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The Pentagon has modeled a war game in which an American uprising in the mid 2020s called Zbellion uses Bitcoin to undermine the establishment

https://theintercept.com/2020/06/05/pentagon-war-game-gen-z/

Coinbase selling tracking software to IRS/DEA

https://decrypt.co/31485/coinbase-license-analytics-irs-dea

Learn more about why you should #DeleteCoinbase

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Brave sneakily auto-fills affiliate links when users type in certain URLs to their browser

https://cointelegraph.com/news/brave-comes-under-fire-for-binance-affiliate-link-autofill

Not just Binance:

https://twitter.com/WhalePanda/status/1269321600148660227

Marty Bent knocks it out of the park in today’s issue of The Bent – “The Danger of the Collective WE”

https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-754/

Exploring BIP 119 on the BTSE Academy

https://www.academy.btse.com/post/bip-119

Jameson Lopp provides the Dos and Don’ts of Bitcoin Key Management

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Will Satoshi ever move his coins?

https://cointelegraph.com/news/patoshi-researcher-satoshi-wont-use-his-coins-ever

Tether flippened XRP. Is ETH next?

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bloomberg-only-a-matter-of-time-before-tether-overtakes-ether-as-2

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Adam Back’s $300k Bitcoin prediction

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Swiss bank refutes Goldman Sachs’ takedown of Bitcoin value

https://decrypt.co/31089/swiss-bank-fires-back-at-goldman-sachs-over-bitcoin-critique

Coinsquare hacker plans sim swap attacks

https://decrypt.co/31103/coinsquare-hacker-reveals-cruel-plan-to-now-steal-bitcoin

Chinese police find secret bitcoin miners hidden underground

https://cointelegraph.com/news/chinese-police-find-secret-bitcoin-mining-operation-in-suspected-tombs

Video: Bitcoiner protester in the street

https://twitter.com/nlebowitz1/status/1268002667042934786

Trezor firmware update, possible attack vector

https://blog.trezor.io/details-of-firmware-updates-for-trezor-one-version-1-9-1-and-trezor-model-t-version-2-3-1-1eba8f60f2dd

Full BIP70 explanation

https://medium.com/the-capital/breaking-down-the-bitpay-bip70-controversy-72448ea2fadb

Newest Bitcoin Core release

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Some protesters are alluding to Bitcoin as a silent form of protest and defunding the state

https://cointelegraph.com/news/protestors-invoke-bitcoin-in-the-wake-of-george-floyds-death

Canadian exchanges are now Money Service Businesses

https://medium.com/bull-bitcoin/bitcoin-exchanges-and-payment-processors-in-canada-are-now-regulated-as-money-service-businesses-1ca820575511

New Bitcoin privacy implementation “Coinswap” in the works

https://decrypt.co/30756/bitcoin-privacy-coinswap-chris-belcher

Square Crypto gives out another grant to open source lightning network watchtower developer

https://decrypt.co/30877/square-crypto-awards-grant-bitcoin-lightning-network-watchtower

Miner capitulation? Selling eclipses newly generated coins

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Goldman Sachs’ embarrassing Bitcoin assessment and deck

https://twitter.com/OGBTC/status/1265640361239740417

Jill Carlson (former employee) on what and why GS got wrong about Bitcoin

https://www.coindesk.com/what-goldman-gets-wrong-about-bitcoin-from-someone-who-used-to-work-there

ElectrumX lead maintainer goes off the rails and will only support BSV

https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1266033448340389892

Electrum plugin allows users to reference their own full node

https://twitter.com/shesek/status/1265660672504999936?s=20

BTCPay receives its 7th grant, this time from OKCoin for $100,000

https://blog.btcpayserver.org/btcpay-server-grant-7-okcoin/

Bitcoin.org is going to change hands, and Roger Ver is interested

https://cointelegraph.com/news/roger-ver-wants-to-buy-bitcoinorg

BTSE Academy Post on the history of Bitcoin in commerce, and where it may be headed form here

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Bitwage launches world’s first Bitcoin 401K

https://blog.bitwage.com/2020/05/26/bitcoin401k/

Charles Hoskinson weighs in on the Adam Back Satoshi theory

https://cointelegraph.com/news/charles-hoskinson-blockstream-founder-adam-back-checks-all-the-boxes-as-satoshi

