Sweden hikes taxes on datacenters bitcoin miners included

Riot Blockchain's critique of the NYT's latest anti-bitcoin mining article

The ETH Shanghai hardfork has enabled unstaking and the onchain activity suggests relatively high demand to hold for stakers

Arthur Hayes, one of the BitMex founders, is shilling his investments in ETH staking infrastructure, a variation of buying the first page of alts in a bull rise

Bitcoin Optech #246 covers a new proposal for off chain lightning channel rebalancing that builds on channel factories

NOSTR education and an LNBits guide by friend of the show darthCoin

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The peer to peer (sort of?) exchange Paxful has shut down and wants users to withdraw funds amidst regulatory and other pressures

Crypto hedgefund scammers Kyle Davies and Su Zu are involved with OPNX, an exchange to trade the bankrupt claims the two scammers created

The U.S. Federal Reserve never talks about eurodollars, but a former FED trader gives a very FED-ish take on eurodollars in a period of bank deposit risk

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CZ, CEO of Binance the world's largest crypto exchange, is being sued by the CFTC, the U.S body that regulates commodity futures markets, alleging that CZ and Binance skirted derivatives laws and catered to U.S. customers while pretending to bar them from the platform

China may also be going after Binance due to the bans on cryptocurrency trading on the mainland

Some more schadenfreude from crypto skeptic Amy Castor

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SBF gave buddies at Modulu Capital nearly half a billion dollars of stolen funds, and they're giving it back, guilty conscience?

Do Kwan, founder of crypto-scam Terra/Luna, has been arrested in Montenegro

Hindenburg Research, an activist short selling investment firm, has published a report on Block, a U.S. fintech company with a bitcoin focus

Coinbase eyeing offshore exchange to escape US regulatory pressure

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The US treasury has some thoughts on CBDCs, and most have to do with projecting US financial power, not creating great money

Silvergate Bank, an important crypto banking institution, is winding down operations after a bank run and regulatory pressure

Sillicon Valley Bank, a regional California bank that focuses on startup and tech company banking, has been closed by regulators due to 'solvency and liquidity concerns'

Reports are circulating that Gemini, a New York based crypto exchange, might be losing their banking access from JP Morgan

The New York Attourney General, a public prosecutor who represents all residents of New York state, is suing KuCoin for offering unregistered securities

Erik Voorhees on Twitter

The energy attack on bitcoin is pretense, but ETH is still probably a security

Why is Arthur Hayes explaining synthetic dollars againhttps://h.docs.lol/bViitnHOQFmgjUaruEMUCQ#? Does it have to do with stablecoins achilles heel being banking?

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El Salvador is suddenly a wall street darling after repaying some outstanding debt

Silvergate, a US regional bank turned into a crypto company banking provider, is probably closing its doors after shutting down its internal dollar payment network

More Tether fraud allegations from the Wall Street Journal, a newspaper, that speaks to current anti-crypto banking sentiment

Darthcoin helps Bluewallet users connect to their own lighting backend, after Bluewallet shut down custodial lightning services

Bitcoin Optech #240

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Coinbase, a crypto exchange, is building an ETH L2 chain called 'base', that will be a super chain one day

The U.S. Federal Reserve, a central bank, confirmed its denial of Wyoming bank Custodia's application for a FED Master Account

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Bitcoin Optech #239 covers OP_VAULT and Lightning Channel qality of service flags

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Pretyflaco's fundraiser for Turkish earthquake relief

SBF's mysterious bail bond guarantors were revealed to be ... family friends?

No independant examiner for the FTX fraud means no action against the many people who supported SBF and looted customer funds

Lee Rainier, a crypto law professor and former Federal Reserve employee, testifies before the U.S. Senate banking comittee on why bitcoin should be banned

Fedi, a company based around Fedimint technology, Hackathon develops modules to create US dollar stable value in a fedimint

Creditors of Mt Gox, one of the first bitcoin exchanges, have an early payout option

Pack it up, party's over, the Wall Street Journal, a pro-business newspaper, reveals that six developers control bitcoin /s

Arthur may have called the bull market based on liquidity conditions

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The UK believes that 'Britcoin',a government digital curency, will be deployed this decade

Localbitcoins, a decentralized-ish peer to peer bitcoin exchange, is shuting down operations

Binance, the offshore crypto exchange controled by CZ, is cut off from the USD banking system

Is this a coordinated effort to push bitcoin/crypto businesses out of the banking system?

The Coldcard Q1 hardware wallet was announced and looks like a blackberry, so lets talk hardware wallets

Bitcoin Optech #237 covers 'storing data on the blockchain', yes its about Ordinals

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