Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
This is going to happen faster than most people expect.

Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
If a select few can change the rules then there are no rules, only rulers.

TOP STORIES

• Bitcoin Optech #134
• Senator Lummis appointed Senate Banking Committee
• Microstrategy Bitcoin Summit
• Grayscale GBTC premium goes negative for first time
• California pension fund goes HAM on RIOT
• Darknet markets hit new ATH revenue according to chainalysis
• Matrix Chat Client Element removed from Google Play Store
• Zeus v0.5.0-beta1
• Bisq v1.5.5
• Hexa Wallet v1.4.2
• Phoenix v1.4.6
• Samourai Wallet v0.99.96c
• Home mining for non-KYC bitcoin
• Self-hosting guide by Ketan
• The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin Billionaire Arthur Hayes
• Coinbase targeting Nasdaq and $50B valuation
• New Fed paper on inequality
• Ukraine considering nuclear mining
• Proposed Bitcoin Ban in India
• India blocks internet amid protests
• Nigeria’s Central Bank Orders Banks to Close All Bitcoiner Held Accounts
• Bitcoin Is Protecting Human Rights Around the World
• ATMs, banks, and internet access have been shutdown in Myanmar following military coup
• Casa raises $4m in seed round
• XMR.to shuts down
• This Month in Bitcoin Privacy: January 2020
• Bitcoin 2021 Conference moved from LA to Miami in June

PODCASTS

• Rabbit Hole Recap - Thursday
• Citadel Dispatch - Tuesday

Harry Sudock

• Meeting in NYC
• Stumbling into the mining industry
• The merging of the bitcoin mining and energy industries
• Energy delivery problems
• Grid stabilization
• Central banks of the future
• Efficient capital allocation under a Bitcoin Standard

Wringing Of The Rag

• Monday - Issue #919: Great Stratum V2 explainer
• Tuesday - Issue #920: This is not okay. Change is coming.
• Wednesday - Issue #921: Increased redundancy is very good
• Thursday - Issue #922: Bitcoin advocates are penetrating governments at all levels
• Friday - Issue #923: Bitcoin is freedom money