Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
Bitcoin is a lens of positivity and optimism to rally around. You can stop pretending politicians will fix everything and do it yourself!  

Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
The most powerful man in the world can be banned from social media but the least powerful person in the world cannot be banned from bitcoin.

TOP STORIES

• Bitcoin Optech #130
• OCC letter on banks using stablecoins
• Pro censorship American mining pool gains steam
• Iranian mining crackdown
• Strike Global announced
• Blockstream Jade hardware wallet
• Bitcoin Core v0.21.0 RC5 released for testing

• Fully Noded v0.2.8
• Specter v1.0.0
• Braiins acquires remaining stake in Slush Pool from Slush
• Coindesk buys tradeblock
• Anthony Towns on 2021
• Bitcoin Explained by BJ Dweck
• Silent Link bitcoin enabled esim service

PODCASTS

Rabbit Hole Recap - Thursday

Citadel Dispatch - Tuesday

Jack Mallers

• Athletes getting paid in sats
• Beef with the NFL
• bitcoin the hard asset
• Bitcoin the Network
• Strike global
• Routing around with Bitcoin
• State of the Lightning Network

Chris Stewart

• An update on DLCs
• The US Presidential Election DLCs
• Oracle problems and solutions
• DLCFDs
• Stablecoins
• Transaction fees
• Is Ethereum beating Bitcoin?
• PEMDAS