Rabbit Hole Recap #186: High inflation, beautiful honking and rising taxes on miners
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- married couple arrested and 96K bitcoin seized over 2016 bitfinex hack
- canadian protests bitcoin fundraiser over 15 bitcoin
- KPMG Canada adds bitcoin to treasury
- Russia shares bitcoin regulation plan
- bitcoin design guide v2 launched
- Kazakhstan floats 500% tax increase on bitcoin miners
- EARN IT Bill proposed to scan all online messages
- sensei lightning node implementation released
- cypherpunkpay v1.0.13
- lnd v0.4.2-beta
- electrs v0.9.5
- lnbits v0.6.0
- btcpayserver v1.4.4
- umbrel v0.4.14
- blixt v0.4.1
- galoy v0.1.9
- mercury wallet v0.6.2
- hexa wallet v2.0.69
- whirlpool v0.10.13
- valkyrie bitcoin miners etf launches with ticker WGMI
- deventralized social media project bluesky announces independent Public Benefit LLC and board members
- kraken funding full time bitcoin rust maintainer
- Bitcoin is funding Ukraine defense
- fountain podcaster wallet launched
- opennode raises $20M, now valued at $220M
- binance buys a stake in forbes
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