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Australian Bitcoin Podcast episodes

March 07, 2024 64. Bitcoin Global & Australian News February – International Headlines and BTC Milestones
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
40 min
February 29, 2024 63. Bitcoin Alive Conference 2024 - Chris Pavlesic | Australian Bitcoin Podcast
Thanks to Chris Pavlesic for coming on the show to talk about Bitcoin Alive 2024:
- ⁠⁠twitter.com/lungdoge⁠
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Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠twitter.com/danWilcz⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
Sponsored by HardBlock: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.hardblock.com.au⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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
Full YouTube: ⁠Ep63 Chris Pavlesic
33 min
February 01, 202462. Bitcoin Global & Australian News January - US Bitcoin ETFs, Adoption in Pakistan and Hong Kong, and fight against FinCEN Sureveilance Rules
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Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/danWilcz⁠⁠⁠⁠
Sponsored by HardBlock: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.hardblock.com.au⁠⁠⁠⁠

Get excited for Australian Bitcoin Week!
⁠Beechworth Bitcoin Bush Bash, Mar 16 - 17 - No KYC, free entry⁠
⁠Bitcoin Alive, Mar 23 - tickets on sale now!⁠
Use code: HARDBLOCK

Global News
OpenSats announces over $4.3M Bitcoin grants and $3.4M Nostr grants were allocated in 2023 in Year-in-review

Aqua Wallet launches as an all-in-one wallet with support for Bitcoin, Lightning, Liquid, and Tether

Scam Bitcoin Wallets Are Still Reigning Free on Apple's App Store Despite Multiple Reports

Nigeria’s Central Bank Fleshes Out New Rule Allowing Crypto Firms’ Access to Bank Accounts

Bitcoin Victoria Falls: New Bitcoin Circular Economy in Livingstone, Zambia

SEC Approves 11 Bitcoin Spot ETF Applications

VanEck To Donate 5% of Its Bitcoin ETF Profits to Support Bitcoin Core Developers, while Bitwise pledges 10% to support Brink, OpenSats and the HRF Bitcoin Development Fund

Google, Apple Pull Binance, Kraken and Other Exchanges from India App Stores

Stripe Is Deplatforming Users For Selling Bitcoin Hardware

Core Scientific Is Ready to Emerge from Bankruptcy and Re-list on Nasdaq by the End of January

UN Report Attacks Tether for Facilitating Global Crime

Trezor Warns of Unauthorized Email Impersonating Trezor Sent via Its Third-Party Email Provider

Bitwise Becomes First U.S. Spot Bitcoin ETF to Disclose BTC Holding Addresses

Swan Bitcoin Launches Swan Mining Out of Stealth Mode

Bitcoin Surpasses Silver to Become Second Largest ETF Commodity in the US
Australian News
Lack of bitcoin futures might restrict future Aussie bitcoin ETF

Bitcoin Alive 2024: Australia Gears Up For The Ultimate Bitcoin Experience - get tickets at Bitcoin Alive, use code: HARDBLOCK

US, UK and Australia step up sanctions on Hamas-linked crypto facilitators
Technical News
The 3rd Edition of Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain has been open-sourced on GitHub

Mercury Layer 2 protocol release enables self-custodial UTXO transfers off chain

Fedimint v0.2.1 Stable MVP release

Coracle v0.4.0 Private Groups on Nostr

Payjoin Dev Kit (PDK) v0.13.0 and developers Dan Gould and Esraa given Spiral grants

BitKit v1.0.0-beta.98: Pay to Lightning Addresses, In-App Support & More

OpenSats Announces Long-Term Support to René Pickhardt

Base58 Ships Its Crypto + Digital Signatures Course for Bitcoin Developers
42 min
January 05, 202461. Bitcoin Global & Australian News December - FASB Changes, Argentina under Milei, Decline of cash in Aus, Ledger Hack, and Australian Bitcoin Week
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Get excited for Australian Bitcoin Week!
Beechworth Bitcoin Bush Bash, Mar 16 - 17 - No KYC, free entry
Bitcoin Alive, Mar 23 - tickets on sale now!
More events to be announced!

