The Sat Standard - January 18th, 2020
This week in bitcoin. Straight to the point. No bullshit. Every Saturday.
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Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
The Fed is directly monetizing debt already. No need to mentally prep for MMT. It's already here.
Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
I flew to SF this week to help the Human Rights Foundation run a bitcoin 101 workshop for their Freedom Fellows - a group of extremely impressive human rights advocates from around the world. I was truly humbled. One thing that was immediately apparent to me - and them - is that using bitcoin privately is still way too difficult and nuanced. We must do better.
TOP STORIES
Whiskey fueled discussion of the topics every week on Rabbit Hole Recap
- RIP Tamas Blummer
- Bitcoin Optech #80
- Pull request to add bip-schnorr, bip-taproot, and bip-tapscript by Sipa
- Tor Browser 9.0.4 released - critical security issue patched
- Zeus v0.2.0-rc1 : Android APK + Dev Signature + iOS TestFlight
- Instant VPS powered by lightning
- Liquid support on BTCPayserver
- Kashmir internet shutdown 170+ days now
- BitMEX Research shows more lightning usage than expected
- Samourai Wallet announces OXT Research
- FBI tries to set encryption backdoor precedent once again
- Coincenter reintroduces US bill to add tax exemption for small purchases under $200
PODCASTS
- PSBT
- Bitcoin Core's HWI
- CoinJoins
- Coin selection
- Dust
- much more
- Building Polar
- Jamal starting and running a successful business for 15+ years
- How he originally got into Bitcoin
- Deciding to build for Bitcoin + LN
- Building for application devs
- Why Bitcoin is inevitable
Wringing Of The Rag
- Monday - Issue #650: Soft fork activation talk begins to simmer
- Tuesday - Issue #651: They're not even hiding it anymore
- Wednesday - Issue #652: Fundamental refresh Wednesday
- Thursday - Issue #653: Truly smart contracts
- Friday - Issue #654: POWSWAP, REAL DeFi
