The Sat Standard - May 2nd, 2020
This week in bitcoin. Straight to the point. No bullshit. Every Saturday.
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Thought of the week from Marty Bent:
Count how many times you hear the phrases "new normal" and "social distancing" this week. Conditioning, man.
Thought of the week from Matt Odell:
The number of unemployed Americans is now equivalent to the total population of the 15 largest US cities combined.
TOP STORIES
- Bitcoin Optech #95
- HWI updated to fix new Trezor firmware compatibility issues
- Laurent on payjoin and deception tools
- Ministry of Nodes RoninDojo video
- Argentina bitcoin usage by Matt Ahlborg
- Kenyan P2P bitcoin volume hits ATHs
- CardCoins sponsoring core developer
- BTCPay Server v1.0.4.2
- ColdCard Kitchen
- OXT Research Report on North Korean cybercrime group
- ColdCard v3.1.3 firmware
- LND v0.10-beta
- Learn using comics with Amiti
- New piece by Parker Lewis: Bitcoin is Common Sense
- Dressing for the surveillance age
- CryptoCloaks Honey Badger hidden box
- Indian Government mandates location tracking app for 1.3 billion citizens
- Lebanese protest amid currency crisis
PODCASTS
- How Amiti came to find Bitcoin
- Getting into Bitcoin Core development
- Learning C++
- Amiti's work on rebroadcasting
- Protecting privacy at the P2P level
- Nuance of mempools
- Current state of Bitcoin
- How Openoms came to find Bitcoin
- Why he started building apps and hardware products for bitcoiners
- JoininBox
- JoinMarket
- Fidelity Bonds
- Privacy on Lightning
- Broadcast transactions privately
- How the rolling blackouts in Venezuela last year affected bitcoin trading in LatAm + the US
- How Venezuelan's are using bitcoin as a rail to move money
- Why we've seen an increase in bitcoin exchange volume in Argentina
- Argentina's history of capital controls
- Cuevas
- Do individuals using bitcoin in LatAm believe in its long-term viability as a digital money?
- Increased bitcoin exchange volume in Kenya
- Bitcoin usage in India
Wringing Of The Rag
- Monday - Issue #725: Deflation v. Inflation
- Tuesday - Issue #726: What's a mempool?
- Wednesday - Issue #727: Stimulus + Forced Quarantines = Good for Bitcoin
- Thursday - Issue #728: Orwellian Watch
- Friday - Issue #729: Fees are on the rise
