitcoin endowment

    - Rumors that Indian Government will be more positive toward bitcoin going forward

    - Bitmex extends Gleb Naumenko grant

    - Microstrategy announces new private offering

    - Bitfinex invests in HodlHodl

    - Ledger raises $380 million

    - FBI ran an encrypted phone network 'Anom' with a backdoor

    - Apple announces new 'private relay' trust minimized VPN

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    Rabbit Hole Recap LIVE IN MIAMI: Week of 2021.05.31 Jun 07, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Moon bouncing transactions

    - Ross Ulbricht's interview

    - Green coins

    - Kevin O'Leary gets heckled

    - Censorship

    - Bitcoin Design Guide

    - Indy 500

    - Mining in gas fields

    - Much more

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    #258: The morality of ESG with Untapped Growth Jun 02, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Untapped Growth to discuss:

    - ESG

    - Is it moral?

    - Can it be leveraged to speculative attack the fiat standard?

    - How can Bitcoin lead to better culture

    - Seeking objective truth

    - much more

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    #257: Infusing bitcoin into gaming, the Lightning Network, and Bitcoin 2021 with Desiree Dickerson, Christian Moss, and Michael Tidwell May 28, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Desiree Dickerson of Lightning Labs and Mint Gox + Christian Moss and Michael Tidwell of ZEBEEDEE to discuss:

    - Update of the CSGO ZEBEEDEE Infuse integration

    - How users have tried to stack by gaming the system

    - Moderating sat farming

    - New slang around stacking sats

    - How the Lightning Network technical infrastructure is looking

    - New games on the horizon

    - Kids in South America earning a living via CSGO infused with sats

    - The eSports Stage at Bitcoin 2021 - 100,000,000 sats on the line!

    - much more

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    Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.


    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.05.24 May 27, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Chinese government bitcoin mining ban rumors

    - US based "bitcoin mining council"

    - texas bitcoin law

    - Ray dalio owns bitcoin

    - carl icahn considering bitcoin investment

    - four month bitcoin mining ban in iran

    - specter diy v1.5.4

    - blue wallet v6.1.4

    - lnd sidecar channels

    - bitcoin indy car

    - gladstein on the humanitarian and environmental case for bitcoin

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    #256: How to grow a pair with Dave Collum May 26, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with the legend Dave Collum to discuss:

    - Fauci

    - Climate change

    - Lockdowns

    - The Fed

    - Inflation

    - Skydiving

    - much more

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    #255: Green energy tradeoffs, real environmentalism, Bitcoin as a commodity, & Saudi Inc. with Dr. Ellen Wald May 25, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Dr. Ellen Wald, author of Saudi, Inc., to discuss:

    - The unspoken tradeoffs of green energy

    - The Colonial Pipeline situation

    - Ransomeware

    - The ESG movement

    - Is bitcoin a commodity?

    - Saudi Inc.

    - much more

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    #254: Bitcoin 101, inflation, and surfing with Bethany Hamilton and Adam Dirks May 21, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with pro surfer Bethany Hamilton and Adam Dirks to discuss:

    - Bitcoin 101

    - Inflation

    - Hyperinflation rhyming

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.05.17 May 20, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - our two first $10K candles and it was the same day!

    - hash rate appears to have dropped

    - dutch bank no longer requiring withdrawal address verification

    - cross browser tracking vulnerability

    - chaos at freenode

    - libsecp256k1 improvements have sped up bitcoin core validation by 7%

    - darkside says servers and bitcoin seized, all decryption keys to be released

    - elliptic follows darkside funds https://archive.ph/lBa2C and oxt provides cluster

    - argentina authorities force exchanges to provide data

    - US Treasury wants a $10K transfer reporting requirement

    - whirlpool cli v0.10.11

    - ronindojo v1.10.0

    - sparrow wallet v1.4.1

    - chess tournament with $100K bitcoin prize

    - galaxy digital on bitcoin energy consumption

    - wharton receives $5M worth of bitcoin

    - anthony towns on taproot activation

    - chinese gov and apple servers

    - follow up to last week's solar comments

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    #253: Local government, building a strong town, and bitcoin on the balance sheet with Mayor Scott Conger May 19, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with the Mayor of Jackson Tennessee, Scott Conger, to discuss:

    - Being the 3rd Mayor of Jackson in his family

    - The day to day of leading a small city

    - How Mayor Conger approaches taxes for the city

    - How Mayor Conger became interested in bitcoin

    - Bitcoin's role in local government

    - Local v. Federal government

    - "If not me, then who?"

    - much more

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    #252: Content monetization, art, and NFTs with cryptograffiti May 18, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with prolific Bitcoin artist cryptograffiti to discuss:

    - Using art to convey Bitcoin's revolutionary nature

    - Content monetization under a Bitcoin Standard

    - Why NFTs are so popular

    - Is art subjective or is there objective beauty?

    - Cutting out middle men

    - Artists working directly with collectors

    - much more

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    Check out his art

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    #251: Raising children, ransomware attacks, climate narrative, and Bitcoin under attack with Whitney Webb May 14, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with investigative journalist Whitney Webb to discuss:

    - Raising children as a countercultural act

    - Ransomeware attacks

    - Colonial Pipeline spill cover up

    - Elon Musk

    - Bill Gates

    - Central Bank Digital Currencies

    - AI

    - Bitcoin as a tool to fight back

    - Citadels

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.05.10 May 13, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - cake wallet vulnerability

    - hash rate ath

    - the bitcoin car at indy 500

    - elon tweets energy fud

    - microstrategy stacked more

    - recent CPI numbers released

    - us gov probes binance

    - gbtc discount hits record low of 20%

    - fully noded v0.2.17

    - bluewallet v6.1.2

    - lightning network privacy analysis

    - analysis of darkside ransomware group

    - colonial pipeline allegedly paid $5M ransom

    - check your financial privilege by gladstein

    - gladstein in cato on a post cash world

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    #250: Q1 Monetary Base Update, inflation, and haters with Matthew Mežinskis May 13, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss:

    - The latest global monetary base update

    - Why the monetary base is a good benchmark for bitcoin

    - Bitcoin is the 6th largest base money (ex-gold) in the world

    - Defining assets and liabilities on the Fed's balance sheet

    - Why Japan matters

    - Communism creep

    - Bitcoin and a free banking system

    - Academic economists and bitcoin

    - much more

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    #249: Indian Point shutdown, electricity prices, Bitcoin 101, and externalities of wind energy w/ Robert Bryce May 10, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Robert Bryce; author, documentarian, and host of the Power Hungry Podcast, to discuss:

    - The Indian Point power plant shutdown

    - Energy mix

    - Subsidies leading to capital misallocation

    - Bitcoin's value prop

    - The externalities that come with wind turbines

    - Land use and green energy

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.05.03 May 06, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    bitcoin core v0.21.1

    first taproot signalling period

    new multisig guide from bitcoinqna

    thailand in person kyc

    this month in bitcoin privacy

    bluewallet v6.1.0

    umbrel v03.10

    phoenix v1.4.11

    F2pool hashrate from outside china

    Dual-funded LN channel on mainnet

    MARA virtue signaling

    Iranian Central Bank cucking too

    Miningpool.observer

    NY State wants to ban mining

    Bitcoin Beach fund raiser

    Coinbase transparency report

    Cash App Q1 numbers

    Commodities inflation

    Tunisian student arrested and tortured for using BTC

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    #248: Fragile electrical grids, unreliable energy lobby, nuclear FUD, and common sense with Meredith Angwin May 04, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Meredith Angwin, author of Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid, to discuss:

    - The fragility of grids

    - Misconceptions around electric grids

    - Energy mix

    - What's happening in Texas and California?

    - Why nuclear is important

    - How data is manipulated to push special interests

    - How we can fix our grids

    Follow Meredith on Twitter

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    #247: Julian Assange, The Espionage Act, Julian's Defense, and Journalistic Freedom in 2021 with Gabriel Shipton Apr 30, 2021

    Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Gabriel Shipton, brother of Julian Assange, to discuss:

    - Julian's ongoing trial

    - How the US Government is wrongfully persecuting Julian

    - The bogus rape charges lobbed against Julian

    - The US Government's Espionage charges

    - Journalism in 2021

    - Why Julian's case is very important for the future of journalism

    - How to support Julian's defense fund

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.04.26 Apr 29, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - BTCPay Server vulnerability disclosure

    - JP Morgan bends the knee

    - Tesla CFO on bitcoin during Q1 earnings

    - Public video game publisher Nexon buys 1717 bitcoin

    - Chiefs veteran tight end Sean Culkin converting entire salary to bitcoin

    - Second bitcoin exchange goes down in Turkey

    - Turkish gov using it as an excuse to regulate further

    - Bitcoin Fog custodial bitcoin mixer operator arrested

    - DC Cops hit with ransomware which threatens informants

    - Global ransomware task force launched

    - Bisq exploring new trade protocol

    - Adam Gibson on big picture Joinmarket improvements

    - Blockstream satellite easy base station

    - Umbrel v0.3.9

    - RaspiBlitz v1.7.0

    - Specter v1.3.1

    - Sparrow v1.4.0

    - Sphinx Relay v2.0.13

    - BTCPay Server v1.1.0

    - Specter DIY

    - Square adds former vice president of U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness

    - LND benchmarking, 1000 TPS on consumer VPS possible

    - Bitcoin Beach feature

    - Rizzo on Satoshi's disappearance

    - Gladstein on the petrodollar

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    #246: The Intelligent Bitcoin Miner, mining profitability models, and hashrate derivatives with Karim Helmy Apr 28, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Karim Helmy from Galaxy Digital to discuss:

    - The Intelligent Bitcoin Miner Pt. II

    - Modeling future price and profitability

    - Helping miners make better business decisions

    - The ASIC crunch

    - Future research topics

    - much more

    Follow Karim on Twitter

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    #245: Austin, trillions out of thin air, inflation, and a Bitcoin economy with Parker Lewis Apr 23, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Parker Lewis, Head of Business Development at Unchained Capital, to discuss:

    - The Austin Bitcoin scene

    - The Fed opening the spigots

    - Systemic credit risk

    - Fiscal spending enabled by the Fed

    - Capital allocation under a Bitcoin Standard

    - Sam Houston

    - much more

    Follow Parker on Twitter

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.04.19 Apr 22, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Venmo adds bitcoin IOU support, no withdrawals

    - WeWork accepting bitcoin as payment and will hodl

    - Coin Center responds strongly against FATF

    - Turkish Gov attempting bitcoin payments ban

    - Turkish bitcoin exhange Thodex apparent exit scam

    - OKEx adds lightning support

    - Cashapp raises withdrawal minimum to 100K sats frok 10K sats

    - Bitcoin Core v0.21.1 RC 1 Taproot Speedy Trial client released

    - UASF Taproot client released

    - Aaron Van Wirdum write up on the two taproot clients

    - myNode v0.2.30

    - Start9 adds Sphinx, Onion pages, Photoview

    - Square and Ark argue that bitcoin is good for the environment

    - Former comptroller of the currency Brian Brooks new CEO of Binance US

    - Former CFTC Chair joins BlockFi Board

    - The Intelligent Bitcoin Miner, Part II

    - Signal hacks hacking company Cellebrite

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    #244: DLCs, DeFi, Taproot activation, and milk cattle with Chris Stewart and Ben Carman Apr 16, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Chris Stewart and Ben Carman from Suredbits to discuss:


    - The Austin scene

    - Migrations in the US

    - DLCs

    - Lessons from DeFi

    - Taproot activation

    - Speedy Trial

    - Coinflip

    - Milk cattle

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.04.12 Apr 15, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Speedy Trial taproot activation method merged

    - Comments by greg maxwell

    - COPA sues CSW

    - CCI releases first report stating there is minimal "illicit activity" using bitcoin

    - VanEck "bitcoin" ETF DAPP that does not hold bitcoin directly

    - btc-rpc-explorer v3.0

    - trezor suite beta v21.4.1

    - Alleged paxful KYC leak claimed to be fake

    - Gladstein biweekly column

    - shitCOIN IPO, currently valued at ~$66B

    - Mexico fingerprint KYC for phone sim cards

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.04.05 Apr 08, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - coinbase IPO on april 14th, ticker COIN