Skip to 6:20 if you hate Christmas (Dan & Alex's Christmas holiday intro)
Global News
Argentina Repeals Forced Legal Tender Laws for Contracts, Confirms Debts Can Now Be Settled in Bitcoin

Argentina's Milei Proposes Incentives for Declaring Domestic, Foreign Crypto Holdings in Draft Bill

Legends of Lightning Vol. 2 Winners Announced

FASB update for fair value accounting for Bitcoin by US public companies from 2025

Ledger CEO explains hack, calls it 'isolated' incident

Ledger Live Tracks and Sends ALL User Information to Outsourced Data Harvesting Service

Crypto Industry Funnels $78 Million Into War Chest to Elect Pro-Crypto Candidates in 2024 Elections

Tether Confirms Extensive Collaboration With DOJ, FBI and Secret Service

Adam Back Says 'Suck That Truthoors' as Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Reveals Company Holds Tether's Treasuries

Elizabeth Warren Wants to Extend Bank Secrecy Act Regulations to Free & Open Source Software

Australian News
Australian Bitcoin Week 2024:
Bitcoin Bush Bash in Beechworh, VIC on 16 - 17 Mar
Bitcoin Alive in Sydney on 23 Mar - sponsored by Hardblock
+satellite events

OpenSats Grants Long-Term Support to Australian Bitcoin developer Tobin Harding

Australian Cash Use in Decline as 75% of Residents Now Seen as 'Low Cash Users'

Technical News
OCEAN Mining pool offers choice of three mining block template policies

Start your career in Bitcoin FOSS with Learning @ Chaincode Labs

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #282: 2023 Year-in-Review Special

The Bitcoin Design Foundation launches supporting design in Bitcoin ecosystem
40 min
December 01, 202360. Bitcoin Global & Australian News November - SBF Guilty, CZ and Binance Settlement, Growing Regulatory Pressure, and OCEAN Mining pool
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Global News
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty of fraud

Tether Q3 Attestation Show Highest Percentage of Cash & Cash Equivalent Reserves Yielding Close to ~$1Bn

Federal Reserve Threatens to Sue Bitcoin Magazine Over FEDNOW Parody Merch

PayPal Subpoenaed by the SEC Over Its PYUSD Stablecoin

Gemini UK to Block Bitcoin Transfers To and From Non-Approved Exchanges

Fake Ledger Live App on Microsoft App Store Used to Steal 16.8+ BTC

Roman Sterlingov's Defense To Examine Chainalysis Heuristics Under Protective Order, Trial Moved to February

Swan Bitcoin to Limit Customers Interacting with Privacy Services Due to Partner Policy

Coin Center's Tornado Cash OFAC Sanctions Lawsuit Dismissed Due to DAO Structure and TORN Shitcoin

Armed Bitcoin Robberies Surge In Sweden Due to Open Data on Citizens

Chat Control: EU Parliament Adopts Position Against Mass Surveillance

Anarcho-Capitalist Javier Milei Wins Argentine Presidency

Bittrex Global Is Shutting Down For Good

SEC Sues Kraken For Operating Unregistered Securities Platform

Report that F2Pool Is Likely Filtering OFAC-Sanctioned Transactions, followed by an admission of filtering with F2Pool Disabling Transaction Filtering Patch (For Now)

CZ Pleads Guilty, Steps Down as CEO of Binance in $4.3 Billion Settlement with DOJ

Nodeless.io Shuts Down Due to Investigation for Running 'Illegal Money Transmission' Business in Canada

Ministers accused of a cover up as it is revealed shadowy army unit DID spy on British critics of Covid lockdown policies

Taproot Wizards raises $7.5MM & hires rot13maxi as CTO

Eligius Pool Relaunched As OCEAN Pool, Raises $6.2M in Seed Funding, leveraging Stratum V2

Australian News
Wallet of Satoshi to Stop Serving Customers in the United States

Whistleblower alleges ANZ is deliberately pushing customers out of branches

RBA lifted cash rate to 4.35pc in November

Crypto hack suggests Australia’s CoinSpot has been compromised

Australian regulators will compel businesses to report cyberattacks: Report

Commbank iQ data shows younger Australians now even cutting back on essentials, as rents and mortgage costs rise

Australia Updates Its Capital Gains Tax Guidance to Include Wrapped Tokens and DeFi

Technical News
85% of Whirlpool Users Are Using Self-Hosted Solutions

Bitcoin-Dev Mailing List Is (Still) Looking for New Home

Mutiny Wallet Makes Sending Hodl Zaps to Zeus Wallet An Optional Feature

83 BTC Transaction Fee Sets a New Record in Fiat Terms

Apple Deactivates Zeus Developer Account Following Antitrust Lawsuit by Cash App & Venmo Users

User lost 0.4 btc after only making a single dice roll when inputting user generated entropy for coldcard

How to setup a Bitcoin Air-Gap Computer? Don't. - Website outlining air gap computer attacks and why to use a hardware wallet instead

Atomicals marketplace disaster results in loss of funds due to use of SIGHASH_NONE

Randstorm entropy vulnerability affects significant number of browser generated cryptocurrency wallets

rot13maxi releases Sophon source to snipe BRC20 mints from the mempool

FediMint changes consensus algorithm from HBBFT to AlephBFT
39 min
November 28, 2023 59. Hope for Argentina - Fernando Nikolić
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Thanks to our guest Fernando Nikolić from Blockstream and the Bitcoin Perception newsletter:
- https://twitter.com/basedlayer
- https://bitcoinperception.com