Blockstream Liquid vs Ethereum tokens?

https://cointelegraph.com/news/is-blockstreams-liquid-network-an-attempt-to-compete-for-tokens-with-ethereum

Argentina crypto crackdown in effect

https://decrypt.co/30090/argentina-cracking-down-local-bitcoin-trading

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An early Bitcoin miner outs CSW as a fraud by signing Wright’s alleged holdings with his own keys

https://cointelegraph.com/news/early-bitcoin-miner-calls-craig-wright-a-fraud-through-his-own-addresses

70,000 BTC coinjoined in May alone

https://decrypt.co/29932/bitcoin-mixers-private-using-coinjoin

Potential data hack of Trezor, Ledger and Keepkey customer databases

https://decrypt.co/30025/hacker-steals-trezor-ledger-keepkey-data

Iran moves to regulate crypto mining

https://www.coindesk.com/rouhani-bitcoin-mining-iran

Thread on merits of Liquid sidechain for large traders

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The 50 BTC moved yesterday were likely not from Satoshi

https://bitcoinist.com/why-highly-unlikely-50-bitcoin-transaction-2009-address-is-satoshi/

Moved coins put Craig Wright in hot water

https://cointelegraph.com/news/craig-wright-denies-transferring-satoshi-coins-leaving-him-in-legal-catch-22

More Hodlers as coins move off exchanges

https://cointelegraph.com/news/people-are-removing-the-most-bitcoin-from-exchanges-since-2018-bottom

Examining Bitcoin energy consumption

https://www.coindesk.com/the-last-word-on-bitcoins-energy-consumption?amp=1

Trezor creators begin project to develop open source chips

https://decrypt.co/29595/bitcoin-wallet-makers-satoshilabs-building-open-source-chips

Fed nominee favors return to a gold standard with a 21st century twist

https://cointelegraph.com/news/trumps-fed-nominee-advocates-a-gold-backed-currency-even-a-crypto-one

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Save on BTC transaction fees

https://www.academy.btse.com/post/save-bitcoin-fees

Learn about Bitcoin Pizza Day

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BlockFi customer data compromised

https://www.coindesk.com/blockfi-hacker-sim-swapped-employees-phone-no-funds-were-lost

TFTC article

https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-741/

Coinjoin Flagging

https://6102bitcoin.com/coinjoin-flagging/

Mentioned exchanges:

https://bisq.network/

https://bullbitcoin.com/

https://www.btse.com/

Liquid integrations

https://docs.blockstream.com/liquid/liquid-integrations.html

Privacy wallets

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECQHAzSckK0

https://samouraiwallet.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icyeO70ICi4

NordVPN

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Tor

https://www.torproject.org/

myNode

https://mynodebtc.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMovZg_3ERs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyylkpR4DDk

The Missing Cryptoqueen

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07nkd84/episodes/downloads

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Robert Kiyosaki is a Bitcoin bull – says $75K in 3 years

https://cointelegraph.com/news/robert-kiyosaki-predicts-bitcoin-will-be-worth-75k-in-3-years

JK Rowling is trolling Bitcoiners on twitter

https://decrypt.co/29193/jk-rowling-jokes-about-her-significant-ethereum-holdings

Bitcoin block speed falling after miner capitulation

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-block-generation-speed-falls-to-2017-lows

Bitcoin fees up, average $5.00+

https://decrypt.co/29112/bitcoin-fees-halving-rise-mempool

Mempool:

https://mempool.space/

Fees:

https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/

BTSE Academy on the importance of miner fees:

https://www.academy.btse.com/post/bitcoin-transaction-fees

tBTC on Ethereum shuts down after 2 days due to vulnerability

https://cointelegraph.com/news/non-custodial-bitcoin-to-ethereum-bridge-shut-down-after-two-days

Fed chair Jerome Powell goes on 60 Minutes, says they are not “out of ammunition”

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/feds-powell-tells-60-minutes-hes-not-out-of-ammunition-to-fight-the-recession-2020-05-17

$3 Trillion more in stimulus?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahhansen/2020/05/15/house-passes-3-trillion-coronavirus-stimulus-but-that-doesnt-mean-more-checks-are-coming/#431f2f056a37

The US monetary base inflating by $4 Trillion (6X) in 12 years

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGMBASE