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Rabbit Hole Recap #269: Bitcoin Mining Saves Texas Grid

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3:18 - When does summer really end?9:03 - Dashboard12:18 - Bitcoin or 401k13:22 - State of energy and mining50:55 - Btrust acquires Qala52:22 - BTCPay app54:40 - Support for Mercury Wallet ending1:03:24 - Barry is even more of a fraud1:09:54 - FASB new rules1:14:13 - Machankura1:18:49 - El Salvador Bitcoin education1:22:04 - Boosts1:25:24 - Software updates1:41:34 - Nostr domain for sale2:02:18 - More bickering over energy2:12:26 - Closing riff

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Rabbit Hole Recap #271: Tick Tock Next Block

Tor Browser, Tails Issued Patches for WebP Critical Zero-Day Exploit Affecting All Major Browsers https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/tor-tails-issue-patches-for-webp-critical-zero-day-exploit-affecting-major-browsers/

Bitcoin.org Operator Cøbra Must Reveal Identity to Defend Themselves, U.K. High Court Rules https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bitcoin-org-operator-loses-appeal-to-craig-wright/

StartOS, UmbrelOS Now Let You Self-Host Private AI Models https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/startos-umbrel-now-let-you-self-host-private-ai-models/

Mullvad Partnered with Tailscale, Completed Migration to RAM-only VPN Infrastructure https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/mullvad-vpn-completed-migrated-to-ram-only-vpn-infrastructure/

IVPN Light: Short-Term VPN Access Priced in Sats https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/ivpn-light-short-term-vpn-access-priced-in-sats/

Simple Bitcoin Wallet v2.5.2: Ability to Attach External Wallets https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/simple-bitcoin-wallet-v2-5-2/

Phoenix Android v2.0.6, iOS v2.0 Beta is Now on Testflight https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/phoenix-android-v2-0-6/

Breez Mobile v0.16 (iOS v1.0.22): UI Improvements &amp; Bug Fixes https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/breez-mobile-v0-16/

Zeus v0.8.0-alpha Now Available to Olympus Subscribers, Open Beta Is Coming Soon https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/zeus-v0-8-0-alpha-opened-to-waitlist-subscribers/

Nix Bitcoin v0.0.98 https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/nix-bitcoin-v0-0-98/

Mutiny Node v0.4.17: NWC Budgeting https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/mutiny-node-v0-4-17/

Mutiny Wallet v0.4.19: NWC Budgeting https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/mutiny-wallet-v0-4-19/

Snort v0.1.14: Zap Splits https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/snort-v0-1-14/

Amethyst v0.77.0-alpha: Amber Support https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/amethyst-v0-77-0-alpha/

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1:52 - Marcus is a WEF plant
8:45 - Dashboard
10:28 - Death Athletic
15:19 - TOR browser patch
16:25 - Cøbra must reveal identity
19:45 - StartOS AI
24:28 - Mullvad and Tailscale
28:26 - Software updates
38:34 - Boosts
48:34 - Riffing because the list is already over
53:20 - Death Athletic trailer



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Rabbit Hole Recap #270: A Ripple in Time

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44:28 - Commie countries
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1:31:07 - Parker is a Nostr bull 100% confirmed

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Rabbit Hole Recap #207: The Liberal World Order is Here

Tor Browser, Tails Issued Patches for WebP Critical Zero-Day Exploit Affecting All Major Browsers https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/tor-tails-issue-patches-for-webp-critical-zero-day-exploit-affecting-major-browsers/

Bitcoin.org Operator Cøbra Must Reveal Identity to Defend Themselves, U.K. High Court Rules https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bitcoin-org-operator-loses-appeal-to-craig-wright/

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work at opensats https://bitcoinerjobs.com/job/1142291-head-of-fiat-operations-opensats-opensats

Grayscale Wins Appeal Against SEC Overturing Its Decision on Bitcoin ETF https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/grayscale-wins-appeal-over-sec/

U.S. Department of the Treasury, IRS Released Proposed Regulations on Sales and Exchanges of Bitcoin for Brokers https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/u-s-department-of-the-treasury-irs-release-proposed-regulations-on-sales-and-exchanges-of-bitcoin-for-brokers/

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Rabbit Hole Recap #268: The Suits are Here to Protect Us

Is there a bank run on Binance? https://www.discreetlog.com/is-there-a-bank-run-on-binance/

Electrum v4.4.6: Security Upgrade https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/electrum-v4-4-6/

Tornado Cash Developers Charged with Money Laundering and Sanctions Violations by US Govt https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/tornado-cash-developers-charged-with-money-laundering-and-sanctions-violations/

New Tornado Cash Indictments Run Counter to FinCEN Guidance https://www.coincenter.org/new-tornado-cash-indictments-seem-to-run-

Rabbit Hole Recap #267: Bank Run on Binance?

evergrande bankruptcy https://www.reuters.com/legal/china-evergrande-files-chapter-15-bankruptcy-us-court-filing-2023-08-17/

Sam Bankman-Fried sent to jail as judge revokes bail over witness tampering, VPN use https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/11/23829004/ftx-sam-bankman-fried-bail-revoked-vpn-signal

Argentina’s Leading Presidential Candidate Vows to Shut Down Central Bank if Elected https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/argentinas-prominent-presidential-candidate-milei-vows-to-shut-down-countrys-central-

Rabbit Hole Recap #266: Good Morning, Stay Humble and Stack Sats

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3:45 - Is inflation really 3.2%?
10:41 - Corporate Transparency Act
14:43 - Song
21:19 - Pakistan coup
24:37 - LK-99
25:10 - Dashboard
27:04 - More coups and BRICS BUCS
33:28 - Chamath
37:40 - Milk sad
50:59 - Fireblocks uncovers MPC vulnerabilities
56:29 - Razzlekhan
1:02:39 - Block Q2 revenue
1:06:04 - PayPal stablecoin
1:13:59 - Bluechecks
1:20:11 - Kenya hates the orb
1:21:32 - Iraq blocks Tele

Rabbit Hole Recap #265: World’s Richest Rapper Pleads Guilty to Bitfinex Hack

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3:45 - Opening riff7:03 - Dashboard9:38 - Soft landing is cancelled30:09 - Hex34:29 - Kenya blocks Worldcoin47:25- UK encryption1:08:58 - Coinbase double feature1:16:53 - Bitcoin ATM KYC1:17:30 - Tether1:21:53 - Stacker News bug1:26:41 - Boostagrams1:34:47 - Software update1:42:33 - Closing riff


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Rabbit Hole Recap #264: Fitch Eyes US Default as "Soft Landing" Narrative Falters

Privacy focused dev Chris Belcher releases personal update after months of silence https://gist.github.com/chris-belcher/ca5051285c6f8d38693fd127575be44d?ref=nobsbitcoin.com#update

HRF 20 BTC Bounty Challenge for Improvements Requested by Activists https://hrfbounties.org/

Head of Chainalysis Investigations Admits There’s No Scientific Evidence Proving Surveillance Software Works https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/chainalysis-investigations-lead-declaration/

LNDK Developer Alyssa Hertig Receives Spi

Rabbit Hole Recap #263: RESIST THE ORB

https://therealdeal.com/national/2023/07/19/offices-overtake-malls-as-most-distressed-asset-class/https://www.profstonge.com/p/urban-doom-loop-drives-time-bomb

Coin Center loses case, will appeal https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/coin-centers-case-against-unconstitutional-financial-surveillance-dismissed-in-district-court/

FedNow went live today https://twitter.com/CaitlinLong_/status/1682031699948077056

Kuwait Bans Bitcoin Payments, Investment &amp; Mining
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/kuwait-regula

Rabbit Hole Recap #262: CBDC Precursor FedNow Launches

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Rabbit Hole Recap #261: Live From Nashville Lightning Summit

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3:45 - Happy 4th10:38 - Resist the bluecheck17:23 - Marty’s viral tweet23:10 - Dashboard26:18 - Bluecheck is CBDC36:47 - Kraken ordered to turn over data to irs41:03 - Houbi data breach47:11 - Larry Fink about face on Bitcoin55:05 - How many people understand Bitcoin?1:00:56 - European tyrrany1:08:19 - Boostagrams1:17:59 - Software updates1:36:28 - Bond market1:39:59 - Biden1:44:38 - Wrapping up

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Rabbit Hole Recap #260: Larry Fink Comes Out of the Closet

Prime Trust goes into bankruptcy, customer deposits missing https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/prime-trust-lost-half-client-funds/

Bitcoin Savings App Coinbits Caught in Prime Trust Fallout https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/coinbits-prime-trust-fallout/

Riot Platforms Partnership Brings Production of MicroBT’s ASICs to America https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/riot-platforms-partnership-brings-production-of-microbts-asics-to-america/

New Spiral Grantee: Matthew Ramsden, Pavlenex Grant Renewed https://www.nobsbi

Rabbit Hole Recap #259: Your Custodian's Custodian was a Ponzi

blackrock etf will probably be approved

EDX: Exchange Backed By Citadel, Fidelity and Schwab Launches https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/a-non-custodial-exchange-backed-by-citadel-fidelity-and-schwab-launched/

primetrust entering bankruptcy as bitgo backs out of deal https://twitter.com/BitGo/status/1671869979321577472

fake trezor app in app store https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/fake-trezor-wallet-app-tops-search-results-for-trezor-in-apples-app-store/

nostr passes one million bitcoin transactions mile

Rabbit Hole Recap #258: You Can't Trust Prime Trust

damus blocked from app store https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/damus-to-be-removed-from-apples-app-store-in-14-days/

robosats admin banned from telegram, comms move to matrix and simplex https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/robosats-admin-banned-from-telegram-communications-move/

mutiny wallet launches mainnet beta mutinywallet.com

bitkey launches beta, announces partnership with coinbase https://bitkey.build/coinbase-and-cash-app/

oslo hrf financial freedom track livestream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v

Rabbit Hole Recap #257: Million Dollar Bitcoin by End of Day

binance hit by sec https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.256060/gov.uscourts.dcd.256060.4.1.pdf?ref=nobsbitcoin.com

coinbase hit by sec https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/sec-sues-coinbase-for-unregistered-securities/

bank runs on binance, coinbase, and prime trust https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/prime-trust-may-be-facing-bankruptcy/

North Korea’s Lazarus Group Likely Behind $35M Atomic Wallet Hack, Says Surveillance Firm Elliptic https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/north-koreas-lazarus-group

Rabbit Hole Recap #256: The Bank Runs Continue

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4:26 - Remember cheap burgers?8:51 - Dashboard13:28 - Keeper wallet16:35 - Debt ceiling19:57 - 30% mining tax out the window24:00 - National debt hockey stick28:18- Parker hops in to talk debt43:18 - New Swan partners46:27 - BitMEX grants47:35 - PyPi subpoena50:48 - Remember, RHR is an AI show now56:35 - Marty simps for Zucc57:54 - Umbrel Home1:00:44 - Boostagrams1:06:05 - Software updates1:20:24 - Mempools ain’t clea

