The Sat Standard - July 4th, 2020
This week in bitcoin. Straight to the point. No bullshit. Every Saturday.
2 min read
Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
The Founding Fathers would have loved Bitcoin. Enjoy your 4th of July, wherever you are.
Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
We stumbled on a global distributed digital bearer asset and now everyone is scrambling to create regulated geo-blocked digital IOUs while claiming they are superior.
The plot has been lost but it will be found again.
TOP STORIES
- Bitcoin Optech #104
- Liquid UTXO expiration incident
- Lightning vulnerability: Flood & Loot
- HWI v1.1.2
- Electrum v4.0.1
- PSBTs
- Multisig support for coldcard
- Compatibility with latest trezor firmware
- Lightning
- BTCPay server v1.0.5.0
- Zeus v0.3.0-rc1
- Polar v1.0.1
- Blue Wallet v5.4.4
- Joinmarket v0.6.3.1
- Tails v4.8
- Tor Browser v9.5.1
- Whirlpool v0.10.7
- Coldcard 101 guide
- LN Strike public beta launched
- Fully Noded updated adds easy wallet recovery mode
- Australia tax letters
- This month in bitcoin privacy by Janine
- Words bitcoin journal
- Using postal orders with bisq by @heady_wook
- New coldcard bags
- Chinese ASIC manufacturer Ebang IPO - ticker EBON
- Bitcoin2020 rescheduled for April 2021 in LA
- OCBTCN MyNode Special
- Fake gold in China
- Record high rainfall threatens China's Three Gorges Dam
PODCASTS
- The push to ban homeschooling from some Harvard professors
- Why their reasoning for trying to ban homeschooling is flawed
- School choice as a civil liberty
- Myths about homeschooling and socialization
- Myths about school funding decreasing
- Why the law is slow
- Freedom of speech
- Coordinated rioting
- How scalable are societies?
- Speech on social media platforms
- Deplatforming
- Bitcoin as free speech
- Mining pools as an attack vector
- Onboarding millions onto the Lightning Network
- BIP 157
- Full nodes
- Bitcoin Core wallet refactoring
- AltNet
- Time-dilation attacks on the LN
- CoinPool
- Schnorr + Taproot
Wringing Of The Rag
- Monday - Issue #769: Bitcoin is better than gold in every way
- Tuesday - Issue #770: Mining bitcoin in the Permian v. the Bakken
- Wednesday - Issue #771: Reminder: Mesh networks will be very important for Bitcoin
- Thursday - Issue #772: Mining hardware as a quasi-PoS asset
- Friday - Issue #773: Take back control of your capital and your mind
