Episode 14: Bitcoin News - Bitcoin Conference 2022 Highlights & Announcements (Education, Mining, and Privacy Are Pumping!), and Other Global and Australian Bitcoin News

Thanks to our hosts:
https://twitter.com/mission_bitcoin
https://twitter.com/jeremy_m16

Sponsored by HardBlock - Australia's first and oldest bitcoin-only exchange: https://www.hardblock.com.au

Notes & References
Bitcoin 2022 Conference
Highlights - too many to list! Just listen to the first 20 minutes! In sum: bitcoin mining, privacy, and institutional investment are all barrelling ahead.

Samson Mow's announcements:
1. Prospera, jurisdiction on the Roatán island off of the northern coast of Honduras, is adopting bitcoin as legal tender
2. Madeira, an autonomous region in Portugal, is adopting bitcoin as legal tender
3. Mexico is proposing a bill for legal tender
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninabambysheva/2022/04/07/two-new-territories-are-adopting-bitcoin/

Jack Mallers' Strike partners with Shopify, NCR, and Blackhawk
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/04/07/jack-mallers-strike-announces-shopify-integration-for-bitcoin-lightning-payments/

Tesla, Block, and Blockstream to setup 100% solar-powered bitcoin mine in Texas
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/08/tesla-block-blockstream-to-mine-bitcoin-off-solar-power-in-texas.html

Australian News
OTR accepting bitcoin payments starting in July (through Crypto.com system)
https://twitter.com/HardBlockBTC/status/1510789927944200192

RBA to audit 10% of their 80 tonnes of gold in Bank of England
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/a-golden-audit-rba-to-check-on-its-6-billion-in-bullion-20220406-p5abf3.html

Bengal Energy, a Canadian oil and gas business, is dabbling in Bitcoin (BTC) mining as a way to tap into the untapped energy from its gas wells in the Australian outback
https://news.coincu.com/77167-bengal-energy-plans-mine-bitcoin-australias/

DazBea1 and others release the Looking Glass Financial Education platform
https://lookingglasseducation.com/

Global News
EU Parliament passes privacy-busting crypto rules despite industry criticism
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/03/31/eu-parliament-votes-on-privacy-busting-crypto-rules-industry-rails-against-proposals/

“Beware of wartime fake news triggering a run”, EU banks told
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/beware-wartime-fake-news-triggering-run-eu-banks-told-2022-04-01/

Greenpeace paid $5 million by Chris Larson (co-founder of XRP/Ripple) to campaign for bitcoin to change from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/bitcoiners-scoff-at-chris-larsens-dollar5m-campaign-to-force-a-btc-code-change/ar-AAVD5I5

Trezor customer email address list compromised via Mailchimp
https://nitter.net/Trezor/status/1510558771944333312

Tennessee Titans becomes first NFL team to adopt a bitcoin standard
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/tennessee-titans-become-first-nfl-team-to-accept-bitcoin

Technology
Bitcoin Bounty Website
https://bitcoinbounties.org/

Econoalchemist's article on how Whirlpool mixing fixes the Canadian trucker protest problem
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/freedom-convoy-should-whirlpool-bitcoin

Mining stats/insights added to mempool.space
https://mempool.space/mining

Intel launches their new bitcoin mining chip
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/intel-launches-new-bitcoin-mining-chip-blockscale

Taro on Taproot enables issuance of stablecoins and shitcoins on bitcoin
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/04/05/lightning-labs-raises-70m-to-bring-stablecoins-to-bitcoin/