Rabbit Hole Recap #255: The Debt Ceiling Does Not Exist

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5:02 - RHR is an AI show now
10:19 - Presidential candidates talking Bitcoin
16:26 - Dashboard
19:25 - Bitcoin 2023
27:06 - Chainalysis
37:12 - Worldcoin
52:38 - Azteco in Costa Rica
54:11 - Back to Worldcoin
57:41 - Ledger backpedals
1:07:19 - Strike goes global
1:18:32 - NYC freezes its own bank accounts
1:28:33 - Fedi Alpha
1:29:03 - Mutiny Wallet ft. Ben Carman
1:42:21- Ben is shooed
1:49:32 - Start9
1:55:04 - Boo

Rabbit Hole Recap #254: No Rest for the Wicked

Live From the Open Source Stage at Bitcoin 2023 in Miami on May 19th, 2023

Guests: Max Keidun &amp; Rob Hamilton
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0:00 - We&#39;re live!2:30 - Miniscript4:00 - This is RHR5:30 - Debifi and Bitcoin collateral12:00 - Mempool announcement19:40 - Ledger controversy27:00 - RFK speech28:50 - Questions46:05 - Final thoughts


Rabbit Hole Recap Live at Bitcoin 2023 with ODELL, Marty Bent, Max Keidun & Rob Hamilton - May 19th, 2023

Azteco Bitcoin Vouchers Can Now Be Purchased with Cash At Over 126000 Locations in Brazil https://nitter.at/Azteco_/status/1655965956479279113?ref=nobsbitcoin.com

Bull Bitcoin Launches No KYC Bitcoin Purchases with Cash or Debit https://www.bullbitcoin.com/blog/bull-bitcoin-launches-no-kyc-bitcoin-purchases-with-cash-or-debit?ref=nobsbitcoin.com

Marathon Digital and Zero Two To Develop Large-Scale Immersion Bitcoin Mining Facilities in Abu Dhabi https://ir.marathondh.com/news-events/press-rele

Rabbit Hole Recap #252: Mempools Running Hot

$10M for free and open source software https://opensats.org/blog

Kingdom of Bhutan has been mining bitcoin since 2020, announces $500M mining fund to expand operations https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/05/03/2659973/0/en/Bitdeer-and-Druk-Holding-Investments-to-Jointly-Develop-Green-Digital-Asset-Mining-Operations-in-the-Kingdom-of-Bhutan.html?ref=nobsbitcoin.com

Biden admin proposes 30% bitcoin mining tax https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2023/05/02/cost-of-cryptom

Rabbit Hole Recap #251: $10,000,000 for Open Source Projects

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0:00 - Shitcoiners took over Austin
8:25 - Dashboard
11:30 - Jerome Powell deepfake prank call
24:35 - First Republic
30:15 - Fed losing control
35:00 - Tornado Cash dev free
38:35 - Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund
40:15 - Don&#39;t Trust Wallet
47:10 - Shitcoins getting drained
51:20 - PoW on Tor
54:35 - Bitcoin on Telegram
57:30 - Telegram ban in Brazil
1:00:37 - Coinstr
1:

Rabbit Hole Recap #250: Bank Runs Continue

This week Marty gets a new nickname.

https://tass.ru/ekonomika/17542637
https://twitter.com/TDF_Can/status/1648712428568424448
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/eu-parliament-approves-travel-rule-and-mica/
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/mullvad-vpn-data/
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/wavman-music-player-for-nostr/
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/zapworthy-nostr/
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/upgrade-your-luks-key-derivation-function/
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/n3xb-exchange/
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bhutan-

Rabbit Hole Recap #249: Is Russia Mining Bitcoin?

5:17 - Can&#39;t send bitcoin on an airplane11:28 - Pierre Rochard CO2 trolling21:49 - Texas anti-mining25:45 - Drop Twitter, use Nostr33:15 - BRICS meeting35:21 - Chaumian Ecash38:43 - Bitcoin Fog case45:12 - Can&#39;t argue rulers into submission48:48 - Is China taking Taiwan?51:44 - AI will break you toilet57:27 - Elon&#39;s social credit score1:02:47 - Off-chain channel management1:03:49 - Come grab Matt&#39;s $2000 knob1:05:44 - Xapo bank1:08:30 - Easter resurrection of the market?1:11:16 -

Rabbit Hole Recap #248: The NY Times is a Dying Blog

5:17 - It takes a while at the start ;)6:15 - Dashboard8:45 - BRICS Bucs16:52 - Chinese agents using America&#39;s southern border27:06 - BRICS Bucs are bad for the dollar29:35 - Bitcoin&#39;s messianic aspects31:25 - Mutiny Wallet37:16 - Texas rugs miners45:35 - CZ rumors50:05 - Paxful shut down55:15 - Noones58:23 - Emerging markets and beef sticks59:35 - MacOS Bitcoin whitepaper1:00:50 - Twitter trolls everyone1:06:15 - Coinbase coming down?1:09:15 - Clown world1:10:51 - Marty meets the Bidens

Rabbit Hole Recap #247: BRICS Bucks

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1641079790537981952?s=20

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/route-blinding-merged/

https://twitter.com/RadarHits/status/1641414101527142402?s=20


0:00 - RIP Mr. Bent6:45 - Dashboard7:50 - Tik Tok ban AKA Patriot Act 2.022:25 - Dedollarisation27:40 - Can&#39;t stop the signal31:20 - Lightning route blinding35:30 - Big difficulty adjustment42:30 - Fedi pools48:27 - ZeroSync utreexo56:10 - Then they fight you1:01:20 - Hug your kids, hug your parents1:03:00 - It

Rabbit Hole Recap #246: Time is Scarce

Marty dons a very cool and stylish hat while Matt rations his wifi.

