Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
The powers that be are beginning to clamp down on capital. Make sure you have bitcoin before you need it.


Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
It is easy to discount the pace of progress in bitcoin but this year has been insane. Grateful to be a part of this with all of you. Bitcoiners aren’t priced in.

TOP STORIES

Whiskey fueled discussion of the topics every week on Rabbit Hole Recap

• John Newbery on the future of bitcoin
• BitBox02 brute force vulnerability disclosed - update to firmware V5.0.0
• Write up by Lazy Ninja
• Official Disclosure
• BLW on Android adds support for hosted channels
• Jack Mallers with Peter McCormack on What Bitcoin Did podcast
• Argentina local bitcoins volume hits ATHs amid further capital controls

• As expected faketoshi makes excuses ahead of "tulip trust access date"
• Ethereum CoFounder Jeffrey Wilcke dumps $11.5M worth of ETH from premine
• Venezuelan centralized pseudo cryptocurrency being distributed to pensioners - fingerprint used for purchases
• HK Police freeze $9M raised by activists via Spark Alliance
• Chat app ToTok removed from app stores - it was a UAE spy tool
• US Gov issues warning to service members asking them not to use DNA testing services
• Lines in Germany as private gold restrictions loom due to AMLD5
• Gigi releases 21 Lessons book
• Kiara Bickers releases Bitcoin Clarity book

PODCASTS

Dave Collum

• Climate Change
• Bitcoin
• Jeffrey Epstein
• Inflation
• The Fed

Wringing Of The Rag

• Monday - Issue #639: Run Bitcoin from space: a tutorial
• Tuesday - Merry Christmas!
• Wednesday - Merry Christmas!
• Thursday - Issue #640: A peek into the future
• Friday - Issue #641: The capital controls get tighter