    - NYDIG raises another $100M

    - African P2P volumes hit new all time highs

    - Ukrainian civil servants own more than 46k bitcoin

    - Crypto Council for Innovation announced

    - Square Crypto grant for mempool.space

    - Peter Thiel comments on bitcoin and china

    - Arthur Hayes surrenders

    - Circle and Polo ordered to provide info on users to IRS

    - Kraken received similar but judge says they must narrow request

    - former chainalysis chief technical counsel now head of fincen

    - Blue Wallet v6.0.8

    - Hexa Wallet v1.5.0

    - Coldcard v4.0.2

    - Sphinx-relay v2.0.9

    - Sparrow Wallet v1.3.2

    - Electrum v4.1.2

    - LexisNexis signs contract to provide database of 283 million people to US ICE

    - 522 million facebook users' info leaked online

    - Jake Chervinsky Q1 review

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    #243: Regenerative farming, Fiat food and farming, cattle breeds, and plebs running the world with Untapped Growth Apr 07, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Untapped Growth (Joel) to discuss:

    - The Fiat Farming system

    - Top soil

    - Roundup in everything

    - Using cattle for regenerative farming

    - Creating a cattle ranching/land management co-op

    - Distributed asynchronous citadel networks

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.03.29 Apr 01, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - coldcard physical attack

    - Kentucky signs bitcoin mining incentives

    - Strike launches in El Salvador without banking partners

    - Azteco adds lightning

    - Goldman to start offering bitcoin exposure to rich clients

    - Morgan Stanley prepping to add bitcoin exposure to major funds

    - Brink's first round of dev grants

    - Gemini provides grant to mempool.space

    - Specter v1.3.0

    - Coldcard v4.01

    - Bisq v1.6.1

    - BTCPay Server v1.0.7.1

    - sphinx-relay v2.0.7

    - c-lightning v0.10.0

    - MyNode v0.2.29

    - Umbrel v0.3.8

    - Zeus v0.5.1

    - JoininBox v0.3.4

    - Wasabi v1.1.12.7

    - HWI v2.0.1

    - Chainalysis raises $100M, valued at $2B

    - Canada increases KYC requirements

    - Lightning node performance tests

    - Probing lightning channels paper

    - Largest KYC leak ever from MobiKwik in India

    - GBTC still trading at discount

    - Bitcoin transcripts hub

    - This month in bitcoin privacy

    - SuredBits Multi Oraclee deep dive

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    #242: Ledn.io, Proof of Reserves, risk management, hyperinflation, and the Petro with Mauricio Di Bartolomeo Mar 29, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Mauricio Di Bartolomeo to discuss:

    - Ledn's recent raise

    - Proof of Reserves

    - Risk Management

    - Duration matching

    - Hyperinflation

    - Good people succeeding

    - Bitcoin scaling in layers

    - Ledn users sending within the platform

    - The Petro

    - much more

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    #241: Mining pools, Braidpool, resistance to attacks, adversarial thinking, and dev funding with Bob McElrath Mar 26, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Bob McElrath to discuss:

    - NY BitDevs

    - Mining pools

    - P2Pool

    - Braidpool

    - Making decentralized pools viable

    - How they may fail

    - Adversarial thinking

    - Bob's Bitcoin journey

    - much more

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    Bitcoin Munich Meetup Video

    Braidpool IRC

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2021.03.22 Mar 25, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Tesla now accepting bitcoin and will hodl

    - Podcasting 2.0 on breez

    - Microsoft launches layer 2 decentralized identity on top of bitcoin mainnet

    - FTX closing $7M per year deal for Miami Heat Arena

    - Fidelity files for a bitcoin etf

    - Lolli raises $5M from Serena Williams and her husband

    - CFTC fines coinbase $6.5M for litecoin bullshit

    - FATF releases enhanced KYC guidelines

    - Coincenter analysis

    - Surveillance firm Elliptic explaining Hydra innovative dead drops

    - JoininBox v0.3.3

    - RoninDojo v1.9.0

    - Sparrow Walet v1.3.1

    - Tails v4.17

    - Sphinx relay v2.0.6

    - BlueWallet v6.0.7

    - Specter DIY v1.5.0

    - eznode simple pruning-friendly setup for a personal bitcoin full node

    - New liquid wallet

    - Test release of coinswaps statechain implementation

    - Bisq meeting on moving to layer 2 networks

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    #240: Bullishness, timing births with bull cycles, Bitcoin 2021, and the youths with David Bailey Mar 23, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with David Bailey, founder of BTC Media, to discuss:

    - How bullish is David?

    - How high will bitcoin go?

    - Timing the birth of his children up with bull markets

    - Bitcoin 2021 events

    - Bitcoin 2021 location

    - Bitcoin Magazine content

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.03.15 Mar 18, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - FTX negotiating naming rights to miami heat arena https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article249892678.html

    - miner revenue priced in dollars hits all time high https://twitter.com/_Checkmatey_/status/1370901101403238400

    - Kentucky passes tax breaks to bitcoin miners https://www.coindesk.com/kentucky-approves-bills-providing-incentives-for-crypto-miners

    - Pakistani province experimenting with mining using hydro https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currency-pakistan/pakistani-province-plans-to-build-pilot-crypto-currency-mining-farms-idUSKBN2BA0KW

    - Oakland Athletics bitcoin suites https://twitter.com/AthleticsPR/status/1371144942735609859

    - Morgan Stanley wealth management now offering bitcoin funds https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/17/bitcoin-morgan-stanley-is-the-first-big-us-bank-to-offer-wealthy-clients-access-to-bitcoin-funds.html

    - Signal now accepting bitcoin https://signal.org/donate/#cryptocurrency

    - India attempted ban rumored https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-cryptocurrency-ban-idUSKBN2B60R0

    - JPMorgan says retail flows comparable to institutional https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-15/retail-bitcoin-traders-rival-wall-street-buyers-as-mania-builds

    - Third coincenter letter to fincen about proposed enhanced kyc https://www.coincenter.org/coin-center-uses-additional-time-provided-by-fincen-to-file-another-comment-in-ongoing-surveillance-rulemaking/

    - Binance probed by CFTC https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-12/crypto-exchange-binance-investigated-by-u-s-over-who-s-trading

    - BitMEX cofounder Ben Delo surrenders and released on $20M bail https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-15/bitmex-founder-delo-surrenders-to-face-u-s-laundering-charges

    - Coldcard v4.0.0 https://blockclockmini.com/firmware/

    - Blockclock mini v1.0.8 https://blog.coinkite.com/version-4.0.0-released/

    - HWI v2.0.0 https://github.com/bitcoin-core/HWI/releases/tag/2.0.0

    - Nodl dojo v0.1.2c

    - Rudefox Burrow v0.1.1 https://www.rudefox.io/burrow/quick-start.html

    - Anthony Towns on UASF http://www.erisian.com.au/wordpress/2021/03/14/fixing-uasf

    - Ryan Gentry on bitcoin governance https://ryanthegentry.medium.com/a-theory-of-bitcoin-governance-13510eff42a6

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    #239: Sphinx Chat, encrypted chat over LN, banking the unbanked, and rearchitecting the Internet with Paul Itoi Mar 17, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Paul Itoi, co-founder of Stakwork and Sphinx Chat, to discuss:

    - Sphinx chat

    - Content monetization without ads

    - Encrypted chat over the Lightning Network

    - Paying anons around the world

    - Banking the unbanked

    - Rearchitecting the Internet using BTC/LN

    - How BTC/LN can help parents unschool their kids

    - Bringing back grazing cattle via Sphinx

    - Training personal AIs

    - much more

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    #238: Green energy jobs fraud, unreliable renewables, climate catastrophe, and controllable electricity with Alex Epstein Mar 17, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Alex Epstein, Author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, to discuss:

    - Green energy jobs v. oil jobs

    - Subsidies driving energy prices higher

    - Using fraud as a heuristic to question the anti-energy movement

    - Developing our environment to protect from climate

    - "Climate catastrophe"

    - Why not nuclear?

    - Moralizing energy conversion

    - Bitcoin and energy

    - much more

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    #237: Bitcoin Urbanism, Parasitic ideas, real world inflation, the suburban mistake and building Strong Towns with Kelly Lannan Mar 15, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Kelly Lannan, the mind behind Bitcoin Urbanism, to discuss:

    - Parasitic ideas

    - How Bitcoin Urbanism came to be

    - Being a real estate developer

    - Building materials inflation

    - How fiat money destroyed city planning

    - How city codes hamstring builders

    - Fixing the Fiat Standard one block at a time

    - Classical architecture making a come back

    - much more

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    #236: Occupy Wall Street, independent media, being a stock broker in the 80s, flaneuring, and NYC comedy with Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert Mar 12, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert to discuss:

    - Occupy Wall Street

    - Wall Street in the 80s

    - Independent media

    - Propaganda and gaslighting

    - Bitcoin as an anti-war movement

    - Comedy in NYC in the 70s & 80s

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.03.08 Mar 11, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Norwegian energy giant Aker forms bitcoin unit Seetee

    - New Taproot Activation Method proposed "Speedy Trial"

    - Malicious backdoored version of electrum wallet

    - Whirlpool GUI v0.10.3

    - Samourai Wallet v0.99.96e

    - Zeus v0.5.0

    - JoinMarket v0.8.2

    - JoininBox v0.3.0

    - Coldcard v4.0.0-beta

    - Sparrow v1.3.0

    - BTCPay Server v1.0.7.0

    - NYDIG $200 million growth round

    - Blockfi $350M raise at $3B valuation

    - River $12M raise

    - Massive Microsoft Exchange email server compromise

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    #235: The history of taxes, taxes under a Bitcoin Standard, and gold v. bitcoin with Dominic Frisby Mar 10, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Dominic Frisby to discuss:

    - Daylight Robbery

    - The history of taxes

    - The future of taxes under a Bitcoin Standard

    - The State as a coercive evil force

    - Gold v. Bitcoin

    - much more

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    #234: OPEC, the Shale industry, common sense, and bitcoin as a settlement currency with Anas Alhajji Mar 08, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Anas Alhajji to discuss:

    - OPEC dynamics

    - The politics of oil and gas

    - The history of the shale industry

    - Common sense

    - Bitcoin as a settlement currency for oil trade

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.03.01 Mar 04, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - bottlepay flagging samourai whirlpool coinjoin deposits

    - bitstamp flagging wasabi coinjoin usage post withdrawal

    - I2P network support merged into bitcoin core

    - Regtest demo of zcash based bitcoin sidechain

    - Arthur Hayes negotiating surrender agreement

    - Umbrel v0.3.6

    - BlueWallet v6.0.6

    - Whirlpool CLI v0.10.10

    - Eclair v0.5.1

    - Lightning Terminal v0.4.1

    - BTCPay Server added to Voltage

    - Citi bank bullish report

    - Goldman Sachs bitcoin trading desk

    - HRF $70K in bitcoin dev grants

    - Bull Bitcoin and Wasabi Wallet $40K grant to Luke-Jr

    - Unchained Capital $5.5M seed round led by NYDIG

    - Bitcoin voicepaper

    - Kentucky bitcoin mining incentive

    - PayNyms 101

    - This month in bitcoin privacy

    - DEA report mentions bitcoin and 'virtual currency'

    - Mempool joins COPA

    - Germany considering KYC for emails and texts

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    #233: Raising money in 2020, hashrate derivative products, why no hashrate growth?, and off-grid mining with Nick Hansen Mar 03, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Nick Hansen, co-founder and CEO of Luxor Mining, to discuss:

    - Raising money in 2020

    - Building as the price of bitcoin crashed

    - Hashrate derivative tokens

    - Why a miner would sell hash

    - Why a retail investor would buy a hash rate token

    - Why isn't hash rate keeping up with price

    - Mining off grid

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.02.22 Feb 26, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Taproot LOT OF LOTS

    - BitPay Sanctions Violations

    - Bitfinex and Tether settle with NY AG without admitting fault

    - MicroStrategy bought another ~19.5k bitcoin for a ~$1.03B, they now hold 90.5k bitcoin

    - Square quarterly earnings

    - Coinbase discloses number ahead of Nasdaq listing

    - Teleport Transactions CoinSwap implementation

    - Arthur Hayes emerges

    - Specter v1.2.0

    - Onion Share v2.3

    - RTL v0.10.1

    - Hexa Wallet v1.4.5

    - Samourai Dojo v1.9.0

    - MyNode v0.2.27

    - Sparrow Wallet v1.2.0

    - Blockstream Green adds encryption to wallet metadata

    - River raised $17.3M

    - BottlePay raised $15.5M

    - Can Governments Stop Bitcoin?