https://twitter.com/stackhodler/status/1638830291287527424

https://twitter.com/Schuldensuehner/status/1639014379713708033

https://twitter.com/DylanLeClair_/status/1639013798362112000

https://tradeblock.com/markets/bfnx/xbt-usd/30m/

https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqyr2wfe8ycrwwfeqgsffcng7jk2fnq5vylp5m2sm26q3q4e7z9rr4lkh2qkq3pfkxam5rsrqsqqqa28rngva8

https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqnxsar5wpen5te0w3n8gcewd9hj7mtpwf68juedvfjkuap0d9ehx

Rabbit Hole Recap #245: Million Dollar Bitcoin in 84 Days

silvergate, silicon valley bank, and signature bank failures

bailout of remaining banks

robosats disables swap feature due to vulnerability https://nitter.at/RoboSats/status/1635432123648622593

luxor releases custom mining firmware https://luxor.tech/firmware

lnbits diy nostr signing device https://github.com/lnbits/nostr-signing-device

specter v2.0.0 https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop/releases/tag/v2.0.0?ref=no-bullshit-bitcoin

start9 embassy v0.3.4 https://github.com/Start9

Rabbit Hole Recap #244: Bitcoin Fixes This

4:41 - It's happening!
11:43 - Matt's bank run rabbit hole
15:39 - Mechanics of what's happening
18:46 - The speed of events
27:16 - Fed pivot
28:40 - Marty's bluecheck
30:08 - Dashboard flashed
30:34 - USDC
34:19 - Exchanges impacted by banks
44:25 - Slow mo into collapse
1:00:05 - Bitcoin's going to be blamed
1:04:30 - Final thoughts, wrapping up


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Rabbit Hole Recap #243: Run on the Banks

Silvergate Bank in trouble https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/03/02/silvergate-stock-drops-over-50-as-crypto-clients-flee-beleaguered-bank/ &amp; https://twitter.com/DylanLeClair_/status/1593630883889778689/photo/2

Cashapp users bought $7.11 billion in bitcoin last year https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/content/files/2023/02/Block_Shareholder-Letter-4Q22.pdf

Block details global self custody wallet ambitions https://wallet.build/helping-customers-move-between-fiat-and-bitcoin-how-well-build[…]-t

Rabbit Hole Recap #242: CashApp Users Bought Over $7B in Bitcoin Last Year

This week Marty and Matt discuss

bluewallet shutting down default lightning wallet april 30th https://bluewallet.io/sunsetting-lndhub/

marco falke stepping down as maintainer https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/marco-falke-steps-down/

tropic square open source secure elements completes first round of testing https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/tropic-square-completes-initial-testing-on-chip

OP_Vault proposal https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/0204c9a1f9a9075f2483450f1bab034d453270b7/bip-vaults.me

Rabbit Hole Recap #241: It's All So Tiresome

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

“Stable Coins” Under Fire https://twitter.com/ODELL/status/1590454881223028736

Fedimint Hackathon Winners https://www.fedi.xyz/blog/fedimint-hackaton-winners

Strike launches Sending API https://docs.strike.me/walkthrough/sending-payments/

Breez launches SDK https://medium.com/breez-technology/lightning-for-everyone-in-any-app-lightning-as-a-service-via-the-breez-sdk-41d899057a1d

Jam v0.1.5 https://github.com/joinmarket-webui/jam/releases/tag/v0.1.5

Element

Rabbit Hole Recap #240: Bitcoin is the Only True Stablecoin

This week Marty and Matt and Joined by NVK and BitDern to discuss:

Sparrow Wallet v1.7.2 https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/1.7.2

Zeus v0.7.2 https://github.com/ZeusLN/zeus/releases/tag/v0.7.2

BTCPay Server v1.7.6 https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver/releases/tag/v1.7.6

coldcard q1 https://coldcard.com/docs/coldcard-q1

local bitcoins shutting down https://localbitcoins.com/service_closure/

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Rabbit Hole Recap #239: End of a Wild Week with NVK and Dern

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

Lebanon officially devalues currency 90% https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/lebanon-sharply-devalues-official-exchange-rate-central-bank-says-2023-02-01/

prime trust loses texas license, swan and fold users can no longer buy, strike unaffected

ordinal inscriptions controversy

strike commerce launches with clover point of sale systems https://twitter.com/jackmallers/status/1618731420998049798

joinmarket v0.9.9 https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinma

Rabbit Hole Recap #238: The Government Rugpulls Have Escalated

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

blockstream raises $125M https://www.prweb.com/releases/2023/1/prweb19127332.htm

strike launches first clover merchant https://twitter.com/jackmallers/status/1618731420998049798

fold launches enterprise api https://foldapp.com/api

prime trust cut from texas, swan and fold impacted https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/prime-trust-texas-issues/

tails v5.9 https://tails.boum.org/news/version_5.9/

lnbits v0.9.6 https://github.com/lnbits/lnbits/releases/tag/0.9.6.1

fre

Rabbit Hole Recap #237: Evening Rip to End a Quiet Week

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- 196 Members of Congress Took FTX Money https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/01/17/congress-ftx-problem-1-in-3-members-got-cash-from-crypto-exchanges-bosses/
- Congo National Park Relies on Hydro Powered Bitcoin Mine https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/13/1066820/cryptocurrency-bitcoin-mining-congo-virunga-national-park/
- BIP 329 Merged: Standard for Wallet Label Exports and Imports Between Wallets https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0329.med

Rabbit Hole Recap #236: Bitcoin Mining Saves Animals

This week Marty and Matt party it up in Nashville!

