The Sat Standard - April 24th, 2021

Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
States are leading the way. This is a beautiful thing.

Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
You should have more bitcoin than you had last week. Stay humble and stack.

TOP STORIES

• Bitcoin Optech #145
• Venmo adds bitcoin IOU support, no withdrawals
• WeWork accepting bitcoin as payment and will hodl
• Coin Center responds strongly against FATF
• Turkish Gov attempting bitcoin payments ban
• Turkish bitcoin exhange Thodex apparent exit scam
• OKEx adds lightning support
• Cashapp raises withdrawal minimum to 100K sats from 10K sats
• Bitcoin Core v0.21.1 RC 1 Taproot Speedy Trial client released
• UASF Taproot client released

• Aaron Van Wirdum write up on the two taproot clients
• myNode v0.2.30
• Start9 adds Sphinx, Onion pages, Photoview
• Square and Ark argue that bitcoin is good for the environment
• Former comptroller of the currency Brian Brooks new CEO of Binance US
• Former CFTC Chair joins BlockFi Board
• The Intelligent Bitcoin Miner, Part II
• Signal hacks hacking company Cellebrite

PODCASTS

Citadel Dispatch - Tuesday

Rabbit Hole Recap - Thursday

Parker Lewis

• The Austin Bitcoin scene
• The Fed opening the spigots
• Systemic credit risk
• Fiscal spending enabled by the Fed
• Capital allocation under a Bitcoin Standard
• Sam Houston

Wringing of the Rag

• Monday - Issue #973: Hashrate shock
• Tuesday - Issue #974: Mining profitability model
• Wednesday - Issue #975: Another type of decentralized mining pool
• Thursday - Issue #976: A retrospective on the lockdowns and inflation
• Friday - Issue #977: Louisiana commends Satoshi Nakamoto and Bitcoin