The Sat Standard - May 16th, 2020
This week in bitcoin. Straight to the point. No bullshit. Every Saturday.
Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
Solid first principles thinking is sorely lacking in today's world and it has made us worse off. Central banking is a prime example of this. Today's bankers do not understand money from first princinples.
Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
"The non-financial costs of being surveilled reach to the very core of our humanity. Freedom of thought, expression, and action are key to unlocking each person’s unique potential to contribute to society. Untargeted government surveillance programs, even well-intentioned ones, threaten that freedom."
"Given their expressive value, untargeted surveillance of financial transactions raises the same types of civil liberty concerns as other mass surveillance programs."
-- SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce
TOP STORIES
- Bitcoin Optech #97
- Coldcard security disclosure
- Delphi Digital Halving Report
- Why bitcoiners should care about privacy (pages 48, 49, 50)
- Quantitative Analysis of Lightning Network Privacy: Paper, Slides, Video
- Crypto Voices Q1 2020 global monetary base report
- Succinct Atomic Swaps
- Video
- Specs
- Discussion
- African P2P exchange volume ATH
- Nodl Dojo build and setup video
- LightNite announces NFTs on Liquid
- Lolli raises $3M round including Ashton Kutcher and Michelle Phan
- Woman charged over 'Australian first' cybercrime after allegedly illegally exchanging Bitcoin
- BitMEX Open Source Developer Grant Program
- Announcing Lightning Multi-Loop: Upgrading Lightning Loop with Multi-Path Payments
- US Senate votes to allow FBI warrantless access to web browsing history
- Venezuela pays Iran with $500M worth of gold bars, requiring 9 jets
- Thunderspy USB C vulnerability
- US Senator stock sales
PODCASTS
- Tech deflation in recent decades
- The future of cheap energy
- Why an inflationary monetary policy doesn't make sense in a deflationary world
- How Bitcoin fixes this
- The future of AI
- The future of work
- Civil Liberties and the shutdown
- Three sides of your balance sheet
- Should we stop paying taxes?
- Using your bitcoin in different ways
- Enacting change via local government
- Jesus
Misir Mahmudov - BOOK RELEASE EP
- This Book Will Save You Time
- Inflation
- How inflation data is manipulated
- How shrinkflation works
- Self Help
Wringing Of The Rag
- Monday - Issue #735: This is good for Bitcoin
- Tuesday - Issue #736: We live in a clown world
- Wednesday - Issue #737: In-game assets on Liquid
- Thursday - Issue #738: An update on CLOs
- Friday - Issue #739: This happened faster than expected