https://bitcoinpark.co

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8:51 - PubKey
12:05 - Introducing guests and year in review
15:45 - Exchange degeneracy
18:35 - Interest rate hikes
21:34 - Talking about the future
24:50 - Samuel Deep Fried Bankrupt Man
27:25 - Rich history of scams and rug pulls
33:40 - Mining predictions
38:19 - ASIC loans
42:13 - Favorite mining scam
48:02 - Having fun watching Barry vs Winklevii
55:22 - Is the bottom in?
56:51 - Hunting Satoshi
1:

Rabbit Hole Recap #235: Party Rip at Bitcoin Park in Nashville

This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- winklevoss blast silbert https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/gemini-cofounder-cameron-public-letter/
- dcg fires 30% of employees at genesis https://www.wsj.com/articles/crypto-lender-genesis-lays-off-30-of-staff-11672939434
- dcg shutters wealth management division https://www.theinformation.com/articles/genesis-parent-company-dcg-shutters-its-wealth-management-division
- silvergate lost $700m during ftx panic bank run https://www.wsj.com/articles/silvergate-raced-to

Rabbit Hole Recap #234: Where's the money, Barry?!

This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Another reminder to protect yourself if you used lastpass
- SBF “$250M bond” was BS&nbsp;
- Bitfarms CEO resigns&nbsp;
- Gemini users file class action lawsuit&nbsp;
- Samourai v0.99.98g&nbsp;
- BTCPay v1.7.3&nbsp;
- JAM now available on most major node packages&nbsp;
- FROSTR multisig nostr&nbsp;
- Twitter Data Breach&nbsp;
- US Housing Chart&nbsp;
- Energy and Mining Week in Nashville
- Free Open Source Contributor Tickets to Bitcoin 2023&nbsp;
- Demand resp

Rabbit Hole Recap #233: A Final Recap For The Rollercoaster Of A Year That Was 2022

This week Marty and Matt discuss so many things that we hit the character limit in the description.

- Core Scientific Files for Bankruptcy&nbsp;

- Two FTX Execs Plead Guilty to Criminal Charges&nbsp;

- SBF Released on $250M bond&nbsp;

- Twitter announces policy banning nostr and other social promotion&nbsp;

- QuadrigaCX addresses thought to be dead wake up&nbsp;

- Greenidge Sells Hash to NYDIG to Avoid Bankruptcy&nbsp;

- HRF Awards $325K in new grants&nbsp;

- Zeus v0.7.0&nbsp;

- Alby v1

Rabbit Hole Recap #232: Merry Christmas!

- SBF arrested in Bahamas&nbsp;
- EU to force companies to report user holdings&nbsp;
- US senate bill proposed to outlaw private bitcoin development and usage&nbsp;
- Coinbase received 12320 government demands for customer info this year&nbsp;
- SBF secretly funded the block news org, ceo steps down&nbsp;
- Jack Dorsey provides 14 bitcoin grant to Nostr&nbsp;
- Bitcoin Core v 0.24.0 had coin selection bug, latest version is v 0.24.1
- Twitter had FBI/CIA agents directing policy
- US Interest pa

Rabbit Hole Recap #231: There's a run on the bitcoin banks!

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

 DCG owes gemini customers $900M&nbsp;
 Strike launches remittance product for Africa&nbsp;
 Legends of Lightning tournament winners announced&nbsp;
 Block funds African rural mining company ‘Gridless’&nbsp;
  Ledger announces new hardware wallet ‘Stax’&nbsp;
  Core Lightning v22.11&nbsp;
  BDK v0.25.0&nbsp;
  Tor Browser v12.0&nbsp;
  Threema encrypted messenger adds new communication protocol&nbsp;
  Silvergate CEO Alan Lane public letter&nbsp;
  FTX full ven

Rabbit Hole Recap #230: Building in the Bear Party Rip

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- El Salvador Bitcoin Treasury Lacks Transparency&nbsp;

- BlockFi Declares Bankruptcy: High Risk Loans Resulted in Insolvency&nbsp;

- Major Bitcoin Banking Partner Prime Trust Has Fired CEO Tom Pageler&nbsp;

- BTCPay v1.7.0: new checkout page, unified QR for onchain and lightning, store branding, and white labeling, and more&nbsp;

- Coinkite Launches ‘BinaryWatch’ Hub: Tracks Popular Bitcoin Software Signature Verification&nbsp;

- New Open Source Lightning

Rabbit Hole Recap #229: The Bankruptcies and Executive Departures Continue

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- The Securities Commission of The Bahamas Seized Digital Assets of FTX After Bankruptcy Declared in US&nbsp;

- Bitcoin Core v24.0&nbsp;

- Sparrow Wallet v1.7.1&nbsp;

- Hoseki Launches Real-Time Proof of Reserves Hub&nbsp;

- ‘SatsCrap’ Bitcoin P2P Marketplace&nbsp;

- Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev to Remain in Jail Until at Least Late February&nbsp;

- Genesis Balance Sheet Reveals $2.8 billion in Outstanding Loans: 30% made to related parties inclu

Rabbit Hole Recap #228: DCG & Genesis Getting Dragged into the Contagion

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Contagion continues

- Matt didn't make a list

- Party rip


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Rabbit Hole Recap #227: FTX was a Ponzi and held no bitcoin... who's next?