    - BitMEX provides third grant for Michael Ford

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    #232: Treasuries, inflation, history lessons, and Bitcoin & energy with Lyn Alden Feb 24, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Lyn Alden, Founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, to discuss:

    - Current market environment

    - Commodities pumping

    - Rates jumping

    - Repo markets

    - Inflation

    - Historical inflationary event

    - Bitcoin + energy arbitrage

    - much more

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    #231: Mining trends, bitcoin liquidity crunch, and money printer go brrr with Mason Jappa & Sam Chwarzynski Feb 19, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Mason Jappa & Sam Chwarzynski from Blockware Solutions to discuss:

    - Mining trends

    - Hosting

    - Bitcoin as a messaging protocol

    - The bitcoin liquidity crunch

    - The macro factors lining up for bitcoin

    - Bitcoin the messaging network

    - Protecting against onerous regulations

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.02.15 Feb 18, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Taproot activation timeline released

    - Dread admins discuss issues with ongoing Tor attack

    - Jack and Jay Z announce 500 bitcoin development endowment

    - Canadian Bitcoin ETF gets green light

    - BlackRock "dabbling" in bitcoin

    - BlueWallet v6.0.5

    - Zap Android v0.4.0-beta

    - JoininBox v0.2.0

    - Umbrel v0.3.3

    - Wasabi Wallet v1.1.12.4

    - BIP47 v3 draft spec released

    - Bitcoin Storage Guide by Sparrow Wallet Team

    - Ministry of Nodes Ubuntu Node Box Guide

    - Osprey Bitcoin Trust (OBTC), a challenger to Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC)

    - Myanmar internet cut multiple times as military curfew continues

    - Matt + Scaramucci

    - Texas energy debacle

    - Bitcoin is the #6 base money in the world

    - much more

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    #230: Layered Money, Complexity of USD, and a New Financial Stack with Nik Bhatia Feb 16, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Nik Bhatia, Author of Layered Money: From Gold and Dollars to Bitcoin and CBDCs, to discuss:

    - Writing the book

    - Fed money printing

    - History of layered money systems

    - Different reserves

    - How complicated the current USD reserve system is

    - A new financial stack emanating from nonces

    - much more

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    #229: Black Bitcoin Billionaires, Marketing Bitcoin, and Freedom Money with Lamar Wilson Feb 12, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Lamar Wilson to discuss:

    - Black Bitcoin Billionaires club on Clubhouse

    - Marketing bitcoin

    - Empowering individuals with bitcoin

    - Bringing back strong families

    - Getting people off zero on their way to becoming satoshi millionaires

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.02.08 Feb 11, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Coldcard multisig vulnerability https://nunchuk.medium.com/the-missing-multisig-standard-5b4092e3ea92

    - Tesla buys $1.5B worth of bitcoin https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000156459021004599/tsla-10k_20201231.htm

    - Bitcoin Hash Rate New ATH

    - Samourai Wallet v0.99.96c https://docs.samourai.io/en/wallet/releases#v09996c

    - Nunchuk v0.9.7 https://nunchuk.medium.com/nunchuk-0-9-7-6b74b3848c3d

    - Joinmarket v0.8.1 https://github.com/joinmarket-org/joinmarket-clientserver/releases/tag/v0.8.1

    - Sparrow v1.1.0 https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/1.1.0

    - Twitter CFO says they are considering bitcoin purchase https://twitter.com/SquawkCNBC/status/1359501275650547714

    - SEC Commish says they are ready for a bitcoin ETF https://www.coindesk.com/peirce-sec-coindesk-tv

    - Sending large files with blockstream satellite https://medium.com/blockstream/orbital-data-freighting-with-blockstream-satellite-2b9cde6aa79e

    - Saylor Academy launches free bitcoin course http://sylr.org/BTC4E

    - Gladstein + Reason Video https://twitter.com/reason/status/1357756578787708931

    - Arthur Hayes Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/02/the-rise-and-fall-of-bitcoin-billionaire-arthur-hayes

    - Castle Island new $50M bitcoin VC fund https://medium.com/castle-island-ventures/castle-island-ventures-ii-and-the-road-ahead-e1dfffe72d8f

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    #228: UASFs, BIP 148, BIP 91, and Taproot Activation with Matt Corallo Feb 10, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Matt Corallo to discuss:

    - The history of SegWit2x

    - How SegWit actually got activated

    - BIP 148

    - BIP 91

    - Preventing a split

    - Fork futures

    - Lessons learned

    - UASF as a nuclear option

    - Taproot activation

    - BIP 8 (True/False)

    - Why precedents matter

    - LDK update

    - much more

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    #227: Mining, energy, central banks of the future and capital allocation with Harry Sudock Feb 05, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Harry Sudock, VP of Strategy at GRIID, to discuss:

    - Meeting in NYC

    - Stumbling into the mining industry

    - The merging of the bitcoin mining and energy industries

    - Energy delivery problems

    - Grid stabilization

    - Central banks of the future

    - Efficient capital allocation under a Bitcoin Standard

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.02.01 Feb 04, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Elon playing games

    - Senator Lummis appointed Senate Banking Committee

    - Microstrategy Bitcoin Summit

    - Grayscale GBTC premium goes negative for first time

    - California pension fund goes HAM on RIOT

    - Darknet markets hit new ATH revenue according to chainalysis

    - Matrix Chat Client Element removed

    - Zeus v0.5.0-beta1

    - Bisq v1.5.5

    - Hexa Wallet v1.4.2

    - Phoenix v1.4.6

    - Home mining for non-KYC Bitcoin

    - Self-hosting guide by Ketan

    - Coinbase targeting Nasdaq and $50B valuation

    - New Fed paper on inequality

    - Ukraine considering nuclear mining

    - Proposed Bitcoin Ban in India

    - India blocks internet amid protests

    - ATMs, banks, and internet access have been shutdown in Myanmar following military coup

    - Casa raises $4m in seed round

    - XMR.to shuts down

    - This Month in Bitcoin Privacy: January 2020

    - Bitcoin 2021 Conference moved from LA to Miami in June

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.01.25 Jan 29, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Wall Street Mayhem

    - Tor v3 DoS attacks continue

    - Tighter KYC regs in Netherlands

    - Marathon buys $150M in bitcoin

    - Sparrow Wallet v1.0.0

    - Tails v4.15

    - Fully Noded v0.2.11

    - GrapheneOS web installer

    - Grayscale donates $1M to coincenter, matching up to another $1M

    - Navalny donation address receives almost 4 bitcoin since he was jailed addy

    - Mining pool censorship analysis by bitmex research

    - Jihan Wu signed letter

    - Gladstein in Time on privacy

    - Ray Dalio on bitcoin

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    #226: Sovereign default swap markets as a proxy for Bitcoin's fair value with Greg Foss Jan 25, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with long time credit trader Greg Foss to discuss:

    - Surfing culture

    - Greg's experience trading credit markets

    - Using the CDS market for sovereign bonds as a way to calculate Bitcoin's fair value

    - Systemic risk in the financial system

    - Counter-party risk

    - Bitcoin and the energy industry

    - much more

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    #225: Whitney Webb Jan 22, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with independent journalist Whitney Webb to discuss:

    - Solar Winds

    - Q Anon

    - Operation Warp Speed

    - Incoming Secretary of State

    - WEF's Great Reset

    - Independent Journalism

    - Opting out

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.01.18 Jan 21, 2021

    This week in Bitcoin Marty and Matt discuss:

    - bitcoin reorg confusion: BITMEX & Blockstream Explorer & Deribit Dissection & Peter Todd

    - CSW sues bitcoin.org and bitcoincore.org over whitepaper copyright

    - Energy usage FUD smacks marty in the face on twitter

    - Mining in the arctic circle

    - Iranian gov seizing ASICs

    - Blue Wallet v6.0.3

    - c-lightning v0.9.3

    - Bitcoin Dev Kit v0.3.0

    - Blackrock entering the fray?

    - Chainalysis releases 2020 "illicit activity" report

    - Our boy Nic dropped a great piece in NYMag

    - Mullvad conducts infrastructure audit

    - Bitcoin Core usage survey

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    #224: How to cancel yourself with Michael Krieger Jan 15, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Michael Krieger to discuss:

    - Cancel yourself before they cancel you

    - Free and open source software

    - Censorship

    - History

    - Bitcoin as a way to exit

    - The illegitimacy of the expert class

    - Localism

    - The education system

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.01.11 Jan 15, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Tor v3 Onion addresses unreachable after apparent attack on Tor network

    - Ledger discloses new data leak and steps they are taking to mitigate issues going forward

    - Analysis of Solar Winds attack

    - HRF provides grants to Specter and Lot49

    - Lagarde attacks bitcoin

    - Bitcoin Core v0.21.0

    - BlueWallet v6.0.2

    - BTCPay Server v1.0.6.5

    - RaspiBlitz v1.6.3

    - Sparrow v0.9.10

    - Hexa Wallet v1.4.1

    - Fully Noded v0.2.9

    - Coldcard v3.2.2

    - Mempool v2

    - Bakkt going public on NYSE

    - Poolin releases hash rate token

    - FinCEN extends comment period

    - German Police take down DarkMarket and arrest operator

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    #223: Talking Oil, Gas & Bitcoin with @chigrl Jan 13, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Tracy Shuchart (@chigrl) from Hedge Fund Telemetry to discuss:

    - Oil Markets

    - Misallocation of capital

    - PE + O&G

    - Fragile supply chains

    - Rare Earth metals

    - Bitcoin mining with flare gas

    - Energy producers are the central banks of the future

    - much more

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    #222: Beefing with the NFL with Jack Mallers Jan 08, 2021

    Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Jack Mallers, Founder and CEO of Strike, to discuss:

    - Athletes getting paid in sats

    - Beef with the NFL

    - bitcoin the hard asset

    - Bitcoin the Network

    - Strike global

    - Routing around with Bitcoin

    - State of the Lightning Network

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.01.04 Jan 07, 2021

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - OCC letter on banks using stablecoins

    - Pro censorship American mining pool gains steam

    - Iranian mining crackdown

    - Strike Global

    - Blockstream Jade

    - Bitcoin Core v0.21.0 RC5

    - Fully Noded v0.2.8

    - Specter v1.0.0

    - Braiins acquires remaining stake in Slush Pool from Slush

    - Coindesk buys tradeblock

    - Anthony Towns on 2021

    - Bitcoin Explained by BJ Dweck

    - Silent Link

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    #221: DLCs, transaction fees, and PEMDAS with Chris Stewart Jan 06, 2021

    Join Marty as he sits down with Chris Stewart, CEO of Suredbits, to discuss:

    - An update on DLCs

    - The US Presidential Election DLCs

    - Oracle problems and solutions

    - DLCFDs

    - Stablecoins

    - Transaction fees

    - Is Ethereum beating Bitcoin?

    - PEMDAS

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.12.28 Dec 31, 2020

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Our boy Russ getting paid in bitcoin using Strike

    - Mooch's new bitcoin fund slides leak

    - Indian Gov considering 18% tax on bitcoin trading

    - US Treasury hits BitGo with sanctions violations on their non custodial wallet

    - Bisq v1.5.3

    - Umbrel App Store

    - VanEck refiles ETF

    - This Month in Bitcoin Privacy

    - SolarWinds attack

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    #220: Matt Hill Dec 29, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Matt Hill, co-founder and CEO of Start9 Labs, to discuss:

    - Founding Start9 Labs

    - The Embassy

    - Routing around Apple's App Store

    - Why personal hardware is an imperative moving forward

    - Self-sovereign surveillance

    - Making all of this easy

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.12.21 Dec 24, 2020

    Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:

    - Ledger database dump

    - FinCEN adds new KYC requirements for withdrawals

    - Nigeria is now second biggest Paxful bitcoin market after the US

    - Bitmain civil war escalates

    - Microstrategy recent purchases complete

    - BlueWallet v6.0.1

    - Eclair v0.5.0

    - Caravan adds PSBT support

    - Discreet Log Contract for Difference

    - Ripple gets hit by SEC

    - Bitcoin DevKit

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    #219: arbedout Dec 23, 2020

    Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with their very good friend arbedout to discuss:

    - Gurri's Revolt of the Public

    - Telecommunications networks

    - Deflationary v. Inflationary currencies

    - MMT vs Bitcoin in context of Hirschmann's Exit, Voice and Loyalty

    - Great American Mining, energy, and Bitcoin

    - much more

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    #218: Desiree Dickerson, Christian Moss, & Simon Cowell Dec 22, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Desiree Dickerson, Christian Moss and Simon Cowell to discuss:

    - Gaming + The Lightning Network

    - Why dedicated gaming tokens don't make sense

    - Zebedee's SDK

    - MintGox

    - Getting pro gamers into LN enabled gaming

    - Gaming culture these days

    - The Upcoming MintGox tournament on December 27th

    - Our favorite games

    - much more

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    #217: Lightswitch Lou's Return Dec 22, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Louis Roberts AKA Lightswitch Lou, the man who launched TFTC, to discuss:

    - Everything under the sun

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    #216: Pete Rizzo Dec 18, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Pete Rizzo, Editor at Kraken and Advisor to Bitcoin Magazine, to discuss:

    - The war over P2SH

    - Bitcoin's development culture

    - Are Bitcoin's properties inherent or emergent?

