The Sat Standard - July 18th, 2020
This week in bitcoin. Straight to the point. No bullshit. Every Saturday.
2 min read
Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
Don’t tell me what to do with my bitcoin.
Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
One day the surveillance tools most bitcoin exchanges and services use will be made public. When that day comes you will realize why I am a broken record about better bitcoin privacy guarantees.
TOP STORIES
- Bitcoin Optech #106
- Samourai post mix address reuse disclosure & patch
- report from shinobi
- report from samourai team
- Timing attacks on Lightning Network
- Twitter hacked
- Surveillance company report on the movements from hacker's bitcoin address
- Taproot activation discussion
- Coinbase selling surveillance software to Secret Service and IRS
- Zap Desktop v07.0 & v0.7.1
- Zeus v0.3.0
- Bisq v1.3.6
- BTCPay Server v1.0.5.3
- Specter v0.5.5
- Ronin Dojo v1.5
- Samourai Dojo v1.7.0
- Tallycoin v2.1
- Bitcoin difficulty hits new all time high
- Blockchain dot com wallet fingerprinting analysis of marketshare
- Bitcoin Mining Hashrate and Power Analysis
- Zap raises $3.5M
- Forbes article
- Announcement blog
- Paradigm provides funding to Anthony Towns
- List of ongoing dev funding by @polylunar_
- Animated QR code demo by Blockchain Commons
- Russian Activists using bitcoin
- What It’s Really Like to Live on Bitcoin in the Middle East
- A few thoughts about Signal’s Secure Value Recovery
- Microsoft and the police state
- Mitre Corp surveillance programs
PODCASTS
- Mining pools
- Their historical lack of transparency
- Pool fee negotiations
- ASIC hardware lifecycles and their effect on decentralization
- Market making for hashrate futures + their effect on transparency
- Profit switching between chains
- Whitelisted pools
- Hashrateindex.com
- Free Banking Systems of the past
- The Civil War + banking in America
- Building Lily Wallet
- Lily's plans for the future
- Live music + blue grass
Wringing Of The Rag
- Monday - Issue #779: This is a problem
- Tuesday - Issue #780: A Reminder: End The Fed
- Wednesday - Issue #781: Taproot activation discussion
- Thursday - Issue #782: Mining is more distributed than previously thought
- Friday - Issue #783: Insanity continues unabated