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- FTX files for bankruptcy&nbsp;

- Timeline of events that lead to it&nbsp;

- BlockFi halts withdrawals, most likely insolvent&nbsp;

- Ledn exposed to Alameda&nbsp;

- Remove your bitcoin from custodians and learn how to self custody&nbsp;

- CZ &amp; SBF conspiracy&nbsp;

- Marty Jones rant state attack conspiracy&nbsp;

- Silvergate&nbsp;

- Ben Carman's Vortex&nbsp;


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Rabbit Hole Recap #226: FTX BLOWS UP - Takes House of Cards with it

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Another LND bug causes nodes to fall out of sync again, update your node

- Tony explains how a malicious attacker could have used lnsploit to steal funds

- Replace By Fee Debate Spills onto Twitter

- Coinbase led surveillance group expands to europe with 67 companies supporting&nbsp;

- CashApp sold $1.76B worth of bitcoin to users last quarter

- Block releases more details on upcoming hardware wallet&nbsp;

- LDK v0.0.112

- Blixt Wallet v0.6.0

- Electr

Rabbit Hole Recap #225: Bear Markets Are for Arguing

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Largest Mining Firm Core Scientific Appears Insolvent&nbsp;

- Publicly Traded Mining Firms are 25% of Hash&nbsp;

- Cash App Adds Lightning Receive Support&nbsp;

- One of Cash App’s Lightning Nodes&nbsp;

- Amboss Adds Controversial Data Sharing Feature&nbsp;

- Biden Wants to Make it Easier to Seize Bitcoin&nbsp;

- Sparrow Wallet v1.7.0&nbsp;

- Alby v1.18.0&nbsp;

- Kollider Exchange &amp; Synthetic Stablecoins Launch&nbsp;

- Chinese Spies Paid Double A

Rabbit Hole Recap #224: Largest Bitcoin Miner Potentially Bankrupt

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- hodlonaut defeats csw&nbsp;

- bitcoin mining council releases statement on energy use, claims to represent nearly 50% of hash&nbsp;

- bitmex renews calvin kims grant for utreexo work&nbsp;

- LND v0.15.3-beta&nbsp;

- Echo v0.0.1&nbsp;

- Impervious Browser Alpha for Mac and Linux&nbsp;

- Fund Tor nodes with bitcoin&nbsp;

- Riot announces new mining facility in Texas&nbsp;

- Fall of Hydra Market&nbsp;

- Erlay progress&nbsp;

- BOJ announces bond buying&

Rabbit Hole Recap #223: Miner Pain Is Here

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- large taproot multisig transaction breaks btcd and lnd, update lnd to fix issue

- spiral, braiins, and others collaborate on stratum v2

- coincenter suing OFAC over Tornado Cash&nbsp;

- bny mellon partners with fireblocks to custody bitcoin&nbsp;

- crusoe acquires great american mining&nbsp;

- bitcoin ekasi launches education center in south africa&nbsp;

- google partners with coinbase to accept bitcoin and cryptocurrencies&nbsp;

- validity rollups on 

Rabbit Hole Recap #222: Liquidity is drying up

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- celsius releases personal info on all users

- foundry and grayscale announce new mining investment vehicle

- eu “bans” users from interacting with russian bitcoin addresses

- alby v1.17.0

- foundation v2.0.4

- coldcard mk4 v5.0.7

- start9 v0.3.2

- fountain v0.5.1

- tornado cash dev denied bail, assets being auctioned

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Rabbit Hole Recap #221: KYC/AML is Putting People in Danger

This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Mining hosting provider compute north files for bankruptcy https://www.theblock.co/post/172246/compute-north-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy
- Brink now funding 11 devs https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/bitcoin-non-profit-brink-funds-11-bitcoin-lightning-developers
- Bitnob launches in kenya, integrates mpesa https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bitnob-kenya-mpesa/
- Strike Raises $80m in New Funding Led https://fortune.com/crypto/2022/09/27/bitcoin-rapid-payment-se

Rabbit Hole Recap #220: Bonds and pipelines are blowing up

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- riot and blockware release transaction fee paper https://blockwaresolutions.com/s/Bitcoin-Transaction-Fees-Final-Draft.pdf

- jesse powell steps down as ceo of kraken https://www.wsj.com/articles/ceo-of-crypto-exchange-kraken-steps-down-11663778989

- lnbits v0.9.3 https://github.com/lnbits/lnbits/releases/tag/0.9.3

- fountain v0.4.9 https://fountainpodcasts.substack.com/p/fountain-0-4-9

- trezor suite v22.9.3 https://blog.trezor.io/coin-control-in-trezor-s

Rabbit Hole Recap #219: A Tale of Two Powells

This week Marty and Matt discuss:&nbsp;
- ethereum switches to proof of stake
- greenpeace continues to FUD bitcoin&nbsp;
- hodlonaut trial starts in Norway
- ledger hardware wallets now available at best buy stores
- fidelity and charles schwab launch bitcoin exchange
- mining pool Poolin announces IOUs amid solvency concerns
- Alby v1.15.0
- LDK v0.0.111
- Phoenix v1.4.23
- LNMarkets increases trade limits and moves to nodl cloud
- red dirt mining open source mining profitability calculator
- 

Rabbit Hole Recap #218 Greenpeace Can Go Fork Themselves

This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- white house mining report
- poolin appears insolvent
- coinbase funding legal challenge to tornado cash sanctions
- russia to use cryptocurrency for international trade
- HRF donates $325K to bitcoin development
- australian feds form unit dedicated to tracking and seizing bitcoin
- fountain v0.4.8
- zeus v0.6.6
- this month in bitcoin privacy
- arcane research on bitcoin mining and energy industry
- IRS doxxes 120K tax payers
- hosted vpn providers shut down 

Rabbit Hole Recap #217: The Queen is dead and the Biden Administration hates mining

This week Marty and Matt are joined by Adam Curry, Ryan Gentry of Lightning Labs and Grant Gilliam of Ten31 to have a Bit Block Boom rip. &nbsp;&nbsp;