    - Bitcoin v. Ethereum

    - Journalism

    - Bias

    - Objectivity

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.12.14 Dec 18, 2020

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - no ban yet

    - sats back and sats the standard on cashapp

    - Ruffer $744M investment

    - $1B investment from One River

    - Guggenheim's Minerd drops a casual $400k price prediction

    - UK FCA allows temp approvals

    - Kraken to add lightning early next year

    - MTGox claims speculation

    - BTCPay Server v1.0.6.3

    - myNode v0.2.20

    - TailsOS v4.14

    - ACINQ Phoenix v1.4.4

    - ACINQ iOS wallet enters testing

    - Electrum v4.0.8

    - BlueWallet v6.6.0

    - Compromising airgapped machines

    - OXT Research Kucoin Report

    - JoinMarket guide

    - 10 ways to lose your bitcoin

    - Coinbase going public

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    #215: BitcoinTINA Dec 16, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with BitcoinTINA to discuss:

    - The new ATH

    - Institutional adoption

    - How high will Bitcoin go?

    - Gradually, then suddenly

    - Cutting losses v. taking profits

    - Gold's fate

    - The importance of running a node

    - The market will bend the knee

    - Holding in a bull market v. holding in a bear market

    - much more

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    #214: Ben Kaufman Dec 15, 2020

    Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Ben Kaufman, unlicensed software developer, to discuss:

    - Specter Wallet

    - Crypto Advanced

    - Making multisig easy

    - Making connecting to a full node easy

    - PSBT

    - QR Codes

    - HWI

    - Hardware

    - Zoomers

    - much more

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    #213: Jimmy Song Dec 11, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Jimmy Song, educator and Co-Author of Thank God For Bitcoin: The Creation, Corruption, and Redemption of Money, to discuss:

    - Sound Money as a moral imperative

    - How easy money corrupts society

    - The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil

    - Serving money or God

    - Positivism v. Natural Rights

    - Jesus flipping the table and kicking out the moneychangers

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.12.06 Dec 11, 2020

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Ledger Phishing scams continue and get more sophisticated

    - Our boy Justin gets funded by Square Crypto

    - Brian Brooks non answer when asked about potential self custody restrictions

    - G7 Finance Ministers discuss the need for more bitcoin regulations

    - Our boy Jake sends out 'canary' tweet

    - Four Republican Congressmen send letter to Mnunchin defending self custody

    - French Finance Ministry to enact stricter bitcoin regs

    - Elliptic releases press release associating bitcoin privacy wallets with criminal intent

    - Mass Mutual buys $100M worth of bitcoin

    - Microstrategy borrowing money to buy more bitcoin

    - c-lightning v0.9.2

    - RoninDojo v1.8.0

    - Specter v0.10.4

    - Zap Android v0.3.6

    - Sparrow Wallet v0.9.9

    - Ledger Live adds easy bitcoin core full node support

    - Bullish yearly survey from Blockchain Capital

    - First multi-transaction CoinSwap test by Chris Belcher

    - Lightning Network deanonymization paper

    - BTC-e Operator sentenced to 5 years

    - The Battle for P2SH

    - Bitcoin Dissidents Editorial

    - BTC Mag drops Top 21 in 2020 list:

    - Moxie on Rogan then mobilecoin launch

    - Tutanota ordered to break encryption

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.11.30 Dec 04, 2020

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - fresh set of ledger phishing scams sent out

    - shilling the corn is the cool thing to do now

    - Our boy paul

    - Blackrock

    - Bloomberg

    - potential rushed self custody restrictions via brian armstrong

    - CCP was the Plus Token Whale

    - NYTimes hit piece on coinbase and bitcoin

    - Bitcoin Beach balls out

    - BTCPay Server v1.0.6.0

    - JoinMarket v0.8.0

    - JoininBox v0.1.15

    - RaspiBlitz v1.6.2

    - MyNode v0.2.19

    - Sparrow Wallet v0.9.8

    - Nunchuk v0.9.3

    - Samourai Wallet v0.99.96

    - BlueWallet v5.6.7

    - PSBT Toolkit v0.1.2

    - New version of nthKey

    - Specter DIY now offered prebuilt

    - Guggenheim fund may invest in bitcoin

    - AllianceBernstein like bitcoin now

    - BitMEX hires heavy hitter German CEO

    - OTC volumes hit new records

    - This Month in Bitcoin Privacy

    - Brink announces first fellow, Gloria Zhao

    - Gemini announces bitcoin development "Opportunity Fund"

    much more

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    #211: Dr. Saifedean Ammous Nov 29, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Dr. Saifedean Ammous, Author of The Bitcoin Standard, The Fiat Standard and Principles of Economics, to discuss:

    - The Fiat Standard

    - Principles of Economics

    - The University system

    - "The Science"

    - Lockdown hysteria

    - Unexpected externalities from lockdowns

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.11.23 Nov 26, 2020

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Coldcard testnet attack

    - John Newbery and Mike Schmidt launch new bitcoin development initiative

    - Chainalysis raising $100M at $1B valuation

    - Microstrategy exploring bitcoin "data products"

    - Gold funds falling while bitcoin pumps

    - Bisq v1.5.0

    - Bitcoin Wallet Tracker v0.2.0

    - Autoloop lightning liquidity

    - PTLC Proof of Concept from Suredbits

    - Leo Zhang's The Intelligent Bitcoin Miner

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    #210: Adam Curry Nov 24, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Adam Curry to discuss:

    - Origins of podcasting

    - Podcasting 2.0

    - Value for Value

    - Sphinx chat

    - Streaming payments

    - Automatic royalties/distributions

    - Self censorship and advertising

    - Open publishing and distributed money make sense together

    - Distrust in media

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.11.16 Nov 19, 2020

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - taproot activation hits 55% miner support taprootactivation.com

    - Second richest Mexican is now a bitcoiner

    - Senator Lummis on fire

    - the mooch considering a bitcoin play

    - Citi likes bitcoin now

    - Whirlpool CLI v0.10.9

    - Electrum v4.0.5

    - ThunderHub v0.10.3

    - Tails v4.13

    - Lend at HodlHodl now available in US

    - Swan XPUB support

    - OKEx mining hash rate falls due to solvency concerns

    - OKEx announces they will start processing withdrawals again

    - Dutch exchange now making you verify addresses

    - Chainalysis double dipping on government contracts

    - Binance suing Forbes

    - Apple privacy issues exposed due to server failure

    - US military buying precise location data from marketing agencies

    - Librem 5 begins shipping

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    #209: Graham Krizek Nov 17, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Graham Krizek, Founder of Voltage, to discuss:

    - Graham's Bitcoin journey

    - Starting Voltage

    - The Lightning Network + node operators

    - Necessary infrastructure

    - Encrypting data in the cloud

    - Security tradeoffs

    - Cloud Computing landscape

    - Centralization risks

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.11.09 Nov 12, 2020

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Adam Curry announces lightning powered Podcast 2.0 spec

    - Ledger Phishing Email analysis

    - Nodl v0.1.2

    - Fully Noded Desktop v0.2.1

    - Sparrow v0.9.7

    - myNode v0.2.18

    - Umbrel v0.2.14

    - RTL v0.9.3

    - Adam Gibson on wasabi 2.0

    - WORDS Bitcoin Journal October 2020

    - OKEx could be a CCP play

    - EU encryption resolution

    - blockseer KYC mining pool

    - Nigerian gov blocking protest bank accounts

    - ethereum hard fork bug

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    #208: Patrick Dugan Nov 10, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Patrick Dugan to discuss:

    - Financial regulations

    - The Bank Secrecy Act

    - FATF

    - Money laundering

    - Cypherpunk v. Financialization

    - A bifurcated network inevitable?

    - TradeLayer

    - Op Codes

    - much more

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    #207: Tom Trevethan Nov 06, 2020

    Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Tom Trevethan, CTO of CommerceBlock, to discuss:

    - Statechains

    - Mercury Wallet

    - Trust tradeoffs

    - Privacy gains

    - Fee structure

    - Custodial tradeoff

    - Use cases

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.11.02 Nov 05, 2020

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - bitcoin difficulty adjusted down by 16%

    - This month in bitcoin privacy

    - Russian Gazprombank likes bitcoin now

    - Lightning Pool liquidity market

    - Zeus v0.4.0

    - Specter v0.9.1

    - Lightning Terminal v0.3.0

    - Android Tor Browser v10.0.3

    - JoininBox v0.1.14

    - FUlly Noded Desktop v0.1.99

    - Raspi 400

    - Nunchuk multisig

    - Low bandwidth bitcoin

    - bitbo.io bitcoin dashboard

    - Bitcoin merge mining report

    - Layer1 legal issues

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    #206: Ryan Gentry Nov 04, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Ryan Gentry, Business Development at Lightning Labs, to discuss:

    - Austin, Texas

    - Ryan's time at Intel

    - Chip fabs

    - Proof of Work as an essential component of cryptocurrencies

    - The Order of Operations necessary to create a truly distributed cryptocurrency

    - Reading white papers

    - Will Ethereum scale?

    - Lightning Pool

    - Shadow Pools

    - A LN yield curve

    - much more

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    #205: Morgen Rochard Oct 30, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Morgen Rochard, author of Personal Finance QuickStart Guide, to discuss:

    - Personal Finance

    - When you should start saving

    - How much you should be saving

    - How you should be paying down debt

    - When can you buy bitcoin?

    - Should you speculative attack your debt?

    - Keeping tabs of your finances

    - much more

    Follow Morgen on Twitter

    Check out her podcast: Money Owners

    Check out her book: Personal Finance QuickStart Guide

    Link to student loan advice

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.10.26 Oct 29, 2020

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - FEE FOMO IS REAL

    - Cryptocloaks release triton case

    - First monthly nodl call

    - Travel rule fuckery intensifies

    - If you wish to submit a comment

    - Statechains for privacy?

    - JoinMarket status update

    - Marathon announces purchase of 10k AntMiner S-19 Pros

    - New round of Ledger user phishing attempts

    - Anthony Towns on Taproot activation

    - Largest bank in Singapore to launch bitcoin exchange

    - JoinMarket v0.7.2

    - JoininBox v0.1.13

    - BTCPay Server v1.0.5.9

    - Lightning Terminal v0.2.0

    - Fully Noded Desktop v0.1.96

    - Atomic finance launches DLC based bitcoin betting tool

    - BlockFi discloses 5% position in GBTC

    - Sounds like the NSA is still putting insecure backdoors into our favorite products

    - River adds hardware wallet account

    - Kucoin hacked bitcoin going through ChipMixer

    - Iranian government announces intention to use bitcoin to circumvent import sanctions

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    #204: Max Keidun Oct 23, 2020

    Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Max Keidun from HodlHodl to discuss:

    - HodlHodl's new non-custodial loan product

    - How lenders and borrowers interact

    - How HodlHodl's lending product differs from DeFi

    - What stablecoins are available

    - Prediction markets

    - Liquid

    - RGB

    - Integration with Blue Wallet

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.10.19 Oct 23, 2020

    This week Mart and Matt discuss:

    - two LND vulnerabilities disclosed

    - v0.9 and below

    - v0.10 and below

    - Paypal adds "bitcoin"

    - Our boy Paul shills the corn again

    - coinbase transparency report

    - FinCEN fines custodial bitcoin mixing CEO $60M

    - Travel rule white paper & participants

    - BTCPay Server v1.0.5.8

    - Bisq v1.4.2

    - Phoenix v1.4.0

    - Breez RC1

    - Tails v4.12

    - Tor browser v10.0.2

    - Raspiblitz v1.6.1

    - Sparrow v0.9.6

    - Voltage cloud lightning node service launched

    - Hodl Hodl adds P2P bitcoin lending support

    - BitMEX speeding up KYC process

    - Bitcoin hit piece by CNAS

    - Thai authorities attempting to block access to telegram

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    #203: Dave Collum Oct 19, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Dave Collum to discuss:

    - Cancel culture

    - Modern day journalism

    - COVID-19

    - Lockdowns

    - Vaccines

    - The Election

    - Censorship

    - much more

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    #202: Adam Soltys Oct 17, 2020

    Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Adam Soltys, creator of Coinos.io, to discuss:

    - Local ISPs

    - Coinos

    - Web wallets

    - UX

    - Security Tradeoffs

    - The Lightning Network

    - Liquid

    - Tokens

    - Privacy

    - much more

    Check out coinos

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.10.12 Oct 16, 2020

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - LND vulnerability

    - DOJ launches global push to ban end to end encryption

    - OKEx suspends withdrawals

    - Taproot merged into Bitcoin Core

    - BitMEX cofounder released on $5M bond

    - BitMEX hires new compliance officer

    - Indian exchanges working together to provide stricter KYC/AML compliance

    - Spain potential law forcing full disclosure of bitcoin holdings

    - Unchained adds coldcard support

    - myNode v0.2.17

    - Nodl v0.1.1f

    - RTL v0.9.1-beta

    - Eclair v0.4.2

    - JoinMarket v0.7.1

    - Trezor Suite Public Beta

    - Electrum v4.0.4

    - Stone Ridge $115M bitcoin investment

    - Rodolfo the domain hodler

    - Fidelity recommends 5% position in bitcoin

    - Fidelity privacy panel with Matt

    - Marathon announces new 105 Megawatt bitcoin mining op

    - BitMEX on the risks of brain wallets

    - lnresearch data

    - MuSig2 paper

    - WORDS September Bitcoin Journal


    #201: Whitney Webb Oct 13, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Independent Journalist Whitney Webb to discuss:

    - Chile

    - Operation Warp Speed

    - Intelligence Agencies

    - Defense contractors

    - Big Pharma connections

    - History of the CIA

    - Operation Dark Winter

    - Color Revolutions

    - Overcoming the Conspiracy Theorist label

    - Epstein as a pawn in a bigger game

    - much more

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    #200: Ansel Linder Oct 13, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Ansel Linder to discuss:

    - 2015 + 2016 bear market

    - Different iterations of altcoins

    - Fed Policy

    - Is QE inflationary or deflationary

    - How does Fed policy affect Bitcoin?

    - much more

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    #199: Edward Evenson Oct 09, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Edward Evenson, Head of Business Development at Slush Pool / Braiins Systems, to discuss:

    - Mining pools

    - The race to zero profitability for pools

    - Value add services pools provide

    - The future of mining pools

    - Firmware products

    - PPS v. FPPS v. PPLNS

    - Cheese

    - Wine

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.10.05 Oct 08, 2020

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Square buys $50M worth of bitcoin

    - New Europol report

    - Travel rule rumors swirl

    - New DoJ framework

    - HMRC orders coinbase to hand over customer records

    - Chainalysis hits Mex with high risk warning

    - BitMEX leadership changes

    - bitcoinprivacy.guide

    - Schnorr summary by suredbits

    - specter v0.8.1

    - bitcoin wallet tracker v0.1.5

    - blockstream green desktop v0.0.4

    - sparrow v0.9.5

    - bluewallet v5.6.1

    - BTCPay server v1.0.5.7

    - Hexa Wallet v1.2.0

    - Fully Noded v0.1.90

    - Ledger live adding coin control and full node support

    - Riot Blockchain buys 2500 S19 Pros

    - $26 million in bitfinex stolen bitcoin moves

    - mempool sponsors

    - classroom surveillance on the rise with rona as the excuse

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    #198: Leo Zhang Oct 06, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Leo Zhang, Founder of Anicca Research, to discuss:

    - The Alchemy of Hashpower

    - Stakeholders within the mining industry

    - ASICs as physical options on bitcoin

    - Bitmain's struggles

    - MicroBT

    - Hashrate derivatives

    - The US and China

    - Family

    - much more

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    #197: Joost Jager Oct 02, 2020

    Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Joost Jager, independent Lightning Network developer, to discuss:

    - Griefing Attacks

    - Circuit Breaker

    - Routing on Lightning

    - Multi-Path Payments + Wumbo

    - Public v. Private channel capacity

    - Whatsat

    - Multiple implementations and how they interact

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.09.28 Oct 01, 2020

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - BitMEX hit by CFTC and Department of Justice

    - KuCoin hacked for $150M

    - New Zealand tax authority seeking personal info from local exchanges

    - Chainalysis and Integra FEC receive IRS contracts for lightning and monero tracing

    - Pierre adds bounties to BitcoinACKs.com

    - September privacy newsletter by Janine

    - Murchandamus joins Chaincode

    - RoninDojo v1.7.0

    - Sparrow Wallet v0.9.4

    - nix-bitcoin v0.0.18

    - The Eye of Satoshi v0.1.1

    - BTCPay Server v1.0.5.6

    - Aqua Wallet by blockstream

    - CoinOS web wallet with liquid and lightning support

    - Docusign competitor using bitcoin - Woleet

    - CalyxOS released

    - Taproot explainer by suredbits

    - HCPP this weekend

    - Ministry of Nodes also thinks specter is straight fire

    - PlanB Dox

    - Brian Armstrong fake woke

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    #196: Cynthia Lummis Sep 30, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Cynthia Lummis, the Rebulican Nominee for the U.S. Senate out of Wyoming, to discuss:

    - Cynthia's platform of fiscal responsibility

    - Cynthia's experience Wyoming's state Treasurer

    - How Bitcoin can help with fiscal responsibility

    - How Bitcoin can help pensions

    - How Bitcoin can help the energy sector

    - How Bitcoin embodies the ideals America was founded on

    - The work Wyoming has done to welcome Bitcoin innovators

    - There are good people in Washington

    - much more

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    #195: Stephan Kinsella Sep 29, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Stephan Kinsella to discuss:

    - State's rights

    - The Lockdowns

    - The Constitution

    - The Government v. The State

    - Bitcoin didn't ask for permission

    - Are leftists insane?

    - Should you vote?

    - Smart contracts

    - much more

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    #194: Junseth Sep 28, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with the affable Junseth to discuss:

    - America's Culture War

    - Are we in a Civil War?

    - When did the Civil War start?

    - Miners are Energy Pirates

    - How mining companies should manage their balance sheets

    - Art

    - Digital Art

    - NFTs

    - Literature

    - much more

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    #193: Matthew Black Sep 26, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Matthew Black, co-founder of Atomic Finance, to discuss:

    - Building on Ethereum

    - Ethereum's limitations

    - ETH 2.0 transition

    - DeFi on Ethereum, is it legit?

    - Non-custodial DeFi on Bitcoin?

    - Bitcoin + DLCs

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.09.21 Sep 24, 2020

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Lightning node firewall circuitbreaker

    - Iran power plants making mining moves

    - Timeline of bitmain power struggle

    - Bisq v1.3.9

    - BlueWallet v5.5.9

    - Tails v4.11

    - nix-bitcoin v0.0.17

    - Dojo v1.8.0 released

    - Specter v0.8.0

    - Smartcard support for Specter DIY HWW

    - Square Crypto $100k grant to btcpay server and launches a proper portal for their work squarecrypto.org

    - Namecheap adds btcpay server!

    - Unchained Capital adds advanced multisig business accounts

    - Russian gov wants full wallet disclosures

    - Venezuelan government to require use of national mining pool

    - FinCen Files leak

    - Over 170 arrests and over $6.5M seized in global DOJ lead operation against dark markets

    - whirlpool fee calculator and portal for his other links by bitcoinqna https://getbitcoin.help/

    - Umbrel wallet support

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    #192: Christopher Gimmer + Marc Chouinard Sep 23, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Christopher Gimmer and Marc Chouinard, co-founders of Snappa, to discuss:

    - Bootstrapping v. Raising funds from VCs

    - Building many businesses and failing

    - The decision to add Bitcoin to Snappa's balance sheet

    - Why it's easier to move cash to Bitcoin as a small biz v. publicly traded companies

    - Small business self-custody via multisig

    - Asking, "What is money?"

    - Canada's inflated real estate market

    - Bullish sentiment

    - Bitcoin education

    - much more

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    #191: Matthew Mežinskis Sep 22, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Matthew Mežinskis of the Crypto Voices Podcast to discuss:

    - Q2 2020 Global Monetary Base update

    - Defining Base Monies

    - Where Bitcoin stands as a base money

    - Current growth rate of base monies

    - Claims on base monies

    - Claims on bitcoin

    - Proof of Reserves

    - History of Communism in the 20th century

    - How people rioting in the US are misguided

    - What's going on in Belarus right now (podcast link)

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.09.14 Sep 17, 2020

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Stacking Saylor

    - Bakkt all time high daily volume

    - Coin Control in Ledger Live

    - Square Crypto provides another $100K grant to btcpay

    - Sparrow Wallet Guide by bitcoinqna

    - Roy from Breeze on MPP and Wumbo

    - c-lightning v0.9.1

    - Electrum v4.0.3

    - BlueWallet v5.5.8

    - Kraken is a bank now

    - Anicca Research - The Alchemy of Hashpower Pt. II

    - FATF Report on Red Flags

    - Is creeping KYC a threat to bitcoin?

    - Chinese Nationals allegedly attack more than 100 companies

    - Chinese database of 2.4M foreigners leaks

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.09.07 Sep 10, 2020

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - CVE-2018-17145 Bitcoin vulnerability (that has since been patched) disclosed

    - Flaxman digs specter too

    - So does Ketan

    - Bitcoinqna NO KYC homepage

    - Chainalysis Global Crypto Adoption

    - Belarus non profit using bitcoin

    - Square launches Crypto Open Patent Alliance

    - Umbrel v0.2.9

    - Rudefox Burrow v0.0.5

    - Ledger Status on liquidity farming

    - Freak questions answered

    - much more

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    #190: Ben Carman Sep 08, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Ben Carman from Suredbits to discuss:

    - Ben's transition from Bernie Bro to Libertarian

    - Discreet Log Contracts (DLCs)

    - An Oracle's role in DLCs

    - Are decentralized Oracles possible?

    - DLCs onchain v. on the Lightning Network

    - Stock-to-flow thoughts

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.08.31 Sep 03, 2020

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - bitblockboom reflections

    - Trezor/Keepkey passphrase vuln

    - Trezor security patch

    - Alleged electrum phishing attack

    - This Month in Bitcoin Privacy

    - Looming Russian mining crackdown

    - Bithumb exchange seized in South Korea

    - Coincenter cools rumors about escalating regulatory measures

    - Empire market exit scam

    - Alphabay dispute moderator gets 11 years in prison

    - Chainalysis Latin America analysis

    - Specter v0.7.0

    - Sparrow Wallet v0.9.2

    - Umbrel v0.2.6

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    Rabbit Hole Recap LIVE: Week of 2020.08.27 Sep 03, 2020

    Join Marty, Matt, Justin Moon, Jeff Vandrew, and the audience from BitBlockBoom as they discuss:

    - CoinJoin wars

    - Equinor working with Crusoe Energy

    - Coinbase users told by California that they should hold their keys

    - Tax laws

    - much more

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    #189: Fabian Jahr Sep 01, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin Core contributor Fabian Jahr to discuss:

    - Fabian's year since leaving the Chaincode residency

    - His OKCoin grant

    - The importance of code review

    - An optimal review:PR ratio for devs

    - Signet

    - gettxoutsetinfo and Supply Gate

    - PR Review Club

    - How to best fund devs

    - much more

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    #188: Chris Bendiksen Aug 26, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Chris Bendiksen, Head of Research at Coinshares, to discuss:

    - Consciousness

    - Time

    - Mining

    - Hashrate derivatives

    - Asynchronous time + Proof of Work

    - TOOL

    - Free will

    - Education

    - Bitcoin's benefits to a portfolio

    - Energy consumption

    - much more

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    #187: Luke Gromen Aug 24, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Luke Gromen, founder of Forrest for the Trees research firm, to discuss:

    - The Dollar as a rubber band ruler

    - The Fed's catch-22

    - Bankruptcy via inflation

    - Debt/GDP

    - Apolitical alternatives to the Dollar

    - Money + energy

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.08.17 Aug 20, 2020

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Ongoing bsv dust attack

    - OXT research alleged wasabi vulnerability

    - Strike adds cashback

    - Hash rate hits ATH then floods in Sichuan

    - Tor statement on recent exit node attacks

    - Tor proposal for possible DoS mitigations

    - cypherpunklabs.com allows you to easily fund Tor nodes

    - BitMEX adding KYC

    - Specter v0.6.1

    - myNode v0.2.14

    - Zeus v0.3.1

    - BTCPay Server v1.0.5.5

    - Lily Wallet v1.0.0

    - lnd v0.11-beta

    - Schnorr explainer series by suredbits

    - Raspiblitz on bitcoinmagazine stream

    - Lancium sues Layer 1

    - BlockFi raises $50M, rumored valuation of $400M

    - Cryptovoices monetary base update

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    #186: Alex Leishman & Andrew Benson Aug 20, 2020

    Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Alex Leishman and Andrew Benson, co-founders of River Financial, to discuss:

    - Starting a company with your cousin

    - Expanding River to 30 states

    - River's foray into Hawaii

    - Hawaii's regulatory history with Bitcoin

    - Onboarding and educating high net worth individuals

    - Building out River's software stack

    - Thoughts on chain surveillance companies

    - Interacting with a banking system that isn't open 24/7/365

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.08.10 Aug 13, 2020

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - numbers run, yams fucked, fees sliced

    - malicious tor exit node attacks

    - microstrategy macro strategy

    - portnoy and winklevii

    - whirlpool and postmix spending FAQ

    - bisq v1.3.7

    - psbt toolkit v0.1.1

    - c-lightning v0.9.0-1

    - nodl dojo and one v0.1.1d

    - Fully Noded v0.1.68

    - ledger nano s and nano x firmware updates

    - Full datasheet for the secure chip used by Coldcard MK3 leaked

    - Nigerians using bitcoin

    - Lily multisig demo

    - Specter multisig demo

    - MintGox 006 - Sep 13 - 2PM ET

    - DOJ seizes terrorist funds

    - US CBP increases electronic surveillance powers at borders

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    #185: Lyn Alden Aug 11, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Lyn Alden, founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, to discuss:

    - QE's affect on inequality

    - The Triffin Dilemma

    - The double edged sword of the reserve currency of the world

    - Inflation metrics

    - Why Lyn is interested in Bitcoin

    - How the world would look different on a Bitcoin Standard

    - much more

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    #184: Clark Moody Aug 07, 2020

    Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Clark Moody, data don, to discuss:

    - The early days of bitcoin data

    - Making a dashboard of bitcoin data

    - What bitcoin data can tell you

    - The polarization in America

    - Secession

    - How easy money leads to more lawyers and laws

    - Will Marxism come to America?

    - An optimistic path forward

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.08.03 Aug 06, 2020

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Tor Project response to "zero day" disclosures

    - Ledger App Isolation Bypass

    - disclosure

    - ledger response

    - 17 year old arrested for twitter hack

    - Threat of KYC bitcoinmagazine panel

    - RoninDojo on OC Bitcoin Network

    - Bitcoin Core v0.20.1

    - RTL v0.8.3-beta

    - ACINQ Phoenix v1.3.2

    - c-lightning v0.9.0

    - RaspiBlitz v1.6

    - nix-bitcoin v0.0.12

    - BlueWallet v5.5.2

    - BlueWallet Desktop Alpha

    - Specter v0.6.0

    - Wasabi v1.1.12

    - ColdCard v3.1.8

    - Lily Wallet Update tease

    - Trezor Model T v2.3.2 and Model one v1.9.2

    - Lightning Labs terminal

    - Rudefox Burrow

    - This Month in Bitcoin Privacy

    - WORDS July Bitcoin Journal

    - Using HodlHodl by bitcoinqna

    - HRF three new grants

    - OKCoin funds Marco Falke

    - Cashapp going moon bound

    - Casa offers non custodial bitcoin buys

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.07.27 Jul 30, 2020

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Ledger personal info hacked

    - Chainalysis public dashboard (Use a VPN or Tor)

    - Murch post on enterprise UTXO management

    - Alchemy of Hashpower

    - Minsc scripting language

    - softfork activations breakdown

    - myNode v0.2.12

    - Tor Browser v9.5.3

    - Fidelity bitcoin investment thesis

    - Bakkt ATH volume

    - CME ATH open interest

    - Support bitcoin devs

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    #183: Whitney Webb Jul 29, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Whitney Webb to discuss:

    - Epstein + Deutschebank

    - The history of Kroll Associates

    - The global intelligence community

    - Private intelligence companies

    - The blending of the State + Big Tech

    - Human trafficking

    - NGOs as a front for trafficking

    - The 2020 Election and potential shenanigans

    - 9/11

    - Why Whitney covers these stories

    - much more

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    #182: Vijay Boyapati Jul 28, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Vijay Boyapati to discuss:

    - Tales of moving gold across borders

    - The Bullish Case for Bitcoin

    - Austrian Economics

    - The riots

    - Jevons Paradox

    - Bitcoin is in its embryo-tic stage

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.07.20 Jul 23, 2020

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - More thoughts on samourai postmix address reuse issue from last week

    - Wasabi blog on twitter hack posted then deleted

    - OXTResearch analysis of twitter hacker's wasabi usage

    - Major exchanges working on a KYC data sharing agreement to satisfy demands from FATF

    - BitMEX provides $50K grant to Jeremy Rubin

    - US Banks can now custody bitcoin

    - Utreexo demonstration release

    - RaspiBlitz v1.6 release candidate 3 add IP2TOR

    - Eye of Satoshi v0.1.0

    - Aaron Van Wirdum on Taproot activation

    - Testing and improving asmap

    - myNode Stack by bitcoinqna

    - Samourai Stack by bitcoinqna

    - Great threads from @dannydiekroeger

    - EFF Atlas of Surveillance

    - CIA can launch offensive cyber attacks more easily now

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    #181: Zach Herbert Jul 21, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Zach Herbert, Co-founder of Foundation Devices, to discuss:

    - Zach's experience at Obelisk

    - Nuance of hardware manufacturing in China v. US

    - Tradeoffs made by the predominant hardware wallets

    - Why airgapping is important

    - The Passport

    - QR code standards and statelessness

    - How Bitcoin incentivizes open hardware

    - The importance of making hardware locally

    - Future products from Foundation Devices

    - much more

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    #180: Ethan Vera Jul 17, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Ethan Vera, Hashrate Merchant at Luxor Mining, to discuss:

    - Mining pools

    - Their historical lack of transparency

    - Pool fee negotiations

    - ASIC hardware lifecycles and their effect on decentralization

    - Market making for hashrate futures + their effect on transparency

    - Profit switching between chains

    - Whitelisted pools

    - Hashrateindex.com

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.07.13 Jul 16, 2020

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - samourai post mix address reuse disclosure & patch

    1. samourai team
    2. shinobi

    - Timing attacks on Lightning Network

    - Twitter hacked

    - difficulty hits new ATH

    - taproot activation

    - coinbase selling surveillance software to Secret Service and IRS

    - Zap Desktop v07.0 & v0.7.1

    - Zeus v0.3.0

    - Bisq v1.3.6

    - BTCPay Server v1.0.5.3

    - Specter v0.5.5

    - Ronin Dojo v1.5

    - Samourai Dojo v1.7.0

    - Tallycoin v2.1

    - blockchain dot com wallet fingerprinting analysis of marketshare

    - Bitcoin Mining Hashrate and Power Analysis

    - Zap raises $3.5M

    - Paradigm provides funding to Anthony Towns

    - List of ongoing dev funding by @polylunar_

    - Animated QR code demo by Blockchain Commons

    - Russian Activists using bitcoin

    - Microsoft and the police state

    - Mitre Corp surveillance programs

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    #179: Kevin Mulcrone Jul 14, 2020

    Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Kevin Mulcrone, founder of Lily Wallet, to discuss:

    - Free Banking Systems of the past

    - The Civil War + banking in America

    - Building Lily Wallet

    - Lily's plans for the future

    - Live music + blue grass

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.07.06 Jul 09, 2020

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Square crypto provides grant to steve myers

    - IRS is seeking surveillance tools to track lightning network transactions

    - Coldcard 101 by bitcoinqna

    - Coldcard guides by kisbitcoin

    - myNode v0.2.11

    - Samourai Whirlpool CLI v0.10.7

    - Electrum v4.0.2

    - Eclair v0.4.1

    - RTL v0.8.0

    - Raspiblitz v1.6 RC2

    - @getumbrel teases new dedicated node software suite

    - UK FCA bitcoin research report

    - hardmoneyfilm.com

    - Iran gives bitcoin miners one month to register with the state

    - Venezuelan military seize 315 ASICs

    - PSBT signing in fully noded

    - PSBT Toolkit by benthecarman

    - Coincenter bitcoin privacy explainer

    - Crowdfunded distributed bitcoin awareness project

    - Coinbase trying to IPO

    - Signal downloads surge in HK as new draconian laws go into effect

    - USDC blacklists address with $100k USD

    - Tether has blacklisted $5.5 million in USDT this year

    - Marty's favorite app Tiktok pumps doge

    - Boltz Channel Creation Swap

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    #178: Jeff Vandrew Jul 08, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Jeff Vandrew, Founder of The KeyKeeper IRA, to discuss:

    - COVID-19

    - The government's reaction to the virus

    - Masks as a way to isolate

    - The media and COVID19 data

    - Herd immunity

    - The bubbling Cultural Revolution

    - The professional managerial class

    - Elite overproduction

    - Why this is all a class issue

    - MMT

    - much more

    Follow Jeff on Twitter

    Reading materials that Jeff mentioned:

    https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/20/reed-d20.html

    http://communia.blog/why-are-stocks-going-up-when-everything-is-going-awry/

    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/peter-turchin-how-elite-overproduction-and-lawyer-glut-could-ruin-the-u-s

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    #177: Randy Brito Jul 07, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Randy Brito, Co-Founder of Locha Mesh and Bitcoin Venezuela, to discuss:

    - Starting Bitcoin Venezuela

    - Co-founding Locha Mesh

    - The importance of mesh networks

    - How mesh networks have been used in Venezuela

    - How to incentivize individuals to use mesh networks

    - The Turpial device

    - Bitcoin as a tool to find individual happiness

    - Getting funding

    - much more

    Follow Randy on Twitter

    Check out Locha Mesh

    Check out to Bitcoin Venezuela


    #176: Corey DeAngelis Jul 03, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Corey DeAngelis, Director of School Choice at the Reason Foundation, to discuss:

    - The push to ban homeschooling from some Harvard professors

    - Why their reasoning for trying to ban homeschooling is flawed

    - School choice as a civil liberty

    - Myths about homeschooling and socialization

    - Myths about school funding decreasing

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.06.29 Jul 02, 2020

    Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:

    - Liquid UTXO expiration incident

    - Lightning vulnerability: Flood & Loot

    - HWI v1.1.2

    - Electrum v4.0-beta1

    - BTCPay server v1.0.5.0

    - Zeus v0.3.0-rc1

    - Polar v1.0.1

    - Blue Wallet v5.4.4

    - Joinmarket v0.6.3.1

    - Tails v4.8

    - Tor Browser v9.5.1

    - Fully Noded updated adds easy wallet recovery mode

    - Australia tax letters

    - This month in bitcoin privacy by Janine

    - Words bitcoin journal

    - Using postal orders with bisq by @heady_wook

    - New coldcard bags

    - Chinese ASIC manufacturer Ebang IPO - ticker EBON

    - OCBTCN MyNode Special

    - Fake gold in China

    - Three Gorges Dam

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    #175: Preston Byrne Jul 01, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Preston Byrne, Partner at Anderson Kill, to discuss:

    - Why the law is slow

    - Freedom of speech

    - Coordinated rioting

    - How scalable are societies?

    - Speech on social media platforms

    - Deplatforming

    - Bitcoin as free speech

    - Mining pools as an attack vector

    - much more

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    #174: Antoine Riard Jun 29, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin Core contributor Antoine Riard to discuss:

    - Onboarding millions onto the Lightning Network

    - BIP 157

    - Full nodes

    - Bitcoin Core wallet refactoring

    - AltNet

    - Time-dilation attacks on the LN

    - CoinPool

    - Schnorr + Taproot

    - much more

    Find Antoine on the bitcoin-dev mailing list and in IRC

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.06.22 Jun 26, 2020

    Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:

    - Waxwing responds to OXTResearch Joinmarket analysis

    - Gladstein and Elliptic Cofounder debate during messari virtual conference

    - Venezuelan government is now using btcpay server for passport applications

    - Glupteba malware uses bitcoin for communication

    - Mobile wallet comparison by bitcoinqna

    - Bitcoin Wallet Tracker v0.1.4

    - Electrum v4.0-beta

    - Lily Wallet multisig beta wallet for coldcard users

    - Guide for using LND with dojo by dammkewl

    - Gladstein bitcoin and human rights video

    - Square Crypto design initiative and grants

    - Kraken grant to btcpay server for $150,000

    - Sci-Hub accepts bitcoin donations because paypal blocked them

    - Paypal/Venmo may start offering bitcoin purchases

    - Bitmain power struggle continues

    - NY Bitlicense gets a little less shitty

    - Oracle BlueKai corporate surveillance data leaks

    - The US Senate has a new anti-encryption bill

    - FBI used social media to arrest protesters/looters

    - Facebook and the FBI hacked Tails OS yet never disclosed the vulnerability used

    - IRS bought location data to try to find suspects

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    #173: Mike Peterson from Bitcoin Beach Jun 23, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Mike Peterson from Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte, El Salvador to discuss:

    - Why Mike started giving out Bitcoin in El Zonte

    - Creating a bitcoin circular economy

    - Using Lightning to achieve this goal

    - Educating individuals about bitcoin

    - Airdrops, do they work?

