The Sat Standard - February 27th, 2021
This week in bitcoin. Straight to the point. No bullshit. Every Saturday.
Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
Many forget that Bitcoin depends on hardware and physical infrastructure just as much as it depends on software.
Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
The SEC suspended trading in 15 stocks yesterday citing "questionable social media activity" while flexing their power to suspend trading of any stock for 10 days without notice. This is a clear example of how traditional financial markets are rigged by design. Individuals should be able to participate in markets privately and without restriction. Free market unrestricted price discovery is not manipulation. Regulators operating unilaterally in an attempt to control markets is actual manipulation.
The only global liquid free market is bitcoin. Every other market is manipulated.
TOP STORIES
- Bitcoin Optech #137
- Taproot LOT OF LOTS
- BitPay Sanctions Violations
- Bitfinex and Tether settle with NY AG without admitting fault
- MicroStrategy bought another ~19.5k bitcoin for a ~$1.03B, they now hold 90.5k bitcoin
- Square quarterly earnings
- Coinbase discloses number ahead of Nasdaq listing
- Teleport Transactions CoinSwap implementation
- Arthur Hayes emerges
- Specter v1.2.0
- Onion Share v2.3
- RTL v0.10.1
- Hexa Wallet v1.4.5
- Samourai Dojo v1.9.0
- MyNode v0.2.27
- Sparrow Wallet v1.2.0
- Blockstream Green adds encryption to wallet metadata
- River raised $17.3M
- BottlePay raised $15.5M
- Can Governments Stop Bitcoin?
- BitMEX provides third grant for Michael Ford
PODCASTS
- Current market environment
- Commodities pumping
- Rates jumping
- Repo markets
- Inflation
- Historical inflationary event
- Bitcoin + energy arbitrage
Wringing of the Rag
- Monday - Issue #934: Echoes from history
- Tuesday - Issue #935: Bullish dip
- Wednesday - #936: They're playing games
- Thursday - Issue #937: Application > Theory
- Friday - Issue #938: Bitcoin changes the game