- DC accuses saylor and microstrategy of tax fraud&nbsp;
- mining difficulty increases by 9.25%
- mempool launches lightning explorer&nbsp;
- nydig launches lightning accelerator&nbsp;
- Iran approves bitcoin for imports&nbsp;
- joinmarket v0.9.7&nbsp;
- lnd v0.15.1-beta&nbsp;
- btcd v0.23.1-beta

- Odell 50yrs poll 1 poll 2

- announcing rapid g

Rabbit Hole Recap #216: DC targets Saylor while NYDIG launches Wolf

This week Marty and Matt are joined by Adam Curry, Ryan Gentry of Lightning Labs and Grant Gilliam of Ten31 to have a Bit Block Boom rip. &nbsp;&nbsp;


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Rabbit Hole Recap #215: Bit Block Boom rip with Adam, Ryan and Grant

This week Marty and Matt are joined by Jevi from Unchained Capital and Adam O from Upstream Data to have a party rip.


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Rabbit Hole Recap #214: Austin party rip with Jevi and Adam O

This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Tornado Cash Developer Arrested in Amsterdam
- coincenter on tornado cash
- us bans export of 3nm chip tech
- Casa discloses data breach of store
- Vinteum launched to support bitcoin dev in brazil
- bitmain and antpool launch new miner loan program
- bitcoin ekasi in south africa
- telcos could get hundreds of millions in fines waived for location tracking
- iOS VPN support leaks data
- Inflation Reduction Act passed, Bill Gates lobbied hard for it
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Rabbit Hole Recap #213: Censorship resistance should be the priority

This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- ethereum privacy tool tornado cash sanctioned
- tornado cash github repo taken down, same with dev accounts
- coincenter on sanctions
- btc-e exchange operator extradited to US
- proposal to require large hedge funds to disclose cryptocurrency positions
- blackrock launches bitcoin private trust
- tropic square open source secure chip begins production
- easy inbound liquidity using voltage
- more details on Block's hardware wallet
- motiv launches 16 circular

Rabbit Hole Recap #212: The privacy wars have escalated

This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Israel bans use of cash for purchases larger than NIS 6000 - roughly $1700
- CSW vs McCormack
- Victorian Gov Coming for your coin
- Foundry funds stratum v2 dev
- Galoy raises $4million, launches stablesats
- Coinbase partners with Blackrock
- Raspiblitz v1.8.0
- Coldcard v5.0.6
- Sparrow Wallet v1.6.6
- Celsius creditor list
- John Cantrell Route Blinding
- Foreigners hold just 33% of US debt: the lowest amount this century
- $80 billion in new funding for t

Rabbit Hole Recap #211: Is the Fed buying bitcoin?

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- senators salty at fidelity for bitcoin product&nbsp;
- kraken accused of violating sanctions&nbsp;
- senators introduce bill for tax exemption on bitcoin payments smaller&nbsp;
- twitter data break exposes 5.4M accounts&nbsp;
- bitfinex and tether launch p2p communications app Keet&nbsp;
- Lnbits v0.91&nbsp;
- Start9 Embassy v0.3.1.1&nbsp;
- Wasabi Wallet v2.0.1.3&nbsp;
- LDK v0.0.110
- gladstein on fedimints&nbsp;
- three arrows founders give first interview

Rabbit Hole Recap #210: Salty senators insider trading

This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Tesla sold 75% of their bitcoin&nbsp;
- Largest mining difficulty drop since last year, -%5.01&nbsp;
- Senators ask EPA to require mining companies to disclose energy usage&nbsp;
- Shift Crypto data breach&nbsp;
- BTrust funds first developer&nbsp;
- Coldcard MK4 v5.0.5&nbsp;
- Coinkite looking for an app dev&nbsp;
- Tor Browser v11.5
- Joinstr, using nostr as a coinjoin coordinator
- Border Wallets Tool Launched&nbsp;
- zebedee raises $35M
- Fedi raises $4M
-

Rabbit Hole Recap #209: Pouring some out for the weak hands

This week Marty and Matt discuss: &nbsp;
- Robinhood Enables Bitcoin Transfers
- Half-Aggregation of BIP 340 Signatures
- Compass Mining Lays Off 15% of Team
- China Police Database Was Left Open Online
- Gloria Zhao Added as a Bitcoin Core Maintainer
- BTCPay Server v1.6.1
- Bitcoin ETN Launches in Germany
- Amazon Admits Giving Ring Camera Footage To Police Without A Warrant Or Consent
- Bitcoin Optech
- NYDIG Announces Partnership with the New York Yankees


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Rabbit Hole Recap #208: Party rip at Bitcoin Park

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- OpenNode partners with Lemon Cash to bring lightning &nbsp;to a million Argentines
- More details of blockfi deal with ftx
- Three Arrows Capital files for bankruptcy
- Voyager freezes withdrawals and declares bankruptcy
- Indian exchange Vauld freezes withdrawals due to insolvency&nbsp;
- Core Scientific sold most of their bitcoin
- Rizzo on Maximalism
- Bitcoin Policy Institute submits report to Department of Commerce&nbsp;
- Samourai Wallet v0.99.98e&nbsp;

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- $4 Billion in Bitcoin Miner Loans Under Stress&nbsp;
- MicroBT to Get First Access to Samsung 3nm Chips&nbsp;
- Supreme Court Rules Against EPA Limiting Federal Power to Regulate Bitcoin Miners and Other Energy Projects&nbsp;
- Montana Storm Takes 75% of Marathon Hash Offline&nbsp;
- First Batch of My First Bitcoin Diplomas Awarded, Second School Joins Initiative&nbsp;
- Celsius is $2B in the Hole&nbsp;
- Leaked Call Provides More Details on BlockFi Issues&nb