    - Price volatility

    - Custodial v. non-custodial

    - Interesting externalities from the experiment

    - The youths understand Bitcoin more innately

    - much more

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    #172: Garly Leland Jun 22, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Gary Leland, organizer of the BitBlockBoom conference, to discuss:

    - Growing up on James Island in South Carolina

    - Surfing

    - The development of cable TV

    - Early days of podcasting

    - BitBlockBoom

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.06.15 Jun 18, 2020

    Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:

    - Coldcard v3.1.6 firmware

    - Bisq v1.3.5

    - Tallycoin v2

    - Automated BIP39 recovery in Electrum

    - ASIC industry breakdown by bitmexresearch

    - Blockstream Esplora now bundles in a custom version of electrs

    - PR to split the bitcoin core GUI

    - bitcoinqna releases explainer on coinjoin toxic change and dedicated full node comparison chart

    - Bitmex and OKCoin provide grant to Amiti Uttarwar

    - River Financial raises $5.7M

    - John Cantrell breaks Alistair Milne's engagement buying scheme

    - Rajarshi Maitra explains his journey contributing to bitcoin core

    - KYCnot.me website launches

    - a discussion about open source software

    - Consensys partnering with major exchanges to help them stake ETH + Matt's thread

    - Zoom will offer end to end encryption to all users

    - Capitalism doesn't exists

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    #171: Andy Edstrom Jun 16, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Andy Edstrom, author of Why Buy Bitcoin, to discuss:

    - Why Andy decided to write a book

    - Pitching bitcoin to institutional investors

    - How Bitcoin's monetary theory differs from the monetary theory that dominated the 20th century

    - Inflation

    - Bitcoin's correlation to other asset classes

    - Why pay taxes?

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.06.08 Jun 11, 2020

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Shiftcrypto makes restructuring public plans to continue support of hardware wallet

    - Updates on BIP143 hardware wallet vuln disclosed last week

    - BIP85 support coming to coldcard

    - Zeus v0.3.0-beta1 adds c-lightning Spark and LNDhub support

    - electrum persoanl server v0.2.1.1

    - Coinbase is selling surveillance software to the IRS and DEA

    - Using ASICs to stack sats without KYC

    - Bisq guide by @bitcoinQ_A

    - List of no kyc P2P services

    - HRF starts privacy focused bitcoin dev grant program with $50K grant to Chris Belcher as first recipient

    - Microsoft's decentralized ID protocol moves to bitcoin mainnet

    - CoinPool privacy and scaling proposal released

    - Three Arrows Capital discloses 6.25% ownership of GBTC shares

    - China OTC crackdown

    - Brave browser ref link autocomplete

    - Pentagon War Game ZBellion

    - Signal blog on their core principles and design philosophy

    - Stephan has IAMTHECHARACTER on pod

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    #170: Chris Belcher Jun 10, 2020

    Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Chris Belcher, the developer behind JoinMarket and the first CoinSwap implementation, to discuss:

    - JoinMarket

    - Fidelity Bonds

    - Chain analysis heuristics

    - Chris' CoinSwap design

    - A "privacy threshold"

    - Why CoinSwaps are > CoinJoins

    - much more

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    #169: Alex Bosworth Jun 09, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Alex Bosworth, Lead Infrastructure Developer at Lightning Labs, to discuss:

    - Why exchanges should use Lightning

    - Lightning as a tool that can thwart spam

    - Managing a Lightning routing node

    - The nuance of payment channels

    - Lightning Loop

    - Lighting's evolution with the fee market

    - Creating standards for Lighting

    - Lighting + privacy

    - much more

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    #168: Will Cole Jun 08, 2020

    Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Will Cole, Chief Product Officer at Unchained Capital, to discuss:

    - Will's work in Wyoming that benefits Bitcoin

    - Wyoming as a Citadel haven

    - Working at Stack Overflow

    - Bitcoin Stack Exchange

    - Joining Unchained Capital

    - Working on collaborative custody products

    - Caravan Version 2

    - Hermit

    - Future bitcoin products

    - much more

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    #167: Dr. James Todaro Jun 05, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Dr. James Todaro, founder of Medicine Uncensored and Managing Partner at Blocktown Capital, to discuss:

    - Dr. Todaro's research on hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19

    - The media backlash he's experienced

    - The censorship he and others have experienced

    - Debunking the recent study in The Lancet that claimed that hydrochloroquine increased chances of death

    - The shady company behind the study

    - Perverse incentives in the medical industry

    - The World Health Organization

    - Medicine Uncensored

    - much more

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    RHR Week of 2020.06.01 Jun 04, 2020

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Trezor releases firmware update and bug disclosure

    - Coinkite blog on the vuln disclosure

    - BTCPay says new trezor firmware breaks support

    - ShiftCrypto announces they are no longer working on their node product

    - ShiftCrypto liquidation goes unmentioned

    - Bitcoin Core v0.20.0 released

    - Square Crypto's sixth bitcoin development grant

    - Bitmex parent company provides $100k development grant to Gleb Naumenko

    - Will Cole's mother in law is running for Senate in Wyoming

    - Chainalysis Webinar Archive Dump

    - Unconfirmed Europol Wasabi Wallet Report leaked

    - Time-Dilation attacks on the Lightning Network

    - 3M+ bitcoin currently being held on exchanges

    - OXT Research: Joinmarket Report

    - Coinsquare private user data stolen due to rogue employee

    - Tor Browser v9.5 adds human readable addresses

    - Signal adds photo blur feature

    - 6102 on SLP

    - Matt + Alex Gladstein

    - TFTC Bingo

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    #166: Karim Helmy Jun 03, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Karim Helmy, data scientist at Coinmetrics, to discuss:

    - What's a nonce?

    - What we can learn from nonce distribution data

    - Mining hardware evolution

    - Getting into Bitcoin in 2017

    - Bitcoin as black market money

    - Hash rate indices from Coinmetrics

    - Viability of DeFi

    - much more

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    #165: Cory Klippsten Jun 02, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Cory Klippsten, co-founder and CEO of Swan Bitcoin, to discuss:

    - Founding Swan

    - Bitcoin education

    - Dollar cost averaging

    - Cory's experience with tech startups + consulting

    - Bitcoiner Ventures

    - much more

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    #164: Dave Collum May 29, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Dave Collum to discuss everything under the sun.

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.05.25 May 28, 2020

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - trezor and ledger web shop alleged breach

    - chris belcher coinswap proposal, consider donating

    - photo-lib libray for building react-native bitcoin wallets

    - use bitcoin core with electrum directly using Bitcoin Wallet Tracker plugin

    - blockstream green desktop

    - okcoin provides $100k grant to btcpay server

    - michael ford on bitcoin core security

    - 8GB RasPi 4

    - StrandHogg 2.0 Android Vuln

    - raspiblitz quick thoughts

    - no more fee fomo

    - hong kong

    - spacex + nasa collab

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    #163: Brandon Quittem May 26, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Brandon Quittem to discuss:

    - Fungi

    - Psychedelic mushrooms

    - Smart networks

    - Gall's Law

    - The Fourth Turning

    - Generational archetypes

    - Learning what hard work is while young

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.05.18 May 21, 2020

    Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:

    - Laser Fault Injection attack on Coldcard MK2

    - Ledger

    - Coldcard

    - BlockFi hacked, user personal info taken

    - transaction fees hit yearly high

    - hash rate and difficulty adjustment

    - May whirlpool volume passed March volume whirlpoolstats.com

    - Cobra claims he will pass on control of bitcoin.org by end of the year

    - Caravan Multisig adds HD wallet support

    - Crystal surveillance releases darknet usage report

    - Apple and google release updates adding coronavirus people tracking capability

    - CCP increases pressure on Hong Kongers

    - Twitter adds "safe space feature"

    - Joe Rogan to Spotify

    - NEW SEGMENT: Your Tax Dollars At Work

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    #162: Robert Breedlove May 19, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Robert Breedlove, Founder & CEO of Parallax Digital, to discuss:

    - Bitcoin and Zero

    - How the Church lost power

    - Why Central Banks are unnatural

    - Bitcoin + energy efficiency

    - Thinking from first principles

    - Logos

    - Human freedom

    - Much more

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    #161: Misir Mahmudov May 16, 2020

    Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Misir Mahmudov to discuss:

    - This Book Will Save You Time

    - Inflation

    - How inflation data is manipulated

    - How shrinkflation works

    - Self Help

    - much more

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    #160: Brian Harrington May 15, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with fellow Bitcoiner Brian Harrington to discuss:

    - Civil Liberties and the shutdown

    - Three sides of your balance sheet

    - Should we stop paying taxes?

    - Using your bitcoin in different ways

    - Enacting change via local government

    - Jesus

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.05.11 May 14, 2020

    Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:

    - Coldcard security disclosure

    - Delphi Digital Halving Report

    - Quantitative Analysis of Lightning Network Privacy:

    Paper

    Slides

    Video

    - Crypto Voices Q1 2020 global monetary base report

    - African P2P exchange volume ATH

    - Nodl Dojo build and setup video

    - LightNite announces NFTs on Liquid

    - Lolli raises $3M round including Ashton Kutcher and Michelle Phan

    - Coindesk Top 50 list is sad af

    - US Senate votes to allow FBI warrantless access to web browsing history

    - Venezuela pays Iran with $500M worth of gold bars, requiring 9 jets

    - Thunderspy USB C vulnerability

    - RHR Live on BTC Mag

    - US Senator stock sales

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    #159: Jeff Booth May 12, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Jeff Booth, Author of The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation is Key to an Abundant Future, to discuss:

    - Tech deflation in recent decades

    - The future of cheap energy

    - Why an inflationary monetary policy doesn't make sense in a deflationary world

    - How Bitcoin fixes this

    - The future of AI

    - The future of work

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.05.04 May 07, 2020

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Paul Tudor Jones announces bitcoin investment

    - Nodl Dojo adds keysend support and btc-rpc explorer nodl.it

    - CashApp quarterly bitcoin sales ATH

    - CoinKite announces BlockClock Mini and steel backup plates

    - Foundation Devices announces intention to build new hardware wallet in US

    - Blockstream satellite v2

    - BlueWallet v5.3.5

    - c-lightning v0.8.2

    - eclair v0.4

    - the perpetual one way peg

    - Lebanon and bitcoin

    - Zoom buys keybase

    - Duterte shutsdown major news network in the Phillipines

    - Marty's Bent RSS

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    #158: Marshall Holbrook May 06, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Marshall Holbrook, founder of BitG@s, to discuss:

    - Marshall's experience with natural gas over the last two decades

    - How natural gas gets delivered to the grid

    - The decrease in nat gas prices

    - Using Bitcoin mining to get more money for his gas

    - The design of a bitcoin mining shed on a nat gas field

    - Mining with S9s

    - Trying to convince other nat gas producers to get into mining

    - much more

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    #157: Ben Prentice + Heavily Armed Clown May 05, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Ben Prentice and Heavily Armed Clown to discuss:

    - WTF happened in 1971?!

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    #156: Matt Ahlborg May 01, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Matt Ahlborg, founder of UsefulTulips.org, to discuss:

    - How the rolling blackouts in Venezuela last year affected bitcoin trading in LatAm + the US

    - How Venezuelan's are using bitcoin as a rail to move money

    - Why we've seen an increase in bitcoin exchange volume in Argentina

    - Argentina's history of capital controls

    - Cuevas

    - Do individuals using bitcoin in LatAm believe in its long-term viability as a digital money?

    - Increased bitcoin exchange volume in Kenya

    - Bitcoin usage in India

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.04.27 Apr 30, 2020

    This week Marty and Matt as they discuss:

    - HWI updated to fix new Trezor firmware compatibility issues

    - Laurent on payjoin and deception tools

    - Ministry of Nodes RoninDojo video

    - Argentina bitcoin usage by Matt Ahlborg

    - Kenyan P2P bitcoin volume hits ATHs

    - CardCoins sponsoring core developer

    - BTCPay Server v1.0.4.2

    - ColdCard Kitchen

    - OXT Research Report on North Korean cybercrime group

    - ColdCard v3.1.3 firmware

    - LND v0.10-beta

    - Learn using comics with Amiti

    - Dressing for the surveillance age

    - CryptoCloaks Honey Badger hidden box

    - Harvard authoritarians + NIH funding of research on the virus

    - Lebanese Banking crisis

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    #155: Openoms Apr 29, 2020

    Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with developer Openoms to discuss:

    - How Openoms came to find Bitcoin

    - Why he started building apps and hardware products for bitcoiners

    - JoininBox

    - JoinMarket

    - Fidelity Bonds

    - Privacy on Lightning

    - Broadcast transactions privately

    - much more

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    #154: Amiti Uttarwar Apr 28, 2020

    Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Amiti Uttarwar, Bitcoin Core contributor at Xapo, to discuss:

    - How Amiti came to find Bitcoin

    - Getting into Bitcoin Core development

    - Learning C++

    - Amiti's work on rebroadcasting

    - Protecting privacy at the P2P level

    - Nuance of mempools

    - Current state of Bitcoin

    - much more

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    Check out her post, Onboarding to Bitcoin Core

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.04.20 Apr 23, 2020

    Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:

    - Unchained Capital caravan update inbound

    - mynode v0.2.03

    - SLP Chris Belcher

    - Upcoming eps with Amiti and Openoms

    - YouTube taking down any content not in line with WHO

    - Should we reopen the economy?

