We focus on the big bitcoin mining news this fortnight with specialist Piers from @mineracks. We're aiming for beginner friendly episodes that you can use to orange-pill your friends and family.

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Bitcoin Mining News

• ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Australian bitcoin miner IREN hits $1B market cap

We're joined by Bitcoin analyst ⁠⁠@_Checkmatey_⁠⁠ to run through another huge month of headlines. With this much news, we've decided to do our recap fortnightly going forward.

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⁠⁠⁠Australian News

• ⁠⁠⁠⁠Julian Assange wins his right to appeal extradition to the USA

• Aus E-Safety saga continues

Global News

• ⁠CZ sentenced to 4 months jail and to pay $4.3B

• Bitcoin Judas arrested, US seeking extradition

Technical News

We recap another big month of news in Bitcoin, bitcoin mining and privacy news. This time we're joined by sparky & Bitcoin Adviser @dazbea who also builds the Bitcoin resource Looking Glass Education.

If you want to get your news recap 2x a month let us know @HardblockBTC

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⁠⁠⁠Australian News

• ⁠Australian ETF expected by end of 2024

• ⁠Antpool & Bitmain acting as a ‘pool of pools’ report

• US Gov rejects calls to end Assange case, submits ‘non-assurances’ for extradition

• ⁠Bitcoin Bushbash in Palm Cove, July 26-28⁠⁠⁠

Global News

• Samourai Wallet arrests and Keonne pleads not-guilty

• Coinbase partners with Lightspark to bring the Lightning Network to their platform & services

Technical News

• Block announces 3nm chip for their Bitcoin ASIC

• ⁠Tuscany Lightning Summit

Join software engineer and open-source expert Andrew Pantyukhin this week to discuss BitcoinCore, the fundamental implementation of Bitcoin. You'll learn about Bitcoin development and some of his concerns.

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Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠twitter.com/danWilcz⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 

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Content:

- His involvement in Bitcoin

- Is there Bitcoin development still?

- Bitcoin consensus

- Is diversity good for Bitcoin?

- The people working on BitcoinCore

- Is ossification a good thing?

- The future of Bitcoin development

This special episode covers what the Bitcoin Halving is, answers to common questions and a recap of what happened to the bitcoin price around previous halvings.

Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠twitter.com/danWilcz⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 

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Content:

- What is the Bitcoin Halving?

- Common questions answered

- The price of bitcoin

- What happened in previous halvings?

There was a lot of news to cover in March across Australia and Internationally. We also celebrate Hardblock's 10th birthday and AUD$100k bitcoin.

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Global News

• EU wallet privacy attempt through Anti-Money-Laundering Laws

• US “Tiktok Ban Bill” passes house 352 votes - 65 votes and goes to the senate

• Roman Sterlingov found guilty of running Bitcoin Fog mixing service

Australian News

• Craig Wright court case concluded with ruling he is not Satoshi

• Australian Digital Identity Scheme bill passes after Greens' amendments

• Australian Court Dismisses Lawsuit by Market Regulator Against Finder in 'Landmark' Ruling for Crypto Industry

• Australian Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been granted the right fight his extradition to the US

Technical News

• First half of March of Software and Hardware updates

• Second half of March Software and Hardware updates

• BitKey hardware wallet from Block

• Mobile-native hardware wallet from TwentyTwo Devices

Thank you to James Check for joining us this week to talk all about Bitcoin on-chain analytics:

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Content:

- What is on-chain analytics?

- On-chain insights into ETFs

- The Bitcoin Halving Event

- Identifying the market top & bottom

- Common questions answered

- The success of BTC education in the data

Our monthly recap for February focuses on a lot of International news, as well as discussion of new Bitcoin milestones that were reached.

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Global News

• US Department of Energy seeks data from US bitcoin miners

• Binance and Coinbase crash

• EU Courts rule encryption as Human Right

• Satoshi and Sirius emails

• Nayib Bukele reelected

• Ethiopa to mine bitcoin with $250 million preliminary agreement

• Nigerian Government issues arrest warrant for CEO of Binance

• Tether Audit

Australian News

• ASIC gets its first win against the crypto industry

• Bloomberg Australian news recap

• Australian Bitcoin Alive Conference 2024

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Technical News

• New Coldcard model Q released

• Nunchuck Android released

• Umbrel OS v1.0 coming March 18th

• Avalon Nano 3 portable heater that generates btc

Full YouTube: Ep64 February News

Thanks to Chris Pavlesic for coming on the show to talk about Bitcoin Alive 2024:

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Content:

- Getting together is the core recipe for BA '24

- Look forward to things you don't often see at Bitcoin conferences

- Bush Bash Beechworth '24

- What you can expect from speakers at BA '24

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