Rabbit Hole Recap #206: More pain is on the way

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- UK self custody acknowledgement
- FATF report coming
- Putin’s comments on sanctions
- Biden blames gas stations
- Sri Lanka PM declares economic collapse
- BOJ QE in overdrive
- ECB balance sheet ATH
- BIS gaslighting
- BlockFi FTX bailout

- Voyager exposed

- Gazprom + BitRiver

- Bitcoin on DNMs
- Fountain 0.4.0 released

- IBEX onboarding Miami merchants

- DARPA funding (poor) bitcoin research

- much more

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Rabbit Hole Recap #205: Bailouts, uprisings, and gaslighting

This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Celsius, 3 Arrows Capital + BlockFi rumors
- Fed rate hike
- Biden letter to O&amp;G execs
- Japanese government bonds
- much more

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Rabbit Hole Recap #204: When chasing yield goes wrong

This week Marty and Matt discuss:
Jack Dorsey and Jay-Z announce The Bitcoin Academy
Bitcoin Park Launches in Nashville
Telegram is Giving Data to German Feds in Certain Cases
Improving The Privacy Of The Lightning Network’s Gossip Protocol
Senator Lummis and Senator Gillibrand Introduce Landmark Bitcoin Bill
Letter to US Congress on Bitcoin's Humanitarian Impact
LN Summit 2022 Notes &amp; Summary/Commentary
A New Project Using LDK to Probe the Lightning Network for Private Channels
Jack Dorsey’

Rabbit Hole Recap #203: Ripping on a Saturday because a baby arrived

This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- russia considering bitcoin for international settlement&nbsp;
- seed tool v1.0.7&nbsp;
- robosats integrates openpgp encrypted chat&nbsp;
- new Block report&nbsp;
- Biden admin considering bitcoin mining regulation
- Yellen backtracking on “transitory”
- Europe cutting off Russian oil&nbsp;
- Dimon comments + GS comments
- FFR rate of change&nbsp;
- ESG is dying

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Rabbit Hole Recap #202: Turns out the inflation was not transitory

This week Marty and Matt are joined by Jack Mallers to discuss everything that happened at the Oslo Freedom Forum this week.

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Rabbit Hole Recap #201: A debrief on the Oslo Freedom Forum

This week Marty and Matt discuss:&nbsp;
- financial leaders of 44 countries meet in El Salvador to discuss bitcoin&nbsp;
- Luna foundation sold 80000 bitcoin amid "stablecoin" crash&nbsp;
- texas pacific land corp announces bitcoin mining venture &nbsp;
- canaan revenues increased by 237% &nbsp;
- cambridge numbers are flawed &nbsp;
- EU wants to scan all your private messages &nbsp;
- summer of bitcoin mentorship program gets over 20K applicants &nbsp;
- bitcoin education initiative launches in

Rabbit Hole Recap #200: The podcast stream has officially been moved

&nbsp;This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- terra "stablecoin" blows up
- treasury sanctions custodial bitcoin mixer blender(.)io
- cashapp $1.73B in bitcoin sales Q1, $43M profit
- coinbase $309B volume Q1, $430M loss
- chainalysis valued at $8.6B
- joinmarket v0.9.6
- arti v0.3.0 Tor rust client
- casa launches api
- rusty russell releases alternative covenants proposal
- conversation with rusty on his proposal on dispatch
- spiral post on supporting open source
- georgetown law research shows I

Rabbit Hole Recap #199: Bitcoin is dead, we're cancelling the show

&nbsp;This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- coinbase launches revamped surveillance product
- SEC doubles size of "crypto assets" unit
- cdc tracked the location of millions of americans without a warrant
- fbi did millions of searches of americans data last year without a warrant
- bitcoin mining council submits letter to EPA
- how women view bitcoin
- mycitadel v1.0
- seed tool v1.0.4
- tor v0.4.7.7
- cold card upgrade
- lightning multiplexer
- new lightning only vpn
- voltage podcast index stud

Rabbit Hole Recap #198: The government spies and lies

Rabbit Hole Recap #197 The Disinformation Governance Board is here to tell you how to think

Rabbit Hole Recap #196: Sanctions on Russian bitcoin miners and the escalating energy and food crisis

Rabbit Hole Recap #195: The nation state bankruptcy wave is upon us

Rabbit Hole Recap #194: Live from the open source stage

Rabbit Hole Recap #193: The unjust laws are on the rise

Rabbit Hole Recap #192: Bitcoin Merges with the Energy Sector

Rabbit Hole Recap #191: The Gang is back in person

Rabbit Hole Recap #190: Sanctions and the fall of the dollar

Rabbit Hole Recap #188: Chaos in the world

Rabbit Hole Recap #187: Freedom Money

Rabbit Hole Recap #186: High inflation, beautiful honking and rising taxes on miners

Rabbit Hole Recap #185: Currency crises, cold weather, and good bitcoin mining tax news

Rabbit Hole Recap #184: The IRS wants your face and the Treasury hates you

Rabbit Hole Recap #183: Intel hopping in the Bitcoin mining game and Presidents meeting to talk Bitcoin

Rabbit Hole Recap #182: CBDCs are treasonous and prices are rising

Rabbit Hole Recap #181: Internet Blackouts and More Consolidation

Rabbit Hole Recap #180: End of 2021 roundup

Rabbit Hole Recap #179: End of year holiday chop special

Rabbit Hole Recap #178: We got a strike

Rabbit Hole Recap #177: The gaslighting heats up

Rabbit Hole Recap #176: Party rip

 Rabbit Hole Recap #175: Don't live in fear

Rabbit Hole Recap #174: Much to be thankful for

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