    - much more

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    #153: Zuby Apr 22, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Zuby, Rapper/Author/Podcaster/Free thinker, to discuss:

    - How to use Twitter correctly

    - How people waste time on Twitter with hate

    - Why you shouldn't let people you've never met dictate your happiness

    - People losing their own humanity

    - Only you control your success

    - Bitcoin and why it may have limited upside

    - The importance of healthy living

    - much more

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    #152: Ben Hunt Apr 21, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Ben Hunt, founder of Epsilon Theory, to discuss:

    - How institutions have failed us across the board in the wake of coronavirus

    - Why we need to burn it the f*ck down

    - How we can create grass roots movements to turn away from our failing institutions

    - Ben's work with frontlineheroes.com

    - Why we probably won't have a 'V' shaped recovery

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap Stimulus Package: 2020.04.20 Apr 21, 2020

    Join Marty & Matt as they discuss:

    - BTCPay Server adds payjoin support

    - Trezor update breaks HWI support

    - Cobra and Theymos split ownership of bitcoin.org and bitcointalk.org

    - Purse.io shuts down

    - Breez wallet adds keysend support

    - Nodl adds keysend support Nodl OG

    - Juggernaut messenger

    - Oil markets

    - MMT

    - much more

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    #151: Marshall Long Apr 18, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with long time bitcoiner + miner Marshall Long to discuss:

    - How Marshall got into Bitcoin mining

    - Why he only mines Bitcoin now

    - Evolution of chips

    - Chip fabrication foundries

    - Stories of procuring miners in China

    - The evolution of culture in China

    - The future of Bitcoin mining

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.04.13 Apr 16, 2020

    This week Marty & Matt discuss:

    - Bryan Bishop releases bitcoin vaults prototype

    - Ransomware operator now defaults to monero payments

    - Utreexo explainer

    - Trezor Model T v2.3.0

    - Samourai Wallet v0.99.93

    - Whirlpool CLI v0.10.5 released

    - Apple and Google bluetooth based tracking system integrated at the mobile OS level

    - Graphene OS guide

    - Protesting is a "non essential activity"

    - Masks now required in NYC lol

    - Surveillance programs escalate worldwide using coronavirus as an excuse

    - Most popular ethereum chain explorer has added a blacklist tool

    - Maker foundation lawsuit

    - Central banks recommend global stablecoin ban, notable ethereum stakeholders caught off guard but they shouldn't be

    - Libra pivots to simple single currency stablecoin model

    - 9th anniversary of online poker Black Friday

    - Mullvad.net VPN releases mobile wireguard compatible apps

    - SLP Rafael Yakobi

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    #150: Great American Mining Apr 15, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with two members from the team at Great American Mining, Austin Storms and Tom M, to discuss:

    - What Great American Mining is doing

    - The journey and lessons learned along the way

    - Different energy sources and how they affect the decisions of mining operations

    - Miners biggest problem; finding cheap power at scale

    - Austin's journey with Bearbox

    - How mining is ruthless capitalism

    - Solving problems for oil companies

    - The future of mining in North America

    - much more

    - Check out Great American Mining's one pager (site to be updated soon)

    - Follow Austin on Twitter

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    #149: Steve Barbour Apr 14, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Steve Barbour, founder of Upstream Data, to discuss:

    - Steve's experience in the Oil & Gas industry before Bitcoin

    - Difference between an electrical and mechanical engineer

    - The problem Bitcoin mining solves for the O&G industry

    - Difference between building on the grid and off the grid

    - Why Bitcoin is so important

    - Building a business slowly

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.04.06 Apr 09, 2020

    Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:

    - 16.5M Americans unemployed

    - Today's Fed announcements

    - Dave Portnoy calling the dollar Schrute Bucks

    - Bisq security vulnerability

    - ACINQ Phoenix v1.3.0 adds Tor support

    - BlueWallet v5.3.0

    - Samourai Dojo v1.5

    - Ronin Dojo v1.4

    - All Nodls now support dojo and whirlpool

    - Method to provide clearnet access to Tor lightning nodes proposed

    - Fold announces sats back visa debit card

    - Zane Pocock on the EARN IT Act

    - Stephan Livera with Gleb Naumenko on erlay

    - Chainalysis CoFounder on WBD

    - Shoutout to @jamesbtcbond for setting up his node with electrum

    - Rodolfo bitcoin-dev keychain email

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    #148: Matt D'Souza Apr 08, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Matt D'Souza from Blockware Solutions to discuss:

    - Blockware's recent research paper on mining

    - Running a mining operation

    - How Matt came to realize Bitcoin is King

    - The State of the Economy

    - Why Bitcoin isn't "backed by nothing"

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap Stimulus Package: 2020.04.06 Apr 06, 2020

    Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:

    - CDC finally recommends face coverings

    - CoolWallet S security flaw

    - MutantC RPi4 mobile build

    - Whirlpool CLI v0.10.4 released

    - Eclair v0.3.4 released

    - OC Bitcoin Network talk on samourai wallet and privacy

    - Tor Browser v9.0.8 released

    - RaspiBlitz v1.5 RC1 adds joinmarket CLI support

    - Wasabi Wallet v1.1.11 released

    - MyNode v0.2.01

    - Janet Yellen wants the Fed to buy stocks

    - Japanese family formation

    - much more

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    #147:Alex Gladstein Apr 03, 2020

    Join Marty & Matt as they sit down with Alex Gladstein from the Human Rights Foundation to discuss:

    - Government overreach during the response to COVID19

    - The capture of the World Health Organization

    - Censorship in China as COVID19 was spreading

    - The economic impact of forced quarantine

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: 2020.03.30 Apr 02, 2020

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Breez Point of Sale mode added to lightning wallet

    - LSAT Authentication

    - Samourai Whirlpool GUI v0.10.1 and CLI v0.10.3

    - MyNode v0.2.0

    - Bitmex research bitcoin development funding analysis

    - Bitmex renews and increases grant to Bitcoin Core maintainer Michael Ford

    - Mulit-location backup scheme spec released by @openoms

    - Whirlpool March volume totaled 1523.45 bitcoin

    - Multi sig betting with caravan

    - Binance makes a distinction between coinjoin and custodial mixers in recent blog post

    - Coinkite begins selling power only magnetic usb cables

    - Surveillance companies pivot to coronavirus tracking to increase their reach

    - UK PM hosts cabinet meeting on Zoom

    - StandardNotes.org and meet.jit.si shoutouts

    - Calling out pedos

    - much more

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    #146: Rodolfo Novak Apr 01, 2020

    Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Rodolfo Novak to have a meandering discussion about:

    - COVID19

    - Droplets v. Vapor

    - Why you should wear a mask

    - Why people are so willing to cede civil liberties during crises

    - Hardware on the horizon from CoinKite

    - much more

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    #145: Roy Sebag Mar 30, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Roy Sebag, Founder of Goldmoney and Menē, to discuss:

    - The mechanics of paper and physical bullion markets

    - The history of paper gold being used to suppress the price of physical gold

    - The Fed has man-in-the-middle attacked US citizens

    - Why the Internet isn't decentralized

    - Why Sound Money is so important and why bitcoiners and gold holders need to join forces

    - The reaction to COVID19. Are we being put in our pods?

    - Political framing and mental pods

    - The common man

    - The importance of unplugging

    - What Gen Z thinks

    - much more

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    Check out Menē

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    #144: Michael Krieger Mar 27, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Michael Krieger, founder of Liberty Blitzkrieg to discuss:

    - Gold markets

    - The Empire

    - Most recent bailout

    - Great Awakening

    - Why Michael is still bullish on Bitcoin

    - Bitcoin + Oil & Gas Industry

    - Un-schooling

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.03.23 Mar 26, 2020

    This week Marty and Matt discuss:

    - Bitcoin and Venezuela

    - Coinkite Coldpower

    - Zebedee releases bitcoin gaming SDK explainer video

    - Tails OS v4.4.1

    - Graphene OS v2020.03.23.22 released

    - TFTC Guides: Graphene OS installation

    - BTCxZelko on Stephan Livera

    - $500M of US stimulus bill dedicated to increased surveillance capabilities

    - Disturbing video shows coronavirus phone tracking tool

    -Taiwan coronavirus surveillance escalates

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    #143: JW Weatherman & Giacomo Zucco Mar 25, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with JW Weatherman and Giacomo Zucco to discuss:

    - Separating people from their State

    - Overt v. covert evil empires

    - Heuristics one can use to gauge the severity of COVID19

    - much more

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    #142: Elisabeth Préfontaine Mar 24, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Elisabeth Préfontaine, founder of Octonomics, to discuss:

    - Elisabeth's experience in the banking + financial worlds

    - Problems with transparency in the traditional financial world

    - Bad incentives in the traditional financial system

    - Why Bitcoin only?

    - How Quebec messed up their opportunity to court bitcoin entrepreneurs

    - Defining Bitcoin

    - Why bitcoin isn't a security

    - PC creep into the boardroom

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Stimulus Package 2020.03.23 Mar 23, 2020

    Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:

    - Markets down, bitcoin up

    - Sunday futures limit down in 3 mins

    - 60 Minutes interview Kashkari "infinite amount of cash"

    - Fed announces unlimited QE

    - Russian central bank added 400k ounces of gold to its reserves in february

    - TFTC.tv guides - Graphene & MyNode

    - JoinMarket v0.6.2

    - JoinMarket PR for fidelity bonds

    - Nodl Dojo v0.0.8

    - March Whirlpool volume higher than last 3 months combined

    - LN Markets released on mainnet

    - CashApp adds option to display in sats

    - Magic Internet Gathering bitcoin gaming initiative announced

    - HRF deep dive into buying bitcoin anonymously

    - DOJ seeks permission to detain people indefinitely without trial

    - Israel to go into full lockdown with phone location monitored and Ministry of Health to release new tracking app

    - The Chula Vista Police Department to use 4 drones to monitor Coronavirus shutdown

    - Nascar virtual races on fs1

    - much more

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.03.16 Mar 19, 2020

    Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:

    - Macro scene

    - Casa open sources node

    - Bitcoin Magazine op ed on CoinJoin legality

    - BTCPay VR Presentation this Saturday

    - US Gov considering location tracking

    - Samourai Whirlpool volume set to top January and February volume combined

    - Upcoming node guides: tftc.tv and parts list

    - Ark Invest bitcoin mining research

    - Blockware Solutions bitcoin mining research

    - Don't skimp on Micro SDs

    - much more

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    #141: Charles Marohn Mar 17, 2020

    Join Marty as he sits down with Charles Marohn, Author of Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity, to discuss:

    - How America has been very wasteful with resources for the last five decades

    - The problems with top-down decision making

    - Why centralized economies "on the bike" don't work in the long-run

    - The morality of Fed policy

    - Parallels between modern day America and the Weimar Repulic

    - How small towns can start over and stand on their own two feet

    - Value per acre

    - Creating community

    - Bringing design thinking to city building

    - Activating unused spaces

    - much more

    Follow Charles on Twitter

    Buy the book

    Check out the Strong Towns podcast

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    Rabbit Hole Recap: Stimulus Package 2020.03.16 Mar 16, 2020

    Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:

    - COVID19 + Market reaction

    - Fed cuts + repo operations

    - MyNode v0.1.97

    - 3D Printing in Italy's corona battle

    - VR Socratic Meetup

    - Jameson Lopp on Bitcoin Core Contributor Challenges

    - Other stuff

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    #140: Kyle Bass & Parker Lewis Mar 12, 2020

    Join Marty as he hops on a call with Kyle Bass and Parker Lewis to discuss:

    - Recent market chaos

    - The Fed's response up to this point and what they may do moving forward

    - The need for a strong fiscal response in conjunction with Fed policy

    - The dangers of centralizing our supply chain in China

    - Russia's move in oil markets over the weekend

    - much more

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