Content:
How trying to understand Argentina's hyperinflation lead Fernando to Bitcoin
Why are Bitcoiners so interested in an Argentinian election?
Javier Milei's ability to communicate to the average Argentinian
History of Peronism
Bureaucracy in Argentina
Dollarization
Is Javier Milei pro-bitcoin?
Bitcoin Perception newsletter
Media is starting to realise the difference between Bitcoin vs Crypto
1 hr 4 min
November 20, 2023 58. Dark Money Bitcoin Nodes - Pippellia from Runcitadel
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Thanks to our guest Pipellia from Runcitadel:
https://twitter.com/pippellia

- https://runcitadel.space/ (under maintenance now 🫤)
- https://geyser.fund/project/runcitadel

Plug & Play Nodes
- https://geyser.fund/project/nabitechnology
- https://dtvelectronics.com/

Content:
-Why is it important to run a node?
-Hard money vs Dark money
-Should every bitcoiner run a node?
-What is a node?
-Runcitadel and FOSS
-Node packages
-Pipellia's bitcoin origins and orange-pilling
DerGigi on time:
- Ledgers require time, and time requires heat.
https://x.com/dergigi/status/1392409660154646529
- Bitcoin is time
https://dergigi.com/2021/01/14/bitcoin-is-time/
47 min
November 08, 202357. Bitcoin Global & Australian News - October (Uptober) 2023
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Global News
Elizabeth Warren uses Hamas as her newest scapegoat in war on crypto

Our Data in WSJ Article on Hamas Crypto Fundraising 'Was Misrepresented', Says Surveillance Firm Elliptic

CEO of Nchain Group Quits, Admits That Craig Wright is a Fraud

Argentina’s Pro-Bitcoin Javier Milei Heads to Run-Off Election Against Sergio Massa

Madeira Announces The Launch of Bitcoin Business Hub

Twitter/X’s new policy risks violating right to privacy for millions

El Salvador's First Bitcoin mining pool powered by volcano energy goes live

US Government Argues That Disclosure of Chainalysis Heuristics Would 'Jeopardize Law Enforcement Investigations'

1.4 Billion People Lack Access to Financial Services - PwC Report

UK's Law Enforcement Can Now Seize Bitcoin Linked to Criminal Activity Without Conviction

Botev Plovdiv FC, Bulgaria's oldest football club is the first elite level football team to embrace bitcoin

Australian News
Australia Proposes New Licensing Regime for Crypto Exchanges, Aims for Draft Legislation by 2024

NSW Government turns directly to banks with garnishee orders to recoup unpaid COVID-19 hotel quarantine bills

Australian Exchanges Respond to New Australian Treasury Crypto Proposal

‘Billion dollar ticking bomb’ for SMSFs buying bitcoin

Technical News
The Lightning Network Grew by 1212% in 2 Years - River Research

Postmortem on the Lightning Replacement Cycling Attack

How does a lightning replacement cycling attack work?

BitVM: Compute Anything on Bitcoin

Hostr: Decentralized Web Hosting Solution on Nostr

Trezor Introduces Safe 3 Signing Device & Trezor Keep Metal Backup

Wasabi Wallet Announced Coinjoin API for Enterprises

Block Completes The First Prototype of MDK Hashboard

OpenSats Announces Third Wave of Nostr Grants

Lightspark Introduced Travel Rule Compliant LNURL for Regulated Entities
21 min
October 19, 2023 56. Bitcoin Tax and Accounting - Maryna Kovalenko
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Thanks to our guest Maryna from Kova Tax and Syla:
https://twitter.com/KovalenkoMaryna
https://www.kovatax.com.au/
https://www.syla.com.au/

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Content:
- Maryna's Bitcoin origin story
- Bitcoin in the Russia Ukraine War
- Bitcoin tax basics
- Capital gains examples
- Accounting for losses due to exchange insolvency (Digital surge, FTX)
- Overseas travel and tax residency
- Personal use exemption
- Fringe Benefits Tax and getting paid in Bitcoin
-Kova Tax and Syla tax software tips

58 min
September 05, 2023 55. Bitcoin Conference in Bali - Dea Rezkitha
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Thanks to our guest Dea:
https://twitter.com/dearezkitha

Indonesiabitcoinconference.com
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Content:
- Deas journey in Bitcoin.
- Bitcoin adoption in Bali
- Anti-Bitcoin laws in Indonesia
- Bitcoin community in Bali
- Indonesian Bitcoin conference speakers
- Social events at the conference
- How she convinced Jack Dorsey to attend
35 min