Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
Bitcoin haters will become very very butt hurt throughout this decade.

Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
Authoritarian governments will attempt bitcoin bans.
Free nations will prioritize monetary competition.

TOP STORIES

• Bitcoin Optech #146
• BTCPay Server vulnerability disclosure
• JP Morgan bends the knee
• Tesla CFO on bitcoin during Q1 earnings
• Public video game publisher Nexon buys 1717 bitcoin
• Chiefs veteran tight end Sean Culkin converting entire salary to bitcoin
• Second bitcoin exchange goes down in Turkey
• Turkish gov using it as an excuse to regulate further
• Bitcoin Fog custodial bitcoin mixer operator arrested
• DC Cops hit with ransomware which threatens informants
• Global ransomware task force launched
• Bisq exploring new trade protocol
• Adam Gibson on big picture Joinmarket improvements
• Blockstream satellite easy base station

• Umbrel v0.3.9
• RaspiBlitz v1.7.0
• Specter v1.3.1
• Sparrow v1.4.0
• Sphinx Relay v2.0.13
• BTCPay Server v1.1.0
• Specter DIY
• Square adds former vice president of U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness
• LND benchmarking, 1000 TPS on consumer VPS possible
• Bitcoin Beach feature
• Rizzo on Satoshi's disappearance
• Gladstein on the petrodollar

PODCASTS

Citadel Dispatch - Tuesday

Rabbit Hole Recap - Thursday

Gabriel Shipton

• Brother of Julian Assange
• Julian's ongoing trial=
• How the US Government is wrongfully persecuting Julian
• The bogus rape charges lobbed against Julian
• The US Government's Espionage charges
• Journalism in 2021
• Why Julian's case is very important for the future of journalism
• How to support Julian's defense fund

Karim Helmy

• The Intelligent Bitcoin Miner Pt. II
• Modeling future price and profitability
• Helping miners make better business decisions
• The ASIC crunch
• Future research topics

Wringing of the Rag

• Monday - Issue #978: Shrinkflation is here, too
• Tuesday - Issue #979: We're at the "VC Grift" part of the cycle
• Wednesday - Issue #980: We are living through a mass psychosis. How do we turn the tides?
• Thursday - Issue #981: The pillaging never ends
• Friday - Issue #982: #FreeAssange