bitcoin core v24 released

A debate about decentralization for mastadon

Bitcoin Optech #226 covers new covenant types and channel jamming attacks

Muun on Twitter: 'we use submarine swaps'

FTX is insolvent and Binance has declined to buy

Google gives Solana its kiss of death

The greatest bitcoin 'hacker' in history gets his coins siezed, but was he really a hacker?

Bitcoin is dead, throw in the towel

Burak broke the lightning network again and the LNsploit team will steal your money

Stronghold Digital trades miners to NYDIG for debt cancellation, check out CEO's Outfit

Honkong and China's Dollar Problem

Bank of England expects UK to fall into longest ever recession

Wall Street Silver on Twitter: “Inflation came from nowhere”

Lyn Alden: "This takes some time to manifest, but it will be interesting"

A meat and potatoes bitcoin optech

bitcoin - Rust

CSW aka Faketoshi must pay hodlnaut's legal fees

Core Scientific on on bankruptcy watch

Bitcoin Mining Heat Being Used to Grow Food

Justice Department report on Digital Assets (GOOGLE LINK WARNING),

Amy Castor covers Voyager and Celsius drama in her newsletter

Matt Levine's The Only Crypto Story You Need is a deeply subversive case for bitcoin that tries to ignore its obvious conclusion

If it wasn't obvious that 'institutional crypto' is a joke: JP Morgan hires Celcius exec?

Hodlnaud defeats CSW in court and the judge basically rules 'not Satoshi'

The global housing bubble looks like its popping

The Bank of England delivers with two great papers on economic history:

The Slottie NFT Casion mataverse ICO based on etherium is an unregistered security offering according to US regulators

Etherium is now OFAC compliant, validators are following their financial incentives

Brazillian bank launching token on Polygon, apparently iBex Mercado already has a coin

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A listener asked about the xen protocol and I think it lives on the scam/irrelevant axis

A listener pointed out that perhaps CSW's autism explains his 'bot fight' from last week

Dad attributed the [go.dev](go.dev) language as coming from Apple, it was actually Google engineers who incepted Go

NYDIG lays off 30% of their staff, guess all these finance pros didn't get their timing right

Paypal promotes bitcoin with a new censorship policy and financial fines for users

A massive taproot multisig broke btcd and LND

Intro to space chains and the Telegram discussion group

Getting into the culture wars with this response to the Jordan Peterson is a philosopher comment and this list of Stephan M's various racist claims

EU bans all Russian 'crypto wallets', maybe? the documentation is poorly written

Spiral BTC quarterly report mentions DesFemmes bitcoin mentorship program, which I meant to bring up months ago

Snippets is Arthur's mea culpa on levering up on Etherium's 'ultra sound money deflation' policy change, but he articulates a reasonable longterm bitcoin case

BNB, an Etherium competitor run by Binance, froze their 'decentralized' chain after a hack

Flashbots, yet another Etherium centralization point, is censoring transactions

Celsius just doxxed every former user in a bankruptcy filing, the judge declined to redact user data

Mulvad's online privacy guide has good basics

Serhack's analysis of the bitcoin genesis block is educational and entertaining

Was Satoshi a greedy miner by Jameson Lopp pairs well with Serhack's article

Bitcoin Optech #220 is a big issue covering transaction relay, flow control, and more

Edward Chancellor Devil Take the Hindmost

Mercea Popeski's best quotes courtesy of Pete Rizzo

And his "former lover's" blog

Swan aquires the company behind Specter wallet

Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev still being held 7 weeks without charge and Dutch authorities are selling his car?

When Taproot? tracks taproot integration in projects and provides education to developers, bitcoin upgrades can take time to become widespread

A modern look at the Trinity Study and what it says about human's search for monetary stability

The Blues and the Greens, one of Paul's favorite allegories

Some detail and texture of the early 20th century gold standard

The Apple Card is worse than subprime, turns out making phones doesn't make you a good CC issuer?

A primer on bond investing from Lyn Alden as a way to think about the

ErgoBTC contributes to privacy guru Michael Bazzell's pro-privacy magazine

Speaking of Michael Bazzell, his guide on a DIY credit freeze is a must do for all people in the USA

Lopp on encrypted cloud backups

ZeroSync - an instant blockchain syncronization proof might allow nodes to instantly sync to the bitcoin mainchain

In Bitcoin Optech #219 Anthony Towns describes a bitcoin fork for testing soft fork proposals on Signet, useful for Drivechains?

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